… government spends each year, but also our mandatory spending programs outside of Social Security and Medicare. We're not going to touch Social Security or Medicare absent some bipartisan agreement. But There is still about $700 billion of mandatory spending that the federal government spends each year that is essentially on autopilot. We can address these mandatory spending programs by implementing common sense reforms to programs like snap, otherwise known as food stamps, that have grown unchecked for years by simply reducing payment errors for SNAP payments. (08:47–08:56)
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Asserts that $700 billion in mandatory spending occurs annually without active management.
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