Well, first of all, you start talking about the real numbers, which is what I've started to do. So In 2019, we spent $4.4 trillion. Year the pandemic we spent 6.5. And we've never looked back, Laura, We've, we've never spent under $6 trillion since the pandemic. This year we'll spend over $7 trillion. So the unit party has done a really good job of deviously transferring discretionary spending into mandatory. (03:42–03:57)
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