But for all other outlays I simply increased them by population growth inflation to provide that baseline. Okay, so if you do that again, spending what you need to spend associated Medicare and Interest 2025 levels, The budget would have been somewhere between 5.5 and $6.5 trillion versus the 7 trillion. Now I proposed that back in January in a column I wrote for the Wall Street Journal. It did gain some traction. (15:03–15:09)
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