Thomas Massie: “Our goal is not to expand the social safety net so much as it is to try and help people get--use that net, but to get…”

There have been 70,000 casualties in Gaza, and I don’t think we should be part of that. ... We’ve got needs at home, which include our infrastructure, our roads and bridges.

I'm opposed to all foreign aid. I didn't pick on Israel here. I proposed an amendment to defund Egypt and also to defund the aid to Jordan…but I am particularly concerned this year about the foreign aid to Israel.

Section 219 is a betrayal of our sovereignty.

For the first time since the law was enacted, a concurrent resolution has passed in accordance with 5(c) of the law, but the White House has ignored it.