Yes, we're Always for reducing the size and scope of the government and all of that. But this is not the way to go about it. We don't shut the government down, turn off the funding streams and then require all these cuts like this. So what they're doing is they're having to triage federal spending, as you know, because anybody, as we said, any person who's in the White House, regardless of party and their director of OMB is given this unfortunate reluctant task. (36:44–36:52)
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Asserts that Republicans do not support shutting down the government to enforce cuts.
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