So we're going to continue to make this one of our number one issues when it comes to economic security. I'm a PowerPoint geek, and I'm an Excel spreadsheet nerd, so bear with me. Okay. So This blue line is what the government has spent from the years 2008 to 2019 on what's called discretionary spending. So this is actually the money that Congress has control over. Okay. Not mandatory spending. This doesn't include Social Security. Oh, Congress can't actually touch Social Security. So this. (25:45–25:57)
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Asserts that the government spending on discretionary items was flat from 2008 to 2019.
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