Episode 3176: Fist Fights In The House Over CR
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Learn English with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. House passes a Continuing Resolution that extends government funding until February 2nd, and includes temporary extensions for critical programs such as community health centers, the National Flood Insurance Program, and others that are important to rural areas like Kentucky s 5th District.
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...since that is needed. But yet, Democrats stood tall. We're going to fund this at FY23.
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We're not going to have draconian take away, such as the taking away of reproductive rights.
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Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the gentleman.
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We will not have the denying of reproductive rights, discriminating against people because
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they're LGBTQ+, or discriminating against them because of race, because of immigration,
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immigrant status. We won't have any of those draconian provisions in there. And thank God,
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we will not have the cuts that we have seen that would hurt the American people, hurt Texans,
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hurt Houstonians. The CR is the right way right now, because we have no other door.
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And it'll be Democrats that will save America, save our 50 states, save Texas, save our city,
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save Houston. And I'm here today to ensure that we move forward so that we can do what is right
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by the American people. With that, I yield back.
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I'm sorry, the gentlelady from Connecticut reserves.
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I yield to the gentleman from Kentucky, the chairman of Commerce, Justice Science Subcommittee,
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and the of the House of Representatives, Ms. Rogers, for three minutes.
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentlelady for yielding me this time.
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I rise today in strong support of the continuing resolution, with government funding set to expire
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This legislation is necessary to ensure we avoid a harmful government shutdown.
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The bill before us extends government funding until either January 19th or February 2nd, depending on the agency.
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It also includes temporary extensions for critical expiring programs, such as community health centers,
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the National Flood Insurance Program, and others that are important to rural regions like Kentucky's 5th District.
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And on the heels of Veterans Day, it ensures that we continue providing critical resources to our military,
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defending America around the world, and takes care of our country's heroic veterans.
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While a CR is not my preferred method of conducting business, a government shutdown right before the holidays
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We need more time to complete our fiscal 24-year to give the House a better negotiating position with the Senate
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government, so we can eventually pass full-year appropriations bills.
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It's Tuesday, 14 November, Year of Our Lord 2023.
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You're seeing they're actually voting on a series of amendments.
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They've put forward a, and I'll try to break this down for you, they've put forward a suspension of the rules.
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Your calls in the Warren Posse and your effort in having people's back blocked, blocked the possibility of bringing this to the House in regular order.
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Now, of course, you remember you were promised regular order.
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Everybody, you know, this whole fight since January was regular order.
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That means go back to the drawing board and figure out why it was blocked.
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It's blocked because, and if the next person comes up, particularly if somebody, just tell me if somebody else is up, I want to hear it,
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because they're bloviating on the floor right now.
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The Democrats are 100 percent in back of the suspension of the rule.
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Remember, in suspension of the rule, for those of you keeping your civics notebook at home, you've got, I think, two-thirds of the House has to vote for it.
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And it's simple because of the party, the party that's in the majority can't get it out of the rules committee to set a rule, to have a debate, to vote on the rule on the floor.
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How are you going to suspend and get two-thirds?
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Because, once again, we have said, unless there's a coming together and thinking like adults on this financial crisis of the $2 trillion of deficit from last year and going to be for this year again or more,
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the $1 trillion that we're going to have to pay for interest or more, the $35, $36 trillion will be by next summer or September, by fall, when people are back, has to be addressed.
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The politics is totally disconnected from the reality of this republic.
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We have three sets of crises, and I'll leave aside the administrative state and the deep state, three set of crises pressing on us.
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An invasion of our country that's part of a global conflict and is being done consciously, number one, by people that are traitors to this country that have allowed it to happen and exacerbated it and thought it through to allow it to happen.
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And then we'll dare you, oh, my gosh, Trump's talking about putting in camps as the interim stage to get people out.
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Number two is the fiscal crisis, which is inextricably linked to the first one.
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Number three is this geopolitical crisis, which is coming to your front door tomorrow because it's going to be in Baghdad by the Bay, San Francisco, the Bay Area, for tomorrow.
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Those three interlocking crises need to be addressed immediately, need to be addressed immediately.
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And the invasion of the border and the funding in the CR and addressing massive cuts to discretionary spending.
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Everybody up here today, why are the Democrats going to vote?
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That should be enough for you to say, I don't think I like it.
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I don't know a lot about it, but I'm not sure I'm going to love it.
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Because here's what you're going to see, I think, 70 or 80 or 90, somewhere in that, maybe as low as 50.
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Republicans vote against us and are going to say, no, we can't do this.
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The argument for the Republicans is going to vote for it and what Mike Johnson's team, who is still infested with McCarthyites, McCarthy staff, is I need more time.
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You have very few leverage points in this town, normally driven by some sort of calendar or timing.
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At midnight on Friday, the regime runs out of money.
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This is an opportunity to surface, to do two things, surface the issues that must be addressed and to unmask who's on your side and who's not on your side.
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We have a deeper problem than Speaker Mike Johnson and maybe his naivete or lack of understanding of how to negotiate or getting bad information.
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We now have in this audience has to address a central problem.
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And that is engaging with, I don't want to say up in people's faces, but hey, you determine how you're going to do it.
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Engage with the House members who many of you helped put there.
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To inform them, because here's what they're telling behind the scenes.
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This is what they're saying, that the moderates are right.
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But you have to give us time to be able to prepare the folks at home.
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I don't buy that, but that's what they're saying.
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And if we have enough time, if we have enough time, you just got to give us time.
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If we have enough time, we'll be able to, when we come back to this two phased approach in January and February, we'll have enough to build a consensus within our districts that people will have our back.
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And we can do both cuts and we can do both border security.
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You notice they don't say massive cuts and they don't say seal the border.
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In the reservoir or what they're drawing from, and I'm going to connect some dots.
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I don't want to play the videos because we got, we're going to go back live here for a second.
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Right now they're, they're going through this amendments, a series of amendments.
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The vote will definitely take place, I think, during the two shows today.
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The other day, remember the vote on the funding, the FBI?
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That's the pool of votes they think that they can always get to kind of block anything that's got to be done because those people are completely bought into the system.
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They're, they're completely bought into the system and don't want to disrupt anything.
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They pay, they're going to build a FBI headquarters bigger than the Pentagon at tens of billions of dollars.
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And the, I tell you what, let's go to the floor.
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Let's hear what they got to say and we're going to come back.
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Let's go to the floor and we'll come right back.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, I understand MTG is on the watch list here at the War Room.
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People, you know, because of the McCarthy support.
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But she provided a service and that service was, and it connects to the 70 that voted for the FBI.
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People may say, well, it wasn't thought through, it was half-baked.
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But she, she showed something quite important is that there's not even the votes to impeach Mayorkas.
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But they, she basically, I don't know, it was eight votes short.
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And what she's going to show, I think she's going to continue to do this to show that you're short there.
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That all feeds into the problem of even these moderates in this situation.
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You're going to have, I don't know, at least a hundred and maybe more Republicans vote with the Democrats.
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Oh, we don't want to do an omnibus because the omnibus has got too many things tucked in there.
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We're just going to do this clean CR and let's tuck a few things in.
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I think the farm bill's an extension, a one-year extension.
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It's got to be reauthorized or some technical thing.
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They've set the farm bill until next September.
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Let's put it right in the, let's come back from Labor Day when nobody's going to do anything
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And I'm sure we're not going to extend it past that and dump it on President Trump's lap
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They're going to vote and then they're going to get to the bigger.
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I will also tell you that the cake is baked here.
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The theory of Mike Johnson and his team, and it landed like a thud, not just with how freedom
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cars with many other people, is that, okay, I inherited this.
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I didn't want to do this, but I need more time.
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And today in the conference, they were saying, you've got to tell me, what hill are you going
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If we're going to do this, when are we going to do it?
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Border security, the massive cuts, the cuts in spending, when are we going to do it?
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Well, I need to January because I've got to build a consensus.
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This is why it's quite important for the war room posse.
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We have to educate because they still, many of the folks up there, particularly the country
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lawyers, do not understand the mathematics behind the crisis we face.
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To get the full impact of this, I want you to embrace the following, that this continuing
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resolution that essentially gets you through the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, because
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it's so important for these guys to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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We have, did I ever mention that we have 8 million illegal aliens here in the country that
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I've been fighting by Biden, and I have a Republican report that it's going to cost a half a trillion
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dollars to house, feed, educate, health care of those.
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Well, if it's not, understand the illegal alien invaders got a full ride here.
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I'm not sure, and the half a trillion dollars, I don't think is already baked into the numbers.
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He needs more time, and the more time is, they're telling people, we need to build consensus
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in this conference, and the reason that we have representatives in our majority that are
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exposed in California, in New York, other places where these Biden districts, well, the
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Biden districts, ain't Biden districts now because Biden's trailing everywhere, including
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So the Biden districts aren't even Biden districts anymore.
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It's also incumbent upon you, you have to go out and sell your vision of what's happening.
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And you see the Democrats, if the Democrats came out today to the microphones and everything,
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we cannot, the CR we support because it doesn't have cuts.
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We do not support cuts, and the American people can't take cuts.
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The federal spending is what's enslaving the American people.
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The theory of modern monetary theory didn't work out.
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And what there is a failure to grasp by these folks up here is that the scale, the law of
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By my calculation, fiscal year ends September 30th.
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That's why we always use September 30th as a leverage point, correct?
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We're October already in November, you know, mid-November right now, 45 days.
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The CR kicks it into January 1st, into the middle of January, and then to February, right?
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We will be negotiating, and that's going to be a firestorm in a cluster, in the fifth month
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of this fiscal year, still the spending of the budget and the appropriations process for
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Because the Senate hasn't done their job, they haven't lifted a finger so far.
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I think they've done seven of the 12 appropriations bill through regular order.
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There are cuts in, I think, three of those four bills.
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And you've got Paul Rogers of Kentucky, and you've got these guys up there, the very deep
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voices, and they, you know, we need to make cuts.
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So we're going to be, and this thing's going to last until March.
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Write it down now in your number two pencil and hold me to it.
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The last time I looked, that is halfway through the fiscal year.
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We're going to be dealing with this year's budget.
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The process for the next year's should have already started.
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And guess what that is going to be, ladies and gentlemen, with declining tax revenues
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You're like someone that's got a credit card problem that can barely make the minimum payment
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And many of you know what that feels like, even from your younger days.
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But people remember, many people remember when they had these problems with credit cards,
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Minimum payment, yet the face amount keeps going up because you're only making the minimum
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Every day when we're adding to this debt, okay, in the interest payments thereof, we will
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never pay off one penny of the face amount of this debt the more we add to it.
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Remember, it was only 33 trillion when McCarthy approved the debt ceiling deal with no cap whatsoever
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And Mike Johnson said, I need to kick the can down the road.
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You've got to give me some negotiating leverage.
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When you have these, when you have these nodes, when you have this ability to fight, when you
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have this ability and you have a clock ticking, their minds would be totally focused.
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It's very unfocused because they know that it's going to kick the game.
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Mike Johnson, you're, you're, you're on the clock now.
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You said, no, I don't think their judgment's right.
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My judgment's better because the rule was blocked.
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You were told essentially by your conference and by, therefore, by this audience that, no,
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sir, we hear you, what you have to say, but we don't agree with that.
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And we think you've got to, you're, we're going to block the rule.
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And what you did was to say, no, I'll go fully embrace Hakeem Jeffries.
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You're being lauded on CNN and MSNBC of a man of vision and a man of discernment.
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And they said, well, he's only been here a couple of weeks.
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So when you step in, you know, when you step into a command, Hey, you got to deal with
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You're, you're in this position because of these fights.
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It's not like you kind of dropped out, you know, you like, uh, the, um, the brother from
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another planet where I remember the thing, the guide fell in from Mars or something.
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You know what the fight, you know, why McCarthy got turfed out.
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Now it was because he was lying to everybody and did the debt deal, which is the original
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The reservoir, the reservoir they have to thwart us is those 70, that basket of 70 that
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do not believe in disruption, that believe the system's working.
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Tell me you just paid for billions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars for an FBI headquarters.
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Hey, on the $2 trillion deficit, you just can't be adding these marginal projects.
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You can't add marginal projects or we can add marginal projects to get a $3 trillion deficit.
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And that day's coming when you're going to scramble now to come up with a $1,000, a trillion
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dollars, a trillion dollars of cash money just to pay the interest on this.
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And I've told you, and I've told you, and I told you it's going to be more than a trillion
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And I haven't been wrong on any of these numbers yet because people want to look at the basic
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simple math and also all this happy talk about, oh, well, we got to do this because we got
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The American people are never going to trust you to do any type of entitlement reform, tweaking,
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anything, and they shouldn't until you prove that you can handle the discretionary spending.
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Why should the American people getting a tiny Social Security check and some Medicare, why
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should they look at $100 billion going to Ukraine?
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And why should they take cuts when they see, you know, a half a trillion dollars, a Republican
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report that a half a trillion dollars to house, feed, educate, and give medical care, full
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Why would they then sit there and go, OK, fine, you want to take my measly little, you
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know, Social Security check and make sure I'm 80 before I can get it?
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And the American people are just going to sit there and go, no.
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The American people are quite reasonable if you approach them and say, hey, these are the
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And now we need to and we've taken care of our part that we could control.
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Now we have to have a adult conversation about how life is extended today and how people are
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And maybe and only maybe there's no lock guarantee on that because I think they distrust the political
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And one of the reasons they should distrust the political class is this situation, the invasion
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of the country that we now find out is going to cost us a half a trillion dollars.
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And they look around, they go, hang on, I'm underwriting everything.
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I got the Muslim Brotherhood of Moskais in Qatar with $10 billion.
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They're all sitting around there in London, in Belgravia, buying places for 50 million bucks.
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I get the CCP, the richest families in the world control the CCP.
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I'm underwriting all these potentates and dictators throughout the world that are living
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I get a $2,000, I get a $1,500 check from Social Security and the Cokes and everybody
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in the world, they're sitting there with that check.
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We got to get that check because getting that check, it solves everything.
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Up on that stage, the Keebler Elves, oh, we really need to get to entitlement for Chris
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Christie and Mike Pence with knitted brows, right, and neocon Nicky.
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Don't touch these entitlements until you don't have enough balls to go look at the massacres.
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We're not even going to get into calculus, okay, for all those that your palms get sweaty
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You got X amount of cash coming in, you got X amount of cash going out, and there's a gap.
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And the cash coming in keeps getting less and less.
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Because the economy, although Biden and MSNBC and CNN tell me how great it is and how much
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tailwind we have, right, the lived experience is the woman on CNN says, hey, I ain't voting
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for Biden because I'm working three jobs and I'm not making it.
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And Mike Johnson, to sit here and think, I need more time.
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So, okay, Mike, so what you're telling me is that 75 days from now, Mike Johnson's coming
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back and it's going to be so hard on the budget cuts and it's going to be so hard on sealing
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the border and stopping and defunding everything.
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Don't even worry about the woke and weaponized.
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I'm talking about the two central crises we face.
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And you have, by the way, in the supplemental, no Ukraine money, not even any usual money,
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You'll seal the southern border and you're going to have large cuts to discretionary spending.
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That's what you're telling me you're going to come back in 75 days and do.
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Because the people that support you the most gave you the signal that with their representatives
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that, hey, you couldn't even get it to the floor in a rule.
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Let me sit down and think about what are you saying?
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Get in Mitch McConnell's face and particularly get in the Biden regime's and say, no, it stops here.
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Not to go back and say, okay, I'm going to throw a long ball and you're not going to like it,
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And I know you have a biblical worldview and I'm not trying to be cute or a wise guy in saying this.
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The book you ought to focus on, the part of the Bible you ought to focus right now is the last part, Revelations,
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where it is revealed what an apocalypse looks like.
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You're going to have to lead these House members to face reality.
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They swear in 75 days, just need a little time.
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and there's a bunch of stuff coming out in this Jonathan Karl book
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and President Trump's on tape with Karl saying,
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Today we've got to focus on the country's finances.
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we want to make sure you understand nomenclature,
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We also want you to understand the statics and dynamics of process.
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What are the static parts and what are the dynamic parts?
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I'm going to play one of the guys from Georgia,
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That I don't want to hear any more talk about limited government,
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and I don't want to hear any more talk about fiscal responsibility.
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And understanding process, procedure, critical paths,
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the concepts, informs you to connect capital markets,
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back to the raw power that you see up here on Capitol Hill
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in the most powerful nation in mankind's history.
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more powerful than the Roman Empire at the top of its game.
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that the political class still does not understand.
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This is one of the reasons I had the discussion
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with Raheem and everybody about England the other day.
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is totally detached from the reality in the streets
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and the reality of what is happening to the United Kingdom.
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Mike Johnson, and we have to help Mike Johnson.
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these constitutional lawyers are interesting fellows,
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quite frankly, they're not particularly relevant.
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And Mike Johnson may be a little bit over his head.