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And across the country. | |
| Coming up Thursday morning, Colorado Republican Representative Jeff Hurd discusses the GOP budget, tariffs, and possible cuts to Medicaid and other government programs. | ||
| Then Michigan Democratic Representative Hillary Shulton talks about Democrats' stance on the budget, tariffs, and the Trump administration. | ||
| C-SPAN's Washington Journal. | ||
| Join in the conversation live at 7 Eastern Thursday morning on C-SPAN. | ||
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| We'll hear from Lynette. | ||
| Lynette joins us from Virginia on our line for independence on perspectives on the president's first 100 days. | ||
| Lynette, good morning. | ||
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Hi, good morning. | |
| I didn't get a chance to watch the rally that he did last night in Michigan, but so far I think he's doing okay. | ||
| Prices need to go down some. | ||
| I don't notice that they're going up. | ||
| Like some people are always calling in saying prices are going up. | ||
| I don't notice that, but I do notice that they haven't gone down much yet. | ||
| They're kind of still the same. | ||
| But I am looking forward to watching him on News Nation tonight and the town hall meeting with Chris Cuomo at 8 o'clock this evening. | ||
| Well, when you say things are okay, are you looking primarily at prices or are you looking at other things? | ||
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I'm just really looking at prices. | |
| That was my main thing. | ||
| And also the illegal immigrant. | ||
| So he's taking care of that. | ||
| You know, he is making changes on that. | ||
| Gotcha. | ||
| Lynette and Virginia, viewers, you'll probably notice by now what's behind me as far as the signs the White House has put up on the driveway there taking a look at the president's deportation efforts. | ||
| Let's hear from Christine. | ||
| Christine in Massachusetts, Democrats line, hi there. | ||
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Hi, how are you doing this morning? | |
| Yes, I think it's been a horrible 100 days. | ||
| God knows what's coming next. | ||
| The bigger picture of everything he's doing should scare the hell out of everybody. | ||
| He's breaking the law. | ||
| He doesn't seem to care. | ||
| People don't seem to care that he's breaking the law. | ||
| And then he has a gall to talk about the rule of law in his speech like it's some, you know, pastime. | ||
| It's just, it's just horrific. | ||
| Everything's gone haywire. | ||
| We have more enemies than we ever had friends. | ||
| It's amazing to me how people just follow him. | ||
| And it starts off with, oh, you're going to feel a little bit of pain. | ||
| Oh, it might be longer. | ||
| Oh, it might be permanent. | ||
| And people just lead. | ||
| They just follow him like he's got a flute that's leading them. | ||
| It's like, wake up. | ||
| He's playing you. | ||
| He's playing you like there's no tomorrow. | ||
| This Bitcoin is meme coin. | ||
| He's just filling and lining his pockets. | ||
| Well, back to the original point you made as far as breaking the law specifically. | ||
| What do you mean by that? | ||
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When he says the courts, he can get that person back. | |
| He has no intentions just because he knows he doesn't have to. | ||
| Even though he's been told by a court of law to do so. | ||
| They can deport people. | ||
| Just do it lawfully. | ||
| You're not above the law. | ||
| You need to make sure these people aren't American. | ||
| And you need to make sure they're not legal, especially when you're laughing and say you can't get them back. | ||
| Like, oh, well, it's not a big deal. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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It is a big deal. | |
| If it's your loved one over there. | ||
| Christine in Massachusetts. | ||
| Let's go to David. | ||
| David's in North Carolina. | ||
| Republican line. | ||
| Hi there. | ||
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Hi. | |
| First 100 days, of course, the extension of his previous presidency, but maybe with better staff. | ||
| He brought out some key things that Americans are waking up to. | ||
| Inflation is not high prices. | ||
| Inflation is the increase in the money supply. | ||
| And one of the effects of an inflated money supply is increased prices, and that has to do with supply and demand. | ||
| Very important, another aspect of supply and demand is we've had an unexpected increase of 20 million consumers that drives up the demand and the price for mainly fuel and housing and food. | ||
| So he's brought those things into the forefront. | ||
| And cutting a budget is inevitable. | ||
| We have a serious budget crisis. | ||
| And I'd like to, as a corollary to that, I would like to say democracy does not equal free stuff. | ||
| It's not the government's job to take care of people. | ||
| So we will have to cut. | ||
| The biggest part of the federal debt is the only way to really save it is to cut back on social programs. | ||
| You look at food stamps and Medicaid. | ||
| They have to be adjusted. | ||
| It's inevitable, and there will be great pain. | ||
| He's bringing this to the forefront early, and we have to get used to it. | ||
| But the biggest thing with the great pain that we're going to face, and it doesn't matter who's in the White House because of congressional spending, the great pain is coming. | ||
| And what it takes for a leader to do is to say, we're all sailing the USS America. | ||
| We're all in the same ship. | ||
| So we have to think of making America stable again and solid again financially. | ||
| And he's one that could do that if people would just stop hating him. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| That's David there in North Carolina, the House and the Senate both working on bills to get the president's legislative agenda done, including tax cuts later on. | ||
| This morning, gross domestic product numbers expected out. | ||
| Taking a look at the bigger economic picture, you can factor those things too as you make your comments on these first 100 days. | ||
| Let's go to Sid, Sid in Maryland, Independent Line. | ||
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Hi. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| The biggest success is immigration and the Board of Security. | ||
| And President Trump has put Americans first. | ||
| Why is that such a problem for Democrats? | ||
| Why is that such a problem for Democrats who are advocating for illegal immigrants? | ||
| And they have to go all the way to El Salvador to support MS-13 gang members. | ||
| I don't think they even know the reality of MS-13 and how dangerous they are. | ||
| They want to put them in our communities so they can commit crime that they have already committed. | ||
| I fully support the president's 100, first 100 days. | ||
| So, as far as immigration, what do you think he's actually achieved? | ||
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He is enforcing the law. | |
| If you cross the border, come here illegally, you've already broken the law. | ||
| And I don't think they deserve due process. | ||
| If you've broken the law, you don't deserve due process. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Okay. | ||
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If you come here legally, yes, then I think you deserve due process. | |
| Yes. | ||
| I support the immigration czar. | ||
| I do. | ||
| He's right. | ||
| And this time, he's got fighters in his cabinet who will stand up for him and fight, like Stephen Miller, Carolyn Levitt, Tom Holman, Pam Bondi. | ||
| There's more people like Trump in the cabinet today to support him. | ||
| He didn't have that in his first term. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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That's all I got to say. | |
| Sid in Maryland giving us his thoughts on immigration, particularly listening off all those key people that's around the president when it comes to immigration policy, those key people in and around the building behind me, the White House, as they work on these issues, other people too, when they come and work on policy matters. | ||
| Again, you can make immigration part of the first 100 days and your take on it. | ||
| You can also talk about the economy and other factors too. | ||
| The numbers there on the screen. | ||
| I'll pick the one that best represents you. | ||
| And if you would, if you called the last 30 days, hold off from doing so today. | ||
| Florida is next. | ||
| Barney, hello, Democrats line. | ||
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Yes, this guy talking about the law. | |
| And we got a 32-time convicted felon running the United States. | ||
| This is absolutely ridiculous. | ||
| And what happened to the 75 million people that overstayed their visas, mostly white people? | ||
| What's the problem with that part? | ||
| Are they deporting any white people? | ||
| None. | ||
| None. | ||
| This is absolutely ridiculous. | ||
| We got a habitual predator in the White House. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| Let me share that. | ||
| Barney and Florida Democrats line. | ||
| We're back to John McCurdle. | ||
| Pedro, how do you measure a first 100 days? | ||
| That's a question a lot of people are asking. | ||
| There's a lot of numbers out there to do it. | ||
| Let me take you through some of those stories about measuring the president's second first 100 days, the first 100 days of his second term. | ||
| This is from the Independents out of the United Kingdom. | ||
| Over 200 lawsuits, 142 executive orders, and 24 days golfing. | ||
| Trump's first 100 days by the numbers. | ||
| Their story dives into it. | ||
| One of the big measuring points is approval ratings. | ||
| You can see Donald Trump's first and second terms with his average approval rating from national polls about in the low 40s. | ||
| That compares to Ronald Reagan in the high 60s, Barack Obama in the low 60s, and George H.W. Bush also at 60%. | ||
| And his son, George W. Bush, also right around 60%. | ||
| Joe Biden at this point was at 53% in the average of national polling of approval ratings. | ||
| There's another way to measure it that some have looked at, and that's posting online. | ||
| The Economist calls Donald Trump America's poster-in-chief, and he is very, very online. | ||
| They write the prolific social media influencer has churned out about 4,149 words a week on Truth, Social, and X. That's nearly a newspaper op-ed every day, if you want to look at it that way. | ||
| And then here's just a few more by the numbers from the Hill newspaper, their wrap-up. | ||
| 142 executive orders breaking the record for the most executive orders by a president in the first 100 days. | ||
| Former President Franklin D. Roosevelt had the record with 99, and that was to tackle the Great Depression. | ||
| Also, there's 123 active lawsuits against Donald Trump. | ||
| Five bills have been signed into law. | ||
| That's fewer than any president's first 100 days since at least the 1950s. | ||
| And then 7.9% is how much the S ⁇ P 500 has dropped since Donald Trump took office. | ||
| This is the second worst record, only trailing former President Nixon's second term. | ||
| For context, the S ⁇ P 500 usually rises about 2% in the first 100 days of a new administration. | ||
| That's, Pedro, just some of the by the numbers, and there's plenty more ways to measure it out there. | ||
| And one of those ways they're measuring the issues of immigration and deportation, like we've told you at this location at the White House, those signs that you can see behind me, you'll remember that it was last month that the president during his address to Congress talked about specifically his efforts on immigration. | ||
| Just to give you some perspective on these 100 days, let's go back in time to that point, and here's what he had to say about it. | ||
| Since taking office, my administration has launched the most sweeping border and immigration crackdown in American history, and we quickly achieved the lowest numbers of illegal border crossers ever recorded. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation. | ||
| We must have legislation to secure the border. | ||
| But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president. | ||
| Joe Biden didn't just open our borders. | ||
| He flew illegal aliens over them to overwhelm our schools, hospitals, and communities throughout the country. | ||
| Entire towns like Aurora, Colorado, and Springfield, Ohio buckled under the weight of the migrant occupation and corruption like nobody's ever seen before. | ||
| Beautiful towns destroyed. | ||
| Now, just as I promised in my inaugural address, we are achieving the great liberation of America. | ||
| Again, you can see all these events of the president from our website at c-span.org. | ||
| You can follow the recent events on our free app at C-SPAN now. | ||
| Pebble Beach is what this area is known as. | ||
| And as you see there, tents where various media outlets have a chance to do stand-ups and other interviews. | ||
| And that's where we are today outside the White House. | ||
| And we will be for the next remaining time for our program. | ||
| You can call in on the president's first 100 days, 202-748-8001 for Republicans, 202-748-8000 for Democrats. | ||
| Independents, 202-748-8002. | ||
| Let's go to Frank. | ||
| Frank, NDC, Republican line. | ||
| Hi there. | ||
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Hey, good morning. | |
| I just wanted to call in and say that I am just absolutely proud to see a renewed focus on military readiness in the president's first 100 days. | ||
| I mean, the commitment to cutting through bureaucratic red tape and streamlining defense priorities certainly sends a strong signal to allies and adversaries alike. | ||
| You know, further positive steps are being taken to restore pride, discipline, and efficiency across the ranks. | ||
| I'm seeing that. | ||
| And these reforms certainly prioritize our mission readiness and empower our service members that are long overdue and finally getting that attention. | ||
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And lastly, I would just say that support for warfighters certainly could not be mired in red tape. | |
| And I'm encouraged to see that's putting capability and lethality over paperwork and politics. | ||
| And so as a proud American lifelong servant of this nation, it just feels better today. | ||
| And there's something powerful about hearing others out from the mountaintop with a renewed sense of pride, discipline, and urgency. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| In Kansas, we go next to Mike, Independent Line. | ||
| Hi. | ||
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Hey, good morning. | |
| Thank God for C-SPAN. | ||
| You're on, sir. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| This first 100 days with Mr. Trump, I finally figured out what MAGA actually stands for. | ||
| He's making America go away. | ||
| And he's doing it step by step. | ||
| And all these MAGA guys out there, they have what I call Trump is my savior, Sandra. | ||
| He lies every day, believe it, and they'll do anything that he says. | ||
| And that's all I got to say. | ||
| When you said when you gave your variation of the theme on MAGA, what did you mean by that when you say making America go away? | ||
| Specifically, what do you point to? | ||
| Oh, he's gone. | ||
| Let's go to Florida, Peter. | ||
| Democrats line hi. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Good morning. | ||
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Anyways, I called in about three months ago, and what I say, watching the Trump administration is like watching an accident where you have, you know, an accident and eight people, and everybody walk away with a different idea of what happened at the accident. | |
| Now, I think Trump's leading us down the wrong road. | ||
| And somehow we've got to reel them in. | ||
| When you say leading us down the wrong road, give an example of one of the ways you think that's happening. | ||
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Well, with the tariffs, and, you know, the way he talks and promises stuff. | |
| And look, I'm still buying eggs. | ||
| The other day I bought them. | ||
| It was almost $6 a dozen just for regular large eggs. | ||
| And a lot of the things he spreads are falsehoods, I believe. | ||
| But, you know, I don't know everything, but I think he's like a small child. | ||
| He's got to be paddled and sold in. | ||
| Peter there in Florida calling in, giving his thoughts on the first 100 days. | ||
| You can do the same. | ||
| The numbers will be on the screen. | ||
| Text us if you wish at 202-748-8003. | ||
| And you can always post on our social media sites at facebook.com/slash C-SPAN on X. You can do that at C-SPANWJ. | ||
| The numbers there. | ||
| 30 days is what we ask you to hold off between calls. | ||
| One of the people that have been calling us for years on this program on the 30-day mark is Joe in LAJ, Georgia, Republican line. | ||
| Hello, Joe. | ||
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Pedro, a lot of C-SPAN enemies. | |
| Say hello to my friend John McLaughlin. | ||
| I think Trump is the best leader in the history of the world. | ||
| I think the stock market in the next couple of years will break every record. | ||
| I just thank God for Donald John Trump. | ||
| I think he is by far the best leader in the history of the world. | ||
| And we down here in LA J, we love him. | ||
| He won 85% of the vote in my county of Gilmer, which is the home county of LAJ. | ||
| And anyway, we're just fired up, Pedro. | ||
| LAJ win 85% for him in the election. | ||
| So I think Donald John Trump is by far the finest leader in the history of the world. | ||
| And I think the stock market in the next four years will break every record. | ||
| And all I've been doing, Pedro, is buying more blue chip. | ||
| The other den paying stocks. | ||
| Joe in Georgia, again, a regular viewer of this program, a regular caller, too. | ||
| Let's go next to George, Georgia, North Carolina, Independent Line. | ||
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Hi. | |
| Hello. | ||
| There's two things I'd like to state on. | ||
| I'll try to be quick. | ||
| I talked to a lot of people about politics, and I've realized the people who really support Trump, all they listen to is Fox and Newsmax. | ||
| So I've asked them what they listen to. | ||
| And Murdoch, the CEO of Newsmax, when he was being sued for $787 million, he literally told the judge, yes, we lie and mislead our viewers. | ||
| We have to. | ||
| If we don't, they go to Newsmax. | ||
| And anyone can look that up. | ||
| That's the truth. | ||
| And Humpty Dumpty, he said the other day that gas prices are $1.98 in several states. | ||
| There's no state in the country that's $1.98. | ||
| He said egg prices are down 90%. | ||
| There's no place in this country that's down 90%. | ||
| And all those people who are standing around Humpty Dumpty, they all just stand there and smile and nod their head, knowing that he's flat out lying to them. | ||
| And something's got to happen. | ||
| This guy just flat out lies and lies and lies. | ||
| Humpty Dumpty's got to go. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Goodbye. | ||
| Michigan is where the president was yesterday. | ||
| Eddie is there in Saginaw. | ||
| Democrats line. | ||
| Hello. | ||
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Hey, how are you doing there, Pedro? | |
| Good morning to you. | ||
| As a Democrat, now I do like, I mean, Trump got a lot of good points, what he's doing. | ||
| And as far as this immigration deal, that I see all these pictures behind you, I guess that they arrested these people for illegally coming in here to the United States. | ||
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No, he's not arresting the people that come in the front door. | |
| He arresting and beating the people off the street that came in the back door, which is illegal. | ||
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So I don't have no problem with him arresting the illegal peoples. | |
| But you don't hear nothing about him arresting what's coming the front door. | ||
| And then on this security and Medicare, Medicare, he's cutting the waste out of the programs. | ||
| He's not going after people and going to take their Medicare or stop or cut their security checks. | ||
| He's not doing that. | ||
| So the people, a lot of things that they say, they don't be saying it correctly. | ||
| And I think as a Democrat, I think he's doing a real good job. | ||
| And I hope he continues. | ||
| Now, as far as the prices in the store, yeah, they are still a little high. | ||
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And as far as the gas, yes, it's still a little high. | |
| The gas go up and go down. | ||
| The last time I was in the store, which was yesterday, some of the prices are high. | ||
| So I hope there's something that he can do about that. | ||
| Other than that, thank you, Pedro. | ||
| That's Eddie Calling from Michigan. | ||
| You can continue to do the same on the phone lines. | ||
| You can text us your thoughts. | ||
| You can post on social media your thoughts as well as we are during the course of the morning. | ||
| We have a lot of locations going on today. | ||
| We are here at the White House. | ||
| You've heard from John McCarto there at our main HQ and also our C-SPAN cameras, which regularly do day in and day out going to Congress. | ||
| And that's where we're going now. | ||
| Representative Kevin Hearn joining us, a Republican from Oklahoma. | ||
| He is a member of the Ways and Means Committee joining us to talk about the president's first 100 days. | ||
| Representative Hearn, good morning. | ||
| Thanks for joining us. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| Good to be with you. | ||
| How would you assess the last 100? | ||
| Well, it's certainly been fast and furious, not only for the White House, but for us here in Congress, working on things like securing the southern border, you know, bringing transparency to government and accountability for so long. | ||
| Many Republicans, if not all, have talked about the waste, fraud, and abuse in government for decades. | ||
| Even some Democrats who care about spending have talked about it. | ||
| President Trump's actually doing something about it. | ||
| And then certainly what we're seeing with their releasing our energy production as he's done for the great state of mine, Oklahoma, Texas, so many others that produce the energy in this nation to keep us secure. | ||
| We heard from John McCarto earlier about the president signing five bills into office and comparing that to other administrations. | ||
| Legislatively, where do you think this 100 days has been, not only for you on Capitol Hill, but working with the White House? | ||
| Well, certainly he's moving at lightning speed with the executive orders, things that most of us, if not all of us, on the Republican Party approve with. | ||
| And by the way, there are some Democrats that quietly say they approve with them as well. | ||
| They're just, you know, they're just told they can't support them. | ||
| You talk about the five bills we passed. | ||
| Remind everybody that's watching and listening. | ||
| Republican Party, if we want limited government, you don't need to keep adding hundreds and hundreds of bills every single month, as it's been often done here in Congress. | ||
| We want to skinny down government, limit government, which is a principle of our American founders. | ||
| And the only way you're really going to do that is to cut the spending that goes out into some of these wasted bureaucracies that are out there. | ||
| And President Trump doge initially, now the cabinet secretaries are doing just that. | ||
| One of the things that Congress has been tasked with is passing this legislative bill of the president. | ||
| He said the other day he'd like to see that done, at least the tax portions of it by July the 4th. | ||
| What do you think about that as a deadline? | ||
| Well, I'm on Ways and Means. | ||
| I'm on the tax writing subcommittee. | ||
| Chairman Jason Smith has done a fantastic job of making sure that we're all informed. | ||
| It's important for everybody to note that this bill was passed, obviously, 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act back almost eight years ago now. | ||
| Many of the people that were in Congress are no longer here. | ||
| So the chairman of Ways and Means, Chairman Smith, is tasked with bringing everybody up to speed, which he's been doing over the past year, knowing that we anticipated being in the majority as early as March of last year. | ||
| So we've been working with working groups, having policy hours, having policy sequestrations in the Library of Congress so that we could get up to speed for this very moment. | ||
| We're excited. | ||
| We're ready to go. | ||
| We're going to meet the Memorial Day deadline. | ||
| What do you think are the hurdles then if you want to meet that deadline? | ||
| What are the hurdles? | ||
| Well, I think it would have been much more difficult had we broken up the bill as originally was anticipated. | ||
| Chairman Smith, the Speaker of the House, and others really put their case forward with the president that we needed to pass one big beautiful bill as it's been called so far because then everybody gets a little bit of everything. | ||
| Nobody's going to get 100% of what they want when you're doing the legislative process. | ||
| Ronald Reagan reminded us back in the day that if you could get 80% of what you wanted, you should call it a day and move on. | ||
| And that's what we're moving for. | ||
| That's what we're shooting for, is that everybody gets something that they can go home and tell their constituents that they're working hard for them. | ||
| It was yesterday it was reported in a couple outlets that was Representative Don Bacon speaking out about concerns over cuts to Medicaid saying he would only accept up to $500 billion in cuts. | ||
| If that's the case and if others follow along, what complications does that mean for passing legislation that you want to pass? | ||
| Well, you know, Energy and Commerce is where the Medicaid waste is being looked at, things that streamline Medicaid. | ||
| It's not about cutting the benefits to those who deserve them. | ||
| Just as the President said on the campaign trail all last year, he's kept his promises. | ||
| He talked about tariff. | ||
| He kept those. | ||
| He talked about not touching Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits. | ||
| He has said that not only to you all in the press, but also to us in private. | ||
| And so we're doing everything that's out there possible to get after the duplicative spending on the backside of the administrative cost, work requirements, which is an 87% polled United States desire for people to get benefits from the American government, from taxpayers, that they work, if they're eligible and able to work. | ||
| And so all of these things are components of that. | ||
| And I think as we go forward, Congressman Bacon is going to be able to see some of those works. | ||
| He's a great member of Congress in a tough district in Omaha, and so he knows exactly what he's talking about. | ||
| Representative, a lot of this banks on ultimately what the president does with tariffs. | ||
| What do you think about the possibility of tariffs complicating matters if, especially if inflation occurs or if a lot of these deals that they say they want to pass don't get passed? | ||
| I don't think it's going to have impact on the tax policies we're moving forward. | ||
| The president made campaign promises that got him elected, that helped us get into the majority in the Senate, stay in the majority in the House. | ||
| We have the so-called trifecta. | ||
| We're going to work hard over the next 16 months to exercise and execute that agenda. | ||
| Certainly the things that are before us right now are getting this reconciliation package done by the 4th of July and Independence Day. | ||
| I would argue that it's another Independence Day for the American people to be separated further from the federal government. | ||
| What we've seen over the decades and now what we've seen the last four years, it cannot continue for our kids and grandkids with $2 trillion in deficits and $37 trillion in debt. | ||
| This president wants to do something about it. | ||
| He's doing something about it. | ||
| Congress is here to support him. | ||
| The president has said over the last couple of days, at least in interviews, about this idea of maybe eliminating or highly reducing income taxes because of what can be done on tariff policy. | ||
| What's the reality of that? | ||
| Well, we just have to see what the 10% tariff policy around the world does as far as generating income. | ||
| We have to see the reaction. | ||
| Certainly around the world, other leaders are going to have reactionary measures, policies they put in place. | ||
| But I think it's important that many people in Congress, I would say most of the United States, had no idea that other countries around the world have been imposing import tariffs on our products that we're sending them for literally decades. | ||
| And the president has called that out. | ||
| They've put up trade barriers, whether it's safety barriers that only apply to a United States-produced product like cars, and not put it on their own cars like in Japan. | ||
| And so the president's addressing each one of these, whether it's in France. | ||
| I mean, there are so many out there that have come forward. | ||
| I talk with the Secretary of the Treasury often. | ||
| I certainly talk with the legislative staff of the president. | ||
| All of these things are important. | ||
| They're moving at warped speed. | ||
| I don't think they thought this many people would come to the table all so quickly. | ||
| We're seeing what China's happening. | ||
| The economy in China is eroding very quickly. | ||
| They're looking at a reduction in their optimism. | ||
| So all these things are happening very quickly. | ||
| And it's only just now been 100 days. | ||
| And we're starting the first day of the next 100 days. | ||
| Before we let you go, it was Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader, in a letter to his fellow Democrats. | ||
| He assessed, he said this. | ||
| He said, Donald Trump and rubber stamp Republicans in Congress are crashing the economy, driving us towards a recession, and assaulting the American way of life. | ||
| What do you think of that assessment? | ||
| Well, so far he's been wrong. | ||
| The economy hasn't crashed. | ||
| Yes, there's been a dip in the Wall Street and the stock market, but now we've had six days in a row and the futures look like it's going to be another positive day. | ||
| And listen, for the American people, I'd much rather follow a Donald Trump who's securing our southern border, who's bringing energy security back to us in the world, who's trying to stop the chaos around the world in wars, as opposed to the Democrats and the leader of the Democrat Party when they're following Joe Biden, who didn't even know he was in the White House, when he was allowing people to leave Afghanistan, creating 13 Gold Star families because they have a crazy pullout, | ||
| allowing the Russian-Ukrainian war to start, all the chaos with Iran, the Houthis, the Hezbollah, and Hamas. | ||
| I would much rather for the American people to follow Donald Trump than Joe Biden. | ||
| Representative Kevin Hearn, Republican of Oklahoma, member of the Ways and Means Committee, one of several guests joining us throughout the course of the morning to talk about the first 100 days. | ||
| Representative Hearn, thank you for your time. | ||
| Thanks, Pedro. | ||
| We will continue on with calls right after this news hit with John McCurdle. | ||
| Pedro, I want to show you what's going on on the White House social media page, specifically this montage of photos that was released yesterday by the White House. | ||
| You can take a look at it. | ||
| It's 100 photos over the first 100 days of the president's term in office. | ||
| It includes Oval Office meetings with the likes of Kid Rock, meeting with sports teams, champions, executive order signings, pictures from Air Force One, presidential visits, and the presidential limousine going out on the track at Daytona 500. | ||
| That's from the official White House page. | ||
| This is from the official ex-page of the Vice President, JD Vance. | ||
| He sent this out yesterday on the president's first 100 days, speaking about his appreciation for all that the president has done in that time. | ||
| He said President Trump has made historic progress in the first 100 days, but he's also revealed the ways in which the entrenched bureaucracy in Washington is working to undermine the will of the American people. | ||
| Thank God we have a president who is fighting back. | ||
| The vice president with that post yesterday. | ||
| And then a post today from the president's former vice president, Mike Pence, sending out the link to his Wall Street Journal article today. | ||
| That article appears in the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| What the 47th President Can Learn from the 45th is the headline. | ||
| And the former vice president, Mike Pence, ends his column this way. | ||
| President Trump deserves credit for an energetic and effective start. | ||
| His instincts on security, strength, and sovereignty are as sharp as ever. | ||
| But if we want to see this nation become truly great again, we can't exchange time-tested conservative principles for populist platitudes. | ||
| We need to stand with our allies and stand up to our enemies. | ||
| We need to cut taxes and tariffs, keep our military strong and well-funded, and lead on the world stage. | ||
| A strong first hundred days is a foundation, but only a return to the conservative principles that guided our administration and achieved peace and prosperity during the president's first term will ensure that this administration builds something lasting for the president's legacy and for America's future. | ||
| Mike Pence, writing today in the pages of the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| As the sun rises here in Washington, D.C., we are at the White House again. | ||
| Pebble Beach is the location. | ||
| That's the shot from down the line of those tents. | ||
| You've probably seen them in use as you watch the various networks as they use them. | ||
| For our purposes this morning, we are using them to talk to you about the first 100 days and your view of it. | ||
| 202-748-8001 for Republicans, 202-748-8000 for Democrats. | ||
| And Independents, 202-748-8002 is how you can reach out to us. | ||
| The social media sites there too. | ||
| If you want to do that, texting is available to you as well. | ||
| This is Kevin in Illinois, Republican Line. | ||
| Thank you for waiting. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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You're very welcome, sir, and good morning. | |
| And God bless America. | ||
| God bless Donald Trump. | ||
| The first hundred days, they have been amazing. | ||
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He's one amazing man, and I'll tell you what, he's a genius. | |
| And all you have to do is just look over your shoulder and look at those signs. | ||
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He's putting in people's face whether they like it or not. | |
| But I tell you what, he knows the world. | ||
| He knows what he's doing. | ||
| He's got the world's attention. | ||
| He's given us respect. | ||
| He's given us respect. | ||
| He's just amazing, just simply amazing. | ||
| But don't forget, it's all because of God. | ||
| It's all because of Jesus. | ||
| You don't just do these things as a human. | ||
| God's leading him and guiding him. | ||
| That's how our country started: with God and with Jesus. | ||
| So as long as we have faith, and as long as we have a leader that believes in God, not the Koran, and he believes that there's three kinds of people. | ||
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You have men, you have women, and you have those who are, if you're not sure what you are, you're crazy. | |
| And as far as the TV and what they show, and they need to get a, I don't know, a paramedic like at the view because they're all in cardiac arrest. | ||
| These are people who was wanting to destroy our country. | ||
| I mean, think about it. | ||
| We've got 150 Chinese nationalists that came across the border. | ||
| Now, what if you open your door and you look out? | ||
| You got China taking you over. | ||
| You know, I mean, they didn't come here on vacation. | ||
| They're out to kill us. | ||
| They're out to destroy us. | ||
| But God's not going to let that happen because our country was found on that. | ||
| But I love that. | ||
| Okay, Kevin in Illinois, thank you. | ||
| Let's hear from another Illinoisan. | ||
| This is Randy on our Independent Line. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Yeah, hey, Pedro. | |
| I like to say, hey, you look healthy out there in all that fresh air. | ||
| It's a nice change of face. | ||
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I'm not going to lie. | |
| I only got one thing, Pedro. | ||
| It's about he got a big thing on this, bringing back all these jobs and everything from Mexico and from China. | ||
| Now, the big one that he really gets on to is the big one in Indiana, the big Honda plant that's coming back. | ||
| Pedro, are those plants all going to be, when they come back, the hundreds or thousands, he's saying, are they going to be union plants? | ||
| Are they going to pay a good wage? | ||
| Because, you know, China pays a lot less than what we pay here. | ||
| So will they be paying a good wage to the American people to survive? | ||
| So that's all I'd have to say, Pedro. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Auto policy and auto-tariff policy, some announcements yesterday from the White House, particularly when it comes to parts. | ||
| That's a viewer there talking about that. | ||
| Robert in Texas joins us next. | ||
| Robert's on our line for Democrats. | ||
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Hi. | |
| Hello, Robert. | ||
| Hello. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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You hear me? | |
| Yep. | ||
| You're a little hollow. | ||
| Try getting closer to your phone. | ||
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Okay, can you hear me now? | |
| A little better. | ||
| Yeah, go ahead. | ||
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I want to say he done a good job when it comes down to removing these people that may be gang members and stuff like that. | |
| But when it comes down to everything else for the first time a day, he did them to lie to people completely. | ||
| See, like at his rather today, yesterday, he got there and said, gas, wherever he's there, it's $1.95 a gallon, $1.90 something. | ||
| All you got to do is Google where he's at. | ||
| 10 stations, they're all above $2.60. | ||
| So now I can't understand why people believe in the stuff he's saying. | ||
| That's what I'm trying. | ||
| I want to say. | ||
| Google it. | ||
| You'll find out what the gas price is where he's at. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| This is Robert. | ||
| Bernadette is next. | ||
| Bernadette in Maryland, Republican line. | ||
| Hi. | ||
| Bernadette in Maryland. | ||
| Hello. | ||
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Hey, good morning. | |
| I just wanted to say that I'm disappointed in his first 100 days. | ||
| I did read 2025, Project 2025, and I guess I was one of the people who didn't completely believe what it said. | ||
| I was looking for other things. | ||
| He has totally disappointed me. | ||
| And I'll be glad when they get that orange clown out the office. | ||
| As a Republican, why is he disappointing you? | ||
| Ah, she's gone. | ||
| But Barry joins us. | ||
| Barry's on our line for independence, Long Island. | ||
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Hello. | |
| Yes, good morning. | ||
| How you doing? | ||
| Fine, thank you. | ||
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Good. | |
| Listen, I just want to say, you know, Trump is, he's not doing these things to be politically popular, it seems to me. | ||
| But these are the things that need to be done. | ||
| These are the necessary steps that must be taken. | ||
| There is no president in the last 40 years who's confronted China. | ||
| From the day China was led into the WTO, they cheat. | ||
| They've been cheating. | ||
| They've been dumping goods, wiping out businesses here. | ||
| They're manipulating their currency, and they're stealing our intellectual property. | ||
| What president has confronted China like Trump is doing? | ||
| Nobody. | ||
| And as far as immigration, it's obvious that, you know, Joe Biden and the Biden administration let in millions, 10, 15, we have no idea whether it's 20 million, 25 million, 15 million unvetted people. | ||
| That's an extraordinary situation. | ||
| So in order to correct that, Trump has to use extraordinary measures to remove these people. | ||
| You know, I think the problem we're having in America is we're not used to a politician doing what he says he's going to do. | ||
| And people are in shock that somebody is actually confronting the issues that are going to be. | ||
| Well, let me ask you, Barry, you said about China so far tariffs being put into place, but what makes you think that in the long run it's going to change China's position? | ||
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Well, I'm not sure it's going to change China's position. | |
| I'm really not sure about that. | ||
| But the idea is something had to be done. | ||
| Nobody was looking at this. | ||
| You know, I live in New York, and sometimes I drive straight up towards Canada. | ||
| At one time, there was town after town after town that survived and thrived on these little factories. | ||
| That is all gone now because as Ross Perot told us, if you sign NAFTA, you're going to hear a loud sucking sound. | ||
| And that's the jobs leaving America. | ||
| And that has to be confronted to some degree. | ||
| Listen, we're not going to bring back manufacturing the way it was. | ||
| There's a lot of new technology. | ||
| Maybe factories now, instead of having 100 people, are going to have 40 people. | ||
| But somebody has to address the issue. | ||
| Okay, Barry, there in Long Island on our independent line. | ||
| You can keep calling the lines, and we will take many of those calls throughout the course of the three hours together. | ||
| One of the things we'll also show you is a series of interviews that C-SPAN's Tammy Thru Ringer had with people in and around Washington, D.C., the topic being the first 100 days and getting people's assessment of that. | ||
| Here's one of those interviews now. | ||
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I'm Dean Holder from Oklahoma. | |
| And Dean, how would you grade, what grade would you give President Trump for his first 100 days in office? | ||
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10 plus. | |
| What do you like that he's done? | ||
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I like that he's turned the country around. | |
| I like that religion has come to be more open with him than it was with the others. | ||
| Just all around, everything's just good. | ||
| It's just changed in a lot of different ways. | ||
| Is there anything that he's done, any policy or action that you don't like? | ||
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No. | |
| The one that I really like though is the border policy. | ||
| I have two sons that served in the service and one of them was stationed on the border for three years working the border. | ||
| So I'm glad that that has totally turned around. | ||
| You're from Oklahoma. | ||
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Yes, ma'am. | |
| The policies and actions of President Trump, are you seeing the impact there or have you personally been affected by any of them? | ||
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Just with my kids and being in the service and things, you know, like that. | |
| I have noticed in different areas where you go, like people complain because the prices are still high, but actually the prices are dropping. | ||
| Not as fast probably as a lot of people would like, but we're not near as bad off as we were before. | ||
| JP, and I'm from Phoenix, Arizona. | ||
| JP, do you think that President Trump's first 100 days in office have been successful? | ||
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No, I do not. | |
| Let's talk about some of the policies and actions that he's taken. | ||
| Is there anything that you do like that he's done? | ||
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Personally, not really. | |
| Yeah, I really can't pull anything off the top of my head that I agree with him on. | ||
| What about the policies that you don't like? | ||
| What is he doing that you disagree with? | ||
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All of his actions towards immigrants currently, as well as the tariff situation, as well as his defunding of a lot of the federal institutions, especially national parks. | |
| What message would you like to give to President Trump? | ||
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Just that this country was founded and made by immigrants. | |
| We're a melting pot. | ||
| They do a lot of the work that a lot of Americans don't necessarily want to do or enjoy doing. | ||
| And I think that there are better ways to go about the way he's handling things. | ||
| And with the tariff policy, the last thing we need is a trade war. | ||
| We should be building alliances or improving our alliances with the countries that we do work with and trying to do better with those that we don't. |