Representative Brian Fitzpatrick

They are.

They are.

And the brain drain too. I mean, the people that we're losing in Africa, you can't replace that kind of knowledge. These are lifelong missionaries that have spent their life doing this. Moreover, John, once you take these kids, some adults, but mostly kids off these antivirals, the virus comes racing back. Oftentimes, if you reapply the antiviral, it doesn't work as well.

And the brain drain too. I mean, the people that we're losing in Africa, you can't replace that kind of knowledge. These are lifelong missionaries that have spent their life doing this. Moreover, John, once you take these kids, some adults, but mostly kids off these antivirals, the virus comes racing back. Oftentimes, if you reapply the antiviral, it doesn't work as well.

And we have basically really contained HIV AIDS. We could easily find ourselves back in 1980s footing again if we're not careful about it. Right.

And we have basically really contained HIV AIDS. We could easily find ourselves back in 1980s footing again if we're not careful about it. Right.

Congressman Fitzpatrick. So it's going to start, John, next month with the appropriations process, where there are 12 different appropriations bills that have an open amendment process where Democrats, Republicans, anyone can offer any amendment they like. And we are going to have to write these appropriations in a much more specific way that limit executive branch discretion.

Congressman Fitzpatrick. So it's going to start, John, next month with the appropriations process, where there are 12 different appropriations bills that have an open amendment process where Democrats, Republicans, anyone can offer any amendment they like. And we are going to have to write these appropriations in a much more specific way that limit executive branch discretion.

What we are experiencing now, all of that is with prior year appropriations. We've never had a situation, John, where the executive branch is sending money back to the legislative branch saying we don't need it. Normally, these agencies are spending every last dime they have, even if they don't need to, to sit to advocate for more money in the following budget year. So this is unprecedented.

What we are experiencing now, all of that is with prior year appropriations. We've never had a situation, John, where the executive branch is sending money back to the legislative branch saying we don't need it. Normally, these agencies are spending every last dime they have, even if they don't need to, to sit to advocate for more money in the following budget year. So this is unprecedented.

We've never really had this situation before. So we're really going to have to button up the appropriations process this coming next month to write it in a way that really curtails. To protect these kinds of things. Yes, yes.

We've never really had this situation before. So we're really going to have to button up the appropriations process this coming next month to write it in a way that really curtails. To protect these kinds of things. Yes, yes.

Yeah, I'd say the most recent one would be the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Joe Biden ironically touted that as his greatest legislative success of his presidency. And that was a bill, John, that passed that got across the finish line because there were enough Republicans that overcame the bleed of the Democrats in the squad. who voted against it. So the Democrats in the squad voted no.

Yeah, I'd say the most recent one would be the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Joe Biden ironically touted that as his greatest legislative success of his presidency. And that was a bill, John, that passed that got across the finish line because there were enough Republicans that overcame the bleed of the Democrats in the squad. who voted against it. So the Democrats in the squad voted no.

There were me and 12 of my colleagues that voted yes to get across finish line, a major, major investment in our US infrastructure. That was exhibit A of how our group can be effective. What are we keying in on now? Immigration, the biggest failure of our country is our failure to get our immigration system right.

There were me and 12 of my colleagues that voted yes to get across finish line, a major, major investment in our US infrastructure. That was exhibit A of how our group can be effective. What are we keying in on now? Immigration, the biggest failure of our country is our failure to get our immigration system right.

We have the ability to bring the best and brightest people from all over the world that wanna come here. And it's the biggest advantage we have in this country. Nobody wants to move to our adversary's countries. Nobody's looking to move to China or Iran or North Korea or Russia. Everybody wants to come here. That's a huge demographic and economic security problem. advantage we have.

We have the ability to bring the best and brightest people from all over the world that wanna come here. And it's the biggest advantage we have in this country. Nobody wants to move to our adversary's countries. Nobody's looking to move to China or Iran or North Korea or Russia. Everybody wants to come here. That's a huge demographic and economic security problem. advantage we have.

And we can secure the border. Tom and I want to work together on that. Permitting reform. We got to streamline this absurd permitting process to yield the benefits of a lot of our local natural energy. And then lastly is debt and deficit. It is not hard to figure out how to solve this. We don't have enough people with the courage to do what it takes to

And we can secure the border. Tom and I want to work together on that. Permitting reform. We got to streamline this absurd permitting process to yield the benefits of a lot of our local natural energy. And then lastly is debt and deficit. It is not hard to figure out how to solve this. We don't have enough people with the courage to do what it takes to