Isn't it kind of crazy that there's almost no debate about the budgetary policies that were put in place during COVID being retracted at all? Like, I don't think most people even contemplate or discuss this. Well, One of the devious things the unit party has done is they've transferred discretionary spending into the mandatory accounts. So we've increased other mandatory, not Social Security, Medicare or even Medicaid. We've increased from 642 billion to 1.3 trillion since 2019. One thing this is three omnibuses ago. (10:49–10:56)
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Asserts that discretionary spending has been moved to mandatory accounts by a bipartisan group.
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