Friedberg's two rules to save America from a debt crisis 🇺🇸 💰

We are in a fiscal crisis and we're not willing to admit it. If you're an American, you should feel shame that your elected officials are proposing that we vaporize this much money, that we put ourselves this much further in 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 that Doge can only do so much. And at the end of the day, Congress needs to take action. And this bill from Congress doesn't take much action. I will tell you that if you look across the board, all of these programs are still being proposed to be run at a cost that is well in excess of their precoid levels. And so I would set two guiding

principles if I was the benevolent dictator of the United States of America. My guiding principle number one would be that any program that we intend to continue to persist have its budget level cut to pre-COVID 2019 levels. The second would be that we add no new programs in the moment. There's a whole bunch of new thrown into this bill. 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 more than we're making."