Political Quotes

“Mr. President, first, I just want to say for the record that it has been 36 days since Republican colleagues voted down the strongest border security bill in decades. So that is a reality. But what I wanted to speak about was the President's budget. When he was growing up, President Biden's dad used to say this: Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I will tell you what you value. Well, President Biden's budget just came out, and I will tell you what he values. President Biden values investing in the middle class so that families are able to work hard and get ahead and build a better life for their children. He values ensuring that teachers and firefighters aren't paying more taxes than billionaires. And he values Social Security and Medicare, programs that have lifted up millions of older Americans out of poverty--a whole generation--a great American success story. Meanwhile, we have the Republican nominee, the former President, in a CNBC interview vowing to cut Medicare and Social Security. Show me your budget, and I will tell you what you value. The Biden budget invests in growing our middle class, continuing the policies that have made our economy the strongest in the world. Since President Biden and Vice President Harris took office, the economy has added about 15 million new jobs, the most ever in the first term of a President. The unemployment rate has stayed below 4 percent for 2 years in a row. We haven't seen that in more than 50 years.…”