Baker on Trump’s $4T Budget Deficit: You’ll See a Test of Whether He’s Able to Enforce His Will on Senate Republicans

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
WITT: “Peter. Because it is projected to add what, an additional 4. To $5. Trillion to the deficit over the next. Two years, while funding tax. Cuts for the wealthiest Americans and some Republican senators say, yeah, there are no on that. Let’s watch. Take a listen.”

Paul: “I want nothing to. Do with that. I didn’t vote. For the spending. I didn’t vote for the debt. I couldn’t care less if he’s upset.”

Johnson: “I’m concerned about my children, my grandchildren and the fact that we are stealing. From them.”

WITT: “You know, if your eyes were closed there, Peter, you might think you were listening to Democrats. I mean, what is the president’s plan to bring his caucus in line?”

BAKER: “Well, your eyes are closed. You might be thinking you’re listening to actual Republicans. Normal Republican orthodoxy, of course, is to be concerned about the deficit, to be concerned about the national debt. And that’s something that has gone, you know, unsaid in a lot of ways over the last number of years with Trump in office. That’s never been his particular passion. He was never a fiscal hawk. He likes to spend money. He likes debt. He once called himself the king of debt in terms of his businesses. So that’s never been his priority. And you’re going to see now a test of whether or not he’s able to enforce his will on these bulky Senate Republicans, or can they find some way of finagling it? Can they find some way of finessing it so that it looks like they’ve gotten at least some compromise out of him and then go along with him? I think in the end, of course, they don’t want to completely, you know, be on the wrong side of Donald Trump. So the question is, what kind of compromise could you come up with? Because everybody a face saving, right. And then can you get back to them?”