Tucker Carlson: “Federal government spending almost twice what it was just…”

“You know, $1.5 trillion compared to $89 trillion spending over the next 10 years. It's barely a rounding error. You know, we haven't been talking about the massive annual deficits. We don't talk about the debt. Federal government spending almost twice what it was just the other day. Where's all that money going? How did that happen? What is that? Well, again, it was really sparked by the pandemic. Yeah, I'll give the Tea Party movement a fair amount of credit.” (23:44–23:48)

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