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Tom McClintock: “The budget process outlined in the 1974 Budget act is…”

Featuring: Tom McClintock, Republican | U.S. House California, District 5

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Stephanie Bice Asks McClintock: What Should Congress Be Looking At While Reforming Budget Process?

Published | Video Starts at 01:47

And every year that goes by and we go deeper in debt, those decisions become more and more difficult. I continue to believe that The budget process outlined in the 1974 Budget act is methodical. It is logical. The problem is we just don't follow it because it requires hard decisions. That's on us. But we can't. There. There is that one impediment, though, that we keep running into. (01:47–01:55)

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Asserts that the 1974 Budget Act's process is methodical and logical.

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