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Trump’s Midnight Legislation Push plus ICE App Coverage Sparks Outrage · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Stop ICE from arresting criminal aliens in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: This was in his acceptance speech for the Democrat nomination
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  Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 4: Good Tuesday morning. It's so nice to have you with
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  Speaker 4: us on the forty seven Morning Update. Here are the
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  Speaker 4: big stories we're talking about. The biggest one is the
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  Speaker 4: big beautiful Bill. We have a lot that is happening
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  Speaker 4: as we're recording this a little after midnight right now,
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  Speaker 4: and there's word that there are some Republican holdouts in
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  Speaker 4: the Senate. Much is changing, and the President is working
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  Speaker 4: the phone lines. We'll give you the latest that we
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  Speaker 4: have for you right now in just a moment. Also,
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  Speaker 4: in a shocking move, a major TV network is now
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  Speaker 4: helping warn individuals where ICE agents are so that they
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  Speaker 4: can get away from being held accountable for breaking our laws.
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  Speaker 3: Now, story number one.
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  Speaker 4: So you're tuning in right now wanting to know what's
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  Speaker 4: going on with a big, beautiful bill. A lot is
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  Speaker 4: changing and it's happening very quickly. I'm going to timestamp
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  Speaker 4: this for you to let you know it's approaching midnight
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  Speaker 4: as we speak right now. When you hear this, depending
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  Speaker 4: on when you download it, it may change drastically from
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  Speaker 4: what I'm telling you now. That's why I'm letting you
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  Speaker 4: know that as I literally just got the phone with
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  Speaker 4: members of Congress to get an update on what they're hearing.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm gonna be honest with you. After talking and
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  Speaker 4: texting with several different people in Congress, many of them
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  Speaker 4: still don't know exactly what this final bill is going
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  Speaker 4: to look like. There is a lot of back and
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  Speaker 4: forth it is taking place right now.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: There's also a rumor that at midnight tonight they're up
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  Speaker 4: to sit GOP senators that are holding out on the
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  Speaker 4: Big Beautiful Bill. I talked to another senator who said
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  Speaker 4: it's five different GOP members, but they believe that those
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  Speaker 4: five will come around after they get some concessions that
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  Speaker 4: they need. This is how the sausage is made in Washington, DC.
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  Speaker 4: And yes, all of the people I talked to are
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  Speaker 4: sitting around their offices waiting for what's gonna happen next.
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  Speaker 4: So let's go back to earlier in the day and
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  Speaker 4: I want to explain to you how we got to
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  Speaker 4: the point that we are at right now. Caroline Levitt
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  Speaker 4: taking a lot of heat at the White House Press
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  Speaker 4: briefing today on the Big Beautiful Bill because there are
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  Speaker 4: so many in the Democratic Party and in the mainstream
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  Speaker 4: media that want to destroy this from becoming a reality.
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  Speaker 4: I want you to listen to what she had to
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  Speaker 4: say about this legislation.
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  Speaker 5: You speak on it, can you respond to the CBO
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  Speaker 5: estimates that the Senate would increase the deficite on nearly eight.
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  Speaker 1: Three point three trophy.
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  Speaker 5: This is one of the most fiscally conservative pieces of
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  Speaker 5: legen that has ever made its way through Capitol Hill.
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  Speaker 5: There's two trillion dollars in mandatory savings in this bill,
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  Speaker 5: and not only that, the projected growth that this bill
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  Speaker 5: will bring to our economy. It will be an economic boom.
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  Speaker 5: The Council of Economic Advisors has an analysis that shows
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  Speaker 5: that the bill will generate four point one trillion dollars
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  Speaker 5: in economic growth and it will cut taxes, putting more
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  Speaker 5: money back into the American people's pockets. That's why this
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  Speaker 5: president wants this bill to pass, and I know he's
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  Speaker 5: busy working the phones and doing what he needs to
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  Speaker 5: do today to make it happen. So we'll see you
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  Speaker 5: all later. Thank you, We'll see you in Florida.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you now.
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  Speaker 4: As you heard Caroline say there, we'll see you and
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  Speaker 4: tomorrow in Florida, meaning right now as you're listing this show.
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  Speaker 4: There's also another important part of what she just said.
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  Speaker 4: The President is working the phones and has been working
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  Speaker 4: them from what I've been told all day long and
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  Speaker 4: late into the evening and very well maybe pulling what
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  Speaker 4: you would refer to in college is a good old
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  Speaker 4: all nighter making sure that this gets across the finish line. Now,
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  Speaker 4: there is also other centers that are going on TV
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  Speaker 4: talking about where they believe this is going. Centater turber
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  Speaker 4: Bilt from Alabama, you may know him as the football coach.
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  Speaker 4: Here's what he had to say on Fox Business.
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  Speaker 7: What is your assessment when you look at the whole thing,
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  Speaker 7: what would you have liked to have gotten in that
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  Speaker 7: didn't and what do you think is the best things
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  Speaker 7: in it?
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  Speaker 6: Well, first of all, two thirds of the bill is
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  Speaker 6: the tax cuts, which obviously we've got to get done.
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  Speaker 6: It's necessary. Then one third of the bill is we're
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  Speaker 6: reforming most of the agencies, which is Medicaid, you know,
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  Speaker 6: school loans, all those things that are really costing us
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  Speaker 6: a lot of money. They've right now, we have forty
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  Speaker 6: seven million young Americans that are in debt with student
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  Speaker 6: loans for one point seven trillion dollars. We can't sustain that.
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  Speaker 6: We can't sustain it. So we've done some work on that.
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  Speaker 6: We've done some work on Medicaid. Medicaid is basically reforming,
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  Speaker 6: kicking people off that's not supposed to be on their
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  Speaker 6: illegals and people that should be working. So all this,
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  Speaker 6: most of it is good. You just sometimes you hate
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  Speaker 6: to do things that you know is going to put
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  Speaker 6: people in a situation where they're going to be uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 6: But the end of the day, we all have to
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  Speaker 6: adjust to this because we can't keep spending the way
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  Speaker 6: we're spending right now.
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  Speaker 2: We can't do it.
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  Speaker 4: We can't keep spending the way we're spinning right now.
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  Speaker 4: We just can't keep doing it now. Senator Turberville brought
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  Speaker 4: up an excellent point there as well. Two thirds of
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  Speaker 4: this big, beautiful bill are actually tax cuts and one
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  Speaker 4: third is reforming most of the agencies that is extremely important. Now,
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  Speaker 4: there's also many that are saying the American people actually
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  Speaker 4: don't want this. One of the things that Tom Tillis
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  Speaker 4: has been saying about this bill that actually is not true.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, if you go back and look at what
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump ran on He ran on the issue of
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  Speaker 4: making the Trump tax cuts permanent. How are we doing it?
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  Speaker 4: It is through the Big Beautiful Bill. So the president
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  Speaker 4: United States of America is burning the mid Oil Center.
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  Speaker 4: Ron Johnson defending the Big Beautiful Bill as well on CNN,
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  Speaker 4: saying this to Jake Tapper.
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  Speaker 8: Billion So Biden deficits were three times larger than pre
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  Speaker 8: pandemic levels of deathsit and spending is just out of control.
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  Speaker 2: So it's easy to be a Democrat.
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  Speaker 8: Spend mortgage a kid's future, never be held accountable by
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  Speaker 8: the media. It's pretty hard what we're trying to do,
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  Speaker 8: and so this may take a little bit more time.
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  Speaker 7: Well, deficit spending is a bipartisan affliction.
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  Speaker 2: You know that better than anyone.
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  Speaker 7: Earlier this month, you were warning about this bill adding
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  Speaker 7: trillions to the national debt. You told ABC News quote,
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  Speaker 7: I'm worried about our kids and grandkids, the fact that
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  Speaker 7: we're mortgaging their future. It's wrong, it's immoral. Is has
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  Speaker 7: your position changed? It's this bill. I mean, this legislation
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  Speaker 7: is still going to add to the deficits.
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  Speaker 8: So Democrats their only solution is increased taxes. We don't
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  Speaker 8: want to do that that harms economic growth. We will
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  Speaker 8: get the revenue you ever look for it. All Democrats
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  Speaker 8: do is spend. By the way they're talking about we're
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  Speaker 8: going to you know, test cuts for millionaires.
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  Speaker 2: No, we're just not going to increase taxes.
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  Speaker 8: They could have done that in the four years when
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  Speaker 8: they were in power. They could have gotten rid of
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  Speaker 8: the Tax Cutting Jobs Act. They could have increased taxes
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  Speaker 8: on every American. That's what we're trying to avoid. So again,
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  Speaker 8: Democrats love to spend.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying.
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  Speaker 8: That we don't have Republicans that are a big spender
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  Speaker 8: as well. I've been focusing on spending, spending, spending, trying
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  Speaker 8: to put pressure on the process, and I think right
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  Speaker 8: now the stumbling block is what the Senate bill does.
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  Speaker 8: Even though we actually reduce spending more, we also make
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  Speaker 8: sure that those business tax provisions which will incentivize growth
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  Speaker 8: are permanent.
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  Speaker 2: So that holds a bigger score.
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  Speaker 8: But the difference between the House and Center is about
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  Speaker 8: six hundred and fifty one billion dollars. Rick Scott's amendment,
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  Speaker 8: which is eminently reasonable. It doesn't kick anybody off of Medicaid.
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  Speaker 8: It just limits at some point in time in the
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  Speaker 8: future additional adults who are childless, who are working age,
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  Speaker 8: who could work. It's going to deny them that nine
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  Speaker 8: to one match, which is distorted Medicaid. Jake, for every
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  Speaker 8: dollar the state puts into a to provide health care
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  Speaker 8: for a disabled child, the federal government puts a buck
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  Speaker 8: thirty three. But for every dollar they put in toward
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  Speaker 8: a single childless adult who should be working, we kick
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  Speaker 8: in nine. That has led to all kinds of abuse,
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  Speaker 8: provider taxes, provider fees.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, that's not healthcare.
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  Speaker 8: But you have the federal government's kicking out nine dollars
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  Speaker 8: for every one of the states. That's what we're trying
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  Speaker 8: to address. We're not trying to take Medicaid away from
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  Speaker 8: disabled children. We're trying to stop that scam the states
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  Speaker 8: and providers have been using to draw down one hundreds
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  Speaker 8: of billions of dollars for the federal government that we
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  Speaker 8: can't afford.
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  Speaker 4: So you listen to Ron Johnson there defending the big
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  Speaker 4: beautiful bill. DEM's only solution has increased taxes and saying, quote,
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  Speaker 4: it's easy to be a Democrat. You can also find
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  Speaker 4: it very interesting that Jake Tapper it see it and
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  Speaker 4: now actually cares about government spending, something he didn't care
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  Speaker 4: about under the Biden administration, not one single time, but
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  Speaker 4: all of a sudden, the media now is like, well,
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  Speaker 4: we need to be looking at the deficit. At the
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  Speaker 4: end of the day. Donald Trump promised to make the
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  Speaker 4: tax cuts permanent and to rein in the size of government.
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  Speaker 4: That's clearly what he's advocating for and what he's trying
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  Speaker 4: to do right now. Now, I'll say this for the
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  Speaker 4: five that are apparently holding out at this hour a
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  Speaker 4: little after midnight as I am recording the show, anything
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  Speaker 4: can happen in the next few hours, and I have
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  Speaker 4: a feeling that at the end of the day, Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump will be working those phones and making sure that
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  Speaker 4: the big, beautiful bill gets across the finish line for
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  Speaker 4: the American people.
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  Speaker 3: Now, story number two.
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  Speaker 4: The media yet again putting ice agents lives at risk,
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  Speaker 4: this time CNN featuring a segment on ice Block. It
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  Speaker 4: is an app that lets users anonymously crowd source ice
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  Speaker 4: agents sightings across the app and send alerts to others
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  Speaker 4: within a five mile radius. Now, the app's creator framed
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  Speaker 4: as a quote harmless early warning system to help people
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  Speaker 4: avoid ice, not to incite violence against the agents. Ice
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  Speaker 4: block enforces constraints, they claim as well, one post every
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  Speaker 4: five minutes, auto deletion after four hours, and explicitly recommends
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  Speaker 4: users not interfere with officers. That's their get out of
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  Speaker 4: jail free card. Apparently, the White House Press Secretary Caroline
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  Speaker 4: Levitt accusing CNN of encouraging violence by publicizing the app,
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  Speaker 4: especially amid a reported five hundred percent surge in assaults
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  Speaker 4: on ICE agents nationwide. The acting ICE Director called CNN's
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  Speaker 4: coverage quote reckless and irresponsible, warning that it paints a
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  Speaker 4: target on federal law enforcement officers. Backs and Tom Homan,
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  Speaker 4: the former ICE director, and the current borders are branded.
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  Speaker 4: The app is simply disgusting, and urge the DOJ to
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  Speaker 4: investigate CNN's role in all of this. I want you
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  Speaker 4: to hear more of what Tom Holman had to say
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  Speaker 4: on Fox News Channel about this.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 9: This next story is outrageous. A new iPhone app is
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  Speaker 9: alerting people about ICE sightings in the area. As if
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  Speaker 9: that's not bad enough. Seeing in it appears to be
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  Speaker 9: promoting the app, talking to the creator, and doing a
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  Speaker 9: whole story on it. That is not sitting well with
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  Speaker 9: my next guest the borders. Our Tom Holman joins me. Now, Tom,
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  Speaker 9: they've crossed the line here. This is out of control.
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  Speaker 10: I know. It's just simply disgusting, and any network that
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  Speaker 10: covers that is disgusting as well. So I'm hoping DOJ
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  Speaker 10: steps in here and see if they cross that line.
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  Speaker 10: I'm competing federal law enforcement offshoes. Look, Lawrence, you're not
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  Speaker 10: talking about this. Passaulting concise is up over five hundred percent.
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  Speaker 10: Now you've got an app that's going to tell where
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  Speaker 10: ICE operators are going to be. It's only a matter
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  Speaker 10: of time for ICE stages are ambushed by some nut
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  Speaker 10: like we're happening in LA throwing them a top cocktail,
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  Speaker 10: throwing bricks, and these officers. This is just disgusting at
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  Speaker 10: every level. So I hope DOJ dives in this deeply,
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  Speaker 10: because you know, ICE is constraint on public safety threats
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  Speaker 10: and national security threats. This shouldn't be a partisan issue.
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  Speaker 10: There shouldn't be an issue anybody's is against. So they're
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  Speaker 10: already a dangerous job going after the worst of the worst.
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  Speaker 10: These guys are putting their lives on the line every day,
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  Speaker 10: going after the worst and worst international security threats, and
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  Speaker 10: this app makes it that much more dangerous. It's it's
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  Speaker 10: incredible that those who enforced law, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 10: they are the bad guys you want to break the law,
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  Speaker 10: they're victims. It's disgusting.
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  Speaker 9: Why I was seeing in promote this, Why would they
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  Speaker 9: do a story on this?
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  Speaker 10: I can't figure out. I've been look, I've been doing
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  Speaker 10: this for four decades. I've never seen anything like this
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  Speaker 10: in my life. You know, it's got to be they
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  Speaker 10: hate Trump more than love law enforcement or I can't
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  Speaker 10: figure it out, but something needs to be done. I mean,
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  Speaker 10: you advertise this guy's app National TV Network, They're just
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  Speaker 10: going to bring more followers, sick followers to the app
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  Speaker 10: and use it again, letting the bad guy know Ice
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  Speaker 10: is coming. They're here, here's where they're going next. This
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  Speaker 10: is dangerous for the men and women.
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  Speaker 9: So true, Tom, I want.
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  Speaker 2: To get you.
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  Speaker 4: Tom Homan clearly slamming CNN for promoting the ice tracking
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  Speaker 4: app and now is saying maybe it's time for law enforcement,
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  Speaker 4: the DOJ to step in here and see if they
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  Speaker 4: cross the line. Competing federal law enforcement officers. Yet again
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  Speaker 4: another example of how the left is doing everything they
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  Speaker 4: can to protect illegal immigrants and put American lives at risk.
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