the ultra-wealthy are avoiding those $2 trillion in taxes every ten years.

If Republicans want to come up with a proposal that restores solvency while avoiding benefit cuts, as the standing ovation at the State of the Union promised, Democrats are all ears.

Is it smarter for us to fix that now and have 11 years in which we boost the Trust Fund?

If Republicans want to come up with a proposal that restores solvency while avoiding benefit cuts, as the standing ovation at the State of the Union promised, Democrats are all ears.

I just want to make it clear that my door is open.

I ask unanimous consent that my interns be granted floor privileges for their shadow days as follows: Mabel Knapick for September 18, 2024; Amelia Nason for September 25, 2024; Sophia Spry for November 14, 2024; Sophie Davenport for…

That is unacceptable that we would be in that position.

the question for the Congress and for the Senate is do we want to take the steps that the Chairman outlined...

Is it smarter for us to fix that now and have 11 years in which we boost the Trust Fund, or wait till the last desperate second in 2035?

I said everybody has got to pay their fair share. No special exemptions for billionaires.

It makes a lot of sense to me, and I encourage all of us to actually act now, rather than waiting.

I just want to make it clear that my door is open.

I ask unanimous consent to enter into a colloquy with the distinguished chairman of the Senate Committee on Budget, Senator Whitehouse. I want to ask for a clarification of H.R. 7032, the Congressional Budget Office Data Sharing Act and…

We want to derail this ill-advised House proposal to not make things worse.

We Democrats know that the ultra-wealthy are avoiding nearly $2 trillion in taxes every ten years.

We want to work in a bipartisan way on both of the big issues of our time.

it would make it harder to do the bipartisan work on overpayments that we talked about in the Finance Committee.

I am here as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle...