Reply #1: NEW Congesswoman Hochul

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'We went from a huge surplus a decade ago to deficit spending under the previous president and now we’ve gotten ourselves into a very serious problem. So no reason to point fingers, just a recognition that it was only ten years ago when we had surpluses How did we get from there to here and what are we gonna do to go ahead and fix it?

Everyone needs to take some ownership of it and move forward and be willing to make some tough decisions. I had a voting record recently as last Thursday. I voted to cut over seven billion dollars in everything from aid to Pakistan to infrastructure in Afghanistan and I said I was going to do that when I was running and I came here and I’m doing exactly that and many, many Democrats are subscribing to that as well that we do need to be more responsible to our spending, get that under control and everything is on the table including defense spending.”'