Young Oak Kim: “Even the President is accountable to Congress and to the power of the purse, and the CFPB should not be the exception to…”

I will say we are ready to negotiate. We are the ones that want to be at the table here. But look at what has happened since negotiations have begun. Since we started this several weeks ago, we are again now at war. We are at war because…

I have no words to describe just the absurdity of this moment and the dangers to our country and our Union. For us to be able to stand here on the floor of the Senate in this Chamber that many such important decisions have been made in, a…

we did put forward a proposal to fund TSA, to fund FEMA, to fund CISA, to move forward on so much of what the American people know needs to move forward. We are not negotiating in a vacuum here. We are in a different world than we were…

This is an unprecedented moment that demands strong U.S. leadership and close coordination with like-minded allies, like partners South Korea, Japan, to build effective joint deterrence.