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With the national debt now exceeding $40 trillion, Washington faces a fiscal environment where borrowing costs are rising and affordability is eroding for working-class households.
Missouri Representative Eric Burlison argues that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are failing to address the root cause, leaving ordinary Americans to bear the cost of unchecked government spending.
He describes the current legislative climate as one where fiscal prudence is increasingly rare among Republican colleagues.
Burlison, speaking in an interview with Fox News Digital, accused many members of Congress of being "drunk on spending other people's money." He noted that securing spending reductions in recent legislation required intense internal party battles, despite external pressure from the left.
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