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

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

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.

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

No Republican is proposing cutting Social Security benefits.

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, and it's not honest to say that to Members of Congress.

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.'

His claims there don't add up.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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