"What The F Are We Doing?" David Friedberg On BBB’s Deficit Increase & Trump vs. Elon

“There's a lot of people that are making accurate declarations that federal spending needs to be reduced, the deficit needs to be shrunk, we are in a debt-death spiral, and they are absolutely correct.”

“The White House has publicly declared that they are going to move forward with an appropriations bill to try and cement some of the Doge actions.”

“I don't think MAGA can exist successfully without the tech alignment. I don't think tech can exist without MAGA because of the government alignment and the importance of the government allowing these new technologies like AI to come to market and to proliferat…”

“And I do think that both sides have heads that are going to be cooler that will prevail here. And I do think that these two are going to recognize the importance of being codependent, if you will, in being able to progress their respective agendas.”

“I think the reality is that when push comes to shove, I think that they agree on more things than they probably disagree. And I think when everybody realizes that the alternative is essentially some insane form of socialism and redistribution, I think the Alli…”

“What that two hundred fifty million dollars and all that effort he put in, you know, what that did in terms of Trump's chances.”

“Trump probably would have won anyway versus Kamala, but maybe not.”

“One of the big problems with Trump is he has a bunch of sycophants around him, and the more you kind of appease him and just blindly follow him, I think the closer you, the perception is that's the closer you get to him.”

“The current estimate is six percent deficit to GDP, 2.4% inflation. So we've actually got a little bit of room to run on inflation. And GDP growth this year of 1.4%.”