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SD Senator Mike Rounds; Senate Attempting to Find Spending Controls

SD Senator Mike Rounds; Senate Attempting to Find Spending Controls

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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.