moment. Um, Governor Caseasich, I want to start with you as a lifelong principled conservative, a guy who ran a state who understands the impact of a lot of the stuff, a lot of the cuts that are being talked about in this package, particularly to Medicare and to Medicaid and what that might do to rural hospitals. Um, when you look at a bill this big with this much in it, how do you feel as a guy who served on the Hill, but also as a guy who ran a state.Well, first of all, I was chairman of the budget commit ...

is we did not get here overnight. Uh I have gained about 10 lbs since inauguration. I'm not going to cut off my arm to get back to my January 20th weight.But we don't have a chance of returning to a balanced budget if we don't return to preandemic levels of spending. And I've laid out a number of options. Leave social security, Medicare, and interest as they are as you spend.But all their outlays, actual outlays, increase them by population growth and inflation. we literally would have a baseline spending s ...