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. >> thomas tom yazdgerdi, thank you so much for your time. let's talk about this now with the panel and kristen soltis anderson. one presumes that president trump's doing this because it would be popular. um, you know, people are often asked in polls. they think that they think the foreign aid budget is like 30% of the budget when it's much smaller. um, what do people think about this? or even just the idea of shrinking government? mass layoffs of government employees. >> so you're right. when you ask voters, you know, do you think we spend too much? they'll say yes. and when you say, what are some. >> things we. >> should spend less on in those conversations? something like foreign aid is always one of the first things to come up. and that's not necessarily because people don't think it's good for us to help around the world, but the premium they place on. what do you spend an american taxpayer dollar on is very high, and they say there's lots of problems here. it would be nice to help overseas, but dot, dot, dot and we just haven't had any