Op-Eds
Dedicated federal workers have now been furloughed or forced to work without pay for 40 days. I hoped this shutdown wouldn’t last more than a week. I expected more from my Democratic colleagues and couldn’t imagine they could justify holding the American people hostage for this long.
The first missed paychecks are beginning to hit home for civil servants. At this time, I think it’s important to step back and understand how we got here and why the American people are paying the price for Washington’s dysfunction.
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.
Last year, two-thirds of Americans felt our country was on the wrong track. They called for a course correction from the Biden Administration’s harmful policies that raised prices, over-regulated our industries and created the worst border crisis in American history. This Independence Day week, Republicans delivered for our communities, our families and our future.