The government is 40% bigger than it was pre-COVID.

Let's go back to pre-COVID levels of spending.

That's what we ask for.

We're not.

No, doesn't do that.

So that's the guy that runs the committee that the debt ceiling bill has got to get out

of today.

So they meet at noon eastern.

I think something like that.

Nine west coast time and the rules committee used to just be a rubber stamp for the leadership,

but the conservative conservatives, the real conservatives, they're called the right-wing

fringe or whatever, by the media.

Oh, true mega.

They got an agreement from Kevin McCarthy.

This is one of the agreements that nobody was talking about or that were a quote unquote

secret at the time that no bill would pass out of the rules committee unless it got

unanimous Republican support giving power to the real conservatives in my opinion.

That's why some people were arguing that that whole multi vote looked like a fiasco thing

where Kevin McCarthy got elected.

Speaker was actually a step in the right direction.

All of a sudden committees mattered again.

A whole bunch of people got put on committees that don't agree with the party always and

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