… the other mandatory and the interest that we're paying, it takes up everything but about 27% of the stuff that we actually spend. And then if you count the military, By the time you count military and veterans, you're only dealing with about 10% left that's really discretionary that you deal with. And so we have a spending problem across the board. Board. We're not going to fix our debt issue unless we actually attack our overspending. And that means we've got to clean some houses. (1:32:37–1:32:44)
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Asserts that only about 10% of the budget is discretionary after accounting for military and veterans' spending.
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