David Schweikert

My little Matthew is 3. This country needs 104% of his lifetime earnings just to cover promises Washington already made. In less than 6.5 years, the Social Security trust fund is empty. In less th...

This is the US Government as a household: $52,000 in $73,000 out $1.3 million upside down. And next year these numbers get worse. https://t.co/zIXYkQlW31

At what point do we stop calling this budgeting and start calling it national decline? We went from $38 trillion to $39 trillion in debt in 147 days. Debt moving that fast means interest takes a b...

104%. That is what a child born today needs in lifetime earnings just to pay federal pension promises. In less than 6.5 years, the Social Security trust fund is empty and the Medicare trust fund ...

We are now borrowing $93,884 every second this fiscal year. Not Republican or Democrat. Just math.

There were 3.6 million babies born last year. For every one of them, we put about $600,000 on that child’s card in a single year. That is the ratio of our borrowing. Productivity is the answer. Y...

Last year, for every $1 Washington took in, it spent $1.43. Interest is now the second biggest expenditure in the federal government. Defense is number five. So the next politician promising a ba...

We just crossed $39 trillion in debt. That number should scare anyone with children or anyone hoping to retire with some dignity. The interest bill keeps climbing. Every year we refuse to deal ...

Social Security gets cut 24 percent in 6.5 years. Medicare Part A gets cut 12 percent. The first-year shortfall is $638 billion. Interest already costs more than national defense. And still too...

Big hospitals were upset there was a cure for hepatitis C. They lobbied to slow it down because it threatened the infrastructure they had built around it. Then I pushed telehealth. The people whos...

My little Matthew is 3. This country needs 104% of his lifetime earnings just to cover promises Washington already made. In less than 6.5 years, the Social Security trust fund is empty. In less th...

104%. That is what a child born today needs in lifetime earnings just to pay federal pension promises. In less than 6.5 years, the Social Security trust fund is empty and the Medicare trust fund ...

At what point do we stop calling this budgeting and start calling it national decline? We went from $38 trillion to $39 trillion in debt in 147 days. Debt moving that fast means interest takes a b...

This is the US Government as a household: $52,000 in $73,000 out $1.3 million upside down. And next year these numbers get worse. https://t.co/zIXYkQlW31

We are now borrowing $93,884 every second this fiscal year. Not Republican or Democrat. Just math.

Last year, for every $1 Washington took in, it spent $1.43. Interest is now the second biggest expenditure in the federal government. Defense is number five. So the next politician promising a ba...

$289,204 per household. That is your share of the federal debt right now. Washington added another $20,515 per household in just one year.

There were 3.6 million babies born last year. For every one of them, we put about $600,000 on that child’s card in a single year. That is the ratio of our borrowing. Productivity is the answer. Y...

Before Labor Day, another $1,000,000,000,000 in debt. The national debt is already $38,980,000,000,000. It is growing at $87,685.82 every second.

Social Security gets cut 24 percent in 6.5 years. Medicare Part A gets cut 12 percent. The first-year shortfall is $638 billion. Interest already costs more than national defense. And still too...