The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 127 LIVE： Israel ＞ IRS – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

00:00:00.000 matt gates the biggest firebrand inside of the house of representatives you're not taking matt

00:00:08.480 gates off the board okay because matt gates is an american patriot and matt gates is an american

00:00:13.800 hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank 1.00

00:00:20.960 you matt gates for holding the line matt gates is a courageous man if we had hundreds of matt gates

00:00:28.400 in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he

00:00:35.140 loves this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you

00:00:42.940 we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrands 0.76

00:00:48.720 welcome back to firebrand we're broadcasting live out of room 2021 of the rayburn house office

00:00:59.660 building here in the capitol complex in washington dc and congress has been up late at night doing

00:01:05.160 work last night it was around midnight that we ended the debate and discussion on some of the

00:01:11.540 amendments regarding the department of the interiors single subject appropriation bill you

00:01:16.540 see this is what we've been telling you all along that when these disparate agencies of government

00:01:21.180 are put together in one up or down vote that lashing that log rolling allows the swampiest and

00:01:28.020 slipperiest of things to evade review and so we had open rules we had hundreds of amendments and i told

00:01:35.480 you when mike johnson became speaker we were done with the french work week we were going to start

00:01:40.240 working by you hours that means late at night sorry if some of the folks had to cancel their dinner plans

00:01:46.140 or uh or their other activities very important we get this work done it could be the best kryptonite

00:01:52.060 we possibly have against a continuing resolution or an omnibus spending bill and you can tell that it is

00:01:58.860 the right strategy by all of the enemies that are concerned and speaking out against our pursuit of

00:02:06.400 these single subject bills notably democrat congressman from california ted lou is not happy he has to work

00:02:12.360 late at night putting out this tweet under new republican leadership we are voting late at night 0.94

00:02:17.060 on stupid stuff we are about to vote on reducing the salary of the epa administrator to one dollar 0.98

00:02:24.600 reducing the salary of the director of bureau and land management to one dollar reducing the salary of 0.99

00:02:30.400 the secretary of the interior to one dollar now i can tell you that we took those votes on those

00:02:35.820 amendments and that's a consequence of something called the holman rule we believe that these

00:02:41.680 nameless faceless oftentimes anonymous bureaucrats who are really turning against the american people

00:02:49.160 with governmental powers should be subject to individual review and so one of the concessions we

00:02:55.540 got in house rules back in january was the ability to reduce their salary to one dollar by a vote now i wish

00:03:01.840 that some of these folks would have had their salaries reduced to one dollar certainly everything

00:03:06.400 that they are doing to try to create climate alarmism and to try to limit property rights and to hurt

00:03:12.300 businesses and to stop american production is worthy of sanction and consequence but unfortunately each of

00:03:19.240 these amendments did not pass congresswoman bobert offered a number of them i voted for them but you've got

00:03:26.880 all the democrats voting to keep the bureaucrats in power and then you've got a certain batch of

00:03:32.380 republicans that just don't believe in this severe level of accountability but i think the times we are

00:03:38.540 living in are severe i would love to know your perspective on the holman rule do you think we should

00:03:43.500 be targeting these individual bureaucrats so enough democrats and republicans now think it's mean

00:03:48.900 spirited or unwarranted or not properly predicated but frankly in a lot of these western states where i know

00:03:55.100 we've got a number of listeners who are out west the federal government plays such a large role in

00:04:01.820 people's lives through the bureau of land management through the epa through all the federal owned land

00:04:07.140 and i'm hearing more and more reports that cattlemen and grazers are seeing the these crazy kind of

00:04:15.120 climate alarmist policies impacting their ability to make a living live out their their day-to-day lives

00:04:21.160 and so yeah i supported these amendments unfortunately they didn't pass but as i've said before

00:04:26.080 the great bobby bowden teaches us first you lose by a lot then you lose by a little then you end up

00:04:31.960 winning by a little and winning by a lot so we'll hope that the members of congress who voted to keep

00:04:38.260 the salaries of some of these bureaucrats here from their constituents and perhaps reflect more

00:04:43.700 responsibly on federal spending and federal utilization of authorities that that ultimately can do a great deal

00:04:50.380 of harm and really really impact the quality of people's lives the other big thing that happened

00:04:55.140 yesterday we passed the israel support supplemental but we broke the rules of washington because when

00:05:01.500 the house of representatives passed the israel supplemental we did so by taking the money out of the irs

00:05:07.700 to me that is a win-win the irs had a 12 billion dollar budget before the inflation reduction act

00:05:13.460 and then we saw their budget balloon to 80 billion dollars so that 14 billion dollar clawback from the

00:05:19.680 irs was a critical pay for and so if you're in the senate or if you're sitting over at the white house

00:05:25.420 take this message from the house of representatives under speaker johnson stuff you want has to be paid

00:05:32.240 for we are not just going to continue to print money over and over again to dilute the earnings of

00:05:40.480 people who are working every day and expect a government that will honor that work by allowing

00:05:46.460 their dollar to be able to meet their needs and right now you see the very same goods and services

00:05:53.040 costing american families 700 more per month as a consequence of inflation that is directly tied to

00:05:59.080 government spending so building in the ethic of pay-fors for foreign aid for disaster response for any of

00:06:09.060 these things we have to do is essential and i think it's a pretty invigorating time to be in congress to

00:06:14.360 be searching out those pay-fors i've got a few ideas not just the irs but how about we get some pay-fors

00:06:20.900 out of the green new deal tax credits that wall street is soaking up at such an alarming rate it is

00:06:29.340 impacting how much you pay for heating your home it is how much you pay for your energy bills broadly

00:06:37.180 how much you're paying for gas it's all market manipulation that is coming through these green

00:06:41.660 new deal tax credits i would i would use that as a pay for it for sure how about the new 300 million

00:06:49.440 dollar plus fbi headquarters that could be an interesting pay for for something don't support

00:06:55.460 that uh on the vote there was some uh crossing of party lines on both sides and i want to get into

00:07:03.440 that on the israel supplemental uh first there were 12 democrats who voted with republicans to take 14

00:07:12.400 billion out of the irs and to use that as the pay for for israel aid 12 that is more than i expected

00:07:18.400 and here's the great part a third of them are from florida so if you're a florida democrat prioritizing

00:07:25.880 the irs over israel is a bad thing that's why congresswoman frederica wilson of florida congresswoman 0.99

00:07:33.900 debbie wasserman schultz of florida congressman darren soto of florida and congressman jared

00:07:38.440 moskowitz of florida all voted to cut the irs and send that money to israel they were joined by juan

00:07:47.040 vargas of california a democrat haley stevens of michigan uh greg landsman of ohio josh gottheimer of

00:07:53.700 new jersey jared golden of maine oh i'm sorry there's a fifth floridian five of 12 i miss lois

00:07:59.140 frankel of florida don davis of north carolina and angie craig of minnesota those were the 12 democrats

00:08:05.660 five fully five of them from the state of florida i think that is quite the message

00:08:11.040 that you don't want to vote to fund to fund the army of irs agents over the army that is fighting

00:08:20.740 hamas that is a tough vote it'll be interesting to see how the democrats from florida who didn't join

00:08:26.960 frankel and moskowitz and soto and wasserman schultz and wilson think about these things

00:08:33.680 we also had two republicans that did not vote for the supplemental and they're two friends of mine you've

00:08:39.600 seen them both on firebrand thomas massey of kentucky marjorie taylor green of georgia and i want to

00:08:46.140 play the argument that marjorie taylor green made in part explaining how her vote against this

00:08:52.200 particular supplemental is not a vote against israel take a listen to congresswoman green

00:08:56.140 today i took a hard vote as a christian who supports israel i voted no to the additional

00:09:04.880 funding to israel's defense this comes after the republican controlled house voted for 3.8 billion

00:09:12.820 dollars for israel's defense weapons and replenishment of the iron dome this 3.8 billion

00:09:20.240 dollars is sitting on chuck schumer's desk and he and the democrats in the senate mitch mcconnell the

00:09:27.100 majority leader in the senate for republicans refused to pass this bill these bills 3.8 billion

00:09:35.480 dollars that could go directly to israel's defense you see the reason why i voted no today

00:09:42.140 and not that i'll always be a no for israel's defense is because i'm unapologetically america

00:09:49.560 first and today in america we have an open border driven national security crisis

00:09:56.760 we are back live cynthia on facebook says good for mtg agreeing with that argument frederick on facebook

00:10:07.240 says brilliant using irs money for israel aid and black guns on getter not a big fan of anthony

00:10:14.460 blinken jake sullivan or john kirby the uh mouthpieces for the failed biden foreign policy that you see

00:10:20.660 so frequently but i played you that clip from mtg because i want you to understand even though we

00:10:26.060 voted different ways everything she is saying about money already approved by the house of

00:10:31.820 representatives unacted on by the senate is true it is entirely true what mtg said that we have

00:10:39.300 israel on a 3.8 billion dollar auto pay and on top of that we put an additional 3 billion plus into

00:10:45.780 research development and the munition systems and rocket systems necessary for the iron dome so it is

00:10:53.380 an intellectually honest and an intellectually consistent argument to say you support israel through

00:10:59.960 those single subject spending bills in the normal appropriations process as opposed to a

00:11:05.680 supplemental i agreed with the supplemental only because there is a pay for and i support that pay for

00:11:13.900 draining the money out of the irs so to me it was killing two birds with one stone but for congresswoman 0.87

00:11:18.880 green and i think it is a nuanced but important position that support for israel can also exist

00:11:26.940 through the appropriations process not just by moving the type of legislation that i was very

00:11:33.080 honored to support so difference of agreement between me and mtg does not always happen on

00:11:37.840 legislation but i think walking you through that nuance will tell you a lot about the house strategy

00:11:43.800 of dealing with the upcoming budget fight because you you know that in november 17th the funding bill

00:11:51.040 that had been approved previously runs out and so are we going to go with the appropriations process

00:11:56.700 staggered out tailored out isolating these agencies or are we going to do what washington has always

00:12:03.760 done in the past and i do believe that the structure of funding different priorities of the government

00:12:11.240 expressed by congresswoman green is one that would actually lead us to a better place not lumping

00:12:16.140 everything together so a very important argument there and let let us use this opportunity to call on

00:12:22.500 the united states senate to take up our state and foreign ops bill that slashes funding for a lot

00:12:28.840 of the weird stuff that we've been doing with foreign aid and i think focuses it appropriately i think that

00:12:34.980 bill marks all the way back to 2014 spending levels so that shows you the extent to which republicans

00:12:42.500 want to downscale foreign aid to other countries particularly when it's going for things like

00:12:48.100 you know english language classes for transgender entrepreneur makeup artists in the country of

00:12:54.340 nepal which by the way is an actual government program that is funded that you pay for just an

00:13:00.560 example of the massive waste there our bill that cuts that waste should be taken up we should work

00:13:05.620 with the senate to ensure that we're just not always funding what we've always funded whether it works

00:13:10.900 or not great work uh they're explaining the nuance of that position by congresswoman green

00:13:16.340 obama obama back in the news this report uh go ahead and put it on the screen there obama quietly tap

00:13:24.740 i'm sorry biden quietly tapped obama to help shape his ai strategy so this piece in nbc news explores the

00:13:32.260 role that former president barack obama has currently in the biden white house so if you're one of the people

00:13:37.540 on the live stream and there are many of you who are frequently commenting on how former president

00:13:43.700 obama is the puppet master of this biden white house you here you have no less than nbc news backing

00:13:50.020 up that position on the particularly the issue of technology ai you've got barack obama literally doing

00:13:57.700 zoom meetings and staff calls calling the shots as these critical features of domestic policy are being

00:14:04.980 fine-tuned think about the position that puts white house staff in maybe there's the biden structure

00:14:11.380 with a deputy chief of staff special advisors to the president president biden himself oh but then

00:14:16.420 all of a sudden at 2 15 p.m you've got a zoom call with barack obama and that's your real boss that's

00:14:24.180 who's actually telling you what to do i don't think there's a single major personnel decision made within

00:14:30.580 the white house that barack obama and his team do not have some major influence over and how can you

00:14:36.900 even call it his team anymore it's been fused we're living through barack obama's third term

00:14:44.740 maybe with him not as the masthead you can go make his netflix money parade whatever's left of joe

00:14:50.660 biden around in front of the country but on these fundamental policy questions it's obama weighing in

00:14:58.820 it's him picking the personnel and don't ever forget it it's very critical to note as we as we move

00:15:04.660 into the time to make our case about policy arguments and who ought to be governing this

00:15:10.100 country and how those choices will impact quality of life uh one of the things that we also still

00:15:15.300 continue to follow i i am incensed by the lawfare being used against president trump and it is a

00:15:23.060 multi-vector plan and it is coordinated and we need to be doing more in the house judiciary committee

00:15:29.380 to assert congress's equities for this election interference but i thought that one of president

00:15:35.220 trump's lawyers alina haba gave a blistering and accurate depiction of what's going on just moments

00:15:42.180 ago outside of a new york courthouse take a listen we are now over a month deep into the biggest waste

00:15:50.900 of new york taxpayer dollars i've ever seen president trump's statement of financial condition was so

00:15:56.340 undervalued but letitia james as you've seen will show up when it's a press day i said it yesterday on 1.00

00:16:02.820 the news she hasn't been here for days but you know when she's going to come when the main event's here

00:16:07.700 and that is trump she piggybacked on trump to get into office she didn't do it well enough to be a 0.94

00:16:13.220 governor she was a failed gubernatorial candidate and now she's working on her politics again she shows up 1.00

00:16:19.060 sits in the back when she should be doing real work because the city of new york has fallen apart

00:16:24.260 if you are a business in new york pay attention you put your value if president trump wanted to

00:16:31.060 inflate his net worth on a statement of financial condition his brand alone could double triple it

00:16:37.860 it's basic it's basic this is a waste of time we heard testimony from an expert this week

00:16:43.140 miss james wasn't here for that day because it wasn't good for her he's been paid by new york 0.96

00:16:47.060 taxpayer dollars 450 000 in the past few months to come here and testify that's your money that's

00:16:55.140 not my money it is a crime and now these children are being brought in away from their families for

00:17:02.740 doing nothing wrong it's a great company it has always been a great company it's worth a lot more

00:17:07.860 than the statements say and she just doesn't like it and now her politics don't allow her to back off or 1.00

00:17:13.060 back down and it's unfortunate but this case should be done we are wasting our time thank you

00:17:21.620 we're back live that was alina haba laying it down and of course the fusion of politics and law is a 0.99

00:17:28.260 very dangerous thing because it starts it starts us down a road where the consequences and the outcomes

00:17:34.020 in courtrooms cannot be relied upon or trusted because they're viewed as part of this broader

00:17:40.020 political power struggle it's correct that the trump organization is world class and in fact has

00:17:46.580 some of the greatest assets in the world when i saw that in this matter they had valued mar-a-lago at

00:17:56.020 like 15 million dollars i was thinking to myself i'll take 10 of them mar-a-lago is unlike anything else on

00:18:04.660 palm beach island i've had the privilege to go there and while i haven't been a been fortunate

00:18:09.780 enough to experience or observe all of the trump organization's assets globally at least when it

00:18:15.700 comes to florida it's a total joke what they're trying to do but here's why the civil matter in new

00:18:22.260 york is of great consequence because it they can literally use civil remedies to try to steal i mean to

00:18:29.460 take the trump families and the trump organization's assets i think i even saw don jr

00:18:36.740 commenting that even the hunting cabin that he has is held in an llc and they're trying to seek the

00:18:44.420 acquisition and dissolution of those assets as well so it's full scale it's economic it's civil it's

00:18:51.540 criminal and you know what it's not working and we can't go into that uh too much but we do feel

00:19:00.420 where the energy of the country is and it cannot and should not politically reward this lawfare that's

00:19:07.060 the end of the national news we're covering but i have an exciting matter that will be of great

00:19:11.940 interest to my fellow floridians to those who vacation in the destine florida okaloosa

00:19:17.860 okaloosa island area it's a segment we call the florida man spotlight

00:19:33.780 crab island is a delightful place in northwest florida and there was an effort by the department

00:19:40.020 of the interior to take this uh this jurisdictional sandbar and limit the ability of mom and pop 0.88

00:19:47.780 companies to be able to sell hot dogs or peanuts to those who might be enjoying crab island

00:19:53.940 recreationally so because we had a single subject spending bill on the department of the interior

00:19:59.460 last night i took to the floor to make the case that our state and local governments were best

00:20:05.860 prepared to manage crab island not the federal department of the interior here's that amendment debate

00:20:10.900 thank you mr speaker there is an eclectic attraction in my district in northwest florida it's called crab

00:20:18.980 island but it's actually not an island at all it's a sandbar where people go and enjoy swimming snorkeling

00:20:26.100 fishing maybe a refreshment or even a hot dog or boiled peanuts right now we have a system with our

00:20:33.540 local governments and our state government working in concert to manage crab island it's all going really

00:20:39.380 well and my amendment would prohibit the department of interior for playing perhaps an excessive role

00:20:46.580 in the management of commercial services it's a wonderful place and as we say in the south

00:20:51.700 y'all come i reserve i appreciate the uh my colleagues invitation for us all to come visit i'm sure it is a

00:20:58.420 wonderful place uh and of course being from maine we like anything that has the word crab in the title

00:21:04.100 uh but unfortunately this amendment blocks the national park service from complying with the 1998

00:21:10.020 concessions act which sets up the framework for evaluating commercial services in parks

00:21:15.460 it stops the park service being being able to complete its existing process to remain in compliance with

00:21:21.700 the act the amendment would effectively grandfather in all permit holders from the prior year regardless of

00:21:29.140 whether the services are necessary and appropriate the amendment also limits the national park services

00:21:34.980 ability to ensure public safety of commercial services currently all vendors undergo public health

00:21:41.860 fire and permit condition inspections throughout an operating season these inspections have documented

00:21:47.940 significant concerns such as food being cooked held or served at temperatures or conditions that do not

00:21:53.620 meet public health standards standards refueling processes that place workers and patrons at risk

00:22:00.420 lack of basic safety and fire protection and operating in violation of permit conditions the amendment

00:22:06.740 eliminates the ability to manage the issuance of a permit based on current or past performance which

00:22:12.980 creates conditions that place workers visitors and park resources at risk from some commercial services

00:22:19.700 i urge my colleagues to reject this amendment and i yield back my time i appreciate the gentlelady's

00:22:27.140 great interest in what's going on in florida though we don't know each other well i can only assume that if

00:22:32.820 there were a small patch of land in maine i would be highly deferential as to what a local community in

00:22:39.060 that congressional district might think about it and i would inform the house that i have the resolution from

00:22:45.220 the city of destine where they speak to some of these concerns but but instead reflect on the value of the

00:22:51.220 existing state and local cooperation to achieve those safer objectives and with all due respect to the

00:22:58.180 concessions act of 1998 which i'm sure we would never want to violate the sanctity of the result of

00:23:04.660 what the department of interior is trying to do in my community is going to put a lot of mom and pop local

00:23:09.300 businesses out of business and instead it's going to constrain this to a federal contracting requirement

00:23:15.140 that isn't that no one in our community believes is going to enhance safety but instead is going to

00:23:19.540 limit the ability of folks to be able to enjoy the park in the manner in which they're doing safely

00:23:24.580 now so that's why i would ask for adoption the amendment i would yield back the balance of my time

00:23:29.300 the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from florida those in favor say aye

00:23:35.060 those opposed say no in opinion of the chair the ayes have it the amendment is agreed to

00:23:40.420 we are back live cg miller on youtube says that these podcasts and video updates are important and

00:23:49.780 that all representatives should do them i agree i think it's nice to have direct interaction without

00:23:54.660 the filter of the media cynthia on facebook says keep the federal government out of florida

00:24:00.980 it's a sentiment i generally strongly agree with but for our military of course we love our military in

00:24:06.580 florida and particularly in northwest florida tanya on facebook says she loves crab island and and on

00:24:11.940 facebook says no offense but there are more important things to be dealing with than crab

00:24:16.660 island maybe so but to the dozens of small businesses who work there rent paddle boards and jet skis

00:24:23.380 means everything because federal intervention could mean that their family income could dissipate last

00:24:28.740 time i was out on crab island i bought a uh an ice cream bar from a young man who had used the

00:24:34.580 proceeds from his small business he ran out of a john boat in order to pay for college at the university

00:24:39.620 of alabama and while we're no fans of roll tide we certainly are fans of entrepreneurism and so often

00:24:46.820 even though this crab island issue is one little issue in my district so often we see excessive federal

00:24:52.660 regulations not service the goal of enhancing small business but oftentimes putting barriers in the way

00:24:59.700 of of those entrepreneurial endeavors that we want to nurture and enjoy for a great economy also a great

00:25:07.300 quality of life so thank you all so much for joining us on this episode of firebrand we'll be here next

00:25:12.820 we'll be here next week roll the credits

The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - November 03, 2023

Episode 127 LIVE： Israel ＞ IRS – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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