Now the question is, can you get 218 votes in Congress? I'm going to be pressing hard to do that. I think when you're looking at a debt that is about to exceed $37 trillion, when you're spending more on your debt, you know, repayment than you are on your defense spending. Borrowing to pay our debt repayment. Correct. Countries have gone down when that threshold is met and we surpassed it. I think when we sit here, we argue dimes instead of dollars. (21:13–21:26)
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