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I am asking members of congress to do the same. i'm asking republicans and democrats alike to take a fresh look at programs they've supported in the past to see what is working and what is not and trim back accordingly. like any business, we are also looking for ways to get more bang for our buck by promoting innovation, and cutting red tape. for example we consolidate 38 separate education programs into 11. and, last fall, we launched... solicit ideas from federal employees about how to make government more efficient and more effective. and i'm proud to say a number of these ideas, like allow...

Be made online made it into our budget. i also want to note even though the department of defense is exempt from the budget freeze, it's not exempt from budget common sense. it's not exempt from looking for savings. we save money by eliminating unnecessary defense programs that do nothing to keep us safe. one example is the $2.5 billion that we're spend iing to build c-17 transport aircraft. four years ago the defense department decided to cease production because it had acquired the number requested, 180. yet every year since congress has provided unrequested money for more c-17s the pentagon...

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The bulk of the spending and the federal budget which is growing most rapidly. it's the reason we'll have trillion dollar deficits. it's the reason why there's no money leftover for domestic and defense programs. >> how about infrastructure? let's talk about promises to cut taxes, are all of those things dead right now? president trump said he would spend close to a trillion dollars on an infrastructure package. he wants to slice for most all americans. can you do that? is that feasible while maintaining the deficit the way it is right now as they claim? >> no. it just doesn't add up. big defi...

>> mattis was asked about the president-elect's twitter habits, especially when complaining about the cost of defense programs. >> senator, it's not my role to comment on the president-elect statements other than to say i believe it shows he is serious about getting the best bang for the dollar when it comes to defense dollars. >> using twitter as a means, not the most efficacious way to do that. >> the senate on the house both voted to give mattis a waiver to serve as defense secretary, the first general asked to do so since harry truman asked general george s marshall to serve. three democra...