Explain your support for the Rescissions Act. What aspects of those cuts were appealing to you and why? Well, we continue to drive ourselves into a hole. We're addicted to spending. This is the first time that we've rescinded discretionary spending probably since the 90s. I think it was good legislation. We rescinded USAID. Those are, you know, we don't need to be funding sex change operations in Guatemala and Sesame street in Iraq. (02:38–02:44)
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