I'm Tom Billu and I'm president for a day and let me tell you right now I'm running on one thing.

We are going to balance the budget and we're going to get this economy humming.

Full stop, period. End of story.

All right. The floor is yours. A rare quiet month. No crises competing for attention.

What is your policy statement, executive action?

So we are focused on balancing the budget via cutting. Like we're going to balance the budget right now today. So we're going to make hard choices about what has to go and what's going to stay. Then after that, the focus is on growing the economy. Those are going to be pillars one and two. All right. Let's submit this policy and see what happens. There's a threat assessment. Oh, I like this.

The president has made the following policy announcement.

We are focused on balancing the budget via cutting. We are going to make hard choices, but what needs to go? What is going to stay? After that, I will shift my focus to growing the economy. Treasury costs is low. Estimated expenditures, potential savings of $500 to a trillion dollars annually in spending. That's better than Doge was able to get to.

Key risk is political backlash from

affected constituencies and interest groups, potentially stalling cuts in the divided Congress.

Some of the headlines, Bill U taxes acts to waste, Bill U outlines plan to balance budget via

spending cuts, Bill U's austerity push, threatens vital social programs. Yes, aggressively. That is 100% true.

So so far so good. Everybody's green. Everybody still likes you. You didn't break anything.

Some of the focus group responses, Texas Tom says from where I sit, finally a present talking

sense about cutting the fat out of the bloated Washington budget. Iowa Martha, my view was on this.

Finally a present taking sense, talking sense about balancing the budget. Everybody loves it. Even Miami-Maria. Let me see if we get any dissent. I was going to say, I have a feeling. We're going to have some people. College Chloe. Yes, college Chloe is going to hate me. My reaction is ugh. This is such a cop-out, cutting budgets when we need massive investment in climate action, student debt relief in health care. Here we go. All right. Gospel Gloria, gospel is crazy. Here's how I see it. This Republican talk of balancing the budget by cutting programs, sounds like they're coming for the safety nets that keep our folks from falling through the cracks. Brooklyn Jamal says, here's what I think. Another Republican president out here talk about balancing the budget by slashing the programs that actually help people like me. All right. So all the dissent is still there. All right. So Wall Street, you gain in Wall Street. You gain in Chamber of Commerce. You gain in small business. All right. So far, nothing too crazy. First policy went over. Well, cool. Let's play February 2025 now. All right, now let's make a policy.

What's our first policy? So we are going to extend the retirement age, but it will extend

over the next 15 years. And then what else would we actually have to do if we wanted to

balance the budget? We don't give states federal dollars if they don't have a balanced budget.

Yeah, and no state funding for states with unbalanced budgets.

Yeah.

Increased to retirement age of 69 over the next 15 years and no state funding for states

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