Judd Gregg: “What this instruction says is, we should not be spending $1 trillion on discretionary accounts around here. This budget…”

“What this instruction says is, we should not be spending $1 trillion on discretionary accounts around here. This budget for the first time, the Democratic budget, because of its increases last year on top of the increases in this budget, has hit the trillion-dollar mark. That should be a fairly big red flag, that we are now going to spend $1 trillion in discretionary spending. I have trouble comprehending what a trillion dollars is. I suspect almost everybody does. But if you take all the taxes paid since we began as a republic, I believe it totals something like $42 trillion. That would be over 200 years. So this one budget is going to spend a fairly significant amount of what has been raised in taxes since our country began. It is a big number, $1 trillion. It seems to me we ought to sort of maybe draw a line here, take a breath, and say: Let's stop. Let's think about what we are doing. Let's see if rather than spending this huge amount of money, we can't save a little money.”