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Plus, I personally voted for President Trump because I wanted him to defeat the deep state. You don't defeat the deep state by continuing to fund it at Biden's levels. Yeah, I know. We have just gone through an unprecedented level of increased spending other than World War II. And just quick aside on that, we entered World War II spending 11.7% of our economy of a GDP on federal government. 11.7. That got ramped up to 41% during the war. (38:04–38:12)

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Asserts that recent spending increases are unprecedented except for during World War II.

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