Control Quote by Katie Pavlich

When you're talking about long-term deficit reduction, $4 trillion worth, entitlement reform needs to be part of it.

— Dick Durbin

Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal…

— Carl Levin

We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social…

— John W. Snow

What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have dire consequences…

— Hillary Clinton

The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it's no longer a question of should we address entitlements - it's no longer a…

— Mark Zandi

I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue…

— John Thune

As president, Trump's economic proposals will bend our very economy and tax system to his purposes.

— Tom Steyer

I do not believe that anything like what Donald Trump just proposed is going to get through Congress. Those deductions have a lot of…

— David Brooks

I think he [Donald Trump] recognizes that a plan that would increase the deficit by $10 trillion over a decade is not a plan…

— Avik Roy

“I don’t think we’ll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need…

— Ronald Reagan

I believe, as a matter of principle, that the debt is a problem that must be addressed sooner rather than later. I also know…

— Mick Mulvaney

The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polarized and often paralyzed…

— Fareed Zakaria