00:09:46.660And so I believe Schumer's made a decision.
00:09:48.480He's going to shut the government down because that's the way he proves to the crazies in his party that he is a ferocious warrior.
00:09:56.880Now, let me give you some quotes from multiple Democrats about government shutdowns.
00:10:01.240And the only thing that was different on this is at the time of the quotes, you had a Democrat in the White House.
00:10:07.480So here's what Chuck Schumer said in January of 2024.
00:10:10.600Quote, passing a clean CR this week is important for two main reasons.
00:10:14.900First, passing the CR, of course, will avert a harmful and unnecessary government shutdown.
00:10:21.120No reasonable member on either side, Democrat or Republican, wants a government shutdown.
00:10:26.900How about Chris Murphy, one of the biggest radicals in the Senate?
00:10:30.120In September of 2013, here's what he said.
00:10:33.680Quote, there is a time and place to debate health care, just like there is a time and place to debate energy policy and immigration and education.
00:10:41.460But not when the funding of the federal government and all the lives are impacted by it hang in the balance.
00:10:49.740The least we can do, the bare minimum that we can do, would be to pass a continuing resolution to keep the doors open and the lights on.
00:10:59.120Threatening a shutdown is the last resort for those who can't otherwise win their fights through elections, can't win their fights in Congress, can't win their fights for the presidency and can't win their fights in courts.
00:11:11.920Here's what Brian Schott said in September of 2023.
00:11:16.760I've seen the same thing over and over again.
00:14:19.960Throughout the government, what happens agency by agency is the agency heads have to designate employees who are, quote, essential and employees who are, quote, non-essential.
00:14:34.720And the non-essential workers stay home.
00:14:42.100Now, typically, after a shutdown, and shutdowns can extend weeks or even longer, typically at the end of the shutdown, the workers all come back, and they're paid back pay.
00:14:54.320So it actually costs the federal government a lot of money and a lot of functions that are non-essential.
00:14:59.900So one of the classic areas that will be shut down if Schumer forces the Schumer shutdown will be national parks.
00:15:07.620So I will say, if you were planning this weekend to take your family to a national park, if you're going to Yellowstone, I would watch the news very closely.
00:15:17.080Because if the Schumer shutdown happens, Yellowstone Park will be closed.
00:15:20.400If you're planning to bring your family to D.C. to go to the Smithsonian, the Smithsonian museums will be closed if the Democrats force a shutdown.
00:15:29.920That being said, I will tell you something that has changed the terrain very significantly.
00:15:35.300So last week, Russ Vogt, who is the head of OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, put out a memo to federal agencies and said,
00:15:45.760I want you to lay out a plan, if the Democrats force a shutdown, to terminate workers who are working, government workers, who are working in areas that are not consistent with the president's agenda and the priorities of this administration.
00:16:03.200I got to tell you, I got to tell you, I got to tell you, I got to tell you, I feel a little bit like Br'er Rabbit, throw me in that briar patch.
00:16:10.120I think if Schumer and the Democrats force a shutdown, we're going to see the Trump administration give pink slips, not furloughs, but terminate workers.
00:16:20.780And in particular, terminate workers in government agencies that are critical to Democrat priorities.
00:16:26.960So you could see workers in the EPA being terminated.
00:16:31.540You can see workers in the Department of Labor being terminated.
00:16:34.380You could see workers in the IRS being terminated and not just furloughed for a few days, but handed a pink slip, given a reduction in force, saying your services are no longer required.
00:16:45.380And I will tell you, if that happens this week, we will hear a collective howl of agony from Democrats.
00:16:57.760Senators will all return to Washington on Monday.
00:17:00.440Our first vote will be at 530 Monday evening, Tuesday.
00:17:04.940All the Democrat senators will have lunch together.
00:17:07.160All the Republican senators will have lunch together.
00:17:09.040Given this memo from the Trump White House, I'm going to predict that the Democrat senators are going to be screaming at each other in that lunch because they're going to be some Democrat senators who say, do not give Trump the excuse to lay off a bunch of workers who are doing who are fighting for Democrat priorities and what we care about.
00:17:31.520And I think Schumer is scared for his own political survival.
00:17:36.220So I think he's going to try to force a shutdown anyway.
00:17:38.920But that memo has changed the dynamic in a very real way.
00:17:44.040And so there is a nonzero chance that that seven Democrats decide to heck with it.
00:17:49.780I'm going to break with Schumer and vote to keep the government open.
00:17:52.800That would be a good thing if it happens.
00:17:54.420But but we'll see what happens this week.
00:17:55.880So let me ask you this question, because I think it's an interesting one.
00:17:58.920And that is, should we secretly be hoping this happens so that we get those jobs that many people say, hey, let's lay them off and let's get leaner as a government and stop all the waste and abuse and the fraud and the overspending?
00:18:14.140This would be in that kind of doge mentality.
00:18:16.480Or is that a cautionary tale of like, hey, you may think this is great, but it's really not.
00:18:22.480Yeah, look, I think that could end up being a very good outcome.
00:18:25.360If the Democrats force this, it would be worthwhile for them to feel a very real consequence in terms of their constituencies who fund fund their endeavors, losing the ability to promote their priorities.
00:18:41.440And listen, within the federal government, within the deep state, there are a great many bureaucrats who are left wing bureaucrats who are fighting for the teachers unions, who are fighting for the radical environmental groups.
00:18:54.320And it would be good for America for anyone that is actively undermining the country, actively undermining jobs, actively undermining the ability of kids to get a good education.
00:19:06.700It would be good for America for those folks to be terminated.
00:19:10.680And I do think if the Democrats force a shutdown that President Trump will view that as all the justification he needs to make permanent reductions in force, which could be a very good outcome.
00:19:24.760Well, I think what will happen then is the Democrats will cave and the government will be funded.
00:19:29.140And if the government shuts down for a few days because the Democrats want to have a temper tantrum, at the end of the day, the consequences of that are not enormous.
00:19:40.100They're going to give in because simply keeping the lights on at the end of the day, they don't have an argument against that.
00:19:47.640So final question on this, and that is, if if this does extend and everything happens in the shutdown, the way that you described it and what this really looks like, at what point does this hurt the Democrats?
00:20:04.160I mean, I mean, we've seen longer shutdowns.
00:20:06.100It does seem that shutdowns now are just automatically taking a little bit longer.
00:20:11.320So, look, in the first Trump administration, we had a lengthy Schumer shutdown.
00:20:16.360And at the time of the Schumer shutdown in the first Trump administration, the federal government had funded the military, had passed funding for the military.
00:20:28.720And so our active duty military soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines were getting their paychecks.
00:20:34.280But unfortunately, we had not funded the Coast Guard.
00:20:38.320And the Coast Guard is funded in a different title than the remainder of the military.
00:20:44.820And so I went to the to the Senate floor and fought to to fund our Coast Guardsmen.
00:20:51.020Our Coast Guardsmen are often left out.
00:20:53.940And by the way, the Coast Guardsmen were going to work.
00:21:00.180They were rescuing people in distress.
00:21:03.840They were doing the heroic work that the Coast Guard does every day, but they were not getting their paychecks.
00:21:08.880And I'll tell you, the Democrats stood up and objected and said, no, we will not pay the men and women of the Coast Guard.
00:21:16.940I think you'll see some of that that that same effort.
00:21:20.180If there is a shutdown, you can anticipate that that multiple Republicans, myself included, will go to the Senate floor and try to fund individual portions of the government.
00:21:31.000Say, OK, Chuck Schumer, you want to shut the government down.
00:21:34.260And how about the Coast Guard? Will you pay for them? And the Democrats will probably object.
00:21:38.640How about NIH, the National Institutes for Health? Do you want to fund them?
00:21:41.860Do you want to do cancer research or do you want to shut that down?
00:21:44.560And my prediction is the Democrats will object over and over and over again to each of these individual funding efforts.
00:21:52.420And part of the reason they'll do that is they're counting on the media to be dishonest, to try to blame the shutdown on Trump.
00:22:02.520I think that is very hard to do when the bill on the floor is a clean CR.
00:22:08.100All it is doing is continuing the status quo. Will CNN and MSNBC and the corporate media try to say that means it's Trump's fault that really, to keep the government open, he should spend over a trillion dollars and give in to the Democrats' demands of passing their extreme agenda?
00:22:28.600Sure, they'll try to say that, but that's a hard argument. And so I think you'll see lots of spinning.
00:22:36.340But part of the problem is I think Democrats feel there are no consequences to them when they embrace extreme positions.
00:22:44.800And so you could see an extended shutdown because the first Schumer shutdown in the first Trump administration, I think the Democrats felt they paid no political price for it.
00:22:54.300And that probably emboldens them to force another shutdown.
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00:25:39.400That was Friday night, by the way, where he says that the inauguration is supervillain, villain convention.
00:25:46.140Tim Waltz, governor of Minnesota, obviously was Kamala Harris's vice presidential nominee,
00:25:50.000has described ICE as, quote, the modern day Gestapo.
00:25:54.980JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, claimed the country is becoming, quote, Nazi Germany because ICE is, quote, grabbing people off the street and disappearing them.
00:26:07.400Now, Jasmine Crockett, who manages to never find a level too idiotic, too inflammatory, too over the top that she's willing to go.
00:26:21.600She compared ICE to, quote, slave patrols.
00:26:40.460His bus was in Portland, Oregon, and it was firebombed because these idiots saw the word ICE and thought that Ice Cube was ICE, the immigration enforcement agency.
00:26:52.660But, like, these Antifa leftist knuckleheads, you know, by the way, like Ice-T and Ice-Ice Baby better, like, you know, cover up their name tags because the folks that are angry are not terribly bright.
00:27:09.140But it is a consequence of this demonizing, of treating them.
00:27:15.980Look, it's fine for one side or the other to say, I disagree with my opponents.
00:27:25.640That's the normal give and take of political discourse.
00:27:30.120And there's something fundamentally different when you scream fascist Nazi Gestapo and you direct it not only to your political opponents who keep being the victims of violence, but you direct it to law enforcement and to ICE.
00:27:43.720You know, I was just in Dallas at the ICE facility where another deranged shooter unloaded on an ICE facility, and it seems no matter how bad it gets, the Democrats keep it up.
00:28:31.480Not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye.
00:28:33.440Just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into those vans, and disappeared.
00:28:37.360When you compare the old films of the Gestapo grabbing people off the streets of Poland, and you compare them to those nondescript thugs who grabbed that student, that graduate student, it does look like a Gestapo operation.
00:28:56.080You know, my dad served in the Second World War.
00:28:59.240He fought the Nazis, and I think he's looking down right now, and he's happy that I'm fighting today's Nazis.
00:29:05.400Because if we just rolled this clock on the wall back 75 years, we'd be looking at a time in Nazi Germany where people ran around with signs like this new ICE sign that says, report all foreign invaders to ICE, with Uncle Sam there holding up the sign.
00:29:25.540This could have been a Gestapo member 75 years ago, report all Jews.
00:29:29.920As somebody who understands history, when I see ICE, I see slave patrols.
00:29:34.540The dangers that we saw in Nazi Germany are the dangers that we need to react to now.
00:29:43.220And another $30 billion to hire and train ICE agents who have functionally become a secret federal police force with expanding domain.
00:29:53.480An authoritarian government in Washington, D.C. is dispatching masked agents to abduct immigrants from our streets.
00:30:04.340I mean, I grew up in a dictatorship, and I don't even remember ever witnessing anything like that.
00:30:12.220To have a democracy, a pecan of hope for the world to now be turned into one of the worst countries where the military are in our streets without any regard for people's constitutional rights.
00:30:31.620While our president is spending millions of dollars, prompting himself up like a failed dictator.
00:30:38.500Every single ICE agent who's engaged in this aggressive overreach and are trying to hide their identities from the American people will be unsuccessful in doing that.
00:30:50.560This is America. This is not the Soviet Union. We're not behind the Iron Curtain.
00:30:54.960This is not the 1930s. And every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes,
00:31:02.180This is not Germany. That's the SS and the Gestapo. This is the United States of America. Unmask yourselves.
00:31:12.380It's just been overwhelming. I mean, just watching everything online now, the ICE, you know, thugs, and people do not want to continue to watch people fund this kind of extraction.
00:31:42.300This is despicable. It's un-American. I called ICE the modern-day Gestapo a few months ago, and some people thought that was going too far, thought that was too extreme, got angry at me for saying that.
00:31:54.320Well, come on. Like, that's literally what's going on.
00:31:56.960You have called to abolish ICE. How do we achieve a future that's post-ICE?
00:32:05.760How do we achieve a future free of terrorism? By abolishing ICE. ICE is a terrorist organization. It needs to be defunded. It needs to be abolished.
00:32:15.600We're seeing aggressive Gestapo-type tactics in people being approached on the street, in their home, at the clinic, at church, at all kinds of locations.
00:32:29.320That's why this morning, on the house of the floor, I warned the American people that this is looking like the American Gestapo in the making.
00:32:39.920I think we need to be really active at, like, challenging what ICE is doing on every front we can.
00:32:44.640I can't see how anybody can say they're a Christian and treat someone from another land, in their own land, this way.
00:32:59.040It's mean, is what it is. It's mean-spirited.
00:33:03.060A lot of these folks are being picked up by, you know, hooded thugs in the street in the most un-American ways.
00:33:09.720ICE agents without visible ideas, without any official markings on them, with masks, they're acting more like vigilantes than of agents of our government.
00:33:24.400Because we don't live in a country, an authoritarian country, where we have secret police who are masked, who are intimidating, who are scaring people.
00:33:36.160That's the stuff of authoritarian states. That is not the stuff of the, that's not how the United States operate.
00:33:43.840He sent out ICE and Border Patrol to intimidate folks from walking in to our event.
00:33:51.620He ended up arresting this poor soul that was just trying to sell strawberries as collateral damage to intimidate us.
00:33:57.400That is a preview, Stephen, of things to come in voting booths and polling places across this country.
00:34:02.520And the ICE issue is alarming beyond words.
00:34:07.360It is the private, largest private domestic army of its type, police force anywhere in the world.
00:34:13.440He'll have 30,000 people that increasingly appear to be swearing an oath of office to him, not the Constitution of the United States.
00:34:21.140Again, wake up to what's going on in this country.
00:34:24.980That's happening in the United States of America.
00:34:27.180Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars, people disappearing, no due process, no oversight, zero accountability.
00:34:34.980Happening in the United States of America today.
00:34:37.020People ask, well, is authoritarianism, you're being hyperbolic?
00:34:42.020If you're a black and brown community, it's here in this country.
00:34:45.100I have heard enough in the last couple of weeks about ICE agents and wearing masks that I think when we win the majority in the House,
00:34:57.560you're going to see enough Democrats make it a priority for ICE enforcement, that they are no longer faceless.
00:35:05.620It looks too much like some 1800s bank robber or, you know, some KGB officer in Russia, you know, pulling protesters off the streets.
00:35:16.340Senator, you listen to that, and it's very clear that Democrats get talking points and they stick with them.
00:35:23.560And when they do this, they're doing it on purpose to undermine the rule of law, to undermine law enforcement.
00:35:29.640We've seen them do this with the Supreme Court as well.
00:35:31.700There's quite a few examples recently of them really just using their words to turn people to hate someone, to hate law enforcement, to hate police, to hate the Supreme Court, to hate law and order.
00:35:46.320And yet they say they want to ratchet down, but they're not.
00:35:48.940They're doing the complete opposite of that.
00:35:52.720So one of the key Democrat talking points that they keep repeating is they say that ICE or fascists or Nazis or Gestapo because they're wearing masks.
00:36:01.180Let me ask you, why is ICE wearing masks?
00:36:29.140That's putting their children at risk.
00:36:30.820This lunatic in Dallas used an app, the ICE Finder, to go find the facility to get up on the roof with a bolt-action rifle and fire multiple rounds, murdering two people.
00:36:47.460I think it's perfectly reasonable if you're an ICE agent not to want a bunch of angry radicals who want to harm you and your family to be able to dox you.