… first of the year that we need to return to a reasonable pre pandemic level spending. And I laid out the options. I think this was an extraordinary event, pandemic. We went from $4.4 trillion in spending to $7 trillion this year. That's a 58% increase. There's no justification for that. So we have to return to a reasonable pre pandemic level. (01:20–01:26)
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