It's not what happened. We kept spending at pandemic levels. Biden averaged deficits of $1.9 trillion. And if you look at the scoring of the big beautiful bill right now, those Deficits just continue to increase from about 2, 2.2 trillion in the next four years up to about, I think, 2.9 trillion. That's off top of my head again. We're not bending the deficit curve down now. You can, you know, I'm going to be issuing a report I've been working on over the weekend. (03:18–03:25)
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Asserts that projected deficits will increase from $2.2 trillion to $2.9 trillion over the next four years.
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