the answer is not to cut benefits, but at a time of massive income and wealth inequality, to ask the people on top to start paying their fair share of taxes

if you lift the cap on income of $250,000 or more, which is just the very highest income earners in this country, Social Security will be solvent for the next 60 years.

For every dollar that we spend on defense, we have got to spend on the needs of working families.

They could add the other $19 million to the cost of their F-35s, can't they, pretty easily?

This is an enormously important issue, and the DoD must be run cost-effectively and efficiently.

Let me tell the President, Mr. Mulvaney, it gets cold in Vermont and many other parts of this country.

The good news is this budget is going nowhere.

This is not a budget, as Candidate Donald Trump talked about, that takes on the political establishment. This is a budget of the political establishment.

You do not do that by cutting Social Security. What you do do is say to the wealthiest people in this country, who in many ways have never had it so good, you recognize the fact that income and wealth inequality is worse today than at any…

President Trump's budget would slash Medicaid by over $1.3 trillion, cut Medicare by over $500 billion, and reduce Social Security by nearly $25 billion.

What are we going to do after giving CEOs of these defense companies huge salaries, tell them that they cannot continue to rip off the American people?

I appreciate very much, Mr. Chairman, the hearing that you held in March on the need for an audit of the Department of Defense.

If somebody says, 'I am going to build you this weapons system for $5 billion,' and then they come back and say, 'Oh, I am sorry, it cost $10 billion,' is there somebody at the Department of Defense that says, 'Well, you are going to have…

We cannot maintain a passion for deficits that evaporates as soon as it bumps up against tax benefits for big oil.

your job is to tell the American people how our tax dollars are being spent.

You have just created a situation--not you; the President must take responsibility for this budget--created a situation where people will go cold, some may freeze to death, and that is not what we should be doing in America.

On page 128 of your report on the budget and the economy, however, the CBO projects that the Trump tax plan will increase the deficit by nearly $1.9 trillion over the next 11 years.

I think it is important that we focus on the elephant in the room, which is the Pentagon.

Am I right in saying that or not?

But isn't that a sensible way to proceed?

the recent tax bill that was passed, supported, I believe, by almost every Republican, will increase the national debt by $1.9 trillion.

Ten thousand Americans with disabilities died last year while they were submitting claims to a Social Security Administration that does not have the staff or the funding to process those claims.

I think that might be an issue that you might want to raise.

I do not have to tell anybody that in America today there is a lot of political demoralization.

Does it make sense to you that we pay the Secretary of Defense $200,000 or less and we give a contractor... $18 million of taxpayer money?