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December 04, 2025
—Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) joined the Guy Benson Show on Fox News Radio to discuss health care cost reform and the bombshell Government Accountability Office (GAO) report finding rampant fraud in Obamacare’s COVID subsidy program. Listen to the full interview here On the GAO finding rampant fraud in the Obamacare COVID subsidy program: "Tens of thousands of Social Security numbers from dead people that are being used to get these subsidies. Sixty thousand, to be exact, from dead p… Continue Reading
December 04, 2025—House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) held a Member Day Hearing to solicit ideas on how to reform Washington’s broken budget process. Budget Committee Vice Chairman Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) delivered opening remarks during the hearing emphasizing the nation’s unsustainable national debt, the need for an independent audit of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and the role of the health care system in these conversations. Watch here Rep. Jim Baird (R-Ind.) … Continue Reading
December 03, 2025—Today, House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) released the following statement reacting to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that found rampant fraud in the Obamacare subsidy program: "A bombshell GAO report has exposed the rampant fraud plaguing Democrats’ expanded Obamacare subsidies, which have effectively no eligibility checks, anti-fraud controls, or other basic program integrity measures in place, resulting in billions of wasted tax dollars and increased h… Continue Reading
October 24, 2025
—In an op-ed published by RollCall, David Winston, the president of The Winston Group, lays out the facts behind Democrats’ big-government push to extend wasteful, COVID-era premium subsidies for Obamacare plans, set to cost taxpayers $400 billion over the next decade. Congress should let these subsidies expire—as Democrats originally intended—and rein in waste, fraud, and abuse to protect taxpayers. WORD ON THE STREET From Roll Call: If you’re a Democrat, you know you’re in deep trouble if … Continue Reading
October 15, 2025
—J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s chief global strategist, David Kelly, issued a stark warning this week about America’s deteriorating fiscal outlook. With federal debt topping $37.8 trillion and interest payments poised to exceed annual defense spending this year and all discretionary spending by 2052, Kelly cautioned that the country is “going broke slowly.” He warned that even moderate deficits will keep pushing the debt-to-GDP ratio higher and that political or economic shocks could accelerate… Continue Reading
October 09, 2025
— The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board argues that Republicans shouldn’t fear the politics of allowing the enhanced ObamaCare subsidies to expire, contending that Democrats are using the government funding fight to secure a $400 billion extension for a pandemic-era entitlement that should have ended years ago. WORD ON THE STREET From the Wall Street Journal: “Democrats are demanding that Republicans extend enhanced ObamaCare subsidies that Democrats passed in 2021 for a pandemic emergency… Continue Reading
February 25, 2025
Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) penned an op-ed in theWashington Examinermaking the case for hisTrump-endorsed House budget resolution that delivers on the President’s transformative America-First agenda with one comprehensive piece of legislation. Chairman Arrington in the Washington Examiner: “The House Budget Committee has taken a decisive first step in advancing President Trump’s America First agenda. By pursuing the 2025 Budget Resolution, we have launched… Continue Reading
January 30, 2025U.S. House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal highlighting how surging debt and resulting interest costs are threatening America’s economic standing and the historic opportunity for President Trump and congressional Republicans to restore fiscal sanity to Washington. Chairman Arrington in The Wall Street Journal: “Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is concerned about America’s large and growing national deficit. “We have never seen this… Continue Reading
December 12, 2024Yesterday, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) penned an Op-Ed in the Washington Examiner sounding the alarm on the federal government’s unbridled spending habits and the need to restore fiscal responsibility in Washington. Chairman Arrington in the Washington Examiner: Via the Washington Examiner: “The Democrats’ spending spree in Washington during 2021 and 2022 sparked countless economic problems. Runaway government spending drove skyrocketing prices, draining household s… Continue Reading
