GOP Lawmaker Josh Brecheen Demands Changes To Trump-Backed GOP Reconciliation Bill

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At today's House Budget Committee hearing, Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-OK) tore into the GOP reconciliation budget bill.

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00:00Mr. Josh Burkine from Oklahoma, you have three minutes.

00:02Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

00:04Look, apart from being someone that represents Christ

00:08in the way that I operate in this building

00:10and being a good husband and a great father to my children,

00:14something stands out to me more so than anything else

00:17in the way that I conduct my life.

00:18It is to be a person of truth.

00:21And I think as some of us are having real consternations

00:24this morning because of feeling like

00:28that there is truth on both sides,

00:30we had a blueprint, but there's also truth

00:32in the fact that $50 billion was added

00:34that is not a part of the blueprint.

00:37And so was the instructions fully met,

00:41it's truth that that element is lacking

00:43and that has to be reconciled,

00:46not in truth with what the blueprint laid out.

00:48The second part to be a person of truth

00:50has to be the scores.

00:53And when you look at,

00:55because that's the decision before us today,

00:56as people of truth,

00:58do these scores pan out?

01:00And what I saw happen in Oklahoma

01:03in my time in the state legislative body,

01:06trying to repeal wind tax credits,

01:1060 lobbyists from other countries,

01:12Italy, Spain involved,

01:14diverged on the Capitol.

01:17And it took from the 90s,

01:19as Governor Keating discussed in the 2018 era

01:22when we were trying to repeal these,

01:23it was never intended to last as long as it did.

01:25And it was always the promise to end

01:28many years from now,

01:29which never materialized.

01:31And so when we've got a measure that says

01:34start date for ending is four years from now,

01:38and we also have elements of this

01:40as it currently stands,

01:42that says you can enter a project in 2031

01:45as a wind production entity

01:47and still be receiving taxpayer subsidies by 2040,

01:51to be a person of truth,

01:52I know what's going to happen.

01:53I know there are going to be lobbyists

01:55that are going to descend on this building.

01:58We'll get the savings up front.

01:59And years from now,

02:00when President Trump,

02:01who rightfully so is a champion for Indians,

02:03he calls it the Green New Scam,

02:05is no longer in office.

02:06This is designed.

02:07I'm sorry,

02:08but I think it's purposely designed.

02:11And I'm not challenging anybody's character.

02:14I am grateful to a speaker.

02:16I am grateful to a chairman of this committee.

02:18I am grateful to a leader

02:18that's engaging with us right now

02:20to try to figure this stuff out

02:22to get to the truth.

02:23But I just want for my committee members

02:25to know my consternation

02:27because as Patrick Henry once said,

02:29I have but one lamp

02:30by which my feet are God.

02:31It's the lamp of experience.

02:32I know no other way

02:33to foretell the future than by the past.

02:37And until we get these timelines corrected,

02:40where it's a true repeal of wind and solar

02:41that is undermining our electric grid,

02:4460% of all new generation

02:46in the last two years,

02:47according to the Energy Information Administration,

02:48is wind and solar.

02:50And the super majority of components on solar,

02:53it's 61% of it's solar,

02:55and the super majority of those components

02:56are coming from China,

02:58undermining natural gas jobs

02:59all over this country.

03:01We have to fix this.

03:03I appreciate a chairman,

03:04speaker, and a leader right now

03:06as we're even talking,

03:07trying to figure this out

03:08so I can be a person of truth.

03:10I yield.

03:11I thank the gentleman from Oklahoma

03:16who is indeed a person of truth.

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