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His budget was so large, some of the employees that weigh paying out some of the senior executives were making salaries of 170,000. part-time employees, neil, were making 100,000. employee compensation overall was $1.1 billion. so, the local government has a spending problem. so, in order for them to kind of get that under control, to evenly deal with the homeless issue, they have to look at that employee spending at first. i mean, we are just looking at employee here. transportation costs. government costs. they are gigantic. so, for them to impose this tax on the corporations. without even g...

Our international competitiveness will erode and our children will become the first generation in american history that is poorer than the previous generation. >> bret: that was 2011. still true today? >> it is. the cbo report, not reported by very many is that tax revenues in america actually grew after tax reform. so, it's the spending that grew faster. so, my point is that we don't have a revenue problem. we have a spending problem. and that's where we need to focus our efforts. i'm convinced we could start with the rescission package of savings cuts that the president is proposing working ...

Culture in this white house where administration officials feel they can use the white house as a free platinum card paid for by the taxpayers. and that comes from a culture created by trump where he views personal gain as the highest form of public service. >> i think you put it so perfectly, and add to that the fact that scott pruitt was trying to do to the epa what donald trump is trying to do to the doj, but he may get in more trouble for it. i want to read from this other reporting that the non-partisan people stood up to pruitt and they were then demoted or requested new jobs under press...

If you look at the variety of scandals like tom price and ben carson and ryan zinke, et cetera, you realize there's a culture in this white house where administration officials feel they can use the white house as a free platinum card paid for by the taxpayers. and that comes from a culture created by trump where he views personal gain as the highest form of public service. >> i think you put it so perfectly, and add to that, the fact that scott pruitt was trying to do to the epa that donald trump is trying to do to the doj. basically the career people, the nonpartisan people, stood up to prui...

You think things will take care of themselves, let your lawn go for a month or two. we have a spending problem that is so over-the-top. 23 -- $20 trillion climbing. in order to have sustainable programs, we have to do away with programs that allow people to make -- the 51 vote is all we need. my native vetoes would help. eric: desantis said we are not going down to 51. it's ruled unconstitutional in 1998. >> how about if we say when it comes to military command that's a separate spending bill altogether. both parties use the military come all the military hostage to get the things they want an...