Year the pandemic we spent 6.5. And we've never looked back, Laura, We've, we've never spent under $6 trillion since the pandemic. This year we'll spend over $7 trillion. So The unit party has done a really good job of deviously transferring discretionary spending into mandatory. I've laid out a proposal to go back to pre pandemic spending levels, inflate them by inflation and, you know, population growth, exempt Social Security, Medicare and interest. (03:57–04:03)
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