I gathered my thoughts, preparing to point out the hypocrisy of the GOP’s argument to “move education back to the states” when they’d imposed a SALT cap in Trump’s first term that punished residents of high-tax states, especially working people like myself. At that time, Donald Trump had just nominated Matt Gaetz to be his attorney general, a man literally under investigation for the sex trafficking of a minor. Avian flu outbreaks increased the price of eggs, and in response, we gave the nuclear codes back to Trump, whose former chief of staff, Gen. Mark Milley, called “the most dangerous man in America.”