Brian Schatz actually said...

"I want to ask you about how this impacts your progress and planning?"

"What concerns me is that it seems to me that you are very sure about where you want to cut taxes and you are very vague about how you want to generate the revenue to make up for those tax cuts."

"My view is that the same is true for a value-added tax. And I guess as I am looking at the so-called loopholes that you are looking at closing, without a VAT or a BAT, you are just not going to be abl..."

"But you are saying: You know what? We are just going to ignore CBO and just hope, allege, assert that tax cuts always generate more revenue and pay for themselves."