Inflation is not some abstract number. It is why your paycheck buys about 25% less than it did 5 years ago. The national debt drives inflation. Piling on more debt for a one-time $5,000 check does not fix the affordability crisis. It makes it worse.

You know what else makes it worse? Subsidizing other countries. We are of the understanding that the government already has the money and wouldn’t be borrowing. Amazing how there’s money for everything except us citizens. You should be passing the SAVE Act not haranguing about a bonus for Americans.

@FoxNews Those checks will cause hyperinflation. The COVID checks did not solve poverty. Those checks made it worse.

@FoxNews Diesel prices are why cost of goods are so high. How about working with oil companies and seeing what it would take to re-opening the 7 refineries that were shut down in the last few years.

@FoxNews So does FRAUD!!

@FoxNews Agreed

@FoxNews What about paying for illegals ? Muslims , ilhan her brother and her son ? But dont give nothing back to the americans that pay for it all , you borrow against are labor and you give it to others that does not earn it .

@FoxNews Taxes are theft, everyone can understand that But inflation is also theft, and fewer people seem to get that one

@FoxNews 🚨🚨🚨FUNDING THE TALIBAN OF $40 MILLION A WEEK IS ROBBING THE TAXPAYERS AND ADDING TO THE DEFICIT.

@FoxNews The bad part: they know this.

@FoxNews People seem to forget when households got 8000 with Covid and unchecked PPP loans, we hit 10% inflation

@FoxNews You politicians are gonna waste the money anyway. Yet you must try to do all you can from giving any of it back to us taxpayers. Gotcha

@FoxNews A $5k check sounds nice until groceries swallow it in like two months

@FoxNews but it's a dividend

@FoxNews I think you need to pay more attention to what Trump is saying.

@FoxNews Your comment does nothing to help the Communist from taking over..why aren't you more assertive against the DMS, SOCIALIST, COMMUNIST!

@FoxNews Amen! While we are on the subject lets stop the government giveaways to industry and other nations as well. I shouldn't be "we don't get ours but everyone else gets theirs", it should be "anyone getting our money should be damn well justified us".

@FoxNews get rid of trump...problem solved!!!

@FoxNews Waste, fraud, abuse, illegals, government pensions, etc

@FoxNews 👎

@FoxNews I remember a quaint time when I actually believed congressmen went to Washington to serve the people and had actual power to make things happen. It was all an illusion.

@FoxNews Yes. And paying you for full time work when you work 25% of the time doesn’t help either.

@FoxNews Randi… go sit in the corner and sit this out for the time being. Stop being a tinfoil hat DOOFUSS!!

@FoxNews And that's also why you oppose tax cuts for the middle class because it deflates your porkbarrel congressional economy.

@FoxNews While I agree, we know you and your pals in the Senate are going to do absolutely nothing to fix the problem, so maybe, just maybe, for once you don't get to the be only ones getting cookies from the jar.

@FoxNews Tokenize the debt!! Oh I forgot jaime dimon told you & josh hawley to vote against crypto clarity & Trump. You are done

@FoxNews 25% is conservative

@FoxNews They don’t care 🤷🏾‍♂️ so get the reparations bill together for Black descendent of slaves. It doesn’t have to be a dollar amount per person but its gonna be Something.

@FoxNews Paul, both of them, have been around for decades. Trump, in a couple of years has exposed more fraud, corruption than a million Pauls in a million years. All talk, actions like the country is stuck in 1870 where 90% of the people ran farms.

@FoxNews Your job is to cut spending and make it work.

@FoxNews Your colleague don't seem to care.

@FoxNews Take that money and start paying down the debt. The US is currently spending about $2 billion PER DAY just to pay interest on the debt.

@FoxNews ^legit take. Neither he nor his father voted for the 2008 stimulus act. Principled leadership matters.

While I agree that we need to get a handle on spending, you are only telling half the cost-of-living story. "Nominal average hourly earnings for private-sector workers rose by roughly 22–24% over the last five years (around August/September 2021 to August 2026). ~ data. bls. gov "Over the past five years in the United States, the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) rose by about 22.4–22.5%." ~ totalrealreturns. com

@FoxNews Retired in 2022. Fixed pension. Have lost 20% of every dollar. Surviving fine because I own my house and don’t spend much. Not so true for everyone who has a mortgage or rents

@FoxNews We will never have the majority we need to stop it. When it all comes tumbling down and we enter a real depression our government will look much different. Letting it all crumble and rebuild is the only fix. Start working on being self reliant