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