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We are in a fiscal crisis and we're not willing to admit it. If you're an American, you should feel shame that
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your elected officials are proposing that we vaporize this much money, that we put ourselves this much further in
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debt. We are now burning an additional $2.5 trillion a year, adding to our debt load. And I've said this from day one
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that Doge can only do so much. And at the end of the day, Congress needs to take action. And this bill from Congress
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doesn't take much action. I will tell you that if you look across the board, all of these programs are still being
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proposed to be run at a cost that is well in excess of their precoid levels. And so I would set two guiding
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principles if I was the benevolent dictator of the United States of America. My guiding principle number one
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would be that any program that we intend to continue to persist have its budget level cut to pre-COVID 2019 levels. The
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second would be that we add no new programs in the moment. There's a whole bunch of new thrown into this bill.
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I'm a big believer in cutting taxes, but at the end of the day, you can't just say, "Hey, let's cut taxes and spend
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more than we're making."