In order to protect the American people, the federal government must temporarily pause all non-mandatory federal spending in order to ensure that it is spending in accordance with the President s wishes and with the wishes of Congress. This is a temporary pause that will be lifted no later than February 10, 2025.
00:00:00.000Well, President Trump is keeping his promises, he's moving fast, and he is breaking things in historic, amazing, amazing ways.
00:00:07.000So yesterday, the President of the United States, via his Office of Management and Budget, put forward a proposal that would temporarily pause $3 trillion in spending from the federal government.
00:00:19.000Now, that temporary pause is in fact only temporary.
00:00:22.000Much of that spending will go forward.
00:00:23.000But the idea here is to review all of the spending the federal government is doing.
00:00:42.000What this is meant to do is allow a pause for the various branches of the federal government, which are under the control of President Trump, to actually look at the spending and ensure that they are spending in accordance with the president's wishes and with the wishes of Congress.
00:00:56.000So, there's a big freakout that's happening today.
00:01:04.000You do not get to expand the centralized power of the executive branch for full-on a century, controlling every aspect of Americans' lives, spending $7 trillion.
00:01:15.000And then, when your political opponents take over and they use that power in order to cut back the amount of power the executive branch will actually be exerting in Americans' lives, You don't actually get to then claim that he is a dictator.
00:01:29.000You built this thing, and then you can't be shocked when the person who takes over decides he's going to use the instruments that you created in order to actually downgrade the amount of impact that those instruments have on Americans' everyday lives.
00:01:42.000So, yesterday, the Executive Office of the President, the Office of Management and Budget, led by Matthew Baith, who's the acting director for the moment, put out a memo.
00:02:25.000use of federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and Green New Deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve.
00:02:39.000We got elected, and now we are going to implement the priorities of the American people.
00:02:42.000This memorandum, according to the OMB, requires federal agencies to identify and review all federal financial assistance programs and supporting activities consistent with the president's policies and requirements.
00:02:53.000By the way, this does not include assistance provided directly for individuals.
00:02:59.000Nothing in this memo, in the memo itself, should be construed to impact Medicare or Social Security benefits.
00:03:04.000So all the lies you're now hearing from the media suggesting.
00:03:07.000That individual benefits from these mandatory social spending programs are going to be impacted by the OMB order.
00:03:15.000And it's being promoted by people who are lying to you.
00:03:18.000According to the OMB, to implement these orders, each agency must complete a comprehensive analysis of all of their federal financial assistance programs to identify programs, projects, and activities that may be implicated by any of the president's executive orders.
00:03:30.000In the interim, to the extent permissible under federal law, federal agencies must temporarily pause.
00:03:35.000All activities related to obligation or disbursement of all federal financial assistance and other relevant agency activities that may be implicated by the executive orders included but not limited to financial assistance for foreign aid, non-governmental organizations at DEI, woke gender ideology, and the Green New Deal.
00:03:49.000One of the great boondoggles in American public life is, in fact, non-governmental organizations that are being paid by the federal government.
00:03:56.000Grants that are going to left-wing social organizations on a non-profit basis but are being funded by American taxpayer dollars.
00:04:04.000No later than February 10th, 2025, according to this memo, agencies shall submit to OMB detailed information on any projects, programs, or activities subject to this pause.
00:04:14.000Each agency must pause, issuance of new awards, disbursement of federal funds under all open awards, other relevant agency actions.
00:04:21.000OMB may grant exceptions, allowing federal agencies to issue new awards or take other actions on a case-by-case basis.
00:04:26.000So again, the lie that this is sort of a blanket nuking of all federal spending.
00:04:30.000Would that it were so, it is in fact not so.
00:04:33.000The reality is it is a temporary pause that can be relieved by the OMB giving the ability to give the grants.
00:04:42.000It is a way of taking a harder look at the federal spending that has been going on and that has grown wildly out of control and in which your taxpayer dollars are being used to subsidize groups that, for example, sponsor illegal immigrants or go toward social engineering of the left, transgenderism.
00:04:59.000That is the explicitly stated policy of the OMB. Now, does the president have this authority?
00:05:05.000Well, the president has always had something called impoundment authority.
00:05:08.000And the question is, what is the scope of that authority?
00:05:13.000Impoundment includes any executive action to withhold or delay the spending of appropriated funds.
00:05:19.000This is according to the Ecyclopedia of Congressional Budget Law and the Congressional Research Service.
00:05:25.000Impoundment goes all the way back to the Jefferson administration.
00:05:29.000In which Thomas Jefferson decided that he didn't want to use a particular amount of money that was allocated to the executive branch to buy a certain type of gunboat, but it was also used under the LBJ administration.
00:05:40.000According to the Congressional Research Service, President Johnson made broader use of his power to impound by ordering the deferral of billions of dollars of spending during the Vietnam War in an effort to restrain inflationary pressures in the economy.
00:05:51.000Richard Nixon, when he was elected president, attempted to use impoundment authority to stop a wide variety of spending programs that were pushed forward by a Democratic at Congress.
00:06:01.000Eventually, the administration would announce major impoundment actions affecting a wide variety of domestic programs, including, for example, a moratorium on subsidized housing programs, community development activities, disaster assistance.
00:06:13.000Court challenges reached the Supreme Court.
00:06:16.000Did not actually rule on general impoundment authority.
00:06:19.000It suggests that one particular law had been ignored by President Nixon in using impoundment and that he couldn't do that for that one law.
00:06:26.000But the Supreme Court has actually never ruled in a broad fashion how far impoundment authority actually goes.
00:06:31.000Congress then passed something called the Impoundment Control Act over the veto of President Nixon.
00:06:37.000The Impoundment Control Act effectively says that the President has to inform Congress of all proposed rescissions and deferrals and submit specified information regarding each.
00:06:46.000And then the Comptroller General has to oversee executive compliance with the law and notify Congress if the president fails to report an impoundment or improperly classified item.
00:06:53.000If there is a rescission of spending, the president says, I'm just not going to spend this money, then the Impoundment Control Act provides that funds must be made available for obligation unless both houses of Congress take action to approve the rescission request within 45 days of continuous session.
00:07:06.000So perhaps that is what President Trump is figuring right now, is that he will effectively rescind the spending.
00:07:11.000He's got a majority in both houses of Congress.
00:07:15.000Give him the go-ahead on the rescission of the spending.
00:07:18.000Now, the truth is that the question of a line-item veto, which is effectively what impoundment acts as, it's the president being able to go through and redline a particular budget, this has been a bipartisan consensus in favor of this sort of stuff since the 1990s.
00:07:33.000In fact, in 1996, the federal government, with President Clinton and a Republican Congress, passed a line-item veto through Congress, and the Supreme Court struck it down, suggesting that it was unconstitutional.
00:07:44.000According to Daniel Henninger, writing back in 2011, here is a list of U.S. presidents and public figures who have used or supported broad impoundment power.
00:07:54.000Abe Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, JFK, LBJ, Bill Clinton, the Bushes, John McCain, John Kerry, Al Gore, Pat Buchanan, Jeff Henzerling, Russ Feingold, Joe Lieberman, Judd Gregg, both Paul Ryan and Barack Obama.
00:08:38.000Was a representative for the Trump campaign as well.
00:08:40.000She's 27 years old and she is terrific.
00:08:42.000The upgrade from Karine Jean-Pierre to Carolyn Lovett is extraordinary.
00:08:46.000In any case, Carolyn Lovett yesterday, she held her first press conference at the White House and she said, listen, turns out there's a lot of money that we can cut, including, for example, $50 million that was slated to go to the Gaza Strip to pay for condoms.
00:09:01.000Doge and OMB have actually found that there was $37 million that was about to go out the door to the World Health Organization, which is an organization, as you all know, that President Trump, with the swipe of his pen in that executive order, no longer wants the United States to be a part of.
00:09:17.000So that wouldn't be in line with the president's agenda.
00:09:20.000Doge and OMB also found that there was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza.
00:09:27.000That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.
00:09:32.000Okay, now, people on the left are saying, ah, no, no, no, that was just for sexual health in Gaza.
00:09:37.000Why are we paying for sexual health in Gaza?
00:09:39.000I was made aware by the left that there is a supposed genocide in Gaza, but they're stopping people from producing people in Gaza.
00:09:45.000By the way, the population of Gaza has actually increased, not insubstantially, during the Gaza War.
00:09:50.000What are those condoms actually used for in Gaza, by the way?
00:09:53.000Believe it or not, it turns out that the Hamasniks in Gaza...
00:09:56.000Have come up with extraordinary new uses for condoms, including blowing them up with helium, using them as balloons, and attaching actual flammatories to them to set fires in Israel.
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00:12:30.000One of the things that the Trump administration is running into, and this is clear, every time they make an action, an executive order goes down, there is what we call malicious compliance.
00:12:38.000I talked a little bit about this yesterday.
00:12:40.000Malicious compliance is where you, opposing the president's agenda, pick a bad example of where the president's agenda should not apply, and you apply it there.
00:12:48.000So, for example, in the Department of Defense, if there is an executive action that goes out banning DEI in the Department of Defense, some low-level staffer We'll quote-unquote maliciously comply by saying that now nobody can teach about the Tuskegee Airmen.
00:13:01.000And it turns out that that's not what Trump meant at all.
00:13:04.000And Department of Defense head Pete Hegseth immediately rescinds that particular stupid application of the executive order.
00:13:11.000A malicious compliance has become a way for so-called deep staters, meaning career employees in the executive branch who don't like President Trump or his agenda, to try to thwart that agenda with bad headlines.
00:13:21.000And one example of that came yesterday when there was a temporary shutdown.
00:13:28.000Now, do you think that President Trump wants the bad headline of shutting down the Medicaid enrollment website when he put forward this OMB executive action?
00:13:37.000Do you think that that's actually what he...
00:13:46.000The White House is aware of the Medicaid website portal outage.
00:13:48.000We have confirmed no payments have been affected.
00:13:50.000They're still being processed and sent.
00:13:51.000We expect the portal will be back online shortly.
00:13:54.000Now, again, One of the things that's happening here is you have members of the deep state who are coordinating with the media to do things like this and then claim that the end of the world is nigh.
00:14:03.000So you'll hear lots of headlines over the course of this week about how various non-profit programs will have to shut down in lieu of the federal aid.
00:14:12.000Because if they don't get that aid today, then, well, they're going to have to shut.
00:14:18.000That means that people budget for longer than a week.
00:14:21.000You don't get a check from the government every month if you're a non- But,
00:14:46.000again, what you are seeing mostly is just malicious compliance here from various people.
00:14:55.000The Medicaid portal story, which was the biggest story yesterday in the mainstream media, was just silly.
00:15:02.000It was up and running again within hours.
00:15:04.000And clearly what happened is that there was somebody who's in the Medicaid system who decided that pretending that they were complying with Trump's order, they were going to shut down the website to create something humiliating for President Trump.
00:15:14.000Now, meanwhile, a lot of this is going to end up in the courts, as I suggested.
00:15:18.000The question of just how far impoundment control goes is an open legal question.
00:15:24.000A federal judge, according to CNBC, has paused until next week the Trump administration order that would have frozen the issuance of existing federal grants and loans until agencies vetted them.
00:15:33.000The judge, his name is Lauren Ali Khan, ruled during a hearing conducted on Zoom that they would have to prevent the shutdowns and the freezing orders.
00:15:43.000Ali Khan said her administrative stay would expire 5 p.m.
00:15:45.000Eastern time Monday unless she decides to grant a temporary restraining order as requested by plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit earlier in the day challenging the Trump administration's actions.
00:15:53.000Now, again, one of the things that is very strange about the way that our judicial system has been working during Trump 1 and Trump 2 is you'll have a local district judge, like a low-level district judge, issue a nationwide injunction on a federal policy.
00:16:07.000I'm not sure exactly how that is supposed to work legally.
00:16:11.000To Ali Khan's administrative stay against the OMB. Ali Khan's stay only affects the disbursement of government funds that have already been authorized, not money that was being sought.
00:16:20.000In any case, this will end up at the Supreme Court level, and that will determine presumably exactly how far impoundments can go.
00:16:28.000Chuck Schumer, meanwhile, is out there shouting about how supposedly lawless this is, saying it's a constitutional crisis.
00:16:36.000When it's Joe Biden unilaterally declaring that he can relieve billions of dollars in student loan debt.
00:16:42.000Which, by the way, is not allocated by Congress.
00:16:46.000Then the Democratic Party is totally fine with it.
00:16:48.000When President Trump says, I'm not going to spend the money that you sent here until it actually complies with the will of the American people, apparently that's a constitutional threat to the order, says Chuck Schumer, this disastrous and a minority leader.
00:17:00.000The Trump administration is robbing Peter to pay the billionaires.
00:17:05.000American families make no mistake about it.
00:17:28.000This is a heist done on a national scale.
00:17:32.000No matter how much he may believe he does, the president does not have the authority to ignore the law, and we're going to fight this in every way that we can.
00:17:45.000By the way, I love the Democrats' definition of a heist.
00:17:48.000So according to Democrats, a heist is not when you steal American taxpayer dollars to pay the bills of the gender studies major at Wellesley.
00:17:56.000What is a heist is when the President of the United States refuses to spend taxpayer dollars on nonsense.
00:18:02.000That is somehow stealing from you the taxpayer.
00:18:05.000So spending your money on crap, That's not stealing from you.
00:18:07.000Not spending your money on crap, that's stealing from you, according to Chuck Schumer.
00:18:12.000Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters, quote, I think this is a normal practice at the beginning of the administration until they have an opportunity to review how the money is being spent.
00:18:19.000We'll see what the extent of it is and what they intend to do in a more fulsome way.
00:18:22.000For now, I think it's just kind of a preliminary step I think most administrations take.
00:18:26.000Now, this is going to raise broader issues of what the powers of the presidency ought to be.
00:18:30.000The power of the purse, famously, is held by Congress under the Constitution of the United States.
00:18:35.000How far does the executive have the ability to prevent the disbursement of those funds?
00:18:40.000Well, according to the Constitution of the United States, the president has to make sure that the laws are faithfully executed.
00:18:48.000But what exactly does that mean, faithfully executed?
00:18:50.000He has independent constitutional authority, presumably, to say, I'm not going to spend this money if I think that it violates the Constitution, and then it all gets hashed out by the Supreme Court.
00:18:59.000This kind of lives in a gray area of the law that the Supreme Court has never really ruled on.
00:19:04.000The reality is that thanks to the vast growth of the federal bureaucracy, there is a reason why the government ratchet only works in one direction when it comes to the size of spending.
00:19:14.000Until the president has something like empowerment power or a line item veto, government spending is just going to increase because the only way that actual government work gets done is by passing these giant omnibus packages.
00:19:26.000to get enough people on board to actually pass them.
00:19:29.000And it's always easier to spend than it is to cut.
00:19:32.000Congress has yet to actually issue, in my lifetime, a serious cut to federal spending.
00:19:37.000They've cut the trajectory of the growth of federal spending.
00:19:40.000They've yet to issue an actual serious real cut to federal spending.
00:19:44.000Again, there is a reason why there has been a bipartisan level of support for things like a line item veto, historically speaking.
00:19:59.000Just like everyone died of net neutrality during the first Trump term.
00:20:02.000Here's Dana Bash over at CNN. And she's panicked, obviously.
00:20:09.000I frankly think this is what we predicted when those of us who campaigned saying President Trump would cause chaos would do so, and here we are.
00:20:18.000Yeah, and look, I think that he would agree with you.
00:20:22.000Chaos is what he wants, which is why he's doing this.
00:20:24.000The question is, what comes after that?
00:20:28.000Well, this idea that Trump wants chaos, I don't understand why it's suddenly considered normal or non-chaos.
00:20:36.000To spend trillions of dollars on absolute sheer trash.
00:20:39.000And this is the gap that exists between normie America and non-normie America, the media elites on the coast.
00:20:46.000For them, normal is spending trillions of dollars on absolute nonsense.
00:20:51.000For normies, it turns out that not spending the dollars on the nonsense, that would be more normal than spending the dollars on the nonsense.
00:20:57.000Stephen Miller, who is a very aggressive defender of the president's agenda.
00:21:02.000And let me just say, at this point, I have never seen an administration, That has more able defenders of its agenda than the Trump administration.
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00:23:36.000I'm old enough to remember the Bush administration when George W. Bush somehow seemed to think that it was beneath him and beneath the Republicans to actually defend their agenda aggressively.
00:23:44.000That it was somehow not Marcus of Queensberry rules.
00:23:47.000Trump administration people do not have these same hangups.
00:23:51.000They go with the media, and then they refuse to accept the premise of the question, and they fight back.
00:23:55.000Here was Stephen Miller, for example, with Jake Tapper on the spending freeze.
00:23:58.000I just want to make sure I understand.
00:24:01.000So anybody out there that provides school lunches, anybody out there?
00:24:05.000Yeah, there's no, there's zero impact on public benefit programs full stop, as OMB has made clear.
00:24:10.000And I just want to, but I want to really drill down on this, Jake, because it's so important.
00:24:14.000There's two million employees in the federal government.
00:24:18.000Overwhelmingly, the career federal service in this country is far left, left-wing.
00:25:09.000The American people voted for dramatic change implemented by Donald Trump.
00:25:14.000So it is essential for him to get control of government, to establish a whole of government process for Donald Trump's political appointees to review discretionary grants of spending for pet projects that are not directed by Congress.
00:25:52.000Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
00:25:55.000According to NBC News, President Trump's administration is offering federal workers the chance to take a deferred resignation, which would mean they agreed to resign right now, but they get paid through September.
00:26:04.000A senior administration official told NBC News they expect 5 to 10 percent of the federal workforce to quit, which they estimate could lead to around $100 billion in savings.
00:26:12.000All full-time federal employees are eligible except for members of the military, employees of the U.S. Postal Service, positions related to immigration enforcement and national security and other jobs excluded by the agencies.
00:26:23.000White House Press Secretary Leavitt said in a statement, quote, American taxpayers pay for the salaries of federal government employees and therefore deserve employees working on their behalf who actually show up to work in our wonderful federal buildings also paid for by taxpayers.
00:26:34.000If they don't want to work in the office and contribute to making America great again, they're free to choose a different line of work.
00:26:39.000The Trump administration will provide a very generous payout of eight months.
00:26:45.000There's an email, though, sent out to all federal employees, including a draft resignation letter for them to sign.
00:26:51.000It said, quote, If you choose to remain in your current position, we thank you for your renewed focus on serving the American people to the best of your abilities and look forward to working together as part of an improved federal workforce.
00:26:59.000At this time, we cannot give you full assurance regarding the certainty of your position or agency, but should your position be eliminated, you'll be treated with dignity and will be afforded the protections in place for such positions.
00:27:09.000If they resign under the program, quote, you'll retain all pay and benefits regardless of your daily workload and will be exempted from all applicable in-person work requirements until September 30th, 2025.
00:27:19.000So basically show up to work or you can leave.
00:27:25.000Naturally, the left is fighting mad about this because they are afraid that a bunch of people will take the buyout.
00:27:31.000AFGE National President Everett Kelly ripped into the Trump email saying, quote, it should not be viewed as voluntary, quote, The number of civil servants hasn't meaningfully changed since the 70s.
00:27:39.000But there are more Americans than ever who rely on government services.
00:27:42.000Purging the federal government of dedicated career civil servants will have a vast unintended consequence that will cause chaos.
00:28:19.000So they're basically saying, listen, we could fire you or you could leave.
00:28:23.000Okay, but if you're going to come into work, you come to work for the administration, which is, of course, the way to do this.
00:28:28.000President Trump is also moving to fire Democratic members of two independent federal commissions, which is good.
00:28:34.000The EEOC, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which is a left-wing, dominated organization established in the 1960s and 70s.
00:28:43.000Jocelyn Samuels and Charlotte Burroughs, formerly the chair, have been dismissed.
00:28:48.000He also fired the head of the National Labor Relations Board, the worst government board in America.
00:28:53.000I know the NLRB. We comply, I have to say this, by law.
00:28:57.000We comply with all legal standards when it comes to labor.
00:29:01.000Also, the NLRB is trash and the National Labor Relations Act is garbage.
00:29:05.000I know this because they literally tried to haul me up on charges for suggesting that I would fire employees who tried to dictate the editorial coverage of our company, which is not covered by the National Labor Relations Act.
00:29:18.000I was joking about it, by the way, and they still sent us an investigative letter.
00:29:24.000So Trump has now fired the chair of the National Labor Relations Board, Gwynne Wilcox.
00:29:29.000I would hope that the NLRB is completely disestablished.
00:29:32.000Trump also removed the EEOC's general counsel, Carla Jill Bride, who oversaw civil actions against employers on a range of issues, including discrimination claims from LGBTQ plus minus divided by a sign and pregnant workers.
00:29:43.000He also terminated Jennifer Abruzzo, the NLRB's general counsel.
00:30:07.000You don't like Trump using executive authorities in this way?
00:30:09.000Well, maybe Barack Obama shouldn't have dictated that he would use a pen and a phone if he couldn't get Congress to do his work.
00:30:15.000Maybe Joe Biden shouldn't have tried to use OSHA to cram down vaccine mandates on 80 million Americans.
00:30:20.000Something we had to sue him at Daily Wire to stop.
00:30:23.000Maybe Joe Biden shouldn't have tried to end around the Supreme Court by relieving student loan debt to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
00:30:31.000It used to be that the federal government was small and had significant checks and balances between Congress, the legislative branch, and the presidency and the Supreme Court.
00:30:42.000And now you're real sad because it turns out that President Trump is going to use the levers of power that you put in place in order to crank back the level of government spending.
00:30:51.000In order to crank back the level of government regulation and control.
00:31:27.000For too long, we've lived in this gray area where the combination of media, Democratic Congress, the President of the United States, Democrats, have been able to cram down vaster and vaster government spending programs in the name of the people without any checks and any balances.
00:31:41.000That day is now over, and I think it's excellent.
00:31:45.000Meanwhile, President Trump issued a historic executive order yesterday as well.
00:31:50.000Protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilation.
00:31:52.000I'm going to declare victory here on behalf of The Daily Wire.
00:31:55.000The Daily Wire, there's no company in America.
00:31:57.000We don't toot our own horns on this as much as we should.
00:31:59.000There is no company in America that has fought harder and fought longer and fought more on the issue of the evils of transgender ideology and child mutilation than our company.
00:32:12.000We have dedicated our company to this issue for years.
00:32:19.000Well before What is a Woman, the groundbreaking documentary made by our own Matt Walsh that totally shifted the debate on transgenderism and transgender ideology.
00:32:29.000I'm old enough to remember when I was assaulted on national television by a transgender-identifying person for the great sin of suggesting that a biological male is, in fact, a biological male.
00:32:44.000That was in 2015. That is going back...
00:32:49.000So I've been on this battle for a very, very long time.
00:32:53.000I believe that the very famous exchange that I had with a student at a university talking about why isn't she 60 when she claimed that boys could be girls.
00:33:01.000And I said, so why can't you be trans age?
00:33:14.000People like Abigail Schreier, when Abigail was pushing her book, Irreversible Damage.
00:33:18.000Which really was a groundbreaking book.
00:33:20.000We helped to promote that book heavily.
00:33:23.000There's not an aspect of this fight in which we have not engaged as a company.
00:33:26.000And so thank you to President Trump for putting the capstone on that.
00:33:29.000Now we need a national ban on this sort of stuff from Congress.
00:33:32.000But according to the executive action from the White House, it is now ordered across the country today.
00:33:39.000Medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child's sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.
00:33:47.000This dangerous trend will be a stain on our nation's history and it must end.
00:33:50.000Countless children soon regret they've been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy they'll never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding.
00:33:58.000Moreover, these vulnerable youth's medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and tragically, sterilization.
00:34:06.000Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called transition of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.
00:34:20.000And by the way, thanks to our allies in this fight, ranging from Charlie Kirk at TPUSA. He, of course, worked with us on the documentary Identity Crisis that was available on X. He now is available at Daily Wire Plus.
00:34:33.000There are so many people who have been part of this fight.
00:34:35.000This is a giant victory for the right and a complete reversal of the trend of social leftism from where it was even five years ago.
00:34:42.000That is a long-going battle for this company.
00:34:45.000We should take a victory lap on it, for sure.
00:34:47.000Alrighty, in just one second, we'll get to President Trump on illegal immigration and the left fighting him first.
00:34:52.000Let's be real, mainstream media isn't just broken, it is corrupt.
00:34:54.000They do not report the news, they curate it.
00:34:56.000To fit their agenda on Americans, we're done with it.
00:36:09.000I was not expecting that many members of the press to be there.
00:36:11.000At one point, I had someone pressed into my back and very close to me in the front as well.
00:36:16.000There were so many members of the press there, and they were excited for this new transparency of the Trump administration, which we really did not see during the Biden administration.
00:36:24.000As Caroline talked about during the briefing, there were very few press briefings and very little access to more than the very top legacy members of the press.
00:36:33.000So yesterday during the briefing, we saw Breitbart get...
00:36:36.000We saw the Daily Caller get called on.
00:36:39.000TPUSA's new White House correspondent get called on.
00:36:42.000And Caroline talked about how there's going to be an effort to include members of the new media in the briefings, including giving them a seat on the side.
00:36:49.000So there's going to be a rotating seat that we hope to have access to as a member of the new media.
00:36:54.000And we'll be able to participate in the briefings in a much more legit way than new media has been able to in the past.
00:37:00.000Because as you know, Ben, this is typically given to members of the legacy press.
00:37:04.000Often the people in the front rows are the only ones that get questions.
00:37:08.000CNN, the Associated Press, Fox, these very established legacy media outlets.
00:37:13.000And Caroline made a very strong statement at the beginning of this briefing saying we are going to be transparent.
00:37:18.000We're going to be allowing new media access.
00:37:22.000In fact, we do have a clip here of Caroline Levitt.
00:37:25.000She was asked a question by the legacy media asking about standards of truth inside the White House.
00:37:31.000And here she was slamming the legacy media.
00:37:34.000Since you brought up Truth Seek, I would like to point out, while I vow to provide the truth from this podium, we ask that all of you in this room hold yourselves to that same standard.
00:37:44.000We know for a fact there have been lies that have been pushed by many legacy media outlets in this country about this president, about his family, and we will not accept that.
00:37:54.000We will call you out when we feel that your reporting is wrong or there is misinformation about this White House.
00:38:01.000So, yes, I will hold myself to the truth.
00:38:03.000I expect everyone in this room to do the same.
00:38:07.000So Mary Margaret, obviously there's a sea change in how the media are being treated at the White House.
00:38:12.000Did you have any responses from the legacy media to the fact that they are now being treated equally and with equal status to new media, like Daily Wire, for example?
00:38:21.000Well, there was a lot of murmuring in the press room, but in general, it seems like people were open to the changes.
00:38:25.000They understood that this was going to happen.
00:38:27.000And look, you know, this was not completely out of the blue.
00:38:31.000Donald Trump Jr. came on Michael Moll's show earlier this year and talked about how the White House wanted to shake things up.
00:38:36.000We've heard that from members of the press team throughout the campaign, that this was an effort they really wanted to promote.
00:38:42.000Of course, you know, there might be some grumblings going forward, but in general, just one seat on the side for new media, that's a great thing, and I think that's going to allow much better access.
00:38:51.000But also, you know, there's effort to allow influencers and podcasters and people with big profiles into the briefing room to help people understand what's going on.
00:39:00.000As Caroline talked about, there has been such a shift in trust in media.
00:39:04.000Young people are getting their media from very different sources, and we saw that throughout the presidential election.
00:39:09.000We saw that in the way they consumed media from...
00:39:12.000People like yourself, Ben, at the Daily Wire rather than Fox News shows or typical places that you might expect that people would get their media.
00:39:19.000So this is a change, and it's fitting to the media landscape right now, and I'm excited to see how it goes.
00:39:27.000That's Mary Margaret Olihan, our senior White House reporter.
00:39:29.000Congratulations on actually now being an accepted member of the White House Press Corps.
00:39:38.000As we say, Caroline Levitt was a star yesterday.
00:39:41.000She had a bunch of exchanges with members largely of the legacy media.
00:39:44.000That did not go particularly well for the members of the legacy media.
00:39:47.000Again, I have not seen a robust press response by a Republican administration this way, certainly in my lifetime.
00:39:53.000You probably have to go back to the Reagan administration to see anything like it.
00:39:56.000And I'm not even sure how good that was, considering that back then you had three major TV networks and only a couple of major newspapers.
00:40:01.000And now you actually have alternative media available.
00:40:04.000Here was Caroline Lovett, who's questioned about whether the administration would be deporting only criminals or whether it would be deporting all illegal immigrants.
00:40:11.000Here was Caroline Lovett slapping around a member of the media.
00:40:15.000Of the 3,500 arrests ICE has made so far since President Trump came back into office, can you just tell us the numbers?
00:40:21.000How many have a criminal record versus those who are just in the country illegally?
00:40:25.000All of them, because they illegally broke our nation's laws and therefore they are criminals, as far as this administration goes.
00:40:30.000I know the last administration didn't see it that way, so it's a big culture shift in our nation to view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal, but that's exactly what they are.
00:40:58.000Because there is a lot of reporting out there that is putting the onus on this White House for the increased cost of eggs.
00:41:05.000I would like to point out to each and every one of you that in 2024, when Joe Biden was in the Oval Office, or upstairs in the residence sleeping, I'm not so sure, egg prices increased 65% in this country.
00:41:18.000We also have seen the cost of everything, not just eggs.
00:41:22.000Bacon, groceries, gasoline have increased because of the inflationary policies of Again.
00:41:47.000This administration is not being run like prior Republican administrations.
00:41:51.000Speaking of which, the Trump administration has now ramped up deportations after a fairly slow start.
00:41:55.000One of the reasons that the deportation numbers have been lower for Trump is because the number of people arriving on the southern border has absolutely cratered under Donald Trump.
00:42:03.000People are not showing up on the southern border.
00:42:05.000Many of the supposed deportations that were undertaken by, for example, the Obama administration were actually what we call turnbacks at the border.
00:42:11.000People who would arrive and the administration would simply say, you can't get in.
00:42:15.000Nobody's even bothering to show up at the southern border knowing that Donald Trump is immediately going to turn everyone away, that CBP, that ICE are not going to allow people to use the border of the United States as a sort of porous Swiss cheese zone where he can move through at will.
00:42:31.000But according to the Wall Street Journal, ICE made nearly 1,200 arrests on Sunday and just under 1,000 on Saturday, marking an uptick after arrest numbers in President Trump's first few days were roughly in line with daily averages seen under the Biden administration.
00:42:44.000The media are predictably upset about all of this.
00:42:47.000Stephen Miller, again, was on with Jake Tapper on CNN. And Jake Tapper was asking who exactly is going to pick the fruit and pick the vegetables.
00:42:54.000And Stephen Miller was like, Jake, the number of illegal immigrants who actually are in the fields picking fruits and veggies is pretty low.
00:43:01.000So, how do you, how does President Trump make sure that the effort to deport people who are not in this country legally doesn't end up?
00:43:14.000Well, I'm sure it's not your position, Jake.
00:43:23.000You're just asking the question that we should supply America's food with exploitative, illegal alien labor.
00:43:30.000I obviously don't think that's what you're implying.
00:43:33.000Only 1% of alien workers in the entire country work in agriculture.
00:43:37.000The top destination for illegal aliens are large cities like New York, like Los Angeles, and small industrial towns, of course, all across the heartland, as we've seen with the Biden floods.
00:43:50.000None of those illegal aliens are doing farm work.
00:43:53.000Those 30,000 illegal aliens that Joe Biden dumped into Springfield...
00:43:56.000Yeah, I'm talking about the ones that are...
00:45:27.000But, again, all this is part and parcel of what appears to be a really kind of lackluster pushback from the Democratic Party against President Trump.
00:45:35.000One of the reasons that they're having such trouble is because they can't actually decide on what the narrative is.
00:45:51.000So, you know, they go back to the well every so often.
00:45:54.000You have Anand Jaradharadas, the worst commentator over at MSNBC, suggesting that the Trump agenda is to make America white again, which is weird since he has the most multiracial Republican coalition of my lifetime.
00:46:06.000As you're seeing in the reporting just now, what they actually do behind the scenes, they trust, will not really get out.
00:46:14.000And it is part of a different agenda they have, which is really to make America white again, which is part of their attack on everything from birthright citizenship to any number of programs, aid freezing, various forms of aid that real people depend on.
00:46:31.000They have an agenda to make it harder for regular people to live in this country and for immigrants to have to live in worry about whether they have their papers.
00:46:41.000We are going to become a kind of check your papers society in the blink of an eye.
00:46:49.000But that is what folks like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon and others around the president actually want.
00:46:54.000They want to change the very fabric of this country, something for which there is not that same mandate.
00:47:01.000Okay, that's kind of weird since, again, again, there's no evidence whatsoever that Donald Trump is trying to cleanse the country of people who are not white.
00:47:08.000Like, no evidence that that is the case.
00:47:12.000He won almost a majority of the Hispanic vote in the last election cycle.
00:47:15.000So, yeah, good luck with that particular argument.
00:47:17.000The reality is that the only way for Democrats to take on President Trump is to do what John Fetterman is doing, the senator from Pennsylvania, who is, in fact, a solid Democrat, right?
00:47:25.000He is a socialist-leaning Democrat in terms of these economic programs.
00:48:20.000Okay, again, he is being rational about all of this.
00:48:23.000If Democrats could appear rational, that would certainly help, but it doesn't appear rational when the Senate Democrats decide to filibuster a bill that would have stopped American funding for the corrupt anti-Semitic International Criminal Court.
00:48:34.000Fifty-four people in the Senate voted in favor of basically putting sanctions on the ICC, which is a deeply corrupt, evil institution that would in fact target Americans and American soldiers.
00:48:44.000There's no reason why the United States should be...
00:48:47.000Either subsidizing or not punishing people associated with the ICC. 42 Democrats had supported this in the House.
00:48:54.000And a couple of Democrats supported it in the Senate.
00:48:57.000But Chuck Schumer, the supposed show mayor of Jews, right?
00:49:10.000He said, quote, The bill before us is poorly drafted and deeply problematic.
00:49:13.000It will have many unintended consequences that undermine its primary goal.
00:49:17.000Okay, again, the reason that Democrats are voting in favor of the ICC is because they are just beholden to the radical left.
00:49:25.000Senate Majority Leader John Thune ripped them yesterday over all of this.
00:49:29.000The other issue, as we all know, on the floor these days is nominations, and as you all know, the Democrats made a big deal and blocked the nomination from John Radcliffe to CIA last week.
00:49:42.000Ultimately, he ended up getting 74 votes on the floor, and that's going to be the case.
00:49:47.000I mean, they can block these votes, but these folks, we're going to continue to press on and get them confirmed, and they can do this the hard way or the easy way.
00:49:54.000They want to continue to obstruct and delay.
00:49:57.000We're going to continue to grind and grind and grind, and we'll do that through the weekend if necessary.
00:50:03.000Okay, by the way, Democrats are in a state of panic.
00:50:08.000Senator Gary Peters from Michigan, who would be a very vulnerable seat for the Democrats, has decided he is not going to run for re-election in the Senate in Michigan in 2026. So that 2026 Senate map is starting to look kind of not terrible for Republicans.
00:50:24.000It was supposed to be a bad year for Republicans, 2026. But it turns out that there are a bunch of seats that are up that are really, really narrowly Democrat.
00:50:34.000That includes, for example, John Ossoff in Georgia.
00:50:37.000That takes Republicans to 54. You could easily see a world in which Gary Peters' seat flips and suddenly Republicans have 55. In New Hampshire, Jean Shaheen, she is running.
00:50:52.000New Hampshire is moving toward battleground status.
00:50:55.000That would take Republicans to 56. Again, the map does not look particularly amazing for Democrats looking forward in the next election cycle.
00:51:06.000So, Gary Peters stepping out is a bad sign for them.
00:51:09.000Meanwhile, in a moment, we're going to get to Jim Acosta.