CNNW CNN June 19, 2024
about 600 billion all the way on the left side of that chart that is nothing to sneeze at. >> but that looks downright tiny compared to right now, we'd killed for a number like that, you'd have the deficit hawks dancing in the streets. >> so what happened? well, covid right. >> the deficits spike to run $3 trillion a year during covid, we had bailouts and stimulus checks and small business loans. all of that was deemed necessary, but it was offensive. what's concerning here though, is of course covid is over deficits are still very high. they're actually going even higher and it's un...