Because I think I have enough colleagues in the Senate that this has resonated with that are saying, yeah, we've got to return to a reasonable pre pandemic level spending. But I always add this plus a process to achieve it and maintain it. We've never had a process in America to control federal government spending. We don't have a balanced budget requirement. The Budget act didn't do it, by the way. I didn't realize this. The appropriation committees were initially set up to control spending. (03:28–03:33)
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