That's the reason where we're here. But this also was not inevitable. There were other things that we could do. The $1.5 trillion request from this administration, it's outrageous. When I got to the Senate five and a half years ago, the defense budget was just over $700 billion. Now they're asking for twice as much money. It's nearly the amount that the rest of the world pays for its defense. And as I pointed out in that, and I pointed, as I pointed out in that … (03:10–03:21)
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