Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we are gathered here to talk about the budget. We are going to be voting on a budget resolution shortly, and I am concerned. I am concerned that there is so much enthusiasm among conservatives and Republicans for cutting waste and cutting fraud and ``quit spending $2 million on sex changes in Guatemala and $3 million on girl-centric climate change in Brazil, $4.8 million on social media influencers in Ukraine.'' I am excited by eliminating all of that waste. I have been calling for it for years. But I will tell you what worries me. What worries me is that so many things in Washington are smoke and mirrors. On the one hand, it appears as if all of this great savings is happening, but on the other hand, the resolution before us will increase the debt by $5 trillion. So which is it? Are we cutting spending or are we expanding the debt? If we expand the debt at $5 trillion, that will be an expansion of the debt equal to or exceeding everything that happened in the Biden years. Now, which is it? I thought we had an election. I thought we had an election. And the other side was complaining loudly that, oh, my goodness, there is going to be too much cutting in spending, and our side is saying, no, no, no. I am looking at the numbers. The budget resolution is going to add $5 trillion over about a 2-year period. So they are going to add more than $2 trillion a year to the debt. In what world is that conservative?…”