The Democrats played a budgetary trick, which is they took $400 billion in discretionary spending, and they shifted it to mandatory. The reason they did that is they want to spend $400 billion more discretionary funds on completely unrelated matters. And so it's just part of the out-of-control spending from the left.
Ted Cruz accuses Democrats of manipulating budgetary classifications to increase spending unrelated to veterans.
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I’ve actually joked that if – and this is somewhat tongue-in-cheek – but it’s not entirely, if they’re going to be killer robots, I’d rather they be American killer robots and not Chinese killer robots.
Going forward, we’re in the midst of a debate about who our party is and what we believe, and I think economically we’ve got to debate, ‘Are we a small-government, free-market conservative party? Are we a big-government, nanny-state party?
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