A project that I started working on 12 years ago that was $100 million is--two of them. They were each $100 million projects. Now they're each $300 million projects.
Jon Tester: “A project that I started working on 12 years ago that was $100 million is--two of them. They were each $100 million…”
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Senator Tester highlights rising costs of rural water projects over time.
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There's plenty of examples of it. The Mission Act is a prime example. The fastest growing part of the V.A. budget. Why? Because we privatizing V.A. health care and its costing us more money, not less.
I would say two things. Number one this administration has totally blown the opportunity to make government more efficient by going in with a -- with a -- with a meat cleaver and just hack up agencies.
I think it’d be a mistake, a -- really a mistake for national security and for food security.
I think we need to take these things seriously. I think the president and I think, more importantly, the military are taking it very, very seriously.





