March 11, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| The way it's important in entitlement spending, which is most of the federal spending is entitlements. | ||
| So that's like the big one to eliminate. | ||
| That's the sort of half trillion, maybe 600, 700 billion a year. | ||
| That is also a mechanism by which the Democrats attract and retain illegal immigrants by essentially paying them to come here and then turning them into voters. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So this is why the Democrats are so upset about the situation, because they're losing, you know, if we turn off this gigantic money magnet for illegal immigrants, then they will leave, and they'll lose voters. | ||
| Why are the 20 million people who are definitely dead marked as alive in the Social Security database? | ||
| Why were hundreds of millions of dollars of Small Business Administration loans were given out to people aged 11 and under, according to the Social Security? | ||
| Like, these must be some very enterprising 8-year-olds, you know? | ||
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And some pretty strong 150-year-olds. | |
| Yes. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| As the president said, you know, we have an enormous number of people marked as alive who are 160. He didn't know the country was that healthy. | ||
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All eyes are on Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson as he unveiled the stopgap measure. | |
| Because with Democrats planning to vote against the bill, Speaker Johnson has zero margin for error. | ||
| They could only lose one Republican vote and still get this through, given the margins. | ||
| And already, right there, you see the one Republican. | ||
| Tom Massey has already announced that he is voting no. | ||
| You know, I have to tell you, when I watched Elon Musk and I watched Trump with this... | ||
| This whole plan of his to start a trade war. | ||
| I go back to Smoot Hawley in 1930. We lost like $7 billion in trade and exports because of what the other countries did back to us and they're all doing it right now. | ||
| This is all in the playbook. | ||
| You start a trade war, you've got a trade war. | ||
| The other countries cut off all their imports and we get stuck with our agricultural products overloaded in this country. | ||
| We can't sell them to anybody. | ||
| It's unbelievable. | ||
| I look at Trump and I keep thinking, Trump, the Trump Casino in Atlantic City, that used to be the big casino you drove right into Atlantic City, and there was that big casino. | ||
| It's gone. | ||
| The Trump University, it's gone. | ||
| Trump Shuttle, we haven't taken that lately, have we? | ||
| That's gone. | ||
| This idea that things will turn out is right out of Chauncey Gardner being there. | ||
| He's telling the president, Jack, don't worry, we're going to... | ||
| We're going to plant in the spring and we're going to sow in the fall and everything's going to be great. | ||
| It isn't going to be great. | ||
| This is a trend line. | ||
| This is an economic trend line in the market. | ||
| And it's going to be worse in the next couple of days and worse after that because he has started a trade war that we're going to lose. | ||
| And it's unbelievable that people believe in it. | ||
| And Kudlow, when he sat there and made those weird sounds every time Musk said, oh, that's good. | ||
| Why did they just say you're lying? | ||
| You're lying because people come in this country illegally. | ||
| Well, they do come in illegally, and they don't get any Social Security benefits. | ||
| They pay in all the time because they have to use some phony name, but they don't get any benefits from it. | ||
| And by the way, they don't vote. | ||
| Got it? | ||
| Somebody got in trouble for once lying. | ||
| You lie, you know, about the President Obama speaking. | ||
| They don't vote. | ||
| You got it, buddy? | ||
| They don't vote. | ||
| Maybe you're voting. | ||
| Maybe you're one of the $5 million guys that bought a ticket here. | ||
| But they don't vote, the poor people coming here looking for jobs. | ||
| They don't vote, buddy. | ||
| And why didn't Kudlow say that? | ||
| Just like the Democrats on Tuesday night. | ||
| Why didn't the Democrats rise up and say, we are not paying Social Security to 160-year-olds because there aren't any 160-year-olds? | ||
| They don't exist, unfortunately. | ||
| We don't exist at 160. It's all wrong. | ||
| The lies and the history, the ignorance of this crowd is unbelievable. | ||
| And there are people out there, the MAGA people, don't know any better. | ||
| They go, mm. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| The strange reaction to everything is fine is these grunts they have. | ||
| And the Democrats are absolutely anemic. | ||
| I'm sorry, anemic. | ||
| Do you think there are enough Republican votes to get this passed without Democrats? | ||
| I think there are. | ||
| You know, there are some very astute Republican members of Congress who have legitimate questions and concerns because they've been here some time and they have seen the CR after CR after CR come about and leadership say, hey, this isn't going to happen again. | ||
| Mike Johnson is doing the best he can to turn this aircraft carrier around and get us back to regular order. | ||
| It's not a ski boat. | ||
| It's not going to turn on a dime. | ||
| And so this is the first step to doing that. | ||
| We've got to get another six months under our belt, get the reconciliation process done, get the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act renewed, so we won't have the largest tax increase in U.S. history. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
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Pray for our enemies, 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 line? | ||
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MAGA 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. Bannon. | ||
| It's Tuesday, 11 March here. | ||
| Year of our Lord, 2025. Okay, another historic day coming. | ||
| A massive vote in the House. | ||
| Then it goes over to the Senate. | ||
| All kind of questions about the economy, President Trump's economic plan that he is refusing to back off just moments ago on True Social. | ||
| I think he put the Canadians on notice. | ||
| He's going to increase, I think, by 25%, up to 50% on tariffs on steel and aluminum coming in from Canada. | ||
| We're going to break all this down. | ||
| The first thing I want to go to, I've got Dave Bretz, my co-host, this morning. | ||
| We are absolutely packed. | ||
| Wall-to-wall for the next two hours. | ||
| I want to go to Mike Davis. | ||
| Overnight, which the media hasn't totally picked up yet, this is another one of the, and folks, remember the lines of attack on President Trump's program. | ||
| One is the media, but the one they've been most effective with, because they're not really getting it done legislatively, although I believe that the Democrats are not going to sign on to the House CR. I think we're going to have a big fight there. | ||
| We'll get to the politics in a second. | ||
| Where they've been most effective is in the courts, particularly with these frontline radical judges, and then where some of the appellate courts have not backed President Trump. | ||
| Because, Mike Davis, I think we've got some bizarre rulings, like the president can't cut, the $2 billion is still out there in foreign relations or foreign aid that he's forced to do. | ||
| But last night, a federal judge went after Doge. | ||
| And essentially said, hey, we need to see everything. | ||
| You're a black box. | ||
| You have too much power. | ||
| I don't understand it, this judge said, essentially. | ||
| And you need to open up everything. | ||
| Can you explain what happened last night? | ||
| Because the Doge effort is actually central to this CR. This is one of the things that the people that are hesitant about signing on, I do believe everybody's going to sign on, they're hesitant about signing on about exactly where the Doge cuts are and why they're not included now. | ||
| So what was the argument in front of this judge, and what was his decision, sir? | ||
| Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which is CRU, or a left-wing radical group that pretends like it's a government watchdog, ran to a D.C. Obama activist judge, Chris Cooper, and they got an injunction telling... | ||
| The Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE that they're subject to FOIA and they have to turn over these records. | ||
| This ruling is clearly wrong. | ||
| It's clearly illegal. | ||
| FOIA applies to executive branch agencies that have statutory The | ||
| President of the United States. | ||
| And his staff are also not required to turn over and make public their internal communications and their discussions with their colleagues. | ||
| That FOIA does not apply to them. | ||
| And so DOGE reports. | ||
| It's in the executive office of the president. | ||
| Elon Musk and the Doge team report to the White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, and they advise the president. | ||
| They don't have statutory administrative functions that would subject them to FOIA. So this ruling is clearly wrong. | ||
| And even if FOIA somehow applies to Doge, that would probably violate Article 2 of the Constitution because... | ||
| The founders understood that the executive branch, the president, should be able to operate confidentially on behalf of the American people. | ||
| And when you're getting advice from your advisors, you don't want that advice publicly aired because it chills the president of the United States' ability to get the best advice for his advisors if they know it's going to get reported in the Washington Post. | ||
| By the way, I think I know a guy that that was one of the reasons he went to prison for four months was this very topic. | ||
| Is this why they put Doge under the digital service and had it as an advisor to OMB and an advisor really to the chief of staff? | ||
| Is this the reason that Doge is there so it's part of, it's actually a part of the executive and not one of the agencies? | ||
| So, for example, there's the Executive Office of the President, and as you know, Steve, you were there, there are several components to the Executive Office of the President. | ||
| There's the White House Office, there's the Office of the Vice President, there's the National Security Council, there's Office of Administration, there's Office of Management and Budget, there's U.S. Trade Representative, and now Doge. | ||
| The components of the EOP that have statutory administrative functions that they actually have to execute, carry out statutes, their agencies are like OMB. OMB is subject to the Freedom of Information Act or FOIA. But other offices that don't have statutory duties to carry out government functions, government grants, government agencies like the White House Office or DOGE are not subject to FOIA. And that's very clear with the case. | ||
| This Obama D.C. judge, Chris Cooper, clearly got this wrong. | ||
| The D.C. Circuit, if they follow the law, they will reverse him. | ||
| If they don't, it will have to go to the Supreme Court. | ||
| I guess it's just going to matter what mood the Chief Justice and Amy Coney Barrett are in that day. | ||
| Did he make, in the ruling, did he actually break it down, these thoughts about FOIA, or did he just miss it? | ||
| I think he missed it. | ||
| He thinks that, oh, wow, Doge has a lot of power, which it doesn't. | ||
| Doge's power is not derived from statute. | ||
| It derives from the president, right? | ||
| That's what makes it not subject to FOIA. It's not a creature of statute. | ||
| It's derivative of the president's Article II executive powers. | ||
| And so it's a silly argument. | ||
| Look, Chris Cooper's not dumb. | ||
| He's just a partisan hack. | ||
| Like too many of these activist judges, particularly on the D.C. District Court. | ||
| Now, has the White House overnight responded, or you still think they're working this through? | ||
| Are they going to ask for an expedited review at the appellate level? | ||
| That's a very good question, Steve. | ||
| I haven't seen a public statement on this, but this is a very important issue because this goes to the heart of whether the president can function, whether he can get the best advice from his advisors like Steve Bannon, who went to the clink over this, and Peter Navarro, who went to the clink over this. | ||
| Is Elon Musk going to go to the clink over this? | ||
| Is he going to go to jail for four months to protect? | ||
| The office of the president to make sure that the president gets the best advice from his advisors. | ||
| And again, you're not going to get, it's going to chill the president's ability to get good advice from his advisors. | ||
| If this advice is going to get publicly aired, it's going to make these advisors not speak up, and that hurts the president. | ||
| And so that's the point. | ||
| Should we ask for Chris Cooper's law clerks to turn over their communications with Chris Cooper or their draft opinions? | ||
| I mean, this judge is out of his mind. | ||
| Okay, Mike Davis is going to stick with us. | ||
| We're going to drill down a little bit more on this. | ||
| This is very important about Doge going forward to get an injunction against him. | ||
| Also, the president has gone on offense against the legal insurrection that's up against him. | ||
| Eric Tietzel from CRA about the CR and the economics behind it and what we're doing and the vote today. | ||
| Dave Brad here about the turmoil in the markets. | ||
| We're going to talk about... | ||
| Charlie Gasparino's written a great piece in the Post. | ||
| I'm not a huge Gasparino fan, but he seems to have nailed this. | ||
| I want to break it all down. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | |
| Okay, the economy, all this turmoil that's going on, we're going to have Dave Bratt and I are going to break it down for you. | ||
| Eric Tietzel is here from Center for Renewing America, the Russ Fote operation, talk about the CR today, all of it. | ||
| Mike Davis, though. | ||
| So do the Doge guys have to lay down their pencils on this? | ||
| Is this merely they're being required to turn over all information? | ||
| They are being ordered by Judge Chris Cooper to turn over information. | ||
| So it's not lay down your pencils, but if you use your pencils, we're going to publish it in the Washington Post, which is clearly not what FOIA stands for, nor Article 2 of the Constitution. | ||
| So it looks like another D.C. activist judge, a Democrat operative, an Obama judge, Obama judge is going to get reversed by the Supreme Court so long as the chief justice and Justice Amy Coney Barrett are in the right mood that day. | ||
| Yeah, I mean, this is what I'm wondering people about because we've seen this before is that. | ||
| And this gets to the CR, because the CR is about impoundment. | ||
| The House and the Senate is talking about rescissions. | ||
| The President wants to talk about impoundment. | ||
| This is going to be one of the big hangers for the Democrats, because they're going to want specific language, I think, the Senate. | ||
| We're going to have a huge fight and kind of a throwdown on this. | ||
| But I just don't... | ||
| I'm just not feeling it on the court with those two, but hopefully they'll get tougher and smarter. | ||
| President Trump's going on offense, though. | ||
| He's going on offense against these law firms that run the city. | ||
| We've seen that. | ||
| We're taking away their security clearances, and I think he's really going after all the government business they get and get them off the tit. | ||
| But he's also going on offense, this article in Revolver, and I'm glad to see Darren Beatties over as the undersecretary over at the State Department. | ||
| Hasn't been confirmed yet, but he's kind of acting. | ||
| And Revolver's still on fire. | ||
| I don't quite understand this article. | ||
| President Trump's using injunction bonds, is it, to go on offense against all these frivolous lawsuits against him? | ||
| Yeah, so under Rule 65C of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. | ||
| I haven't had civil procedure class in 20 years. | ||
| But how this works is if you seek an injunction. | ||
| if you seek a temporary Restraining order, which is a quick injunction, essentially, or a preliminary injunction or a permanent injunction. | ||
| Well, actually, it's just TRO and PIs. | ||
| If you seek a preliminary injunction or a temporary restraining order under Rule 65C of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, you need to post a bond. | ||
| So if you lose, the party is not out the money. | ||
| So, for example, if you're trying to force... | ||
| The State Department and USAID to piss away $2 billion in taxpayer funds to grantees who the president doesn't want this money to go to. | ||
| He wants to do a pause to make sure that we're not funding Hamas terrorism or fraud. | ||
| If the United States government, if the Trump administration eventually wins that issue on appeal, which it will, then the government needs to be able to recoup those $2 billion in grants that went out to support terrorism and to support fraud, thanks to a D.C. Biden judge. | ||
| Ali, the new judge who just got put on there, Canadian citizen judge. | ||
| Isn't that great? | ||
| We have a Canadian citizen, the first Muslim, the first Arab on the D.C. federal bench, is a Canadian citizen and ordering the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, to send $2 billion in grants over the President of the United States. | ||
| Objection. | ||
| He wants to make sure there's not fraud or terrorism funding, and Judge Ali thinks he's the Commander-in-Chief, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett and the Chief Justice thought that was okay. | ||
| So what the Trump administration is ordering is for his lawyers to demand that these courts follow the law, which requires That you post these appellate bonds if you're suing the government. | ||
| And so it makes it less likely you're going to sue the government if you have to put up, for example, a $200 million appellate bond to make sure that $2 billion is not pissed away by these plaintiffs and Judge Ali. | ||
| Brilliant. | ||
| Mike Davis, where do people go to articles? | ||
| Before you go, the judicial insurrection against President Trump. | ||
| Are they winning right now or are we winning or is it a tie? | ||
| No, it's the tides turning because you had these activist judges who came out and tried to stop. | ||
| President Trump. | ||
| And then these judges pretend like they're not politicians in robes. | ||
| They are. | ||
| You can see that through their actions. | ||
| And so when they take off their judicial robes and they climb into the political arena and they throw political punches, I make damn sure the Article 3 project throws very hard political counterpunches like we've done with Canadian, Muslim Arab Judge Ali in D.C. | ||
| And so he's backed down a bit. | ||
| It's a tactical retreat. | ||
| But the Article 3 project is going to be on this every second of every day. | ||
| Trump's not stealing judicial power or legislative powers. | ||
| He's exercising executive power. | ||
| We're going to make damn sure that happens. | ||
| Where do people go to get up to speed on this, folks? | ||
| In Warren Posse, we've got to be on watch on all of the legal insurrection. | ||
| It's very important that you make Article III part of your daily diet. | ||
| Where do they go, Mike? | ||
| Article3project.org. | ||
| Article3project.org. | ||
| You can donate. | ||
| You can follow us on social media. | ||
| Take action. | ||
| That's the most important thing. | ||
| And we want to take $2 billion out of the federal judiciary's budget, their $10 billion budget in FY 2025, to cover Judge Ali sending $2 billion to terrorism and fraud. | ||
| I love this. | ||
| I don't like it. | ||
| I love that. | ||
| Eye for an eye. | ||
| Old Testament. | ||
| Mike Davis going Old Testament. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| The Mike Davis. | ||
| The Viceroy. | ||
| I'm going to get Eric Tietzel on here because today, this hangs in the balance. | ||
| President Trump is with this vote. | ||
| I think we're going to get there in the House, but that's only part of the way. | ||
| But I want to take Dave Brett. | ||
| You're going to be with me for the morning, but I want to limit. | ||
| Just give me a minute or two. | ||
| On kind of our theory of the case, and really Charlie Gasparino did a very good job of outlining this today in the New York Post. | ||
| Just all this turmoil in the markets, it's going crazy, and literally we try to get cuts of all these important topics. | ||
| They totally shifted to Trump's bringing on a recession, Trump's imploding the economy, the world's over, and it's all Trump's fault. | ||
| What's the reality of this, what President Trump is trying to do geo-economically, sir? | ||
| Yeah, President Trump is the first great president since Ronald Reagan to try and restructure the American economy, not the stock market. | ||
| He cares about the working class. | ||
| Productivity, as we've gone over on this show for four years in a row, is down for 70 years in a row. | ||
| The one way to enhance productivity of American workers is to put capital back in the hands of the American worker. | ||
| That's what Trump is doing. | ||
| $100 billion alone from Taiwan in capital back in the hands of the American people. | ||
| How do you do that? | ||
| You do that through trade policy. | ||
| The globalists, the mainstream press, and I got some numbers on them for later in the show, but they are misrepresenting everything, right? | ||
| They're saying credit card debt's up. | ||
| That's true. | ||
| We've been saying that for four years, right? | ||
| All the E.J. and Tony list of horrors the other day. | ||
| Debt's up. | ||
| Interest rates are up. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| The whole list of interest on the debt, a trillion. | ||
| The kids were stealing from them. | ||
| The basic bottom line is they're saying there's a recession coming. | ||
| We've reported on this show, if you stripped out, and several economists, I showed this analysis, if you stripped out the $2 trillion of deficit spending from the Biden economy, they were in a horrific recession already. | ||
| right? | ||
| Adding $2 trillion plus. | ||
| I checked the money today. | ||
| The money's still at $7 trillion on the Fed balance sheet. | ||
| So it's all artificial. | ||
| Trump's fixing it. | ||
| That's the bottom line. | ||
| Hang on. | ||
| This is what Gasparino said, which we thought was great. | ||
| Just not tariff, trade, all of it. | ||
| He also said the addiction. | ||
| This is an intervention on the addiction of federal spending and how they've used this massive Keynesian infusion. | ||
| This is what Doge is kind of the special forces in there right now for waste fraud and abuse. | ||
| The follow-on is going to happen this summer is taking these programs apart, brick by brick, Pentagon, Medicaid, other social services, social safety net. | ||
| You've got to do that. | ||
| You're going to have to have some cuts, and some of these cuts are going to be painful, whether you're a hawk at the Pentagon in a neocon or whether you're talking about Medicaid or some of these other food stamp programs. | ||
| Let me bring in Eric Tietzel. | ||
| Brett, stay right there. | ||
| Get your charts ready. | ||
| Eric Tietzel. | ||
| From Center for Renewing America. | ||
| So let's talk about this CR. Our audience hates CRs, particularly they hate like mini omnibuses, which this is. | ||
| I understand there's a theory of the case here of why we want to do this. | ||
| People are saying, hey, I've heard this before. | ||
| I heard it back in December. | ||
| So let's make the case because we don't get it out of the house. | ||
| And Johnson's only got, I think, he can only lose one vote, and he's already lost that with Tom Massey, who's been pretty blunt about why he's not there. | ||
| So, Tietzel, walk us through why this audience should be not happy, but begrudgingly say, okay, let's get it out of the House and send it to the Senate, sir. | ||
| Thanks, Steve. | ||
| Yeah, here I am, and I don't relish the opportunity to defend CRs. | ||
| I keep having to... | ||
| Pinch myself and ask if this is really the world in which I'm living in. | ||
| Hold on, hold on. | ||
| I spent a weekend with Russ Vogt and Chip Roy, and trust me, they ain't loving it either. | ||
| But they did the heave to get there because of practical reasons. | ||
| And none of them are good, and this is why I think, I don't know why we're in here by leadership, but got us into this. | ||
| When President Trump... | ||
| With the weight of the world on his shoulder, all the negotiation with the Russians, what's happening in Saudi Arabia with the Ukraine, President Trump on the economy, he's going up today at 5 o'clock, and we'll hopefully cover it, the business roundtable. | ||
| Scott Besson's there tomorrow to have a discussion from 5 to 6, and we'll try to do a pregame on that. | ||
| The weight of the world's on this guy's shoulders, and what do we have him do yesterday? | ||
| He's whipping votes in the House. | ||
| He's literally making phone calls on this thing. | ||
| Not the best use. | ||
| Of the time of one of the greatest presidents in our history. | ||
| But Eric, the floor is yours. | ||
| Make the case. | ||
| Hang on, I'll tell you what. | ||
| We're going to go to break. | ||
| I'll tee you up when we come back. | ||
| Eric Tietzel from Center for Renewing America. | ||
| Of course, that's the institution founded by Russ Vogt. | ||
| Mark Paoletta, Jeff Clark. | ||
| Superstars who are now in the administration and either doing deregulation, as Jeff Clark is, or over at OMB. This is a big one today. | ||
| President Trump's saying, hey, I gotta have it. | ||
| You gotta get this out of the house for me. | ||
| I think it's gonna await a buzzsaw in the Senate. | ||
| We're gonna talk all about that. | ||
| Step one, get it out of the house. | ||
| Eric Tietzel from CRA is going to make the case for that next, right here in the War Room. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | |
| I can already tell it's going to be that kind of day. | ||
| It's going to go late into the evening. | ||
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I think the next couple of days is going to be crazy. | |
| Let's get Tej to go. | ||
| Tej, I need a refill on Warpath Coffee. | ||
| Where do I go and how do I do it, sir? | ||
| Good morning, Steve. | ||
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| I can make it through the day now and be jacked up all day. | ||
| We've got to be jacked up. | ||
| So, Eric Tietzel, the CR, vote's going to come about the same time President Trump is up at the business roundtable late this afternoon, the plan is. | ||
| Why is this something that the Warren Posse should support their congressman? | ||
| Yeah, I think I'm going to need some of the tools on Tej's backdrop if I keep coming on here to promote CRs for much longer. | ||
| We at CRA, we often talk about positions versus interests. | ||
| And our position is that CRs are bad. | ||
| Full stop. | ||
| That's the principle. | ||
| That's the rule. | ||
| We know what they're used for, right? | ||
| There's simply a swamp tactic that's used to get you to an omnibus bill. | ||
| But we are living in new times that require new paradigms. | ||
| And in this particular moment, this specific time, with Donald Trump as our president, Russ voted OMB. Elon doing the Doge thing and all the other great folks who are put in place all throughout the administration. | ||
| It is in our interest not to shut the government down, to continue to fund it so that they can continue to Doge, so that we can move on to reconciliation, which is the single most viable opportunity to advance President Trump's agenda. | ||
| Legislatively. | ||
| And then to move on using things like impoundment to start to cut some of the spending that is included in this CR. And that will all happen in the next six months. | ||
| Also during that time, we'll start the FY26 appropriations process. | ||
| And that's going to be the first real opportunity to get at some of the discretionary spending that is admittedly bad. | ||
| At the Biden-Harris levels that are included in the CR. So it's all about practical politics. | ||
| We don't love it on principle. | ||
| But this is the way to further the president's agenda. | ||
| And that's why you have things like the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus at the leadership press conference this morning standing side by side with Mike Johnson saying, we agree that in this new paradigm, this is the way to move forward for President Trump. | ||
| So you had Vice President J.D. Vance went up and talked to the conference. | ||
| He said, hey guys, if they shut us down, they're going to throw it way off track, and that's what they want to do. | ||
| And the House Freedom Caucus, and I think it's unanimity among the Freedom Caucus, or at least the ones on the bubble, I think will get there by the vote, which is highly unusual because these guys are adamant. | ||
| Those are the 40 or 50 Democrat votes you normally need because of the House Freedom Caucus. | ||
| But here's the question. | ||
| We're not including, I think what sticks in people's crawls, they can't get their heads around, is that Doge, and whether that number's $500 billion or whether it's $5 billion, forget what the absolute number is. | ||
| The fact that they have found definitely some waste, fraud, and abuse, right? | ||
| And if we do the up or down vote, we're essentially paying for the waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| So one, what is the element? | ||
| What is the tactic? | ||
| What are we going to do to make sure that doesn't happen throughout the rest of fiscal 2025 between now and September 30th, sir? | ||
| This is a really good question. | ||
| So here's what's important for people to understand. | ||
| Just because Congress appropriates money does not mean that that money gets spent. | ||
| There's an intermediary step called obligation, and that runs through the Office of Management and Budget. | ||
| It has to pass right through Russ Vogt's fingers in order to actually hit the spot that Congress appropriated it for. | ||
| So it's kind of like saying to your bank, increase my credit limit on the credit card. | ||
| They may do that. | ||
| But that doesn't mean that you've spent up to the credit limit. | ||
| You have to go to the store and actually spend the money before it gets obligated. | ||
| So this is a little like Congress saying, increase the credit limit according to the Biden-Harris levels, and then handing the credit card to Russ Vogt and Elon. | ||
| What do you think they're going to do with it? | ||
| They've already proven that they're not going to spend that money. | ||
| Russ is going to take a look at it. | ||
| He's going to say, this doesn't further our interests. | ||
| It's wasteful. | ||
| It's weaponized. | ||
| It's woke. | ||
| And the president has the authority, as the executive of our nation, to say, nah, I'm not spending that, and they're going to send it right back to the Treasury. | ||
| Okay, we know there's not one Democrat vote in the House for this. | ||
| And this is unusual, folks. | ||
| Normally you get 40-50 because the Democratic Party lives off and breathes for big government and big government spending. | ||
| It's about Doge and about this ability to do impoundments or whatever. | ||
| They are locked in. | ||
| They are set to shut down President Trump's government. | ||
| In the Senate, with Rand Paul right now saying he's a no, I don't know. | ||
| We're going to need seven or eight minimum Democratic senators to break cloture, at least. | ||
| We don't know what other Republicans are getting jiggy on us. | ||
| The Democrats have already signaled that their big fight is they're afraid if they vote for it that it just empowers Elon Musk and his Doge team to go crazier. | ||
| But their solution may be to say, OK, we'll do this, but we're going to actually put in their version of the CR where Russ vote and folks can't impound, can't rescind that this is the number and the executive has no ability to do it. | ||
| What are your thoughts about that? | ||
| Sir, there is definitely a likelihood that because of Senate Democrats, the House passed CR can't get through the Senate, at least initially, and that will lead to a shutdown. | ||
| But think about what the context will be of that shutdown. | ||
| House Republicans will have passed a clean CR at Biden-Harris spending levels. | ||
| And now you're saying that Senate Democrats are going to shut down the entire federal government, which is their number one constituency, in which they have howled and cried for years every single time Republicans have. | ||
| Shut down the government, right? | ||
| Now they're going to own it. | ||
| And they will have no ground to stand on because we haven't cut a dime in the CR from what Biden and Harris were trying to do. | ||
| What is their rationale? | ||
| What's their explanation to the American people? | ||
| What's their explanation, much more importantly to them, to federal workers who won't be getting paid? | ||
| They're number one constituency. | ||
| I have a hard time seeing them win that fight. | ||
| And I think you're going to find the seven or eight weak sisters who are willing to say, you know what? | ||
| We're here to govern, right? | ||
| That's the regime language. | ||
| We're a governing party. | ||
| We may not like it, but we can't do this shutdown thing. | ||
| And they will open it back up and we'll get to move forward. | ||
| But if they don't... | ||
| Well, then the government is shut down, and there are plenty of conservatives out there who've been hankering for an opportunity like that anyway. | ||
| In my mind, it's a win-win. | ||
| Yeah, we don't want to shut down President Trump's government. | ||
| Last point. | ||
| FY26, and this is where we get into, because look, we're just simply—he reiterated yesterday he's going to find a trillion dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| God bless him. | ||
| He would be— Treat it as a hero, not just in conservative movement by the American people. | ||
| He found a trillion dollars. | ||
| But my working assumption, you're not going to get there. | ||
| You're going to have to get to the hard work of programmatically taking this thing apart. | ||
| That is going to take place in the spring and summer of 26, according to this schedule. | ||
| How can you get this audience comfortable? | ||
| I mean, we went through these fights before, I think, in 23. To get single-subject appropriations bills, and it wasn't great, like USAID was still in there, but we were making progress, but it never came up to a vote. | ||
| How, I mean, what is your theory here and Russ's theory of how we actually get to the hard work in the appropriations process so we don't have to do CRs again, and we actually have single-subject appropriations bills that really go after federal spending and go after it in a big way, sir? | ||
| The tie that binds this all together is President Trump. | ||
| This is his party, it's his movement, and it's his agenda. | ||
| And I don't think any of these guys want to get outside the bounds of what President Trump is demanding that they do, alongside Elon and Russ and the rest of the team. | ||
| So that's what gives us hope, is this new leadership and the new paradigm that flows from it. | ||
| President Trump matters a lot more than Mike Johnson. | ||
| He matters a lot more than any other individual member of the House or Senate. | ||
| The last thing any of these guys or gals wants to do is be the focal point of his ex-feed, his truth social feed, Elon's ex-feed, and so on and so on, right? | ||
| Can you imagine anything worse for your political interest and career than to be in that spotlight? | ||
| I'm going to instruct these folks to do their work. | ||
| And because we have that regime in power, I'm ambivalent about whether we do single-issue appropriations bills. | ||
| I think it's a good and effective way to really get, as you said, into the machine and start picking it apart at a molecular level. | ||
| But if what they want to do is an omnibus... | ||
| But it's an omnibus that furthers President Trump's agenda, then we'll move forward in that way. | ||
| We'll just see where it goes. | ||
| The point is the cuts. | ||
| The point is the spending, which we've got to get under control. | ||
| Reconciliation's a way to do it. | ||
| Impoundment's a way to do it. | ||
| And that FY26 appropriations process is going to be a really important opportunity to do it some more. | ||
| Okay, you're not concerned about the form as the results. | ||
| Okay, Eric, where do people get you social media and over at CRA? Where do they go? | ||
| Yeah, I'm on exit at Eric Tietzel. | ||
| You can visit our website at renewingamerica.com. | ||
| Would love to connect with your listeners and talk about this more. | ||
| I know this is new. | ||
| It's different and it's complicated. | ||
| We're here to try to make it easy. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| Thanks a lot, Steve. | ||
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| Jim's got a strategic intelligence, as you as you can imagine, has been on fire with everything going on. | ||
| President Trump's the repositioning geo strategically and geo economically. | ||
| Dave Brat's going to join me. | ||
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| We also have an announcement later about Joe Allen and Mark Jephtovic are going to debate, I think, on Jephtovic's podcast. | ||
| We'll make sure you get the time of that. | ||
| We're going to try to stream it. | ||
| Todd Benzman joins us. | ||
| Benzman's down for a trip to actually—he wants to see how secure the border is. | ||
| Benzman, where are you and how secure has President Trump made it in about 45 days, sir? | ||
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Right. | |
| I'm in El Paso, Juarez. | ||
| So it's the El Paso sector. | ||
| I'm right down here on the wall, as you can see. | ||
| Checking out. | ||
| I came in yesterday, spent all day out there yesterday on the U.S. side. | ||
| Tomorrow I'll go over to the Juarez side. | ||
| And then what I'm seeing is just pretty much confirming what the numbers show us, which is that everything is way, way down to historic lows. | ||
| Maybe 200, 300 a day crossing. | ||
| And importantly, 100% of those who are caught are being expelled immediately back. | ||
| That's the big shift in policy. | ||
| Nobody is being released into the interior. | ||
| So that's why you have 200 or 300. That's a historic low. | ||
| But the thing I wanted to tell you that's really important is that the runners and gotaways are also down. | ||
| Nobody's been really reporting on the ones that are not apprehended. | ||
| Runners and those who get away into the interior. | ||
| Remember, we've had 2.4 million. | ||
| Over the last four years, get into the country without Border Patrol laying hand on them. | ||
| Now, this sector, which is one of the busiest sector, I've been down here many, many times, one of the busiest sectors, they have zero days, days where there are no gotaways at all. | ||
| And then the days that they do have gotaways, there's like two or three that they catch or that they notice. | ||
| So that's really important. | ||
| And what you're seeing there is video that I put up just a little while ago showing the wreck that the Biden administration left the wall in. | ||
| And we have this helicopter passing over me right now. | ||
| Sorry about that. | ||
| No, but look at that wall right there, Biden. | ||
| Look at the disaster. | ||
| What a joke. | ||
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What this tells us is that we've got to get that Trump wall. | |
| The original Trump wall has to go up. | ||
| They can't waste any time. | ||
| They've got to get that thing up all along. | ||
| I'm not sure where they are on the money part of that, but they've got to work and get that thing going right now. | ||
| You can see that stretch right there. | ||
| That's La Linea cartel right on the other side of that thing. | ||
| Also, one last thing, Steve, about this is just because the numbers are down does not mean that the Trump administration should let off the gas. | ||
| It's all gas, no brake, all the time. | ||
| Can't change anything at all. | ||
| There's a striker brigade coming into this area pretty soon. | ||
| They're needed. | ||
| Even though the numbers are down, they're needed. | ||
| That's how you keep the numbers down. | ||
| Todd, are you at our wall right there? | ||
| Is that up Mount Crystal Ray? | ||
| Is that the wall that we built? | ||
| Or what part of El Paso sector you're at? | ||
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| It's the other way. | ||
| Your wall is on the other side of that. | ||
| This is a little bit further west. | ||
| Where was that wall? | ||
| Where's the dilapidated wall that you just saw? | ||
| Where was that in relation to this and Cristo Rey? | ||
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Yeah, that's eight or nine miles to the west this way. | |
| I was there yesterday, and that thing, that is La Linea territory over there. | ||
| I've been there many times on the Juarez side where they're just climbing over that thing. | ||
| They're cutting through it. | ||
| It's the old wall from the Bush era. | ||
| And you can just cut right through it. | ||
| It's steel mesh. | ||
| It's not this bollard stuff that you see right here. | ||
| That stuff, they were cutting through. | ||
| Right now, they're not cutting through as much, obviously, because there's a lot of soldiers over there. | ||
| There's a lot of border patrol that are not processing people in, so they're out there, and their orders are to catch them and prosecute them. | ||
| I asked one of them, Why are the numbers of runners so low over here right now? | ||
| And the Border Patrol agent looked at me and said, prosecutions. | ||
| So apparently they're 1325-ing everybody they catch, and they're putting them in jail and prison, etc. | ||
| And they're deporting them all the way back to their home, too, when they're not doing that. | ||
| Are you happy? | ||
| You want to go down there. | ||
| Are you happy by what you're seeing? | ||
| I know this is the first time that Border Patrol has actually been free because they were processing under Biden to actually work with you and escort you, right? | ||
| Are you happy by what you're seeing on the combined effort down there? | ||
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It's night and day, Steve. | |
| It is just unbelievable. | ||
| This is the first time I've been down here where it's not total chaos, where there's just all kinds of crazy going on. | ||
| I'm talking to my cop friends with Texas DPS, and they're complaining we don't have any stash houses to bust in El Paso anymore. | ||
| Our numbers are down. | ||
| They're mad at us because our arrest numbers are down. | ||
| You know, we get more arrests because that's the dilapidated wall I discovered yesterday there. | ||
| But the point is, you know, it's returned to the norm, the pre-Biden norm. | ||
| The old Trump norm, the way he left it. | ||
| Actually, it's way below. | ||
| The numbers are way, way below. | ||
| They're like a third what they were the historic lows of the last months of the Trump.1 administration. | ||
| This puts a lie to the you needed comprehensive legislation or you needed root causes. | ||
| All a lie. | ||
| Todd Benson down there is an eyewitness. | ||
| Todd, can you just hang on? | ||
| It's just a 90-second break. | ||
| I've got a couple more questions about the cartels, about those striker brigades. | ||
| Dave Brat's going to join us. | ||
| Cameron Kinsey's going to join us. | ||
| Tom Tinsley from Wisconsin about this Supreme Court judge in Wisconsin race. | ||
| All important. | ||
| Scott Pressler's been up there working it. | ||
| You're in the war room for the morning show on fire. | ||
| Big vote today at 4 o'clock. | ||
| I think President Trump's got the votes. | ||
| Speaker Johnson's about to tell us that in a moment. | ||
| Going to leave it with the right stuff. | ||
| You know why? | ||
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Because you've got it. | |
| More. | ||
| More than anyone knows. | ||
| Your human agency. | ||
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