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Half a trillion over half a decade is 100 billion per year.

I make no claim to the accuracy of the original statistic, but if that is the case and the federal budget is 3.7 trillion [0] that is 2.7 percent of the budget.

0: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51110



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