Latest / The Ben Ferguson Podcast / House Budget VICTORY, Cartels Escalate War Zone at Southern Border & Dems DIg in on Boys in Girls' Sports

Transcript

House Budget VICTORY, Cartels Escalate War Zone at Southern Border & Dems DIg in on Boys in Girls' Sports · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Welcome.
• 0:01
  Speaker 2: It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: you as always and Senator it was a wild night
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: last night in Washington, DC, and the big headline is
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: a four point five trade ar tax cut has passed
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: the House.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: It was touch and go.
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: It's a slim majority of the House, but they got
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: it done for the American people.
• 0:22
  Speaker 3: Well, this is the first step. So you and I
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: are recording this. It is twelve twenty in the morning
• 0:27
  Speaker 3: Tuesday night. The House had a touch and go vote
• 0:31
  Speaker 3: on the floor of the House on whether to begin
• 0:34
  Speaker 3: the first step of budget reconciliation. They ended up getting
• 0:38
  Speaker 3: the votes by one vote. Initially they put it on
• 0:41
  Speaker 3: the floor of the House and it failed. Then they
• 0:44
  Speaker 3: brought it back. President Trump was whipping the votes that
• 0:47
  Speaker 3: were on the sidelines and it passed by one vote. Now,
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: this doesn't mean it's done, but it's the beginning of
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: the process. We're gonna break that down. We're gonna explain
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: what it means, what that is st uarding us on
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: the path to do. We're also going to talk about
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: the rather shocking news from this week about an ied
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: that exploded in South Texas, blowing up a Texas rancher,
• 1:11
  Speaker 3: as the Mexican cartels are engaged in what you would
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: have to call just open warfare at this point. IED's
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: you envision in Iraq, you envision in war zones, You
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: don't envision them in the state of Texas.
• 1:24
  Speaker 4: We're going to break that down.
• 1:26
  Speaker 3: And finally we're going to talk about the latest step
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: in the battle over boys and girl sports, which is
• 1:32
  Speaker 3: the Department of Justice is coming after the state of Maine,
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: the State of California, and the State of Minnesota to
• 1:38
  Speaker 3: comply with the federal law and Trump's executive order concerning
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: boys and girl sports, and Maine and California and Minnesota
• 1:47
  Speaker 3: are saying hell no, we're going to break that down
• 1:49
  Speaker 3: as well.
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's awesome, all right.
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: I gotta tell you today I did something that was
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: just really fun, and it was to spend a little
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: time at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Dallas, Texas
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: with my friends of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews,
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: and I got to see just what their work looks
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: like with some videos that I was shown, some pictures
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: of the impact that so many of you are having
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: by being involved with IFCJ and helping the people in Israel.
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: After more than a year of war, tear and pain
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: in Israel, there is still a great demand for basic
• 2:24
  Speaker 2: humanitarian aid and that is where the International Fellowship of
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: Christians and Jews has supported and they continue to support
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: those in the Holy Land still facing the lingering horrors
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: of war and those who are in desperate need. Right now,
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: your ongoing monthly gift of forty five dollars will provide
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: critically needed aid to communities in the North and the
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: South that have been devastated by the ongoing attacks against
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: the Jewish people. Now, your generous donation each month helps
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: deliver to those that are in need the most, including
• 2:56
  Speaker 2: the evacuees and the refugees from all of these different
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: or torn areas. There's also a lot of first responders
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: and volunteers and wounded soldiers, even elderly Holocaust survivors that
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: are in desperate need, and you are helping them. That
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: is why I just want to say, number one, thank
• 3:14
  Speaker 2: you for getting involved and helping so many people in
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: this great time of need and uncertainty.
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: Your gift to bless Israel and her people.
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: You can do that by visiting support IFCJ dot org.
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: That's one word, support IFCJ dot org, or you can
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: call them eight at eight four eight eight IFCJ that's
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: eight eight eight four eight eight IFCJ eight at eight
• 3:41
  Speaker 2: four eight eight four three two five or support IFCJ
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: dot org. All right, So, Center, it was an exciting
• 3:48
  Speaker 2: and intense night on the floor of the House.
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: It was the vote was on, it was off.
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: You literally could physically see people on the floor taking
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: phone calls, speaking on the phone. That's been reported was
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: with the President United States of America. This was part
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: of the whipping votes. And by the way, this is
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: when I tell people please share this podcast on social
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: media because we're going to pull back the curtain here
• 4:11
  Speaker 2: and explain to you what happened and what is next.
• 4:14
  Speaker 2: So you guys, they're messing with the algorithms now, So
• 4:17
  Speaker 2: we ask for your support of the show by sharing
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: it on social media hitting that subscribe or download the
• 4:23
  Speaker 2: episode button every time you see the show. But Senator,
• 4:26
  Speaker 2: this was one of those moments where it's like, Okay,
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: this is real. It's a tight majority in the House
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: and it passes because of phone calls literally from the
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: President on the floor.
• 4:36
  Speaker 3: Well, tonight was the first step in delivering on our
• 4:40
  Speaker 3: promises to the American people. And if you look at
• 4:43
  Speaker 3: the election in November, there was a mandate from the voters.
• 4:46
  Speaker 3: Number one, the mandate is secure the border, and that
• 4:49
  Speaker 3: is the most overwhelming mandate we have. Beyond that, there's
• 4:53
  Speaker 3: a mandate to rebuild the military and defend America. There's
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: a mandate to unleash American energy and by doing so,
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: to lower energy cost, to lower inflation. And there's a
• 5:04
  Speaker 3: mandate to bring the economy back to help small businesses,
• 5:07
  Speaker 3: and that means extending the twenty seventeen Trump tax cuts
• 5:11
  Speaker 3: that are expiring this year. All of that we got
• 5:15
  Speaker 3: to get done, and I got to say failure is
• 5:19
  Speaker 3: not an option. So tonight what the House did is
• 5:23
  Speaker 3: they voted on their budget resolution. Now, why does a
• 5:26
  Speaker 3: budget resolution matter? The reason it matters is ordinarily to
• 5:31
  Speaker 3: pass legislation in the Congress, you need sixty votes in
• 5:35
  Speaker 3: the Senate. Why is that because the Senate rules give
• 5:38
  Speaker 3: the minority of the ability to filibuster, and the ability
• 5:41
  Speaker 3: to filibuster is the ability to block legislation unless you
• 5:45
  Speaker 3: have sixty votes to cut off debate. Now, we only
• 5:49
  Speaker 3: have fifty three Republicans in the Senate, which means if
• 5:52
  Speaker 3: you need sixty votes, you need seven Democrats. The seven
• 5:55
  Speaker 3: Democrats are not going to vote. There are not seven Democrats.
• 5:59
  Speaker 3: There's not even one Democrat who's going to vote to
• 6:01
  Speaker 3: secure the border, who's going to vote to cut taxes,
• 6:03
  Speaker 3: who's going to vote to rebuild our military, And so
• 6:06
  Speaker 3: if you've got to go through the filibuster, you can't win.
• 6:09
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 6:10
  Speaker 3: The main exception to the Senate filibuster rule is something
• 6:15
  Speaker 3: called budget reconciliation. Budget reconciliation is a law that was
• 6:19
  Speaker 3: passed in the nineteen seventies that provides for moving forward
• 6:24
  Speaker 3: on budgetary matters, and by statute, a budget reconciliation cannot
• 6:30
  Speaker 3: be filibusters, which means you can pass it with only
• 6:34
  Speaker 3: fifty votes in the Senate. You don't need sixty. So
• 6:38
  Speaker 3: if you go back to twenty seventeen, the twenty seventeen
• 6:41
  Speaker 3: Trump tax cuts we passed using budget reconciliation. If you
• 6:46
  Speaker 3: go back to the Biden administration, the Democrats use budget
• 6:49
  Speaker 3: reconciliation multiple times to pass things like their incredibly misnamed
• 6:54
  Speaker 3: Inflation Reduction Act, which was the Green New Deal spending scam.
• 6:59
  Speaker 3: They use that because they couldn't get sixty. Now, in
• 7:04
  Speaker 3: order to pass our agenda, we are trying to pass
• 7:07
  Speaker 3: budget reconciliation. The House and Senate have a difference in
• 7:12
  Speaker 3: strategy on how to do this, and we've talked about
• 7:15
  Speaker 3: this in a previous podcast, but I'm going to explain
• 7:17
  Speaker 3: a little bit of it. The House, the Speaker of
• 7:20
  Speaker 3: the House, believes we should pass one single reconciliation bill.
• 7:25
  Speaker 3: What he refers to it as is one big, beautiful bill.
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump has repeated that multiple times, and he believes
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: that's the best way, with his exceptionally narrow majority in
• 7:37
  Speaker 3: the House, to get all of this across the finish line.
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: I will tell you virtually every Republican Cenator, including myself,
• 7:46
  Speaker 3: believes the way to do this is two bills, starting
• 7:49
  Speaker 3: with one bill that secures the border, rebuilds the military,
• 7:53
  Speaker 3: and Unleasha's energy, and then a second bill that extends
• 7:58
  Speaker 3: the tax cuts and makes the bigger and bolder.
• 8:03
  Speaker 4: I don't know who's right.
• 8:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know if the Senate's right or the House
• 8:05
  Speaker 3: is right, but at at some level, Ben I don't care.
• 8:09
  Speaker 3: We just have to get the job done. So tonight
• 8:13
  Speaker 3: I had dinner with Steve Scalise. Steve is a good friend.
• 8:16
  Speaker 3: He is the House Majority leader.
• 8:18
  Speaker 2: By the way, what's he doing for people that know
• 8:21
  Speaker 2: his history of being shot and the health issues. I
• 8:26
  Speaker 2: just I want to pause and ask, how is he
• 8:28
  Speaker 2: doing physically?
• 8:29
  Speaker 3: Really really well? So Steve, Steve has been is a
• 8:32
  Speaker 3: good friend. He's from Louisiana. He's a conservative, he's a friend.
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: He and I have been friends a long time. He's
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: doing great. And and and listen, Steve. We all remember
• 8:42
  Speaker 3: where Steve was shot with with with the crazed angry
• 8:46
  Speaker 3: leftist who went to the practice of the congressional baseball
• 8:49
  Speaker 3: game and wanted to kill Republicans and and shot and
• 8:55
  Speaker 3: badly wounded. Steve shot him in the pelvis, and he
• 8:58
  Speaker 3: was in a coma for some days. He almost died.
• 9:02
  Speaker 3: He's recovered from that. And then I got to say,
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: Steve has had some tough health scares because he had
• 9:08
  Speaker 3: just a couple of years ago cancer and he was
• 9:11
  Speaker 3: down in Houston at MD Anderson being treated. And m
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: d Anderson is an amazing hospital. My mom, who's ninety now,
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: she was treated there for cancer. It is look cancer
• 9:24
  Speaker 3: is a terrifying diagnosis. I hope never in my life
• 9:28
  Speaker 3: to be a patient.
• 9:29
  Speaker 4: At MD Anderson.
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: I don't want to be a patient there because you're
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: only a patient there if you have cancer.
• 9:33
  Speaker 4: I'd really like not to have cancer.
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: But I'll tell you this, if I ever get cancer,
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: I want to be patient at MD Anderson. I mean,
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: they do an amazing job. And I got to say Steve,
• 9:44
  Speaker 3: his health is doing great. I told him tonight he is.
• 9:48
  Speaker 3: He's in remission, he's finished with his cancer treatment. He
• 9:53
  Speaker 3: is strong, his color is back, he is full of
• 9:57
  Speaker 3: life and vim and vigor. I told him said, look,
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: even you know, five six months ago when he was
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: coming out of the cancer treatment, you could see, Look,
• 10:06
  Speaker 3: when you go through that, you go through chemo, it
• 10:08
  Speaker 3: weakens you. You can just see it's hard, your body
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: is I mean it exact cost, it's brutal. But you
• 10:17
  Speaker 3: know what, Steve is strong and effective and good. I
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: was really encouraged, as the best I've seen Steve in
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: years and he's come through this. And he was jubilant.
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: So he was on the House floor. He's the House
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: majority leader. He was trying to get the votes to
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: pass this on the House and he wasn't sure. So
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: the first time they brought it on the House. It failed,
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: and then he kept pressing and then he got it done.
• 10:41
  Speaker 3: And he got it done. Look, a critical piece of
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: getting it done was President Trump. And I sort of
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: joked when Steve showed up at dinner. I said, you know,
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: it does help when the chief whip in the House
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: is named Donald J.
• 10:53
  Speaker 4: Trump.
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it.
• 10:56
  Speaker 3: And they were putting President Trump on the phone with
• 10:59
  Speaker 3: the publican votes that are wobbly, and he was saying, listen,
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: I need you to vote with us, and he flipped
• 11:04
  Speaker 3: the votes. And so it was. Steve told me, so
• 11:09
  Speaker 3: we're supposed to have dinner at seven thirty. He didn't
• 11:11
  Speaker 3: get there at about about eight thirty because he was
• 11:13
  Speaker 3: on the floor badly. Sure, and Steve told me, he's like,
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: all right, I'm late for dinner. So he said, I'm
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: picking up the tab, which I appreciated last time.
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: Steve and I had dinner.
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: I picked up the tab and he said, I'll tell
• 11:24
  Speaker 3: you what, order a drink, whatever you like, make it expensive.
• 11:29
  Speaker 4: I'm paying And he said, I want.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: To celebrate, That's what I want to know. Did it
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: hurt a little bit?
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: So I ordered McCallen twenty five neat there you go,
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: which which is a great single malt Scotch. And and
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: and I you know, Steve is not a big Scotch guy.
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: I actually don't drink Scotch a lot, but I but
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: I do like McCallen and so we toasted it.
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: And when someone else by the way is paying, it's
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: just a nice little touch there.
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: Look, ste Steve said, hurt me a little bit and
• 11:55
  Speaker 3: ordered something pricey. So I thought about michelb Ultra. But
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: but but somehow McCallum twenty five seemed to better call me.
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: As long as it wasn't a bud Light or a Budweiser,
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: I'm good with it. That's that's I'm still on the
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: Boycott train there by the way.
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: By the way, I will say you and I have
• 12:11
  Speaker 3: been to a lot of Astros games. Yes, I love
• 12:15
  Speaker 3: the Stros. You know, it used to be a few
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: years ago. I'd go the Astros in every baseball game.
• 12:20
  Speaker 4: I have a bud Light. I mean, that's just what
• 12:22
  Speaker 4: I what I drank.
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm old enough that I don't I drink
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: light beer instead of regular beer because you know, I
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: like you know, water that's slightly fave flavored. I like
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: it but after the whole bud light thing, it's an
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: amazing thing. You go, you go to the Minute Maide Stadium,
• 12:44
  Speaker 3: you go to watch uh or although I guess it's
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: now the Dykings Stadium there.
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: The Dyking's like, no, no, we paid a lot of
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: money to change that name.
• 12:52
  Speaker 4: I know, but it's it's hard to make.
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a minute made.
• 12:55
  Speaker 4: There's this.
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: I laugh because when they change it, I'm like, dude,
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: how many people are gonna remember this. It's it's gonna
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: been it made for the majority of my lifetime.
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: So but I'll say this, you'd go to the stadium
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: in a few years ago, like everyone was drinking bud light.
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: It was literally every person in the stadium. That's what
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: they drink. And now I don't even think they sell
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: bud light. I mean, I mean, it is an astonishing difference.
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: No, it's it is. It's it is a real boycott.
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: It has not gone away at all. And I do
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: love every once in a while when when conservatives say, okay,
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: you insult us to this point. Enough already, we're not
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: backing down, and we have it like I don't think
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: I'll ever drink one again. The rest of my life.
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: So, by the way, there's a structural reason for that.
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: So listen, you take something like the NBA. The NBA
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: got all woke. It put all the damn slogans on
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: the court and on the jerseys. It pissed me off.
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: It pissed a lot of conservatives off. Here's the problem.
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: I love basketball, like for me, the price of boycotting
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: the NBA, the price of boycotting the NFL, the price
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: of boycotting sports is painful. Like, I get great joy
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: from watching professional sports, and so I didn't like their politics.
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: But I'm like, I'm not willing to.
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: Sacrifice my joy just because I'm pissed about politics.
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: What got bud light.
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: Is they have a product that is easily substitutable.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, easily replaceable.
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: Every place you could get a bud light, there's a
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: course light. Yeah, there's a Miller's light. It's right next
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: to it. And by the way, show me the guy
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: that if you do a blind taste test between bud Light,
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: Miller's LT and Coreslight, I tell you the difference. I
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: don't know, that's someone with a better palette than me.
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: They're all light beers and they all taste pretty much
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: the same to me. I'll probably piss off some listens,
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: but I can tell the difference between a getness and
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: a bud light. Yes, yes, but I'll be damned if
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: I can tell the difference between a bud light and
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: a course light. That meant every customer. It was not
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: a boycott that was painful. It was not a boycott
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: that's like I got to give up something that gives
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: joy to me. It was a boycoth that said, oh.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let me return it, and I'm going to get
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: a different one and watch how easy this is for.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Me, right right, and and and that got them in
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: in real trouble. By the way, Target got in a
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: little bit of this when they got super woke. And
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Target is somewhat substitutable. But I'll say I think Target
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: and that they suffered a big drop, But I think
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: they've come back because listen, I mean, I guess instead
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: of Target, you can go to Walmart. But they're not
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: a ton of choices. I'll tell you my girls. I'll
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: confess my teenage girls love Target.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, trust me, my wife loves it, and there's no
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: way she was substituting Walmart for it.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's but it's a more expensive substitution.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: Bud light got hit because it was a cost free
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: way to say I don't like what you did.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: All right, I want to ask you one other questions
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: on the budget issue. So for people that say, okay,
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: this past, how quick is this going to move forward
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: or how long is this going to.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: Be's a long way to go.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: So what's the timeline on this? So we limit expectations
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: or be realistic.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: So the Budget resolution just starts this process. Now what's
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: happened in the House is they've directed each of the
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: House committees to draft the underlying bill. So what was
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: voted on tonight was not securing the border, it was
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: not rebuilding the military, it was not cutting taxes. It
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: was the opening resolution to say, go draft that legislation.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: That was a real fight.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: So this is the first sitting to use a baseball analogy.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, now it actually gets your batter at the plate,
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Like if they'd failed, they don't even get a batter
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: at the plate.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: So now we can start swinging.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: We're in the game.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: But they're going to be harder steps forward, and I
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: believe we're going to get this done. I believe we're
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: going to get this done. We're going to secure the border,
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: we're going to rebuild the military, we're going to unleash
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: American energy, and we're going to extend the tax cuts.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: But but it is going to be a lot of
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: trade offs. It's gonna be hard. It's gonna be hard
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: because the House majority is so excruciatingly tiny that on
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: any issue, if you lose two votes, you're you're you're
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: out of luck. But I think we will get the
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: job done. And I will say both Mike Johnson, the Speaker,
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: and Steve Scalise, the Majority leader, they're both good friends.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: I work very closely with both of them, and I
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: think we will go through some difficult paths to get there.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: But all of us, from the most conservative Republican to
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: the most moderate, squishy, wobbly Republican, all of us want
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: to produce these victories we get. There was a mandate
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: from the election, and we can't fail. And by the way,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: if we fail, if we don't secure the border, if
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: we don't rebuild the milliyitary, if we don't unleash energy,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: if we don't extend the tax cuts, we'll get killed
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: in November of next year.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's I'm a big believer a Trump said
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: on the floor, right like, Hey, you don't want to
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: be involved in this.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Right, get it done. We made a promise to the voters.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Let's deliver on the voters, and I think today was
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: an important step to doing that.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the border for a second. There was
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: there was another big story, and I want you to
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: just read part of this for people, because it truly
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: is heartbreaking.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: It makes me angry.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: It's what you see in war in the Middle East,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: and it's happening now against ranchers and people in agriculture.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: The warning is very real now that the cartels are
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: acting like what they are, terrorists organizations. I think this
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: is another example of the President getting it right, saying
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: we're going to declare them as terrorist organizations because they
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: that's what they do. They are terrorist organizations. And now
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: we have another We had a point of saying, here's
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: the proof.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: So let me read from a story in the New
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: York Post. Texas rancher killed by suspected cartel ied on
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Mexican border as authorities worn of growing threat.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Here's what the New York Post.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Reported, quote a Texas border rancher was killed near the
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: border by a suspected cartel ied earlier this month. The
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Texas Department of Agriculture told the Post Tuesday, as officials
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: issued an urgent safety warning for the Rio Grande Valley.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Rancher Antonio Gespenes Saldierna, seventy four, who worked on both
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: sides of the border along with Horatio Lopez Pena, was
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: killed in the blast in Tamalipas, Mexico, which was just
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: south of Brownsville, Texas. Lopez's wife, Ninphi Griselda Ortega, was
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: hospit vitalized with injuries. Saldirna was driving on his ranch
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: when he hit the explosive device, causing it to detonate.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: According to KRGV, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said the
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: deadly explosion is part of a quote growing threat posed
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: by cartel activity along our southern border and encourages ranchers
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: to quote exercise extreme caution in the area.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Quote.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I encourage everyone in the agricultural industry to stay vigilant,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: remain aware of their surroundings, and report any suspicious activity
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: law enforcement. Additionally, you can avoid dirt roads and remote areas,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: refrain from touching unfamiliar objects that could be explosive devices.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Limit travel to daylight hours, stay on main roads, and
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: avoid cartel controlled regions.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Said Miller.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: This is happening right at the Texas Mexico border. I
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: gotta say it is dangerous and it shows. You know,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: some in the media say, gosh, it's hyperbole, it's rhetoric
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: to call the cartel's terrorists. They are terrorists and they're
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: murdering Texans.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: What does this mean moving forward if they continue this?
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: And how could this change the way that we interact
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: with them? Because I think there's a lot of Americans
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: right now they're like, look, if we're gonna call them terrasts,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: let's go after them like they're terrorists.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: How dare them be allowed to do this?
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Well, I believe we're gonna do that.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: I believe we're starting with we saw on January twentieth,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: President Trump securing the border. We've seen the numbers of
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: illegal crossings plummet, drop ninety percent. We're gonna go after them.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: We're gonna go after them. We're gonna go after the
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: people who are here, the murderers, the rapist, the child molesters,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: the the gang members, we're resting them, we're deporting them,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: we're gonna send them back, but we're also stopping the
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: traffic coming in, the human traffickers, the drug traffickers. That
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: is impacting the cartel's bottom lines. But I think we're
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: going to use leverage to go after the cartels directly
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: and try to Joe Biden and the Democrats gave billions
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: of dollars to the cartels, a stat you and I
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: have talked about multiple times, but it's a stunning stat.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: In twenty eighteen, the Mexican draw cartels made roughly five
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: hundred million dollars from human trafficking. Five hundred million dollars
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: is a lot of money. Last year they made thirteen
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: billion dollars, a two thousand, six hundred percent increase. That
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: is ending now, and I have every confidence the Trump
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: administration is going to go after their money.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: It's going to go after them directly, and.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: You are going to see the cartels targeted, just like
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: we target al Qaeda and Hamas and Hezbola. The days
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: of the cartels arising Americans, those days are.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Ending, yeah, thank goodness. And there's clearly a mandate from
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: the American people. While we may have won this election.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: The fight to restore our great nation is only beginning,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: and now is the time to take a stand, and
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Patriot Mobile is leading the charge. It has never been
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: easier to switch your cell phone than in twenty twenty five.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: With technology, you can do it literally over the phone
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: with a code they send you. It is amazing. But
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: here's the reason why I use Patriot Mobile now. One
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: I save money over what I was paying before with
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Big Mobile. And two, I'm no longer supporting the radical
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: left now. I didn't realize until someone told me just
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: how radical Big Mobile had gotten. Where they are supporting
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: organizations that pay for abortions or supporting radical democratic causes
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: and organizations they're helping democrats get elect it at the local, state,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: and national level. That is actually why over a decade
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: ago Patriot Mobile was started and they are now America's
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: only Christian conservative wireless provider.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about coverage.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: In twenty twenty five, you have zero problems with coverage
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: anymore because well, Patriot Mobile uses all three major networks.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: What does that mean for you?
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: It means whatever coverage you're used to now you're going
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: to stay exactly the same or you may even be
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: able to improve it, but it will not be any
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: issues when it comes to coverage. In fact, they have
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: a coverage guarantee. But when you pay your bill, this
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: is where the magic happens. They take a portion of
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: your bill every month and they give it back to
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: organizations that support our first and our second amendments that
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: support the sanctity of life, that support our veterans, our
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: first responders, and are wounded warriors. And like I said,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: switching with technology now has never been easier. You keep
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: your same phone you have now, keep your same phone number,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: and you can even upgrade to a new phone if
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: you want to. They have a one hundred percent US
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: based customer support team to help you find the perfect
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: plan and to save money. And if you own a
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: business or a small all business, they have a division
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: that just works on switching multiple lines over easily. So
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: make a difference with every call you make. Go to
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Patriot Mobile dot com slash verdict. That's Patriot Mobile dot
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: com slash verdict, and stand up for what you believe
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: in with every call you make, with every text you said,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Patriot Mobile dot com slash verdict or nine seven to
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Patriot and you're gonna get a free month of service
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: with a promo code verdict that's nine seven to Patriot
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: or Patriot mobile dot com slash verdict. Join me and
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: make a difference with that bill. You're going to have
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: every month and fight for what you believe in patriotmobile
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: dot com slash verdict all right center. Lastly, there is
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: a war that is taking place between Donald Trump and
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: certain states that are saying we're not going to listen
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: to you. Maine now is the latest state to tell
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: the DOJ. In essence, this is adding to California and
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Minnesota saying we're not going to comply with a federal
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: laws protecting girls' sports. I'm trying to figure this out.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Is this pure arrogance or is this a political move
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: by the radical left to say we're not going to
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: comply and we think it's going to be good for
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: us to raise money and for our base break this
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: down for us.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: What do you think, Well, listen.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, elected Democrats remain radical that they have not learned
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: any lessons from the November election. So if you look
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: at Democrats in Congress, if you looked at Democrat governors,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: they continue to support open borders. They continue to support
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: releasing murderers and rapists and child molesters into this country.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: You look at we talked about this in last week's pod,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: how Massachusetts is literally releasing violent child rapists who are
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: illegal immigrants rather than turn them over to Ice to
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: be deported. And I got to say, look, this is
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: not a sixty forty issue, it's not a sty issue.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: This is an eighty twenty or a ninety ten issue.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, if you ask any rational, insane person a
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: violent child rapist, should we release him into our community,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Any rational person, most normal Democrats would say, hell no,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: that's a dumb ass idea. And yet the elected Democrats
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: in Massachusetts, their answer is let them go. We are
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: opposed to deporting anyone, no matter how vile. That They're
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: continuing the same position on on they continue to support.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: The Democrats in Congress continue to support sterilizing and castrating
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: children for sex change operations. Again, that's an eighty twenty issue.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: They're on the wrong side of it, but they're listening
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: to their radical base. And when it comes to men
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: and women's sports, this is another eighty twenty issue. The
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: American people don't want competing against their daughters. They don't
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: want men competing against women, and yet the Democrats are
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: all in on that.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: And I've been amazed.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Normally, when your party gets clabbered in an election, you
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: go and reassess, gosh, maybe we miscalibrated, Maybe we should
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: change where we stand. The Democrats are not doing that.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: And so what happened this week is Pambondy, the new
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Attorney General, targeted in particular three states, targeted Maine, California,
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: and Minnesota, and she issued a warning to them that
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: those states have to comply with federal anti discrimination laws
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: that require them to keep boys at a girl sports.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: And here's what Pambondi said, quote, This Department of Justice
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: will defend women and does not tolerate state officials who
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: ignore federal law. We will leverage every legal option necessary
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: to ensure eight compliance with federal law and President Trump's
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: executive order protecting women's sports. And she continues, The Department
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: of Justice says, quote, as President Trump's recent executive order
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: one four to two zero one on the subject explains,
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: allowing men and boys to compete in women's and girl
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: sports quote is demeaning, unfair, and dangerous to women and girls.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: This practice is also illegal under federal law. It denies
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: women and girls the equal opportunity to participate and excel
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: in competitive sports in violation of Title nine of the
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Educational Amendments of nineteen seventy two. And so understand, the
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Department of Justice is making clear they intend to sue
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: these states and they intend to cut off federal funds
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: to these states if they continue to embrace the radical
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: notion that they're going to let boys compete in girl sports.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: We talked about in Monday's pod how the governor Maine
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: is in open defiance, saying to hell with you, We'll
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: see you in court. It's amazing democrats continue to embrace
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: these radical positions.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Don't forget. We do this show Monday, Wednesday Friday. Hit
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: that subscribe or auto download button on those in between days.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Grab my podcast, the Ben Ferguson Podcasts, and if you
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: want a quick morning update of what's going on, grab
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: the forty seven Morning Update. I give you the three
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: biggest stories of the day in about a ten minute
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: short form podcast. Grab that as well, The Senator and
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: I will see you back here on Friday morning.