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00:02:57.000The number one priority legislatively right now needs to pass Trump's big beautiful bill.
00:03:02.000Walk us our audience through some of the lesser-known economic details as to why this will supercharge the economy, result in middle-class growth, and help young people in particular be able to take ownership of the American economy.
00:03:20.000It is so important to get it over the line because if we don't, it's going to be the biggest tax hike in history, absolute biggest in history, $4 trillion tax hike on American workers and American families that'll plunge the economy back into recession.
00:03:33.000On the other hand, if we do pass the tax bill, here's what's going to happen.
00:03:36.000According to a study we just put on our website this morning at the Council of Economic Advisors at the White House, it'll boost the economy by about 4.6 to 4.9% over the next four years.
00:03:47.000It'll boost take-home pay after tax, you know, real income for a typical family of four by about $7,500 to as much as $11,000 over this period, right?
00:03:57.000So that's more money in your pocket as a result of the bill.
00:03:59.000More money in your pocket means a healthier economy, a stronger economy, better off families.
00:04:04.000On top of that, you've got all sorts of deficit reduction coming as a result of this.
00:04:08.000There's a lot of people who are concerned about the deficit.
00:04:12.000The reason why they're concerned about the deficit is because of a too much, too big focus on the score from the Congressional Budget Office on the One Big Beautiful bill, which has the bad side effect of focusing only on one little picture, one little corner of the big picture.
00:04:29.000The big picture of what's going on is that President Trump's policies will create an economic growth boom, just as they did in the president's first term.
00:04:36.000And this economic growth boom will bring down deficits, bring down the national debt.
00:04:40.000We calculated that between the growth benefits as a result of the One Big Beautiful bill, the growth benefits as a result of the president's deregulatory agenda, cutting red tape so that companies can invest and hire workers when and where they want instead of spending years begging permission from Washington, better growth as a result of the president's energy policies to bring down the price of energy.
00:04:59.000All of this can in total bring down the deficit by as much as $8.5 to $11 trillion over a 10-year window, right?
00:05:05.000So this is huge amounts of deficit reduction.
00:05:08.000Part of this is also the tariffs, right?
00:05:10.000What the president is doing is raising tons and tons of money by taxing foreigners and using that money to cut taxes on American workers.
00:05:16.000And I can't think of anything that's a more sensible policy than that.
00:05:19.000Tariffs on foreigners used to pay for tax reductions on American families and American firms.
00:05:28.000You know, you get a number of as much as $11 trillion of lower deficits over the 10-year budget window.
00:05:33.000And then you look at what that does to the debt to GDP ratio, right?
00:05:36.000So the current expectations are that it would be as high as 117% by the end of the next 10 years, right?
00:05:41.000But what the president's policies would do would make it about over 20 points lower than that, 23 percentage points lower than that, right?
00:05:49.000So this is very, very significant across the entire spectrum of outcomes.
00:06:31.000Those are some of the president's signature promises from the campaign, and the president always delivers on his signature promises.
00:06:37.000One by one, the president fulfills all of his campaign pledges, and these are part of that.
00:06:41.000No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, tax relief for seniors.
00:06:46.000And then those are extraordinarily powerful at keeping more money in people's pockets on a week-to-week, month-to-month basis.
00:06:52.000And then on top of that, there's huge incentives in the tax bill for firms to invest, for firms to build new factories, for firms to buy more equipment, for firms to increase their productive capacity.
00:07:02.000These are things like full expensing on equipment, full expensing on new factories and on R ⁇ D. And this is how you get firms doing more in America.
00:07:10.000This is how you get firms hiring workers by providing incentives for them to invest.
00:07:15.000They want to hire more American workers.
00:07:16.000They want to pay American workers more.
00:07:18.000We're going to make America the best place on earth to do business.
00:07:21.000Let's go into some more of the details here.
00:07:23.000So the extension of the Trump tax cuts, remind people what that means as far as deductibility and what would it mean for general economic growth.
00:07:35.000Now, we're not totally obsessed with GDP numbers here on this program, but it does matter a lot when you're a debtor nation, which unfortunately we are a debtor nation.
00:07:46.000What does the extension of the Trump tax cuts mean for a needed explosion of economic growth?
00:07:54.000So the Trump tax cuts from 2017 created the economic boom in the president's first term, which is part of why Americans voted overwhelmingly in a landslide to re-elect the president because they remember what it did for them, right?
00:08:06.000They remember that it created record lows of unemployment with no inflation.
00:08:10.000They remember that it boosted GDP by over half a trillion dollars relative to what people were expecting beforehand.
00:08:16.000They remember that it boosted real median household income by over $6,000 only a year after it was passed.
00:08:23.000They remember that it created about double the wage growth that they'd experienced during the length of the Obama administration when wages were very stagnant.
00:08:31.000And they also remember that wage growth for the bottom of the income distribution for Americans in the working class, that that wage growth was about twice what it was for people who are ultra wealthy, right?
00:08:41.000So they remember that the first Trump administration was not only an economic boom, it was a blue-collar boom.
00:08:45.000And it was due in very large part to the tax cuts from 2017.
00:08:50.000And if we don't extend those, if we allow those to expire, it'll be the biggest tax hike in history, a $4 trillion tax hike.
00:08:57.000It'll plunge the economy into recession.
00:08:59.000Millions of people will lose their jobs.
00:09:01.0009 million people will lose their health insurance, and it'll be a really bad outcome.
00:09:05.000So I want to continue to dive into some of the details and the elements here.
00:09:10.000I know the Senate parliamentarian has taken a battle axe to a lot of this stuff, but let's also talk now about the spending cuts.
00:09:19.000I know that we wish we would have more spending cuts, but this still is the greatest welfare reform in American history.
00:09:33.000When you think about the Green New scam, all of the hundreds of billions of dollars, trillions of dollars of taxpayer money, of money that ordinary families are taxed and forced to pay the government to fund these Green New Deal programs, which many of them are tilting at windows, sorry, tilting at windmills, much of this stuff is pulled back, right?
00:10:17.000And it has to do with the fact of what I said before is they're only looking at one little corner of the picture instead of seeing the entire big picture.
00:10:23.000And what CBO does is they assign a score to every single provision in the bill.
00:10:28.000And it's what they have to do for following the very Byzantine, complicated process of passing things through the Senate with a simple majority instead of the supermajority you need to overcome a filibuster.
00:10:39.000Normally, you need to overcome a filibuster and you need 60 votes, and that's impossible to get with today's political climate.
00:10:45.000But through the very specialized budget process, you can pass things with a simple majority, which we can do.
00:10:51.000It requires the CBO to score things on a line-by-line basis, but that ignores the big picture of the effects of those items on the economy.
00:10:58.000It ignores the big picture of the fact that economic growth is going to boom like it did in the president's first term as a result of these policies.
00:11:05.000It ignores the big picture that the economy is going to boom because of other things like deregulation, like energy abundance.
00:11:10.000It ignores the big picture that there's trillions of dollars of tariff revenue coming in.
00:11:15.000It ignores the big picture that there's a trillion and a half of further cuts to waste, fraud, and abuse, like you were talking about before, that are coming administratively rather than through the legislation.
00:11:24.000It ignores the big picture of a trillion and a half dollars of interest savings as a result of borrowing less, as a result of smaller deficits from all this economic growth.
00:11:32.000And so the folks who are focusing on the CBO score are just using it for ends that it was never intended for.
00:11:38.000They're using it, it's not fit for purpose for thinking about the broad deficit picture.
00:11:42.000And, you know, folks are making too much of it.
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00:13:04.000So, Steve, can you also talk about the Trump baby investment account, the $1,000 investment account that every new baby will get if this bill passes?
00:13:18.000Oh, these are hugely significant because we know that starting to save for the future is one of the most important things that people can do to improve their financial acumen through their lives, to improve their retirement, to improve their ability to save for the future.
00:13:34.000We'll get MAGA accounts for every baby who's born in the United States.
00:13:37.000And they'll get $1,000 deposited into this account by the government.
00:13:41.000And that will be allowed to grow tax-free, tax-advantaged for years.
00:13:46.000And it will, in the end, help kids learn the value of saving, help parents save for their kids' futures, and it will improve their lives throughout the course of decades to come.
00:13:56.000What are any other components in the bill that you want our audience to be aware of that you feel as if the media is not doing a good job covering?
00:14:03.000So, look, I mean, I think that at the end of the day, it's just really, really important to get this bill over the line, but there's all sorts of things, and it's important to get it over the line to avoid the biggest tax take in history, but there's all sorts of other things that are in the bill that are unrelated to tax that are super important.
00:14:17.000Things like you talk about all the time, like funding for the border, right?
00:14:21.000We need the funding to improve border security, to make sure that Americans are protected in their lives and with reduced crime, to make sure that our young people can enter the labor market instead of being competed out by illegal migrants, to make sure that we control price pressures because large-scale immigration is incredibly inflationary.
00:14:40.000And it's so important that we get that border funding in the bill over the line.
00:14:44.000There's also other stuff in the bill that really advances the deregulatory agenda that we need in order to bring energy prices down.
00:14:51.000And these are things like, you know, some of it is sort of details about, you know, how oil drilling is done or onshore and offshore and stuff like that.
00:15:00.000But we got to move the ball forward on that stuff if we're going to lower gas prices for American consumers, if we're going to make people's commute easier, if we're going to put energy into every single part of the economy, whether it's building manufacturing so that we can have robust national security and defense, or getting service workers to their job sites, or even if it's remote workers at home on their laptops, right?
00:15:46.000So the number one thing you can do is call your senator, tell him or tell her to pass the one big beautiful bill to get the tax bill done, to avoid the biggest tax sect in history, and to usher in the second Trump economic boom and the new golden age for America.
00:16:41.000Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announcing that he'll be handing out race-based grants only to blacks for slavery reparations.
00:16:49.000I think that Harmeet Dylan, who's our next guest in this segment, coming up next segment, she should use the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Justice to investigate the city of Chicago.
00:16:58.000So they're only going to give money to black people?
00:17:03.000Our way will bring to black residents in reclaiming ownership of our own communities.
00:17:09.000We need to be reminded as blacks here in Chicago in America, remembering our past and working towards a more just future, investing in black is not a criminal act.
00:17:20.000429, he prioritizes hiring black people.
00:17:23.000He is violating federal law when he does this.
00:17:26.000I think Brandon Johnson should be looked into by the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Justice.
00:18:32.000Did you know that fossil fuels power the systems that keep us safe?
00:18:35.000From air conditioning that prevent heat strokes to heating systems that protect against extreme cold?
00:18:40.000They also provide low-cost power for our storm warning systems, giving us time to evacuate and save lives.
00:18:47.000Forget being a villain, fossil fuels have literally been the hero in the prevention of billions of deaths and the extension of life.
00:18:54.000In fact, over the past century, deaths from climate-related disasters like extreme temperatures, drought, floods, storms, wildfires have declined by 98%, thanks to fossil-fueled infrastructure and technology.
00:19:40.000Why don't you introduce our audience to what you do?
00:19:43.000They know who you are, but what is your new role?
00:19:46.000Well, thank you, Charlie, for your kind words and for having me.
00:19:49.000The Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice is one of the biggest sections of the DOJ in Washington, and it has the weighty charge of enforcing the United States federal civil rights laws.
00:20:01.000Everything relating from employment discrimination to discrimination in education, Title IX, Title VII, Title VI, the Klan Act, anti-discrimination laws involving aging, disability against veterans, and importantly, also all of our nation's federal voting laws.
00:20:25.000What are some of the immediate things you're working on?
00:20:28.000I know we have a list of some here, but walk our audience through kind of the one, two, three biggest items that are currently being worked on by your office.
00:20:37.000Well, in the headlines today, just a little while ago, we filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in Orange County, California, challenging their failure to comply with the Help America Vote Act, which requires jurisdictions to maintain clean voter rolls.
00:21:21.000Another is enforcing our Title IX and anti-DEI policies of this administration.
00:21:28.000And that's in compliance with the federal Supreme Court precedent, Students for Fair Admissions, which ruled last year that the institutions of higher learning that receive federal funding, which is almost all of them except for Hillsdale, must comply with our anti-discrimination laws and cannot use quotas to suppress admissions of Asians, whites, males, whatever category.
00:21:52.000There has to be equal opportunity in admissions, not for groups, but for individuals.
00:21:56.000But just about every institution in the United States that we've looked at seems to be out of compliance.
00:22:01.000And so we are one by one sending letters to those as well.
00:22:04.000I sent over 70 of them in my, I think, first or second week in office.
00:22:36.000And I sent a letter to California a couple of weeks ago demanding that all the schools who participate in California's Interscholastic Federation, which has allowed boys to take girls' trophies, comply with federal guidance on this issue.
00:22:49.000And they sued me and the Attorney General in response to that.
00:22:52.000So we're wending our way through the courts over there.
00:22:55.000And so every day there's just new issues that we're dealing with.
00:22:59.000Charlie, I'm taking in information from citizens, people I know, people I don't know all over the country.
00:23:05.000We have a small team of political appointees here who are helping me and then some career folks as well.
00:23:15.000Before we go further into the details here, can you just tell our audience what Obama and Biden used this office for?
00:23:23.000It was one of the biggest at the Department of Justice.
00:23:26.000Yeah, there were over 400 attorneys when I got here to the Civil Rights Division.
00:23:30.000They're less than half now because more than half of them quit when I made clear that our priorities were going to be enforcing the laws equally for all Americans, not just weaponizing it for a select few.
00:23:39.000That's exactly what the Obama and the Biden administrations did.
00:23:42.000They really staffed up the Civil Rights Division.
00:23:44.000They took the opportunity to hire a bunch of radical lawyers who had a particular agenda.
00:23:51.000And then they used that to, for example, advance the Marxist goal of defunding the police in the United States, which I think everyone who lives in a city is familiar with this problem.
00:24:02.000And they concocted these consent decrees and really never proving them in court for the most part and just sort of forced them down the throats of these cities.
00:24:10.000And a lot of cities were on the other side themselves having city council members who also wanted to defund the police.
00:24:17.000They were happy that the DOJ was doing their dirty work for them and making it seem like this was a federal priority as opposed to a local priority.
00:24:24.000So one of the first things we did when we came in in this new administration is begin to unwind those destructive consent decrees that have made Americans less safe.
00:24:34.000The average consent decree in a city, Charlie, lasts over 13 years.
00:24:39.000The goalposts keep shifting and it costs the city over $200 million.
00:24:44.000Some fat cat lawyer and some big law firm on an expense account gets paid over a million dollars a year typically to enforce these consent decrees and crime goes way up in each city with these consent decrees.
00:25:00.000There's the occasional cop who commits misconduct.
00:25:02.000We prosecute those individuals and that is kind of the core of our constitutional system.
00:25:06.000Individual opportunity, individual accountability, not group justice and not making all the citizens of Phoenix or Albuquerque or Seattle pay for the sins or frankly sometimes imaginary sins of a few.
00:25:20.000And this was so weaponized intentionally to try and stop police from doing their job.
00:25:27.000Is it conceivable that as we lift these consent decrees, violent crime in this country should go down?
00:25:34.000I mean, you know, you see it all over America that good cops who go into law enforcement and risk their lives to keep us safe every day, they flee cities with consent decrees at just radical levels.
00:25:48.000And the reason is that instead of doing their job of policing, they have to do a bunch of paperwork.
00:25:53.000They have to constantly meet with so-called community groups that are pushing a particular agenda.
00:25:58.000And it makes their lives miserable and they Can't do the policing that they wanted to do.
00:26:02.000So they go to another jurisdiction where they don't have to comply with these ludicrous rules forced from Washington by lawyers who've never tried a case and, frankly, are doing this from home during COVID.
00:26:13.000And so it's really an unfair system, and we're putting a stop to it, full stop.
00:26:17.000Pam Bondi and the president, it's a top priority of theirs.
00:26:21.000And so whatever you see in the president's executive orders on any of these issues that touch on civil rights, we're doing that here in the DOJ.
00:26:29.000So let's dive deeper into some of the details here.
00:26:33.000And so this is from your account right here.
00:26:36.000Allowing non-citizens to vote in elections is a violation of American people's rights to determine their future.
00:26:42.000I don't want you to speculate, but what are some of the major other prime targets of potential non-citizens voting?
00:26:49.000And what is the plan at DOJ to address this and get the non-citizens voting issue solved?
00:26:57.000Okay, so big picture is that our election laws and our system of federalism are, first of all, made by, for the most part, by state legislatures.
00:27:08.000And there are some federal laws regarding clean voter rolls and other issues, National Voter Registration Act, Help America Vote Act.
00:27:17.000There's also an important law called the Voting Rights Act, which is used in the subject of extensive litigation on the left and redistricting, really weaponizing it in one direction.
00:27:27.000And so we don't have jurisdiction over everything.
00:27:29.000So we don't have jurisdiction over how states do their thing for the most part.
00:27:34.000But we do have jurisdiction over clean voter rolls, and that's the Help America Vote Act.
00:27:38.000And in this case, Orange County received credible information from, you know, it's well publicized, that there were people on the voter rolls who are not American citizens.
00:27:46.000And there's many ways that this can happen.
00:27:48.000People go to register to vote and they check the wrong box.
00:27:56.000But the point is, every citizen is entitled to their vote counting equally with other citizens and other citizens only.
00:28:03.000This is a fundamental premise of our democracy.
00:28:07.000And the response I always get to this complaint that every violation of the Help America Vote Act and of our voter rolls is whatever, Harmeed, it's like voter fraud is so rare.
00:28:18.000Well, it doesn't have to be fraud, but it could be any number of reasons.
00:28:21.000But every citizen is entitled to their vote being counted once and being counted equally.
00:28:25.000And that's not happening in any jurisdiction that is refusing to police their voter rolls and clean their voter rolls when they get a complaint like this that shows that there are non-citizens on the voter roll.
00:28:36.000So we asked, that's the first step we always ask in the DOJ, hey guys, can you show us the data that we're entitled to under this federal law?
00:30:15.000Harmeet Dillon here is from the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Justice, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
00:30:22.000So let me ask you, Harmeet, what can everyday people do?
00:30:26.000What lawsuits can everyday rank and file people do and place that could potentially be helpful for what your department is trying to accomplish?
00:30:34.000So when I was a young lawyer, which is a long time ago, there were actually very few outlets for people to sort of write the balance the way that we're doing today at the DOJ.
00:30:44.000And all of the nonprofits were more on the left side.
00:30:48.000Today, there are quite a few options for people who have a case involving civil rights.
00:30:54.000I mean, I will tell you, like, I'm frustrated by the pace of government.
00:30:56.000It's not something that we control, but there's a number of hurdles you have to jump through when you're bringing a case for the government.
00:31:04.000And so people can get more quickly into court sometimes by working with a good nonprofit or private practice lawyer to bring their case.
00:31:12.000And the United States Department of Justice has the ability to get involved in those cases in multiple different ways.
00:31:17.000First of all, we can file something that's called a statement of interest, which is kind of like an amicus brief, a friend of the court brief, if you will, at the trial court level.
00:31:26.000And DOJ frequently does that in different cases.
00:31:30.000DOJ, another branch of the DOJ today, just did that in the Huntington Beach case involving citizenship issues.
00:31:41.000So if someone's brought a great case involving an important issue, we can make a motion to intervene.
00:31:46.000We did that earlier this week in Washington State, where there was a situation where the state passed a law, I think it's called 5375, I think that's the number of the law, that pierces or purports to pierce the Catholic priest penitent privilege.
00:32:03.000And that law is unconstitutional because it forces priests to choose between betraying their faith or following the law of man, and that's not right in our country.
00:32:14.000And so we filed a motion to intervene as a plaintiff in that case.
00:32:18.000We joined a lawsuit that was already ongoing, and there are a couple of other lawsuits ongoing, or I understand planned in that state as well.
00:32:23.000And so that's a way that we can get involved.
00:32:25.000And then the third way is, of course, like the lawsuit we file today in Orange County.
00:32:33.000There was a case of Laura Libby, a legislator in Maine, who supported girls being able to win trophies in girls sports, and she was stripped of her voting rights in Maine by the Maine speaker.
00:32:46.000And so we filed an amicus brief in the First Circuit, and I went up to Maine to Boston rather than argued that case.
00:32:52.000That's another way that we can get involved.
00:32:53.000It was an excellent lawsuit brought by excellent lawyers, friends of ours from the private practice world, and they did a great job on her behalf, but we argued the United States' interest in that, which is you can never strip away the voting rights of the voters in that district.
00:33:08.000That's a violation of the Voting Rights Act.
00:33:10.000So there's so many different ways that we can get involved, but people don't have to wait for the government.
00:33:15.000And just another thing to point out, Charlie, is even if we're fully staffed, there's no way that we can take on every single civil rights issue in the United States.
00:33:23.000What we try to do is pick cases that will have the biggest impact.
00:33:26.000As I mentioned right now, we're down in strength because a lot of the lawyers who worked here a few months ago didn't want to work here anymore when they learned that their job wasn't going to be doing their pet projects anymore.
00:33:41.000And so people can get into court more quickly if they get a good lawyer.
00:33:45.000Harmeet Dillon really is now the tip of the spear.
00:33:48.000She is the piercing authority of this new Trump government for all civil rights violations.
00:33:53.000So when people are discriminating against Asians, against white people, against Christians, against Jews, it's all going to go through the Office of Civil Rights.
00:34:05.000Yeah, and actually, you know, one of our listeners reminded me, the Deerfield Junior High School, the Alan Shepard Junior High School in Deerfield, Illinois.
00:34:12.000I think it's time for a federal investigation.
00:34:14.000We've been talking about this on this quite some.
00:34:16.000Girls are still forced to change clothes in front of a boy.
00:34:19.000And so now just I'm going to text Harmet right after the show.
00:34:22.000That's the power of this show and the power of what all of you support and also the power of, doesn't it feel good when you win the White House?
00:34:29.000And you can say, no, we're not going to put up with that.
00:34:32.000We're going to seal the southern border.