Derrick Van Orden: “If I took half of your operational budget, which would be…”

“There are very rare instances where they get money. All right, check me out, man. You have a 3.9 billion dollar operational budget and you have 25,000 thousand employees. If I took half of your operational budget, which would be $1.95 billion, and I divided that by the 3,069 counties in the entire nation, we could put nine GS12s in every single county of the entire nation. So I don't know why you have all this money if you're depending on these people to do the preponderance of your work. Sir, first of all, let me try to clarify what I said earlier.” (01:00–01:22)

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