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“We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.”

— Keith Davis

“They had forced Obama to play their budget game. Instead of talking about jobs and spending, he was talking about the deficit and bargaining…

— Jane Mayer

It is past time for Congress to get serious about our spending crisis and impose fiscal restraint.

— Ron Johnson

I served on the budget committee in the Senate, and I remember as vividly as if it were yesterday when we had a hearing…

— Hillary Clinton

In 2010, I proposed that Congress take its first pay cut in 77 years, and my effort had bipartisan support. And as part of…

— Ann Kirkpatrick

When we were negotiating the ongoing financial period in 2013, I talked myself hoarse. London and Berlin in particular insisted on reducing the budget.…

— Martin Schulz

Normally, when politicians talk about 'cutting the budget,' they really mean reducing the amount of increase. Actual spending goes up while the politicians claim…

— Mark McKinnon

I worked with Democrats and Republicans to cut a trillion dollars out of our discretionary domestic budget. That's the largest cut in the discretionary…

— Barack Obama

I've criticized Republicans for their lack of fiscal discipline when they controlled Congress before 2007. However, that is no excuse to just continue with…

— Erik Paulsen

The modern GOP has perfected this cyclical deficit outrage ritual. Republicans run up the tab when they control the White House, then scream about…

— Ari Melber

I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve…

— Kurt Schrader

“As budget cuts cripple civilian agencies and programs, they lose their ability to perform ad they once did, so we look to the military…

— Rosa Brooks