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John Cornyn: “Part of the savings we need to accomplish is with the $37…”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Senator John Cornyn Discusses Republican Spending Bill, Border Security, and Re-election Campaign

Published | Video Starts at 00:50

So there's daily communication, hourly communication between the three to try to figure out how do you put these pieces together. But this is hard, but it's important because Part of the savings we need to accomplish is with the $37 trillion in national debt. is through what's called mandatory spending, as you know. And this is for every dollar the federal government spends, there's a constituency. So we need to be smart about it. (00:50–00:58)

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