That's the Park Service, that's the FBI, that's the State Department. This, see all that red? None of that gets a vote from a member of Congress. The vast, vast majority of our spending is on autopilot. And this interest number here is actually the net number, not the gross number, because there's another 300 billion or so that's actually borrowed from the trust funds that we still have to pay back. (07:45–07:50)
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Asserts that most U.S. government spending is automatic and not subject to congressional voting.
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