Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Don Jr. & Kevin McCarthy: The GOP Should NOT Cut Social Security or Medicare!

In this episode, I sit down with my father, former Vice President Joe Biden, to talk about the budget and why we should all pay our fair share of the cost of Social Security, Medicare, and other entitlement programs. We also talk about some of the things he and his father did in the early days of the administration, and how they were able to get things done. I hope you enjoy this episode and tweet me if you have any thoughts or opinions on any of the topics covered in this episode. Tweet Me! and let me know what you thought of it in the comments section below. Timestamps: 4:00 - My father's thoughts on Social Security and Medicare 6:30 - What should we do with Social Security 7:15 - Why we should pay our share 8:00 - How much money should we spend on defense? 9:30 - Should we pay for our military 11:20 - What's the best way to pay for defense 12:00 | How much should we pay our military? 13:30 | Should we get rid of Medicare and Social Security? 14:20 15:15 | What is the role of the Chinese in our defense budget? 16:40 | How should we ask the Chinese? 17:20 | What are we paying for our own defense budget 18:40 - What is our country s role in the Middle East? 19: What are our role in our Middle East policy in the United States in the 21: What do we need in the most? 21:15 22:30 // 22: How much do we have in our future in the future of our economy? 25:40 27: What does our government need to do for our future? 26:40 // 27:00 // 28: What s our country need to pay us? 29:00 / 30:30 Is there a business model? 35: How do you pay for it? 31:30 Do you think we should we need to be responsible? 32:10 33:10 | What do you want us to pay our own government to do our part in our own our infrastructure and our infrastructure ? 34:30 Are we going to pay the other people s part of the process in the process of paying for this? 36:10 // 35:40 Do we have any idea what we should do with our infrastructure?

00:00:00.000 Let's talk about, I mean, the Pentagon loses, what was it, $220 billion?

00:00:04.000 Yeah. You know, and now we're getting into a budget time and we're talking about some of those things.

00:00:08.000 So I saw, you know, I think my father's right on this one.

00:00:10.000 I'd love to hear your thoughts on it, but sort of the Republicans now kind of, we must get rid of Medicare and Social Security.

00:00:15.000 I'm like, wait a minute. So the one entitlement that people actually pay into for their entire lives, A, you crush your own people.

00:00:21.000 I'm like, you know, the Democrats are really good at crushing our people to give free stuff to their people.

00:00:25.000 Like, we're crushing our own people who...

00:00:28.000 Actually funded these things for their entire lives.

00:00:30.000 Don't get me wrong. We won't touch Medicare or Social Security.

00:00:34.000 No, listen. They just crafted an omnibus that I opposed.

00:00:40.000 Two senators wrote who are no longer in office.

00:00:42.000 They jammed us at Christmas for $1.7 trillion and told us we had to vote for it.

00:00:48.000 The whole time Schumer's been leader has never written a budget.

00:00:51.000 And now the president sits back and says, well, you need to just lift the debt limit and just do it with nothing.

00:00:56.000 Well, no. If you have a child and they're charging up the credit card, you don't just keep raising the limit.

00:01:03.000 You look at where you're spending.

00:01:04.000 Every household has to do this.

00:01:06.000 So I'm simply saying, look, let's be responsible.

00:01:09.000 Let's be reasonable. Let's be sensible.

00:01:11.000 But let's sit down.

00:01:12.000 And you're going to tell me out of these trillions of dollars, because this is what has happened.

00:01:16.000 When the Democrats took over, just those four years, their discretionary spending has gone up 30%.

00:01:21.000 $400 billion.

00:01:23.000 You're going to tell me there's no waste out there?

00:01:25.000 There's no efficiency? They just print a trillion dollars.

00:01:28.000 I mean, do they have any concept of what that does?

00:01:31.000 That's how we got inflation.

00:01:33.000 Again, if I'm the guy that's a little upset when I'm filling up my tank or when I go to buy eggs, if it bothers me, it probably doesn't change much my day to day.

00:01:40.000 Imagine what it's doing to a real family and they don't understand that concept or don't even think about it, which is scary.

00:01:47.000 With the price of gas, who's it hurting?

00:01:49.000 The working class. It has to drive to get to their jobs. 1.00

00:01:51.000 The eggs. Eggs are unbelievable, the price today.

00:01:55.000 But it doesn't stop us from sending billions of dollars to countries that hate our guts.

00:02:00.000 They're sending millions to Tunisia for their ability for more tourism.

00:02:05.000 Really? We're borrowing this money from China to send it someplace else?

00:02:11.000 Well, that's the other... I mean, we actually give aid to China who we borrow from and owns and steals from us and costs us probably trillions in IP that they're stealing. 0.80

00:02:19.000 But see, this is what I loved when your father came into power.

00:02:22.000 They had never had somebody in the office of the president that had a business mind.

00:02:27.000 I remember they're sitting there and, you know, Korea saying, oh, we need these new missiles or Saudi Arabia to defend.

00:02:33.000 He goes, okay, but you've got to pay for them.

00:02:35.000 What? What? We gotta pay for them?

00:02:37.000 We thought the American taxpayer.

00:02:39.000 No, no, no, no. I remember having some of these conversations with him and he's like, well, have we ever asked for them to pay?

00:02:44.000 No one ever thought. And they're like, no, we never thought to do it, so ask.

00:02:47.000 And they're like, okay, we'll pay for it.

00:02:48.000 And I'm like, wait a minute, that just happened?

00:02:51.000 They didn't even think about it?

00:02:53.000 I remember we were up at Camp David.

00:02:54.000 We're having a meeting in the Situation Room.

00:02:57.000 Your father gets up to use the restroom.

00:02:59.000 And so one of the generals there, we're having a discussion, and he goes, he's not in the room, so I have to ask.

00:03:05.000 Why do we do it this way?

00:03:07.000 You know, no one had ever done that.

00:03:08.000 And the uniqueness, too, is I read this article, like, Boeing's really upset because they're losing all this money on the new Air Force One.

00:03:15.000 Why? Because they negotiated with President Trump.

00:03:18.000 You know who wins?

Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - January 27, 2023

Don Jr. & Kevin McCarthy: The GOP Should NOT Cut Social Security or Medicare!

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