But my primary message will be talking on about my primary focus, which is spending the size of federal government, how it's completely out of control in an unprecedented fashion. And that has to be our focus. The basic facts of spending. In 2019, prior to the pandemic, we spent $4.4 trillion in total as a federal government. This year, we'll spend more than $7 trillion. That's a 60% increase as our population has grown less than 3%. It's completely unprecedented, it's completely unjustified. (00:33–00:43)
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Asserts that federal spending increased from $4.4 trillion in 2019 to over $7 trillion in 2023.
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