the growth in healthcare spending has been one of the primary drivers on the spending side.

Yes. And then here's defense discretionary spending, and then this is non-defense discretionary spending, which as you can see has been fairly constant over all of those years.

Our national debt is not only the result of those two economic shocks, of course. It is also the result of repeated rounds of Republican tax cuts that primarily benefited giant corporations and very, very wealthy individuals.

Is it a fact, Director Swagel, that projected primary spending, that is federal non-interest spending, is now lower than it was projected to be in 2012?

Do we really want to leave Ukraine high and dry to the tender mercies of the pediatric hospital bombing monster Putin? I kind of doubt it.

Helping the wealthy avoid taxes is such an infatuation that House Republicans even brought the United States to the brink of default trying to prevent the IRS from cracking down on wealthy tax cheats.

Indeed, CBO found that actual and projected federal health spending over the 2010 to 2033 period was $6.3 trillion, $6.3 trillion lower than predicted, which I attribute to improving quality, and moving to value-based care.

the prospect of that creating a shock to the economy along the lines of the 2008 shock or worse, have been repeatedly raised in this Committee

I agree with what Chairman Green said earlier about the importance of incentives.

Every other government official is subject to fact-finding, even the president had to submit to an interview about the documents in his garage. These justices won't allow themselves to be subjected to honest fact-finding.

I don't think the fact that somebody is the president's son entitles them to be out from under rule of law.

I think that the attorney general has an obligation to follow the direction of the president of the United States when the president of the United States asserts executive privilege.

I emphasize explicitly and unequivocally that human caused climate change poses significant risks to society and the environment.

There's a legendary story of the cloak room calling Ted Kennedy and saying, we need you on this vote.

I emphasize explicitly and unequivocally that human caused climate change poses significant risks to society and the environment.

I think the question is, how many MAGA battle flags does the Supreme Court justice have to fly until the rest of the court takes it seriously.

There's a legendary story of the cloak room calling Ted Kennedy and saying, we need you on this vote.

Hot, dry weather increases the risk of wildfires.