Do you want to know what Rand Paul's son's handle is on Twitter?

At Tasty Brew 1776.

I'm sorry.

I'm thinking of my drinking problem.

At Tasty Brew.

I love the Constitution.

And I love beer.

Hello, everyone. This is JVL here with my best friends, Sarah

Longwell and Tim Miller of the bulwark in Meetspace together with a bonus. Are you okay?

That's right. No, it's high energy, Tim. Got to bring the energy up for the live shows.

All right. We're giving you a bonus because the live shows in California are coming. If you are in Southern California in San Diego or Los Angeles, go to the bulwark.com slash events. Get your tickets. We might have a new surprise coming for L.A. L.A. is like a panoply of stars happening in LA. RuPaul?

Podcast stars.

We'll see.

Wait, I don't even know what you're talking about. Well, maybe it's a surprise for you too. Okay, great. I love surprises. Good ones. Okay, so here's the thing. We're only, it's a short episode. We're only talking about two things. One hour, 12 minutes. The first thing we're going to talk about is Donald Trump attempting to extort the federal government for $10 billion.

But that's not the good subject. You have to wait. You have to. It's all cotton candy. So you got to wait because part two is going to be amazing. News from the New York Times. Billion? It's 10 billy. Buh bu, bu. Really? I thought it was million. Now, hold on. No, let me read this to you. What? Okay. The Justice Department is holding internal discussions about settling President Trump's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in the coming days, according to three people familiar with deliberations. A move that could involve the government directly providing taxpayer funds or another public benefit to the president.

Trump, along with two of his sons and the family business, sued the IRS for at least $10 billion over the leak of their tax returns during the president's first term.

Yes.

They're arguing the IRS should have done more to prevent the former contractor from disclosing tax information to the New York Times and ProPublica. There is no way he's going to take $10 billion. I was mad when it was $10 million. It's a big difference between $10 million and $10 billion. The reason that this story I think matters a great deal is I want to do some math with you. Math is not my strong suit. It's not my favorite when we do it. But these are big round numbers. So I think we can. Thousand X. $10 billion plus a billion for the ballroom. What do we think the arch is going to cost? Oh, I'm sure that's going to be paid for by private monies only. Well, they say that and then it becomes public money. Okay,

you've got the arch. Then you've got all the crypto money he's taken for, and all the money

is taken in for the pardons. Like the amount of money that Donald Trump has absorbed. I know we're all

talking about corruption, just sort of, yes, we all know how corrupt this administration is. The amount

of money, if you added it all up, like it's going to A, be more than anything they did with Doge. Oh my God, not even close. Right? And then also, like, do you know how much you could pay for with the money that Trump is directly trying to put in his pocket? You could buy one Trump battleship. That's true.

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