Speaker 1: Bill Cunningham, the Great American. Welcome this Thursday, afternoon, Christmas
Speaker 1: on the horizon. Last night, the President addressed the nation.
Speaker 1: I thought it was fabulous. I thought it was great.
Speaker 1: I'm going to share with you my ex account or
Speaker 1: my tweet it. Can I use the word tweet anymore
Speaker 1: about what I said about last night's speech and more.
Speaker 1: Plus the Bengals two is not going to play on Sunday.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens now the Bengals won from an
Speaker 1: underdog to a favorite. We'll see what happens there. But
Speaker 1: until then, Congressman Warren Davidson, welcome again to the Bill
Speaker 1: Cunningham Show. First of all, Congressman, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.
Speaker 1: May I share with you my ex account and what
Speaker 1: I said last night late?
Speaker 2: It'd be an honor. Thank you.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm saying. Trump speaks to the nation.
Speaker 1: Three main goals as potus fix, the border lesson crime fix,
Speaker 1: inflation check mark all three. In fact, this morning the
Speaker 1: numbers came out. They're down to two point seven from three.
Speaker 1: They went down the place and number went down ten
Speaker 1: percent in one month, from three point zero to two
Speaker 1: point seven. May I continue American service members each receive,
Speaker 1: due to tariffs, a Christmas bonus of one thousand, seven
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy six dollars. Do you stand with DJT
Speaker 1: or you want Biden and Kamala back? They're back. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine the road not taken that if Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: and Tim Waltz the marshmallow Man was in charge of
Speaker 1: the economy. Now, where would we be.
Speaker 3: It's it's insane where we would be if if we
Speaker 3: had Kamala Harris and Tim Watson.
Speaker 2: Look, the country rightly.
Speaker 3: Decided we need we need another term for President Trump,
Speaker 3: and he's made the most of it. I mean, you
Speaker 3: look at the executive actions they've taken, and the momentum
Speaker 3: is great, and I think he kind of teed it
Speaker 3: up to say, hey, we've got a lot of things done.
Speaker 2: More good things are coming. Uh.
Speaker 3: The biggest thing that we did with the tax reform package.
Speaker 3: Some people are seeing that already, but you're really gonna
Speaker 3: feel it when you get to April fifteenth next year
Speaker 3: and you see, wow, okay, big returns and a lot
Speaker 3: of people are just in the coming year going to
Speaker 3: start seeing their withholdings changed so they have more take
Speaker 3: home pay. To be able to drive our economy, and
Speaker 3: I think that's really going to be a strong year ahead.
Speaker 3: President Trump really teed that up nicely, and I think
Speaker 3: he baited the whole country and the media into covering
Speaker 3: it too. They all thought he was going to talk
Speaker 3: about Venezuela, and he basically gave a here's what we
Speaker 3: got done so far, but wait, there's more coming.
Speaker 1: I have a sense Tony Bender tells me this. I
Speaker 1: think at times he has liberal leanings that they're kind
Speaker 1: of rooting against the country. They don't want the inflation
Speaker 1: number to go down. When the number came out this morning,
Speaker 1: I watch MSNBC MS NOW so you don't have to,
Speaker 1: and the coverage was not about the number three point
Speaker 1: zero to two point seven percent inflation. The number was about, well,
Speaker 1: coffee's up seventeen percent, cars are up four percent, meat
Speaker 1: is up fourteen percent, as like saying, well, my fingers
Speaker 1: and arms way a lot, but my body's in good shape.
Speaker 1: And so they want to downplay the number to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, well, and can you trust the number?
Speaker 1: Trump's in charge of the numbers. Can you trust the number?
Speaker 1: And after Trump mcgasoline maybe down to a dollar fifty
Speaker 1: a gallon and might be ninety nine cents again, which
Speaker 1: it was when I was a kid. But nonetheless, things
Speaker 1: are terrible, things are awful. The economies in free fall.
Speaker 1: Tariffs are going to be overruled by the Outh Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: The border's going to get wide open. Venezuela is going
Speaker 1: to attack Miami, Florida. And I'm watching this, I'm going,
Speaker 1: what are you saying. Do you think that Democrats under
Speaker 1: Trump want America to succeed or fail?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're rooting for failure and they're looking for issues.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, the House of Representatives just yesterday we
Speaker 3: passed it to start on healthcare reform. Not more free
Speaker 3: stuff for more people, not COVID era subsidies, real reforms
Speaker 3: for all all Americans, lowering health care costs, giving more
Speaker 3: options to people with health care.
Speaker 2: It's a start.
Speaker 3: I want there to be more reformed on our overall
Speaker 3: healthcare market. But we passed that on the floor of
Speaker 3: the House. No Democrats joined joined us in passing that,
Speaker 3: and why because they want the issue and what they're
Speaker 3: talking about with this COVID subsidy thing is really hiding
Speaker 3: the fact that Obamacare failed to make healthcare more affordable,
Speaker 3: and even the subsidies that they're fighting for, these aren't
Speaker 3: subsidies for regular Obamacare people that have them. These are
Speaker 3: bonus subsidies essentially for affluent people that don't even go
Speaker 3: to the people. They go to the insurance companies. They
Speaker 3: clearly aren't working, and they want to They want to
Speaker 3: hold that out there as their healthcare issue. And you
Speaker 3: know why, because they want an issue. They don't want
Speaker 3: to they don't want to solve the problem.
Speaker 1: And the other thing is one of the best. If
Speaker 1: you're in the military right now. You were in the military,
Speaker 1: you went to Notre Dame, you went to West Point,
Speaker 1: you've been a ranger. And if you're a product of
Speaker 1: what's it called today, private or a corporal at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the run, and here comes a check to
Speaker 1: you for one thousand, seven hundred and seventy six dollars,
Speaker 1: you know one in the media is covering that because
Speaker 1: it is so good for service personnel, and it reflects
Speaker 1: the idea that the tariffs are going to be used
Speaker 1: for those purposes. If the US Supreme Court rules at
Speaker 1: some point in the future that that's all illegal, and
Speaker 1: now we owe hundreds of billions of dollars. Wouldn't that
Speaker 1: wreck the economy.
Speaker 3: It'd be a really bad idea for the court to
Speaker 3: go back and kind of retroactively nullify, you know, the tariffs.
Speaker 3: And I don't think they're going to do that personally.
Speaker 3: But look, the goal with the tariffs has been to
Speaker 3: force a negotiation that's been very effective.
Speaker 2: We made progress. There's a lot left to do.
Speaker 3: And you know, part of the reason why would we
Speaker 3: teariff some of our allies and friends, well because they
Speaker 3: took America for granted and they were all trying to
Speaker 3: curry favor with China and at the expense of the
Speaker 3: United States, they weren't helping confront China. China's been abusive
Speaker 3: in their trade practices with everybody. And finally, even the
Speaker 3: Europeans are there. Mark Carney up in Canada is the
Speaker 3: most stubborn guy going maybe in Brazil. So there's still
Speaker 3: some lingering tariffs on Canada and Brazil because their countries
Speaker 3: aren't helping. But even the Germans, with the big German
Speaker 3: auto industry said, look, okay, we get it, we need
Speaker 3: the China market, but we are really seeing problems here
Speaker 3: and they are starting to help confront China. And look,
Speaker 3: we'd rather have a friendly trade relationship, the idea that
Speaker 3: we trades better than we have conflict. But we can't
Speaker 3: stay dependent upon China. And that's been a clear theme
Speaker 3: of the president. That's a clear foreign policy initiative, and
Speaker 3: in the way he's used it has been to forced
Speaker 3: that that's the prerogative of the president, the commander in chief,
Speaker 3: and I hope that the Supreme Court takes that into
Speaker 3: account when they provide this decision. Yeah, there is revenue
Speaker 3: there that comes from the tariffs, and Okay, Congress at
Speaker 3: some point, hopefully we'll walk those in and create some
Speaker 3: certainty around this.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of the theme.
Speaker 3: Like we passed some things through the House last year,
Speaker 3: but in the year ahead, even some of the things
Speaker 3: that we really want done our HR two three four
Speaker 3: five bills, the Senate hasn't taken up. So we really
Speaker 3: get to put pressure on the Senate to give us
Speaker 3: a vote. Hopefully they'll all pass, but we got to
Speaker 3: show the country, hey, we are on offense and there's
Speaker 3: a reason why we can get all this done.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: We also have massive fraud, waste and abuse. We talk
Speaker 1: about it every cycle, we never do anything about it.
Speaker 1: This time something is occurring. Ninety percent of the new
Speaker 1: signups for Obamacare or bots or individuals that are simply
Speaker 1: doing it with fictitious Social Security numbers, and huge amounts
Speaker 1: of moneys are going to individuals and so called clinics
Speaker 1: all over America that don't exist. Same thing with Social Security.
Speaker 1: There's about one hundred billion dollars a year in Social
Speaker 1: Security does waste, fraud and abuse. When you can talk
Speaker 1: about SNOP benefits, about half the SNOP benefits are bots,
Speaker 1: are illegals. And I'm reading this out of I read
Speaker 1: Minneapolis newspapers. I'll try to read everything. Minnesota officials and prosecutors.
Speaker 1: These are Minnesota state our warning, the State of Minnesota
Speaker 1: auditor and treasurer. They're facing unpresidented fraud crisis and his
Speaker 1: social service programs, with losses to Minnesota being about two
Speaker 1: billion dollars. And by the way, the states paid ten
Speaker 1: to fifteen percent of these costs. The Feds pay ninety
Speaker 1: eighty to ninety percent of the cost So if Minnesota
Speaker 1: lost two billion dollars, that means the federal taxpayers you
Speaker 1: and I lost about twenty billion dollars in one state.
Speaker 1: How do you respond to that the massive fraud, waste
Speaker 1: and abuse in Minnesota. What do you say about that?
Speaker 3: Well, look at who's leading the state, Tim Walls, right,
Speaker 3: that's who Kamala Harris picked as her.
Speaker 2: Vice president candidate.
Speaker 3: You look at Gavin Newsom, who wants to be the
Speaker 3: Democrat nominee. Look what he's done to California. That's what
Speaker 3: these people want to do to our country. And tragically,
Speaker 3: the one Democrat senator in the state of Minnesota who
Speaker 3: voted to turn off free health care for illegals in
Speaker 3: Minnesota was murdered. But you look at how deep is
Speaker 3: the scandal in the corruption up there with this money,
Speaker 3: No wonder people didn't want this exposed, and there has
Speaker 3: to be accountability. And I think, look, this is hopefully
Speaker 3: twenty twenty six will be the year that we finally
Speaker 3: hear the answers of the most frequent question I've got
Speaker 3: as a member of Congress. When is somebody going to jail?
Speaker 3: They want the accountability for the people that are doing
Speaker 3: this corruption. We keep having hearings and exposing the corruption,
Speaker 3: but now, Pam Bondi, when is somebody going to jail?
Speaker 3: And those prosecutions need to take place?
Speaker 1: Well, every now and then I'm sure in Congress Warren Davidson,
Speaker 1: you're running the elan omar. Her federal forms indicated six
Speaker 1: years ago she was worth sixty thousand dollars. Her federal
Speaker 1: forms now say she's worth thirty million, a Somali congressman
Speaker 1: from Minnesota. Can you ask her how that happened when
Speaker 1: you passed her in the hallway and the Rayburn office building?
Speaker 1: Can you ask her that question?
Speaker 3: Well, I am curious. I mean I hadn't heard that.
Speaker 3: That is stunning. Maybe she was following Nancy Pelosi's stock
Speaker 3: tips or something. But there's a lot of work there. Know,
Speaker 3: we haven't even held ourselves to account on some of
Speaker 3: those things with with reforms. But look, Alano Mark seems
Speaker 3: very clear from public information that she committed immigration fraud.
Speaker 2: She married brother no less.
Speaker 1: I mean, who doesn't marry, who doesn't marry their brother,
Speaker 1: who doesn't marry their sister? Married the married the brother
Speaker 1: as a as a felony to get into the country,
Speaker 1: get the brother into the country, and now they're both citizens.
Speaker 1: Isn't that fraud? If you marry your brother or sister
Speaker 1: to become a US citizen, it's.
Speaker 3: A it's a criminal of House, and again, when is
Speaker 3: somebody going to be held to account?
Speaker 2: I mean, these kinds of things are out there in
Speaker 2: the public.
Speaker 3: I mean I still am in shock that there's never
Speaker 3: been an accountability for the Clinton Foundation. So look, there are
Speaker 3: a lot of these things that have been out there
Speaker 3: for years, and I think, look, people, people don't talk
Speaker 3: about them every day anymore because they've kind of given
Speaker 3: up hope. And that's really it's a sad time. Dan
Speaker 3: Bongino took a year away, came and served as deputy
Speaker 3: director at the FBI. But I think a lot of
Speaker 3: people are a little demoralized, like, man, it's m Bongino
Speaker 3: can't get the reform at the FBI, what's it going
Speaker 3: to take.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm reading from this. This is Minnesota, which is
Speaker 1: a blue state, Minneapolis of Blue City. Twenty one percent
Speaker 1: of the country's states, which are all Democrats, don't want
Speaker 1: to share any information with the FEDS. This says. While
Speaker 1: investigating the scandal, Minnesota agents discovered that one suspected scammer
Speaker 1: his name or her name, I'm not sure is Asha
Speaker 1: farhan Asan defrauded the state's autism treatment program of roughly
Speaker 1: fourteen million dollars. He built medicaid for fake therapy sessions,
Speaker 1: used untrained staff, and paid paid parents fifteen hundred dollars
Speaker 1: a month to keep their kids in the program when
Speaker 1: they didn't have autism. And by the way, they've tracked
Speaker 1: the money, they sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to Kenya, Nigeria,
Speaker 1: and also to Somalia and also to El Kaeda and
Speaker 1: al Shabab. So the federal taxpayer and the Minnesota part
Speaker 1: is ten. So the federal taxpayer spend one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty million dollars for fake billing that went to terrorist groups.
Speaker 1: Tony Bender paid for that. And there's not more of
Speaker 1: an outrage, Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Look, we got to make twenty twenty six the Year
Speaker 3: of accountability, and you know, a lot of things got done.
Speaker 3: I think it's nice that President Trump came out there
Speaker 3: and said, hey, don't forget, we got a lot of
Speaker 3: great things done this year.
Speaker 2: But he also pointed to the future.
Speaker 3: And you know, my hope is that we do, in
Speaker 3: fact make twenty twenty six the Year of accountability. And
Speaker 3: you know part of that in Congress, we got our
Speaker 3: work cut out for us. We got to hit the
Speaker 3: January thirtieth deadline fund the government, and then there's really
Speaker 3: no excuse if we don't hit October first funding deadline
Speaker 3: with everything this year, So the part that we can control,
Speaker 3: we just got to get after. But we do have
Speaker 3: to put accountability on DJ. I mean, that is clearly
Speaker 3: out of control and broken.
Speaker 1: Lastly, January thirtieth is coming, my gosh, only five or
Speaker 1: six weeks away. Are the Democrats going to shut down
Speaker 1: the government again? That's what I'm hearing. They want to
Speaker 1: shut down the government again. Is that conceivable?
Speaker 3: Well, it's certainly conceivable. And look, I was here when
Speaker 3: it happened last time and we didn't even change anything.
Speaker 3: So we are close on some appropriations bills. Our appropriators
Speaker 3: got all the bills through committee.
Speaker 2: But again it's syncing up with the Senate and they
Speaker 2: say they got the sixty vote rule.
Speaker 3: When that kind of comes in, are they going to
Speaker 3: break the full of buster or they're gonna do something different.
Speaker 3: But the idea that we're going to just kind of
Speaker 3: continue status quo. None of us campaigned on preserving the
Speaker 3: status quo. We have to pass our priorities with a
Speaker 3: funding bill, and okay, we need some Democrat votes in
Speaker 3: the Senate to get it. They can't just continue to obstruct, obstruct, obstruct.
Speaker 3: I know twenty twenty six is an election.
Speaker 2: Year, but we do.
Speaker 3: Look, we need to take care of the country and
Speaker 3: come together and pass it in the appropriations bills as
Speaker 3: part of that.
Speaker 1: I know, you run on the House floor at two o'clock,
Speaker 1: according to Sea and then they're never wrong about two
Speaker 1: to two thirty. You're going to be voting on extending
Speaker 1: the Obamacare COVID subsidies for three years in about two hours.
Speaker 1: How's that going to turn out?
Speaker 2: Well? Sadly, it might pass the House.
Speaker 3: I mean we had four Look, part of the reason
Speaker 3: that the Speaker Johnson kept the House out of session
Speaker 3: was to keep pressure on Democrats when they shut down
Speaker 3: the government so that we could just reopen the government
Speaker 3: and not cave to their one and a half trillion
Speaker 3: dollar list of demands. Now they're not caving to everything,
Speaker 3: but one of the core ones was plus an up Obamacare.
Speaker 3: Because Obamacare is failing, they want to pump more cash
Speaker 3: into it. And this is a COVID era program. Democrats
Speaker 3: set the expiration date and now they're looking for Republican
Speaker 3: votes to help save it. And unfortunately, four of my
Speaker 3: colleagues have pledged to join that fight, maybe more when
Speaker 3: they call the.
Speaker 2: Votes, will join it so it might pass the House.
Speaker 3: They called the votes in the Senate on the same
Speaker 3: plan and Democrats voted for it.
Speaker 2: It did not pass the Senate, so.
Speaker 3: Hopefully it'll go nowhere at the end of the day
Speaker 3: because we've got to pass the House and Senate. I
Speaker 3: doubt President Trump would sign it if it made it
Speaker 3: to his desk either, but nevertheless, they're going to force
Speaker 3: a vote on it.
Speaker 1: Let's get more money to this, to the Minnesota fraud programs.
Speaker 1: Even Minnesota officials were saying, we can't live like this.
Speaker 1: One program was supposed to cost fourteen million dollars and
Speaker 1: one year, a jump from fourteen million to four hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five million dollars in one year for autism relief,
Speaker 1: paid for only by the Minnesota tax payers. And that
Speaker 1: is ridiculous. And God help I guess a Democrat who
Speaker 1: doesn't keep the fraud going because you'll be voted out
Speaker 1: of office. And one was killed in Minnesota. My gosh,
Speaker 1: every time I talk to you, I get more depressed.
Speaker 3: Well, look, did good news is there's a lot of
Speaker 3: good people in the fight, and we get another got
Speaker 3: a great holiday season coming up. We can celebrate the
Speaker 3: birth of our Messiah and we'll be back home in
Speaker 3: Ohio to do it. So it's always an honor to
Speaker 3: celebrate with you. God bless you and all your lists.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Warren Davidson. We'll see what happens in a
Speaker 1: couple hours. And uh, let's keep all the fraud going
Speaker 1: because democrats benefit, kind of like they keep racism going
Speaker 1: because they benefit and get paid. So but thank you
Speaker 1: very much, Warren Davidson. Merry Christmas and happy New Year.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Let's continue with more Billy Cunning into Grand
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