The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - April 28, 2023


Episode 102 LIVE： Ukraine Audits – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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mandatory E-Verify passing Ukraine resolution debate solar tariffs debate solar tariffs and supply chain dependency
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Matt Gaetz
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Joe Biden Tucker Carlson Vladimir Putin Daryl Issa Representative Gaetz Congresswoman Luna Earl Blumenauer Jerry Connolly C. Spelnitz Obama Trump Congresswoman Anna Claudia Tenney Kathy Manning Lloyd Doggett Jimmy Panetta Paulina Luna Corey Mills Jason Smith Greg Murphy and 10 more
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On this episode of Firebrand, we cover: - Rep. Matt Gaetz's take on the Deep State's attempt to delegitimize his campaign - and why it's a good thing he's not running for re-election. - The Democratic charge that the House will raise the debt ceiling, but also do so with corresponding cuts that harm veterans - is a false charge? - Congresswoman Luna's response to that - and much more! - Tucker Carlson's new gig, and why he's an important voice in our ideology, in our nation, and in our culture. - And, of course, we talk about the January 6th defendants.

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00:00:00.000 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
00:00:10.000 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem for the Democratic Party.
00:00:13.000 He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:00:16.000 So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
00:00:19.000 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots.
00:00:29.000 You are in the right place. This is the movement for you.
00:00:33.000 You ever watch this guy on television? Like a machine. Matt Gaetz.
00:00:38.000 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the Internet.
00:00:41.000 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
00:00:46.000 They aren't really coming for me. They're coming for you.
00:00:50.000 I'm just in the way.
00:00:55.000 Welcome back to Firebrand. We are live broadcasting out of room twenty twenty one of the Rayburn House office building in dreary, rainy, disgusting Washington, D.C. on this Friday afternoon.
00:01:08.000 The House of Representatives has taken their final vote of the day.
00:01:11.000 That was on a key measure to institute tariffs against some of the entities that have stolen our solar intellectual property.
00:01:20.000 I'm going to show you the debate pro and con on that measure final measure of the week.
00:01:25.000 Also, we've got reaction to the Democrat charge that the House plan to raise the debt limit, but also do so with corresponding spending cuts that that harms veterans.
00:01:37.000 That is a false charge. We've got reaction to that from Congresswoman Luna. 0.94
00:01:41.000 Also, I had legislation before the House of Representatives regarding Ukraine and whether or not we would have an inquiry to the Biden administration with troop levels, where personnel are, what equipment is being used, all the information they had regarding strategy and future plans.
00:02:02.000 That legislation moved through the House foreign affairs committee.
00:02:05.000 I'm going to show you the debate on that. It should be ready for the House floor.
00:02:09.000 Something my constituents clearly want is accountability when it comes to the assistance that's been provided to Ukraine.
00:02:16.000 We did something a little different today to start the show.
00:02:19.000 It is Friday. I asked folks on Twitter what they wanted me to address at the top, and I got some interesting ones.
00:02:26.000 So I'm going to go through those first before we get to those main issues in the show.
00:02:31.000 First was Joe who said he wanted to know what information I had on the next Tucker gig.
00:02:39.000 And here's the thing, Joe. Your question presupposes that it is a gig or a job working for someone else.
00:02:49.000 And here's what I do know. Tucker Carlson is not done.
00:02:54.000 Tucker Carlson will be an important voice in our ideology, in our nation.
00:03:01.000 He's more than a talk show host. He's a cultural figure, a phenomenon.
00:03:06.000 Someone I spoke to regularly about matters of war and peace, trade issues, immigration issues,
00:03:12.000 how America interacted with countries through weapons sales and other intense diplomatic endeavors and negotiations.
00:03:21.000 Tucker Carlson is a brilliant person, and he has inspired many folks who work on Capitol Hill today,
00:03:27.000 who make up the ranks of our activists all across the country.
00:03:32.000 And I don't think it'll be a gig, Joe. I think it'll be something else.
00:03:37.000 But I'm certainly going to let Tucker break his own news.
00:03:40.000 Another thing folks are concerned about, and with good reason, the congressional oversight on what's happening with the January 6th defendants.
00:03:47.000 You saw the trip that the oversight committee took to the D.C. jail.
00:03:52.000 You've seen the correspondence we've sent regarding deprivations of certain civil rights and really human rights,
00:03:59.000 regarding the care and confinement and, at times, even solitary confinement that J6 defendants have had to endure.
00:04:08.000 And we are working alongside the oversight committee. Many members of the oversight committee are taking an appropriate lead on this issue.
00:04:15.000 But I think you're going to see some hearings coming up there in that committee.
00:04:19.000 And we may also be doing some field hearings that we'll be able to announce and certainly cover here on Firebrand.
00:04:25.000 We are interested in this. We have not let this go.
00:04:28.000 And we know that the American people are interested in it as well for the sake of our trust in our justice system.
00:04:37.000 Was it weaponized? Was information withheld?
00:04:41.000 Was there a recasting of events with a diminution in focus on some of the potential involvement with federal undercovers, confidential informants?
00:04:53.000 That's the stuff that really unlocks the truth about January 6th.
00:04:57.000 Some of the episodes of Firebrand that have been best watched.
00:05:01.000 I would encourage you to check those out and ensure you're fully up to date as to some of those facts that I think give rise to legitimate concern.
00:05:08.000 Another piece of big news that got sent to me at the start of the show when I sent out that tweet.
00:05:14.000 Mandatory E-Verify passing the Florida legislature.
00:05:18.000 Bravo to my colleagues in Florida.
00:05:21.000 I know on the live stream we got a lot of folks watching from Florida.
00:05:24.000 But E-Verify is essential to ensuring that we have a fair and legal workforce.
00:05:30.000 And if we can get it done in Florida, in Arizona, places with massive agriculture industry, then certainly we can do it nationally.
00:05:39.000 And there should be a national standard for E-Verify.
00:05:42.000 If there is such an obvious interweaving of E-Verify and interstate commerce, I believe there ought to be action from the Congress on this question.
00:05:51.000 And we passed E-Verify out of the House Judiciary Committee.
00:05:54.000 It should be ready for a floor vote in May.
00:05:57.000 That's right.
00:05:58.000 Next month I expect a floor vote on E-Verify, asylum reform, remain in Mexico, how to ensure that people do not just get paroled into our country with the joke of an immigration system that Joe Biden and Mayorkas are currently overseeing.
00:06:15.000 We are going to have a vote on that in May and there is big time momentum for this legislation.
00:06:21.000 And Florida passing mandatory E-Verify only accelerates that momentum.
00:06:26.000 I am proud of my Florida colleagues and I'm excited to see what that means for our workforce in the Sunshine State.
00:06:33.000 Another thing folks want to know when the trans manifesto is coming out on the Tennessee shooter, the answer is, I don't know.
00:06:42.000 But here's my question for the FBI.
00:06:45.000 Why haven't you released this?
00:06:47.000 You know, if this was a manifesto that espoused a vile form of white supremacy that we would certainly criticize and condemn.
00:06:57.000 I mean, the FBI would have had that out within moments.
00:07:01.000 But if it's radical gender ideology, and let me be clear, I don't know what is in this thing.
00:07:06.000 But if that is indeed what it is, then does the FBI see any tension in the disparate treatment of some of these writings based on the radicalized, condemnable ideologies of the shooter, of the killer?
00:07:26.000 Can they really say it impairs an ongoing investigation?
00:07:29.000 Are there other suspects in the Tennessee shooting case?
00:07:33.000 They obviously have the person who committed this act.
00:07:38.000 And if there's information that I think the public would gather something from, draw conclusions from, if you would release it under one context, why would you not another?
00:07:51.000 It's a fair question.
00:07:52.000 And we're just getting news that we're getting a date for FBI Director Wray to come to the Judiciary Committee in the near future.
00:08:02.000 And that may be something we ask.
00:08:04.000 I want to get now to this charge Democrats are making in media interviews and in social media that the Republican plan somehow harms veterans on the debt limit.
00:08:15.000 And let me be clear, I didn't vote for the Republican plan because I could not in good conscience gaslight $49 trillion in national debt on a bill where the final changes were being made at 2 o'clock the very morning of the vote.
00:08:31.000 That's not what regular order looks like to me, but on the pure merits and substance, this Democrat claim is totally false addressed recently by veteran Florida woman Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna.
00:08:46.000 Take a listen.
00:08:48.000 Hey guys, the White House just put out a statement claiming that House Republicans apparently in our budget proposal are trying to go after VA and cut funding, which is completely not true.
00:09:00.000 In fact, I'm looking at the limit on federal spending, the discretionary, the limits, right?
00:09:04.000 Look at this.
00:09:05.000 Do you guys see any cuts here?
00:09:07.000 There are literally no cuts.
00:09:09.000 That is completely false.
00:09:10.000 What the administration likes to do, what Democrats like to do is they like to use veterans just like they did in the PAC Act, where they use burn pit victims, veterans, and put $400 billion in pork spending into a bill that didn't even go to vets.
00:09:23.000 OK, so this is personal for me, obviously, being a veteran, but don't be a part of the problem and circulate false information because clearly we would not do that.
00:09:32.000 But the fact that they're even trying to imply it because we actually came up with a proposed budget of which they wanted nothing to do with.
00:09:39.000 I mean, that is exactly the problem in politics.
00:09:41.000 So just know that that's false.
00:09:43.000 We are not cutting VA benefits.
00:09:44.000 We're not cutting anything with the VA.
00:09:46.000 That's it.
00:09:49.000 That's Congresswoman Luna.
00:09:51.000 We are back live.
00:09:52.000 C. Spelnitz on Instagram tells me to stop gaslighting.
00:09:57.000 Well, Ms. Spelnitz, I think it's actually the Democrats that are gaslighting.
00:10:01.000 Here's the argument they're trying to make on the VA.
00:10:04.000 That if we simply take overall budget growth and cap that, that somehow that would treat every agency the same.
00:10:13.000 You see, I don't believe in horizontal cuts across every agency regardless of which are performing their functions.
00:10:21.000 What I believe in are deep vertical cuts at places like the Department of Education and the Department of Labor and the Department of Energy and the EPA.
00:10:33.000 The ATF.
00:10:35.000 And if we did that, then we would be able to accelerate the programs that are working for our veterans.
00:10:42.000 But what we shouldn't do is engage in a process by which every agency has spending that automatically escalates forever.
00:10:50.000 And we're getting to the point where the payment on our national debt is going to exceed $400 billion.
00:10:55.000 We're going to get to the point.
00:10:58.000 $400 billion is where we are now.
00:11:00.000 We'll get to the point soon where we're paying more on interest on the national debt than we do for our military.
00:11:05.000 And so I think to be honest and fulsome about the care that we have for people who do rely on government programs like seniors and veterans and the elderly and the disabled.
00:11:17.000 We have to ensure that everyone isn't just getting fat and happy off of federal budgets to continue to explode.
00:11:25.000 I don't think that's gaslighting.
00:11:27.000 I think that's explaining where we are and offering a specific set of solutions to get there.
00:11:32.000 And you may disagree with that.
00:11:34.000 But it's what I believe.
00:11:36.000 It's what I think the voters in Northwest Florida sent me here for.
00:11:39.000 Okay, I want to get now to the debate on a Ukraine resolution that I introduced.
00:11:45.000 It moved out of the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week, and I'll read from it directly.
00:11:50.000 It requires the DOD, the White House, to provide documents to the Congress,
00:11:56.000 quote, indicating any plans for current or future military assistance to Ukraine
00:12:01.000 and documents indicating whether any United States Armed Forces, including Special Operations Forces, are currently deployed in Ukraine.
00:12:10.000 So we've seen conflicting news reports about this.
00:12:14.000 We've seen news reports that have not paired neatly with the explanations that we've gotten out of John Kirby and other White House officials.
00:12:23.000 And so I want it specifically as a required communication from the administration to the Congress.
00:12:30.000 And if that were to be dishonest, it would be impeachable.
00:12:35.000 But I want the truth, and I want to give the administration the opportunity to give us the truth.
00:12:41.000 That debate went on in the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and you're about to hear from some of my colleagues,
00:12:47.000 Kathy Manning, Jerry Connolly, Corey Mills, and Daryl Issa.
00:12:53.000 Those are the members of Congress you're about to hear from if you are listening.
00:12:57.000 And you know what? If you're listening, this is a good time to go ahead and give us a five-star rating.
00:13:01.000 But this was the debate on the Ukraine resolution of inquiry. Take a listen.
00:13:06.000 I now call up House Resolution 300, a resolution of inquiry requesting that the President
00:13:14.000 and directing the Secretary of Defense to transmit respectively to the House of Representatives
00:13:20.000 copies of all documents indicating any plans for current or future military assistance to Ukraine
00:13:27.000 and documents indicating whether any United States forces, including special operation forces, are currently in Ukraine.
00:13:36.000 This political measure from the lead author of the Ukraine fatigue resolution is unnecessarily divisive
00:13:44.000 and plays directly into Vladimir Putin's hands.
00:13:48.000 By seeking to force the disclosure of all current and future U.S. military plans
00:13:54.000 and documents related to U.S. support to Ukraine, including sensitive details on the presence of U.S. personnel in Ukraine,
00:14:02.000 the sponsors of this measure played directly into Putin's hands
00:14:06.000 and jeopardized the very lives of those with whom we are standing.
00:14:11.000 Let me read to you what Mr. Gates has said.
00:14:15.000 We must suspend all foreign aid for the war in Ukraine
00:14:20.000 and demand that all combatants in this conflict reach a peace agreement immediately.
00:14:26.000 Apparently, Mr. Gates has decided for the Ukrainians what is in their best interest.
00:14:33.000 And that means that the intent behind this motion is that.
00:14:39.000 All this is simply saying is, is that they're requesting information
00:14:43.000 if we were to use any type of military force in Ukraine, current or future.
00:14:50.000 And so we talk about oversight.
00:14:53.000 We talk about the ideas of not allowing continual mission creep,
00:14:56.000 which I've been a part of, given the fact that I spent over seven years of my life in Iraq,
00:15:00.000 over three years of my life in Afghanistan,
00:15:02.000 Kosovo, Pakistan, northern Somalia, been blown up twice.
00:15:07.000 I can tell you mission creep is something that does exist.
00:15:10.000 And in many cases, the authorities, which Congress has under Article One,
00:15:15.000 is sometimes surpassed because of the past AUMFs like 0102.
00:15:20.000 But I would again just make the note that this is not preventing support to Ukraine.
00:15:26.000 This is not empowering Putin.
00:15:29.000 This is simply an inquiry for oversight by the president, or I should say request by Congress,
00:15:37.000 for the president and the secretary of defense to provide a line of questioning
00:15:41.000 or a reasonable amount of information on if we're deploying currently or in the future military forces.
00:15:47.000 This oversight is vital and must continue.
00:15:50.000 This committee is dedicated to the constant both public and private oversight of our monitoring of every single dollar and every weapon system.
00:16:02.000 U.S. support is enduring, but it is not without the strings of accountability.
00:16:08.000 The resolution of inquiry requests the administration to transmit relevant documents related to U.S. security assistance for Ukraine,
00:16:16.000 as well as United States Armed Forces in country.
00:16:19.000 The American taxpayer deserves to know how U.S. assistance is being spent.
00:16:25.000 I move that the committee report House Resolution 300 to the House with a favorable recommendation.
00:16:34.000 We are back live and that favorable recommendation was adopted.
00:16:38.000 Thank you.
00:16:39.000 That was Congressman Darrell Issa of California.
00:16:42.000 And even though Darrell and I probably don't share precisely the same view on Ukraine
00:16:47.000 and the extent to which the U.S. should be involved at all,
00:16:50.000 I'm glad that he sees the importance for the taxpayer to get the answers to these questions about the planning and the cost and the strategy and the troops.
00:17:00.000 Thank you, Congressman Issa.
00:17:02.000 And couldn't you tell from that video how much it just triggers Democrats that I'm the sponsor of the resolution?
00:17:10.000 You heard Congressman Issa and Congressman Mills speak to the substance of the resolution, what its operative effects are.
00:17:16.000 But what did you hear from Jerry Connolly and Representative Manning?
00:17:20.000 Oh, can you believe what Matt Gaetz has said?
00:17:23.000 He doesn't believe the United States should be in Ukraine.
00:17:25.000 So any question that Matt Gaetz asks about our troops or the cost or the strategy, it must all be for Vladimir Putin.
00:17:36.000 It is crazy to watch people who are elected to be the representatives of the United States behave more like lawmakers from Kyiv.
00:17:46.000 What about our country, our needs?
00:17:48.000 You know what, you see it in the live stream, almost universal support for my Ukraine fatigue resolution on getter Tinkerbell,
00:17:56.000 saying we got our own problems here at home that we should focus on.
00:18:00.000 And Patricia on Facebook says no more money for Ukraine.
00:18:05.000 Thank you for that feedback.
00:18:07.000 I will still fight for this country.
00:18:10.000 And it is very telling who seems to put the foreign interests abroad first.
00:18:15.000 Now, one thing we can do for this country is ensure that we own our own innovation ecosystem
00:18:21.000 and that is not stolen from us and then replicated abroad,
00:18:25.000 replacing the market space that should be dominated by our countrymen, by our businesses.
00:18:32.000 And we can dominate the world if American innovation is unleashed and then vigorously defended.
00:18:39.000 And that's actually something I don't think Congress has been serious enough about.
00:18:44.000 Look at what happened with solar.
00:18:47.000 Solar was a universally American enterprise.
00:18:51.000 A lot of that was here in this country.
00:18:53.000 And then the Chinese stole the tech, mass produced it overseas, 1.00
00:18:57.000 and are now totally replacing US solar in the global marketplace, even in the marketplace here at home.
00:19:06.000 That's like your neighbor having the nerve to steal your sweater and then wear it in front of you.
00:19:13.000 That's how brazen the Chinese are. 1.00
00:19:16.000 And it's because we're not serious about protecting our intellectual property.
00:19:19.000 And that's not just going to foreign jurisdictions and foreign courts.
00:19:24.000 It also means protecting our intellectual property with tariffs on what they are sending us if it is ill-gotten.
00:19:33.000 And so we had legislation before the House of Representatives today regarding the trade policy we would have towards solar,
00:19:41.000 and particularly the solar that is coming in from places where we believe Americans were not put first.
00:19:48.000 And we believe in America first foreign policy.
00:19:51.000 So this was the bill that passed today.
00:19:53.000 I'm going to start by showing you the debate in favor of those tariffs.
00:19:59.000 And that's how I voted.
00:20:01.000 And this debate is led by Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, Congressman Greg Murphy,
00:20:06.000 Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, Congressman Bob Latta, and Florida Man Congressman Bill Posey.
00:20:11.000 Take a listen.
00:20:13.000 The legislation before us today, House Joint Resolution 39 Congressional Review Act legislation on solar tariffs,
00:20:22.000 will stop President Biden's proclamation that has given a free pass for two years to unfair solar imports from China that circumvent our trade laws.
00:20:33.000 The United States must maintain crucial protections for American workers and our economy as a whole.
00:20:40.000 We cannot surrender to China or any other country and put American workers at a disadvantage.
00:20:48.000 I ask for unanimous consent to submit for the record a statement from the Uyghur Human Rights Project in support of H.J. Res. 39.
00:20:57.000 The statement highlights the close connection between the CCP's solar industry and the ongoing human rights abuses
00:21:06.000 and forced labor being perpetrated against the Uyghurs.
00:21:10.000 This is bipartisan consensus that these practices are unacceptable and must be stopped.
00:21:17.000 Without objection, so ordered.
00:21:19.000 In pursuit of everything green, the Biden administration has given a free pass for Chinese solar imports to flow into this country,
00:21:26.000 by all means using an emergency proclamation.
00:21:31.000 The last time a president used an emergency proclamation was for lumber in 1946 when American World War II veterans were returning home and they needed homes.
00:21:41.000 But today, President Biden, or whoever's running the White House, is using it to waive tariffs on Chinese solar panels coming from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam for two years.
00:21:53.000 Helping war heroes is an emergency, but speeding up total dependence on our greatest adversary is another.
00:22:02.000 President Biden's irresponsible proclamation is a slap in the face to American manufacturers.
00:22:07.000 It allows Chinese solar companies to flood our market with their products tariff-free, hurting American jobs.
00:22:14.000 It is the Green New Deal agenda at work.
00:22:17.000 President Biden's proclamation also sends the message to trade cheats everywhere that U.S. trade laws don't matter.
00:22:25.000 This invites even more cheating, and this is only the tip of the spear of the dangerous Green New Deal agenda. 0.91
00:22:32.000 We are a nation of laws.
00:22:35.000 It is not up to the President to determine which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore,
00:22:41.000 if they don't conform to that President's particular agenda.
00:22:45.000 If we allow Communist China to blatantly violate our trade laws with impunity, 0.87
00:22:52.000 as the Commerce Department has concluded is occurring,
00:22:55.000 how can we expect other nations to follow those laws and conduct business with us in a fair manner?
00:23:02.000 How good is this resolution?
00:23:04.000 As if the facts are not clear enough already, keep this in mind.
00:23:09.000 This is a policy that President Obama and President Trump both agreed on.
00:23:15.000 I know that's hard to believe, but you heard that right.
00:23:19.000 It's a policy that President Obama and President Trump both agreed on.
00:23:26.000 We are back live, so that set up the debate in favor of this that ultimately passed,
00:23:32.000 but you also deserve to know which members of Congress took the pro-China side of this debate,
00:23:39.000 the anti-American energy, anti-American innovation side.
00:23:44.000 You're going to hear from Congressman Thompson, Congressman Don Beyer,
00:23:48.000 Congressman Lloyd Doggett, Congressman Jimmy Panetta, Congressman Earl Blumenauer,
00:23:52.000 all Democrats, and if you're watching and if you're subscribed on Rumble
00:23:57.000 and if you have your notifications turned on, which means clicking that little bell
00:24:00.000 if you're watching on YouTube or Rumble, if that is how you are consuming this show,
00:24:04.000 you are going to get a special treat because Earl Blumenauer was wearing one of the strangest bow ties
00:24:10.000 I have ever seen on the House floor today.
00:24:13.000 Watch the clip and enjoy.
00:24:16.000 If this legislation were to become law, it would cost not create American jobs.
00:24:23.000 And in the long run, it would make it harder, not easier, for our country to become energy independent.
00:24:30.000 This bill would make it impossible to deploy solar energy quickly enough here in our country,
00:24:38.000 here in the United States of America.
00:24:40.000 It will hurt the 33,000 American solar installers who will lose their jobs.
00:24:45.000 It will raise energy costs for families everywhere, but especially in this unbuilt.
00:24:49.000 It will hurt all Americans who hope to use the solar tax credit.
00:24:53.000 And it will hurt the energy companies, the businesses who built major solar installations in the last eight months,
00:24:59.000 who will be subject to a retroactive tariff of 254 percent.
00:25:04.000 And it will harm our endangered planet.
00:25:06.000 It will handcuff us in our fight against climate change.
00:25:09.000 In Texas, we are already number two in the country among the states for solar capacity,
00:25:16.000 creating thousands of new jobs in providing clean energy and lower energy bills to thousands of families.
00:25:22.000 Austinites know that solar power saves them on their energy bills and saves them when storms disrupt the grid.
00:25:30.000 Now, of course, we want to strategically decouple from China, I believe, especially with their solar pieces, parts, and equipment. 1.00
00:25:38.000 However, American solar companies need more time to adapt, to adjust, and to reduce Chinese inputs and solar panels.
00:25:45.000 I also realize that we need to do more to bolster our domestic solar manufacturing.
00:25:50.000 But that's why we recently made significant investments for domestic credits.
00:25:54.000 However, if we allow these retroactive tariffs to take place now,
00:25:58.000 it would deprive our solar industry of the incentive to invest in our manufacturing projects at home.
00:26:04.000 What is being missed here is the reality that we are dependent on a supply chain in which China plays a key role.
00:26:14.000 We don't like it. My Republican friends don't like it.
00:26:18.000 Unfortunately, they have undermined efforts that we have to try and reposition the supply chain.
00:26:24.000 The energy proposals that we have offered up are an opportunity to grow and strengthen America's capacity.
00:26:32.000 Just yesterday, they would repeal a number of those provisions.
00:26:37.000 Their proposal would impose over a billion dollars of retroactive tariffs on our solar industry at a time when we're trying to grow it.
00:26:50.000 We want to give the industry time to reorient the supply chain.
00:26:55.000 That takes time.
00:26:57.000 The reality is, in the past, we've allowed China to have a dominant position.
00:27:03.000 We don't want that.
00:27:05.000 We've offered up a variety of proposals that would strengthen, incentivize American business.
00:27:13.000 But this proposal, if enacted, would punish American workers, would punish American business, and set us back on our climate goals.
00:27:23.000 We are back live.
00:27:27.000 Can you hear in their voices, just sometimes, how compromised they are?
00:27:33.000 When they talk about the need to reorient the supply chain, but slowly, not too quickly, not in a way that would disrupt anything.
00:27:40.000 Just enough time, I guess, for China to come and buy our farmland and our factories. 0.89
00:27:45.000 Oh, and by the way, they're controlling the rare earth minerals that go into the production of so many of the things we need, especially battery technology, which is the essential feature of a solar system that allows you to actually use the energy in a reliable way.
00:28:00.000 Yeah, that's coming from a series of minds all over the world that China is controlling.
00:28:07.000 Keep that in mind.
00:28:09.000 So, Sarah on Facebook says we've got to stop China from eating our lunch. 0.98
00:28:13.000 And yeah, when you let someone steal your stuff, and then replicate it for cheap, and then go and drive you out, that's the definition of eating our lunch at the global economic trade table.
00:28:25.000 Olga on Facebook says she's worried that we are starting to have a communist government.
00:28:31.000 Let's hope not.
00:28:32.000 We know how that ends, and it's very ugly.
00:28:34.000 James on Getter says, Representative Gates, stand up for the Second Amendment.
00:28:39.000 James, my advice to you, go back and watch our last episode where we took the ATF director to task, and we are working on legislation right now to really go after the ATF.
00:28:51.000 I think they should be entirely abolished, but we're going to start targeting the specific bureaucrats who have exceeded their lawful authority and have weaponized this agency against gun owners.
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