Thank you, the great Senator from Michigan. Let me say, I am so pleased that she brought this up because it is a gimmick. It is a gimmick that they are playing right now that somehow the $7 trillion in tax cuts that they want to give to billionaires is not going to add to our deficit or debt. Remember, these are the Republicans, the party of fiscal responsibility, and it is not going to add to our deficit or our debt. This is the perfect example. I have read this in the papers--a perfect example of what this means. This is like you are a parent, and you have put your daughter through college for 4 years. She comes home, and she says: Oh, well, you are already paying for it. So it is not really an additional cost for you. So I am just going to stay home and not work, and you just continue to pay the same amount that you were paying for college, and I will just live off of that. That was a great example one of our papers put out--a journalist put out--because that is exactly what the Republicans are trying to do here. This is it. And, remember, they are next going to come and try to lift the debt ceiling--more debt--to pay for this. This is the party of fiscal responsibility--think about this--at a time when our economy is already in a free fall because of these crazy tariffs. And, by the way, if you care about your retirement and your 401(k), you are watching that stock market because that is in free fall.…
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