Op-Eds & Speeches
Op-Ed, The Daily Caller: America’s Financial Situation Is Dire, But Trump’s Government Efficiency Commission Can Help Fix It
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) penned an Op-Ed in The Daily Caller highlighting his support for President Trump’s proposal to establish a government efficiency commission led by businessman Elon Musk. Read more as Chairman Arrington Sounds the Alarm on the need for a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government. Chairman Arrington in the Daily Caller: Via The Daily Caller: “Political campaigns often drown out … Continue Reading
September 13, 2024
Op-Ed, Wall Street Journal: Welfare Is What’s Eating the Budget
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) and former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) penned an Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal highlighting how means-tested welfare spending is the driving force behind our nation’s out-of-control deficit and unsustainable debt. Read more as Chairman Arrington Sounds the Alarm on how welfare reform is sorely needed to improve the well-being of low-income families and to restore fiscal responsibility for future … Continue Reading
August 19, 2024
Op-Ed, The Hill: To Repair Our Fiscal Foundation, We Need to Bend the Health Care Cost Curve
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Last week, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) penned an Op-Ed in The Hill on the unsustainable level of federal health care spending and the need to reform our nation’s health care system to improve patient access to quality care and save taxpayer dollars. Spending on health care programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare are major drivers of our unsustainable fiscal path. Read more as Chairman Arrington lays out ideas for bending the health … Continue Reading
August 16, 2024
Op-Ed, Fox News: It's Been Two Miserable Years Since the Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act. And It's Worse Than You Think
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) penned an Op-Ed in Fox News on the second anniversary of the passage of the Democrats’ ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ (IRA). Under the Biden-Harris Administration’s IRA, expenditures show the bill’s tax breaks and special interest giveaways now cost the American taxpayer a total of $500 billion more than previously promised. Read more as Chairman Arrington Sounds the Alarm on the damaging effects of the tax and spend … Continue Reading
June 21, 2024
Op-Ed, The Daily Caller: The Cost of the Border Crisis
WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) penned an Op-Ed in The Daily Caller on the full cost of President Biden’s border crisis. The financial impact of President Biden’s policies are substantial and mounting, having already cost taxpayers upwards of $150 billion at the federal, state, and local levels. Read more as Chairman Arrington lays out the costs of Biden’s border crisis. Chairman Arrington in the Daily Caller: Via The Daily Caller: “The … Continue Reading
June 11, 2024
Op-Ed, The Hill: We Need to Sound the Alarm, and Find Solutions to the Mounting Spending Crisis
WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) penned an Op-Ed in The Hill Sounding the Alarm about our need for deficit reduction. Chairman Arrington in the Hill: Via The Hill: The House will soon take up the first of the 12 annual appropriations bills, measures intended to fund the government for another year. Expect the usual cacophony of arguments over defense versus non-defense priorities, policy riders, earmarks and the like. All for a process … Continue Reading
May 29, 2024
Op-Ed, The Washington Examiner: Chairman Arrington Sheds Light on President Biden’s Fiscal Vigilantes
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Last Friday, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) penned an Op-Ed in the Washington Examiner highlighting the Biden Administration’s unilateral actions to expand big government, and further our nation’s fiscal burden - all to advance the White House’s political agenda. Chairman Arrington Via the Washington Examiner: Via Washington Examiner: In 1983, Wall Street economist Ed Yardeni coined the term “bond market vigilantes” to describe traders who … Continue Reading
May 10, 2024
Op-Ed, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Chairman Arrington Unveils the High Price Tag of Mass Illegal Immigration
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) penned an Op-Ed in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal highlighting the fiscal impacts of the Biden Administration’s wide open border policies. Charlie Arrington via the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: The American people understand the unprecedented humanitarian and national security impact of our current border crisis, but it doesn’t end there. As Chairman of the House Budget Committee, I’m exposing the fiscal … Continue Reading
April 30, 2024
Op-Ed, The Hill: Chairman Arrington Says, “It’s Time to Stop Talking and Start Acting on Fraud and Improper Payments”
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) penned an op-ed in The Hill highlighting the importance of reigning in wasteful and erroneous government spending and ensuring fiscal responsibility. Chairman Arrington in the Hill: The Hill:“Forty years ago this month, President Reagan announced a plan to address “the river of waste, fraud, and abuse that’s been rising for years,” flooding the federal government’s balance sheets.But that tide has continued to … Continue Reading
August 22, 2023
Op-Ed: Protecting the health of Americans and their pocketbooks.
By Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) and Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas), Opinion Contributors As a result of Washington’s out-of-control spending, the U.S. credit rating was recently downgraded—only the second time in modern history—because of a high and growing general government debt burden, rising spending, and an erosion of governance. Today we come with solutions and a plan for action. Like a household with an unbalanced checking account, the federal … Continue Reading
June 12, 2023
Chairman Arrington Op-Ed: Debt deal is 'meaningful step in the right direction'
By: Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX-19)June 11, 2023 Our runaway spending and unsustainable national debt is the greatest 21st-century threat to the United States. If we shrink back and fail to address it, we will not only jeopardize our economy and national security, but our children’s future and America’s leadership in the world. No one can look at our federal government’s balance sheet, future unfunded liabilities and interest payments and not shudder at the rapid … Continue Reading
May 26, 2023
ICYMI: Biden’s Regulatory Apocalypse
By Rep. Jodey ArringtonMay 26, 2023 We live in an over-regulated America. While it’s important to set reasonable rules of the road for public health and safety, by congressional abdication, and executive activism, we have created a fourth branch of government and a massive regulatory state that is compromising our freedom, quenching our entrepreneurial spirit, and choking the life out of our economy. On average, nearly 25,000 regulatory restrictions are put on the … Continue Reading
April 20, 2023
Congress Can Use the Debt Ceiling to Get America Back to Work
By: Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX) April 19, 2023 As seen in The Wall Street Journal "The culture of welfare must be replaced with the culture of work. The culture of dependence must be replaced with the culture of self-sufficiency and personal responsibility.” These words were spoken by Sen. Joe Biden in 1996, shortly before he cast his vote for landmark welfare reform. Among other things, that bipartisan legislation included work requirements to create an incentive for employment and … Continue Reading
April 10, 2023
This Crisis Is Flashing Danger and America Must Change Course or Our Children Will Pay
By: Chairman Jodey Arrington (TX) As seen in Fox News Like dashboard warning lights in a family car, the federal fiscal indicators are flashing danger. It’s time to pull over, lift the hood and fix the problem before it’s too late. That’s the kind of service-station assessment we’re performing in the House Budget Committee, which I chair. Unfortunately, the fiscal repairs necessary to get us back on the road to financial health and prosperity require a lot … Continue Reading
March 23, 2023
PAGING SENATOR BIDEN: CLEAN UP ON AISLE 31
By: Chairman Jodey ArringtonAs Seen in The Washingtion Times It was January 1995, and the national debt crisis was already mounting. The Senate was debating the adoption of a Republican-sponsored amendment to the Constitution which would limit the federal government to spend no more than it takes in.Then-Senator Joe Biden fought alongside Senate Republicans to encourage support for this constitutional change by emphasizing the importance of deficit reduction: “I’m sure … Continue Reading
