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June 30, 2021 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Making Sense of Biden's Bungled, "Bi-Partisan" Infrastructure Mess
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Defend God-Given Freedoms 00:03:22
Hey everybody, this is producer Andrew Andrew Colvett filling in for Charlie Kirk today.
We have an action-packed episode here.
Is the Biden administration attempting to destroy the suburbs?
We have the evidence.
We think it's pretty compelling.
He's probably doing it.
It's unfortunate, but why should we expect anything else?
That is just the case.
And guess how he's doing it?
He's tying a bunch of rhino Republicans in, telling them that he's going to negotiate with them this great bipartisan infrastructure deal.
Meanwhile, he's going around their back, telling them that he's also going to pass a reconciliation bill in the many trillions.
You're not going to want to miss this.
You can't make this stuff up.
This is some hard-nosed bloodsport Democrat politician, the likes of which we've only become accustomed to, of course.
It's dangerous.
It's destructive for the country.
I've got all the details for you right here.
We did the research.
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The Suburb Destruction Plot 00:11:47
We are the hardest working podcast in the nation.
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We work really hard tirelessly all hours of the night to make sure you guys get the news that you need.
Charlie is off today.
He's going to be back tomorrow.
He needs a break, guys.
Sometimes the guy needs to have a little time to himself.
He was busy all weekend.
He didn't even talk about this yesterday, which is crazy.
He was busy all weekend giving speeches all across the country, traveling here, there, all over the place.
We're certainly grateful for all that he does for the show, for the country, for us on the team.
Folks, there is a lot going on in this sort of policy-wonky world of Washington that generally speaking, we sort of avoid.
Right now, with the Republican Party out of power, not in the majority, there's a lot of things that we can't do.
We simply can't do.
So, the Congress becomes sort of a megaphone for PR.
We believe that the political process is sort of stuck.
It's in Schumer and Pelosi's hands, in Biden's hands.
And so, if you're a Republican right now, the only way to effectuate real change is to inspire the grassroots, get everybody knowledgeable about what's going on, and push back at a grassroots local level.
However, and by the way, I want to just give us a little hot tip to Charlie and the show here.
We've been at the front of the critical race theory, the school boards discussion, and so many different areas.
We have been out front in vaccine, mandatory vaccines.
We've pushed back where and how we can.
And frankly, we've been having a tremendous amount of success.
And the conservative movement is coalescing behind these initiatives in a way that we haven't seen in quite some time, since really the Tea Party movement of 2010.
So, lots of good news to report in the face of tremendous odds.
Things are trending well towards 2022.
But the question then becomes: what happens in between now and then?
Now, we have avoided this whole sort of infrastructure versus American families plan discussion that's going on in Washington a little bit just because, frankly, it's going to take place one way or the other.
It's moving forward.
Now, we do want to push back on certain aspects of it.
Of course, it's not to say it's not important.
It's not to say that there isn't aspects within this plan that are tremendously important, but frankly, a lot of it gets lost in this nuance of Washington bickering, of Washington positioning and posturing.
And really, the front lines of the culture war is the culture war.
It's what's happening in cities and towns and schools across the country.
But nevertheless, this particular piece caught our eye yesterday, and we've got lots to talk about.
The NSA spying on Tucker Carlson, we're going to get there.
We're going to talk about all of that.
We're going to talk about the laws that were enacted at various places within the last 40, 50 years that made that something that was possible in the first place.
We're going to talk a little bit about immigration.
We're going to talk about Miss USA, Paget, Nevada.
It has a man that just won it.
This is all very interesting stuff.
We're going to get to it.
But I want to start with the stealth goal of this bipartisan infrastructure plan that may very well abolish the suburbs.
This was something that Tucker Carlson covered last night.
And we love Tucker Carlson.
He's good friends of the show, good friends with Charlie.
The guy is up there out front taking the slings and arrows for all of us, telling the truth at the tip of the spear, making it easier for all of us around the country and people like us that have shows and platforms like this to also tell the truth.
Because remember, folks, when one person tells the truth, it gets easier for all of us to tell the truth.
So we have to keep telling the truthly, proudly, boldly, and without fear or reservation.
Because if we keep speaking the truth, the censors will not win.
In the end, the censors will not win.
And Tucker opened his monologue last night about the Biden administration's plan to destroy the suburbs.
Now, so, folks, if you are living in a city, you know, my condolences to you.
I spent 10 years in Los Angeles.
I loved it, but it was certainly a difficult place to raise a family.
It was a difficult place to sort of get ahead financially.
There's a lot of problems with the cities.
It's dirty.
There's a lot of crime.
And now, what we're having is the blight, this urban blight is setting in because of the defund the police movement, because of the Democrats' incessant attack on the rule of law in California.
You can steal up to $1,000 at a local CVS or a grocery store and basically walk out unaccosted.
It's a misdemeanor that is not worth the paperwork for the police to even file.
And it's, by the way, this sort of petty theft is happening at record numbers in cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles.
It's an absolute assault on law-abiding Americans, on the rule of law, on businesses.
Urban blight is coming, unfortunately.
One of our friends, Jack Posobiec, always likes to say: if you are in the cities, get out.
Now, New York City is a wonderful place in so many ways.
I love visiting New York.
But Tucker opened his monologue talking about Westchester, New York.
So let's go ahead and get ready.
Clip 27.
This assault on the suburbs that Tucker exposed last night, which is part of this infrastructure bill, which again, there's 11 Republicans that are working with the Biden administration and the Democrats in the Senate to get this passed.
They are maybe knowingly or unknowingly contributing to the potential destruction of the American suburbs.
Play clip 27, talking about Westchester, New York.
In early 2009, more than 12 years ago, the Obama administration made a surprisingly, probably unprecedented accusation against Westchester County, New York, a pretty liberal place.
According to the Obama administration, Westchester was an instrument of white supremacy.
The problem was the buildings they lived in.
All those single-family homes, row upon leafy row, set back from the street, well-tended lawns, mailboxes.
Those are all examples of racism, literally structural racism.
And the only solution the Obama people announced was much greater density, more subsidized housing complexes in Westchester, more high-rise apartment buildings.
That's right.
Row upon leafy row of suburban single-family homes lined up beautifully with the backdrop upon them in the city driving distance away, but in a relatively ideal location.
You know, I'm sort of reminded now that we're talking about New York of a friends episode at the end where they're all sort of moving out of the city and they're having kids and they just put an offer on a house and outside of the city.
I don't remember if that was in Westchester, New York, but nevertheless, this is something that is sort of built into the American idea, this American dream.
Now, what do they hate about suburbs?
Well, they hate them because of this idea of equity.
Their argument is simply that the suburbs are nicer than the urban center with all of its crime and dirt and complicated politics.
And so they want to destroy what they can't control.
Generally speaking, and Tucker does hit on this, the suburbs are purple.
Now, Trump lost some ground in the suburbs that conservatives usually had owned.
Nevertheless, they are a place that controls the Democrat single party wish in America.
It is a firewall against radical progressive politics because even Democrats in the suburbs tend to be more moderate.
It was exposing that in this infrastructure bill that is being negotiated by a few Senate Republicans as well.
There's about a group of 11 of them.
In the infrastructure bill, I think the number that they've come to is $1.2 trillion.
$1.2 trillion.
In the midst of inflationary pressures on the economy, that's right.
Going to, in a bipartisan fashion, spend another $1.2 trillion.
And by the way, this is, there's some debate on whether or not it's tied to the American Families Plan Act, which we will get to later in this hour.
Nevertheless, let's keep going down this path.
I think it's important that we really build this out.
So, Tucker makes the point that the target on the suburbans, the suburban America's back is because suburbs tend to vote purple, meaning that they are a toss-up zone.
We can compete for them.
We can win them.
It is a firewall against a one-party state, which is what the Democrats' ultimate objective is.
Never put it past them.
So, when you are making an argument for negotiating in good faith with the Democrats, as some Senate Republicans like Mitt Romney are apt to do, we always must remember that their ultimate goal is to strip all power from conservatives, to eliminate things like local control of your own neighborhoods and your zoning, not to mention your own voting rights, and to put that into the federal hands, where guess what?
The Democrats will be waiting with open hands and open arms to enact the type of radical policies pushed by AOC and other radical Democrats in Washington.
Now, I think it does, it is worth mentioning who these Republicans are, right?
Because in order to beat the filibuster, you need 60 in the Senate.
That's the way this works.
So, you've got Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, no surprise, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, the gem Mitt Romney, Mike Rounds of South Dakota, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the weather vane Lindsey Graham, Todd Young of Indiana, and Tom Tillis of North Carolina, Senator Jerry Morgan of Kansas added his support later Wednesday, but he is an outlier.
He's basically saying you can't tie this to a reconciliation plan with American Families Plan and get his support.
And I think good for him.
All of these senators need to get on board with that.
Now, why we need to make a lot of noise about this, folks?
We need to make a lot of noise about this because ultimately, Washington will do what the grassroots says.
There's a lot of evidence out there that the grassroots is completely behind doing any type of bipartisan bill with Joe Biden.
Because why?
Because he's going to get his photo op with everybody saying, look, look what I did in a bipartisan fashion.
Meanwhile, he was sneaking around our back to pass the American Families Act, which is an absolute disaster.
We'll get into that.
So you have to remember that when Democrats look at the suburbs, they look at a vestige of racialized America.
They think that because of redlining, because of these different things in our nation's past, which were not good, which were amended in the 1968 Fair Housing Act, by the way, it's always, since 1968, it's been illegal to discriminate renters or homeowners based on their ethnicity.
But nevertheless, they have to work to undo this.
They're working overtime to undo this systemic oppression that black and brown families, they believe, can't afford homes in the suburbs.
So what do they want to do?
Racism Built Into Roads 00:08:44
They want to take down your single-family lots, your quarter-acre, 10,000 square foot custom lot in a single-family home.
And they want to put condos and they want to put apartment buildings.
All right.
And so this is a line from the USA Today piece, which I just think is just horrific.
Biden's proposal would award grants and tax credits to cities that change zoning laws to bolster more, here's the word, equitable access to affordable housing.
A house with a white picket fence and a big backyard for a 4th of July barbecue may be a staple of the American dream.
But experts and local politicians, that's that word again, experts.
If you see the word experts in an article, probably is that there's an agenda behind it.
Say multifamily zoning is key to combating climate change, racial injustice, and the nation's growing affordable housing crisis.
So what they want to do, folks, instead of fixing your city, instead of getting rid of crime, they want to ruin your suburbs.
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As always, Donald Trump was right about something that everybody mocked him for and told him he was a giant liar about.
So Trump during the election brought this up all the time that Joe Biden wants to destroy the suburbs.
And it sounded sort of crazy and right.
It's like, oh, come on, you're being hyperbolic, aren't you, President Trump?
Well, turns out he wasn't.
So let's play President Trump in his own words.
This is from July 16th, 2020.
Let's play Clip.
The Democrats in D.C. have been and want to, at a much higher level, abolish our beautiful and successful suburbs by placing far-left Washington bureaucrats in charge of local zoning decisions.
They're absolutely determined to eliminate single-family zoning, destroy the value of houses and communities already built.
Joe Biden and his bosses from the radical left want to significantly multiply what they're doing now.
And what will be the end result is you will totally destroy the beautiful suburbs.
100% right.
And what did Joe Biden have to say about that?
Clip 33, Joe Biden called him a liar.
He said, oh, Trump's just making this stuff up like he does everything.
We know he's a liar.
And he's a racist.
He doesn't support equitable housing in the suburbs to help black and brown families build intergenerational wealth.
That's what they say this is about, folks.
But we know it's not.
Clip 33.
Look what he's doing now, the president.
He's trying to scare because an awful lot of suburbanites are now deciding they're going to vote for me, at least the polling data suggests, as opposed to him.
And he's talking about, you know, Biden's going to, what he's going to do, he's going to send all these folks out to suburbia.
They're going to end up with houses out in suburbian, apartments in suburbian.
Oh, look, he's trying to scare everybody.
Never forget, folks, that this R-word is the most effective word in the English language, especially in America.
What they do is they weaponize the racial resentments in this country and some of our past sins.
Nobody's denying that there was past sins, but what they do is they try and scare us by calling us racist again and again and again.
Trump's a racist for supporting the suburbs, for people that paid their hard-earned money to buy a piece of land at much expense to support the lifestyle that they seek, the jobs that they work diligently for, hour after hour, day after day, to pay the mortgage and to support their family.
Oftentimes, remember, the family is what the suburbs support.
The family is what draws so many to the suburbs.
And so instead of fixing the problems in the city, they want to destroy your suburbs, folks.
You can't make this stuff up.
And what do they do?
They do it all in the name of equity.
And they tell you that, you know, why this infrastructure plan that is getting bipartisan support, let's go back to that fact.
We need to raise the alarm bells and tell these Republicans they need to stop working in good faith with Joe Biden because he is not working in good faith with them.
And we'll get into that in just one second, but I want to play one more.
So if you're sitting there wondering, how on earth is infrastructure tied to this concept of equity, which again is just Marxism by another word?
It's redistributive policies from on high Washington.
So if you're asking yourself, how on earth is infrastructure and racial equity and all this nonsense that they're spewing out of Washington, how is that connected?
Well, it's very easy.
Just ask Budige, our wonderful Secretary of Transportation.
Butigej essentially says that the highway system, which was from Eisenhower, right, in the 1950s, was actually designed to separate communities of color from their white counterparts.
And we also have Ianna Presley saying essentially the same thing, clip 30, that infrastructure and housing justice are all interconnected.
Let's play Clip 30.
This is about human and physical infrastructure.
Progressives in Congress have been leading this fight.
Care economy is infrastructure.
Climate justice is infrastructure.
Housing justice is infrastructure.
Transit, public transit justice is infrastructure.
And so these bold investments must be made to support workers and families in order for us to have a just, equitable, and robust recovery from this pandemic.
This is all nonsense.
Democrats like to play word games in order to confuse us, in order to scare us into not passing common sense legislation and not fighting against obviously bad policy, like destroying the suburbs.
And aha, we found this Pete Buttigeg.
We love to dunk on Pete Buttigieg because he's just god-awful.
Let's play Cut 37, Pete Budigej.
Can they prevent suburbs from having roads if they don't build low-income housing projects?
Well, under existing civil rights law, a plan like this only works if the feds can prove that your roads are somehow racist.
Pete Buttigiege is now saying it too.
Watch this.
The interstate system was built to keep certain groups in and certain groups out.
So it was built on a racist system, correct?
Yeah, often this wasn't just an act of neglect.
Often this was a conscious choice.
There is racism physically built into some of our highways.
So that's right, folks.
The roads are racist.
Now, we've heard that, you know, birds are racist.
The bird-watching community is wrestling with some deep-seated decades, maybe centuries-old racism.
It's a terrible plight.
You know, your syrup is racist.
The National Archives are racist.
This was a new story that broke this week, which is just we know that keeping time is racist.
We know that meritocracy is racist.
And so, of course, your roads are racist.
Now, why is this actually all tied in?
Because what they are doing is Washington is going to tie federal grants for your roadways to whether or not you get rid of these restrictive zoning laws.
Deconstructing American Life 00:15:40
Now, zoning has always been one of the most local decisions that you could make.
It is up to a town to make these decisions.
If a town wants to create a spread out community, that's up to the town.
If the town wants dense and urban living environments, that's up to the town.
And the people will vote on that.
But they want to take away local ownership.
They want to take away your right to decide your own community and how it's built and how it's comprised and how it's constituted.
And the reason, again, is all about power.
Now, I want to talk about something called the tragedy of the commons.
The tragedy of the commons is what happens in our major cities.
When no one owns anything, we get the tragedy of the commons.
And what it is, it's essentially the mass consumption of a scarce resource really, really quickly, because if you don't get it quick, nobody will get it.
Now, the tragedy of the commons was actually established, this concept, in a 1968 peer-reviewed journal, Science, by a guy named Garrett Hardin, who was an evolutionary biologist.
So he was actually looking at grazing issues in England because certain grazable pasture lands had been given to cooperatives and had been made public.
And what's interesting about this is that Garrett Hardin, Garrett Hardin, in 1968 actually advocated that the solution to the tragedy of the commons is private ownership.
Why?
Because he noticed that grazing lands held as private property will see their use limited by the prudence of the landholder in order to preserve the value of the land and health of the herd.
Let me say that again, that private property will see the use of what is limited and controlled and protected by the prudence of the landholder in order to preserve the value of the land and the health of the herd.
So some of you might have seen this story that was coming out about BlackRock.
This is a massive, massive, massive firm, trillions under assets that they control.
And they're buying up single-family homes in order to create rental properties out of them.
What do you see in the cities?
Nobody owns anything.
They just rent.
When you have people that rent, they don't own a stake in the community that they live in, not at least in the same way that somebody who would own.
Now, if you own a property, you are consumed by local political movements, by different policies that might come forward.
You are invested in that piece of property, in that community, in a way like somebody who'd rent could not be emotionally, viscerally.
If your private wealth is tied up in a piece of property, in a single-family home, and your local municipality is trying to destroy the zoning that protects the value of your property, you're going to fight back.
And this is exactly what we've seen.
Tucker Carlson started off his monologue in Westchester, New York, and he finished it by saying that Westchester, New York is an affluent area.
They had great lawyers, and they ultimately beat the Obama administration, which was trying to remove their zoning restrictions.
But other places around the country in Oregon and Arizona were not able to beat these rezoning.
And guess what?
That was just because of grants under HUD, housing and urban development.
What Biden is planning to do is expand those grants to your roadways.
Now, you pay your federal taxes, you send money to the federal government, you expect to get certain benefits from the federal government because you fund it.
And what they're going to do is they're going to hold that back if you want to do the racist, bigoted thing of actually having single-family home zoning.
This is an absolute tragedy.
And do you know why they do this?
This is, again, this is what's troubling.
It's about power.
It's about voting.
It's about a single party rule in the United States of America.
Now, let's take a step back.
Take a breath.
Okay, so we've just absorbed all of this information.
Remember this, that the Democrats don't believe in local control.
They think that you are hillbillies.
They think you are backwards.
They don't think you know how to run your own life.
They don't think you know how to organize your own communities.
They want to control every aspect of American life until they get their utopian vision accomplished in the United States of America.
That, by the way, utopia always leads to tyrannical control by the few over the many.
Folks, it just may seem like zoning.
It just may feel like single-family homes, but it is much larger than that.
It is about tyranny.
It is about federalizing all control of the United States and our system.
We must fight back at every turn.
Republicans in the Senate here are warning: fight back.
I'm going to try and untangle this whole infrastructure family plans deal.
All right.
I'll be really honest.
I was confused about it.
We've been a little confused about it.
You go Google this infrastructure bill.
Nobody knows what's in it.
There's like a couple articles that, like, here's what we know, but a bunch of it hasn't been released for the public yet.
But yet, we've reached this bipartisan consensus on $1.2 trillion in spending.
So here's what's basically going on.
Joe Biden wants a photo op where he can say, listen, I reached out to my Republican colleagues.
I'm a bipartisan.
I'm not the radical left that, you know, Fox News wants to say that I am.
And the Charlie Kirk show wants to say I am not beholden to AOC and Ayana Presley and the squad and Corey Bush and all these radical apparatchiks.
I'm trying to reach out and go across the aisle.
So what happened, however, is that Joe Biden reaches this deal.
He brings in all of the moderates in front of the White House.
He says, look at everybody.
We've worked together.
We've created this deal.
Then he says, well, actually, next comes Speaker Pelosi saying, I'm not going to even deal with that infrastructure bill unless it's tied to reconciliation bill that needs zero Republican support, which is the American Families Plan, which is give or take $1.8 trillion is probably going to go way up because it's going to be their one chance to do it.
Now, there's certain rules that are connected to reconciliation.
You're supposed to be able to offset all the costs and all this stuff.
It's all up to the parliamentarian.
This is how he got through his stimulus plan, which was ill-timed and way too big.
Even some of Obama's chief advisors said that it was too big.
And now we're seeing those inflationary pressures.
So Biden says, okay, well, if Speaker Pelosi is saying this, well, then maybe I have to control that.
I have to deal with that variable.
So he comes out and says, well, I'm going to get my families plan passed and it's going to be tied to this.
So we're going to do this in this bipartisan bill for the photo op and say it's infrastructure and we're going to destroy the suburbs.
But in the meantime, I'm going to be passing the American Families Plan.
So then all of this tension erupts in Washington.
Oh, we're going to lose the support.
So Joe Biden's white whale is escaping him, said Politico.
So here's the deal.
You've got three of the five Republicans who negotiated this bipartisan deal.
We're calling Mitt Romney, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, and Rob Portman of Ohio made it clear that the president's walkback was sufficient.
Now, what was the walk back?
Issued this statement basically saying, you know, since we passed this, or since we announced that we'd reached a deal, the primary focus in Washington has not been about the plan scope scale or provisions, but rather how it relates to the other legislation before Congress, my American Families Plan, which would make historic investment in education, health care, childcare, and tax cuts for families, coupled with other investments in care for our seniors, housing, and clean energy.
If you have not listened to it, folks, we did a podcast called Joe Biden Wants to Raise Kids.
It's part of this plan.
Joe Biden does want to raise your kids.
Anytime they want to create a government bureaucracy, funneling your taxpayer dollars, and frankly, we don't have the taxpayer dollars.
It's all deficit spend anyways.
It's all funny money.
What they want to do is they want to create another branch basic or another agency within the government to take care of your kids from the time they can walk till when they get into elementary school, which we already know is controlled by radical leftists and the teachers' unions and they're teaching critical race theory nonsense this way and that way.
What they want to do is they want to start that even earlier.
And that's part of the American Families Act, all in the name of equity.
They want to create an army of woaxers raising your kids.
And they want to say, I'm giving you all this free money to do it, spending ourselves into oblivion, causing rampant inflation, devaluing the dollar.
Also, we can raise your kids and call it equity, which again, remember, equity is redistributive social justice agenda.
Never let them get away with that word equity.
They throw it in all these articles like it's a good thing.
Every time I read it, I read Marxism.
You should do the same.
So now Joe Biden says, well, let me be clear.
I'm going to try and pass the Families Plan bill in good faith, and they should try it.
In good faith, they should try to defeat it.
Well, here's the deal.
The families plan is going to come down to two, maybe three people, and that's going to be Kirsten Cinema and Joe Manchin.
And Joe Manchin is the real X Factor.
We're not getting much sound out of Kirsten Cinema yet, but here's the deal.
Joe Manchin is basically saying he might be willing to go up to $2 million or $2 trillion, rather, but no higher.
And Bernie Sanders is pushing back on him.
There's a lot of tension there.
Look, can I tell you something that really bothers me?
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There is so much to get to.
The infrastructure plan that is being negotiated with Senate Republicans' help, in good faith, presumably, Joe Biden wants to tie it to his family's plan.
Now, this is a classic example of wanting to get your cake and eat it too.
And as a matter of fact, we have some sound from Tom Cotton, Clip 22, Senator Tom Cotton describing that it's a double cross of the first rate.
Now, what do I mean by this?
He negotiates in good faith, Joe Biden, that is, saying we're going to get our infrastructure plan.
It's a negotiated plan.
We've made a lot of concessions.
Instead of it being $2 trillion, we've come down to $1.2 trillion, which I guess is supposed to be a good thing.
And the Republicans can come home and say, hey, look, we limited Washington's runaway spending by only passing $1.2 trillion in infrastructure that, by the way, is also going to potentially destroy the suburbs and eliminate local municipalities' control over their own zoning laws.
Gonna federalize everything, take everything to Washington and control your lives from unelected bureaucrats in the fourth branch of government known as the administrative state.
Nevertheless, Tom Cotton says it right.
Let's play cut 22, talking about the double crossing of the Republicans.
Yeah, Harris, it was pretty remarkable last week.
Washington is a place of a lot of bad faith and even double crossing, but I'm not sure I've ever seen someone double cross his negotiating partners in the span of just two hours when Joe Biden had one press conference with those Republican and Democratic senators to celebrate the deal.
Then two hours later, said he wouldn't sign it unless he got a multi-trillion dollar blowout spending bill.
That's right.
So he double crosses the Republicans.
And by the way, shame on them for even negotiating in good faith with the administration.
Shame on them.
They should know better.
Nevertheless, the Biden administration gets their win.
They get their photo op and they get their cake and they get to eat it too because what they're going to do is attempt to pass this behemoth of a spending bill called the American Families Plan Act.
Now, I'm trying to break this down in understandable terms for you all.
Not that you're stupid or dumb.
You're actually incredibly smart.
Audience is one of the most intelligent in the entire country.
It's just complicated because they want it to be complicated.
Now, I mentioned this senator's name before.
I want you to keep tabs on him because he might be the first break on the Republican side that can lead to other breaks.
Now, we just need, again, remember, to get below that 60-vote threshold.
So we have 11 Republicans.
We need to get down to at least nine so that they can't push this through.
And we cannot give him a win on this, by the way, because guess what?
We couldn't get infrastructure passed when President Trump was in office.
Why?
Speaker Pelosi said exactly, because we don't want to give President Trump a win.
So why would we do the same back for them?
Ask yourself that question.
So breaking this down in sort of bite-sized terms, okay?
So you've got Manchin in cinema, Kirsten Cinema, on one side of the ledger on the Democrat side.
Now, on Sunday, Manchin said, he sort of drew a line in the sand.
He said, I'm willing to meet everyone halfway.
He said this on ABC with Jonathan Carl this week.
If Republicans don't want to make adjustments to a tax code, which I think is weighted and unfair, then I'm willing to go reconciliation.
That's how you're able to do it.
But if they think in reconciliation, I'm going to throw caution to the wind and go to $5 trillion or $6 trillion when we can only afford $1 trillion or $1.5 trillion or maybe $2 trillion.
So already we know he'll go to two.
And what we can pay for it, then I can't be there.
So in response to that, just to be clear, Producer Connor sent me a note.
He's absolutely right.
We can't afford any of this.
Our debt and deficits are through the roof already.
We are debt financing all of this.
We are swiping a credit card.
Joe Biden is swiping a credit card like he knows he will not be alive to pay it off.
Remember that.
When you've got an almost octogenarian in office, he doesn't care about the debt and deficits.
He's not going to be around to pay it off.
He wants to go down in history as this progressive icon of the radical left.
He wants to say, listen, everybody thought I was just Uncle Joe and that I was this moderate.
Biden Swiping Credit Cards 00:08:05
Well, guess who passed all this sweeping legislation that was a generational investment in the American way of life?
And it's not, by the way, it's an investment to deconstruct the American way of life.
So a little while after Manchin goes on, he said, I'm not going to go up to $6 trillion.
This is just crazy.
Senator Bernie Sanders tweeted, let me be clear, there will not be a bipartisan infrastructure deal without a reconciliation bill that substantially improves the lives of working families and combats the existential threat of climate change.
No reconciliation bill, no deal.
We need transformative change now.
Also, another octogenarian that won't be around to pay off any of these bills.
So putting this again in as simple of terms as possible, here are your rough numbers to keep in mind.
You got three key players.
You got Biden, you got Sanders, you got Manchin.
Kirsten Sinema, we still don't know much from her yet, although she is a defender of the filibuster.
And as long as she is a defender of the filibuster, we're going to have her back.
Sanders wants $5 trillion.
That's his bottom number.
He maybe wants six.
Biden wants $3 trillion.
Manchin says he would go as high as potentially two.
Now, again, to keep these things separate, you've got an infrastructure deal at $1.2 trillion.
I know this is complicated.
It took me all morning to figure it out.
As a matter of fact, we've been studying this for weeks.
$1.2 trillion is a bipartisan deal in good faith between the Senate Republicans and Joe Biden.
Then you've got this other bill, the American Families Plan, which is connected to it.
Joe Biden kind of put his bipartisan deal, his photo op deal, in jeopardy by saying it had to be tied to the American Families Plan through reconciliation, which means he needs Manchin and Cinema's support because they're the only ones standing in his way.
So then he walks that back.
He issues this long and windy statement saying, ah, well, they can attempt to defeat the bill in good faith, and I'm going to attempt to pass it.
I've always been very clear about that.
But they're not tied together.
We can pass one without the other.
That's fine.
So if you're a Democrat, you're saying, okay, good news.
We have Manchin's commitment to be in on a reconciliation bill.
The bad news is that our progressive wing of the party is now going to be splintering because he's only willing to go up as high as $2 trillion.
That doesn't get all of our wish list accomplished.
So again, you got Sanders as low as five, but probably it's six.
Sanders wants six.
Octogenarian with a credit card is never a good idea, folks.
You're not even allowed to call these people with unsolicited phone calls.
And these guys are throwing around trillions of dollars in DC that we don't have.
I mean, think about that.
Honestly, think about that.
If you were to target an octogenarian, and no disrespect to our octogenarians listening in the audience, we love you.
We're great.
There's a lot of amazing octogenarians.
But you're not even allowed to target these people with unsolicited mail.
It's like a criminal offense.
Phone calls.
And yeah, it was $5 trillion from Sanders and Biden.
What are you talking about?
Biden, $3 trillion is what he's asking for.
Manchin said he'll go as high as two.
Okay.
So the road ahead is unsure because, as the New York Times admits on Tuesday, this crumbling bipartisan infrastructure plan is exposing cracks in the Democrat coalition.
So this is from the New York Times.
The brewing fight, which pits progressives against moderates, more aligned with the president's tactics, is exposing cracks in the party's fragile strategy for enacting its economic plans, the Times wrote.
President Joe Biden and Republicans struck a $1.2 trillion deal that excludes far-left wish list items that Republicans have rejected, such as universal preschool and community college access, a healthcare expansion, and a broad effort to combat climate change.
Now, again, there's two buckets into which Democrats will justify anything.
That's climate change and racism, systemic racism.
So you just say, oh, we're combating climate change.
They literally will say that single-family homes are the reason to unwind those from a zoning standpoint is because it's climate justice.
I mean, I kid you not.
There's no sense in any of this stuff.
So Joe Biden says, well, he threatens, I'm not going to pass this bipartisan infrastructure bill unless I get my reconciliation bill.
And then Joe Manchin says, whoa, slow your horses.
We're not going to do $6 trillion in spending.
This is a disaster.
Maybe I'll go two.
Okay, so we're working with $2 trillion on the table.
Manchin holds all the cards.
But this is, and so, and then, by the way, is there Joe Biden walks it back?
He's, ah, no, no, no, it's not tied to it.
This is really frustrating the progressive wing of the Democrat Party.
So you got to remember, this $1.2 trillion deal excludes wishlist items because the Republicans have rejected it, such as universal preschool and community college access, a healthcare expansion, and a broad effort to combat climate change.
Now, the Republicans are saying, well, you've got to come up with ways to pay for this.
So they have conceded $40 billion to enlarge the IRS.
They're going to weaponize the IRS to find money that they think is out there and rightly due to the federal government.
We should all be terrified of that.
If anybody remembers the Obama administration, how the IRS was weaponized against Republicans and conservatives, you should be very, very afraid of that.
And right on queue, President Trump has a statement calling out these Republicans.
So sad to see certain rhino-Republican senators go back and forth to the White House and continually get nothing for infrastructure, anything else.
When will they learn they are being played with and used by the radical left?
And only bad things can happen.
Should have never lost the Senate in the first place.
Thanks, Mitch.
New leadership is needed.
We'll leave that Mitch McConnell statement to the president, and we'll see how Mitch comes out on this infrastructure bill.
I actually think he's going to oppose it.
I think Mitch is too shrewd of a navigator to see any winning scenario in partnering with Joe Biden's White House.
That's just me.
Maybe I have too much faith in the Kentucky senator and the minority leader.
We'll see what happens, as President Trump often says.
Now, here's what's interesting.
I think we need to know our enemy, and I say this, our enemy in a political sense, but really, frankly, in an ideological sense, these are anti-American political radicals that are operating within the chambers of Congress.
These are Marxist folks.
They're not just socialists.
I mean, think about this.
We have Bernie Sanders as a chair of the budget committee in the Senate.
This is terrifying.
A socialist, a guy who has no idea about economics and what it means to pay a bill, is literally in charge of the budget committee.
So, Representative Jaya Paul, Democrat from Washington, told the Times the president can say he's bipartisan.
He can go out and support the deal, but at the end of the day, if he wants it, he's going to have to have the support to support our priorities, meaning the radical, the radical leftists.
Ilhan Omar also explained that, quote, it's really important to know that nothing is going to get accomplished by doing that, namely this bipartisan deal.
She said about Biden's efforts to promote the bipartisan plan across the country.
It's clear a majority of the Democratic caucus, whether progressive or not, is interested in delivering and that delivery will only happen if progressives are on board.
Of course, she says this.
They're wielding their power as best they can.
They understand that politics is a game of the Overton window.
Expand the Overton window as far in your direction as you can to make the outrageous seem reasonable and ultimately the reasonable will be passed through Congress.
However, there's a couple moderates pushing back, and these are the people to keep your eye on.
Representative Tom Malinovsky, Democrat New Jersey, disagreed with his party members and told the Times the Democrats should not focus on the far left's priorities and pass a narrower bipartisan bill.
We're going, quote, we're going to do what we should have done from the start, which is to try to pass a good bipartisan bill, and then Democrats as the majority party will try to legislate.
Moderates Push Back 00:01:18
Now, remember, this is all about 2022.
The Democrats are not sure the best way to defend their very slim majority in the House.
Is it to go moderate, get a bipartisan photo-op bill that doesn't accomplish their wish list items, or is it to go radical and say we delivered on the transformative policies we promised?
That is the question facing the Democrat Party.
It's not yet clear which direction they're going to go, but folks, it's still too close to call.
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