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If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 3:23 p.m., adjourned until Monday, May 5, 2025, at 3 p.m.

For the information of all Senators, we will have one rollcall vote at 5:30 p.m. on Monday on the motion to proceed to H.J. Res. 61. ____________________

If the gentleman is asking a rhetorical question and the gentleman does not have his--

--we are not allowed to touch Social Security in the reconciliation process, and then interest is off of the table because you have to pay it. You can't just magically not pay the interest. That adds up to what? It is about 47 percent of…

I have been saying in this building repeatedly that the math has to math. The math has to add up. Would the gentleman agree that that is the fundamental and core problem in this town when we are talking about the state of affairs? For…

Would the gentleman yield on that? One of the things that I have been saying in this building for the last several months is this debate about what we call, I think somewhat wrongly and incorrectly, ``mandatory spending,'' because it is…

Now, I bring that up because nobody at home understands that. You are doing a good job trying to put it in context.

The question I have for the gentleman: When I graduated from law school at the University of Texas in 2003, the national debt was somewhere in the $6 trillion range, $6.5 trillion dollars. When I came to Congress, when I was campaigning to…

Now, fast-forward, and the current vulnerable population-- what we call the vulnerable population--the indigent, the poor, those who need it, single moms, people who are sick, the frail--that population, even under today's law, gets a…

It was supposed to then be a shared arrangement between the States and the Federal Government, correct?

So Medicaid was created, and Medicaid was created to ostensibly provide an avenue to healthcare for the poor and vulnerable, right, as a broad statement. Is that true?

I thank the gentleman from Arizona for his steadfast devotion to highlighting for the American people the state of our fiscal health, which is not good, and the extent to which we are complicit in it. I would just point out that this thing…

Musk’s DOGE helped crystallize the framework for what the Texas agency would do.

They were basically partying on the taxpayers' dollars.

As this investigation continues, I will take aggressive action against any corporation that puts our children’s health at risk.

I'm glad he's still going to be part of the administration.

We shouldn’t have such high local taxes and the federal government shouldn’t subsidize it.

EV owners have not been paying anything into the highway trust fund and justifiably, now they will.