Well, this is actually why I commend President Trump for creating Doge, and I commend Elon Musk for what he's doing. For the last three decades, we have not been able to balance the budget in Congress, and President Trump knew that, and he had to create Doge to basically, unfortunately do our job for us. And that's unfortunate. But now that we have set the precedent on what we can do to actually find and cut wasteful spending, the rubric is now there. (01:07–01:13)
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