March 7, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| It's happened with Doge. | ||
| He's gone back and forth on Doge so many times, whether Elon Musk is in charge or whether he's not in charge. | ||
| And yesterday that changed again, I think in one of the most significant ways. | ||
| Yeah, and back and forth on tariffs, which we'll get to amid growing backlash over the sweeping federal cuts by Elon Musk's Doge team. | ||
| President Trump appears to be somewhat limiting the billionaire's power within the federal government. | ||
| Yesterday, the president told his cabinet secretaries they're in charge of their own departments, not Musk. | ||
| Trump said Musk's role is to make recommendations on staffing and policy. | ||
| Following that meeting, the president posted on Truth Social that he's instructed his cabinet secretaries to work with Musk on cost-cutting measures. | ||
| He later elaborated on that statement while speaking to reporters at the White House. | ||
| I want the cabinet members to keep the good people and the people that aren't doing a good job. | ||
| That are unreliable, don't show up to work, etc. | ||
| Those people can be cut. | ||
| Elon and the group are going to be watching them. | ||
| And if they can cut, it's better. | ||
| And if they don't cut, then Elon will do the cutting. | ||
| Chris Matthews, I've always told people, if you understand what Donald Trump is trying to do in the White House, read the first three pages of The Art of the Deal, where he says, I show up at work, I pick up the phone, I make calls, kind of figure out how things are going. | ||
| And I sort of feel my way through it. | ||
| Well, you get that sense with Elon Musk. | ||
| One day he says Elon's in charge. | ||
| The next day his cabinet members call up and they're upset. | ||
| So he goes, Elon's not in charge. | ||
| He says it's said the union Elon's in charge. | ||
| Now he says Elon's not in charge. | ||
| That it's the cabinet members that are not in charge. | ||
| It bounces back and forth. | ||
| But there are, of course. | ||
| Real consequences to that, especially for those people that are taking these cases to the courts. | ||
| But for now, it does seem he's gotten enough pushback from cabinet members who are now saying, including people like Cash Mattel, who he's very close to, are saying, this is my agency. | ||
| I don't need this guy with a chainsaw telling me who's going to work for me and who's not going to work for me and how I'm going to reorganize my own bureaucracy. | ||
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For the first time, President Trump may be reigning in Elon Musk. | |
| Just hours ago, the president convening his cabinet secretaries and Musk at the White House to send this message. | ||
| The cabinet secretaries have power over who gets fired inside their agencies. | ||
| Trump writing on his Truth Social platform that the secretaries, quote, can be very precise as to who will remain and who will go. | ||
| Trump also writing that government cuts should be made with a scalpel, not with a hatchet. | ||
| Which one of those implements might this chainsaw more resemble? | ||
| Top 10 percent of Americans are 40 or 50 percent of consumption. | ||
| And that is an unstable equilibrium. | ||
| The bottom 50 percent of working Americans have gotten killed. | ||
| We are trying to address that. | ||
| We're trying to get rates down. | ||
| And, you know, could we be seeing that... | ||
| This economy that we inherited starting to roll a bit, sure. | ||
| And look, there's going to be a natural adjustment as we move away from public spending to private spending. | ||
| The market and the economy have just become hooked. | ||
| We've become addicted to this government spending, and there's going to be a detox period. | ||
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Trade deficits. | |
| Do you view those as inherently bad? | ||
| I know the president always points to that, but we do consume, and we're always going to consume more than the rest of the world. | ||
| And if you do indeed want a strong dollar, it seems like it's something we're going to have to live with. | ||
| A couple of other ones. | ||
| Punishing bad behavior, security concerns with China. | ||
| That's a whole slew of reasons to put on tariffs. | ||
| And just at this point, I guess critics would say it looks a little haphazard. | ||
| The way they go on, they come off. | ||
| We talk to Mexico and Canada. | ||
| Okay, we talk to the automakers. | ||
| They don't want us to do it, so we're not going to do it. | ||
| It just seems like it's being levied. | ||
| In a somewhat haphazard way. | ||
| Is that not fair? | ||
| Of course it's not fair, Joe. | ||
| But that's what you all do. | ||
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Not all. | |
| Look, it's not linear. | ||
| It's an organic process. | ||
| But if we were to look back to a similar process over... | ||
| Well, President Trump's talked about it in his first administration. | ||
| He talked about it in the campaign trail. | ||
| He's talked about it since November, is the need for Europeans to fund their own defense. | ||
| And you just had a very long conversation with PASCUS and that all of a sudden, voila, this week, this week. | ||
| After 25 years of baiting and cajoling, President Trump achieved what five other presidents couldn't achieve. | ||
| The Europeans are going to up their defense spending. | ||
| The German debt break is coming off. | ||
| That was not a linear process. | ||
| That was not always an attractive process. | ||
| But now the Europeans say that they are going to pay their fair share. | ||
| As of yesterday, energy prices were down 15%. | ||
| The crude was down 15% since... | ||
| Inauguration Day. | ||
| Ten-year rates are down. | ||
| Mortgages are down. | ||
| The spreads between the ten-year rate and mortgages come in. | ||
| So we saw housing, we saw mortgage applications pop up last week. | ||
| I think if we can keep on that trajectory. | ||
| And Joe, the American dream is to be able to buy a house. | ||
| Access to cheap goods is not the asset, is not the essence of the American dream. | ||
| The American dream is rooted in the concept that any citizen can achieve prosperity, upward mobility, and economic security. | ||
| For too long, the designers of multilateral trade deals have lost sight of this. | ||
| International economic relations that do not work for the American people must be reexamined. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
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Because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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Mega Media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | ||
| It's Friday, 7 March, in the year of our Lord, 2025. Welcome. | ||
| You saw right there two things. | ||
| Two things happening. | ||
| Number one, this whole Doge situation. | ||
| Who's in charge and who's not in charge? | ||
| And then you have the situation with spending and the budget and all that. | ||
| So let me break it down first. | ||
| Let's take Scott Besant first. | ||
| In fact, I want to get ready and play the Kash Patel part. | ||
| So you saw Scott Besant. | ||
| You're seeing a big pivot from the White House to get very focused on. | ||
| And be focused on the economy. | ||
| This started yesterday with the Economic Club talk. | ||
| It continued with Scott Besson afterwards, giving a lot of press briefings. | ||
| Then this morning, for 45 minutes, he was on with Squawk Box, which he walked through tariffs, he walked through spending, he walked through particularly the case he's making is that right now, and I'll go back to that, the top 10% of the Population. | ||
| In economics. | ||
| The top 10% has 50% of the consumption. | ||
| It's a very unstable situation. | ||
| What President Trump is trying to do, and this is the entire, when we talk about tariffs, they're not traditional tariffs. | ||
| That's what they're hammering on TV. And we've got to get better surrogates. | ||
| We've got to get more surrogates out there telling the story. | ||
| Because the story is just not about tariffs on goods and tariffs on a... | ||
| On a tomato coming in from Mexico. | ||
| This is a total rethinking of the American business model. | ||
| It shouldn't be lost on people, which none of the mainstream media is talking about. | ||
| They're not talking about, which is last month the greatest trade deficit, I think, in any one month. | ||
| Now I think we're up to six or seven, I think we're up to $600 billion just this year in a trade deficit. | ||
| We're going to be over a trillion dollars in a trade deficit. | ||
| People don't want to talk about it. | ||
| And this is President Trump with the tariffs. | ||
| It is protection. | ||
| We would not have Taiwan's semiconductor coming if we didn't have the tariffs. | ||
| I understand the defense of Taiwan. | ||
| I got that. | ||
| But they would not come with a $100 billion investment paid over four years. | ||
| You would not have Apple Computer with a half a trillion dollars, $500 billion of state-of-the-art manufacturing here in the United States if you didn't have the tariffs. | ||
| And I do agree. | ||
| I think the messing and Peter Navarro and people have to, I think, get better. | ||
| You have to message us. | ||
| And we can't be, you know, like, for instance, the Canadian tariffs and saying that there's not enough Mounties on the border, that's just not going to wash. | ||
| You have to make the case. | ||
| President Trump is making the case. | ||
| You have to stick to the case. | ||
| Because the tariffs are a very, very powerful tool to bring high-value-added manufacturing jobs back to the United States and start to rebuild us as a manufacturing superpower. | ||
| You are not going to get the, you're not going to break this top 10% of earners Have 50% of the consumption unless you have high-value-added jobs for the working class and the middle class that you then have money to both save, you know, number one, buy a house, get some real estate. | ||
| Number two, actually invest in either gold, stocks, or bonds, right? | ||
| And have money left over for consumption. | ||
| This is kind of the macro issue that Scott Besson is dealing with. | ||
| I wish on two things. | ||
| Number one, I wish we had EJ and Tony going through exactly what the economy they've been handed. | ||
| The economy is terrible. | ||
| Underlying economy is terrible. | ||
| What President Trump done is pretty extraordinary. | ||
| I think in the jobs report today, 9,000 new jobs. | ||
| 9,000 new jobs in the automotive industry. | ||
| Not even mentioned by the mainstream media. | ||
| 9,000 new jobs by the automotive industry. | ||
| So the pivot to the economy, and later in the day you're going to have the The crypto conference, look, the crypto conference, you know, some people are pro, some people are, I got to know more. | ||
| And even talking about the crypto conference, that issue about the government underwriting liquidity in Bitcoin is kind of off the table. | ||
| They're going to take some of the various Bitcoins, take other things and kind of put it into some sort of either trust in front of some reserve, but these ones that they've already picked up. | ||
| So there's no underwriting. | ||
| But that's all about the economy. | ||
| That's more of the kind of financial and more, I guess, speculative financial economy. | ||
| But it's still part of it. | ||
| And Scott Bessam will be back this afternoon. | ||
| I think he's going to meet with the president. | ||
| And you're seeing a major pivot to the economy. | ||
| Now, this gets down to the CR. Okay? | ||
| It gets down to funding the government. | ||
| And finally, they're all hands on deck to focus on how you're going to fund the government through the end of the year. | ||
| Every piece of polling that's coming out is that people want to cut government spending. | ||
| It's about how you cut government spending. | ||
| This is one of the reasons I'm such a big proponent of DOGE and what they're doing. | ||
| Waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| You definitely have to go into waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| I think the way to do it with going with shock troops to try to find it is quite smart. | ||
| Now, you have to manage that process. | ||
| You have to manage that process. | ||
| But eventually, I'm very skeptical about the aggregate number of ways for abuse. | ||
| It's out there and has to be taken out, number one, to give people confidence. | ||
| Their tax dollars is going somewhere. | ||
| Number two, to make sure, particularly on this waste-front abuse, it's normally going to lefties to fund these horrible programs against MAGA and against the United States itself, the populist nationalists, and particularly the sovereignty of the country. | ||
| But eventually, folks, you're not going to do this without tears. | ||
| You're not going to get $6.5 trillion managed, okay? | ||
| You're not going to close a $2 trillion deficit a year. | ||
| We're not going to stop the madness without some tears. | ||
| You're just not going to do it. | ||
| Let's go to, we have Brian Glenn. | ||
| Brian Glenn. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| Then we didn't need to skip the break. | ||
| Do you have the cash clip? | ||
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Thanks. | |
| Let's play that. | ||
| But for now, it does seem he's gotten enough pushback from cabinet members who are now saying, including people like Kash Patel, who he's very close to, are saying, this is my agency. | ||
| I don't need this guy with a chainsaw telling me who's going to work for me and who's not going to work for me and how I'm going to reorganize my own bureaucracy. | ||
| Okay, I want to thank Real America's Voice for skipping the break here. | ||
| Let's go to Doge. | ||
| The CR, and here's what's coming down now, is the CR is going to be a clean CR, although they are adding some health care things, I think, overnight, although it's kind of very unformed. | ||
| You have the CR, it comes due on, you know, we kind of run out of official ability to spend money at midnight on the 14th, you know this. | ||
| Right now they're talking about a clean CR with maybe some attachments of some health care, but it's kind of an up or down vote. | ||
| We already know no Democrats are going to vote for this. | ||
| Before, in December, and then earlier to get past the September 30th, you have tons of Democrats. | ||
| Because they feed off of big government. | ||
| The last thing they want is the government to shut down and stop those payments. | ||
| They live for it. | ||
| They're prepared to block it totally right now in the House. | ||
| Why? | ||
| They want Trump's government to be shut down. | ||
| They want Trump's government to actually be shut down with the force of Senate Democrats so you don't get to the 60-day break cloture. | ||
| But to be able to say that you didn't – that you'd be able to say – is that where you have Chip or have – Chip Rory? | ||
| Okay, hang on for a second. | ||
| We're going to get the latest right here from Chip Rory. | ||
| Let's go to the White House. | ||
| Chip, you've just stepped out of a meeting. | ||
| Can you get us up to speed on what's happening on this? | ||
| Because you're kind of one of the... | ||
| You're probably the lead... | ||
| I don't know if negotiator or architect of what's going on. | ||
| Can you walk us through what's happening? | ||
| Yes, Steve. | ||
| Great to be on the show, as always. | ||
| It's great to be here at the White House with a lot of good friends. | ||
| Like, what we have here are our people who are wanting to, you know, clean out all the mess, cut all the waste, fraud, and abuse, and end what has been happening to the American people's, you know, money through waste here in Washington. | ||
| And so you've got Elon shining the light on it with Doge. | ||
| You've got great patriots like Russ Boat at the Office of Management and Budget prepared to use impoundment and all the tools of the president's authority to restrict spending and cut the spending. | ||
| So what we need to do is keep the lights on. | ||
| Like, look. | ||
| I am no big proponent of a CR as a general rule. | ||
| But when you've got this president, when you have these guys down here doing the hard work of cleaning out the clutter, I want to keep the lights on. | ||
| I don't want Democrats to turn the power off and prevent them from being able to do the job the American people sent them here to do. | ||
| Which, by the way, Congress has utterly failed to do in the past. | ||
| And I've been fighting my colleagues in Congress to try to cut spending, and we've hit a wall. | ||
| The president is breaking that wall down. | ||
| So we don't want to prevent that from occurring. | ||
| So the CR is critical. | ||
| Look, I liken it to this, Steve. | ||
| If you've got a bunch of... | ||
| We're in there now. | ||
| We've got all these guys cleaning it out. | ||
| They've backed up the moving truck. | ||
| They're moving all the stuff out. | ||
| And we just need to keep the power on long enough for them to finish the job. | ||
| And if they don't, or if they hit a wall, or if the courts try to stop them, I think the president ought to, of course, be very strong against whatever the courts do to try to stop his constitutional prerogatives. | ||
| But then we need to have the power in the... | ||
| The FY26 appropriations process, which, by the way, is already underway because we've got to get that done by September. | ||
| We need to step in as Congress and back up the president and put cuts into those bills in the House and send those over to the Senate. | ||
| So I think we've got a week to go. | ||
| A CR freezes spending at current levels. | ||
| And by the way, I'm going to police that. | ||
| I don't want the speaker to send me a dirty CR. Send me a clean CR that freezes spending, empower the president. | ||
| I think that's something that we conservatives can support. | ||
| To give him the latitude he needs to do the job. | ||
| Just a couple of questions. | ||
| Let's start with... | ||
| We kicked the can down the road from the middle of December. | ||
| You were one of the leaders of saying, we got a shot to do this appropriation bill. | ||
| Just explain to the audience, because my understanding is that... | ||
| 75% or 80% of the appropriations bills are done. | ||
| Has the Senate not done theirs? | ||
| Could he not do a conference? | ||
| Could we agree and work for 72 straight hours and agree on at least get appropriations and then do a CR for the remainder? | ||
| Is that even a possibility? | ||
| Or is that processed? | ||
| Because you were one of the big guys that fought for single-subject appropriations bills. | ||
| I think we got seven of them done, or at least 75% or 80% of the spending. | ||
| So what is your thoughts on that? | ||
| Yeah, look, I mean, I obviously fully support trying to do our job the right way with single-purpose bills, with appropriations bills. | ||
| We fought that with McCarthy. | ||
| And look, we moved the needle a long way. | ||
| Two years ago, we got seven bills across. | ||
| Last year, we got five bills across. | ||
| But we hit the wall, right, of Democrats. | ||
| Since we've gotten now the trifecta over the last, what, five, six weeks, we have been trying to work through the reconciliation effort. | ||
| And look, I'm going to be a little blunt. | ||
| I wish we had already sent a bill over to the Senate from the House. | ||
| I wish we would have taken our five good appropriations bills, attached the rest in the form of a CR or some other version of a minibus, sent it over to the Senate and jammed them up. | ||
| We didn't do that, but now we're sitting here with a seven-day clock. | ||
| I think we need to focus on FY26 and use the bills you just talked about, the five bills we passed last year, as a baseline. | ||
| Go look at what Doge has done, insert that into the mix, and then drop spending levels down for FY26 and send it to the Senate. | ||
| And I know this is inside baseball. | ||
| The basic simple terms is a spending freeze is, generally speaking, a win in the swamp. | ||
| We have expectations, you and I and your viewers, we have expectations that we want. | ||
| Radical cuts. | ||
| I think we can deliver those cuts, but we need the force of the White House to do that. | ||
| Because Congress is going to always get hung up on their pet projects. | ||
| The White House is organizing to identify the waste. | ||
| We need to insert that into the mix. | ||
| A seven-day window here where we pass a CR that frees the spending in this moment is actually a win, even though I would have rather done it a different way had we started a year ago with Republicans. | ||
| Okay, so one more thing. | ||
| Look. | ||
| Rasmussen's got polling out. | ||
| There's polling out today. | ||
| People overwhelmingly support, and particularly Republicans, overwhelmingly support the concept of DOGE, to get to waste-run abuse. | ||
| Because there's two things. | ||
| There's waste-run abuse, and then there's programmatic cuts. | ||
| And we know we're going to have to get to programmatic cuts in defense, in Medicaid, and they're going to be tough. | ||
| And there's going to be pain, and there's going to be a fight, a firestorm. | ||
| That's all going to happen in the summer of 26. Is there a possibility? | ||
| Because people are saying, hey, I think this is the hard one to swallow. | ||
| Elon's been out there. | ||
| They've announced this stuff. | ||
| It's kind of ill-formed, totally what the number is. | ||
| But how do we do an up-or-down vote and approve the CR where we're essentially saying we're going to approve the spending of the money we know is wasted? | ||
| Is there any way to attach? | ||
| Something to see are just in a broad range of numbers that gives Russ vote empowers him after March for after 14 March between 30 September in the next five or six months to use impound to go back to the president with Elon and say, hey, here's actually the number. | ||
| Right. | ||
| And we're going to impound that number and then go to the courts and fight it all the way up to the Supreme Court, sir. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So two or three thoughts on that. | ||
| First of all, I co-sponsor Andrew Clyde's great bill to make very clear that the language that Congress passed in the 70s that tries to restrict the president on impoundment is a bad idea and we should get rid of it. | ||
| It's the president's authority. | ||
| Now, to be clear, the second point, I think the president has that authority. | ||
| I think that restriction by Congress is unconstitutional. | ||
| I think that will fail in the courts if it's tried to be applied against when the president actually uses the impoundment authority. | ||
| So my issue here right now is we've got to decide. | ||
| What we need to do to keep the lights on for Elon to keep shining the light on it so we can keep winning public opinion and fight it in the FY26 appropriations. | ||
| So we're agreeing. | ||
| What I'm saying is I think the president already has the power. | ||
| I don't want Congress to interfere with President Trump's power because usually Congress messes things up. | ||
| So I think they need to go win that in the courts. | ||
| Russ has the power now, in my opinion. | ||
| Hang on, hang on, hang on. | ||
| Hang on, hang on. | ||
| I see your logic. | ||
| You're saying you don't need to attach to the CR. Pass a clean CR. The president has the inherent power in the unified executive theory that he's the chief executive of the U.S. government. | ||
| When Elon gets more definitive about what it is, and if it's 50 billion or 100 billion, whatever the number is, that Russ can go to the president and say, this is waste, fraud, and abuse that we found, right? | ||
| And the president then can make a decision to impound that money immediately. | ||
| And then, of course, they'll take you to court immediately, but you fight it out at that point. | ||
| But you're saying you don't need that. | ||
| The president has the inherent power and that Russ Vogt's going to be on point. | ||
| Is that how the concept of people ought to be thinking of? | ||
| Yeah, I mean, I couldn't have said it any better. | ||
| You just outlined it perfectly. | ||
| In fact, I'm going to grab that clip and use it for my colleagues because that's exactly right. | ||
| And let me give you the final backstop. | ||
| If the courts try to get in the way of the president, I think it will empower us in Congress to do our part to go in and say, guys, stop funding this garbage. | ||
| So, for example, why would we fund a $32,000 transgender comic book in Peru, right? | ||
| Let's go cut that. | ||
| Like, why would we do any of that? | ||
| And importantly, we can then send... | ||
| Remember this, Eli Crane, our good conservative friend, he offered an amendment in the fall of 23 to cut USAID in half. | ||
| 102 Republicans voted for it. | ||
| 114 voted against it. | ||
| We need to back the president. | ||
| One last thing before you go. | ||
| It got brought up in the Senate yesterday, rescissions. | ||
| The impoundment is the executive acting. | ||
| Rescissions is going back up to Capitol Hill. | ||
| We want to avoid rescissions, correct? | ||
| We want to give Russ full backing, the president full backing, that they come back and say, hey, look, we've gone through Elon's numbers. | ||
| It's $50 billion. | ||
| We want to impound that. | ||
| We're going to impound that immediately, correct? | ||
| That is roughly correct. | ||
| There are a few things in there that I'll tell you privately that I'm going to hold on to a little bit later in the year about what the president's power is. | ||
| I'm going to let them do that. | ||
| But I'll say this with rescissions. | ||
| There is another rescissions play that when the president decides and moves it to the Hill, we can get it through the Senate with 51 votes. | ||
| If Congress jumps the gun, then it's 60 votes in the Senate. | ||
| We need to work directly with the White House to do this the right way. | ||
| And then we can use rescissions, I think, to better effect. | ||
| Yes, you basically summarized it right, but there's a little more to it. | ||
| Okay, I know you've got to go back up the hill. | ||
| When can we anticipate seeing this beauty? | ||
| Whether it's clean or dirty, Chip, are we going to get this dropped on us on like the afternoon, like 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the 14th? | ||
| Or do you anticipate that Speaker Johnson will move a little quicker? | ||
| Well, I think the speaker, I hope, learned a lesson of what happened right before Christmas when we got a 1,500-page Christmas tree. | ||
| The people spoke, Elon spoke, everybody spoke, and that bill got shot down, and then the bill got narrowed down. | ||
| I think we're going to get a cleaner bill on Saturday. | ||
| Now, it might have a number of pages in it because you have to deal with anomalies for contracts and defense, but the numbers should still be flat and frozen, and we'll get that hopefully by tomorrow, Saturday, so that we have the full 72 hours before we're moving the bill. | ||
| Because we believe very strongly in that so you, the American people, can see it, know what's in it before these guys are voting on it. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Okay, Chip, what's your social media? | ||
| Because people are going to follow you moment by moment because this thing is a very movable feast until midnight on the 14th. | ||
| How do people get to you? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| Yeah, my Twitter or my X handle is ChipRoyTX, C-H-I-P-R-O-Y-T-X. That's the best way to follow. | ||
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Or my official one is RepChipRoy on X. Chip, we're just glad you're up having a cup of coffee and the president's having a Diet Coke. | |
| You two guys are working on this thing together. | ||
| The audience is really happy about that. | ||
| Yeah, look, I agree with the president on virtually everything. | ||
| Happy to be here. | ||
| Happy to be here with my friends. | ||
| Man, this is the opportunity of a lifetime, but we've got to deliver. | ||
| So we're going to be working tirelessly to deliver for the president. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
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Congressman Chip Ward, Texas. | |
| One of the top, one of the guys leading this negotiation. | ||
| It kind of is what it is right here, right? | ||
| We'll have to see more of it, but I'm sure it's going to be quite, hopefully, clean as possible. | ||
| You're going to have to, I think the president, I'm sure the president, in talking to members, because, look, there's 30 or 40 of the deficit hawks in the House Freedom Caucus guys, and people are not in the House Freedom Caucus or deficit hawks, they're going to have to, you know, have this walkthrough, and I'm sure the president's going to have to have a discussion with people saying, hey, I'm going to get these doge cuts done. | ||
| I'm going to get them done as soon as possible. | ||
| Russ Vogt is going to, you know, get his arms around it and then come back to me and we're going to be impounding these as soon as possible. | ||
| And that'll lead to another firestorm. | ||
| The only fly in the ointment, well, there's a lot of complexity in actually getting that. | ||
| One of the big issues I have right here, and I love Mike Davis, but I was not convinced the other day, of Robertson, Amy Coney Barrett. | ||
| This situation on this foreign, of the $2 billion that Doge kind of came up with originally that said, hey, one of the $2 billion things they found about foreign affairs that the president backed, he didn't want this foreign aid money going out. | ||
| And this judge, this kind of source federal judge, a Biden appointee, is held up. | ||
| And the Supreme Court didn't totally have her back, so I think that's a huge question. | ||
| The issue... | ||
| As I told you, it was always going to come down to this. | ||
| It was going to come down to a C. You notice nobody's talking about reconciliation? | ||
| You can't talk about reconciliation because it's a bridging effect. | ||
| You have to get the first one done first. | ||
| My concern, and this goes to Johnson and this entire crowd, you have to, you can't live in fantasy. | ||
| You have to live in reality. | ||
| And the president deserves People who are prepared to talk to him and say, hey, look, here's the reality. | ||
| We wouldn't be having this fiasco if this had been put first and reconciliation had been put off to the side. | ||
| It just wouldn't. | ||
| We should have gotten this done and you should have gotten it done with the appropriations bill. | ||
| That was the deal that was kind of cut in mid-December. | ||
| It was an agree. | ||
| And that, I think, is what President Trump was thinking. | ||
| I mean, that's what he was told. | ||
| There was no way that he ever thought that he would get back here to mid-March and we're going to do another CR. There was supposed to be the appropriations that were supposed to be done, both in the House and the Senate, then conference, hammer it out. | ||
| Take that to President Trump. | ||
| That's just supposed to work. | ||
| It did not work. | ||
| We have to start holding people accountable, particularly leadership. | ||
| You can't run away from this. | ||
| Because this is a huge missed opportunity. | ||
| Even with Russ coming with the impoundments, I believe, Russ believes, the president believes, the Office of Legal Counsel believes, many scholars believe he has the absolute right on impoundment. | ||
| That's not a slam dunk. | ||
| It's just not. | ||
| It's a five-foot bank shot, jump shot. | ||
| Could hit the rim or get blocked. | ||
| We're going to get more into this because this is what's important. | ||
| It's tied back to the big pivot on the economy coming. | ||
| Both tariff taxes. | ||
| As President Trump, way to the world's on his shoulders. | ||
| Needs a little help, guys. | ||
| I want to thank Chip Roy. | ||
| Brian Glenn from the White House next. | ||
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| It would obviously help if we had our arms around where Doge stands right now, where they really stand, on the numbers. | ||
| And we have to get to that number. | ||
| The sooner you get to the number, the better we're all going to be. | ||
| And I think for this audience and for the president, I think before any deals agreed to on the clean CR, that there's going to have to be some indication. | ||
| I'm just asking for a first cut. | ||
| I'm not going to hold you to the number. | ||
| Is it $25 billion to $50 billion? | ||
| Is it $100 billion? | ||
| Is it $10 billion? | ||
| I really don't care what the number is right now. | ||
| What it is, the absolute number, just let's drive a stake in the ground. | ||
| I've said before, and this is not a smear on Doge. | ||
| I love what Doge is attempting to do. | ||
| But the waste, fraud, and abuse is not going to be a trillion dollars. | ||
| It's just not going to be. | ||
| Just not. | ||
| And we have to, this is all important. | ||
| We've got to cut federal spending. | ||
| It's driving inflation. | ||
| It's driving anything. | ||
| And I think the numbers are going to rapidly deteriorate. | ||
| It's going to rapidly deteriorate. | ||
| And the Democrats are going to use that against President Trump. | ||
| Also, in fact, if we can get the E.J. and Tony three-minute clip from the other day. | ||
| I want to play that again as soon as we get it. | ||
| E.J. and Tony came on here and did the best job of walking through where the economy was. | ||
| In two and a half or three minutes. | ||
| The economy handed over by Biden. | ||
| So the whole pivot. | ||
| To the economy, the underpinning of that is to get this budget done for the rest of this year because there's going to be real money spent. | ||
| Real money spent. | ||
| Let's go back to the Doge of the operating side of Doge and all the news you've seen coming out on this again today. | ||
| There was a cabinet meeting yesterday, impromptu. | ||
| And in the cabinet meeting, the president said, hey, these guys actually make the cuts. | ||
| You're an advisor and you should advise the cuts. | ||
| That was brought up, I think, by a number of things. | ||
| Number one, obviously the cabinet. | ||
| And you remember all the heavy lifting you, this audience, did to get President Trump's cabinet? | ||
| I happen to think it's the best cabinet that's been put together since Lincoln's war cabinet. | ||
| And people, oh, man, you're over the top. | ||
| No, it's not. | ||
| You've got serious people. | ||
| You've got Bobby Kennedy. | ||
| You've got Pete Hexeth. | ||
| And Pete, I think people realize now, is a very serious guy, as we said the whole time. | ||
| Pete's a very serious guy. | ||
| In fact, he's so serious that the president, you can tell, there is a preparation for eventually going kinetic against the cartels. | ||
| If they're not totally taken down by the Mexicans, Pete Hexeth, the Secretary of Defense, with the Uniform Armed Services, paramilitary CA, are going to eradicate them. | ||
| Eradicate. | ||
| That's how much confidence I think the president has in Pete Hexeth. | ||
| What people are doing in Ukraine, what they're doing in the Middle East, the negotiations, what they're doing with the Russians and the rapprochement, Now, Persia wants to come to the table. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party, Alex Leary's piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, which says that Xi is gathering everybody. | ||
| And what are they studying? | ||
| They're studying the Soviet Union in the late 60s, early 70s, when containment really was kicking in. | ||
| And then eventually President Reagan came to office, and his thing, knowing that we had containment, and he had all these people wanting to do detente and all these days, he said, no, let's take it down. | ||
| We win, they lose. | ||
| They're very panicked about that. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because they see President Trump's overall grand strategy here. | ||
| What President Trump's doing on hemispheric defense. | ||
| These are monumental. | ||
| These are using your big muscles. | ||
| This is not like, we talk about decades wasted. | ||
| Look at Clinton. | ||
| You go back and Clinton, it's like, besides Monica Lewinsky, you know, Newt Gingrich, you know, getting and forcing, you know, budget surpluses, it was really about school uniforms. | ||
| It was, when his farewell dress, it was kind of, it was small ball. | ||
| Every day, President Trump is moving the big muscles. | ||
| It's just extraordinary. | ||
| I do want to say the president has told us he's going to give remarks in the Oval Office, I think. | ||
| At 11, approximately, the Real America's Voice team and Brian Glenn are heading over there right now. | ||
| Brian is, and this goes with this whole restructuring of the White House, the White House Correspondents Association. | ||
| I think Brian will be in the room, and that's a huge compliment. | ||
| To Brian Glenn, the Real America's Voice team, of course, the War Room, all of it. | ||
| I think that Natalie and Brian, Amanda Head, are just really killing it over there and doing a fantastic job, reaching a huge, massive audience. | ||
| Back to Doge. | ||
| I think, and just to connect dots, I want to tie together Wednesday on Capitol Hill, because this is important for you to know, with the Thursday meeting in the cabinet. | ||
| In Wednesday on Capitol Hill, You got to remember, the polling showing, particularly as some of these things get more dramatic, and the media blows it up, of course they do, that some of the polling looks like it's not the best. | ||
| And President Trump's had great polling. | ||
| But I would say that Elon has gone from a heat shield to maybe actually, you know, someone that's actually driving numbers, I don't want to say an anchor or a lodestone. | ||
| It's not that yet, but it's trending. | ||
| That is starting to affect everybody. | ||
| So when it goes to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to the Senate lunch and then to the Hill to that nighttime meeting, people are looking for specifics, as we have been on the show. | ||
| It's like, yo, you've been doing this now for seven weeks. | ||
| We're not looking for a final. | ||
| We know you've got a long way to go. | ||
| And yes, and we're glad you're talking about the post office going public, spending it off in the Amtrak, but quite frankly, We can do that, and we can think that through. | ||
| We need you there for the waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| You're the shock troops. | ||
| You're like the 82nd Airborne on D-Day. | ||
| You're going in the night before, going behind enemy lines, and you're finding this stuff out. | ||
| But we need to know where this is coming out because we've got this ticking time bomb called a CR that we have to do, and we would love to attach some numbers to it. | ||
| The Guardian is reporting in that meeting. | ||
| A couple things happened in the meeting. | ||
| Number one, Lindsey Graham and Thune were kind of taking the leadership and Rand Paul. | ||
| And Lindsey Graham, I think, made the statement, hey, we're losing altitude here, and we're here, the Senate, to help you, Elon, regain altitude. | ||
| And Elon, I think, was very open to that. | ||
| In this conversation, according to The Guardian, take it where it's worth, but it hasn't been denied by anybody, that he said, hey, look, I haven't been doing the mass cuts that's been the guys in the cabinet, which I think was a point of difference between some of the cabinet officials. | ||
| That was a big point. | ||
| The other thing was about rescissions. | ||
| Remember, a rescission is where, and Chip has got some more refinement to it, but remember, Chip is in the House. | ||
| So that's the separation of powers. | ||
| Rescissions are where the Congress is actually rescinding something they already passed. | ||
| Saying, hey, upon further review, the Green New Deal, the $300 billion is not going to be there. | ||
| We're going to rescind that. | ||
| It does not happen often. | ||
| Because they're addicted to spending. | ||
| But the Senate, wanting their prerogatives, laid out to Elon, hey, what we want to do is rescissions, and we want to do it up to $500 billion. | ||
| If you think you got to a trillion, let's assume, worst case, let's cut it in half, $500 billion. | ||
| Rand Paul said, look, we'll do it in $100 billion tranches. | ||
| $100 billion tranches. | ||
| And suppose, according to the reporting, Elon said, well, yeah, I can work with that. | ||
| Well, the White House has been, hey, we're not going back up to Capitol Hill. | ||
| This is a separation of powers. | ||
| As soon as this passed, we, and I told you ideas have consequences. | ||
| This is going to be a big old fight, folks, as we've said now for months and months and months. | ||
| Because President Trump is sitting there going, hey, we've allowed the office of the president. | ||
| To be weakened by the administrative state because all this fourth branch of government came up and they think they run it. | ||
| And no offense, the courts right now are kind of backing up the fact until I guess last, kind of backing up the fact he doesn't have ultimate authority to fire people in some of these agencies. | ||
| These are court fights going on right now. | ||
| In fact, the special counsel guy kind of won. | ||
| He knew they were going to go back. | ||
| He said, hey, I don't have the money to do this personally. | ||
| I'm going to drop out. | ||
| He was on Rachel Matter last night. | ||
| But I think technically he kind of won and then walked off the field. | ||
| Others are sitting there. | ||
| And these radical judges are saying Trump doesn't have the ability. | ||
| Trump's sitting there, I'm the chief executive officer. | ||
| I can fire him. | ||
| And I am going to fire him. | ||
| This also gets to the money. | ||
| What President Trump is saying, hey, look, the appropriations. | ||
| So if we had done the bills this time and gotten that all done, you pass it next week on the 14th. | ||
| President Trump is sitting there going, hey, my interpretation of the Constitution, that's a ceiling. | ||
| That's what we spend up to. | ||
| But I, as chief executive officer, the lead manager of this place, if I see in that process where programmatically you're not hitting it or things change, I have the ability, and it's not... | ||
| And it's not an unlimited ability because that would be a line in a veto, but I have the ability to impound certain funds and not to spend them. | ||
| And that's what Chip Royer was talking about there. | ||
| That is kind of what they intend to do, what they're proposing they do for this fiscal year on a clean CR. And I would like to, just because on this one I'm from Missouri, I would love to see a range of numbers or just a number. | ||
| Give me something. | ||
| That you can say, okay, this is what we anticipate it's going to be. | ||
| But sometime in the summer, Russ Vogt and OMB are going to go to the president and say, okay, we reviewed this a couple of times. | ||
| We've double-checked Elon's numbers. | ||
| This is what they've done. | ||
| So instead of us spending and paying for it, this is what you're going to impound. | ||
| And President Trump, you've seen with his executive orders, hey, he will impound away. | ||
| He's actually looking for this fight. | ||
| On this one, he's looking for the fight. | ||
| If they can't do it the first time, he's going to sit there and say, I have full managerial discretion. | ||
| That, ladies and gentlemen, is going to be decided by the Supreme Court of these United States. | ||
| That is a big-time separation of powers this year. | ||
| And we'll see how it plays. | ||
| I'll be blunt with you. | ||
| As we've talked about this now for months and months and months, I had a lot more confidence in this. | ||
| That's part of it. | ||
| Up until the last couple weeks. | ||
| Because I thought, particularly on this foreign, I thought it was pretty straightforward on these cuts they've already made or are talking about making, particularly with the foreign affairs money. | ||
| The money we sent internationally is $2 billion, right? | ||
| They ordered it immediately. | ||
| I think this came up in the Doge, initial Doge situation. | ||
| I think part of it is actually USAID, or if not all of it, but some of it. | ||
| It's coming out of the State Department. | ||
| And they've said, and right now that's kind of hung up. | ||
| Now, Mike Davis and people that back the impoundment theory say, no, no, no, no, they're just backing the judge and they'll come through the system and be fine. | ||
| If we got to depend on Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett, I think all bets are off. | ||
| And I think on something as controversial as impoundment because it will be a firestorm. | ||
| Remember, the Democrats... | ||
| Live on government spending. | ||
| They're the party of big government, and they want government to be bigger. | ||
| The budget, I think, today from 2019, was 2019 so bad? | ||
| 2019, pretty good year. | ||
| Great year economically. | ||
| I think federal spending's up 40, 35, or something, at least a third, maybe 40 percent since that time. | ||
| As Scott Besson, maybe we pull that clip for later, Scott Besson said again yesterday at the Economic Club, and he said it again today on the 42-minute interview on CNBC. We don't have a revenue problem. | ||
| We have a spending problem. | ||
| I agree with that, but now it's time to get down to it on spending. | ||
| And let me add once again, we're not going to get there with waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| It's time. | ||
| It's going to be something. | ||
| I hope it's something big. | ||
| I think it's sent a shock to the system. | ||
| I think it's been great. | ||
| We have to follow up on it. | ||
| I hope it's a big number. | ||
| It's not going to be a trillion dollars. | ||
| I think we have to get to a trillion because we're not calculating in future deficits the tax cuts on no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security, which is a big one. | ||
| We have to bake those in. | ||
| So you're going to have to find some spending cuts. | ||
| You're going to have to find it programmatically. | ||
| You're going to have to find some out of the Defense Department. | ||
| You're going to have to find some out of Medicaid. | ||
| And with President Trump's scalpel, not hatchet. | ||
| Birch gold, now more than ever. | ||
| The market's going to be turbulent, folks. | ||
| With tariffs, with reorganization, with President Trump on the spending, with what's happening from Ukraine to the Middle East. | ||
| Remember, there's a... | ||
| There's a ticking clock over there right now over the weekend for Hamas to deliver all the hostages, dead or alive. | ||
| President Trump says, or all hell's going to break. | ||
| Looks like a new IDF chief of staff just come aboard. | ||
| He calls 2025 the year of war. | ||
| So that's going to get heated up. | ||
| More than ever, you need to understand why gold is a hedge, why gold is a store of value. | ||
| The run-up of gold is kind of not the way gold... | ||
| Traditionally works. | ||
| But the central banks are buying it at record rates. | ||
| Take your phone out. | ||
| Bannon at 9-8-9-8-9-8. | ||
| Get the free brochure. | ||
| Investing in gold in the era of Trump. | ||
| The ultimate guy from Birch Gold. | ||
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| Okay. | ||
| We have not said go to the ramparts. | ||
| We're still thinking this. | ||
| This is all In process. | ||
| One of the things I think about being a member of this audience, you're seeing history being made in a few moments. | ||
| We're going to go to the Oval. | ||
| I believe that part of... | ||
| I know the President's talking about today they're supposed to sign the executive order to eliminate the education department. | ||
| It's going to be highly controversial. | ||
| We'll be all over that throughout the day. | ||
| I think the President may actually... | ||
| Say some words, I think, about what's going on in Ukraine. | ||
| I think Russia, we've made it pretty adamant that we're not sending more weapons. | ||
| I think we've told them we're cutting off intelligence. | ||
| I think Russia is pounding Ukraine overnight. | ||
| President Trump put out a truth that, hey, that's not going to continue or he's going to take some action. | ||
| And President Trump, you know, he's calling people's bluff. | ||
| He ain't bluffing. | ||
| He's calling people's bluff. | ||
| I think we're going to do that. | ||
| that John Lechner, who really knows how the Russian army, and particularly this new kind of mercenary part of the Russian army fights, is going to join us in 11 o'clock hour. | ||
| We'll dip in and out. | ||
| We'll go to the Oval Office and also get John up. | ||
| So, There's no decisions made on the CR. And I realize this audience hates him. | ||
| You fought him from the beginning. | ||
| This is not supposed to be what happened. | ||
| President Trump, I think, got blindsided. | ||
| We're going to work it all out throughout the day today. | ||
| We're going to work it out tomorrow morning and then through the weekend on social media and back. | ||
| Between now and midnight on the 14th, you're going to get a lot of information, and I'm sure there's going to be some shifting sands underneath our feet, so just have a cup of coffee. | ||
| Take a deep breath. | ||
| We're all going to be fine. | ||
| We're going to get through this one. | ||
| Trevor Comstock, Sacred Human Health. | ||
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| What a day. | ||
| Another historical day. | ||
| Education Department may be EO'd out of business. | ||
| The war in Ukraine heating up a little bit. | ||
| President Trump dropping the hammer. | ||
| He's put a deadline on the war in the Middle East. | ||
| Got the Chinese giving him stink eye. | ||
| Capital markets roiling both home and away. | ||
| Brian Glenn's going to be over at the Oval. | ||
| President Trump's going to make himself available. | ||
| We're going to leave you this hour with the right stuff. | ||
| We're going to take a 90-second break. | ||
| We're going to return. | ||
| We're going to talk about President Trump's trying to bring peace. |
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