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That's because even fully undoing those things wouldn't be sufficient to fix the deficit. When federal revenue is $5 trillion, entitlements cost $4 trillion, and interest on the existing debt is $1 trillion, you just fundamentally can't balance the budget without cutting entitlements. All of the revenue is already spoken for before funding anything in the rest of the government!
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