Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I think Senator Murray has said it very well, and I want to pick up on what I think is really at stake with this nomination. In effect, if confirmed, Congressman Mulvaney would be the numbers guy for the Trump team, the architect for the President's fiscal plan for the Nation's future. I want to start by way of saying that, when you look at the President's promises that he made on the campaign trail to protect Medicare and Social Security from draconian cuts, Congressman Mulvaney's nomination and his record would be one of the biggest bait- and-switch schemes inflicted on America's seniors that I can imagine. I am going to start by taking a minute to read some of what the President said on the campaign trail. He said: Every Republican wants to do a big number on Social Security. They want to do it on Medicare . . . and we can't do that. It's not fair to the people. The President said: ``It's my absolute intention to leave Social Security the way it is, not increase the age, but to leave it as-is.'' The President said: You can't get rid of Medicare. Medicare's a program that works . . . people love Medicare and it's unfair to them. I'm going to fix it and make it better, but I'm not going to cut it. So those are just some of the promises that President Trump made with respect to Social Security and Medicare. There are quotes like that from rallies and campaign events and debates over a period of some months.…”