But we had responsible leadership back then realized we couldn't maintain spending at wartime levels. So they went down back to lower than Pre war levels, 11.4%. That didn't happen during the pandemic. We started out in 2019 spending $4.4 trillion. Massive unit party deficit spending in 2020 $6.5 trillion. Now we're spending 7. We never looked back. We went from average deficits about $800 billion prior to Covid to now pretty well in grain 1.9. (07:56–08:01)
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