Then the next thing you have to do is to remind people that the Left is waging a war to stop you in this race, so that this economy stalls before the midterms. Former President Barack Obama had given impassioned speeches on the immorality, the wrongness, the almost illegality of shutting the government down just because you lost elections and did not achieve a majority in the House. If Donald Trump takes that $400 billion and applies it to the deficit, rather than gives a check for, I don’t know, 200 million people, $2,000, then that will have a strong effect on markets and Wall Street and bonds, that the president is really using $400 billion of tariff revenue to reduce the deficit and stop the amount of federal debt toward GDP ratio.
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Published at: 2025-11-13 22:56:32
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