budget: everyone on the record — The Minutes https://minutesof.com/on/budget/ Everyone on the record about budget: 17 verbatim quotes from 5 people, May 2024 to May 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link to its… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:32:50 +0000 Howard Lutnick: Lutnick redirects to budget testimony while reiterating his voluntary commitment to answer all https://minutesof.com/q/ce281a4e-55f6-48fc-9992-6e5a8936ea2d/ https://minutesof.com/q/ce281a4e-55f6-48fc-9992-6e5a8936ea2d/ “But I am volunteering within two weeks to answer any and all questions on this topic.” — Howard Lutnick, Politiclip Wed, 06 May 2026 01:00:50 +0000 budget Howard Lutnick: Lutnick insists he is present to discuss the budget rather than other topics. https://minutesof.com/q/735bda1c-ece5-4c6f-b76f-4f7a86478153/ https://minutesof.com/q/735bda1c-ece5-4c6f-b76f-4f7a86478153/ “But I am here today to testify about the budget, and I look forward to discussing the president's budget with you today.” — Howard Lutnick, Politiclip Wed, 06 May 2026 01:00:50 +0000 budget Sir Richard Dearlove: Dearlove says UK needs 5% GDP defense spending, government should cut welfare but won't https://minutesof.com/q/42393971-84d9-4f55-b81b-fbffa46ceaf7/ https://minutesof.com/q/42393971-84d9-4f55-b81b-fbffa46ceaf7/ “They need to up to 5%, and all they have to do is to cut the welfare budget. But of course, this government is the prisoner of its left wing and they can't do that.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, The Brink Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:09:37 +0000 budget Sir Richard Dearlove: Dearlove argues security is government's first responsibility and UK must cut welfare to https://minutesof.com/q/c9e95423-2799-4fad-8804-7301b60897c6/ https://minutesof.com/q/c9e95423-2799-4fad-8804-7301b60897c6/ “That's too little, too late. They need to up to 5%, and all they have to do is to cut the welfare budget.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, The Brink Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:09:37 +0000 budget Sir Richard Dearlove: Dearlove criticizes UK government for wrapping intelligence budget into defense budget t https://minutesof.com/q/075c9b93-15e9-4a05-8402-06b8b04717fa/ https://minutesof.com/q/075c9b93-15e9-4a05-8402-06b8b04717fa/ “Actually, at the moment, and I'm pretty critical of this, the overall SIV has been wrapped up into the defense budget to make the defense budget look bigger, which is a bit of a cheat because the government are very keen to show that they're increasing defense spending.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, The Brink Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:09:37 +0000 budget Sir Richard Dearlove: Dearlove says UK must cut welfare spending to fund defense, requiring economic sacrifice https://minutesof.com/q/84c08c4e-0173-4e4d-a8e9-7b04f0327545/ https://minutesof.com/q/84c08c4e-0173-4e4d-a8e9-7b04f0327545/ “And the most important way in The UK to do this is to cut the welfare budget and to spend it on defense. And we have to make sacrifices.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, TalkTV Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:15:01 +0000 budget Sir Richard Dearlove: Dearlove criticizes UK budget for failing to prioritize national security and defense sp https://minutesof.com/q/55daffb6-7aa2-4f87-babc-baaa69f4470a/ https://minutesof.com/q/55daffb6-7aa2-4f87-babc-baaa69f4470a/ “how could you possibly have a budget statement in parliament in the current state that we're in where the chancellor of the exchequer doesn't refer to national security and defense?” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:12:11 +0000 budget Brad Gerstner: Gerstner says Invest America costs $3.7 billion annually, equivalent to one Patriot missile bat https://minutesof.com/q/8ac2b20a-63f5-4b8c-9ffc-9853e62fb32e/ https://minutesof.com/q/8ac2b20a-63f5-4b8c-9ffc-9853e62fb32e/ “So the total cost of this, 3,700,000 kids born a year, a thousand bucks each kid, $3,700,000,000. Just to contextualize that, that's about the cost of a single Patriot missile battery.” — Brad Gerstner, Bloomberg Live Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:44:40 +0000 budget Howard Lutnick: Lutnick claims the administration will cut a trillion in expenses and raise a trillion in new https://minutesof.com/q/bafc0c42-7dd3-4e71-82f8-84a79210e11d/ https://minutesof.com/q/bafc0c42-7dd3-4e71-82f8-84a79210e11d/ “I think we're going cut a trillion dollars a year in expense, and then I think we can, through tariffs and other means, we're going to get revenues of a trillion dollars.” — Howard Lutnick, All-In Podcast Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:46:53 +0000 budget Howard Lutnick: Lutnick proposes selling 400,000 green cards at $5 million each would generate $2 trillion and https://minutesof.com/q/b57bdb41-3b8b-4b67-a5f3-75d99f26eae5/ https://minutesof.com/q/b57bdb41-3b8b-4b67-a5f3-75d99f26eae5/ “Do realize if we sold those 400,000 a year for 5,000,000 each? You know, that's $2,000,000,000,000 every time. 2,000,000,000,000. We'd have no budget deficit. We could lower taxes on America.” — Howard Lutnick, CBS Evening News Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:26:30 +0000 budget Howard Lutnick: Lutnick says Musk will cut $1 trillion in waste while administration earns $1 trillion revenue https://minutesof.com/q/a4b3a77c-7a29-4a65-a714-42b05ddf50c8/ https://minutesof.com/q/a4b3a77c-7a29-4a65-a714-42b05ddf50c8/ “Elon Musk is gonna cut a trillion of waste, fraud, and abuse, and we are gonna earn a trillion dollars of revenue, and we are gonna balance the budget for Donald Trump.” — Howard Lutnick, CBS Evening News Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:26:30 +0000 budget Howard Lutnick: Lutnick predicts Trump will balance the budget and interest rates will drop 150 basis points d https://minutesof.com/q/d5b08bba-a62f-4fd0-bd1d-e9790ab5060e/ https://minutesof.com/q/d5b08bba-a62f-4fd0-bd1d-e9790ab5060e/ “Let Donald Trump is going to balance the budget of The United States Of America. Interest rates are gonna drop a 150 basis points during his term.” — Howard Lutnick, CBS Evening News Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:26:30 +0000 budget Brad Gerstner: Gerstner calculates that 4.9% revenue growth would produce a $450B surplus by 2029. https://minutesof.com/q/f1d8458c-31f7-430e-b03c-1ddefce263ce/ https://minutesof.com/q/f1d8458c-31f7-430e-b03c-1ddefce263ce/ “If we grew revenues at the same rate that we have for the last twenty years, right, starting next year, which is 4.9% per year CAGR for twenty years, we would end up with a $450,000,000,000 surplus in 2029.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:11:58 +0000 budget Brad Gerstner: Gerstner argues balancing the budget by 2029 requires reducing government spending 3% annually https://minutesof.com/q/366a2470-1dc7-4f61-9e92-d0f6de65efeb/ https://minutesof.com/q/366a2470-1dc7-4f61-9e92-d0f6de65efeb/ “Now you get there by simply reducing the size of government by about 3% a year for the next four years. Again, just still going from 5,000,000,000,000 in 2019 to 6,000,000,000,000 in 2029.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:11:58 +0000 budget Brad Gerstner: Gerstner argues federal budget can balance in four years with modest 5-5-2% spending cuts and 3 https://minutesof.com/q/3ea3a46a-13b4-47da-a103-1700b0372bf3/ https://minutesof.com/q/3ea3a46a-13b4-47da-a103-1700b0372bf3/ “So all that does is get you back to trend line from 2019 As though we increased spending 3% a year from 2019, the budget balances.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:09:14 +0000 budget David Friedberg: Friedberg states the US has $33 trillion national debt and a proposed $7 trillion budget next https://minutesof.com/q/4437c40f-7dde-41a0-9e01-a530cdea0edf/ https://minutesof.com/q/4437c40f-7dde-41a0-9e01-a530cdea0edf/ “We are proposing the federal administration is proposing a $7,000,000,000,000 budget next year. We have $33,000,000,000,000 of national debt.” — David Friedberg, Tom Bilyeu Tue, 02 Jul 2024 13:00:38 +0000 budget Bill Gurley: Gurley compares proposed $32B AI spending to NIH's $40B budget and NSF's $9B. https://minutesof.com/q/8d0854b5-b169-4e89-8ab9-c7346c240343/ https://minutesof.com/q/8d0854b5-b169-4e89-8ab9-c7346c240343/ “The National Science Foundation is nine down from 10. So 49, you're going to start the AI foundation or federation or whatever it is, institute at 32,000,000,000 a year.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Thu, 16 May 2024 19:31:21 +0000 budget