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Byron Donalds: “You got to cut 1.5 trillion.”

Featuring: Byron Donalds, Republican | U.S. House, Florida, District 19

Rep. Byron Donalds Shares Triumphant Journey of Rising Against the Odds

Published May 8, 2025 | Video Starts at 35:05

What are you going to meet halfway? I mean, how does that work? Look, I've been very clear with the Senate and really with House leadership and with the White House, You got to cut 1.5 trillion. There are members of the Senate that want to cut 2.5 trillion. There's members of the House that want to cut 2.5 trillion. (35:05–35:08)

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Asserts that there is a need to cut $1.5 trillion in spending.

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“We've never raised 5 trillion in taxes in America. We did last year.”
Rep. Byron Donalds Shares Triumphant Journey of Rising Against the Odds | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 35:33-35:40
“Social Security and Medicare, they both go insolvent in about eight years.”
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“If they go insolvent, there'll be a 22% benefit cut across the board for every senior in the United States.”
Rep. Byron Donalds Shares Triumphant Journey of Rising Against the Odds | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 40:23-40:33
“We're 36 trillion in debt. We're running $2 trillion annual deficits.”
Rep. Byron Donalds Shares Triumphant Journey of Rising Against the Odds | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 43:04-43:09
“In Florida we now have universal parental scholarships.”
Rep. Byron Donalds Shares Triumphant Journey of Rising Against the Odds | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 03:31-03:36
“Texas just passed [universal parental scholarships].”
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“Other states are looking at [universal parental scholarships].”
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“[Universal parental scholarships are] the civil rights issue of our time.”
Rep. Byron Donalds Shares Triumphant Journey of Rising Against the Odds | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 03:40-03:42
“During the financial collapse, my company asked me to do research.”
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“Tea Party rallies started all over the country.”
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“I went to [a Tea Party rally] in 2009.”
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“I found myself just consuming anything about politics and political Philosophy.”
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“I was a toastmaster also.”
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“I gave a speech in the Advance Club I was a part of.”
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“I think a lot of the people who are now, I guess, in the MAGA movement, they were in the Tea Party movement more than a decade ago.”
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“They believe in the Constitution, they believe in the rule of law.”
Rep. Byron Donalds Shares Triumphant Journey of Rising Against the Odds | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 13:38-13:41
“What the MAGA movement has done, it married conservatism, which is whether fiscal or social, with populism.”
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“Black people in Chicago are vehement supporters of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement because of illegal immigration.”
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“White liberals' politics are based on the fact that only their solutions will bring salvation or economic parity to the black community.”
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“If you have black people espouse free markets, Austrian school economics, merit, that flies in the face of the white liberal agenda of…”
Rep. Byron Donalds Shares Triumphant Journey of Rising Against the Odds | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 20:54-21:15
“I think their [Democratic Party's] politics and their party has decided that they know more and have more wisdom than common sense.”
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“Democrat philosophy says, well if you don't have something then we're going to grab it from somebody else to give it to you.”
Rep. Byron Donalds Shares Triumphant Journey of Rising Against the Odds | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 25:54-26:01
“The Bible's clear, if you want to eat, you have to put your hand to the plow.”
Rep. Byron Donalds Shares Triumphant Journey of Rising Against the Odds | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 26:03-26:08
“I think the issue for Democrats is their political views just differ in my view very greatly from what the Bible says.”
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“These trade deals that we've been signing for decades in America, number one, one, they were terrible.”
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“We didn't even enforce [the trade deals]. So other countries were taking advantage of our businesses because we didn't enforce them.”
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“Inflation is going down, gas prices are down, egg prices down, job growth slightly up.”
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“It's already significantly better than it was with the previous administration, because that economy was a disaster.”
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“The number one way you do it is you have to get Democrat senators to play ball.”
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“I have colleagues who want to do two trillion [in budget cuts].”
Rep. Byron Donalds Shares Triumphant Journey of Rising Against the Odds | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 35:07-35:10
“There are members of the Senate that want to cut 2.5 trillion.”
Rep. Byron Donalds Shares Triumphant Journey of Rising Against the Odds | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 35:07-35:10
“We just spent $7 trillion.”
Rep. Byron Donalds Shares Triumphant Journey of Rising Against the Odds | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 35:27-35:30
“As a country that raises 5 trillion in taxes.”
Rep. Byron Donalds Shares Triumphant Journey of Rising Against the Odds | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 35:29-35:33
“Washington is going to have to do further things in the future to get the fiscal house in order for the nation.”
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“If we don't do it, our borrowing rates are going to go up.”
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“Social Security can't even be touched in budget reconciliation.”
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“Medicaid, a bunch of waste is in that program.”
Rep. Byron Donalds Shares Triumphant Journey of Rising Against the Odds | Uploaded May 8, 2025 | 40:44-40:48
“Every dollar we borrow costs US more money in the first future.”
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“Florida is now the preeminent Republican state in the country.”
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“I have the support of President Trump. I have the support of Senator Scott.”
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