In the corridors of a Congress carrying $40 trillion in debt, Missouri Representative Eric Burlison has turned his critique inward, warning that his own party's appetite for spending contradicts its promises to struggling families. Speaking ahead of midterm elections, he traces a quiet crisis in American household economics — one where healthcare costs alone have consumed the margin between comfort and hardship for millions. His is the voice of a fiscal dissenter in a chamber where dissent, he suggests, has become nearly extinct.