New York City anti-vaccine activists storm a food court, a shade war update in the White House, military members are being kicked out for refusing the vaccine, and TikTok? Yes, seriously. And finally, you have to hear what a CNN guest said about the $3.5 trillion spending package that's coming out from Pelosi. All that and more on today's Human Events Daily with Jack Graham ( )!
00:05:50.280All right, so I told everybody that more and more leaks would be coming out of the White House.
00:06:07.280And now we finally have something that we can point to.
00:06:11.280Folks, I got a message over this weekend that said,
00:06:14.280Have you seen the polls showing now that Kamala Harris is many five, six points ahead of where Joe Biden is?
00:06:22.280Understand where we are in this and understand the filter, the worldview that I've been telling you to use when you look at this administration.
00:06:32.280Remember, it's not the Biden-Harris administration.
00:06:35.280It's the Biden administration and the Harris administration.
00:07:15.280I got a message over the weekend that said because of those polls, because the White House is seeing that particularly Team Biden, they are very upset about this.
00:07:25.280Now, keep in mind, there's also been some cracks in this because I've said before that Jen Psaki is on Team Biden.
00:07:31.280However, notice, very interestingly, now a lot of people saw this, Jen Psaki's brother-in-law was just brought on by Kamala Harris as a strategic communications advisor.
00:07:48.280But we are going to be paying very close attention to this because, as you know, Human Events Daily is the only program that's actually covering the White House this way.
00:07:57.280Probably because we're the only program in the entire country that actually has these types of sources inside the White House.
00:08:04.280But the message that I got was that Team B was planning to leak stories and attacks and plant attacks on Team K, specifically on Kamala.
00:08:16.280And then after I got that message, I happened to catch this segment on CNN.
00:17:22.280...about the coverage of these budget battles, if you could change anything right now.
00:17:26.280So there are so many things, but I think my number one priority would be more discussion of what's actually in the bill,
00:17:32.280as opposed to this top-line figure which itself is misleading of 3.5 trillion.
00:17:38.280There are good ways to spend a huge sum of money.
00:17:41.280There are bad ways to spend a huge sum of money.
00:17:44.280But the kind of media coverage that we've been getting doesn't really explore whether the kinds of things that are in this bill are meritorious or not.
00:17:53.280I'd love to see more people commenting about, should we invest in childcare this way or paid leave that way or in climate?
00:18:02.280And why is the number misleading? Why is that 3.5 trillion figure misleading?
00:18:06.280Because it doesn't really represent anything.
00:18:09.280It's this weird shorthand that's been used.
00:18:11.280But in fact, the bill itself will not cost 3.5 trillion dollars in the sense that it will be entirely or at least partly paid for.
00:18:18.280So the actual cost in terms of deficits will be smaller than that, perhaps even zero, although I think that's unlikely.
00:18:24.280And it's not even, you know, fully spending.
00:18:26.280It's not really right to call it a 3.5 trillion dollar spending bill because there's probably about a trillion dollars of tax cuts in it, too.
00:18:32.280So it's really hard to boil down the essence of what this legislation is because it does so many things and because, you know, they're still negotiating over the basic parameters.
00:18:42.280Yeah. And it will be over 10 years, et cetera, et cetera.
00:18:45.280And isn't the broader point, Captain, that because the Senate is broken and they don't create laws all year long, work on legislation all year long, they're trying to do everything at once in one big bill.
00:18:55.280Well, it's partly what you just mentioned. It's partly that we no longer have majority rule in the Senate.
00:19:00.280So in order to get anything through through a party line vote, which is, you know, what what what theoretically should happen when we have unified control of government by the Democrats, they have to cram everything into this one major piece of legislation, the so-called reconciliation bill, whatever shorthand we use for it.
00:19:17.280And so it has to cover all of the bases or at least everything that can ostensibly get pushed into a budget bill.
00:19:24.280They have to do climate. They have to do paid leave. They have to do childcare.
00:19:28.280They have to do, you know, green energy tax credits for cars and things like that.
00:19:32.280They have to put everything into this one piece of legislation because they can't do piecemeal regular order bills because the Senate doesn't function that way anymore.
00:19:41.280Did you hear that again? I want to go through that phrase. I'm going to foot stomp this one.
00:19:48.280It's already paid for. So it'll cost nothing.
00:19:56.280Like, I want to go to my wife and say that when I want to buy, you know, a bunch of new guns or something and say, don't worry, sweetheart.
00:20:03.280They're already paid. I want to try that on. They're already paid for because, you see, I used money that was in our account.
00:20:08.280And so I already spent the money. So the money has been spent. So it's already paid for.
00:20:12.280So you don't have to worry about it. So the cost is zero. No, I'm sorry. Words mean things.
00:20:16.280This is like, by the way, I actually looked this up. Catherine Rample, that's the guest graduate of Princeton University.
00:20:24.280This is your Ivy League, ladies and gentlemen. And by the way, what does she work as?
00:20:28.280She's a Washington Post columnist. Basic economics.
00:20:34.280Ladies and gentlemen, basic economics is completely lost on people that are out of touch with how decisions like this are made in the real world.
00:20:45.280Why? Because they don't have to make decisions on economics in their lives.
00:20:50.280That's the problem with having an elite, a bi-coastal elite that is so incredibly out of touch.
00:20:57.280It's already paid for. So there's no cost. La, la, la, la, la.
00:21:00.280Wouldn't it be great to live your life like that?
00:21:02.280And we're out, folks. Like I said, this is your fastest evening briefing of the day.
00:21:07.280Anytime you listen to it, we are going to give you the bottom line up front.
00:21:12.280Our motto to you, our promise to you, be good, be brief, be gone.
00:21:15.280But before we go, it's time for today's moment in history.
00:21:18.280Today, it's a happy birthday to none other than Canada's favorite sweetheart, Avril Lavigne.
00:21:25.280That's right. Avril Lavigne turns 37 years old today.
00:21:29.280And to everyone out there listening, guess what? You're old.
00:21:34.280If you remember what Avril Lavigne, I'm sorry she's not 18 anymore.