military wins, right? we can t count them is it 886 million now they are getting? but the ultimate insult here is that senate republicans, they don t seem to care that the pentagon is rudderless and leaderless at a time when according to the administration itself, the world is more dangerous than ever. reality is that the terrorism threat has been elevated throughout 2023. but the ongoing war in the middle east has raised the threat of an attack against americans in the united states to a whole nother level. laura: if that s not bad enough we learned that iran has ramped up nuclear program after biden dropped the sanctions. good job. and with russia and china now rallying to iran s side as all of this is happening, our top military official is considered so insignificant his colleagues are unfazed by his absence. now, when i worked in the white house a long time ago, the sec
and that s what we re doing in washington and what we ve done in the transportation committee the last couple of months is put together all the areas that we oversee and how we could save money rather than spend money and now i know that s a crazy idea for washington. no kidding. first one we ve got right here is how can you save all that dough, $886 million on courthouse spending? my goodness, you can t imagine. we have 3 1/2 million extra square feet of courthouse, federal courthouse space that they haven t even used. they ve overbuilt and it sits idle. we have courthouses that they re right now spending incredible amounts of money to renovate. one one federal building in oregon, $375 a square foot on a building that s that was built in 1970. they could build a brand new one and get better efficiency out of it. also, you talk about the waste. what about stalled or canceled