We want to share a good friend's podcast with you this week.

Enjoy the truth with Lisa Booth in the Clay and Bach podcast network.

When Ronald Reagan was running against Jimmy Carter in 1980, he asked that famous question.

You better off than you were four years ago. I think for most Americans, the Americans listening

to the podcast, that answer is no. We're going to talk to EJ and Tony. He recently testified

before a House subcommittee on the impacts of Bidenomics. He's a public finance economist,

the Heritage Foundation, and a senior fellow at Committee Twin Leish Prosperity.

We're going to have him break down Bidenomics for us. How has Joe Biden's time in office impacted

you, impacted the economy and impacted the country? Stay tuned for that conversation with EJ and Tony.

Well, EJ, thanks so much for coming back on the show. I guess it wasn't too bad the first time.

So I appreciate you taking the time. No, my pleasure, Lisa. Thank you for having me.

So we've got this fight on Capitol Hill right now over funding. What this, you know,

continuing resolution could potentially look like. How do you think this is all going to go down

and what do you think the resolution will look like? Well, it definitely looks like we're

going to have a shutdown at least for a little bit. I just don't see how Congress is going to be

able to reconcile all of their many differences at this point, with only a couple of days left

before the deadline. In terms of what this eventually looks like, I think the only compromise

that they're going to be able to really hammer out will be a slight reduction in spending,

which is a disappointment because we need serious reductions in spending to get us on any kind

of sustainable fiscal trajectory. But what the end product is probably going to end up looking

like a cross between the most recent fiscal year and the previous one. So again, that just looks

like a small reduction in spending. Do you think that this will result in a shutdown for at least

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