We use in terms of our total budget, we use today's Social Security, Medicare and today's interest. Would that be a reasonable approach in terms of setting A spending baseline. Nobody disagreed. I said, well, That number would be 6.5 trillion versus 7.3. Here we're discussing how hard it's going to be to save 1.5 to 2 trillion over 10 years, which would knock down the 7.3 to 7.1 or 7.15. (05:45–05:50)
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Asserts that a reasonable spending baseline would be $6.5 trillion compared to the projected $7.3 trillion.
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