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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.

This week we learned that the federal government collected more in taxes this year than ever before. Tax revenues surged by 18 percent – the biggest year over year increase since 1977.  Even so, President Biden and Democrats in Congress have spent so much, that even with this record spike in tax collections – the federal government still posted a record deficit. It’s pretty obvious: Washington doesn’t have a revenue problem; it has a spending problem.

This week Democrats in Congress continued to argue amongst themselves over a budget-busting, $5.5 trillion spending bill that Americans do not want and cannot afford.