What the DOGE Is and Isn’t Cutting | 2/19/25

Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

There is so much potential to downsize government, but if we allow our colleagues in conservative media to lie to the public, we will not stick the landing. Too many people are being told that DOGE magically discovered trillions in savings without cutting a single program. That is simply not true, and this is reflected in the congressional budget, where lawmakers are struggling to find even a fraction of those savings. There is a role for the DOGE, but we need to be honest about what it is going to take to actually bring down inflation. We go program by program and strategy by strategy to cut through the optical illusions and false choices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Politics without the soap opera with unfiltered constitutional conservative truth.
0:06.3	The Conservative Review with Daniel Burns.
0:09.6	And welcome back fellow American patriots and Minutemen standing at the ready to fight anew
0:15.3	for the issues that matter in the way they matter at the time they matter without any BS.
0:20.8	We cut through the clutter. We cut through the clutter.
0:21.8	We cut through the optical illusions and the magic shows to actually look straight at an issue.
0:30.2	We seek to open our eyes and see what is in front of us, hear what is in front of us.
0:36.2	Isaiah 6.9.
0:41.5	And folks, today I want to go through crime, spending, immigration, key issues on how we all agree on what we want and the outcomes.
0:50.1	But what's so bizarre is that everyone thinks we have the ball in the end zone.
0:56.0	We all share that goal, but if you think you have it there and you don't,
1:01.6	you're not going to do what it takes to get it there.
1:03.8	Put another way.
1:06.5	We have to stick the landing.
1:09.4	It reminds me of a situation where, I don't know, you have an ice skating, I guess is where the term comes from.
1:16.9	You know, you see someone going through the motions, and they do the triple luts or whatever it's called and jump up and down.
1:24.8	But then you see that, wait a minute, they're, they're getting off the ground on an
1:28.7	angle, and they're, they're going to fall and hurt themselves and lose the competition. You're going to
1:34.9	gain nothing for it. And it's like, if you're going to go through the trouble and expend all the
1:41.3	capital, right, of twisting yourself in the air, he has may as well
1:46.0	stick the landing. And that's where I feel we are right now. Trump is signaling the motions to do a lot
1:54.0	of really good things. He has the capital to do it. And whatever liability he's going to incur,
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