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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Mar 21, 2025, 07:33 PM Mar 2025

Elaine Chao on the Trump Administration: 'What you all want is certainty and you're not going to get it' [View all]

Elaine Chao, who served as Transportation Secretary in the first Trump Administration, advised business leaders to lay low and accept that any planning has to be agile. “This is going to be a volatile period. What you all want is certainty and you’re not going to get it.” As for DOGE, she said, “Everyone agrees that there is waste and inefficiencies in the government. Usually, special government employees have to file financial disclosure reports. I think a scalpel rather than a machete would produce a more effective government for the American people."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elaine-chao-trump-administration-want-102324589.html

And it was a Democrat, Bill Clinton, who used scalpel and gave us not just a balanced but a surplus.

Unfortunately, he was followed by the dry drunk G DUHbya who went on a spending spree called the Iraq invasion after passing massive tax cuts for the wealthy.

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