… ongoing of other mandatory, or what should be discretionary into what they call now other mandatory. A trillion dollars. And I don't think anybody was really aware of that either. In 2019, total federal government spending was 4.4 trillion. Yes. This year we will spend over 7 trillion. So better way, I remember somewhere around during the Obama administration about when I got elected, 2010, 2011, we had our first trillion dollar a year deficit in 2009. (05:22–05:27)
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