From a standpoint, the constitutional amendment I want to see is more like the Mike Pence amendment where we limit spending, the size of the federal government to 20% or under of GDP. The problem I have with the balanced budget amendment is there's two ways to balance a budget, and I want to totally eliminate one, raising taxes, because that will just harm our economy. So I think we need to focus on limiting the size of government by limiting spending. And that's. This is certainly the moment when the debt ceiling vote comes up where we need to get. (03:56–04:05)
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