Mick Mulvaney

I think one of the places philosophically where we start to vary is how to remedy this situation.

We should be focusing on the standard of living of your unborn grandchildren.

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 am sure that the country's debt is much worse than I ever thought. Allowing this figure to increase compromises U.S. foreign policy.

I am pleased to see that the President's budgeting includes approximately 20 billion to combat the opioid crisis.

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.

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 growth.

What they perpetuate is this myth that we can balance a budget or move toward balance without affecting entitlements.

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.

I do not think it is possible at this point, given what has happened in the last 12 months especially, to pay off the debt in 8 years.

I continue to agree with the statement of the head of the Joint Chiefs several years ago that said one of the greatest threats to the Nation was the debt.

We see the best welfare program as a job and we see a healthy economy as a way to push people out of poverty.

Our estimates are that an additional 1 percent increase in GDP over the course of the 10-year window reduces the deficit by roughly $3.25 trillion.

We absolutely believe that what we have done to try and fix the economy... is good for the government.

We took a lot of heat as an administration and you did as a legislature for passing the tax bill that supposedly would run up the deficit.

We need folks to go back to work. You talk about the dignity of work. You are absolutely right.

Is it easier to spend money than it is to cut? Absolutely.

There is no such thing as a deficit. It is simply a future tax increase delayed.

Graham-Cassidy goes to the very heart of that while providing importantly the funding necessary for States to do that.

Our budget assumes a DACA deal; it assumes an immigration agreement is reached.