Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late-night series Real Time with Bill Mouk.

Okay. Oh, hey, Congressman. You polished it.

You're shitload of this off, man. Yeah.

He kept telling me it was water.

Congressman, how does the GOP plan to cut taxes while increased defense spending?

Well, and we've heard that one before. Reagan, you know, I mean voodoo economics.

George Bush, the first cold it.

The serious answer is that although there'll be about 30 billion dollars of additional spending

with my colleagues' help, general matters now.

Additional over last year's.

And that's significant. You think we need more?

Well, and now that's been like more than every other country in the world combined.

Or not, that's an exaggeration, but we spend.

No, it's not. No. No.

We spend, I mean, the country closest to us is China at 215 billion a year.

And we spend about 700.

We, we, but that's not even counting. We'll spend about 4% of GDP a little less than that.

The NATO allies are, are promising to spend 2% of GDP. There's no question we invest more.

But the answer to your question is that mostly what we're going to try and do is leverage the fact that

Secretary Mattis is somebody who really does want to do the reforms to ring out some of the cost.

And that includes some of the expensive toys that are being put in instead of some basic equipment

that can be bought more effectively.

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