David Schweikert: “Let's have some fun with math and the reality of what is going on in the world. First, let me get something off my…”

“Let's have some fun with math and the reality of what is going on in the world. First, let me get something off my chest. I hate it when I make a mistake. Mr. Speaker, have you ever had that moment when you say something as you are walking down to your next meeting and you go: oh, damn it? Last week, I was walking through a series of different numbers, and one of them was a proposal, or a discussion coming out of the White House. It was about taking the top tax rate and just letting it expire. I think I said it was $32.7 billion. That is for a single year. Just multiply it by 10. That is what the actual math would be. Mr. Speaker, one of the reasons I am sort of stressed out of my mind right now is more than the chaos we see in some of the financial markets and trying to understand the tariff issues and our leverage on other countries and their leverage and what is going on there. I don't think we are spending enough time talking about our own work. Last Friday--actually, it may have been Saturday morning--the Senate passed their version of a reconciliation budget. It was a completely unserious document. I am going to show over and over here how they took a pass on doing what was difficult. If this is a negotiation between the House and the Senate, for example, Mr. Speaker, if you have ever bought a car or been in a negotiation, when one side gives a completely unserious offer, the other side often has to walk away until they get serious.…”