... You have heard people
talk about zero-based budgeting. I'm talking about a budget of $5.5
trillion to $6.5 trillion. Those are options from Clinton, Obama, and
Trump (first term), where you just take
their actual outlays, plus them up by population growth and inflation,
leaving Social Security, Medicare, and interest untouched. That would
leave you somewhere between $5.5 trillion and $6.5 trillion. So you
start there, but you have to do the work, and you need the time to do
the work. ... I think we have enough [senators] to stop the process
until the president gets serious about spending reduction and reducing
the deficit.
