Connie Mack Hedges On Ryan Budget

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Rep. Connie Mack, who’s running for the Republican Senate nomination in Florida, refused to get specific about the Ryan budget on Tuesday morning in an interview with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd. Mack didn’t comment on his remark earlier this month that the Ryan budget is a “joke,” and instead blamed the Senate for not coming up with a budget of its own. 

Mack did concede the need for serious spending reduction: 

We have close to a $16 trillion debt. We have $1.4 trillion deficit. And if you’re telling me that we can — the government can’t afford one penny out of every federal dollar, everybody who is watching your show has had to make more than one penny out of every dollar of their home budget or one penny out of every dollar of their business budget. And if you’re telling me or trying to tell the American people, I’m not saying you, I’m just saying in general …  Trying to say somehow that’s a draconian cut, I just disagree. 

Mack used the GSA scandal as evidence that the government can afford to cut back:

We just saw the scandal that happened with the GSA. If you’re telling me that there’s not plenty of room to make cuts in this budget, I think you’re mistaken. There are plenty of places to cut that we can do and balance this budget.

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