GOP SABOTAGE Trump Big Beautiful Bill, Republicans REFUSE To Approve Trump Spending Package ft. Rep. Thomas Massie
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On today's show, we discuss the ongoing Supreme Court case regarding birthright citizenship, and the ongoing efforts to pass President Trump's much-awaited $1.5 trillion spending bill. We're joined by Rep. Thomas Massey (R-VA) to discuss what's going on, and where he stands on the matter.
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My friends, Donald Trump may be blocked by all these judges, by all these courts.
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Currently, his administration is dealing with a Supreme Court argument over universal injunctions
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and birthright citizenship. But another key component as to whether or not he's going to
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be able to get the job done is going to be his big, beautiful bill, they call it.
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We got the story from NPR, the latest roadblock for House Republicans' big, beautiful bill,
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Senate Republicans. Indeed. As House Speaker Mike Johnson feverishly works to finalize the
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details of a massive package that includes major portions of Trump's agenda, many Senate Republicans
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are dismissing the legislation before it even finished the House. Unfortunately, it's a sad
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joke, said Senator Ron Johnson. Wimpy and anemic were the words used by Rand Paul.
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The House package, which the Speaker says he wants to advance to the chamber before Memorial
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Day recess, aims for $1.5 trillion spending cuts to offset the cost of making the 2017 Trump
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tax cuts permanent. It also contains tax breaks that Trump campaigned on in 2024. No taxes on tips
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and overtime, which I'm a big fan of. But those provisions are temporary. Some conservatives in
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the House are pushing for $2 trillion in cuts. But that's not far enough for Johnson, who wants
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spending levels to revert back to what they were pre-pandemic. Senator Johnson told reporters that he
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believes it was a mistake for leaders to try to pass so much of Trump's agenda in one single bill,
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instead of three separate pieces of legislation that could be considered individually. As a result,
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he said he deposed the House bill as it's currently constructed. Now I'm going to tell you. I think
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speaking with Rhett Massey is going to be enlightening, though he tends to be against many of these big
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universal packages. The challenge I see. Look, my friends, I hate to say it, but I don't like these
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universal bills. I don't like these big spending packages. We should be doing single item spending.
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But for right now, we have an existential crisis. Is there room for Trump to just get this one through
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so that he can enact his agenda and make sure we clear a runway so that we are able to win moving
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forward? Now I'm going to be joined by Rep. Thomas Massey. Of course, we're big fans. I think he is
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the we call him the best member of Congress that we got despite our disagreements. And let's see if
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we can get him. Rep. Massey, can you hear me? I can hear you, Tim. How's it going? How you doing?
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Well, you know, we had a four day weekend and now we've got a three day work week. They called off
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votes tomorrow. So really, you know, first world congressional problems, I reckon.
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Right. Yeah. So you guys, I shouldn't say you guys, but Congress, there's a video of them sleeping.
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And to be fair, that was like an overnight hearing, though, wasn't it?
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Yeah. Some of these hearings go really long. The Democrats are being very dilatory and offering
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So, you know, we've been talking about the Supreme Court hearing pertaining to birthright
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citizenship as well as universal injunctions. The Trump administration has faced a ridiculous
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amount of these universal injunctions. So it seems like while he's gotten a lot done as it pertains
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to Doge and some of these other efforts, he's he's still facing roadblocks every which way. Now he wants
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this big, beautiful spending package. Despite the fact that the MAGA base last year was saying no to these
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big spending packages, I suppose my view is largely we need to we need to move as quickly as we can
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before the midterm so that we can enact some of those agenda items that we want to see done from
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the Trump administration. But I'm curious your thoughts. What's currently going on with this
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big, big, beautiful bill and where do you stand on it? Well, I think that big, beautiful bill is is
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in trouble a little bit. That's why you see the speaker letting us out of Congress a day early this
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week. It's got problems. It's got warts. What would I do? Well, in an ideal world, I'd make it deficit
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neutral. I wouldn't be adding to the deficit like this bill does. And in a pragmatic world, if you
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want to get something done quickly, they probably need to skinny this thing down. And it's just got
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too many things in it right now, too many things that are objectionable. And there's a lot of sort of
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the shell games going on. A lot of the cuts are backloaded and won't happen until Trump leaves
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office. And the problem with that is it looks real good on a 10-year window. But the reality is
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that the lobbyists will have their way. They've got four years to make sure those cuts never actually
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happen. And that's a problem. So let me give you an example, Tim. The Green New Deal, which was part of
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the Inflation Reduction Act, that should be a no brainer. We should just repeal every part of that
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root and branch. Right? Well, here's what they've done. They've decided to cut residential solar
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subsidies. Okay. I'm not for any subsidies, but they've decided if you're a homeowner, those subsidies
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are, they're called tax credits. Those tax credits go away. But if you're a corporation, they keep going
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for at least four more years. And so the interesting thing is that sets up a scenario where solar will
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still be subsidized, but instead of owning the panels on your house, that won't be financially
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practical. They're pushing you into leasing them from a corporation or an installer.
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the corporations and companies four years to lobby to keep their subsidies going because their subsidies
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won't end for four years. Let me tell you another thing in this bill. So no tax on tips, no tax on
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social security, no tax on overtime. Well, I'm really interested in those. Two of those three are
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bills that I introduced into Congress, no tax on tips and no tax on social security. I've been introducing
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that bill for about a decade now, trying to get that passed. But the reality is those tax cuts aren't
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exactly what they say. And those only last three years. So as soon as Trump leaves office, those
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expire, those aren't permanent. And the reason they did that is they cost a lot of money. Now, I think the
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most controversial tax cut provision in here, by the way, I haven't seen a tax cut I don't like, right? I love
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all the tax cuts. Let's cut all the taxes, okay? Let's slash them. But we need to cut spending at the same
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time. There is one tax cut in here that doesn't really make sense. And that is to raise the SALT
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deduction, state and local tax deduction. It's a big deal to Republicans from blue states. And by the
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way, there's no Senate appetite for this tax provision because you don't have senators from
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blue states. They run statewide. There are no, I mean, you don't have Republican senators from blue states.
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Right. That would be California and New York and Illinois, for instance. But you have Republicans
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in the House from those states. There are some districts, believe it or not, that do lean Republican.
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Those guys have been given the biggest gift ever. It's bad tax policy, and they're still not happy with
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it. The state and local tax deduction in the big, beautiful bill, as it's written, would go from
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$10,000. Let's say you've got a nice house and you pay $10,000 of taxes on it. Well, that lets you out
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of $10,000 of federal tax. We can argue about whether you should get out of any federal tax just because
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your local and state government is gouging you. But the Speaker has agreed to raise that to $30,000.
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You have to have a pretty nice house to have $30,000 of tax on it. And the blue state Republicans
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are not happy with that. They want more. And even though it would reduce the tax income coming into
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the government, the federal government, which generally is not a bad thing, it means you've got
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to take that from somewhere else. And so it's a gift to California and New York, and it shouldn't
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be in there. So one thing I want to clarify too, for just, I understand most people know this,
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but for those that don't, the deficit is, what is this? This perpetual overspending of our budget
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forever, basically increasing the deficit. I've talked to a lot of people and they confuse debt
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and deficit. And the deficit just means that I'm pretty sure it's, actually, maybe you can tell me
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how long has it been that the US government consistently spends more than it brings in?
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Well, you know, on April 15th, it depends on the time window you're looking at. On April 15th,
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my debt counter actually went the other way because for a brief week, you pay, everybody pays their taxes.
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I mean, it's encouraging and discouraging at the same time that my debt clock goes down for a week,
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but that's the week everybody pays their taxes. But if you're looking for a one year period,
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you'd have to go back to the nineties when Republicans who were actually conservative back then, I guess,
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imposed some restraints on Bill Clinton. And they also put things like welfare reform and work
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requirements. And guess what? If you look at the big, beautiful bill, there are Medicaid work
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requirements for able-bodied individuals, but there are loopholes you could drive a truck through
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and they don't kick in until Trump leaves office. In other words, they'll probably never happen.
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And the loophole says that you don't really have to work as long as you're undergoing a training
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program that your state approves of. Well, the state will have some, like California and New York,
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they'll have some kind of $10 online training program that qualifies you for Medicaid, even if
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you're able-bodied single individual with no kids. I'm assuming there's things in this that Trump
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wants, but is he just basically willing to accept these concessions knowing they expire by the time
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he leaves because he wants to get his agenda through? It could be. I think a lot of this,
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he doesn't know. I think for instance, the example I gave you about the solar subsidies,
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how we're cutting, there are no tax credits for homeowners, but the tax credits for corporations
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continue. I doubt he is aware of those subtleties like that. He's probably putting a lot of faith
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in Mike Johnson and John Thune and just saying, okay guys, whatever you got to do to get this done,
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pay off the blue state New York Republicans and California Republicans, do what you got to do
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and just get this bill passed. I think the problem is that Mike Johnson isn't being completely forthright
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with the president. Maybe they can roll the Freedom Caucus at the end. I know there's a lot of grumbling
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from some conservative Republican senators and from some conservative Republicans here in the House
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who predominantly belong to the Freedom Caucus. Maybe they just plan to roll him at the end because
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in addition to the tax cuts, this bill has spending increases, but it's the kind of spending that if
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you don't spend the money, you could get in trouble in a Republican primary. The spending increases,
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for instance, are for the military, another over $100 million for the military. You've got HHS,
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border security. There's going to be over $50 billion there. And also for border security,
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in the Judiciary Committee, you can have another $100 million of spending there.
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And they'll say, if you're a Republican, they'll try to run an ad. Oh, by the way,
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and the Golden Dome is in there. They'll run ads of an intercontinental ballistic missile hitting St.
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Louis. He voted against protecting our country. He voted against enforcing the border. Those are the
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kind of ads they'll run against you if you vote against that, but against a big, beautiful bill. But
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you know what? Frankly, I don't care. I'm not going to stand here and lie to you. You cannot
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have free cake and eat it too. It will catch up on us. Our bond ratings right now on a 10-year bond,
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we're paying like 4.5%. That's going to go up. So not only are we over time, this gets to your
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deficit question. Not only are we increasing the deficit, which is the annual shortfall in spending,
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but we'll add to the debt another probably $25, $30 trillion over the next 10 years.
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Right now it's $32 trillion. But one of the worst parts is we're paying a trillion dollars of interest
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on the debt we already owe. And that number is going to go up because our bond rating will go down
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when the foreign sovereign wealth funds take a look at our financials and see we're not serious.
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Yeah. But I heard from AOC that we can just keep deficit spending to cover our costs. I mean,
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Well, during COVID, they printed $5 trillion and people thought the $1,200 checks were such a great
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deal. The problem is at the time I said, that's the cheese in the trap. Your cost of living has gone
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way the hell up more than $1,200 or $600 or the $1,400 check.
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All those three checks added together don't equal
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the AOC math, which was Republican math at the time in 2020 as well.
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Yeah, I shouldn't rag on her for some of the Republicans did too.
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No, but she was talking about healthcare spending a while back. And I think her quote was something
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like, we can have universal healthcare if we just deficit spend every year to cover the full
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costs of universal healthcare. And I think it's trillions of dollars, which means like three
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years goes by and your $200 weekly groceries go up to $1,000 within a couple of years or some
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You know, the thing I would hope AOC would agree with is that we shouldn't let these hospital
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oligarchs rake in the $20 million salaries and call them nonprofits. I think Trump has rightfully
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identified some of these university endowments, but not everybody goes to Harvard. Okay. But almost
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everybody goes to a hospital at some point, either for themselves or a loved one. And that's where,
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even if you wanted to give everybody free healthcare, actually, most of that money is going to hospitals
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and it's getting misappropriated. We need a full audit and we need really to do something
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fundamentally different about reimbursements. So what's in this big, beautiful bill that Trump
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so desperately wants? You mentioned some things. Yeah. So if we were just going to skinny it down
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to the things that Trump really cares about, it would probably be a renewal of what's called the Tax
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Cut and Jobs Act that was during his first term. You know, they made the tax cuts for corporations
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permanent, but the tax cuts for individuals were not permanent. So you could renew those and you could
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repeal the Green New Deal root and branch. And you could probably get pretty close to something
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that I could vote for with a few other savings in their work requirements for able bodied individuals
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without children on Medicaid, real work requirements, not ones with loopholes. You could pay for a renewal of the
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tax cut and jobs act of Trump's first administration with just a few simple things that all Republicans
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should agree with. And let's throw in the rescissions of USAID and PBS. So what's stopping this from happening?
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I mean, Republicans control the house. Why is there this, I don't know, this breaking point?
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You know, the blue state Republicans are driving the bus because their freedom caucus Republicans
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won't say no. And the blue state Republicans are willing to take this thing down if they don't get
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their SALT handout, state and local tax deduction handout, which would be a reversal of Trump's policy,
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by the way. One of the great things about the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of Trump's first term is he got
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rid of this ridiculous notion that if you're from New York, you should pay less of a percent of your
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salary for national defense than somebody from Kentucky, just because your property taxes are
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higher. That was, you know, getting rid of that and having some sanity, having actual conservative
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tax policy was part of Trump's original Tax Cut and Jobs Act. And so they shouldn't water that down now.
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But to your answer, why aren't we doing that? Because I don't the Freedom Caucus Republicans,
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a lot of them aren't willing to say no, although they might be this time around.
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Man, I'm I'm particularly worried about where we're going. I had a conversation. We did a debate
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show a couple weeks ago. We aired it last week. And with Trump trying to push through his agenda
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and using every interpretation of any law that he can say, like the Alien Enemies Act,
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and then this wave of universal injunctions, you've basically got an immovable object and an
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unstoppable force and then Congress sitting in the bleachers eating popcorn, not doing anything.
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So it's yeah, it's there's been a judicial coup, right? There's 677 federal district judges,
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any one of which could issue a nationwide injunction. So it's like a field of landmines with 677 landmines
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every time he tries to do something. Eventually that fixes itself because it does go to the Supreme
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Court and and Trump will win a lot of those. But they're robbing him as his most precious resource,
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which is time. When you get a mandate in an election, every day that goes by the mandate weakens.
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And so they're robbing him of time in the courts. But Speaker Johnson's robbing him of time here in
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the House as well. We have not consummated any of the doge cuts. We were supposed to have voted on
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this before. And they just mysteriously didn't schedule the vote. And the Speaker's press secretary
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said, oh, no, we're going to do it when I called him on it. And that begs the question, when are you
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going to do it? Because here we are this week. Don't tell me we don't have time to do it. They just
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called off votes tomorrow. They're going to send us. We just had a four day weekend. This was supposed to
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be regular American two day weekend coming up. Wow. But now they're going to give us a three day
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weekend. Do not tell me we don't have enough time. Well, you're making it sound like it's a good job
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to have being in Congress. A four day weekend, three day weekend. What am I doing? I'm working
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double shifts. You're a fool, Tim. But somebody's got to pay our salary. I guess, right? Man, I'm
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feeling disappointed. Was this expected of Speaker Johnson that he was going to run the ship this way?
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Well, you know, he promised to support Trump's agenda. He basically his campaign for speaker
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was that he would carry Trump's water and he put it in neutral. And the problem with putting it in
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neutral is you actually have to fight for the conservative portions of Trump's agenda here in
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the House. You can't just let the courts run over the president. The problem is the courts in some
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cases have a point. For instance, an appropriations bill is a law. A lot of people don't realize this,
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but it passes the House and the Senate and is signed by the president. So when you appropriate
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money for USAID, which they did in the continuing resolution and appropriate money for NPR and PBS,
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the president has signed that into law. It's not clear that he can then decide not to follow a law that
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he has signed. And so that's where rescissions come in. There is a pathway in Congress that requires
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only 51 votes in the Senate to consummate some of those cuts that Doge wants to do and that the
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president is trying to do that the courts are tying him up. It gives us our Trump card and we're not
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playing it. You know, I'm just thinking about how there are a lot of members of Congress.
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We rarely hear the direct the the direct honesty or that, you know, it just it just feels like they're
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they're just agenda driven. And I'm just wondering, is there something in the water in your district or
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is there something missing from the water that your constituents have elected a guy who's being honest
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and consistently? Why? Why? It's a joke. But why can't we get this from everybody else?
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It's not in the water. It's in my bloodstream. I have the Trump antibodies. I was from a natural
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infection in 2020 when I opposed the CARES Act and he attacked me. And then I got 81% of the vote in
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a primary because my voters appreciated me being the only one up here who was willing to say,
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if you print $5 trillion and you do these $2 trillion stimulus packages, you're going to pay for
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it sooner or later. My constituents appreciated that. And Trump eventually came around and
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endorsed me in the next election. But now I'm on his bad side again. So I guess I'm getting a booster
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of the antibodies or this or it could be a fatal, you know, condition this time. It doesn't matter to
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me like life's too short to come up here and and tell people we can cut your taxes and increase
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spending and everything's going to turn out all right because it's not. You're going to pay for
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it through inflation and a lower standard of living.
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It sounds to me like if every member of Congress, every sure, but at least the Republicans were
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being honest and actually cared to get the job done, they'd be largely agreeing with what you're
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saying. They pushed through a bill that made sense. Donald Trump would be very happy. Instead,
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it sounds like Trump knows he's not going to get a fair shake through Congress. So he wants whatever
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he can get. And then he gets upset with you because you're demanding a fair shake from Congress.
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Yeah. I mean, it's fair. I can see his frustration. I just wish he would see who's on his side.
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I mean, like I said before, I'm the one who's carried the bill, no tax on social security for
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over a decade and introduced a bill to not tax tips. And I want the rescissions that voted on.
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Like right now, I'm here calling out to speak or have this vote, quit sending his home tomorrow.
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And I think he's just frustrated and rightfully so. Congress is a bunch of do nothing people who
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are disingenuous and not rigorous and are always worried about their next reelection. Don't get me
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wrong. I have a lot of allies here who think exactly like I am thinking right now. It's just when it comes
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time to vote. They can't say no. And until you can say no, there's no negotiation. If you say,
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I don't like this, but I'm, but I'll probably vote for it anyway, then you're not going to get anything.
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You're not going to get the fixes. Why, why, why do you think Speaker Johnson has been doing what
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he's doing? And I, and I suppose to clarify, it's just, it seems like everything's kind of half-assed.
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Well, I mean, it is half-assed. If you're trying to get an argument out of me on that, you're not
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going to get one. But why? The American way?
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Frankly, he's, he's a lost ball in tall weeds. He fell into this job. If you had somebody like Jim
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Jordan, who knows you have to fight every day, instead of just putting it in neutral, then we
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wouldn't be in this situation. But we didn't, we didn't get a Jim Jordan because the swamp back
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when Kevin McCarthy was ejected, the swamp fought tooth and nail to keep Jim Jordan from ascending
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to speaker when in fact, it should have been him. And we wouldn't have these problems.
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I think though, that Mike Johnson is going to be the speaker. You know, your next question may be,
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well, why don't you have a motion to vacate or something like that? Well, Marjorie and I tried
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that a year ago before the elections. And because we saw that once, once the elections happened,
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if we got the majority, it was going to be kumbaya and people would just be happy to rubber stamp
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another term for Mike Johnson. But the reason we're not going to have a motion to vacate is Speaker
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Johnson is the speaker until Trump gets frustrated with him. And I don't know if and when that will
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happen, but I think at some point it should, because I just don't think Johnson's going to get this
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across the line, even the crappy bill, much less a good one. It seemed like when McCarthy got ousted,
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the popular base for Trump was very much pro Jim Jordan. How does the swamp intervene to prevent
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something like that happening? What can they do? Or what did they do? Well, there were 30 Republicans
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that were just ready to lose their next election. Wow. And they just kept voting against Jim Jordan
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every round. And it's because they're the big spenders. They knew, the swamp knew that he was a
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change agent. And so they just sort of like an organism with white blood cells, they attacked him
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and they didn't care if it was going to cost them their next election. And it did cost some of them
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their reelections. Wow. And some of them were going to retire anyway, but there are a few here.
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And I blame them. They bear the responsibility for this country going in the wrong direction and for
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for the elements of Trump's agenda that are conservative, not happening.
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So this swamp though, is this like the NRCC? Is this like the behind the scenes donors,
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the lobbyists basically telling these Republicans, you won't get a penny, you'll get no donations,
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Part of it's that. I mean, they're good people at the NRCC and their goal is to keep us in the
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majority. So I don't want to completely trash the NRCC, but the speaker uses the NRCC as a tool,
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like you just mentioned. And the lobbyists, they like a one-stop shopping place where all they got
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to do is lobby the speaker and get him to agree to something because he controls what goes on the floor.
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And then he can control membership, although I think it's sort of the other way around. I think
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these members in vulnerable districts are controlling the agenda. Sometimes with a stronger
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speaker, you have the speaker controlling the members who are reliant on the NRCC and need another
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$20 million to get reelected in a marginal district. But that doesn't seem to be happening this time.
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It seems like they're driving the agenda because we have a weaker speaker now.
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Yeah. You know, my final question is we've got a couple of minutes left. When Al Green was getting
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censured, Speaker Johnson calls him to face censure. Instead, Green starts singing and is joined by a
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bunch of Democrats who are obstructing the hall just singing. So Speaker Johnson just adjourns.
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And perhaps I'm a little aggressive in saying he should have the sergeant at arms come in and start
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arresting and removing people. But why is it that Democrats seem so ready to make moves like that?
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Republicans don't. They just let Democrats run roughshod all over them.
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Because there's a double standard. Look, when we had a mask mandate in the House, I went to the
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well of the floor without a mask and brought 10 members with me and stood there on C-SPAN without a mask.
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And they fined me. They took it out of my salary.
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And I sued Nancy Pelosi over that. Took it all the way to Supreme Court.
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But the Supreme Court wouldn't hear it for better or worse. They didn't want to intervene in congressional
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rules. And that may actually, there's a silver lining to their decision that they don't get involved
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because that would be a whole nother can of worms. But as somebody who has been fined for behavior on
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the floor of the House and had my salary reduced, I can tell you there's a double standard. And the ethics
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committee didn't overturn Pelosi's ruling against me. And so, but there is, there's definitely a double
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standard. I don't know. Listen, Tim, I don't know why Speaker Johnson is putting Democrat bills on
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the floor every week, every freaking day. There's, there's one or two Democrat bills that come to the
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floor. What is the deal that is being cut? Yesterday, Debbie Washington Schultz, former chair of the DNC,
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got a bill to the floor. Why, why is he bringing those bills to the floor and not bringing the
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rescissions to the floor? What deal is the uniparty cutting? I'd just like to know what the deal was.
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Yeah. Deep state deal saying we won't put you in prison after this is all over,
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like we did to Trump's lawyers or whoever else, maybe. I mean, it's crazy what we've seen over
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the past few years, but yeah, it certainly seems like we're not getting, we need through Congress,
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but Rep Massey, I do appreciate you joining me. Is there anything else you wanted to add before we
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wrap up? Well, I would just say there's a deep state, but there's always, there's also a deep
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Congress that I have encountered. It's so I'm here fighting the deep Congress.
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Oh man. Where can people find you? Find me at, uh, at Rep Thomas Massey on X. I do my own social
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media. Uh, I'd fire my staff if they put half of what I put on there. Uh, the first thing they tell
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you is don't argue with idiots, but you'll see me doing it every day on Twitter. It's working out.
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Now known as X. Uh, and look for the hashtag sassy with Massey.
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Right on, man. I really do appreciate you joining me and, and, and breaking this down for us. Uh,
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so thanks for, thanks for joining us. All right. Thanks, Tim. Take care.
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And that was representative Thomas Massey, who is, uh, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's the best. He's
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the best member of Congress. We got, uh, love him or hate him. Sometimes he does things that,
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uh, it will aggravate us, but he's always honest about it. And you know,
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you know, the thing about it, you can predict how he's going to, how he's going to vote because
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you know who he is. And I'll be honest with you. And there have been instances where,
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you know, my attitude is more so, yes, we're not getting the perfect, uh, legislation we need
00:30:44.840
for Donald Trump. Let's get through what he's asking for now so we can accomplish what we can.
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But it is fascinating when you listen to the guy and he breaks down for you,
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that Speaker Johnson is putting Democrat bills on the floor so that the issue is never really
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Thomas Massey. I think that, you know, when we're hoping for some kind of compromise to
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get Trump what he needs, it's usually Thomas Massey doing the right thing and us accepting
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that we're going to be working with bad people who want bad things to try and just get a win
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through. So I have tremendous respect for the guy. And I wish every other member of Congress
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was like him because then it'd be clean. We'd be done. I wish he was Speaker. But for now,
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we'll just keep getting Democrat bills, which is particularly disheartening.
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raid. Maybe there's a Rumble rant I can grab. Guido says, the Native American Act of 1924 gave
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Native American citizenship. The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868. And that clarifies things.
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Some of the 14th did not include some of some things. The 14th did not include everyone born here.
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Indeed. Firehazard says, Thomas Massey for speaker. Hear, hear. You know, they would never let that
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happen. So shout out to Rep Massey. Great dude. Big fan. And we'll wrap it up there, my friends.
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