NorthFulton.com | Immigration, budget, health care top Tom Price’s legislative list

ALPHARETTA, Ga. – U.S. Rep Tom Price (R-Roswell) spoke to the Rotary Club of North Fulton Aug. 13, giving the club an update on the happenings in Washington, both the good and the bad.

“From the outside, it looks pretty crazy,” he said. “From the inside, it looks pretty crazy.”

He and his political party are trying to put forward “positive solutions,” he said, however, “the challenge is getting all 535 of us in the same direction.”

Federal budget

The funding of government is unsustainable, Price said. Instead of a budget, Congress has passed “continuing resolutions,” stop-gap measures to continue funding at the same level, since 2008.

“That’s not a responsible way to govern,” he said.

He cautioned that, unless movement happens on funding, the government may have to shut down.

“That’s not good for the country, even though it may be good for politics,” he said.

National debt

The debt ceiling is $17 trillion. The federal budget contains $3.6 trillion in spending with $1 trillion in new debt. However, hard choices must be made to solve that gap.

Price said the combined costs of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and debt service add up to $2.6 trillion, with the rest of the government totaling the remaining $1 trillion.

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