Republicans Overseas Chair: Trump had to cut spending

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00:00There's obviously people who don't like the president. People who, and even those who don't

00:04like him, miss the peace and prosperity of the first term. And I have every confidence that that

00:09will return. But again, this is a common sense revolution. I don't know that a lot of people

00:14would disagree with fixing the border. I don't know that people would disagree with improving

00:19government efficiency. The same people that complain about Doge also complain that they've

00:23only got $150 billion in savings so far. It's going to be a long process. This is a bureaucracy

00:30that has grown for the last, really the last hundred years or at least 90 since FDR to

00:36unsustainable levels. We have $36 trillion in debt. $11 or $12 trillion of that came just in the last

00:42four years of the Biden administration. So the president just didn't necessarily run as a

00:47spending cutter. But I think it's absolutely necessary in order to someday get to a balanced

00:56budget. But more importantly, the current debt trajectory is unsustainable. We're paying a

01:03trillion dollars just in debt service. That's more than we spend on defense. It's more than we spend

01:07on Medicare. Or Medicaid, sorry. This is a really difficult time. So you might like all these

01:16government programs that feel good, that look good, but they're unsustainable. So they're cutting

01:21out a lot of waste and fraud. They're cutting out things that are unnecessary. They're keeping the

01:26things that are necessary. They're moving some of these aid programs, you know, from AID to other

01:32departments if it's critical.