Eating Doritos while drowning in debt | Reason Roundtable | June 24, 2024

In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman lament the latest dire forecast from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) last week forecasting a $2 trillion budget deficit in 2024.

00:00 - $2 trillion federal budget deficit

21:17 - Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump on immigration

37:02 - Weekly Listener Question

46:23 - Revisiting Anthony Fauci and COVID-19 origins

55:18 - This week's cultural recommendations

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Audio production by Ian Keyser; assistant production by Hunt Beaty.

Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve

Video Editor: Ian Keyser
Producer: Hunt Beaty