The debt ceiling hostage demands that they are making would shrink our economy.

please ensure that we have sufficient funds to continue this most important work.

Year after year, the Republican playbook has been simple--more help for their rich buddies and more economic pain for everyone else.

These extremist House Republicans are demanding massive, across-the-board spending cuts.

The United States has been underinvesting in childcare for decades.

I want to congratulate Oklahoma for expanding Medicaid.

So let me do another part of this. If you cut the number of employees that you have by 130, what is going to happen to the children you serve?

Those hospitals are heavily dependent upon Medicare and Medicaid.

The House Republicans have decided to use the debt ceiling to hold our Government and our economy hostage.

So that's a pretty grim picture about what's going on, and it's particularly alarming because, in 2021, investors bought up one-quarter of all single-family homes that were on the market.

Unemployment is at a historic low, 3.4 percent. That is not just a number.

So let me just say, thank you Ms. Weisenfreund for the work you do.

These MAGA House Republicans are threatening to cut the little bit of funding that we do have going into childcare.

You are gambling with people's lives, and there is a pile of data showing the price gouging and supply chain kinks and the war in Ukraine are driving up prices.

Here is another. Tax the profits that giant multinational corporations hide overseas right now, helping level the playing field for domestic businesses and joining Europe and others in enacting a global corporate minimum tax.

So I am just trying to think through what this means in terms of job losses.

the debt ceiling won't authorize new spending, but failing to increase it when needed would cause the U.S. Government to default on its obligations.

So serious conversations about reducing the national debt should start with rebalancing our tax system, not start with how to hurt families.