Mitchell Elias "Mitch" Daniels, Jr.is an academic administrator and former politician who was Governor of Indiana from 2005 to 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party. Since 2013, Daniels has been president of Purdue University... (wikipedia)
The government's finances are in extraordinarily strong shape.
If there are attempts to raid defense for lesser priorities, or to raid homeland security for lesser priorities, then we'll resist that. And I think pretty strongly. So, I think that's the difference between last year and a wartime era.
The federal government is not a very well-managed enterprise. I don't think this is exactly shocking news. We don't have all the right incentives in place.