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Episode 96 LIVE: Trump In Manhattan (feat. Gavin Wax) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz
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Thank you.
In battle, Congressman Matt Gaetz.
Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
He could cause a lot of hiccups in passing the laws.
So we're going to keep running those stories to get hurt again.
If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots.
You are in the right place.
This is the movement for you.
You ever watch this guy on television?
It's like a machine.
Matt Gaetz.
I'm a canceled man in some corners of the internet.
Many days I'm a marked man in Congress, a wanted man by the deep state.
They aren't really coming for me.
They're coming for you.
I'm just in the way.
To the Mayor Adams, as you can see, I'm CDQ peacefully protesting, but you called me out by name.
While you allow crime in your streets and you send your henchmen down here to commit assault against people by making loud noises, assault against police officers who are doing their job.
They're terrified of A lot of voters, they're terrified of people having a voice, and that's why they're trying to put a gag order on President Donald John Trump.
Have you heard that, a gag order?
Well, you know what I say to Elvin Bragg and his gag order?
Boo!
Boo!
And you know something?
to Vince Barra, to Gavin Wax, to all the New Yorkers and the free Americans who stand here with me today.
They can gag Donald Trump, but they can't gag all of us, and they will not gag all of us.
Our voices will be heard, and we will not stop.
I just want the law to be applied equally.
And if you're going to go after people on these pretty trivial things, then do it equally.
But if you're only going to do it on trivial things on one side, then yeah, I think that's ridiculous.
And if there's a crime committed, then absolutely.
I mean, we've seen the news of Hunter Biden.
He's on, you know, he's on photos committing crimes, you know, Whether it's narcotics or with prostitutes or whatever it is, no one's going after that.
And you can understand that as this continues to happen, you know, respect for the justice system, respect for our institutions, faith in the rule of law is going to continue to deteriorate.
So it's a problem for society as a whole.
We are live.
Thanks for joining us back on Firebrand.
We are broadcasting from Room 2021 of the Rayburn House Office Building on the Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C., and that was New York Young Republican Club President Gavin Wax, who will join us in just a moment to give the granular view of what was happening in Manhattan on the ground, how this is being perceived and who are some of these political players that have gone from features of New York governance to now international villains, I would say, in the case of Alvin Bragg.
I also want to let you know in the final segment of the show today, we are going to be showing a film created by the Heritage Foundation called The 20.
And it's about 10 minutes long I'm going to show to you at the end of the show because it really walks through the vision of people like Chip Roy and Eli Crane, Anna Paulina Luna, Andy Biggs, and myself as we were fighting to change the House of Representatives So I want to give you an inside look.
And they did this great documentary that brings you in the room to see exactly what we were fighting for and why the tactics we used were effective in that regard.
So, joining me now...
To talk about everything going on in Manhattan, president of the New York Young Republican Club, Gavin Wax.
And I say frequently, the New York Young Republican Club is the premier activism organization within young Republican politics.
Really, if you look at Republican politics broadly, because it's not about coming together for I want to get into all the Trump stuff, having MTG there, having Jack Posobiec on the ground.
But first, just as president of your organization, what has made the New York Young Republican Club so different in terms of its attractiveness to people who really see politics as an enterprise of activity, not just an enterprise of thinking?
Well, thank you, Congressman, for having me and all the kind words.
And I think you make a great point there that this institution is about action.
It's about getting out there.
It's about knocking on doors.
It's about It's about organizing rallies.
It's about engaging potential voters, growing the party, and fighting even deep behind enemy lines in a place like New York City to achieve some serious political ends, which we have started to see in many local races that we have been involved in.
But we were not content To continue the long-standing Republican tradition of cocktail parties and just, you know, talking a big game but not actually getting out there and fighting the battles that need to be waged.
We are willing to roll our sleeves up, get into the streets, go into Lower Manhattan and protest and let our voices be heard for our conservative beliefs and principles.
So we see many other organizations that would much rather stay on the sidelines and, you know, We're good to snark and make snide remarks and say the end is near and be nihilistic and defeat us.
But we're looking forward to continuing to fight to take this country back.
One block at a time, even behind enemy lines in the belly of the beast in New York City.
We are not going to tweet our way to victory against the left.
It is going to require showing up and then bringing people into our movement with activities, ideas, and with a sense of focus and drive that I certainly see in the New York Young Republican Club.
So take me to the decision you guys made to reach out to NYPD to get a secure space for those who support President Trump.
To have their voices heard in New York and then obviously great to see MTG, Posobiec and others there with you.
But what about being there was important for your organization?
Absolutely.
So two weeks ago we had our beta launch of this rally.
This was before the indictment was official but it was just leaked and President Trump called for protest.
We were the first organization to answer that call and we did it right here in Manhattan outside the courthouse.
We did Collect Pond which has a long history of being a swamp and then later the center of the Five Points which was originally New York's red light district.
So it's always been a center of corruption.
And swampiness.
And it continues to this day.
But we chose that spot.
We did a smaller protest that was confined.
We vetted everyone.
And why did we do that?
Because the narrative, not just on the left, but also on the right, was that Republicans and conservatives can no longer protest.
They can no longer rally.
They can no longer exercise their First Amendment rights.
And we absolutely wanted to dispute that argument and show that even in New York City, Republicans, conservatives, MAGA supporters can and should We had several days to
promote it.
And this entire park that we occupied is a full city block.
And you can see from some of the photos that you're showing, we had this block This park filled corner to corner, edge to edge, entrance to entrance with Trump supporters.
It was a beautiful sight to behold.
You could see them as far out as the eye could see.
It was a sea of people.
And of course, there was a lot of press.
There was international press, domestic press.
But it was important that we let our voices be heard in a peaceful way to show the media, to show the leftist establishment in New York City That we are not the deplorables that they paint us to be, that we are actually the civil side.
We are the side that can, you know, speak to the issues.
And it's the other side, the side that has to blow whistles and bang drums and screech hysterical things that has no idea what they're talking about.
So it was an honor to host the Congresswoman down here in New York, or up here in New York, rather, for her.
And let the entire New York City political establishment know that there is a strong base of support in New York City for their hometown hero, President Donald J. Trump.
You certainly got the attention of New York City Mayor Eric Adams who took note of your upcoming event, made mention of it.
And I spoke with Marjorie Taylor Greene yesterday and she was concerned that the reason Eric Adams put that statement out was to try to gaslight violence against those of you who had no intention of harming anyone or engaging in anything other than First Amendment protected activity.
Do you think Mayor Adams called you out In hopes that people would have come there to do you harm?
Absolutely.
I think this was all part of a narrative formation scheme by the mayor and his lackeys to try to paint the congresswoman in a certain light, try to paint the club in a certain light, and obviously try to paint Trump and his supporters in a certain light.
They were basically projecting what they wished to happen.
And in fact, I have friends on the city council and in city government who Who let me know before our last protest that they had an all-hands-on-deck meeting with every elected official in the city from the city council all up to Congress, the mayor, all the commissioners, everyone.
And they were basically describing the event as the next January 6th.
They were talking about snipers on roofs, all these sorts of things.
So they were definitely trying to put things out into the ecosystem to sort of cajole a certain response from their left-wing compatriots.
And to that end, they did have some success.
The biggest hecklers of the congresswoman and of our and of our rally were actually elected officials.
You had a colleague of yours, Jamal Bowman, who is yelling at the congresswoman, telling her to go back to her own district when I don't think the congressman knows exactly where he is because he wasn't in his own district either in lower Manhattan.
And then, of course, you had perpetual activist Jumaane Williams, who is the public advocate of the city of New York.
And then you had a local city council person.
I'm going to say person because I'm not sure this individual's gender.
Chi Osei, who was handing out whistles.
Of course, they can't hear our arguments.
They can't hear our side.
They just want to drown us out.
But despite that, we outnumbered them 10 to 1. And when the press was there and they were trying to ask, you know, well, is this a good showing?
I would say absolutely.
Having a thousand people in a park is a great showing and outnumbering The local leftists 10 to 1 in a borough that votes 85-90% Democrat is a great turnout for Republicans and conservatives.
So again, to the rest of the country, to the rest of the conservative nation, if we could do it here in New York, you could do it wherever you are.
And when you look at the body politic and the shape of various political groups...
I think there's an awakening now on the right that I saw reflected in who you were able to draw to your event.
I want to shift gears a little bit and talk about Alvin Bragg.
Alvin Bragg has stitched together an indictment that is...
Legal foolishness.
It's legal voodoo.
You would never bootstrap these misdemeanors to a federal election matter in order to try to cascade some 34 felonies on a single agreement to settle a private dispute.
But help me understand this guy as a political figure, as a New Yorker.
You understand the politics there.
How did Alvin Bragg go from being The editor of the Civil Rights Journal at Harvard Law Review to having this major role as the Manhattan DA. It's a great question.
I mean, Alvin Bragg is the product of all the American institutions that we once held in high regard.
You know, Harvard, Harvard Law.
I mean, this is a gentleman with his pedigree.
You would expect a completely different person, someone who could actually articulate His point of view rather than just reading off a piece of paper at a press conference.
I mean he represents the nihilistic globalist worldview of the American elite, particularly of the New York elite.
I mean he has no idea what he's doing.
Is he smart?
Is he smart?
Because you leave that press conference he did the other day wondering if this is a highly capable individual.
Or is he one of these machine candidates?
I know the way politics works on the left in Manhattan, you don't just show up on the scene and get somewhere.
You've got to be part of this vertically integrated system they have.
Does he come out of that?
Certainly not an outsider.
I don't know.
Absolutely.
You raise a good point.
I mean, the election of DAs and judges and most Our offices in New York is not determined in the general election.
We are a one-party town, but it is determined through the Democrat machine political process, which doesn't even start at the primary.
It starts well before the primary and back rooms.
It starts through a feeder system that goes all the way down to the county committee, the district leader spots.
And he is a product of that system, and so is Mayor Adams.
Mayor Adams is a product of Of the Brooklyn Democrat machine.
So he was elected overwhelmingly.
Our club endorsed and supported a member of our club, Thomas Kniff, against him.
And we handed out literature.
We campaigned the old school way here in New York.
But this is a post-political borough in many ways, so our valiant efforts and the valiant efforts of Alvin Bragg's challenger in that race were largely fruitless.
But at the end of the day, he is simply an extension of the popular will of Manhattan, which is largely this nihilistic worldview that puts the criminal above the victim, and he has made a name for himself.
As district attorney in his refusal to prosecute a whole wide range of violent offenses, from assaults to burglaries to even rapes against people with long rap sheets.
And he seems to hold victims with a particular type of disdain, particularly victims that had the audacity to defend themselves, such as Jose Alba, where it took him close to a month to drop charges.
He was a bodega worker, as you may recall, who was nearly stabbed to death and was able to Fight off his attacker.
And just this past week during this entire media circus around the Trump indictment there was a garage attendant here in Manhattan who miraculously also survived an attempted murder when he was able to steal the gun of the perpetrator and use it against him and kill that perpetrator.
And what happened to this gentleman?
Well of course he was charged and he was held in handcuffs and it was only due to public pressure But it's a virtue signal, right?
I mean, and if you're virtue signaling like Alvin Bragg's doing, The only reason you would put your own constituents, the people who elected you, at risk for the sake of these woke policies is because you believe that that's going to ingratiate yourself to the elite in some way, and that that will create upward political mobility.
And so, in a way, the incentive structure you're describing, Gavin, would suggest that Alvin Brack can even win for losing.
If a court were to dispose of this matter either directly or on appeal through a motion to dismiss by saying that as a matter of law you cannot lash these things together like disparate parts of a Mr. Potato Head doll to evade a statute of limitations regardless of what the facts are.
If a court were to say that Alvin Bragg would be able to Lean into the incentive structure you just described, saying, well, I went after Trump.
I did all I could.
I was there dragging him before a court to be arraigned and be forced back into our jurisdiction.
Is this a guy running for something else?
Because you almost look at it and say, Alvin Bragg was a nobody 20 minutes ago, and now he's this internationally known name because he's taken this action against our country, against a lot of the constitutional principles that we've held dear through the Republican and Democrat administration.
So what do you think the long game is for this guy?
Oh, absolutely.
I think he's getting fast-tracked to some sort of position, maybe at the state level, maybe even I mean, he's going to be the darling of the elite leftist circles in this country.
I mean, he is answering to them because he represents a constituency that is post-political.
He's not answering to the whims of his constituents who are largely, you know, apathetic and apolitical or not really involved.
He's answering to his donors.
He's answering to the political machine leaders that put him there to begin with.
So you make a very, you make a solid point there that that's his incentive structure.
That's his incentive structure for completely embarrassing himself Uh, by even just completely bipartisan standards, just with the merits of this indictment in this case.
I mean, he has, he's citing penal code, I think one, seven, five, 10, which is a classy felony, uh, which basically states that the fraud needs to be in furtherance of another crime of an underlying crime, but he never cites what that crime is.
I mean, this entire copy and pasted indictment.
Uh, is a complete joke and it's a complete slap in the face, uh, to the American judicial system.
But he operates with impunity because he knows he can operate with impunity.
And, and, and a part of me respects, uh, the left, uh, and the elites, uh, just shamelessness and, and their, uh, and how blunt and blatant they are in their corruption and their politicization of our institutions.
I mean, you have to almost admire it from a power politics perspective that they're so just cavalier in terms of how they go about Their political warfare.
And I only wish we had, you know, Republican leaders, more Republican leaders such as yourself and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who could counter that kind of mentality and that kind of chutzpah in New York speak.
With an equal vigor to push back against these injustices and this obscene abuse of power.
It's clear Trump sees it as you do, part of a series, part of a broader plan.
I took note that in his remarks last night at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump didn't localize his critique to Alvin Bragg.
He talked about how there is this interwoven effort with a Fulton County prosecutor with Jack Smith to get Trump at any cost and by any means.
You, in your role as president of the New York Young Republican Club, also talk to a number of right and center-right leaders around the world.
Political groups, young people make their way through New York a lot.
I've been at your club where you've had folks from Europe in, understanding our politics and sharing ideas about what's going on elsewhere.
How do you think this plays globally?
What is the global verdict on the United States crossing the Rubicon and indicting a former president on the flimsiest of charges?
I think it makes us look like a bigger joke than we've already demonstrated over the last few months, few years of the Biden administration.
I think they look at it like the downfall of the United States.
I mean, you have President Bukele in El Salvador coming out and boldly proclaiming that the United States is no longer in a position to lecture anyone on human rights, on civil rights and all the rest.
And I think it's actually doing a big disservice to the neoconservative talking point of being, you know, this...
This doer of good on the world stage, on this nation that's simply working to advance these beautiful ideals of democracy and human rights and all that.
I mean, we are just showing ourselves to be the emperor with no clothes on the world stage, that we don't practice what we preach.
I mean, we are entering into the ranks of such notable nations such as Uganda and Ukraine and Bolivia and Nicaragua who have jailed their opposition leaders.
This is something that simply doesn't happen In a first-world civilized nation with respect for the rule of law and civil rights, this is the kind of action that a tin-pot dictatorship takes.
So I think it's an embarrassing step for our country, and I think people are viewing it as such, and they're viewing it as the continued decline of the American empire, the American global hegemony.
And it just goes to show that we are a declining empire, and the world is noticing, and we're Rapidly entering into a state of a multipolar world order with the likes of China and Russia and India and whatever else rising up and, you know, replacing us economically, politically, militarily and otherwise.
And, you know, they're switching their currencies.
They're switching how they do trade.
I mean, we are a nation that refuses to accept where we're heading and where we are currently and we're operating as if this is still, you know, the end of the Cold War.
We are, you know, Pax Americana.
But those days are long gone.
He knows the world.
He knows New York.
President of the New York Young Republican Club.
At Gavin Wax.
Follow him.
And Gavin, where else are you publishing right now?
You put out some pretty provocative prose now and again.
Let folks know where they can follow you.
Well, thank you again for having me on, Congressman.
And yes, you could follow me and my writing.
I write for American Greatness, Town Hall, Newsmax, a few other conservative outlets.
A piece recently I wrote, There is No Trumpism Without Trump, was shared by President Donald J. Trump.
I was very honored by that.
I also write occasionally in Newsweek about the great work that President Bukele is doing down in El Salvador and the great work President Orban Prime Minister Orban is doing in Hungary and where we can look to emulate conservative policies and leadership abroad and maybe bring it back home.
I mean, that just goes to show on to our last point that we have to now look abroad in some respects to see leadership and success because we have so little of it here at home.
Gavin Wax, always one of my favorite people to talk to about what's going on in politics and policy and global affairs.
Thanks for joining us on Firebrand, my friend.
Thank you, sir.
Have a good one.
Thank you.
So, a lot of folks have asked serious questions about the goals and objectives of the group of members who participated in the speaker's contest in a non-traditional way.
And the Heritage Foundation recently put together a terrific little film on what we were fighting for and how we were choosing to lower our shoulders and weigh in.
Make sure to go to the Heritage Foundation's page, give them a follow, subscribe, so that you can see more of this great content that they put out.
But since I participated in the project, I felt licensed to be able to share it with you.
Enjoy.
Take a listen.
The reading clerk will now call the roll.
Bibbs.
It's money and power that control this town.
Bishop of North Carolina.
All we're talking about chaos and dysfunction in Washington because Republicans didn't sit down like Democrats do.
Crane.
It's like this cul-de-sac of greed and corruption and it just keeps going around and around.
Gates.
I felt like it doesn't even matter which party wins the majority because both sides are working for the same lobbyists.
Luna.
I had a reporter that basically accosted me in the hallway saying really vile stuff.
Perry.
One member came up to me and said, your presence disgusts me.
Roy.
So maybe the American people need to know the truth.
And it's extraordinary what happens when you tell the truth in this town.
People go, what the hell are you doing?
Why would you do that?
The fact is, we won.
because we were telling the truth.
Well, I think what we are fighting for was change.
Everybody knows this town is broken.
When people talk about the swamp or the establishment, I think another word I like better is the cartel, the uniparty cartel.
I think of various aspects, bureaucracies, the lobbyists, this media cartel.
All of these have produced interlocking relationships, which is why I call it a cartel.
And it doesn't matter who's in power.
Washington's a fundamentally corrupt place.
Far too often, the The way that people get leadership positions or committee assignments or even have their legislation considered is all based on money.
This establishment, this swamp, is designed to protect itself.
The most corrupt time in this place is freshman orientation.
Because during freshman orientation, you get the best steak you've ever eaten, the finest wine you've ever had, and they literally sit you down at tables with the lobbyists who lobby the committees that they know you want to serve on.
And from day one, before you're even sworn in, they're convincing you that your path to prosperity in this town runs through the corrupt redistribution of special interest funds.
It has been abundantly clear for a long time That only a handful of people decide what bills get to the floor, how they get to the floor, what the rules are, and how they are debated on the floor, whether members can amend on the floor.
When I came up here, really one of the first things that I realized, and it was shocking to me, that I couldn't just, as a representative, bring a bill to the floor.
That it had to go through something called the Rules Committee, and there were certain members that were a part of that Rules Committee, but it was a very small fraction.
And that if they didn't like your legislation or your proposed legislation, that that wouldn't be brought to the House floor.
I remember when I first came to Congress and I wanted to serve on the Armed Services Committee because my district has such a high concentration of active duty military and I was told by a member of our leadership that if I wanted to serve on that committee that I need to furnish $75,000 in the next 10 days.
to the political fund for Republicans in the House of Representatives.
And at first I was like, is anybody here wearing a wire?
It struck me as a shakedown.
But I learned that that happens every day.
Because we didn't get the red wave that everybody thought we were going to get, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise, conservatives actually had a chance To push this party back towards, you know, its conservative roots.
The whole debate about the speaker was important on a host of different levels.
First of all, you've got to go back to why it even happened.
All the way back to last summer, before we knew what the majority breakdown was going to be.
Was it going to be a 5-seat majority, a 20-seat majority, whatever.
And we said, look, this is an opportunity to change the culture, change the way things were done in Washington, D.C. We were all sitting down saying, what do we need to change about this place in terms of how the rules work?
Both in the Republican conference and the House rules.
To take away some of the power and authority that has been, over the last couple years, isolated more towards the top at leadership, And push that back down towards the members, which in turn pushes that back towards their voters or their constituents.
So I went to leadership.
We started out with a simple set of rules.
We wrote them up and said, here's the problem with our current rules.
I want to talk about some spending, talk about committee assignments, not for us personally, but just to have a look across the conference and make sure all voices were heard.
We're completely dismissed.
That morning on the 3rd, we had a conference.
There was a lot of discord in the room, and one of the gentlemen, high-ranking official in the Congress, a person with a lot of levers of power, goes to the microphone and tells everybody, if you don't vote a certain way, you're going to be removed of all your committees.
It'd be nice to wipe from the history books.
It was extraordinarily Hostile.
And that fried a lot of feelings.
It left people in not exactly a state of mind to resolve anything.
When we started going through the process and we were putting another name out for consideration for speaker, and the first number was 19, we had three votes at 19 and then it went to 20. We realized in the middle of that that we suddenly had an opportunity to speak to the entire House of Representatives, all 435 of us.
Right now Kevin McCarthy does not have the votes.
He just made history, not in a good way, as being the first, in 100 years, the first man to lose the speakership in the first round.
The House stands adjourned until noon tomorrow.
Now, within the conference, sure, there were some hard feelings.
People didn't like the process.
I was contacted by a female member of Congress, and she basically said that me and the other members that voted against Leader McCarthy would be made examples of.
I mean, it was a pretty wild phone call.
Here's what's interesting.
The court of public opinion The conservative apparatus in Washington, right?
All the smart ones.
All the blue checkmark Republicans.
These guys are, you know, risking the speaker.
They're going to turn the speakership over to the Democrats.
My phone was blowing up by a whole lot of supporters.
But a pretty good vocal minority of detractors.
Chip, what are you doing?
You look crazy.
You're going to ruin it for Republicans.
We're not going to choose a speaker.
We look disorganized.
I had big donors call me up, yelling and screaming, saying, this is a clown show.
And I'm like, how is it a clown show?
People standing up, offering debates, and going back and forth.
That's not a clown show.
That's the way a constitutional republic works.
We are getting hit from the left, from the right.
I mean, people that we thought were our allies in conservative media were calling us extortionists.
They were saying that we were terrorists.
They were using the media to pressure our constituents into thinking that we were somehow single-handedly by debating ideas in Congress, we were somehow destroying the country.
Let's face it, the media coverage always revels in any discord or perceived discord whatsoever in the Republican conference.
The vast majority of the media is left-leaning and supportive of the left, if not just running the ball for them on every occasion.
And it took a while before everybody knew we were serious, but they finally got it.
And we were willing to go to the table.
We always were.
And it's kind of funny when people realize you're serious, then they take you seriously.
Suddenly everybody was saying, wait, these guys and gals are fighting for something.
Some of my best friends in conservative media were sharply criticizing me by name frequently.
As soon as they saw the result, they couldn't wait to pick up the pom-poms and start waving them.
There was one point, we're in the middle of this heated debate.
First thing in the morning, it was like 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock in the morning.
Representative Massey, who was voting for Speaker McCarthy, runs in, out of breath, cars in the middle of the street.
He's like, if you guys can pull this off, you will be able to bring the institutional change that I've been trying to get for like the last like 12 years.
That's all he said, then he left.
I think it was about, what, the 13th vote or something like that.
We were in negotiations the day previously, late into the evening and even into the next morning, and we had felt relatively comfortable that we had a framework.
So that last day, Friday, we were furiously working.
Right before we went back on the floor that evening, we met with the speaker with The definitive agreement, and he indicated his agreement to it.
So that's the time you saw kind of the damn break, and there was a large number of members that were previously not voting for Speaker McCarthy that suddenly said, I will, and if you remember when I stood up, I said, in good faith, Kevin McCarthy.
Therefore, the Honorable Kevin McCarthy of the State of California, having received a majority of the votes cast, is duly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives.
And now, the hard work begins.
We will hold the swamp accountable.
From the withdrawal of Afghanistan, to the origins of COVID, and to the weaponization of the FBI. The most important thing we got out of this was fundamentally changing the balance of power.
First time ever in Congress a single-subject rule.
So bills that come through have a single subject.
If they don't, we don't take them up or we divide them.
Key provisions like a 72 hours to be able to read bills, the ability to offer amendments that are germane, you know, they're relevant to the actual underlying text of the bill.
Just stop spending money we don't have.
We never wanted to legislate by omnibus ever again.
The diversification of members that are conservative on very important committees to include oversight in judiciary and house rules and appropriations.
We're going to have a strong weaponization committee attached to judiciary to go after the woke weaponized government disrupting our freedom.
The power to ensure the speaker honors his commitments by making sure we maintain the ability to vacate if we have to use it, which you never really want to do.
Those are all things that people said Wait a minute.
They're fighting for us.
The reason that I did what I did and voted the way I did for 14 or 15 rounds was because that's what I heard from my voters for a year and a half.
If you go out, walk out of my office and look on the sign on the door, it says Representative.
My job is to represent what they want.
They hired me to come to Washington to fight to change the town for them.
But how do you go out and negotiate if you don't have some people willing to say, you can't just count on my vote?
Thank you again to the Heritage Foundation for putting that documentary film together.
Follow them at DailySignal.
And thank you to my colleagues who worked to ensure that we had the tools to change Washington.
Remember, our focus is on borders and budgets and bureaucrats.
But if we do not use those tools to force change, then we have achieved nothing in that speaker contest process.
But we'll have those flashpoints coming forward on the debt limit.
On major legislation in April on the border.
And we will be here to hold the House of Representatives to account.
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