Rep. Jordan Discusses Debt Limit, Tax Reform on Fox News Sunday
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"I don't think this was a good deal for the American taxpayer. We didn't do anything to address the underlying
And the
I said let's cap spending as a percentage of GDP, and I'll raise the debt ceiling. So the problem here is we didn't address the underlying problem. The problem wasn't a three-month, six-month timeframe. I learned a long time ago that when you fail to prepare you get a bad outcome, and that's what happened here.
"When you just raise the debt ceiling and don't do anything to address the underlying problem - I mean, this is like your kid at college whose got your credit card and he's spending more than he takes in and he's already piled up a lot of debt and he gets to say, 'Oh, for the next three months I've got unlimited borrowing authority.' I think if that was your son or my son we'd have a problem with that. That's what this deal in essence did. That's why it's not good for the taxpayer.
"We get another bite at the apple. We're going to put forward a plan that says let's cap spending. This is where we, the
We have a chance now to put together a plan, take that case to the American people early - not wait until the last minute like we did before - and sell that plan to the American people and pass that.
"I think the president is focused on doing what he told the American people he was going to do: cutting their taxes, building a border security wall, dealing with Obamacare, all those issues that folks in
"I think this is a unique situation, not what's going to happen in the future. What's going to happen in the future I think with this president, and certainly with us conservatives in the House, is we're solely and totally focused on what the American people elected us to do.
"Our mission statement at the
"No one's talking about changing the leadership. What we're talking about is just what I said: What was the agenda the American people voted for on
"Why don't we cap spending and get it back down to the historic levels in modern times below 20 percent of GDP - I think that makes a lot of sense, it's a phase down. ... take that case to the American people, you do it early enough, you do the preparation early enough, you can actually win the match."
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