Now, when you're spending trillions of dollars, or about $1.3 trillion, obviously it's going to fund a lot of good things, but we're approaching $39 trillion in debt. The fact that you had five senators with earmarks totaling over $400 million apiece, The top earmarker, and Santa is, by the way, the ranking member of the Appropriations Committee, getting, I think, $520 million of earmarks. that'll obviously grease the skids. So that's, that's a problem. What the reason you get bipartisanship here is we spend money we don't have. Yes. Senator Johnson, thank you for joining. (02:50–02:59)
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