At an event Monday night in Storm Lake, Iowa, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says that, "when we talk about making government more cost effective, it doesn't simply mean cutting Medicaid and food stamps."



"What it does mean is taking a hard look at an agency which recieves $600 billion per year where there is an immense amount of waste and fraud," Sanders said. "We have massive cost overruns with defense contractors, we've got deployment after deployment for our soldiers, and we've got military families on food stamps."





BERNIE SANDERS: The day before 9/11 -- September 10, 2001, this guy that I have nothing to do with, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, he gave a speech and he said that there are trillions of dollars in the Dept. of Defense that we can't account for.



That was Rumsfeld the day before 9/11 -- the speech never got a lot of attention.



The Department of Defense is the only agency of government, to my knowledge, that cannot sustain an independent audit.



You go to them and ask how many private contractors we have. Well, they really don't know. It's so complicated, a huge complicated system.



I believe when we talk about making government more cost effective, it doesn't simply mean cutting Medicaid and food stamps.



What it does mean is taking a hard look at an agency which recieves $600 billion per year where there is an immense amount of waste and fraud.



And while we have massive cost overruns with defense contractors, we've got deployment after deployment for our soldiers, and we've got military families on food stamps. So maybe we want to change that.