U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, speaks at the Optimist Wapakoneta Friday morning.
LIMA — He has been in national news frequently, but on Friday, Wapakoneta residents got to pose their questions to him directly.
U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, spoke at the Optimist Club in Wapakoneta Friday morning. Jordan discussed the plans of the judiciary committee and on inflation and the economy.
“The appropriations process is underway,” said Jordan. “One of the things we’re trying to get to from the Judiciary Committee and Republicans in the House is to attach certain limitations on how your tax dollars can be spent. For example, no money in the Department of Homeland Security should be used to set up a disinformation governance board.”
Following questions from community members, Jordan shared his take on the national debt across the nation.
“In the next couple of years, the interest rate is going to a trillion bucks a year,” said Jordan. “If our interest payment starts to approach what we pay for national defense — I think this debt ceiling agreement was something that started to move us in the right direction because we’re going to spend in discretionary spending, for the first time, less money this year than the previous year.”
Jordan also said in previous years he only voted for two of the 11 debt ceiling increases in the past 10 years.
“The key thing is you have to get the economy humming along again like it was just three years ago,” said Jordan. “If you’re growing even if you got this huge debt like we do; if you’re making progress that sends such a message to the rest of the world.”
Jordan said that in relation to the economy, “Leadership matters.”
“The reason in western Ohio things are good is because we have good leadership at schools, we have good families, good communities, and just each step of each step along the way,” said Jordan, “from local government, state government and federal government. If you get the right leadership you can turn it around.”
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