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I actually asked the CBO director about the tax cuts, and very clearly he said that they did not pay for themselves, that they did increase the deficit.

In fact, we had the director of CBO here just in the last couple weeks testified, and I asked him the question: How much is the deficit and the deficit that has resulted from the Trump taxes? He couldn't give us a number.

But given at least 150 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse, why can't we at least cut the budget by 150 billion?

Education, quite frankly, has been short-changed over the past eight years.

There are things that we may want to do, but we simply don't have the money.

Unbridled debt, an uncontrollable debt, would be an existential threat to this country.

We cannot tax our way out of this problem. And to believe we can do so is being intellectually dishonest.

We are here to discuss discretionary caps, but this conversation - while important - is a waste of time without a plan to address the true drivers of out-of-control deficits and debt.

The Federal permitting timeline of nearly 5 years for this urgent, already long studied project is unacceptable

The Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans will come to order.

We need to continue to support and invest in our nation's veterans and ensure that they receive the care and support they deserve.

I think our institutions do need reforms and they do need strengthening and they do need to be adapted for the situations we find ourselves in.

The costs of keeping it open far exceed the complications involved in closing it.

I have tried to close Guantanamo.

Justice has been served and that a message has still been sent that when it comes to our national security, that wherever possible, we need folks who may have legitimate concerns about the actions of Government to try to work through the…

I express my deep appreciation for the contributions of my national security team to these efforts.

I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13660.

I hereby order: sections 1 and 2 of Executive Order 13067 are revoked.