your job is to tell the American people how our tax dollars are being spent.

Is your argument that most of these cost overruns are the responsibility of the DoD who has changed the nature of the contract?

I would hope that nobody here believes that just because this is the Department of Defense, we will defend an enormous amount of bureaucratic waste.

Does cost-plus, for the laymen here, mean I am going to give you a $2 billion estimate, but if it costs me more, I am going to bill you more?

I have heard about the world collapsing when we add to the deficit and the national debt.

It might be a good idea for the Budget Committee to actually produce a budget.

All right. And what happens, tell me what we do when somebody says, 'Hey, sorry, you are going to have to give me more money for the same contract that I agreed to'?

We cannot maintain a passion for deficits that evaporates as soon as it bumps up against tax benefits for big oil.

You projected that a 10-year extension would actually save the Government $6 billion.

Is that a proper issue for the U.S. Government to look into?

They could add the other $19 million to the cost of their F-35s, can't they, pretty easily?

What are we doing to deal with these outrageous cost overruns?

This is not a budget, as Candidate Donald Trump talked about, that takes on the political establishment. This is a budget of the political establishment.

Twenty-eight years does seem to be enough time for the Pentagon under Democratic and Republican leadership to maybe get its act together and give us an audit.

What are we going to do after giving CEOs of these defense companies huge salaries, tell them that they cannot continue to rip off the American people?

I appreciate very much, Mr. Chairman, the hearing that you held in March on the need for an audit of the Department of Defense.

President Trump's budget would slash Medicaid by over $1.3 trillion, cut Medicare by over $500 billion, and reduce Social Security by nearly $25 billion.

We should ask why the DoD does not.