checks we write to oil companies they are cutting border security. i think we need to look at the priorities. >> chris: let me bring in senator coburn. do you support the overall level of $61 billion in cuts from current spending and what about senator mcsaying well, look, we -- about senator mccaskill saying we need to argue about what we want to cut. >> i don't think that is severe. the federal government in terms of discretionary spending is 93% bigger than it was in 2001. we are essentially cutting in terms of inflation adjusted dollars 5% of that growth over the last nine and a half years. what seems big in washington when you lay it out for the american people is small. there is so much waste in the federal government that it will be easy. there is no question there will be controversy about what the house has done. we can easily cut 61 billioned. we should be cutting 100l $1 bn