We've got to break the cycle. We're spending money on fighting fires when it would be much better to cut some wood and get us a permanent supply.
Jon Tester: “We've got to break the cycle. We're spending money on fighting fires when it would be much better to cut some wood and…”
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Tester emphasizes the need to change fire management strategies.
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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.
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.
This has been a phenomenon that we haven't had recently, where we've had other countries that have went into our airspace for the purpose of trying to gather information.
I think it'd be a mistake, a -- really a mistake for national security and for food security.





