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David Schweikert: “About 74% of all spending is on autopilot. It's what we call…”

Featuring: David Schweikert, Republican | U.S. House, Arizona, District 1

David Schweikert's Congressional Address on U.S. Debt, Healthcare, and Economic Policy Challenges

Published June 27, 2025 | Video Starts at 05:18

Are we just going to pretend that we didn't get older as a society? I'm going to. So let's actually walk through. Mr. Speaker. I've done this chart for a decade. About 74% of all spending is on autopilot. It's what we call mandatory. It's interest. It's Social Security, it's Medicare, it's Medicaid, it's other promises that are built into the formula. Members of Congress almost never, ever, ever, ever get the chance to vote on any of this. (05:18–05:24)

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Asserts that 74% of U.S. federal spending is mandatory and not subject to annual congressional approval.

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“Moody's actually downgraded US Debt.”
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“We actually have 18 states in America that have a higher credit rating than the federal government.”
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“In 2034, 30% of all tax receipts just covered interest.”
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“If interest rates went up 1%, [in] 2034, 45% of all US tax receipts pay interest.”
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“We borrow $6 billion a day.”
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“We're functionally borrowing over $100,000 a second.”
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“Two years ago, it was $9.1 trillion of additional health care spending over 10 years [due to obesity].”
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“Milken... said 47% of all U.S. health care spending was associated with obesity.”
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“Medicare Advantage today comes at 120% of fee for service.”
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“CBO projected when we did the 2017 tax reform, 2018, 2019, just before the pandemic, they were like 99.5, 99% accurate.”
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“Interest is the number one driver of debt over the next 10 years.”
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“About 60, 65% of [the debt over the next 10 years] is just interest.”
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“Baseline spending, $86 trillion over the next 10 years.”
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“The Social Security Medicare actuary report from four days ago actually has an 11% cut coming in the Medicare trust fund in 2033.”
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“In 2033 [...] there's a 23% cut coming in Social Security checks, meaning we will double [...] senior poverty after 2033.”
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“We basically always get about 17 to 18, sometimes 18.5% of the economy in tax receipts.”
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“Right now, if we're sitting in the almost 18% of the economy, we're taking in taxes, but you're spending 24.”
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“In nine years we're borrowing over $10 billion a day.”
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“Manhattan Institute, Riedel... did the scoring on all the Democrats tax proposals.”
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“You get 0.5% of the economy, 1.5% [from Democratic tax proposals].”
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“We're going to borrow 7.3% of the economy this year, and in nine years, we're borrowing 9% of the economy.”
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“About half of that population [7 million prime age males missing from the labor force] may be missing... because of health, because of…”
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“Nominal, which means before inflation, we actually have domestic productivity growing at 4.3% over the next decade. We have health care…”
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“We come close to doubling US sovereign debt over the next decade.”
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“Social Security actuary reports now modeling a flattening of wage growth, that's one of the things that's actually shortened the life of the…”
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“The Medicare trust fund is gone in 2033. [...] It's still 11% cut.”
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“In seven years you're getting a 23% cut on your Social Security check and by the way, another 11% cut in your hospital coverage and other…”
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“The portion of your payroll tax that goes to Medicare, about 38, 40% of it is covered by the trust fund.”
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“For every dollar you put into Medicare, you're getting six to seven dollars back.”
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“We estimate this year, right now we're right here, we're spending about 18% of the entire economy on health care. In nine years, it's over…”
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“Today we have the same number of 18 year olds as we had 20 years ago. We have double the number of people 65 and up.”
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“Starting in 1990, US fertility rates rolled over. We have a shortage of young people in America.”
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“We have a shortage of young people.”
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“In 2033, 20.3% of the economy will just be health care.”
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“Considering government is functionally the primary payer, I think we're well over half of all health care spending coming out of the trust…”
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“The Social Security Medicare actuary report said there's 11% in 2033 cut coming.”
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“Social Security and Medicare and net interest account for 80% of the spending growth.”
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“The Wall Street Journal has done a five part series that if you add it all up is a trillion, $2 trillion of waste and fraud over 10 years.”
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“The smallest group of 18 year olds is a percentage of population in US history.”
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“Just that delta from the 95 to 120% over 10 years is like $2 trillion.”
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“Preliminary score from our conversations with CBO... $1.84 trillion making it the largest savings bill in U.S. history.”
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“Over the next 10 years we expect to spend $14.67 trillion dollars on Medicare Advantage.”
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“It creates about 150, 160 billion of additional tax receipts in the 10 year window.”
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“There's a trillion and a half dollars sitting in accounts up and down government that was appropriated three years ago, but they never built…”
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“We're going to borrow $2.2 trillion at the end of 2026.”
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“I just brought you $3.3 trillion of savings and not a single co-sponsor in Congress.”
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“CBO is more accurate than [the Tax Foundation, Yale Model foundation, and others].”
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“Population 65 and older rose by 3.1% in the last year.”
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“Population 18 years old under 18 decreased by 0.2%.”
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“A single point of interest going up over the next decade wipes out almost all the good we're trying to do.”
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