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March 26, 2026
Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) published an op-ed in The Dallas Morning News outlining a framework to reduce deficits to 3% of GDP to put America on a path to fiscal balance. Read Chairman Jodey Arrington’s full op-ed here or below "The sirens are blaring. Our government now spends more than $1 trillion a year on interest payments just to service our national debt, which will surpass $40 trillion this year. Ray Dalio, among the most successful investors and g… Continue Reading
March 26, 2026Today, House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) delivered the following remarks at the “The Best Metric to Reverse the Curse: A 3% Deficit-to-GDP Path to Fiscal Sustainability” hearing. Watch here Remarks as Delivered: We need to change our long-term budget framework as it relates to budget resolutions for the following reasons. We need to live in reality, for one. We need the most meaningful measure of the fiscal health of our country. And I think debt and deficit to GDP, by most ex… Continue Reading
March 20, 2026The U.S. national debt crossed the $39 trillion mark, an unfortunately historic and deeply troubling milestone in our nation. House Budget Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) released the following statement: "America is now $39,000,000,000,000 in debt—yes, $39 trillion. It took roughly 200 years to accumulate the first $1 trillion. Now we add that in a matter of months. Every child in America today carries a $530,000 share of this debt—a crushing legacy we must reverse. Compounding the problem,… Continue Reading
March 12, 2026
Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) published a joint op-ed with Rachel Greszler, Senior Research Fellow at Advancing American Freedom and Visiting Fellow at the Economic Policy Innovation Center, in The Hill. The op-ed calls for stronger state accountability to crack down on fraud and improper payments in federally funded state administered programs as the national debt nears $39 trillion. Read full op-ed here or below: "With our nation nearly $39 trillion in debt… Continue Reading
February 18, 2026
— An article published by the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board highlights the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) updated baseline, which shows our $38.6 trillion debt will continue to grow and the structural imbalance in our federal budget caused by soaring entitlements. WORD ON THE STREET From the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: The Trump Administration is boasting about its success in reducing the deficit, and give it credit for curbing what had been ballooning growth in discretion… Continue Reading
December 16, 2025
—In an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal, Chris Pope, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, warned that extending the expanded Obamacare subsidies wouldn’t just affect the small share of Americans who buy coverage on the exchanges—it could upend employer-sponsored health insurance for millions of working families. He argues that making the COVID-era expanded subsidies permanent would incentivize employers to drop health care coverage for American workers completely. WORD ON THE S… 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
