thomas schatz, as you said, you have been doing this for a while.covering the waste in government spending. hattie in houston. go ahead. caller: i am coming on him. i think it is too much spending, too much waste spending on this lately. the rich are getting richer because they are over a lot of stuff here, and the poor people, they have all of this, we do not need this. we do not need these private planes, we do not need all of this. so their kids to go to school in the properly, they cannot offer poor people, they are just letting the rich go crazy. for instance, trump and his family, they are all sitting there, all of his children and everything. host: ok, hattie, let me ask it this way of thomas schatz -- do earmarks only benefit the rich? guest: no. is that they adversely affect programs that need the money. when this money is moving away from a higher priority, then the people that truly need the money are not getting it. that is through of all wasteful spending. the government accountability office issues a support on overlap, one of them is

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