But you can see for roughly 1112 years, it was flat. That's actually not what most people realize, that the government, from a year to year basis, spent about $1.3 trillion a year, and All of a sudden, 2019, you see that tick up, okay? With that uptick, you've got the CARES act, which was all the COVID money in 2011. In this blue line, you've got the America Rescue plan, which didn't rescue us from anything, and you've got the Inflation Reduction act, which didn't do a damn thing to reduce inflation. (26:42–26:50)
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Asserts that government discretionary spending increased significantly starting in 2019 due to the CARES Act.
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