Kevin McCarthy, in his first significant test as Speaker of the House of Representatives, has betrayed the conservatives of the GOP, as some expected and feared from the very beginning of his taking the speakership. McCarthy has, without doubt, sold out to President Joe Biden and the Marxist Dems on a budget deal that will have a huge impact for years to come. Some Republicans are profoundly shaken, deeply concerned that McCarthy s betrayal will undermine Republican chances in the 2024 election.
00:00:35.240Kevin McCarthy, in his first significant test as Speaker of the House, has betrayed the conservatives of the GOP,
00:00:43.220as some expected and feared from the very beginning of his taking of the speakership.
00:00:49.280McCarthy has, without a doubt, sold out to President Biden and the Marxist Dems on a budget deal that will have a huge impact for years to come.
00:00:58.100Some Republicans are profoundly shaken, deeply concerned that McCarthy's betrayal will undermine Republican chances in the 2024 election.
00:01:08.480Not only the presidential election, but the senatorial and congressional races as well.
00:01:14.500Republican presumptive nominee President Donald Trump vowing this week to end on his first day in office birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants.
00:01:25.260As part of my plan to secure the border on day one of my new term in office, I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies
00:01:33.460that under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward, the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic U.S. citizenship.
00:01:43.760It's things like this that bring millions of people to our country and they enter our country illegally.
00:01:52.820My policy will choke off a major incentive for continued illegal immigration, deter more migrants from coming and encourage many of the aliens Joe Biden has unlawfully let into our country to go back to their home countries.
00:02:08.600My order will also end their unfair practice known as birth tourism, where hundreds of thousands of people from all over the planet squatting hotels for their last few weeks of pregnancy to illegitimately and illegally obtain U.S. citizenship for the child.
00:02:33.040Often to later exploit chain migration to jump the line and get green cards for themselves and their family members.
00:02:42.240It's a practice that's a practice that's so horrible and so egregious, but we let it go forward.
00:02:49.460At least one parent will have to be a citizen or a legal resident in order to qualify.
00:02:54.940We will secure our borders and we will restore our sovereignty starting on day one.
00:03:00.040The very latest polling, as we often bring you here on The Great America Show, has Trump with a sizable lead, a very sizable lead over DeSantis, 53% to 22%, that according to the RealClearPoliticsAverage.
00:03:15.660Someone who isn't getting as much media attention as I think they probably will, polling higher than DeSantis in some of the latest polling.
00:03:57.200The Marxist-run mainstream media will do and say whatever they must to protect Joe Biden and at all costs, including obvious lies to the American public.
00:04:07.500Turning now to someone who's polling on favorability isn't very favorable, coming in at just 34% in that CNN poll.
00:04:17.700McCarthy, in his first real challenge as speaker, has failed, and he's failed miserably.
00:04:22.400Over the weekend, he agreed to the framework of a $4 trillion increase to the debt ceiling with no cap.
00:04:30.140The deal McCarthy agreed to went against everything he had promised the Republican conference and the American people on the night he was sworn in to the role of speaker.
00:04:39.520He vowed to fight against the hiring of the 80-plus-plus-thousand IRS agents.
00:04:45.360He vowed to fight against the weaponization of the federal government against the American people.
00:04:50.400He vowed to cut spending, not raise it.
00:04:54.980And here we are, almost five full months since McCarthy begged and pleaded with the conservative members of his conference to give him the chance to be speaker.
00:05:04.260After 14 failed votes, McCarthy was finally given the opportunity and has now proved those Freedom Caucus members, led by Congressman Andy Biggs, had every right to reject him.
00:05:16.720Congressman Dan Bishop was also outspoken in January about the election of McCarthy as speaker.
00:06:08.860Can you imagine doing it in the middle of a negotiating process without at least putting us all in a room to hash out or representatives from our several groups among the Republican conference who have gotten together before?
00:06:20.120Can you calculate the cost of surrendering that advantage?
00:06:26.900Our guest today is Congressman Andy Biggs.
00:06:29.580He's the former head of the Freedom Caucus.
00:06:31.520Biggs opposed McCarthy, as I said, and challenged him and warned us McCarthy's diminished integrity and political principle would soon show up.
00:06:41.080Congressman Andy Biggs led the opposition to McCarthy as speaker.
00:06:44.300He led the Brave 20, who held out against McCarthy to the final vote for speaker.
00:06:49.220Congressman, thanks for taking the time to join us here.
00:08:30.880So I predicted, I told people about a week ago, I said, I think they already have their deal.
00:08:37.220They're just, they've got to try a few bows around it.
00:08:40.700And, Lou, so if we start talking about the specifics of this deal, the first place you always start is the fact that there's not a dollar figure that they're lifting the debt ceiling to.
00:08:52.340They are taking the cap completely off from the day of enactment until January 1st, 2025.
00:09:00.000And that means you'll have about 19 months with no debt ceiling cap at all.
00:09:06.700In other words, it'd be if your credit card company said to you, hey, you know what?
00:09:39.580They're not going to be able to run on that issue.
00:09:41.340And the second thing that's really cynical is they didn't put a number in there because the American people will recoil when they hear that in just a year and a half,
00:09:50.620they'll probably spend at least $4 to $5 trillion, increase the national debt that much, because that's probably what's going to happen.
00:09:57.760And people who are watching and listening to all of this transpire, I think there's a great possibility, depending on the way it's conducted from here on.
00:10:12.960I truly believe that the Republican Party is at an existential moment because there have been lies.
00:10:20.040And I know that's no surprise in the swamp, but for it to be this blatant, this overt, this cynical is deeply disturbing to me, I will tell you that.
00:10:33.400And I'm not exactly naive on what people are capable of.
00:10:40.080But this, to suggest that they just simply suspend the ceiling, the budget ceiling, is just stunning to me.
00:10:51.820And to take the election of 2024 and dismiss it by putting the date certain as January 1st, 2025.
00:18:18.300So what you, as I would infer from what you've said, that there is no way forward here.
00:18:27.460This is straightforward, a railroad that goes straight ahead and only stops at stations that Biden designates.
00:18:35.720Well, I mean, this bill is definitely preserving the Biden agenda, even Lou, even as you and I have been speaking just right before you and I started speaking here.
00:18:47.580One of Biden's top economic advisors said that the deal with Kevin McCarthy actually cements in the progress of the leftist or the progressive agenda.
00:19:26.380And because if you had 120 Republicans that were going to vote no on this, I think at that point McCarthy's got to say, OK, we can't do this deal.
00:19:35.200And I'm not sure that you get the 120.
00:19:37.200And I'm not sure that McCarthy, even with that, I'm not sure that he would come around.
00:19:41.320So how many no votes do you think you can get?
00:20:22.700And the Republican conference is just think about what happened here.
00:20:26.480And as you know, I was never for the idea of putting forward this debt ceiling.
00:20:30.700But what they've done in putting this forward and and this combination of incompetence, ineptitude and just pure deceit is to mean is to demean the Republican conference.
00:20:47.140It means that those investigative committees are not going to have the credibility they had before Republicans all over the country were campaigning against the eighty seven thousand IRS agents.
00:20:59.700There's a weaponization subcommittee now.
00:21:12.740They've got reinforcements in weaponization, not curtailment.
00:21:18.840Yeah, I think he undermined the entire conservative agenda in Congress.
00:21:23.800And that's the sad part, because this I mean, if it was just about the bill, we could say it's just a horrible, horrible bill.
00:21:31.000And and and but it is beyond that because it has secondary tertiary impacts that are totally unintended.
00:21:38.260Like I say, it rends the conference apart and and and makes it almost ungovernable now because of of this.
00:21:49.360Second thing, it makes him reliant more on the Democrats.
00:21:52.780Third thing, it gives it actually gives lobbyists around here the power that we were trying to minimize in our fight last January.
00:22:04.240It has it also, quite frankly, it's it probably does in our chances to take the House and the Senate and the White House in 2024.
00:22:14.240I mean, look, we I mean, we just lost this whole battle to to Joe Biden and Joe Biden is is incompetent.
00:22:27.240And we demonstrated that what I think people are going to say is we can't trust the Republicans.
00:22:34.740We still can't trust the Republicans. We knew they would do this to us sooner or later.
00:22:38.700They did it. And so they're going to flee and they're not going to come back probably for the 2024 election.
00:22:44.560And that is. That is doing what I would say is both is a generational damage, the actual numbers and stuff, that's multigenerational.
00:22:55.900But what you've done is you've created a generation of damage politically as well.
00:23:00.900Well, Speaker McCarthy lied to be Speaker. He betrayed the conference.
00:23:07.400And and the fact of the matter is he turned over the Republican Party to.
00:23:14.480To. To evil incarnate, in my opinion, it's just it's appalling what we're witnessing here, and I and I can't believe that the other leaders in the conference did not stop this man before he did this,
00:23:31.160because they know what he just did to the investigative committees, what they just did, as you as you put it perfectly, what he did to the Republican Party and his chances in 2024.
00:23:42.740Andy Biggs, you're you're a great American. We appreciate you being with us.
00:23:49.260And I know you're short on time, but as always, I give you the last word to your concluding thoughts, if you will, Congressman.
00:23:55.980Well, Lou, you and I talked about this in January. This is one of the reasons I ran against Mr. McCarthy.
00:24:02.340We knew that when the tests would come, that he would revert to old habits. And this is an old habit of his.
00:24:07.800And so it's a shame. But, you know, people like you and I and and people who follow you, Lou, we can't ever give up.
00:24:17.200We have to continue to fight the fight because there's too much at stake.
00:24:21.940Absolutely. Congressman, all of the very best to you. Congressman Andy Biggs. Thanks so much.