Pete Hoekstra: “What the top chart enables us to do, if we stick to the spending caps and we pass our budget, is to really focus on what…”

“What the top chart enables us to do, if we stick to the spending caps and we pass our budget, is to really focus on what our colleague here has been working on, which is to seriously take a look at Social Security reform. Because we have to be honest here, we do not save Social Security. What we do is we position ourselves to save Social Security for our kids and for our grandkids. But that is the next step, again. We get to a surplus, then we get to a point where we have sufficient surpluses to save Social Security but we still have to do a Social Security reform proposal.”