Budget and the Deficit
Washington has a spending problem and every Utah family knows it. Households across our state balance budgets, plan for the future, and live within their means. Meanwhile, Congress racks up record deficits and passes the bill to our children and grandchildren. That is irresponsible and a moral failure.
Our national debt is on an unsustainable path, and we now spend more servicing the interest on that debt than on many of our most critical national priorities. Every dollar Washington borrows is a dollar we take from the next generation. As a fiscal conservative, and as a physician, I know you can't treat a problem you refuse to diagnose. The diagnosis here is clear: decades of broken budget processes, runaway mandatory spending, and a Congress that has stopped doing its most basic job.
I'm committed to restoring regular order. I support meaningful caps on discretionary spending, rooting out waste and duplication across federal agencies, and confronting the long-term drivers of our debt honestly instead of kicking the can down the road.
Utah families don't get to spend money they don't have and neither should Washington. We owe our children a country that's stronger, freer, and solvent.
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As a member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, protecting American research from theft and national security threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a top priority.
For more than a decade now, I have called attention to and warned that the CCP represents a serious and persistent threat to our national security. We are now becoming even more aware of just how deeply the CCP’s threat reaches into the United States homeland.