Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, the Pentagon is the only Federal department that has never passed an audit, despite this requirement being on the books for over 30 years. You know there are folks who are supportive of the current levels, the increase and skyrocketing levels of defense spending, saying, we are already meeting all of our needs with this. I don't think a single American, I don't know a single member of my district that can say that our childcare needs are being met in this country, that our healthcare needs are being met, that our climate action that is necessary is being met. Our needs are not being met. And despite all of this rhetoric about the deficit and all this fear about government spending, for some reason, our defense budget seems to be exempt from this conversation, and that we ask Americans and people in this country year after year to engage in the magical thinking that defense spending comes at no real cost. It does. It comes at the cost of our security, because when we do not have and we are not able to go to school, to go to work and count on childcare for our children, it makes us less safe. When we are not able go to an emergency room and have our healthcare covered, we are less safe. The degradation and erosion of our social systems here domestically is a threat as well. And that is happening because of our explosion in defense spending. The explosion in defense spending is coming at the cost of our domestic development here at home. Mr.…”