To your point about the amount of money being spent, one of the challenges, as you know, that has oftentimes not been as easily noticed by the press is how much of that spending is obligatory Interest payment on the federal debt...was much lower, around $100 billion a year and now is $1 trillion a year. It exceeds almost any other domestic discretionary aggregate big spends, including the Department of Defense and labor and HHS. (05:12–05:23)
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