calls in a couple minutes. ,tephen ellis joins us now president of the organization on taxpayers for common sense. what taxpayers for common sense is, what's its mission and how are you funded. guest: thanks for having me this morning. i hope everyone is doing well. sense we for common are national nonpartisan budget watchdog. we turn 25 this year and what we do is we scrutinize the bills. it doesn't matter whether it was president clinton, president bush, president obama, president trump, we will look at what's being wasted to seal we can effectively spend our taxpayer dollars and work in a wide range of areas whether it's national security spending or agriculture spending, infrastructure. in this case, disaster and emergency spending and so we are funded by individuals, we are a nonprofit, we are funded by charitable foundations. don't seek money from corporations or trade associations or unions or from government. and so we are trying to be an advocate for the taxpayers to try and make a more responsible government. on towe ask you to come talk about the $2 trillion spending bill,

calls in a couple minutes. ,tephen ellis joins us now president of the organization on taxpayers for common sense. what taxpayers for common sense is, what's its mission and how are you funded. guest: thanks for having me this morning. i hope everyone is doing well. sense we for common are national nonpartisan budget watchdog. we turn 25 this year and what we do is we scrutinize the bills. it doesn't matter whether it was president clinton, president bush, president obama, president

we will get to more of your calls in a couple minutes. ,tephen ellis joins us now president of the organizationtaxpayers for common sense. what taxpayers for common sense is, what's its mission and how are you funded. guest: thanks for having me this morning. i hope everyone is doing well. sense we for common are national nonpartisan budget watchdog. we turn 25 this year and what we do is we scrutinize the bills. it doesn't matter whether it was president clinton, president bush, president obama, president trump, we will look at what's being wasted to seal we can effectively spend our taxpayer dollars and work in a wide range of areas whether it's national security spending or agriculture spending, infrastructure. in this case, disaster and emergency spending and so we are funded by individuals, we are a nonprofit, we are funded by charitable foundations. don't seek money from corporations or trade associations or unions or from government. and so we are trying to be an advocate for the taxpayers to try and make a more responsible government. on towe ask you to come talk about the $2 trillion s