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From what we call mandatory spending, the auto pilot part that congress all too often ignores to pay for $63 billion of sequester relief, half of which goes to defense, which is a big concern among republicans. you don't get everything you want in divided government. >> when senator rubio says it's unamerican, is that just because he's running for president, do you think? >> i'm not going to go into what marco rubirubio's motivations a for that, but we got a budget that keeps from raising taxes and keeping a budget for 2014 is what we wanted to do. >> the speaker of the house really teed off o...

We see it as a step in the right direction. >> the budget teal would spend $63 billion over the next two years. savings come at the back end of the ten-year period. we know future congresses aren't going to be beholden to the deal. it's probably going to change many times in between. this is a big criticism of washington in general. you get tax increases and all the good stuff comes later. >> there are no tax increases here. this is the nature of what we call hand toir or entitlementment or auto pilot spending. when you change the law which we are changing immediate ly that acrews savings and ...