Brian Higgins: “Every Republican since Nixon has left office with a worse deficit situation than they inherited without exception.”

Seventy percent of American debt is owed to Americans.

Congress' inability to make a budget fully with approved appropriations bills virtually every single year... hurts the world economy as well.

The American economy is--we are 25 percent of the world's economy.

$12 billion as of June 1, if we default, $12 billion in veterans benefits would not be sent out.