The Biden administration bans horse patrols at the border, the Dems struggle to put together their giant budget, and AOC cries about Jews defending themselves. Ben Shapiro is the host of The Ben Shapiro Show on the Fox Business Network.
00:00:00.000The Biden administration bans horse patrols at the border, the Democrats struggle to put together their giant budget, and AOC cries about Jews defending themselves.
00:00:21.000Slash Ben will get to all the news in just one moment.
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00:01:29.000The Biden administration is faced with this crisis on the border.
00:01:32.000They're apparently trying to empty this thing out as fast as possible.
00:01:35.000It's like Gavin Newsom emptying out all the freeway underpasses right before the recall election.
00:01:39.000And all the homeless people are back, by the way.
00:01:40.000I'm in California right now, and I just went and checked under the freeway underpasses.
00:01:43.000They are all back because Gavin Newsom was not, in fact, recalled.
00:01:47.000So Joe Biden is doing the same thing at the southern border.
00:01:49.000Apparently, a lot of the southern border area under this Del Rio Bridge was cleared, but there's still about 5,000 people who apparently are staying there, according to Politico. A report from Renuka Rayasam over at Politico saying that things There's still 5,000 people in the camp.
00:02:06.000That's much lower than the 15,000 person peak.
00:02:08.000Mexico has cracked down on the Acuna side, so it'll be difficult for more people to show up.
00:02:12.000I guess maybe by the beginning of next week, there'll be very few people left, if any, but it's still a zoo because there are so many people, it's hard for volunteers to keep up.
00:02:18.000He said, I met some asylum seekers at the airport.
00:02:20.000They said they would be sleeping on the bench.
00:02:22.000I gave them the number to the Haitian Bridge Alliance to see if they could help them find accommodations.
00:02:26.000They said, there's nothing in a hundred mile radius.
00:02:28.000They have the money to buy a hotel room, but no options.
00:02:30.000So they've been sleeping on the streets.
00:02:32.000So things are obviously going really, really well over at the southern border and the Biden administration has come up with a solution.
00:02:39.000They're going to blame it on the horses.
00:02:40.000So you remember over the past several days, there's been this myth that Border Patrol is going around and whipping Haitian migrants, like whipping them, like taking whips and hitting them with the whips.
00:02:52.000Well, as it turned out, those are called horse reins, and you use them when you are riding a horse.
00:02:57.000As I said yesterday, I may not be much of a cowboy, but I've seen enough cowboy movies to know what it looks like when you hit a horse on the flanks with the reins of the horse.
00:03:07.000Apparently, the Biden administration, however, has fallen full scale into the narrative that the border patrol here are the bad guys.
00:03:14.000And so they've decided there will be no more horse patrols.
00:03:17.000They're actually suspending one of the parts of the border patrol that actually polices the border in the middle of a border crisis in order to satiate the idiotic media who don't know how horses work.
00:03:30.000Nick Miroff over at the Washington Post reports, the Biden administration has now directed U.S.
00:03:34.000border officials to suspend patrols by agents on horseback in the Del Rio, Texas migrant camp.
00:03:40.000Saki said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told civil rights leaders Thursday morning we would no longer be using horses in Del Rio.
00:03:48.000We feel those images are horrible and horrific.
00:03:51.000There is an investigation the president certainly supports overseen by the Department of Homeland Security, which he has conveyed will happen quickly.
00:04:00.000I can also convey to you that the secretary also conveyed to civil rights leaders earlier this morning that we would no longer be using horses in Del Rio.
00:04:09.000So that is something, a policy change that has been made in response.
00:04:22.000Well, the main point is all of this is just horse s***, because there is no rationale for it whatsoever.
00:04:29.000Okay, they literally took the people who are police— what, are they gonna put them on segways out there?
00:04:33.000Like, this is rough terrain in the middle of a river.
00:04:34.000So you're just gonna have Paul Blart, border patrol agent, wandering around there out on his segway, trying to stop people from crossing the border illegally.
00:04:44.000Because, of course, it is never about actually solving the problem.
00:04:47.000It is just about the political spin of the moment.
00:04:49.000This administration has no long-term vision, other than just spending oodles of money and making lots of people dependent.
00:04:53.000They have no long-term strategic vision.
00:04:55.000Everything is just news cycle of the moment.
00:04:58.000And honestly, some of this is due to social media and just the nature of things, which is that if you just wait long enough, it will get out of the news, right?
00:05:04.000We still have thousands of green card holders stuck behind enemy lines thanks to the Taliban and the Biden administration, and no one cares anymore.
00:05:13.000It's not even the end of September yet, okay?
00:05:15.000We only left like a little over three weeks ago, and everyone just forgot about the tens of thousands of SIV holders and the thousands of green card holders in Afghanistan, and the Taliban are taking over, and their leadership is saying, we're chopping off heads.
00:05:27.000Once again, they're back and better than ever.
00:05:31.000The boys are back and they're ready to chop off some hands.
00:05:34.000And the Biden administration is like, well, the news cycle moved on.
00:05:47.000And so every answer from Jen Psaki is not directed at actually providing information.
00:05:50.000It's all directed at kind of these snarky little comebacks that don't make any sense if you think about them for 10 seconds.
00:05:55.000So for example, Peter Doocy is asking about the fact that there are a bunch of people who are being deported into the inter- not deported, they're being shipped into the interior of the United States.
00:06:02.000There have been reports now from the Associated Press, from NBC News, that people are literally just being released into the interior of the United States, and all women have to do to be released is claim that they are pregnant.
00:06:11.000Which means that the border is not actually under control.
00:06:14.000So Peter Doocy asks Psaki about this, and listen to her answer.
00:06:17.000And the entire media's like, SLAY QUEEN!
00:07:06.000I'm not aware of pregnant women being a big issue of concern to people at the border.
00:07:10.000That's not even what Ducey was talking about. What Ducey was saying is you obviously don't have control of the border. You're letting people in. You're not testing people for COVID.
00:07:18.000You're not testing people who claim they're pregnant so that they can just come into the country. So why exactly would we believe that you have any significant standards for how the border is being policed? And instead, Psaki's like, what? What do you have against pregnant women?
00:07:28.000You don't like pregnant women? Are you saying these women are lying about their pregnancy?
00:07:31.000Don't you know, believe all women? What in the hell are you talking about? That's not even the question. Like if you ask her a question that doesn't fit into the neat little intersectional box, just rams it into the intersectional box and the entire media cheers like a bunch of crazy people.
00:07:45.000Meanwhile, you got this administration ripping its own Haiti envoy.
00:07:50.000The special envoy to Haiti quit because they looked at the Biden administration policies and they said, this is idiotic.
00:07:55.000Either you gotta let people in or you gotta not let people in, but you can't do this sort of half-assed routine.
00:07:59.000So Psaki just starts ripping her own Haiti envoy.
00:08:02.000Imagine if the special envoy to Haiti under Donald Trump had quit and then Trump had gotten up and admit that guy's an idiot, he doesn't know anything, he's the worst.
00:08:09.000It'd be like, look at him, disrespecting members of his own administration.
00:08:43.000In just a second, we'll get to the fact that Democrats on the border who actually have to live in these areas are still pretty ticked about all of this and it has not, in fact, been solved.
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00:09:53.000Okay, so even Democrats are looking at the Biden administration and saying, this is ridiculous.
00:10:00.000Democratic Representative Frederica Wilson, who until now was most famous for wearing crazy hats, she says, Haitian immigrants are showing up because they hear that the border is open.
00:10:08.000There are cottage industries that have grown around the border where we have people, smugglers, who are passing information to Haitian refugees, Haitian immigrants that come.
00:10:26.000The border is open so they have saved their money.
00:10:29.000They have paid That is Frederica Wilson, a Democrat from Florida.
00:10:33.000Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar is saying the same thing.
00:10:36.000He's saying, listen, remember that time when they sent Kamala Harris down here and she was supposed to solve everything?
00:10:39.000It turns out Kamala Harris has never been able to solve a single thing.
00:10:44.000You point out these tens of thousands of Haitian migrants that we know about in Latin America, possibly making their way north, hoping to get to the border between Mexico and the U.S.
00:10:56.000In the wake of Vice President Harris's trip to Latin America, what do you think the impact has been?
00:11:15.000Because the Biden administration has no actual policy, they just have, what can we do at this moment to just get beyond what exactly is the issue?
00:11:22.000Whatever we can do at this moment to get beyond the issue.
00:11:24.000Okay, so what is the actual long-term vision here?
00:11:26.000As I've said, there's no actual strategy here.
00:11:37.000We'll just tax everything that moves, and we'll spend ungodly amounts of money, effectively nationalizing half of American industries through regulation.
00:11:46.000Either overtly nationalizing industries, or by expanding things like Medicaid and Medicare, or actively using regulations to the extent that effectively the government has prevented you from all of your property rights being exercised.
00:12:00.000The right to property is not merely the right to own anything.
00:12:03.000It is the right to dispose of that thing.
00:12:36.000Now, none of this applies to Joe Biden himself.
00:12:39.000According to a report in the New York Post, quote, Republicans say a new nonpartisan report indicates President Joe Biden improperly avoided paying Medicare taxes before he took office, raising eyebrows and the possibility he now owes the IRS as much as a half million dollars in back taxes.
00:12:55.000Biden is leading a Democratic push for a $3.5 trillion bill to subsidize childcare, education, and healthcare by targeting tax avoidance.
00:13:01.000But a House Ways and Means Committee draft of the bill would end an accounting trick apparently exploited by Biden and boost IRS funding for audits.
00:13:09.000According to Jim Banks, who is the chairman of the Conservative Republican Study Committee from Indiana, Joe Biden wants to raise taxes by $2.1 trillion while claiming the rich need to pay their fair share.
00:13:18.000But in 2017, multimillionaire Joe Biden skirted his payroll taxes, the very taxes that fund Medicare and Obamacare.
00:13:24.000According to the criteria provided by the congressional research to my office, he owes the IRS and the American people hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes.
00:13:32.000Every American should know about Joe Biden's tax hypocrisy.
00:13:34.000By the way, it doesn't just apply to Joe Biden.
00:13:48.000We're supposed to treat him like a wayward child, even though he is like 15 years, 16 years older than I am.
00:13:52.000We're supposed to treat him like he's a wayward child.
00:13:53.000He's well into his fifties at this point.
00:13:55.000Okay, but apparently Hunter Biden, when he's not trying to sell his finger paint things for millions of dollars in a pretty obvious bribery operation, when he's not doing that, apparently, according to Business Insider, he's attempting to leverage his daddy's job in order to make money.
00:14:12.000And this goes all the way back to when his daddy was VP.
00:14:14.000According to Business Insider, two previously unpublished emails sent by business contacts of Hunter Biden indicate the president's son requested an annual retainer of two million bucks.
00:14:23.000To help recover billions in Libyan assets frozen by the Obama administration.
00:14:27.000The emails obtained by Insider during reporting on an unrelated matter are not connected to the controversial emails from Hunter Biden's laptop.
00:14:33.000While it appears from the new emails that the Libya deal was never consummated, the document offers a window into the mechanics of Beltway influence peddling and the stock that was put in Biden's political connections, particularly his relationship with his daddy, who was VP at the time.
00:14:46.000The first email, dated January 28, 2015, was sent from Sam Jawari, a Democratic donor with businesses in the Persian Gulf who has helped spearheading a Libya project.
00:14:56.000It was addressed to Sheikh Mohammed al-Rahbani, another Obama campaign donor, involved in the proposal.
00:15:01.000In the email, Jahauri is frank about what Biden would bring to the table and what he says Biden wants it in return.
00:15:06.000Quote, per phone conversation I met with number two son.
00:15:09.000He wants two million bucks per year retainer plus success fees.
00:15:18.000His positives are he is chairman of the UN World Food Program, son of number two who has Libya file, access to state treasury business partners, secretary of state John F. Kerry, son, and since he travels with dad, he's connected everywhere in Europe and Asia.
00:15:30.000He has said he has access to the highest levels in PRC and can help there as well.
00:15:34.000His negatives are that he is an alcoholic, drug addict, kicked out of the U.S.
00:15:38.000Army for cocaine, chasing low-class hookers, constantly needs money liquidity problems, and many more headaches.
00:15:44.000We should meet in G-Strad or London to decide next steps.
00:15:53.000Accurate summing up of everything related to Hunter Biden.
00:15:58.000But again, the rule is, you can be rich, and you can influence Petal, and you can be corrupt as all hell, as long as you proclaim that you are for the socialist ideal of complete redistribution of income.
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00:17:23.000Meanwhile, the White House is still struggling to iron out its budget differences.
00:17:26.000According to Politico.com today, Democratic leaders' efforts to infuse momentum into turbulent negotiations over President Joe Biden's social spending plans are falling flat so far with key players on Capitol Hill.
00:17:37.000As Congress hurdles toward a crucial week that could make or break Biden's agenda, centrists and progressives remain largely unmoved from their entrenched positions.
00:17:45.000That leaves Speaker Nancy Pelosi days away from a vote on a $550 billion Senate-passed infrastructure bill without a clear path to passage.
00:17:53.000So you remember that there is this bipartisan infrastructure bill.
00:17:55.000The kind of bare-bones infrastructure bill passed by the Senate is $550 billion.
00:18:00.000Moderates are demanding that she hold the vote because she promised she was going to do that.
00:18:03.000Progressives are calling for delay and they're vowing to tank the legislation as long as they don't get their giant social spending bill, the $3.5 trillion spending bill.
00:18:12.000Representative Lou Correa, Democrat of California, says, you're witnessing democracy in full bloom.
00:18:16.000Everyone wants to be heard and acknowledge Nancy's a magician.
00:18:20.000Pelosi and her team hope that projecting progress in the talks, both with a framework of financing mechanisms announced Thursday and plans for the House Budget Committee to mark up the still-unfinished package this weekend, will satisfy progressives enough to back off their threats.
00:18:32.000Pelosi says, But of course, there's no guarantee that in the Senate, the giant $3.5 trillion bill is going to pass if infrastructure does pass.
00:18:43.000Right now, the progressives are saying, we will hold up infrastructure to get our $3.5 trillion bill.
00:18:48.000And the moderates are saying, pass our infrastructure, and we're still not going to vote for your $3.5 trillion bill.
00:19:12.000So basically Pelosi and Schumer are trying to just ram this through with happy talk.
00:19:17.000Even with next week's vote looming, Democrats path forward is murky at best as Politico with moderates and progressives locked in a public standoff over Biden's two spending priorities.
00:19:25.000Earlier in the day, Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer delivered a cryptic announcement that they, along with the White House, had agreed to a framework of options to pay for their social spending ambitions.
00:19:34.000An effort meant to show forward momentum in these stalled negotiations.
00:19:38.000House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said, I think having a framework will add more confidence to people as to what we're planning on doing.
00:19:43.000One of the big problems is people aren't sure what's going on.
00:19:46.000House Budget Committee Chair John Yarmuth later announced Democrats' plans to mark up the massive package on Saturday, admitting it would be more procedural than substantive because the bill isn't even done yet.
00:19:56.000Republicans can force symbolic political votes, which would drag the process out for hours, but the budget panel can't make any binding changes.
00:20:02.000There's still no budget scorecards from the Congressional Budget Office, which are necessary in order to even pass this thing through reconciliation.
00:20:10.000The framework announcement came after Pelosi and Schumer emerged from a meeting with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and White House advisor Brian Deese and Congress' top tax writers.
00:20:17.000Democratic leaders were mum on the details, refusing to say whether a spate of financing ideas will allow them to move forward next week with either their up to $3.5 trillion spending package or the bipartisan infrastructure plan.
00:20:27.000So it looks like kind of a mess at the moment.
00:20:31.000Right now, again, the moderates are saying, we are not spending this much money.
00:20:34.000And progressives are saying, we're not going to vote for the bipartisan bill.
00:20:38.000Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders is cheering this framework that still has not been revealed.
00:20:43.000He says Democrats could pay for this whole thing and absolutely make sure they follow through on Biden's promise to not increase taxes on families making under $400,000 a year.
00:20:51.000He says the truth is, it's not hard to come up with approaches to do away with the tax cap and to demand the wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share of taxes.
00:20:59.000You could do a lot more than $3.5 trillion Once again, Bernie only cares about spending other people's money.
00:21:05.000He himself has that third lake out, so he's pretty secure.
00:21:08.000So what exactly is this framework on tax hikes that we are talking about right now?
00:21:14.000The first word of a potential compromise arrived earlier Thursday when Pelosi and Schumer said the party had worked with the White House on a menu of options, but the reality is a little bit more complicated.
00:21:22.000Reflecting instead, the talks continue on some of the thorny issues.
00:21:25.000In some areas, Democrats have already agreed.
00:21:27.000They want to raise the top tax rate to almost 40% from 37%.
00:21:31.000But on corporate tax increases, lawmakers want to raise rates, but don't see eye to eye on the amount.
00:21:35.000And of course, they want to radically increase the capital gains tax, which is something that Joe Biden is pushing really hard and then is lying about.
00:21:44.000Even by Thursday afternoon, Democrats in the House and Senate said, we really have not seen any details here.
00:21:47.000You just keep saying things and you're not actually showing us anything.
00:21:51.000So this has forced Joe Biden to just lie about stuff.
00:21:55.000So we'll get to Joe Biden's latest lie with regard to taxes in just one second.
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00:23:15.000This is according to a new analysis from the Biden administration.
00:23:20.000Well, um, there's only one problem with that, which is just, it's not true.
00:23:56.000You can say that Bob, down the street, who's paid no capital gains on the incremental increase of the value of his home, he's paying a far lower income tax rate than you thought he was paying.
00:24:08.000The analysis by economists from the OMB and the White House Council of Economic Advisors drew from publicly available data and said the disparity is driven largely by how the tax code treats income generated from wealth, such as income from stocks, whose worth increases over time, rather than wages, which are immediately taxed.
00:24:55.000If I never sell my stock, by the way, I have not realized the gain or the loss.
00:25:00.000Of course, you shouldn't be taxed the same way on income that you are on investment.
00:25:04.000Now, one thing that Joe Biden is attempting to cash in on is the fact that most people in the United States are wage earners as opposed to people who are entrepreneurs or investors.
00:25:14.000But if you remove the incentive for entrepreneurs to be entrepreneurs and investors to invest, you'll get less investment and less entrepreneurialism and more wage base.
00:25:22.000There's more security in not taking the risk than there isn't taking the risk.
00:25:25.000Nobody ever thinks about the sort of unforeseen economic consequences of this sort of stupidity.
00:25:31.000Okay, so let's talk about this for a second.
00:25:33.000Why we tax these two forms of income differently.
00:25:36.000The reason we tax capital gains differently from how we tax, for example, employment income is because employment income is very secure.
00:25:54.000They've taken no risk because they're walking into work and they are doing their job and they are getting paid.
00:25:59.000On the other end of the spectrum, those of us who are owners of The Daily Wire have taken a significant amount of risk.
00:26:04.000We've put our own money in, for example, or we took lower salaries in order to start the company, or we took out mortgages on our homes, or we went and we got somebody else to take the risk by putting money in, but then we took on the burden of having to pay those people back over the course of time.
00:26:20.000None of my employees have to pay back our investors over the course of time.
00:26:44.000Nobody ever talks about the fact that when you talk about the average profit of investors, the average profit, those are the people who stay the investors in a business.
00:26:54.000Oh, look at the rate of return for entrepreneurs who succeed.
00:26:57.000You never talk about the people who go bankrupt.
00:27:00.000Okay, we try to incentivize risk-taking because if it were not for the risk-takers, if it were not for the entrepreneurs, if it were not for the people who invest their money, if it weren't for you investing your money in the stock market, right?
00:27:09.000And providing capital so that businesses can use that to hire people, no one gets hired.
00:27:14.000Employees do not exist without employers.
00:27:17.000Employers do not exist without risk-taking, and investment, and innovation.
00:27:21.000And if you cut all of the benefits of innovation and investment, you may as well turn everybody into a wage earner.
00:27:26.000The problem is, then there's no one left to pay the wages.
00:27:29.000This is why we tax these two forms of income differently.
00:27:36.000He says, how is it possible for millionaires and billionaires that can pay a lower rate of tax than teachers, firefighters, or law enforcement officers?
00:27:43.000Again, teachers, firefighters, and law enforcement officers are wage earners.
00:27:46.000This is not any sort of degradation of what wage earners do.
00:27:51.000They also are not the people who own the company and take the risk of having to forfeit their house if something goes wrong on the job.
00:27:57.000The worst that happens to somebody who's a wage earner.
00:27:59.000I've been a wage earner in my career also, right?
00:28:00.000I've worked for companies where I was not an owner in the company.
00:28:03.000And the risk that I took is that the company went under, but that risk didn't attach to me.
00:28:07.000It was just, I would have to go find another job or that I screw up at my job.
00:28:12.000But if I've leveraged my entire life in order to start a business, that's a bit more of a gamble, is it not?
00:28:19.000So Biden is hoping that because so many people are employees as opposed to employers, then we can have the employee base tax the employers.
00:28:27.000And it was often said in the 18th century, 19th century by political philosophers that the moment that you could essentially have people tax other people to pay for their benefits, then the entire system would collapse.
00:28:39.000The more he makes people dependent, and then that dependency is paid for by people who are not those people, the more you can get people to vote for that kind of stuff.
00:28:48.000And it's all well and good until the entire system collapses.
00:28:51.000It's all well and good until there is no one left to do the innovation.
00:28:55.000The Biden administration says they want the wealthiest Americans to quote, pay their fair share.
00:28:59.000Their proposal includes raising the income tax bracket for the wealthiest Americans back up to almost 40% from 37%.
00:29:05.000By the way, the United States has one of the most progressive income tax rates in the world.
00:29:10.000The rich pay way more taxes than people at the bottom of the spectrum.
00:29:13.000The bottom 50% of incomers in the United States essentially pay zero income tax.
00:29:17.000The top 10% of income earners in the United States pay virtually all of the income tax in the United States.
00:29:22.000The top 1% pay something like 40% of all of the income tax in the United States.
00:29:28.000So Democrats agree that we'll raise the taxable income, but they also want to include capital gains for households making more than a million bucks each year at the same tax rate, 39.6 instead of 20%, doubling the tax rate on capital gains.
00:29:44.000However, among Democrats, there's still some disagreement.
00:29:47.000In a bill unveiled last week, House Democrats proposed raising the top capital gains rates from 20% to 25%, which is a lot less than Biden wanted.
00:29:53.000Instead, they wanted a 3% surtax on individuals making more than $5 million.
00:29:58.000It didn't address wealth passed from generation to generation.
00:30:00.000Democrats want to tax you for passing on your wealth to your children, which is one of the reasons you care about earning additional wealth.
00:30:07.000You think that if I didn't care about passing on wealth to my kids, I would continue working as hard as I do?
00:30:20.000And hell, I mean, if you're maxing out what I can give to my kids, I may as well take them on vacations and spend all the money now before I die.
00:30:27.000Biden has vowed not to raise taxes on those making less than $400,000 a year.
00:30:58.000According to the Washington Post, the White House Budget Office notified federal agencies on Thursday to begin preparations for the first shutdown of the U.S.
00:31:05.000Administration officials stress the request is in line with traditional procedures seven days ahead of a shutdown and not a comment on the likelihood of a congressional deal.
00:31:12.000Both Democrats and Republicans have made clear they will fund the government before the funding expires on September 30th.
00:31:18.000Lawmakers are aiming to resolve an enormous set of tasks in a matter of weeks.
00:31:22.000House Democrats earlier this week approved a measure to fund the government, suspend the debt ceiling, and approve emergency aid such as disaster relief.
00:31:29.000But that plan is expected to die in the Senate because GOP is not going to support Democratic attempts to lift the debt ceiling so long as the Democrats immediately plan to ram through a $3.5 trillion budget plan.
00:31:39.000With the first of two major deadlines looming next week, Democrats publicly maintain current course.
00:31:43.000They have pledged to put the House-backed bill before the Senate that would fund the government into December and allow the country to borrow freely throughout most of 2022.
00:31:49.000of 2022. Senate Majority Leader Schumer said, quote, every single member of this chamber is going to go on record as to whether they support keeping the government open and averting a default or support shutting us down and careening our country toward a first ever default.
00:32:00.000Well, I mean, the Democrats could avert the default by not pledging to spend more money than God has ever seen. Privately, Democrats are beginning to acknowledge they're unlikely to prevail in the face of a GOP blockade.
00:32:13.000Democrats have started discussing the mechanics of how to sidestep Republicans as soon as next week.
00:32:19.000We're looking at all the options, but a government shutdown is not acceptable, says Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland.
00:32:25.000Many government functions are financed through spending bills that must be approved by Congress, including things from the military to education programs before one fiscal year ends and the next begins.
00:32:33.000Alternatively, lawmakers can pass short-term measures that sustain existing funding to buy themselves time.
00:32:38.000Absent those actions, the money runs out, resulting in a full or partial shutdown.
00:32:42.000Now, missing the deadline doesn't bring all government operations to immediate halt.
00:32:45.000Every time there's a bit of a government shutdown, and this has happened several times in the last 10 years, everybody acts as though the world is going to end and nothing happens.
00:33:21.000They are laboring to advance $4 trillion in economic initiatives backed by Biden.
00:33:25.000The proposal is tied to a second, roughly $3.5 trillion bill to expand Medicare, boost education and child care programs, combat climate change.
00:33:34.000In a sign of a new scramble to avoid a shutdown, the Senate's two top appropriators, Chairman Pat Leahy of Vermont, Democrat and top Republican Richard Shelby of Alabama, huddled Thursday to discuss potentially including a short-term agreement to keep the government funded.
00:33:45.000That could be done without an increase in the debt ceiling.
00:33:49.000Right now, however, the Democrats seem to want to play chicken.
00:33:53.000Well, the reason that we are playing chicken in the first place is because you want to spend money on programs that are relatively unpopular.
00:33:59.000Nobody's interested in blowing out the debt this way.
00:34:02.000And by the way, I will note here that it is really impressive how many people on the left have used China as a model of how we should grow in the future, meanwhile ignoring the fact that China basically is destroying its own economy through debt.
00:34:16.000China's had multiple debt crises over the past five years alone, and now they're in the middle of another debt crisis.
00:34:23.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the current 2021 Evergrande crisis Puts the Chinese in a very bad situation.
00:34:33.000Because the Chinese have invested too heavily in housing for too long, through housing subsidies, so they're experiencing their own 2008 over there.
00:34:40.000It turns out that debt-led growth is generally a prescription for failure if you never rein in the spending.
00:34:45.000Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the latest with regard to funding priorities, because it turns out that AOC's crying again.
00:34:53.000First, let us talk about a thing that is, this is such a cool device.
00:34:58.000So my wife tends to get really, really carsick.
00:35:00.000And one thing over time that we've tried is ReliefBand.
00:35:04.000It's an FDA-cleared anti-nausea wristband that has been clinically proven to quickly relieve and effectively prevent nausea and vomiting associated with motion sickness, anxiety, migraines, hangovers, morning sickness, chemo, and so much more.
00:35:17.000It provides all-natural relief with zero side effects for as long as necessary.
00:35:21.000The technology was originally developed over 20 years ago in hospitals to relieve nausea from patients, but now, through a relief band, it's available to the masses.
00:35:29.000Basically, it is a wristband that stimulates a nerve in your wrist, and that travels to the part of the brain that controls nausea, and then it blocks that signal that the brain is sending to the stomach, telling you that you're sick.
00:36:46.000So, over the past 48 hours, there was an attempt by the Democrats to push Republicans to basically push forward spending bills by including in spending bills things like funding for Iron Dome, which is the Israeli defense system.
00:37:02.000Members of the Squad who were in favor of increasing the spending, Republicans voted against it because they didn't want to increase the spending period.
00:37:08.000Democrats were in favor of increasing the spending, they just didn't like Israel, at least members of the squad.
00:37:13.000So, Rashida Tlaib, who's just the D. Hamas in the, like, she's just a terrorist representative, apparently, in the American Congress, because that's all she does, just stand for Hamas.
00:37:23.000So, she went out there and she said she was very upset that now the Democrats brought up, correctly, a separate funding bill for $1 billion for Iron Dome, which is a purely defensive technology, and Rashida Tlaib said she didn't want any funding for war crimes.
00:37:38.000I will not support an effort to enable and support war crimes, human rights abuses, and violence.
00:37:44.000We cannot be talking only about Israelis' need for safety at a time when Palestinians are living under a violent apartheid system and are dying from what Human Rights Watch has said are war crimes.
00:37:56.000Okay, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was like, um, the hell are you talking about?
00:38:00.000Iron Dome is a purely defensive system designed to safeguard all civilians living in Israel.
00:38:03.000The system was co-developed by the United States and Israel and has saved thousands of lives.
00:38:07.000So whatever subsidy we are paying to Israel, we're getting back in terms of the technology.
00:38:12.000Um, and pretty much everybody voted for it, right?
00:38:14.000Everybody, the final vote on this thing had, I think, nine people who did not vote for it.
00:38:20.000Uh, Ted Deutch, the representative from Palm Beach, he, uh, he came out.
00:38:30.000I cannot allow one of my colleagues to stand on the floor of the House of Representatives and label the Jewish democratic state of Israel an apartheid state.
00:40:38.000But she broke out the sobbing again after switching her vote.
00:40:42.000So she knew where the cameras were, because she always knows where the cameras are.
00:40:45.000I mean, she's like a moth to a flame when it comes to cameras.
00:40:48.000AOC made her way down while somebody else was speaking, and then Pretty overtly started dabbing at her eyes because she was so sad that she had abstained from this particular bill.
00:40:59.000So terrible that Israel has defensive technology to prevent its citizens from being slaughtered en masse by a terrorist group firing rockets indiscriminately into civilian areas.
00:41:09.000You can see her approach when she walks up to a fellow congressperson, and she's so sad.
00:42:05.000I do believe at this point we need to be moving forward.
00:42:07.000Yes, the reason that we are not talking about measles is because measles is a childhood disease.
00:42:12.000It was not endemic among the population.
00:42:14.000The basic notion that if you mandate vaccinations for small children with regard to COVID that you're going to wipe out COVID is silly.
00:42:21.000There's not a single scientist who believes this is the case.
00:42:23.000No one believes we are getting to zero COVID.
00:42:26.000But now we're talking about mandating for small children these vaccines, which again, it is one thing to say for adults who have a higher risk that they ought to be thinking about taking the vaccine because the risks from COVID outweigh the risks from the vaccine.
00:42:37.000But when you're talking about the risks of COVID to small children, the risks are so unbelievably minute that you're talking about gradations of risk and maybe a little bit of long-term testing might be a little bit better.
00:42:46.000Like we can barely get the CDC and the FDA to agree on who should get booster shots at this point who are adults.
00:42:52.000And here you have government actors suggesting that we are going to mandate vaccines for children with regard to COVID-19.
00:42:58.000Again, with regard to a disease that kids are just not dying from in large numbers.
00:43:05.000And in many years, there have been more deaths, like half of the past 10 years, there have been more deaths from the flu than there have been from COVID over the period of COVID.
00:43:14.000And yet you have the Democrats continuing to push this stuff.
00:43:16.000Gavin Newsom, the once and future governor of California, he says that a vaccine mandate is still on the table for kids.
00:44:16.000Long COVID symptoms are higher in the control group than in the COVID positive group for young children at 12 to 16 weeks post-infection.
00:44:24.000So you're more likely to have long COVID symptoms in a control group than in the COVID positive group for kids post-infection.
00:44:32.000Not only that, the woman who created the Oxford vaccine now says that COVID is unlikely to mutate into a much deadlier variant and will eventually just cause something that looks like the common cold.
00:44:42.000So there's your good news, is that we are pretty much at the end of this thing, but they're not gonna stop the panic because the panic is how they get things done.
00:44:49.000Alrighty, we will be back here next week.
00:44:51.000Make sure over the weekend that you check out our brand new episode of the Sunday Special with Brett Weinstein and Heather Hying.
00:44:58.000They have a brand new book out about evolutionary biology, which is verboten in leftist circles.
00:45:02.000You're definitely gonna wanna read the book and you're really gonna wanna listen to the podcast.