00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, why are Democrats willing to lose congressional power while trying to pass a piece of legislation?
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00:02:51.000Last night, Kevin McCarthy, the man who wants to be speaker, broke the record in the House of Representatives for the longest ever speech by the leadership of the other party.
00:03:07.000Nancy Pelosi spoke for eight hours to try to defend criminal illegal aliens many years ago.
00:03:12.000And Kevin McCarthy spoke for eight hours plus last evening, trying to draw attention and trying to get consensus, build consensus against the Build Back Better Act.
00:03:27.000So many of you are rather happy people because you don't watch the news every single day.
00:03:32.000And many of you are cheerful and you have great families and you're figuring things out and you might not quite understand what's happening in DC right now.
00:03:41.000So there's always been two separate pieces of legislation.
00:03:44.000Three actually, if you count the continuing resolution, but that's not pertinent to this discussion.
00:03:50.000The first was the infrastructure package.
00:03:53.000The infrastructure package, which 13 Republican senators, actually it was 18, right?
00:03:58.00013 or 18 Republican senators voted for to make Pete Buttigieg the most powerful man in Washington, D.C., electric vehicle charging stations, tree equity, all those different things is what Republicans thought was a good time, good use of time to allocate while the country falls apart.
00:04:32.000And the other bill makes the infrastructure package look like a great idea.
00:04:37.000The other bill is the Build Back Better Act.
00:04:42.000Now, the Build Back Better Act has been the bill that you've probably heard bits and pieces discussed for the last couple of weeks and months.
00:04:55.000The Build Back Better Act is one of the largest spending bills in American history.
00:05:02.000The Build Back Better Act is so important to the current Democrat regime that they have decided to make the following bargain.
00:05:12.000They would rather lose power and get this bill passed.
00:05:18.000Their poll numbers are historically low.
00:05:22.000The popularity for Democrats hasn't been this low in 30 or 40 years.
00:05:26.000Yet the question that is frustrating and confusing and confounding so many normal Americans is: why don't they care?
00:05:38.000You see, I've had that same question, and we've wrestled with that together here on this program.
00:05:43.000And then this morning I got up and I asked our team, producer Connor and producer Andrew.
00:05:48.000Andrew did a great job filling in yesterday.
00:05:57.000And as I got to actually reading what is in this bill, I have now come to the realization as to why Pelosi and Schumer are comfortable, satisfied, and content with losing power if this bill goes into law.
00:06:25.000We're going to go piece by piece through this bill.
00:06:31.000This bill is going to be covered in bits and pieces.
00:06:36.000But you have to know, you have a right to know, why is it that Democrats value this piece of legislation more than controlling the House of Representatives or the Senate for the next two years?
00:06:46.000Basically, they know that if they pass this bill, it's going to be deeply unpopular.
00:06:52.000Well, first, let's just play some sound to frame the debate.
00:06:58.000Kevin McCarthy, to his great credit, gave the longest speech in House history yesterday, trying to create the public media drumbeat to try to have people start to actually care that the House of Representatives is about to embark on the most radical, unprecedented public domestic spending agenda in the history of our country.
00:07:54.000That's what colleges create, self-centered individuals who are miserable.
00:07:58.000It went on last night where House Democrats started heckling Kevin McCarthy and saying, I can't wait, Mr. Speaker, and tells them not to lower their mask or they will get the fine.
00:08:38.000Kevin knows he's going to be Speaker next year, but the Democrats don't care.
00:08:43.000You see, the Democrats have made a decision, and it's clearer in my mind than ever before.
00:08:51.000The Democrats know that it's very hard to hold on to the House and the Senate after a presidential election.
00:08:59.000History, it's only happened a couple times.
00:09:02.000The Senate's different, but the House, the last time a midterm election was not catastrophic for the incumbent party one year after was the 2002 election for George W. Bush post-9-11.
00:09:17.000Almost every midterm election gets increasingly difficult for the incumbent presidential party.
00:09:23.000Americans like a check on what they're seeing from the White House.
00:10:03.000And what Americans are they going after?
00:10:05.000Any one of you that spends $28 in one single day.
00:10:10.000The borders remain wide open for Nicaraguans and Hondurans, but if you are an American taxpayer, the war is on you.
00:10:17.000This goes to the theme that we have been building out here on this program, which is the regime, your government, has declared a domestic war on you.
00:10:28.000So if the Democrats know they're going to lose power and they're okay with it, then it is essential that you know what's in this bill.
00:10:39.000As I started to read this and I got to point 35 and 37 in this bill, the details of this bill, I said, I get it now.
00:10:48.000This bill is so sinister that they believe that if they lose the House but pass the Build Back Better Act, the country is theirs forever.
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00:11:37.000So look, if you want to refinance your house or do anything with the bank, let's just say timeout.
00:11:42.000We're going to call a timeout, two-minute warning, right?
00:11:56.000Are you using a bank that is at war with your worldview?
00:12:00.000Well, if you have refinanced recently with the big bank, you have just given a check, a cashier's check, a wire transfer to Nicole Hannah-Jones, to Stacey Abrams, to Joe Biden, to Chuck Schumer, to Nancy Pelosi.
00:12:14.000You see, when you refinance with the big boys, the banks of the Woakesters, you might as well give your hard-earned money to the revolutionaries that are burning down our streets.
00:12:26.000You might as well give it to Planned Parenthood.
00:12:29.000But if you want to support the good guys, two Christian men that I've got to know very well, they love the Lord, they love the Bible, they are great people.
00:12:39.000We just hung out in Dallas and we had the best time.
00:13:55.000The bill would spend $500 million to hire new Department of Justice Tax Division surveillance agents to bring civil and criminal cases against Americans if we're not raiding enough homes right now.
00:14:06.000It removes any prohibition regarding Uyghur Muslims in China.
00:14:09.000Democrats have removed the provision in the previous draft that would have prohibited any funding provided by Title on Science, Space or Technology award a contract, subcontract grant or loan to an entity involved with using the forced labor of Uyghur Muslims.
00:14:25.000This provision modifies current law expensing rules to allow plaintiffs' attorneys to deduct out-of-pocket litigation costs in the year they are incurred.
00:14:45.000We need more New York Times reporters.
00:14:48.000The bill would add $500 million, $500 million.
00:14:52.000That's the annual operating budget of Pittsburgh every single year, to give you an idea, of the whole city.
00:14:58.000For schools of medicine, prioritizing funding based on racial demographics and requiring faculty to be hired and students be recruited based on prioritizing racial and demographic characteristics.
00:15:12.000How about left-wing divisive race baiting?
00:15:15.000This bill would add back language that continues the race baiting attempts as Americans is oppressive, claiming all minorities are denied a full opportunity to participate in the American way of life.
00:15:25.000That's a direct quote out of the bill, that all minorities are denied a full opportunity from participating in American life.
00:15:36.000It'd be a $2.5 billion slush fund that would send taxpayer dollars to radical environmental groups to plant trees and advance tree equity.
00:15:45.000The bill asks for hundreds of millions of dollars to promote funding for racism and discrimination training curriculum, funding for healthcare risk training to promote the LEPS climate agenda, and refers to pregnant women as individuals.
00:15:58.000Refers to pregnant women as individuals.
00:16:29.000Subjects small businesses to reckless tax penalties.
00:16:32.000The bill subjects small businesses with over $600 in transactions to backup tax withholding requirements if they fail to comply with IRS regulations.
00:16:43.000Makes it easier for the IRS to target taxpayers.
00:16:46.000This bill would make it easier for the IRS to issue penalties against taxpayers by removing the requirement that each penalty assessments be approved by a supervisor.
00:16:54.000Instead, the bill would merely require supervisors to provide quarterly reports on whether IRS employees are following the proper guidelines and requirements.
00:17:07.000The bill would spend $2.5 billion for community-based violence intervention initiatives, which could be used to deny the individual exercise of the Second Amendment without due process.
00:17:19.000It continues welfare benefits without work requirements for able-bodied adults, so it will basically pay 10 million people not to work, only prolonging the labor shortage.
00:17:31.000It subsidizes Green New Deal education in our universities.
00:17:35.000Democrats include a $10 billion environmental justice higher education credit program to indoctrinate college students and advance Green New Deal policies.
00:17:43.000It forces faith-based child care providers.
00:17:46.000The bill blocks the ability of many faith-based providers from participating in the child care system and will lead to many of their closures.
00:17:54.000It hurts small and in-home daycares, requires pre-K staff to have a college degree.
00:18:02.000Your preschooler must be babysat by someone who went to Wellesley and adequately hates America.
00:18:10.000It includes new incentives for illegal immigrants.
00:18:12.000Illegal immigrants would be eligible now for federal student aid and the enhanced child tax credit.
00:18:18.000We're going to spy on American citizens and kick down doors of moms and dads.
00:18:22.000But if you are a cartel member trafficking children across the southern border, you too can get federal student aid at the University of New Mexico.
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00:20:02.000I sure hope Mitch McConnell's got a trick up his sleeve because we're going to need it.
00:20:08.000Whatever Mitch has to be able to kill this bill, we need it, Mr. McConnell, badly.
00:20:18.000Mitch is all that stands in the way of this going into law.
00:20:23.000And Manchin and Cinema, we'll get into that.
00:20:27.000It includes, so we're going to the Build Back Better bill.
00:20:31.000And for those of you that just are tuning in right now, there is a bargain that has been brokered on the left.
00:20:37.000They know they're going to lose power, so they might as well pass a spending bill so vast, so dramatic, so wide-reaching that it's going to change the country fundamentally and put them in power long term.
00:21:19.000The bill creates a new civil penalty against employers up to $100,000 and subjects directors and officers to penalties that wouldn't apply to union bosses and officials.
00:21:29.000It coerces businesses to meet union bosses' demands by increasing Fair Labor Standards Act by an astronomical 900%.
00:21:38.000It makes unions bigger and more powerful.
00:21:40.000I'm reading from Breitbart.com, by the way.
00:21:42.000The bill revives a provision from an earlier version, provision from an earlier version that would subsidize union dues that would only serve to strengthen the influence of union bosses and not American workers.
00:21:55.000It pushes Democrats wasteful and confusing school lunch agenda.
00:21:59.000$250 million, among other things, for procuring culturally appropriate foods.
00:22:08.000The Build Back Better plan will make sure that school lunches are culturally appropriate.
00:22:14.000The bill also furthers Democrats' radical pro-abortion agenda by allowing taxpayer money to fund elective abortions, subsidizing plans that cover them, and creating new ways taxpayer money could be spent on pro-abortion facilities.
00:22:27.000This bill also drives up costs of Americans' utility bills, including a tax on natural gas, eventually up to $1,500 per ton, and could cost the entire economy up to $9 billion and cost 90,000 Americans their jobs.
00:22:43.000It includes kickbacks on the left's Green Energy Special Interest Network, $3 billion for environmental and climate justice block grants, $3 billion for climate justice block grants, and tens of billions of dollars for more green energy, special interest subsidies, loans, and other carve-outs.
00:23:07.000Before I go any further, doesn't it make you wish that Republicans, if we knew we were going to lose the House in 2018, that we would have went bigger and bolder than just corporate tax cuts?
00:23:20.000In some ways, I mean, obviously, I'm horrified by this, but I understand the strategy.
00:23:25.000The strategy is we're going to lose power.
00:23:27.000We are going to try to change the country the way we want it.
00:23:30.000Obviously, they're going to try to destroy the country.
00:23:32.000Where Republicans, when we have power, we make sure that corporations are paying 22%, not 24%.
00:23:40.000Gives wealthy Americans tax credits, hundreds of billions of dollars in green energy tax credits, will be given to those who can afford expensive vehicles and other green innovative projects on page 1,434 of the bill.
00:23:55.000It furthers the Democrat social justice agenda and includes equity initiatives throughout the bill.
00:24:00.000And in fact, equity is mentioned 32 times.
00:24:06.000It grants deportation protection and work permits to illegal immigrants.
00:24:11.000The bill would grant five-year parole to certain illegal aliens who fire for parole, pay a fee, and complete a law enforcement background check.
00:25:01.000The Democrats don't care about guns flowing into our country or fentanyl flowing into our country.
00:25:06.000No, the Democrats smile because they think one day on their last gasp of living, these soulless septogenarians that run the U.S. Senate and the current regime, that right before they die, they can smile and America might become Nicaragua.
00:26:40.000The Build Back Better plan would extend chain migration by 226,000 people.
00:26:47.000It would give visa lotteries to anyone denied due to the pandemic or because of Trump's immigration policies.
00:26:52.000Another 226,000 people into the country.
00:26:57.000It grants fast-tracked green cards for those seeking middle-class careers.
00:27:02.000It's a hidden pipeline for U.S. employers to flood more cheap foreign graduates into millions and middle-class careers needed by American graduates.
00:27:10.000It increases energy dependence on OPEC.
00:27:13.000The bill includes mineral and energy withdrawals on federal lands and overturns provisions included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and authorize energy production in the Arctic that would result in 130,000 Americans losing their jobs and $440 billion in lost total federal revenue on page 933.
00:27:31.000Do you see how they're going after everything?
00:27:32.000Gun control, abortion, minerals, natural gas extraction.
00:27:39.000The bill would fund the conversion of the U.S. Postal Service and General Services Administration vehicle fleet from internal combustion engines to electrical vehicles.
00:27:52.000The Build Back Better bill includes billions of dollars in research funding that will likely result in American intellectual property going to China, page 954.
00:28:02.000Build Back Better plan punishes red states for failing to adopt Green New Deal provisions, mandates consequences for conservative states that don't meet the radical LEPS green climate standards, while at the same time adding nearly $4 billion for community climate incentive grants.
00:28:16.000The Build Back Better plan has a paid work leave entitlement for the unemployed.
00:28:20.000The new paid leave entitlement would mandate workers get four weeks of paid leave in which workers could attest their eligibility even though they don't need to be employed.
00:28:31.000We need more time off in our country right now.
00:28:34.000It advances a totalitarian and paternalistic view of the federal government, including grants for organizations to treat individuals suffering from loneliness and social isolation.
00:28:44.000Further detaches individuals from employment and more reliant on government handouts.
00:28:48.000The bill spends hundreds of billions of dollars, small rounding error, hundreds of billions of dollars, on welfare through manipulating the tax code, 1636, page 1,636.
00:29:02.000On page 1,729, the 1%, they get a tax cut.
00:29:06.000The bill would increase by more than a sevenfold the cap on which state and local tax deductibility, meaning that the top 1% wealthiest Americans would pay less in taxes.
00:29:17.000Page 1,717, tax credit for wealthy donors who give money to broken and woke universities.
00:29:24.000The bill creates a new tax credit program that gives tax credits worth 40% of cash contribution that are made to university research programs.
00:29:33.000The bill expands the worst parts of Obamacare, Obamacare's job-killing employer mandate that will become more severe by adjusting the definition of affordable coverage to mean coverage that costs no more than 8% of income.
00:29:45.000On page 1,731, it increases taxes of Americans on every level.
00:29:50.000The bill's trillions of dollars in tax increases will be felt mostly by those earning less than $400,000 per year.
00:29:57.000Obviously, the opposite of what Biden promised.
00:30:00.000On page 1,731, it continues by saying there's a 15% minimum tax on book income is double taxed on investment.
00:30:08.000This would raid taxes on American companies by hundreds of billions of dollars and killing 25,000 jobs and reducing wages by 0.1%, all in the name of complying with Biden's desire for the international globalist global minimum tax.
00:30:22.000On page 1,651 of the bill, it penalizes marriage.
00:30:25.000This bill would double the earned income tax credit penalty on childless worker benefits, punishing people that actually get married and work, but subsidizing single motherhood even further.
00:30:36.000It makes Lyndon Baines Johnson look like a hiccup.
00:30:39.000Page 1,883, it imposes crushing taxes on small businesses, hammers small businesses that files individual earners with Obamacare's 3.8% tax on net investment income.
00:30:49.000On page 1,923, it violates, and this is the craziest one, an $80 billion slush fund to hire 87,000 new IRS agents that would be used to carry out the Biden regime's plan to review all of your bank accounts of anything worth more than $10,000 in a year.
00:31:07.000That includes hiring 5,000 new armed IRS agents.
00:31:11.000I wonder who they're going to be investigating.
00:31:13.000Do you think they're going to be investigating Bezos and Zuckerberg?