“The president-elect Donald Trump moved a bit closer to getting his Cabinet in place with another round of confirmation hearings. The most contentious was for his treasury secretary pick, Steven Mnuchin, a billionaire banker who worked at Goldman Sachs and owned a hedge fund. There was important news that came out during the hearing. Mnuchin said that he would support raising the debt ceiling sooner rather than later, and not risk the country defaulting.”
![“You [Donald Trump] call yourself the King of Debt. You talk about leverage. You even at one time suggested that you would try to negotiate down the national debt of the United States.” quote by Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/025/hillary-clinton-51_debt_you-donald-trump-call-yourself-the-king_2931576.jpg)
![“You have this all the way through this cabinet so that I think there are a lot of other things to worry about [Donald] Trump. But in conventional political terms, this is a cabinet that I think is going to have a very hard time delivering to the base that Trump courted in this election.” quote by E. J. Dionne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7eb/e-j-dionne-18102_cabinets_you-have-this-all-the-way-through-this-c_715541.jpg)
![“I generally think the president [Donald Trump] should get his Cabinet picks, unless they're egregiously out of the range, either ethically or intellectually out of the range of what's acceptable.” quote by David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/36d/david-brooks-644_acceptable_i-generally-think-the-president-donald-t_1369550.jpg)
![“I have proposed I would not add a penny to the debt and [Donald Trump] plans would add $5 trillion to the debt.” quote by Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d65/hillary-clinton-51_add_i-have-proposed-i-would-not-add-a-penny_77129.jpg)
![“That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on.” quote by Judy Woodruff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/114/judy-woodruff-4310_administration_that-was-an-exception-within-the-barack_219060.jpg)
![“I think, as a historian, what strikes one the most about this [Donald'd Trump] program is just simply its nationalism, with his commitment to the redevelopment of American manufacturing and industrial jobs, providing jobs for the constituency that was so important in electing him.” quote by Judy Woodruff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/398/judy-woodruff-4310_commitment_i-think-as-a-historian-what-strikes-one_281941.jpg)
