Congressman John Rose took to the House floor to deliver a speech in opposition to President Biden's State of the Union Address.
The full speech, as prepared for delivery, is below:
Today, I rise to remind President Biden that the State of the Union is in crisis – more so than any time in my lifetime. After sitting in the House chamber last night listening to the president speak, I couldn’t help but think about the people of Middle Tennessee that are struggling to make ends meet. They are struggling due to skyrocketing inflation that has been fueled by President Biden and Congressional Democrats’ insatiable desire to recklessly spend trillions of dollars by borrowing massive amounts of money from China and elsewhere and highly mortgaging our children’s and grandchildren’s future. It’s gutless and wrong.
Mr. President, the State of the Union is not strong; in fact, under only one year of your leadership migrant encounters at our southern border have increased 96%, more police officers were killed than in any year since 1995, the price of gasoline has increased 33%, the fentanyl that comes across our open southern border has become the leading cause of death of people aged 18-45, Afghanistan has been given back to the Taliban, leaving behind hundreds of Afghan’s who were aligned with us during that long struggle along with billions of dollars in modern American weaponry, and now, another American ally is under attack by out-of-control Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
It is time to wake up and recognize that your administration and Congressional Democrats’ policies are failing the American people. In fact, those policies have begun to do real damage to us at an ever-increasing pace.
The people of Middle Tennessee see right through this charade and implore you to act now before it is too late.
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Original source can be found here.
