Political Quotes

“Republicans already voted to give $5 trillion tax breaks to the richest Americans, paid for by ripping food from children's mouths and kicking 17 million people off of their healthcare. Trump's big betrayal bill--and that is what I call it because it is a betrayal to the American people--also included $150 billion for the Pentagon's war machine. Here we are this week, again, debating another obscene $892.6 billion military budget. It is not helping our veterans. That is not where they get, literally, healthcare, mental health support, and the things they need. That is over a trillion dollars to Trump's so-called Department of War, even after the Pentagon failed seven audits in a row. As recently as 2023, the Pentagon could not even account for 62 percent of its assets--a trillion dollars, while the President is deploying troops in our neighborhoods and threatening to go to war against American cities. It seems my colleagues can always find time and money for war, but when it comes to clean water, when it comes to being able to address the needs of our people, there is never enough money. Why is it that when it comes to, again, trying to make sure people have healthcare, being able to address the Housing crisis, being able to tell our families that we are doing the best that we can, all I see is the bipartisan support for a war machine budget that can't pass an audit?”