And we never go back and revisit it to see if it's still a priority, which continues to grow at 5, 6, 7, 8% a year. Until and unless we deal with this mandatory spending, We are never going to deal with this mountain of debt now approaching $36 trillion. And we have now finally gotten to the point where we're paying more money for interest on the national debt than we are on our own defense, which is 2.7% of our GDP. (03:39–03:47)
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Asserts that the national debt is approaching $36 trillion.
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