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f those you don't get much or any of the SALT benefits. So everything's too complicated for anybody to understand. We'll see if it gets passed. The most easy example of two movies on one screen is that the critics and at least some of these scoring organizations say that it will drive up the debt or the deficit by over $3 trillion over time. $3 trillion. But the Trump administration would say the…

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somebody that you don't know told you they did an analysis and they came up with a certain answer. Would you believe that? These are completely unknowable things at this point.

So I do think that if anyone except Trump had said to me, we're going to goose the economy so much that we'll make extra money. If anyone else had said that, I would not believe it for a second. Because I would just think they're going to do normal stuff and get normal results. But Trump, he does now have a solid track record of doing things that other people can't get done and achieving things that even if you were very pro-Trump, you might have said to yourself, "Well, he's never going to get that done." And then he does. So he might be able to goose the economy like we've never seen before. Certainly, he has all the tools to do that now. And some of it is luck, but it all seems lined up at this point that maybe we could see an economy like we've just never seen before. Could happen.

And then maybe this would be the Republican best case scenario. Maybe when the upcoming budget process is engaged, and that wouldn't be too many months from now. I think it happens in a few months that that's where they d

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o the big DOGE cuts. Maybe. I mean, I feel like anything where you have to get 60 votes in the Senate will never happen, but maybe. All right, see what else we have. Let's check in with what the Democrats are saying about the big beautiful bill. Pramila Jayapal, Representative Jayapal says, quote, "If they do succeed today," which means getting the big beautiful bill signed, "July 4th is going to…

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