But we have, I would say, deviously slid all kinds of discretionary spending into other mandatory that really exploded during COVID where I think other mandatory hit well over $2 trillion. Last fiscal year was about $1.3 trillion. This year will be over a trillion. So it went from $642 billion in 2019. Other mandatory, again, not Social Security, Medicare, even Medicaid went from 642 to last year, 1.3. This year it's going to be over $1 trillion. (04:51–04:57)
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