'I Don't Know How DOGE Found It And We Didn't': Lindsey Graham Defends Funding Cuts Amid Rescissions

During a Senate Appropriations Committee markup on Thursday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) spoke about funding cuts and rescissions.

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00:00Senator, very quickly, please.

00:03Can you hear me?

00:04Yes.

00:04Senator Murkowski made a good point.

00:06I think to most of my Democratic colleagues, I think if you'd known about some of this stuff, y'all would have said no.

00:14Some of it yes, some of it no.

00:16I mean, if we have a program to train gun owners in Serbia, y'all probably wouldn't like that.

00:22I could see where some of our guys start doing this stuff.

00:25So what I'd like to do is figure out, like, let's get ahead of this.

00:29I don't know how Doge found it and we didn't.

00:33I think that's what's got me going is how did they find this stuff and we didn't?

00:39And if some of it's fake, I'm open-minded to say it's fake, but all of this ain't fake.

00:46So we need a process sort of to make sure this doesn't happen to again.

00:51Now, there was an effort by Bush to do a rescission package, and it fell short in votes.

00:56So it has been done before.

00:58And my hope is that rescission packages will not be the norm for the reasons y'all said,

01:06and that we can find better filters so we don't get ourselves in this mess.

01:12Senator Britt.

01:14And Michael,

01:14thank you.