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Out of control spending EXPOSED by the RNC and the GOP in Washington! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You may have noticed that the Democrats are spending a
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  Speaker 1: hell of a lot of money right now. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: they're now saying we ought to just get rid of
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  Speaker 1: a debt limit and do what we know should be done.
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  Speaker 1: That is a new Democrat line, as we are spending
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  Speaker 1: money everywhere and it's all going to cost you an
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  Speaker 1: insane amount of money. It's not just the money going
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  Speaker 1: to Ukraine, but the present today wanted you to get
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  Speaker 1: excited because he's sending billions of dollars to Africa. Speaking
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  Speaker 1: at the US Africa Leader's Summit, he wanted you to
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  Speaker 1: know just how proud he is of how much money
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  Speaker 1: he's sending to Africa, your tax dollars. Every bit of
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  Speaker 1: this montage that we put together is about your money.
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  Speaker 1: Listen carefully, how much money we are announ seeing to
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  Speaker 1: Africa on top of what we're seeing to Ukraine. It's
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  Speaker 1: the start of my administration. The MCC's announced new investments
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  Speaker 1: of nearly one point two billion dollars in Africa, working
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  Speaker 1: with Congress to invest three hundred and fifty billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: to facilitate more than almost a half a billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: in financing to make sure people across Africa can participate
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  Speaker 1: in the digital economy. The eight billion dollars in public
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  Speaker 1: and private finance to help South Africa replace coal fired
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  Speaker 1: power plants. The US International Development Finance Corporation is investing
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  Speaker 1: nearly three hundred and seventy million dollars a new project.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred million to increase the reliable clean energy for
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  Speaker 1: millions of people in Subserin Africa, twenty million to provide
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  Speaker 1: financing fertilizer to help small holder farmers, particularly women farmers,
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  Speaker 1: increase the yields of their crops. Ten million dollars to
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  Speaker 1: support small and medium size on small immeddium sized enterprises
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  Speaker 1: that help bring clean drinking water the communities all across
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  Speaker 1: the continent. And we announced our intention to collectively mobilize
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  Speaker 1: six hundred billion dollars in the next five years. A
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  Speaker 1: deal worth two billion dollars to build solar energy projects
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  Speaker 1: in Angola. Six hundred million dollars in high speed communications
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  Speaker 1: cable that will connect Southeast Asia to Europe via Egypt
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  Speaker 1: and the Horn of Africa. The bottom line is simple
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  Speaker 1: goods from the port of excuse me from the port
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  Speaker 1: of Kutno to neighboring log and landlocked countries. We expect
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  Speaker 1: the MCC to commit an additional two point five billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars across Africa in just the next three years. We're
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  Speaker 1: investing to facilitate greater regional trade within Africa, including by
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  Speaker 1: investing in infrastructure. We'll invest five hundred million dollars to
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  Speaker 1: build and maintained roads put in place for trillion dollars,
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  Speaker 1: we invested in Africa's capacity to manufacture it's own vaccines,
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  Speaker 1: investing in the investing in Africa's people, developing human capital
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  Speaker 1: in the United States is committed to supporting every aspect,
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  Speaker 1: every aspect of Africa's inclusive growth and creating the best
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  Speaker 1: possible environment for sustained commercial engagement between Africa companies and
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  Speaker 1: American companies. That's a lot of money, mister President, a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of money that we are sending to other
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  Speaker 1: parts around the world. And the question is why, quote
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  Speaker 1: the US International Development Finance Corporation, we are investing three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and seventy million in new projects, one hundred million
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  Speaker 1: to increase the reliable clean energy for millions of people
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  Speaker 1: in the subpissit here in Africa. Why is that our business?
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  Speaker 1: Why our tax dollars going to pay for new clean
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  Speaker 1: energy in Africa. I as taxpayer have no desire to
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  Speaker 1: pay for this twenty million to provide financing for fertilizer
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  Speaker 1: to help smallholder smallholder farmers. Now we could discuss that
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  Speaker 1: on an issue of poverty, but at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, when I see how much debt we have
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  Speaker 1: in this country, we can't afford this. They also are
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  Speaker 1: making sure they check all the boxes because they said
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  Speaker 1: particularly the money is going to be going to women
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  Speaker 1: farmers ten million to support small, medium sized, small and
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  Speaker 1: medium sized enterprises and help bring clean drinking water to
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  Speaker 1: communities all across the continent. Again, that's a humanitarian issue
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  Speaker 1: we can talk about. But why are we sending them
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars for green and alternative kombay
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  Speaker 1: yaht energy. It doesn't make any sense. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to do that, then fine and prove it in this
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  Speaker 1: country and prove our grid here if you want to
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  Speaker 1: do that, But why are we sending it there? It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense to me. This is an abuse
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  Speaker 1: of our tax dollars and each and every one of
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  Speaker 1: us who are paying our taxes, you need to know
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  Speaker 1: that hundreds of millions of dollars are actually going to
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  Speaker 1: this type of thing. Now here's the part that's even
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  Speaker 1: more insane. Congressman Clyburne, a Democrat. He's now advocating for
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  Speaker 1: getting rid of the debt limit so that we can
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  Speaker 1: just spend money for the rest of his life and
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  Speaker 1: have the next generation go bankrupt into a massive financial crisis.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what you had to say this morning. Democrats are
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  Speaker 1: in control of both houses, both chambers. Right now we're
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  Speaker 1: up against another deadline. Why wasn't Congress able to do
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  Speaker 1: its job to find the government on time? Why are
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  Speaker 1: we in this place again? Because I think we just
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  Speaker 1: make a big mistake ful around it. It's so called deloment.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't nadvocated for more than twenty years now that
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  Speaker 1: we want to get rid of this. No other country
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  Speaker 1: like ours or anything akin to it. It's got anything
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  Speaker 1: called a diploment. You will just get rid of it
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  Speaker 1: and do what we know should be done. Year in
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  Speaker 1: and year, keep putting this so called diploment and every
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  Speaker 1: year raising it. It's just a bit sephomoric to me
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  Speaker 1: get rid of this notion and do what we need
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  Speaker 1: to do to run the country. Every other country is
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  Speaker 1: doing that I think that we have one other believe
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  Speaker 1: the only country in the world has got to get Ammit,
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  Speaker 1: what does it do? Why do we have it? What
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  Speaker 1: does it do? Why do we have it? Why are
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  Speaker 1: we different than every other country in the world. Where
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  Speaker 1: do I even start with the insanity? But what Klebern
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  Speaker 1: understands is he's an old guy. He's not gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to penny this back. So let's spend America into oblivion.
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  Speaker 1: And remember when America is weak, socialism is strong. When
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  Speaker 1: the American economy is weak, socialism and the idea of
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  Speaker 1: the government taking care of you is strong. Democrats understand
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  Speaker 1: that the biggest threat to their power is low interest
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  Speaker 1: rates and low unemployment rates. They were terrified of what
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  Speaker 1: the Republican Party was doing when Donald Trump as the president.
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  Speaker 1: terrified that Republicans were bringing in new people into the
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  Speaker 1: when Donald Trump was president before COVID, you had the
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  Speaker 1: lowest unemployment rate in history among African American, Hispanic Americans,
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  Speaker 1: Asian Americans, and single mothers. The Republican Party was empowering
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  Speaker 1: people to be able to take care of themselves and
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  Speaker 1: was empowering people to actually succeed. In what makes this
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  Speaker 1: country so great it is our freedom, our freedom to
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  Speaker 1: create jobs, or freedom to have businesses, our freedom to succeed.
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  Speaker 1: And as soon as they saw that, now look at
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing. They're trying to bankrupt this country and
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to get as much power as they can.
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  Speaker 1: Because when people lose their jobs, when people are hurting,
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  Speaker 1: when people can't pay their bills, they always see it
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  Speaker 1: as a real opportunity, a significant opportunity to move forward
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  Speaker 1: and to grab more power. This is now what the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party is doing. And if you think that there's
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  Speaker 1: some Republicans that aren't in on this spending either, you'd
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  Speaker 1: be wrong. Let me give you a perfect example. John
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  Speaker 1: Bayner actually cried in Nancy Pelosi tribute during the Speaker's
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  Speaker 1: portrait unveiling at the Capitol. The former Republican speaker who's
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  Speaker 1: a Rhino Republican in name only, John Bayner, became choked
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  Speaker 1: up as he spoke about how Speaker Nancy Pelosi in
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  Speaker 1: a ceremony for the unveiling of her Speaker's portrait. Bayner,
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  Speaker 1: who is known full disclosure for crying. Was speaking during
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  Speaker 1: the event about his and his family's appreciation for Pelosi,
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  Speaker 1: who succeeded him in twenty eleven. When Baynard became tearful,
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  Speaker 1: Madam Speaker, I have to say, my girls told me
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  Speaker 1: tell the speaker how much we admire her, John Bayner said,
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  Speaker 1: as tears filled his eyes and the crowd applauded. Pelosi
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  Speaker 1: delivered remarks after Bainner, saying, how about John Bayner? Wasn't
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  Speaker 1: that something I'm telling you? I would have been a
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  Speaker 1: little disappointed if he did not get emotional. The portrait
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  Speaker 1: of Pelosi, the first woman to become Speaker of the House,
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  Speaker 1: will be hung in a lobby of portraits of speakers
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  Speaker 1: in the US capital, and Bainner noted that the late
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  Speaker 1: artist Ronald Sheer painted both his and Pelosi's. Baynard also
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  Speaker 1: spoke during your remarks about how he and Pelosi disagreed politically,
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  Speaker 1: but we're never disagreeable. Really, I wonder why. It's because
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  Speaker 1: you're a Rhino. And guess what, John Bayner is just
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  Speaker 1: as much of a problem and these rhinos when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to insane massive spinning as any of these Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: How bad is our national debt? Right? Now it is
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  Speaker 1: so bad that the National Debt clock actually has problems
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  Speaker 1: keeping up when you load it. Yes, because it's gotten
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  Speaker 1: So you understand what these Republicans who are going along
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  Speaker 1: with these Democrats on this spending bill, what they're doing
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  Speaker 1: to us as a nation. Right now, in this country,
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  Speaker 1: we have more than thirty one trillion, four hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty four billion, two hundred and sixty nine million dollars
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  Speaker 1: in debt. So let's break that down. If we wanted
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  Speaker 1: that number to go to zero for literally only one
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  Speaker 1: when thousandth of a second our debt per US citizen, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: whether you're a child that was just born or you
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  Speaker 1: are an elderly person who is about to die, would
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  Speaker 1: have to write a check for ninety four thousand, two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty dollars. That's how much debt we have
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  Speaker 1: This is when I tell people watch what they're doing
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  Speaker 1: to destroy this country. Now here's the other part. There's
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  Speaker 1: a large percentage of the American population that don't pay
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  Speaker 1: tax at all. So if you are only giving the
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  Speaker 1: debt to the people that actually pay the debt, and
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  Speaker 1: that is as I'm sure you're well aware, the tax payer. Right, kids,
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  Speaker 1: infant kids, they're not paying taxes. Those that are elderly
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  Speaker 1: retired most of them are not paying taxes. Those that
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  Speaker 1: are disabled, most of them not paying taxes. So if
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  Speaker 1: you spread our national debt just among the tax payers,
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  Speaker 1: what would everybody have to write a check for right
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  Speaker 1: now to get back to zero. We'd all have to
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  Speaker 1: write a check for two hundred and forty eight thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars a quarter of a million dollars to pay off
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  Speaker 1: our national debt right now. The part that's even scarier
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  Speaker 1: than anything else is if you go back to when
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  Speaker 1: we had our crisis in this country in nineteen eighty.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody remembers what happened when Jimmy Carter was in office
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  Speaker 1: and we had gas lines and shortages. The list goes
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  Speaker 1: on and on. We had interest rates that were twelve, fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: twenty percent on houses, depending on who you are, eighteen percent,
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  Speaker 1: sixteen percent during some of that time was actually a
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  Speaker 1: good interest rate on a home. What was the US
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  Speaker 1: federal debt to GDP ratio back in nineteen eighty, Now
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  Speaker 1: that was during a tumultuous time. It was thirty four
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  Speaker 1: point seven two percent. Go back to two thousand, right
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  Speaker 1: before we were having some financial issues then and spending
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  Speaker 1: got out of control, before we had a major problem
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  Speaker 1: with our economy. After nine to eleven, our GDP was
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  Speaker 1: fifty five point two three percent US federal debt to
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  Speaker 1: GDP ratio. So let's put that into perspective of where
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  Speaker 1: we are now. Right now under the leadership of the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party and because of Rhinos, scumbag Republicans are now
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  Speaker 1: national US federal debt to gross domestic product ratio is
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  Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty one point eight five percent. If
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  Speaker 1: you went in to a bank and you had the
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  Speaker 1: debt load, there isn't a shark in America that would
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  Speaker 1: lend you the money. You are bankrupt. There are many
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  Speaker 1: that are saying the United States government is bankrupt right now.
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  Speaker 1: We just don't know it because we keep borrowing money.
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  Speaker 1: Because we're the United States of America, we have plenty
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  Speaker 1: by the way of revenue coming in known as taxes.
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  Speaker 1: We have a ton of tax money coming in. But
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  Speaker 1: if you want to know what our largest budget items
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  Speaker 1: are in the US government, Medicare and Medicaid is right
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  Speaker 1: now for this year one point five trillion dollars alone.
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  Speaker 1: So security now coming in second at one point two
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  Speaker 1: trillion dollars this year alone, Defense and war budgets. Because
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  Speaker 1: of all the money we're now saying, the Ukraine has
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  Speaker 1: skyrocket at number three, seven hundred and seventy two billion
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  Speaker 1: alone this year. Can we afford to be sending all
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  Speaker 1: this money that Joe Biden talked about to Africa or Ukraine?
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  Speaker 1: The answer is clearly no. And if you want to
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  Speaker 1: know what the fourth largest item is in our budget
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  Speaker 1: in the US government right now, this is the one
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  Speaker 1: that should scare the hell out of everybody. It is
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  Speaker 1: our interest on our debt. Just our interest alone is
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  Speaker 1: four hundred and eighty five billion just on the interest.
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  Speaker 1: We also have some unfunded debt interest. The US total
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  Speaker 1: interest paid so far is three and a half trillion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: You want to break down just the interest per adult,
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  Speaker 1: not per taxpayer, but per adult in this country. The
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  Speaker 1: liability right now is thirteen thousand, five hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: three dollars per adult. Our US total debt ninety three trillion,
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  Speaker 1: six hundred and twenty two billion. That's how bad our
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  Speaker 1: debt has gotten at this point. That's the US debt.
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  Speaker 1: I'm referring to taxpayers in general, our citizens, I should say,
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  Speaker 1: in general as a country. That's not government debt, that's
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  Speaker 1: personal US debt. We are upside down not just with
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  Speaker 1: our personal debt, but with our debt on our taxes
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  Speaker 1: as well in this country, or I should say, are
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  Speaker 1: spinning in this country. So as a nation, our US
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  Speaker 1: national debts thirty one point four trillion dollars unfunded debt,
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  Speaker 1: and interests in this country for individual's credit card and
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  Speaker 1: things like that of American citizens is at three and
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  Speaker 1: a half trillion dollars. Again, thirteen thousand, five hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty three dollars is the interest alone that people own
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  Speaker 1: per adult in this country. This is unsustainable, and Democrats
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  Speaker 1: are out there saying we should get rid of the debt.
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  Speaker 1: Clock now. If you think Republicans are being fiscally responsible
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  Speaker 1: during this time, you would be wrong. And if you
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  Speaker 1: want to know why Republicans have gotten so used to
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  Speaker 1: spending all of your money on ridiculous things. Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to look any further than the actual Republican
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  Speaker 1: National Committee and they're spending habits from donors. There's a
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  Speaker 1: new analysis out of the Republican National Committee and the
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  Speaker 1: spending since two thousand and seventeen showing that millions of
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  Speaker 1: dollars from donors, thinking they're making a difference in this country,
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  Speaker 1: we're spent on private jets, limousines, luxury retreats, and Broadway shows.
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  Speaker 1: Back in two thousand and ten, the RNC chairman, now
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  Speaker 1: I woke liberal on MSNBC who was a Rhino then
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  Speaker 1: Michael Steele, was heavily criticized and eventually lost his position
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  Speaker 1: because donors were angry about what they believed were luxuries
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  Speaker 1: spending items on private jets, floral arrangements, chauffeur services and
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  Speaker 1: member meetings and expensive tropical locations. Donors were used to
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  Speaker 1: being the RNC being frugal. Why because under the George W.
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  Speaker 1: Bush administration, when Karl Rove would complain if there were
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  Speaker 1: flowers on the tables and staff holiday parties were actually
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  Speaker 1: catered by chick fil a. Karl Rove understood one thing.
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  Speaker 1: If you're asking people to give money to get people elected,
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  Speaker 1: then actually use the money to get people elected. I
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  Speaker 1: was living in DC during the time. I can tell
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  Speaker 1: you there was not a lot of frills around the
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  Speaker 1: Republican National Committee. It was a place that if you
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  Speaker 1: send a check, the money was going to go back
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  Speaker 1: to actually elect conservatives. That's not happening anymore with the
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  Speaker 1: Republican Party, which explains why they're so bad on fighting
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  Speaker 1: to stop spending in the Capitol Building when right outside
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  Speaker 1: the Capitol Building, this is what they're doing with donors money.
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  Speaker 1: Despite Joe Biden's economy and not one, not two, but
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  Speaker 1: three straight cycles of election losses, the Republican National Committee
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  Speaker 1: has been big spenders. They've come back with a vengeance.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps because of those losses, RNC donors and committee members
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: are now interested in the committee's finances, particularly the spending.
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  Speaker 1: Last week, Red State was provided a report dated October seventh,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, that examined the rnc's twenty twenty one
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two spending cycle. How much money did the
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  Speaker 1: Republican National Committee spend of donors money for their luxury lifestyles.
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  Speaker 1: It calculated more than a half a million in private
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  Speaker 1: jet expenses alone, sixty four thousand just for clothes, and
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty one thousand in quote floral arrangements.
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  Speaker 1: So if you wrote a big check to the RNC, congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: you bought a bunch of flowers. Luxury travel. One point
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  Speaker 1: three million private jets, a half million floral three twenty
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  Speaker 1: one home improvement and decor, one hundred and sixty five
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  Speaker 1: thousand entertainment seventy five food and bevers delivery, sixty five
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  Speaker 1: uber reed's got expensive clothing, sixty four non clothing. Don't
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  Speaker 1: even know what this is, fifty five thousand, alcohol, thirty
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  Speaker 1: six spa and medics, eight grand, vehicle and other mechanical
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  Speaker 1: expenses five grand, and LGBTQ plus filings one thousand, two
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty dollars. To determine how to compare that
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  Speaker 1: to the rest of Ronald McDowell, the RNC chairwoman's tenure,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Red State examined the rnc's expenditures from two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: seventeen through two twenty twenty two. In addition to a
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: review of federal election commissions data, red State also spoke
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  Speaker 1: with current vendors, State party officials familiar with the workings
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: former staff members, some from Daniel's tenure, and some who
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: worked for prior chairs. Red State also spoke with several
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: current RNC members to VERI five numbers and dates. Most
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: were only willing to discuss some matters on background, and
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: all were promised that their names would not be used
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  Speaker 1: to avoid potential retaliation. Quote. It's difficult to act currently
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  Speaker 1: categorized all of the expenditures because a significant number of
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: transactions seem to be misclassified by the Republican National Committee.
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  Speaker 1: For example, this is not a joke. Nearly five thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars of donor money was spent in twenty twenty two
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  Speaker 1: at Lululemon for luxury athletic apparel. Yes, that was classified
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: as an office expense, as were two expenditures totaling nine thousand,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: three hundred dollars at Madison Square Garden back in two seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: If the Republican Party's willing to spend five grand on
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: yoga pants, and that money's coming from donors, then let's
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: go back and look at a bigger snapshot for since
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. That's when we started losing elections three cycles
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  Speaker 1: in a row. Is it maybe that they're spending so
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  Speaker 1: much money on their luxury lifestyle they really don't care
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  Speaker 1: if we win or lose races. And I'm talking about
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: the Republican National Committee. You want to know how much
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: money they've spent on private jets since two thousand and seventeen,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: three point one million on private jet services. You want
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: to know how much the Republican Party has spent of
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  Speaker 1: donors money on limousines and chauffeur services. One point three million.
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  Speaker 1: That's three point four million for private jets and limos.
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  Speaker 1: They also spent seventeen point one million on donor mementos.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that means if you give money, we want
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: to give you some of your money back. Seventeen point
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: one million since two thousand and seventeen we have been
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: spending on donor mementos. I'm curious, sincerely curious who's been
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: getting that seventeen point one million. Is there somebody than
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: within the Republican Party that's got an aunt, uncle, or
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: cousin that's getting paid and insane amount of money for mementos.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody had to do some dealing and digging into that
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: how about floral arrangements? Because when people write a check
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: to the Republican National Committee and Ron McDowell, they spend
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars on floral arrangements. Nearly
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: four hundred thousand has been spent on event tickets and
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: other entertainment activities, including thirty thousand for a private box
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  Speaker 1: at a Las Vegas Raiders game alone. There was thirteen
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: thousand they've spent on Broadway show tickets, ninety four hundred
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: at Madison Square Garden, and forty three thousand dollars of
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: donor money has gone to top golf locations in Texas, Nevada, Virginia,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: and Maryland. According to a senior staff for the private
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: box a Raiders game was part of a retreat for
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: senior staff members at the RNC. RNC funds were also
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: used to fly seniors staffers and their plus ones first
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: class to Las Vegas and for the hotel room's food
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: and alcohol. The staffers said. Senior staff retreats were also
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: held at five star resorts, one in Virginia, a Spa
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two. Because apparently,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: after you get your brains beat in in election cycles,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: you need a little R and R. A Republican and
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: National Committee member also said at the twenty twenty one
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: retreat held from March to nineteenth through the twenty first,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: so three days, thirty senior staffers and their families who attended,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the RNC paid for Kitty Welsh and Mike Shields to
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: speak to the group. The FEC reported shows that the
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: RNC paid two hundred and sixty thousand dollars to the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: resort alone, classified as travel expenses and venue rental and catering.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Man must be a fun weekend, right. The dates of
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: various entertainment expenditures were provided to former staffers and National
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  Speaker 1: Committee members who confirm that there were no donor events
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: or other RNC official events occurring at those times. So
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: if you work at the RNC, you're having one hell
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: of a weekend at the donor's expense. Now, under the
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: current leadership of Ronald McDowell, the RNC has spent more
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: than one hundred and fifty thousand on what could be
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: considered non essential office expenses, including twenty five thousand at
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Joe's Commonwealth Coffee, seven thousand dollars of donor money has
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: been spent on cupcakes alone, nearly seven thousand on candles
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: and diffusers, and seventy five thousand total at Pottery Barn
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: West Elm Restoration, Hardware, Creighton Beryl. In addition, the committee's
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: FEC reports show expenditures totaling three hundred and eighty one
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: thousand classified as furniture expenses during that same time frame.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Because you've got to have a nice office. Now, before
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  Speaker 1: All right now, more than one hundred thousand wants spending
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: high end clothing stores. Yes, high end clothing you need
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: AREI nor Stern, Vineyard Vines, foot Joy, Ralph Lauren Carhart.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Those are just to name a few. An RNC an
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: RNC vendor, said to Red State that the vineyard Vines
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: expense twelve thousand was likely to embroider jackets RNC staffers
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: recently received, because you've gotta have those. According to the financials,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the RNC is quite generous to its donors as well,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: because when you give money, I guess you won a
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: nice gift in return, spending seventeen million on donor mementos
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: and possibly more. This all during RONA. McDowell's tenure. Custom
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: pens by a legendary DC jeweler and Christmas Ornament, the
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: same company that makes the White House Christmas ornaments are
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: listed as donor memento's expenses, but the financials also include
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: sixty five thousand and office supplies from a hand and
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: twenty eight thousand dollars from Shamart. Must be nice to
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: get one of those Christmas mementos. The records also include
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: more than one hundred thousand dollars to make sure that
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Ronald McDowell looks good, with hair and makeup services and
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: dry cleaning expenses, which are for McDaniel's media appearances and wardrobe.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Dry cleaning expenses are categorized mainly as office supplies or
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: travel expenses with a hair and makeup services or categorizes
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: media prep for perspective, the Democratic National Committee spent one
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: point five million on donor gifts, while we spent more
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: than anything else in any category seventeen million on donor
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: expenses are The Democratic National Committee, just so you know,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: this is why they're winning and why the Republican Party
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: is losing, suddenly, spent thirty five thousand on private jets.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: That's basically sounds like emergency travel. They only spent a
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars for floral arrangements during the last election cycle.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Long time RNC committee members who spoke with Red State
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: said that other than during Michael Still's time is chair,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: it has not been standard practice for the chair to
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: use private jets or show for services. A committee member
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: who spoke to Red State on condition of ev no
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: one knowing who they are, said quote, we are only
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: provided with top line financial numbers during our meetings with
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: no specifics, and when I've asked the budget chair for information,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: They've been unable to provide it. Remember added that there
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: is general frustration about the lack of financial transparency among
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: committee members, but that members who demand more information are
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: labeled as troublemakers. Major donors who are learning of the
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: expenditures are understandably upset about how their contributions are being spent.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Country music star a RNC downer, John Rich, who has
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: been openly critical of the rnc's expenditures of McDowell herself,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: said this, the leadership of the RNC has taken advantage
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: of millions of regular, everyday conservatives by pretending to support
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: what patriots support, but in reality are blowing untold troths
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: of cash on extravagant nonsense and supporting rhino candidates while
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: ignoring American First contenders. They are nothing more than controlled opposition.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: The RNC ran ads in twenty twenty one, raising money
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: under the phrase fight for Trump, while simultaneously telling Trump
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: and his team to stand down from questioning the election results,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: stating he was ruining the party. The RNC has betrayed
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: its supporters and for one will never help them raise
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: another Red scent until the Judah's element of the organization
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: have been purged. The RNC chairwoman Ronald McDowell, has not
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: replied to Red States requests for comment prior to publication
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: of this expose. But I go back to what the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Democrats did. The Democrats only spent one point five million
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: on donors gifts. We spent seventeen million in the last
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: election cycle. The RNC spending insane amounts of money on
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: private jets, while the Democratic Party only spent thirty five
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: thousand and only a thousand on floral arrangements. We spent
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: three point one million on private jets, one point three
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: million on limousine and chauffeur services, seven hundred and fifty
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: thousand on floral arrangements, and seventeen point one million on
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: donor mementos. It's scary when the Democratic Party does a
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: better job of taking care of their donor's money than
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: the Republican Party does. If you want to know why
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: we keep getting our atables kicked, it's because of the
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Republican leadership and Ronald McDowell. Let's be honest. If you're
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: giving money the RNC, stop and demand that they get
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: rid of the people that are doing this. It's disgusting,
• 35:13
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• 35:16
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• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Make sure people know where the money's going in the RNC,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: and I'll see it back here tomorrow.