Mr. President, on Friday, we experienced the second largest bank failure in our Nation's history. And make no mistake, this failure was the direct result of leaders in Washington weakening financial rules. In the aftermath of the 2008…

This would represent a reduction in workforce of over 10 percent and will have devastating impacts on the program.

If the agency seeks to reduce its staff further, the results will be devastating.

As President Trump’s nominee for SSA Commissioner, you will be responsible if the Trump Administration’s attacks on the program result in failures or delays in getting Americans their Social Security checks — in other words, a backdoor cut…

The net result could be a disaster: more overpayments and waste in the system, at the same time that Americans who have earned their Social Security benefits are unable to receive them.

If the Republicans want to sit down and negotiate, what they got to do is, first, they need to vote to raise the debt ceiling.

I think it says, we're taking you on. Look, the Republicans have made clear what they want to do. They want no tax increases for the wealthy and the well connected, and they want to impose a lot of cuts on everybody else.

What the President is trying to do, for example, with Medicare, is to say we can extend the life of Medicare by just changing how much we're paying the drug companies, negotiating for drug prices and bring down costs for American families.

This is about security in the short term right now. And to just hand that over for political purposes, to try to reshape a narrative that's at odds with what America saw with its own eyes, that is genuinely dangerous and shocking.

The Republicans right now are just playing hostage games. So they're saying, if you don't do what we want to do, we're going to default on the debt.

What the President has put forward is he said, I want to do this the other way. I want to invest in America, I want to invest in middle class people and working families.