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The Michael Steele Podcast

A Moment Of Clarity: "The end game is Trump with a crown on his head!"

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Michael Steele appears on The Reid Out responding to Trump's endorsement of a budget that slashes Medicaid and gives big tax cuts to the wealthy.

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0:00.0

And now for a moment of clarity.

0:06.6

Michael, you were the head of the Republican Party.

0:08.8

Republican Party's always been for tax cuts.

0:10.1

That's not new.

0:12.3

But now what they're doing is, you know, there was always this lie that they were going to be paid for.

0:16.3

You know, they're going to be paid.

0:17.0

They're never paid for, right?

0:17.9

They always just blow a hole in the deficit.

0:19.4

But now they're literally like, we're cutting farmers money and Medicaid, and don't worry, we're going to send

0:26.9

you 5K, which they, when are they going to send them that? And if you've lost your farm, well,

0:31.7

that doesn't help. Your thoughts? No, I agree with that. None of it is geared towards the working middle class of this country and

0:40.6

certainly not the working poor. And so there's programs which Doge is going after in the guise of

0:48.0

efficiency is really more designed to create those lanes to justify spending on the back year all back in all this money

0:57.2

all of this money is being accumulated to to your lead in to pay for the tax cut that's the end game

1:05.7

so let's not be stupid people and understand exactly what the deal is here. This is not about government

1:12.4

efficiencies because there's nothing efficient about what Elon Musk is doing. Secondly,

1:19.3

the New York example of the pricing that the city put in place with the state's approval. This flies in the face of everything

1:30.9

that George Mason talked about. There were a lot of folks at the time concerned about an overreaching

1:36.9

federal government. So the party that said, hey, you know, the federal government has no place

1:41.9

in states' rights, that little 10th Amendment thing,

1:45.1

right, where the states get to call the shots for themselves and their local governments.

1:49.3

Even that's now blown out of the water. That cover has been exposed. So now we have a full of

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