Political Quotes

Bloated defense spending has been a serious problem for far too long. Requiring unfunded priorities only encourages the Pentagon to seek additional funding outside the normal budget process, often at the expense of readiness and sound…

Last year, I called Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill ‘the largest transfer of wealth from working Americans in U.S. history.’

$1.5 trillion, or $1,500,000,000,000. That is the egregious and dangerously irresponsible amount of money the Trump Administration has requested for military spending.

I cannot, in good faith, approve a budget that rewards this behavior and fails to rein in an out-of-control President."