David Schweikert: “As we get ourselves sort of set up here--the hazard when you use boards--I actually want to walk through a couple of…”

“As we get ourselves sort of set up here--the hazard when you use boards--I actually want to walk through a couple of things. If I don't make some folks mad, particularly on the other side tonight, I am not doing my job. How many of you have been basically hearing, even the President today talking about this debt ceiling and how outrageous it is that Republicans are trying to actually use it for some policy. If there are any of the scribes that we call reporters, please listen for one moment. When we talk about the debt ceiling, how many of you remember 2017, how Democrats rolled Trump on the deficit ceiling? The Democrats and the press were giddy that when we were up against the debt ceiling in 2017, that Schumer and the gang basically required another $15 billion in spending, and that was the cost of their participation in the debt ceiling. Oh, but that would be outrageous to try to do policy as part of the debt ceiling, but you did it. Then how about this? 2019, does anyone remember someone called Speaker Pelosi? In that case, the extortion was additional spending of $324 billion. Now, the difference for Republicans is we are trying to save the country from the debt crisis, where the left was trying to spend more money. But this is in the last couple of years.…”