Political Quotes

“And we don't even know if these billionaires have any understanding of how a feeding program works, how Medicaid works, how a veterans program works, how we fund the police, how we help our firefighters--almost no understanding; just with the idea ``Oh, we want to slash''--which was in DOGE and, I think, in Project 2025--``$2 trillion. We don't care how, where, or when we get there, who it hurts. We just want to do it'' because very wealthy people don't want to pay taxes, and so they just want to cut spending. But the spending is not just wasteful spending; it is things that help American families day in and day out. One of their other proposals--I love this one--is to get rid of-- privatize Fannie and Freddie. They are the people who give lower mortgages. Because there is a government guarantee, there is a lower mortgage rate. So many younger families really want to buy a home. They can't because it is expensive. This will make it even more expensive. You go issue after issue after issue with Project 2025, and then you look at the power these five unknown people will have over the entire budget, many of them trying to implement 2025--and this is the way they do it--and it is frightening.”