It's being put in this budget as a part of reconciliation, which is a bypassing of the normal administration of appropriations in the Congress. It's an abdication of the Congress's appropriations responsibility, but it's also a usurpation of that. This so-called mandatory spending, which is almost 20% of the budget that's been proposed, goes through no oversight process. no committee process, no appropriations process, is a purely partisan process which is inconsistent with the way appropriations have been done here for time immemorial. (01:27–01:43)
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Asserts that nearly 20% of the proposed budget labeled as mandatory spending lacks oversight.
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