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Bobby Scott: “If you look at the budget and if you take out Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and defense and if you just look at…”

On the recordNovember 30, 2012
If you look at the budget and if you take out Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and defense and if you just look at what's called the nondefense discretionary budget, that's about--I'd say in round figures--$400 billion. If you're trying to get $4 trillion in cuts in 10 years, that's $400 billion a year. You would have to eliminate government. There would be no Embassy security, no FBI agents, no food inspection, no Federal prisons, no Head Start, no education, no FEMA, no transportation. I mean, nothing, nothing.
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Bobby Scott
Democratic · Virginia
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Nov 30, 2012

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