Jon Tester: “I think we just passed a $71.2 billion budget for the VA. Is that correct?”

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.

If that was possible it would already be done.

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.