Brian Higgins: “The United States Army Corps of Engineers are the unsung heroes of the United States infrastructure and economic…”

We paid $400 billion down on the national debt. That kind of growth was only made possible by the investment that this Congress made in the American people and the growth of the American economy.

Next Friday $25 billion in Social Security benefits are scheduled to be paid out but will not if the nation defaults on its debt.

$47 billion in Medicare provided payments that are due June 1 would not go out.

Even inflation, which this month was at 4.1 percent, is lower than the global average of 5.2 percent.