And as I've been writing since the first of the year, we need to bring spending down, total spending down to a reasonable pre pandemic level. That's exactly what Chairman Graham has suggested [using President Trump's actual budget for 2025] in the Senate Budget Committee. I serve in that committee. And what we've looked at and I gave a number of options. You could use Clinton 1998 as a baseline, grow that by population inflation, put in today's Social Security, Medicare and interest. (00:42–00:46)
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