Political Quotes

“having been away for a while from the Senate, I am pretty amazed to come back today and see a budget that is passed that throws away years of rhetoric about fiscal conservatism. The Senate just passed a budget that adds $1.5 trillion to our national debt, a budget that slashes seniors' healthcare by $473 billion. It decimates the Medicaid Program for parents and grandparents in nursing homes, those who are disabled, and those who are among the poorest, with cuts of over $1 trillion over the next decade. In total, the Republican budget would cut more than $5 trillion over the next decade from education, healthcare, affordable housing, childcare, nutrition assistance, transportation, and other programs that all Americans rely on. The question many New Jerseyans will be asking me is, Why? Why do Republicans in Congress add $1.5 trillion to our national debt while slashing the Medicare Program? The answer is simple. We are on a pathway to provide massive tax breaks to corporate interests, special interests, and the wealthiest 1 percent. This has been a Republican agenda for as long as I can remember. What I find most galling is that this budget plan is meant to set up a special process that we know here as reconciliation to pass the Trump tax plan--a plan, which, by which their own admission, will raise taxes on middle-class families. Think about that.…”