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Austin Theriault: “Some of these federal bureaucracies have grown in some cases…”

Featuring: Austin Theriault, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. House Maine, District 2

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The 207 Interview: Republican congressional candidate Austin Theriault

Published | Video Starts at 04:24

Let'S talk about looking forward, though. Not past spending, but looking forward. If you get to Washington next year, looking forward, where would you cut? Well, don't you think that Some of these federal bureaucracies have grown in some cases two and three times the way they were even 10 or 20 years ago. I think we need to look at the Washington bureaucracy and make sure that we do something like zero based budgeting to make sure that they're starting from zero. (04:24–04:31)

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Asserts that some federal bureaucracies have grown two to three times in size over the past 10 to 20 years.

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