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WHITEHOUSE: "Well, if Elon Musk wants to make those kind of cuts to federal spending he needs to go back and read about a guy named David Stockman, who tried to do that as Reagan’s budget director. What he tried was so unpopular, even with Republicans, but it blew up in his face and he was famously taken to the woodshed by Ronald Reagan, or at least pretended that he had been. So I think most of that is foolishness. I think that the budget problem we are going to face is that climate change is starting to disrupt insurance markets in really significant ways. Florida is the epicenter of that problem. And if you can’t get home insurance, you can’t get a mortgage. If you can’t get a mortgage, it is hard to find a buyer for your house. And the end of the insurance to mortgage to property value cascade is what the chief economist for Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, not a green group, described as a coastal property values crash. And we are seeing its twin in wildfire country, as well. I think back to the looming economic danger, of course, Trump pretends that this is all a hoax and pays no attention to the reality of it. So we are headed for the cliff."