Brian Higgins actually said...

"Every Democratic presidential administration has left office with a better deficit situation as a percentage of GDP than they inherited."

"Those surpluses were taken by the next administration, a Republican administration, to provide tax cuts to the very, very wealthy on the faulty theory that trickled down would help grow the economy, a..."

"They contributed to the debt and therefore have a moral responsibility to raise the debt ceiling to help the American economy."

"A default on American debt would not only destroy the American economy with high recession, lost household savings, lost retirement savings, but it would drag the entirety of the world economy down wi..."