The inflation our Country has experienced...was a terribly difficult time for families.

It makes no sense to add even more to our deficits to disproportionately benefit those at the very top.

the claims that, you know, big tax, personal tax cuts for wealthy people is going to generate something like in the range of 4.6 percent. I mean that was just ridiculous, right?

I see that, you know, a number of months ago you had projected that the Trump tax cuts would add--well, this is back during that time, $4.6 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years.

So, it was a $20 billion cut, so your estimate is that what, it will lose $40 billion?

To be blunt about it, they have been ripping people off.

claims going forward that continuing the Trump tax cuts would pay for themselves, as you said is absurd.

the single biggest driver of our national debt since 2001 has been Republican tax cuts.

Make America Great Again (MAGA) Republicans live in a fantasy world of a balanced budget, with extended Trump tax cuts, and funded Social Security, Medicare, defense and veteran's programs. Can't happen.

Most importantly, we must have a frank discussion about Washington's spending addiction.

We can invest in our security, and in our working families, and our communities, not just to throw money away at billionaires.

any great power that spends more on debt service than on defense, will not stay great for a long time, a very long time.

Taxpayers and workers, and investors are smarter than we are in the United States Senate, because we've had 93 marginal tax rates.

I'm going back to this comes up why can't you guys do something about saving Social Security and Medicare?

President Biden continues to use his pen and phone to spend trillions, particularly on student loan bailouts, and in these unprecedented fiscal times that's the height of recklessness.

We must stop digging ourselves into an ever deeper budget hole, and I think the budget agreement reached between McCarthy and Biden a year ago starts us down that track.

I don't put much stock in a study of Biden's fiscal records that leaves out hundreds of billions of dollars of unlawful student loan giveaways.

It makes no sense to add even more to our deficits to disproportionately benefit those at the very top.