Representative William Timmons

The legislation would require all future budgets considered by Congress include a ratio comparing the federal government’s debt held by the public to the annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the United States.

We are nearly $23 trillion in debt and have no plan to stop this irresponsible spending. I was pleased to see the Administration try to work with the House Democratic majority to ensure that the military is adequately funded, but other than that, there were not many positives about the bill.

While I am pleased that Congress acted, the road that we took to get here is concerning given what was hanging in the balance. I was pleased to be able to support the bill, but there is much more work to be done.

Washington needs to have a serious conversation about how our population of undocumented immigrants should be treated under the law, but H.R. 6, the “immigration bill” House Democrats pushed through earlier this week, was not a product of that type of discussion.