Ep 382 ｜ How Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden Got Duped ｜ Guest： Rep. Chip Roy
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In this episode of Relatable, I talk to Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) about his thoughts on H.R. 1, the border crisis, and a statement from some evangelicals who voted for Biden and now say they are feeling betrayed.
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Tuesday. As promised, we are going to talk about H.R.
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1 today. That is the bill that has to do with our voting processes here in the United States and
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why it is so troubling and so disastrous and what we actually need to know about it,
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what we need to know about the state of it, where it is now. I'm going to talk to Congressman,
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Congressman from Texas, Chip Roy, on what H.R. 1 is. We're also going to talk about the border
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crisis. We'll talk a little bit about the growing debt as well. Then I want to talk about this
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statement that was released by some evangelicals who voted for Biden, who now say that they are
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feeling betrayed. As you may expect, I have some thoughts about that. But first,
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my conversation with Congressman Chip Roy. Here he is.
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Congressman, thank you so much for joining us. There's so much that I want to talk to you about
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today. Let's start out by talking about H.R. 1, a bill that has been passed in the House under the
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guise of protecting election integrity. Is that what this bill does?
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Well, no, great to join you. Great to be on the show. And, you know, it's H.R. 1 for a reason,
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right? These guys named their bills, you know, a certain number in order to get priority. And
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this was their first out-of-the-box priority for the Democrats, the federal takeover of elections.
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And that's what this is. This is a bill that would take all of the decisions we like to make in Texas,
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where you and I live, or any state union, and they'd go put it in Washington for federal bureaucrats
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to tell us how we vote. And importantly, they would be increasing the very problems that we
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experienced in November, right? They would be taking, for example, ballot harvesting and putting
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it on steroids. They would be increasing mail-in ballots, not decreasing it, even though there's
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general bipartisan agreement that mail-in ballots are much more ripe for fraud.
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They would be expanding mail-in ballots. They would be making it to where we're paying
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for the campaigns of politicians who want to hold office for members of Congress. And they would be
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collecting private information on people, which makes it a lot easier to use it for doxing and
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going after people. And really, it's cutting down on the First Amendment and free speech. And it's
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wrong. And you and I both know the elections have very strong problems in November. Democrats didn't
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like the result in 16. We didn't like the result in 20. We should restore integrity. And that's why
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it should be state-based reforms. And that's what I'm supporting.
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And what do you think is the real motivation behind a bill like this to try to centralize
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these processes in the name of, you know, honorable and honest elections?
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Well, that's exactly right. You hit the nail on the head. They like to name these things so that it
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sounds like they're doing something nice and wonderful. But in truth, what they're doing is rather
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pernicious. And what I support is reform at the state level in Texas and across the nation.
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And I'm working heavily with groups in D.C., as well as legislators in Texas, the Texas Public
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Policy Foundation and think tanks to try to advance the kind of reforms we want to see.
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What are those? Limited limits on mail-in ballots, getting people to vote on Election Day.
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When you do have mail-in ballots, have signature matches, have barcodes between the envelopes and
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the ballots so you can track them. Make sure that you can have voter identification to make sure you know
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who's voting. Democrats don't want any of that. In fact, their bill in H.R.1 would limit the use of voter
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ID. And you ask why. Why is very simple. Democrats only are concerned about power. They're not actually
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concerned about figuring out how we can have true and fair elections where we have the rule of law
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completely supported. They want to make it to where, for example, any of the hundreds of thousands
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of people pouring across our border right now in southern Texas would be able to then come in and vote.
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And you think I'm making that up. It's true. That's what the Democrats are saying. They want
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anybody to be able to vote, regardless of their voter ID, any human being who happens to be present.
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And these are people that don't have a stake in our elections by law, right? You're supposed to be
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a citizen of the United States. It's purposeful. They want to do it for political gain. We want to
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enforce the rule of law and protect the citizens and protect our elections. And that's what we're
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working to try to do. This also lowers the voting age to 16, correct?
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Well, there was an amendment to lower the voting age to 16, which, thank goodness, it failed. But
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it allows them to register at 16 to get in queue. And so you can go around to high schools and try
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to get everybody registered at 16 and 17 before they turn 18. They tried to actually pass voting
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at 16. They would love to. They did try to. It does include increased voting rights for
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felons. And for, unbelievably, they wanted people to be able to vote in jail as well. I think we
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actually were able to kill that one. But there's no limit to where they want to go with this stuff.
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Can you talk a little bit more? You mentioned at the beginning of your first answer,
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ballot harvesting. Can you explain a little bit more about what that is and why people should be
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concerned about that? Sure. And I'm really glad you asked that question because people don't know,
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right? I mean, there's a whole cottage industry, particularly in the Democrat circles,
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where their goal is to go out and try to force people into registering a certain way or voting
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for certain people. And so it's one thing if you are helping a loved one and you go pick up a ballot,
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they fill it out, they put an envelope, you grab it and you go take it to the registrar. You go take
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it to a drop off. That's fine. That's what you do for family or loved ones or friends. What the
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Democrats have been doing is they have a whole concerted effort to go out and basically shove ballots in
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front of people, get them to sign, register, or actually vote a certain way and kind of, you know,
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encourage a certain voting pattern or direction, particularly among the elderly and the infirm who
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can't get to go to vote in person. And that's the kind of harvesting they're doing. Putting a sign
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that then that is right for additional fraud and abuse because you've got paper ballots and who's
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voting and do you have an extra ballot that someone can fill in, all of that stuff is problematic. But
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ballot harvesting is really the purposeful effort to use pressure to go around and try to gin up and
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get votes rather than an individual exercising their voter conscience alone in the voter's booth.
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The ACLU a couple of years ago actually came out against HR1 for the reason that you listed that it
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is a threat to free speech, to political speech. Can you explain that a little bit more, how this is an
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assault on the First Amendment? Sure. Well, what they're trying to do is go after and target,
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particularly donors who are giving to organizations and try to then get that information and make it
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public so that people can then be targeted. I mean, how often did you see, I mean, you guys see it on
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social media, people will go after people if they make a certain statement or maybe someone will post
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somebody's address or phone number and go after them simply because they're exercising their free
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speech rights. Well, this would do that for dollars that you're giving to candidates or to organizations.
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If you were a donor and you wrote a check, $100 or $10,000 to a 501C, you know, three or C4 or some
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organization and they're, you know, out, you know, with some sort of message, then people can go target
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them. And we think that's wrong. And, you know, I think social media has just amped that up so that
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people can easily get doxxed and targeted. And for this reason, for the record, by the way, not to change
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topics, I took a hiatus from social media back in mid-January. And my life has been eminently better
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over the last eight weeks without getting on Twitter and seeing that cesspool every day. But
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that's what they want to do. They want to use social media to target people.
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Right. And like you said, people already feel, especially on the Republican side, intimidated
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enough. They already self-censor their views, whether it's on social media or I saw a recent study that's
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even among friends. They feel like they can't actually state their opinion if they voted for
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President Trump or they're on a conservative side of the issue. So you're saying that this just amps
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that up and potentially ratchets up the consequences for people's legitimate political stances, right?
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No, that's exactly right. And that's what I'm most concerned about, right? We're seeing the targeting of
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you, of me, of everybody that shares our values and beliefs. It's happening on the floor of the House
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Representatives, right? We're getting canceled. Colleagues of mine for simply exercising their
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rights in free speech and debate. They're being told that, you know, they can't either serve on
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committees or they may not be able to co-sponsor a bill. We've got organizations that are now being
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canceled. You know, we're seeing this every single day and students feel it in schools where they're
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being targeted. And this is just amping that up. And you're basically having the federal government
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say, we're going to centralize and federalize elections. We're going to make sure that if you
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are putting your free speech at work and you're funding an organization you believe in or a
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candidate you believe in, we're going to highlight that. And we're going to make sure that's publicly
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known so you can be targeted. And we're going to basically step up all of the things that were
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causing the concerns of fraud in the elections in November. And there's one last important point.
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In 2005, former Democrat President Jimmy Carter joined with James Baker, the former Republican
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Secretary of State, and they together issued a report on voter fraud. And what they found was,
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was that mail-in ballots had a much higher degree of voter fraud. This year, we had 65 million ballots
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cast nationwide by mail, which was a massive increase, so more than doubling, I believe,
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of previous levels of mail-in ballots. And this is part of the reason why we had so many concerns
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and so many late nights trying to figure out the results of our election. We're a modern democracy,
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modern republic. We should not be waiting to figure out who won an election because we have
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no idea and we can't trust our election. Right. And Republicans are rightly concerned about this.
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Of course, we want the outcomes that we want. But I think more than anything, people just want a
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transparent process that they can trust. And of course, we understand that all processes are fallible
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because they're made up of fallible human beings that can be prone to mistakes and unfortunately,
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you know, could commit some kind of fraud. But for the most part, we want to trust the integrity of
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our institutions, that our vote is going to count the way that it's going to count. So I know you
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already mentioned a few reforms that you're pushing for, but can you give any encouragement to
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conservatives, Republicans that are already worried about the midterms, they're already worried about
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2024. And they're wondering, does it even does it even matter? Like, should I even vote? Should I even
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care about this stuff? If basically we live in a country where the process is completely muddled?
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Well, the good news is where you have states with governors and legislatures who believe in the rule
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of law and believe in what we believe in, good things are happening. Florida, Texas, other states
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where we had actual sensible elections, we were able to know the results of our elections pretty quickly.
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We were able to have pretty strong faith in those elections. Now, let me be clear. There's still
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work to be done. Let's make sure that we improve our voter rolls. Let's know who's on them. Let's
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make sure, as I'm going to do by introducing legislation soon, to require the Department of
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Homeland Security to work with states to ensure that we only have American citizens on voter rolls.
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We're going to keep working to do that. But go work at your state legislatures. If you're listening to
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this, go down to your state capitals. Make sure that this year, this year, they pass the kind of
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reforms that we need to pass to make sure we have belief in our systems. If you're in Pennsylvania,
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don't just sit back and be frustrated. Go in and require your Republican legislature—it's a
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Republican, by the way—to pass the laws that you want them to pass to require, for example,
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signature matches. They failed to do that last time. That allowed a secretary of state to exploit
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that. Go fix it. Do that in Georgia. You have a Republican governor, secretary of state,
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Republican legislature. Go down. Force them to change the laws. Georgia is working on that now.
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Other states are, too. So take it to your own hands. Don't sit back and complain. We can fix this.
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And what is the state, just for the most recent update that we can get, what is the state of H.R.1
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So the H.R.1 has passed out of the House, unfortunately. We don't have the majority.
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The Republicans were unanimous against it, I believe. But it's gone over to the Senate. And so
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now the question is, what's going to happen there? Our hope is that senators like Joe Manchin,
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maybe a couple of others, recognize how important it is not to blow up the filibuster. That is,
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not to get rid of the 60-vote threshold and make sure that they aren't able to jam this through
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with simply 50 votes plus Kamala Harris. So if you live in West Virginia, make sure that Joe Manchin
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knows that you believe in election integrity and you don't want this farce of a bill to be jammed
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through the Senate. If you're in Arizona, call Kristen Sumner. If you are somewhere else, make
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sure that you're making sure your senators know that because that's where it sits. And we don't
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want to have this passed through on a 50-vote deal with Kamala Harris breaking the tie as the
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vice president. So make sure that's known and that they feel the heat.
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And one last thing I hope that you can give people advice on when people are talking about
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this on social media or maybe they're discussing with politically inclined family members or
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friends who say that this is a bill that is just trying to root out voter suppression, that voter
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suppression is such a big issue in this country. And Democrats are just trying to make sure that
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everyone who wants to vote can vote fairly. That's the kind of line, the PR that we're hearing
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from the left. And of course, it's a tactic used to say that, you know, Republicans, conservatives,
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they want voter suppression. They only want certain kinds of people to vote. How can people kind of
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push back on that line in a factual and a concise way?
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Well, first of all, it has never been easier to vote than it is right now today, anywhere in the
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history of mankind than it is in the United States of America, the ability for anyone to get to the
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polls. We have large numbers of polls. We have early voting. We have mail-in ballot and absentee
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procedures. Frankly, we probably need to tighten those down a little bit and make it easier to vote
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in person on Election Day for people who work and so forth rather than having these extended times.
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But you can push back to talk about how easy it is for people to get access to the polls,
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where we have voter ID requirements. People can get free IDs in any state if they need it to vote.
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But importantly, don't be afraid to stand up on your belief that the rule of law matters,
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that voter ID matters, that being able to say the integrity of our election should be dependent on
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knowing that a citizen with a voter identification that can prove that they're a citizen, that they vote.
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Don't be bowed in the corner because the other side says that we're a bigot,
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because we simply believe in the rule of law. That's what's happening. That's when you hear
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people throw around fancy terms like voter suppression. What they're telling you is you're
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a bigot. You don't want certain people to vote. That's a lie. You know it's not true. You know your
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heart. I know that as a Christian, I want all people to have access to be able to go forth and
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prosper in the Lord's kingdom that we're taught to love everybody and to help everybody. We all believe
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that. And we want everybody to have access to the polls. We also believe the rule of law matters,
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that the rule of law makes people's lives better. The reason people flock to the United States is
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because of the prosperity the Lord has blessed us with when we give credit to him and also enforce
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the rule of law. So don't be afraid of it. Don't be shy from it.
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And that's a perfect transition into what I want to talk about next. Something that gets
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just so muddied in conversation, especially among Christians, is what's happening at the border. As
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a representative from Texas, I'm interested to hear your take on this. Of course, as someone who,
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you know, we obviously believe in compassion and helping the least of these. We also, like you said,
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believe in the rule of law, which means we believe in the sovereignty of our country,
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that that is the best and most effective way to protect the lives and the livelihoods of the
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citizens inside this country, which means protecting and guarding the borders. But unfortunately,
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there seems to be a catastrophe happening down there right now. There are illegal immigrants trying
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to get in wearing Biden t-shirts. Can you just tell us a little bit about what's going on,
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separate fact from fiction? Sure. Well, we can talk for an hour about this,
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but I'll try to do my part to keep it concise, which is this. The status at the border is tragic.
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It is a crisis. It's a real problem. American citizens are endangered and immigrants are
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endangered. Look, the fact is that the Biden border crisis, which that's what this is,
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the Biden border crisis, is a direct result of his decisions and the decisions of his administration
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not to enforce our laws, to turn away from the policies that were working from
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the previous administration, to stop building infrastructure to help our border patrol secure
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the border. And as a result, it's now currently a lot easier for illegal to come across our border
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and into the United States and into facilities and then potentially have COVID and go out in our
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communities than it is for an American citizen to get access to the capital of the United States.
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This Democrat regime in Washington running Fort Pelosi in the capital has a fence with razor wire
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around the capital and American citizens can't get access to the people's house.
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But meanwhile, we literally have hundreds of thousands of people pouring across our border.
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And here's the thing. You mentioned compassion. As a Christian, I've gone down and spent the night
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at the border talking to kids, talking to families, literally spent the night as they're coming through
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the middle of the night and they're seeking border patrol and going to a facility so they can get
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caught and released into the country. If I were them, I would be doing the same thing. I'd be trying
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to find opportunity in the United States. I do not begrudge that. But go then talk about the danger to
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immigrants and the danger to American citizens as a result. Because when our border patrol are distracted
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having to deal with the humanitarian crisis, they're not stopping the cartels. They're not stopping
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fentanyl. They're not stopping dangerous actors. Where we have people coming in from Haiti, from Iran,
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from Indonesia, from all over the world, we find people coming across the border. And meanwhile,
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children are getting sold into the sex trafficking trade. They're being held in stash houses under
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the thumb of the cartels. They then end up being essentially modern day human slavery. That's the
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result of an administration that in the false name of compassion is saying open borders is somehow good
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for immigrants. It's a lie. Again, don't let them get away with that. That is not compassionate. It is not
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Christian. That's not something we should teach at the pulpits. We should love people. We should
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help them. When you have a baby at your doorstep, you figure out what to do with that baby. But you
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don't perpetuate a system that attracts people to break the law and then encourages cartels to use
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them for profit that ends up endangering them and the lives of American citizens in the process.
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That is incompetence and the Biden administration should be ashamed.
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Exactly. It's a superficial and duplicitous form of compassion that actually
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ends up hurting the very people that are supposed to be the beneficiaries of that empathy as well as
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everyone else. The final thing that I want to discuss with you is your no debt resolution. That's
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K-N-O-W. But I'm guessing there's a little bit of a play on words there. Could you tell us what that is?
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Yeah, well, you know, I served on the budget committee in the last Congress. This Congress,
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I moved over to the Judiciary Committee. But it's one of those things that I notice up here is that
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nobody actually focuses on that number that just keeps ticking up. And, you know, we've now surpassed
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$28 trillion of debt. And, you know, if you set out to count to $28 trillion, one Mississippi,
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you know, one per second, it would take you 875,000 years. I mean, think about that. That's how much debt
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we are saddling our kids and our grandkids with it. And here's the most important part.
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We are funding the tyranny against our freedoms. That's what we're doing. Every time we do this,
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we're borrowing money, racking up debt, and we're spending trillions of dollars more than we're
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taking in in order to fund the very bureaucrats that are not teaching our kids. And we're funding
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the teachers unions while they shut our schools down. Or if they do teach our kids, they teach our
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kids that America is evil, or that God doesn't exist, or that you're crazy for believing in God.
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We're funding the very DHS that is now, instead of securing our border, is a welcoming map for,
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essentially, the cartels to endanger immigrants and American citizens. We're funding China. We're
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funding Iran. We're funding endless wars. We're funding Planned Parenthood. These are the things
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we continue to do by borrowing money and risking the physical health of our country. So I put the
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No Debt Act out there. Last Congress was bipartisan. I hope it will be this Congress,
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where we have a clock running in every committee room so that you know what the debt is,
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and you have to look at it when you're making the decisions that affect the American people.
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So it's the No Debt Act, and it would put a clock in each committee, a debt clock.
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And hopefully would accomplish some kind of accountability. It does seem like the bigger
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the number gets, the more people forget about it and just kind of feel like it's
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something that doesn't really matter, something that's not real. I think that we can't really
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comprehend a number that big. So we almost just kind of think of it as a figment of our imagination
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and something that doesn't have real consequences. But it does, not just for our generations,
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but for the generations to come. So I hope this passes. I hope this works. I hope it accomplishes
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some kind of accountability in those who are, you know, kind of, they're just willy-nilly about,
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to use a non-formal term, about the debt. So thank you so much for pushing for this. Thank you so much
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for pushing for accountability in a lot of areas. Can you just end with some encouragement for people
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who feel like, oh my gosh, things are just kind of spiraling out of control, and I don't know if the
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country can get better. Can you end us on a positive note? Well, sure, of course. I mean,
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look, this is the greatest country in the history of the world. It still is. We're all very frustrated.
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But, you know, people of faith, we know that the Lord is sovereign and that he's got a plan. And
00:22:17.380
there's a lot of people up here working really hard. It may not seem like it. We're working hard to push
00:22:21.700
back. I believe the momentum is with us. I believe that Democrats are overreaching. I believe that this is
00:22:26.980
going to be very clear. I think that the virus, as bad as it was, has lifted the veil on a kind of
00:22:32.820
dark education system that the American people now have a pretty good view of what it's been doing to
00:22:37.860
our kids over these years. I think people are starting to get a real glimpse into the underbelly
00:22:43.060
of the beast of what the radical left wants to do in remaking this country. And I don't think the
00:22:46.980
American people are buying it. And we're supposed to be happy warriors and march forward knowing that
00:22:50.980
that we're only on this planet for a brief blip. And our job is to try to preserve liberty so we can
00:22:56.740
advance the mission of Christ. That's why we're here. And so I hope that people keep moving forward
00:23:01.780
and hold your elected officials. Me too. Hold us accountable to represent what you believe.
00:23:08.100
Yes, sir. Well, thank you so much, Congressman, for your time.
00:23:20.980
All right. So let's talk about let's talk about this statement that was released. The blaze dot com
00:23:29.300
reports it this way. Pro-life evangelical group that backed Biden shocked to find out they have been,
00:23:35.460
quote, used and betrayed by a pro-abortion president. So obviously there's some tongue in cheek
00:23:40.260
in that reporting by the blaze. But it's very hard at this point not to kind of have that attitude. I
00:23:47.700
mean, we talked about a couple of weeks ago or actually it was last week. It was last Thursday
00:23:52.420
when I did the whole rant on evangelicals for Biden. And, you know, I got a lot of feedback about
00:23:59.420
that. Most of it positive. Obviously, there are plenty of people who identify as Christians who
00:24:05.240
voted for Biden who are very happy with their vote. They are still very proud and confident in
00:24:10.780
the decision they made. But I did get some messages and some comments from people saying,
00:24:15.500
you know, I'm not quite sure that I regret my vote, but I do understand what you're saying.
00:24:19.960
And I understand how there may have been some policies that I didn't think through
00:24:24.740
before the election. And to people like that, I think that we should be completely and totally
00:24:29.980
gracious because there are things that they disagree with us about of for why we voted for
00:24:35.380
Donald Trump. And obviously, I believe that they made the wrong decision. I think that I've made
00:24:39.540
that abundantly clear. But at the end of the day, if Christians are going to join hands,
00:24:44.480
if true followers of Christ are going to join hands and to stand up against, for example,
00:24:48.560
pro-abortion policy or the Equality Act, then we have to be willing to be humble and to be
00:24:55.380
gracious towards people on the other side of the aisle or people who voted in a different way
00:25:00.460
according to their conscience. Now, this particular group that released a statement,
00:25:07.920
it's a little bit harder. It's a little bit harder to come from a place of understanding towards
00:25:12.800
them because these are people who should have known better. So let me tell you some context
00:25:17.920
about this statement and then I'll read some of the statement and then we'll get into a little
00:25:21.180
bit more analysis. So according to The Blaze, quote, a group of pro-life evangelical leaders
00:25:26.340
who banded together to support the election of President Joe Biden in the 2020 election
00:25:30.420
are now expressing shock and dismay that the Democratic politician who has towed his party's line
00:25:36.000
on abortion is somehow betraying their movement and using taxpayer money to pay for abortions.
00:25:40.800
They were also concerned about racism, poverty, health care, child care, and minimum wage,
00:25:45.920
but they were not going to give up on the life issue. That's what they said. That's why they said
00:25:51.440
they voted for Joe Biden because they wanted, I guess, subsidized health care for everyone.
00:25:57.020
They cared about alleviating poverty. They cared about racism. They cared about,
00:26:01.180
I don't know, subsidized child care and raising the minimum wage. Now, I think that voting for a Democrat
00:26:06.900
based on these issues is completely misinformed, completely misinformed, partly because some of
00:26:14.040
these issues are not issues the Democrats have provided any kind of good or solid or effective,
00:26:22.860
efficient solution for. And partly because some of these issues aren't the issues that Democrats paint
00:26:29.960
them to be. And so I think that there's a lot of misinformation if those are the reasons why
00:26:36.360
someone voted for Democrats. I understand there's just differences of opinion, and I am more than
00:26:41.240
happy to talk about, to discuss, to debate policy differences. I think that's if we can stay there,
00:26:47.160
if we can just talk about policy differences when it comes to presidents, when it comes to political
00:26:51.180
candidates, I think we're in a good place. The fact of the matter is, is that I don't think a lot of
00:26:56.680
people who voted for Joe Biden really thought through those policy issues. It was more from
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what I have gleaned is that Trump is really bad, that he is supremely racist and divisive
00:27:07.460
with Joe Biden. We're going to get some level of moderation and normalcy and kindness and integrity,
00:27:13.380
and we'll be able to influence him in the way of, you know, being pro-life. And I think that these
00:27:20.040
people who thought that are realizing that that is a lost cause, that that's never going to happen.
00:27:27.180
The article goes on, in an open letter posted over the weekend, the pro-lifers who invested in the
00:27:32.020
Biden campaign now say they feel, quote, used and betrayed by the Biden administration and decry the
00:27:37.220
fact that the COVID relief package the Senate passed over the weekend excludes the Hyde Amendment,
00:27:42.980
which prevents tax money from being used to fund abortion. So the COVID relief package, that's
00:27:48.900
something that we also haven't talked about quite yet on this podcast. There's so much in the news
00:27:53.780
that we could talk about and in culture and going on in the church, that it's impossible to cover
00:28:00.320
everything. But this huge COVID relief package over a trillion dollars, just adding to the debt that we
00:28:07.140
just talked about with Congressman Roy, only a tiny sliver of this COVID relief package had anything to do
00:28:13.760
with actual COVID relief. Hardly any of it is going to alleviate the suffering that so many people who
00:28:21.340
found themselves unemployed and found themselves in isolation and in difficult positions over the
00:28:26.580
past year because of government restrictions and the shutting down of the economy. Hardly any of this
00:28:32.880
so-called relief is actually going to relieve those people. But instead, it pushed forward a planned
00:28:41.260
parenthood priority, which was to make sure that taxpayer money funds abortion. Now, we've talked about on this
00:28:48.880
podcast, the Hyde Amendment. The Hyde Amendment has protected traditionally for decades since the 1970s,
00:28:57.740
the late 1970s, I believe, after Roe v. Wade. It's protected taxpayer dollars from funding, federal
00:29:05.460
taxpayer dollars from funding most abortions. And this is mostly been bipartisan. So while Democrats have
00:29:13.140
been traditionally pro-choice and saying that it should be a woman's choice when she wants to get
00:29:18.100
an abortion in most cases, the left has moved far to the left on this issue, not only moving the
00:29:25.380
moving the the week of gestation when abortion should be allowed, but also getting rid of this
00:29:33.340
bipartisan support of the Hyde Amendment. It is very obvious now that the pro-abortion lobby has taken
00:29:39.880
over the Democratic Party, and they now believe that it should not be safe, legal and rare, which is what
00:29:46.160
the mantra was 20 years ago. It's what Hillary Clinton even said that it was a few years ago.
00:29:52.500
Now it is through nine months for any reason funded by the taxpayer without apology. The National
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Catholic Register explains it this way. On Saturday, the Senate passed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue
00:30:06.240
Plan of 2021 by a vote of 50 to 49, sending the legislation back to the House to be reconciled and
00:30:12.400
passed again. The relief bill, which includes funding to vaccine distribution, economic relief
00:30:17.180
and stimulus checks, does not include abortion funding restrictions that previous relief bills
00:30:23.260
were subject to. Thus, pro-life leaders have warned that the billions of dollars in health care spending
00:30:28.020
under the legislation could be used to fund abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood or subsidize
00:30:34.320
abortion coverage in health care plans. Senator James Linkford, a Republican from Oklahoma,
00:30:39.820
attempted to insert a Hyde provision into the legislation specifying that the funds could
00:30:44.700
not be used for elective abortions. The measure failed to receive the necessary 60 votes for inclusion
00:30:50.760
in the bill, but it was supported by three Democrats. All three Democrats that did support that ultimately
00:30:58.100
supported the bill on its final passages. All Republicans voted against it, except for Dan Sullivan
00:31:04.480
and independent Bernie Sanders and then another senator as well. A group of House Democrats last week asked
00:31:15.180
President Joe Biden, who now opposes the Hyde Amendment after being a longtime supporter, to not
00:31:20.500
include the policy in the 2022 fiscal year budget. COVID relief bills in 2020 did keep the policy intact,
00:31:28.820
including the CARES Act, which passed Congress in March 2020. That bill had provisions prohibiting
00:31:34.200
funding of abortions and was also tailored to exclude Planned Parenthood from emergency small business
00:31:39.200
loans. Planned Parenthood affiliates, however, did ultimately apply for and unlawfully receive $80 million
00:31:44.960
in emergency loans from the Small Business Administration. And obviously, we understand that
00:31:53.060
Planned Parenthood is not a small business. They also already received $500 million in taxpayer funding per
00:31:59.640
year. But the Hyde Amendment is supposed to protect that money from funding directly abortions. Of
00:32:06.100
course, we understand that they are able to move that taxpayer funding around. And so they were very
00:32:14.100
likely already using our taxpayer funds to fund abortion. But now there's not even a pretense of
00:32:21.040
protection. Now, Rand Paul was apparently successful in preventing the Senate, the Senate coronavirus
00:32:29.500
relief bill from including a provision that would provide PPP assistance to Planned Parenthood across
00:32:35.800
America. But there are still concerns that our taxpayer dollars are going to be funding abortion through
00:32:44.500
other means. So the version is going back through the House. This is the Joe Biden approved
00:32:50.440
version and was also constructed by Democratic Senator, the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. And that is
00:33:00.120
why the pro-life evangelicals for Biden are so frustrated by this whole thing, because Joe Biden is
00:33:07.180
approving of taking away Hyde Amendment protections to make sure that our taxpayer dollars don't fund
00:33:13.360
abortion. So here's part of what the letter says. As pro-life leaders in the evangelical community,
00:33:18.640
we publicly supported President Biden's candidacy with the understanding that there would be
00:33:23.000
engagement with us on the issue of abortion and particularly the Hyde Amendment. The group's letter
00:33:27.500
said the Biden team wanted to talk to us during the campaign to gain our support, and we gave it on the
00:33:33.700
condition there would be active dialogue and common ground solutions on the issue of abortion. There has
00:33:39.700
been no dialogue since the campaign. Now, why in the world would they believe that there would be any
00:33:49.180
dialogue from the candidate who said openly and plainly that he did not support the Hyde Amendment?
00:33:57.140
Like, why would they think that this president, as progressive as they come when it comes to these
00:34:03.800
types of issues, would care at all after he got their votes? I mean, there's been a lot of things
00:34:10.300
that Joe Biden has decided that he's not going to do. He said that those $2,000 relief checks were going
00:34:16.740
to leave the door immediately. That obviously didn't happen. They're $1,400 relief checks, and people still
00:34:22.860
have not seen them. He said he was going to cease deportations. Apparently, that hasn't happened. Not
00:34:29.200
that I think that that's a bad thing, but that's something that he promised. Progressives, he
00:34:33.600
promised, I guess, to compromise on abortion with the evangelical, pro-life evangelicals for Biden.
00:34:39.740
That's not going to happen. I think a lot of people voted for him, like we said, in the hopes of
00:34:45.100
moderation and normalcy and kindness and togetherness, and we tried to warn you. We tried to tell you that's
00:34:51.000
not going to happen, that Kamala Harris is the most rabidly pro-abortion vice president that we've ever
00:34:57.020
seen. She was the most rabidly pro-abortion attorney general of California when she served in that
00:35:03.560
position. She was the most rabidly pro-abortion senator when she was a senator. That is in close
00:35:11.480
competition with the nominee for the HHS secretary, Xavier Becerra, the competition meaning between who
00:35:20.520
was the most rabidly pro-abortion attorney general of California. They both targeted pro-life centers.
00:35:29.620
They both targeted any kinds of protections for unborn children when they served in that position.
00:35:35.380
And so Joe Biden has showed his hand on this issue, OK? He's not just pro-choice. He's not
00:35:41.080
personally pro-choice, but in policy, or he's not personally pro-life, but in policy, pro-choice.
00:35:46.620
He is pro-abortion. It is a pro-abortion position to say that taxpayers must be forced to fund
00:35:56.260
elective abortions. That is a pro-abortion position, not a pro-choice position. If it was really about
00:36:02.940
pro-choice, then they would allow us the choice of whether or not we want to fund abortions, but rather
00:36:08.100
they are forcing us to pay for the killing of unborn children. That is a pro-abortion position that the
00:36:15.240
pro-life evangelicals for Biden, I guess, thought just wasn't going to happen. I have no idea why.
00:36:21.700
Like, it at least developed some kind of healthy cynicism about the promises that most politicians
00:36:26.860
make to try to get your support. Black Lives Matter also came out and said, hey, we supported
00:36:32.180
Joe Biden, and now we're not getting anything in return. We haven't even had a conversation with him.
00:36:36.580
Of course, you guys. Of course. He's a Democratic establishment politician who has his agenda,
00:36:44.300
who is going to do what his handlers tell him to do. And one of the things that his handlers are
00:36:49.700
telling him to do is to make sure that abortion is funded by the taxpayer through all nine months
00:36:56.200
without restriction or apology. That is the road that he is on. And evangelicals for Biden,
00:37:02.300
especially the so-called pro-life evangelicals for Biden, you were duped. And I don't feel bad.
00:37:08.580
I mean, I don't feel bad that you were tricked into this because all of the warning signs were
00:37:13.340
there. It's not like he told you guys that he actually did support the Hyde Amendment. He said it.
00:37:19.160
He said it. I mean, this is not even like a wolf in sheep's clothing. This is the wolf coming out and
00:37:24.020
be like, hey, I'm a wolf. And then pro-life evangelicals for Biden writing an open letter saying,
00:37:29.840
I'm very disappointed and betrayed that this wolf who told us that he was a wolf is actually a wolf.
00:37:35.860
We thought that he was going to be a sheep. You put the sheep's clothing on him and you tried to
00:37:40.360
manipulate other people into thinking that he was a sheep. He's not. He told you he's a wolf and he is
00:37:44.880
a wolf and he's coming out as that. Rapidly pro-abortion, the Democrats are, including Joe Biden,
00:37:50.380
and you had no business supporting him. Now, I don't think that you had to have voted for President
00:37:56.860
Trump to be on the right side of history. That's something that people like to say or to be right
00:38:01.980
or to be sufficiently Christian. I know a lot of solid Christians who did not vote for either
00:38:06.780
candidate, but to vote for the guy who is this pro-abortion, who is now taking your money to fund
00:38:13.340
the slaughter of unborn children when he told you he was going to do that. And now you're saying that
00:38:18.220
you feel betrayed and shocked and dismayed. I don't know what to tell you. We told you guys,
00:38:25.440
we pointed to it. We told you guys this was a wolf. We told you over and over and over again.
00:38:32.860
And what did you vote for? You voted for some vague idea of kindness and decency. Is it kind? Is it
00:38:40.200
decent to take your money to fund the killing of unborn children? I mean, what have you gotten in
00:38:45.560
exchange for your vote? What, boys being able to compete with girls sports? Poor migrants flooding in
00:38:53.760
at the southern border with Biden let us in t-shirts on? Like, what have you gotten in exchange for your
00:39:00.380
vote? Nothing good. Nothing good. I guess that you don't hear President Trump anymore, that you don't
00:39:06.860
have to deal with his antics, that you don't have to deal with his tweets. Was it a worthy exchange?
00:39:12.620
Was it not having to be annoyed by the rhetoric of President Trump in exchange for funding
00:39:19.420
the slaughtering of babies? I don't think it was a good trade, guys. I don't. And hey, if you are now
00:39:26.900
coming out and saying, you know, I really regret this decision and I'm willing to, you know, go on
00:39:35.280
the pro-life side and fight for pro-life legislation and for pro-life policies, then I will link arms with
00:39:41.680
you. Of course, I would love to fight that fight with you. I would love to push back against darkness
00:39:47.480
with you. I'm not going to hold your vote against you for the rest of your life. I have no place,
00:39:51.460
no responsibility, no role, no right, no desire to do that. Of course, I am not in any way saying that
00:39:59.120
I am better than you or superior to you, but I will say that we warned you. We warned you. And so now
00:40:06.400
it's time for you to don some humility and to don some repentance and to say that you just made a
00:40:13.700
mistake. You don't feel betrayed. You don't feel betrayed. Don't come at me with that. You
00:40:17.400
don't feel betrayed. You were duped somehow, even though the wolf told you that he was a wolf and
00:40:24.420
you need to take responsibility for that. And then we can come together and we can push back against
00:40:28.740
the darkness that we're seeing. But I also want you to remember this, okay? Remember this in the
00:40:32.760
midterms. Remember this in four years when Democrats are once again telling you that,
00:40:37.820
hey, religious people, hey, Christians, we care about your issues. We care about moderation when it
00:40:41.840
comes to abortion. Sure. We believe that girls are girls and boys are boys. Sure. Yeah. We believe in
00:40:47.200
protecting women's rights. Sure. Yeah, definitely. We believe in. I want you to remember. I want you
00:40:53.100
to remember this, okay? You're going to be betrayed over and over again. What did I say last week?
00:40:57.480
That you have linked arms with a party and with people who hate you. They hate you. And that doesn't
00:41:03.720
mean that the Republican Party is perfect by any stretch of the imagination, because I certainly
00:41:07.780
don't think so. I just don't. I think there are so many problems with Republicans. There are so many
00:41:12.860
Republican politicians that I don't like or agree with that I think are just feckless and futile and
00:41:18.340
completely just not at all in line with the things that I believe. But the Democratic Party is driven
00:41:27.540
by now a left-wing ideology that hates you, that hates your values, that hates everything that you
00:41:34.920
believe in. And they will continue to use you over and over again, only for you to feel, quote,
00:41:40.880
betrayed and shocked and dismayed. And I'm trying to help you get off of that hamster wheel. It's
00:41:48.020
exhausting and it's going to continue to disappoint you. All right. That's all I've got for today.