Did anybody think it wouldn't be a reasonable control to take that spending level increase by population and inflation and put that as a baseline? Nobody disagreed. Then I pointed out this year we'll spend 7.3 trillion. That baseline is 6.5. That's an almost trillion dollar delta, $800 billion. So how do you get there? A couple dozen of U.S. republican senators met with Elon Musk last week. I thought was noteworthy is, you know, he's talking. (01:39–01:45)
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