Jon Tester: “I think that with some attention by people like you, Administrator Jackson, I think we can get a big bang for the buck.”

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 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.

I think it’d be a mistake, a -- really a mistake for national security and for food security.

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.