Let's talk about Trump's Golden Dome dollars and a question....
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🗓️ 28 May 2025
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Let's talk about Trump's Golden Dome dollars and a question....
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| 0:00.0 | Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again. |
| 0:04.9 | So today, we're going to talk about Trump's Golden Dome dollars and questions. |
| 0:11.5 | Trump is really pushing his Golden Dome project right now, and I got a really great question |
| 0:17.5 | that honestly makes me really happy. |
| 0:20.5 | But we'll sift through the claims about how much |
| 0:23.2 | this thing will cost. Quote, Hey, Bell, I'm a Republican and I've been watching the channel for years, |
| 0:30.8 | mainly because I don't like being embarrassed by repeating a Republican slogan, and then finding out |
| 0:37.1 | they lied. All politicians lie, but I don't |
| 0:40.7 | like helping them. My question is about the Golden Dome. Everybody is talking about the Golden Dome's |
| 0:47.7 | cost and how Trump is lying. I learned from you that when it comes to government spending, |
| 0:53.1 | you can find the information from the Congressional Budget Office, and that it isn't like committees that spend things. |
| 1:01.1 | So, I went to looking and found this estimate. |
| 1:05.0 | Trump said $175 billion. |
| 1:07.8 | The estimate says the low-end estimate is $161 billion to $264 billion. The estimate says the low-end estimate is 161 billion to 264 billion. So is this a case of him |
| 1:17.4 | not really lying, but just being really optimistic? His number is actually within the range, |
| 1:24.0 | but I've seen people I trust say it's going to be more than a trillion and that he's lying. |
| 1:29.9 | Even the high-end estimate isn't a trillion. Can you sift through this for me? I can't be the only |
| 1:36.1 | one confused by this. I got you. Okay, so the CBO's estimates are for the low end, 161 to 264 billion. The high end is 542 to |
| 1:50.6 | $831 billion. The massive difference is based off different component estimates varying from different |
| 1:57.9 | companies. Okay, the thing about the CBO is that they do not waste words. |
| 2:04.0 | Every single word is important in their summaries, especially when they're describing exactly |
| 2:09.3 | what they're estimating. Go back to the car dealership analogy. An estimate for a luxury |
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