Political Quotes

“Mr. President, it is hard to express my anger and frustration. What in the hell are we doing here? I asked for the Senate to do a very simple thing: vote today on desperately needed aid for Ukraine, and Senate Democrats have blocked it. This is the exact text--the exact text--that both Democrats and Republicans have already agreed to. People need to know exactly why Democrats have blocked this commonsense bill. I know. It is because they are following orders from Senator Schumer to block passage of aid to Ukraine so we can continue to hold it hostage in the omnibus. That is what we are dealing with here. We could send this to the President's desk today, but Senate Democrats have said no because they are insisting that it be passed with the omnibus. The omnibus is $1.5 trillion, 2,700 pages; as my colleague from Wyoming said, 4,000 earmarks. Senator Schumer alone has 150 earmarks, $600,000 for a greenhouse in New York, $3 million for museum galleries in Brooklyn. I mean, to him, the omnibus is just a joke. It is a way to send some money home. Today, inflation just hit 7.9 percent--another 40-year high. And contrary to what President Biden just said this morning, that is just for February. That massive spike in inflation doesn't reflect the big price hikes we have seen in March. The truth is, we have no idea how the omnibus will impact inflation, and we haven't anywhere near the time we need to actually read it.…”