Ro Khanna

And so in our country, you do a lot of

What that Chinese would say, silly things like you make dating apps and you make comedy apps and you make sports apps and you do a lot of other things and they don't have that.

And I think the that gives us a huge advantage in terms of the creativity and the culture, if we can get the basics right.

Now, the government shut down the fight first is over something that I'm biased, but I fundamentally believe is a basic principle, which is if Congress passes something, like the president has to spend what Congress passes.

It's not discretionary.

You know, Fetterman said elections matter.

Well, the elections to Congress matter too.

So Trump's had this view that, okay, spending is too high.

These agencies are wasting money.

I'm gonna come in and I'm gonna make certain decisions about cutting spending that Congress may have appropriated.

He did this on foreign aid.

He's done it on some of the things with Department of Education.

We can go through other programs.

I got into an argument with Elon when he was there.

I originally said, look, I'm open to working with Doge if there are reasonable things that we can say, but you got to do it through a process.

And they have a view.

Their view is, well, Congress is never going to do this.

So we're just going to go there and we're going to do it.

And that's not the way the Constitution works.

And so you can't expect Democrats to say, OK, we're going to give you our votes for a budget if it's all discretionary and Trump can do whatever he wants anyway with the budget.