00:11:13.420If I have any ability to speak well and write well, it is because of them and what they taught me.
00:11:18.800And now to read that the top echelons of the Biden DOJ, Biden supposedly a Catholic himself, are targeting Catholics in this manner.
00:11:27.260And then to witness what is going on with the Pope and bishops constantly joining themselves at the hip to those very Democrats.
00:11:35.680It's wrong. It's offensive. It needs to be called out. What the Pope just did in naming an illegal
00:11:41.800migrant, the Bishop of West Virginia, a very deeply read pro-MAGA West Virginia. There's no0.52
00:11:47.980way that was coincidence, Steve. That was a shot at the United States, at the American right,
00:11:53.680at Donald Trump, at America first. And it's just, it's inexcusable, particularly coming from his
00:11:59.340office for the most important church office on planet earth. It's totally inexcusable. And that's
00:12:05.120why i'm calling it out um so for audiences not catholic and by the way i was uh taught by the
00:12:13.000benedictine the same way with you everything i owe on the education side is from them because
00:12:17.440they were quite strict um people are confused well hey how can they be so radical on the border
00:12:23.540and they have the catholic charities at the same time biden because biden's crew when you read it
00:12:28.580they're targeting trad catholics they're targeting traditional catholics when i was at danbury
00:12:33.820the most the most incredible men in that prison were the men that were sent there by the biden
00:12:40.760justice department for saying the rosary outside of abortion centers these men were modern day
00:12:47.380saints they didn't have any money they couldn't buy stuff at the commissary you had to help
00:12:51.300you know people had to help get them clothes and rec clothes things like that but these people they
00:12:56.680had a glow about them right in prison in a hellhole prison these these lived their christianity and
00:13:02.800lived their Catholicism every day. That's the folks that Biden went after. They go after
00:13:07.800traditional Catholics and traditional Catholic beliefs, nuns and habits, people at abortion
00:13:13.420centers saying the rosary, the Latin mass, the FBI coming up, starting with my family's parish,
00:13:19.300the Tridentine parish in Richmond to say, oh, these are centers of extremism and white nationalism.
00:13:24.940but the institutional church is quite happy working with demonic forces in the Biden
00:13:32.340administration. Are they not? I mean, they literally would have voted for them over
00:13:37.160President Trump every day of the week, correct? Correct. That's the unfortunate reality,
00:13:42.460but I think it's incumbent upon us, it's our obligation as faithful Catholics to call that
00:13:47.880out. And for most of church history, the opposite was the case. In other words, the clergy had to
00:13:54.480correct the laity, right? Who were generally too lax, right? With their own morals, with social
00:14:00.060norms and that sort of thing. And the clerics would correct the laity. We now in many cases
00:14:05.940have the opposite, right? Where the laity in many ways is way more faithful to Catholic tradition,
00:14:11.420to Christianity itself, to biblical principles than are the clerics, than are the leading
00:14:16.500actual officials of the church, including the American bishops. And now we see the Pope himself.
00:14:21.680And also, let's put this in context. It wasn't just naming this one bishop. He also named another bishop, an auxiliary bishop in Washington, D.C., in our nation's capital, who is a guy who is an absolute DEI radical.
00:14:33.960I mean, the way he talks about DEI, you'd think you're listening to Hakeem Jeffries rather than a church shepherd.
00:14:40.380And of course, you know, we know that the pope got in a very public spat with President Trump.
00:14:45.460In addition to that, there are some things that might seem more trivial, but I think they still matter.
00:14:49.540For example, he was asked, are you going to root for the U.S. or Peru?
00:14:52.540He said, I'm going to root for Peru in the World Cup.
00:14:54.600So I guess he doesn't really consider himself to be an American.
00:14:57.320And on that topic, by the way, here we are in our 250th birthday year, a huge deal for the American people, for all of us, not for Republicans, for Americans.
00:15:06.560He's an American, born and raised here, and yet he is not coming to the United States.
00:15:11.400He refused the invitation to come for the July 4th itself, and there are no plans for him to come to his homeland at all.
00:15:18.320And what is he doing on the 4th of July? He is going to an Italian island that is known as essentially an illegal migrant transport hub. He's going there. Again, that's not coincidental. He didn't pick the July 4th date to do. He's an American. He knows what's going on on July 4th, especially in 2026, the 250th anniversary.
00:15:36.340So, look, I think it's important for us to recognize as Catholics, we recognize his spiritual authority, okay?
00:15:48.400At the same time, when he is acting like a partisan political actor, and when other bishops are, I, as a fellow partisan political actor, I'm going to push back.
00:15:58.200And I think we, as lay Catholics, have an obligation to do so.
00:21:33.380Well greetings from London where the nation waits with bated breath to see what the results
00:21:39.940are going to be like in the English local elections on Thursday alongside parliamentary
00:21:47.340elections in the devolved parliaments of Scotland and Wales. There are thousands upon thousands
00:21:54.820of seats up for grabs in these local elections. Some people will remember that last year the
00:22:01.220embattled British Prime Minister Sakhir Starmer actually paused and postponed elections all over
00:22:09.280the country in a highly cynical and anti-democratic move. Those elections are now taking place this
00:22:18.180week and I have been out on the campaign trail with Reform UK leader Nigel Farage who is expected
00:22:24.500to mop up thousands of seats while the traditional major two parties, the Labour Party and the
00:22:33.640Conservative Party, otherwise known as the Tories, are projected some massive, massive losses. It is
00:22:41.780an extremely pertinent moment for the fight against the political establishment here in
00:22:48.580the United Kingdom. And indeed, we are also focusing heavily on what happens in Wales and
00:22:56.320Scotland. Both of those devolved parliaments have been run by far left nationalist parties.
00:23:03.300The Labour Party of Wales and the SNP, the Scottish National Party, have held power for a
00:23:10.920very long time in those areas, but it looks like that power may now be at risk. Again, reform
00:23:16.940polling extremely highly in Wales and about to make major breakthroughs in Scotland. Also,
00:23:24.500some things that were genuinely unthinkable just a year or two ago. The situation here
00:23:31.280in the United Kingdom is changing rapidly. It may lead to the end of Sir Keir Starmer's
00:23:41.120premiership. You will remember, especially the American audience here will recall just how much
00:23:48.240Sir Keir Starmer has been at loggerheads with President Trump in recent weeks and months. Well,
00:23:54.400he is not a particularly popular figure in the United Kingdom either. He actually has worse
00:24:01.020approval ratings than George W. Bush had at his lowest peak and also the lowest ratings
00:24:10.980of Richard Nixon. So Sir Keir Starmer may well be deposed by his very own party come this weekend
00:24:20.560after Thursday's results. Another thing for the audience to bear in mind right now,
00:24:27.640as developments are taking place in Iran, and as the situation continues to change
00:24:34.440across Europe. Are the moves recently taken by the German government, as we know, President Trump
00:24:43.020is pulling troops out of Germany. We don't know specifically how many yet or how quickly they will
00:24:50.900go. We don't know if Germany is also the only country that will go through this. But there is
00:24:57.120more than one place in which the American taxpayer underwrites what's going on in Europe.0.75
00:25:06.020Everybody thinks of defense, but there's another area, a massive area, in which the Germans
00:25:11.960simply are not playing ball with America, and that is in medicines. The Germans have recently0.95
00:25:18.920taken steps to further try and fleece the US taxpayer and force them, like the US does,0.89
00:25:26.280all across the continent to underwrite the cheap medicines that Europeans get.0.60
00:25:32.160Meanwhile, Americans pay top dollar for top drugs in the United States.
00:25:37.220It effectively is a similar situation to what happens with NATO.
00:25:41.780So there is another element to which the president can fight back against Berlin.
00:25:46.660It is an incredibly important time for him to do so.
00:25:50.180There could be a Section 301 investigation launch.
00:25:53.240There's already been one in March, which has to do with excess supply that comes out of Europe.
00:26:00.140But also, we're now looking at what happens with medicine price fixing all over the continent too.
00:26:05.900The Brits actually, funnily enough, have taken steps to remediate this and to bring themselves into line better with American pricing structures
00:26:16.520so that the American taxpayer isn't expected to underwrite their medical system.
00:26:22.260But the Germans are simply not playing ball.0.57
00:26:24.540And this Section 301 investigation, if they expand it to deal with what Germany is doing,
00:26:29.180could be a very useful tool in addition for President Trump to removing troops from Germany.
00:26:35.260So a lot taking place here in Europe this week.
00:32:23.100You've got a new initiative you're launching today. Can you tell us about it?
00:32:27.340Sure. So, you know, there's been a lot of national conversation about affordability and the left's been complaining about Trump.
00:32:33.360And the reality is, is that Trump is doing everything that he has the power to do.
00:32:38.160You know, the one big, beautiful bill with the tax cuts, the deregulatory agenda.
00:32:42.980He's putting a focus on America first refining, you know, because we export 4.6 billion barrels a day or, you know, so much because we don't have the ability to refine the oil that we're producing ourselves.
00:32:54.000We have the ability to refine, you know, foreign oil.
00:32:56.720And so, you know, he's doing everything that he can do as an executive on that front.
00:33:00.260And eventually the Iran war is going to end.
00:33:02.720Everything that he can do, he's doing.
00:33:04.280But there's this other lingering problem, which is that at a systemic level, most of the institutions that encapsulate all of the threshold buckets for what it costs to raise a family, so mortgages, health care, child care, transportation, energy, on and on and on, they all have inherent inefficiencies built into them.
00:33:27.260I think some of these are intentional by kind of the cultural Marxist left.
00:33:31.200They don't want markets in the first place.
00:33:32.880They want to push us towards, you know, government programs.
00:33:37.580And so we said about, I read a really interesting article about six or seven months ago, and
00:33:42.480it said that the cost of participation in society, the average for a family of four
00:33:48.120is about 130 something thousand dollars.
00:33:51.040So I wanted to reverse engineer that work and figure out what's the truth.
00:33:55.160And the reality is that the cost of participation is about $105,000 a year for the American family.
00:35:16.200If you're telling me it's $105,000 without any of the other vacations or, you know, getting clothes and the kinds of things you need to actually participate in society, maybe not at the super high level, but we're a middle-class family, that $105,000 is after tax.
00:35:34.560That's cash that you got to pay for a mortgage.
00:35:36.580So are you telling me a family of four, if I grow something for the tax, has got to make, I don't know, $140,000 to actually have the cash after tax to pay for it?
00:36:56.840So are you saying that to get to the 105,000, you need to make, what did you say, 125 or 130?
00:37:04.740You need to make more than that to really make it kind of even out.
00:37:10.200But that illustrates the point, which is that the average family is struggling to keep their head above water.
00:37:17.120You know, Trump is doing absolutely everything that he is empowered to do, and he is pushing the needle in the right way.
00:37:21.880Families are going to be benefiting from some of these things he's doing for the next decade or two,
00:37:25.560And they won't even know that it was Trump. But a lot of these buckets are inherently systemically inefficient.
00:37:32.180So take health care. The average health care plan, business provided plan is about twenty nine thousand and change.
00:37:39.160Twenty eight thousand and change right around in there. That's the average for a family of four.
00:37:44.440There's no need for this. The entire system is structurally set up and we could have a whole debate on health care for me of systems and how they should be structured.
00:37:52.560But our plan gets you the same basic coverage and actual health care at about half the price.
00:37:59.460So we can get business-sponsored plans down to about $13,800 a month, a year for a family of four, which is transformational.
00:38:08.880It would basically make it so that employers could cover health care and no one would have to even pay for it if they've got employer-covered care.
00:38:15.760And businesses would still save money even if they covered 100% of your health care.
00:39:39.400I actually, early on, was going out on AI and asking for every single idea that was out there that's been proposed at the state level, at the federal level, and then group them by partisanship.
00:39:49.360There was actually quite a few ideas in the Republican Party that had been out there.
00:39:55.240They were all government subsidies and new government programs, which would just increase costs.
00:39:59.960None of them had any actual solutions.
00:40:01.720And so one of the things we're going to do with this, as the left is going to be chirping on about affordability all summer long, I'm sure they will, is we're going to put out our plan.
00:40:09.360We're going to lay out all 63 of those proposals in the plan.
00:40:20.340But if I look at mortgage or rent, which is, you know, shelter, if I look at energy, which is, you know, transportation and the home, right?
00:40:32.020And then if I look at health care, what are the other big buckets I'm missing?
00:43:01.400So I've mentioned the health care plan.
00:43:03.640And there's the whole, you know, the Trump homes is a great idea, but we also need to
00:43:08.340figure out tax advantage accounts on how we get families to the point where they can do their
00:43:14.700down payment. And so incentivizing their ability to put money forward and also incentivizing family
00:43:21.340members. So often families and parents and grandparents want to be able to contribute
00:43:25.600to these things, but they're not tax advantage. And, you know, we want to be able to build into
00:43:29.780this and feed into that. And there's ways we can start saving for college. There's all sorts of
00:43:34.860things that we can do that we're not currently doing in every single one of these categories
00:43:38.640that would essentially significantly lower the costs. I mean, transportation, renewable fuel
00:43:44.040standard, all of these things that are, all these regulatory burdens that are in just the ability
00:43:50.840to produce a vehicle today are outrageous. And it ends up just harming families. It makes it harder
00:43:55.860for them to own a vehicle, which is a threshold to being able to find employment that's more than
00:44:01.740a walking distance away. There's all sorts of things we can do that fundamentally improve the
00:44:06.100condition of the American family. Isn't the way to do, one of the ways to do this, obviously got
00:44:10.500challenged the left, but that's just going to get into the debate. They're all big government guys
00:44:14.720that want the family to fail so they have more control. Is there any way between now and let's
00:44:22.640say they go home in August to get the House to sit down and to get members to say, hey, look,
00:44:28.260these are 20 things we can put into an overall comprehensive bill of supporting the American
00:44:33.360family, get that drafted, get it up. So then we've got something on record to say, hey,
00:44:38.500here's what we're saying. Their solutions are all more big government or destruction of the family.
00:44:45.580And here ours is supporting it. And this is what we want to put forth as a positive piece of
00:44:51.220comprehensive legislation. Absolutely. I think that we're going to bifurcate this out to proposals
00:44:58.320for states and then proposals for Congress. And by the way, apologies for my background. I think
00:45:02.580that whatever's on timed out and it's just going through an Apple TV right now. But yes, we're
00:45:07.660going to send this over a package. And I think there's a lot that Congress can do. There's a lot
00:45:11.240that states can do to fix this problem. And we're going to have a sent out and work with State
00:45:16.840Freedom Caucus Network and others to try to fix these problems. Let's go back to what you said
00:45:22.540about the state freedom caucuses. A bunch of these can be put at the state level so we could
00:45:27.020actually get some of these things implemented on an easier basis? Yeah, some of these are state
00:45:31.940level. And some of these, there's clever and innovative ways that some of these state freedom
00:45:36.480caucus networks can put pressure onto the federal government to kind of push them in the right
00:45:42.200direction of fixing some of these problems. What's the best way, Wade, for people to start
00:45:47.260to get their hands right? You're launching it today. When you say launch, are you going to
00:45:51.140roll it out with a media launch? Are you going to go testify on Capitol Hill? I mean, where can
00:45:56.380people find out, obviously, more so they get an understanding of this? First off, $105,000 to $41,000,
00:46:02.420that's cutting out about 65% of the cost. If you think about it, you know, if people are making
00:46:08.860$125,000 after tax, look at the amount of money they're prepared to save. Look at what they could
00:46:14.980do for savings. You would change the dynamic of Americans' lives just by the ability to have them
00:46:21.340have the ability not just to maybe get some nicer things and maybe more travel, but in addition,
00:46:27.460actually be able to put some money away to build a nest egg for when they retire.
00:46:32.140absolutely and the amount you would save in one year is almost enough to cover uh four years of
00:46:38.660college tuition in state uh in most colleges and most states uh you know it would be transformational
00:46:44.920amount that you could save it would be transformational in the amount uh that you know
00:46:48.960starting your family and having the psychological uh feeling that you can do that uh safely and
00:46:54.820effectively there's so many things that would transform in our society and not the least of
00:46:59.320which could be just AI-proofing our economy or at least buying those of us in our economy time to adapt to the coming AI changes.
00:47:08.260Because if you're making $128,000 versus, you know, I would rather make $70,000 with an expense of $41,000 a year than $128,000 with an expense of, you know, $110,000 a year.
00:47:20.000So what you can make versus what things cost is a really important way to think about things, not just simply how much can I make.
00:47:27.140The value of what you make also matters.
00:47:29.580And a lot of this, it will make us AI proof in the coming years.
00:47:35.120So how do people get, how do they get to this?
00:47:37.860How do they start to work their way through it so they understand it?
00:47:41.000So we wrote a piece on each one of them.
00:47:43.760You can find them at americarenewing.com.
00:47:58.200I'm going to be tweeting about it more today.
00:48:01.900On X, I'm Wade Miller, at Wade Miller.
00:48:05.520And we'll be more talking about these things.
00:48:07.720And then ultimately, I think that the bigger picture here, though, is this is just the first hurdle.
00:48:12.040We can do all of these things, but if we don't save our culture, then none of this will eventually matter anyways.
00:48:18.340So getting money out of the way, the inefficiencies and cost burdens out of the way is a big step.
00:48:23.280But we also have to remember in the back of our minds that the next step after this, and probably concurrent and simultaneous, is that we also have to fight to save our culture.0.96
00:48:31.780Well, you guys have been doing it, the lead of Sharia law and Sharia supremacy.0.90
00:48:36.260How do you think we're doing down in Texas?0.99
00:48:37.720You know, we just had folks on today about this water park financed by, I think, Grand Prairie, Texas, down there.0.98
00:48:45.300And they're going to have a Muslim-only day.0.70
00:48:47.340I mean, how do you think we're doing on the anti-Sharia fight in the great state of Texas?0.99
00:48:53.280I'm encouraged by the fact that more and more people are waking up to this, and they're emboldened to speak out about it.0.54
00:48:59.540I am still concerned that at the legal level, judiciary level, judges, that they are not yet capable of thinking in ways that will facilitate.
00:49:11.560I think we're going to get some wins, and I think we have smart people that will craft these.
00:49:15.500But what we need is a revolution in the judiciary to understand that the Constitution is not a suicide pact.0.75
00:49:21.340That the First Amendment does obviously provide us great protections, but it doesn't mean that we have to allow a radical Islamic Sharia to pervasively take over our entire culture, knowing that doctrinally it is being designed specifically to supplant the current culture, and ultimately it's at odds with the entire Constitution.
00:49:40.660And so I think those two things have to happen. We have to continue to fight this, but we also need judges to wake up and understand that their job is to protect our culture and our entire system and not to use it as a shield to protect these offensive ideologies that are out here to destroy us.0.92
00:49:58.300well you want to thank you uh and your team there for providing such great leadership you put so
00:50:04.200many great people in the administration and you guys have not missed a beat since uh russ and the
00:50:09.120team went over there so really extraordinary um of course you know the war and posse loves you guys
00:50:13.400where can they go to get all the analysis here to get updates on sharia law and what is your social
00:50:19.040media on social media america renewing i think you can am renew uh center but you can look it up
00:50:26.680Center for Renewing America on X. And we've got a whole thread outlining everything we talked about
00:50:30.660here. And of course, my X handle is at Wade Miller. Wade Miller, thank you so much for the
00:50:36.800work. And thank you for coming on the show to explain this. Thanks for having me on. Okay,
00:50:41.640folks, let's drill down on this because this is the corner of the American families, the cornerstone
00:50:45.680and this phony argument about affordability is, I know it's driving the president's nuts, but it's
00:50:52.180also off the target. Think about that. Average cost to participate, $105,000. That's why families
00:50:58.400can't do it. We just talked about homes and mortgages. HomeTitleLock.com, promo code Steve.0.86
00:51:06.220If you're lucky enough to own a home, and I think the average age of a first-time
00:51:11.340owner now is like 40-some years old, 80% to 90% of your net worth is tied up in that home. Every
00:51:19.260dream you've ever had is tied up in that home. Ensure that the heartache and the opportunity
00:51:27.020cost, the anxiety, the angst, if somebody was to get into your title and be able to take out a hard
00:51:33.720money second loan, you know, second mortgage where you had to pay off the capital and these high
00:51:38.200interest rates, or could even try to monetize your home in some other way, it happens and it happens
00:51:43.360every day, particularly with advances in artificial intelligence and cyber, not to mention
00:51:48.640rogue relatives, significant others, all of it.