Somewhere between $100 billion and $200 billion, chicken feed. That is nothing, he says. That is nothing. Yet $9 billion is like a bone in the throat to this OMB Director down here, Mitch Daniels, and the President and the administration. They are hung up on $9 billion. But when it comes to Iraq, no; $100 billion, no, $200 billion, no.
Discussing budget priorities and spending related to Iraq.
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