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We have such a great show for you today.

The great new republic editor-in-chief Mike Tamasky stops by to talk about what a perilous

position we find ourselves in.

Then we will talk to former Trump administration official Miles Taylor about what is making Trump tick during this second term and his takeover of the District of Columbia.

But first, the news.

Somali, something that I have observed and I always like when data backs up to the things that I pretty much assumed to be

true no matter what because it makes me feel real smart, which is that spending is climbing among

the rich as everyone else's debt is rising and their spending is lowering.

It's important to remember that the CBO said of the BBB that it would hurt the people in the lowest, 20%, the most. It would help the people

in the highest 10% the most. So you make sense, right? The people who have the least are going to

be hurt the most by this. And reduction in hospitals, we're going to see Medicare insurance premiums are

going to go up. Plus, we have these tariffs. You know, the Yale Budget Lab estimates that the tariffs

will be $2,400 a year extra for American families. That is inflationary. It just seems very clear. Now, the good

news is Donald Trump has fired all of the statisticians. So even though people are not spending

money and the rich people are spending in a way that does not actually support the rest of us, the good news is

we won't know because all of the statisticians will be either fired or attacked by Donald Trump.

I'm thinking about the Goldman Sachs analysis that talked about how tariffs are actually being

paid for by the consumers and not the companies and who Donald Trump then

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