Bannon's War Room - July 02, 2025


Episode 4603： House Takes On The Big Beautiful Deal; June Jobs Report


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Stephen K. Baughton and EJ. and Tony join me to talk about the latest jobs miss and the implications for the economy and jobs in general. We also discuss the impact of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday hurricanes on the economy.

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00:00:38.000 If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:44.000 War Room.
00:00:45.000 Here's your host, Stephen K. Banff.
00:00:53.000 Okay, welcome back to the War Room.
00:00:55.000 It's Wednesday, 2 July, Year of Alert, 2025.
00:00:58.000 There's a lot going on globally, internationally.
00:01:01.000 There is, but most importantly here, President Trump is in a struggle now to make sure his big, beautiful bill,
00:01:08.000 the one that the Senate kind of reworked from the House, is now approved by the House and get on with signing it and executing it.
00:01:15.000 E.J. and Tony is going to join us as soon as we get E.J. and Tony up.
00:01:19.000 E.J. and Tony is a labor expert, economist, and does a magnificent job, been ahead of it.
00:01:24.000 A bombshell jobs report this morning that I think ought to be a wake up call to everybody.
00:01:29.000 I believe, I think my numbers are right, but it could be off, and E.J. will help me get focused.
00:01:34.000 I think it was supposed to be 100,000.
00:01:36.000 They were predicting 100,000 uptick in jobs, and I think it was a 33,000 job miss.
00:01:42.000 That's a pretty big swing.
00:01:43.000 We have been saying, and Microsoft didn't again announce today more layoffs off the big, I think 2,500 layoffs they were going to have a couple of weeks ago.
00:01:53.000 Folks, this is the beginning of the AI apocalypse.
00:02:00.000 Now, not all these jobs are related to AI.
00:02:02.000 In fact, a lot of these were not even layoffs.
00:02:06.000 What they were is not filling jobs that came open, not filling billets that came open.
00:02:10.000 The businesses are just going to on a wait-and-see basis.
00:02:13.000 A lot of this is also on a wait-and-see basis of what artificial intelligence and artificial intelligence as an aid to workers,
00:02:21.000 particularly low-skilled or particularly white-collar workers and kind of those entry-level jobs or the second-tier, you know, entry-level plus jobs about what can be taken away.
00:02:32.000 And so this is incredibly important.
00:02:34.000 It's going to, I think, influence what's happening at the White House today as people are going to be talking about this.
00:02:40.000 This was a miss, and it was not anticipated, although myself and Cortez have been up, and also the Axios guys are saying there's something going on in the job market.
00:02:49.000 You can see that one of the things we can see is that recent graduates are not having the opportunities that people anticipated, particularly with an economy that's starting to turn around.
00:03:00.000 Remember, President Trump's entire program is on turning around the doldrums of the Biden economy, doing a supply-side tax cut, and getting to 2.83%, 3.5% growth.
00:03:11.000 The American economy, to be robust, to be replacing jobs, to keep unemployment down, to keep the whole apparatus or the whole project moving forward, you need minimum of like 3% growth.
00:03:22.000 You have to have 3% growth or higher.
00:03:25.000 And particularly in Scott Besson's plan at Treasury, you need, and I think Chip agrees with 3.5%, but even at 3%, you start to get ahead of where you're growing the economy and tax revenues and tariff revenues higher than you're adding deficits from spending.
00:03:42.000 Now, that's what a supply-side tax cuts about.
00:03:46.000 People say, well, that's very risky.
00:03:47.000 Well, it's not risky in the fact of you understand the elements that you're putting in there, and you understand how you're going to unlock the animal spirits, how you're going to unlock the vitality of the American economy.
00:04:02.000 E.J. and Tony joins me now.
00:04:05.000 E.J., I had you on here because we were going to talk about the big, beautiful bill in the growth package.
00:04:10.000 Of course, you're one of the nation's leading, I would say, labor economists and thinking about labor.
00:04:15.000 You've been on for four years here, giving it to us.
00:04:18.000 Was this kind of a bombshell report today, or am I over-reading this?
00:04:22.000 What happened on this labor report today, sir?
00:04:25.000 Well, Steve, I think part of what we're dealing with still is the fallout of the last four or five years and all of the disruptions that we had from COVID.
00:04:35.000 So, you know, unfortunately, there's a couple different things we have to remember.
00:04:40.000 One is just the reliability of data.
00:04:43.000 In other words, we get initial reports, and then we have to, several months down the road, revise them.
00:04:48.000 Sometimes it's a year later, we have to revise them.
00:04:51.000 And so very often the labor market is not exactly as it appears or is not exactly as the initial data makes it appear.
00:04:59.000 So there's that.
00:05:00.000 The other thing is our baseline, if you want to call it that, has been completely messed up because of COVID.
00:05:06.000 For example, the first couple of years of the Biden administration, how many times did they tell us, we're adding all these jobs, we're adding record jobs.
00:05:14.000 No, you're simply just returning back to the previous level that you had.
00:05:19.000 After a massive decline, you then get a massive increase.
00:05:23.000 But if you look over time and if you look at the trend there, nothing's really changed, right?
00:05:28.000 So context is probably the most important thing to remember here.
00:05:33.000 I want to go back the – in regards to that context, for years you would come on this show and we'd have these monthly and quarterly reports.
00:05:45.000 You said, hang on for a second.
00:05:47.000 Let me go back to how they restated.
00:05:49.000 The Labor Department – and far be it for me to say that the administrative state would ever try to chop block Donald Trump or his administration.
00:05:56.000 But in the recalibrations or the resets we would always have or the reconfigurations and rethinking of the numbers were always – the numbers were more positive.
00:06:07.000 And later we'd get the reality check that they really weren't as good as they were.
00:06:12.000 Do you think there's the reverse happening here that the minions over at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in payback to Steve Bannon and EJ and Tony bad-mouthing them consistently or having payback on President Trump by overstating what the losses are?
00:06:32.000 And they're going to come back in a month and they're going to restate and it's not going to be as bad, sir?
00:06:37.000 Certainly possible, Steve.
00:06:39.000 One of the things that – well, actually, let me put it this way.
00:06:42.000 One of the problems when we look at certain data sets like the job openings numbers is the fact that the response rate on those surveys is absolutely horrific.
00:06:52.000 I mean, it's not even one in three.
00:06:54.000 And so when your response rate is that low, it creates an incredible amount of variability in the data.
00:07:02.000 In other words, if I'm going to tell you I am 90 percent confident that the actual number falls within a certain interval between, let's say, 1 and 10, just random numbers here.
00:07:12.000 And if I'm going to say, look, I am maybe 50 percent confident that the number falls between 5 and 6, a much narrower range.
00:07:20.000 Well, when your response rate is this low, for you to have any degree of confidence, you need an incredibly wide range.
00:07:27.000 In other words, I'm 90 percent confident the number falls between not 1 and 10, but 1 and 30.
00:07:33.000 So, again, when we look at these different data sets, that's a very, very important thing to keep in mind.
00:07:41.000 And this goes back to what we were just talking about with those huge revisions.
00:07:45.000 I would not be surprised if you do end up in coming months, in coming quarters, seeing these massive revisions to the original projection.
00:07:54.000 In part because the original problems with the data that we identified how many times over the last several years, Steve, right, we kept pounding the drum that, look, there are problems in these data sets.
00:08:07.000 A lot of those problems have not been fixed even today.
00:08:11.000 And I'm wondering what on earth is the Labor Secretary doing now in order to fix those problems and make these numbers more accurate to ensure that we don't have the same kind of inaccuracies under this administration that we had under the last one?
00:08:26.000 Okay, all that being contextual, let's go.
00:08:30.000 What is this actually stated today?
00:08:32.000 This was not layoffs, but this was principally driven by people not filling positions that were open.
00:08:39.000 Is that because I think people anticipated 100,000 job pickup given this June?
00:08:45.000 And what we saw is at least the way this is structured, a 33,000 job down to the negative.
00:08:52.000 So it's a pretty big spread, 133,000 miss.
00:08:55.000 Is that the basic math?
00:08:57.000 Right.
00:08:58.000 And we're also, the other important thing I think is that as we look at people who are leaving jobs, we're finding increasingly two things.
00:09:07.000 Number one, the actual number of people who are quitting, who are leaving their jobs is going way, way down.
00:09:14.000 And that has to do in part with the fact that they're finding it more difficult to find comparable work for comparable pay.
00:09:21.000 So you're seeing fewer people leave.
00:09:23.000 And even among those who are leaving jobs, they're not actually, they're not able to find work as quickly.
00:09:31.000 So when you see those two things go hand in hand like that, that tells us that it's sending the exact same signal about the labor market.
00:09:39.000 And this is part of the reason why the whole mentality of the Federal Reserve right now on interest rate cuts, it just doesn't make any sense.
00:09:48.000 They're clearly acting for political purposes because when you compare the labor market data that we have right now with what we had in the fall, it is crystal clear that the labor market is softer today than it was back then, at least for most sectors, maybe not for all sectors.
00:10:05.000 That tells us there's much more of a case for interest rate cuts right now than there was in the fall.
00:10:10.000 So why did they cut rates then and not right now?
00:10:13.000 It has to do with elections and that's it.
00:10:16.000 So, again, the labor market's a very mixed bag.
00:10:20.000 We have some very positive indicators, especially when we look at native born Americans being able to get jobs today versus this time last year.
00:10:28.000 Huge improvement there.
00:10:30.000 But there are some areas in which the labor market is clearly softening.
00:10:34.000 Now, again, it's not to say that the labor market's falling apart.
00:10:38.000 It's not.
00:10:39.000 When we look at things like wage growth, that has picked up tremendously.
00:10:43.000 Every month this year, actually, annual wage growth has improved.
00:10:48.000 Phenomenal news.
00:10:49.000 That means we're getting out of the morass that we saw under Biden.
00:10:53.000 But, again, for every one positive signal you can find right now, you can probably find a negative one somewhere else.
00:11:00.000 You just have to know where to look.
00:11:02.000 So if I were to describe the labor market today, again, I'm going to call it a mixed bag. 0.99
00:11:07.000 Okay, hang on for a second.
00:11:09.000 I want to go back to the Fed because this is obviously not President Trump's very focused on this.
00:11:14.000 The Federal Reserve has two mandates.
00:11:18.000 One is inflation, right, prices.
00:11:20.000 The other is full employment.
00:11:22.000 Your point is that on this second, you've seen obviously a softening in the labor market overall over a period of time.
00:11:30.000 Last October, right before the election, they did an interest rate cut and President Trump went nuts because it appeared to people that they were trying to juice the markets and get a pop in the stock market and positive results right before Election Day.
00:11:44.000 And your point is that since this is one of their responsibilities, I know a lot of us argue they shouldn't have two responsibilities.
00:11:50.000 It only should be inflation and prices, that if it is labor, and that's one of the ones they're officially mandated with, you have to act accordingly.
00:11:58.000 And your point is that, set aside President Trump, just as a labor economist, you're saying it's obvious that the Federal Reserve should step in here and do the rate cut because you have a softening labor market.
00:12:13.000 Is that a correct assessment of your position?
00:12:17.000 Right, Steve, when we look at the Fed's models that they use, their own Keynesian models tell them that they should cut rates today, or at the very least, those Keynesian models say there's a much stronger case for cutting rates right now than there was back in the fall.
00:12:33.000 Now, look, I'm not saying I agree with the Keynesian models.
00:12:36.000 I'm not saying that I think we should even have a central bank set up the way we do right now.
00:12:42.000 That's not my point. My point is simply that using the Fed's own logic, using the Fed's own models and the mandate which they so often cite, that dual mandate that you just articulated, Steve, under the rules of the game that the Fed says they play the game by, we should be cutting rates today, pure and simple.
00:13:03.000 That's literally just the fact of the matter. The numbers are what they are. Inflation has improved. The labor market has softened.
00:13:10.000 Again, by the Fed's own rules, they should be cutting rates, and yet they're not.
00:13:18.000 E.J., you're on here to talk about the Treasury Department, the president's growth plan. I want to, if you just hold through the commercial break, we're going to come back to that.
00:13:26.000 A labor report today, as E.J. said, kind of a mixed bag, but there's a lot of positive, and we'll get E.J. to reiterate numbers for native-born Americans.
00:13:36.000 Would that be of interest to you, native-born Americans? The employment's looking better. Also, wage growth.
00:13:41.000 So it's a lot of good stuff in there, and it shows President Trump's program is starting to be executed.
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00:16:27.000 What's in your mind?
00:16:29.000 Well, I mean, definitely it's the least, the worst job creation from ADP since March of 23.
00:16:36.000 That's a pretty good stretch of time.
00:16:38.000 We all know that the labor market, at least purported by all the experts, economists and Fed personnel,
00:16:44.000 is just kind of a ticking time bomb of slowness.
00:16:48.000 It's going to definitely slow down.
00:16:50.000 It's just a matter of when and what the rate of change is going to be.
00:16:53.000 I don't know that I agree with that, but I do agree that the glide path is going to be headed down.
00:16:59.000 But I think it's going to be a long glide path.
00:17:01.000 And the relationship between ADP and the Labor Department's statistics that will be seen tomorrow.
00:17:06.000 As Steve adequately pointed out, there's a wide spread there.
00:17:10.000 When I look at what happened with jolts yesterday, when I consider most of the press and headlines over tariffs and the current administration's policies,
00:17:19.000 it doesn't shock me that there may be more uses of the word firing than hiring.
00:17:24.000 But maybe it's the contrarian end of this that we should pay more attention to.
00:17:28.000 Maybe we should learn a lesson about what the equity markets did, about the kind of counter trend rally we had that briefly push yields down.
00:17:36.000 Although I think that much of that may be in the rear view mirror.
00:17:39.000 Ultimately, I think it's easy.
00:17:41.000 Yes, I think the best days of the labor market are behind us.
00:17:44.000 But I do think that there could be a resurgence down the road for a variety of reasons after we hit maybe a small speed bump.
00:17:52.000 And I think that's the real issue here.
00:17:54.000 Are we going to get a genuine slowdown or a small hiccup?
00:17:57.000 I'm in the latter camp.
00:18:02.000 The great Rick Santelli.
00:18:03.000 So once again, with the positive news again, there were native born Americans and wages, real wages rising.
00:18:12.000 Give us your assessment of what Santelli just said.
00:18:15.000 Well, I think the key element that he touched on there, Steve, is the fact that the relationship between the ADP numbers,
00:18:24.000 which is what showed that drop today, in particular with the service sector, right?
00:18:29.000 The service sector is really what took it on the chin.
00:18:31.000 But whatever the case, the fact that ADP numbers came down, showed negative job growth.
00:18:36.000 That has actually very little correlation with the nonfarm payroll number we're going to get tomorrow from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
00:18:43.000 And by the way, that actually has been the case even after ADP changed their methodology to try to make their private payroll numbers better reflect the nonfarm figure from BLS.
00:18:57.000 So even with trying to adjust the methodology in a post-COVID world, the correlation there has been very, very poor.
00:19:04.000 All that being said, again, I still have pretty high level of confidence that we're going to get a positive number tomorrow, that we're not going to drop into the negative.
00:19:14.000 And that's even with the labor market being a lagging indicator.
00:19:18.000 In other words, things like the stock market tends to be a leading indicator.
00:19:23.000 The fact that stocks went down in April following Liberation Day, that caused plenty of economic disruptions.
00:19:30.000 But you can see now stocks are right back up because a lot of those disruptions at this point have been smoothed over.
00:19:35.000 So is it possible that you get some decline in employment temporarily because businesses got scared and then they just go right back and hire everybody?
00:19:44.000 Sure, certainly possible.
00:19:46.000 Going back to your other question, though, in terms of native born employment, this is something that I think the Trump administration is not getting enough credit for.
00:19:54.000 If you look at not just the level of jobs, but who has the jobs, native born Americans are increasingly doing better.
00:20:02.000 What we saw under Biden was repeatedly the annual growth in jobs among native born Americans versus foreign born workers.
00:20:09.000 The foreign born workers were were consistently beating out their native born cohort, native born counterpart, that is. 0.63
00:20:17.000 So what what happened over the last year?
00:20:19.000 Well, over the last year, and this obviously is not all Trump, but it shows you the amount of improvement Trump has made in just a few months.
00:20:26.000 Native born Americans added about one point four million jobs.
00:20:32.000 That's phenomenal news, especially when you consider that foreign born workers only saw an increase of about seven hundred thousand.
00:20:39.000 In other words, the vast majority of jobs being added over the last year are going to native born Americans.
00:20:47.000 Now, I actually think that it's good we're still adding jobs for for foreign born workers, because if you look at the if you look at the total number of jobs that we need to add to the economy, we don't actually have enough workers here at home.
00:21:01.000 Now, unless you take literally all of the people who are now sitting on the sidelines and manage to bring them back into the labor force instantly, you're really not going to be able to fill all of those jobs job openings.
00:21:14.000 Now, that's obviously something we want to happen over time.
00:21:17.000 But if we look at what happened during the first Trump administration, you were able to add not only plenty of jobs for foreign born workers, but you were able to add plenty of jobs for native born Americans.
00:21:29.000 And that's one of the key reasons why the Trump economy was so successful the first go around.
00:21:35.000 And it's why it stands in stark contrast to what happened under Biden.
00:21:39.000 Under Biden, native born Americans didn't gain any ground at all.
00:21:43.000 All of the net job growth went to foreign born workers.
00:21:46.000 And that's not what we want.
00:21:47.000 We want an economy where there are so many jobs that not only are there enough for all native born Americans to get jobs. 0.96
00:21:55.000 But you even have more jobs than that, to the point where you're willing to take on some of that foreign born labor to further grow the economy.
00:22:03.000 My recommendation of the Trump administration, the mainstream business media is not going to reach into this number like E.J. and Tony and put up exactly what the reality is.
00:22:15.000 This needs to this once again needs to be sold because it needs to be exposed.
00:22:19.000 People need to be aware of this.
00:22:20.000 Plus, the the job growth are the Axios.
00:22:24.000 The Axios, I think, has done a very good job of warning about the upcoming potential for this A.I. jobs apocalypse, particularly in entry level white collar jobs in tech, in service economy, managerial, you know, STEM, etc.
00:22:40.000 Is anything you've seen in the data today?
00:22:43.000 We just had Microsoft announce another layoff.
00:22:46.000 You've got Intel just announced a big layoff.
00:22:48.000 Is there any concern that you see right now in looking at this of a coming A.I. jobs apocalypse for white collar workers, sir?
00:22:56.000 Not yet, Steve.
00:22:57.000 Not yet, Steve.
00:22:58.000 Even when we look at, as I mentioned, the service sector is really what what took it on the chin here.
00:23:02.000 But even when we drill down into those numbers, it looks like most of most of the service sector jobs where we are seeing that negativity has to do with with things where there's actual labor involved as opposed to just sitting at a computer.
00:23:18.000 So, for example, even though I personally have seen this in my own work where I no longer have to go to, let's say, an intern and ask them to write me several lines of code to execute a data scraping program.
00:23:31.000 I can have A.I. do that for me now.
00:23:34.000 What we're really seeing in the macro level data is things like the leisure and hospitality industry not having to hire as many as many waitresses right now, not having to hire as many as much housekeeping staff in hotels.
00:23:48.000 So, again, right now, at least in the macro level data, what we are seeing is more so the jobs where there's human labor, physical labor involved as opposed to things related simply to I.T.
00:24:00.000 We're going to go to the House floor in a moment.
00:24:04.420 I think they're now starting to debate the rule.
00:24:06.600 We want to go and pick up some of that debate.
00:24:08.600 E.J., I asked you to be on here, not for labor.
00:24:11.840 That just happened.
00:24:12.720 But actually to make the case that President Trump put it on true social today, that the essence of the big, beautiful bill, and we're going to go to the House in a minute and see this debate on the rule itself, is about growth.
00:24:25.180 I know that you've been one of the big proponents working with Scott Besson and others about a supply-side tax cut because it's about growth.
00:24:32.240 Can you walk us through the best argument to pass President Trump's legislation, given that people are saying CBO says it's going to add $3 trillion to the deficit?
00:24:42.280 What is your argument from a supply-side, sir?
00:24:45.160 I think a lot of those arguments, Steve, that say, oh, the bill is going to do all these terrible things, they're kind of confusing stocks and flows, frankly.
00:24:55.080 So if you want to think of it this way, your net wealth as a household is a stock.
00:25:00.180 It's your assets minus your liabilities.
00:25:02.820 But your annual income is a flow.
00:25:04.940 And those things are not directly comparable.
00:25:08.040 To a certain extent, it's apples and oranges.
00:25:10.200 And people are making the same kind of fallacious comparisons with this bill when they say the deficit is going to go up if you pass this bill.
00:25:18.520 OK, that's true.
00:25:19.640 The deficit was going to go up anyway.
00:25:21.600 In fact, if you pass the bill, the deficit goes up less.
00:25:24.640 So it slows the rate of increase.
00:25:27.500 You see, so there's, you know, you can't get, you can't confuse levels with rates of increase.
00:25:32.940 Those are different things.
00:25:34.840 You know, yes, it is true that spending is going to go up, but it's going to go up at a slower rate.
00:25:40.560 OK, so again, the alternative here is not a perfect bill.
00:25:45.760 The alternative here is not the bill that you want.
00:25:48.500 It's doing nothing.
00:25:50.480 If you do nothing, spending goes up at a faster rate.
00:25:53.940 The deficit gets worse at a faster rate.
00:25:56.320 The debt gets much worse at a faster rate.
00:25:59.220 And at the same time, you're going to you're going to start a four trillion dollar tax hike on the American middle class beginning in 2026.
00:26:07.500 So, again, if the alternative is doing nothing, that's a pretty catastrophic scenario.
00:26:12.040 So even though the big, beautiful bill has has plenty of flaws, I'm not saying it's perfect.
00:26:16.740 It's not it's not the bill you or I would have would have written.
00:26:19.320 Right, Steve.
00:26:20.120 But it is still far superior to doing nothing.
00:26:23.860 And hopefully we can build on this progress in the future.
00:26:27.520 Hopefully the White House will continue to send rescission packages, including pocket rescissions at the end of the fiscal year.
00:26:33.560 And hopefully we will continue in terms of Congress to make progress towards further cuts in all of these crazy spending programs.
00:26:43.940 E.J., where do people go on your social media, particularly your Twitter account, because you're you come in pretty hot and you keep people pretty informed where they go.
00:26:52.120 Twitter is going to be the best place to find me.
00:26:55.620 And the handle there is at real E.J.
00:26:57.900 Antony.
00:27:00.940 E.J., thank you so much, brother.
00:27:02.760 Fantastic description of all of it.
00:27:04.940 Thank you for having me, Steve.
00:27:06.880 Let's go to the House.
00:27:08.180 Thanks, brother.
00:27:08.780 Let's go to the House floor and pick it up.
00:27:10.200 Pick the action up as it is.
00:27:12.020 $3.3 trillion to our nation's $35 trillion debt.
00:27:18.120 So much for Republicans being the party of fiscal responsibility.
00:27:23.240 They're also gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that returned $21 billion to families cheated by megabanks.
00:27:33.020 They're cutting housing funds during an affordability crisis and weakening oversight of Wall Street.
00:27:40.720 Maybe they're forgotten that the people elected them, not Trump or the billionaire class.
00:27:47.180 And, Mr. Speaker, members, it'll be a cold day in hell before we let Republicans get away with this.
00:27:53.520 I yield back.
00:27:54.800 Gentlewoman from North Carolina.
00:27:57.020 I reserve, Mr. Speaker.
00:27:58.840 Gentlewoman, reserve.
00:27:59.800 Gentleman from Massachusetts.
00:28:00.820 If I could inquire with the general lady, if she doesn't have many speakers, maybe she can lend us some time because we have a ton.
00:28:11.600 Nice try, Mr. McGovern.
00:28:14.780 In Congress, we can measure how much people really believe in their position by whether they're willing to come and join their leaders on the House floor.
00:28:22.380 Well, I count four members on the Republican side, and we've got over 75 over here.
00:28:27.220 And, you know, but if I were them, I wouldn't want to be associated with this bill either.
00:28:32.760 Mr. Speaker, I'm going to urge we defeat the previous question.
00:28:35.480 And if we do, I'll offer an amendment to the rule to consider amendment number 156 offered by Leader Jeffries,
00:28:40.920 which strikes all provisions that would cause millions of Americans to lose health care and food assistance.
00:28:46.160 Mr. Speaker, I ask you unanimous consent to insert the text of my amendment into the record,
00:28:50.480 along with any extraneous material immediately prior to the vote on the previous question.
00:28:54.500 Without objection.
00:28:55.400 And, Mr. Speaker, to discuss that proposal, I yield two minutes to the gentleman from New York, Mr. Casio-Cortez.
00:29:00.580 Gentleman's recognized for two minutes.
00:29:02.200 Thank you, and I thank the chairman.
00:29:03.740 You know, President Trump had issued some statements throughout this process saying and urging, insisting,
00:29:11.760 that this bill does not cut Medicaid.
00:29:14.060 He's also said some things, you know, he says he doesn't think I'm too much of a smart person.
00:29:19.960 And I'll tell you one thing.
00:29:22.980 It doesn't take a smart person to know if you're being lied to.
00:29:27.920 President Trump, you're either being lied to or you are lying to the American people.
00:29:34.800 Because this bill represents, in the text of this bill, the largest and greatest loss of health care in American history.
00:29:46.020 17 million Americans will lose their health care on this bill.
00:29:51.380 Not undocumented people, not quote-unquote the disgusting term illegal,
00:29:56.680 but 17 million Americans will have their health care cut from this bill.
00:30:02.500 On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips,
00:30:09.600 I want to tell you a little bit about the scam of that tax, a little bit of the fine print there.
00:30:15.560 The cap on that is $25,000.
00:30:19.400 While you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the United States.
00:30:28.280 While taking away their SNAP, while taking away their Medicaid,
00:30:32.780 while kicking them off of the ACA and their health care extensions.
00:30:37.040 So if you're at home and you're living off tips, you do the math.
00:30:41.420 Is that worth it to you?
00:30:43.460 Losing all your health care, not able to feed your babies,
00:30:47.100 not being able to put a diaper on their bottom in exchange for what?
00:30:51.500 This bill is a deal with the devil.
00:30:55.320 It explodes our national debt.
00:30:58.280 It militarizes our entire economy.
00:31:01.260 And it strips away health care and basic dignity of the American people for what?
00:31:09.060 To give Elon Musk a tax break and billionaires the greedy taking of our nation.
00:31:15.360 We cannot stand for it and we will not support it.
00:31:18.700 You should be ashamed.
00:31:26.960 Members are reminded not to engage in personalities toward the president.
00:31:33.180 And members are reminded to direct their remarks to the chair.
00:31:37.900 The gentleman from North Carolina.
00:31:43.960 Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
00:31:45.560 I now yield one minute to the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Nels.
00:31:50.120 The gentleman is recognized for one minute.
00:31:51.800 Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss an important provision in the big, beautiful bill.
00:31:57.060 I was proud to introduce the Endowment Tax Fairness Act,
00:32:02.020 which would tax the endowment profits of private elite universities at 21%,
00:32:06.960 raising an estimated, listen to me, $70 to $100 billion over 10 years.
00:32:14.240 The Senate gutted this provision and reduced it to under $1 billion annually
00:32:18.660 to protect, protect elite universities that take hundreds of millions of dollars annually
00:32:24.260 in federal tax dollars.
00:32:26.480 We were given instructions to generate revenue to pay for President Trump's wonderful priorities.
00:32:31.860 Folks, we're not taxing the endowment itself.
00:32:34.540 Harvard has $53 billion.
00:32:36.080 We're not taxing that.
00:32:37.640 We're just going to tax the net earnings on their investments at 21%,
00:32:41.860 which was equal to the corporate tax rate.
00:32:44.360 And what did the Senate do?
00:32:45.300 They reduced it to 8%, just under 8%.
00:32:48.320 It is about time that we get these universities to pay the same that corporate America pays.
00:32:55.520 And with that, I yield back.
00:32:56.740 Gentleman yields back.
00:32:57.700 Gentleman from Massachusetts.
00:32:59.380 I yield one minute to the gentleman from Florida, Ms. Wasserman Schultz.
00:33:02.860 Gentlewoman's recognized for one minute. 1.00
00:33:06.460 Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
00:33:07.760 I rise to oppose this vile Republican plunder of working families, seniors, and veterans,
00:33:12.340 all so the richest Americans can be showered with even more wealth.
00:33:15.960 This billionaire bailout would strip health care coverage from 17 million Americans,
00:33:19.900 nearly 2 million in my state of Florida.
00:33:22.080 It will push millions into crowded, costly emergency rooms and saddle them with medical debt.
00:33:26.580 Trump's big, ugly bill also steals record food assistance from millions of kids, seniors, and veterans.
00:33:32.200 It makes cancer screenings and prenatal care harder to get by defunding Planned Parenthood.
00:33:36.760 It cripples solar and wind projects and kills millions of clean, green manufacturing and
00:33:41.420 construction jobs, all so the rich can get huge tax breaks.
00:33:45.140 And no family is unscathed, because this bill also blows up the national debt by $4 trillion,
00:33:50.440 which drives up interest rates on car loans and mortgages, and triggers billions in Medicare
00:33:55.200 cuts, cutting health care for our seniors.
00:33:57.320 This bill makes life less affordable, more painful, and instead of uplifting lives, it will
00:34:02.100 end them.
00:34:02.660 When history looks back on this bill, its legacy will be, Trump lied and people died.
00:34:09.080 Vote no.
00:34:09.800 I yield back.
00:34:11.660 Chair would remind members, once again, not to engage in personalities toward the president.
00:34:19.360 Gentlewoman from North Carolina.
00:34:21.120 Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
00:34:23.720 I reserve.
00:34:25.660 Gentleman reserves.
00:34:27.760 Gentleman from Massachusetts.
00:34:29.880 Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute to the gentleman from Rhode Island, Mr. Magaziner.
00:34:34.880 Gentleman's recognized for one minute.
00:34:36.680 When we say that the Republican Party has turned into a cult, this is what we mean.
00:34:42.080 Our Republican colleagues are pushing a bill that would throw their constituents under the
00:34:46.840 bus.
00:34:47.440 A bill that flies in the face of everything they claim to stand for, all because Donald Trump
00:34:53.060 wants a bill signing photo op by the 4th of July.
00:34:56.560 Our Republican colleagues know that this bill will cost 17 million Americans their health
00:35:02.440 insurance.
00:35:03.320 They know that nursing homes in their own districts will have to close down.
00:35:07.560 They know that under this bill, $5 trillion of debt are being added that will be paid for
00:35:13.320 by my children and your children and their children for generations to come so that today's
00:35:18.640 billionaires can get a tax break.
00:35:20.940 They know that this bill is unpopular and many of their vulnerable members will lose reelection
00:35:25.920 over it.
00:35:27.080 But the cult leader has decided he wants his photo op on July 4th and our Kool-Aid drinking
00:35:32.940 colleagues are going along with it.
00:35:35.820 They know this is wrong.
00:35:37.020 They still have a chance to do right by their constituents and their convictions.
00:35:41.880 Vote no on this bill.
00:35:44.240 I yield back.
00:35:44.900 Gentleman from North Carolina.
00:35:47.000 Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
00:35:48.520 I yield two minutes to the very distinguished gentleman from South Carolina, Mr. Wilson.
00:35:54.540 Gentleman's recognized for two minutes.
00:35:57.960 Thank you very much, Chairwoman Virginia Foxx of North Carolina.
00:36:01.500 And indeed, Republicans were elected last November with promises made, promises kept.
00:36:07.620 And despite the extraordinarily ignorant lies on the other side, the American people know
00:36:13.100 that the bill that we'll be voting on today reduces taxes, creating jobs.
00:36:17.720 It's the elimination of taxes on tips and overtime.
00:36:21.180 It provides for securing the border.
00:36:23.260 It provides for energy independence.
00:36:25.180 It provides for the ability of having peace through strength.
00:36:29.700 All of this is in the bill.
00:36:31.600 And then compassion.
00:36:32.960 It's not compassion if you support programs that are ultimately going to fail.
00:36:37.020 But Republicans want people who need assistance to receive the assistance.
00:36:40.840 We already know Margaret Thatcher has identified what they're proposing.
00:36:44.040 And that is socialism will work until you run out spending other people's money.
00:36:48.140 They are putting the poor people of America at risk. 0.53
00:36:51.280 We're the ones of compassion.
00:36:53.080 Additionally, with the promises made, promises kept by Donald Trump.
00:36:57.680 I've lived it.
00:36:58.400 I led the delegation to move the delegation, the embassy, from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
00:37:03.980 He did that.
00:37:04.880 People said you shouldn't do it, the State Department, because it leads to dislocation.
00:37:08.700 No.
00:37:09.360 It led to the embassy being in Jerusalem.
00:37:12.240 And it led to the Abraham Accords. 0.95
00:37:14.100 We know last week the president was advised, do not bomb Iran.
00:37:19.600 It will lead to World War III. 0.52
00:37:20.820 No, it has led to a ceasefire and the ability of having an Abraham Accords extended to other countries, including Syria.
00:37:28.720 And I'm really grateful that Lindsey Graham was such an advisor.
00:37:31.380 The president acted despite the naysayers that we have all around us.
00:37:35.540 I just appreciate Donald Trump promises made, promises kept.
00:37:39.540 Thank you.
00:37:40.160 I yield back.
00:37:41.020 Gentleman yields back.
00:37:41.880 Gentleman from Massachusetts.
00:37:43.280 Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute to the gentleman from New York, Mr. Kennedy.
00:37:46.520 Gentleman's welcome to ask for one minute.
00:37:48.180 Thank you, Ranking Member McGovern.
00:37:49.580 I'm an occupational therapist.
00:37:51.260 I help people live the fullest life they could, given the cards they were dealt.
00:37:54.820 I worked at a school for children with disabilities in a nursing home, helping seniors maintain their independence.
00:38:01.200 I know exactly what it means to cut a trillion dollars from Medicare, Medicaid, and Affordable Care Act, which is exactly what this big, ugly bill does.
00:38:10.580 Taking away health care for 17 million Americans won't make us any healthier.
00:38:15.580 Stealing food away from the neediest children, seniors, and veterans won't make us any stronger.
00:38:21.160 Giving billionaires a tax break won't make us any richer.
00:38:25.100 Children will go hungry.
00:38:26.800 Seniors will lose their health care.
00:38:28.700 Students will lose their financial aid.
00:38:30.900 Hospitals will close.
00:38:32.520 Americans will die. 1.00
00:38:34.680 I urge my Republican colleagues to stand up, grow a spine, stop bowing down to your King Donald Trump, represent your constituents like you were elected to do, and vote no on this horrible, big, ugly bill.
00:38:48.000 I yield back.
00:38:49.140 For the third time, the Chair would remind members not to engage in personalities toward the President, or they will be called out of order.
00:39:05.120 Gentlewoman from North Carolina.
00:39:07.020 Mr. Speaker of the House is not in order.
00:39:10.280 You don't work for Donald Trump.
00:39:12.340 The House will be in order.
00:39:18.620 The House will be in order.
00:39:26.340 Yeah.
00:39:28.100 Gentlewoman from North Carolina.
00:39:29.480 Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
00:39:30.480 Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
00:39:31.480 Our Reserve.
00:39:32.480 Gentlewoman Reserve. 0.91
00:39:33.480 Gentleman from Massachusetts.
00:39:34.480 Mr. Speaker, if there are no other Republican members willing to speak for this bill, we can send some members over to you just to state the facts as to what's in this bill.
00:39:43.600 Let's do the public service.
00:39:45.600 Mr. Speaker, I now yield one minute to the gentleman from Maryland, Mr. Osheski.
00:39:50.600 Gentleman's recognized for one minute.
00:39:52.600 Thank you.
00:39:53.600 I rise today to remind my colleagues that this bill is more than words on paper.
00:39:59.600 The policies we're debating today have real impacts on real people, people like four-year-old Amir Rich, who visited my office earlier this month.
00:40:07.600 Amir was born at just two pounds and spent 452 days in the hospital.
00:40:14.600 Today, although he still depends on feeding tubes and oxygen tanks, he is thriving.
00:40:19.600 He's walking and able to speak.
00:40:20.600 He lit up my office with energy.
00:40:23.600 And that's thanks to the care he received under Medicaid.
00:40:27.600 Christina was forced to leave her 16-year career in corrections to become his full-time caregiver,
00:40:33.600 placing a significant financial strain on their family in the face of rising costs for American families.
00:40:39.600 Medicaid has become a vital lifeline, helping to cover the kind of care Amir needs.
00:40:44.600 The bill before us guts these lifelines like Medicaid and CHIP.
00:40:48.600 These programs cover nearly half of all American children.
00:40:51.600 For families like Christina and Amir, today's vote is a matter of life and death.
00:40:56.600 I encourage my colleagues to look at Amir.
00:41:00.600 Look at him.
00:41:01.600 And oppose this reckless bill.
00:41:03.600 Protect the vital support systems that serve millions of Americans.
00:41:06.600 Thank you.
00:41:07.600 I yield.
00:41:08.600 The gentleman from North Carolina.
00:41:10.600 Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
00:41:11.600 I yield one minute to the gentleman from Utah, Mr. Kennedy.
00:41:15.600 The gentleman is recognized for one minute.
00:41:17.600 Thank you, Madam Chair.
00:41:18.600 And thank you, Mr. Speaker.
00:41:19.600 It's a pleasure to be here and speak in favor of the rule for the big, beautiful bill.
00:41:24.600 As a provider of health care myself, as a doctor and as a recipient of Medicaid services,
00:41:29.600 my first three children were born on Medicaid.
00:41:31.600 In addition to the fact that as a child that was receiving food assistance,
00:41:35.600 not only from free school lunch programs, but church programs,
00:41:38.600 recognizing the vital need associated with Medicaid as well as with these food programs,
00:41:43.600 we need to right size these programs. 0.69
00:41:45.600 Mr. Speaker, if we don't take a different trajectory,
00:41:48.600 these programs will collapse under the economic failures of prior administrations.
00:41:53.600 The reality behind this is these bills, this bill that we're discussing today,
00:41:59.600 it is insisting on work requirements associated with the recipient of Medicaid.
00:42:04.600 If you are able-bodied working adult, you should be able to go out and find a job.
00:42:08.600 If you can't find a job, you need to go to a training program and try to find training
00:42:12.600 so that you can get a job and ultimately get off Medicaid.
00:42:15.600 One of the components about Medicaid, we all know, is formed in favor of pregnant women,
00:42:20.600 disabled people, as well as the elderly.
00:42:22.600 And what the Republicans are trying to do is right size the Medicaid program
00:42:25.600 so that it survives for the long term and the vital needs of the people of the future.
00:42:30.600 With that, Mr. Speaker, thank you for the time and I yield back.
00:42:32.600 The gentleman from Massachusetts.
00:42:34.600 If you can't find a job, just enroll in a training program.
00:42:38.600 Well, that's hard to do when Republicans are cutting and gutting the training programs 0.60
00:42:42.600 that exist in this country.
00:42:44.600 I now yield one minute to the gentleman from Texas, Ms. Johnson.
00:42:47.600 Gentlewoman, sir, can I ask for one minute? 0.93
00:42:49.600 Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
00:42:51.600 You know, I've been listening to this debate and I am struck by the appalling ability
00:42:56.600 of the members of the other side who are so afraid of this president.
00:43:01.600 They are willing to lie to the American people because they fear the tweet of a president
00:43:07.600 more than they fear the wrath of the voters at the ballot box.
00:43:11.600 This will come to roost because 17 million people are going to lose their health care.
00:43:16.600 And in Texas, we're one of the largest creators of clean energy jobs.
00:43:21.600 Texas is the energy state. I'm proud to be an energy state.
00:43:24.600 We have vast amounts of oil and gas jobs, but we also are the largest creator of clean energy jobs.
00:43:30.600 And we will lose millions of employment in our state because Republicans of this delegation
00:43:35.600 are going to vote for this bill.
00:43:36.600 Folks, the reason I wanted to show this, you're seeing the 2026 midterm right there.
00:43:40.600 I think what's very disappointing is not enough Republicans standing up.
00:43:43.600 If you believe in this bill, you've got to stand up for it.
00:43:46.600 You've got to sell the growth program. You just can't hide there.
00:43:49.600 Joe Wilson just wandering around from South Carolina talking about everything.
00:43:53.600 Focus on what's in this bill. Focus on what's in this bill, and you should be up firing back on these Democrats.
00:43:59.600 They got their pitch down. I wanted you to hear the pitch.
00:44:03.600 I know it upset many of you, and it's going to upset many of you because this is what you're going to hear through election day of 2026.
00:44:09.600 The Republicans have got to stand up and defend this. If it's going to get voted down on the rule, it's going to get voted down the rule.
00:44:15.600 But right now we're seeing these are feckless Republicans. You've got to step up, step into the plate.
00:44:20.600 You ought to know this bill as well as the Democrats do. They're hammering you with talking points, hammer back.
00:44:25.600 There's so much good in this, and it's predicated upon economic growth.
00:44:30.600 Once again, they're caught into this cycle of defending these cuts that they're making.
00:44:34.600 It's not going to work. Need to go on offense, offense, offense, offense.
00:44:40.600 If President Trump taught you anything, you should have learned that lesson.
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00:47:41.600 And as someone who served as the Chief of Staff on the U.S. Auto Rescue in the Obama administration,
00:47:47.600 I know what it means to see Michiganders struggling.
00:47:51.600 I know what it means when Michiganders have to choose between paying their bills and paying for life saving health care.
00:47:58.600 All while billionaires get a tax cut.
00:48:02.600 This bill, Mr. Speaker, makes me sick to my stomach and I urge everyone to vote no. Thank you.
00:48:09.600 General Lady from North Carolina.
00:48:12.600 Thank you, Mr. Speaker, I reserve.
00:48:14.600 General Lady from North Carolina Reserve.
00:48:16.600 Gentleman from Massachusetts.
00:48:17.600 I feel excited on the other side of the aisle.
00:48:20.600 Mr. Speaker, I yield one minute.
00:48:21.600 You know why they reserve?
00:48:22.600 You know why they reserve?
00:48:24.600 They have no Republicans over there.
00:48:26.600 How can that possibly be?
00:48:29.600 Right now, you're seeing the 2026.
00:48:32.600 This is the midterms.
00:48:33.600 You're hearing it all right there.
00:48:34.600 Look at the way they're spinning it.
00:48:36.600 Look at the way they're framing it.
00:48:37.600 Look at the way this is a billionaire tax cuts and American people being ripped off.
00:48:41.600 You're going to hear that over and over and over again.
00:48:44.600 That's their mantra.
00:48:45.600 Where's the opposite side?
00:48:46.600 Where are the Republicans?
00:48:47.600 How can you possibly not have people up there defending this bill, the president's bill?
00:48:53.600 If you're going to vote the rule down, then vote the rule down.
00:48:56.600 But somebody has got to be in the breach and call out the lies of the Democrats.
00:48:59.600 If you don't call it out now, it's going to lock in and build momentum.
00:49:03.600 I just I don't understand how you have this and you got 100 Democrats down there.
00:49:09.600 Look how they're backed up.
00:49:11.600 And your head blew up with Sandy Cortez, you know, formerly known as AOC, Sandy Cortez from Westchester, not a girl from the hood.
00:49:19.600 And you had, you know, you had my favorite start off.
00:49:24.600 Was that a wig?
00:49:25.600 I think that was a wig.
00:49:28.600 On Maxine Walters, Maxine Walters wearing a wig today.
00:49:31.600 I don't know.
00:49:32.600 She was on fire calling people liars, calling the president liar, calling everybody liars.
00:49:36.600 You see how many times the gentleman running, sitting for the speaker, kind of running the floor today, banging the gavel saying you're out of order.
00:49:43.600 You can't have personal tax the president.
00:49:45.600 Every single Democrat gets up there and attacks the president by name.
00:49:50.600 They're coming and we got a fighter on our hands and we're going to fight.
00:49:53.600 If you if you're going to vote for this bill, you got to defend this bill.
00:49:56.600 And there's so much to defend every, you know, every time, five times in a row or four times in a row has been hadn't had a guy.
00:50:01.600 And then you get a guy like Joe Wilson talking about the bombing of Iran.
00:50:06.600 It's not it's not pertinent till today to today to today.
00:50:10.600 Get up there and defend the bill.
00:50:12.600 This is another feckless example of a Johnson run Republican Party in Scalise.
00:50:19.600 Where are the fire breathers?
00:50:21.600 And if you didn't have the votes for the rule, then maybe you should have waited.
00:50:26.600 You have to go to the White House, have to come back and get organized.
00:50:31.600 Right now, folks, if you've got a problem with the IRS, if you see what's happening here, they're going to need they're going to have to plug the gap by getting every piece of tax money that they believe is owed to them.
00:50:44.600 If you have a notice from the IRS or you're late, you're late.
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00:51:34.600 Texas is the railhead of the MAGA movement.
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00:51:38.600 And down there in the Texas delegation better get on top of defending this bill.
00:51:43.600 You heard the right there right now is twenty twenty six.
00:51:46.600 You've heard it all.
00:51:47.600 They got all their talking points.
00:51:48.600 They're going to hammer, hammer, hammer, hammer.
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00:52:27.600 I hope Charlie Kirk picks up some of this.
00:52:28.600 You got to hear it.
00:52:29.600 You got to hear it.
00:52:30.600 The war and posse wants to get ahead of things.
00:52:32.600 You see this is the twenty twenty six campaign right there in the big, beautiful bill.
00:52:36.600 And we need Republicans in the well right now, hammering back, hammering back right now.
00:52:42.600 That was quite feckless.
00:52:43.600 Not good enough.
00:52:45.600 My God, if President Trump sees that his head will blow up as it should.
00:52:50.600 Let's go to Washington, D.C. Mike.
00:52:53.600 Oh, my God.
00:52:54.600 Mike Lindell.
00:52:55.600 Tell me, brother, where are you?
00:52:57.600 OK, we need some sound with Mike Lindell.
00:53:04.600 We're going to need some.
00:53:06.600 You got me, Steve.
00:53:07.600 You got me, Steve.
00:53:08.600 You got me, Steve.
00:53:09.600 I'm just.
00:53:10.600 I got you right now, sir.
00:53:11.600 Yeah, I'm about to head in the White House.
00:53:13.600 I just did a big speech down the street, Steve.
00:53:16.600 You know, I love the people.
00:53:17.600 Right.
00:53:18.600 So I had to stop and talk to them all.
00:53:20.600 And we're going to be heading in shortly.
00:53:22.600 Got a lot of different meetings and a lot of things to go over.
00:53:25.600 I know the 2020 election was told and we've got to be proactive and secure our election
00:53:30.600 platforms going forward, going into these midterms and and save our country, quite frankly.
00:53:36.600 And so I'm very excited about today.
00:53:39.600 I'm going to be here for the next two days and meeting all the people in D.C.
00:53:43.600 Steve, who said this to say everybody?
00:53:45.600 Everybody seems to be conservative here.
00:53:48.600 Is that true in D.C.?
00:53:53.600 That's true, Mike.
00:53:54.600 You're going to sell me a pillow or a pair of set of sheets before you go in.
00:53:57.600 I don't want to call security to have you blocked.
00:54:00.600 So do a good job and sell us some sheets before you go.
00:54:03.600 Right.
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00:55:20.600 Engine Room just told me the Republican Party still doesn't get why we won in 2024.
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