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Its Time to CALL your Member of Congress and Say NO to Government Spending and Waste in this CR · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: All right, So we're going to answer this first question.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to be clear about this as I
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  Speaker 1: am taping this right now. It is an all out
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  Speaker 1: war in Congress and this could change at any moment,
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  Speaker 1: so I just want to make sure I timestamp this
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  Speaker 1: so you understand. Over this Continuing Resolution, I am going
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  Speaker 1: to break it down for you of what we have
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  Speaker 1: seen so far, I'm going to break down for you
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  Speaker 1: what is in the bill now. I want to be
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  Speaker 1: very clear right now about what's happening and what's going
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  Speaker 1: on here with this bill. And it is very clear
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  Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is telling you you need to call
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  Speaker 1: your congressman, you need to call your center. This includes Republicans, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and tell them to stop expanding government and screwing you
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  Speaker 1: the tax payer. Now, Donald Trump has made a statement.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to hear what he had to say
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  Speaker 1: this according to Fox News, take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: In the last couple of minutes, Donald Trump has told
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  Speaker 2: Fox News he is quote totally against the proposed continuing
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  Speaker 2: Resolution bill that has just been floated by Congress, and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people haven't had a chance to read it.
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  Speaker 2: It's more than seventeen hundred pages, but that spending bill
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  Speaker 2: is not sitting well with the president elect. Again, please
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  Speaker 2: keep in mind that the House is controlled by Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: so this is engendering a lot of storm and drawing
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  Speaker 2: at the moment and considering, we do see a big
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  Speaker 2: drop here. We do see the Nasdaq down six hundred
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  Speaker 2: and forty eight points, SMP down one hundred and sixty three,
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  Speaker 2: so maybe not entirely driven by the federal reserves saying
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  Speaker 2: the economy is strong, so only two rate cuts next
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  Speaker 2: year versus four.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this is exactly why I said a moment ago,
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  Speaker 1: it's time for you to call your congressman, specifically Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: and say stop screwing us. Did you not pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to what just happened in the last election side Michael.
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  Speaker 1: Representative Annapolina Luna putting out this tweet earlier, voting no,
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  Speaker 1: the cr is a terrible sandwich. Lots of my people
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  Speaker 1: back home impacted by hurricane are calling my office. They
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  Speaker 1: said they don't want everything attached to this bill. That
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  Speaker 1: is just one example of what is out there right now,
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  Speaker 1: and people are very upset about this. Many are upset
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  Speaker 1: about it because there's billions in this bill.
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  Speaker 3: It's continuing resolution for Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: It also has mask and vaccine mandates in the bill,
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  Speaker 1: and it has deep state immunity. This is a disaster
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  Speaker 1: sixty billion for Ukraine. The unconstitutional force of courts to
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  Speaker 1: protect Congress past and future blanket immunity for deep state.
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  Speaker 1: Unconstitutional emergency powers are in this bill. There's a mask
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  Speaker 1: and vaccine mandate, the gain of function research is in
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  Speaker 1: this CR, vaccine passports all so appearing in this CR,
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  Speaker 1: and funding of twelve different biolabs. This is what they
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  Speaker 1: have stuck in there. And what do we get out
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  Speaker 1: of it. Well, they're saying, we'll give you some hurricane
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  Speaker 1: aid for those that are hurting right now. Which is
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  Speaker 1: why I read for you that Anna Paulina line there
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  Speaker 1: VI vic Ramaswami putting it out on X this way,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a long statement, but it's important one and
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  Speaker 1: I want to read it for you because this is
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  Speaker 1: the guy that is helping with DOGE, which is actually
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  Speaker 1: cutting down and cracking down on government overspending.
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  Speaker 3: So this is what he wrote.
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  Speaker 1: He said, quote, I wanted to read the full one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: five hundred plus page bill that is now ballooned to
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  Speaker 1: seventeen hundred pages since he put this tweet out and
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  Speaker 1: speak with key leaders before forming an opinion. Having done that,
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  Speaker 1: here's my view. It's full of excessive spending. The VIC writes,
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  Speaker 1: special interest giveaways and pork barrel politics. If Congress wants
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  Speaker 1: to get serious about government efficiency, they should vote no.
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  Speaker 3: In all caps.
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  Speaker 1: Keeping the government open until March fourteenth will cost three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty billion by itself, but the true cost
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  Speaker 1: of this omnibus cr is far greater due to new spending.
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  Speaker 1: Renewing the Farm Bill for an extra year one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirty billion, disaster relief one hundred billion, stimulus for
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  Speaker 1: farmers ten billion, the Francis Scott key Bridge replacement eight billion.
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  Speaker 1: The proposal adds at least sixty five cents of new
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  Speaker 1: spending for every dollar of continued discretionary spending. Translation, this
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  Speaker 1: is a massive expansion of government spending. I want to
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  Speaker 1: read that again. The VIC Rameswami saying the proposal adds
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  Speaker 1: at least at least this is, at the bare minimum,
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  Speaker 1: sixty five cents of new spending for every dollar of
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  Speaker 1: continued discretionary spending. Legislation will end up hurting many of
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  Speaker 1: the people it purports to help. Debt fueled spending sprees
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  Speaker 1: may quote feel good today, but it's like showering cocaine
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  Speaker 1: on an addict. It's not compassion, it's cruelty. Farmers will
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  Speaker 1: see more lands sold to foreign buyers when taxes inadvertently
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  Speaker 1: rise to meet our obligations. Our children will be saddled
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  Speaker 1: with crippling debt. Interest payments will be the largest item
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  Speaker 1: in our national budget. Congress has known about this deadline
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  Speaker 1: since they created it in late September. There's no reason
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  Speaker 1: why this couldn't have gone through the standard process instead
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  Speaker 1: of being rushed to a vote right before congressmen want
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  Speaker 1: to go home for the holidays. The urgency, Vivic writes,
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  Speaker 1: is one hundred percent manufactured and designed to avoid serious
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  Speaker 1: public debate or scrutiny.
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  Speaker 3: Right, no one's been able to read this bill.
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  Speaker 1: Vivic actually read it, but it's expanded by two hundred paid,
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  Speaker 1: which just apparently since he read it. He goes on
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  Speaker 1: to say the bill could have easily been under twenty pages. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: there are dozens of unrelated policy items crammed into the
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  Speaker 1: one thousand, five hundred and forty seven pages of this bill.
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  Speaker 1: There's no legitimate reason for them to be voted on
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  Speaker 1: as a package deal by elame duck Congress. Seventy two
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  Speaker 1: pages worth of pandemic preparedness and response policy, renewal of
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  Speaker 1: the much criticized Global Engagement Center, a key player in
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  Speaker 1: the federal censorship state, Seventeen different pieces of commerce legislation
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  Speaker 1: paving the way for a new football stadium in DC
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  Speaker 1: is in this continuing resolution, a pay raise for congressmen
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  Speaker 1: and senators and making them eligible for federal employee health benefits.
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  Speaker 1: Because they don't want to act, you have to deal
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  Speaker 1: with Obamacare. It's indefensible to ram these measures through at
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  Speaker 1: the last second without debate. We are grateful for DOJ's
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  Speaker 1: warm reception on Capitol Hill. Nearly everyone agrees we need
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  Speaker 1: a smaller and more streamlined federal government. But actions speak
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  Speaker 1: louder than words. This is an early test the bill,
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  Speaker 1: he says, should fail. Now, since he posted that at
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  Speaker 1: the time that I'm recording this, that has been viewed
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  Speaker 1: his message more than ten point five million times, and
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  Speaker 1: I expect that number to be continuing to grow even
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  Speaker 1: bigger and bigger. I'll give you another example of just
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  Speaker 1: the total corruption in this bill. Walgreens to pay one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and six point eight million for billing the US
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  Speaker 1: government for prescriptions they never filled. From two thousand and
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  Speaker 1: nine to twenty twenty, the pharmacy chain submitted fall claims
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  Speaker 1: to Medicare and Medicaid, totaling one hundred and six point
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  Speaker 1: eight million dollars. Walgreens are now pay more than one
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  Speaker 1: hundred million to settle the claims against billing Medicare and
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  Speaker 1: Medicaid with fraud. That is what is happening right now. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's also talk about what has been said by the speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Speaker Johnson, and I'm holding his feet to the fire
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  Speaker 1: because well, he.
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  Speaker 3: Has lied to us.
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  Speaker 1: The bill should fail, and you need to call your
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  Speaker 1: congressman and tell them that. But I'm going to go
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  Speaker 1: back to September of twenty twenty four. This is what
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  Speaker 1: Speaker Johnson said in September of twenty twenty four, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: just a few months ago, and he said then there
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  Speaker 1: won't be a Christmas omnibus.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, but overall with the CRS, as our leader just noted,
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  Speaker 4: we have we have broken the Christmas omni and I
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  Speaker 4: have no intention of going back to that tearable tree eddition.
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  Speaker 4: So there won't be a Christmas omnibus. If somebody asked
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  Speaker 4: me in the hallway a little while ago, will leave
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  Speaker 4: you minibuses. We don't want any buses. We're not going
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  Speaker 4: to do any buses.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now that was him in September. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: fast forward to this week. What is Speaker Johnson saying?
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  Speaker 1: Now in December of the same year, he is saying,
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  Speaker 1: everybody understands the necessity of this Christmas omnibus.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, and we.
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  Speaker 4: Got to get through this. So look, everybody understands the necessity.
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  Speaker 4: It is not palatable. This is the sausage making part
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  Speaker 4: of legislation that nobody likes. But we're governing and we'll
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  Speaker 4: pick it up in January and start a brand new
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  Speaker 4: day for America.
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  Speaker 1: So, in other words, you're getting screwed right now. Here's
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  Speaker 1: a question you should ask yourself before you call your
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  Speaker 1: congressman or your senator and tell them to vote no.
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  Speaker 1: Why do taxpayers have to foot the bill for the
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  Speaker 1: Francis Scott Key Bridge?
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  Speaker 3: For example?
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  Speaker 1: Shouldn't it operate of the ship or its insurance company
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  Speaker 1: pay for that. They're the ones that took down that bridge.
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  Speaker 1: Why should the American taxpayers have to pay for that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense at all. I also will go
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  Speaker 1: back to this. You look at what Elon and what
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  Speaker 1: Vivic said, and if you're just using them for a
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  Speaker 1: photo op, that's one thing.
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  Speaker 3: But this CR is just total bs.
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  Speaker 1: It allows for vaccines, mask mandates, vaccine passports, expanded emergency powers,
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  Speaker 1: and gain a function research that has nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with what this Continuing Resolution should be about.
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  Speaker 3: Every one of you listening.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, every one of you, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: go into more detail of what's in this bill in
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  Speaker 1: a moment, but every one of you needs to call
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  Speaker 1: your congressman and your senator. Two O two two two
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  Speaker 1: four three one two one. That's two O two two
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  Speaker 1: two four three one two one. Call Capitol Hill, call
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  Speaker 1: your congressman, call your center, and tell them no on this.
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  Speaker 1: This bill is massive. This is a betrayal of the
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  Speaker 1: American public. It is a portrayal that all of us
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  Speaker 1: should understand. And the House Republicans so far that have
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  Speaker 1: announced that they will vote against this seventeen hundred page
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  Speaker 1: spinning bill. Representative Nancy Mace, Wesley Hunt, Andy Biggs, Bob Good,
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  Speaker 1: Paul Gosar, Ralph Norman, Tim Burchett and chip Rory that list.
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  Speaker 1: I'm expecting it to go now, we need more knows.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are obviously going to vote yes on this. They
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  Speaker 1: love this government spending. They're all in on it, they
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  Speaker 1: all want it. But Speaker Johnson's decision to allow this
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  Speaker 1: language into an omnibus bill is an egregious concession that
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  Speaker 1: undermines accountability and transparency within the legislative process and by
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  Speaker 1: including provisions that shield House data from disclosures. For example,
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  Speaker 1: this is another problem here. This is operating in secret.
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  Speaker 1: This would shield the House in the language they put
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  Speaker 1: in this bill for disclosure and permit motions the squash subpoenas,
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  Speaker 1: and what Speaker Johnson's doing now is enabling the very
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  Speaker 1: mechanisms that delay justice. These protections will undoubtedly be weaponized
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  Speaker 1: by the way to obstruct investigations in a misconduct, particularly
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  Speaker 1: the actions of individuals like Liz Cheney and Adam Schiff
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  Speaker 1: during the Manufacturer January the sixth hearings, and the language
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  Speaker 1: serves no legitimate purpose beyond buying time for those who
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  Speaker 1: manipulate their positions to push false narratives and vilify their
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  Speaker 1: political opponents, which were conservatives.
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  Speaker 3: Why the hell is this in the bill?
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  Speaker 1: It is all a question that every single person should
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  Speaker 1: be asking.
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  Speaker 3: So what's in this bill? All right? Get ready to
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  Speaker 3: take notes? And this is when I'll say it again.
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  Speaker 1: Take the podcast, share this so people know what they
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  Speaker 1: actually did. And I want to be Conservatives are a
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  Speaker 1: part of this, okay, and I'm calling them out. Here
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  Speaker 1: are some of the provisions drawing the biggest blowback from conservatives.
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  Speaker 3: Members of Congress.
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  Speaker 1: Are going to get a pay raise, yes, a actual
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  Speaker 1: pay raise. Apparently right now, Congress saying we need a
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  Speaker 1: pay raise for itself, and they snuck it in the
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  Speaker 1: spending bill. As Americans struggle to make ends meet. This
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  Speaker 1: one thousand, five hundred and seventy four page bill, known
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  Speaker 1: as the CR, made sure that lawmakers currently earn a
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  Speaker 1: base salary of one seventy four annually, with members and
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  Speaker 1: leadership receiving a higher salary. If Biden signs a CR
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  Speaker 1: into law, members of Congress are set to receive a
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  Speaker 1: maximum salary increase of six six hundred dollars due to
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five cola of three point eight percent.
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  Speaker 1: According to a press release from Maine Democrat Representative Jared Golden,
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday. The main Democrat is opposing the CR over
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  Speaker 1: the pay ray's language in the bill, saying this is
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  Speaker 1: just wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Quote.
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  Speaker 1: If members of Congress had received every adjustment prescribed by
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  Speaker 1: the ECI formula since nineteen ninety two, and the statutory
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  Speaker 1: limitations regarding the percentage based pay increase for government employees
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  Speaker 1: remained unchanged, the twenty twenty fourth salary would be two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty three thousand, three hundred dollars, is what
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  Speaker 1: they wrote in an article on lawmakers salaries with.
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  Speaker 3: The update in September.
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  Speaker 1: In addition, there are many Republicans that are supporting this.
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  Speaker 1: So Congress is failing the American people again and giving
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  Speaker 1: themselves a pay raise in the process.
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  Speaker 3: You can't make this stuff up.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be voting no, is what Representative Eli Crane said
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  Speaker 1: about this shocking move here to give a pay raise.
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  Speaker 3: Now that's the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: There's also a provision that allows lawmakers to opt out
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  Speaker 1: of Obamacare and use the Federal Employees Health Benefit program instead.
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  Speaker 1: Because they all know that Obamacare sucks, They've thrown that
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  Speaker 1: in the omnibus as well with a CR. Also, language
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  Speaker 1: on transparency in concert ticket pricing is in this bill
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  Speaker 1: that actually is something I'm in favor of, so you're
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  Speaker 1: getting that in there. There's also the federal government paying
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  Speaker 1: the entire bill to bill to rebuild the Francis Scott
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  Speaker 1: Key Bridge. Why are we having to pay for this?
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  Speaker 1: This is port bal spending. There's also quote accountability for
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  Speaker 1: recycling and composting fraud, whatever the hell that means. There's
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  Speaker 1: a federal swine education program that would be on pigs,
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  Speaker 1: a continuation of the woll Trust Fund until twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to know more about that, I'll put
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  Speaker 1: a link on social media for you.
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  Speaker 3: It's just insane.
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  Speaker 1: And they're going to pay for juvenile delinquents to get
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  Speaker 1: their driver's licenses. Why the hell do I need to
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  Speaker 1: be paying money for driver's license for people that are young.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand this. We're gonna pay for juvenile delinquents
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  Speaker 1: to get their driver's license because you're irresponsible with a kid.
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  Speaker 1: Let's give that kid a license so he can go
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  Speaker 1: drive a car, because that makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: Also, in this.
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  Speaker 1: Bill, the government will no longer be calling homeless adults
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  Speaker 1: and children as homeless, so we're going woke. We're actually
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  Speaker 1: banning the word homeless. So my producer, as much as
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  Speaker 1: you want to say homeless in the future, or any
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  Speaker 1: one of you listening right now, you're not allowed to
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  Speaker 1: do that. If you're an official government position capacity writing
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  Speaker 1: a bill.
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  Speaker 3: There is no such thing as homeless people anymore.
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  Speaker 1: They're also extending a quote cheap marketing grant pro Graham
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  Speaker 1: until twenty twenty five because apparently.
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  Speaker 3: We need to be marketing sheep now.
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  Speaker 1: And the Golden Engagement Center that's the State Department's office
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  Speaker 1: which is dedicated specifically and explicitly towards censorship. It's going
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: to get another round of funding to censor people they
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  Speaker 1: don't like. And if you want to get really angry,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: this is where the pork barrel spending comes in.
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  Speaker 3: Your tax dollars.
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  Speaker 1: In this continuing resolution, are going to spend not one,
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  Speaker 1: not two, but three million dollars to test the inspection
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  Speaker 1: of molasses. I wish I was joking. I'm actually not.
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  Speaker 1: This is real. This resolution is out and it's a
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  Speaker 1: resolution that says we're going to spend three million dollars
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  Speaker 1: to test the inspection of malasses. Now, these provisions and
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  Speaker 1: more have many Republicans frustrated. You should be calling and
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  Speaker 1: can this with your people in Congress, whoever your representative is. Quote,
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  Speaker 1: This Continuing Resolution is a predictable result of Republican leadership
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  Speaker 1: embracing swamp practices. It continues to fund more of the
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  Speaker 1: same broken priorities Democrats wanted, and ignores the mandate voters
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  Speaker 1: gave us to change course. Americans demanded a government that
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  Speaker 1: secures the border and cut spending, not a continuation of
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  Speaker 1: the swamp status.
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  Speaker 3: Quote.
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  Speaker 1: That is what Texas represented Michael Cloud said about this CR.
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  Speaker 1: Arizona Representative Paul Gossar told The Daily Caller that there
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  Speaker 1: is quote not a single provision worth supporting. In its totality,
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  Speaker 1: The entire Continuing Resolution is complete garbage. It continues to
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  Speaker 1: fund the government at Pelosi, Schumer, and Biden levels. It
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  Speaker 1: gives members an undeserved pay raise, has zero offsets, was
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  Speaker 1: negotiated behind closed doors, and is a liberals dream bill.
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  Speaker 1: No physically responsible Republicans should vote for this piece of crap,
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Gosar said in the statement. South Carolina Representative Ralph
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  Speaker 1: Norman explained that the Continuing Resolution should have gone through
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  Speaker 1: the Rules Committee so that there could have been a
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  Speaker 1: debate on every provision. To put it lightly, this omnibus
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  Speaker 1: is a wolf in sheep's clothing. For one, it should
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  Speaker 1: have gone through the Rules Committee so that we could
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  Speaker 1: debate and discuss every single line item. Instead, Republican leadership
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: decide to take the back door. He went on to say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm deeply disturbed that Republican leadership is greenlighting billions more
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  Speaker 1: of dollars.
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  Speaker 3: With no offsets.
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  Speaker 1: what they are doing to our economy. Many of you
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  Speaker 1: may be doing your last minute Christmas shopping and I
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: want you to understand what we have just found out about.
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  Speaker 1: Major corporations including Kia, TJ Max listed as corporate sponsors
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: of the Rainbow Line Library pushing transbooks on your children.
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  Speaker 1: The retailers TJ Max and the automaker Kia are listed
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  Speaker 1: as co sponsors of a program that is distributing the
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: LGBTQ themed books to k through twelve schools across the
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  Speaker 1: United States. This according to a Wednesday report from the
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: conservative nonprofit Consumer Research obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Now,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: the initiative, titled the Rainbow Library is run by national
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: LGBTQ plus activist organization, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education
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  Speaker 1: Network known as g lse N.
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  Speaker 3: What does it do?
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  Speaker 1: It sends participating teachers books that push transgenderism and homosexuality
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  Speaker 1: onto kids as young as five. Over eight thousand, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred schools in thirty three different states nationwide are now
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: participating in the program. Meaning there's a very good chance
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: that your kids or grandkids are at a public school
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  Speaker 1: where this is actually in the library system and being
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: used in the classroom. Now, let me read you this quote.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: TJ Max and Kia are pushing radical gender ideology on
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  Speaker 1: kids through their sponsorship of the GLSEEN Rainbow Network, which
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: promotes transgender ideology and classrooms across the country through books
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: and recommended lesson plans for teachers. So it's not just
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the books are available, it is actual lesson plans for
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the teachers to then follow to then indoctrinate your children.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: That is what will Hoild, Executive director of Consumer Research,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: sent and a statement. By sponsoring organizations with a political
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: activist agenda like this organization in the Rainbow Library, these
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  Speaker 1: companies are putting woke politics specifically ahead of their consumer base.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, TJ Max and kir are hoping that
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: you won't find out that this is what they are
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: involved in. Now here's something else that you need to
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: understand as well. A spokesman for Kia has come out
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: understanding that they have walked into a major problem, and
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: they have denied in a statement that the auto company
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: sponsored the Rainbow Library in twenty twenty three or twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, but they did not respond to further inquiries
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  Speaker 1: about why it was prominently displayed as a sponsor on
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the GLSN website. I am looking at the website. It
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: is there right now. All right, now, let's go back
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: to the books for a moment, because this is what
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: you need to understand about these companies and what the doing.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: When you go and shop at tjmac Slash Marshals, or
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: you go and buy Kiya kar I want you to
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: understand just how extreme they are in pushing transgenderism on
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  Speaker 1: your kids or your grandkids. One of the books distributed
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  Speaker 1: by Rainbow Library is titled When Aiden Becomes a Brother.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: It tells the story of a black girl who becomes
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: or comes out as quote unquote transgender and quote explores
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: plural different ways of being a boy. The GLSN recommends
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the story as part of its lesson plan for second graders.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: According to the Rainbow Library website, a twenty twenty three
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Pew Research Center study found that nearly seventy percent of
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Black Americans believe gender is assigned at birth. Just to
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: put in perspective over what they're doing here. Book this time,
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  Speaker 1: intended for first graders, is called My Rainbow. It depicts
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: a mother constructing a rainbow wig for her young transgender child.
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  Speaker 1: Another book, entitled Quote, When we Love Someone, We Sing
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: to Them That is meant for third graders and tells
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  Speaker 1: the story of a young boy singing to another young
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: boy in order to confess his love to that boy.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: When teachers request books from the Rainbow Library, they also
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: receive a quote toolkit telling them how to facilitate children
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: coming out as transgender with the gosse and educator Michael
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Rady's stating in a twenty twenty one video that quote,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: when a teacher or a librarian rolls out the Rainbow
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Life Library in their location, students start coming out to
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  Speaker 1: them because they see that adult as someone that they
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: can trust. The program also instructs the educators to keep
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: it confidential, in other words, hide it from the parents, right,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: so that we can help indoctor nate this kid, saying
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: if a student comes out to them until they can
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: determine if the child is quote supported by the adults
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: in their life and in apparent reference to the child's parents.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: So hey, keep it confidential, don't tell them anything, don't
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: talk about it. Just keep it quiet until we find
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: out exactly what's going on. This is what these organizations do.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: This is what they give to your kids. This is
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: how they do it. And you look at Kia, you
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: look at TJ Max Marshall's, and they're like, hey, we're
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: making good money. We got a lot of mom that
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: are going in there and shopping. We got a lot
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: of people buying cars from us. So let's indoctrinate these
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: kids in this way, all right. So let's keep going
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: down this road so you understand. The nonprofit website sponsors
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: page identifies key in TJ Max's parent corporation, TJX Companies,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: which is also the retailer that owns Marshalls, Home Goods
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: and Sierra as It's twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: national partners that help make Rainbow Library possible. So it's
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: not just TJ Max you need to be boycotting this
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Christmas season. It's Marshalls, it's Home Goods, it's Sierra unless
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: you want your kids turned into transgender children. Target, you
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: may remember we talked about this a year ago. They
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: came under fire for their partnership with the same organization
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: GLSEN That may be where you remember me saying this
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: name before They donated more than two million dollars.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: To the nonprofit.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Now, let me just go back to Target and remind
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: you quickly of that story. Not only did Target give
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: over two million dollars to this radical organization to indoctrinate children,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: but back in May of twenty twenty three, the National
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Education Association, and that is the US's largest teacher union,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: also pledged their support for this radical organization called g
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: LS n now Tjmax companies participated in the Human Rights
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Campaigns Corporate Equity Index. Now, what does that do. It's
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: like a seal of approval, all right. They assess the
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: corporations based on their commitment to the LGBTQ plus activism.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: So it's not just like LGBTQ plus in general, it's
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: you have to be an activist company. The Human Rights
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Campaign champions pediatric sex changes, so there's like, hey, it's
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: you guys. Can't just raise your an say we support,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: You've got to be activists with your dollars and donations. Now,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: facing pressure, a variety of corporations have started to roll
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: back their diversity equity inclusion initiatives in recent months, including
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: John Deere, Core's Brewing, Harley Davison, Ford and Low's. Now,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the only reason why they're doing this now is because
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: they're seeing that America is starting to wake up and
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: stand up and say we're tired of this woke ideology.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: And that's exactly the reason why these corporations are now
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: doing it. About face, Republicans spend at least two hundred
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: and fifteen million critiquing progressive transgender ideology in the twenty
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: twenty four election cycle. So part of this was education
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: of the public by Republicans and be like this is insane.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: I don't want to be a part of this now.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: According to data from ad tracking firms, they said that
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: one of the most effective ads was the one declared
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: I mean that Kamwa Harris is for it. They slash them,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: they them, and President Trump is for you. That had
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: a huge impact on this election. Now, Keya's head of
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: corporate communications, and let's move to them for a second,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: is a guy by the name of James Bell. James
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Bell has come out denied the company had been a
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: sponsor of the Rainbow Library in twenty three or twenty four,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: despite the automaker being prominently displayed on the program sponsor page.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: They understand how things are changed.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: They don't want to be listed on these lists that
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you about, which is why you need to
• 34:34
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• 34:36
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  Speaker 1: share it now. When the DNFC sent multiple follow up
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: inquiries asking why Keys listed as a twenty three to
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: twenty four school year sponsor if it did not sponsor
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: the nonprofit twenty three or twenty four, James Bell, of
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Kea's head of corporate communications, literally stopped responding to The
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Daily Caller. Additionally, James Bell's initial response did not answer
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the majority of questions that came from the Daily Caller
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: and their inquiry, including when the company began funding the
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Rainbow Library and if the company supports pediatric sex change
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: surgeries and hormonal treatments for children at a very young age. Also,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: this is why sunlight is the best disinfectant. TJ Max
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: and G. Lsen did not respond to The Daily Caller's
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: requests for comment on this as well.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: So there's there's a couple of takeaways here. Number One,
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: they lied. Number two, they got busted.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Number Three, they're hoping that not enough people will find
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: out about the story that I just led with today.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: And some people ask me, like Ben, why didn't you
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: do like the.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Big headline of the day, Because you already know about
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the bigger headline today, all right, and we're going to
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: talk about it. We're going to talk about all the
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: big headlines. But when I get stories like this, these
• 36:04
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• 36:07
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• 36:11
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• 36:15
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• 36:17
  Speaker 1: that if I think they understood how radical the left
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: had become, they would not be saying by a Kia.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: They would not be going to TJ Max or Marshalls
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: or Home Goods. These are stores that deserve to be
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: boycotted the same way that Target. And by the way
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I called it with Target, what did I say to
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: you as my producer, I said it, moms were going
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: to go back to going to Target, even after the
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: radical agenda of Target to have like tucking swimsuits for
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: toddlers and binding swimsuits for young girls.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: And I said, you watch, There'll be some moms.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: That will stop going to Target for a little bit,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: but the majority are going to come back. And that's
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: why Target is still giving two thousand in three thousand
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: and four thousand, whatever the number is of square feet
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: to their stores for hardcore LGBTQIA and doctor Nation.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: And support during the summer months. And I was right.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: You look at the stock value of Target, you look
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: at their sales numbers. They came down a little bit
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: after that controversy and then after the controversy kind of
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: moved on to other things what ended up happening. They
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: moved on, folks, they moved on, and they went right
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: back to shopping. Many mothers did, because Target's just so convenient,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: and people are like, I don't want to go to Walmart,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: so I'll go to Target. And that is now where
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: we are, all right. Make sure you share this podcast
• 37:41
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• 37:45
  Speaker 1: everybody that's out there.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: And I will see you back here tomorrow