I believe that USAID is the best in the world in responding to crises anywhere.
I would then argue that the assets are much bigger than $3 trillion, if you look at what the United States Government actually owns.
There are four words that I have not heard up here in one year that I used to hear every day in business, and that is, 'We cannot afford it....
I finally found something that Senator Whitehouse and I agree on, and I absolutely agree that the process is broken.
I absolutely applaud what you are doing here in terms of looking at this authorization issue.
We have not had any salient conversations about how to save Social Security and Medicare.
That is what we have done. That is what Senator Whitehouse said, and I agree.
I do not think this is going to hit us soon. I think it is here right now.
The system of budgeting, authorization, and appropriation by definition was never going to work. It is not working.
This is not about partisan politics. This is about a crisis that is threatening our very ability to defend our Nation.
Hallelujah.