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Mike Garcia: “The annual 1.3 turned into 1.5 turned into 1.7 turned into…”

Featuring: Mike Garcia, Republican | Former U.S. House, California, District 27

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Mike Garcia Town Hall 06AUG24

Published | Video Starts at 27:02

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. Okay? So the. The annual 1.3 turned into 1.5 turned into 1.7 turned into 1.8. And then we put these three bills over top of those things, which added up to $6 trillion. So that leads to effectively, within a three or four year period, a ten to $11 trillion operating budget. So it's like a business or it's like your home, where you normally, if you make $100,000, you spend, hopefully 90k. (27:02–27:15)

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Asserts that discretionary spending increased from $1.3 trillion to $1.8 trillion annually, with additional bills totaling $6 trillion.

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