And could I just say to this group, could you imagine if we were still negotiating a budget deal in the midst of this chaos the Democrats have created? The other thing that has gone unnoticed with all the headlines is We actually had a smaller budget deficit last year. Not by much, but it went down. And the way the math works, the deficit to gdp, which is the important number, now has a five in front of it. (17:13–17:17)
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