I am pleased to see that the President's budgeting includes approximately 20 billion to combat the opioid crisis.
It is no more Armageddon and no more catastrophic than what we are doing right now, spending $1.5 trillion that we do not have every year.
I was very disappointed to see that Democrats in the Senate did not allow the debate to go forward yesterday.
The best way to do it is to allow folks to lift themselves up out of poverty to close the gap.
what they perpetuate is this myth that we can balance a budget or move toward balance without affecting entitlements.
it is that capital investment as part of the tax bill that you all voted for that we know we have to have in order to get that productivity ...
you cannot have the growth that you all project without a consequent simultaneous rise in interest rates.
You do not have to go down that road to permanent trillion-dollar deficits.
I think it is fair to say that we are disappointed in the size of the deficit, disappointed in the fact that it does not balance.
I think we have deemphasized the dignity of work for generations now and I think the budget starts to move things in a different direction.
The folks who want to work are the people that we are relying on to grow the workforce, to grow the economy, to grow the GDP.