Sen. Rand Paul Offers Amendment to Cut Federal Spending

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PAUL: "My amendment to this spending bill will be to cut two percent across the board so we could actually be responsible and try to balance our budget. Most people that I talk to at home or people who come up here who are seeking assistance from the federal government say well, that doesn’t sound too bad, one or two percent, we could deal with that. People come to me and they say well, you know, my group is doing this great research for this disease that affects all these people and I say well, how much you're getting? They say well, $100 million. And I say well, we have a trillion-dollar deficit and everybody ought to try to spend what comes in rather than spending money we don’t have. Does it make sense even for a good cause to borrow money from China, to spend money we don’t have? And most of them, even groups that live at the federal trough, groups that need and want, all they come for is federal money say well, that’s not that unreasonable, we got $100 million last year, could you take $98 million for the good of the country? Instead of getting $100 million, could you take $98 million? Two percent less in order to balance the budget in order not to destroy the country with all this debt.”