the gentleman's point, and the point of the gentleman before him, was that even in this budget with big deficits, $400 billion and more every year for the next 5 years, $2.1 trillion in the general fund, additional deficits, additional debt; even with those bottom lines, we have these significant cuts already made in this budget, and we are still running almost a half a trillion dollars in the red every year.
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