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We are facing is really a gun trafficking crisis, that the ATF is trying to intervene and save lives

Yes, that is kind of how the free enterprise system works.

I am one of those Americans who is concerned about the fact that Americans tend to pay a lot more for drugs than do people in other countries.

Free enterprise created vaccines that saved millions of lives.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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, nor would the Freedom Caucus support that in the absence of a full repeal of the 16th…

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?

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

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

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

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

To say somehow that he's been cutting the deficit is just not realistic.

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