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The Republican-controlled General Assembly unveiled Wednesday its compromise state budget plan for the two-year period beginning July 1.

Perhaps the most moderate Republican candidate in the field as of this moment is Donald Trump.

You remember he had to go through 15 ballots just to become the speaker, so hes got a very restive caucus that are not at all unified over how theyre going to do this, and so hes going to try and satisfy the core conservatives that made him the speaker. but at the same time hes got anywhere between 14 and 18 members who represent districts that joe biden one or almost one back in 2020 and theyre not going to be at all happy about this, so hes gonna have to try and sort of a corral them get them ...

Morning i woke up to really creepy commercials already presidential candidacy, so we have one of those like the pudding. come here it is. this is from a pro trump super pac. its against ron desantis, about whom there was a story several weeks ago about supposedly he ate putting with his fingers or something. but anyway, its purportedly about desantis his position on entitlement programs. take a look. desantis has his dirty fingers all over senior entitlements like cutting medicare, slashing soci...

Forget everything else, and then really that the person that you are going to be voting for theres too much of i heard this. i heard this. most of that is not true. i mean, i this morning i woke up to really creepy commercials already presidential candidacy, so we have one of those like the pudding. come here it is. this is from a pro trump super pac. its against ron desantis, about whom there was a story several weeks ago about supposedly he ate putting with his fingers or something. but anyway...

Most U.S. adults are opposed to proposals that would cut into Medicare or Social Security benefits, and a majority support raising taxes on the nation’s highest earners to keep Medicare running as is. Few Americans would be OK with some ways politicians have suggested to shore up the programs: 79% say they oppose reducing the size of Social Security benefits and 67% are against raising monthly premiums for Medicare. About 65 million older and disabled people access government-sponsored healt...

Basically means that program will get authorized for something like four years. and then if its not reauthorized, they dont fund it anymore. thats hence for the term sunset comes from now. biden introduced a bill in 1975 that did the exact same thing. its sunset all federal legislation without exemptions for social security and medicare. and whats interesting about this? is bidens bill to do this. this sunset legislation was the first ever of its kind. we just saw on the screen where he was basi...

Building Support for Entitlement Reform

Propagate the ethanol industry among rural farmers. he went after desantis for entitlement programs, social security and medicare. he said desantis is an acolyte of paul ryan, reminds him of mitt romney. what it took me back to was in october of 2015, when i was sitting in a similar theater, when you saw ben carson looking like hed be competitive with donald trump donald trump there reenact ed, ben carson supposedly stabbed somebody in his youth, and the crowd was in awe of what was taking place...

But the chair of the budget committee telling "the washington post" were going to see a budget that continues to increase taxes, continues to have this. so they have criticism planned. the question is you have power. you have this new authority. put yours in writing. when? >> so i was talking to the top democrat on this budget committee. he was saying they dont think they are going to be able to get it out until may. then theres a question of whether republicans can pass it on the floor. they ca...