RESTORE AMERICA’S MISSION
There must be a commitment to Fiscal Responsibility and Stewardship of the American Budget.
The Failure of Stewardship and the Call to Accountability
Since the early 1990s, the United States Government has drifted from the discipline that once defined our Constitutional Republic.
For over three decades, neither political party has practiced true stewardship of the people’s trust or the nation’s treasury.
Both have presided over a government that spends without restraint, borrows without shame, and operates without the regular order required by our Constitution.
The last time Congress exercised proper fiscal order — with open debate, appropriations by category, and line-by-line accountability — was during the period between 1992 and 1994.
Since then, the people’s representatives have governed by crisis and convenience:
continuing resolutions, omnibus spending bills, and midnight votes that bypass scrutiny and silence deliberation.
Neither party has upheld its duty to the American people.
The Democratic Party, driven by social expansion and the illusion of endless resources, has mistaken generosity for governance.
The Republican Party, once the guardian of limited government, has too often abandoned prudence for political expediency.
Both have failed to distinguish between compassion and confiscation, relief and responsibility, politics and principle.
The result has been a betrayal of stewardship.
The very leaders entrusted to protect the Republic’s solvency have instead inflated its debt, eroded its credit, and mortgaged the freedom of generations yet unborn.
The federal budget, now a hollow ritual, no longer reflects the consent of the governed — only the convenience of the governing.
This decay began when Congress ceased to act under regular order and when the States ceased to exercise oversight through their elected representatives in the Senate.
The consequence has been a federal government unrestrained by fiscal reality, untethered from State accountability, and insulated from the discipline that once preserved the Republic’s integrity.
Since 1994, every administration — Democrat and Republican alike — has contributed to the steady rise of federal debt.
The surpluses of the late 1990s were fleeting illusions, erased by wars, bailouts, and bureaucratic expansion.
Deficits have become normalized, as if insolvency were a patriotic tradition rather than a national disgrace.
Congress no longer measures proposals by their constitutional merit or their financial consequence, but by their political yield.
And yet, the true cost of this failure is not measured in dollars alone.
It is measured in the erosion of public confidence — the loss of faith that the Government serves the People rather than itself.
When citizens no longer believe that elected leaders act with integrity, when both parties treat the national treasury as a campaign fund, the Republic’s foundation trembles.
It is therefore self-evident that a new approach must arise — one rooted not in party allegiance but in constitutional principle.
An approach that restores fiscal discipline by reuniting the Federal Government and the several States in shared accountability.
An approach that requires Congress to once again govern under order, debate, transparency, and consequence.
An approach that binds taxation, representation, and debt to the consent of the governed — the lawful citizens of the United States.
We have reached the inevitable moment where the old order can no longer sustain the Nation’s moral or fiscal health.
To preserve liberty, we must restore discipline.
To restore discipline, we must restore accountability.
And to restore accountability, we must return to the founding principle of apportionment among the several States according to their respective Numbers — the mechanism by which the Founders ensured that debt, like power, would remain answerable to the People.
Thus, we call for a new covenant between the Federal Government and the States:
A covenant of transparency, responsibility, and restraint,
Where every citizen knows the burden they bear,
And every State reclaims its role as guardian of the Republic’s solvency.
This covenant is embodied in the following proposal — the Fiscal Accountability and Apportionment Restoration Act (FAARA) —
a framework to return sanity, discipline, and order to the American budget process,
to rebuild confidence in government,
and to remind every generation that a Republic, if it is to endure, must first govern itself.
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