Reconciliation Bill

“There's a one in .5 trillion dollar in savings to mandatory reforms, which is some of the big structural drivers that we have. If you looked at the biggest mandatory reform in history, it would have been 1997 and eight hundred billion dollars adjusted For infl…”

“And there's a huge part of the reconciliation bill, about four hundred and fifty million, that recognizes that we need to be able to use software and AI to be able to accelerate that journey.”

“I think that Republicans would be committing political suicide if they don't.”

“In the absence of that, you get a four trillion dollar tax increase and markets go a lot lower.”

“Reconciliation bills can only deal with what's called mandatory spending. They can't deal with what's called discretionary spending. And since the doge cuts apply to discretionary spending, they just can't be dealt with in a reconciliation bill.”

“But I suspect when you look at this package, right, and again, I'm just saying based upon how the Congressional Budget Office will score it, and this is kind of arcane scoring, but it will probably increase the deficit, and at best it would reduce it by a hund…”

“There's been talk of that reconciliation bill being a 150 to 200, you know, sort of billion, which obviously gets, you know, sort of the total last year bill, you know, pretty close to that, you know, sort of trillion dollar mark.”

“If we're able to keep to that schedule, then you could realistically have a reconciliation bill to President Trump's desk by Memorial weekend.”

“Is they've got 2.5 billion dollars going to tree equity, whatever that is.”

“One of the brilliant provisions in this reconciliation bill is they're actually disallowing retirement funds to invest in alternative assets, including startups and venture capital funds.”