The Ben Shapiro Show - Trump Takes A WRECKING BALL To The Federal Government!

00:00:00.000 Well, President Trump is keeping his promises, he's moving fast, and he is breaking things in historic, amazing, amazing ways.

00:00:07.000 So 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.

00:00:19.000 Now, that temporary pause is in fact only temporary.

00:00:22.000 Much of that spending will go forward.

00:00:23.000 But the idea here is to review all of the spending the federal government is doing.

00:00:27.000 In a non-mandatory basis.

00:00:29.000 So there's a lot of mandatory spending in the federal budget.

00:00:31.000 That includes Medicare, Social Security, many aspects of Medicaid.

00:00:35.000 All of those things are going to continue.

00:00:37.000 So are various payments to law enforcement bodies, to defense.

00:00:41.000 All that stuff is going to continue.

00:00:42.000 What 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.

00:00:56.000 So, there's a big freakout that's happening today.

00:00:58.000 We'll go through it.

00:00:59.000 By the left, by the media, claiming that President Trump is doing something deeply unconstitutional, fascistic.

00:01:03.000 Here's the thing.

00:01:04.000 You 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.

00:01:15.000 And 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.

00:01:26.000 You don't get to do that.

00:01:27.000 You break it.

00:01:28.000 You bought it.

00:01:29.000 You 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.

00:01:42.000 So, 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.

00:01:49.000 Saying, quote, The

00:02:25.000 use 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.

00:02:38.000 In other words...

00:02:39.000 We got elected, and now we are going to implement the priorities of the American people.

00:02:42.000 This 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.

00:02:53.000 By the way, this does not include assistance provided directly for individuals.

00:02:59.000 Nothing in this memo, in the memo itself, should be construed to impact Medicare or Social Security benefits.

00:03:04.000 So all the lies you're now hearing from the media suggesting.

00:03:07.000 That individual benefits from these mandatory social spending programs are going to be impacted by the OMB order.

00:03:13.000 That's false.

00:03:14.000 It's a lie.

00:03:15.000 And it's being promoted by people who are lying to you.

00:03:18.000 According 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.

00:03:30.000 In the interim, to the extent permissible under federal law, federal agencies must temporarily pause.

00:03:35.000 All 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.

00:03:49.000 One of the great boondoggles in American public life is, in fact, non-governmental organizations that are being paid by the federal government.

00:03:56.000 Grants that are going to left-wing social organizations on a non-profit basis but are being funded by American taxpayer dollars.

00:04:04.000 No 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.

00:04:14.000 Each agency must pause, issuance of new awards, disbursement of federal funds under all open awards, other relevant agency actions.

00:04:21.000 OMB may grant exceptions, allowing federal agencies to issue new awards or take other actions on a case-by-case basis.

00:04:26.000 So again, the lie that this is sort of a blanket nuking of all federal spending.

00:04:30.000 Would that it were so, it is in fact not so.

00:04:33.000 The reality is it is a temporary pause that can be relieved by the OMB giving the ability to give the grants.

00:04:41.000 So what is this?

00:04:42.000 It 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.

00:04:59.000 That is the explicitly stated policy of the OMB. Now, does the president have this authority?

00:05:05.000 Well, the president has always had something called impoundment authority.

00:05:08.000 And the question is, what is the scope of that authority?

00:05:11.000 So, what exactly is impoundment?

00:05:13.000 Impoundment includes any executive action to withhold or delay the spending of appropriated funds.

00:05:19.000 This is according to the Ecyclopedia of Congressional Budget Law and the Congressional Research Service.

00:05:25.000 Impoundment goes all the way back to the Jefferson administration.

00:05:29.000 In 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.

00:05:40.000 According 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.

00:05:51.000 Richard 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.

00:06:01.000 Eventually, 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.

00:06:13.000 Court challenges reached the Supreme Court.

00:06:16.000 Did not actually rule on general impoundment authority.

00:06:19.000 It 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.

00:06:26.000 But the Supreme Court has actually never ruled in a broad fashion how far impoundment authority actually goes.

00:06:31.000 Congress then passed something called the Impoundment Control Act over the veto of President Nixon.

00:06:37.000 The Impoundment Control Act effectively says that the President has to inform Congress of all proposed rescissions and deferrals and submit specified information regarding each.

00:06:46.000 And 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.

00:06:53.000 If 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.

00:07:06.000 So perhaps that is what President Trump is figuring right now, is that he will effectively rescind the spending.

00:07:11.000 He's got a majority in both houses of Congress.

00:07:13.000 And then Congress will just...

00:07:15.000 Give him the go-ahead on the rescission of the spending.

00:07:18.000 Now, 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.

00:07:33.000 In 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.

00:07:44.000 According 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.

00:07:54.000 Abe 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.

00:08:05.000 So why exactly did this happen?

00:08:08.000 Well, number one.

00:08:10.000 After Watergate, again, Congress kicked back against Richard Nixon using impoundment authority.

00:08:14.000 That's number one.

00:08:14.000 And number two, it's unclear who exactly should be in control of this authority.

00:08:18.000 Should it be Congress or should it be the president?

00:08:20.000 Presumably, President Trump is going to push this, and then we will see how the Supreme Court rules on impoundment authority.

00:08:26.000 And the idea that, by the way, all of this spending is a good idea is obviously asinine.

00:08:32.000 Yesterday, Carolyn Lovett, who, as we will see, is an absolute star.

00:08:35.000 She is the new White House press secretary.

00:08:37.000 She, of course... 0.98

00:08:38.000 Was a representative for the Trump campaign as well.

00:08:40.000 She's 27 years old and she is terrific.

00:08:42.000 The upgrade from Karine Jean-Pierre to Carolyn Lovett is extraordinary.

00:08:46.000 In 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.

00:09:01.000 Doge 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.

00:09:17.000 So that wouldn't be in line with the president's agenda.

00:09:20.000 Doge and OMB also found that there was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza.

00:09:27.000 That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money.

00:09:32.000 Okay, now, people on the left are saying, ah, no, no, no, that was just for sexual health in Gaza.

00:09:36.000 Okay, just a question.

00:09:37.000 Why are we paying for sexual health in Gaza?

00:09:39.000 I was made aware by the left that there is a supposed genocide in Gaza, but they're stopping people from producing people in Gaza.

00:09:45.000 By the way, the population of Gaza has actually increased, not insubstantially, during the Gaza War.

00:09:50.000 What are those condoms actually used for in Gaza, by the way?

00:09:53.000 Believe it or not, it turns out that the Hamasniks in Gaza... 1.00

00:09:56.000 Have 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. 0.79

00:10:06.000 That is not even a joke.

00:10:07.000 That's a thing that they've been doing.

00:10:09.000 And if you just look at the cost on that, they'd buy something like 25 million condoms for use in Gaza.

00:10:14.000 I don't know what they're doing over in Gaza, but I'm not sure why we would be paying for that.

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00:12:30.000 One 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.

00:12:38.000 I talked a little bit about this yesterday.

00:12:40.000 Malicious 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.

00:12:48.000 So, 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.

00:13:01.000 And it turns out that that's not what Trump meant at all.

00:13:04.000 And Department of Defense head Pete Hegseth immediately rescinds that particular stupid application of the executive order.

00:13:11.000 A 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.

00:13:21.000 And one example of that came yesterday when there was a temporary shutdown.

00:13:25.000 Of the Medicaid enrollment website.

00:13:28.000 Now, 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?

00:13:37.000 Do you think that that's actually what he...

00:13:38.000 Of course not.

00:13:39.000 Of course not.

00:13:39.000 And actually, within hours, President Trump and the White House immediately addressed this.

00:13:44.000 Carolyn Levitt put out a tweet.

00:13:46.000 The White House is aware of the Medicaid website portal outage.

00:13:48.000 We have confirmed no payments have been affected.

00:13:50.000 They're still being processed and sent.

00:13:51.000 We expect the portal will be back online shortly.

00:13:54.000 Now, 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.

00:14:03.000 So 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.

00:14:12.000 Because if they don't get that aid today, then, well, they're going to have to shut.

00:14:15.000 That's not the way the grants work.

00:14:17.000 Typically, grants are annual.

00:14:18.000 That means that people budget for longer than a week.

00:14:21.000 You don't get a check from the government every month if you're a non- But, 0.99

00:14:46.000 again, what you are seeing mostly is just malicious compliance here from various people.

00:14:55.000 The Medicaid portal story, which was the biggest story yesterday in the mainstream media, was just silly.

00:15:02.000 It was up and running again within hours.

00:15:04.000 And 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.

00:15:14.000 Now, meanwhile, a lot of this is going to end up in the courts, as I suggested.

00:15:18.000 The question of just how far impoundment control goes is an open legal question.

00:15:24.000 A 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.

00:15:33.000 The 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.

00:15:43.000 Ali Khan said her administrative stay would expire 5 p.m.

00:15:45.000 Eastern 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.

00:15:53.000 Now, 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.

00:16:07.000 I'm not sure exactly how that is supposed to work legally.

00:16:10.000 The DOJ objects.

00:16:11.000 To 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.

00:16:20.000 In any case, this will end up at the Supreme Court level, and that will determine presumably exactly how far impoundments can go.

00:16:28.000 Chuck Schumer, meanwhile, is out there shouting about how supposedly lawless this is, saying it's a constitutional crisis.

00:16:35.000 Let's just get this straight.

00:16:36.000 When it's Joe Biden unilaterally declaring that he can relieve billions of dollars in student loan debt.

00:16:42.000 Which, by the way, is not allocated by Congress.

00:16:46.000 Then the Democratic Party is totally fine with it.

00:16:48.000 When 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.

00:17:00.000 The Trump administration is robbing Peter to pay the billionaires.

00:17:05.000 American families make no mistake about it. 0.82

00:17:09.000 The money being taken...

00:17:10.000 From them will be spent, but not on them.

00:17:15.000 Instead of going to support for your community, it's going to the ultra-wealthy and the mega corporations.

00:17:24.000 This is cruelty.

00:17:26.000 This is lawlessness.

00:17:28.000 This is a heist done on a national scale.

00:17:32.000 No 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.

00:17:45.000 By the way, I love the Democrats' definition of a heist.

00:17:48.000 So according to Democrats, a heist is not when you steal American taxpayer dollars to pay the bills of the gender studies major at Wellesley.

00:17:55.000 That's not a heist.

00:17:56.000 What is a heist is when the President of the United States refuses to spend taxpayer dollars on nonsense.

00:18:02.000 That is somehow stealing from you the taxpayer.

00:18:05.000 So spending your money on crap, That's not stealing from you.

00:18:07.000 Not spending your money on crap, that's stealing from you, according to Chuck Schumer.

00:18:12.000 Senate 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.

00:18:19.000 We'll see what the extent of it is and what they intend to do in a more fulsome way.

00:18:22.000 For now, I think it's just kind of a preliminary step I think most administrations take.

00:18:26.000 Now, this is going to raise broader issues of what the powers of the presidency ought to be.

00:18:30.000 The power of the purse, famously, is held by Congress under the Constitution of the United States.

00:18:35.000 How far does the executive have the ability to prevent the disbursement of those funds?

00:18:40.000 Well, according to the Constitution of the United States, the president has to make sure that the laws are faithfully executed.

00:18:48.000 But what exactly does that mean, faithfully executed?

00:18:50.000 He 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.

00:18:59.000 This kind of lives in a gray area of the law that the Supreme Court has never really ruled on.

00:19:04.000 The 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.

00:19:14.000 Until 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.

00:19:26.000 to get enough people on board to actually pass them.

00:19:29.000 And it's always easier to spend than it is to cut.

00:19:32.000 Congress has yet to actually issue, in my lifetime, a serious cut to federal spending.

00:19:37.000 They've cut the trajectory of the growth of federal spending.

00:19:40.000 They've yet to issue an actual serious real cut to federal spending.

00:19:44.000 Again, there is a reason why there has been a bipartisan level of support for things like a line item veto, historically speaking.

00:19:52.000 So...

00:19:53.000 You know, we will see how the Supreme Court rules on all this.

00:19:56.000 The media, of course, are trying to play this up.

00:19:57.000 It's going to be chaos.

00:19:58.000 Everyone will die.

00:19:59.000 Just like everyone died of net neutrality during the first Trump term.

00:20:02.000 Here's Dana Bash over at CNN. And she's panicked, obviously. 1.00

00:20:09.000 I 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.

00:20:18.000 Yeah, and look, I think that he would agree with you.

00:20:22.000 Chaos is what he wants, which is why he's doing this.

00:20:24.000 The question is, what comes after that?

00:20:28.000 Well, this idea that Trump wants chaos, I don't understand why it's suddenly considered normal or non-chaos.

00:20:36.000 To spend trillions of dollars on absolute sheer trash.

00:20:39.000 And this is the gap that exists between normie America and non-normie America, the media elites on the coast.

00:20:46.000 For them, normal is spending trillions of dollars on absolute nonsense.

00:20:51.000 For normies, it turns out that not spending the dollars on the nonsense, that would be more normal than spending the dollars on the nonsense.

00:20:57.000 Stephen Miller, who is a very aggressive defender of the president's agenda.

00:21:02.000 And 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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00:23:20.000 As I said before, Carolyn Levitt, the new White House press secretary, she's terrific at her job. 0.96

00:23:24.000 She's great.

00:23:25.000 Stephen Miller is a very aggressive defender.

00:23:27.000 And a very effective defender of the president's agenda.

00:23:29.000 Tom Homan speaking on immigration.

00:23:31.000 J.D. Vance obviously was like made in a laboratory to deal with legacy media.

00:23:34.000 President Trump himself.

00:23:36.000 I'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.

00:23:44.000 That it was somehow not Marcus of Queensberry rules.

00:23:47.000 Trump administration people do not have these same hangups.

00:23:51.000 They go with the media, and then they refuse to accept the premise of the question, and they fight back.

00:23:55.000 Here was Stephen Miller, for example, with Jake Tapper on the spending freeze.

00:23:58.000 I just want to make sure I understand.

00:24:01.000 So anybody out there that provides school lunches, anybody out there?

00:24:05.000 Yeah, there's no, there's zero impact on public benefit programs full stop, as OMB has made clear.

00:24:10.000 And I just want to, but I want to really drill down on this, Jake, because it's so important.

00:24:14.000 There's two million employees in the federal government.

00:24:18.000 Overwhelmingly, the career federal service in this country is far left, left-wing.

00:24:23.000 The American people...

00:24:25.000 I don't know that to be a fact.

00:24:26.000 Well, I'll give you a great example.

00:24:27.000 We looked at USAID as an example.

00:24:30.000 98% of the workforce either donated to Kamala Harris or another left-wing candidate, just as an example.

00:24:38.000 Okay, but you're demonizing an entire workforce as having a...

00:24:40.000 Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa!

00:24:41.000 Did you just say that saying someone voted for Kamala Harris is demonizing them?

00:24:45.000 No, your suggestion is that there's a bias.

00:24:49.000 No, but you used the word demonizing.

00:24:51.000 You just said that I'm demonizing somebody by saying they voted for Kamala Harris.

00:24:54.000 Let's get back on track.

00:24:55.000 I am on track.

00:24:57.000 Let me stay on track.

00:24:58.000 What I'm saying to you is this.

00:25:00.000 There are 2 million employees in the federal government.

00:25:03.000 They're overwhelmingly left of center.

00:25:06.000 I've got to finish the sentence.

00:25:07.000 I've got to finish the sentence.

00:25:09.000 The American people voted for dramatic change implemented by Donald Trump.

00:25:14.000 So 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.

00:25:31.000 Okay, that's exactly right.

00:25:33.000 That's exactly right.

00:25:34.000 Again, the level of defense this administration is putting forward for its agenda is unprecedented.

00:25:38.000 It's unprecedented in my lifetime and maybe ever.

00:25:40.000 It's an amazing, amazing thing to watch.

00:25:42.000 That wasn't the only big thing that President Trump did yesterday.

00:25:45.000 He also offered a buyout to millions of federal employees.

00:25:49.000 Basically said, listen, if you don't want you to work for me, great.

00:25:51.000 Here's the check.

00:25:52.000 Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

00:25:55.000 According 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.

00:26:04.000 A 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.

00:26:12.000 All 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.

00:26:23.000 White 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.

00:26:34.000 If 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.

00:26:39.000 The Trump administration will provide a very generous payout of eight months.

00:26:43.000 That is correct, and that is good.

00:26:45.000 There's an email, though, sent out to all federal employees, including a draft resignation letter for them to sign.

00:26:51.000 It 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.

00:26:59.000 At 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.

00:27:09.000 If 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.

00:27:19.000 So basically show up to work or you can leave.

00:27:24.000 You can also leave.

00:27:25.000 Naturally, the left is fighting mad about this because they are afraid that a bunch of people will take the buyout.

00:27:31.000 AFGE 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.

00:27:39.000 But there are more Americans than ever who rely on government services.

00:27:42.000 Purging the federal government of dedicated career civil servants will have a vast unintended consequence that will cause chaos.

00:27:48.000 Okay, I have a question.

00:27:49.000 Why is that chaos?

00:27:50.000 Seriously.

00:27:51.000 If you don't want it, get out.

00:27:53.000 If you don't want to, be involved in a performance culture, a return to the office, enhanced standards of conduct.

00:27:59.000 That's what the Trump administration is calling for.

00:28:01.000 Then here is your payout, and you can get out.

00:28:04.000 That is the email that was put out by the Office of Personnel Management.

00:28:09.000 And again, they're making it real easy for people to resign.

00:28:12.000 All you have to do is type the word resign into the subject line of the email and hit send.

00:28:18.000 That's it.

00:28:19.000 So they're basically saying, listen, we could fire you or you could leave.

00:28:23.000 Okay, 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.

00:28:28.000 President Trump is also moving to fire Democratic members of two independent federal commissions, which is good. 0.96

00:28:34.000 The EEOC, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which is a left-wing, dominated organization established in the 1960s and 70s.

00:28:43.000 Jocelyn Samuels and Charlotte Burroughs, formerly the chair, have been dismissed.

00:28:48.000 He also fired the head of the National Labor Relations Board, the worst government board in America.

00:28:53.000 I know the NLRB. We comply, I have to say this, by law.

00:28:57.000 We comply with all legal standards when it comes to labor.

00:29:01.000 Also, the NLRB is trash and the National Labor Relations Act is garbage.

00:29:05.000 I 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.

00:29:18.000 I was joking about it, by the way, and they still sent us an investigative letter.

00:29:22.000 That's what the NLRB is.

00:29:24.000 So Trump has now fired the chair of the National Labor Relations Board, Gwynne Wilcox.

00:29:29.000 I would hope that the NLRB is completely disestablished.

00:29:32.000 Trump 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.

00:29:43.000 He also terminated Jennifer Abruzzo, the NLRB's general counsel.

00:29:48.000 Good.

00:29:49.000 Good.

00:29:50.000 These are career left-wing employees, and it is worthwhile for them not to have jobs.

00:29:56.000 Period.

00:29:57.000 End of story.

00:29:58.000 Again, Trump is moving fast.

00:29:59.000 He is moving fast.

00:30:00.000 And the left is panicked because he's not using any authorities that were not available to Joe Biden or Barack Obama.

00:30:05.000 Remember, guys, you built this.

00:30:07.000 You don't like Trump using executive authorities in this way?

00:30:09.000 Well, 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.

00:30:15.000 Maybe Joe Biden shouldn't have tried to use OSHA to cram down vaccine mandates on 80 million Americans.

00:30:20.000 Something we had to sue him at Daily Wire to stop.

00:30:23.000 Maybe 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.

00:30:29.000 You guys built this entire system.

00:30:31.000 It 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.

00:30:40.000 You guys obliterated those.

00:30:42.000 And 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.

00:30:51.000 In order to crank back the level of government regulation and control.

00:30:53.000 You break it.

00:30:54.000 You bought it.

00:30:55.000 Tough bedoogies, folks.

00:30:57.000 I'm sorry this is happening to you.

00:30:58.000 I'm sorry that you built the system that is now being used against you.

00:31:03.000 But maybe you shouldn't have built it that way if you didn't want it.

00:31:07.000 By the way, I have to say I'm loving this.

00:31:10.000 I am.

00:31:11.000 It is great.

00:31:12.000 Because no matter how the Supreme Court rules on impoundment, we're going to find out what the actual story is on impoundment.

00:31:18.000 No matter how the Supreme Court rules.

00:31:20.000 On these hirings and firings, we're going to find out what the actual powers of the presidency are.

00:31:24.000 And I think that's a good thing.

00:31:25.000 Clarity is a good thing.

00:31:27.000 For 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.

00:31:41.000 That day is now over, and I think it's excellent.

00:31:45.000 Meanwhile, President Trump issued a historic executive order yesterday as well.

00:31:50.000 Protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilation.

00:31:52.000 I'm going to declare victory here on behalf of The Daily Wire.

00:31:55.000 The Daily Wire, there's no company in America.

00:31:57.000 We don't toot our own horns on this as much as we should.

00:31:59.000 There 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. 1.00

00:32:12.000 We have dedicated our company to this issue for years.

00:32:15.000 For literally years.

00:32:17.000 I mean, going back.

00:32:19.000 Well before What is a Woman, the groundbreaking documentary made by our own Matt Walsh that totally shifted the debate on transgenderism and transgender ideology.

00:32:29.000 I'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. 0.99

00:32:44.000 That was in 2015. That is going back...

00:32:48.000 Ten years.

00:32:49.000 So I've been on this battle for a very, very long time.

00:32:53.000 I 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.

00:33:01.000 And I said, so why can't you be trans age?

00:33:03.000 Why can't you be 60?

00:33:04.000 I believe that was in 2014. I've been fighting this battle for as long as this battle has been going on.

00:33:08.000 So has our company generally.

00:33:09.000 There's no company in America that's done more on this.

00:33:13.000 We were happy to push.

00:33:14.000 People like Abigail Schreier, when Abigail was pushing her book, Irreversible Damage.

00:33:18.000 Which really was a groundbreaking book.

00:33:20.000 We helped to promote that book heavily.

00:33:23.000 There's not an aspect of this fight in which we have not engaged as a company.

00:33:26.000 And so thank you to President Trump for putting the capstone on that.

00:33:29.000 Now we need a national ban on this sort of stuff from Congress.

00:33:32.000 But according to the executive action from the White House, it is now ordered across the country today.

00:33:39.000 Medical 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.

00:33:47.000 This dangerous trend will be a stain on our nation's history and it must end.

00:33:50.000 Countless 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.

00:33:58.000 Moreover, 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.

00:34:06.000 Accordingly, 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. 0.88

00:34:19.000 Good for the White House.

00:34:20.000 And 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.

00:34:33.000 There are so many people who have been part of this fight.

00:34:35.000 This 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.

00:34:42.000 That is a long-going battle for this company.

00:34:45.000 We should take a victory lap on it, for sure.

00:34:47.000 Alrighty, in just one second, we'll get to President Trump on illegal immigration and the left fighting him first.

00:34:52.000 Let's be real, mainstream media isn't just broken, it is corrupt.

00:34:54.000 They do not report the news, they curate it.

00:34:56.000 To fit their agenda on Americans, we're done with it.

00:34:58.000 That's why the Daily Wire exists.

00:34:59.000 We're not here to follow the narrative, we're here to crush it.

00:35:01.000 Our reporters go where the truth is, no matter how inconvenient it may be for the powerful, and we're not stopping there.

00:35:06.000 We're creating the entertainment Hollywood won't.

00:35:08.000 Bold movies, fearless documentaries, shows that fight back against the cultural rot.

00:35:11.000 Here's the thing, none of this happens without you.

00:35:13.000 The fight for truth and culture starts with your support.

00:35:15.000 Join the movement today at dailywire.com slash subscribe zone.

00:35:18.000 Sit on the sidelines.

00:35:18.000 Be part of the revolution.

00:35:20.000 Well, meanwhile, yesterday a star was born over at the White House.

00:35:24.000 The brand new White House press secretary, Carolyn Levitt, is 27 years old.

00:35:28.000 She took to the podium yesterday and she announced a massive sea change in how the White House is actually going to be treating the media.

00:35:35.000 First, she said that there would, in fact, be a brand new, important focus on new media.

00:35:42.000 Instead of legacy media being given all sorts of special attention, the new media would be given all sorts of attention.

00:35:47.000 One of the members of the new media was there.

00:35:49.000 That, of course, is our own, Mary Margaret Olhan.

00:35:51.000 She is our senior White House reporter.

00:35:52.000 She was in the room.

00:35:53.000 Mary Margaret, thanks for joining the show.

00:35:55.000 Hey, Ben.

00:35:56.000 It's great to be here.

00:35:58.000 So, let's talk about the mood in the room.

00:36:00.000 Obviously, it was very, very packed.

00:36:02.000 There were a lot of new media figures.

00:36:03.000 It was different from the past.

00:36:05.000 Talk about what it was like in there.

00:36:06.000 Yes, so it was incredibly crowded.

00:36:09.000 I was not expecting that many members of the press to be there.

00:36:11.000 At one point, I had someone pressed into my back and very close to me in the front as well.

00:36:16.000 There 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.

00:36:24.000 As 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.

00:36:33.000 So yesterday during the briefing, we saw Breitbart get...

00:36:36.000 We saw the Daily Caller get called on.

00:36:38.000 We even saw...

00:36:39.000 TPUSA's new White House correspondent get called on.

00:36:42.000 And 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.

00:36:49.000 So there's going to be a rotating seat that we hope to have access to as a member of the new media.

00:36:54.000 And 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.

00:37:00.000 Because as you know, Ben, this is typically given to members of the legacy press.

00:37:04.000 Often the people in the front rows are the only ones that get questions.

00:37:08.000 CNN, the Associated Press, Fox, these very established legacy media outlets.

00:37:12.000 So that's really exciting for us.

00:37:13.000 And Caroline made a very strong statement at the beginning of this briefing saying we are going to be transparent.

00:37:18.000 We're going to be allowing new media access.

00:37:22.000 In fact, we do have a clip here of Caroline Levitt. 0.79

00:37:25.000 She was asked a question by the legacy media asking about standards of truth inside the White House.

00:37:31.000 And here she was slamming the legacy media.

00:37:34.000 Since 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.

00:37:44.000 We 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.

00:37:54.000 We will call you out when we feel that your reporting is wrong or there is misinformation about this White House.

00:38:01.000 So, yes, I will hold myself to the truth.

00:38:03.000 I expect everyone in this room to do the same.

00:38:07.000 So Mary Margaret, obviously there's a sea change in how the media are being treated at the White House.

00:38:12.000 Did 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?

00:38:21.000 Well, there was a lot of murmuring in the press room, but in general, it seems like people were open to the changes.

00:38:25.000 They understood that this was going to happen.

00:38:27.000 And look, you know, this was not completely out of the blue.

00:38:31.000 Donald Trump Jr. came on Michael Moll's show earlier this year and talked about how the White House wanted to shake things up.

00:38:36.000 We've heard that from members of the press team throughout the campaign, that this was an effort they really wanted to promote.

00:38:42.000 Of 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.

00:38:51.000 But 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.

00:39:00.000 As Caroline talked about, there has been such a shift in trust in media.

00:39:04.000 Young people are getting their media from very different sources, and we saw that throughout the presidential election.

00:39:09.000 We saw that in the way they consumed media from...

00:39:12.000 People 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.

00:39:19.000 So this is a change, and it's fitting to the media landscape right now, and I'm excited to see how it goes.

00:39:27.000 That's Mary Margaret Olihan, our senior White House reporter.

00:39:29.000 Congratulations on actually now being an accepted member of the White House Press Corps.

00:39:33.000 Really appreciate it, Mary Margaret.

00:39:35.000 Thank you so much.

00:39:38.000 As we say, Caroline Levitt was a star yesterday.

00:39:41.000 She had a bunch of exchanges with members largely of the legacy media.

00:39:44.000 That did not go particularly well for the members of the legacy media.

00:39:47.000 Again, I have not seen a robust press response by a Republican administration this way, certainly in my lifetime.

00:39:53.000 You probably have to go back to the Reagan administration to see anything like it.

00:39:56.000 And 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.

00:40:01.000 And now you actually have alternative media available.

00:40:04.000 Here was Caroline Lovett, who's questioned about whether the administration would be deporting only criminals or whether it would be deporting all illegal immigrants. 0.62

00:40:11.000 Here was Caroline Lovett slapping around a member of the media. 1.00

00:40:15.000 Of the 3,500 arrests ICE has made so far since President Trump came back into office, can you just tell us the numbers?

00:40:21.000 How many have a criminal record versus those who are just in the country illegally?

00:40:25.000 All of them, because they illegally broke our nation's laws and therefore they are criminals, as far as this administration goes.

00:40:30.000 I 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. 0.72

00:40:39.000 Man, she is good at this. 0.96

00:40:41.000 She's very, very good at this.

00:40:43.000 Again, she is an aggressive defender of the president's agenda.

00:40:46.000 She was also questioned by legacy media about inflation.

00:40:48.000 So the media finally decided that inflation matters, but only once Trump is president.

00:40:52.000 So they asked her about the price of eggs, and she went off.

00:40:56.000 Really glad you brought this up.

00:40:58.000 Because there is a lot of reporting out there that is putting the onus on this White House for the increased cost of eggs. 0.84

00:41:05.000 I 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.

00:41:18.000 We also have seen the cost of everything, not just eggs.

00:41:22.000 Bacon, groceries, gasoline have increased because of the inflationary policies of Again.

00:41:47.000 This administration is not being run like prior Republican administrations.

00:41:51.000 Speaking of which, the Trump administration has now ramped up deportations after a fairly slow start.

00:41:55.000 One 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.

00:42:03.000 People are not showing up on the southern border.

00:42:05.000 Many of the supposed deportations that were undertaken by, for example, the Obama administration were actually what we call turnbacks at the border.

00:42:11.000 People who would arrive and the administration would simply say, you can't get in.

00:42:15.000 Nobody'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.

00:42:31.000 But 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.

00:42:44.000 The media are predictably upset about all of this.

00:42:47.000 Stephen 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.

00:42:54.000 And Stephen Miller was like, Jake, the number of illegal immigrants who actually are in the fields picking fruits and veggies is pretty low. 0.93

00:43:01.000 So, 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?

00:43:14.000 Well, I'm sure it's not your position, Jake.

00:43:23.000 You're just asking the question that we should supply America's food with exploitative, illegal alien labor. 1.00

00:43:30.000 I obviously don't think that's what you're implying.

00:43:33.000 Only 1% of alien workers in the entire country work in agriculture.

00:43:37.000 The 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.

00:43:50.000 None of those illegal aliens are doing farm work. 0.98

00:43:53.000 Those 30,000 illegal aliens that Joe Biden dumped into Springfield...

00:43:56.000 Yeah, I'm talking about the ones that are...

00:43:57.000 No, no, no, but I'm explaining this.

00:43:59.000 It's important to understand.

00:44:00.000 No, you're kind of changing this subject.

00:44:01.000 No, no, no.

00:44:03.000 Give me 30 minutes.

00:44:05.000 I'll go as deep as you want.

00:44:05.000 I'm explaining to you and your audience.

00:44:07.000 I'm talking about the ones that work in the agriculture industry.

00:44:11.000 You can come back and we can talk about the ones in the cities, I swear.

00:44:15.000 I'll do the whole answer.

00:44:16.000 The illegal aliens that Joe Biden brought into our country are not full stop doing farm work.

00:44:21.000 They are not.

00:44:23.000 The illegal aliens you brought in from Venezuela, from Haiti, from Nicaragua, they are not doing farm work. 0.99

00:44:29.000 They are in our cities collecting welfare.

00:44:31.000 Everybody knows that this is true.

00:44:34.000 This is obviously true.

00:44:35.000 And the agricultural conversation has been a misdirect for a very long time.

00:44:39.000 As Stephen Miller points out, we do have temporary farm work that is available for people who cross into the United States legally.

00:44:45.000 That is an actual program under President Trump.

00:44:48.000 But the reality is that for the left, they actually just want unlimited immigration.

00:44:51.000 This is what Sonny Hostin...

00:44:52.000 The idiotic id of the Democratic Party has to say she's on The View yesterday saying, actually, you know what?

00:44:57.000 You're not a criminal for crossing the border illegally.

00:45:00.000 I also want to make the point that an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal because he or she is undocumented.

00:45:07.000 That is a civil offense.

00:45:09.000 So to call people illegal is in and of itself, I think, xenophobic and racist.

00:45:17.000 I do.

00:45:19.000 Applause from the morons in the audience at The View.

00:45:22.000 Actually, it is a criminal offense to cross the United States border illegally.

00:45:26.000 That is a criminal offense, actually.

00:45:27.000 But, 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.

00:45:35.000 One of the reasons that they're having such trouble is because they can't actually decide on what the narrative is.

00:45:40.000 Trump wants chaos.

00:45:41.000 Okay, well, we just had chaos for four years.

00:45:43.000 It's not chaos to say that we shouldn't spend trillions of dollars on stupid nonsense.

00:45:47.000 Oh, my God!

00:45:47.000 I can't believe Trump's...

00:45:48.000 Saying that people have to come into work.

00:45:50.000 Really?

00:45:50.000 That's going to be your line?

00:45:51.000 So, you know, they go back to the well every so often.

00:45:54.000 You 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.

00:46:06.000 As you're seeing in the reporting just now, what they actually do behind the scenes, they trust, will not really get out.

00:46:14.000 And 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. 0.80

00:46:31.000 They 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.

00:46:41.000 We are going to become a kind of check your papers society in the blink of an eye.

00:46:46.000 And there's no mandate for that.

00:46:49.000 But that is what folks like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon and others around the president actually want.

00:46:54.000 They want to change the very fabric of this country, something for which there is not that same mandate.

00:47:01.000 Okay, 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.

00:47:08.000 Like, no evidence that that is the case.

00:47:10.000 And he won.

00:47:11.000 Something insane.

00:47:12.000 He won almost a majority of the Hispanic vote in the last election cycle.

00:47:15.000 So, yeah, good luck with that particular argument.

00:47:17.000 The 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?

00:47:25.000 He is a socialist-leaning Democrat in terms of these economic programs.

00:47:29.000 But what he is doing is smart.

00:47:30.000 He's saying, listen, Trump is doing what he campaigned on.

00:47:32.000 I'm sure there are areas where we disagree.

00:47:34.000 And when we disagree, I'll smack him.

00:47:36.000 But I'm not just going to start screaming at the moon.

00:47:38.000 Here's John Fetterman yesterday on The View.

00:47:41.000 Do you anticipate that there's going to be changes that we should be prepped for that we're not thinking about?

00:47:49.000 I mean, honestly, I haven't been surprised by anything now.

00:47:52.000 I mean, he's been doing essentially what he actually campaigned on that.

00:47:56.000 He announced he is going to pardon the J6 individuals. 1.00

00:48:00.000 He is going to absolutely go after the border.

00:48:03.000 So there's a lot of things that he's already ran on.

00:48:06.000 I mean, criticize a lot of it.

00:48:08.000 And I don't agree with everything either.

00:48:09.000 But it's undeniable he actually ran on that and been really upfront.

00:48:14.000 He's like, I am your reputation.

00:48:15.000 And he's kind of making those moves.

00:48:20.000 Okay, again, he is being rational about all of this.

00:48:23.000 If 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.

00:48:34.000 Fifty-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.

00:48:44.000 There's no reason why the United States should be...

00:48:47.000 Either subsidizing or not punishing people associated with the ICC. 42 Democrats had supported this in the House.

00:48:54.000 And a couple of Democrats supported it in the Senate.

00:48:57.000 But Chuck Schumer, the supposed show mayor of Jews, right? 0.84

00:49:03.000 This is what he says.

00:49:04.000 This is the guardian of Jews, Chuck Schumer, who's a disgusting, perverse individual in terms of his politics. 0.73

00:49:09.000 The Senate minority leader.

00:49:10.000 He said, quote, The bill before us is poorly drafted and deeply problematic.

00:49:13.000 It will have many unintended consequences that undermine its primary goal.

00:49:17.000 Okay, again, the reason that Democrats are voting in favor of the ICC is because they are just beholden to the radical left.

00:49:25.000 Senate Majority Leader John Thune ripped them yesterday over all of this.

00:49:29.000 The 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.

00:49:42.000 Ultimately, he ended up getting 74 votes on the floor, and that's going to be the case.

00:49:47.000 I 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.

00:49:54.000 They want to continue to obstruct and delay.

00:49:57.000 We're going to continue to grind and grind and grind, and we'll do that through the weekend if necessary.

00:50:03.000 Okay, by the way, Democrats are in a state of panic.

00:50:08.000 Senator 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.

00:50:24.000 It 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.

00:50:34.000 That includes, for example, John Ossoff in Georgia.

00:50:36.000 That seat is going to flip.

00:50:37.000 That 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.

00:50:52.000 New Hampshire is moving toward battleground status.

00:50:55.000 That would take Republicans to 56. Again, the map does not look particularly amazing for Democrats looking forward in the next election cycle.

00:51:06.000 So, Gary Peters stepping out is a bad sign for them.

00:51:09.000 Meanwhile, in a moment, we're going to get to Jim Acosta.

00:51:13.000 Have we seen the last of him?

00:51:14.000 He apparently is leaving CNN. We shed a tear for Jim Acosta.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - January 29, 2025

Trump Takes A WRECKING BALL To The Federal Government!

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