•     "While over 8 million Americans have already lost health insurance coverage and over 4 million Americans have lost their SNAP access due to Republicans’ funding cuts, Congress is voting on whether we should ship tens of billions in taxpayer dollars abroad for unwanted war. This is completely out-of-touch and is not what the American people sent us to Washington to accomplish. In this third round of reconciliation, Republicans are lying and saying we don’t have enough money for our military while separately trying to pass a $1.1 trillion defense budget. I voted no because the people of North Carolina’s Fourth District are not looking for more funding for war, they want a federal government that actively responds to the rising cost of education, healthcare, housing, and everyday expenses." Source: Rep. Valerie P. Foushee (Democrat, North Carolina, District 4)

•     "National Taxpayers Union urges all representatives to vote “NO” on H. Con. Res 113, the budget resolution that contains reconciliation instructions. While there should be robust debate about the size and scope of a third reconciliation bill, at a bare minimum, the House majority should be united by a commitment to offset the entirety of such a package. This resolution, however, fails to include the instructions to do so and would instead saddle American taxpayers with tens of billions of dollars in new debt and borrowing costs… Rather than building on the generational wins of the Working Families Tax Cuts reconciliation bill passed last year, it appears that Congress is considering backsliding. Taxpayers deserve better, and yet the budget resolution before the Committee will put us on a glide path to increasing deficits by $135 billion including added interest. This is a policy choice, not an inevitability." Source: National Taxpayers Union