Kevin McCarthy: “The bottom line is the current system is failing our veterans, the very men and women who have served our country.”

We want to... take those off the table. We want to strengthen Medicare and Social Security.

I want to find a reasonable and a responsible way that we can lift the debt ceiling, but take control of this runaway spending.

We cannot continue the waste that is happening. We cannot continue just to spend more money and leverage the debt of the future of America.

We want to take Social Security and Medicare off the table.