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House Passes Budget Paving Way for Tax Cuts · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 2: Let's head out to DC for the latest. When it
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  Speaker 2: comes to the potential budget. House Republicans past a budget
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  Speaker 2: blueprint on Tuesday, still has to go to the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like tax cut chances are rising, although it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't come without cuts to some major programs potentially. Eric
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  Speaker 2: Watson is a Bloomberg congressional reporter and joins us now.
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  Speaker 2: So first, Eric, just give us the lay of the land.
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  Speaker 2: What did the House pass yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: So this is a four point five trillion dollar tax
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  Speaker 3: cut blueprint. It calls for two trillion dollars and cuts
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  Speaker 3: to mandatory programs such as Medicaid and food stamps, and
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  Speaker 3: would raise the debt ceiling by four trillion dollars. This
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  Speaker 3: is the first step after it's if it was adopted
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  Speaker 3: by the Senate, then they would have to produce a
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  Speaker 3: bill that actually details the cuts. And as long as
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  Speaker 3: that bill adhere to the budget. It can pass the
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  Speaker 3: Senate with just fifty votes instead of sixty. This is
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  Speaker 3: called budget reconciliation. It's the way Obamacare was passed. It
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  Speaker 3: was the way the Inflation Reduction Act Green subsidies under
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  Speaker 3: Biden were passed. So it was really an achievement for
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  Speaker 3: Speaker Mike Johnson. The House Republican Conference has been very divided.
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  Speaker 3: You have moderates who are very worried about Medicaid cuts.
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  Speaker 3: You have conservatives who at the last minute put their
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  Speaker 3: votes and allow the bill to the budget to pass,
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  Speaker 3: but wanted even deeper cuts. They wanted to see this
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  Speaker 3: budget fully paid for itself. But Trump lobbied them and
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  Speaker 3: was back calling them at the last minute to get
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  Speaker 3: them to flip in a dramatic scene here last night.
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  Speaker 3: So this is a positive I will basically say, my
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  Speaker 3: assumption has been that the Trump tax cuts of twenty
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  Speaker 3: seventeen do get extended, but I was thinking it could
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  Speaker 3: be more like December, right up against the dead line.
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  Speaker 3: This makes it more likely that happens in May. We'll
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  Speaker 3: give businesses and individuals better heads up as far as
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  Speaker 3: tax planning. It's just a positive sign for the tax
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  Speaker 3: cuts overall.
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  Speaker 4: What are next steps?
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  Speaker 3: Eric, You know, the Senate is not really going to
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  Speaker 3: just put this House budget on the floor and pass it.
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  Speaker 3: They want to actually make larger tax cuts. They want
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  Speaker 3: to basically do something which is assume that the Trump
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  Speaker 3: tax cuts four trillion don't cost anything. This is called
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  Speaker 3: a baseline shift. That's very technical, but it would be
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  Speaker 3: kind of a budget gimmick, and then add a lot
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  Speaker 3: of things like a state tax repeal, you know, fullsome
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  Speaker 3: no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, you know,
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  Speaker 3: probably trying to make the tax cuts permanent rather than
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  Speaker 3: eight or nine years, which is what my estimate is
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  Speaker 3: of what the House bill would do as far as
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  Speaker 3: individual rate cuts. So they're going to make those changes.
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  Speaker 3: There's also more squeamishness among senators for actual spending cuts
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  Speaker 3: such as to medicaid, so they may bring that down.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm expecting substantial chain will be the backdoor negotiations,
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  Speaker 3: a compromise will emerge, and then we'll see if it
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  Speaker 3: can pass both the House and the Senate.
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  Speaker 5: Matt from Westchester writes in and asked, how about the
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  Speaker 5: salt tax deduction.
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  Speaker 3: There's you know, there's there's some runway to do that
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  Speaker 3: you know, on the House side. But I think that
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  Speaker 3: you know, basically the Senate would have to create more
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  Speaker 3: room or they would have to find deeper cuts. Now,
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of options they can do in order
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  Speaker 3: to allow for salt. You know, you could do things
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  Speaker 3: on the tax side, make it more difficult to apply
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  Speaker 3: for a child tax credit, for example, or do a
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  Speaker 3: stock buyback tax increase. But you know, it's all going
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  Speaker 3: to be very controversial and create winners and losers. But
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  Speaker 3: certainly there's a group within the House Republican Conference from
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  Speaker 3: New York, New Jersey, and California that will not vote
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  Speaker 3: for a tax bill without some kind of salt. You know,
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  Speaker 3: tax cap change. Right now, it's limited to ten thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 3: That applies to a couple as well as an individual.
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  Speaker 3: They may double it allowed to be twenty need for
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  Speaker 3: a couple. We could see another type of rise. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think it's going to be completely uncapped. It just
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  Speaker 3: costs too much.
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  Speaker 2: So how hard was it to get this done? Like
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  Speaker 2: how much corraling did President Trump have to do over
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  Speaker 2: House Republicans relatively united?
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  Speaker 3: You know, it was the House Freedom caucuss is often
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  Speaker 3: up pinned as being a big obstacle to leadership. They
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  Speaker 3: came out early on as long as they got this
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  Speaker 3: two trillion in cuts, so that's a big chunk of
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  Speaker 3: what the conservative But they're what they call the affiliates,
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  Speaker 3: people like Victorious Bart's, Thomas Massey, Tim Burchett, and Warren Davidson,
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  Speaker 3: who at the last minute were saying, we are not
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  Speaker 3: voting for this, We'll never vote for this. They were
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  Speaker 3: really dug in. In fact, there's a scene I've never
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  Speaker 3: seen in my almost twenty years up here where they
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  Speaker 3: sent everybody home. Lawmakers got in their cars, were leaving
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  Speaker 3: the capitol, and eight minutes later they said everyone come back.
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  Speaker 3: So in that was minutes I think President Trump got
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  Speaker 3: to some people, they started to flip and they ended
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  Speaker 3: up passing it. But it's a very dramatic scene here.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, even saw some Democrats coming, one who had
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  Speaker 3: just had a baby and one who had just had
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  Speaker 3: surgery coming with Walker to try to put the pressure
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  Speaker 3: on Republicans to get every vote that they needed.
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  Speaker 5: Eric got about thirty seconds left. But this seems like
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  Speaker 5: a real big win for President Trump. Does this signal
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  Speaker 5: even additional momentum for his agenda?
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  Speaker 3: It does, but you know, there's a lot of hurdles
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  Speaker 3: when right now a lot of moderates voted for this
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  Speaker 3: saying it's just a plan, there are no real cuts.
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  Speaker 3: But if you see an eight hundred billion dollar cut
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  Speaker 3: to medicate that goes beyond work requirements for able bodied adults,
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  Speaker 3: that goes beyond you know, improper payments, that's things like
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  Speaker 3: capping you know, Medicaid, a block granting into the states
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  Speaker 3: where you'll see actual you know, impoverished people go without healthcare.
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  Speaker 3: And that's going to cause I think an uproar probably
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  Speaker 3: that a lot of swing district monits are not prepared for.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, it's going to be very difficult to
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  Speaker 3: get something through because if they don't make those cuts,
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  Speaker 3: those conservatives that they also need will not vote for
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  Speaker 3: the bill.
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  Speaker 2: All I really appreciate that. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 2: joining us, great reporting. Eric Watson, a Bloomberg Congression reporter,
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  Speaker 2: literally joining us in a hall somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, that's the capital rotanda underneath the Trumbelt chaining.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: My point was that he's like in the in the weeds,
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  Speaker 2: is my point.
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  Speaker 4: That's the surrender a morning's.
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  Speaker 7: On the ground.
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  Speaker 2: He's that kind of waning.
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  Speaker 4: Is the painting of the surrender of General We're Goyne.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: I think we're getting caught up in the need for energy.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, And many of the suppliers are from overseas as well,
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  Speaker 7: Well, I'll say something that may not be popular, but
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  Speaker 7: I'll still say it.
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  Speaker 4: I think that.
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  Speaker 7: The problem is still the problem. The grid needs to
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  Speaker 7: the big guys from Europe?
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  Speaker 4: And what we found is that like Semens, it could be.
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  Speaker 7: Semens or ABB locally here in the US a small
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  Speaker 7: company called General Electric. But what we've found is over
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  Speaker 7: the past several years, our largest competitors have become very
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  Speaker 7: good customers. And what we've found is what we offer,
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  Speaker 7: the uniqueness of what we do and the service that
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  Speaker 7: we provide, it complements their offering. And I think they're
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  Speaker 7: starting to understand that we're not really a threat per
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  Speaker 7: se to their business. We're a helpful solution to the
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  Speaker 7: end customer.
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  Speaker 2: What inputs do you need for your business? So? What
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  Speaker 2: things are tight for you? What things do you want
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  Speaker 2: to help change?
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  Speaker 7: When you say inputs, I think supply chaining.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm and that's what I'm trying to get at.
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  Speaker 2: So is it like the raw materials that you need
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  Speaker 2: to build stuff in the US to them sell.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, almost everything.
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  Speaker 7: That we make in the US. So probably eighty five
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  Speaker 7: percent of our businesses here home in the US, manufactured here.
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  Speaker 7: Almost all of our supply chain, probably more than ninety
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  Speaker 7: five ninety six percent, is sourced in the US. So
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  Speaker 7: the current ap climate really puts us in a unique
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  Speaker 7: opportunity that we may have unique opportunities presented to us
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  Speaker 7: because we are American, American, made by Americans, supplied mostly
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  Speaker 7: by American suppliers. When people talk about tariffs and these
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  Speaker 7: kind of external policies, they don't have a great impact
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  Speaker 7: on what we do now. They may how things are
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  Speaker 7: going to sort out. There's a lot of rhetoric and
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  Speaker 7: then we'll see how reality translates from that reetarc and
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  Speaker 7: really what gets put in place. But a lot of
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  Speaker 7: this is trying to push the country in a certain direction,
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  Speaker 7: and I think that general direction is good for us.
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  Speaker 4: So are you having conversations with your customers now?
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  Speaker 5: They may be calling you and saying, hey, Dan, we're
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  Speaker 5: a little nervous about what might be happening over the
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  Speaker 5: next three, six, twelve months in terms of terrors. Are
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  Speaker 5: they are you seeing that in your order flow or
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  Speaker 5: are you seeing that maybe just in conversations you're having.
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  Speaker 7: We're seeing that from companies in Canada, Mexico, we're seeing
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  Speaker 7: that to some extent some companies on the continent of Europe,
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  Speaker 7: but certainly in the US they're comforted by the fact
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  Speaker 7: of where we make it and how we make it,
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  Speaker 7: and where we source products from.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the headlines over the last couple of days
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  Speaker 2: have evolved around tariffs on things like steel, aluminum. Copper
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  Speaker 2: was thrown into the mix yesterday. If that winds up
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  Speaker 2: denting demand as and we're not going to build as
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  Speaker 2: much manufacturing or industrial sites because it's just really expensive,
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  Speaker 2: how does that trickle to you?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I think the opposite's going to happen. The need
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  Speaker 7: is going to persist. The question is can it absorb
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  Speaker 7: the cost, And there's gonna have to be a way
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  Speaker 7: to figure that out and find that out. But I
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  Speaker 7: think all of the things that go into the electric
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  Speaker 7: grid use all those materials, so they're gonna have to
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  Speaker 7: get sources. And if it makes American sourced product more competitive,
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  Speaker 7: then so be it. From my standpoint, it doesn't directly
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  Speaker 7: affect us because we're already sourcing most of our principal
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  Speaker 7: equipment from the US.
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  Speaker 4: Interesting, all right, Dan, great, thanks for joining us. Really
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  Speaker 4: appreciate it.
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  Speaker 5: Dan again, a MSc. That's American Semiconductor Corporation. They're up
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  Speaker 5: there in Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 4: It's a public trading company. On this deck.
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  Speaker 5: AMSC is the ticker I put in there. So we
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  Speaker 5: appreciate that. Dan coming into our Bloomberg Interactive Brookers Studio
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  Speaker 5: in New York City, Red Sox.
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  Speaker 7: Fan of course.
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  Speaker 5: Oh jeez, all right, what are you gonna do?
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  Speaker 2: going to be in Vidia at the closing bill. The
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  Speaker 6: Well, certainly is the event of the day. Look, it's
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  Speaker 4: How do you feel about that?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think I think Navidia's valuation has never been
• 15:36
  Speaker 6: a reason why, you know, the stock has done what
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: it's done. And what I mean by that is, you know,
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: the multiple expansion hasn't been the driver of the stock.
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: It's been earning's growth. In fact, I think most Byside
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: investors expect calendar or twenty twenty six earnings to be
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: in the neighborhood of six dollars a share, and at
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: today's price, you know, that's just a modest mind, just
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: premium to the S and P five hundred, despite you know,
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: much better growth, much better margins, much better kind of
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: end market health relative to the rest of both technology
• 16:11
  Speaker 6: as well as the overall market. So you know, to me,
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: evaluation has never really been you know, the the kind
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: of headwind to kind of buying the video. You know, really,
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: I think the question a lot of investors have is,
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: you know, does this investment wave from hyperscalers, does that persist?
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: Can you underwrite a long term revenue base that grows
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: from this kind of high levels that exists today.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: And just in breaking news for you guys kind of
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: in this vein is Amazon announcing a rebuilt Alexa assistant
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: with generative AI. It will be renamed Alexa Plus. So
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: just you know, creative, right, we call ours Echo because
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Alex Alexa it can get confusing.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: In our household.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, so it's fair enough. Okay, So back
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: to Nvidia for a moment. You talk about the product transition.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: This is also happening at a time when Nvidia is
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: reporting earnings for the first time in twenty twenty two
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: that shares are down and kind of into the report.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: So I'm wondering what we're going to hear that on
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: the deep seek side potentially, which is what we really
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: set things off.
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that you're going to probably hear Jensen
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: talk about this as being a catalyst for a more
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: broad based AI adoption and not necessarily a headwind to
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: Navidia's business, you know, Looking at DCK specifically, I think
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: it's pretty clear by now that they didn't build their
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: own foundational model. They optimize what was out there, and
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: it's not slowing down importantly what hyper skills are doing
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: in terms of investing. You know, a lot of hyper
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: scale investments end up being revenues for Navidia. And if
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: you look at what was expected in terms of CAPEX
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: from you know, the likes of Microsoft, Amazon, Google Meta
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: or from the start of the year Tilt today, it's
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: been revised higher by twenty percent and year on your
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: growth of capex is in the area code of around
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: thirty three percent per year over year every year. So
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: it's still a very healthy spending and investment investment environment.
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: And you know a lot of those dollars again find
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: their way over to the video.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: So I'm just going at the Bloomberg terminal here.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: The consensus for the quarter in terms of revenue is
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: about thirty just a little more than thirty eight billion.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Is there a whisper number out there, Matt that you're
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: looking for both for this quarter and maybe for guidance
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: for the next quarter.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the whisper is around forty where the
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: where the buy side sits. And then if you look
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: out to guidance around forty two and a half. You know,
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: n Video got it to thirty seven and a half
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: for the fourth quarter, and they only guy one quarter
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: at a time, and so you know, looking at kind
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: of where that sits relative to sell syde consensus, that's
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: a little bit higher. But again you're in the midst
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: of this product transition, and so the historical pattern of
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: the video delivering two billion above the current quarter and
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: guiding to two billion in excess of seal side consensus,
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: you might be a little bit questionable here just given
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: you know, they're in black welve. It's just more of
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: a complex product and it's taking a little bit longer
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: to ramp up the supply chain there.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: What's going to be the read through for Nvidia on
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: some of its peers, and I use peers a little
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: loosely here.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: Well, certainly a healthy na Vidia report is going to
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: translate into likely a move higher. As well as to
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: some of the video's competitors. You know, I think if
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: you're looking at direct competitors to the video, you know,
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: broadcome comes to mind, Marvel comes to mind. They do
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: operate in a little bit different, a little bit different
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: segment of artificial intelligence because they're you know, the customer
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: basic manufacturers for the lesive Google as well as for
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: UH as well as for Amazon. You know, I think
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: those are those are a little bit different than the
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: video because it's the merchant GPU provider, and let's not
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: forget you know, the video does own ninety percent of
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: this market, so they're the big gorilla in.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: The room for sure.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Exactly all right, Matt, thanks so much for joining us.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: Really appreciate giving us a little preview there of Nvidia
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Air for the clothes, Matt Stuckey, he's a chief portfolio
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: manager filling the equity stuff for Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: out there in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• 20:29
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