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 in the back and how great a job they're doing receiving restraining discretionary spending. They're not even doing that great job in that either. (14:13–14:20)
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Asserts that the U.S. spends about a trillion dollars annually on other mandatory spending that should be discretionary.
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