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Friday -- why wasn't that offered as a back-up plan when you were agreeing to this sequestration. when that was out there or did you just discover it? >> we offered this last year, as well. this is the kind of money that senator coburn has been talking about the past couple of years and talking about duplication but this is called rescission money, money that has been appropriated hasn't been spent and time to bring that home so we can work on balancing the budget. >> neil: congressman, thanks very much. now to fox business network, luz beds mcdonald, it's costing us. what do you got? >> we ha...

>>. >> neil: you want to cut spending without cutting defense. in spending cuts it might save jobs. for example, do you know how much it cost it can type about social decision-making fish can make. i have no idea and to create a video called it shows them showing off recipes. it has tom coburn all fired up. senator, good to have you. with just a mild overview you were doing here, you came up with a lot of stuff. this is the type of duplication the president, we're going to get to that in a second. but all of this, it's all coming on friday. >> well, you know, i have a fundamental disagreement ...

A total review of the federal government on duplication. on the first two reports, we had $380 billion in programs that have duplication within them. it's easy in my mind now -- i think the president would disagree with me -- in my mind to get rid of $50 billion right there a year. we have 57 job training programs all but three of them do the same thing that the others do. there is month metrics on it. the president when he speaks about that thinks we should clean that up but spend the same amount of money. think we should clean it up and spend half as much money. i think there are things we c...

But even with these cuts, we'll still be spending more money in the next year than we are spending today. so the question ought to be to the american people ought to be asking, are we getting value for the money that we are spending and the answer to that is half the time, no. number two, shall we spending our money the first dollar on the thing that most important for the country. the answer to that oftentimes is no. >> neil: you pointed out and that this idea that waste, fraud duplication and chump change is wrong. >> it is wrong. >> neil: how do you go after more of substantive cuts. realit...

The president on the amount of duplication and amount of waste in the federal government. government agencies are not the most efficient organizations in the world, but certainly easy to highlight stupidity in how they spend the money. you can eliminate the stupidity and wouldn't solve our problems with this sequester. it does beg the question, who is running these organizations that are continuing to allow money to be wasted. we ought to be asking the hard questions. >> neil: now, when you went through a lot of this duplication and even as i'm looking now from the pentagon to develop beef jer...