While the eyes of our federal leaders and the media have been focused on the war in Ukraine, the armed conflict between Israel and Hamas, the southern border, the related protests and uprisings on college campuses, and the multiple trials concerning a former president, little is being done to address the greatest threat to our economic and national security: our mounting national debt burdens.

Washington’s profligate spending practices and inaction on the Fiscal Commission Act and HCR 24 are increasing the risk of a federal fiscal crisis. Our congressional representatives are too focused on today and the next election rather than the steps to create a better future. Their myopia and focus on their personal job security and political party status blind them to the long-term consequences of their decisions. Our country has lost its sense of stewardship, and it is time that “we the people” wake up and pressure our lawmakers to regain it before it is too late.