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This week, Congress reconvened to consider yet another massive spending bill – this one in the neighborhood of more than $300 billion. Speaker Pelosi has billed the legislation as a package needed to better compete with China – but as has often been the case this Congress, the bill is a hodgepodge of special interest spending provisions and ideological policy riders, many of which have little or nothing to do with China or US competitiveness. In fact, a lot of them are simply recycled elements of President Biden’s big spending “Build Back Better” plan that the Senate has already rejected.

The House of Representatives did not convene for legislative activity this week, so I spent time traveling around the district holding listening sessions and hearing from folks on the issues that matter most to them.

We’re officially one year into the Biden administration. President Biden held a press conference to mark the occasion and tout his accomplishments where he boasted that no other President had done as much as he had in a year. While his actions certainly have “done” a lot—they’re not exactly the kind of results most Americans would have hoped for.

For the past several months we’ve been warning you about how the Democrats socialist spending sprees and policies had the potential to set off massive inflationary pressures of a kind we haven’t seen in a generation. This week the Department of Labor released a report which showed that the consumer price index rose 7% in December from a year ago marking the largest increase in 40 years. 

We are back with 2022’s first edition of the Telegram, and I wanted to begin by wishing you all a Happy and Healthy New Year. 

Infrastructure and reconciliation are the two words on everyone’s mind in Washington this week— luckily for American taxpayers the Democrats haven’t been able to stop fighting amongst themselves long enough to come up with an agreement to move them forward.

It’s been two months since President Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, and we’re still learning more about just how badly it was handled with each passing day.

The border immigration crisis continues to worsen, prices continue to rise, and crime continues to skyrocket. But I wanted to start out this week by sharing some developments related to the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and its aftermath.