I interpret your answer to be that you are very willing to discuss the President's budget, tax increases, and increased spending, but you are not willing to discuss, with regard to the debt ceiling discussion, any actual fiscal restraint…

We need to protect the full faith and credit of the United States.

Once started, moral hazard, like inflation, is not easily contained and does long-lasting damage.

So, do you agree then that it is a liquidity risk that we are dealing with in this issue?

I am very much opposed to it.

We must stop trying to solve this problem by massive new spending and massive new taxes.

The spending binge must stop.

This administration must recommit to working with Republicans to develop real solutions that will stabilize the economy and create higher wages and opportunities for American workers.

The President's budget demonstrates the administration has not learned from its mistakes.

It is important to learn more about what initiated the run on Silicon Valley Bank.

The Congressional Budget Office says the Inflation Reduction Act will not only increase inflation in the near term.

We must engage in negotiations to get over some of these disagreements, and this new debt ceiling resolution must include fiscal restraint.

We must engage in negotiations to get over some of these disagreements, and this new debt ceiling resolution must include fiscal restraint.

I would like to express my concern about numerous proposals in the Green Book.

I interpret your answer to be that you are very willing to discuss the President's budget, tax increases, and increased spending, but you are not willing to discuss, with regard to the debt ceiling discussion, any actual fiscal restraint…

The President's budget demonstrates the administration has not learned from its mistakes.

Once started, moral hazard, like inflation, is not easily contained and does long-lasting damage.

We must stop trying to solve this problem by massive new spending and massive new taxes.