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April 16, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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WarRoom Battleground EP 747: Truckers Of America Go On Defense Against Illegals
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steve bannon
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gord magill
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mike lindell
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barack obama
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
Pray for our enemies.
unidentified
Because we're going medieval on these people.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
The people have had a belly full of them.
I know you don't like hearing that.
I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it.
It's going to happen.
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼
And where do people like that go to share the big line?
unidentified
Mega Media.
jake tapper ▲ ● ▼
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
unidentified
Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
unidentified
War Room.
Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
It's Tuesday, 15 April in the year of the Lord, 2025.
We're in Holy Week.
Folks, we talked about this morning China playing smash mouth with restricting sales to us of rare earths.
Remember, it's not rare earths, it's dirt.
But it's been processed.
There's very little processing here in the United States.
Also, they were stopping magnets.
Also rumored to be stopping ball bearings, precision ball bearings, as we referred you to in the movie 12 O'Clock High.
What are they trying to do to knock out the Nazis out of the war effort?
Is to crush the ball bearing plants.
Moments ago, the U.S. government restricted NVIDIA, which is the advanced chip designer, maker, for AI.
Really specialize in artificial intelligence.
U.S. government has banned them from selling H20 chips to China for the indefinite future.
Nvidia says it will come with a $5.5 billion charge at quarter one.
Stock is down over 5%.
That's not the key point.
The key point is that this is equivalent, I think, or roughly equivalent to the U.S. restricting oil.
To the Japanese in the summer of 1941, in July and August.
NASDAQ is already down.
NASDAQ futures are down 100 already.
This is not a small thing.
This is a big thing.
This is called, we refer to this as the escalatory ladder.
As we've said and talked to you many, many, many times over the years, this is the response to unrestricted warfare.
The Chinese Communist Party has been at war with the United States.
Natalie Winters, just told you, has been at war with the United States and preparing for this war for many, many decades.
Ever since May of 2019, they have been at what they call a people's war declared by President Xi after he spit in the face of President Trump when President Trump took two years to negotiate a deal that were fully integrated the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese economy into the world economy.
They decided to go on their own path.
That was when decoupling started.
And they were most adamant that they were going to decouple technologically at that time.
We're getting more of this.
Okay, we're awaiting Marjorie Taylor Greene to take the stage at her town hall.
It's quite courageous for her to do it.
Remember, most Republicans haven't, and the ones that have done it have not stage managed this correctly.
That's the lesson.
MTG. Tough as boot leather.
We've got some great content we want to get you in this hour, including about some issues about the truckers and trucking in this country, the trucking industry you may not fully understand.
But, believe me, you'll see once again the selling out of the American working man and woman.
Mike Lindell is with me.
Mike, we're a little rushed this afternoon.
I didn't get to you last hour, but I know you're doing a special.
Here's the thing.
Because you're a supporter of President Trump, because you understand that President Trump won the 2020 election, because you've been the man at the tip of the spear on the machines, at the exact moment when the machines looked like they were being questioned, all the big box retailers are saying, we don't want any more of Mike Lindell.
Is there any correlation to that?
Is that a coincidence, sir?
mike lindell ▲ ● ▼
There's no coincidence, Steve.
It's 100% true.
They all canceled me because I wanted to get rid of the voting machines.
And I got a little trivia question for you, Steve.
How many products on mystore or mypillow.com even have a China part in them?
The answer is zero.
Absolutely zero.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Mike, can you hang on for one second?
I think, is she up on stage?
We want to go live to MGG because this is so contentious.
Just hang on for one second.
Let's go live to Georgia, 14th Congressional District.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you to our great police officers.
Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my town hall.
This is a town hall.
This is not a political rally.
This is not a protest.
If you stand up and want to protest, if you want to shout and chant, We will have you removed just like that man was thrown out.
We will not tolerate it.
This is, let me tell you, this is funded.
The Democrats have been rioting.
They are the party of violence.
They are the party...
Go! Go!
Go! If you want to listen, you're welcome to listen.
Everyone across the aisle.
Democrats, independents, Republicans.
This is a good place.
You have a lot to learn.
And with that, I'll start with our first video.
Kayla? My mic needs to be turned on.
Okay. Okay.
Everyone knows.
barack obama ▲ ● ▼
Everyone knows that getting rid of the deficit will require some tough decisions.
And that includes cutting back on billions of dollars in programs that a lot of people care about.
But what should be easy is getting rid of the pointless waste and stupid spending that doesn't benefit anybody.
Waste we should be getting rid of, even if we didn't have a deficit.
Sure, some of these cuts aren't that big.
But no amount of waste is acceptable.
Not when it's your money.
Not at the time when so many Americans are already cutting back.
Just as families are living within their means, government should too.
Did you know the federal government pays for a website devoted to a folk music ensemble?
Made up of forest rangers?
unidentified
They're called the Fiddlin'Foresters.
barack obama ▲ ● ▼
Everyone knows that getting rid of the deficit will require some tough decisions, and that includes cutting back on billions of dollars in programs that a lot of people care about.
But what should be easy is getting rid of the pointless waste and stupid spending...
unidentified
Okay, we're going to...
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
They're still having technical issues.
Okay, we're still going to try.
Barack Obama sitting there.
That's from down memory lane.
I don't know if Obama lost his fastball or not, but that's Obama back in the old days telling us about cutting the deficit.
I think the point's going to be made, oh, it's wasteful, and Dozier's going to find waste, too.
Good way to start.
Marjorie Taylor Greene already gave the hook to a couple of three patrons there in her town hall because, hey, she's not going to put up any nonsense.
If you're there to listen, ask a question, disagree with her, that's one thing.
If you're going to sit there and make it a protest, it's not.
I'll tell you what, we're just going to hold off for now.
Tell me when you've got a good feed.
Let me go back to Mike Lindell.
Mike Lindell, you have no parts, no pieces in any of your MyPillow from China?
mike lindell ▲ ● ▼
Zero. And we have over, between MyStore and MyPillow, we have over 2,000 products.
Not one part is from China.
I made sure of that.
And, you know, if you go to MyStore.com and use promo code WARM, every product there is 100% made in the USA.
If you go to MyPillow.com, right now we're closing out the line of sheets that was supposed to go to the retailers, everybody.
It doesn't matter what size.
We're going to close out the whole line.
These are Split Kings, California Kings.
King size, queen size, doesn't matter.
Any color, any size, $25.
This is what they would have paid me for the wholesale prices.
So you go to MyPillow.com.
There we have the towels as low as $9.99, you guys.
That's a War Room exclusive.
Then you have the sheet special.
Once they're gone, they're gone.
We're going to close out that whole line.
We have four lines of sheets, you guys.
These are oversized sheets, too.
You put them, they'll fit over any mattress.
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60-day money-back guarantee.
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We just have, if you were before when we were out for a couple days, all the new ones just came in.
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That's a War Room exclusive also.
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War Room.
War Room and War Room.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Mike Lindell, we will see you tomorrow.
Thank you very much, and thank you for making this product with American workers and American material.
Appreciate you, sir.
mike lindell ▲ ● ▼
Thanks, Steve.
Thanks, War Room Posse.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Thank you.
We're going to go back to, not now, but in a little while with MTG.
Bottom line, she's doing a town hall in her district.
She's not putting up any nonsense.
If you're in the district and show an ID that you're in the district, you get in.
If you're a Democrat, somebody doesn't agree with her, that's fine.
As long as you comport yourself accordingly.
Ask a question, make an observation, maybe disagree with her.
But if you're going to do what the Democrats have done in other places, you're going to get the hook.
And she's already given the hook to two or three.
So good on you, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
That's the way to run things.
And more Republicans ought to be taking their number two principle up and take a note.
Okay, honored to have two guys on here.
I've wanted to have one for a while, truckers and about the trucking industry.
Gord McGill and Shannon Everett.
Gord, you've written a bunch of articles, great pieces on The Blaze and other places.
It's kind of shocking when I first read them.
Layout, what is this problem we have in the United States?
I thought all truckers in the U.S. were United States citizens, had driver's license.
If you were driving big rigs and need additional licenses, you got license.
But I thought all the truckers were all American citizens.
Is that not correct?
gord magill ▲ ● ▼
You would think, sir.
But unfortunately, forces have been at work.
To try and drive down the American trucker's wages.
And there's been some strange policy decisions on the part of both the Obama administration and the Biden administration during COVID, which have resulted in way more CDLs being issued.
And my colleague Shannon can explain what's going on there.
America's Trucking Workforce Trucking Action Plan came out of the Biden administration claiming that there was a truck driver shortage, which is a lie.
There's never been a truck driver shortage.
And in it, they said that rates, drivers' wages were going up 7% to 12%, and they didn't think that the market was catching up enough.
So they implemented this plan to cut red tape and streamline the issue of CDLs.
But the problem is what that streamlining and red tape cutting looked like.
And Shannon can speak to that.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Shannon, you are ahead of what the American Truckers United.
Can you tell us what that organization is?
unidentified
Yes, sir.
I've been in the industry for over 25 years, and in 2019, I had to lay off over 450 truck drivers, American truck drivers, because my company was having to compete with foreign commercial driver's licenses.
And so our competition was predominantly using non-American truck drivers.
And so when I laid those guys off, I went on this, you know, I started lobbying some of our federal legislators saying, hey, this isn't right.
You know, we need to protect these American jobs.
How is it these guys can come in here on these foreign commercial driver's licenses and replace our American workers?
And I didn't get any support from the Trucking Association.
I didn't get any support from our legislators because they didn't want to go against the Trucking Association.
And so I put that issue down, but in 2024, there was a crash, and it made national headlines, and it was the crash of Scott Miller, and Scott Miller was from Colorado, and the driver who hit him was operating on a Mexican commercial driver's license.
The guy had been deported 16 times, was under deportation orders at the time that he hit and killed Scott.
Scott Miller was a fellow truck driver, and I felt the Lord call on me at that point.
Your industry experience and knowledge of the issues of cross-border shipments makes you the perfect guy to step in and take on this issue.
And so I answered that call, and I called a friend of mine and said, hey, we don't have an association that's talking about the effects of this rampant immigration on the trucking industry.
We don't have an association talking about how it's affecting public safety and national security.
So he and I decided to start our own association in 2024 called American Truckers United.
To fill that gap and to speak up for the American truck driver, for the American trucking companies, and for the motoring public.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Hang on, because I think people's heads are going to blow.
Are you telling me that they allow folks that are not citizens of this country to come in and compete with American citizens as truck drivers in the United States of America?
unidentified
Steve, I get that same response from everyone I talk to.
The public is vastly unaware that our highways are completely overrun right now with truck drivers operating on foreign commercial driver's licenses and what are now called non-domiciled CDLs where our state DMVs are now issuing U.S. commercial driver's licenses to non-citizens.
And our American truck drivers are now being replaced.
Because they can't compete with this new workforce.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Are they arguing that there's a lack of truckers and to make sure that we keep the logistics and the cost of the logistics within some sort of bandwidth that they have to import?
I mean, are you the H-1B visas, essentially, of the trucking industry?
unidentified
That's who we've aligned ourselves with.
It seems to be that we're all singing the same song on this issue.
Essentially, yes.
So they claim that there's a driver shortage.
Mathematically, if you look at the number of CDLs that's published widely on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration website, it says that we have over 6 million United States commercial driver's licenses right now.
If you go look at the main American Trucking Association's website, they say there's only about 3 million to 3.5 million trucking jobs to fill.
So mathematically, we have the qualified people with the credentials to fill the jobs.
But yet nobody wants to be a truck driver.
And so what we're telling everyone today and the message that we're bringing to everyone is the reason no one wants to be a truck driver anymore is because the culture has completely shifted because we were unable to outsource the trucks because they're not factories.
So instead, what they've done is they have insourced.
All of the replacements for the American truck driver.
And so the American truck driver is now having to compete with third-world countries where guys are willing to live in their trucks.
They never have to go home.
Their families are mostly abroad.
They're not even here.
And they're willing to work for a third less than what the American truck driver does.
It gets even worse because they're changing the culture in the industry so much that at shippers, for example, their restroom cultures or brake cultures and all that stuff is different.
And so their standards and their practices in the bathrooms or in the facilities at the shippers and receivers are vastly different than American truck drivers.
And so we're hearing from a lot of drivers where shippers are now just completely closing down the restrooms and not allowing drivers to use them because of the problems that they're having with maintaining them.
And so not only are drivers being paid less...
Not only are they being replaced, and we've had over 100,000 trucking companies go out of business in the last two years, and the mainstream media is not even talking about this.
We have a crisis right now in the American trucking industry, and everybody's saying, well, it's a freight recession, and what we're saying is, no, it's artificial supply that has been pumped in and is pushing the American truck driver out and bringing all these guys in.
And so it's really an unfathomable situation for the American truck driver in the future of the of the industry as we know it.
The trucking industry that we all have today is vastly different than the one we had just 10 years ago.
Thank you.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Between the Teamsters and yourself and others that represent truckers, you would seem that you would have the political muscle in D.C. to thwart this.
Who is driving this?
What interest group is driving?
Because this just didn't happen.
Right? So how did this come about, particularly over the last 20, 25 years?
How did we end up with a situation where we have so many foreign drivers?
Who drove that?
Who was the, no pun intended, who was the, what's the instigator of this action?
gord magill ▲ ● ▼
Well, there's a lot of that, sir, and it's funny you mention the Teamsters.
They only represent now about 5% of truck drivers, and in a very particular part of the market.
What's driving this is the same as what's driving a lot of other things is greed.
And because the American Trucking Association...
When you hear that name, you think, oh, they represent truckers.
They are a corporate lobby group who represent the interests of megacarriers, and they have had the ear of everybody in Congress and administrations for decades now, and they just keep saying the same thing.
There's a shortage of truck drivers.
There's a shortage of truck drivers.
There's not.
The ATA's own report on this in 2019, they admitted that there was actually 10 million.
What they don't want to do is change the industry or pay truckers more or do anything to solve the retention problem.
And what they're doing is they're backfilling that now.
They used to beg the government for money to pay for their truck driving schools.
It was a sort of system of stealth corporate welfare that they masked as a jobs program.
Right? And it just kept the churn going.
And now what they're doing is they're bringing in this in-source labor from other countries.
In 2016, the FMCSA waived enforcement of English language requirements for a CDL so they can no longer place those drivers at a service.
So it opens up this loophole.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
And now we have all these guys...
Hang on.
Slow down.
You're telling me a foreign driver can get a commercial driver's license and actually drive freight and big rigs around the country?
And does not have to know how to speak English?
gord magill ▲ ● ▼
That's correct, sir.
They waived that in 2016.
They stopped enforcing it.
And we're seeing the results of this.
There was a horrific crash in Austin, Texas a few weeks ago.
And this gentleman...
Barely spoke any English.
He was found to have multiple hours of service violations.
It's quite possible that he's part of an indentured servitude arrangement.
We've seen this problem in Canada.
It was reported on by the Globe and Mail, Canada's largest newspaper in 2019, where various ethnic groups were taking advantage of work visa programs and then abusing them to bring their fellow people here to work in Canada.
And this is probably going on in the United States.
And these people are not proper.
They can't speak English.
They can't read the road signs.
And then they're pressured to work harder.
And so this guy in Austin crashed into completely stopped traffic.
And it took 13 or 14, 15 vehicles until he stopped, killed an entire family.
And he'd only been here for four months, already had a speeding ticket.
And, you know, he's working for a subcontractor for Amazon.
And so when you dig into it, CBS and the Wall Street Journal have done two separate reports on these trucking subcontractors that Amazon uses.
And since 2015, when you add it all up, these subcontractors have been involved in collisions that have killed 140 people in the United States.
And nothing is being done to stop this flow of in-source labor, which allows these sort of dodgy...
Shannon, to Gord's point,
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Is demonstrably, is there data out there that shows that these foreign drivers are less safe drivers or cause more accidents or have more problems on the road than American drivers?
unidentified
have
We're having trouble.
Nobody's reporting the immigration status or the residency status of a truck driver when he has an accident.
So we can't get down to that level yet.
I believe that we need a task force to go investigate this across the United States to better understand that and to report that and to have a requirement where that's in the crash reports.
But what we do know is that...
The number of fatal truck crashes and the number of injuries has risen quite a bit over the last several years.
I think it's up 79% in the last 10 years up until 2022.
And so we actually did a graph and we've got a chart on our website at americantruckers.com forward slash crash data where you can see that we had a consistent number of injuries and fatalities in the trucking industry.
Up until that 2016 period that Gord had described when they issued the memorandum ordering officers to no longer put a truck out of service for failing to meet the English proficiency requirement.
And after that point, the number of fatalities starts climbing and continues to climb year after year after year, and then it takes another significant step up in 2021 when the non-domicile commercial driver's license is started to be issued.
So we are making the argument that we believe that the only major policy changes that we've seen that could have led to more crashes was the removal of the English language proficiency and was the issuance of these non-domicile commercial driver's licenses.
Because in the last 10 years, during that time, we've also rolled out tighter regulations on hours of service regulations for truck drivers.
We now have mandated e-log systems that have to be in their trucks.
Most all of your American trucking companies are investing in...
Collision mitigation systems and lane departure warning systems.
And so the American truck driver is doing their part.
They're investing in technology.
They're trying to pay drivers more, but we're having to compete.
So this ecosystem is highly regulated, doing everything right and actually getting safer.
But now we have this new ecosystem of drivers who has no regard for any of that.
They're coming in here and they're putting American truck drivers and they're putting American trucking companies out of business.
And we believe that they're responsible for this rapid increase that we've seen in fatalities across the highways.
And we're actually seeing that.
We're trying to track on Twitter, on our Twitter account, ATU Truckers.
We're monitoring all these major crashes.
And we had a rash of major collisions here in the months of February and March.
And almost all these major crashes just keep coming back.
As we investigate and we start asking questions, we find out, yeah, here's another non-domicile commercial driver's license.
Here's another guy that can't speak English.
And so it's a huge problem in the industry.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Shannon, hang on for a second.
Shannon Everett from American Truckers United.
Gord McGill, a writer about this and a trucker.
We're going to take a short commercial break.
Market's going to be crazy tomorrow.
President Trump put a shot across the bow.
Of the Chinese Communist Party, he's told NVIDIA, the government has told NVIDIA, you're not going to be shipping your high-end chips to the Chinese Communist Party.
I am not saying that this is a direct analogy to cutting off Japan of oil in July and August of 1941, but it's directionally the same.
Artificial intelligence information being the oil and energy of the 21st century.
Short commercial break.
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back in a moment.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
NASDAQ futures down 221.
So, don't want to get you all worked up because we don't get you all worked up here, but gold at 3248.
Remember, it's not the price of gold.
We're not here hawking gold or talking about the price.
We've been doing this for four years.
I don't know.
Gold was 1100.
unidentified
I forget where it was.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Not 3,200.
The point of the show that what we try to do is teach you and give you access to information so that you make judgments yourself, both in politics and for your family, your community, personal, personal finance.
But you have to learn.
That's why the series that we did with Birch Gold, The End of the Dollar Empire, we called it four years ago.
How did that happen?
It was the first days of the Biden administration.
We were talking to the guys at Birch Gold.
They approached us.
And I said, look, they're going to start passing these massive spending bills because the Democrats got it.
They control everything.
House, Senate, White House.
And remember the lies?
You know, you got AOC and Bernie Sanders.
They're running around.
Oh, end of the oligarchy, end of the oligarchy.
Listen to the speeches.
Just don't watch Rachel Maddow and the big crowd.
They're drawing big crowds.
Let's lay that out.
30-some thousand on a beautiful...
Saturday afternoon, downtown LA, big crowd.
Maybe 34-35,000.
Huge crowd in Salt Lake City, Utah.
24-25,000 people look like in the arena.
Big crowd.
They're drawing big crowds.
Watch the speeches.
It's all happy talk.
It's DEI.
It's the Green New Deal.
It's Medicare for All.
It's Obamacare.
It's all of it.
No talking about economic nationalism.
No talking about populism.
Why they can't?
They have no earthy idea what they're talking about.
So AOC, kind of flitting around up there.
Now they're saying, AOC, she's drawing these huge crowds.
Is she 2028?
God bless her.
Go for it.
Do it.
Jump in the arena.
Bernie's lathered up.
He'd love to do it, except he's 83 years old.
And he was hapless at the top of his game.
He's totally hapless.
If you're a Bernie bro, you're hapless.
He had two shots at the Clintons, not one, he had two.
And I can tell you from someone that worked very closely with President Trump in 2016, but years before running Breitbart, we made a target on the Clintons, just like they target MAGA.
And the liberal media does.
It's the reason I was brought into Trump's campaign in August, because we were specialists in the Clintons.
And you can't go after the Clintons in a MyPillowPillow fight, Bernie Sanders.
You're going to take it on.
You've got to take it on.
All you do is wander on stage like a hapless old man, yammering.
So if that's the answer to MAGA, if that's it, have at it.
Listen to the speeches, and the crowds aren't fired up at the end, because people yammer about nothing.
Nothing important.
The Chinese Communist Party said from the beginning, one of the central features of what they're trying to do is the de-dollarization of the world.
That's when we said, hey, this spending is going to be so out of control that the BRICS are actually going to have an argument.
They're going to say, hey, how can we trust the foreign devils?
How can we trust the American elites or the Western elites?
All they're doing is burying everybody in this paper called fiat currency, called a U.S. dollar.
The entire post-war system was set up in Bretton Woods with the dollar as the stability factor.
That's not when the elites got so greedy and would take it all for themselves.
Because they knew the end was coming.
They knew this was not sustainable.
They knew what they had done with China and that was not sustainable.
They knew it.
So let's get it now while we can.
That's all this massive spending is about.
Remember, the massive spending supports them.
So this is why, Brother Larry Kudlow, I love Larry Kudlow, and I love me some Steve Moore.
These are good men.
They've been at this a long time.
The fact that they're dead wrong about economics, I'll leave to the side.
But they're good people, and I like them both.
And they're good colleagues to work with.
But man, are they lathered up now like I've never seen them lathered up.
Larry Kudlow's losing over in Fox Business.
What's he losing about?
What would you think Larry Kudlow would lose about?
Wait for it.
Wait for it.
Tax increase on the wealthy.
You damn right.
The elites are what got us in this jam, and they're the ones that have basically pushed the massive spending.
They have not wanted it stopped.
If they'd wanted it stopped, it had been stopped.
So guess what?
And President Trump just came up a few minutes ago and reiterated, I think, with Maria again.
No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security that he's pushing for.
He said he's talking to people about he's pushing for it.
Well, officially, we have a $1.3 trillion deficit.
In the first six months, it's a record.
You're not surprised at that, this audience.
We told you, if you're going to agree to the CR, this Joe Biden's budget, you're going to get this $1.3 trillion for the first half.
Let me, okay, let me multiply by two, $2.6 trillion.
Is it going to be 2.6 trillion?
I think it could be higher.
I think it might be higher.
That's why I keep asking Doge, show me the money.
I've got to find some cuts here.
I've got to find some waste, fraud, and abuse.
I don't need a trillion.
Please don't tell me a trillion again.
I don't want to hear a trillion.
It's not going to be a trillion.
You know that.
We know that.
Let's be realistic.
Today, Russ Vogt.
Russ Vogt's a straight shooter.
He came on.
The first rescission's about to go right after Easter.
Okay, great.
It's not going to be an impoundment.
It's going to be a rescission because they want to do rescissions first.
Got it.
I'm with you.
We are with you.
It's $10 billion.
It's a start.
It's PBS.
It's NPR.
It's... It's USAID, and this is not what Doge found at USAID.
USAID was handed to them.
This was a fight that was inside with guys like Eli Crane and Matt Gaetz and MTG have been fighting this one for years.
But it's $10 billion.
Of course the BRICS are going to come up with another alternative because they're not going to have their dollar depreciated.
They're not going to have the purchasing power under Biden drop 25%.
That's like a devaluation.
They're giving you oil at a 25% discount.
That's not going to happen.
If they have an alternative, and they don't have one right now, but they're going to work on it, that's why you need to go to birchgold.com slash ban in the end of the dollar empire.
They teach this now in a course, I think, at the University of Arkansas in finance.
Why? We spend a lot.
Philip Patrick has got a really smart team of researchers, and we work together and put it out.
I'm very proud of it.
If you read it all and you don't need to understand it all, just get the concepts, get the ideas, get the nomenclature.
Then when they're having these debates, which are going to be monumental debates over spending and taxes on the big beautiful bill, yes, because there were 25 or 30 congressmen did not want to vote for this last deal on reconciliation in an agreement once again,
once again.
Just like in the CR, okay, we're going to hold our fire, let's go to the next step, because we've got to get President Trump's agenda passed, and everybody wants to do that.
But, folks, I've told you this now, and I specifically told you two years ago, when Liz Truss got blown out of office, the bond market gets a vote, and it blew her out of office, it blew the French Assembly out of office, Macron's guys, it blew the Germans out of office, it blew Castro's son out of office up in Canada.
The financing charges.
I would actually argue it was a big deal in Biden.
And now it's going to be, this is what President Trump last week, when the bond market froze, Scott Besson saw the auction of the 10-year treasuries.
Because as you remember, because you're taking notes, your financial life is all predicated on that 10-year treasury, your credit card, your auto loan, your mortgage, everything in your life.
Is it 4.34% right now?
Everything off your life.
That's what the U.S. government bars for.
And you're the full faith and credit of it.
That means everybody's guaranteed to get paid back.
Hell, Ray Dalio, we had that clip from CNBC.
That was not random.
I pulled that two weeks ago because Ray Dalio, what do you say?
It's going to take one failed church auction that you're going to have a financial crisis.
And he is correct.
And he's no friend of War Room or MAGA or Trump or the United States.
He's made all his money over the CCP, but he's a smart dude.
He sees exactly what's happening.
And no, this is not all about President Trump's trade war.
And it is a trade war.
Because if you don't do it now, it ain't gonna happen.
And if it doesn't happen, you're not gonna have a great job.
You're just not.
Because we're not a manufacturing superpower.
And don't give me all the happy talk.
You've got these services.
You're going to be this marketing director and this influencer and all these kids are going to be producing records and all.
That's all fine.
And God bless you if you're good enough and got talent.
Go do that.
But you need an underlying economy that makes things.
You've got folks like our guests now that take them around the country and are not foreigners.
Are things called United States citizens.
This is another thing.
Unless people bring it up, you don't even know.
The whole system is rigged from top to bottom, all of it.
The only time it's not rigged, if you get in the middle of it and say, hey, this is BS, we're going to straighten this out.
Nobody in this system is there to do you a favor.
They're there to exploit you.
And no, I am not a Marxist.
But you're being exploited.
Because the entire system of the world's financial, economic system rests on your shoulders.
The citizens of this country.
You're the full faith and credit of the United States government and hey, that is what props up everything on your shoulders.
Do you get a special deal for that?
I don't think so.
I haven't seen that one yet.
And we've been looking.
So Shannon Everett, what's the solution here?
People are, I can already tell in the chat room, people are outraged.
They didn't know we had, my God, we thought we had a problem in the apartheid state of Silicon Valley.
Just remember, These organizations, institutions could care less if you're a U.S. citizen.
They could care less if your parents and grandparents and great-grandparents fought for this country, helped build this country.
They don't care.
And I don't care if you're white, black, anything.
I don't care what your ethnicity is.
I do not care what your religion is.
If you're a United States citizen and you've been here for a couple generations, in the modern time, the global corporatists, the lords of easy money on Wall Street, and the apartheid rulers, Oligarchs in Silicon Valley do not care about the sacrifice of your family.
They don't.
What the hell do you think they're hurtling so fast for artificial intelligence and shipping everybody?
They don't care about human beings to begin with.
Howard Lucknick's out there talking about the robots.
No, stop with the robots, dude.
In fact, I got a solution.
Go back to commerce and do commerce.
Do not go on media.
So, Shannon Everett, what is the solution here, sir?
Since people say you got me all worked up on a Tuesday afternoon, sir.
unidentified
Well, good.
You keep me worked up watching your show.
We fired the first shot back at them in Arkansas.
We found a state representative here by the name of Wayne Long and a state senator.
John Payton filed House Bill 1569, which was written.
It was the Secure Roads and Safe Trucking Act.
And it was written to require all truck drivers to read and speak the English language.
It was written to close the loophole for non-domicile commercial driver's license and to close the loophole for the foreign commercial driver's license and to create felony code for non-citizens that cause injuries and fatalities on our highways.
Unfortunately, because of political games and shenanigans here in the state of Arkansas, we never even got to present that bill to the committee.
The Trucking Association put forward another bill.
HB 1745, which addressed none of those issues that we just brought up directly.
All of those issues are still allowed on Arkansas highways.
The one thing that it did do in the 11th hour was they added English proficiency.
they put a fine in HB 1745 so that a driver has now fined $500 if he's caught unable to read and speak English, but they still let him go.
So an officer is going to pull him over.
They're going to write him a ticket for $500.
The whole purpose of the English proficiency law is that he's an imminent hazard to the motoring public, so he should be taken out of service and removed from the truck or the truck impounded.
And that's what we were trying to do with House Bill 1569.
And so there's a lot of...
Talk out there right now that it's a big win in Arkansas because we've got an English proficiency state law now.
But it's a fine, and it's not protecting the citizens because it's not getting the driver off the road.
And look, if you've got a foreign driver here on a foreign commercial driver's license that you can't properly identify, how are you going to hold him accountable to a fine?
We've got drivers in the United States right now operating on non-domicile commercial driver's licenses with no names on them.
I asked Gord to text you a copy of a CDL right now.
That has no name given.
And so it literally has the guy's first name.
He has no last name.
And some states are now putting an acronym, First Name Unknown, or FNU, on the license.
They don't know the birth date, so the birth date's generic.
It just says 1-1 of some made-up year.
I mean, it's complete lawlessness.
And so how are you going to hold somebody accountable when you don't even know who they are?
And so that's what we try to do in the state level.
You know, we didn't get anywhere with it, so we need a federal solution.
And so we wrote a letter to Secretary of Transportation Duffy just last week, sent it to him on Friday, asking him to rescind the 2016 FMCSA memo that we explained to you, asking him to revoke and ban these non-domiciled CDLs that are being issued to non-citizens who we don't know who the people are.
We think that is a national security risk.
We believe that all these CDLs...
We want them to put a cap or completely ban the use of foreign CDOs.
No, no, no.
No cap.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Here's a cap.
Zero. How about this?
Zero. None.
This is outrageous.
You can't have foreigners coming in here and taking truckers' jobs and don't read English, don't understand English.
It's outrageous.
This is my point about American citizens.
Whether you're in Silicon Valley or driving a truck, you shouldn't have to compete in your own nation, your own country, with foreigners.
American companies should be able to compete around the world if they want and have plants overseas to do what they want.
But in this country, you shouldn't have foreign labor imported here to...
Compete against you.
This was Biden's thing about low-skilled labor.
This is why we got 10 million illegal aliens up through there.
And as Todd Benz has told you, it wasn't chaos.
It was so perfectly thought through.
This is why we need some investigations, the rest of those people that did it.
Start with Mayorkas.
I don't need to see any more.
Working with the FBI assault team.
I don't care.
This audience does not care.
The top 10 FBI people, hey, if they're going to be arrested, go for it.
That's fine.
But that's not the priorities.
This is a priority.
The HB1 visas are a priority.
Protecting American citizens like we protect the sovereignty of our country and the territorial integrity.
Hell, Pete's got the army lined up down the southern border.
We sealed the southern border, didn't we, in 60 days.
How about sealing it for the American worker?
Amen. This is why people are angry.
This is why people are frustrated.
This is why there's angst.
This is why 9 million people have two jobs.
This is why credit card debt's exploding.
This is why 10% of credit cards are non-performing.
This is why you can't sleep at night.
You got to worry.
Even if your middle class got a good job, you get fired.
In 100 days, you're done.
You're 100 days from oblivion if you're in a good job and you've saved a little money.
All your families in this show have been here for generation after generation after generation and show me what you got to show for it.
Because it was stolen from you by a greedy elite.
And Trump is the first person in the history of this nation to come forward and say, we're going to stop that.
Is it perfect?
No. Is he perfect?
No. Is it a lot of imperfections and all this?
Yes. Does that matter?
No. Because directionally, he's damn right, and the only way you're going to sort this mess out is get up in back of him and say, we got your back, let's march forward.
Because nobody in this country is going to do anything for you or give you a break.
You can see that.
If they had a shred of common decency, would they be shipping in people at 50% less labor in Silicon Valley to compete with people that busted their ass since they were little kids to get to STEM degrees, to go to college, to do all the hard work in engineering and computer science?
If they had a shred of decency, would they care if they do not?
If you're a trucker as hard as you work, would they have a shred of decency?
They wouldn't let the world come in and compete against you?
Because they don't have a shredded decency, and this has to be forced upon them.
Shannon, where do we go?
We've got to bounce.
Where do you go to get American Truckers United?
More information on you and your social media, sir.
We'll have you back.
unidentified
Yeah, on Twitter, follow us at ATUTruckers.
That's our tag on Twitter.
You can also go to our website at www.americantruckers.com.
Register for free.
We'll keep you updated.
There's a news page on our website that keeps you caught up on all the current events that are taking place.
But more than anything, please just follow us on Twitter and stay current on the events.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
We'll be force multipliers here.
Gord, McGill, your writings, where do people get your books, your social media, all of it, sir?
gord magill ▲ ● ▼
You can find my writing at autonomoustruckers.substack.com.
I write on these issues and work with Shannon to highlight this for my readers.
I write for The Blaze.
I write at The American Conservative.
I have numerous articles out at Newsweek.
You can follow me on Twitter, at Gord McGill.
And, yeah, I write almost exclusively on trucking issues.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Great. We will make sure we link to all of them to push them out.
Guys, thank you so much for coming on and getting my blood pressure all worked up here on a Tuesday.
I thought we were just going to be watching MTG blowing heads up down there in Georgia, but their feed didn't quite work, so we'll try to get Highlight World some more.
Guys, thank you so much.
Tomorrow morning, 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
We're going to be back on it in all kind of breaking news.
A senior Pentagon official has been turfed out, kind of up in the air.
Why? We'll cover that.
We've got so much more.
Of course, NVIDIA will be a big story overnight.
We'll cover Birch Gold.
Right now, take your phone out.
Bannon, that would be me.
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