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>> -- has always been discre discretionary, va spending is discretionary. what is mandatory are things like social security and medicare. if you qualify for the entitlement, you just get it no matter what the cost, and our problem in this country is that more than 70% of our federal budget, of our federal spending, what we ought to be doing is we ought to turn everything into discretionary spending so it is all evaluated, so we can fix problems or fix programs that are broken, that are going to be going bankrupt. >> what do you make of that, fixing problems, evaluating problems, turning it int...

Champagne will be cheering this budget— champagne will be cheering this budget today. our political correspondent rob watson gave us this assessment of the uk budget. you are thinking the big question would _ you are thinking the big question would he — you are thinking the big question would be post— you are thinking the big question would be post brexit, _ you are thinking the big question would be post brexit, post- you are thinking the big question- would be post brexit, post pandemic. what kind _ would be post brexit, post pandemic. what kind of— would be post brexit, post pandemi...

routine business, passed through the senate. neither party has been blameless in these tactics. now both parties should put an end to it. for starters, i asked the senate to pass a simple rule that all judicial and public service nominations receive a simple up or down vote within 90 days. [ applause ] the executive branch also needs to change. too often it's inefficient, outdated, and remote. that's why i've asked this congress to grant me the authority to consolidate the federal bureaucracy so that our government is leaner, quicker, and more responsive to the needs of the american ...

It's gone bad under his watch or continued to get worse under his watch, why would he fix it now? why would the public say, oh, this didn't i is going to get a new look at life, a new approach to the job. that's hard to believe. i think that's hard for people to buy, that this guy will solve a problem he let get this bad. that seems hard to believe. >> yeah, i see the politics of it that way, i understand that, chris. but having the secretary of the va -- firing the secretary of the va doesn't fix this, it's obviously deeper than that, as senator kerrey said. my hat's off always to senator ker...

Chris. but having the secretary of the va -- firing the secretary of the va doesn't fix this, it's obviously deeper than that, as senator kerrey said. my hat's off always to senator kerrey who understands this from the inside and outside better than any human being i know. put it in some context. ten years ago at the beginning of the iraq and afghanistan war, the previous administration and the congress basically flat lined va spending, not anticipating, not getting ready at all to scale up what we needed to do. in the last five years, we've doubled va spending. it hasn't been done right, it h...