And I've laid out, I think you, you know, I've been on the show before, I've laid out a number of pre pandemic spending baselines ranging somewhere between 5.5 and 6.5. That by the way, that's The most we ought to be spending this year [is] $6.5 trillion. That takes 2019 spending, increases it by population and inflation, uses today's Social Security, Medicare, leave those completely untouched. You can leave Medicaid completely untouched and still spend about 6.5 spending, 7.3. (01:30–01:35)
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Asserts that the U.S. should be spending no more than $6.5 trillion this year.
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