The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - Episode 80 LIVE： Never Kevin (feat. Steve Cortes) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

00:00:00.000 In battle, Congressman Matt Gaetz.

00:00:03.600 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress

00:00:06.440 who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.

00:00:10.840 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.

00:00:13.660 And he can cause a lot of hiccups in passing the laws.

00:00:16.680 So we're going to keep running those stories to get hurt again.

00:00:20.080 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer,

00:00:23.260 if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground,

00:00:26.720 then welcome, my fellow patriots.

00:00:29.100 You are in the right place.

00:00:30.980 This is the movement for you.

00:00:33.080 You ever watch this guy on television?

00:00:35.260 It's like a machine.

00:00:36.880 Matt Gaetz.

00:00:37.900 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.

00:00:45.800 They aren't really coming for me.

00:00:47.780 They're coming for you.

00:00:49.620 I'm just in the way.

00:00:50.880 The New York Times saying that your bid remains imperiled on the right.

00:01:00.020 NBC News says, can the Never Kevin caucus hold the line?

00:01:03.640 And Politico warned by McCarthy critics one qualified alternative speaker.

00:01:08.200 What can you do in the next couple of weeks to try to lock this up?

00:01:10.860 Because there's a few that are basically saying they're never going to vote for you for speaker.

00:01:16.280 And you don't have the margin that you need in order to get there, at least maybe today.

00:01:21.100 Look, our goal was to stop this Biden agenda, win the majority and fire Nancy Pelosi.

00:01:26.360 We achieved all three of those.

00:01:28.480 I've been leader for four years.

00:01:29.900 And all we've done is win seats when every other Republican entity has lost during that time.

00:01:34.460 We're sitting and talking to every person in the conference.

00:01:37.560 We've had our primary after the election who to be the nominee.

00:01:40.880 I won that by 85 percent of the vote.

00:01:44.020 I do not think at the end of the day that five Republicans are going to hold up our opportunity to secure the border.

00:01:49.840 Or the five Republicans are going to sit back and make us not be energy independent. 0.56

00:01:54.160 Or let this runaway spending continue.

00:01:56.780 Because that's what will happen if we don't.

00:01:59.360 We've got to find a way to work together for the next two years.

00:02:03.420 Otherwise, we'll lose as individuals.

00:02:05.520 Just in a word here quickly.

00:02:06.900 Do you think you have the votes as of today?

00:02:09.080 I think on January 3rd or before then, we'll have the votes.

00:02:13.540 We'll see them.

00:02:17.060 We have achieved.

00:02:18.940 That is the message from Kevin McCarthy.

00:02:21.000 Don't you feel that grand sense of achievement following the midterm cycle?

00:02:25.680 This is Firebrand Live.

00:02:27.400 We are broadcasting from Room 2021 of the Rayburn Office Building on the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C.

00:02:34.560 And it's quite something.

00:02:36.480 Today, I've got big updates regarding the impact of the omnibus spending bill on our economy and inflation.

00:02:44.000 I had a great conversation moments ago with Steve Cortez, a conservative commentator that I'm going to be sharing with you.

00:02:50.240 And there is an immigration bill Democrats are pursuing.

00:02:53.900 They just had to pull it off the floor moments ago.

00:02:57.160 I'm going to get into the arguments for and against that legislation.

00:03:01.900 So what you just heard in that cold open, that clip, that was Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Fox News today.

00:03:10.840 And it was obvious, wasn't it?

00:03:13.720 He could not tell John Roberts, the host of that program, that he has 218 votes.

00:03:18.720 So let me give you the latest on the negotiations.

00:03:22.900 McCarthy has drawn a red line and said no to our demands that every bill on the floor adhere to a single subject.

00:03:32.200 The reason that's important is because we don't want matters log rolled together so that each issue in legislation before the House for consideration doesn't get the scrutiny that it deserves, doesn't get the focused debate that results in better public policy.

00:03:49.100 You would think that Republicans, Democrats, everyone would want single subject, but Kevin McCarthy has said no.

00:03:57.180 McCarthy has opposed drawing conservative groups into a coalition type government that would allow some conservative groups to select proportional representation on key committees.

00:04:08.940 Now, that's something that would liberate committees from the control of lobbyists who seek to influence the actions of the committees in exchange for money.

00:04:17.660 If you have conservative groups within the Republican caucus able to populate seats on the Rules Committee, the Appropriations Committee, the Ways and Means Committee, well, then you'll see those actions from those groups and from those committees in greater compliance with where the country is.

00:04:37.840 Now, McCarthy has said he'll never accept the motion to vacate the chair in the version that governed the House of Representatives for more than 100 years.

00:04:46.740 Because Kevin has said he will never do these things.

00:04:51.440 To fix Congress and to change Washington, we do have a group of members who are indeed never Kevin.

00:04:58.540 NBC's Scott Wong reported on the dynamic.

00:05:01.460 Here's the headline.

00:05:03.300 The small band of far-right firebrands who could derail Kevin McCarthy's speaker bid is now facing enormous pressure to cave and throw their support to the California Republican.

00:05:15.040 That's in the story.

00:05:16.460 The story from Scott Wong continues.

00:05:19.140 So far, the five anti-McCarthy conservatives, informally known on Capitol Hill as the Never Kevin Caucus, are showing no signs of backing down, even with the vote for Speaker fast approaching.

00:05:32.000 But there are powerful forces on and off Capitol Hill that have a vested interest in McCarthy ascending to the Speakership.

00:05:41.120 The story continues.

00:05:42.240 There's always a quid pro quo.

00:05:45.120 What have you done for me lately?

00:05:46.620 Tennessee Republican Tim Burchett said.

00:05:49.700 Asked what he'll get in exchange for support, Burchett replied.

00:05:54.540 I get nothing.

00:05:55.760 I like Leader McCarthy.

00:05:57.260 I hope he's going to be Speaker McCarthy. 0.93

00:05:59.000 But I don't kiss enough butt and I don't raise enough money. 0.58

00:06:03.420 So let's just pause for a moment and think about that.

00:06:05.680 Even our rank and file members, a great representative like Tim Burchett from Tennessee, realizing that the dynamic with McCarthy, well, it involves kissing butt and raising money.

00:06:18.620 And because Burchett doesn't perceive that he doesn't do either in sufficient quantity, that that limits his mobility for leadership and high profile opportunities in the Congress.

00:06:29.600 That's really something that a member would think that.

00:06:31.680 So let's get back to the NBC story.

00:06:33.900 It says, quote,

00:06:34.680 So think about that.

00:06:51.400 The media saying that the principal qualification for the Speakership is who's raised the most lobbyist money.

00:06:56.940 And just brazenly to have it reported that one of the power centers that Kevin McCarthy uses is K Street.

00:07:04.640 Do you think that sits well with the American people?

00:07:07.180 Do you think that grandmothers made phone calls to turn out the vote and people went door to door so that we could have somebody that is beholden to K Street as our speaker?

00:07:15.460 I think not.

00:07:17.640 The story tells the truth on that particular point that it's sometimes hard to tell where K Street and the lobby corps ends and Kevin McCarthy begins.

00:07:27.320 There's more about this in this next story.

00:07:30.520 So we had the New York Times actually pick up the discussion we had this week with Representative Andy Biggs on Firebrand.

00:07:38.120 Here's the headline.

00:07:38.840 Quote,

00:07:39.520 So the buried lead here is that President Trump's lobbying effort, if it still exists, isn't inspired by any sense that Kevin McCarthy is strong.

00:08:07.700 And that's probably why President Trump's lobbying effort has not moved a single vote in favor of Kevin McCarthy.

00:08:15.260 We know that his heart's not in it.

00:08:17.840 It is a fact that Kevin McCarthy is too weak for this job.

00:08:22.840 So back to the article.

00:08:24.060 It reports, quote,

00:08:25.020 There is little evidence that the former president has swayed any skeptics.

00:08:29.360 If Mr. McCarthy does have a plan, he has not shared it with members of his leadership team, whom he has cut out of his deliberations about the speakership race in what some regard as a display of paranoia.

00:08:44.300 Instead, he has been spotted in recent days around the Capitol and the Republican National Committee headquarters with Jeff Miller, a Republican lobbyist who is among his closest confidants.

00:08:58.500 Close quote.

00:08:59.120 I prefer leaders who are not beholden to the lobbyists and pollsters that they rely upon for power and political donations and even living arrangements.

00:09:13.040 Paranoid?

00:09:14.360 Imperiled?

00:09:15.740 Huddling with lobbyists that prop him up financially?

00:09:18.680 This is the conflict posture of Kevin McCarthy.

00:09:21.600 And it is not the effective behavior of a leader.

00:09:24.620 However, CNN's Melanie Zanona is reporting that the governance group is sporting a new pin that says, OK, standing for only Kevin.

00:09:35.380 Put it up on the screen right now.

00:09:37.560 Adorable.

00:09:38.520 So I haven't seen anyone actually wear the OK pin.

00:09:43.540 And I just returned from the floor.

00:09:45.960 But it's quite something, right?

00:09:48.720 Like, are the only Kevin people saying that out of 222 members of Congress, literally the only one who should be considered as Kevin McCarthy?

00:09:57.840 Paranoid and huddled up with lobbyists?

00:10:00.740 What's more reasonable?

00:10:02.640 Me saying that I'll consider 220 members minus Kevin and myself or this governance group saying that they refuse to consider anyone other than Kevin McCarthy?

00:10:15.580 Anyone at all?

00:10:16.260 Well, one might note that OK backwards is KO.

00:10:21.940 Moreover, OK seems quite on brand, actually, for the lackluster, uninspiring movement supporting Kevin McCarthy.

00:10:31.560 Like, do you want to vote for Kevin McCarthy?

00:10:34.660 OK.

00:10:36.280 How's the fight going against the omnibus spending bill that will allow Nancy Pelosi to rule with a dead hand for a year?

00:10:43.860 OK.

00:10:44.340 How do we do in the midterm election?

00:10:48.300 OK.

00:10:49.980 I think we need better than OK.

00:10:52.800 We need a real fighter, a real inspiration, a real energy.

00:10:58.040 Something that maybe someone like Jim Jordan could provide.

00:11:02.260 Because OK just isn't going to do it for the moment we are in.

00:11:06.700 OK for Kevin McCarthy is kind of like the 2022 version of when the squad was saying, settle for Biden in the last election.

00:11:17.700 We see how well that's gone for the country.

00:11:20.240 I won't settle for Biden and I won't have a shruggish OK attitude toward the speakership.

00:11:26.040 As these leadership struggles continue, Nancy Pelosi is sucking every moment out of her final days as speaker. 1.00

00:11:34.480 And that brings us to a segment we like to call Today in Congress.

00:11:38.440 Today in Congress.

00:11:45.720 Moments ago, House Democrats had to pull from consideration a massive immigration bill that was set to help China and big tech at the expense of American workers.

00:11:58.000 I don't know if it's that they didn't have the votes.

00:12:00.500 I don't know if we'll be voting on it later today.

00:12:02.480 But it was pulled, which does not happen frequently.

00:12:05.800 This means that even departing Democrats might not want their legacy to include harming the American economy with this immigration bill.

00:12:14.700 Here are the details.

00:12:15.940 The bill is called the Eagle Act, but our nation's national bird is indeed defamed by that comparison.

00:12:24.020 This is the Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment Act, and it would be more appropriately named the Chain Migration Act.

00:12:33.440 This act is a recipe for disaster.

00:12:35.840 Our country's borders are porous right now if they exist at all.

00:12:38.900 Millions of illegal immigrants are walking really unrestrained across the Rio Grande every year.

00:12:44.840 We're now at a point where about 18,000 illegals are coming across every single day.

00:12:51.920 Meanwhile, for Americans, wages are stagnant.

00:12:55.340 Rampant inflation is swallowing up any expendable income, if you even have any at all.

00:13:02.340 So what is the Democrat solution to our broken immigration system and struggling economy?

00:13:06.960 More immigrants, of course. 0.94

00:13:08.540 The Eagle Act raises the per-country caps on family-sponsored immigrant visas,

00:13:13.940 a.k.a. chain migration visas, from 7% to 15%.

00:13:18.660 That is a huge increase.

00:13:21.560 The act also completely eliminates per-country caps on employment-based immigration visas.

00:13:27.500 Lastly, it goes so far as to temporarily allow the beneficiaries of certain employment-based immigration petitions

00:13:33.560 file for an adjustment of status,

00:13:36.060 even if an immigrant visa is not immediately available to them

00:13:39.840 with the implementing reforms for this particular non-immigrant visa program.

00:13:45.120 Worst of all, this bill allows certain aliens to obtain lawful permanent resident status 0.99

00:13:51.580 if the alien, one, is in the United States as a non-immigrant,

00:13:54.780 and two, has an approved immigrant visa petition,

00:13:58.620 and three, has waited at least two years for a visa.

00:14:01.960 From the perspective of others, you might hear that this bill pushes back against arbitrary country caps,

00:14:09.480 facilitating freedom of movement for people around the world, a better life, more talent.

00:14:15.920 But talent is not equally distributed, right?

00:14:21.340 I mean, despite what the Cato Institute would have you think,

00:14:24.460 this bill doesn't really enhance our economy.

00:14:28.360 It's just a white flag of surrender benefiting the economies of India and China at our expense. 0.86

00:14:34.940 So, first, we don't believe in freedom of movement or open borders,

00:14:38.780 and talent isn't equally distributed.

00:14:41.500 The impact of this bill will show that.

00:14:44.180 This is a Trojan horse to allow big tech to flood our country with Chinese and Indian workers 1.00

00:14:49.480 that they can pay cents on the dollar to.

00:14:51.580 Americans are just not worth the money to some of these corporations.

00:14:57.860 So, what does all of that mean?

00:14:59.160 It means that Democrats and RINOs continue to push the boundaries on expanding foreign presence 0.80

00:15:05.580 to benefit large corporations to reduce labor costs.

00:15:10.220 It's just such a classic establishment move.

00:15:13.560 Right now, in our country, we are in the midst of what they're calling the hoodie recession.

00:15:19.080 And instead of trying to employ our abandoned workers,

00:15:23.660 we are bringing in immigrant laborers to absorb the jobs that could otherwise go to our fellow Americans. 0.98

00:15:30.300 We tell youth in our country to learn a trade, get a skill, code, major in STEM,

00:15:38.080 and then we go importing foreign workers to do those jobs? 0.79

00:15:44.400 This is not America first.

00:15:46.100 It's not even America second.

00:15:47.260 This is America last, and certainly behind India and China, who stand the most to gain from these cap raises. 0.58

00:15:54.380 Democrats and RINOs claim that labor shortage predicates the need for the EGLE Act.

00:16:00.700 But at what cost?

00:16:02.600 National security?

00:16:04.640 Under an arbitrary reduction in percentage point requirements of eligible immigrants,

00:16:09.980 China and India, the largest countries with the most people,

00:16:13.480 they're the ones that have the longest lines and the longest wait lists for employment-based green cards.

00:16:20.320 And they would benefit extraordinarily from this measure.

00:16:23.880 We're likely to get more Gojon Hayes and Zhang Wangs.

00:16:28.920 Those are two Chinese spies recently charged with trying to obstruct a federal investigation into Huawei.

00:16:35.100 Is now really the best time to open the floodgates for Chinese nationals to take jobs at U.S. tech companies? 0.84

00:16:41.380 The CCP is already setting up police stations in Chinese neighborhoods in New York.

00:16:45.960 I can bet that flooding our country with more Chinese nationals will aid their goal of infiltrating every major industry in the United States 1.00

00:16:54.680 and then stealing our IT and replicating our products, depriving our Americans the value of the innovation that is created in this country.

00:17:05.440 China is working to close the gap, and this is the strategy to do it.

00:17:09.640 We should not allow for a Trojan horse from China. 0.95

00:17:13.460 We should not allow for harm to U.S. tech workers.

00:17:17.120 And we should not back any America-last immigration giveaways.

00:17:21.360 And as of the time of this broadcast, maybe my arguments are winning.

00:17:27.240 The Democrats pulled the bill from consideration moments ago.

00:17:31.160 So I would say let's keep up the pressure.

00:17:35.360 Keeping up the pressure is the theme of the discussion I had with my friend Steve Cortez.

00:17:40.180 He stopped by the office moments ago.

00:17:42.720 Take a listen to that chat.

00:17:45.780 His chalk talks are legendary.

00:17:47.960 You can find him on the War Room.

00:17:49.200 I'm a conservative commentator who has been leading the fight on immigration, on entitlement reform, work requirements.

00:17:56.720 And he's here.

00:17:57.620 Stop by the office.

00:17:58.480 Steve Cortez, thanks for joining us on Capitol Hill.

00:18:01.940 You bet.

00:18:02.080 Right now, we are in the middle of this fight on the omnibus spending package that would let Nancy Pelosi basically rule with a dead hand for a year.

00:18:11.160 Right.

00:18:11.260 What should people expect about the impacts regarding the impacts on inflation and otherwise on the economy?

00:18:18.100 Well, you know, first on the politics, you're exactly right.

00:18:20.280 And it's so shameful that Senate Republicans, particularly some who are on their way out the door, literally retiring, want their sort of their magnum opus on the way out, their exit interview, as it were, to be allowing the political carcass of Nancy Pelosi to effectively remain Speaker in very many ways.

00:18:36.100 If they, in fact, do pass this full omnibus, because what it will do is fiscally handcuff the incoming GOP House majority, this majority which people like you earned, which millions and millions of deplorables out there voted for, right, handed that gavel, took that gavel away from Nancy Pelosi to be handed to the Republicans with a mandate to start pushing back against and fighting against this terrible Biden mess, particularly regarding the economy.

00:19:00.100 So you talk about the mandate, right? Is there any mandate in this last midterm election more than the mandate for House Republicans to constrain federal government spending that's driving inflation?

00:19:10.880 No, absolutely. Listen, inflation is absolutely crushing Americans, crushing their spirits, crushing their pocketbooks.

00:19:16.600 On the spirits, University of Michigan does a consumer sentiment survey.

00:19:20.100 A congressman goes all the way back to almost World War II.

00:19:22.280 So we have tons of data, 70 years of data.

00:19:24.940 It just a couple of months ago hit the lowest level it has ever hit.

00:19:27.760 I mean, think about that. Worse than the financial crisis of 08-09, worse than 9-11, worse than the 70s oil embargo.

00:19:34.300 Literally, consumer sentiment has never been lower than it reached just in recent months because of inflation.

00:19:39.660 The Federal Reserve met today, raised interest rates yet again, trying to fight inflation.

00:19:44.240 I actually commend the Fed for finally getting in this fight.

00:19:47.280 But, of course, it's also fighting in inflation that had a key role itself in producing.

00:19:51.460 So I don't absolve it of the blame and its complicity as an institution for helping to create this inflation and ignoring it for as long as they did,

00:19:58.380 I think largely for political reasons because the Fed is unfortunately incredibly politicized.

00:20:02.460 But interest rates are rising.

00:20:04.260 Consumer sentiment is plunging.

00:20:06.380 And inflation remains systemic and deeply embedded in the economy.

00:20:10.320 Now, it's slightly less bad, and the White House and the corporate media want us to believe that 7.1% CPI is something to celebrate.

00:20:17.640 By historical standards, it's an absolute crisis.

00:20:21.440 And to be specific, before this year, we hadn't had 7% headline inflation since the early 1980s in 40 years.

00:20:30.640 And, you know, what are the consequences of that?

00:20:31.980 The consequences for regular folks, for working-class people, middle- and lower-income folks who work hard, who don't have the luxury of significant savings,

00:20:40.340 their lives are being made unbelievably difficult right now.

00:20:43.500 I often talk about the have-to basket, the three items that you really just need to live, gasoline, groceries, and utilities.

00:20:50.160 All three of those in this most recent CPI report are still going up double digits.

00:20:54.700 The three of them put together are up 12.5% year over year.

00:20:57.940 That is totally unsustainable.

00:21:00.240 Totally unsustainable.

00:21:00.980 It's why real wages, meaning your income adjusted for inflation, real wages have now gone down 20 months in a row.

00:21:08.060 Americans are working harder to get poorer every single day.

00:21:11.460 That's the reality, and that's why the incoming House GOP, and I know you have the guts and the smarts and the conviction to do this,

00:21:17.060 the incoming House GOP must tackle this inflationary madness.

00:21:20.940 But that job's going to be made very difficult if this omnibus tyranny is passed in the coming weeks.

00:21:26.180 Well, they're taking the fight away from us.

00:21:27.620 I mean, what we had hoped was that we would be able to make certain demands of the Chuck Schumer Senate,

00:21:34.840 of the Biden administration, and specifically on work requirements.

00:21:38.640 I mean, one of the things that we really see is a labor shortage right now,

00:21:41.940 and that labor shortage is exacerbated when the federal government is willing to pay people not to work.

00:21:46.460 We're able-bodied, childless adults through Medicaid expansion and all these other social safety nets.

00:21:52.920 When we get this majority, is there a better tool if we ever were to get into a spending standoff other than work requirements

00:21:59.780 where you think Republicans ought to really stand in place?

00:22:01.780 Yes.

00:22:02.120 The other place where, and again, this is, you know, I think there's only a few items where Republicans should come in

00:22:06.720 and be willing to engage in sort of ultimate brinkmanship.

00:22:09.360 In other words, be willing to risk Biden shutting the government down over an impasse.

00:22:12.960 I think the first is controlling the border.

00:22:14.780 And the second one, in my view, regarding inflation, is, again, unleashing American energy.

00:22:19.380 Because remember, so much of the beginning, really the headwater of this inflationary crisis,

00:22:24.180 stemmed from Biden's totally unnecessary attack on U.S. domestic energy production.

00:22:29.680 When you combine that with the exorbitant borrowing and spending, you had, unfortunately, the perfect storm for inflationary madness.

00:22:36.340 I think the quickest way, we need to work on the budget, absolutely, but that does take time.

00:22:40.720 The quickest way to inject the most powerful weapon against inflation into our economy would be fully unleashing American energy,

00:22:48.840 drilling pipelines, all of it.

00:22:50.240 So I think that that is an important enough issue, along with the border, to make it a hill to die on, a legislative hill to die on.

00:22:56.080 Well, and the reason I think that makes sense is you've got Democrats in the Senate from energy states

00:23:00.500 that see the impact of some of these federal regulations on what their own states want to do to obtain resources from their areas.

00:23:08.020 So you could actually draw a few over if you increase the pressure enough on the energy question.

00:23:14.020 You know, you talked about these outgoing Republican senators who are building the yellow brick road for this Biden-Pelosi spending bill.

00:23:21.980 And I think it's that a lot of them want to go be lobbyists.

00:23:24.440 Yeah. Oh, 100%.

00:23:25.540 So, like, this is a K-Street bill.

00:23:27.540 Yeah. No, listen, it's to ensure their future careers and their future lucrative riches as lobbyists,

00:23:34.420 and also as a payback to any of the donors, right, who have supported them over the decades.

00:23:38.180 It's incredibly shameful.

00:23:40.300 Some of them, you know, look, I'll name names.

00:23:41.740 People like Shelby does not remotely represent the interests of a very conservative, patriotic state like Alabama.

00:23:48.580 And the fact that he's doing this on the way out is just—

00:23:51.380 Burr in North Carolina, another one.

00:23:52.740 It's shameful.

00:23:53.280 To me in Pennsylvania.

00:23:54.440 Yeah.

00:23:54.560 I mean, you know, these folks just want their trout or their snout in the trough one more time, it seems.

00:24:01.000 How does it end?

00:24:01.980 Do we get deprived of this fight?

00:24:04.620 Well, maybe partially.

00:24:05.800 Let's keep the pressure up, right, in the coming weeks.

00:24:08.320 Look, nothing is certain in these lame duck sessions, right?

00:24:10.620 For example, again, not that this is certain either, but it seems as though on the issue of amnesty, it seems as though we're pushing back effectively,

00:24:17.540 and amnesty is not going to happen in these coming weeks.

00:24:19.320 Again, we can't rest.

00:24:20.420 No complacency out there.

00:24:21.840 But it seems that we are winning that battle.

00:24:23.820 So that tells me that we can win other battles that at this very moment might seem really hard.

00:24:27.860 I mean, look, I'll be honest.

00:24:29.180 If I had to wager money right now, I'd wager yes, they're going to pass it, unfortunately.

00:24:32.380 That Senate Republicans are going to team up with Schumer and Pelosi to deprive us of the ability to have a meaningful fight,

00:24:40.080 whether it's about energy, whether it's about the border.

00:24:42.100 Look, the leverage we have is the leverage to fund the government.

00:24:45.580 They call it the power of the purse for a reason.

00:24:48.280 But this is an unequivocal surrender of that power that the voters gave to us.

00:24:53.520 And it strikes me that the senators willing to do this are the real election deniers,

00:24:56.800 because they're willing to deny the fact that there was an election that resulted in Republicans being able to have a voice on this,

00:25:02.940 and it's members of our own party who are selling us out.

00:25:05.980 I think it demands a lot stronger leadership.

00:25:08.140 And I can't believe these people voted for Mitch McConnell again.

00:25:11.440 You know, I mean, because he's going to be for it, right?

00:25:13.680 Right.

00:25:14.200 Oh, yes.

00:25:14.760 Yeah, absolutely.

00:25:15.520 So, you know, look, again, just because I said that I think it will happen doesn't mean that it's unstoppable, right?

00:25:20.060 I mean, obviously.

00:25:20.700 So I do want to also encourage all the patriots out there, all the deplorables out there,

00:25:24.400 all the American citizens who are frustrated and trying to, in their lives, you know,

00:25:28.220 full of anxiety because of this inflation madness, to, in these coming days and weeks, to call, to email, you know,

00:25:35.100 to keep the pressure on.

00:25:36.320 So it is not impossible for us to defeat this and get a short-term funding measure.

00:25:40.200 I mean, look, something does need to be passed, right?

00:25:41.840 We need to fund the government until the Republicans come in.

00:25:44.060 But it should be very short-term in nature.

00:25:46.480 And, you know, again, these folks are acting shamefully on their way out the door.

00:25:52.000 Keep the pressure on.

00:25:53.080 Steve Cortez is in the Capitol, in the Rayburn building, keeping the pressure on.

00:25:57.880 You want to watch the Chalk Talks. 0.97

00:25:59.600 This is the best way to have a condensed presentation of information regarding immigration,

00:26:04.840 regarding the economic conditions that businesses are facing, a lot of consumer information there.

00:26:10.120 How do folks stay in touch with all the great analysis you're providing?

00:26:13.420 So please follow me on social media on Getter.

00:26:15.380 I'm at Steve.

00:26:16.300 Very simple, just Steve.

00:26:17.760 I love to tease Steve Bannon that I got that before him.

00:26:20.020 And then on Twitter, I'm at Cortez Steve, Cortez with an S.

00:26:24.120 All right.

00:26:24.480 Thanks so much for joining us on Firebrand, Steve.

00:26:26.020 Thanks, Congressman.

00:26:29.040 We are back live.

00:26:30.480 Thanks again to Steve Cortez for stopping by and really illuminating the danger presented by the Nancy Pelosi-Chuck Schumer spending bill.

00:26:38.560 I'm going to be against it.

00:26:39.920 Every single Republican should be against it.

00:26:42.460 Those who work with the Democrats to do this, they really are harming our country.

00:26:46.560 And I would hope that they would reconsider a lot of work to do, a lot of fights ahead.

00:26:51.120 Thanks for joining us on Firebrand.

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00:26:56.600 And, you know, this leadership race, you get a voice in this.

00:26:59.380 So I would love to see your comments, your thoughts reflected in the comments section, however you're viewing our content or listening.

00:27:07.160 Thanks so much for joining us.

00:27:08.360 Roll the credits.

00:27:08.880 We'll see you next time.

The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - December 14, 2022

Episode 80 LIVE： Never Kevin (feat. Steve Cortes) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz

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