I am also pushing for biennial budgeting.

Isn't that a good thing?

We are hoping for a clean audit much before 10 years.

And the administration would absolutely support making those tax cuts for individuals and passthrough entities permanent?

So it would probably be a pretty good idea maybe if the House and the Senate were to propose that and hopefully get Democrat support to make those tax cuts permanent.

Isn't that a big problem, we literally pay people not to work? We require no work requirement?

Again, this is just simple math. You come up with an estimate. You compared it against a baseline, and you are not providing the American people with the information they need.

Isn't part of our problems our welfare system that pays people not to work, that creates the lack of mobility?

Certainly Senator Cotton and Senator Perdue have been suggesting a far more merit-based immigration system, legal immigration system I completely support.

I will second that. You know, prior to this administration, it is about all I heard from the business community, is the new regulations, you know, specific ones or just generalized.

I think absolutely every department in the Federal Government needs a capital budget.

I share my colleague Senator John McCain's ongoing concern over the Department's inability to tell us how many contractors work there.

In the 7 years I have been a United States Senator, there is not one manufacturing plant I have visited...that can hire enough people.

So, in other words, we increased exports, I would say because of NAFTA, or certainly after NAFTA was passed, by $340 billion, and our trade deficit only increased by seven.

the Pentagon will never operate like a business, but it still must reform its business operations.

It sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

One of the questions we have submitted to CMS is how much are they spending reimbursing for opioids.

OK. We have a problem that needs to be further explored, and so we did explore it.

I am not making the claim that this epidemic is just because of Medicaid expansion.

Do people actually buy fentanyl, or do they buy it because they think it is heroin?

OK. I read something in a magazine article, that $800 worth of fentanyl produces about $800,000 of street value.

This is a governmentwide program phenomenon where American taxpayers are providing well-intentioned funds into some of these programs.

We will need Russia to cooperate with us to get Iran out first.

So having relaxed those sanctions, allowing--by the way, do we have a final figure, a pretty good estimate of how many dollars have flowed into Iran because of the JCPOA?

There is going to be no legitimization from the broad international community, either for Russia or for Syria.