levels set for fiscal year 2022, below the limit set during the negotiation between speaker mccarthy and president biden. you didn t sign that letter. why not? because i don t believe 2022 is enough. i just heard something today that s really disturbing. we will our entire discretionary budgets, all of the expenditures that we have that are not entitled to social security, medicare, medicaid, that entire amount, $1.82 trillion will be debt this year. that s just staggering. defense and nondefense spending will all be accounted for as debt. i think we have to reverse that. and i think we have to go beyond just 2022. remember, the numbers for federal spending went up significantly during covid. and now, we re saying, we re going to just keep those post-covid numbers. i think we ve got to reverse that and go before covid and start looking at those numbers where they re there. cuts even more. while i have you here, i want to ask you about the 2024 race, you
trillion. didn t that frighten you? if that does not frighten us, what about $13.7 trillion, where is that headed in 20 years when there would occur, to where we have 140 percent of the debt in relation to g.d.p. neil: if it is rejected on another news network or venue, i am happy you have not heard that so far, why do you think it would be? why do you think, an obvious slap would be, it is a slap at the white house, a slap at democrats. you are saying this is a bipartisan slap. explain. guest: looking at how the debt was when george w. bush came to office, it was $5.8 trillion. it became $10.82 trillion, and 72.5 percent and president obama took office $3.5 trillion