And so that's gone up hundreds of billions of dollars just since then. Look, I think they're fighting in Washington now. If you just went back to the amount of spending that Barack Obama proposed in his last budget for this year, it would be a dramatic reduction. in terms of what they're actually spending. And so when they increase spending, they just keep the baseline and then keep going up from there. (23:53–24:04)
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