mr. mulvaney. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. mulvaney: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to follow on to what my colleague said in his opening remarks by trying to get your heads around how big $1.2 trillion. is it's one of the things i struggled with, one of the things folks back home struggle with. if you're a family making $46,000 a year, just under the average household in the united states, this is the equivalent of borrowing an additional $14,000, which might not sound that much until you stop to realize that if you were that little family, making $46,000 a year, trying to borrow an additional $14,000, which is what we're doing, you owe $305,000 on the credit card bill. you try to borrow another $14,000. it raises a question in my mind, speaker a fairly straightforward, honest question -- does the president ever really intend to pay it back? i think it's a legitimate question to ask. if someone came to me and said, would you loan me an additional $14,000 and i knew you owed $305,000, i think asking that person -- do you ever i