Political Quotes

“I am honored to be with my colleagues on the floor to talk about the actions that have become very manifest in Virginia today because of the President's Executive orders, particularly the recent order pausing Federal funding--grant funding, program funding. I want to thank my colleagues for being here on the floor to talk about this and share just in the last 24 hours what Virginians are saying and what Virginians are asking and what Virginians are worried about. Then I want to make one point about my Federal workforce and an offer the President made to them at the end of the day and then finally raise a question of what President Trump is afraid of. President Trump has two Republican Houses. If he wants to do something to shrink the size of government, if he wants to do something to reduce spending here or there, we have a March 14 budget deadline, and he has two Republican Houses, and there is a way to do this--unless you are afraid that your Republican majorities don't want to go as far as you do in cutting Medicaid and cutting Medicare and endangering Social Security and hurting kids and hurting veterans and hurting families. Let me talk about the orders of the day and then the Federal workforce and finish with this question: What is President Trump afraid of? I started to hear from Virginians about this Federal funding pause yesterday. I was at an event in Fredericksburg to kick off tax season.…”