The Champlin Park High School girls softball team in Minnesota just won the state championship by fielding a male pitcher in every single game. What's more, they did it with a 17-year-old boy named Charlie Rothenberger.
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Simone Biles issues a groveling apology after attacking Riley Gaines for her stance against men in women's sports.
00:00:06.760This series of events would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. We'll talk about it.
00:00:10.080Also, the media laments that there are now more American troops in L.A. than in Iraq or Syria.
00:00:18.620Trump uncancels Robert E. Lee. I'll give you a quick history lesson to explain why that is a very good decision.
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00:01:58.440There are few institutions in this country that have disgraced themselves more thoroughly in recent days than the little-known Champlin Park High School in Champlin, Minnesota.
00:02:07.520This is a school that just won the Class 4A Minnesota Girls State Softball Championship by fielding a male as their star pitcher in every single game.
00:02:16.760And this male pitcher, a 17-year-old junior named Charlie Marissa Rothenberger, pitched all 21 innings across three games of the girls' championship tournament, because they do seven-inning games in softball.
00:02:29.060And what do you know? Champlin Park won all three games.
00:02:32.320Rothenberger capped off his performance by throwing a complete-game shutout, allowing only three hits in the process.
00:02:39.180And that's just the championship route.
00:02:41.120He also pitched a complete-game shutout in the quarterfinals, and overall, in the entire postseason, Rothenberger allowed only two runs in 35 innings.
00:02:49.740Now, everybody involved in this farce, from the school district to the coaches to the parents to the athlete himself,
00:02:57.540should be barred from any kind of competitive activity for the rest of their lives.
00:03:01.680They should face more serious consequences, which may indeed be coming.
00:03:05.360The school district has already been sued.
00:03:06.860But at the moment, like most cheaters, these people seem to have convinced themselves that they did nothing wrong.
00:03:12.440In interviews, Rothenberger and his coach have suggested that they're simply better competitors than their opponents.
00:03:17.540They managed to vary their pitch types and pitch speeds, and their opponents just didn't measure up.
00:03:22.900So here's an interview from last season to give you an idea.
00:03:26.800Then in the seventh, it's Rothenberger shutting things down with their tenth strikeout of the game.
00:03:33.780I think it was just spinning, like, my rise ball and pitches through the zone, mixing different speeds, and keeping them off balance.
00:03:40.960It's been high energy all the time, having a strong defense and picking each other up after every hour, being able to string a couple hits together and getting runs.
00:04:05.900Now, watching this coach speak, any sane person has to fight to suppress their vomit reflex.
00:04:12.480I mean, imagine celebrating your sports acumen and acting like you're some incredible coach with an incredible team when you have a boy pitching every single one of your games in a girls' softball league.
00:04:23.060Like, the gall that's required to stand there with a straight face as you cheat in the most flagrant way imaginable while pretending everything is completely normal is hard to comprehend.
00:04:33.200I mean, pathetic does not even begin to describe it.
00:04:34.980And, of course, the parents who allow this man to coach their daughters as he teaches them how to cheat are just as culpable.
00:04:42.520Everything about this story is revolting.
00:05:26.180And then for good measure, Biles followed up by writing, quote,
00:05:41.700Now, the other day, we talked about all the reasons why this rant was highly ironic,
00:05:49.860especially since Simone Biles isn't exactly known for her sportsmanship or for her feminine appearance, frankly.
00:05:55.740We also discussed why her idea of a trans-only league is idiotic for like a million reasons.
00:06:01.360For one thing, there wouldn't be enough players, nor would anyone want to watch them play.
00:06:05.740Additionally, you'd have to decide how to classify the, you know, non-binaries and demisexuals and two-spirits and the 50,000 other genders.
00:06:14.040Do they play with the trans men or the trans women?
00:06:15.820Do we need a separate league for every variation?
00:06:19.360Things can get pretty complicated, especially when the trans furries show up and refuse to wear the standard uniforms.
00:06:24.020And of course, on top of all these problems, a trans-only league makes no sense
00:06:28.140because the current system of dividing athletes based on biological reality and not fantasy works perfectly fine
00:06:37.980So those are just a few problems with Simone Biles' tweets.
00:06:40.880Additionally, a few people also pointed out that Simone Biles' position was also hypocritical
00:06:45.840because back in 2017, she wrote on Twitter, quote,
00:06:49.060Good thing guys don't compete against girls or he'd take all the gold medals, close quote.
00:06:54.420Referring to a male gymnast at the time.
00:06:57.400Now, presumably that post was written before Biles had lost her mind.
00:07:00.660But in 2025, Biles, as with so many other prominent public figures, is completely subservient to leftist ideology.
00:07:07.840And more than that, she's vindictive and openly hostile to anyone who expresses a contrary position,
00:07:14.220even if it's the position that most Americans hold, the one that happens to correspond with reality.
00:07:19.300But here's what elevates the story beyond a typical social media spat, and this is why it's worth revisiting,
00:07:27.260is that five years ago, for these posts attacking Riley Gaines, Simone Biles would have received unrelenting praise from every organ of the left.
00:07:37.340The media would be asking her how she managed to be so brave in the face of Riley Gaines' fascism.
00:07:42.940Activist groups would be clamoring to invite her to speaking engagements.
00:07:45.820Every podcast would be elevating her as a kind of trans messiah.
00:07:49.960And then they would have had Riley Gaines banned from the Internet, of course.
00:07:52.920I mean, that's how things used to work.
00:07:54.600In 2020, just to give you one of many, many examples, the comedian Graham Linehan was permanently banned from Twitter for tweeting, quote,
00:08:13.460Very few prominent people came out to defend Simone Biles after her post.
00:08:19.940Instead, she was excoriated by almost everyone.
00:08:23.920And the backlash was so significant that just a few days after this initial post, Simone Biles put out a lengthy statement apologizing to Riley Gaines.
00:10:16.240Now, as far as apologies go, this one obviously could have and should have gone much further.
00:10:23.480She should have dropped the word salad and stated plainly that boys don't belong in girls' sports, period.
00:10:30.440And many conservatives are pointing out that, pointing that out, they're pointing out that her statement sounds phony, like it was crafted by a PR agency or an AI program.
00:10:40.420I mean, when you compare that statement to the original tweets, it's pretty clear it was not written by the same human or by a human at all.
00:10:48.600So they don't believe that the apology is sincere.
00:10:51.140And they're right about that, of course.
00:10:55.340But I think the conservatives that are saying this are missing the point.
00:11:01.040You know, the fact that a very famous and popular public figure felt the need to apologize and get a crisis PR firm involved and issue a PR statement after tweeting in support of the trans agenda is a clear sign of a very significant sea change in our culture.
00:11:18.280It's not really important that the statement was insincere or incomplete.
00:11:22.620In fact, that in some ways makes it more significant.
00:11:25.700The fact that, like, we all know she doesn't believe what she's saying, but she felt the need to pretend.
00:11:30.880See, this always used to go the other way around.
00:11:32.620It always used to go the other way around, that it was people who are rational people and conservatives who were issuing these groveling apologies that were insincere, pretending they believe things they don't.
00:11:43.600And now it's happening this way, where you've got someone.
00:11:57.540Okay, which really tells you something.
00:12:00.300What's important is that this series of events, any kind of retreat by Simone Biles in this scenario, would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
00:12:09.600But it's yet another sign of just how thoroughly the right has won on the issue of gender ideology.
00:12:15.520If this had happened in, say, 2021, there would have been a whole army of public figures circling the wagons around Simone Biles.
00:12:22.120And that didn't really happen this time.
00:12:24.160And that's particularly notable because it's supposedly Pride Month.
00:12:37.220And they're supposed to loudly shout down people like Riley Gantz.
00:12:40.880They're supposed to dominate the conversation so that no one's allowed to point out that a male just won a girl's softball tournament.
00:12:47.340But no one's talking about Pride Month anymore.
00:12:49.500LGBT activists are too demoralized and discredited to celebrate at the moment.
00:12:54.320That's the same reason they're not really defending Simone Biles.
00:12:56.980I mean, a few voices here and there chimed in, but very few.
00:13:00.680And it's why she was forced to apologize.
00:13:02.140And it's why the Minnesota High School Softball League had to shut down its social media feeds.
00:13:07.520Every single one of these liars is aware of the fact that they've lost most of their public support.
00:13:13.760Now, yes, technically speaking, Champlin Park High School was named the winner of the State Girl Softball Championship.
00:13:19.720But as you watch the players and the coaches gloat, it's hard not to be reminded of all the other frauds throughout history who simply took things too far too quickly.
00:13:28.640Pathetic institutions like Champlin Park High School and the Minnesota State Softball League, along with cowardly mouthpieces like Simone Biles,
00:13:37.220no longer have the cultural power that they had just a few years ago.
00:13:41.100And with this latest apology, even if it was generated by a PR firm using ChatGPT,
00:13:47.240it's evident that Simone Biles and the rest of the LGBT cult are slowly coming around to the reality of their own irrelevance.
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00:14:59.260So the movement against American sovereignty has now spread nationwide with riots and demonstrations spreading to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, Boston, New York.
00:15:10.180And this is clearly a highly coordinated and well-funded campaign to undermine our national sovereignty and destroy the country.
00:15:53.820But it's obviously being funded and organized and staged very clearly.
00:15:59.560And one of the most interesting and sometimes quite funny things about this whole episode has been the attempt to demonize Trump and his response to the riot.
00:16:08.840Attempts that often end up making a point that is exactly the opposite of the one that they're trying to make.
00:16:17.400And I want to highlight this headline from ABC News, for example.
00:17:53.380And I would rather spend my tax money protecting American cities than cities in the Middle East in countries that, you know, I've never even visited and never will and don't care about.
00:18:05.660And this kind of thinking is, I mean, it's intuitive to most normal people, right?
00:18:12.500But leftists can't wrap their minds around it.
00:18:17.520The idea that we would want to spend our resources on improving and defending our own country and our own community, the idea that we care more about the state of affairs in an American city than in a Middle Eastern city is truly bewildering to them.
00:18:36.020This basic instinct, the order of loves, you know, that has been intuitive for everyone since the dawn of time somehow escapes them because their minds and souls are just that polluted.
00:18:49.400Here's another story that gives the game away related to this.
00:18:52.820The Daily Wire reports, the GOP-led House passed on Tuesday a bill to prohibit non-citizens from voting in local Washington, D.C. elections, overcoming the majority of Democrats who voted against the measure.
00:19:03.840A total of 210 Republicans and 56 Democrats supported the legislation, which bars foreign nationals from voting in local contests in the nation's capital and repeals a measure passed by the D.C. Council in 2022 that allowed it in the first place.
00:19:17.620Another 148 Democrats voted against it.
00:19:29.160Now, granted, this this plan has drawbacks for Democrats.
00:19:31.860It's not working as well as they hoped or as well as it used to.
00:19:35.760Hispanics are increasingly voting Republican, especially Hispanic men.
00:19:38.760But that really has not quelled the Democrats desire to flood our country with foreigners.
00:19:43.980And partly because they're confident and there was there's a lot of talk after the election.
00:19:52.140I think some of it half joking, some of it not that, you know, I've made similar comments that, oh, you know, Democrats now are going to now they're going to finally want to build the wall now that they've seen that Hispanics are beginning to vote against them.
00:20:09.960And I think most of us knew that it wouldn't actually happen.
00:20:13.980They still support illegal immigration.
00:20:16.480They still want to flood our country with foreigners despite the election results.
00:20:20.740And that's partly because they're confident in their ability to win the foreign vote by promising them access to the wallets and bank accounts of American citizens.
00:20:29.640They're confident in their ability to bribe foreigners into supporting them, in other words.
00:20:58.740You win some elections, you lose some elections.
00:21:01.120The deeper goal is to reshape America demographically.
00:21:06.120It is it is to make America less white, less European by descent.
00:21:11.060It is ultimately about the destruction of Western civilization.
00:21:16.580That that's the great villain for these people.
00:21:18.520That's the great white whale, you know, literally white in this case that they wish to slay.
00:21:24.040You're not going to destroy Western civilization just by winning the next midterms or whatever.
00:21:30.540You just you destroy it by importing non-Western people.
00:21:34.500You do it with demographic replacement.
00:21:35.960It's like, you know, I made this point before.
00:21:38.040A lot of people have made this kind of use this illustration, which I think I think kind of makes it should make it very clear for any reasonable person.
00:21:46.440But if you were to, let's say, take everybody in Nigeria right now and pick them up and transport them into the United States.
00:22:00.120And at the same time, you were to take everybody in the United States right now and transport them somewhere else.
00:22:05.640Let's say to where the left would really want to transport them, let's say to the sun, just shoot them directly into the sun.
00:22:12.940Well, if you were to do that, it would mean that the United States doesn't exist anymore.
00:22:42.040And it's easy for people to see this in the reverse, because if we were to do the reverse of this and round up all the Nigerians and shoot them into the sun and then send 100 million Americans.
00:22:51.320Or whatever the population is of Nigeria right now.
00:22:54.660And and but, you know, round up 100 million Americans, particularly white Americans and plop them right into Nigeria.
00:23:02.940Everyone would rightly see that we haven't just made some slight changes to Nigeria.
00:23:07.800This isn't like some redecorating that took place.
00:24:21.300President Trump spoke at Fort Bragg yesterday and he made an announcement about some changes that will be made and have already already stated started making these changes.
00:24:31.400They're going to continue to changes that I think are quite good.
00:24:37.300For a little breaking news, we are also going to be restoring the names to Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort A.P. Hill and Fort Robert E. Lee.
00:24:55.340We won a lot of battles out of those forts.
00:25:39.400Instead, I do want to try to talk about this a little bit and break this down for people on the right who generally opposed tearing down statues and renaming forts and buildings and all that kind of thing, but who supported it and still do for Confederate generals.
00:25:58.880There are, from what I've seen, and I don't know what the percentage is, but I've certainly seen a fair number of conservatives who hold that position and who think it's a bad idea to put somebody like Robert E. Lee's name back on a fort or to resurrect his statues, which I think we should be doing that also.
00:26:15.660I think we should put up a new Robert E. Lee statue to replace every single one that was taken down and make it five times larger, just to spite the mob that tore it down and to make it impossible for them to tear it down again.
00:26:29.040But this is not a universally accepted position on the right.
00:26:34.400So I wanted to talk about this a little bit because I believe that there's a lot of ignorance about the Civil War.
00:26:40.240Of course, there's a lot of ignorance about it, and in particular about men like Robert E. Lee, and I'm going to focus on his case in particular.
00:26:50.280And when I say ignorance, by the way, I don't even mean that as an insult because it's not entirely your fault.
00:26:55.240If you're ignorant about the real history of the Civil War, what that tells me is that you went to public school, as I did, or even private school.
00:27:05.460Most private schools, it's the same, where you are going to be hopelessly misinformed about the Civil War and every other historical subject, particularly subjects relating to American history.
00:27:18.120And unless you specifically went and pursued a better education on the subject, which you would have had to pursue independently on your own time,
00:27:30.380unless you did that, then you have never received anything approaching a real education on the Civil War.
00:27:36.600If you relied on the school system to teach you about it, and that's kind of as far as your education on the subject goes, then you know nothing about it.
00:27:47.740You have a – it's not just that you lack information.
00:27:50.980The information you think you have is wrong.
00:27:54.620So – but a lot of people, they – this is the problem with having a hopelessly corrupted school system is that you're getting a lot of misinformation.
00:28:08.360You're getting a lot of left-wing propaganda.
00:28:10.060Obviously, that's the entire – you're being brainwashed.
00:28:12.480And then you have to go after the fact after you graduate and deliberately try to undo the brainwashing.
00:28:19.900But you don't have time to, like, go and explore every single subject that they got wrong in school.
00:28:26.000And so a lot of people are just like – Civil War doesn't interest them that much, so they don't spend the time to read about it.
00:28:30.600And so they go through their lives harboring all these misperceptions that were instilled in them by the school system.
00:28:38.200So with that said, here's the truth about Robert E. Lee, which is, to just summarize, he was not some sort of belligerent racist
00:28:53.360who led troops into battle in the hope of overthrowing the U.S. government because he wanted to protect slavery.
00:30:20.500Yeah, just as some Union generals owned slaves.
00:30:22.980Grant owned at least one slave for a period of time.
00:30:26.240There were other Union generals who owned slaves.
00:30:28.380Lee owned slaves because he inherited them from his father's estate.
00:30:31.120And it's said in his father's will that he was to free the slaves after a period of time, which he did.
00:30:36.860He was the executor of the estate, and he followed his father's wishes.
00:30:40.960And the slaves were freed before the Emancipation Proclamation, even though the Emancipation Proclamation actually didn't free a single slave.
00:30:46.520Because it was written specifically to free the slaves only in the states that were in rebellion,
00:30:51.420which were the states that Lincoln did not have control over at the time,
00:30:54.360and specifically did not free the slaves in the states that he did have control over.
00:30:58.940But that's sort of a slightly different topic.
00:31:02.660So, that's his actual history of slavery.
00:31:04.720Now, if you're going to take the position that, okay, yeah, but he still technically owned slaves for a period of time,
00:31:10.020and he inherited them, he didn't free them right away, he obviously didn't have an enlightened view on the topic.
00:31:13.940Yeah, he didn't have an enlightened view on the topic by our standards today.
00:31:56.520So if that, if, and this, by the way, is the logic that the left uses to tear down the founding fathers, take their names off of things, tear down their statues.
00:32:09.520We're talking about, you know, about 90 years that separated America declaring independence from the Civil War.
00:32:17.760So this is, you know, in our day, that's one lifetime, two lifetimes back then, not that long of a different, not that great of an expanse of time.
00:32:26.920And yet, if you're a reasonable person, you can look at our founding fathers and say, yeah, these are men who should be honored and remembered.
00:32:36.280And yes, they did also, many of them owned slaves.
00:32:39.180But we can understand that in the context of the time.
00:32:42.920And if we're not going to read history that way, then we're not reading history at all.
00:32:49.760So, why did Lee fight for the Confederacy?
00:32:58.720And back in those days, and this is hard for us to understand, but back in those days, especially in the South, your state was your country.
00:33:08.300If you heard somebody refer to their country, they would often be talking about their state.
00:33:14.500Lee was more loyal to his state and identified with it more than he did the federal government.
00:33:19.120His state is where, which kind of makes sense, especially back in those days when people were not connected by modern technology.
00:33:29.420And so, the only people you ever saw or heard from or heard about or interacted with were the people in your community.
00:33:37.120If the people who lived in states 500 miles away, you would just never see them ever or hear about them or hear from them or talk to them.
00:33:44.500And so, he identified with his community where he lived, and it's where his wife and children lived also.
00:33:51.680So, when he was offered command of the Union Army, he declined.
00:33:54.420He declined it because he could not go to war against his own home, against his own community, against his own children.
00:33:59.960You know, he had sons that were fighting age.
00:34:01.560He'd be fighting against his own kids.
00:36:05.720Well, because he felt duty-bound to do so.
00:36:07.600He believed that duty transcends the desires of the individual.
00:36:11.080Which means that he would march in defense of Virginia, even as Virginia did something that he didn't personally agree with.
00:36:16.620And again, I know this mentality is just totally unthinkable for people today for whom the desires of the individual always reign supreme.
00:36:23.200But that was just not the case for almost any of the men who fought in the Civil War on either side.
00:36:27.900In fact, there were plenty of guys on the other side who didn't agree that it was a good idea to march down South and force them to stay in the Union at the point of a bayonet.
00:38:35.120But these people can't even conceive of the level of honor and dignity that guys like Robert E. Lee and men on both sides of the battle possessed.
00:38:48.640They can't even, they don't even have in their pinky finger that level of honor and dignity.
00:38:55.680They can't, they, it's, it's, it's like these were men.
00:39:26.000And only in the last few years are we suddenly acting as though the wounds of the Civil War are just too fresh, too raw for us to, you know, for us to have any kind of nuanced view of somebody like Robert E. Lee.
00:39:41.680So it's, it's, it's, it's, the wounds are too raw and too fresh for us.
00:39:47.780And somehow, uh, they're more raw and fresh for us than they were for, you know, people whose grandfathers actually fought in the war.
00:39:59.800So there's your history lesson for the, for the day.
00:40:03.280Let's, uh, let's get to the comment section.
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00:41:46.760Matt is happy to keep unwanted immigrants away. Matt wants poor countries to get better by themselves.
00:41:51.900That's great. Like Libya, that tries to create a new coin using the natural resources in Africa, but sadly the legal NATO army destroyed the country.
00:41:59.400What else does Matt recommend poor countries to do?
00:42:02.660I don't know. I don't have any recommendation.
00:42:05.520I don't have a recommendation for Libya or any other country.
00:42:09.940That's up to them to figure out. It's not my job to fix.
00:42:16.400So we always hear this whenever someone says, whenever I say that America doesn't need to be involved in these countries, doesn't need to be taking on their problems.
00:42:27.020Then the response is always, well, what do you want the countries to do?
00:42:44.680And if they can't figure it out, then again, that's totally their problem.
00:42:51.600If California was part of Mexico, it would look like the rest of Mexico and the Mexicans would be desperate to get into the next U.S. state.
00:42:58.520Yeah, that's the point I was trying to make, though you summarized it much more efficiently.
00:43:02.780I mean, never mind who California rightly belongs to.
00:43:05.200It belongs to the United States, fair and square, very clearly.
00:43:07.660But more importantly, why is it even a desirable place to be?
00:43:12.860It's less and less desirable because of the rampant foreign invasion and also because of failed Democratic leadership.
00:43:24.300But to the extent that it was ever desirable or it is desirable now, why is that?
00:43:30.540Well, it's because it's part of the United States.
00:43:33.900And if Mexicans agree that they don't want to be in Mexico, then they also wouldn't want to be in California if it was part of Mexico.
00:43:50.140I am proud of my ability to work obscure football analogies that maybe don't always really work in context, but I'm going to use them anyway in any point that I'm trying to make.
00:44:03.540Though I think that this skill goes mostly unappreciated.
00:44:06.920So you're the first person who's ever expressed any appreciation for it.
00:46:57.120He's one of the very few members of Congress who I can say that about.
00:46:59.860But the daily cancellation believes in equal opportunity.
00:47:03.540The daily cancellation does not discriminate.
00:47:05.620Or maybe I should say it does discriminate.
00:47:07.100It discriminates ruthlessly and mercilessly, but it does so equally.
00:47:10.420And that is why Senator Hawley must be canceled today.
00:47:14.780The Daily Wire reports this week, quote,
00:47:16.920Senator Josh Hawley joined with a Democrat colleague on Tuesday to introduce a bill that would raise the federal minimum wage to $15.
00:47:24.140Quote, for decades, working Americans have seen their wages flatline.
00:47:27.020One major culprit of this is the failure of the federal minimum wage to keep up with the economic reality facing hardworking Americans every day.
00:47:33.860Along with Senator Peter Welch of Vermont, Hawley introduced the Higher Wages for American Workers Act,
00:47:41.460which would raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour where it's been since 2009.
00:47:45.360The bill would also provide a tax credit for workers making under minimum wage.
00:47:50.520We're in the midst of a severe affordability crisis with families in red and blue states alike struggling to afford necessities like housing and groceries.
00:47:57.480Every hardworking American deserves a living wage that helps put a roof over their head and food on the table.
00:48:02.880Well, $7.25 an hour doesn't even come close.
00:48:05.780Okay, so Josh Hawley has joined the ranks of the Democrats claiming that the federal minimum wage should provide a living wage.
00:48:12.040Now, granted, this point of view is it's slightly less crazy now than it was when the Fight for 15 movement first began like 10 years ago or so.
00:48:20.040And also, granted, if you're going to have a federal minimum wage, then, yeah, it makes no sense for it to be the same today as it was in 2009.
00:48:26.720There's obviously been inflation since then and not a small amount of it either.
00:48:30.940Cumulative inflation since 2009 has been about 45 to 50 percent.
00:48:35.320So if we all agree that there needs to be a federal minimum wage, then we should also agree that it needs to be raised.
00:48:42.600But we don't all agree that there should be a federal minimum wage.
00:48:49.760The federal minimum wage means that the federal government has set a baseline for what all labor is worth everywhere in the country, in every region, for all types of workers and all types of businesses, regardless of local economic conditions or anything else.
00:49:05.640Right now, the minimum wage in New York is slightly more than $15 an hour.
00:49:41.500Now, given that the cost of living is drastically different, it makes a lot of sense that the wages are also drastically different.
00:49:49.760But Holly's bill completely disregards that fact, which means that his bill will have no effect on New York, while proving potentially devastating for businesses, especially small businesses, in Alabama.
00:50:25.780And I wanted to list them all because these are all very different states with very different economic climates and local market conditions.
00:50:33.620North Dakota is on the list with a cost of living 8 percent lower than the national average.
00:50:37.800Housing price is 30 percent lower than the national average.
00:50:41.000Virginia is also on the list with a cost of living 8 percent higher than the national average.
00:50:45.320And in some cases, like Arlington, in some cities, rather, in Virginia, like Arlington, the cost of living is 10 to 15 percent higher.
00:50:51.380Now, Holly's bill makes no distinction between a worker in Arlington, Virginia, and one in Dickinson, North Dakota.
00:51:00.060In Virginia, the current minimum wage is $12.41 an hour.
00:51:03.480So the bill would only require that employers increase the minimum wage by a little less than $3 an hour, which is still a significant hit.
00:51:10.760In North Dakota, the current minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, which means that the employers with minimum wage employees would be required to double their wages,
00:51:19.580which means that the state with the lower average income and the lower cost of living will be required to raise its wages by a much higher percentage.
00:51:29.060None of this makes any sense economically, logistically, ethically.
00:51:32.600This is why the federal government should not be in the business of declaring what the wages need to be in a country of 340 million people spread out across 50 states and 3 million square miles.
00:51:44.680I mean, there are approximately 1 million workers currently earning the federal minimum wage.
00:51:49.640There are another 30 million earning less than 15 an hour.
00:51:52.200However, Josh Hawley wants to wave his wand and declare that all of them, regardless of where they live, how old they are, what job they're doing, how much experience they have, or anything else, all must get raises.
00:52:07.260The 17-year-old fry cook in Montana and the 26-year-old cashier in South Carolina both must get a raise and get paid the same, no matter if their employers can afford it or not.
00:52:17.700So decrees Josh Hawley and his Democrat cohorts in the Senate.