Harriet Hageman: “We rescinded about $9 billion in spending.”

“He sends us a letter, we draft the bill and we rescind the money that was appropriated for those programs. So that's what we did again in July and We rescinded about $9 billion in spending. In light of the fact that last week we crossed the $37 trillion mark, that's really a drop in the bucket. I would like to see a rescissions package every single week.” (06:37–06:41)

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