I really truly worry that the debt is one of the single biggest threat to the United States of America, that we're talking about a problem that is multi-trillion in its depth and I think we ought to be cutting more.

Excluded from the $681 billion cap were Social Security Medicare veterans programs and interest payments. After the nearly 1200 3rd District delegates were elected on March 25 2008 Chaffetz sent a mailer telling delegates he would run a different kind of campaign. ”
Chaffetz himself has been criticized for politicizing the Benghazi incident acknowledging in an interview with CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien that he had "voted to cut the funding for embassy security" and that House Republicans had consciously voted to reduce the funds allocated to the State Department for embassy security since winning the majority in 2010.

He is a member of the Republican Party. S.