#shorts On 2/10/2023, a reporter asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “on the President’s meeting today with the governors. He said during this meeting that Republicans are trying to close off the possibility of cutting defense spending and that that leaves only a very few options.

You know, what is the President’s view on how to get to the $2 trillion in cuts that he has outlined in the State of the Union Address? What is the best way to get there? And does he rule out the possibility of cutting, for instance, defense spending?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: As you just mentioned, the President said in his State of the Union Address that he was going to cut the deficit by $2 trillion over a decade. I’m not going to get ahead of what the President is going to actually — the details or the specifics in his budget. Certainly, once we put that out on March 9th, you’ll have — you’ll be able to peruse and see exactly what the President is laying out. I’m just not going to get ahead of that.

But I also want to add — and I’ve said this many times before; you’ve heard the President say this as well — this is a President — for the first two years, he was able to cut the deficit by $1.7 trillion. He takes his fiscal responsibility very seriously.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/N1gHKBJ27Tc
Biden promised $2T cut in SOTU but Republicans to close off cutting defense spending