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$1.74 billion for Community Health Centers to serve rural communities; $515 million for the Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program so counties can fund education, law enforcement, and infrastructure; $48 million for the U.S. Forest Service to address the bark beetle infestations ravaging Colorado and to actively manage our forests; $10 million for the Indian Irrigation Fund for the benefit of the Southern Ute Tribe; $1 million to compensate farmers for livestock lost to wolves; important pro-life protections like the Hyde and Weldon amendments; preventing the greater sage-grouse from being listed as an endangered species; important federal resources for NASA and Colorado’s space program; and exempting livestock haulers from burdensome Department of Transportation electronic logging device mandates.

With annual deficits exceeding a trillion dollars and total debt surpassing $30 trillion, now is the time to tack action to rein in wasteful government spending. We need a Balanced Budget Amendment to get our fiscal house in order and help tame inflation, not $1.5 trillion bills that are more than 2,700 pages that Members have less than 22 hours to read.