Mike Pence: “With a $14 trillion national debt and a $1.65 trillion deficit this year alone, our Federal Government is facing a…”

“With a $14 trillion national debt and a $1.65 trillion deficit this year alone, our Federal Government is facing a fiscal crisis of unprecedented proportions. With the passage of H.R. 1, House Republicans took an important first step toward turning our national government back in the direction of fiscal discipline, defunding ObamaCare, and even restoring the sanctity of life to the center of the Federal budget. But it was rejected by liberals in the Senate. In fact, last week, the Senate majority leader called the Republican budget cuts mean spirited, reckless, and irresponsible, even defending Federal funding for a cowboy poetry festival. Seriously. Is it reckless and irresponsible to ask for $61 billion in cuts when the national debt is 230 times that size? The truth is, they just don't get it. I think it's time to take a stand for taxpayers and for future generations. And I will not vote for the short-term continuing resolution that is coming to the floor of the House today, to make that statement. Things don't change in Washington until they have to. It's time to pick a fight.”