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Thousands of pages of a massive $1.5 trillion bill to avert a government shut down on friday. it still is very important, bret. because it includes $1.6 billion in aid for ukraine. that's humanitarian and defense dollars with rare bipartisan support. the bill also will expand the u.s. defense budget here at home to $782 billion. that's a big jump, a $42 billion jump over fiscal year 2021. now, house democrats tried to move on a vote on this bill this morning but it was stalled by progressives. they are upset over the covid funding portion of this package. you will remember, bret, congress has ...

To have a new gusher of spending, a new gusher of taxes and a new gusher of borrowing. >> a gusher of borrowing, which is what i just showed you he did. and that's not all. there are some ryan defenders who argue, well, part of that was compromising on policy in the obama era, and that's an argument but, again, let's just do the numbers. the clearest exposure of the ryan hypocrisy actually came just now in the last year because you had united republican government and ryan got one major bill passed into law in the trump era, this $1.5 trillion tax cut, which is growing the deficit. so look at ...

Of the administration -- >> i want to hold you on the deficit because that's what he ran on. that's what paul ryan and other republicans -- take a look. let's show the economic fact. barack obama leaves with a $587 billion deficit that was decreasing. donald trump and the republicans come in, it jumped to $782 billion. now they've lost control of the congress. is it wrong to run on something and then do the opposite? >> look, if that's the case, no politician would ever run for office. we see this from political party to political party, regardless. they say one thing, they get into washington...

Already donald trump exploding it, exploding it to $782 billion. do voters in the places that you're talking to, do they know that? does that matter? does the deficit and tax bill hurt or help donald trump and the republicans tuesday? >> he's learned that the more often he tells the lie, the more believable it becomes. and i think that -- no, i don't think most people understand that. not much time is spent on television talking economics. it's boring television. so i think, yes, i think there is a lack of understanding of this. but as president obama said yesterday, his last 21 months, there ...

With all the growth plan. already donald trump exploding it to $782 billion. do voters in the places thaw are ta talking to, do they know that matters and does the deficit hurt or help donald trump and the republicans tuesday? >> he's learned that the more often he tells the lie, the more believable it becomes. i think -- i don't think most people understand that. not much time is spent on television talking economics. it's boring television. i think there is a lack of understanding of this, but as president obama said yesterday, his last 21 months there was much more job growth than in the 20...