Matt Bernstein

But my goodness, talk about the mask slipping.

Oh, Crystal, I can assure you he does not.

Something tells me.

The other thing I will say about these grants before we move on to our friend Nathan Kavanaugh is that back to the stated mission of Doge, which it's about lowering the federal deficit, allegedly.

Yeah.

If you look at the itemized list of grants that they canceled, it's like, you know, $60,000 for the documentary.

$50,000 for, you know, a black history museum's fucking air conditioning system, stuff like that.

Crystal, you are, have a better understanding of the inner workings of like the government, frankly, than I do.

And of like budgets and stuff like that.

But these people are being paid more individually than these grants are worth.

To me, it's just so transparently not about saving money because these aren't significant amounts of money.

To be clear, though, it is a significant amount of money to the artists and researchers and scholars and culture makers who depend on that money.

But in the scheme of government spending...

What?

Totally.

I would like to take a quick break from the show to give a shout out to Rocket Money for sponsoring today's episode.

Budgeting has long been a habit of mine ever since my dad nailed it into my head as a child that budgeting is something that you have to do constantly, always.

It annoyed the hell out of me then, sometimes still annoys the hell out of me now.

I have a text waiting for me in my inbox from him right now telling me to get him my latest budgets.

I am 27 years old.