… in 1998 or Obama in 2014, or Trump in 2019, growing those actual outlays by population growth, inflation, and coming over the baseline budget somewhere between 5.5 and $6.5 trillion Returning to pre-pandemic levels of government spending...saving $800 billion from what we're currently spending. President Trump was intrigued by that. I think he liked the idea and I'm looking forward to working with him in the White House to, you know, flesh that all out. (02:22–02:53)
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Asserts that returning to pre-pandemic spending levels could save $800 billion.
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