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

Can we not agree that entities benefiting from the discounts need to show the American people what they are doing with the savings?

Triggering automatic cuts to important domestic priorities will put more people in this country at risk of great harm.

So really, we are left just with one option. That is just raise income taxes on everybody to the point where we run out of other people's money to pay for things that we can't afford any more.

The discretionary caps imposed since 2011 have had value. They still have value today, and should be extended and increased gradually.

Raising the debt ceiling does not authorize us to spend more, it simply authorizes us to pay the bills that we have already incurred.

The cost of lowering rates for everybody across the board 20 percent ... costs about $5 trillion.

I'm going to cut Government spending that we can't afford.

We can cut back Government spending that we can't afford, but I will also ask anybody who is making over $250,000 a year to just go back to the rates they were paying under Bill Clinton, because, by the way, that worked.

It should be a balance of some smart cuts in programs that don't work.

The Nation simply cannot afford these wasteful subsidies.

This money can be better spent promoting domestic manufacturing.

Four billion dollars is a lot of money, and we've been subsidizing them for a hundred years.

We have to make choices in our taxing and spending.

Four billion dollars, imagine that.

We can't just be running up our debt in order to help other folks' economies.

We can't sit here and pretend that somehow, you know, Washington just cutting spending, in and of itself, is going to be putting people back to work.

But I do have a problem with unwarranted taxpayer subsidies that we've been handing out to oil and gas companies to the tune of $4 billion a year.