Hello everybody and thank you for tuning into the Liberty Report.

With us today we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host.

Daniel, good to see this morning.

Happy Monday, Dr. Paul. How are you?

Doing well.

Good, good.

I want to talk a little bit about the wonderful savings and count out the savings we've had since we had the government closed down.

Yeah. Now they'll go back to spending money.

Boy, was I fooled.

Oh, I can't imagine them spending.

I wonder how it compared to a regular week.

Who knows?

The total amount will go up for all the things there to do it.

But what I'm referring to, of course, is the U.S. debt rose

by $620 billion during the government shutdown. Wow. It's such a farce, this whole thing

of a shutdown. But people live through it, and yet there's still a lot of ramification

where they still have to deal with all the finances. We want to mention, you know, how much money

we've saved on tariffs and how they're going to handle that. But $620 billion is a fair amount of money that they spent when the government

theoretically was closed down.

It was all done in the name of, you know, austerity.

You know, they were doing this to really shrink the size of government, just like,

you know, the opening with the new administration. They had all these plans, but so far we haven't

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