inauguration. dean: it s a coinsdink. pete: it is the resistance continued. rachel: but this is not going to be the shame shut down as 2013. here is what mick mulvaney has to say about that. you wants to make folks understand it would look very different than it did under the previous administration. one of the things that i have learned since i have been in this office is that there is no other way to describe it butt obama administration weaponized the shut down in 2013. what they didn t tell you was they did not encourage agencies to use carry forward funds. carry forward funds. funds that they were sitting on. nor did they encourage agencies to use transfer authority. that they could have made the shut down in 2013 much less impactful, but they chose to make it worse. the only conclusion i can draw is they did so for political purposes. we will look different this
administration. one thing i ve learned since i ve been in this office is that there is no other way to describe it, but the obama administration weaponized the shutdown in 20. what they didn t tell you was that they did not encourage agencies to use carry forward funds, carry forward funds, funds they were sitting on, nor did they encourage agencies to use transfer authority, that they could have made the shutdown in 2013 much less impactful, but they chose to make it worse, the only conclusion i can draw is they did for political purposes. it will look different this time around. we also have got answer questions, take questions about specifics on that. mark short is here to give you a very brief update on where we stand and we ll take your questions for a few minutes. thank you, all for your time this morning. as mick said, last night, the house passed a bipartisan bill
one of the things i ve learned since i ve been in this office, there is no other way to describe it but the obama administration weaponized the shutdown in 2013. they did not encourage agencies to use carry forward funds. funds they were sitting on nor did they encourage agent seals to use transfer authority. that they could have made the shutdown in 2013 much less impactful but they chose to make it worse. the only conclusion i can draw they did so for political purposes. so it will look different this time around. we have also got we can answer questions about specifics on that. marc short is here to give you a very brief update on where we stand and we ll take questions for a few minutes. go ahead. thank you for your time this morning. as mick said last night the house passed a bipartisan bill with 230 votes.
there are plenty of tunes to stream line, eliminate all the duplication, allow for transfer authority. use the accounts that have been overfunded and haven t been used. we don t need any more cold weather sleeping bags. we don t need certain types of equipment. let s prioritize what those needs are. maximize and use the taxpayer dollars to the best ability thaf we have. i think the amount that the president is proposing is a nice number. if we couple that with the things that i just referenced, that could go up twice that. then we re kind of getting pwerlt. then you build on the next budget. it can be done overnight because we near a $20 trillion national debt. melissa: you mentioned not spending money to people that are our enemies. i m gonna throw a curveball at you and ask you to respond to the report that came ahead of you where we heard the saudi arabian prince who was on visit here saying he s willing to put boots on the ground. saudi boots on the ground. what do you think abou
if you look at the obama administration, the state department had been expanded by better than 37% during that time. so i don t know. it seem likes in some of these spots we re not even back to where we were before the last expansion even with the cuts. what are your thoughts? i served in the military for 35 years. the last four were at the pentagon. and while it s deeply appreciating they re getting $54 billion, it s very important to note that i believe they should be audited. you need to do that top to bottom review of the pentagon. there s a tremendous amount of overlap and waste. you have more contractors than soldiers working there. there are things that can be done to maximize those dollars. they also need to be given the various army, air force, marines, cost guard and national guard, you need to have transfer authority. the ability to transfer funds within the budget you. president obama didn t allow that. he allowed the faa to do it. but he didn t allow the military. there