They accept most spending, they look at a couple of programs, they try and tweak them, try and get a big score out of CBO. So they can say, look, we saved $1.5 trillion and … The federal budget was $4,400 billion six years ago. … it's basically void of reality. We're not talking about the numbers we should be talking about, which is a 10 year deficit projected by CBO of $22 trillion, averaging $2.2 trillion a year. (07:29–07:40)
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Asserts that the federal budget was $4,400 billion six years ago.
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