… address the deficit that I had explained that that's why I was doing this, all for the concern about not having a deficit. Instead, it increases the deficit overall. And That's been verified by every economist that's taken a look at this. And it's why Elon acted the way that he did. So this is the situation that we found ourselves in just in the last two weeks. (13:36–13:42)
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