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America is a country built on the idea of freedom. Freedom to most means the ability to live and make decisions without unreasonable constraints. Freedom does not mean freedom from individual responsibility. Unfortunately, President Biden…
This is not a budget issue. We're not arguing here what we should be spending next year.
if Republicans get away with holding the economy hostage, this sets a precedent for years to come.
They've raised the debt ceiling, if I recall correctly, three times under Trump and by the way, we raised our national debt by something like a trillion dollars over that period.
Well, it's only what I read in 'The New York Times,' it may be right, it may be wrong.
What should be off the table are children in America where we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country, that should be off the table; the needs of elderly people who are struggling to pay for their…
But the alternatives are also very, very bad.
the idea that the Republicans are holding hostage the entire world economy unless they get what they want has been an outrageous display of extremist politics and it really is unacceptable.
It's gone and people say okay, hey, budget ceiling is coming. We're going to go through this again. That is a pretty bad way to develop budgets.
Well, default is a terrible path. It will cause global anarchy.
That's what you do in a democratic society, not hold the world economy hostage, which is what the Republicans are doing.
It is simply paying the bills that Republicans voted for last year and previous years. We're paying off our debt.
When I listen to my constituents reflect on Silicon Valley Bank and its collapse, they really remember feeling worried not just about SVB, but really about their local banks.
I want Vermonters who have their money at local and community banks to understand the specific choices that were made by SVB executives that put their customers' money at risk.
It is not hyperbole to say that independent pharmacies in so many of our rural communities are the heart of the community.
Not an incentive, just a mandate. So, it is not hyperbole to say that independent pharmacies in so many of our rural communities are the heart of the community.
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