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March Madness officially kicked off this week – both on the court and on Capitol Hill. It’s no secret that one of President Biden’s first priorities after taking office was to reduce American energy independence. He delivered on that promise by canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, cutting off leasing and permitting on federal lands, and implementing a stack of policy changes to discourage American energy production – and now the American people are paying the price – a record setting price of $4.33 a gallon on average. 

Today is the one-year anniversary of the Democrats first major spending spree being signed into law by President Biden. While their $1.9 trillion package was disguised as a Covid relief package, only 9% of it actually went towards pandemic related health care needs – the other 91% went towards big government bailouts and pet projects. 

This week I attended President Biden’s first State of the Union address where he reported on the first year of his administration and his plans for the future of the nation. 

For nearly two years now the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has been collecting data on COVID-19 and publishing guidance supposedly based on the findings from that data. However, it recently came to light that the CDC has been withholding a mountain of data from the American people – releasing only the cherry-picked datathat supports its narrative.

With inflation recently hitting a four decade high thanks to President Biden’s destructive economic policies, many Americans are left struggling with how to manage their personal finances. The skyrocketing prices have put a strain on the kitchen table budget of families across the nation, and for those living on a fixed income that burden can be even more difficult to navigate.

Prices are continuing to rise, and it doesn’t look like they’ll be slowing down anytime soon. On Wednesday, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed that inflation went over expectations in January coming in at 7.5%, which is the largest increase since February 1982.

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.