Rep. Dave Brat: Deficit Is So Huge, ‘It’s Over’ in 11 Years
By Lori
Updated 02/29/2016 | 3:20 PM EST
Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) joined The Glenn Beck Program on Monday to discuss
the state of Washington, D.C. Rep Brat, an economist who successfully
ran against Eric Cantor back in 2014, is up for reelection.
Glenn asked Rep. Brat, who sits on the House Budget Committee, about the
failures of both Democrats and Republicans in fixing the budget and
reducing the deficit.
“The problem is, again, the process,” Glenn said. “We are just doing
these continuing resolutions, which takes the power of Congress’ time
every time. We know that it was the Democrats that started this
unconstitutional process, but the Republicans have been just as bad. Are
we going to see an end to this?”
Rep. Brat agreed the process is a problem and outlined specifically just
how bad things are.
“If the people don’t know, under Republican leadership, the deficit this
year is going up for the first time since ’09 to $105 billion. It’s
going up to $540 billion. That’s a half a trillion dollars,” Rep. Brat
said. “And the biggest problem is the unfunded liability piece — the
Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, etc. In 11 years, all federal
revenues will go to those mandatory programs. There won’t be one dollar
for the military or running government, transportation, education . . .
nothing. And you can go to CBO. The main graph is sitting right there.
In 11 years, it’s over.”
Source: http://www.glennbeck.com/2016/02/29/rep-dave-brat-the-deficit-so-huge-its-over-in-11-years/?utm_source=glennbeck&utm_medium=contentcopy_link
Source: http://www.glennbeck.com/2016/02/29/rep-dave-brat-the-deficit-so-huge-its-over-in-11-years/?utm_source=glennbeck&utm_medium=contentcopy_link
