We need to show that we have a plan, that we’re not going to raise the debt ceiling if they continue to do these kind of antics.

We should make it very clear that until there is an ironclad agreement that everything that the House appropriates and authorizes will be dispersed, we will not vote to increase the debt ceiling.

We will not cooperate with Donald Trump on any of the agenda.

No DOGE employee should have access to any of Americans’ sensitive, confidential information, and they should not have access to be able to stop payments.

There is a movement now which is pushing back. We did not have that for a couple months, I acknowledge that.

We need to be very, very clear, not just in condemning these individual actions, but in condemning a project of American expansionism.

We should make it very, very clear that until there is an ironclad agreement that everything that the House appropriates and authorizes will be dispersed, we will not vote to increase the debt ceiling.

If you believe that you found fraud, you found waste, you found and exposed abuse, bring that to the American people.

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