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Households $158 billion and private businesses $48 billion from between 2020 and 2029. so we're very, very proud of the savings that it will be for people in their individual lives for businesses and for the taxpayer. it's how we spend that money. some of it will be used for investing and for the benefit of research at the national institute of health and some will be as i said for more benefits, whether it's dental, visual, hearing whatever with medicare. i mentioned that but there are other considerations as well. the committees as they markup the bill will make those proposals. the amendmen...

It. we spend the vast majority of our money, 68%, on entitlement programs and mandatory spending. nobody, revoking or democrat want to get a handle on that. certainly we should clean up waste fraud and abuse but if we want to handle on a fiscal situation, we have to go after those hard decisions and we need to stop politicians from spending money they don't have and from making promises they have no intention of keeping. >> right. rand paul preaches about this a lot. i want to put his study, the numbers we have. we alluded to it earlier, ran pausing improper medicare payments of $48 billion, t...

Service, filing a lawsuit against you. >> this agreement would put an end to that, lawmakers and carriers would require carriers to implement new call-blocking technology call blocking and call labeling tools to all customers and authenticate calls as either real or spam as well as monitor network for robocalls, efforts will make it easier to investigate and prosecute bad actors. more than 48 billion robocalls in 2018 alone, that's 50% increase from the year before and so far in 2019 there have been 34 billion and it is only august. right now there's no deadline for this new technology to be p...

Jackie jacqui heinrich has this. >> yeah, this is for the attorneys general of all 50 states and 12 major phone companies. lawmakers and phone companies work together to find ways to block them and to make scammers more accountable. robo calls are the number one complaint to the fcc. u.s. consumers receive 350,000 unwanted calls every three minutes and the cost amounts to 3 billion a year. that's from lost time alone, not including money losses doo you to fraud. scams often prey on the elderly and the most common of those health insurance, interest rates, student loan and easy money scams. mor...

All right. every united states attorney general is pledged to take action today on an issue that is posed major frustration to millions of americans including yours truly, robo calls. in 2018 alone, there were almost 48 billion robo calls to u.s. phone numbers. i think i got a billion of them. they are not just annoying, as people have been harassed or scammed out of thousands of dollars, they're more than that. the attorney generals are joining with 12 of the phone companies, cell phone companies, that have agreed to use call-blocking technology at no cost to consumers. they will also monitor...