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Inflation Is Insane - January 16th, Hour 2
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I got to tell you something.
This is insanity.
You got the mob, the media, fake news, CNN.
You got AOC.
You got Pete Buddhajudge.
You got everybody out there.
They want to now, Kathy Hochl, the governor of New York, and they want to ban gas stoves.
They think that this is now the new fad of the climate alarmist cult.
And you couldn't imagine a more ridiculous, anti-science, dishonest, elitist signal as it relates to the economy.
By the way, who's going to buy everybody a new appliance?
Who's going to pay for all of this?
And as we've been pointing out, then the FAA disaster, where for the first time since 9-11, 2001, they had to shut down the entire country in terms of air flight.
The FAA, they don't know why.
Was it a hacking?
Was it a computer glitch?
How did it happen?
You know, it doesn't impact Pete Buttajudge because he's out there flying around in a government jet that you paid for.
And meanwhile, they lecture every American about, you know, carbon emissions, carbon emissions.
Well, your government, you have paid for a fleet of close to a thousand jets and helicopters that they all use on a regular basis.
If you look through all the varying times, now they want to ban gas stoves.
Are you kidding me?
And fluorescent light bulbs?
I mean, this is insanity to me.
Anyway, there was some tape earlier, Pete Budajudge making excuses for the FAA outrage.
Then we're going to talk about the economy as well.
Listen to this.
First of all, any hint of what the root cause was of this outage.
Well, now that the system is up and running, our primary focus is to determine that root cause.
And I've directed FAA to figure out exactly how this happened.
This is an incredibly complex system.
So glitches or complications happen all the time, but we can't allow them to ever lead to this level of disruption.
And we won't ever allow them to lead to a safety problem.
Yeah, he doesn't have the problem because he's flying on a private jet you paid for with all the carbon emissions that they say they're so angry about.
By the way, Congresswoman Nancy May, South Carolina, filed a bill that would require Buddha Judge to fly commercial, especially after the FAA and Southwest Airlines debacle, and those things haven't been resolved.
Then over at Fake News CNN, they're comparing gas stoves to an idling car.
Listen.
The science is showing us that having a gas stove in a small apartment, especially with bad ventilation, it's like having a car idling there.
And if you have young kids, it can affect cognitive abilities as well as asthma.
Oh, great science over there at Fake News CNN.
In the meantime, you're paying record amounts of money to fly with the worst service that we've ever had.
Have you looked at the price of eggs recently?
If you can find them, you know, $11.50 a dozen in some stores.
I paid $10.
I eat eggs every day.
I eat three or four eggs every day or egg whites, depending on what the day is.
It's unbelievable.
Traveling has never been worse than it is right now.
Now, if you listen to the left and liberals in general, and they talk about the economy, you would think that nothing has gone wrong at all, but they couldn't be more wrong.
Anyway, here to sort it out.
We have David Bonson.
He's the founder, managing partner of the Bonson Group, Steve Moore, economics extraordinaire expert, Trump Benomics, the Inside the American First Plan to Save Our Economy.
You know, if you listen to these so-called experts, you would think that the economy is completely rebounded and we have nothing to worry about.
Meanwhile, the price of every consumer good continues to rise.
The only thing that went down somewhat significantly was the price of a gallon of gasoline, Steve Moore.
So I agree with you, Sean, that we are hardly out of the woods, and this idea of taking a victory lap on inflation is a little ridiculous.
I just calculated the numbers from when Trump came into office to today, Sean.
Do you know what the average increase in prices for average consumer goods is over that two-year period?
I'm listening.
13%.
13%.
By the way, let me give you examples.
The price of eggs is up 59.9%.
Fuel and oil, again, if you liken it to what Joe Biden inherited, is up 41.5%.
Butter, margarine, 35%.
Airfare, 30%.
Lettuce, utility, public transportation, even my favorite, you know, Sabrette hot dogs with the full natural casing.
Bread, coffee, dairy, all of it's going up.
Electricity prices are going to double in California, New England this winter.
Yeah, I'll give you another one that, you know, health insurance costs were up 8% this past year.
Gee, Sean, I thought we didn't we pass the Affordable Care Act?
Wasn't that going to bring any down for these health plans?
Steve, the average family was going to save $2,500 on average per year.
Yeah, that never happened.
So, now that's the bad news.
The good news is that we did get a good number for this month, this past month of December.
David Bonson can talk more about that then.
He knows more of the particulars.
So it looks like inflation is coming down, but I'm worried about just the structural economy.
When you have a $32 trillion debt, when you're borrowing a trillion and a half dollars a year, that is a prescription for national disaster on the economy.
I see it that way, and it's obvious.
If you listen to the financial experts I'm hearing, almost all of them are unanimously predicting a recession this year.
David Bonson.
Yeah, so I feel very strongly that I have a right-wing, conservative-based objection to what the Biden administration is doing with the economy.
But I do think my opinions are a little different than you guys on what the nature of that is here.
The Biden administration has made so many mistakes, I wouldn't even know where to count, Sean.
But on the price of eggs and food and these different things, the COVID lockdowns were a disaster.
And we reopened our economy where normal human beings created by God to live normal lives went about living normal lives.
But guess what?
The supply side of our economy wasn't ready.
We didn't have enough goods and services because of those absurd blue state lockdowns.
And that was the primary cause of inflation that is no question coming down significantly.
And the prices are still higher than they were two years ago.
But from a political standpoint, I want the right to focus on the worst thing the Biden administration is doing because the inflation numbers are going to continue getting lower.
And that's not because they're doing good stuff.
It's because we're going to lose growth in the economy and prices are going to be coming down.
Core goods are only up now year over year, 2.1%.
They had peaked at over 9%.
That's not because the Biden administration did anything.
It's because this inflation was highly supply side driven.
Ultimately, I really believe that the low, slow, and no growth that excessive government indebtedness creates is our biggest problem.
And it's all I want the right talking about because America is a high-growth economy.
And these people are turning us into Japan.
Explain that so the average person can understand completely what you're saying because there's too much economic speak in there for me.
Okay, that's fair.
I'm sorry.
I think that America is used to growing at a certain rate ever since World War II.
We produce a lot of goods and services.
There's consumption.
There's activity.
There's humans doing a lot of things with innovation and productive economic living.
And that since the financial crisis, coming with the Obama years, President Trump inherited an economy that had been growing at half of its 70-year average.
After they passed the tax bill that Steve Moore and others were a big part of, economic growth got up to 3%.
It doubled what it had been in the Obama years.
It's the first time we saw 3% real GDP growth since the financial crisis.
Then COVID came, Sean.
And now I think we're going to be stuck at 1% growth for a long time.
And we're doing it now with instead of $24 trillion on the $31 trillion.
$31 trillion.
You're right.
I stand corrected.
They're kind of ending it.
They want to keep going and making it worse and worse.
So my non-economic argument, I try to be simple about it, is every dollar they spend is a dollar not being spent in the private sector.
And that's the problem.
Quick break more with our economic experts, David Bonson and Steve Moore on the other side.
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All right, we'll continue with our economic experts, David Bonson and Steve Moore.
And we'll get to your calls at the bottom of the half hour, 800-941-Sean, if you want to join us.
Politically speaking, this is where the House Republicans, not only do they have the power of subpoena, which is so pivotal, as we spent the entire, almost the entire show on before you guys joined us, discussing especially these investigations into the Biden family, whether or not the DOJs weaponized, the FBI politicized, but on the issue involving the economy and where it's headed, I think this is the one, you know, bread and butter issues are the ones that impact Americans the most.
Nobody's talking about Steve Moore, that Joe Biden, as of January 1st, raised billions, hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes that are impacting the poor, the middle class, people on fixed income the most, something he promised you wouldn't do if you make less than $400,000 a year.
But he raised significantly billions of dollars in new taxes on coal, gas, and oil, and on your pension plan and corporate tax increases, which we know get passed on to consumers.
Yeah, and don't forget the most important tax of all, Sean, which you didn't even, well, we kind of indirectly mentioned, which is inflation is a tax.
It's a tax on Americans' earnings.
And so, you know, at a time when we've had that 13% inflation over the last two years, wages and salaries have gone up, you know, just a little bit more than half of that amount.
So it's a tax on every, it's almost like a sales tax, Sean, that inflation rate that's so high.
Now, David Bonson is right that the inflation is coming down rapidly, and he's exactly right.
But that growth point is what really sticks in my craw because I honestly believe, Sean, and I know you believe this too, if Trump were still president, we wouldn't be talking about a recession.
You kidding me?
We'd be booming.
We'd be producing three or four million more barrels a day of oil.
We would have control of our border.
We wouldn't have the tax of climate change.
We'd become an energy-rich country.
Exactly.
Because we would take energy independence, put it on steroids, and we would be providing Western Europe with all their energy needs and getting rich.
And don't forget also, you know, there's no way that Putin could have gone into Ukraine if we continued, because his whole economy is based on the price of oil.
And, you know, so my point is that we, if we're going to grow, David Bonson is right that the economy is only going to grow by 1% or less under Biden.
Well, I thought that was an optimistic figure by David.
Do you agree with David?
That's a disaster.
Well, let me ask you.
I thought, David, no offense.
I'm not arguing with you.
I thought your 1% prediction on GDP was pretty optimistic.
Steve Moore, do you think that's where we're headed?
Well, what I'm saying is that's the consensus forecast.
Even the Biden administration is saying the economy is only going to grow by one or 1.5%.
We've got to be growing at 3% to 3.5% to 4%.
Under Reagan, we had 3.5% to 4% growth.
Under Trump, we had 3% growth, and we were headed to 4% growth.
So growth is the solution to these problems, but where's it going to come from?
You've got a president who doesn't want to produce our energy, wants to raise taxes on our businesses, and on and on and on.
All things that are just weights on the back of the American economy.
I think that's the perfect analogy.
He's weighing down the economy.
All these taxes on energy, gas, oil, coal is only going to, it's going to act like a sinking weight on the economy at all times.
And I don't see those policies changing anyway, anyhow, with this president, David.
Well, no, and the energy independence is the greatest example.
And all three of us were during the Obama years very critical, appropriately so, of President Obama.
But what he did was say all the wrong things about green energy, but then he actually didn't really shut down fracking.
He didn't really shut down permits.
He didn't do all the stuff President Trump did.
He didn't do it the way I would do it.
But Biden came in with the bark of a radical environmentalist and the bite, where at least Obama was a little bit more hypocritical because he knew he needed the growth of the fracking revolution.
We need that energy independent back.
It would, in and of itself, over a 10-year period, add 2% per year to GDP just by itself.
You add in the other factors.
That's how you get back to the Steve Moore three-handle or four-handle that we need.
Sean, I don't predict 1% GDP growth this year.
I would love for it to be the case.
I wouldn't bet a political race that it's going to be recessionary, but I expect it will be.
But 1% is my prediction for years going forward.
And the problem in saying 1% is you're talking about Japan-level numbers, and it's totally unacceptable.
And the reason we need the growth Steve Moore is talking about is not only because we need it to fund our deficits, we need it to fund economic growth and a higher standard of living.
It's the best thing for humanity to have the opportunity to have an aspirational society.
They're taking away people's hope.
Yeah, I think that's well said, Steve.
That's one other quick thing that you didn't mention.
Did you see the story this week that the Biden administration doesn't want to build new roads?
Now, we just passed a, what, a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill, and they don't want to use it for roads.
They want to use it for transit and green undersea politics and things like that.
They don't want people driving cars.
I mean, this is insanity.
Did you see?
Yeah, not only that, did you see that had we, by eliminating the Keystone XL pipeline, it costs 60,000 jobs and billions of dollars potentially for this country?
Never mind, we would be importing 900,000 barrels of Canadian oil daily by now.
Yep.
I mean, we're not building the infrastructure.
We do need infrastructure in this country, but it's not the interest.
We need pipelines.
We need roads.
We need to repair our bridges and things.
And they're spending it on windmills.
Yeah, just what we need, a beautiful windmill to kill the birds.
I love birds.
I don't want to kill the birds.
Anyway, really appreciate you both being with us.
Thank you, Steve Moore.
David Bonson, thank you.
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All right, so last night we went to the swamp, the sewer, only to come back to the other swamp and sewer where we're at, which is foolishly we are at.
Anyway, so, and I went there after all that went on last week.
I wanted to find out, take the temperature.
One of the things I kept saying last week was: everyone's got to listen to me.
The agenda is set.
The agenda is in concrete.
The investigations are happening.
The commitments to America are all going to be voted on.
You know, at the end of the day, I think they could have solved this before January 3rd.
I like a lot of all the changes.
I can't think of one I don't like, to be honest.
But anyway, so I wanted to do this town hall.
We had Kevin McCarthy, Jim Comer, James Jordan.
Jim Jordan was on.
We had people like Elise Stefanik and Steve Scalise.
You know what?
We had a great time.
Anyway, I want to run some of this from last night so you can hear for yourself and see if you have more confidence after this interview.
I have a feeling that 222 people agree on Jim Jordan's investigation, and that would be into whether the FBI's politicized the DOJ weaponized.
They weaponized from homeland, FBI.
You know, we've watched him get out of control with no check and balance.
But last week was tough.
But remember what my father always said: it's not how you start, it's how you finish.
And let me tell you what happened after last week.
Our very first bill, we repealed 87,000 IRSAs.
We promised to do that.
We promised to do it in our commitment to America, which you've talked a lot about, and we'll check it off as they go.
I have my own copy.
Yeah, but you know what else we did next?
We just passed the church-style committee that Jim Jordan will run, looking at the weaponization of government.
You know what we just passed right now?
A select committee on China.
And we got 146 Democrats to vote with us.
Pelosi would never allow this.
They had an agreement with her, and she backed away the night before.
So you want to bring jobs back from China to America.
You want to stop them from buying our farmland.
You want to stop them from stealing our intellectual property.
This is where it all starts.
And this is only our first couple days in power.
So the power of the purse, which we'll talk about at length, the power of subpoena, those are the two big powers you have.
Okay, let's go, let's focus on the investigation part.
Jim Jordan in appropriations.
Then we got James Comer.
They'll both be joining us tonight.
Yes.
And he'll be looking into the Biden family syndicate.
We know everybody in this room knows one thing, that Joe Biden lied.
When Joe Biden said not one time did he ever talk to his son Hunter about his foreign business dealings, we have photographic evidence and evidence of meetings that have taken place and witnesses that will attest to such.
We've got documents that they denied us until we're in the majority.
Do you think the president, more than 40 years of being elected, why do you think he finally went to the border?
Because we were sworn in.
He knows what's coming.
You've got to secure your border.
And we're going to use every power we have to make sure we protect this country and look out for the American taxpayer.
I think last week, at least a part of it, was Republicans around the country were disappointed in past speakers.
I'll give one example, John Boehner.
I was disappointed in John Boehner.
And I think that there were people that wanted the assurances.
I had interviewed you enough.
I had asked you repeatedly the commitments to America.
I have my version right here, which we'll talk about.
And they wanted to know these investigations were real.
What other investigations?
Well, you've got to hold government accountable.
For the whole time the Democrats have been in power, all they've done is increase spending.
Why don't we have a check-in balance?
Think of this.
When the Republicans were in power last time for eight years, you know how much discretionary spending increased in those eight years?
Zero.
They were in power for four years.
They increased it by 30%.
They went from spending $4 trillion to $7 trillion.
We don't have that type of money.
They created inflation.
So we've got to get our country under control financially.
How do we do that too?
Energy policy.
Watch what they've done to make us weak.
They made our price of gas go up, but they made us weak around the world.
We're going to become energy independent.
Our border is not secure.
But look what they have done to our schools as well, right?
We're going to pass a parents' bill of rights.
Also, when you think about this as well, when we look at checks and balances, you got Comer, oversight, you got Jim Jordan, a judiciary, but every single committee has an oversight committee.
So every dollar matters how we spend it, and we're going to be looking at everything.
No more blank checks.
Okay, and by the way, you will vote on every appropriations bill independently, all 12 of them.
Yes.
Okay, we'll get to that.
What other investigations are you talking about?
Why don't we know where COVID started?
They wouldn't have any hearings on it.
We'll have that.
Why shouldn't we know what happened in Afghanistan those last two months?
13 Gold Star families have a right to know, but more importantly, this nation has a right to know so it never happens again.
We should know what happened with China and where the money's going.
We know the documents are there.
I think the country has a right to know that as well.
But the weaponization of what the FBI is.
Well, that goes right into COVID.
We have our own ability to oversee that and look into that.
Now let's get to the issue of finances and money and spending.
And why don't you explain how this process now will be different and we're coming up against the debt ceiling vote and what that's going to mean, that might be the first test of how committed the Republican Party in the House is to really holding the line on spending.
Am I wrong on that?
No, you're not wrong on that.
But think for one moment.
We cannot, one of the greatest threats we have to this nation is our debt.
It makes us weak in every place that we can.
We have never been at this high of debt to GDP except during World War II.
It's the Biden Family Foreign Syndicate.
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All right, the people that will be leading two of the most important investigations, along with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, we have the House Judiciary Committee Chairman, that's Jim Jordan, House Oversight Committee Chairman, that's James Comer.
Guys you've been on a lot.
Jim, you'll be investigating.
You're both Jim Jordan.
You will be investigating whether the FBI has been politicized and whether the DOJ has been weaponized.
What do you see so far?
Well, it's not a question of whether that's happened.
It has, because we've had now dozens of FBI agents come to us taking whistleblower status, talking about how political things have become.
And I would step back and look at the big picture.
We had a Department of Justice that treated moms and dads as terrorists, used the Patriot Act of the United States.
That's like terrorists at school board meetings.
You got the FBI that paid Twitter $3 million.
Not one, not two, but $3 million to censor conservative viewpoints on their platform.
And then, of course, you got what we've seen happen across government in so many other agencies where it's been weaponized against the very people they're supposed to serve.
The Department of Homeland Security tried to set up a disinformation governance board as if some federal agencies should tell the American people what they're allowed to say, what they're not allowed to say.
If that's not a direct attack on the First Amendment, I don't know what is.
And that's what we're going to look into because the first step in stopping it is you have to get all the facts on the table for the country to see.
Then you go about stopping and making sure it never happens again.
Let me ask you this.
Did the FBI, in 2016 and 2020, in the presidential elections, did they put their thumb on the scale?
I can give you detail.
I know you have the detail, but for example, in 2020, FBI agents in early October, after they were warned by Bruce Orr not to use the dossier, they flew over to Great Britain and they met with Christopher Steele.
They offered him a million dollars to prove that the dossier that Hillary Clinton paid for, the Russian dossier, was true.
He couldn't claim his money.
But then by the end of the month, it became the bulk of the FISA application, and it was unverified.
But I would argue that.
They got away with it.
Now we have the recent case.
They suppressed all this information about Hunter Biden's laptop.
Did they put their thumb on the scale of it?
And I would argue, as my colleague Matt Gates said in committee, I would argue was all the other elections as well.
So 2016, they spy on Trump's campaign and do what you just described.
2018, it's the Mueller investigation.
2020, they suppressed the Hunter Biden story.
And in 2022, 91 days before the midterm election, they raped President Trump's home.
Which, oh, by the way, is quite a contrast between what we learned yesterday, how they treated President Trump, and what we learned yesterday, where Joe Biden now had classified information at the Biden Center that they knew about before the election, but somehow that didn't get made public.
Will this be like a church committee moment?
Will this be that true reform that what should be the premier law enforcement agency in the world, the FBI, will we be able to restore it to the great greatness it once had?
That's our goal.
Rank-and-file agents are good men and women.
We know that by the fact that dozens of them come talk to us about what they see happening and how concerned they are about it.
So we know that.
So that's our goal, our objective.
But we're going to do everything we can.
We're going to do it in a vigorous way.
We're going to do it in an aggressive way.
We're going to do it in a way that's consistent with the Constitution.
But we're going to do it because that's our job.
This is not about, they said today on the floor when we passed the resolution creating this, they said on the floor today, Mr. Nadler was quoted in the paper and they went after us today on the floor.
They said this is political and we're going to fight it tooth and nail.
Why?
We're protecting the First Amendment.
We're protecting the American people.
Why would you fight it, Democrat?
I thought you guys embraced the Constitution like we all do.
Love the First Amendment and the rights we enjoy.
That's what this is about.
We're going to do everything we can to protect American citizens' First Amendment liberties.
They should join with us, not fight it.
I agree with you if they had integrity.
You know what?
We won't play like them.
They want to put somebody on the committee?
Put them on the committee.
We're not presetting this thing to be political because that's not what it should be.
We're going to follow the Constitution.
Jim will follow wherever the information takes us.
But this hasn't happened since 1970.
And I think it's gotten so far out of control.
You hear from all, not just the American citizens, but the whistleblowers at the FBI are coming to us.
We're going to hear from them.
That's our goal.
You know, the whistleblower status, they have to agree, but we hope that some of these individuals, I think they will, because frankly, a number of them have been retaliated against, which is not allowed to happen.
Well, but I think they would be wrong.
And I actually kind of said that you're not allowed to talk to members of Congress or the Senate.
Day after we first talked about on your show, the very next day he issues a memorandum saying, hey, hey, hey, be careful.
Here's the rules when you're going to talk to Congress.
That looks to me like a definite infringement on their liberty, their right to go tell us what's going on in those agencies.
And they believe this.
They love this agency.
They want this agency to be what it was.
It's funny, a friend of mine retired from the FBI.
He said, it is not what I signed up for.
Exactly.
That's how much it changed.
Your investigation, you said something that was deep and profound.
People think, now the FBI had the Hunter Biden laptop in December 2019.
That's why the FBI meeting with big tech once a week prior to the 2020 election say, oh, you might get disinformation about Hunter.
They could have verified Hunter in five minutes, either him doing drugs or other things with other people, but I won't go into those details.
But they didn't.
You're going to be investigating.
You said the President of the United States, Joe Biden lied to this country, didn't he, when he said he never discussed his foreign business deal.
He's with his son.
Absolutely.
We have produced pictures, we've produced emails, we've produced documents that show that not only did Joe Biden know very well what his son and brother were doing with respect to influence peddling, but he was also a part of it.
As many of you likely recall, Texas Congressman Chip Roy was critical in bringing all sites together last week to unify around a new speaker.
And I believe that the party is now stronger and even more unified around what is the America First conservative Make America Great Again agenda.
You played a big role.
I gave you props last week on TV.
I met them.
I know behind the scenes.
You tried to bridge the gap.
You were successful.
How hard was it?
Well, look, beating the swamp is hard.
And everybody here is committed to doing that.
And sometimes you've got to break a little glass, sometimes a little temporary conflict thing.
The American people were drawn in last week.
They were drawn into what we were trying to accomplish on their behalf to fight for them.
They want to believe that we're here fighting for them.
And I was delighted to work with my colleagues here.
And this morning in the Republican conference, I think there was a new sense of unity, a new sense of purpose.
United behind a mission, a mission to stop funding a government, a government filled with bureaucrats and tyrants rolling over the American people, denying their liberties, undermining their freedoms.
We have a unique opportunity.
Kevin has an historic opportunity right now to carry this country forward.
I look around the room.
Brian Fitzpatrick behind me, French Hill, and Garrett Grays.
We worked together all last week to make this happen.
My fellow Texans, Ronnie Jackson and Brian Babbitt, who worked hard on the Texas border plan that's a part of this deal.
Look, we're all united to stand up for the American people.
That stuff was important.
We got through it.
But now, look, we've got the tools.
We've got some of the transparency.
Now the work lies ahead.
We've got to unite and go execute.
And Byron, you also worked hard behind the scenes.
By the way, it had to feel a little good to get some votes for Speaker.
It was cool.
I'll admit that.
It was really cool.
But I lost to this guy, you know, so what am I going to do?
No, it was a point in time where, you know, there were some members who believed in my abilities, but the number one thing was bringing this thing together.
Obviously, the world was watching.
We all knew that.
But like Chip said, we had a responsibility to make sure, number one, we had a plan and we had an agenda that Speaker McCarthy has built for our conference.
The thing that we were looking for is making sure that every tool in this building is utilized to make that happen.
And so the job was simple.
Find a way to get everybody together so we can get the job done and get down to business.
And that's what we're doing.
We have 30 seconds left, Mr. Speaker.
What do you want the American people to hear last?
Where are you taking this group of this majority?
I want them to understand this is their house.
This is their government.
And we will always listen to them and we will always fight for them.
What our battle last week was to only make us stronger to represent you.
It doesn't matter if you're Republican, Democrat, or Independent.
Your voice matters and you have a voice here.
Our commitment to America, what we campaigned on, we will keep it.
We're showing it each and every day.
We might stumble at times, but the one thing I hope everybody learned from me: we will never give up.
And I'll never give up on the American public.
We're going to do these town halls on a regular basis.
We'll update you when we do them.
I hope you found it worthwhile.
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