had we just grown spending by population growth and inflation we would have .5.1. we re that close to balancing the budget. but the pandemic blew a hole in the federal budget. we spent well over $6 trillion and the baseline spending is somewhere around $6 trillion. a trillion half more than we spent prior to the pandemic. there ought to be all kinds of cuts. we ought to return to that baseline and we ought to pass a budget. if we can t balance it, if we have to increase the debt ceiling, use the debt ceiling as it was intended to be used, attached to it fiscal controls. things like preventing government shutdown act. the full faith in credit and no default act. the number one component of a solution for all these problems is economic growth. the biden administration is snuffing out economic growth. harris: that seems so simple to hear you put it like that, we
all freedom loving people admire search as a beacon of inspiration and learn of his courageous actions under fire. may the ceremony serve as a testament of hope for the world s oppressed and tear theible warning to the oppressor. our nation still has men and women like colonel davis in your ranks to step into the breach. we thank you for this reality in your most holy name i pray, amen. president biden: please be seated. i have to say at the outset i have had the great honor. we have other medal of honor recipients here and that i ve been able to give one of those medals and we have five here but
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process. they are our biggest adversary. they lied about covid and we have to hold them accountable. and we have the media and democrats acting like defense attorneys for the chinese instead of helping get to the bottom of what actually happened. harris: right here in focus arkansas governor sarah sanders. that was yesterday calling out the biden administration and legacy media. the white house for its part is not confirming anything when it comes to how the killer coronavirus crept its way all over the world from china. national security spokesman john kirby has said they ll keep all the classified information under wraps. peter doocy is pressing for answer. a bill required the dni to declassify passed the senate. if it passes the house, too, would president biden sign it? he swiftly and unilaterally put information out there. that s one. two. the intelligence community continues to assess the origins of covid.
he is right on all of that. but the problem is, these defects that we see, that everyone can see with biden as a leader himself barely appropriate to use the word leader. he is not a leader. he is following the activists who run his party and donors. he is a machine politician and weak and feeble and not leading anything. his personal defects are there for all to see. the policy defects are there for all to see. failure after failure after failure. every issue pretty much they make it create a problem. they deny it and then they come up too late with a solution and the solution makes it worse. you see it on the border, everything. all of that was true before the mid-terms last year. instead of the massive republican victory that everyone expected, it was very disappointing. so i think it is not enough just to point out how biden has failed. it is really important for republicans to lay out for