President Trump's plan to fund government through tariffs is a reasonable trade-off only if accompanied by significant tax cuts and deregulation.

“if you're going to lower the cost on business in the United States by giving giant tax cuts and at the same time increase government revenues through tariffs that seems like a worthwhile trade-off”

The Trump administration has increasingly relied on business deals and financial entanglements with foreign entities to exert influence, which creates inherent conflicts of interest for officials.

“influence is not just like paying a lobbyist. influence is like a business deal or dangling a business deal to you know Jared Kushner or Don Jr. or you know the Wickoff's kids. Uh and we see that I think affecting the way that the Trump administration exercises its like power on the world stage in a”

The Trump administration's actions against agencies dealing with drug demand, like SAMHSA, NIH, and the CDC's Division of Overdose Prevention, are destructive to public health.

“the three operations that were really responsible for doing something about the demand were decimated. The the agency that handles uh uh substance abuse and mental health suddenly got its budget completely zapped. And uh ditto with the great extent for the National Institute for Drug uh abuse”

President Trump is currently struggling to convince the public that he has an effective handle on economic affordability.

“President Trump is having trouble taking the narrative. He is trying to stop Democrats who have used affordability as a way to triangulate Trump policy and point out that President Trump has not kept his campaign promises”

The Trump administration uses the drug war as a pretext and smoke screen to cover up corruption and seize resources like Venezuelan oil.

“It's never been about drugs, okay? It's never been about curtailing drugs. They they killed people in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. They killed people in the Pacific as a pretense to invade a country and take the oil and sell it.”