McConnell from Senate floor ahead of vote on Sanders amdt to defense policy bill: “We’ve moved on from defunding local police to defunding the United States Armed Forces...Senator Sanders’ amdt would literally decimate the defense budget." https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1285938632449306624

McConnell on Sanders amdt: "It would rip 10% of it right out and pour the money into all the usual socialist fantasies, free rent, free college, free everything for everyone."

McConnell: "Now, in light of the long-held views of our colleague from Vermont, a proposal like this may not be particularly shocking. What is remarkable is that the Democratic Leader, the leader of their caucus, felt pressured into endorsing it."

McConnell: “I assure you, Beijing and Moscow will be watching this vote. I ask my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to reject this far-left fantasy. Defeat this amendment...We will reinforce that stand when we sink the reckless Sanders-Schumer amendment."

Sanders from Senate floor: "I rise to speak in support of the amdt I have filed to the National Defense Authorization Act to cut the bloated $740 billion Pentagon budget by 10 percent and use that $74 billion in savings to invest in human needs here at home."

Sanders (I-VT): "The military budget alone is 53 percent of all discretionary spending in this country. At a time when 28 million Americans are in danger of being evicted from their homes,now is not the time to be spending more on the military than then next 11 nations combined."

Sanders: "At a time when 30 million Americans have lost their jobs, now is not the time to be spending more on national defense than we did at the height of the Cold War or the wars in Korea or Vietnam."

Sanders from Senate floor: "At this unprecedented moment in our history, now is the time to provide jobs, education, health care and housing in American communities that have been ravaged by the global pandemic, by extreme poverty, by deindustrialization and mass incarceration."

Sanders:"We don't need more nuclear weapons.We don't need more cruise missiles.We don't need more fights jets.But what we do we need in this country desperately is more health care,housing,child care & better schools. Now is the time to fundamentally change our nat'l priorities."