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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller gives a civics lesson to hyperventilating leftwingers fear mongering out about the cost and waste-cutting work of DOGE.
H/T: @ConradsonJordan for the excellent question. https://t.co/HkBHZoFfoE
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**Speaker 0:** Regarding tariff revenue, President Trump considered replacing income tax with it, especially to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. Is that a possibility? Also, considering Elon Musk, isn't one of Doge's objectives to get rid of the federal bureaucracy? Who was really running the White House when Joe Biden was in office?
**Speaker 1:** China tariff revenue could bring in between $500 billion and $1 trillion over ten years. We expect this tariff revenue will make it much easier for Republicans to pass a bill.
**Speaker 2:** Many people failed to cover the fact that Joe Biden was mentally incompetent and was not running the country. A president is elected by the whole American people. The existential threat to democracy is the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime tenured civil servants who believe they answer to no one. President Trump is removing federal bureaucrats who are defying democracy by failing to implement his lawful orders.
Speaker 0: I follow-up. In 2017, then Jordan and Trump
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 0: I just wanted leave you because you had two questions. Can
Speaker 1: you please go ahead?
Speaker 0: Mister mister you were speaking about tariff revenue and you also addressed a question about the IRS. President Trump has spoken about replacing income tax with tariff revenue, especially with all this waste, fraud, and abuse that we're seeing cut. Is that a possibility?
Speaker 1: Absolutely. And in fact, if you think about the China tariff revenue that we're estimating is coming in from the 10% that we just added plus the de minimis thing that it's between $500,000,000,000 and a trillion dollars over ten years is our estimate. And that's something that is outside of the reductions that markets are seeing through the negotiations up on the hill. And so we expect that the tariff revenue is actually gonna make it much easier for Republicans to pass a bill and that was the president's plan all along.
Speaker 0: And then I have a question for Steven Miller about Doge. So you you spoke about Doge. You said roughly $50,000,000,000 is set to be cut in a year of waste, fraud, and abuse by unelected bureaucrats. We're hearing this ironic narrative from the president's critics and the left wing media that Elon Musk is an unelected bureaucrat and he's doing all this terrible stuff, isn't one of Doge's objectives to get get rid of the federal bureaucracy, the the deep state? And also, who was running the White House when Joe Biden was in office?
Because I don't know a single person who believes it was Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: You're you're tempting me to say some very, harsh things about some of our media friends. The yes. It is true that many of the people in this room for four years failed to cover the fact that Joe Biden was mentally incompetent and was not running the country. It is also true that many people in this room who have used this talking point that Elon is not elected fail to understand how government works. So I'm glad for the opportunity for a brief civics lesson.
A president is elected by the whole American people. He's the only official in the entire government that is elected by the entire nation. Right? Judges are appointed. Members of congress are elected at the district or state level, just one man.
And the constitution article two has a clause known as the vesting clause, and it says the executive power shall be vested in a president, singular. The whole will of democracy is imbued into the elected president. That president then appoints staff to then impose that democratic will onto the government. The threat to democracy, indeed the existential threat to democracy, is the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime tenured civil servants who believe they answer to no one, who believe they can do whatever they want without consequence, who believe they can set their own agenda no matter what Americans vote for. So Americans vote for radical FBI reform, and FBI agents say they don't wanna change.
Or Americans vote for radical reform under energy policies, but EPA bureaucrats say they don't wanna change. Or Americans vote to end DEI, racist DEI policies, and lawyers at the Department of Justice say they don't want to change. What president Trump is doing is he is removing federal bureaucrats who are defying democracy by failing to implement his lawful orders, which are the will of the whole American people.
Speaker 1: Thank
Speaker 2: you. Thanks,
Speaker 0: Steve. I'm glad you're Thank you.
