You're actually increasing the deficit by about $300 billion in 2024 is your projection over the 2023 projection.

Democrats abused the budget reconciliation process to fast track a $2 trillion liberal wish list that sparked the highest inflation that we've seen in 40 years.

Democrats abused the budget reconciliation process to fast track a $2 trillion liberal wish list that sparked the highest inflation that we've seen in 40 years.

You get out of this budget situation not by growing taxes, but by growing the economy.

I will say the tax reform worked in spurring economic growth.

I think my question for you is at what point would you consider the wealthy paying their fair share?

You get out of this budget situation not by growing taxes, but by growing the economy.

Should it be 50 percent? Should they pay 70 percent of the total income tax? Should they pay 50 percent of total tax?

I will say the tax reform worked in spurring economic growth.

In President Biden's vision of the future, interest on the debt costs more than the national defense.

Madam Secretary, you were also the one who said that inflation was transitory, and it certainly is not.

How can you claim that you are cutting deficits?

I would say that the number one economic problem is our debt and deficit, and I would say that the top three causes of inflation are massive deficit spending; the war on fossil fuels, which has driven energy, gasoline prices to record…

But we are not, we are not on a sustainable path.

I am running out of time--it is $17 trillion, okay?

Should it be 50 percent? Should they pay 70 percent of the total income tax? Should they pay 50 percent of total tax?

I will say the tax reform worked in spurring economic growth.

In President Biden's vision for the future, public debt towards our nation's entire economic output, annual deficits under Biden budget grow from 1 and 4/10ths trillion last year to over $2 trillion ten years from now.

You get out of this budget situation not by growing taxes, but by growing the economy.

Should it be 50 percent? Should they pay 70 percent of the total income tax? Should they pay 50 percent of total tax?

But our trillions of dollars of deficit spending, trillions of dollars printed chasing too few goods, that's what caused inflation, and that's what was promoted by this President.

So, I think my question for you is at what point would you consider the wealthy paying their fair share?

You're actually increasing the deficit by about $300 billion in 2024 is your projection over the 2023 projection.

In President Biden's vision of the future, interest on the debt costs more than the national defense.

How can you claim that's reducing the deficit?