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00:16:29.420And that all adds up to that top line.
00:16:32.180So that's in the form of 12 separate spending bills.
00:16:35.680We haven't passed 12 separate spending bills, Lou, since 1996.
00:16:40.940And as a matter of fact, in that almost 50 year history, it's only happened four times.
00:16:47.060We have held this speaker's feet to the fire and held his job on the line since January when he promised us and he agreed with us that we would get 12 spending bills to the floor.
00:17:43.400Because if you vote no to all the crazy spending bankrupting our country, then you're voting for shutting down the government.
00:17:50.220And, of course, the ads then in the fall write themselves as your opponents say, oh, representative so-and-so voted to shut down the government.
00:17:58.000We shouldn't have a choice between bankruptcy and operating.
00:18:02.160We don't have to bankrupt ourselves, just like in a household.
00:18:05.780You just limit your spending to pay for the things you can afford.
00:18:09.480But we're never given the opportunity.
00:18:15.620Most of the people in this country know that, that there has not been such a thing as regular order and in memory.
00:18:24.580There has been no such thing as individual appropriations bills, 12 of which, as you say, are specified and required.
00:18:33.240So what we have is a corrupt Congress.
00:18:35.720So that means that Kevin McCarthy, his leadership team, the chairs of each of the committees, are purposely violating the law, as you put it.
00:18:51.160So we have a group of renegade Republicans, maybe an entire conference full of them, because it's your call.
00:18:58.380And for some reason, no one's standing up and making that call.
00:19:02.500And what I suspect is Mitch McConnell has set his tentacles reaching deep into the leadership and right up Kevin McCarthy's nose.
00:19:12.420And he's afraid that McConnell's going to twist.
00:19:15.740There's something here that is terribly, terribly wrong.
00:19:19.720When we continue, I'd like, if I may, Congressman, to ask you to explain to me and to the audience why Republicans impeaching the president of the United States, trying to bring the fiscal policies of this country into some sort of rationality, can't do the simplest thing, which is follow the law.
00:19:49.720We're back now with the head of the Freedom Caucus, Congressman Scott Perry, great American.
00:19:55.340Congressman, how is it that the Republican Party cannot organize itself around the very simple principle, follow the law, do what's right and best for the nation?
00:20:06.160Each individual member, Lou, you know, votes for their district.
00:20:10.800And, of course, their district get things out of the other districts, right?
00:20:15.420It's all taking from this district to give to that district, whether it's earmarks, as you know, which were brought back.
00:21:40.380I mean, my goodness, if we're going to borrow money from anybody to solve somebody's debt, let's at least solve our own.
00:21:46.960Citizens need to see these kind of things before they're going to understand the swampiness and the depravity at which this rot has taken this legislature and this form of government.
00:21:59.440They have to see it in their face, and that's what we're trying to show them.
00:22:44.520Yeah, well, at this point, that's how it's been done, year after year after year.
00:22:50.140But we are committed and we are firm in our resolve that we are not going to allow it.
00:22:56.440Now, we only have one half the equation, so that's the other part of this puzzle that we have to solve.
00:23:01.460So let's just say that we finally force Speaker McCarthy to get all these bills on the floor and we consider them, they get through, et cetera.
00:23:44.660And quite honestly, the Uniparty, including some of our colleagues on our side of the aisle that work in the Uniparty, what have they done?
00:24:34.280And so as long as the Republicans feel that way, I don't think it's like going into battle, I would assume, saying, oh, my gosh, I better not raise my head up out of this foxhole.
00:24:52.080But first, sending a telegram to your enemy and letting them know that as long as they put up any resistance, you're going to be willing to surrender.
00:24:59.940You know, the only reason these fights happen is when Republicans are when Republicans are in charge is because Republicans, at least some of us, demand that we quit bankrupting the country.
00:25:36.480We've got to expose this so the American people can understand it and and and can see that their votes matter, who they send to Washington matters.
00:25:46.220And what they say on the campaign trail doesn't often match what they do in Washington, D.C.
00:25:51.980But again, the American people know that, Congressman.
00:25:56.880The American people are a hell of a lot smarter than they're given credit for on those acres, you know, where you reside up there now for a good part of the year.
00:26:05.720People understand and the polls reflected 70 percent of the American people in some of the most important surveys of this year acknowledge, acknowledge that this is a politically motivated set of indictments against Donald Trump.
00:26:24.340And also the majority of people understand what the issue is in terms of who's the cause of inflation, who should be held responsible for the dysfunctional government.
00:26:35.180By the way, the ABC News Washington Post poll, not exactly conservative entities, their poll showed more Americans by 10 percent will blame the Biden White House and the Marxist Dems for any shutdown that follows.
00:26:53.100Now, I don't know if anybody in the Republican Party has been paying attention to this or not.
00:27:00.140And the only way they can prevail is if they if if the Republican conference is overwhelmed by rhino thought leaders and the conservatives sort of say, well, you know, I've got to go educate folks because they're not as smart as I am.
00:27:15.580The truth of the matter is, those people are a hell of a lot smarter than most of the congressmen in the United States on Capitol Hill.
00:27:25.680I'm talking about the Democrats, obviously, not the Republicans.
00:27:28.840Republicans are exempt for my criticism.
00:27:32.880Well, you know, I'm an equal opportunity criticizer.
00:27:37.140And when our side doesn't get the work done in a timely fashion, there are due criticism.
00:27:42.200But I would say this. There's a bunch of people rotting in jail right now and being persecuted by the federal government for for the crime of obstructing an official proceeding.
00:27:53.360But when a member of the Democrat Party goes and pulls the fire alarm because he wants to slow us down in Congress, somehow that's a mistake.
00:28:02.100Lou, as you know, we see that clearly for what it is.
00:28:05.540And it is this this double standard of no justice in America where some people are connected and and get a pass at breaking the law and other people who barely even maybe questionably didn't even break the law were invited into the Capitol.
00:28:21.440They go to jail. American people are done with that.
00:28:25.020Yeah, I would like to hear every Republican, every Republican walk onto that floor and ask who and have Jamal Bowman there.
00:28:34.460Just say who who in here is above the law.
00:28:38.180And then I would demand I think you guys are too nice.
00:28:41.980I really do. Why not hold that S.O.B. up for what he is?
00:30:47.180It's running out on the funding of this government.
00:30:49.900It's running out on those on on a successful impeachment of Joe Biden and his corrupt administration.
00:30:57.640Why isn't there a fire blazing right now in us in the guts of every every Republican on Capitol Hill?
00:31:05.580I think there is in half of them, Lou, maybe a little less than half of them.
00:31:09.320But there's a bunch that come from these Biden districts that hear a different story when they go home and they want to come back to Congress.
00:31:16.500They want to get reelected and they they don't see the same things that that you and I do.
00:31:21.840They're hearing different different input from their bosses, their constituents.
00:31:26.420I can tell you when I go home, my constituents are furious.
00:31:30.700They've had enough of the high prices.
00:31:32.580They've had enough of the persecution.
00:31:34.380They've had enough of the lawlessness by by this administration.
00:31:38.000And they want us to cut their funding and send a message to them that we're not going to abide by this, that our money is not going to be spent destroying our country.
00:31:48.880Unfortunately, like I said, we had five of these spending bills on the floor.
00:31:53.060The one that did the most good was the one that didn't pass because many of my colleagues and Lou, not one Democrat voted for it.
00:32:01.240Right. You can't count on them to do any of that.
00:32:03.400Right. But but you can't count. You can't count on Republicans to do the right.
00:32:08.080But that's what I point. When you lose Republicans over a bill that that trims loop, we're going to we're spending seven point two trillion dollars this year and taking in five trillion or five trillion in revenue.
00:32:21.180Right. So what what we're trying to get our conference to do instead of spending seven point two is to spend seven point one.
00:32:29.600It's still two point one trillion over and they're fighting us tooth and nail.
00:32:34.400They don't want to cut one thing. Most of these programs didn't even exist 20 years ago.
00:32:39.300If we became a great nation over a couple hundred years without these programs, why can't we live without them now?
00:32:46.020And even if you can't live without them, can you live without as much of them?
00:32:50.440They won't even do that. And so this is the fight that we're having over pennies, over pennies, Lou.
00:32:57.140It is it is absurd. And it's all within our own party.
00:33:00.820Like I said, the left will not help at all. They want to spend more.
00:33:06.860And and I can't wait to hear what happens when the funding is signed up and Biden gets everything asked for.
00:33:15.240I because I think the first thing that a defense attorney for the president in that impeachment inquiry or if it does turn into impeachment proceedings to say, why are you people even here?
00:33:24.800If my if my if my client, the president, United States, is so corrupt, so impaired, so compromised.
00:33:32.520Why in the world did you give him seven point two trillion dollars?
00:33:40.160This makes no sense. And the American people understand it.
00:33:42.580And so let please my client, this great, faithful American who has the support of everyone in the Republican conference or almost everyone.
00:35:33.920It's a little late, but that's where we are.
00:35:36.080And if the Senate doesn't do it, the Senate has to own this and the Senate will be responsible for shutting the government down.
00:35:42.920And then I hope we can force the Senate to eat some actual spending reductions and border security, force them to take that, force the president to sign that into law, force them to help writing the ship.
00:35:56.820Even though he's only going to be here for, you know, one short but long year, he's got essentially one year left.
00:36:03.960But let's force him to start doing the right thing because we have done the right thing.
00:36:08.360That's what needs to happen at the end of this 45 days.
00:36:13.100And to that short year that you talk about, one short year, all Americans have seen the just vast damage that he has done to this country, his efforts to destroy the whole the whole kit and caboodle.
00:36:26.820As it were, he did a lot in just a very short period of time.
00:36:31.540His first year, we're looking at millions of illegal immigrants.
00:36:34.740We're looking at trillions of dollars more in the national debt.
00:36:37.560We're looking at devastating inflation.
00:36:57.280I hope the American people and Lou, your audience certainly does know that we can't keep going under the system we have where we do these omnibuses and a few people at the top decide all our spending.
00:37:09.680The American public gets fleeced for things that they can't afford and don't want.
00:37:13.920And we go further into debt, empowering China and our other enemies.
00:37:18.600Call up your representative and say, we want to cut this spending, even if it involves things that involve my state, things that programs that I have participate in.
00:37:33.880I'm demanding that you find some savings here in this budget where we're going to spend two point two trillion dollars more than we bring in this year.