Increase them by a reasonable control, population growth, inflation, you'd end up with total expenditures of 5.5 to $6.5 trillion. We're spending $7 trillion this year, probably north of that. We went from 4.4 trillion in 2019 prior to the pandemic, up to 7 trillion. That's about a 58% increase where our population is growing less than 3%. Again, I know we've had by inflation, but even at that high level, you still end up with a baseline budget of somewhere between 5.5 to 6.5 trillion. (01:38–01:44)
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