In this episode, Speaker of the House of Representatives Byron Deven Dumas talks about the recent CR that passed the House and what it means for the future of the country. He also talks about why it passed and why he thinks it s a good thing.
00:00:38.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:30.000So, I want to talk about the election, what happened, but I've been running an event, running all over the place.
00:01:34.000Can you explain what happened during this last week with the CR? Help us make sense of all that, because it's so confusing just as we're trying to run our lives.
00:01:44.000So, look, at its core, it's mismanagement.
00:01:48.000This is what happens when you kind of...
00:01:51.000When Washington does what it typically has done, where we call it the four corners, when they kind of go into a room and nobody else knows what's going on.
00:01:59.000The difference between today's Washington and the Washington we all know is that there is real outside influence that can stop garbage bills from being passed at the last minute.
00:02:13.000So, you know, when members started saying no publicly on this bill, Elon comes out, says this bill should not pass.
00:02:20.000President Trump comes out, says this bill should not pass.
00:02:23.000At that point, they had to go back to the drawing board.
00:02:26.000And that's when members came in the room working with the leadership to get to what we got to here.
00:02:32.000The big thing now is next year, which really starts in the week for us.
00:03:18.000And you weren't really hearing anything concrete until, you know, whether it's lobbyists, staff members start coming back to members and reporters saying, hey, we hear it's going to be about...
00:03:40.000And I will tell you, and let me expound on this.
00:03:44.000The 118th Congress, which is the one that just ended, has been, in my view, a very historic one.
00:03:48.000We started this Congress with a major fight over the speakership.
00:03:52.000Because members like myself and others wanted to see the ways of Washington change.
00:03:58.000And we actually did accomplish a lot of those things.
00:04:01.000But to be blunt, when McCarthy got vacated, a lot of the stuff that we kind of got accomplished...
00:04:13.000We have to get back to the drawing board, get back to making it a member-centered process.
00:04:21.000If it's a member-centered process, you don't have these issues and you have, frankly, the will of the voters reflected in the packages that come out of Washington.
00:04:29.000Yeah, I just – just from a process standpoint, let alone the actual result, which we all know is garbage, just how it works for six weeks, how – I mean, you're a very well-respected member of the body.
00:04:54.000That is even worse than I... And I had, like, the lowest possible opinion of Congress.
00:04:58.000That's worse than I could have done that.
00:05:00.000When you start hearing things from the lobby corps, from K Street, from staff members, and from media, before you hear from it from your leadership...
00:05:11.000And I will tell you, there is a lot of us who left D.C. either this morning or last night saying, we're not going into 2025 operating this way.
00:06:12.000And help me understand, though, why Congress did not just work through Christmas and do 10 or 12 appropriation bills and just said, hey, you know, nurses have to work on Christmas Eve.
00:06:24.000Airline pilots have to work on Christmas.
00:06:26.000We're not entitled to a Christmas vacation while the country is being screwed up.
00:06:30.000We're just going to work all the way through until January 3rd.
00:06:33.000If we have to shut down the government for a couple of days, we will.
00:06:35.000It seems as if there's like this lifestyle sense of urgency that we are so entitled to a Christmas vacation.
00:06:41.000We just need to kind of vote for this because we have no other option.
00:06:44.000Like, help me understand that, like, you guys should still be there for all intents and purposes.
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00:08:44.000I'm not an expert, but I've seen this for 12 years.
00:08:49.000How much of the destruction of our country...
00:08:51.000Actually, it's just people don't want to just stay there over a Christmas break.
00:11:17.000So we have to do everything we can to keep the majority.
00:11:20.000My position and the position of a lot of members who agree with me, a lot of them you'll probably hear from today, are if you accomplish the agenda, that helps us keep the majority.
00:12:15.000What we love most and what we want most is to save the country.
00:12:18.000Okay, so I think we've gone through that.
00:12:20.000Are you hopeful that this, I mean, look, President Trump, this is why President Trump is so successful, because of garbage like this, because he's an insurgent against all this stuff.
00:12:26.000Do you think that we'll be able, with President Trump's incoming mandate, the bully pulpit, The political power that he has, the ability to snap a finger, he could remove a member of Congress literally through a primary campaign.
00:12:36.000Do you think this will change with President Trump taking off on January 20th?
00:13:11.000It takes will more than anything else.
00:13:14.000And where I will dovetail, Charlie, and this goes to the work you did during this campaign.
00:13:18.000Because you demonstrated that young voters can go to the polls and pull the lever or check the box and vote for the future of this country and vote for conservatism and common sense and republicanism, however you want to view it.
00:13:31.000Because you proved what the political world said could not be done.
00:13:36.000It gives wind in the sails of people in D.C. to say, you know what?
00:15:13.000And so I think you have that wave of people coming into the House, which is going to make it easier to get, not just to pass tax cuts, or not just to make sure we secure a border, but to make sure that becomes the way that the town thinks about these policies.
00:15:30.000That's the institutionalization of the America First agenda, which is the real North Star that we need to accomplish.
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00:16:41.000Let's get some questions here, and I will just say, actually, I'm not going to say it because I don't want to get Byron in trouble, but I think he has a great future.
00:18:20.000But for your area, and this is important.
00:18:23.000Electoral politics only work when you are engaging people locally on a continuous basis.
00:18:29.000It's about building relationship, not just getting votes.
00:18:33.000And so if you are constantly in your community having these conversations with kids who are in high school now who then become college students, and then become young adults, they're in your churches, they're in your communities, they're at the local bar, they go to the local restaurant.
00:18:50.000When I give speeches in areas, I talk sometimes to the people who are working the room, not the people who are sitting at the table.
00:18:59.000Because the people that are sitting at the table, they already agree with me.
00:19:03.000The people that are working the Phoenix Convention Center, those are the votes that we need.
00:19:08.000And when you think about how to go through the process over the next two years, you want to be focused on the working men and women of your community.
00:19:15.000If you have them in alignment, not in 100% agreement.
00:19:19.000In alignment with where your philosophy is, it is easier to get them to vote your way when it comes to elections.
00:20:37.000Here's my best piece of advice for Californians is, guys, win back the Orange County congressional seats and then grow out from there because it's local and also national impact that helps us grow our majority, which obviously, you know, leadership only cares about.
00:20:50.000But honestly, we want to try to get those Democrats out.
00:20:52.000But California is a long-term project, and I think it's possible maybe 10 years, 15 years.
00:21:06.000That's what the Democrats have done to us.
00:21:07.000That's what they did in Colorado, okay?
00:21:09.000They said, okay, if we just win by one and a half points for 10, you know, lose less by one and a half points for 10 years, and now Colorado is super, super deep blue.
00:21:16.000Honestly, that's what Byron did and everyone in Florida.
00:21:19.000Florida used to be a battleground state.
00:21:21.000You're like, hey, every year we're just going to make it two points redder.
00:21:23.000And now you guys are winning races by like 17 points.
00:22:04.000That is the key thing in a state like California.
00:22:07.000And I will also tell you this, if you can slowly move that state, you now shift the electoral college for the presidency and the balance of power in the Senate in a major way.
00:22:17.000So just be consistent, lock in, see your people every single day.
00:22:51.000When the people of California start to see San Francisco get a little bit cleaner and illegals start to leave their communities and they can thank Republicans for that, I think there's an opportunity to really move people to the right because there will be a before and after picture of when the federal government comes in and starts this mass deportation force in California, which will happen, and these communities start getting liberated.
00:23:09.000I think there's a great opportunity there to seize on that, lean in on it, and win California back for Republicans.
00:23:17.000As we step into 2025, the one thing is clear.
00:23:23.000China and the other BRICS nations are determined to reduce their dependence on the U.S. dollar and establish themselves as global economic superpowers.
00:24:22.000If Trump's cabinet is approved, as we assume, and they execute all their tasks as planned, how can they make sure if a Democrat party comes back into power, they don't undo everything the way Biden did with all the executive orders?
00:24:46.000The one positive out of COVID-19, it was really a reset, I think, mentally for how people see the country and what they want out of our government.
00:24:55.000The next year is going to be critical in that step because it is about deportations, economy, border security.
00:25:24.000But those are the building blocks you need in order to keep these ideas going.
00:25:29.000Obviously, we have to do the business next year.
00:25:31.000I don't want to get ahead of myself talking about 2028, but if we do our job next year, not just on Capitol Hill, but also in our communities, continuing the effort of being engaged with voters on the ground, that will keep your majorities in 26, and that will help you hold the White House in 28. Very good.
00:27:00.000I was there for January 6th, 2021, and I just wanted to say if there's anything that's in plan for this inauguration to prevent anything like that from ever happening again, especially after Ashley Pabbit.
00:27:12.000Well, yeah, first of all, I don't know if you got arrested, but hopefully all of them get pardons, so I don't know if you're good.
00:27:16.000We got to get pardons for all those guys.
00:27:22.000The Speaker is going to make sure that doesn't happen.
00:27:25.000One of the biggest issues that happened with January 6th is that Nancy Pelosi was derelict in her duty to make sure that the Capitol was secured.
00:27:32.000Donald Trump provided 10,000 National Guard troops on January 4th.
00:27:45.000During January 6th, 2021, this was COVID. Nobody was coming to D.C. So there was no traffic because nobody was driving in to go to work because all of the district was shut down.
00:27:59.000Nancy Pelosi should have made sure that the place was secured.
00:28:02.000And I believe it is correct that then-FBI director Mr. Ray, or he's probably still with us, hasn't resigned yet.
00:28:08.000They actually transmitted intelligence to the Capitol.
00:28:14.000They're about concerns on January 6th.
00:28:16.000We don't know what happened with that because Nancy Pelosi stopped the Oversight Committee from investigating what the Capitol Police knew and when they knew it, and then the J6 Committee was a travesty of justice.
00:28:46.000You had the photographer in the well that happened to have, you know, one 3,000-speed camera going and taking pictures of Trump at that immediate moment.
00:28:55.000So will the American people ever know what really happened that day?
00:28:59.000And I would say we're going to get that information probably somewhat sooner rather than later because when you have a change in administration, it's going to open up a lot of things that are going to be investigated.
00:29:12.000I'm pushing the incoming administration to do a major whistleblower protection program so all the whistleblowers of the Biden administration can come forward and blow the whistle.
00:30:13.000If you get elected and you're not smart enough to figure this thing out, then you're going to get unelected.
00:30:21.000I will take the collective wisdom of people who come to Washington or go to a state capitol over those who become so enamored with their own intelligence because they've been there too long, they're stuck in the game, stuck in the process, and do not see what's happening on the ground in the lives of people on a day-to-day basis.