David Schweikert: “I have missed all of you. I don't know if you missed me. We are going to actually try something tonight, and some of…”

“I have missed all of you. I don't know if you missed me. We are going to actually try something tonight, and some of what we are going to do this evening is a little bit complex. It is going to be a little bit thick, but we have double-checked and triple-checked the math, which means that a number of our brothers and sisters will turn their ears off almost immediately because, remember, Mr. Speaker, we all work in a math-free zone. A couple of items of order first. I thank--though I don't know if they were screwing with me or having some fun. I think it is 'Forbes Breaking News' that took about 12 or 13 hours of these floor speeches and put them up on YouTube. I have actually had a couple of people who obviously don't have lives who have been watching them, and we have been playing this game of: Here is the prediction, Schweikert, you made over the last year. Here is what you have right, and here is what you have wrong. First, I got wrong my prediction on interest rates. I really thought the 10-year bond would be closer to 5. It is at 4.1. However, things like the U.S. getting downgraded, things like the semaglutides crashing in price by the end of the year, we have actually gotten right. The one thing I wish I had gotten wrong was the debt and deficit projections. For the trolls out there who immediately say, 'Well, there is all this spending in the tax bill,' most of that hasn't started yet.”