and americans are struggling to afford food, cars, and housing. what is the single most important policy that you would implement as president to make the essentials in americans lives more important? i think we have to acknowledge that republicans and democrats have both done this. the fact they did all this wasteful spending, a 2. 2 trillion dollar covid stimulus bill that s expanded welfare, left us with 80 million americans on medicaid, 42 million americans on food stamps, that s a third of our country. what i will do is i think it s time we have an accountant in the white house. we have to have someone who respects taxpayer dollars. and we will start by clawing back 100 billion dollars of unspent covid dollars that are still out there. we will go in, instead of 87,000 irs agents going after middle america, will go after the hundreds of billions of dollars of covid fraud, one out of every $7. if 8% of our budget is interest, quit borrowing. cut up the credit cards. i had to balan
court date years from now. we can t keep functioning like that. we are a country of laws, the second we stop being a country of law, we give everything this country was founded on. [applause] you brought up the economy earlier, and i promise you we will get to it, i want to get to it now with you, molly. molly is a college student republican who says she will support any republican other then donald trump. ouyou knmy sonllaught is thing that every young indiviof cfitho trand nowsaying oh, we re go to look when fori a nd so they re worried they re not going to have to afford a pace to stay and rent. they re worried they re not going to be able to find a job. they are worried about the death of the country s, in an inflation that s gone up, that everything is more expensive. from their standpoint, they re looking at a country, and they re wondering how they are going to get through. and what we owe it to them as to get the country on track. the way we get the economy on track is to f
she worked for donald trump. and in her words, runaway spending. why are you better positioned to turn around this economy that we have heard all these orders talk about tonight? then mr. ramaswamy, a successful entrepreneur, nationally right now. i do not care about polls. what i care about is the fact that nobody is telling the american people the truth. the truth is that biden did not do this to us. are republicans did this to us to. and they passed that 2.2 trillion dollar covid stimulus bill. and left us with 90 million people on medicaid. 42 million people on food stamps. nobody has told you how to fix, it all tell you how to fix it. i need to stop the spending stop the borrowing and eliminate the earmarks republicans brought in. our taxpayer dollars, not
but it was going after the man she worked for donald trump. and in her words, runaway spending. why are you better positioned to turn around this economy that we have heard all these orders talk about tonight? then mr. ramaswamy, a successful entrepreneur, nationally right now. i do not care about polls. what i care about is the fact that nobody is telling the american people the truth. the truth is that biden did not do this to us. are republicans did this to us to. and they passed that 2. 2 trillion dollar covid stimulus bill. and left us with 90 million people on medicaid. 42 million people on food stamps. nobody has told you how to fix, it all tell you how to fix it. i need to stop the spending stop the borrowing and eliminate the earmarks republicans brought in. our taxpayer dollars, not their dollars. if tim scott, mike pence. they voted to raise the debt.
bubbles and i think that this is all part of that. how long until jerome powell can say yes, we have done it? we did landed this plane and accomplished this soft landing i think we re going to know a lot in the summer, first of all we ll have more months, we ll see if this was weather related statistical issues, january is always a tricky month, historically to look at jobs. we ll get a sense of what the trend is. we ll also see at that point where the u.s. consumer is, because of course, there s the consumers have been padded with 2 trillion dollar of fiscal spending the last few years, that money will start running out in the summer, so is that going to mean sharper declines in spending and maybe companies trying to slow down the job market. by then we ll have a good sense of where we are. ok, thank you for explaining all of this. the week s long search for three missing michigan rafters