Sen. Manchin warns of national debt threat: 'We've got to get this trajectory down'

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, D., joined "Sunday Morning Futures" and said to Maria Bartiromo astir nan indebtedness ceiling, addressing nan threat of continued authorities spending. 

MANCHIN CALLS FOR BIPARTISAN DEBT CEILING TALKS: 'WE'RE WRITING CHECKS OUR CHILDREN CAN'T CASH'

SEN. JOE MANCHIN: I'm going to ballot for a debt ceiling because we person to salary our bills. I dream my Republican friends will subordinate america and we're each successful this together, but nan bottommost statement to opportunity you're not going to person immoderate discussions aliases negotiations connected really we tin get this indebtedness nether control, $31.5 trillion successful nan past 10 years, almost $20 trillion. Can't we spot really we've expanded nan indebtedness truthful quickly and find retired if there's ways that we tin make adjustment? You don't person to fundamentally opportunity and scare nan bejesus retired of people, your first point they spell to is cutting Social Security and Medicare. That's not going to happen. But you tin reappraisal each nan spending that's gone connected successful discretionary, which intends we person make decisions connected and nondiscretionary fundamentally things that you don't discuss connected because it's mandatory spending. How did it summation by 1 aliases $2 trillion successful specified a short play of time? How did we summation discretionary spending? Can't we look astatine immoderate of that and find retired if there's immoderate adjustments?

…  We've sewage to get this trajectory down. You can't transportation this indebtedness and we're doing that and liking will eat america up, and [Adm.] Mike Mullen said 1 clip pinch maine successful nan Armed Services Committee that nan indebtedness of nan federation is nan greatest, nan top threat we face, not different country, but nan indebtedness of our own, nan weight of our ain indebtedness and our nation. You've sewage to get this nether control. We've sewage to speak astir it intelligently. The bottommost statement is, Maria [Bartiromo], everyone's trying to blasted each other. You've sewage to activity together.

HOUSE, SENATE REPUBLICANS BATTLE OVER POSSIBLE DEFENSE CUTS IN EFFORT TO CURB SPENDING

… You're going to person you person to raise nan debt. So you person to ballot for this. We person to salary our bills. The afloat religion and in installments of nan US currency. We're nan superpower of nan world. We person nan U.S., nan reserve currency. The world is simply a US dollar. We're not going to fto that default immoderate way, style aliases form, but successful saying that, you mean we're not moreover going to talk astir really we incurred this overmuch indebtedness truthful rapidly, tin we not find a measurement to person much efficiencies? I'm told if we conscionable do our occupation connected time, Maria [Bartiromo], get our fundamentally our fund done by nan extremity of nan fiscal year, September 30 saves billions of dollars. I'm told besides if we conscionable perpetrate to nary more, nary greater than 1% successful discretionary backing for nan adjacent 10 years, 1% tin prevention for illustration a trillion dollars. Can't we astatine slightest talk astir things that we should beryllium capable to travel to statement connected and person a ballot connected later? ... It doesn't person to beryllium held hostage correct now. 

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