This year alone, we will pay $295 billion in interest. This is more than we spend this year on seven Cabinet Departments, the White House, Congress, and the courts combined.
I do not want to default, but I also think it is wrong for Congress to approve more borrowing without necessary reforms.
We need to untie our hands.
The age has to go up. It is an enormous part of how you fix cost.
I appreciate you taking your time to come in, and thank you, Senator Peters, for being part of it.
If I were in charge, there would be a committee looking at Social Security and Medicare and saying, 'How do we come toge...
Two-thirds of the Social Security shortfall can be wiped out by raising the age.
We could figure out how to do this, but we are not having the discussion.
I think also when we look at say, oh, we must push back against Iran, it is sort of like who pushed whom first?
But I do say that we get fixated on Iran, and we forget about the danger of Wahhabism throughout the world.
This is not all Iran, and I am not a supporter of Iran and their government, but there are problems on both sides of thi...