Critical Quote by Dan Lipinski

The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our…

— Jim Jeffords

At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion…

— Pete Hegseth

It isn't as much you a spending problem as a priorities, and that is what the budget is, setting priorities. It's about timing. And…

— Nancy Pelosi

“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

I agree with the idea of cutting [budget], but it should all be coming out of entitlements for the affluent and not out of…

— David Brooks

We all know spending levels for defense and other urgent priorities have been woefully inadequate for years. But we haven't found the will to…

— John McCain

In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare…

— Jennifer Granholm

The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and many poverty…

— Pat Robertson

Today we care about budgets more than anything. Our American future hangs on the ability of government to cut budget.

— Amity Shlaes

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay…

— Tom Allen

We have to define our top priority pending expenditures; these are, first and foremost, our social expenditures, and we have to cut on expenditures…

— Anton Siluanov

When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going to help…

— Barack Obama