Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - Episode 156 LIVE: Kiss Uncanceled (feat. Rep. Scott Perry) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

In this episode of Firebrand, Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) joins Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) to discuss the massive $1.3 trillion spending bill passed by the Republican-led House of Representatives, and why it's time to send in the firebrands. Scott is a former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus and has been a long-time member of the conservative wing of Congress. He's been in Congress for a long time and has seen a lot in his time in Congress, but he's never been one to shy away from a fight. In this episode, Scott and Rep. Gaetz discuss the need to push back against excessive government spending, and the need for the Freedom Caucus to speak up and speak out against excessive earmarks and earmarks. Firebrand is a production of the Center for American Progress and the Firebrand Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting for conservative priorities and fighting for the principles that matter most to the American people. Firebrand's mission is to empower, educate, and inspire Americans to take action to take their voice and speak up in favor of their priorities and fight for the things they believe are most important: the things that matter the most to them, the things people care about most. Listen in to find out what it means to be a firebrand, and what it takes to stand up for what matters most to you, the most important things in life. and your day to day life and the things you need to do to protect and protect it. Thank you for being a Firebrand! and keep fighting for freedom, liberty, equality, and justice, liberty and the pursuit of the American Dream! - Matt, Scott, and all things you can do to make a better day to live your best day to do what matters. Tweet me to let us know what you think of it! Tweet us your thoughts, your voice matters! and spread the word to your friends and share it everywhere you can be heard! Timestamps: Tweet Me! or text us your voice is important! to someone else can help us spread it everywhere! . or tweet us out there! , and we'll get it out there in the world! ! - Timedream in a message you're listening to us out here! & we'll send it out to your voice out! <3 -

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:01:47.000 Matt Gates, the biggest firebrand inside of the House of Representatives, You're not taking Matt Gaetz off the board, okay?

00:01:54.000 Because Matt Gaetz is an American patriot and Matt Gaetz is an American hero.

00:01:59.000 We will not continue to allow the Uniparty to run this town without a fight. 1.00

00:02:04.000 I want to thank you, Matt Gates, for holding the line.

00:02:08.000 Matt Gates is a courageous man.

00:02:11.000 If we had hundreds of Matt Gates in D.C., the country turns around.

00:02:15.000 It's that simple.

00:02:16.000 He's so tough, he's so strong, he's smart, and he loves this country.

00:02:20.000 Matt Gates.

00:02:23.000 It is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you.

00:02:27.000 We will save America.

00:02:30.000 It's choose your fighter time.

00:02:31.000 and send in the Firebrands. - Welcome back to Firebrand.

00:02:40.000 We are broadcasting live out of Room 2021 of the Rayburn House Office Building here at the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C. We've got the Uniparty moving massive spending bills with a ton of waste.

00:02:50.000 Can't wait to talk about that.

00:02:52.000 Also, out in California, if you can believe it, they're actually extending even more benefits to illegal aliens.

00:02:58.000 We've got great news in the state of Florida where our friend, State Representative Joel Rudman, is advancing sound Second Amendment policy so that Gun owners have the opportunity to purchase firearms lawfully in our state without these background checks in any way delaying that lawful access of rights.

00:03:15.000 And to talk about all of it, I've got my very good friend from Pennsylvania, Scott Perry, joining me.

00:03:20.000 Scott has been in Congress.

00:03:21.000 How many terms now?

00:03:23.000 I think five.

00:03:24.000 I think five.

00:03:26.000 Some days it feels like a minute, some days it feels like a lifetime.

00:03:30.000 Scott Perry is the former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, someone who is a mentor of mine and always Can be found ensuring that we've got less spending.

00:03:38.000 He's been a true warrior to try to close the southern border and really to use leverage.

00:03:43.000 And that's what we're here to talk about.

00:03:45.000 Scott, you have led the Freedom Caucus.

00:03:47.000 A lot of the conservative-leaning members, both in and out of the Freedom Caucus, look to you for leadership.

00:03:52.000 And what we saw on the floor of the House today was an abomination.

00:03:56.000 A spending bill was moved with all the Democrats, with Majority of Republicans.

00:04:03.000 No debate.

00:04:05.000 It had overwhelming support.

00:04:06.000 I don't think we got 100 no votes against it.

00:04:08.000 They worked it really hard to make sure that as many people voted for it as they could possibly get.

00:04:15.000 They worked it really hard.

00:04:16.000 How would you describe the spending bill that just passed?

00:04:20.000 Obscene.

00:04:22.000 Look, it's devastating to the country.

00:04:24.000 People might not realize it.

00:04:26.000 We're at about 100 days, 120 days.

00:04:29.000 We're spending a trillion additional dollars every 120 days.

00:04:33.000 It just keeps getting faster and faster.

00:04:35.000 We just went...

00:04:38.000 $34 trillion between December and January will be at $35 trillion by May.

00:04:44.000 People say, well, why should I care?

00:04:45.000 You know, you guys just print the money.

00:04:47.000 What does it matter?

00:04:48.000 Because if you can't afford your meals, if you can't afford gasoline, if you can't afford your credit card bills, your house payment, if you're trying to decide between insurance payments or electricity payments, it's all caused by what we just did today.

00:05:02.000 And unfortunately, there's a whole bunch of folks that will come to your town And run for office and say, if you vote for me, I'm going to end all that stuff.

00:05:11.000 And a whole bunch of them just voted for it.

00:05:13.000 And why?

00:05:14.000 I mean, the viewers to this program, the folks who get these updates, see what is happening to the country.

00:05:20.000 And they've seen the promises regarding the power of the purse.

00:05:24.000 What is the essential element that you think is lacking in our colleagues to push back against this excessive spending?

00:05:31.000 I would characterize it as two things.

00:05:33.000 One is courage.

00:05:35.000 The other is integrity.

00:05:36.000 So you always say, this is what I'm going to do.

00:05:39.000 This is the integrity part.

00:05:40.000 But there's always some reason.

00:05:42.000 Look, I got an earmark.

00:05:43.000 What, we had 6,000 earmarks in this half of the bill?

00:05:47.000 So earmarks used to be gone.

00:05:49.000 Well, they were here, then they were gone.

00:05:50.000 Now they're back again.

00:05:51.000 And so they're buying votes with earmarks.

00:05:53.000 Did you have a favorite earmark in this bill? 1.00

00:05:55.000 That was the stupidest, craziest thing that you could have imagined. 1.00

00:05:59.000 There's a lot to choose from. 1.00

00:05:59.000 That's a pretty big menu, Matt. 1.00

00:06:02.000 The one in Pennsylvania that Senator Casey, And Senator Fetterman originally supported was for some building where they were having, as I understand this, I don't know, gay sex parties. 0.98

00:06:17.000 And we're going to spend a million dollars on that. 0.89

00:06:19.000 And then they came out afterwards and said, whoa, hold on a second.

00:06:22.000 We don't support that.

00:06:24.000 So did that receive a lot of support from, like, the Pennsylvania Dutch community?

00:06:28.000 Like, where is the constituency in Pennsylvania for the public-funded erotica?

00:06:34.000 Is it a Senator Casey priority?

00:06:36.000 Is it a Senator Fetterman priority?

00:06:38.000 Well, it was one of their priorities until it wasn't one of their priorities.

00:06:42.000 So what this was, for those of you who are watching, there is some LGBTQ community center in Pennsylvania, and these senators sought an earmark to give them extra funding for their operations.

00:06:54.000 A million dollars.

00:06:54.000 And the Libs of TikTok account went and found what some of the planned activities were there, and they were...

00:07:01.000 EDSM activities and, you know, bring your handcuffs and whips and chains.

00:07:04.000 And we're not judges here.

00:07:06.000 We're not the bedroom police.

00:07:07.000 But if you want to do that stuff, you should do it on your own time and on your own dime.

00:07:10.000 And there should not be public funding for that.

00:07:12.000 The question is, is why is there federal funding for this?

00:07:15.000 And a whole range of earmarks, trails and roads and state things.

00:07:19.000 And they might be great projects, but what does it have to do with the federal government?

00:07:23.000 But they bought the votes with so.

00:07:24.000 So integrity.

00:07:27.000 There's always some programming.

00:07:29.000 I didn't want to vote for the whole thing, but this was in here.

00:07:31.000 I had to do it because I needed this one thing.

00:07:34.000 And then courage.

00:07:35.000 You know, the rest of the crew is going this way.

00:07:37.000 And if we don't do this, the only alternative is a shutdown.

00:07:41.000 We're going to be accused of shutting down the government.

00:07:43.000 Let's be clear here.

00:07:44.000 85% of the government operates even through a shutdown.

00:07:48.000 So we're talking about 15%.

00:07:49.000 Nobody came here, not Matt Gaetz, not Scott Perry, to shut down the government.

00:07:54.000 What we did come to do is save the republic.

00:07:57.000 And if Democrats, and I hate to say it, some of our friends on the Republican side of the aisle, if it's worth it to them to keep on bringing in illegal foreign nationals to kill and rape our children such that we don't shut down the government and have a conversation about it, then they should defend that. 0.82

00:08:16.000 But I'm certainly not going to.

00:08:18.000 The Chuck Schumer Center for Environmental Justice in New York.

00:08:23.000 Well, that's important, Matt.

00:08:24.000 That's a federal...

00:08:25.000 Can't you see the federal nexus?

00:08:27.000 I just don't understand how they're going to invest a million dollars in the Center for Environmental Justice without enhancing the carbon footprint of the Center of Environmental Justice.

00:08:36.000 Well, increasing the carbon footprint in pursuit of reducing carbon is always justified.

00:08:44.000 Yeah.

00:08:45.000 The Twin Lakes Reservoir Floating Solar Project.

00:08:48.000 $2 million for floating solar rafts.

00:08:51.000 Yeah, because we don't want to take up land space, so it's okay to take up water space.

00:08:56.000 In Florida, people might not know this everywhere, but electricity and water are a bad thing to mix.

00:09:00.000 Yeah, well, usually you don't like to mix those two.

00:09:02.000 Yes, put them on there.

00:09:03.000 So many earmarks.

00:09:04.000 You made mention of the funding of the VA. Right.

00:09:06.000 As a part of this program, and I know as a veteran, you care deeply about the VA. We actually want a veteran healthcare system that is the best in the world.

00:09:16.000 Focused on veterans, and the best healthcare.

00:09:17.000 It was designed originally to be the best healthcare on the planet for veterans.

00:09:24.000 That have said they will sacrifice their life for their country.

00:09:27.000 That's what it was designed or originally envisioned to be.

00:09:32.000 I know you know otherwise.

00:09:34.000 And your criticism of our funding of the VA includes a critique of us continuing to fund VAX mandates, right?

00:09:40.000 That's exactly right.

00:09:43.000 Who pleads their lives ought to be able to decide.

00:09:46.000 We understand if you've got to get a vaccine to go overseas to fight the enemy and make sure that the force is secure and safe in the combat zone.

00:09:55.000 We get that.

00:09:56.000 Here's what we don't get, forcing people that are willing to give up their lives to put something that's experimental in their bodies.

00:10:01.000 And then throw them out if they refuse to do it.

00:10:03.000 That's what we don't get.

00:10:04.000 And then for the VA, to force people that go to the VA or work at the VA to put something like that in their body so that they continue to go to the VA or work at the VA? Is this a communist country?

00:10:18.000 I thought it was America.

00:10:18.000 Yeah, but we have to fight back against that.

00:10:20.000 My frustration is that when we see the VA pushing these experimental VAX mandates on people, we should demand different in order to continue their operations.

00:10:30.000 And, you know, we've got people like Mike Bost who have oversight capability, chairman of the VA committee, and I haven't heard Mike Bost once.

00:10:37.000 We offer a substantive and leveraged criticism of the VA such that we could actually change the context.

00:10:45.000 You say we should push back and we should object to that.

00:10:48.000 Matt Gaetz and Scott Perry do, but you had the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee agreeing with the VAX requirements for service members and agreeing with throwing them out if they didn't do it.

00:10:58.000 He was for it.

00:10:59.000 Gosh, it's so frustrating.

00:11:01.000 So the VA has had quite a week.

00:11:02.000 We had the Assistant Undersecretary for Health Operations issue a memo that canceled the VJ Day kiss in Times Square.

00:11:12.000 So we are familiar with this iconic image of Of a U.S. service member coming home and getting the kiss of a lifetime.

00:11:19.000 And according to this memo, our evolving sensibilities around sexual assault should have prohibited the publication of the VJ Day Kiss.

00:11:30.000 Now, ultimately, this was reversed.

00:11:34.000 Karine Jean-Pierre having to eat crow ticklishment.

00:11:39.000 I want to be really, really clear.

00:11:41.000 The VA is not going to be banning this photo from VA facilities.

00:11:47.000 I just want to be super, super clear about that.

00:11:49.000 I know, as you just said, you described it as a kerfuffle.

00:11:52.000 There was obviously some reporting on that.

00:11:56.000 I can definitely say that the memo was not sanctioned, so it's not something that we were even aware of until you all started reporting on it.

00:12:04.000 But we are not banning that photo.

00:12:07.000 And I'm just going to be super clear about that.

00:12:10.000 Any specifics about the memo and the process over there, certainly I would refer to the VA. So what she didn't say is that we had every intention of doing that until we got caught, right?

00:12:20.000 And she said it was unsanctioned, which should lead you to believe the truth, which is all these people that work in the Biden administration do these things because that's what they do.

00:12:30.000 They don't have to look for approval.

00:12:32.000 They were hired to do this stuff and they do it of their own volition because that's what the administration wants them to do.

00:12:37.000 And finally, I don't know whether you knew that, that photograph was staged, right?

00:12:41.000 It wasn't like some guy just went on the street and found some random girl who wasn't interested in getting a kiss.

00:12:47.000 That was a time-life photo that was actually staged.

00:12:49.000 They have no clue.

00:12:50.000 These people have no clue what they're talking about or, quite honestly, the magnitude of the ending of the war with Japan on service members and the country.

00:12:59.000 Yeah, the...

00:13:01.000 The axiom personnel is policy really flourishes here.

00:13:05.000 Because the Biden administration, they go and find these people and promote these people that are total woketopians.

00:13:11.000 And then when you get a crazy decision by one of their employees like this, they do what they can to distance themselves.

00:13:18.000 Now, in my district, in Florida 1, post-deployment lust actually leads directly to family formation.

00:13:25.000 So we don't discourage post-deployment lust in Florida's 1st Congressional District, but it does dovetail into these very serious discussions we have about what kind of military we have right now.

00:13:41.000 And what kind of value proposition are we offering young people who made the decision you did to serve?

00:13:47.000 Talk a little bit about, like, why you signed up to serve in the military and kind of how you might see a young person going through that decision-making process today.

00:13:55.000 Well, for me, I didn't really have a plan coming out of high school.

00:13:59.000 You know, I kind of grew up like a weed because of my family situation.

00:14:02.000 I think a lot of people find themselves or you just don't know.

00:14:05.000 It's time to grow up and you don't know what you're going to do.

00:14:07.000 And I had an opportunity to enlist and I was always enamored by that service in uniform.

00:14:15.000 I found it to be very alluring to me.

00:14:19.000 And I will tell you, Matt, it was one of the seminal things in my life and my career that I did that changed the trajectory of my entire life.

00:14:30.000 And it was so great for me.

00:14:31.000 I got to do awesome things that people only dream about, right?

00:14:35.000 I really did.

00:14:39.000 But I will tell you, and I could never imagine wanting to retire.

00:14:43.000 I started out as an enlisted guy.

00:14:44.000 I went to officer candidate school.

00:14:45.000 I got to go to flight school.

00:14:46.000 I got to fly all kinds of stuff and do incredible things, deploy, lead troops in battle and all that stuff.

00:14:53.000 And I never thought about retiring.

00:14:55.000 I watched guys and gals retire and I thought, well, how could they leave what they're so...

00:14:59.000 You're the military.

00:15:00.000 It reflects you and you reflect it.

00:15:02.000 And they always said, well, you'll know when it's time.

00:15:04.000 When I got the order from my boss, I'm a one-star general at the time, and he says, one of your jobs, one of your duty is to enforce the gender reassignment policy.

00:15:16.000 It kind of took stock in my time in uniform, and I said, you know, I reflect it, and it reflects me, but it's not reflecting me anymore.

00:15:26.000 That's not what I stand for.

00:15:27.000 I'm not going to force...

00:15:29.000 um these people that accept that and uh and so when you can't take orders anymore it's time it's time to go and i look at the value proposition that young people i'm so happy that people are willing to join but i watched a service member in uniform self immolate in front of the israel embassy in washington in uniform um and then i we looked at his social media feed i don't want to serve next to a communist that hates our country And I think that

00:15:59.000 young people that are smart are looking at it and they say, yeah, I'm not going to pledge my life to serve with somebody that might shoot me in the back because they didn't agree with my political position.

00:16:09.000 I think that's the circumstance that we find ourselves in, and that's why recruiting and retention is very difficult right now.

00:16:15.000 And of course, the Army in its infinite wisdom, when you can't find people to meet the standards, they're just lowering the standard.

00:16:22.000 That's not a plan for success against a military like China, Or any of our other adversaries that are serious about defeating the United States of America.

00:16:30.000 Here's what I worry about.

00:16:32.000 When people kind of self-deport from the military, as you're describing, and as people of good virtue and patriotic spirit make other choices in their life, does that then create a self-fulfilling prophecy in the military where it veers even harder left?

00:16:50.000 I think it does because what you're left with as the pot boils down is a concentration of people where you might have different viewpoints when the pot's full, but as everybody that loves the country, that will give their life for the country and wants to serve in a merit-based system that is fighting for the ideals of America, when they all leave, What is left is those who won't, who don't believe in those.

00:17:15.000 That's all that's left.

00:17:16.000 And with all due respect to my colleagues here, they say we've got to buy more airplanes and ships and so on and so forth.

00:17:21.000 If we don't have the personnel that are willing to put themselves in them and go fight the enemy with their life, it doesn't matter how capable the machinery is or how many you have.

00:17:31.000 That doesn't matter.

00:17:32.000 An army and a military is based on its people and their beliefs.

00:17:36.000 And I guarantee you there's some 15-year-old boy in China who's putting a 50-pound pack on his back and going and marching 15 miles to impress his father.

00:17:45.000 That's who we're going to have to face, not people that come into our military and say, well, I've got a different standard of dress.

00:17:53.000 I don't like this whole uniform thing, so I've got to be me.

00:17:56.000 Sorry.

00:17:56.000 It's called the uniform service.

00:17:58.000 One form.

00:17:59.000 Uni.

00:18:00.000 You're going to change who you were and now you're going to accept this.

00:18:04.000 And if you don't want to, we're good with that.

00:18:06.000 We need car salesmen and insurance people.

00:18:09.000 But if you want to be in the military and potentially lose your life defending your country and making the other person die for their country, if you're not into that, then you don't belong here.

00:18:22.000 You talk about your own life and how the military enriched it so much and I see in my own family and I see in my community so many for whom that has been true and many for whom that is still true today and we can't ever let that flip where we're going into the military But I think we're on the way to being there.

00:18:51.000 I do worry that.

00:18:51.000 I agree with you, Matt.

00:18:54.000 I mean, you're a great defender of our military and you call the balls and strikes and some of our military leaders, like, just because they're wearing a uniform doesn't mean they're doing the right thing at the right time for the right reasons.

00:19:09.000 And that's why we have to.

00:19:10.000 Right.

00:19:10.000 That is the obligation that we feel because that lieutenant or that sergeant or that airman, they don't have the ability to question.

00:19:18.000 They deserve it.

00:19:19.000 It's our duty to do it because they can't, right?

00:19:21.000 As we say in the military, yours is not to question why.

00:19:24.000 Yours is just to do and die. 0.56

00:19:26.000 But that's not Matt Gaetz and Scott Perry wearing this uniform.

00:19:29.000 Ours is to question why.

00:19:30.000 That's right, and we will continue to do so.

00:19:32.000 We've also got troubling reports from the border and what the state of California is doing to draw more people across the border illegally.

00:19:39.000 This just in from our friends at the National Pulse.

00:19:42.000 California lawmakers are now proposing expanding the state's zero down home loan program to illegal aliens.

00:19:49.000 That's right, so Assembly Bill 1840 gives zero down home loans to illegal aliens. 0.54

00:19:55.000 It is a slap in the face to the Californians who are already struggling with some of the highest home prices in the nation, 97% higher than the national average.

00:20:03.000 Like originally the California dream for all shared appreciation loans was launched in 2023. They put $300 million into that.

00:20:11.000 The intent was to help first-generation and first-time home buyers, but the California politicians could not help themselves.

00:20:18.000 Their bleeding hearts and lack of brains prevailed in this case and in the filing of this bill. 0.79

00:20:23.000 California has already extended its taxpayer-funded healthcare programs to illegal aliens.

00:20:28.000 Right now, 40% of the people in California are on Cal Med, their Medicaid product.

00:20:33.000 That means every person who has a job who's paying for their own insurance is having to pay for like 80% of someone else's insurance as well.

00:20:43.000 And I would say there's not a single entitlement program now in California that somebody is not going to try to extend to illegal aliens. 0.91

00:20:50.000 All of this comes at a time when housing is unaffordable, younger generations are seeing Healthcare costs rise, more bankruptcy for the working class, and for the first time in America's history, future generations expect to be worse off than their parents.

00:21:04.000 Representative Perry, how do we deal with the fact that you've got states like California literally creating the pull factor across our border?

00:21:14.000 Well, I think I'm a big believer in states' rights.

00:21:17.000 That having been said, the federal government doesn't need to participate.

00:21:21.000 And so if California wants to continue to elect leadership that disrespects and has contempt for its citizens, I guess that's their business.

00:21:32.000 But the federal government should be...

00:21:36.000 Quite honestly, we shouldn't be spending a dime in California to make sure that these programs can continue.

00:21:41.000 If you've got enough money to give zero-down home loans to illegal aliens crowding out Americans and hardworking people, then you've got it so good, you probably don't need a single federal dollar for anything else. 0.98

00:21:54.000 Well, they do use federal dollars, and if they didn't have them, they wouldn't be able to do that.

00:21:58.000 But I imagine that California is trying to do whatever it can to...

00:22:03.000 To make up for the loss of people that are disgorging from California.

00:22:06.000 California is finally, unfortunately, losing population because citizens have had enough of being disrespected and they're leaving now in droves.

00:22:17.000 To Arizona.

00:22:18.000 People are leaving the most temperate climate, boundless natural resources, oceans, mountains, vineyards.

00:22:27.000 They're leaving that for the deserts of Arizona that were so inhospitable.

00:22:30.000 They were the last place that the US Army stopped hunting the Mormons.

00:22:33.000 And it is because of policies like this.

00:22:37.000 And it's a really sad thing.

00:22:39.000 You're from Pennsylvania.

00:22:40.000 I'm from Florida.

00:22:41.000 Different than California.

00:22:43.000 But we have patriotic Americans that live in every jurisdiction. 0.90

00:22:47.000 And I worry when we just look at a blue state and say, oh, well, a bunch of crazies are running that place.

00:22:52.000 We leave our brothers and sisters behind who want a good life and deserve it.

00:22:56.000 They do deserve it.

00:22:57.000 This experiment of 50 individual states will only work if we allow there to be accountability for each individual state.

00:23:06.000 While I don't like, I don't like, and I don't agree with what California is doing to its citizens, They keep electing those people.

00:23:13.000 And I can't fix that, right?

00:23:15.000 But what I can do or what I can try to do as a federal guy is make sure that Pennsylvania's hard-earned tax dollars don't go out to support that.

00:23:22.000 And quite honestly, neither do Florida.

00:23:23.000 As a matter of fact, I don't think anybody's hard-earned tax dollars.

00:23:26.000 California wants to be crazy.

00:23:28.000 God bless them. 0.85

00:23:29.000 But they should pay for it.

00:23:31.000 You and I are going to be getting together after the State of the Union.

00:23:34.000 We've got the State of the Union coming up tomorrow at 11.30 on Friday.

00:23:39.000 The day after the State of the Union, we're going to be breaking down all of the Biden blunders.

00:23:43.000 How can folks watch that and keep up with it?

00:23:45.000 It's going to be on the Rumble channel.

00:23:47.000 What's your Rumble channel?

00:23:48.000 This is your chance to pitch.

00:23:50.000 Rep Scott Perry at Rumble?

00:23:53.000 Oh my gosh, you're such a boomer sometimes.

00:23:55.000 On the Rumble app, if you follow the channel, at Rep Scott Perry.

00:23:58.000 I can do things you can't do, Matt Gaetz.

00:24:00.000 Like a push-up or a pull-up.

00:24:02.000 I can't do those things, but you still can.

00:24:04.000 So you're going to want to follow that.

00:24:06.000 You're going to want to subscribe and turn notifications on.

00:24:09.000 Scott Perry and I are going to be breaking it down.

00:24:10.000 What do you expect to hear from Joe Biden?

00:24:11.000 A lot of lying, a lot of complaining, a lot of blaming Matt Gaetz.

00:24:16.000 They were blaming you this morning on Morning Joe, by the way.

00:24:18.000 Yes, it's really my fan club on Morning Joe.

00:24:21.000 So I find it fascinating that they're telegraphing openly that President Biden's going to talk about a reset.

00:24:29.000 Does he not know that he's been president for three years?

00:24:32.000 So he wants to reset his own set?

00:24:35.000 And so I'll be happy to hear that because he's destroying the country financially.

00:24:40.000 He's projecting weakness internationally.

00:24:43.000 And if he wants to reset, I'm all ears, but I want to see what's actually going to change other than the rhetoric.

00:24:49.000 He's going to blame us, I'm sure.

00:24:51.000 He's going to blame President Trump for the border crisis.

00:24:54.000 Who knows what he'll blame you for.

00:24:56.000 But I want to know, and I think Americans, the people that I work for, the people that are struggling to pay their bills, they want to know what reset's going to happen that's actually going to make a difference in their ability to afford college or...

00:25:09.000 Well, I guess he's kind of already done that, right?

00:25:11.000 He's going to give...

00:25:13.000 But that's going to make college more expensive.

00:25:15.000 It's going to create a moral hazard where if you're just a hard-working Joe or Jill and you want to go to college, you're going to see that bureaucracy increase as a consequence of this and ultimately those costs get pushed.

00:25:29.000 Everything we subsidize costs more because the people that are being subsidized say, well, we're going to get this money first to raise the prices.

00:25:34.000 So it will be a lot of that.

00:25:37.000 I don't know that octogenarians are best positioned to sell resets.

00:25:42.000 Whenever someone over 80 says that something needs to be reset, they're usually going through some sort of cardiac conversion, not a series of policy changes.

00:25:52.000 But I do think that Biden understands that if this election is a referendum on his policies, that he will be packing soon.

00:26:00.000 They do.

00:26:01.000 He does clearly understand that and I think you know it as well, Matt.

00:26:05.000 I think America does.

00:26:06.000 So what I expect he's going to do is make it a contest between himself and people like us who he's going to characterize as destroying democracy.

00:26:16.000 And he's going to go back to that hallowed ground of January 6th that they can't seem to leave behind and blame all of us for that and try and reinvigorate that and put that in the forefront of everybody's minds.

00:26:29.000 I literally think he's going to invoke that in the speech and say, right now in this place, this is where it happened and these people did it.

00:26:38.000 I guess there are some Republicans and some Democrats who want to make every day January 6th.

00:26:44.000 I believe January 6th was a bad day for the country.

00:26:47.000 I don't feel the need to relive it every day.

00:26:49.000 And in your district and mine, people are more worried about their tomorrow than Joe Biden's January 6th.

00:26:56.000 But that's all they have to hang on.

00:26:57.000 What else are they going to...

00:26:59.000 What successes have they had?

00:27:01.000 Is it Afghanistan?

00:27:03.000 Is it energy policy?

00:27:04.000 Is it the Middle East?

00:27:06.000 Yeah.

00:27:06.000 Is it the economy and jobs?

00:27:10.000 What success have they had that he's going to go out and tell us that the state of the union is strong?

00:27:15.000 Meanwhile, all the 350 million Americans that are living in it are going, eh, I don't think so.

00:27:20.000 What they want to sell as their success are these bills that have spent all this money.

00:27:25.000 But what we have to do is connect that spending to the pain that people are feeling.

00:27:29.000 And by the way, I think that's why Joe Biden's underwater right now, because people are making that connection for themselves.

00:27:35.000 And maybe we don't do a great job.

00:27:37.000 Of course, you have the media, which is, you know, part of Joe Biden's operation, but they act like everything's fine, too.

00:27:43.000 But I know that the people I represent, and I suspect the same for you, they tell me, when I'm at the grocery store, like, ladies yell at me, I'm not paying $5 for eggs.

00:27:52.000 And you shouldn't have to, but there it is.

00:27:53.000 I'm not paying $7.50 for a gallon of milk, but there it is.

00:27:57.000 It didn't used to be that way.

00:27:58.000 And literally, you know, he's talking about, he's got Sesame Street talking about downsizing product.

00:28:04.000 Cookie Monster.

00:28:05.000 When you've lost Cookie Monster, the politics have really gone a negative direction.

00:28:11.000 Joe Biden losing Cookie Monster.

00:28:13.000 We have not lost our true north.

00:28:15.000 That is standing up for the constitutional principles that would constrain government, constrain its spending.

00:28:20.000 Scott Perry is one of the best in Congress, a true firebrand, a leader, a mentor, someone we're very grateful to have.

00:28:25.000 How can folks follow your work on social media?

00:28:28.000 Rep Scott Perry.

00:28:29.000 And your website?

00:28:30.000 What's your website?

00:28:31.000 Perry.house.gov?

00:28:33.000 Perry.house.gov.

00:28:33.000 All right, sign up for Scott Perry's newsletter.

00:28:35.000 Go to Perry.house.gov.

00:28:37.000 It's an honor to have my friend here.

00:28:38.000 I do want to update everyone on an important story in Florida.

00:28:41.000 You'll remember we had a recent field hearing regarding the abuses of ATF, and State Representative Joel Rudman, who comes from the Florida Panhandle, pitched his legislation to stop background checks from impairing people's constitutional rights.

00:28:55.000 Take a listen.

00:28:59.000 As was stated, this bill does not prohibit background checks, nor does it do away with any waiting periods.

00:29:05.000 We don't even remove the three-day waiting period that was added to long gun purchases back in 2018, although I could have.

00:29:12.000 I decided against pursuing that after talking to the families at Parkland back in October.

00:29:19.000 Historically, ladies and gentlemen, when the Brady Bill was passed back in 1993, the FBI was originally given five days to do background checks.

00:29:28.000 And that was considered an awfully long period of time back then because every inquiry resulted in a phone call.

00:29:35.000 Once the NICS national database came online, that federal policy changed to three business days, which it still remains.

00:29:44.000 In fact, technology has improved so much over the years that back in 2013, it was Democratic Senator Joe Manchin Who's suggesting lowering the federal requirement to one business day for background checks?

00:30:01.000 Now, I'm not even asking for that.

00:30:03.000 I'm not even adding a single piece of language to the statute.

00:30:08.000 My bill simply removes the one sentence that's causing the issue and allows FDLE to use the current three-day background checks procedures that are already in our statute.

00:30:21.000 That's right, according to existing statute, FDLE is supposed to give firearm purchases an answer, a decision in 24 working hours, three business days.

00:30:32.000 I repeat, it's already in statute.

00:30:36.000 My bill simply removes the one sentence that creates the ambiguity of the law.

00:30:42.000 Florida Statute 790.065, which I do not touch, says that after three business days, FDLE must say one of three things.

00:30:51.000 You're either approved, denied, or they have a third option.

00:30:56.000 FDLE can say, we haven't found anything on you in three business days, so you can receive your firearm, but we reserve the right to take it back.

00:31:05.000 And this is how the majority of states operate.

00:31:08.000 And this is not risky.

00:31:12.000 Only four conditional approvals out of every 10,000 background checks nationwide ends up being reversed.

00:31:21.000 And those firearms are retrieved by the ATF. Rep Eskamani asked me Friday and she mentioned today about the proper role of the ATF. Not only is it the job of the ATF to retrieve firearms from criminals who are disqualified from having them, but the ATF, in my opinion, should also do their job and prosecute them while they're at it because these individuals have committed a felony by lying on their background check.

00:31:48.000 That's how you do it.

00:31:50.000 Not by persecuting my law-abiding citizens in District 3 and making them wait six months for their legal purchase, but by aggressively going after the criminals who aren't supposed to have these guns in the first place.

00:32:03.000 You cannot delay the expression of someone's God-given rights when they've done nothing wrong.

00:32:12.000 A right delayed is a right denied.

00:32:17.000 Mr. Speaker, my idol may have said these famous words back in 1775, but they are no less true today.

00:32:24.000 I know not what course others may choose, Mr. Speaker, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

00:32:32.000 With that, I close.

00:32:34.000 The clerk will lock the machine and announce the vote.

00:32:41.000 78 yeas, 36 nays, Mr. Speaker.

00:32:44.000 Show the bill passes.

00:32:45.000 Read the next bill.

00:32:48.000 We are back live.

00:32:49.000 Congratulations to Representative Rudman for standing up for gun owners. 0.52

00:32:52.000 We encourage the Florida Senate to take up Representative Rudman's good bill and pass it for the good folks in the Sunshine State.

00:32:59.000 Just another thing I want to update you on.

00:33:01.000 There's this great project a friend of mine, Greg Struce, runs.

00:33:04.000 It's the Declaration of Independence project where people are able to recommit themselves to the principles of the Declaration of Independence.

00:33:12.000 I recently signed my declaration inside the U.S. Capitol.

00:33:16.000 Take a listen.

00:33:19.000 The Declaration of Independence is central to our nation's values, our liberty, our freedoms, and I am proud to support the Declaration of Independence project.

00:33:28.000 And I'm here on the Speaker of the House balcony in Washington, D.C., at our nation's capital, ready to sign my name.

00:33:40.000 Ready to fight?

00:33:44.000 Thank you so much for joining us today on Firebrand.

00:33:46.000 As always, the best way to consume the show is to download the Rumble app, turn your notifications on.

00:33:52.000 That way, you get notice each and every time we go live.

00:33:55.000 You get the news straight from the source, straight from the newsmakers, straight from the Firebrands.

00:34:00.000 Roll the credits.

Firebrand - Matt Gaetz - March 06, 2024

Episode 156 LIVE: Kiss Uncanceled (feat. Rep. Scott Perry) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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