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Big Beautiful Bill advances as Democrats Stall plus Trump Wins BIG at SCOTUS · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 1: Good Monday morning. So nice to have you with us
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  Speaker 1: on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got a
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  Speaker 1: pack show for you. First up, the Big Beautiful Bill.
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  Speaker 1: It is well sausage being made in the Senate. Democrats
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  Speaker 1: doing everything they can to try to stop this from
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  Speaker 1: becoming a reality. I'll give you the latest on where
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  Speaker 1: we are right now on that. Also, who are the
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  Speaker 1: Republicans that decide to vote against the Big Beautiful Bill
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  Speaker 1: moving forward in the Senate. Well, one of them is
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  Speaker 1: just announced they're not running for reelection, and we'll give
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  Speaker 1: you those details as well. And finally, not one, not two,
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  Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. I'll give you all the details, but first,
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  Speaker 1: It's the forty seven Morning Update, and it starts right now,
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  Speaker 1: story number one. So let's give you a big update
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  Speaker 1: on the big beautiful bill. It is a very important
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  Speaker 1: part of Donald Trump's momentum moving forward and can have
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  Speaker 1: a massive impact on lower and middle class Americans especially.
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  Speaker 1: So let's start with where we are now. The Senate
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  Speaker 1: voted fifty one to forty nine along party lines to
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  Speaker 1: move the bill forward into what they describe as formal debate. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you may ask why was it so tight of a
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  Speaker 1: vote Senator's Tom Tillis, And we're going to have an
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  Speaker 1: update on Tom Tillis in a moment. What we're hearing
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  Speaker 1: after this vote, as well as Senator Ram Paul. They
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  Speaker 1: decided to go with the Democrats opposing the motion. GOP
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  Speaker 1: leaders had to strike last minute deals to secure the votes,
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  Speaker 1: and it did pass fifty one forty nine to move forward. Now.
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  Speaker 1: It is nine and forty pages long. It is covering
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  Speaker 1: a lot. It's covering tax cuts, it's covering medicaid. It's
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  Speaker 1: also covering snap food stamp benefits. It is expanding border
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  Speaker 1: and deportation funding. It also has defense and clean energy
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  Speaker 1: tax changes, as well as an increased salt deduction cap,
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  Speaker 1: as well as child tax credit changes. Now, here's what
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  Speaker 1: this bill looks like in its grand form, nine hundred
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  Speaker 1: and forty pages long. What we're hearing from the Congressional
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  Speaker 1: Budget Office is it estimates it will add three point
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  Speaker 1: three trillion dollars to the national debt over ten years
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  Speaker 1: and result in eleven million fewered they claim insured individuals
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  Speaker 1: by twenty thirty four. That's what Democrats are seizing on
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  Speaker 1: right now to say this is a terrible bill. But
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about what is actually reality here. Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: coming out praising the vote is a great victory and
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  Speaker 1: pushing this for the final vote by July fourth, Democrats
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  Speaker 1: led by Chuck Schumer are now forcing and you want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about a moment of hypocrisy, they are actually
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  Speaker 1: forcing to stall the vote. A quote full reading of
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  Speaker 1: the nine hundred and forty page texts it will be
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  Speaker 1: sixteen to twenty hours. Why are they doing that to
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  Speaker 1: slow the proceedings? Now? You may remember back in the
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  Speaker 1: day when Nancy Pelosi, referring to Obamacare, said we won't
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  Speaker 1: know what's in the bill until we pass the bill.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently now they're more than happy to read a bill
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  Speaker 1: only if it means stalling Donald Trump's agenda. Now, there
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  Speaker 1: have been a lot of critics, Elon Musk calling it
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  Speaker 1: utter insanity, Ram Paul mon Child account provision at and
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  Speaker 1: making jobs also at Elon Musk, Senator Mark Warner calling
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  Speaker 1: it a political albatross. So there's always going to be
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  Speaker 1: people that don't like what is in the bill, and
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  Speaker 1: you're hearing from them right now. The big question is
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  Speaker 1: what is next? Well, Number one, the debate is ongoing
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  Speaker 1: as I'm recording this. Sinners now have a marathon vote,
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  Speaker 1: as they described it, a vote a rama session to
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  Speaker 1: propose amendments. And what Democrats are trying to do is
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to tie amendments to this bill that would
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  Speaker 1: kill the bill, hurt the bill that no Republican would
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  Speaker 1: ever want to vote for. That is to try to
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  Speaker 1: stop the bill from becoming law or to postpone this
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  Speaker 1: bill so they can get more things in there that
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  Speaker 1: they want. There is also what we refer to as
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  Speaker 1: the sausage being made many Republicans who aren't hardcore conservative
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  Speaker 1: American first individuals. They're wanting something for their vote. And
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't count the Democrats who are doing a whole
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  Speaker 1: hell of a lot of horse trading as we speak
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  Speaker 1: right now. Now you have parliamentarian ruling, all right. They
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  Speaker 1: have already struck down several provisions under the Bird rule limits,
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  Speaker 1: and that further adjustments are expected to this bill before
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  Speaker 1: the final vote. Once amendments wrap up, a final Senate
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  Speaker 1: vote is likely to happen sometime this week, possibly or
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  Speaker 1: in theory the president is hoping it will be a
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  Speaker 1: July fourth celebration. More than likely, this could happen on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: maybe Wednesday, as far away as Thursday or Friday. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if it passes, and many Conservatives expect that it is
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  Speaker 1: going to pass, then it would return to the House
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  Speaker 1: for approval yet again, and then it would go to
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's desk for signing, potentially as he is asking
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  Speaker 1: for it before the July fourth, And that is the
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  Speaker 1: goal of the GOP and the administration. So let's just
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  Speaker 1: give a quick recap on what I've given you. In substance,
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  Speaker 1: it advanced in the Senate in a massive fifty one
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  Speaker 1: to forty nine procedural vote. That was the biggest hurdle.
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  Speaker 1: This is the reason why I and the White House believe,
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  Speaker 1: and insiders on Capitol Hill are telling me they believe
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  Speaker 1: this will become law. They are key contents to this
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  Speaker 1: that every American should care about. Number one, and the
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing is broad tax cuts. There's also safety net
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  Speaker 1: reductions for those that deal with waste, fraud, and abuse.
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  Speaker 1: Many Americans voted for that, and that is where people
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  Speaker 1: are saying, Okay, what's next. There's also the argument that
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  Speaker 1: if we did nothing, we would actually see the deficit
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  Speaker 1: grow at even a faster rate than the three point
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  Speaker 1: three trillion that this is going to cost. So now
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  Speaker 1: you are up to date on where we are at
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  Speaker 1: the very moment and what is happening as we speak.
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  Speaker 1: It is called vote rama. It is voting on amendment
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  Speaker 1: after amendment after they read this bill, which will take
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  Speaker 1: sixteen to eighteen nineteen hours depending on who you talk to,
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  Speaker 1: and then the final votes in the Senate. In theory,
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  Speaker 1: are going to happen early this week, then House concurrence,
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  Speaker 1: and then Donald Trump will sign off on this bill,
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  Speaker 1: hoping to celebrate it on the fourth of July, which
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  Speaker 1: would be a very monumental moment for him. So this
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  Speaker 1: is where we are good things change. Yes, are their
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  Speaker 1: Democrats right now trying to derail all of this. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, there's also Republicans that are trying to
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  Speaker 1: derail this as well, which brings me to my second story.
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  Speaker 1: Tom tillis one of the two Republicans that vote against
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  Speaker 1: the Big Beautiful Bill, is not running for reelection after
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  Speaker 1: opposing the Big Beautiful Bill. Senator Tom tillis a Republican
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  Speaker 1: from North Carolina, announcing that he's not running for reelection,
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  Speaker 1: and in a statement issued on Sunday, Tillis highlighted how
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  Speaker 1: he is quote proud of his career in public service.
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  Speaker 1: Tillis also expected he is most proud of his bipartisan victories,
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  Speaker 1: such as passing the first nation eugenics compensation as speaker
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  Speaker 1: and working across the aisle in the Senate to pass
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  Speaker 1: the largest investment in mental health in the history of
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  Speaker 1: the United States of America. Till has continued to admit
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  Speaker 1: that sometimes quote those bipartisan initiatives got him in trouble
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  Speaker 1: with his own own party, saying this in Washington. Over
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  Speaker 1: the last few years, it's been increasingly evident that leaders
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  Speaker 1: who are willing to embrace bipartisanship, embrace compromise, and demonstrate
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  Speaker 1: independent thinking are becoming an endangered species. Democrats recently lost
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  Speaker 1: two such leaders who were dedicated to making the Senate
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  Speaker 1: more of a functional and productive legislative body. Tillis continued,
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  Speaker 1: they got things done, but they were shunned after they
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  Speaker 1: courageously refused to cave to their party bosses to nuke
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  Speaker 1: the filibuster for the sake of political expediency. They ultimately retired,
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  Speaker 1: and their presence and Senate Chamber has been sorely missed
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  Speaker 1: every day since. Till has continued on this grand standing
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  Speaker 1: moment and expressed that he was beyond grateful for his
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  Speaker 1: friends that he had made and added, and that he
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  Speaker 1: looked forward to continuing to serve North Carolina over the
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  Speaker 1: next eighteen months. Tillis issuing this statement also Saturday, expressing
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  Speaker 1: that he had done his homework on behalf of North
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  Speaker 1: Carolinas and was unable to support the big, beautiful bill
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  Speaker 1: in its current form, saying I did my homework, I
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  Speaker 1: cannot support the bill. It would result in tens of
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  Speaker 1: billions of dollars in loss funding for North Carolina, including
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  Speaker 1: our hospitals and rural communities. This will force the state
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  Speaker 1: to make painful decisions like eliminating Medicaid coverage for one
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands and the expansion population, and even reducing
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  Speaker 1: critical services for those in traditional Medicaid population. So there
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  Speaker 1: you have it. Now. Donald Trump did have a response
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  Speaker 1: to this. Trump expressed in a post on True Social
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  Speaker 1: that the people of North Carolina would not allow Tillis
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  Speaker 1: to grant stand in order to get some publicity for himself, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: looks like Senator Tillis, as usual, wants to tell the
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  Speaker 1: nation he's giving them a sixty eight percent tax increase
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to big tax cuts in American history, that
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  Speaker 1: I'm giving them the same time, he's unable to understand
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  Speaker 1: the importance of a dead extension, which Republicans gave to
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats just prior to the Nomber fifth election, because
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  Speaker 1: of its significant and how important it was for the
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  Speaker 1: future of the USA. Trump riding in a post now
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, Tom Tillis vote the
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  Speaker 1: way he did for one reason, because he knew he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't win re election, and now he's acting like he
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  Speaker 1: is a martyr. Thank goodness, Donald Trump is involved, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that he will be helping find a great
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  Speaker 1: America first candidate to run in that election. I want
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  Speaker 1: to also bring to your attention a story that's being underreported,
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  Speaker 1: especially because it's such massive news for the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: and law in America. The Supreme Court has come out
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  Speaker 1: with their latest rulings and they have a significant impact
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  Speaker 1: on the country the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court's term
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  Speaker 1: came to a close and it dealt major wins for
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  Speaker 1: President Trump and well as well as the rule of law.
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  Speaker 1: Three different cases that I want to get into here
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  Speaker 1: so you understand just how big they were. Vumber one
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  Speaker 1: was Trump versus Cassa. It was under the issue of
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  Speaker 1: a universal injunctions. And this is something that was such
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  Speaker 1: a big issue because you had these judges that were
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  Speaker 1: basically blocking the presence agenda. And as they were blocking
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  Speaker 1: the agenda the present, they were doing it in smaller
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  Speaker 1: lower courts. Well, guess what the Supreme Court says universal
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  Speaker 1: injunctions aren't actually going to work this way moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: There was also another ruling that was massive as well,
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  Speaker 1: and it dealt with the Free Speech Coalition versus the
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  Speaker 1: State of Texas aka the Attorney General there Ken Paxton.
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  Speaker 1: It was a six to three ruling as well, and
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  Speaker 1: it held that Texas's age verification law for porn sites
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  Speaker 1: is in fact constitutional. This was a massive victory, especially
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  Speaker 1: after we just had to take it down. Act where
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  Speaker 1: you could not bully people by putting up fake pictures
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  Speaker 1: of them neked on the internet or revenge pictures maybe
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  Speaker 1: that you received of someone and then throw them up
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  Speaker 1: on the Internet to get revenge. It was making it
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  Speaker 1: clearly against the law and parties had to take it
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  Speaker 1: down immediately. They could also be fine. So you look
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  Speaker 1: at this big fight in Texas, it was very simple.
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  Speaker 1: What this was was a moment where we were trying
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  Speaker 1: to protect those eighteen and under from hardcore pornography on
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  Speaker 1: the internet by using age verification. Now, almost every one
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  Speaker 1: of the porn sites in America had gotten together with
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  Speaker 1: a lobbyists to try to stop this, ensuing Texas to
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  Speaker 1: try to say that this was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court
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  Speaker 1: came down the side of Texas saying they have a
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  Speaker 1: right to protect those eighteen and under from pornography on
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  Speaker 1: the internet and by using age verification. Now, what is
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  Speaker 1: this going to do, for example, in a place like Texas.
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  Speaker 1: It drastically reduces the amount of time that is spent
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  Speaker 1: on the Internet by underage individuals looking at pornography. And again,
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  Speaker 1: this should be a state's issue, and that's what the
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court is saying. There was also a third Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court decision that came down and it was massive Mohammed Verse.
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  Speaker 1: This is Taylor. And what this dealt with is that
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  Speaker 1: hell that parents of public school children can opt out
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  Speaker 1: of LGBTQ plus curriculum. Now, this is not only a
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  Speaker 1: big win for religious liberty and parental rights, it is
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  Speaker 1: also another example of why it's so important to have
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  Speaker 1: school choice in this country. Now, you look at what
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  Speaker 1: this dealt with, and it was very simple. Should a
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  Speaker 1: parent have the right in a public school to be
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  Speaker 1: able to opt their child out of the propaganda that
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  Speaker 1: the left is trying to force on them When it
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  Speaker 1: comes to transsexuals, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and everything else under
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  Speaker 1: the LGBTQ plus flag, there are parents that tried to
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  Speaker 1: opt their kids out, and there were schools that said, no,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot do it. It's part of the public school curriculum.
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  Speaker 1: And this was obviously taking away parents' rights. Well, now
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  Speaker 1: we know that parents do, in fact have a right
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  Speaker 1: to decide what their kids are indoctrinated with, especially when
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  Speaker 1: it's something is controversial and as radical as the extreme
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  Speaker 1: view points of the LGBTQ activist community. Now you look
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  Speaker 1: at all three of these rulings. If these were rulings
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  Speaker 1: in favor of Joe Biden's agenda, for example, it would
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  Speaker 1: be wall to wall coverage. If this was the rulings
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  Speaker 1: of Barack Obama that helped him when he was the president,
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  Speaker 1: it would have been wall to wall coverage. But there's
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  Speaker 1: a very good chance at about ninety nine percent of
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  Speaker 1: you listening to me right now knew nothing about any
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  Speaker 1: of these three cases that all came down in favor
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  Speaker 1: of parents in came down in favor of the Trump
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  Speaker 1: agenda and the Trump White House and his presidency. The
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court, as Fox News put it, rules on Trump's
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  Speaker 1: birthright citizenship order testing lower court power was another one
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  Speaker 1: of the big things that came through the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 1: is also deciding whether to allow parents to show children
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  Speaker 1: from these books in school in the LGBTQ community. Again
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  Speaker 1: a victory for us. This was a massive the White
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  Speaker 1: House putting out a statement putting it this way, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: Today's decision restores the proper separation of powers between the
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  Speaker 1: branches of government. Ending nationwide injunctions is a tremendous victory
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  Speaker 1: for the American people in the rule of law that
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  Speaker 1: coming from the White House Council David Warrington saying quote,
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  Speaker 1: no longer can rogue activist judges abuse their authority to
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  Speaker 1: dictate the executive powers of the president of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: The Supreme Court ruled. It's a massive victory for the Constitution,
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  Speaker 1: the rule of law, and the presidency itself. The White
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  Speaker 1: House says in their statement, saying this. Since the moment
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  Speaker 1: President Trump took office, low level activist judges have been
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  Speaker 1: exploiting their positions to recap the agenda of which he
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  Speaker 1: President Trump was overwhelmingly elected. In fact, of the forty
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  Speaker 1: nationwide injunctions filed against Trump's executive actions in his second term,
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  Speaker 1: thirty five of them came from just five far left jurisdictions.
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  Speaker 1: In California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington, the District of Columbia. So
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  Speaker 1: now the Trump administration can properly proceed and critical actions
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  Speaker 1: save the country can happen. Congratulations the Trump Administration for
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  Speaker 1: every American that believes in the rule of law.
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