Back to episode — Episode 2749 CWSA 02/13/25
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incredible. So Lee Zeldin did a video in which he's claiming that they've discovered a staggering 20 billion that the Biden regime, they call it, laundered to NGOs. So what it sounds like is there was a video, I think it was Project Veritas, had an undercover video in which the Democrats and the EPA were saying, oh yeah, we're throwing the gold bars off the Titanic. What they meant was we're tryin…
← Previous segment →might be what's happening this year and some might be a 10-year kind of number. So you have to be careful if it's a one-year or a 10-year number.
But is there a problem? How in the world is Trump going to get away with increasing our public debt by two trillion, which is what it would be? Now I get that I like tax cuts and I get that I like budget cuts, but if your tax cuts are tremendously bigger than your budget cuts, you're making the deficit worse by trillions.
Now depending on the time span we're looking at, it could be that the two trillion that's going to be added to the budget, you know, maybe it's spread over several years. And if you keep cutting the budget during those years, you know, you might get to a much better situation than it looks like in a direct line calculation. So yeah, I don't know if the tariffs are going to, I don't think the tariffs are going to make up the difference, but maybe. I don't know.
But let me tell you, as a numbers person, somebody who's, you know, my early career before any of this was the finance guy in two big corporations, not the finance guy but a finance guy, and I was always working with big projections and numbers and wh
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at's going to happen in 10 years, more like five years. But I don't see how this works. To me it's been looking for a while like the amount that Trump wants to add to the budget, because they want to add 300 billion a year for border security and national defense. No, I understand that, the border security especially. But you're going to add that expense and then you're going to cut taxes, and the…
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