If you say, well, you can't touch defense, you can't touch mandatory spending, entitlements, earned benefits, whatever you type, pop, you know, whatever name you want to call, You now have about 7% of the budget that you as a member of Congress get to work on. Everything else is now on the untouchable list. So you cannot mathematically, you can't cut yourself into balance. You can't tax yourself into balance. So are you willing to revolutionize those cost drivers? (26:01–26:09)
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Asserts that only 7% of the U.S. budget is discretionary for Congress.
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