02/05/2024
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"When was the last time we had a balanced budget in this country, Mr. Lew?"
"So you started a down payment on this, and recommending what you recommended."
"And there is no doubt, Mr. Secretary, that if we did not have that money voted upon in February 2009, we would have been in a worse place."
"I have seen the help now as compared to the help 5 or 6 years ago with our servicemembers, and it was a catastrophe in the beginning."