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Congressman Blake Moore Defends Republican Budget Framework, Says U.S. Has a 'Spending Problem'
Summary
Congressman Blake Moore told a committee that a new Republican budget framework targets spending growth rather than revenues, defended the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and blamed post‑2020 relief spending for recent inflation.
Congressman Blake Moore defended a Republican budget framework during a committee hearing, saying the United States “do not have a revenue problem in our country. We have a spending problem.”
Moore said the framework, which he described as a balance sheet rather than a program‑by‑program set of cuts, represents the first serious push for spending reform he has seen in his roughly five years in Congress and called for sustained attention to deficits beyond a single hearing.
The importance of the proposal, he said, is its focus on reducing overall spending growth rather than raising revenue. “Our…
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