When I tried e-harmony a million years ago, it told me that I was part of the small share of the population who cannot be matched with a new one.

I just want to know what I said that he began playing with his wedding ring.

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network. I'm Matthew Glacias. Today, we have a jam packed up. So we've got Sarah Cliff here. We've got Ezra Klein here, but also V. Rammout, Dylan Matthews.

We're going to talk about his. That was an unexcited. I know I'm excited.

He's got a blockbuster scoop about Social Security disability insurance claiming that actually it's good.

And also we have a new Trump budget. Dylan is not only a disability maven, but probably like the most informed budget guy we've got.

So it was a more budget guy anywhere anywhere. The only budget expert.

And we have an amazing we have honestly my favorite research paper. We've maybe even had on the weeds. This paper on Danish gender wage gaps has changed my view.

Danish administrative data man. It's really good. But we're going to talk about gender wage gaps. This is a really, really, really interesting new research about where it comes from.

I'm excited. I'm pumped. You should be pumped to. But why don't we start on the budget? And I think to go through this, we're going to go around and just sort of we're each can go through like what stood out to us in the budget.

And Dylan, as the single human being alive, who knows the most about budgets, going to start with you.

I have to apologize to some people at the center on budgets. We're sorry, but we didn't.

I think the most. So a lot of this was continuous was last year that there was a lot of promises to repeal and replace Obamacare as a part of that really drastic cuts to Medicaid.

They introduced some cuts to Medicare this year. I think the most consequential and least covered part of this is that there are about 40% cuts to both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

And the National Institutes of Health. And these are programs that have wide bipartisan support, the idea of the government doing basic research into health sciences to try to discover diseases and trying to monitor diseases.

So we don't have huge pandemics that kill millions of people seem like areas of democratic and Republican agreement.

But the issue is that they're trying to squeeze out a balanced budget while doing remarkably little on social security, doing remarkably little on Medicare and substantially increasing the defense budget.

And that just doesn't leave a lot of spending left over for everything else in the federal government.

And so even programs like scientific research on the non-defense discretionary side wind up getting squeezed.

So you're trying to squeeze out a balanced budget. But you had a good thing to be digging into the tables of this where as far as I can tell virtually everything the budget does to get down towards balance is coming from insane economic growth projections.

And if you just use normal ones, it goes away. Is that accurate?

Yeah, so at the very least it dramatically reduces how much deficit reduction they produce.

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