Marsha Blackburn: “We do always hear, well, you would take from this or that if you were doing across-the-board cuts. But just to my…”

“We do always hear, well, you would take from this or that if you were doing across-the-board cuts. But just to my colleagues who are in the Chamber tonight and those who are watching, across-the-board cuts work at the local level and the State level because you look at that number that you need to hit and you get inside some programs more than others, and you find that penny on the dollar, and you find a way to yield a savings, and you examine what the priorities of a budget ought to be. That is the heavy lift. And while we are doing it with the work we do here in this Chamber and that the appropriators do, it is important that, just as Governors in our States--both Democratic and Republican Governors, by the way--just as mayors in towns and cities across this country do on a regular basis, and many are doing right now because fiscal years are beginning October 1, just as they do that work, we need to do it. {time} 2100 Do we need to look at entitlements? Yes, absolutely. I am for putting those issues on the table. I encourage our colleagues and our administration to do that. It is imperative because we are staring $20 trillion in debt. We are staring that in the face. How do you look at your children and grandchildren and say, ``That is okay. That is okay. Paying for $20 trillion worth of debt is easy''? The answer is you don't, because it is not. What it takes to address it is will. It takes resolve.…”