White House Chiefs of Staff

It is always a pleasure. Thank you, sir.

We can choose to borrow nothing or $1 trillion, but there are limited resources at some level.

Yes, sir. Another $0.5 trillion, as you and I, I think, discussed yesterday, came from the extension of the individual tax rate reductions.

Roughly 1.8 trillion.

We earmarked, for lack of a better word, I think it is $50 billion for things specifically like rural broadband

I cannot tell you, and this is not the question you asked, how disappointed I am and we are, as an administration, that Mr. Schumer is holding up debate on DACA in the Senate.

I think we have passed them more often than not. I think they get out of Committee a good bit.

Absolutely. And would look forward to working with you on ideas. Again, I do not think that this is the chamber that is necessarily broken at this particular time.

They have always resolved their problems by asking for more money and often getting it.

We have asked many other agencies to become more efficient. We are asking SSA to do the same thing.

The administration does not believe that any particular state is condemned to permanent poverty, any group of people is condemned to permanent poverty; that everyone in every state has the ability to improve themselves.

I do not like the wait times and the hold times any more than you do.

What has not been mentioned is the doubling of the commitment we make to apprenticeship programs because we have proof that they work.

Displacement does not always mean unemployment.

I have always contended that people really do not care much about how much other people make.

I think one of the places philosophically where we start to vary is how to remedy this situation.

We should be focusing on the standard of living of your unborn grandchildren.

It is no more Armageddon and no more catastrophic than what we are doing right now, spending $1.5 trillion that we do not have every year.

I am sure that the country's debt is much worse than I ever thought. Allowing this figure to increase compromises U.S. foreign policy.

I am pleased to see that the President's budgeting includes approximately 20 billion to combat the opioid crisis.

I was very disappointed to see that Democrats in the Senate did not allow the debate to go forward yesterday.

The best way to do it is to allow folks to lift themselves up out of poverty to close the gap.

It is that capital investment as part of the tax bill that you all voted for that we know we have to have in order to get that productivity growth.

What they perpetuate is this myth that we can balance a budget or move toward balance without affecting entitlements.