$12 billion as of June 1, if we default, $12 billion in veterans benefits would not be sent out.

We have a hobbled economy because of a regulatory front that runs counter to the rule of law.

the potential of losing seven million jobs, a spike in unemployment--we have been going along at about a three percent unemployment rate, which has really been a gift to all of us.

prosperity does not come if the only answer we have in the pending days is a default.

And so adding another $2 or $3 trillion to the deficit by cutting taxes is largely likely to have the same impact as if we increase spending by that amount.

cutting support for housing stability is incredibly disruptive.

This is stupidity at its height, and the economy is not doing well.

I would suggest a 1.1 GDP quarter, last quarter, which is down every quarter for the last three quarters, heading into recession, ain't good news.

We have a debt problem that really could turn quickly into a debt crisis and that would be hard to bail.

$25 billion in Social Security benefits would not be sent out.

the current concern for budget deficits, which I share and which I think we should find a way to try to bring under control, is not brought under control by adding trillions of additional dollars in tax cuts.

I respect that President Trump took this on, I think like no other president, this herculean task of deregulating our economy.

We have a better inflation picture here in the United States than all of our peer countries in Europe...

Is it unfair to ask people before they get a government check to go to work, go 20 hours a week? Really?

we have a spending problem not a revenue problem.

I agree that we have a labor supply problem. We shouldn't look to children to fix it.

This is an artificial crisis that was tried to be created that has real consequences in the job market.

Janet Yellen has never created a job in her life.