thing and just thought, okay, you know, I'll take some of the offers, but I won't do this one. You know, I'm not going to be in a room alone with somebody underage, for example. So I expect nothing. So my prediction is nothing. We'll see.

Meanwhile, Rubio cut over $60 billion in waste from the State Department and USAID, according to the Daily Wire. But the first question you have to ask is, is this new, or is this just because he absorbed USAID and those cuts really are coming mostly from USAID? I think that's probably true. So this looks like it overlaps what we already knew, but now we're calling it the State Department instead of USAID. And they didn't cut 100% of USAID. There's a few things he thought were critical to keep.

But here's why I don't do a lot of reporting on the dollar amounts. I don't trust the news to make sure that they're counting everything once and that they're counting it correctly. Didn't Trump say yesterday that he's looking for a balanced budget by maybe next year? Now that's what I wanted to hear. That's what I wanted to hear. I think the hardest budget to balance would be your first one, because you know, you don't have that much time. You just got into office. You're looking for waste, but they're still arguing over it and there's still court cases. And just because you've identified it doesn't mean it's really going to stay cut. So it doesn't surprise me if you're going to need one year of, damn it, we're going to run up the debt a little bit more, but we didn't have enough runway. Like we didn't have enough preparation because we just got into office.

So knowing that his own target—Trump's—is to look for a balanced budget by the next budget, one year from now, that would be acceptable. In fact, I would consider that amazing. You know, if you could get it done by the second year, nobody's going to look at the first year and say the first year was a failure. Like history will look at that and say you got that done by the second year. That'll be incredible. I would be so impressed if they balance the budget by the second year. And just knowing that that's how they're looking at it changes everything for me. Because you know how much I was bitching about, you know, how could you possibly insult us by talking non-stop about cutting costs and then giving us a budget that doesn't do that? How could you insult us that much? But all I needed to hear was that we're targeting next year to hit that target. Now that mig