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The MAGA Republicans are pushing forward what may be the most devastating budget in the history of the United States of America. We're talking about $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid. We're talking about adding $19 trillion to the deficit over the course of 10 years. We're talking about gutting infrastructure. We're talking about gutting important resources to farmers. What are they doing, though?
I mean, they are just outrageously glazing Elon Musk and Doge in like the weirdest way possible. I mean, you got this MAGA Republican Senator Roger Marshall out there saying, go, Elon, go, go here. Watch whatever the hell this is.
If I was Elon, I'm asking him to double down, not go slower, double down, and we're going to correct the pieces as we go along as well. Think about what Elon did with Twitter. He fired 80% of the people when he took over Twitter. He changed the name of it, and now today it's worth twice as much as it was before.
Yeah, it's not worth twice as much. It's, I think, worth a fraction of it. He ran it into the ground, essentially. Then you've got MAGA Republican Congress member Andy Barr on the Medicaid cuts. They're like, yeah, we need these Medicaid cuts. People are lazy, you know, lazy people. You don't deserve your Medicaid. This is what the MAGA Republicans are going with. Play this clip.
Coming up with the offsets. So when you look at mandatory spending, and this is a point that I've been making recently, is some of this quote unquote mandatory spending not mandatory at all?
No, look, I mean, Medicaid is a big mandatory spending program. But what we need in this country is for the American people to get back to work. Work capable adults need to get off of the taxpayer roles and they need to get into private health insurance in private employment. This is what Secretary Besson and President Trump are talking about when they say reprivatize the economy.
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