"And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through"
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The specificity matters. She doesn’t worry about "spending" in the generic scold’s sense; she names "military spending" alongside "tax cuts". That pairing is the subtextual knife: it calls out the comfortable illusion that deficits are caused only by domestic programs or waste, when big-ticket defense commitments and politically popular tax reductions can be just as determinative. It’s a rebuke of fiscal theater - the posture of toughness paired with the refusal to pay for it.
Contextually, Ferraro’s voice carries the weight of her era: a Democrat who broke barriers in national politics and knew how easily women are pushed into "soft" issues. Here she weaponizes that expectation. The grandmother frame isn’t retreating from hard policy; it’s smuggling it into the kitchen table. The intent is to make debt legible as a betrayal of stewardship - not because budgets are sacred, but because accountability is.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Ferraro, Geraldine. (2026, January 15). And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-i-have-to-tell-you-as-a-grandmother-i-worry-154458/
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Ferraro, Geraldine. "And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-i-have-to-tell-you-as-a-grandmother-i-worry-154458/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/and-i-have-to-tell-you-as-a-grandmother-i-worry-154458/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
