One month into the 118th Congress, we are forging ahead with our Commitment to America. In order to restore a strong American economy, we are working to exercise oversight over reckless federal spending and the failed White House policies that have hamstrung recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to the severe inflation and large-scale layoffs we’ve seen throughout the first 23 months of the Biden presidency.
Despite the fact President Biden declared “the pandemic is over” in an interview with 60 Minutes last September, he has since extended the Public Health Emergency (PHE) while pursuing harmful proposals such as student loan debt cancelation and heavy-handed vaccine mandates. This week, the Republican- led House took action to check these abuses of executive power and uphold government accountability.
On February 1, 2023, with my support, the House passed a measure to require executive branch agencies to reinstate pre-pandemic work policies unless they submit a certified plan to Congress showing such policies positively impact the agency’s
