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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 bigge…

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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 amount that DOGE can cut out won't be anywhere near the amount that we lost in tax revenue. So it's not like this is going to goose the economy enough.

So let me just say it directly. As far as I can tell, the House GOP is not on the same page with DOGE. I don't think they're on the same page. I think Elon Musk needs to tell us if this budget goes through and if DOGE does an amazing job and gets rid of one or two trillion dollars in expenses, do we fix our problem or do we just make it worse by voting in a bunch of expensive things?

I don't feel like we have a plan. It looks to me like there's two separate tracks, and one destroys the other one. So DOGE is a great track if nothing else changed. But if you add wildly cut taxes and add expenses at the same time as DOGE, and the things you're cutting and adding far exceed the amount of budget reductions, somebody needs to explain to us from the Trump administration how

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this works. Because I'm getting a little mad about it. I mean, maybe the public doesn't follow these things closely enough to know that this can't work. They're basically presenting us a doom scenario in which we all die for sure. Can you give me any hope? Because this budget just tells me we're going to let you all die. That's the budget. The budget is you're all dead. Because the whole reason t…

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