And our top priority as a federal government has to be to defend and protect the American people and our way of life. But We can do this without tampering essential programs like Social Security, as I said, and programs like Medicare that our seniors rely on. Now, one of the ways we can do this, which I hope we will embrace wholeheartedly, is to look at means tested federal programs. So what does it mean to have a means test? (07:24–07:33)
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