Patty Murray: “It's a roughly $450 billion increase in the defense budget.”

“In comparison, the ACA subsidies extending those for 10 years would be roughly 330 billion. There'd be some interest cost with that also, but think of that as the comparison. Okay, so It's a roughly $450 billion increase in the defense budget. and a permanent extension of the ACA tax credits would have cost 350 billion. I think that's kind of astounding that if we took the money from this one year …” (01:57–02:02)

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