Now, again, when the pandemic wound down, you would think we returned to some reasonable baseline spending. Although we didn't do that for the next five years. We $6.5 trillion. Last year we spent 6.9 [trillion dollars]. The Wall Street Journal just reported the first four months we spent $2.43 trillion. Multiplied times three, that's $7.3 trillion. 63%, 61% head above $4.4 trillion. Our population grew at 2.6. (01:17–01:22)
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