No one is proposing that on our side, and you keep on saying that's the biggest threat.

the President claims to be a steward of fiscal responsibility, with a track record on deficit and debt accumulation in the last two years.

Do you recognize that in the next ten years or so, the Trust Fund on Social Security is going to run out?

Do you believe that Republicans in the House and in the Senate are going to vote to raise taxes and nothing else, just raise taxes to save Medicare?

That is simply wrong. There is no one who's recommending cutting Social Security benefits.

I do want to remind everyone, anyone watching this hearing, as well as American taxpayers more broadly, that it's Congress that ultimately determines annual spending and revenue levels, not the President's annual budget.

I do want to remind everyone, anyone watching this hearing, as well as American taxpayers more broadly, that it's Congress that ultimately determines annual spending and revenue levels, not the President's annual budget.

The biggest threat is in ten years or so, the Social Security Trust Fund runs out of money.

the President claims to be a steward of fiscal responsibility, with a track record on deficit and debt accumulation in the last two years.

His claims there don't add up.

I do, however, applaud the House Freedom Caucus for the work that its done in proposing ideas to get us on a sustainable spending trajectory.

It's just not true. House Freedom Caucus has one member who asked for a vote on something like that, but the Freedom Caucus itself doesn't do that.

Those aren't spending cuts, those are tax increases, but yeah.

If you just looked at more guns equals safety, there's over 400 million firearms in the United States. If that was the case, we should be the safest country in the world. So more guns is not the answer to safety.

I do want to remind everyone, anyone watching this hearing, as well as American taxpayers more broadly, that it's Congress that ultimately determines annual spending and revenue levels, not the President's annual budget.

The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not 'a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees.'

The Second Amendment, especially in what we saw with New York's framework, was fundamentally treated and held to a different standard.

I just want to emphasize, again, that the Second Amendment isn't something new. Yes, it is old. It's been in place since 1791.