I am a fiscal hawk. Many of my Republican colleagues in the House feel the same way.

But it did not, we didn't get in this situation overnight, Kristen.

It took us decades, many decades of Congress's, frankly, mismanagement of the public fisc to get in this situation.

And the last four years of the Biden administration increased spending dramatically.

So it's going to take us a while to get out of it.

You know, he says you can look at the Bible and figure out what type of speaker he is.

Maybe.

I just want to give the speaker the benefit out here.

Maybe he just doesn't know history.

And in fact, maybe he doesn't even know

current events. Because if he did, you would know that actually 20 years ago or so, a Congress

balanced a budget four years in a row. And over the past eight years, the Trump administration,

the first time passed the largest deficits, the biggest

debt, the biggest budgets in history up to that point, Donald Trump's administration and

the Republicans in the House of Representatives. And maybe, I don't know, maybe Mike Johnson

wasn't paying attention

back then, but they increased the national debt more in four years than every other Congress

and every other president had in the history of the country cumulatively. And now, and I'm sorry

to start the show this way, I just have to.

When somebody says something that is so misleading, excuse me here, so misleading,

when somebody says something that's so misleading, you just, it's very, very important

that people know that this budget

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