In an interview with Fox News’s Chris Wallace yesterday, Republican senate candidate Carly Fiorina was unwilling to specify any spending cut she would advocate, besides banning earmarks and eliminating inefficient, fraudulent, and wasteful spending.

Asked by Wallace if she would favor cutting entitlements, Fiorina responded, “The American people say, ‘You know what? When we have 22 percent of our federal government programs that are not meeting their objectives, when we have at least two non-partisan studies that suggest that there is up to half a trillion dollars’ worth of waste in the federal government budget, let us please get after that first before we start talking about cutting entitlements.’”

Pursuing the question, Wallace later asked, “You’re not willing to put forward a single benefit — I’m not even talking about the people that are 60 or, let alone, 65 or 70. I’m talking about people under 55. You’re not willing to say there’s a single benefit eligibility for Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security that you’re willing to say, ‘Yeah, I would cut that?’”

“What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices,” responded Fiorina.

“And I’m willing to consider any alternative,” she added. “But we cannot continue to just jump over the fact that our government is bloated, wasteful, inefficient, in many cases inept and, frankly, in many cases as well corrupt. We have to deal with that.”

Fiorina has also previously said that she supports the McCaskill/Sessions amendment, which would cap federal government discretionary spending at 1.5 percent growth per year.

UPDATE: Fiorina has also said that she would support capping annual spending at 20 percent of the economy, and only hiring one new federal government employee for every two that leave until staffing levels return to what they were in 2008.