Doge shows how to do this line by line through the federal budget. You take a look at total expenditures and I looked at Clinton in 98, Obama in 2014, Trump in 2019. Leave Social Security, Medicare and interest alone, but all other outlays increased by population growth and inflation is your basic control. If you do that, your budget would be somewhere between 5.5 and $6.5 trillion, way below where we are right now, in excess of 7 trillion. (01:08–01:17)
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Asserts that Social Security, Medicare, and interest should not be cut, but other spending should only increase with population growth and inflation.
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