10/17/2023
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"We are going to run a $2 trillion deficit this year, $2 trillion. And we are not going to talk about that expenditure thing again."
"And when we have an agency that deviates from that, it is Congress' responsibility, it is our duty as representatives of the people, to hold that Administration accountable."
"And based on that consensus, people who are clever with words will elaborate a narrative of existential threat, and crisis, and emergency."
"the buck will stop here. It stops in Congress."