And regrettably, I was one of the big holdouts on the reconciliation bill because I was imploring, I was begging the administration, my colleagues, you guys, we have to return to a reasonable pre pandemic level spending. This is absurd. We went from $4.4 trillion to over $7 trillion [in spending]. We have to return to a reasonable baseline. But doing those types of spending reductions, that kind of constraint, it's not politically popular. (12:42–12:46)
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