DOJ Goes After Comey, Mamdani Budget Woes, & The Hidden Forces That Are Devastating Us Financially | Tom Bilyeu Show Live!

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• Bilyeu argues Mamdani manufactured NYC's budget crisis himself by proposing $127 billion in spending — roughly 15% above the prior year — and is lying when he claims there is no path to balance without new revenue.
• Bilyeu points out that NYC's City Council Speaker Menon, a Democratic ally, proposed a plan to close the entire ~$6 billion budget gap without tax hikes or service cuts, which Mamdani rejected the same day as 'unrealistic,' undermining his claim that cuts are impossible.
• Bilyeu argues that inflation is not the reported 2-3% figure but is systematically understated because innovation should naturally produce deflation — lower prices and higher quality — every year, and money printing eats through all of that plus more.
• Bilyeu contends that the foundational cause of the K-shaped economy and middle-class decline is not corporate greed or immigration but deficit spending by politicians and money printing by central bankers, which functions as an invisible tax on everyone holding dollars.
• Bilyeu cites a 1999 paper by economists Lott and Kenny showing government spending roughly doubled within 10 years of women gaining suffrage in each state, and argues this century of data helps explain the structural growth of the welfare state, though he explicitly opposes repealing the 19th Amendment.
• Bilyeu strongly condemns the DOJ's felony charges against Comey for the '8647' seashells post, arguing the most natural reading of '86' is 'get rid of,' not 'kill,' and that pursuing the case sets a dangerous precedent that will ultimately harm free speech for everyone.
• Bilyeu warns the Trump administration that pursuing legally dubious cases like Comey's and the FCC investigation of Kimmel makes Republicans look unstable compared to their opponents and will backfire by pushing undecided people toward political teams for self-protection.
• Bilyeu argues that the EU's Industrial Accelerator Act, which requires minimum European content in EVs, steel, and other strategic sectors, is necessary and smart industrial policy to reduce dependence on Chinese supply chains, mirroring what the U.S. has been attempting since 2018.
• Bilyeu claims the UAE leaving OPEC is a positive signal toward free markets that could lower global oil prices by adding up to one million extra barrels per day, and sees it as part of a broader Middle East strategy to transition from oil wealth to becoming a global hub for tourism and capital.
• Bilyeu argues that the federal minimum wage is counterproductive at the national level because blanket mandates destroy entry-level jobs in competitive markets, though he acknowledges it can have limited positive effects in hyper-local markets where employers have monopolistic control over labor.
• Bilyeu argues that America has calcified into a de facto caste system where being born poor increasingly means dying poor, which he calls a betrayal of the American ethos, driven by nanny-state policies that punish savers, incentivize poor educational choices through government-backed loans, and redirect tax revenue to bureaucracy rather than productive infrastructure.
• Bilyeu claims that Iran faces a critical 22-day window before running out of oil storage capacity due to the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, after which they would need to shut down oil machinery — a process that can take months or years to restart — creating an economic crisis that may force them to the negotiating table before a congressional showdown with Trump.

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