"A Treasury Secretary can be very powerful within an administration, providing a voice for fiscal sanity, and I would urge you to do that."
"We should not get too comfortable with that, and second, that we have historic levels of deficits now."
"I just am worried about these proposals to both increase the corporate tax and to double the rate, as I understand it, on GILTI, on this minimum tax, from 10½ to 21 percent."
"I think this is one of the gravest threats we face internationally."
"I will look forward to working with you on coming up with ways to deal with that long-term structural deficit."
"I hope you work with us on this issue of immigration and asylum so people can apply from their home country or a safe third country."
"I agree that dealing with the violence is important and I applaud those changes."
"The Global Fragility Act passed by Congress last year changed our approach to conflict-prone states that can be vectors of violent extremism, uncontrolled migration, and extreme poverty by dedicating ..."
"Disinformation operations are cheap, deniable, and when combined with economic and political subversion can be a devastating to democracies."
"the attack on the U.S. Capitol was an attack on democracy itself. And the President bears some responsibility for what occurred. If the senate conducts an impeachment trial, among my considerations wi..."
"The transition to Biden should begin."