Jared Polis
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74 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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And she did basketball, you know, there's a girl's basketball team and they beat the boy's basketball team. Yeah.
I mean, you just discuss it in a rational way. Of course, boys shouldn't be in girls' sports. I mean, it's obvious. That has nothing to do with cutting Medicaid funding from people in Lewiston. Right. And it has nothing to do with people who were born of indeterminate or intermediate genders and where they play. I mean.
you know, it's, you want fairness in sports, but you didn't want participation in sports, but it's like, it's, it's kind of, and I think that's a, those are broad American values. You want fairness and you want to provide ways people can participate. But yeah, very little of that has anything to do with like the cost of living and the real issues that matter.
I mean, I think after talking to Janet Mills, after she said, there's like one kid, this even affects in their whole state. Yeah. I'm curious if you've got any clarity. Obviously, on a human level, we've got to feel bad for that kid that they're in the center of all this stuff. I mean, my goodness.
There's no clarity from this. So that in my limited time, what I talked about, and I know you came off a conversation of tariffs like you, I believe, in free trade and open markets and trade is inherently good. You can see why he's my favorite Democrat there.
But my concern was, and obviously we all, you know, we're hopeful that that's the president somehow has this master negotiating strategy. We're going to wind up with left terrorists rather than more, but you know, I'm not holding my breath. But I did say, look, if there's less tariffs, I'll be the first to praise that.
But I said, whatever is happening here, please try to wrap this up in the next few months because investment is frozen. Nobody can plan. The uncertainty is the enemy of prosperity and the business.
So whatever level we're going to wind up at, we've got to figure this out for your own benefit, Mr. President, in the next few months because if this goes on for four years, the uncertainty alone will cause a recession.
No. No, no. As I said, I hope that somehow if we come out of this with, I'm not holding my breath, but less tariffs, less restrictions on trade, that would be wonderful. I was just speaking for myself.
As far as we can tell, there's no rhyme or reason to the cuts. Now, obviously, we want things that are wasteful to be cut. But an example of this sort of wrecking ball approach was they actually laid off a lot of the folks involved with fire prevention, park management in Colorado, which are incredibly important.
So not the firefighters themselves, but the road maintenance, how you get to fires to fight them, forest management. So these are folks that are, in our view, and I think the view of any rational government on the left or right, small government, big government. I mean, this is like a core function thing, right? So we hope that they reverse that. No idea if they will.
That's right. For every government program, you should ask really two questions. First is, should we even be doing this? And there's absolutely things that are being done that are counterproductive that we should not do at every level of government. The second is, okay, we should do this. How can we do it more efficiently? Let's create a more efficient way of doing it.
It's not just sort of like, who saw? Destroy it all. Like, okay. You know, should we be doing it? And if we should be doing it, how do we do it more officially? Yes, Mitch Daniels absolutely would have been wonderful.
You know, again, let's give them the space to see if they hoist themselves on their own petard here, right? Like with trade. As I said, if somehow this leads to lower tariffs and more free trade, That's wonderful. Yeah. That's wonderful.
I'm an eternal optimist.
Well, I don't have much visibility into what's going on, right? I mean, does anybody?
It's federal, not, you know.
They're going to tear stuff down. And again, If there are things that we don't need to do, let's stop doing them. And then the question on if there's things that we agree we should do, how do we do it more efficiently? Doge doesn't seem to be answering that at this point. It seems to just be... you know, stopping the current way, fine.
But then what replaces it is actually turns out to be very important.
No, there's another one.
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