00:01:55.560Senator, we've got some data that has come back, and it should make every American excited,
00:02:01.060especially hardworking Americans that are working hourly wages, working overtime.
00:02:06.800They are taking huge advantage of the major tax cuts that were passed in the big, beautiful bill.
00:02:13.280Well, we have some stunning results in terms of how nearly every American in this country
00:02:18.040got a meaningful tax cut from the working families tax cut.
00:02:21.600We're going to break that all down for you.0.69
00:02:22.980We're also going to talk about bringing manufacturing and shipbuilding back to America, and in particular, defeating Russia and China in the Arctic with ice cutters, a big national security step forward and a big step forward for jobs and for the future of manufacturing in America.
00:02:41.540but before we do all that i need to ask you for those of you who are not watching the video and
00:02:46.940by the way we do this on youtube we do this on on rumble but but if you're not watching the video
00:02:52.040i need to ask you man are you trapped in some sort of paisley hell like it really does seem like this
00:03:01.020prison cell of beige paisley behind you that that that i'm looking at you going what on earth are my
00:03:11.040eyes gazing upon so so i am more patriotic and love america more than you do right now in this
00:03:17.600moment because i am in boston and we are doing our family vacation and i am at the oldest hotel
00:03:24.380like running continuously running hotel in american history uh and this is the room that
00:03:29.720they put me in to do the show tonight which is one of their like meeting board rooms but it's
00:03:34.500the oldest hotel in america it's right where like everything happened in boston all the history is
00:03:41.040out the front door and to the right and so that's where i am right now plus you know the parkhouse
00:03:45.600rolls because don't act like you don't know what a parkhouse roll is i know you love those right
00:03:49.060do you love those rolls you know what i'm talking about the yeast rolls i'm waiting you're a fan
00:03:53.200right i'm trying very hard to do no carbs so so yes i love them but i'm trying to do no carbs so
00:03:58.220i'm trying not to have them okay so i am at the hotel where those were created and so when you
00:04:04.000get here they tell you they're like by the way this is the the park house that's yes the rolls
00:04:08.400you can go in the restaurant right here and you can get the original recipe that started and went
00:04:13.200all over the country so there you go so i got even that on you and they were really good if you were
00:04:17.820here i promise you you would partake they're that good so i will say for the record you're saying
00:04:23.260that that for vacation with your family you felt the need to flee bright red texas to flee the land
00:04:30.300of liberty, the land of individual rights, to go to Elizabeth Warren's hometown, that
00:04:35.800you wanted to be surrounded by Marxists who want to take your guns.
00:04:44.480Well, the family vacation was we're going to go to where America started and the 250th
00:04:49.360anniversary, and we wanted to show them all that America was and where it began and where
00:04:55.600everything, where people fought and died for this country.
00:04:58.540And I figured they're old enough to do that.
00:05:00.160So that is that is the amen. Amen. And as you know, I lived in Boston three years during law school.
00:05:07.500And I will say, I don't like the politics of the name of that law school you went to.
00:05:12.840We should make sure we get that out there. Right. It was Boston Community College.
00:05:18.280OK, there we go. And look, I don't like their politics of who they elect into office.
00:05:27.600But I will say Boston is, A, a beautiful city, and B, the history.
00:05:32.760Boston, along with Philadelphia and New York, are probably the most important cities in the founding of our country.
00:05:42.120And in terms of just where the founding, and also Virginia, not sort of Richmond, but kind of all of Virginia.
00:05:48.960You look at those collectively, they produced the most extraordinary generation of statesmen between Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, the author of the Declaration of Independence, an extraordinary leader, John Adams from Boston, Samuel Adams from Boston, Alexander Hamilton from New York via the Caribbean, George Washington from Virginia.
00:06:14.520like like like the those for anyone who knows american history boston is is an extraordinary
00:06:22.100place and and you know what i still have hope and call me listen i mean when i was a kid we
00:06:27.840referred to it as the people's republic of taxachusetts yeah i still have hope i will tell
00:06:32.700you i've spent real time campaigning and i've lived in boston three years i spent time there
00:06:36.960are good conservatives there and most of them are sort of beaten down and they think like the
00:06:41.160Harvard faculty liberals will run the state forever.
00:06:44.000I actually have hope even for bright blue states like that, that the pendulum can shift.
00:06:48.960But that being said, it hasn't shifted yet.
00:07:10.780By the way, did I ever tell you a couple years ago I was down on the U.S. southern border in Texas but coming in from Mexico, and it was a border checkpoint where there were a lot of 18-wheeler truckers coming across, and I was just standing at the checkpoint.
00:07:28.100And so there's just 18-wheeler after 18-wheeler coming across.
00:07:31.440And I got to say, if you're driving a truck across the U.S.-Mexico border, you're not expecting to see, like, the Texas senator standing there at the checkpoint.
00:07:45.000Every truck driver is startled, and I actually took an informal poll, and almost every single truck driver gave me a finger, either the thumb or the middle finger, and it was a beautiful informal poll, and I got to tell you that that particular day, the survey, the ratio was about 80-20.
00:08:07.760I got about 80% thumbs up compared to 20% middle fingers, but almost nobody refrained from expressing a view.
00:08:14.740And it was just one finger or the other, and I kind of laughed at all of them and said thank you and waved.
00:08:19.260Yeah, you think you – yeah, God bless you and be safe on the roadways, right?
00:08:23.620My oldest said, hey, Dad, I want to see Harvard.
00:08:26.300And I was like, well, we're not going to go tour it and waste our time.
00:08:29.520I was like, Dad has spoken at the Kennedy School several times, so one day maybe if I do that again, if they invite me back, then you can go.
00:08:35.520But I said, we will drive and I'll show you where it is.
00:16:18.660More than 7.5 million workers claim the no tax on tips tax break.
00:16:26.740By the way, I am the author of No Tax on Tips.
00:16:29.420If you're a waiter, if you're a waitress, if you're a bartender, if you're a taxi cab driver, if you claim no tax on tips, I wrote that law.
00:16:37.100Seven and a half million workers benefit from it.
00:23:41.620I want to move Senator on to another really interesting story.
00:23:44.780It deals with national security, especially what's happening in the Middle East and Iran right now.
00:23:49.240And something that we've highlighted and talked about on this show in the past, and that was that shipbuilding was not happening in the United States of America.
00:23:57.840That is a national security issue, and it was a very clear national security issue that was brought up.
00:24:04.100You were one of those sounding the alarm on it because when you're dependent on your ships being made overseas and you have things that happen, whether it's COVID, right?
00:24:12.240That's not even a war. But with covid and all of these issues that we're now seeing in the Middle East, we needed to bring shipbuilding back to the United States of America.
00:24:20.040And now we are seeing that actually happen. Yeah.
00:24:23.220Another one of the major provisions of the working families tax cut was the funding for the Coast Guard and the way it works in the Senate.
00:24:30.540when you're writing a bill in reconciliation, which is the process we used to pass the working
00:24:35.640families tax cut, each committee chairman writes the portion of the bill that is within his or her
00:24:42.240jurisdiction. I'm the chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
00:24:47.040We've got jurisdiction over about 40 percent of the U.S. economy. Every single provision that was
00:24:52.880in my jurisdiction, I was responsible for writing, and I did write. One of the subjects that is within
00:25:00.300the jurisdiction of the Commerce Committee is the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard falls within our
00:25:03.840jurisdiction. We funded more than $24 billion, billion with a B, into the Coast Guard. That is
00:25:13.920the largest single investment in the history of the United States in the Coast Guard. I want to
00:25:19.340give you a sense of the order of magnitude of that. The annual budget of the Coast Guard is
00:25:23.980between 11 and 12 billion dollars. In one year, we invested more than double the annual budget
00:25:30.880of the Coast Guard to rebuild their fleet, to rebuild, to purchase new ships, to purchase new
00:25:35.820helicopters, to purchase new capital and infrastructure. One of the biggest elements
00:25:41.380of our investment was Arctic ice cutters. So if you look at the Arctic, near the North Pole and
00:25:50.180all around the arctic yeah that is a major national security contested domain russia and0.98
00:25:57.740china are both killing us in the arctic and the united states has fallen way behind and we put
00:26:03.960in the funding to build new arctic ice cutters and the trump administration signed a contract
00:26:11.380to purchase 11 new arctic ice cutters and in particular to build many of them here in the
00:26:17.620United States. So I started this week, Monday morning, down in Galveston, Texas. And in Galveston,
00:26:23.720we had a groundbreaking for a brand new shipyard where there's over a billion dollars being
00:26:29.340invested. It's going to create more than 2,000 jobs to build Arctic ice cutters. And not only
00:26:35.020is that important for that investment, those new jobs, but that's an expertise that doesn't exist
00:26:40.900in the United States. We're going to see more commercial ships built in the United States and
00:26:45.840in Texas, in Galveston, in Port Arthur, because of this investment.
00:26:52.000Give a listen to what I had to say at the groundbreaking.
00:26:54.080And I was very proud when President Trump announced that $3.5 billion was going to Davie Defense
00:27:01.420to build five Arctic security cutters and to build them here in the Texas Gulf Coast.
00:27:08.440That is going to produce over 2,000 high-paying jobs here on the Texas Gulf Coast.
00:27:21.900And mark my word, that's just the beginning, because that is going to fuel a renaissance of shipbuilding right here on the Texas Gulf Coast.
00:27:38.440a final observation about galveston folks here are really particular about galveston
00:27:49.560it's a thing you will learn there's a phrase that folks from galveston will tell you which is boi
00:27:56.800born on the island and it's a little bit there's an old line that you never ask anyone if he's a
00:28:03.640Texan. If he is, he'll tell you. And if he's not, you don't want to embarrass the guy.
00:28:11.020I love, by the way, that that that line there, Senator, because it is, by the way, totally
00:28:16.200accurate. But this is a really big, I think, moment, as you described it, for national security.
00:28:22.220It also makes us not dependent on on foreign countries and foreign workforces for things
00:28:29.260that deal with national security. This is part of what you've been advocating for with America
00:28:33.160First policy is with the Trump administration as well. And being able to do this and do it quickly
00:28:39.200and also to get these cutters back into the Arctic where we need them from a national security0.73
00:28:44.460standpoint, this is a big win all the way around. And it produces American jobs and not just a few.
00:28:50.740As you mentioned, you've got thousands and then you have the support jobs around those jobs as
00:28:55.480well. Well, that's right. And let me tell you a little bit of history. Look, you're a relatively
00:29:01.840new Texan. You're from Memphis. So this is a bit of history that I shared at the press conference
00:29:07.260that you may not know and that everyone in Galveston knew, but maybe other people don't.
00:29:14.660So Galveston used to be the largest city in Texas. Wow. Galveston was called the queen of
00:29:23.760the Gulf Coast. Galveston was also called the Wall Street of the Southwest. And Galveston was
00:29:32.360called the Ellis Island of the South. And just like Ellis Island, when people came as immigrants,0.98
00:29:37.440they would come to Galveston. That was the port of entry where vast numbers of people came to
00:29:44.400America through Galveston. And what happened is in 1900, there was a devastating hurricane that
00:29:50.560that killed between 8,000 and 12,000 people in Galveston.
00:29:55.540And they didn't have the technology to have any early warning signs.
00:29:58.280So the hurricane just hit and destroyed the city.
00:30:02.160And it remains the single most devastating natural disaster in U.S. history.
00:30:07.520But a really cool fact that I pointed out, and I bet you you don't know this, Ben,
00:30:13.560in 1836, Galveston was the capital of the Republic of Texas.
00:30:18.860The Republic of Texas, we were our own nation. And Galveston was our capital right when we became our own nation. And so I said, look, it's really special that we're seeing thousands of new manufacturing jobs coming to Galveston, shipbuilding jobs.
00:30:33.800And I mentioned in the clip we just played the phrase BOI. And by the way, you'll meet people
00:30:40.160from Galveston who are fifth, sixth, seventh generation BOI, born on island. And what I
00:30:45.620called for at the press conference, I said, listen, every Arctic ice cutter you build there,
00:30:49.880I turned to the CEO of the company Davies that's going to be building them. And I said, I hope and
00:30:55.280expect on every one of those Arctic ice cutters somewhere in the interior on the hall, you will
00:31:01.260engrave the simple letters BOI because those Arctic ice cutters will have been born on the
00:31:07.820island of Galveston. And that's an awesome thing, but it's an awesome thing for American jobs. You
00:31:13.780look at what President Trump is fighting to do, what I'm fighting to do, it is bring jobs back to
00:31:19.760American manufacturing jobs. And I'll tell you a little bit, let me bring you a little bit inside
00:31:23.960the story. So the bill we wrote, we had the funding for what was likely to be five to six
00:31:30.560Arctic ice cutters. And there was a battle. There was a battle that went to the to the to the White
00:31:36.800House about where that contract would go. And that battle was principally between Texas and
00:31:43.040Louisiana. Now, I love Louisiana. My parents met in New Orleans. My mom went to high school in
00:31:47.160Baton Rouge. Louisiana is a great state. And to be clear, Louisiana is the home of the Speaker of
00:31:52.700the House, Mike Johnson and Steve Scalise, the House Majority Leader. They're both very good
00:31:57.120friends they they were understandably fighting for their state and wanted the ship building in
00:32:02.140louisiana i was fighting for texas and i will tell you it was a knife fight at the white house i spoke
00:32:08.000repeatedly to the president of the united states i spoke to the senior staff in the white house
00:32:12.340over and over and over again and it was a real fight we didn't know who was going to win texas
00:32:17.100and louisiana and i want to give the president real props here look we all know before he was
00:32:22.380in the White House, the president was a businessman. And he is very committed to getting more for less.
00:32:29.960So the proposal, the legislation that had been passed was funding to build five to six new ice
00:32:35.020cutters. Trump said, that's not enough. I don't want five to six. I want 11. And so they found
00:32:42.480new funding that had been appropriated by Congress. And what they ended up doing was approving both.
00:32:47.440So there's several ice cutters being built in Louisiana. There's several being built in Texas.
00:32:50.860And it was a win win. And it's a great example. He went to the shipbuilding companies and he said, I want you to cut your prices and deliver more ships. And they did. And this was not staff driven. This was, you know, Trump is a builder.
00:33:07.900So he I mean, he likes negotiating a contract and he leaned in and instead of five to six ice cutters, we're getting 11 instead of just one place, Louisiana or Texas.
00:33:18.040We're getting both and we're getting thousands and thousands of new jobs.
00:33:22.140And we're going to be able to compete with and protect our national security in the Arctic against Russia and China.