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Inefficient programs or wasteful programs absolutely we should look at that in a deficit reduction program. but to target the fbi as punishment is absurd. they're in charge of leading the effort on counter terrorism efforts, counter intelligence, chinese and russian spies. they're easing the effort on white collar crime, human trafficking. to say we're going to cut an agency that performs such a vital function in the united states government is really irresponsible. >> we heard director wray say today that the fbi's created a unit to focus on threats to fbi agent and facilities. do crow think ...

Spending under president obama. this is not that below what president trump is spending. then it goes down in 14, 15, 16, 17, and then it starts to go back up. what happened there? after the tea party election in 2010 and the republicans took over, the republicans back in a time when republicans cared about deficits, remember back then? they were pushing the president to bring the deficit under control. they came up with a so-called sequester. the budget control. this was a bipartisan agreement and yes, defense spending went down a little bit and started to come back up. it's not just obama. >...

In the oval office right now, leading on the sensitive issue of these forced budget cuts. >> one of the things i thought was very hopeful and interesting about what mitt romney said was his acknowledgement that the sequester is bad news. this is not our first step toward a rational deficit reduction program. it's bad news. and if we could at least al agree on that, we could get away from these cuts that are landing on the defense budget. $47 billion is going to come out the defense budget between now and the end of the fiscal year. even as the united states is winding down two wars. this is no...

Earlier, the focus on deficit reduction is odd. unemployment is still in the 7.5 to 8% range. it's not going down particularly rapidly. and what i think we want right now is to focus all of our attention on lowering unemployment. ultimately full employment is the best deficit reduction program, it's the best way we have to reduce the amount of money the government spends. just people are putting in more tax revenue. less of a need for income support programs when there's full employment. as a whole, i find washington's obsession with reducing the deficit to be very, very odd, given the circums...