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March 12, 2025 - The Dan Bongino Show
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Spending Bill Passes House And Everyone Loses Their Mind (Ep. 2440) - 03/12/2025
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Thank you.
Thank you.
Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino.
Hey, I told you.
I took maybe what would have been a controversial stance in the beginning of yesterday's show on the CR thing.
And 90% of people agreed with me.
Fine.
10% didn't.
Fine-er.
That's great.
We appreciate dissent.
We're not the censorship show.
The dissent was basically all insults.
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A big show today because now we've got the CR, which I acknowledge.
I will acknowledge again.
I will say, there are very few words I enjoy saying, but dispositive.
I will say dispositively, the CR sucks.
I get it.
You are 100% correct.
Intentional pregnant pause.
I don't know what, for the 10% of people who disagree with me, they're disagreeing with me on things I agree with.
You're only disagreeing with yourself.
I agree it sucks.
All I asked you for was a plan.
Give me plan B. And I'm not kidding when I tell you this.
I got about 1,000 emails on this.
Probably 200 maybe or so.
So-so, maybe 100 that were negative.
Not a single one had a plan.
They basically said like, we don't like you.
You suck.
Okay, great.
What's your plan?
Well, I don't have one.
Okay, I told you that was going to happen.
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We have a special guest in the studio today.
Who do you guys think it is?
Switch over to the camera.
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Glad to see you have your Yankees jersey on.
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Jim, go ahead and talk back.
No.
Yes, it is.
Yes, it is.
It's meant to look like a Mets jersey, but it is not.
Jim is a big Yankees fan.
Good to have Jim in the studio, acknowledging also that Don Mattingly, who I have his autographed baseball right back there in the case somewhere, Don Mattingly is a...
Actually, you know what?
That's coming up with me to Washington, D.C. I'm taking a Don Mattingly baseball with me.
So thank you, Producer Jim, for that.
I told you guys with the C.R. Bill, can we just stick...
I can't tell you how many times I've had this argument with people.
Do not get emotional about politicians.
Don't do it.
There's this tendency to want to fall in love and out of love with people.
I get it.
I am not insulting you.
I've done it too.
There are people, I can probably name four or five of them.
I've heard them give speeches.
They were Republicans running for office.
And I was like, Damn, this guy is good.
And then you turn out later, and you look up their Liberty score, whatever it may be, and you find out they vote like crap every single time.
Do not fall in love with politicians.
Fall in love with what?
Folks in the chat.
Fall in love with what?
Outcomes.
The problem I had with this continuing resolution bill is it sucks.
The outcome is going to be bad, additional government spending.
So why did we have a vote on it?
Because we don't have an alternate plan to get past the Senate filibuster obstacle.
The only plan is to use reconciliation, which you cannot use with this bill.
So I asked yesterday.
When I did this segment, I have no problem with Congressman Tom Massey whatsoever.
He's been great on the January 6th pipe bomber.
I'm glad he's talking about spending.
I just asked one simple question and the clip went viral yesterday.
Which, by the way, Jim, drove that death of journalism guy crazy.
Did you see that?
He was so upset I commented on it.
Apparently he just figured out I have a political opinion podcast up until Monday.
It's called A Job.
He was shocked.
I got no problem with them.
I don't fall in love or out of love with people.
I just ask, what's the plan?
If we are going to cut spending in the CR, which I would love to see, love it!
I would love it.
Then I'm asking you, how are you going to get the votes?
The answer is, I don't have the votes.
Okay, then the government fake shuts down.
What's your plan to get out of that?
Well, we're going to leave it.
I will give one guy credit.
One guy on Facebook said to me yesterday, basically, Dan, I don't like you.
You're a toolbox.
Keep the government shut down forever for all I care.
All right.
That's your plan.
I'm going to ask you a question, though.
When have we ever won an argument like that?
I'm just asking for appropriate...
Again, I give the guy credit.
That's a plan.
I don't think it's a great plan, but at least he presented a plan.
He said, I don't care.
Keep it shut down until 2028. Here's the thing, though.
Two things.
Excuse me.
Got a little bit of allergies.
Guy is okay.
I absolved Guy of any responsibility for my fake cold.
It was fake.
It is allergies because I took a little bit of allergy medication yesterday and felt great.
Two things.
We just elected Donald Trump to reform government.
It's only been 30 days.
The border crossing numbers have fallen off a cliff.
He is already working on moving around chess pieces in the economy.
He's already moving on dismantling the Department of Education.
It's been about, what, is it 52 days now?
52 days.
Give the guy a chance.
So number one, he's not going to fix everything in this bill right now.
Yeah, it's just unrealistic.
And second, folks, it sucks, but the left-wing media still has some power, and the public just isn't there yet with government shutdowns.
Guys, ladies, people panic with government shutdowns, and it's because the media feeds into the panic.
They tell people receiving Social Security, they're going to cut off your checks, puppies are going to die.
AIDS and cancer research is going to stop and die.
People are going to die everywhere.
Black holes are going to form over there.
It'd be like that movie, that movie when the moon crashes into Earth.
And people believe it.
I'm sorry, but I live in the world that we're stuck with, not the world I would like to kind of mold like Plato.
I get it.
The bill sucks.
You win.
Can we agree?
Can we handshake on it?
I'm simply stating to you, if you don't have some kind of a voting plan, then you're just talking.
Reality matters.
And always measure the effectiveness of what you're doing, by the way, by what?
Tell me in the chat.
If you don't know, I'll be very upset.
How do you know what we're doing is effective?
Because the Democrats freaked out yesterday.
Literally.
There's going to be the liberal use of the word literally in the show today.
Literally.
You'll see.
You know I hate the word, right?
You'll see what I mean in a second, but you're using it.
I'll tell you why.
But it's both sides.
Did you guys pick up on that too?
Both of these clips?
You did, right?
Here first, here is Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.
He knows this is a crap bill, but he knows it's a simple matter of arithmetic.
There was no way to get past the Senate filibuster, and you can't do reconciliation in this bill.
Period.
They weren't going to get Democrat votes on this.
Just a few, and that's it.
Here's Johnson yesterday roasting the liberals on this.
Check this out.
On Friday, they said, quote, Republicans have decided to introduce a partisan continuing resolution that threatens to cut funding for health care, nutritional assistance, and veterans benefits through the end of the year.
Every single word of that is a lie.
Every single word.
They just made it up.
They didn't read the bill.
It's nonsense.
People are not buying this.
And you see the contrast between one party which is leading, moving the ball forward for the American people, and the other that is just screaming.
Weasel Flu says, I literally hate literally.
Yes, me too, brother.
And Leonardo76131, how do you measure it by the reaction of your political opponents, the liberals?
Yes!
So if this was such a horrible thing last night, and I get it, the bill sucks.
I've already said this here.
Period.
I'll put a big...
Dot here.
They're in a corner.
Period.
I get it.
The question isn't does it suck.
It's like being in some foreign prison camp in a communist nation.
Okay, being there sucks.
Do you have a plan to get out?
No, you can complain about it all you want.
How the hell are you going to get out of the prison?
That's the problem.
You need a plan.
Why are the Democrats freaking out and using the word literally?
Why are they freaking out so much if this was such a terrible day?
Let me answer the question for you, because what's the point of being here?
It's not a pop quiz.
It's my job, at least for the next three days.
Gosh, I can't believe it.
Three days.
Man.
I can't believe we're only two shows away from the finale.
When the other side starts losing their mind, folks, it usually means we're doing something right.
Here, let me just lay out for you what they wanted to do.
They wanted the Republicans to not have enough Republican votes to pass this thing.
They wanted the government to shut down the Democrats.
I thought they hated shutdowns.
No, they wanted it.
Because they wanted to say, look at these idiots.
They just got into office.
They have all three.
They have the court system.
They have the executive branch.
They have the House.
They have the Senate.
And they can't even pass a spending bill.
That was going to be their message.
I'm not telling you it's right.
And they wanted us to look like the chaos party.
Because they understood they could do that.
They're stunned now that Speaker Johnson has now whipped two votes on reconciliation, which has started, and this.
And there's been no chaos at all.
Only Massey.
Again, I'm not mad at the guy at all.
What are you mad at the guy for?
His message is right.
Cut spending.
It's just the tactics I disagree with.
I can't believe how many people are in my chat and the Facebook messages.
Yeah, you suck.
Great!
What's your plan?
I don't have one.
Oh, okay.
Oh, okay.
Cool.
This is great.
This is a representative.
Was it a Melanie Stansberry?
This is a lady who...
I love how they attack me for a foul language or something.
This lady is using...
Foul language all the time.
So that's kind of hilarious.
They only seem to be selective on that.
But here's a Democrat rep basically losing it over to CR, and she gives away the battle plan I told you yesterday and does it inadvertently.
She exaggerates, of course.
They're going to cut firefighters and veterans.
She's, of course, making that up.
That's not the target at all.
There are going to be some people in government who are going to be separated from jobs.
Okay?
We don't have the money to pay all these people anymore.
We just don't.
But listen to her exaggerate.
But she actually gives away the plan I told you yesterday.
She's not wrong in her premise that Republicans want to move on to the reconciliation bill to get a hold of the out-of-control federal budget, which is exactly what I told you yesterday.
And she thinks it's a win for her.
Check this out.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Sometimes when I'm standing in this chamber, I literally cannot believe my ears.
And I have to say that today is one of those days because as we stand here on the floor today, I am hearing members at the other side of the aisle who said they would never vote for a continuing resolution, that they would never vote to raise the debt, that they would never vote for a bill that extends the debt ceiling, say that we have to pass this bill.
And so I literally cannot believe my ears today because the GOP today is here with a great American bait and switch.
So let me explain to you what exactly is going on.
Donald Trump spent the weekend calling our colleagues across the aisle, asking them to keep the government open until the end of the fiscal year so that they can get on with their real agenda.
I don't know what the real agenda is.
The real agenda is that they're dismantling the federal government.
They're firing tens of thousands of federal workers, teachers, firefighters, veterans, military, members of our community who are in crisis right now, and they are illegally impounding funds.
And meanwhile, my Republican colleagues who said they would never vote for anything like this are saying that they're going to vote for it because on the side, Donald Trump is Okay.
Obviously, she is exaggerating grotesquely.
It's not illegal activity for the executive branch to manage the executive branch and engage in force reductions by discontinuing job positions we can't afford.
Illegal?
Really?
What, are you going to impeach him again for the 72nd time?
Okay, she's just making that up.
Of course, they're acting like they care about firefighters and veterans when they've been, the guns and butter approach, they've been cutting the guns of forever Democrats and actually defenestrating our military with woke crap.
So please, Representative Stansberry, stop pretending you guys all of a sudden care about spending and all this other stuff and firefighters.
Please stop, okay?
Public safety is not exactly your strong point.
You can put that stuff back in the file drawer.
But did you see how when you get past the hyperbole and exaggeration, she tells you exactly what I told you yesterday?
Which is why I said to you, this is not the fight right now.
She's saying they want to just get rid of this thing for a few months.
So they can move on to reconciliation where they can start to lean out government.
She just told you, if you're watching VOD, video on demand later on, it's live now, just rewind.
Rewind and listen again, put the hyperbole filter on, and you'll see, wow, Dan was right.
The Democrats are now admitting that that's the plan, which is what I told you it was.
So if your goal, whether it's Massey or anyone in the House Freedom Caucus, and they were on board with this strategy, Is to lean out government, then the way to do it is to get past the filibuster, and the way to do that is to use reconciliation, which is not this bill.
It's the reconciliation bill, which they're working on, which they already had the votes to get started.
Guys, I'm just, I hate to sound silly here, but this is just kind of the straight talk show.
Really, I'm not trying to...
What was that?
I'm not trying to steal lines from, like, John McCain.
Remember he was a straight talk express or whatever it was?
I actually mean it.
I'm not happy about it either.
But we are in a divided political country.
That's just a hard reality.
We have got to do the hard work of politics, of convincing 55% of the American people, which may be enough to get us past a filibuster in the Senate in a midterm election at some point.
That we are the right pathway forward.
That's hard work.
We can't just force it down people's throats.
We just don't have the votes right now in this bill.
This was a huge, huge topic yesterday.
Congressman Chip Roy fired back yesterday, too.
A couple literallys in here, too.
Literally.
You'll see.
Here's Congressman Chip Roy going after Congresswoman Stansberry and others, laughing at the fact...
That now the Democrats are pretending they care about spending restraint and CRs, which is the peak of hypocrisy.
They love CRs continuing resolutions because they just keep government spending going.
Which side is it?
Check this out.
Gentleman from Texas is recognized for two minutes.
Well, I appreciate the sudden religion my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have found on spending restraint and the need to cut spending.
I look forward to all the proposals that my colleagues will put forward on reducing significant amounts of spending and waste, fraud, and abuse.
And I'll look for that press conference they'll no doubt have sometime this week.
I would also note that when we talk about continuing resolutions, what my colleague just failed to mention was the fact that literally every single Democrat voted for the CR that we just had in December.
Like, literally every single Democrat except for one who I think maybe took a present vote.
The fact of the matter is it has nothing to do with that.
The fact of the matter is, for those of us who do not like CRs as a general principle, the fact is because Democrats literally wouldn't pass an appropriations bill out of the Senate, we're left doing the cleanup work of trying to figure out how to move forward while we have an administration that isn't at war with its own people.
When the previous administration was Yes, he's not wrong.
I had to stop the chat here for a second.
Well, on my phone, not permanently.
Sean, New York, Appleseed.
I love you, brother.
But he says, Massey is right.
No more spending.
Can we all in the chat say, Sean, we agree.
No more excessive spending.
But again.
You are committing the cardinal sin of the chat on this show.
You're stating a position without a plan to win the game.
I want to win the game.
How?
I don't know.
But I want to win.
I get it!
Sean, love you, brother.
Thank you for the comment.
I'm not singling you out.
Everybody applaud him.
Massey is right.
No more red ink.
How do you get there?
Sean, tell me how you're going to get the votes.
And if your plan is like the gentleman who insulted me on Facebook, which is okay, we like dissent, said, I just want to keep it shut down forever.
Okay, that's your plan.
I disagree with it.
I think we actually just elected Donald Trump to fix the government, not to just completely ignore it for four years, and then we're stuck with the same mess.
Let's be honest.
You can't shut the government down for four years.
You just can't.
It's not practical.
It's not a real plan.
Sean, love you, man.
Don't mean it again.
I'm not trying to get on you.
I love everyone in the chat.
But all I'm asking for is straight talk from you two.
You know, I take a big risk on this show and have for years going out on a limb with topics I know are going to alienate some of your audience.
But I'm not going to be the New York Times that in order to cater to their subscriber base says, hey, Donald Trump colluded with the Russians when they knew it was.
They had to know that wasn't true.
I'm not going to do that.
You guys deserve some integrity in the message, even in the last three shows.
You're not here for, you know, bullshit, okay?
This is a political opinion show, and you deserve my honest opinion, not some fake opinion so I can cater to everyone.
It's phony.
I need a plan.
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What we just did?
Oh, an ad.
Really?
Yes.
It's a new business model, correct?
Brand new.
Brand new.
No one's ever done that before.
Nobody.
Jim's been in the business a while.
Jim, we invented that, right?
You did.
We did.
I'm so creative.
You know how Elon sends rockets to space and reinvented the car market?
We invented this entire thing called written spots.
The media just figured that out there.
They should be impressed, right, Jim?
Folks, if you don't sense the sarcasm, again, you may be that guy, Ziegler man, yesterday, or Zygman, whatever his name was yesterday, who just figured that out.
He was stunned.
All right, so moving on from the CR, because a lot of stuff happened yesterday.
Major updates on what's going on with tariffs.
Tariffs which are, folks, they are taxes at the border.
That's what a tariff is.
Again, I'm just going to straight talk with you, okay?
However, we do have to raise money for the federal fisk.
We have our military to support in a court system, in my humble opinion, and I think in many others.
We should raise the least amount of money possible to fulfill the constitutional roles of government.
There should be no extra coming out of Americans' pockets.
So if we are going to use tariffs to offset a number of tax cuts and then cut more and get down to a more reasonable tax base, which is excessively high now, then yes, it could be an effective tool.
They start a tariff war.
There is a possibility, if you're not escalating to de-escalate, that it could get out of control.
So we'll see what happens.
I'm going to get to that in a second, but I got a Ukraine update here too.
The ceasefire is now on the table.
And although I don't accuse everybody out there of, you know, or throw out this 4D chess thing all the time, just get to the point.
I think Donald Trump has a huge win on the table here.
He now has an acceptable ceasefire to Ukraine out there, and I'll play Secretary Rubio's clip in a minute.
He now has Russia in a corner.
Because Vladimir Putin, I don't care what anyone's telling you, folks.
Vladimir Putin is not our friend.
I get that.
Period.
However, Vladimir Putin has been taking a lot of losses, too.
This has not been a terrific outcome.
Russia has a sliver of the territory in Ukraine they've wanted, considering all the losses they've taken to personnel, to military equipment.
Russia's getting hurt here too.
I don't care what they tell you.
So Donald Trump now, President Trump now has him in a corner and so does Rubio.
Because if Ukraine says we'll accept this 30-day ceasefire and Russia breaks it, it gives Donald Trump an excuse to then rearm Ukraine and let them continue to escalate, take a toll on Putin until he comes back to the table for a potentially worse deal.
Here's Secretary Rubio on Ukraine accepting the terms of a 30-day ceasefire.
Check this out.
Today we've made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted, which is to enter into a ceasefire and into immediate negotiations to end this conflict in a way that's enduring and sustainable and accounts for their interests, their security, their ability to prosper as a nation.
I want to personally thank, we both want to thank the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Majesty for hosting us, for making this possible.
They've been instrumental in this process, and we're very grateful to them for hosting us here today.
And hopefully we'll take this offer now to the Russians.
And we hope that they'll say yes, that they'll say yes to peace.
The ball is now in their court.
You see what he did here?
The Secretary, that was NSA Mike Waltz, and President Trump.
Vladimir Putin now understands that Donald Trump...
He said it himself.
I mean, he's already said it in a true social poll.
I'm not speaking for him.
I've not discussed the matter with him at all.
I'm just reading his true social posts, which he's been candid and open about.
He has already said, if Vladimir Putin does not take this deal, basically we're going to make this painful.
There's not going to be American boots on the ground, but there damn well is going to be American military equipment.
And if you want this thing to go on and become Russia's new Afghanistan, which has caused us trouble too, There's a straight talk on it, but Russia was forced to leave Afghanistan in a humiliating manner.
We weren't the only ones under Joe Biden's era to, you know, take losses in Afghanistan and leave.
The Russians had it as well.
If you want to stay in Ukraine forever and continue to just destroy your military, I say decimate, but this lady was, decimate means, I know what it means.
You go look it up in the dictionary.
But just have your military destroyed, fine.
But now he's forcing this tactically.
He's forcing this into Putin's corner.
On the foreign policy front, too, with the terrorists.
So this happened yesterday.
This is a big mistake.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
I get it.
Listen, I try to give you both sides of the story.
I understand he's obviously Canadian.
He's the Premier in Ontario.
And he's going to defend his people.
And he's going to try to, you know, puff his chest and engage in bravado.
The problem I have with that is, tactically speaking, pulling myself out of it completely, if I'm a foreign leader dealing with a far more powerful country, militarily and elsewhere, it's not a reflection of human beings or, you know, everyone's a child of God, I get it, but we are a more powerful country, militarily and economically.
It's just a fact.
Bowing up to Donald Trump is just a really bad idea.
So watch this.
This is a story in three chapters here.
Here's chapter one.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford warning and getting after Donald Trump.
If the U.S. escalates, he'll shut off electricity completely.
That's...
Sir, I'm just telling you.
I get it.
You're trying to take the edge off this thing, but that's a dumb idea.
Check this out.
Let me be clear.
I will not hesitate to increase this charge.
If necessary, if the United States escalates, I will not hesitate to shut the electricity off completely.
Believe me when I say I do not want to do this.
I feel terrible for the American people because it's not the American people who started this trade war.
It's one person who's responsible.
That's President Trump.
Guys, my problem with it is the tactics of it are silly.
Chest puffing around Donald Trump is a really, really stupid idea.
It just is.
It's a matter of pure tactics.
Forget the morals and ethics of it.
Second, He's doing this thing Thomas Sowell calls starting the story in the middle.
He's pretending that Canada does not have a history of dairy tariffs and other tariffs against the United States which have caused real problems for American markets based on this.
We're all in the same hemisphere.
He's pretending that didn't happen.
He's acting like, oh, they're innocent victims and Donald Trump just randomly pulled this out of his caboose.
So here's Donald Trump responding on True Social.
I mean, this is the most predictable response ever.
You mess with Trump, he's going to fight back harder, and he's got the power to do it.
Based on Ontario, Canada's 25% tariff on electricity, I'm adding an additional 25% tariff to 50% on steel and aluminum coming from Canada.
I mean, you had to know that was going to happen.
That's just as chapter two.
Here is the finale of this three-chapter book here on why not to puff up to Donald Trump.
Here's a Fox report on Ontario Premier Doug Ford after the True Social Post.
Check this out.
Well, things change, don't they?
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, up in Canada, has decided he's not going to tax the United States residents and electrical users 25%.
percent in a conversation with our commerce secretary howard lutnik and they both decided it would be in the best interest of both countries not for ford to do that as i said it's just a silly tactical move I understand.
I don't get mad at politicians, even from other countries.
I get what he's got to do.
He's got to go out there and say, I'm defending my...
Fine!
Donald Trump would do the same thing.
The problem is it's asymmetric economic warfare.
And as a matter of pure tactics, you saw what happened with Zelensky.
He doesn't like it.
And he will respond.
These guys are funny.
We're putting the show together today, and sometimes we have random elements we like, but I'm going to be straight with you.
We have a tough time fitting them into, I like to tell these kind of longitudinal narratives in the show where everything builds on the other one.
We had nowhere to really put this stuff, so these guys called it Assorted FAFO. I told Producer Jim, it made me think of that show Jeopardy, that category potpourri.
They just throw everything in one column.
So that's coming up next.
One of my favorite clips.
I picked this one.
VA Secretary Doug Collins just destroying this reporter who wrote this nasty fake headline.
You've got to see this.
You want to talk about killing them with kindness?
This is just delicious.
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This was my personal Dan Bongino numero uno, my triage of important clips.
This is VA Secretary Doug Collins, a very good guy.
He's been a friend of ours for a very long time.
Here he is talking to a reporter about a fake headline meant to scare veterans.
And I want you to watch the reporter.
More carefully, let me say it precisely.
I want you to listen to the reporter stumble over her own response.
Because she essentially knows she's caught.
And they basically kind of like fabricated a headline.
Check this out.
Okay.
Well, you think about what it says here.
Elon Musk's aide is now working at VA accessing computer systems.
Ooh.
That's a true statement.
It is, because you know what?
We don't make a Doge employee, which is funny because they're VA employees, a liaison.
We don't also give them opinion.
I was not told that.
I was not told it was a Doge liaison.
You wrote the article.
It was a Doge employee.
One Doge employee.
As we look at this, Patricia, I want you to know something.
When you look at this headline, and you're accessing computer systems, I want to work with you a lot as we go forward.
We're going to have a lot of time together.
That's fair.
But I'm not going to have any reporter scaring my employees and scaring the veterans.
And that's what this is doing.
Let's get it right.
I'm the most transparent VA secretary we've had yet.
I'm on video.
I'm on interviews.
I do everything I possibly can to push back against everything I hear.
So we've got a team that will help you, but I need your commitment to help me too.
Okay?
Folks, that's how it's done.
Do you see the, I don't want to say the panic, I don't want to be dramatic in the reporter's voice, but the anxiety, can you sense it?
Because she understands the story they wrote was ridiculous and they have no basis for it?
About Doge and the VA? It's just meant to freak people out.
That is exactly how it's done.
And my recommendation to you is if you ever become an activist, a government employee, bureaucrat, I don't mean that in a bad way, you know.
But you ever work as a messaging person in a company, that that's the way you address that stuff.
You notice when I had the Young Turks, he was on, what's his name again?
Cenk, yeah.
Sorry.
No disrespect intended.
When we had him on the interview, a lot of people were mad at me.
They were.
I got a lot of negative comments on the show.
He said, Dan, that debate, I was expecting fire and brimstone.
Well, it was a debate.
I wasn't, you know, if you're going to have someone on the show, that's the way to do it, to debate ideas kind of calmly back and forth.
That's how you do it.
Good job, Secretary Collins.
Here's Caroline Levitt.
She's been excellent as the press secretary, too.
An AP reporter.
Listen, he's making a case here I'm not going to dismiss out of hand.
I've told you, tariffs are taxes.
But what the AP reporter is ignoring in the question, and what Caroline Levitt addresses here, is that Donald Trump has a massive tax cut plan in the reconciliation bill that on net is going to lower taxes for the American people dramatically.
The AP reporter is leaving that part out.
He's starting the story in the middle.
Caroline Levitt has to correct him here.
Check this out.
If we could just step back for a second.
When President Trump last addressed the BRT when he was on the campaign trail, His big push was on tax cuts.
He's going there today as he's proposing tax hikes in the form of tariffs.
And I'm curious for why he's prioritizing that over the tax cuts.
He's actually not implementing tax hikes.
Tariffs are a tax hike on foreign countries that, again, have been ripping us off.
Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people.
And the president is a staunch advocate of tax cuts.
As you know, he campaigned on no taxes on tips, No taxes on overtime, no taxes on Social Security benefits.
He is committed to all three of those things, and he expects Congress to pass them later this year.
I'm sorry, have you ever paid a tariff?
Because I have.
They don't get charged on foreign companies.
They get charged on the importers.
And ultimately, when we have fair and balanced trade, which the American people have not seen in decades, as I said at the beginning, revenues will stay here, wages will go up, and our country will be made wealthy again.
And I think it's insulting that you're trying to test my knowledge of economics and the decisions that this president has made.
I now regret giving a question to the Associated Press.
Mary, go ahead.
Okay.
Love that.
Who's texting me?
They're making two separate arguments here.
Notice how he starts the story in the middle.
He focuses solely on the tariff component.
I'll give you a better example.
He's saying, hey, a tariff is a tax.
Okay, he's not wrong.
Caroline Levitt's making a separate argument that Donald Trump came in and he's going to rewrite how we tax people, but he's going to lower the amount you pay on net.
So it'd be like this.
It'd be like saying, listen, you guys are imposing, say, a property tax.
I'm just throwing out random tax out there in a market.
Wow, you're raising our taxes.
And then the exact same politician says, yeah, but we're doing the property tax in lieu of an income and capital gains tax, which we're going to wipe out.
So you're actually going to pay lesser taxes on the property than you would on your income and capital gains.
You got a tax cut.
They're making two separate arguments.
I'm not going to lie.
Yes, a tariff is a tax.
There's no question about it.
But he's not doing it in addition to what you have now.
He's doing it in an effort to generate some funds so in the reconciliation bill they can cut taxes.
So just be honest about it.
There's no harm in honesty.
This is the kind of honesty, however, though, that is even more refreshing.
When people in the government who don't want accountability Which is not what I'm about.
Say the quiet part out loud.
Here's a federal employee.
He says it's frightening to have to respond to an email and what she accomplished at work.
Frightening.
Have you all in the chat ever done that?
You ever got an email at work?
Oh, some of you are getting them daily.
Check this out.
When you wake up or when you're on your weekend and you get the fork in the road message or you get...
The subsequent five bullets.
Hey, what the hell did you do, you lazy federal worker, this week?
How frightening is it that someone on X, the owner of X, speaks to you directly to say, what did you do last week at work?
And if you don't answer, I am going to fire you.
Egregious, the president comes out, the most powerful person in the land, and endorses that message.
How do you think that makes federal workers feel?
Guys, this is not a winning message, okay?
You want to say, if you want to make the case to the American people, your tax dollars are being well spent in my department because I am, whatever, a milk inspector in the local area and your milk is safe because of me or whatever it may be, then make the case!
Make the case.
Complaining endlessly and whining about how frightening it is to get an accountability email at work that doesn't ask you for a detailed treatise or a freaking PhD dissertation on your job, but says, simply tell us five things you've done this week is a loser.
By the way, Guy hates this story.
I don't.
I can't talk about this story enough because it is such an example of this two-tiered system we have.
I remember my last line of work.
If you had asked me five things I did that week, I could tell you five things I did in the last ten minutes sometimes.
This is a loser.
They do not want to find fraud.
By the way, Producer Jim, there is a Scott Jennings clip out there we've got to get for tomorrow's show.
He's in this back and forth with, I forget the CNN host, we've seen her before.
He's making the case to her that if Elon has committed to finding a trillion dollars in fraud, granted, that's a big number, why not support the effort?
I don't understand why you wouldn't support that effort.
This is really the case you're going to make to the American people who are busting their asses to pay the government 40 to 50 percent of their money when you factor in taxing at all levels in some liberal states?
This is a loser argument.
And that's why you're getting people like Elizabeth Warren engaging in these really ridiculous rants on Elon.
They don't want you to know how inefficient the government is because they're afraid it is going to break up their government as a benevolent force in your life argument.
Check this one out.
Elizabeth Warren on Elon.
You'll see exactly what I'm talking about.
You know, the way I see this is, Elon, you better keep hiding behind those bags of money.
Because we know in America who really stands up for people, and that's Mark Kelly.
This is Elon and Donald at their best.
What they want more than anything else is they want everyone to bend the knee.
They want everyone to bow down to them.
They want everyone to say, yes, yes, you are right.
And what's happening now with Mark Kelly, with Bernie, with me, People all across this country, regardless of who they voted for, people across this country say, we don't want a king.
We are not bending our knee to Elon Musk or to Donald Trump.
Now, why did we play this clip?
If you're a P1, you'll figure it out quickly, especially from Elizabeth Warren.
I want you to kind of rewind the tape if you're on VOD here and play that again.
She says at one point, you know...
You're going to pretend you get everything right.
He said the opposite.
When Elon was in the Oval Office with President Trump, he specifically said, we are going to get things wrong.
Is that the language of, what did she say, a king?
He specifically said, we are going to get some things wrong.
He apologized for things as well.
He said, we got that wrong.
He said the exact opposite.
This isn't reality.
Michael, what do you want?
Text me.
Oh, yeah.
That's a good point.
Michael just didn't want to say it.
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Thank you, Michael, for the reminder.
Here's Mark Kelly on Elon Musk.
Another ridiculous argument.
They don't want you to see fraud in the government because it's going to shake up their argument that government's a benevolent force in your life immune to fraud.
That's why they want the fraud.
Here's Mark Kelly, senator from Arizona.
Elon Musk's obviously not a serious guy.
Fellas outside of the space missions, the electric cars, the billions of dollars in wealth created and jobs.
Yes, you're correct.
He's definitely not a serious guy.
Check this out.
I'm not sure if Elon has sworn an oath to anything.
If I was to guess, probably just billionaires like themselves.
You know, I'm going to take back something I said earlier in the show.
I said the VA Secretary Doug Collins was my favorite clip.
You guys know where I'm going with this?
I'm not exactly sure I can say that.
This one may be as good.
So you can't have two favorites.
They may be co-equals in this situation, which defeats the word favorite.
This may be the last time I get to mention this during our last three shows I have with you.
But, folks, you know what an extinction burst is?
When you put a dollar in a Coke machine, you've heard it a thousand times from me, you get the Coke every day.
Yeah, this is so great and refreshing, whatever.
And one day you put a dollar in and you're thirsty and nothing comes out.
What do you do?
You kick the machine screaming and yelling.
That is an extinction burst.
The Democrats are used to crapping on people and people backing down when the media pressures them.
They don't have that in Elon Musk or Donald Trump, who the more you beat them up, the more they push back.
So they're kicking the coke machine.
This may be.
One of the finest Extinction Berks you've ever seen.
This is Canadian Green Party leader Elizabeth May.
Goes on an absolute tirade against Donald Trump.
Throws out all of this stuff.
The allusions to Nazism, fascism, rape, all this other stuff.
She squeezes it all in.
Check this out.
We need to have a government that remains solid.
Team Canada can say to Donald Trump, go pound sand.
Go suck eggs.
Although, as I said, I now realize there's a tariff on sand and they may not be able to afford eggs.
Reminds me of his attitude towards women.
He's a serial misogynist, sexual abuser, rapist.
He's in the White House.
What does he want to do?
Take Greenland out to buy expensive furniture?
Take Greenland into the dressing room?
I'm sorry, every time I hear Trump saying he's going to get something one way or another of another sovereign nation, in my head I'm hearing, yeah, I just grab him by the...
I wouldn't put it past Trump at all.
I mean, we've seen Musk interfere in the German elections to support neo-Nazis.
Yeah, Guy just said it right.
Guy's talking in my ear.
He's like, Dan, do you believe in that short clip they squeezed every single prior Donald Trump insult that hasn't worked for the last 10 years there?
Every single...
Right?
Yeah, did she camp Russia in there?
She was like, she had a little checklist, like we used to call my last job a go-by.
Like, go-by.
Check, check, check, check.
It's working really well for the last 10 years.
Why do these far-left liberals have this incessant need to insult their voters all the time with this nonsense?
Some just insulting them directly.
It's like they're taking out their rage on the Coke machine in this extinction burst, but not taking it out on the Coke machine, but actually taking it out on their own voters.
Here's what I mean.
This is the Democrats' new it politician of the day, Democrat Senator Alyssa Slotkin.
They love her.
They think she's a more...
She's a fake moderate.
She's going to be a liberal when they need her.
Of course, they always vote in lockstep.
But here's Senator Slotkin.
Again, attacking the American voter, comparing them to adolescent, out of control, hormone-raging teenagers, not realizing these are her actual voters in the state of Michigan.
They can't control themselves.
Remember the extinction burst.
Once you see it, you'll never unsee it.
Check this out.
I think there's a feeling in the country, and I often say this, we're about to turn 250 years old.
We're still pretty young for a country.
These are our...
Like our angry teenage years, right?
We are going through this push and pull where we're happy, we're sad, we want this, we want that.
And what do you do when you have a teenager who's threatening themselves and others?
You just try to get them through this period alive so that their brain can fully form and you can come back to kind of what a country...
Are you talking about Trump?
No, I'm talking about our country.
We're pendulum swinging.
We're pendulum swinging.
And so for me, I don't think there's a single American who feels like this is normal.
I really genuinely do not understand this impulse on the left to constantly insult their own voters as a way to get voters to go over to their side of the aisle.
Did you notice Donald Trump went to the Bronx and other areas that have traditionally voted against him?
Because he wanted to convince people he was a better candidate?
I'm not really sure how your new moderate it politician for the minute, how this helps.
Guy will not let me get off the air today too without addressing this story.
Because it's happening again.
Folks, did I not call it?
Call what?
I told you, you can go back and listen to the shows.
Michelle Obama was not running for president.
So, of course, The rumors are starting again.
ABC News.
Michelle Obama to grapple with life's biggest questions in her new podcast.
Everybody's got a podcast.
Everybody's got a podcast.
I'm proud to say we were one of the originals.
People laughed when we said we were starting a podcast.
What the hell's a podcast?
That was 10 years ago in 2015. Look, now everybody's got one.
There's talk she may run.
Now, I'm going to throw a little curveball here.
I was absolutely crystal clear she was not going to run in 2024. I'm going to say this.
She hated politics.
Everybody around her knew it.
Her staff used to talk about it all the time.
She wanted nothing to do with D.C. She didn't like politics.
She hated it.
However, the possibility of her running in the future, I don't know what's going on in their personal life.
I'm not speaking out of time.
I don't.
I mean, we're not friends or anything like that.
There is a possibility she could run in the future, and that's big for me to say.
That's huge for me to say.
The possibility.
It's a small one.
There was no possibility in 2024, and I was right.
I'm going to open that window, though.
It is a possibility in the future.
She may.
She may figure out that this is a pathway for her to stay in the public eye if things aren't...
You know what I'm saying?
You know what I'm saying?
Folks, make sure you check out Haley's show later.
Rumble.com slash Haley, 6 p.m.
Eastern Time.
Really appreciate it.
Vince will be launching next week with our new show.
Vince, it will be at 10 a.m.
You don't want to miss that here on the Rumble channel here.
And we always have Evita's show in the morning at 9. Rumble.com slash Evita, E-V-I-T-A. It's been a huge hit.
People love it.
Thank you to the Bongino crew out there.
You guys are the best for supporting us.
We really appreciate it.
Two more shows left, folks.
Two more left.
I got to tell you, each one hurts a little bit more.
Really.
I'll see you on the radio show here in a little bit.
I'm back here for our second to last show tomorrow.
See you then.
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