James Talarico

And so I would say that.

And then I would also add a higher corporate tax rate.

I've proposed, and I encourage anyone who's listening or watching to go to our policy page on our website.

I'm very proud to say we have the most detailed policy page of any Senate candidate in the country.

And on there, I talk about introducing a new special corporate tax for any company that's paying their CEOs 250 times more than they're paying their average employee.

So discouraging that kind of...

discouraging that kind of hoarding in the workplace, that kind of hoarding in our economy so that we can grow and thrive together like we did in the 20th century when we had the largest middle class in the world and our economy was the envy of every other country.

I'm all for efficiency in government, and I worked on that in the state legislature.

I think what was so frustrating for me watching what happened with Doge at the beginning of last year is that it wasn't a serious attempt to try to find efficiencies in our government.

It wasn't a serious attempt at reform.

Those are things we actually need,

But instead they decided to go after budget dust, like USAID, a program that doesn't cost us that much, but literally saves the lives of so many children across the world and helps us cultivate our alliances, it builds soft power.

And so to go after that kind of program, rather than looking at the largest expenditures in our budget, to me suggested that it was more about politics than it was about reform and efficiency.

I mean, you talked about our military spending.

You've talked about entitlements.

Those are the two biggest parts of our budget.

Thank you.

Okay.

And I absolutely think if you're going to look at efficiency, if you're going to look at reform, then you should focus on the biggest line items, not going after kids in Africa who desperately need enough food.

Sorry, Josh.