I was not going to forget to crack open two episodes in a row, Nick. That's really two? Wow. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of the McCrae podcast. I'm J.J. It's next time. I'm here with Nick. Nick, how's your weekend looking? My weekend is looking like not much, so that's always good, I guess, right?

I don't know.

I mean, sure.

I'll take it with the way things are going.

I'll take a weekend with nothing going on.

Yeah, hunker down, just relax me.

The weather has been absolutely amazing in L.A. We'll now get a little bit colder, so we'll have to deal with that.

But I want to mention the number because people, I'm sure, are very cold right now. It's getting warmer. Out in what I like to call real America. It's getting a little bit warmer. But we do hope you all are going to have a good weekend. And unfortunately, we're going to start it off with some nasty shit. Yeah, but just to understand that where I live will be real America pretty soon.

And the rest of you guys will have to come over here.

Wow.

I just want the listeners to go ahead and note that down that Nick is taunting us with entry or non-entry into the Republic of California.

Yeah.

I mean, listen, we're wide open. You can come, but you might have to, that's where you have to be if you want to have a democratic society. We'll see. I mean, listen, I'll do a juice cleanse every now and then. All right. I'm fine with it or a sugar fast or whatever it is that you all get into. Right now. I haven't had sugar in a week, man, feeling great. You look it. You look like a man who hasn't had sugar in a week. All right, everybody. A reminder, go over to patreon.com slash my Greg podcast. Gain full access to this episode. There's not a single miss episode at this point. Every episode is jam-packed. There's so much that we have to keep track of. On top of that, like we are watching stories that we've been covering for a while, develop. If you've been listening to this show, you know that unfortunately what we've been telling you has been coming true. We need your support. We need your help. Stay editorially independent and keep growing.

Patreon.com slash my Craig podcast. All right, Nick, so we got a whole lot of nasty shit to go over.

Let's begin on Tuesday. The House GOP passed their budget. We knew this thing was going to be bad.

It's real bad. It was passed along partisan lines. 217 to 215. It has pushed to extend the Trump 27 tax cuts.

A reminder to everybody that not a single cent of this trickled down from the wealthiest view and hurt our economy.

It would add new cuts. It looks like it wants to slash $2 trillion with all eyes on Medicaid and Medicare.

It would raise the debt ceiling by $4 trillion.

And Nick, let me check my figures here.

That can't be right.

The fiscally conservative party wants to add over $3 trillion to the federal deficit.

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