It's just you set up a law saying if you qualify, you get X number of dollars. So it's on automatic pilot. And there's no cap on that spend. No, none. You qualify, you get it. So whatever. Total discretionary spending is about 1.7 [trillion dollars]. but they've literally slid about a trillion dollars now ongoing of other mandatory, or what should be discretionary into what they call now other mandatory. A trillion dollars. (04:54–04:57)
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Asserts that total discretionary spending is approximately $1.7 trillion.
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