Now, again, when the pandemic wound down, you would think we returned to some reasonable baseline spending. Although we didn't do that for the next five years. We $6.5 trillion. Last year we spent 6.9. The Wall Street Journal just reported the first four months we spent $2.43 trillion. Multiplied times three, that's $7.3 trillion. 63%, 61% head above $4.4 trillion. Our population grew at 2.6. This is completely unjustified. No family, no business would do this. (01:36–01:42)
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Asserts that the U.S. federal government spent $2.43 trillion in the first four months of the current fiscal year, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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