Sen. Manchin warns of national debt threat: 'We've got to get this trajectory down'
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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., discusses the need for lawmakers to control government spending and the national debt, saying "we've got to get this trajectory down."
SEN. JOE MANCHIN: I'm going to vote for a debt ceiling because we have to pay our bills. I hope my Republican friends will join us and we're all in this together, but the bottom line to say you're not going to have any discussions or negotiations on how we can get this debt under control, $31.5 trillion in the last ten years, almost $20 trillion. Can't we see how we've expanded the debt so rapidly and find out if there's ways that we can make adjustment? You don't have to basically say and scare the bejesus out of people, your first thing they go to is cutting Social Security and Medicare. That's not going to happen. But you can review all the spending that's gone on in discretionary, which means we have make decisions on and nondiscretionary basically things that you don't negotiate on because it's mandatory spending. How did it increase by one or $2 trillion in such a short period of time? How did we increase discretionary spending? Can't we look at some of that and find out if there's some adjustments?
… We've got to get this trajectory down. You can't carry this debt and we're doing that and interest will eat us up, and [Adm.] Mike Mullen said one time with me in the Armed Services Committee that the debt of the nation is the greatest, the greatest threat we face, not another country, but the debt of our own, the weight of our own debt and our nation. You've got to get this under control. We've got to speak about it intelligently. The bottom line is, Maria [Bartiromo], everyone's trying to blame each other. You've got to work together.
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