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

Some of my colleagues have threatened the Nation's full faith and credit by holding the debt ceiling hostage for partisan politics.

I know that you believe, as I do, that the issues this committee tackles are at the very core of our national security as a nation.

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

Well, but it is, and it is in your report, and that would be about 2 million people who would lose their jobs, people who are working right now making their mortgages.

MAGA Republicans claim it is about spending too much on childcare and air traffic controllers, but there are two sides to any balance sheet.

the Fed has raised interest rates eight times over the last year in what has been the most extreme rate hike cycle in 40 years.

I am just looking at the numbers.

First, repealing the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy and for giant corporations.

I hustled. I am a Marine, I can hustle.

Tax the profits that giant multinational corporations hide overseas right now, helping level the playing field for domestic businesses.

So there is one option that we are talking about, $1 trillion just to roll back the Trump tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

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.

And putting 2 million people out of work is just part of the cost, and they just have to bear it?

We could make the tax system a whole lot fairer as part of what we are doing here.

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.

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

We need to raise the debt ceiling. Without conditions.