Stephen K. Bannon breaks down the latest on the government shutdown and what it means for the American people and the country's economy. He also talks about the possibility of mass layoffs if the government runs out of money at midnight and what that means for our economy.
00:04:24.000And what it suggests is that the agencies could use this moment to do mass layoffs.
00:04:29.000It says agencies are directed to use this opportunity to consider reduction in force.
00:04:34.000And as you know, Jeff, this agent, this administration, I should say,
00:04:38.000has really relied on these RIF notices, these reduction in force mechanisms
00:04:43.000to really slim down the federal government in the last seven or so months of the Trump administration.
00:04:48.000This is why I go back to the New York Times article, the New York Times article.
00:04:55.000And for longer term viewers of the show, you remember right after we won in November,
00:05:04.000when we were doing the the organization of the government and Russ hadn't been picked yet.
00:05:11.000But as soon as he kind of got picked, I said, hey, and they were kicking around this idea of Elon coming in with Doge.
00:05:16.000I said there has to be a merger of the Doge operation with OMB because Russ has been doing this now for a long time.
00:05:25.000He knows every nook and cranny. He knows programmatically. He knows every program.
00:05:29.000Here's the reason why. Just the way the government works.
00:05:31.000When you have an appropriations bill that gets negotiated in Congress in both the House and in the Senate and it gets passed and the president signs it, it becomes a law.
00:05:46.000Remember, this is one of the things that President Trump now is in the doesn't give two F's mode of the presidency.
00:05:55.000He's been tapped along by enough people. He understands if you sign an executive order or if you sign the the appropriations,
00:06:02.000you still have to force it through the bureaucracy to make sure it's done.
00:06:05.000Now, the appropriations, that's why it's so such an important committee.
00:06:09.000That's a law. And really, the whole city revolves around the appropriations.
00:06:13.000OK, this is why we fought when when Matt Gates and the war room and others led the effort to remove McCarthy about the debt ceiling deal.
00:06:21.000It was also to get back to single subject appropriations bill, because that's where you can see where the money really gets spent, where the deals are really cut.
00:06:29.000And you want to get it out of the smoke filled rooms and get it up to the front.
00:06:34.000We said the time you got to merge these processes because eventually it's going to come to an appropriations bill.
00:06:39.000And if you want to cut spending, that's where you cut.
00:06:41.000That's where you have to cut it. Plus, it is the process to expose.
00:06:47.000We know the Democrats are insane. They're insane when it comes to fiscal reality.
00:06:52.000They just want to spend and thinking to print money and everything's fine.
00:06:55.000Here's the reason is that they have no clue about economics.
00:06:59.000And quite frankly, they don't care. It's all about power and about expanding government programs.
00:07:04.000You expose here who's really with you and who's again you.
00:07:09.000And if you remember, you go back, I think, to the summer of twenty two.
00:07:15.000This audience and we would have twenty five thousand people and get her and a couple, you know, tens of thousands on rumble watching all night.
00:07:24.000These these appropriations committee meetings two and three in the morning where you had Marjorie Taylor Greene and Gates and Andy Biggs and all the House Freedom Congress guys arguing against things like USAID.
00:07:40.000The why are we funding this and going through the specifics and being voted down by a Republican majority on the committee?
00:07:47.000So this process is what Russ Vogt knows intimately.
00:07:51.000He is the he's the tip of the spear on what I referred to back in CPAC in February of 2017, because we're already working together.
00:08:02.000The deconstruction of the administrative state.
00:08:05.000And this is what the New York Times article, which I think is fabulous, because, of course, it's the New York Times are going to take shots.
00:08:12.000But they really you see Russ Vogt in all his seriousness and all his gravitas.
00:08:17.000And it goes all the way back to the beginning. Russ Vogt is the architect for implementing President Trump's thing to take the federal bureaucracy and to take it apart kind of brick by brick and leave those aspects of it.
00:08:31.000You need to actually govern. We're not he's not a he's not a anarcho libertarian that says we don't need any government.
00:08:39.000We certainly need a regulatory apparatus. Right. You certainly need the cabinet departments, at least some of them, I mean, education, others you can get out of and start to radically downsize the government.
00:08:50.000So it gets out of every aspect of your life. Russ Vogt's the guy that do it.
00:08:54.000Now, the Democrats have walked into a trap. While Sherman, these guys have been saying, no, we've got to keep this spending and that spending.
00:09:01.000Trump's just going, you're not listening to me. Government runs out at midnight and I'm not I've agreed to a CR for a short period of time, essentially two months.
00:09:11.000Right. About 60 days, even less than 60 days, 50 some days in order to try to pull it together one more time.
00:09:18.000But I'm not going to add to this additional spending. It's not going to happen.
00:09:23.000And Schumer goes, well, you have to negotiate the American. No, the American people.
00:09:27.000But listen, the Democrats are shutting down the government and what Russ and the team over at OMB, where I'm so proud of, have literally got a plan.
00:09:37.000And they sent the memo around and said, hey, we're going to have reductions in force, mass reductions in force when that when they leaked that last week.
00:09:48.000The Democrat part goes, what? What did he say? Hey, he do what? He's a this is not Elon running around with a chainsaw with Malay.
00:09:57.000Who, by the way, we're tossing a 20 billion dollar currency lifeline to not that Steve Bannon ever said the libertarian policies won't solve your economy.
00:10:06.000But I did say the libertarian policy is not going to solve the problem with your economy.
00:10:13.000It's not going to be some theater, a theatric chainsaw.
00:10:16.000It's going to be the Russ votes, the world going through program by program. Here's why.
00:10:20.000Once the appropriations bill is signed by the president, it then gets put over to OMB and they're the they monitor the entire thing as it goes out to the various departments and the alphabet agencies to actually be executed.
00:10:34.000And this thing is massive. But you can call over to OMB and say, Russ, I got a question.
00:10:40.000So I asked some obscure agriculture program. And he says, give me 20 minutes.
00:10:47.000And I said, you don't need to come. Send your guy because the OMB is vast.
00:10:52.000I think it's six hundred to seven or eight hundred people.
00:10:55.000They follow every day, programmatically, programmatically, how the money actually gets spent and kind of what the results are, how we're doing.
00:11:07.000Not a total, you know, independent analysis, but kind of where it stands in the program on an annual basis daily.
00:11:14.000So there's no better person than Russ vote in the team at OMB.
00:11:19.000If you remember, if you're old enough to remember the Reagan administration, OMB wasn't even something people understood.
00:11:26.000A young guy named David Stockman was put in the job and he became the rock star of the of the early years of the of the of President Reagan's administration,
00:11:41.000because the first time a guy had answers for everything because OMB is the center.
00:11:45.000As I say, the two most powerful jobs ex the president, I think, in D.C., as I said, is chief of staff, which kind of coordinates everything and director of OMB, which really takes where the money is.
00:11:58.400And Russ vote has a plan for mass mass layoffs or what they call reduction in force and not kind of a Elon Musk where you bounce in one moment, bouncing out another.
00:12:09.800And these people are let go and you get air traffic controls.
00:12:42.080Russ vote has got a plan to say, look, some of these are really non essential.
00:12:46.640In fact, they're going to leave the yard because we're never going to bring it back.
00:12:51.100Russ is the guy that has the has come up with the strategy for President Trump or the tactics for President Trump strategy of reducing spending of rescissions, pocket rescissions and impoundments.
00:13:04.860The article set up and it's very interesting.
00:13:08.360If you take Mike Davis on one hand and Russ vote on the other, who are war room regulars for years, it talks about pushing the envelope.
00:13:18.120Of the article to powers of the presidency.
00:13:33.020Obviously, the vice or outside the government, but a very close advisor to many, many people.
00:13:38.520Three individuals who are focused on the on the article to powers of the presidency, whether that is ability to cut spending or to fire people, to terminate people, which Russ is very focused on.
00:13:53.120Are kind of Stephen Miller's what is the with the Alien Sedition Act and the other emergency powers on on on on on spending or excuse me, emergency powers on the Alien Sedition Act.
00:14:09.620And also what's happening with the police operations and the armed operations going to Chicago and others.
00:14:16.420His President Trump is commander in chief.
00:14:18.580And then you get Mike Davis and what Mike Davis says, the president's third leg of the stool of his powers, chief law enforcement officer and chief magistrate.
00:14:28.360That trifecta is pushing the edge of the envelope for the Article two powers, the inherent powers of the executive as envisioned by the framers of the Constitution.
00:14:40.540And so far, as we saw with the ruling of the Supreme Court on the foreign aid money, they backed him up.
00:14:58.360This July, there is a global summit of BRICS nations in Rio de Janeiro, the block of emerging superpowers, including China, Russia, India and Persia, are meeting with the goal of displacing the United States dollar as the global currency.
00:15:15.160They're calling this the Rio reset as BRICS nations push forward with their plans.
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00:17:17.400If you remember, when NATO came, excuse me, I shouldn't say NATO, when the European heads came for the Zelensky meeting back on that Monday over, what, a month ago, the protocol ambassador, our own Monica Crowley, would come forward and meet them as they came up to the south entrance to the White House.
00:17:37.880I don't believe Netanyahu's coming through the snow.
00:19:54.040I've got to get an answer on that color guard.
00:19:55.720I've seen, and we've shown you dozens of those, but I don't ever remember of head of state arriving without, not the two Marines out front.
00:20:04.640They're on kind of permanent guard there.
00:20:06.320But the, no color guard, no flags of the nations and flags of the states, pretty extraordinary.
00:42:34.960So Wyckoff didn't have a meeting to go to.
00:42:36.700He had a Sunday meeting set up in Muscat, Oman.
00:42:39.720No need to go because the guys are dead, just like you went after trying to kill the Qatar guys.
00:42:46.120And don't get me wrong, not that they don't deserve killing, but there's a time and place for everything.
00:42:51.460And that was not the time, nor was it the place.
00:42:55.460And President Trump has bent over backwards to be accommodating.
00:43:00.280And I think he's had a belly full of it.
00:43:03.400You can see in the statements on the West Bank.
00:43:05.320And so I'm sure they're having a discussion right now.
00:43:07.380There is going to be a luncheon at noon.
00:43:09.920There's going to be then a former press conference in the East.
00:43:13.060We're going to bring it all to you live.
00:43:14.340And maybe even the president will open the doors and let folks in for one of these fireside chats he has with world leaders when he does these bilats.
00:50:21.140Once you've seen what I've seen and known what I've known, look at last week, everybody, the whistleblower that came out that's tied to the Tina Peters case.
00:50:29.140This stuff is all going to be coming out, and I will never, ever.
00:50:32.440They could come to me and offer me a million dollars or a billion dollars, Steve, and I would still say, no.
00:51:21.780I will never stop fighting because we have to save our country.
00:51:25.580By the way, Steve, Dallas County, Dallas County, one of the biggest counties in the country, just voted to go to paper ballots and counted for these upcoming primaries, everybody.
00:52:03.380Then, we'll go to Poso and Steve Gruber, Eric Bolling, and then back here five to seven, Natalie will help kick off the show with something she's been working on.
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