But the federal government spends about $6.7 trillion a year. So, and there's a lot of spending that isn't Medicare, isn't Social Security. It's under the category of mandatory spending programs. But There's still about $700 billion of non Social Security, non Medicare mandatory spending. To me, that's sort of the ripe target. But here's the problem. All of those spending programs have their own constituency. (10:13–10:20)
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