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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

In the private sector we budget for rainy days or offset unexpected expenditures with spending cuts and the same principles should apply to Congress.

— Mike Braun

We must cut federal spending - every wasted dollar, every low priority program, and every unconstitutional overreach - every day.

— Kevin Brady

Budgets reflect our priorities, who we are as a nation, what we're going to put first, and emphasize and invest.

— Brad Schneider

We do not have a revenue problem in D.C. or this county. We have a prioritization problem. When you create the priorities you fund…

— Tim Scott

A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people

— Mary Landrieu

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

We need balanced programs, balanced priorities on the fiscal side

— Jason Furman

We act in a pragmatic and careful manner. We reduce spending on budget items that do not constitute a priority.

— Vladimir Putin

Roll back federal spending to 2008 levels.

— Rand Paul

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

— Mike Pence

Our first priority is to cut taxes.

— Steve Mnuchin