Isn't it true, also, when they talk about 1 percent--which we know has to be 6 percent--isn't there that much waste in government? The Senator knows they are talking not about looking at pockets of waste, fraud, and abuse. But these are indiscriminate, across-the-board cuts; is that not true?
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