Acting office of management and budget are Russell Vought on trumps 4. 8 million Budget Proposal for 2021 before the house Budget Committee. This runs three hours. I certainly welcome the acting director phoned the Russell Vought. Thank you for being here to testify on the president s 2021 Budget Proposal and i hope todays hearing will provide an open and amistad examination of the party set forth by the Trump Administration so they can get back to passing legislation Appropriations Bills that reflect the needs and priorities of the American People. I will now yield myself five minutes for an Opening Statement just six short months ago the president signed a bipartisan just, can everybody hear me . A just six months ago the president signed it twoyear budget deal into law. It does everything the president s proposal failed to do set rational discretionary lines allowing strong investments in our national and Economic Security and has bipartisan support including the bank member and mys
Haj please welcome the Heritage Foundation executive Vice President kim holmes. A nice rainy day outside and everybody is all bunched together to keep warm. Good morning everybody. How is everybody this morning . Governor welcome to the the Heritage Foundation it is a pleasure to have you here. Its a pleasure to welcome governor mike of alaska. And he will be speaking on the budget spending and what alaska can provide the nation as an example. Governor done was elected as governor of alaska 2018 hes had had a very career in alaska since arrival there in 1983 from working in a logging camp and southeast, alaska. To pursuing his dream in an educationer career as a teacher. He has a unique insight into alaskas communities due to his two decades of service there. He also served for five years as an alaska state senator. So he knows alaska literally from coast to coast. And that provides not only a unique perspective on had his state but also what can we from the 48 can learn from alaskas e
This committee of not being meticulous, this shows how serious we take every cent of this budget and how much we respect the feedback from the budget and legislative analyst. So i just want to use this as an example that this is how granular were going to get about every single budget and legislative analyst recommendation that has not been accepted by the department. For you, this is just an example to other departments when they get ready to defend themselves. I think you did an exceptional job, so thank you, chief. But i just want to remind everyone that every dollar that we spend, even though we have a 12 billion budget, means that were not spending it on something else. And the community and supervisors have come forward with 500 million in requests of life or death asks. So it is the job of this committee to make sure that every were spending is essential and more important than one of those 500 million of essential life saving asks, so i really wanted to use that as a teaching m
Vehicle to get a new vehicle there . Im sorry, supervisor stefani. I didnt hear the entire question. Supervisor stefani i asked if they could retire an old one to purchase a new one. Well, given the under o utilization of their fleet, it seems like that would be a feasible option. Supervisor stefani and what again is your answer to that underutilization not argument, but analysis . So i think were not looking at two different things. Were not looking at not being able to use the cars that we have because the equipment just doesnt fit, and using more staff to transport equipment that could be done by one more in a rightsized vehicle. We rely on the fact that staff follow the policy, but staff grabs the keys and go. Completeri lines complete reliance on the logs isnt indicative of use of our vehicles. Theyre not just used by our officers, theyre used by reentry division, theyre used to transport people to beds in residential treatment, so theres a lot more usage than just the units where
Meticulous, this shows how serious we take every cent of this budget and how much we respect the feedback from the budget and legislative analyst. So i just want to use this as an example that this is how granular were going to get about every single budget and legislative analyst recommendation that has not been accepted by the department. For you, this is just an example to other departments when they get ready to defend themselves. I think you did an exceptional job, so thank you, chief. But i just want to remind everyone that every dollar that we spend, even though we have a 12 billion budget, means that were not spending it on something else. And the community and supervisors have come forward with 500 million in requests of life or death asks. So it is the job of this committee to make sure that every were spending is essential and more important than one of those 500 million of essential life saving asks, so i really wanted to use that as a teaching moment chair fewer thank you.