The US Senate is working through a long list of spending bills, with a goal of getting them all passed before the August recess.
South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds…….
Rounds says they only actively manage about a quarter of the federal budget…..
About three trillion dollars of annual spending falls under entitlement, or automatic programs.
The Senate did pass a six hundred-billion-dollar defense authorization bill this week. Rounds says even that is not enough….
Rounds says defense spending is going down at a time when the world is becoming more dangerous.
