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March 26, 2025 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
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Breaking News: Media’s Smoke Signal, Plus Crucial Wisconsin Special Election.Live with Sens Ron Johnson & Rick Scott | Triggered Ep228
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Hey guys, and welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
What a week it's been.
So much breaking news.
So we're doing a special Wednesday edition of the show.
I don't need to regurgitate what's going on after you've seen it everywhere else, so we'd rather get on top of it and give it to you right when it's happening.
So we'll do the show today instead of tomorrow.
So my father ordered that all the documents related to Crossfire Hurricane, Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, Be declassified.
Doge is now finding even more fraud, including hundreds of millions in SBA loans that were given to literal children.
Children, like way under the age of 18. They're getting Small Business Administration loans.
Huh. Wonder what that's a cover for.
And the media and the Democrats are trying to jump on headline after headline over the use of signal by cabinet secretaries.
Plus... We're going to dive into the incredibly important state Supreme Court election in Wisconsin, including a triggered exclusive on how China is using shady tactics to take aim at our farmers and agriculture.
We can't be complacent in these special elections.
This election could even affect who controls the House of Representatives.
We've seen what can happen when you have out-of-control judges, so this race matters.
Don't get comfortable.
Don't get complacent.
Apathy is gonna get you.
You have the same thing going on in Florida.
Florida 1, Florida 6, the old Mike Waltz and Matt Gaetz seats, their special elections are also on April 1, and it doesn't seem like a lot of people know that.
So if you know people in Wisconsin, make sure they vote.
In Florida, make sure you vote.
You have eight days.
Till next Tuesday, April 1st, there's early voting in Florida.
Get engaged.
Get in the game.
Make sure we put the conservatives in those respective seats or the Democrats could take control of the House and effectively hold the administration hostage from doing all the common sense that they're getting done.
So we're going to get into all of that, plus Senators Ron Johnson of the great state of Wisconsin and Rick Scott of the state of Florida.
They're going to stop by, so it's going to be a jam-packed show.
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And now, guys, let's get into some of the top headlines.
By now, I'm sure you're very familiar with perhaps the most famous signal group chat in history, where a writer for The Atlantic was on a group chat about a recent and successful mission.
But now, it appears that the Atlantic and Jeffrey Goldberg are changing their original story.
Remember, guys?
First, it was war plans were being discussed.
But based on what we know, that doesn't even remotely seem to be the case.
In fact, the Atlantic has a new story that no longer even uses the phrase war plans.
And DOD spokesman Sean Parnell wrote, there were no targets, no locations, no units, no routes, no sources, no methods, and no classified information.
Huh. Seems like there was no anything.
It doesn't appear that Jeff Goldberg has even seen a war plan.
And I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you, that the perpetrator of the suckers and losers hoax, the one and only Jeffrey Goldberg, Would also exaggerate and lie about what was in these messages.
Guys, nothing surprises me anymore.
And as the White House said this week, no classified material was sent to the thread, and the White House Counsel's Office has provided guidance on a number of different platforms for President Trump's top officials to communicate as a safety and efficient way as possible.
And that includes Signal.
Using Signal is literally nothing new.
Many Democrats have been using Signal.
Many of them were caught using it, and it was never a problem then, but apparently now it's a problem.
And according to the National Security Council, the White House is looking into just how Goldberg's number was added to the thread, and what steps could be taken to ensure that this never happens again.
But also...
Can I say something that I'm sure the media regime will attack me for?
Because that's sort of my life at this point.
In some ways, reading that thread was refreshing, okay?
It was actually refreshing.
It was a serious and thoughtful and thorough policy conversation about my father's foreign policy agenda.
I was glad to see JD's comments on how this was benefiting the Europeans.
And actually asking some important questions.
And J.D. was ultimately on board with the mission.
That's how things work, guys.
You actually need deliberation and discussion and dissenting opinions.
That is good.
After four years of having Biden, who didn't even know what day it was, and having nonstop incompetence on foreign policy, it's refreshing to actually have a cabinet that is sophisticated and engaged.
On these issues, that they're willing to talk, that they're willing to descend, and ultimately, once a decision is made, that they're all willing to actually be on board, rather than try to sabotage it from the outside.
And this wasn't the disastrous Afghan withdrawal.
This mission was against Houthi militia, and it was successful.
Nobody's texting war plans.
I noticed this morning, out came something that doesn't look like war plans.
And as a matter of fact, they even changed the title to attack plans.
Because they know it's not war plans.
There's no units, no locations, no routes, no flight paths, no sources, no methods, no classified information.
You know who sees war plans?
I see them.
Every single day.
I looked at them this morning.
I looked at attack plans this morning.
You know who does attack plans and war plans?
Men like that Admiral right there, Papara from the Indo-Pacific, or Eric Carilla, our general in CENTCOM, they do attack plans and war plans.
And thank God we have those leaders who do it and do it well and our enemies know it.
My job, as it's set atop of that, everybody's seen it now, team update is to provide updates in real time.
General updates in real time, keep everybody informed.
That's what I did.
That's my job.
The warfighters will take the fight to the enemy, and I love what they do.
And with President Trump's leadership, our enemies are on notice.
We will have peace through strength, and we'll keep putting our troops first.
Now, Democrats, like the House Minority Leader Jeffries and Senator Mark Warner and others, are trying to turn this into another Russia, Russia, Russia, calling for more endless investigations, trying to fuel as much hysteria as possible.
But honestly?
I just don't think the American people are buying any of this nonsense anymore.
I watched today as they grilled Tulsi Gabbard for hours, who basically only responded once in the chat, saying this is the point person to deal with the issue.
Because it seems like the Democrats weaponized this to try to get all of the people that they didn't like in the administration and get them out.
That's how it reads to me, guys.
Because, as Michael Walz and others have said, the bottom line is that President Trump is protecting America's interests around the world.
And we're operating from a position of strength.
And that's at the core of the America First mission.
Protecting, strengthening American institutions, American workers, and American families.
And that coalition and movement is broader and stronger than ever before.
Which brings us to a triggered exclusive investigation that I'm sure most of the media will ignore.
Shouldn't surprise any of you, but as we've told you, A major theme of this show is making America healthy again.
A key tenant of that is protecting critical supply chains from foreign adversaries, bolstering our domestic food production, and keeping it in the hands of American workers, American families, and American companies.
You've heard me talk about it again and again.
And tonight we have an exclusive report on the growing evidence of how China is using...
Foreign companies in places like Europe as proxies to try to carry out their dirty work here on American soil.
Because get this, the CEO of French food conglomerate, Danone, just this week appeared on CCP media outlet called the People's Daily, the Communist Party, the Chinese Communist Party, where he lavishes praise on the CCP.
Claims that the world's growth depends on China and suggests that we use China as a quote export base for things like health and medical products to bring into America and across the West.
Don't take my word for it, guys.
Here it is in his own words.
The growth of China is very healthy.
Everybody forgets, but 5% on a very large base is the size of some European economies every year.
The growth is sustainable, the growth is continuous, and we are very impressed with the growth of China.
The best proof of the confidence is we keep investing into China.
We invest in research and innovation in China.
We invest in production in China, not only for China, by the way, but for China and for the rest of the world.
China is a place where we source some of our best innovation when it comes to artificial intelligence and the way artificial intelligence is applying to all kinds of topics.
Those are areas where we leverage China and where we invest in China.
We will keep producing more in China and we use China for a production base as an export base for some of our more sophisticated medical products.
Amazing! Can you believe this stuff?
And this is just one of many examples.
All done through news stations.
Like the People's Daily and China Daily, which are literally owned and operated by the CCP.
And by the way, China Daily was just banned from distribution inside the House of Representatives, where I'm sure it's a popular read amongst Democrats in the House.
Here is the same CEO claiming that the world's growth depends on the success of China.
China is absolutely critical for the world growth.
I mean, if China doesn't grow, the world is not growing.
The second thing is, well, the commitment of the government, which is keep growing China at a 5% rate on a base that is now extremely large, doing it in a way that is sustainable, doing it by unleashing our new productive forces.
gives me huge confidence in the market and huge confidence that growth will continue in China, but also that China will contribute to the growth of the world.
So guys, why does any of this matter?
Why should we care?
Well, we did a little digging and spoke to multiple sources inside HHS and other agencies and uncovered that this company, Danone, is actually in the process of trying to orchestrate a hostile takeover of a Midwestern American health foods company called Lifeway, which makes probiotic dairy products.
Now, the major company has major operations in key agricultural states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
And from what we're told, this giant conglomerate wants to take over operations and overhaul the company, slash jobs, hurt farmers, and perhaps even resource ingredients, presumably from China.
And it appears...
To be being done, at least in part, at the implicit or perhaps explicit direction of the Chinese Communist Party.
And very likely could lead to the loss of American control of vital dairy products and supply chains.
Now guys, under the leadership of RSK Jr., Scott Besson, and across my father's administration, it's been made clear that these types of deals are bad for Americans and bad for making America healthy again.
And the movement.
You heard RFK talking about it this week with respect to Baby Formula.
This is the new front in China's efforts to buy up our farmland, acquire our companies, and hurt our workers.
Remember, Chinese companies aren't the ones that have Chinese names.
They're brought openly by Chinese enterprises.
No, no, no.
The ties and the links go much deeper than that.
They're shadow entities.
They're bought in other things that sound like they're not Chinese.
It's all about control.
So just like China with buying up farmland, we'll be keeping an eye out on all of this as the story develops, because America First also includes, specifically, American farmers and American companies.
They will not be forgotten, and we're going to be watching this very carefully.
And guys, it doesn't stop there.
According to an investigation by the National Pulse, a network of fake companies attempting to recruit laid-off federal workers has now been identified as a front for a Chinese tech firm, exposing yet another way in which China is trying to spy on Americans here at home.
And again, I'll take this moment to remind you, if you're in Wisconsin, guys, you must get out there and vote for Brad Schimmel this Tuesday, April 1st.
This race determines control of the state Supreme Court and will determine whether Wisconsin actually has a court committed to protecting the rule of law and America's interests.
And all the stuff we're talking about.
These local and state races matter.
Do not just take the wins you're seeing every day for granted.
They can go away like that, okay?
They can end in an instant.
That's what the Democrats are trying to do.
That's what they're trying to do in Florida for the special elections.
Taking place in Florida, one in Florida seat, which could determine the control of the House.
These are not laughing matters.
They're not to be taken lightly.
Everything hinges on them.
Get involved.
Call your friends who live in those districts.
Florida has early voting, so you can vote between now and next Tuesday.
Just don't sit back.
Apathy will get us.
Because House Minority Leader Jeffries is already saying it out loud.
That if the Democrats can get control of the court, they're going to redraw the maps.
And try to flip Wisconsin House seats from red to blue.
This could actually affect control of the House of Representatives just by itself.
Here's Jeffries in his own words.
In Wisconsin, that's a 50-50 race.
Because we know Wisconsin's a 50-50 state.
And we have a strong Democratic candidate.
Whoever wins is going to determine who has the majority in the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Why is that important?
Because there are gerrymandered congressional lines right now in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin's a 50-50 state, as I mentioned, but there are six Republicans and only two Democrats out of an eight-person delegation because the lines are broken.
And as soon as possible, we need to be able to revisit that and have fair lines.
the only way for that to be even significant possibility is if you have an enlightened Supreme Court.
And so, you know, I think that's an incredibly Guys, again, when someone tells you what they're going to do, pay attention.
This is not the time to be complacent.
I mean, just imagine if Jasmine Crockett ends up in Democrat leadership, in a theoretical House Democrat majority.
Crockett has recently been spending her time taxing Texas Governor Greg Abbott in the most disgusting ways imaginable.
Watch. Because we in these hot-ass Texas streets, honey.
Y'all know we got Governor High Wheels down there.
Come on now.
And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot-ass mess, honey.
So, yes.
Yes, yes, yes.
Now, if a Republican did that, it'd probably be over.
If you're Jasmine Crockett, I guess you could get away with it.
Don't forget, Governor Abbott was paralyzed, I believe, at the age of 26 because a tree fell on him.
He's been in a wheelchair since, and he's been a really good governor.
And fighting for conservative values.
Now, my father responded to Congresswoman Crockett's comments.
And let's just say it was a classic Trump.
Check this out.
She lies, but she's a low life.
And she's a very low IQ person and a low life.
And I don't imagine the Democrats are going to have a person like that running their party if they do.
And they'll never win an election again to be free.
It can be very hard, but I can't imagine she's going to last a lot.
And what do you think of Governor Gavin Newsom?
To be smart, you do need a brain.
You know, you can't get around with little quips.
And I've only heard her for the last couple of days, and I watched her make a speech, and she can't speak.
And she truly is a low-level person on the...
Very important chart of intelligence.
And really, it's nice to have intelligent people running your operation.
Yeah. Somebody you can talk to, who you can have a good conversation with.
She was a comedian.
I couldn't believe she was a congressman or whatever she is.
No, I thought she was a comedian.
That's unbelievable.
And she was a little bit funny, but crude.
And now I find that she's actually a politician.
The Democrats are going to suffer with this one.
Guys, Democrats have demonstrated time and time again that they are not fit to govern and that they have a big point of delusion about not being able to fulfill their most basic obligations to their constituents, right? They're just not able to do it.
They are off their rocker.
For example, just look at California.
Where we're now learning that only four permits have been issued for rebuilding, right?
Four permits have been issued for rebuilding 75 days after the devastating wildfires in the Pacific Palisades.
Check it out for yourself.
We want to get going.
The Palisades rebuilding.
Residents at this city council committee hearing held on the west side were here to discuss how to move forward.
The blessing here is that we have been given an opportunity to show the world how you do disaster relief and rebuilding effectively.
But the Department of Building and Safety told the committee so far it has approved just four permits.
Councilmember Tracy Park, who represents the Palisades, says that's not acceptable.
You know, when I hear in a committee meeting like we had today that only four permits have been issued and we're on day 75 post-fire, that is concerning to me.
And I don't think it is necessarily a lack of interest in rebuilding.
I suspect it is indicative of systemic issues that we need to continue to focus on.
And if you're wondering why insurance is such a mess in California and why companies are pulling out of the state, it turns out...
That the state insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara, has been jet-setting across the world on taxpayer dime, sort of like the other California politicians who were not there when the fires were imminent and happening.
Not showing up to meetings, he's spending his time doing pretty much anything and everything but actually handling insurance.
According to local media reports, his taxpayer-funded travel included a trip to New York's Pride Fest, Sure, that has a lot to do with insurance.
Where the itinerary including attending a rooftop party featuring DJ Kitty Glitter.
Don't believe me?
Just look at this recent news report from ABC7 in San Francisco.
Probably not a bastion of conservative thought, so if they've had enough and they're talking about it, ah, it's probably real.
...
assuming office in 2019.
Lada made at least 46 trips across the country and all over the world.
But as we found out, a significant chunk of the records are missing and the state has been unable to provide them, including work-related trips where he is pictured or listed as a speaker in Singapore, Cape Town, South Africa, Dublin, Costa Rica, Chile, Egypt, Tokyo, Glasgow, and Dubai.
Plus a handful of trips to these states.
With that said, the trip receipts we do have are not cheap.
For context, records show Illinois' insurance commissioner spent $680 for the entire year of 2022.
Meanwhile, during the first six months of Lada's term, his cross-country and international trips cost taxpayers more than $33,000.
This includes an all-expenses-paid week-long trip at a luxury five-star hotel in Bogota, Colombia, for an LGBTI political leaders' conference, and another flight and five-star hotel stay in New York City for Pride Fest, where his schedule listed a VIP rooftop event with DJ Kitty Glitter.
We should note the four-day trip did not list any insurance-related meetings on his schedule.
This is what Democrats have to offer, guys.
It's destructive.
So whether it's at the state level, the federal level, inside the judiciary, do not get complacent.
Apathy is the only thing that can get us.
Stay engaged.
Stay motivated.
Stay on the offense.
And Senator Ron Johnson is coming up in just moments.
We're going to be talking about Wisconsin.
We'll then have Senator Rick Scott talking about Florida and what's going on in the Senate.
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Well, guys, joining me now, Senator from the great state of Wisconsin, Ron Johnson.
Great to have you, Ron.
How are you?
Well, Don, I'm doing great.
I hope you are, too.
Well, thank you for being here.
I'm doing pretty good.
I just want to make sure we keep our eyes on the ball with everything that's going on right now.
So first off, I'd love to get your reaction to what we're seeing sort of in the media hysteria surrounding this signal chat thing, right?
Democrats seem to be using it as a pretext for endless investigations.
What do you see just in the Senate and as someone who's done this for a while?
Well, I think you described it well, media hysteria.
Listen, I think they are freaking out by what your dad, Elon Musk, is revealing in terms of what they've set up here.
This massive government that gives them all the power, all the control, funds all their extreme radical ideology, and your dad has just come in here and busted that up.
It's exposed it all.
And so they are freaking out about it.
And so they'll do anything, they'll grab at any straw.
Yeah, no, I saw that.
I was watching, you know, today, you know, the cabinet.
It seems like they're focusing on Tulsi Gabbard, who I don't think actually participated even in the conversation beyond saying, hey, this is the point person for the issue right in the beginning.
It seems almost like a way to target those that they always just wanted to target as opposed to there being any...
Any there there.
I looked at the stuff.
I read the whole thing.
I'm saying, well, I don't see any actual plans.
I don't see anything that would endanger our life.
Is it ideal?
No, it's never ideal.
But it seems like much ado about nothing, even if it's not ideal.
I think it is much ado about nothing.
You know, obviously a mistake.
I'm sure one that has been corrected won't be repeated.
But again, anything they can do.
If they can get a scalp out of this administration, that's what they're going to try and do.
They'll do anything they can to slow down the momentum.
Yeah, so I guess speaking of scalps, I was actually recently in your state to campaign for Brad Schimmel in this special election that's happening on April 1st.
That's going to literally decide the Supreme Court in the state of Wisconsin.
That decides redistricting.
That'll help decide whether men are allowed to play in women's sports, what they do with endless migration, etc.
What is the nexus between sort of my father's...
America First agenda, your mission in the Senate representing Wisconsin, and what's going on at the state level in Wisconsin, specifically in this Supreme Court race?
First of all, thank you for all of your efforts in supporting Brad because this is crucial.
The radical left took over our Supreme Court two years ago when Dan Kelly lost.
The Supreme Court race, he only got 800,000 votes.
Your dad got almost 1.7.
He's now the record vote getter in Wisconsin, 1.7.
There's no reason that there's a 900,000 difference between what your dad got and what we turned out last time for a Supreme Court race.
So we've got to up our game.
If we don't, what the radical left court did initially when they had the time to do it is they completely redistricted our state assembly and our state senate maps and we lost a lot of members and reduced our majorities in both bodies.
If they have more time, they will definitely redistrict the congressional seats.
They scream about gerrymandering.
Yeah. Except when they're doing it.
Drawing districts is a political process.
Better to have elected officials, you know, 130 of them do it in some way, shape, form, as opposed to four elected judges, right?
Yeah. So they scream about gerrymandering until they get a chance to do it, and then they go all out spending tens of millions of dollars.
And by the way, that's what they did in the last Supreme Court race.
Made that a record cost.
You know, the highest spending in any judicial race in the history of this nation, and they're probably going to double the spending in this one.
They realize how important it is, again, it's not just the fact that we can redistrict and then lose a couple House seats, which could cost the House the majority and make your dad's second, you know, the last two years of his term a real you-know-what ride, okay?
But in addition to that, they would probably overturn voter ID.
They could turn any kind of election integrity.
Process or laws we have in Wisconsin, overturn that, make it almost impossible for a Republican to win the 10 electoral votes like your dad did last time.
So this has major national implications.
Plus, they would just, again, they would love this scalp, right?
They would just love to say, oh, you know, Donald Trump is not that, you know, he doesn't have a momentum.
Look, we just beat him in Wisconsin.
Yeah, and it's not really even a scalp.
I guess our people are like, hey, we're getting a lot of the stuff done that we want done, so they're happy.
It's not even a scalp in that we're just not paying attention.
I think it's so critical that the people of Wisconsin, and you have special elections in Florida and a few others throughout.
We lost a Pennsylvania state legislature thing by 480 votes yesterday because our guys are sitting at home happy.
The Democrats are mobilizing.
They're chatting amongst themselves.
They're turning out to make sure that they can stop.
This agenda from actually manifesting itself.
And so, you know, how do you find the best way to get the people of Wisconsin engaged?
You've run many races.
You've always done incredibly well in them for a very long time, even when it was a left-leaning state.
How do we overcome that bridge to get those people to understand, you know, just because you or Trump isn't at the top of the ticket, it's still fundamentally critical for the entire agenda?
It's ground game, ground game, ground game.
You know, I mean, you have the law of diminishing returns kick in on all the advertising, right?
And unfortunately, you know, lies are effective.
That's all that Susan Crawford has, just tell lie after lie after lie about Brad Schimmel.
So we need to counter that with a strong ground game.
That's what Elon and others, you know, Turning Point, those guys finance that.
The RPW, we've got really a very effective state party as well.
So we've got a lot of forces on the ground.
They're running that ground game.
We are encouraging early voting.
We did that in 2024.
That helped.
We're doing it again this time.
So we're doing all the right things.
And quite honestly, this has garnered not only national attention, but...
You've got to be asleep in Wisconsin.
If you haven't seen these ads, if you're not aware of this race, I mean, your dad's endorsement is huge.
The more he can do, the more he can get on True Social, and, you know, the more you do, the better.
So, you know, we are aware of this.
This is not two years ago where Dan Kelly only got 800,000 votes.
Brad Schiff will get a lot more.
But, again, the left is ginned up as well.
I mean, this is the only way they can fight back.
Yeah, so again, if you're in Wisconsin, if you know someone in Wisconsin between now and April 1st, go vote for Brad Schimmel.
The lady running against him, this is going to be essentially a tiebreaker on the Supreme Court, is a radical leftist lunatic.
Just look at the things that she said, whether it's men and women's sports, whether it's the stuff on migrants, whether it's the stuff on the deporting criminal, murderous drug gangs, etc.
This is not a moderate left voice, which they'll try to paint her, I'm sure, in the ads.
Make sure you guys get involved in this race.
It's fundamentally critical, not just for Wisconsin, but for the future of our country, for midterms, etc.
Can't say it better.
I mean, it's just absolutely crucial.
Well, Senator, while I have you, I guess on spending specifically, you've said that Congress needs to rigorously scrutinize spending like private sector businesses do.
I agree with you.
Do it line by line.
Why isn't that...
Even remotely popular in Washington right now.
Why are they so vehemently against even a modicum of oversight?
Well, the good news is I was with your dad in the White House two Thursdays ago before we went on recess, and I was able to lay out these pre-pandemic spending options for him, and he liked it.
He loved the concept, so I think he'll get behind this.
We've set this process up for massive spending without any oversight.
So today, only 24% of total federal spending is actually appropriated.
The other 76% is what they call mandatory spending.
And most people think of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
There's $1.3 trillion of other mandatory spending other than those programs.
And what I've shown, I showed this to you, Dad, you can exempt Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, take 2019 total outlays, increase them by population inflation, We'd be spending $6.5 trillion this year versus the 7.3.
And, you know, unfortunately, the House, their budget resolution, they would cut that by $150 billion, where that's an $800 billion difference between what we're spending and the maximum we should be spending based on 2019 spending levels.
So, again, lay this out for your dad.
Personally, I'd go back to Bill Clinton's 1998 as the baseline.
Grow that by population inflation.
That'd be $5.5 trillion.
Yeah, and that's what people don't understand.
That's how you return to a reasonable level.
When you talk about cutting some of these things, it's such a drastic cut, but it's like, well, in 2019, it was $2 trillion less.
Like, what's changed in those amount of time that you need to spend $2 trillion?
I mean, yes, inflation has done some, but like, give me a break.
That was just, you know, whether it was COVID was weaponized as a window to be able to boost government spending so much.
The cut's not real.
It's only real relative to the last four years.
After that, it's pretty benign and gets us back to a place of sanity that we can actually cover and not just continue to increase the deficit.
What would happen if we went from 4.4 in 2019 before the pandemic to 6.5 and never looked back.
You know, no family I know of that had an illness had to borrow $50,000, spend that on medical bills if that family member got well.
We'd keep borrowing $50,000 and keep spending that level.
That would be insane, but that's basically what Joe Biden and the Democrats did after the pandemic.
So again, there's a way to return to a reasonable level.
It's going back, look at Clinton, look at Obama, look at Trump in 2019.
That gives you a range somewhere between 5.5 and 6.5, and then go through the 2,400 individual line items in those outlay budgets and scrutinize it.
Say, okay, well, this is over.
The inflated 2019 number.
Don, you know this in business.
This would be a five-minute conversation with your managers, right?
Listen, you knuckleheads.
I said, yeah, you could increase your budget based on inflation and the number of customers you're serving, but you've gone 10% over that.
Dial it back.
But the Democrats will say, you're just cutting Social Security.
It's a ridiculous soundbite, and even if it's not true, and even if you...
Pushed out.
You know, the media will run with it as though it's the gospel.
You know, I guess that's the problem that you're dealing with when they're the ones actually damaging Social Security through inflation, frankly, utilizing a lot of those funds for their little pork projects that actually have nothing to do with Social Security.
We saw Joe Biden do that very, very aggressively to the tune of billions of dollars.
You know, how do you break through that messaging aspect of it that we still, you know, I think we've made some progress with X and other places, but we're still way behind in that ability to message.
And, you know, the older generation who's most impacted by Social Security right now, they just view it as even if it's totally made up, even if it's totally fictitious, that's a grave threat to them, understandably.
So what I'm suggesting is...
To complement what Elon Musk and your dad are doing with Doge, where they're exposing these grotesque examples of waste, fraud, and abuse, set up a panel of senators, of House members, and the White House.
Okay, Russ, vote his OMB, folks.
Set up a budget review panel.
Bring in the heads of the departments with their CFOs and go buy the 2,400 line-by-line items and have them justify it.
Just like you do with the private sector.
Go, what happened here?
Why is this 30% higher than 2019 inflated numbers?
Justify that.
It could not withstand the scrutiny.
And so I think if you go do that, it's part of the process.
Right now, we do not have any process for reviewing total spending.
The process for the 24% of appropriate is a joke.
They start at what we spend, and then they pat themselves on the back and say, oh, we only increased to 3%.
So government spending just ratchets up and up and up.
And unfortunately, what the House is doing, they're starting at $7.3 trillion, and they're suffering death by 1,000 cuts.
So this is about a common-sense approach.
It's what every business does.
And if you do that, you combine that with the revelations of the Doge unit, which, by the way, we can reduce discretionary spending using rescission.
And I'd encourage you to encourage your dad, send us a rescission package every month.
The top three or five examples of this grotesque waste, fraud, and abuse.
Package it with some other things.
We'll just cut that spending.
We can do that without worrying about Democrat support.
We're not going to get Democrat help.
They don't care about it.
Well, you saw that with USAID.
I mean, when they're cutting, you know, $10 million for circumcision procedures in Mozambique, you know, probably not the best use of our funds.
I can say that as a rational man.
And yet they're still losing their minds because it's all one big kickback scheme to the Democrat Party through their NGOs, probably through AgBlue.
So I hope you investigate all of that as well.
And shouldn't we make Democrats vote?
On whether or not you want to rescind that spending or not.
I mean, I'm there.
It would be so much fun on a weekly basis, but at least monthly.
Here's a rescission package.
Here's the top three hits.
Vote on each and every line item.
I love that idea because, again, once you're voting on the line item, it's a lot harder to hide behind sort of the media cover that they're going to give you, and I think that would expose a lot.
Well, it would help us in the midterms, quite honestly.
If you can get these Democrats voting against cutting that spending on those grotesque examples, that's going to help us win the midterm as well.
Exactly. Well, speaking of which, I mean, you've recently sort of praising RFK and the Maha movement, which I think is a really big deal and sort of one that's been neglected for a long time.
You know, talk about what that means for your state.
We actually have a story we just broke on the show about the efforts by China and their proxies to take control of food supply chains and take control of the entire health food companies, specifically in Wisconsin.
You know, how big a threat is that actually?
Listen, I think your dad did a great job of pointing out the economic threat that China poses to the rest of the world, their unfair trading and manufacturing processes, techniques.
So, no doubt about it, they're a threat.
In terms of the Maha movement, The American people want to understand what is causing this explosion in chronic illness.
They want to know what is causing autism.
They haven't even been able to ask that question.
People like Bobby Kennedy would be vilified.
They'd be attacked for just answering those legitimate questions.
This is where I give, again, your dad and Bobby so much credit, laying their political differences aside, coming together to solve a problem, but in doing so, demonstrating this is how you heal a horribly divided nation.
And that's what we need to do.
So this is something American people want.
Trust me, I think Big Pharma, Big Food, they wanted to kill that nomination, but your dad stood strong behind him.
And Republican senators realized this is such a popular issue in a completely nonpartisan basis.
Who doesn't want to know why autism rates are up 10 billion percent in the last 30 years?
I mean, I never even heard of it when I was a kid, and now...
You know, it's one in 30, it's crazy, and yet no one wants to even look at it, or people were actively campaigning against trying to figure it out.
We're not saying that even one is the answer, but something has changed, and we should figure out what that is.
Absolutely, and one thing we found out in an event I did with Bobby Kennedy and Casey Means is, we approve food ingredients by generally recognized as safe.
So we have 10,000 ingredients in our foods.
Europe actually approves them.
400 ingredients.
So 400 versus 10,000, there might be a few ingredients that are at least suspect we ought to look into that.
But you know, another thing your dad's not gotten credit for is that coalition he's put together here of Tulsi Gabbard of RFK Jr.
Of Elon Musk.
That's never happened in my, in my almost 70 years of life.
I've never seen what your dad has assembled.
And it's a powerful coalition of trying to fix all these problems.
And you know, the massive number of problems, the big messes the Democrats left behind I just cannot believe how swiftly, decisively, boldly your dad is moving forward here and addressing all these things simultaneously.
It's just a it's a sight to behold.
Oh, thank you very much, Senator.
Now, it's great to have you being a part of that and fighting for all these things that are just common sense.
So really appreciate your time.
I know you have other things to do today, but I just wanted to thank you for dropping on.
And again, highlighting the importance of that Supreme Court early vote in April 1st.
It's going to decide the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Guys, don't take that one lightly.
Get involved.
If you know someone in Wisconsin, you know, I'm sure through your office, Senator Johnson, you could find all the details for that.
But make sure you vote or your friends vote.
If they're in Wisconsin, this is a really big deal.
Don't sit it out.
That's exactly what the Democrats want.
Thanks for helping with Brad Schimmel.
Take care.
Thanks. Florida Senator, former Governor as well, Rick Scott.
Great to have you, sir.
How are you?
Where do you live?
I live in Jupiter.
So between Jupiter and West Palm.
So I'm in Florida.
Yeah, no, I'm a political refugee from the People's Republic of New York.
I'm one of those that moved to Florida that did not bring my BS with me.
So that's kind of nice.
Well, you know, if you think about it, look at what you've done.
In 2010, when I won my governor's race, there were 568,000 more Democrats and Republicans.
Today, there's 1.2, 1.3 million more Republicans than Democrats.
It's changed.
There's people like you that have come down to Florida.
Well, honestly, but it's also people who have sort of, you know, woken up.
I look at, like, Miami-Dade, which is a very left-leaning part of Florida, even when Florida was like...
You know, red, reddish purple.
You know, I think in 16, we lost Miami-Dade by like 30 points, and now we won it by 10, you know, in an eight-year period.
I mean, that's a really big deal.
And it's the people that were voting for Democrats that kind of thought they were Democrats but didn't realize they were actually Republicans.
They just sort of did it historically.
And I think it actually says a lot.
For the Democrat Party.
You know, they can no longer rely on just the media telling you they're doing a great job.
You actually hear what comes out of their mouth and realize that it does not align with your interests, especially, you know, in Miami-Dade, if you're from Cuba or Venezuela.
You're like, no, no, no.
They're trying to bring to America, like, what we escaped from.
Like, that's odd.
Yeah, it's great to see Florida as a strong...
You know, red state now, maybe one of the strongest.
So, you know, that's a really big deal, and we've got to keep that going.
Yeah. So, in the 18, or the 24 election, so think about what your dad did.
In 16, he won by, what, four?
I think he won by a little bit more in 20. And then he won, he won by, both of us won by 13 points.
And he might have won by 14, actually.
13 or 14 points this last election.
And so thank God for what he's done to the country, and we're heading the right direction in Florida.
Well, and thank you for staying in it.
You're obviously very big in sort of Senate leadership.
You've been fighting really hard.
You're also one of those guys that did really well in business before getting into government, so you don't have to do this job.
So it's always nice to have some of that acumen being brought to D.C. That doesn't happen often.
You have sort of career bureaucrats that...
You would not have let run even a small division of one of your companies.
And yet here they are making trillion-dollar decisions.
So it's sort of nice to see real leadership.
But, you know, if you look at what your dad's doing and look at what I'm trying to do, you're trying to make sure every American, whether you grew up rich or poor, has a chance to live the American dream.
I tell people when I grew up, I grew up in a very poor family.
But whether you're rich or poor back then, your parents told you the same thing.
You got to go get an education and you got to go work your butt off.
Right? But the Democrats will tell you the opposite.
Oh, no, we're going to take care of you, which you know they can't.
And they've ruined the job market.
They've ruined the education system.
They make the country dangerous.
None of what the Democrats are doing are good for us.
Yeah, if it wasn't for the bureaucracy, I don't think they'd be able to take care of themselves in the real world, let alone others.
So hopefully the exposure to that is telling to a lot of people.
Yeah, people are smart.
By the way, thank you for caring so much about Latin America.
Your interest in Venezuela and Nicaragua and Cuba and Colombia and all of Latin America is really important.
As you know, it's really important to Floridians.
About 20% of the population in Florida speak Spanish.
Many of them, some came from Puerto Rico, some came from Cuba.
Any place where they've had problems, our safe haven is Florida.
Yeah, well, but it's also a doorstep to America, right?
We spend, you know, what would be endless sums in Ukraine.
Most people couldn't find it on a map.
My father called it pretty well when saying there's an entire ocean between us.
You know, here, if you can come here, quite literally in some cases, on a raft, like, that seems like it's a little bit more on our doorstep, you know, than some of these other places that we're able to spend trillions.
Yeah. And by the way, thank you for doing the podcast with Maria Karina Machado.
Oh, it was my pleasure.
You really have to really respect and admire her.
As you know, she's in hiding now because Maduro wants to kill her.
Your dad saved her life when he was vocal when she was captured.
So the fight for freedom in Cuba is really important, and it's important to our national security.
What Maduro is doing with the drugs and sending criminals here and things like that, I mean, we all have to understand this is happening right now in our country because of bad prior policy, and especially what Biden did for his four years.
Well, I mean, it seems intentional.
Maybe that's why I'd start off is that, you know, we're seeing, you know, my father's taking historic steps to actually hold our adversaries accountable.
I mean, I know that's shocking.
I mean, it feels like what you should be doing.
That wasn't happening under Biden.
Today, the administration blacklisted over 50 Chinese companies relating to AI technology and harming U.S. national security interests earlier this week.
My father also slapped secondary 25% tariffs on any country buying oil from Venezuela, obviously.
You know, not exactly what we'd say a good actor if they're sending, you know, violent, criminal, drug-dealing murderers to our shores while simultaneously emptying out their prisons.
Probably not an ally.
Senator, can you talk about the effect of all of that?
I mean, it's hard to believe that, A, there's any resistance to it.
It's hard to believe that the opposite was happening for four years under Joe Biden and no one said anything.
But what do you see as the overall effect of what's going on right now?
I think, first off, what your dad has done is he is forcing our allies to do their part.
That's one thing he's doing, right?
The other thing he's doing, he's letting our enemies know they're not going to have an appeaser in the White House.
Biden was an appeaser.
So he's not going to say, oh, Cuba, we don't care that you're putting young kids in prison for a peaceful protest.
Your dad's going to hold the regime of Cuba accountable.
If you look at Maduro's case, he's not letting them get more money through oil, which your dad stopped this before.
Biden allowed them to start selling oil again.
That money goes to Maduro and helps him oppress people.
He's telling anybody who wants to do business with them.
You know, you're not going to do business with the United States or you're going to pay a heavy price.
So that's another way he's holding Maduro accountable.
He is highlighting the plight of Edmundo Gonzalez, the duly elected president, and Maria Corina Machado.
So he's doing that.
He's getting them to take the flights back.
He sent the gangs that came from Venezuela to El Salvador.
I mean, that was a great day.
But your dad did.
And then the video of what happened to them when they got to El Salvador, these were criminals that Joe Biden said, oh, it's okay.
I don't care about Americans.
I don't care about how dangerous it is.
So if you just look at what he's done just with Venezuela, everybody around the world needs to wake up to say, if President Trump's going to do this to Venezuela, what are we doing?
Are we the United States' friend?
Are we their enemy?
She has decided to be our enemy, right?
So she has decided to build a military to defeat us.
She has decided to try to steal all of her jobs.
She has decided to threaten Taiwan.
We didn't pick him as an enemy.
He made that choice.
The world is waking up.
There's a new sheriff in town.
Your dad's doing a great job.
And look, he's got a great team.
A lot of them from Florida, Marco Rubio, Michael Walton, Pam Bondi, and others.
He's putting together a great team of people that are really focused on doing the right things.
Yeah, let's get into the Venezuela stuff a little bit, because we recently learned that the Biden administration, for those who may not know, we're talking because this is what we do all day long, so we understand the details.
But the Biden administration basically had a secret deal to let Chevron pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the Maduro regime, a regime that we didn't even legally recognize before.
And, you know, again, despite it being totally illegal, you know, just how corrupt.
And do we think there's other existing, you know, federal contractors involved?
I mean, it doesn't, you know, given, you know, what we know about 10% for the big guy and, you know, maybe hunters on the board of Chevron, who knows, whatever it may be, you know, how deep does all of this really go?
Because I can't imagine it's just face value that you'd let a dictatorial regime that you didn't recognize basically siphon off hundreds of millions of dollars.
It doesn't seem like there's any interest.
For the U.S. in that, and as lost as the Democrats may be, you know, I don't take anything like that at face value anymore.
It seems like it has to be more.
You know, think about life.
When something doesn't seem right, it's probably not right, right?
I mean, it's pretty simple.
But, yeah, it never made sense, because remember what Biden said?
He said, oh, we're going to let him do this oil deal, let Mandoro make some money here, but he's promised.
That he's going to have a real election, right?
Wink, wink.
He kicked Maria Karina Machado off the ballot.
Oh, the Biden administration didn't do anything about that.
And then they watched him.
He stole the election.
Okay. Well, she won by 43 points, right?
Like, just so everyone's clear.
I mean, that's even their statistics.
They just didn't care, right?
It's not like there was a fudge factor or it was close and they won by two points.
I mean, she won in a landslide.
And it's like, eh, doesn't matter.
We're going to stay in power.
And they did nothing.
The same people screaming, by the way, about insurrections for the last four years and all of that.
Yeah, they did.
The Biden administration did nothing.
They didn't care.
There's not a dictator in the world that I've watched that the Biden administration held accountable.
So why was that?
There's no rationale that you know of for that.
And why don't they care about the people of Venezuela?
Don't they care about the people of Cuba?
They don't care about any of this stuff.
So something was wrong in the whole thing.
The other thing you really have to admire, Marie and Karina Machado, what she did was to prove she won the election, how they went and they got the little tickets from each of the polling stations to show how the votes came out.
That was gutsy on her part, and it was not easy.
And Maduro's gone after all those people that were part of that.
Oh, yeah.
When she was on, she was talking, I mean, you know, if she went and got lunch while driving from one place to the other, because they wouldn't let her fly, they wouldn't let her do anything, so she drove around the country.
I mean, if they served her or her team lunch at a restaurant that she paid for, they'd shut down the business.
I mean, you'd think they'd have a problem with that, but apparently not.
No. And, you know, I called Blinken and people like that, and they didn't care.
I mean, it's like...
But you name all of them.
They didn't hold Iran accountable.
They didn't have China accountable.
Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Colombia.
I mean, the president of Colombia is a complete terrorist.
And they invited him to the White House.
I mean, this stuff's crazy.
But, you know, look, I'm optimistic.
Because President Trump cares.
I'm optimistic because Mike Waltz cares.
I'm optimistic because Marco Rubio cares.
And as a team, they're going to get this done.
Senator, maybe we've talked about sort of the bad foreign adversaries, but can you talk a little bit about the cartel threat?
I mean, we've obviously seen the FBI under new leadership making that a priority.
What can that all look like to keep America safe?
Because when I think of...
Just a clear and present danger to the United States.
You know, I think Maduro is really bad.
I think the people you're sitting here are really bad.
Like, the cartels are killing, with fentanyl, 100,000 Americans a year.
And people are not even talking.
I mean, that's two Vietnams a year instead of over, you know, a 12-, 13-year period like the Vietnam War.
And it's almost like a, it's not even a talking point anymore.
You know, how do we take on the cartels, that threat, and deal with it as we should?
Well, number one, the precursors are made in China.
This is intentional by the Chinese government.
They're shipped to Mexico.
The cartel makes sure they get into the United States.
The cartels have been making billions of dollars.
The Biden administration completely...
I mean, think about this.
They completely dismantled what your dad set up.
So I've gone to the border bunch, and when Biden took office, what happened is the wall that your dad got done...
They opened the gates.
The cameras and stuff, they shut the electricity off.
The roads that your dad was building so Border Patrol could get there, they just stopped all that.
I mean, it's like, what are you thinking?
It was all intentional.
So about last year, 78,000 Americans died of fentanyl overdose.
78,000, okay?
Over 100,000 people died last year of drug overdose.
Now, all of us know somebody that's been impacted.
A family member, I had a brother who just passed away last year.
He had become a drug addict and an alcoholic.
It's devastating to him and devastating to our family what these people go through.
So the Biden administration just didn't care, just opened their door, you know, it's okay, we don't care.
So your dad has shut the border down, and now what he's doing, he's going to make sure these cartels get held accountable.
And because of his actions, by talking about the tariffs and things like that, finally the Mexican government...
is going to actually have to be a part.
They're going to have to send troops to the border.
They're going to have to send cartel here when we have a restaurant for them.
And, you know, whatever it's going to take, I think your dad's going to do it to get Americans safe.
I think he knows the importance of each of our families.
The most important thing is your kids, your family.
I mean, you don't want something to happen.
No one is immune from the fentanyl thing.
I mean, the amount of kids I know, just, you know, it's not demographic.
It's not racial.
It is an indiscriminate killer.
We all know someone very close that could have been otherwise a rock star in and of themselves.
The amount of college kids I hear about, they're all-star this, straight A this.
They think they're doing something, having some fun, playing around as a college kid, and they drop dead on the floor in three seconds.
It's sad.
But can you explain, Senator, how...
How exactly these cartels are able to operate?
They're essentially funded by the arms of certain governments, but are they like their own government?
Do they function almost as their own state actors?
With Mexico, I love that they're sending the military to the border, but how many of those people are on the payroll?
Looking the other way when it matters, and here's a token bust every once in a while.
What does that all look like?
Because it does feel very complicated.
These are not unsophisticated actors.
I mean, these are probably far more sophisticated than many of the governments we probably deal with at a certain level.
I think it's just a complete crime ring.
Some of it is the cartel.
Some of it is the elected officials.
Some of it is the law enforcement.
Some of it is the military.
It's all these things together.
I was told the other day, I mean, an unbelievable number of people running for office in Mexico were killed in the last 12 months.
So if you run because you want to...
Make your family safe.
You want to stop the corruption.
You want to stop the crime.
I mean, your risk of staying alive is really reduced.
So it's going to be hard.
But we've got to get the Mexican government to do their part.
And we're going to have to do our part.
But it's just a big business.
It's a billion-dollar business.
Oh, I think it's much more than that.
I mean, I would say it's multiples every year.
And the down channel on that, you watch these things, you see some of the videos, you know, the cartels taking on the military and winning because they have better equipment, they're more heavily funded, better training.
You know, I mean, they're basically a well-trained state actor.
Yeah, and yeah, who knows where they're getting all their information, but I imagine it's across the board.
So here's what we have to think about.
Number one thing you as a consumer can do...
Okay, is understand the government of China wants to demolish your way of life, and they're doing it.
They're killing your relatives.
They're killing your friends through their fentanyl.
They're stealing jobs through lying.
Like your dad did a great trade deal with China in his first term.
They never complied, and the Biden administration didn't make him do it.
So your dad's doing everything he can do.
But what you can do as a consumer, stop buying their stuff.
Stop helping them build their military to defeat us.
And then with regard to what your dad's doing with Mexico, we need to support him.
The other thing I tell people, you've got to be supportive when people are doing the right thing.
What your dad's doing is the right thing.
Is it hard?
Yeah. It's hard to do what your dad's doing every day.
And think about what he went through his four years with all the lawfare.
I mean, even now, think about it.
The media's not on his side.
There's not a Democrat up here that's going to help us.
It's hard what he's trying to do.
So, you know, speaking of not having much help from the Democrats, you know, on spending, I know, you know, obviously that's a big deal right now.
You know, is there a path to actually, you know, balancing the budget?
It feels like, you know, what we're spending now relative to 2019, it's an extra $2 trillion, and we've just made it.
Oh, well, that's the new norm.
You know, I can see COVID being an anomaly, but the fact that there's an unwillingness to go back to what was...
Not centuries ago, not decades ago, a few short years ago.
How do we get there?
Is it just literally exposing each and every line item and making people vote on the pork, the graft, the insanity?
I'd love to see anyone with a straight face try to support some of the things they found at USAID and or I'm sure everywhere else once Doge gets into it.
So here's how bad the numbers are.
In the last five years, we've seen a 2% increase in the U.S. population.
What do you think we've seen an increase in federal spending as a percentage?
What do you guess?
Twenty. Fifty-three.
Fifty-three percent increase.
So we are running $2 trillion a year of deficits.
Now, I think the last election was about these things.
I think securing the border and getting inflation under control.
There were other issues.
But those, I think, were the two biggest issues.
The only way to get inflation under control, your dad's doing everything.
We've got to do two things.
We've got to give your dad the money so he can secure the border and get rid of the bad guys, right?
That's number one.
Number two, we've got to make sure the military gets built up so we can defend ourselves.
But we've got to figure out how to balance the budget.
So we've got to do what you do.
You have to live within your means.
Every family has to live within the means.
By the way, when I became governor of Florida in January 2011, Florida had not lived within its means in 20 years.
They were going to default on debts.
So here's what I did.
This was so controversial.
You would love this.
I said, what are we going to collect?
I said, we're not going to spend more than that.
Shocking! How hard is that?
Yeah, and it's not like the Democrats will flip it, like if you cut something, they'll say, they're cutting Social Security.
You could literally leave that alone, not touch any of those things that are sort of the big boy entitlement issues, whatever they may be.
And there's still like $1.5 trillion in garbage new things that have been created.
That will never be the messaging.
You're cutting something that you're not cutting just because that's an effective soundbite, even if it's not realistic.
And so we have to figure out how to break through that noise.
How would you do that?
So I think what you do is take Social Security.
We ought to be very clear, like your dad has been.
We are going to protect Social Security benefits.
We're going to protect Medicare benefits.
And then we're going to get rid of the fraud abuse.
What should Medicaid be?
Medicaid is supposed to be for the benefit of a child.
That's what it is.
Medicaid is for the benefit of a poor child or somebody has a chronic illness.
That's what that should be.
So guess what?
Do you think...
That you should be able to get Medicaid, food stamps, public housing if you decide, I don't want to have a job.
I just want to stay home every day.
You think that's fair?
And is that going to take care of poor kids?
No. That's pretty simple.
Should New York get paid three times for every Medicaid recipient as Florida and then Puerto Rico get less?
No. That makes no sense.
Should we pay states more money to take care of an able-bodied...
Male that doesn't want to work versus some child that has a chronic condition.
That's simple.
So what we've got to do is we've got to go through that.
But Ron Johnson will go through.
He says, if we went back to Clinton, his last budget where we balanced the budget, and we raise spending by population and by inflation, and take today's Social Security, today's Medicare money, we'd balance the budget.
It would be balanced.
Even if you go back to your dad's, 2019 projection of a budget for 2025 and did that stuff, we would be really close to being balanced.
That's how bad this is.
So what we've got to do as Republicans is we've got to do what your dad has said.
He wants to balance the budget.
He wants to protect Medicare, protect Social Security, make sure poor kids have health care.
So what we've got to do as Republicans in the House and Senate, we've got to come together and give him the tools to be able to do this.
So more broadly, talk about how you've seen this new MAGA coalition broaden across the state of Florida.
It seems that we've built something that can actually really last here.
I mean, it's very diverse.
It's very different than it was even for me in 16 going around.
It's not just, you know, the white guy in a MAGA hat anymore saying, OK, hey, this is ridiculous.
Let's do it.
I mean, it's everyone.
We also have these key special elections coming up in Florida 1 and Florida 6, right?
The Matt Gaetz seat as well as the Mike Wall seat.
You know, it does feel like our people are actually pretty happy with what's going on, but they're not necessarily paying attention to those details that, like, you could lose control of the House, not because they wouldn't be involved, but because the Democrats are frantically trying to stop them from having a success, and the Republicans are just sort of sitting on their laurels being like, hey, we're getting everything we want.
We're not in the game.
Right. Well, first off, think of what the coalition your dad has put together.
So, like you said before, we won Miami.
We won in November 2024 by 10 points.
We won the sheriff's race, the tax collector's race, the property appraiser's race.
Every county race, we won.
We won, all right?
And everyone said, oh, you're going to lose by 10 or 20 points because the coalition your dad created, okay?
And then we, so all, think about it.
Everybody in Florida says, this is better for me if I have a president that is going to focus on making sure my kids go to education, make sure decisions are made local on education, make sure I can get a good job, make sure I can stay safe.
So that's what's happened.
He's brought a lot of energy.
Here's what we're dealing with right now.
We've got two special elections, like you said, Jimmy, Mike Waltz and Matt Gaetz.
So those are April 1, so next Tuesday, I think it is.
We've got to get our vote out.
And here's what happens with special elections.
It's hard to get people to even know there's a special election.
So take Randy Fiennes' race, which is Mike Waltz's seat.
The Democrat has raised, now this is a seat that historically has been Mike Waltz won by a big, I think, 20 plus points.
So you would say, oh, this should be an easy race.
Well, here's the problem.
The Democrat has raised over $10 million, and I think Randy, who's worked his butt off, has raised a million.
So $10 million in negative ads, you know, and they lie about what he's done.
It makes it hard.
So here's what I've been doing.
Telephone town halls for Randy, and I'm doing everything I can.
We have got to vote.
We have got to get out to vote in both of these elections.
Yeah, so if you're watching, if you're from Florida, if you live in one or six, or you know friends that do, or if you're anywhere in the country and you have friends that live in Matt Gaetz's old district or Mike Walt's old district, understand, in literally about a week, next Tuesday, you have an election that could decide, essentially, control of Congress.
They could stop this momentum.
Right now, the Democrats are well-funded.
You know they're getting all sorts of crazy outside money.
You know they're flooding the zone.
They're mobilizing to try to stop all of the sanity that has been going on from continuing.
So if you guys aren't paying attention, make sure you are.
Make sure you're calling your friends.
Make sure you vote.
Donate. Contribute.
Do not sit this one out.
Just because Trump's not at the top of the ticket or it's not a senator, this could be control of Congress essentially in these two seats.
You mentioned Senator Ron Johnson.
He's on the show tonight because we have that special election that's going to decide the Supreme Court.
In Wisconsin, which is redistricting, which is men and women's sports, which is literally everything we've been fighting for.
And there's a radical leftist that's very well funded, probably a little bit ahead right now in Wisconsin.
And again, our guys don't even know about it.
If they did, if they showed up like they did for Trump, this thing's over.
But they're not paying attention.
So make sure that you guys are paying attention.
You've done a great work in the Senate doing that for so many other people on the Senate side.
But we've got to remember everything all the way down to dog catcher right now.
But, you know, the way you win Senate races, the way you win statewide races is you win all the congressional seats.
You win all those, you win statewide.
So we've got to win the Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin.
Because all of our success in Wisconsin will go away.
And we've got to keep these seats in Florida because it could be the difference between a majority and a minority.
So we've got to win these seats.
So I know on Randy Fines, it's voterandyfine.com.
And you can get on there.
You can donate.
You can make phone calls.
So you can volunteer.
But we've got to get people to vote, vote, vote.
And you can do it.
In Florida, as you know, we have early voting, so you can go vote today.
Yep. Make sure you guys are doing that.
It's paramount.
Wisconsin, same thing.
Get in the game.
It's eight days out.
Let's make sure that happens.
Senator, while I have you, what else can you preview about what you're working on in the Senate and what we should keep our eyes out for over there?
So, by the way, Ron Johnson is great.
The real driver right now of fiscal sanity up here is Ron Johnson.
He is really driving that.
And so you're going to have a great time talking to him.
So here's what we're doing right now.
We're trying to get your dad's nominees through.
The way the Senate works is that each, well, when it's a cabinet-level nominee, there's 30 hours of debate.
Now, typically, the other party would say, well, if I'm tired of talking, I'll let you go ahead and vote on them.
But they don't.
So that's why we worked really hard to get your dad's nominees done.
Now all the lower levels, like the assistant secretaries, the ambassadors, U.S. attorneys, those are two hours.
So basically every three hours we can do a nominee because the Democrats won't let us do them as a group or anything like that, even though they know they're going to pass.
We've got 53 Republicans.
We're voting together.
So the biggest thing we're doing right now is we're getting your dad's nominees.
And we're doing today, we just got Dan Bishop done.
He's number two at OMB.
We just got the Assistant Attorney General done today.
So I think we have four more today.
And then we're also working on, we can do a vote to get rid of regulations that Biden did the last few months of his term.
So we're working on some of those today.
Then we're working really hard on how do we...
Give your dad the money for secure the border, deport the criminals, the terrorists, the narco-traffickers.
Number two, build up the military.
Number three, extend the Trump tax cuts.
If we don't extend the Trump tax cuts, that's over a $4 trillion tax increase on Americans.
$4 trillion.
Not one Democrat is going to help us with this.
And then we've got to focus on doing what your dad and all of his agency heads are doing, and Elon Musk is get rid of the wasteful spending.
So that's what we're working on right now.
Those are the big things.
But look, I'm very optimistic.
I'm very optimistic that we're going to get done.
One thing I forgot to bring up when we're talking about Venezuela is, when I was governor of Florida, I passed legislation that said, if you do business with Maduro, you don't do business with the state of Florida.
I have a bill I'm going to be filing today or this week.
It's called the Bolivar Act, which will do the same thing with the federal government.
You're not going to do business with the U.S. government if you want to go do business with Maduro.
So that's the types of things we have to keep doing.
Well, I appreciate it.
Thank you so much, Senator Rick Scott from the great state of Florida.
I really appreciate it.
I know you have those votes, so get those guys in there so we can be more effective.
Everyone remember, April 1st, if you're in Florida, if you're in Wisconsin, make sure you're voting in those special elections.
Fundamentally critical to stay engaged, stay involved.
Just because we're winning now doesn't mean the Democrats aren't trying to stop us each and every day.
So, Senator, thank you for all your efforts and all of that.
Really appreciate it.
Thanks for your friendship.
Thanks for all your hard work.
Take care.
Good to see you.
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