Okay, why do we care about that? Do realize every dime, every dime we are appropriating here, every dime we get to vote on, it lives on borrowed money. We borrow every dime of defense and every dime of discretionary. And if you look at the 2023 budget and it looks like we're going to do the same thing in the 2024 that we're working on right now. (00:38–00:43)
CLAIM
Asserts that all defense and discretionary spending is funded through borrowing.
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