1 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: Line from Vaal Hartbeiner and the Crossroads of America. It's 2 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: Tony Katz today that there are still Democrats out there 3 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: thinking that they can say, don't vote for the Save Acts, 4 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: don't vote for voter ID because it's Jim Crow two 5 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: point zero. That argument is just blowing back on the 6 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 1: progressive left in a hard way. Now, won't change the 7 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: troll you see on social media. But even those who 8 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: cover this daily, those people from the CNNs and the 9 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:38,160 Speaker 1: ms NOWS and the New York Times and all those 10 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: other fraudsters, they recognize that trying to claim Jim Crow 11 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: two point zero to a voter ID, it isn't connecting 12 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,840 Speaker 1: with the American people. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, good 13 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 1: to be with you. Congresswoman Aaron Hounchen joins me right now. 14 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: She's from the ninth District of Indiana. She sits on 15 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Of course, this is 16 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: where the top story is and where we are with 17 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 1: Homeland Security funding. So before the Save Act, let's get 18 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 1: to DHS what we have seen with ICE, these ten 19 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 1: demands that the Democrats have, let's start where we start. 20 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: Are you amongst any Republicans who believe that ICE needs 21 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: some type of rethink or homeland security means some type 22 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: of reboot. 23 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 2: Well, first, thanks for having me. I would say that 24 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 2: one of the things that Democrats are are promoting here 25 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:37,840 Speaker 2: is that they're standing on this line to defund ICE 26 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 2: when all along we already funded ICE and border patrol 27 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,040 Speaker 2: in the one Big Beautiful Bill and the working family's 28 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:46,839 Speaker 2: tax cuts back to the tune of about one hundred 29 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 2: and fifty billion dollars. So what they are fighting for 30 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 2: right now is to defund TSA, Coastguard, FEMA, and other 31 00:01:55,320 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 2: agencies under the DHS umbrella. This is largely performing from 32 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 2: the Democrats, but they have to stand and yell about 33 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 2: about the ICE enforcement. What I would say is, when 34 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 2: I'm back home, people still largely support removing criminal legal 35 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 2: aliens from the country, and they support ICE enforcement concerned 36 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,519 Speaker 2: with tactics. But when we see cities like Washington, d C. 37 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 2: And Memphis, and in states like Louisiana where where they're 38 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 2: blue cities but they're cooperating with federal law enforcement officers, 39 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 2: things go much more smoothly. In many cases, these are 40 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 2: professionally paid and trained agitators that are impeding the work 41 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:43,959 Speaker 2: of law enforcement. To do the job of removing very 42 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 2: dangerous people from the country. The same Democrats didn't stand 43 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 2: up for or speak in support of the family of 44 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 2: Lake and Riley and other victims across the country who 45 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 2: have been who have lost family members, American citizen family 46 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 2: members at the hands of crime, the legal aliens. Again, 47 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 2: I would say this is largely performative. House Republicans did 48 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 2: their jobs. We've already funded all of these programs. We're 49 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 2: waiting for the Senate to act. I will be watching 50 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 2: for what the White House will agree to, and really 51 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 2: leave it up to the President and the Senate to 52 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 2: negotiate on these points. At best, we want ICE enforcement 53 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 2: to do the job of removing the violent, criminal aliens 54 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 2: from the country, and we want to fund our government 55 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 2: agency so that we have smooth air travel, Our Coastguard 56 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 2: is funded, and our FEMA funds for natural disasters are protected. 57 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: I have no doubt about the performative nature of the 58 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: political left. But when you say that your constituents talk 59 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: to you about ICE tactics. Is this about the shootings 60 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 1: that we saw with Renee Good and Alex Pretty Is 61 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: this about how they go house to house? Is it 62 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: a conversation about how they deal with the violent agitators. 63 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: What do they say to you about tactics in a 64 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: more specific sense, Well, I. 65 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 2: Would say it's in a more general sense. It's like, obviously, 66 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 2: any loss of life is tragic, and we don't want 67 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 2: to see that in any circumstance. But so they don't. Naturally, 68 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 2: constituents don't like to see fatalities in these engagements with 69 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 2: law enforcement. However, they do support removing criminal aliens from 70 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:28,600 Speaker 2: the country. They do support the president in in our 71 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 2: conversations back home. Now we do hear from people on 72 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:34,840 Speaker 2: the other side of this issue, naturally, but the district 73 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 2: does support protecting our own American citizens and they support 74 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 2: law and order. They support the police, They support ICE 75 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,039 Speaker 2: doing the job of protecting our American communities. And I 76 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 2: can speak firsthand just to the enforcement in Washington, d C. 77 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 2: Only one murder in the entire city reported in January 78 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 2: after President Trump worked with Mayor Bowser, who's a Democrat, 79 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 2: to increase not only ICE enforcement, but a National Guard presence, 80 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 2: and it's worked very well. We don't have protests going 81 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 2: on in Washington, d C. Like we see in Minnesota 82 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 2: and other parts of the country. If local and state 83 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 2: officials would be cooperative and provide the protective perimeter and 84 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 2: such for these these enforcement actions. I think you would 85 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 2: see less citizens being put at risk in the with 86 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 2: the you know, professional agitators and others who are really 87 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 2: interfering with their efforts. 88 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: Talking to Congresswoman Aaron Houchin at the ninth District of Indiana, 89 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: let us move. You know, we talked about DHS, and 90 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 1: we talk about this being performative, but we still have 91 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 1: the measure coming on Friday, the end of this two 92 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 1: week gap. Are we going to see this in a 93 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 1: yes or no? Are we going to see funding take 94 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:59,719 Speaker 1: place this by the end of this week or will 95 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 1: we see the groups that you're talking about, Coast Guard 96 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: and others go without dollars? 97 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 2: Yeah. I think what you'll see is probably another continuing 98 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 2: resolution that would be My guess is that we will 99 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 2: not have a resolution to this negotiation by the end 100 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 2: of the week, but I think we will probably see 101 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 2: an extension of funding through a continuing resolution for DHS. 102 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:29,160 Speaker 2: Everything else has been funded, which I think hasn't happened 103 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 2: in like twenty years. So we actually got appropriations out 104 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 2: of the House in individual bills for maximum transparency under 105 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 2: Republican leadership, and the Democrats, of course, are standing on 106 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 2: this DHS funding, even though Democrats in the House did 107 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 2: vote to send it to the Senate. 108 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 1: Let us move over to this part two, regarding the 109 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: Save Act and voter ID, which has shown itself to 110 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 1: be if we believe polling wildly popular, whether you're a 111 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: publican and independent, that the Democrat, whether you're black, whether 112 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: you're white, male or female, the idea of an ID 113 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: makes perfect sense to people. And then we get Chuck Schumer, 114 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, amazingly still 115 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:17,559 Speaker 1: the leader of the Democrats, screaming that this is Jim 116 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: Crow two point zero, that the Save Act as written 117 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: is somehow different than Voter ID, and that what Senator 118 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: Mike Lee has proposed here is somehow a violation of Americans' rights. 119 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 1: Where are we with this legislation and is there some 120 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: level of counter that we could see the House engage 121 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: to get this to the President's desk. 122 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 2: Yes, So the Rules Committee will be meeting this afternoon 123 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 2: to talk about the Save Act, and we will be 124 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 2: passing that out of the Rules Committee to the House, 125 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 2: for it defies logic that the Democrats would not support 126 00:07:55,880 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 2: the Save Act, even though it's wildly popular among all 127 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 2: Americans that we would have secure elections through voter ID. 128 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 2: Indiana was one of the first states to do voter ID. 129 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 2: We also came back and did voter ID by mail. 130 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 2: This is not too much to ask. Even though the 131 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 2: National Voter Registration Act requires that your citizenship you have 132 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 2: citizenship to vote, there's no requirement that you provide proof 133 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:28,160 Speaker 2: of citizenship or that you provide ID. Thirty six states 134 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 2: already require voter ID to cast a ballot. Fourteen states 135 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 2: don't have any or they have little to know safeguards. 136 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:38,319 Speaker 2: It's clear that the Democrats would love to have all 137 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 2: mail voting. They tried to do that before nationwide, even 138 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 2: though now they're claiming that, you know, we should not 139 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 2: engage in, you know, passing some sort of a national 140 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 2: standard for voter I D. We saw the same arguments 141 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 2: in Georgia and other states when they implemented voter ID 142 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 2: and voter ID forin Kee ballots. It did not come 143 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 2: to fruition. There was not voter suppression. In fact, it's 144 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 2: resulted in more voter participation and more satisfaction among voters 145 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 2: than the security of the election. I cannot explain why 146 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 2: the Democrats don't support this, It is beyond me, but 147 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 2: it was clear. When Joe Biden took office, he did 148 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 2: a couple of executive orders, one with open the Southern border. 149 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 2: Executive Order number two was to allow illegal immigrants to 150 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:35,719 Speaker 2: count in the census for congressional apportionment for the electoral college. 151 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 2: That I think is designed to grab power among the Democrats. 152 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 2: They are just desperate to get back in control. I 153 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 2: think so they can put their liberal wish list of 154 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 2: items through Congress, and this is an effort to stop 155 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 2: voter fraud, and the American people supported. I hope the 156 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 2: Democrats will will get on board and join us to 157 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 2: secure American elections. 158 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: It is always about control. Congresoman Aaron Houchen from the 159 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 1: ninth District of Indiana, I appreciate you taking the time 160 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: to be with us more to get to this is 161 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 1: Tony Katz today.