Editorial
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The time for platitudes and kicking the proverbial can down the road when it comes to making the tough choices to reduce our deficit spending and rein in our national debt has passed. For far too long, too many politicians have talked a good fiscal game while running America into a pending financial collapse.
![Rep. Boebert](/congress117th/20220919211354im_/https://boebert.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/boebert.house.gov/files/styles/medium/public/evo-media-image/Committee1_0.jpg?h=a141e9ea&itok=u5NZdQ0k)
Rep. Boebert's op-ed was originally published in the Washington Examiner.
![Lauren Boebert](/congress117th/20220919211354im_/https://boebert.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/boebert.house.gov/files/styles/medium/public/evo-media-image/Headshot.jpg?h=38204526&itok=fExTyy-6)
![Boebert and Kristan Hawkins](/congress117th/20220919211354im_/https://boebert.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/boebert.house.gov/files/styles/medium/public/evo-media-image/Students%20for%20Life.png?h=d1cb525d&itok=mVVRTs8W)
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Rep. Boebert's editorial was originally published in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.
Decades of eco-terrorism have effectively shut down our national forests from responsible management. The result? Now there are six billion standing dead trees in the West that create a tinder box waiting to ignite one devastating forest fire after another.
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![Rep. Boebert Visits the Border](/congress117th/20220919211354im_/https://boebert.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/boebert.house.gov/files/styles/medium/public/evo-media-image/Border%20Crisis.jpeg?h=dacb7552&itok=pUcK9Wk7)
![Colorado Farming](/congress117th/20220919211354im_/https://boebert.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/boebert.house.gov/files/styles/medium/public/evo-media-image/Colorado%20Farming%202.jpg?h=252f27fa&itok=m08zZr_T)
The swamp is dominated by overpaid former Hill and agency staffers sipping wine, lobbying for more money to support their new “foundation,” “think tank,” or pet project. Most of the ideas these organizations pump out are pipe dreams that fail, but 1% become the next sweeping government mandate that gets shoved down the rest of the country’s throat.
![No Tax Dollars for Democrat Campaigns](/congress117th/20220919211354im_/https://boebert.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/boebert.house.gov/files/styles/medium/public/evo-media-image/HR%201.png?h=f9d2d83f&itok=x7cxVgV3)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., are quietly pushing a campaign to reinstate earmarks so they can fund liberal pet projects and buy votes with your tax dollars.