Political Quotes

“I appreciate his bringing up the supplemental, because I want to give Speaker Johnson credit for what he did with that House supplemental. The supplemental, the $106 billion package that was proposed by the President and the Senate majority leader of the Democrat-controlled Senate, represents everything that is wrong with Washington. To the point, we are running a $200 billion deficit, and yet we have a supplemental, which again, as he said, means we don't pay for it. We add it on; we tack it on; we borrow more; let's borrow $106 billion. Virtually everyone in Congress, I think--certainly all Republicans and most Democrats--want to support one of our true allies on the global stage--one of our, I would submit, two or three allies at a minimum-- Israel, through the brutal terrorist attack by Hamas. We want to come to the aid of our friend and our genuine ally Israel and give them the help that they need, but Israel doesn't have $34 trillion in national debt. Israel is not running a $200 billion deficit. Israel is fiscally solvent. We are not. Even for something so worthy as this cause, we have a responsibility to pay for it, if we can, and we can. Therefore, Speaker Johnson met the moment and said let's pay for it by taking some of the $80 billion that was allocated for the 87,000 IRS hirings in the inflation increase act last summer, let's cut $14 billion from there to pay for the $14 billion for Israel, and it passed on a bipartisan basis in this Chamber.…”