Bullhead City, AZ – Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) issued the following statement regarding Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.

“One year ago today, Joe Biden, and his incompetent woke military leadership, made the disastrous decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and surrender over $80 billion in equipment to the Taliban.

This public humiliation of our country was the result of incompetency, negligence and ineptitude.  President Trump had established a competent and professional plan to withdraw and finally end this forever war.  But Joe Biden replaced professional military leadership with political operatives who predictably failed.  I mourn for the thousands of our soldiers who died valiantly in a two decade military campaign that was mishandled from the start by poor leadership.

Joe Biden abandoned American citizens and left them behind.  Instead, he gathered over 100,000 Afghanis and flew them to America.  None were vetted and many turned out to be on terrorist watch lists.

In a show of incompetence and arrogance, Mr. Biden and his woke generals sent a drone missile to kill an Afghan ally and aid worker, along with his family and seven children.  Ten innocent civilians were murdered in an impotent show of force by Joe Biden. 

Finally, due to Mr. Biden’s incompetence and poor military leadership, he failed to secure the airport perimeter and allowed a suicide bomber to enter resulting in the needless death of 13 American service members. We remember the lives of the 13 heroes who needlessly died because of Joe Biden’s foolhardy decision.  We won’t ever forget them,” concluded Congressman Gosar.

Washington, DC – Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) issued the following statement after voting against H.R. 5376, the misleadingly titled Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

The democrats’ $740 billion spending binge does nothing to reduce inflation, but it will hike taxes on millions of Americans earning less than $200,000 a year.  In fact, the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation reports that that tax rate for every single income category will increase, including Americans earning as little as $20,000 a year.

If that wasn’t bad enough, the bill includes more than $80 billion to weaponize 87,000 new IRS agents to harass and spy on hardworking Americans and come after your money.   The IRS will now have more employees that the Pentagon, State Department, FBI and the Border Patrol combined.

Highlighting the lunacy of this bill, it also includes $370 billion to be doled out to implement asinine “Green New Deal” policies including funding to develop diets that prevent cows from passing gas.  Excuse me?  Sadly, these are the priorities of the radical leftists in Congress.

Inflation remains at a 40 year high, the economy is in a recession and our Border Patrol agents lack the resources and man power to defend our southern border from a relentless surge of lawbreakers.  Instead of heeding the economic warning lights, democrats have doubled down on the failed policies that got us into this mess.  I reject more big government and higher taxes and voted no,” concluded Congressman Gosar.