Budget Director confronted over Trump’s lavish spending amid government cuts

Budget Director confronted over Trump's lavish spending amid cutsC-SPAN

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00:00The President is revamping the Rose Garden for a second time.

00:04He's overhauling a 747, spending billions of dollars when it's only going to be used as Air Force One for possibly a year.

00:11Are you concerned about that spending, too?

00:14We have a lot of administration priorities, and I hope what you've learned from our first term, this term,

00:20we need to spend in areas. We need ships. We need aircraft.

00:25We need a new presidential plane that's been in the works and been delayed for a long time

00:31because contractors are behind.

00:34And so that doesn't mean we don't spend where we need to spend,

00:38but we've always offered a fiscal picture that gets to balance, that reduces the deficit,

00:44that deals with our debt, and we're doing it in a host of ways in this term, and so that won't change.

00:50So we will continue to, you know, we set up a budget that was $163 billion in cuts to non-defense discretionary spending.

00:59We also asked for sizable increase to the border.

01:03You know, we need to spend in certain areas to secure the country, to perform the functions of the government,

01:09and to make sure that, you know, we are investing where we need to invest.

01:13But that doesn't mean that it's in any way inconsistent with an effort to be able to have reduced efforts and lower debt.