To me, the biggest objectives were no taxpayers' dollars used for this, in the sense of nothing coming out of general fund—nothing competing against education, and it couldn't just be about the Browns, it had to be universal.

This is a big win for the American people.

Everything else—the CBO score [the Congressional Budget Office cost estimate], the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.

This guy wants to bankrupt Medicaid by importing millions of illegal immigrants and giving them healthcare that ought by right go to his fellow citizens.

Everything else — the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy — is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.

I would prefer not to shut down at all, but, remember, I have no leverage.

we are about to enter a historic moment in this Chamber. We are going to take up a bill called the One Big Beautiful Bill. If you have been watching the media over the last maybe 6 months, you heard all kinds of absolute misinformation…

We’re going to work in the coming weeks to ensure that we do something with that fuel.

You just heard from the good cops. Meet the bad cop.

While Mitt Romney and the people at Bain Capital made a lot of money doing that, they also caused a lot of damage. Fundamentally, that’s wrong, and that’s not the way Republicans saw things back then.

It’s the most interesting political shift that I’ve ever seen. The center of gravity for the Democratic Party is Martha’s Vineyard. The center of gravity for the Republican Party is Chillicothe, Ohio.

It has to be able to survive a private equity company.

as I said earlier and I predicted earlier, our Democrat colleagues have come out totally mischaracterizing this bill. So let me just go through this again very slowly so that they can watch it and listen. The question really is, Is this a…

I don’t want to play whack-a-mole. I want to be proactive and avoid the next 20 Chillicothes.

If the private equity firms who do this to communities had to go walk through and look at every one of you in the eye and hear your stories and see the devastation that they cause when they make selfish decisions, they would never do what…

A huge ruling by the Supreme Court, smacking down the ridiculous process of nationwide injunctions.

And now, we can look forward to a future where my children will look at this moment as the beginning of a new story, a story of prosperity and peace.

We discussed this thing ad nauseam.