And, and so that's why I was so vocal about it is I was pushing and prodding my colleagues, the President, everybody, we've got to return to reasonable pre pandemic level. Spending went from 4.4 trillion to over $7 trillion from 2019 to this year. Totally unjustified. The bottom line is this is all we could get. We got, we got about one and a half trillion dollars of additional spending reduction, historic in nature. (01:51–01:58)
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Asserts that the increase in spending from $4.4 trillion to over $7 trillion since 2019 is unjustified.
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