Now part of the thing the unit party has done is they've taken what should be discretionary and transferred into what I describe as other mandatory, not Social Security, not Medicare, not even Medicaid. We spend about a trillion dollars a year in other mandatory, which in my mind should really be discretionary. And they do that because then the appropriators pat themselves on the back and how great a job they're doing restraining discretionary spending. They're not even doing that great job in that either. (02:45–02:52)
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Asserts that $1 trillion is spent annually on other mandatory spending that should be discretionary.
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