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What is the time frame for cutting spending, you know, it does feel like it's sort of the wire may be running out. >> we just ended the fiscal year. our fiscal year ended the end of september. just starting the fiscal year. now the money is all spent for 2019, just starting. we're starting, believe it or not, on the 2020 budget. we will roll out in march or february of next year is already started, started to get into the details right now. this is the exact appropriate time to have it. and the normal time to have these discussions. the president is doing the right thing at the right time. >> ...

Democrats. that would be our threat. if there was too much spending. we threatened newt gingrich to do a motion to vacate the chair and have no speaker in the house, if we didn't keep cutting spending. you have the freedom caucus. sitting there. they're supposed to be doing the same thing. they're supposed to be fighting big government republicanism. we've got a $21 trillion debt. the deficit is going to go over $1 trillion. medicaid, medicare, social security, you've got $40 trillion, $50 trillion in unpaid liabilities coming our way. young americans' economic futures are going to be crushed ...

Year is saying no pay raises for the teachers? nope, let's decrease the budget so they can't get new textbooks? >> interestingly enough, just looking at the bare politics of this, it's happening frequently in red states. kentucky, west virginia, oklahoma, arizona as we were just reporting from. >> why. >> that's measures that are republican governors campaign on. cutting spending is a very attractive thing to people, of course. but when it comes to education, people are feeling that it's a tangible thing. >> if you were a forgotten american in a red state saying you're not getting a good job o...

Place which ended up being blown out because of this spending bill. >> remember, president trump and his policies, they claim to be all about growth. but the mandatory spending cuts under obama, many economists have said that is what slowed the economy. my issue is this. what does your party stand for? right? at the end of the day there are a lot of people who walk in to vote, they say, i'm a republican, i don't spend, i don't spend. >> lower debt. so i used to think that. i used to think that fiscal conservatives like the tea party were interested in cutting spending. i'm beginning to wonder ...

Going. plus speaker ryan is someone that you knows, you can judge this based on all the work he's done. it's not the discretionary spending that is the problem and the driver of the debt, it's entitlements. but what do we have? a republican president who said i'm not going to touch entitlements whatsoever. so here we are. >> i think what republicans are also learning is that it's easier to give people things than take them away. it's hard to cut. even though that's been the mantra for a long time, i think you're right, if obama had proposed this, it never would have gone anywhere, even if the ...