I think this is totally inadequate. I think we have got to figure out a way to make sure, at this dangerous time, which I believe is the most dangerous time in the world since the early 1960s, that we give you the money you need and then hold you accountable to make sure you spend it correctly.
Tester criticizes the budget cap as insufficient for current global dangers.
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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.
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