"The President's budget proposes the highest sustained levels of taxes, spending, and deficits in the history of the United States."
"I think just about every economist on the left or right... has now been 15 consecutive months of 40-year high inflation."
"When you are in a hole and you want to get out, the first thing you have to do is stop digging."
"I firmly disagreed with the American Rescue Plan. Democrats will even say that it ties to inflation."
"We incentivize work. We show the dignity of work is what builds lives, and we are not seeing that right now with what President Biden is doing."
"Our commitment is there to get that budget framework out, to have this same robust debate, and, again, to make that comparison about our vision for a stronger, safer, freer country."
"We believe that is a big problem, and we believe we can't get to the debt and we can't guarantee our children that blessing of security, and a stable economy, and future without doing it."
"I contend that the Budget Committee is an A committee because there is not a bigger problem to solve, there is not a greater challenge that we face as a Nation than our runaway spending."
"If we don't intervene, I think the outcome will be disastrous--and possibility irreparable--if it is a sovereign debt crisis."
"I would also say that Republicans have contributed their fair share to this irresponsible fiscal State of the Union."
"To me, we have got a lot of good things that we can do for our country, a lot of very difficult decisions to make."
"My recommendation is that we don't increase our budget."