The more moderate people in your party are saying, well, maybe this does give us something to actually talk about. Yeah, but Joe, again, put it all in perspective. $130 billion when Social Security will run a $1.3 trillion deaths over the next $5 trillion deficit over the next 20 years. And by the way, that trust fund has no value to the federal government. We did that. I made that point in our committee hearing yesterday confirming or you know, this confirmation hearing on the next OMB Director Burwell. (02:16–02:24)
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