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Is Sinking --- ## Transcript How much more would you like Doge to cut from the federal government? Well, it's not so much Doge anymore. And by the way, I have to say that somebody from Doge was very badly hurt last night. You saw that? A young man who was beat up by a bunch of thugs in D.C.. And either they're going to straighten their act out in terms of government and in terms of protection, or we're going to have to federalize and run it the way it's supposed to be run. But it's not a question of Doge. We have great people, secretaries and all, working with Doge and cutting with a, I said, with a scalpel, as opposed with an axe cutting with a fine tooth comb. And they're getting rid of people that aren't doing their job or bad people or bad things. Bad policy. ET cetera. ET cetera. And I think we've been very successful in that. And there's more cutting to do, but there's also more getting. We want smart people in government. Our country is doing great. I think we are doing probably, maybe in many ways better than we've ever done before. You know, we're taking in trillions, not billions, trillions and trillions of dollars from other countries who for years took advantage of us. They took advantage of the United States like we were children. And that's not happening anymore. Now they're paying a lot of money and they're paying hundreds of billions of dollars, individual countries paying hundreds of billions of dollars. You're seeing what everybody else is seeing. And, uh, we have a lot of things we can do. You know, one of the questions asked of me this morning is, are you going to make a dividend to the people? And the purpose of what I'm doing is primarily to pay down debt, which will happen in very large quantity. But I think there's also a possibility that we're taking in so much money that we may very well make a dividend to the people of America. Thank you all very much. 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