We're aggressively pursuing that. We're trying to get defense spending up as rapidly as we possibly can. We went up to, I don't know, was it 980something billion last year? The plan is this year to go up to 1.1 trillion in the budget and then another 350 billion in reconciliation for a total of $1.5 trillion in defense spending. The goal is to get to 5% of our GDP, you know, in defense spending. Right. Which is what we ask most other countries, NATO countries and other countries to do as well. (50:36–50:49)
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