"It was not the Biden administration. Their budget has these funds in it."
"So, the real problem here are budget cuts."
"I think that is what Wall Street does, and it is a good thing, but I do not know that we can look to that as necessarily a positive sign."
"I have not been fully satisfied with what we have said about the office situation."
"I am so frustrated with Congress for not taking up the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act."
"Congress gets this phenomenon. It is like last week's calm district work period before now facing a month of unpredictable governance in the House."
"Over and over again, when the economy is strong, politicians are so busy taking credit that they fail to see storms on the horizon."
"The government should have seen it coming. Why didn't we? Maybe because Congress was negligent during the calm."
"Look, commercial property owners take risks, and losing money is one of them, but when the whole market crashes, that causes a problem that hurts all of us."
"The longer we postpone the outcome, the bigger the balance grows and the greater the economic risk becomes."
"This kind of mowing and waiting... is going to hit its limits at some point."
"Republicans have told us today that China poses an existential threat to the United States."