… we were dealing with the debt ceiling, they decided to deal with the budget itself in that moment, which was really conflating the two issues because they were separate. And One of the agreements was we will raise the debt ceiling so long as you raise defense spending. Which his budget proposal actually raised it as well, not as aggressively for sure. And there was a provision if we didn't get, if we didn't meet certain timelines that there would be these little cuts. (10:38–10:46)
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Asserts that a condition for raising the debt ceiling was an increase in defense spending.
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