Well, one of the devious things the unit party has done is they've transferred discretionary spending into the mandatory accounts. So we've increased other mandatory, not Social Security, Medicare or even Medicaid. We've increased from 642 billion to 1.3 trillion since 2019. One thing, this is three omnibuses ago. I asked my Senate colleagues, Republican colleagues say, hey, anybody know how much in total the federal government spent last year? (11:00–11:07)
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