We are the richest country in the history of the world, and there is no excuse... why we should not be providing the highest quality of childcare.
We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth.
It's gone and people say okay, hey, budget ceiling is coming. We're going to go through this again. That is a pretty bad...
This is not a budget issue. We're not arguing here what we should be spending next year.
That's what you do in a democratic society, not hold the world economy hostage, which is what the Republicans are doing.
It's about all that we have left.
It is simply paying the bills that Republicans voted for last year and previous years. We're paying off our debt.
But the alternatives are also very, very bad.
They've raised the debt ceiling, if I recall correctly, three times under Trump and by the way, we raised our national d...
if Republicans get away with holding the economy hostage, this sets a precedent for years to come.
What should be off the table are children in America where we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any m...