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On the recordOctober 3, 2011
If you accept for the moment that we need to balance that budget and that we are not going to bring in any new revenue and we can't touch defense, basically what you would have to do is you would have to cut everything else in the budget by roughly half.
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Adam Smith
Democratic · Washington

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Explaining the drastic cuts needed to balance the budget without new revenue.

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