John Cornyn: “Typically we only look at about 28% of what the federal…”

“Are you going to reduce the federal budget deficit, the yearly deficit, Is that going to. We're going to get started, and it's something that I'm focused on. You know, Typically we only look at about 28% of what the federal government spends is so called discretionary spending. But for the first time in memory, we're going to actually begin to reduce some of the spending and cut some of that deficit because it's unsustainable.” (02:03–02:10)

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