Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, the right wing revolution continues, as we predicted last summer, we talk about triple-trending counties, and then also, Senator Mike Lee talks about the big, beautiful bill and why he is a no. And then finally, my grudge against Jake Tapper continues. We go back in the wayback machine that not even a year ago, that's when Jake smeared me. We talk about that and more.
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00:01:40.000Here in the imperial capital of Washington, D.C. Now, I asked my team when we were landing in D.C., which one do I disdain more, Washington, D.C. or London?
00:02:23.000I would much rather have a nice little bodega of some guy from Nicaragua that at least believes in Jesus and doesn't want to conquer the entire Western world than what I saw.
00:03:26.000So there's definitely a more hopeful vibe in D.C., but I could tell you we're going to get into some very promising news here from The New York Times.
00:03:35.000It is so hard to realign a government back to constitutional purposes.
00:04:49.000And that is one of the questions that is in front of us.
00:04:53.000And this is exactly why I want to get into this idea of triple trending counties.
00:04:58.000It's a theme that we talk about a lot here on this program.
00:05:01.000Because what we're seeing unfold in Washington, D.C., and I was meeting with some White House staff last night, and they are working so hard, and they deserve such credit.
00:05:09.000Because the energy alone, just to get basic stuff done, it will take your entire afternoon to just get a very simple thing done, where in the private sector at Turning Point USA, I say it, and it gets done.
00:05:32.000Where in this White House, because of the deep state government, it's like, I want to go to Saudi Arabia.
00:05:38.000Well, you might have to do this, this, this.
00:05:39.000And only because of President Trump's brute force is he able to be this productive.
00:05:45.000Remember, it was Joe Biden staffers that came out, and they said, I wish we worked for a White House when Joe Biden was president that was as agile, that was as problem-solving, as entrepreneurial as President Trump.
00:06:05.000Or will elections be ceremonial, no different than putting in the King of England as someone who's there to greet Super Bowl champions, cut ribbons, fly around the country, and be nothing more than a glorified spokesperson for the country?
00:06:20.000Are we looking at a similar presidency that is a presidency in name only, no different than the monarchy in the United Kingdom?
00:06:30.000The New York Times did an amazing story this last weekend, and I've got to be honest.
00:06:34.000Every so often, the New York Times just crushes it with their data analysis.
00:06:45.000I mean, there's so many of these that are just gone.
00:06:47.000The New York Times every so often has a little glimmer of hope that they still are holding on to wanting to be a respectable newspaper.
00:06:54.000And Andrew will tell you, we deal with reporters in every single major outlet.
00:06:59.000At least the New York Times will allow us to talk to them.
00:07:01.000Some of these major outlets, they won't even take your phone call.
00:07:05.000Anyway, so what the New York Times did is they did a story of how all the counties, basically, how many counties have been moving right in America in the last three presidential elections.
00:07:15.000And that was so interesting about what the New York Times did.
00:07:18.000The New York Times did is they analyzed the 2016, the 2020, and the 2024 electoral map.
00:07:23.000Because that is now three election cycles over the course of a decade of whether or not this is a permanent right-wing shift in our country.
00:07:52.000I want to get this framed in our office, because that just goes to show the behemoth of the work that we accomplished at Turning Point Action alongside, obviously, President Trump and the entire team, and the social media juggernaut.
00:08:05.000The entire country moved to the right.
00:08:09.000Now, there were some places in America that moved to the left.
00:08:12.000The suburbs of Atlanta, big problems, everybody, huge.
00:08:15.000In fact, the suburbs of Atlanta, The suburbs of Denver, Santa Fe, New Mexico, a couple places in Oklahoma, a couple places in central Indiana.
00:13:26.000If you work with your hands, if you shower before and after work, you've been on the losing end of globalization, of wokeness and offshore.
00:13:33.000Democrats are only making gains with one group of people.
00:13:46.000Democrats keep on gaining with the group.
00:13:49.000The wealthier you are, the more likely you are to be in the Democrat Party.
00:13:53.000If you drive a forklift, you're more likely to be in our category.
00:13:58.000Now, interestingly, there was a story this morning from Axios that I want to highlight, which is going to be a major story, and it's worth emphasizing.
00:14:09.000It ties all of this together, which is a top artificial intelligence CEO foresees a white-collar bloodbath.
00:14:18.000Now, interestingly, We are not yet going to see the blue-collar bloodbath.
00:14:24.000Robotics is coming, but it's not yet there.
00:15:02.000You see, according to this story, it's pretty amazing.
00:15:07.000Looking around the corner, Anthropic CEO Dario A. Modi Who's building the technology says AI could wipe out half of all of the entry-level white-collar jobs.
00:15:19.000I wonder who's been predicting this on a college campus, telling all these kids they're being scammed.
00:15:23.000You notice it gets very quiet when I'm on a college campus and I say this.
00:15:27.000I say, you guys realize that your entry-level jobs are not going to be here in five years.
00:15:44.000Possible mass elimination of jobs across technology, finance, law, consulting, and other white-collar professions, especially entry-level gigs.
00:15:52.000And this is not something that necessarily should be celebrated.
00:15:56.000But now a lot of degree holders are in grave danger.
00:16:00.000The same degree holders that are voting for the Democrat Party, thinking the Democrat Party is going to protect them.
00:16:05.000We figured out how to replace a software engineer.
00:16:08.000Or a PR rep faster than we figured out how to replace a carpenter.
00:16:15.000Going into 2028, it is conceivable that these little suburban enclaves of mid-level managers that are completely useless and irrelevant very well might be replaced.
00:16:28.000I don't yet think the C-suite is going to be replaced for any time soon.
00:16:32.000You still need human beings making decisions.
00:16:35.000But what you are going to see is one of the most dramatic job displacements, and it's going to be a top issue in the 28-28 campaign.
00:16:43.000Steve Bannon says, quote, I don't think anyone is taking into consideration how administrative, managerial, and tech jobs for people under 30, entry-level jobs, are so important in your 20s, are going to be eviscerated.
00:16:54.000This is my message when I go to these campuses.
00:16:56.000is I said, you guys are getting a woman's studies degree.
00:17:01.000You guys are just getting a And what is the Democrat Party doing to actually protect you and defend you?
00:17:26.000You may already own a firearm, but before you face the financial and emotional weight of pulling the trigger, consider Berna.
00:17:32.000Berna's less lethal launchers fire tear gas and kinetic rounds designed to incapacitate attackers for up to 40 minutes, giving you time to escape and call for help without deadly consequences.
00:19:10.000Now look, the Republicans in the House gave us some good wins.
00:19:14.000This bill extends the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to make sure that we don't end up with a $4 trillion tax bomb going off, exploding in front of the American people.
00:19:38.000But like 58% just over the last five years, just since the pandemic.
00:19:43.000So we've got to address the spending crisis to a greater degree than this bill does.
00:19:48.000Under this bill, under the CBO projections, we're still looking at, you know, $2.2 trillion a year on average in deficits over the next 10 years.
00:19:58.000We've got to get to a point where we can balance it during this president's time in office.
00:20:04.000Okay, so let's kind of isolate this for a second here, Senator.
00:20:08.000Who is within your coalition that is currently opposing it because of your concerns over spending?
00:20:16.000What senators are in agreement with you?
00:20:19.000I'm making a point not to speak for my colleagues, but I will point out that there are at least a few who have said in its current form it can't pass.
00:20:28.000We can get there, but it can't pass right now because it doesn't do enough to control spending.
00:21:20.000We will undoubtedly insert a lot of amendments into it in what's called a substitute amendment.
00:21:28.000There's been a rapid fire process on the Senate floor at the end of the process called Budget Voterama, where any senator can bring up any amendment they want.
00:21:35.000We vote on them over and over and over again, often in rapid formation.
00:21:42.000And then whenever we're finished with it, we send it back to the House.
00:21:45.000And hopefully at that point, they're willing to pass it.
00:21:49.000There's no way of telling exactly what it will look like.
00:21:51.000But as far as the first part of your question, what it takes to get me there.
00:21:55.000We just have to have a reasonable path to get back to pre-pandemic spending levels, somewhere at least in range.
00:22:02.000For fiscal year 2026, we ought to have a path to get to $6.5 trillion a year in total federal spending.
00:22:12.000Now, if we can get there and then hold that for a couple or three years, we'll be getting to the place where we can balance.
00:22:20.000You can't do all of this through a reconciliation bill because it doesn't deal with every category of spending.
00:22:25.000But it does deal with a lot, and it deals with a lot of the spending that has resulted from increases just since the COVID pandemic.
00:22:56.000Where would you say on the Medicaid-Medicare, I don't think anyone's going to want to talk about anything with Medicare.
00:23:03.000On Medicaid, that's kind of the big thing in front of us.
00:23:06.000What could potentially be done there, and is there enough appetite amongst more moderate of your colleagues, moderate colleagues, to then go along with your demands?
00:23:16.000How are we going to bring the coalition together to make sure this bill actually passes?
00:23:21.000Well, I think we can get there on the Medicaid front.
00:23:24.000I've proposed legislation called the America First Act, some of which was incorporated into the House version.
00:23:29.000But they left a lot of our illegal alien population eligible to participate in Medicaid for reasons I don't understand, but there's still that.
00:23:41.000We could achieve additional savings there.
00:23:43.000When we look at things like the so-called state Medicaid provider loophole.
00:23:50.000You've got states that are manipulating provisions of the Affordable Care Act, you know, Obamacare, in order to skim federal funds off the top of Medicaid, all in the name of a Medicaid provider tax.
00:24:03.000Congress needs to close that loophole because that's encouraging states to take more and more federal money, federal money that through the expanded Medicaid program is paid for 9 to 1 by the U.S. government.
00:24:16.000We also need to look at the SALT deduction.
00:24:19.000The income tax deduction that's just a huge taxpayer subsidy from all other Americans over to blue state billionaires designed to bail out blue state governors.
00:24:36.000I mean, so rather than subsidizing $350 billion for states with high tax rates, we ought to pass a big, beautiful bill that fully terminates.
00:24:46.000The Green News scam gets rid of every one of these Green News scam subsidies, where we're subsidizing non-baseload sources of power that are unreliable.
00:25:01.000Let's talk about the doge cuts being certified.
00:25:07.000Elon Musk is coming out saying that he wants to see the doge cuts codified.
00:25:13.000Is there appetite for that, and what would that look like in practice?
00:25:17.000Okay, first of all, a lot of the doge cuts, not all of them certainly, but a lot of them occur on what we call the discretionary side of spending.
00:25:27.000And discretionary spending isn't addressed to a reconciliation bill.
00:25:31.000So most of those would need to occur outside the reconciliation bill, but some of them could be passed into law with only 51 votes in the Senate.
00:25:41.000Especially through what's known as a rescissions package.
00:25:45.000Under the Budget Act, the White House, the President, is allowed to propose to Congress that they rescind certain discretionary funds.
00:25:56.000And a lot of that is where the doge cuts would come through.
00:25:59.000Once the White House has sent it over, they can be considered for an expedited up or down vote in both houses, including a simple majority vote in the Senate.
00:26:11.000Could be done through reconciliation, but I think when most people talk about the doge cuts, most Americans probably are not contemplating that distinction between discretionary and non-discretionary, but they do want to see aggressive action.
00:26:26.000So, in closing here, Senator, what would you say is your optimistic take on a timeline to bring all the parties together so that we can have, in your take, even more spending cuts on this bill?
00:26:41.000I suspect it'll take place over the next four weeks.
00:26:45.000During the month of June, you're going to see aggressive action within the Senate.
00:26:48.000I think you'll see a finished product coming out of the Senate, most likely by the end of June.
00:26:54.000And then what happens from there will be up to the House of Representatives.
00:26:59.000But I think it'll be that much closer to passing into law.
00:27:02.000And I look forward to being part of that effort and look forward to getting this thing passed.
00:27:07.000Not one person wants to see these Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provisions last, resulting in this $4 trillion tax bomb exploding.
00:27:18.000And I intend to be part of the solution and get this thing done.
00:27:23.000So, and finally, Senator, let's just talk about for a minute here, what are some of the positives of the bill that you want to make sure the audience is aware of that is not getting enough attention?
00:27:32.000Border security, no tax on tips, please, Senator.
00:27:40.000We've got to make sure that we have the tools to deal with that.
00:27:43.000We've had more illegal immigration than we've ever seen over the last four years.
00:27:49.000It's just an absolute uncontrolled chaos, which was sadly part of a design of the president's auto pen administration.
00:27:57.000We have also got the, We've got no tax on tips.
00:28:10.000That's a very good, very popular provision.
00:28:13.000And we do bring about a lot of the reforms that I mentioned through provisions of my America First Act that were adopted by the House that get rid of a lot of the federal benefits from going to illegal aliens.
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00:30:10.000Jake Tapper smeared me as an anti-Semite during the Republican National Convention when I was speaking.
00:30:17.000That one I'm not going to forget about.
00:30:19.000Sometimes people say stuff I kind of do.
00:30:21.000Of all the smears that you can throw at me to call me an anti-Semite during one of the biggest moments of my career, which was a keynote speech at the RNC, I'm sorry.
00:31:42.000Meanwhile, the New York Times, which Andrew spent a whole day arguing at that report of the New York Times, Jonathan Weissman calls me an anti-Semite, saying Charlie Kirk's, what was the title?
00:32:37.000It's like, okay, so I defend Israel on campus every single day, that the New York Times call me an anti-Semite, and then you have Jake Tapper peddle that garbage on CNN during a primetime audience for nine minutes straight while I am giving my, one of the biggest speeches in my career.
00:32:54.000Charlie Kirk, long accused of anti-Semitism, is set for a primetime speech.
00:33:04.000They rattle off these 500-word pieces, like 10 a day during the RNC, and they do it to undermine the speakers so that the low-IQ, clamoring host have something to talk about.