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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5804223" data-attributes="member: 24302">"Across the board" means military too, not just social programs.  The Freedom Caucus was against Donald Trump's huge increases in military spending.  At what point do you believe the national debt, including servicing that debt, is too much?  Our spending now includes supporting millions of people let in unvetted in the last three years.  It also includes giving large sums of money to constituencies who give a portion of it back in campaign contributions and votes.  In other words plenty can be done to reduce the amount of spending but we have politicians unwilling to because the money they need to get reelected would dry up.  You always put it in terms of "but the poor" but it's about a lot more than that.  At what point is the national debt too much?</blockquote>