The Anchormen Show with Matt Gaetz - April 10, 2023


Episode 97 LIVE： Leftist Violence Again – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz


Episode Stats

Length

25 minutes

Words per Minute

148.18958

Word Count

3,798

Sentence Count

212

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

18


Summary

On this episode of Firebrand, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GA) responds to the latest mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, and calls for an end to all forms of political violence in America. Also, he talks about the FBI infiltrating Catholics in order to find out what they are up to and why they should be worried.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 In battle, Congressman Matt Gaetz.
00:00:03.740 Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress
00:00:06.580 who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington
00:00:09.200 on behalf of his constituents.
00:00:10.980 Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
00:00:13.800 He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing applause.
00:00:16.820 So we're going to keep running those stories to keep hurting him.
00:00:20.200 If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer,
00:00:23.400 if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground,
00:00:26.860 then welcome, my fellow patriots.
00:00:29.240 You are in the right place.
00:00:31.140 This is the movement for you.
00:00:33.220 You ever watch this guy on television?
00:00:35.400 Like a machine, Matt Gaetz.
00:00:37.860 I'm a canceled man in some corners of the Internet.
00:00:41.140 Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
00:00:45.940 They aren't really coming for me.
00:00:47.900 They're coming for you.
00:00:49.760 I'm just in the way.
00:00:55.220 Welcome back to Firebrand.
00:00:56.640 Again, this is Congressman Matt Gaetz broadcasting live from room 2021
00:01:00.960 of the Rayburn House Office Building here in the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C.
00:01:05.720 I've got major updates regarding where you can get information regarding the actions
00:01:10.620 that Congress is taking and reviewing to secure our elections,
00:01:14.580 the investigations into places, particularly in swing states,
00:01:18.200 where clean elections were not being run.
00:01:21.140 Also, I'm going to have the latest tea on House leadership disputes.
00:01:25.620 We've got some reporting out of the New York Times and out of Axios,
00:01:28.940 but you know not to just believe the New York Times,
00:01:31.580 so I will let you know about the conversations we've been having regarding upcoming discussions
00:01:36.360 on the border and particularly on the budget and on the debt limit.
00:01:41.120 Also, the FBI is undercover.
00:01:44.140 Maybe it's your local Catholic parish.
00:01:46.280 The Weaponization Subcommittee just releasing the latest information
00:01:50.700 that Chairman Jim Jordan has made available regarding information we've learned
00:01:55.260 regarding undercover efforts by the FBI to infiltrate the Catholics
00:02:01.660 as if Catholics are the big problem that we have as a country.
00:02:06.020 Obviously, that's not the case.
00:02:07.420 But we began the update today with an unequivocal statement against violence,
00:02:13.800 against political violence, particularly against these senseless actions
00:02:18.580 that we see over and over again in our country where loss of life is entirely preventable.
00:02:25.560 This morning, we were made aware yet again of another shooting,
00:02:30.340 this time at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky.
00:02:32.780 And sadly, from what we know, it looks like four people lost their lives in Kentucky
00:02:37.620 and another eight were injured.
00:02:39.700 The shooter is dead as well.
00:02:42.200 We, of course, want to take time to mourn the loss of innocent life,
00:02:45.960 but we should not wait in acting to prevent these frequent aggressive acts
00:02:51.320 from happening in the future.
00:02:53.620 Democrats want to blame guns, of course, but we know it's not that simple.
00:02:58.800 It's misguided, even.
00:02:59.900 Your grandparents used to be able to order mail-order automatic weapons,
00:03:04.360 and when the Second Amendment was written,
00:03:06.400 the American people, such as they were, could own cannons.
00:03:09.960 No mass shootings back then.
00:03:12.420 Why?
00:03:13.280 Well, let's take a look at the profile of some of these most recent nutjobs
00:03:17.240 who've been terrorizing us.
00:03:19.220 The Louisville shooter is apparently a deranged, mentally ill leftist.
00:03:24.180 Aside from using his pronouns in his bio, which are he-him, by the way,
00:03:28.920 he-him likes to post memes on Reddit accusing Trump of racism
00:03:33.640 and celebrating COVID lockdowns because he-him considers he himself an introvert.
00:03:41.800 Not unlike the Nashville shooter, who was especially deranged and clinically insane,
00:03:49.440 this shooter in Kentucky allegedly made comments to a friend
00:03:53.140 about being suicidal and wanting to kill other innocents.
00:03:56.920 My first question would be, are these people on SSRIs?
00:04:03.260 Are they taking anti-anxiety medication or antidepressants?
00:04:07.560 We are the most drugged-up generation in all of human history,
00:04:13.220 and these drugs are being handed out like candy,
00:04:15.920 not behind some Walmart or on some street corner,
00:04:19.380 but by Big Pharma.
00:04:22.620 And Big Pharma knows that there are side effects to a lot of these drugs that they push
00:04:27.200 that can cause psychosis and even make feelings of suicide and violence
00:04:32.220 and depression all the more acute.
00:04:35.180 They have these mind-altering medications,
00:04:38.220 and many mass shooters, don't know about this particular case in Kentucky,
00:04:41.220 but many mass shooters have been on these drugs
00:04:43.860 and have actually been on them for quite some time.
00:04:46.720 It used to be the case where if you saw some second or third grader acting up,
00:04:50.520 you could have some thoughtful parenting,
00:04:53.540 you could have some behavior modification
00:04:55.440 that wasn't necessarily so chemical in nature.
00:05:00.980 And now it seems to be converting to some sort of chemical solution
00:05:04.500 is what we're willing to turn to all too soon in life for young people,
00:05:08.720 and it leads to this lifetime of dependence and side effects
00:05:12.720 and cascading consequences, sometimes lethal.
00:05:16.960 So is there a connection between some of this violence we've seen
00:05:20.200 and gender dysphoria?
00:05:22.240 The Nashville shooter wasn't the first gender-confused individual to go homicidal.
00:05:28.740 Maybe shooting people full of hormones
00:05:30.700 doesn't make them less likely to shoot us.
00:05:33.600 It's just what a mentally unstable person needs.
00:05:38.100 Massive mood swings caused by hormone therapy.
00:05:41.920 It's quite literally a recipe for mass violence, and frequently.
00:05:47.240 Big Pharma has been caught pushing these antidepressants
00:05:50.500 and puberty blockers and hormone shots
00:05:52.960 because there's money to be made in that business.
00:05:56.620 It's profitable.
00:05:58.400 An actual witch couldn't cook up a more potent cocktail
00:06:02.400 of mind-altering potions if she, them, tried.
00:06:06.900 Big Pharma is out of control,
00:06:08.540 and this country has a major mental health care problem.
00:06:11.300 It seems the more we take drugs for our mental health care,
00:06:14.680 the more mentally unhealthy we become.
00:06:17.360 How about that?
00:06:18.040 Maybe they have to sell the virus before they sell the antidote.
00:06:22.600 Maybe the whole regime of Big Pharma is built on this fiction
00:06:26.620 that they have to convince us that we are so broken and fragile and frail
00:06:31.780 that we have to take these drugs forever to be functioning in society.
00:06:36.220 Innocent people are forced to share a country with dangerous people.
00:06:42.680 Our streets have been taken over by the criminally insane.
00:06:46.660 Homeless encampments are everywhere.
00:06:48.220 Blue cities are enabling them with their policies.
00:06:50.840 And the Democrats are telling the trans community,
00:06:55.720 one of the most unfortunately severely unstable groups in the world,
00:07:01.500 that Republicans are coming after them
00:07:03.820 and they need to defend themselves by killing people who don't agree with them.
00:07:08.480 They tell people like this that the Louisville shooter,
00:07:11.920 you know, they tell folks like the Louisville shooter
00:07:14.060 that Republicans are evil and racist and fascist
00:07:17.640 and that we must be stopped at all costs.
00:07:20.920 And then they wonder why random acts of violence
00:07:23.360 are coming from the political left.
00:07:26.140 I recently experienced this again.
00:07:29.600 Someone who was brazenly boasting about their gayness
00:07:33.780 called my office threatening that if I come for the gays,
00:07:38.160 he'll shoot me in the head.
00:07:40.400 Listen to the voicemail here for the first time.
00:07:45.180 Hi, my name is Alan Pollard.
00:07:47.640 A-L-L-A-N-P-O-L-L-E-R.
00:07:51.040 Phone number 802-376-8931.
00:07:54.660 And I just want to let you know,
00:07:55.980 Representative Matt Gaetz,
00:07:57.600 if you keep on coming for the gays,
00:07:59.980 we're going to strike back.
00:08:01.440 And I guarantee you,
00:08:02.780 you do not want to f*** us.
00:08:04.920 We will kill you
00:08:06.880 if that's what it takes.
00:08:09.060 I will take a bullet
00:08:10.440 to your f***ing head
00:08:12.200 if you f*** my rights anymore.
00:08:14.600 And then if you want to keep going down that path,
00:08:19.500 you know who's next.
00:08:20.840 There's a lot about that call
00:08:26.000 that's disturbing and bizarre and weird.
00:08:29.200 And I guess I don't know at the outset
00:08:32.300 what they exactly think I did to come for the gays.
00:08:35.400 What was that?
00:08:36.040 My efforts to try to get drag queen story hours
00:08:38.540 not paid for by the U.S. taxpayer on military bases?
00:08:41.960 I don't really know.
00:08:43.540 I think we should be friendly to all.
00:08:46.380 I think we should be accommodating in our hearts.
00:08:48.640 But that doesn't mean
00:08:49.540 that we have to reorient
00:08:51.100 the fundamentals of American life
00:08:53.840 or the science of gender
00:08:55.580 to be accommodating to people
00:08:57.600 like that individual.
00:08:59.980 And I'm grateful
00:09:00.760 for the folks at the FBI field office
00:09:03.420 who ensured that this individual was arrested.
00:09:07.080 And since it's an ongoing legal matter,
00:09:09.200 I won't have further comment
00:09:10.180 other than to say,
00:09:11.120 I'm so grateful for the people
00:09:12.520 who work in my office
00:09:13.880 and they do not deserve to be terrorized
00:09:16.500 by the likes of those types of individuals.
00:09:19.860 So the Democrats are purposefully
00:09:21.760 riling up their nutty shock troops
00:09:25.160 in hopes that they will terrorize
00:09:26.840 normal Americans into submission.
00:09:30.000 Rand Paul was assaulted
00:09:31.200 by his riled up neighbor.
00:09:33.380 A congressional baseball practice
00:09:34.660 was shot up by a riled up Bernie bro.
00:09:37.400 You just heard the voicemail left from me
00:09:38.920 and more will come.
00:09:41.120 It's the Democratic Party
00:09:42.800 and Big Pharma
00:09:43.660 that are unleashing the crazies on you.
00:09:46.200 And nobody seems to have a solution for it.
00:09:48.720 So here's one.
00:09:49.960 We need to reopen the asylums.
00:09:52.120 There are severely mentally ill people
00:09:54.480 who do not have a right
00:09:56.140 to wander our streets
00:09:57.520 seeking and selecting
00:09:59.740 who they are going to terrorize.
00:10:01.880 Whether there is criminal culpability or not,
00:10:05.100 there is a permanent element of society
00:10:07.980 that is dangerous.
00:10:10.760 And it does not make us more just
00:10:13.120 or more compassionate
00:10:14.220 to have them walking amongst the rest of us.
00:10:17.140 Because then you see the type of loss of life
00:10:19.340 that we've seen too frequently
00:10:20.400 from these acts of violence.
00:10:22.780 Now subject to due process,
00:10:24.260 of course,
00:10:25.000 in our Constitution,
00:10:25.820 we have to put some people away.
00:10:27.980 And that might not be
00:10:29.060 politically correct to say,
00:10:31.200 but it is the truth
00:10:32.020 that we encounter,
00:10:33.360 especially in a world
00:10:34.340 in which we're getting
00:10:34.940 so many people
00:10:35.760 chemically addicted.
00:10:37.880 Good people have a right
00:10:38.860 to exist in the country
00:10:39.800 without wondering
00:10:40.600 if some crazy leftist
00:10:42.500 or mentally ill individual
00:10:44.220 lurking around the corner
00:10:45.520 is about to post up
00:10:47.660 and kill you.
00:10:49.960 Maybe even at your local bank,
00:10:52.120 like we saw in Kentucky,
00:10:54.560 quite sadly.
00:10:57.040 There's other news today
00:10:58.360 coming out of
00:10:59.440 the weaponization subcommittee
00:11:01.360 on which I serve.
00:11:02.800 This afternoon,
00:11:03.480 the Select Committee
00:11:03.900 on the Weaponization
00:11:04.600 of the Federal Government
00:11:05.420 broke news
00:11:06.560 that we now have proof
00:11:08.560 that the FBI
00:11:10.180 was utilizing
00:11:11.240 at least one
00:11:12.400 undercover asset,
00:11:13.940 possibly more,
00:11:15.320 to infiltrate
00:11:16.360 local religious organizations
00:11:18.240 as, quote,
00:11:19.700 new avenues for tripwire
00:11:21.780 and source development.
00:11:24.020 Here's the tweet.
00:11:25.900 Now, this letter
00:11:26.780 that Chairman Jordan
00:11:28.640 sent to Christopher Wray,
00:11:30.040 director of the FBI,
00:11:30.980 explains that we have
00:11:32.920 been seeking information
00:11:34.140 concerning a document
00:11:35.500 produced to us
00:11:36.740 by the Richmond Field Office
00:11:38.280 of the FBI
00:11:39.000 entitled, quote,
00:11:41.060 Interest of racially
00:11:42.860 or ethnically motivated
00:11:44.120 violent extremists
00:11:45.380 in radical traditionalist
00:11:47.660 Catholic ideology
00:11:48.940 almost certainly presents
00:11:51.260 new mitigation opportunities.
00:11:53.400 So this is a memo
00:11:54.680 coming out
00:11:55.600 of the Richmond Field Office
00:11:56.980 where an assessment
00:11:58.060 is being made
00:11:58.920 that there's this great threat
00:12:00.600 in traditional Catholics,
00:12:01.880 but don't worry,
00:12:03.120 we can mitigate that threat
00:12:05.180 so long as we have
00:12:06.400 the FBI
00:12:07.260 more involved
00:12:08.520 in the Catholic Church.
00:12:10.580 Now, in this document,
00:12:12.400 the FBI categorized
00:12:13.400 Catholic Americans
00:12:14.260 based on theological distinctions
00:12:16.880 and relied on,
00:12:18.660 you will not believe this,
00:12:20.140 the left-wing
00:12:21.080 and defamatory
00:12:22.180 Southern Poverty Law Center
00:12:24.160 as authority
00:12:26.260 to classify certain Christians
00:12:29.280 as potential domestic terrorists.
00:12:32.340 The FBI,
00:12:33.680 relying on information
00:12:34.560 from at least
00:12:35.280 one undercover agent,
00:12:36.680 sought to engage
00:12:37.760 with mainline Catholic parishes
00:12:39.840 to, quote,
00:12:41.060 sensitize the congregation
00:12:43.180 to warning signs
00:12:44.800 of radicalization
00:12:45.840 and enlist their assistance
00:12:47.520 to serve as
00:12:48.940 suspicious activity tripwires.
00:12:51.960 Is that what you think
00:12:53.220 of your fellow parishioners,
00:12:54.840 your fellow churchgoers,
00:12:56.120 that they're the potential tripwires
00:12:58.100 that could rat you out
00:12:59.340 to the FBI
00:12:59.940 if they don't like
00:13:00.780 your politics
00:13:01.780 or your bumper sticker,
00:13:03.680 how you pray,
00:13:04.640 where you pray,
00:13:05.640 what you pray?
00:13:07.340 The FBI also expressed
00:13:08.780 an interest
00:13:09.360 in source development
00:13:10.580 within placement
00:13:12.440 and access
00:13:13.660 to the parishes
00:13:15.260 that they were interested in.
00:13:18.180 This is completely abusive
00:13:20.200 and it is everything
00:13:21.660 the Weaponization Committee
00:13:22.580 has been fighting
00:13:23.460 to undercover and stop.
00:13:26.300 Out of touch,
00:13:27.460 partisan bureaucrats
00:13:28.540 in charge of the FBI
00:13:30.120 consider everyday
00:13:31.640 red-blooded American Catholics
00:13:33.560 to be threats
00:13:35.000 to our democracy.
00:13:36.020 What, because they're pro-life?
00:13:38.780 They are spying
00:13:40.180 on anyone and everyone
00:13:41.520 who doesn't march
00:13:42.880 to the beat
00:13:43.400 of the regime's drum.
00:13:45.860 Don't support
00:13:46.700 drag queen story hour.
00:13:48.500 Don't believe
00:13:48.960 that elementary schools
00:13:50.260 should be discussing
00:13:51.040 gender
00:13:52.260 and critical race theory.
00:13:55.300 Consider yourself
00:13:56.020 an enemy of the state
00:13:57.260 because you may be
00:13:58.600 on the FBI's radar.
00:14:01.080 Christian Americans
00:14:01.620 are the foundation
00:14:02.380 of this nation.
00:14:04.200 Christian Americans
00:14:04.960 built America
00:14:06.160 and work every day
00:14:07.560 charitably,
00:14:09.240 kindly,
00:14:10.060 lovingly
00:14:10.620 to sustain it.
00:14:12.540 Christians are essential
00:14:13.560 to preserving
00:14:14.760 our country
00:14:15.760 and to stop
00:14:17.040 the destruction
00:14:17.620 of everything
00:14:18.160 that makes America great.
00:14:20.220 That is why Christians
00:14:21.300 are so often
00:14:22.160 the target.
00:14:23.460 The regime wants you
00:14:24.540 to fall in line
00:14:25.460 and get with the program.
00:14:27.400 And the intelligence
00:14:28.480 bureaucracy
00:14:28.960 knows this.
00:14:30.440 they're desperately
00:14:32.020 trying to cripple
00:14:33.220 the opposition.
00:14:34.980 So stay strong.
00:14:36.660 Continue to speak
00:14:37.760 out and stand up
00:14:39.300 against any radical
00:14:40.640 takeover of our country.
00:14:42.720 And we will do
00:14:43.440 everything we can
00:14:44.520 to prevent
00:14:45.300 the FBI
00:14:46.140 from continuing
00:14:46.860 this behavior.
00:14:48.500 And trust me,
00:14:49.520 there's going to be
00:14:50.140 many,
00:14:50.540 much more to come
00:14:51.600 on that story.
00:14:53.540 I also want to give
00:14:54.680 everyone
00:14:55.160 an important update
00:14:56.360 regarding election
00:14:57.520 integrity.
00:14:58.060 The House
00:14:58.460 Administration Committee
00:14:59.400 here in Congress
00:15:00.600 has jurisdiction
00:15:01.440 over elections.
00:15:03.520 And I want to
00:15:04.080 encourage you
00:15:05.180 to go to the
00:15:06.280 House Administration
00:15:07.020 Republican website
00:15:08.100 or to the website
00:15:09.280 of the committee's
00:15:10.300 chairman,
00:15:10.880 Brian Stile,
00:15:11.980 S-T-E-I-L,
00:15:13.660 and sign up
00:15:14.320 for the Faith
00:15:15.080 in Elections project,
00:15:16.980 Educate,
00:15:17.840 Engage,
00:15:18.420 and Reform.
00:15:19.480 The top line
00:15:20.140 messaging here
00:15:20.960 is that for three years
00:15:22.300 Democrats have been
00:15:23.120 working to undermine
00:15:24.220 our faith
00:15:25.200 in elections
00:15:25.860 and really try
00:15:27.140 to use the power
00:15:27.800 they had in
00:15:28.420 Washington
00:15:28.840 to federalize
00:15:29.960 elections.
00:15:30.900 We believe that
00:15:31.780 state-specific
00:15:32.840 approaches,
00:15:33.900 rather than
00:15:34.440 one-size-fits-all
00:15:35.820 tactics,
00:15:38.540 will ensure
00:15:39.260 the security
00:15:39.900 and fairness
00:15:40.320 of elections.
00:15:41.440 Specifically,
00:15:42.720 Florida,
00:15:43.540 Louisiana,
00:15:44.400 Ohio,
00:15:45.060 and most recently
00:15:46.160 Georgia,
00:15:47.460 strengthened
00:15:48.040 voter ID laws
00:15:49.820 and they can
00:15:50.480 operate in some
00:15:51.820 regards as a gold
00:15:52.860 standard on those
00:15:53.800 questions.
00:15:54.320 Now, I think in
00:15:54.800 Georgia there's a lot
00:15:55.520 of personnel they need
00:15:56.420 to change out,
00:15:57.480 but I'm also glad
00:15:58.500 that the House
00:15:58.900 Administration Committee
00:16:00.140 is looking at some
00:16:01.180 specific examples
00:16:02.340 where we've fallen
00:16:04.220 short of the standard
00:16:05.980 that we set for the
00:16:06.740 world,
00:16:07.160 and I want to just
00:16:07.720 bring this one to
00:16:08.560 your attention.
00:16:09.860 Luzerne County,
00:16:10.900 Pennsylvania.
00:16:12.180 So on Tuesday,
00:16:12.900 March 28th,
00:16:13.660 the House Administration
00:16:14.460 Committee held a
00:16:15.500 hearing entitled
00:16:16.320 2022 Midterms
00:16:18.420 Look Back Series,
00:16:19.640 and what they found
00:16:20.980 during this investigation
00:16:22.580 is that in Luzerne County,
00:16:24.680 Pennsylvania,
00:16:26.080 nearly a third of the
00:16:27.540 polling locations ran
00:16:29.060 out of ballots on
00:16:30.400 Election Day,
00:16:31.340 and in those places
00:16:32.900 many voters were
00:16:34.220 denied the right to
00:16:35.280 vote.
00:16:36.200 So we have to find out
00:16:37.080 where this is happening,
00:16:38.360 not to federalize
00:16:39.460 elections,
00:16:40.220 but to try to get
00:16:41.300 local officials to be
00:16:43.200 responsive and
00:16:44.300 transparent and
00:16:45.680 faithful to their job
00:16:47.300 and their mission,
00:16:47.880 because if you run out
00:16:49.120 of ballots on Election
00:16:49.960 Day and you
00:16:50.740 predominantly have voters
00:16:51.620 who think a particular
00:16:52.400 way choosing to vote
00:16:53.380 on Election Day,
00:16:54.400 then not only is that
00:16:55.580 voter suppression,
00:16:57.620 but it's election
00:16:58.360 interference because
00:16:59.880 there is a partisan
00:17:01.440 outcome, an ideological
00:17:02.760 outcome as a
00:17:04.240 consequence.
00:17:05.180 Also want to give you
00:17:05.820 an update from the
00:17:06.520 Ways and Means
00:17:07.540 Committee.
00:17:08.580 Chairman Jason Smith
00:17:09.780 and Oversight
00:17:10.600 Subcommittee Chairman
00:17:11.480 David Schweikert put
00:17:13.100 out a statement
00:17:13.800 regarding the
00:17:15.060 recent updates
00:17:16.100 to the
00:17:17.320 administration's
00:17:18.320 implementation
00:17:18.920 of their
00:17:21.260 IRS
00:17:22.260 reporting
00:17:23.120 scheme.
00:17:23.840 So here's what you
00:17:24.440 need to know
00:17:25.200 about this.
00:17:26.240 Democrats
00:17:26.720 lowered the
00:17:28.160 threshold for
00:17:28.860 reporting to a
00:17:30.100 mere $600 in
00:17:31.860 their so-called
00:17:32.520 American Rescue
00:17:33.660 Plan.
00:17:34.620 Given how
00:17:34.960 problematic these
00:17:35.940 new requirements
00:17:36.560 will be, the
00:17:37.100 Biden administration
00:17:37.860 has pushed back
00:17:39.080 the rollout of
00:17:39.940 this until next
00:17:40.840 year, but that
00:17:41.720 shows how foolish
00:17:42.800 it was in the
00:17:43.620 first place.
00:17:44.700 Now, many
00:17:45.160 Americans, as a
00:17:46.100 result of this
00:17:46.860 rescue plan, are
00:17:48.220 going to need
00:17:48.980 rescue because the
00:17:50.500 lower reporting
00:17:51.360 threshold will
00:17:52.660 likely result in
00:17:54.200 higher accounting
00:17:55.360 charges for
00:17:56.620 middle-class people
00:17:57.620 just to comply with
00:17:58.820 the law, just to
00:18:00.040 not be audited or
00:18:01.380 terrorized by the
00:18:02.360 87,000 new IRS
00:18:03.800 agents.
00:18:05.200 There's an important
00:18:05.960 piece of legislation
00:18:06.820 that I'm going to be
00:18:08.240 co-sponsoring that I
00:18:09.240 want you to know
00:18:09.740 about at H.R.
00:18:10.660 190, the Saving
00:18:12.380 Gig Economy
00:18:13.140 Taxpayers Act.
00:18:14.180 This was introduced
00:18:15.080 by Representative
00:18:15.720 Carol Miller of
00:18:16.620 West Virginia, and
00:18:17.900 it would restore the
00:18:19.100 higher threshold to
00:18:20.600 more than 200
00:18:21.880 commercial transactions
00:18:23.800 worth more than
00:18:25.000 $20,000 in
00:18:26.300 payments.
00:18:27.080 So, to not have
00:18:28.060 the IRS crawling
00:18:29.300 around in every
00:18:29.980 $601 transaction,
00:18:32.600 Representative
00:18:33.320 Miller's legislation
00:18:34.420 would raise that
00:18:35.440 threshold to
00:18:36.360 $20,000, and it
00:18:38.520 would be for
00:18:39.360 commercial transactions
00:18:40.540 rather than other
00:18:43.160 matters that ought
00:18:44.680 fall below the
00:18:46.260 scrutiny of the
00:18:47.240 IRS without question.
00:18:49.100 So, that's
00:18:49.920 important legislation
00:18:50.680 to keep up with as
00:18:51.520 well.
00:18:52.320 Finally, I want to
00:18:53.260 talk about the big
00:18:53.980 news that a lot of
00:18:55.500 Republicans in
00:18:56.300 Congress are reacting
00:18:57.220 to now.
00:18:58.260 It broke in the
00:18:59.120 New York Times.
00:18:59.960 It's a piece by
00:19:00.640 Jonathan Swan
00:19:01.520 entitled,
00:19:02.640 Staring Down a Debt
00:19:03.420 Crisis, McCarthy
00:19:04.780 Toils to Navigate
00:19:06.440 GOP Divisions.
00:19:08.320 And in the piece,
00:19:10.000 the main takeaway,
00:19:11.420 McCarthy is quoted,
00:19:14.080 not really quoted,
00:19:15.620 on background,
00:19:16.460 people told the New
00:19:18.080 York Times that
00:19:19.280 Speaker McCarthy had
00:19:20.280 called Budget
00:19:21.160 Chairman Jody
00:19:22.140 Arrington incompetent,
00:19:24.320 and the Majority
00:19:25.520 Leader Steve Scalise
00:19:26.420 as ineffective and
00:19:27.680 unwilling to take
00:19:28.740 hard positions.
00:19:30.260 Here's what you need
00:19:30.840 to know.
00:19:31.880 The New York Times
00:19:32.800 gets a lot of this
00:19:34.220 wrong.
00:19:35.340 And while I don't
00:19:36.820 know the specifics
00:19:37.500 here, and I haven't
00:19:38.800 been involved in these
00:19:39.800 particular discussions,
00:19:41.340 one thing I can tell
00:19:42.240 you is that Budget
00:19:42.920 Chairman Jody
00:19:43.680 Arrington is not
00:19:44.700 incompetent.
00:19:45.780 He is highly
00:19:46.660 competent.
00:19:47.620 Matter of fact,
00:19:48.600 when Republicans
00:19:49.300 recently gathered to
00:19:50.340 strategize about the
00:19:51.340 upcoming debt limit,
00:19:52.940 Jody Arrington stood
00:19:54.100 before the conference
00:19:54.940 and proposed specific
00:19:57.140 deep vertical cuts to
00:19:59.940 agencies in Washington
00:20:01.240 where the taxpayers would
00:20:03.200 be better served and the
00:20:04.120 American people would be
00:20:05.120 better served if we got
00:20:06.400 rid of the federal
00:20:07.460 infrastructure around red
00:20:09.980 tape and bureaucracy and
00:20:11.360 block-granted healthcare,
00:20:13.560 money, education money,
00:20:16.420 workforce dollars to the
00:20:17.680 states to allow the
00:20:19.520 laboratories of democracy
00:20:20.880 to flourish.
00:20:21.780 And Jody Arrington, the
00:20:22.900 Budget Chairman, was not
00:20:26.340 mincing words about the
00:20:27.860 fact that there would have
00:20:28.660 to be some entitlements
00:20:31.060 like Medicaid that would
00:20:34.060 be subject to strict work
00:20:35.880 requirements.
00:20:36.980 People who are able to
00:20:38.260 work should work if they
00:20:40.020 want others to be a part
00:20:42.340 of paying for their
00:20:43.440 housing or education or
00:20:45.980 their cell phone or their
00:20:47.320 transportation or any
00:20:49.280 other thing that other
00:20:50.760 people are providing
00:20:52.560 resources for in one's
00:20:54.020 life.
00:20:54.740 That makes society more
00:20:56.920 productive when individual
00:20:58.460 members of the society are
00:20:59.860 more productive.
00:21:01.260 So Arrington lays that out
00:21:02.980 at our strategy meeting.
00:21:04.180 Then this New York Times
00:21:05.280 piece comes out.
00:21:06.080 That's chased by a Julie
00:21:08.060 Grace Berfke piece in
00:21:09.660 Axios going through the
00:21:12.200 various consequences of
00:21:14.720 people reacting to this
00:21:16.020 news from the New York
00:21:18.140 Times.
00:21:18.940 So here's the bottom line.
00:21:21.040 Republicans need an answer
00:21:22.420 on the debt limit.
00:21:23.680 It is approaching and if we
00:21:25.620 don't lay out a budget and a
00:21:27.300 plan, then we are at Janet
00:21:29.560 Yellen's whim to dictate the
00:21:31.260 timing most advantageous to the
00:21:33.580 administration to force a
00:21:35.720 multi-trillion dollar increase
00:21:37.180 to the debt limit without any
00:21:38.720 downward pressure on
00:21:39.480 spending.
00:21:40.900 And I'll be straight with you.
00:21:42.040 I have never voted to raise
00:21:43.400 the debt limit.
00:21:44.380 Not during President Biden.
00:21:46.240 Not during President Trump.
00:21:48.840 Because there was never
00:21:50.060 corresponding spending cuts.
00:21:52.800 And you have to have
00:21:53.600 corresponding spending cuts.
00:21:54.980 Otherwise, we continue to push
00:21:56.660 our nation into an era where
00:21:58.920 being the global reserve
00:22:00.620 currency is not assured.
00:22:03.700 So in the development of a
00:22:05.460 plan, you've seen a variety of
00:22:07.140 different ideas come forward.
00:22:09.020 Patrick McHenry, chairman of
00:22:10.520 the Financial Services
00:22:11.300 Committee, says we should just
00:22:12.220 raise the debt limit clean.
00:22:14.440 Shouldn't make demands for
00:22:15.940 corresponding spending cuts.
00:22:17.700 That I disagree with.
00:22:19.320 Jody Arrington, the budget
00:22:21.140 chairman, he put out a plan at
00:22:23.500 the Republican Strategy
00:22:24.640 Conference.
00:22:25.780 I thought it was pretty good.
00:22:26.760 But now you see this reporting.
00:22:29.900 The House Freedom Caucus has
00:22:31.000 put out a spending cut plan.
00:22:32.180 And it really goes after the
00:22:33.820 woke and weaponized government.
00:22:36.820 And wasteful.
00:22:37.920 The three W's.
00:22:39.620 Congressman Andy Biggs has
00:22:40.640 put out a plan.
00:22:41.820 507 pieces of legislation
00:22:43.520 specifically reducing spending.
00:22:46.620 Going after a lot of the goofy
00:22:48.340 green climate policies.
00:22:50.440 The ESG policies.
00:22:51.840 A lot of the funding of
00:22:53.060 critical race theory and the
00:22:54.340 like.
00:22:54.620 And even the Republican Study
00:22:55.740 Committee and other
00:22:56.380 conservative group has put out
00:22:58.280 a blueprint and a game plan
00:23:00.440 about how to deal with the
00:23:01.420 debt limit.
00:23:03.840 If we do not move something
00:23:06.300 off of the floor of the House
00:23:07.580 of Representatives with at
00:23:09.260 least 218 votes, it
00:23:11.520 strengthens Biden's hand.
00:23:13.720 And so here's my
00:23:14.380 recommendation.
00:23:15.480 Let's vote on all of them.
00:23:16.940 Let's not be afraid that some
00:23:19.080 spending reduction that we put
00:23:20.440 on the floor might not pass.
00:23:22.020 Let's source all the good ideas
00:23:25.920 that we have from different
00:23:27.240 members of the caucus regarding
00:23:28.700 reductions in spending and
00:23:30.600 some will pass, some will fail,
00:23:32.980 and then that will constitute the
00:23:35.000 position of the House of
00:23:35.960 Representatives negotiating
00:23:37.260 against the Senate and Joe
00:23:38.740 Biden.
00:23:39.040 Because you can rest assured
00:23:40.600 they're not going to be looking
00:23:41.640 for reductions in spending.
00:23:43.360 They believe that the way to deal
00:23:45.000 with the deficit is to hire more
00:23:46.720 IRS agents.
00:23:47.620 to have higher taxes, to have
00:23:50.860 higher compliance costs for
00:23:52.960 people who make under $400,000
00:23:55.200 a year, families where the
00:23:56.980 cumulative income is less than
00:23:59.480 $400,000.
00:24:00.580 You better expect for your
00:24:01.680 compliance costs to go up.
00:24:02.820 I hope you're able to handle that
00:24:04.440 next multi-thousand dollar
00:24:05.940 accounting bill.
00:24:07.940 See, that's where the Biden
00:24:09.720 administration has deviated from
00:24:12.080 their mandate.
00:24:13.140 The American people said during
00:24:14.400 the midterms that we had to deal
00:24:16.380 with inflation, and so often that
00:24:19.820 inflation is driven by bad Fed
00:24:21.600 policy and by government-induced
00:24:24.160 spending.
00:24:25.680 So I don't know what to make of
00:24:27.020 the New York Times veracity.
00:24:29.300 Usually I believe the New York
00:24:30.900 Times is lying until I see proof
00:24:33.280 that they are not, and I don't see
00:24:34.560 that in this reporting.
00:24:36.080 But what I do see is hard work
00:24:37.740 being done by Budget Chairman
00:24:39.720 Jody Arrington, by the House
00:24:41.380 Freedom Caucus, by my colleague
00:24:43.200 Andy Biggs, and I am thoroughly
00:24:45.240 supportive of all of those efforts.
00:24:48.160 And so let's start taking those
00:24:49.960 tough votes on the floor.
00:24:51.360 Let's start seeing where all the
00:24:52.520 Republicans stand and where all
00:24:53.840 the representatives of the people
00:24:55.200 do, and that will put us in the
00:24:57.300 strongest position.
00:24:58.820 Thanks so much for joining us
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