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The 2023 federal budget, in 23 minutes

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The Budget and the Bottom Line

There is a lot of spending in this budget bill. How is the government saying it's it's gonna pay for for all the new money that that it's allocating here in this budget? Yeah, I think any kind of budget you want to be talking about the bottom line has deteriorated You're looking ahead at the fiscal year that starts April 1 Just a few months ago that was supposed to be a $30 billion deficit roughly now. It's closer to 40 billion hmm,. The fall update was saying the books would be balanced in five years and now they're not gonna happen We're gonna have it still have about a $14 billion deficit by then so can you just explain that a

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