Donald Trump said during the Republican presidential debate Thursday that he would eliminate waste in the federal budget by bidding contracts more effectively and blamed lobbyists for such ineffective deals.
"We don't bid things out," he said at the University of Miami in Florida. "We don't bid out the drug industry, pharmaceutical industry.
"They don't go out to bid. They just pay almost as if you walk into a drugstore. That's what they are paying.
"The reason is they have a fantastic lobby. They take care of all the senators, the congressmen. They have great power and don't bid out.
"The military is never properly bid. We go out to military bids, it's not properly bid."