"We should make it very, very clear that until there is an ironclad agreement that everything that the House appropriates and authorizes will be dispersed, we will not vote to increase the debt ceiling."
"No DOGE employee should have access to any of Americans’ sensitive, confidential information, and they should not have access to be able to stop payments."
"We need to be very, very clear, not just in condemning these individual actions, but in condemning a project of American expansionism."
"We will not vote to increase the debt ceiling, we will not cooperate with Donald Trump on any of the agenda."
"We should make it very clear that until there is an ironclad agreement that everything that the House appropriates and authorizes will be dispersed, we will not vote to increase the debt ceiling."
"We will not cooperate with Donald Trump on any of the agenda."
"If you believe that you found fraud, you found waste, you found and exposed abuse, bring that to the American people."
"There’s no room for collaboration on an unconstitutional effort."
"You can’t have an extra-Constitutional effort to stop funding, including Defense."
"They can’t pass a debt ceiling increase without the Democrats."
"There's much ado about nothing. They called the vote because Connolly was like, ‘Oh, the Republicans are absent, let's just quickly call this vote’ and they didn't tell us."