Tucker Carlson: “That's when the country became obviously unaffordable.”

“On average $1.9 trillion of deficit spending over the next four years. We never went came down off of that $6.5 trillion a little bit, 6.2, 6.3, but then started going back up again. That's when the country became obviously unaffordable. I think unless I misrepresented or your, your meal deal at McDonald's all of a sudden jumped from five to ten bucks. When did that happen? And that's really the moment.” (26:36–26:41)

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