1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: And Tyler's Phil He's found on two seventy five erect 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: just after you get past the cold Raine Split chunk 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:10,959 Speaker 1: ing Ramont fifty five KOC the talk station. It's seven 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: twenty nine, fifty five KRSD talk station and a very 5 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: happy Wednesday to you one hour from now, Judgejenna Politana 6 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 1: preceded by congress Span Thomas Massey in the meantime, Welcome 7 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 1: back to the fifty five KRSEE morning show from Americans 8 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:25,599 Speaker 1: for Prosperity Donovan and he it's always great having you 9 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: on the show, Donovan. 10 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 2: Brian, always a pleasure to start my Wednesday. 11 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 1: With you, and I've been laughing all morning at the 12 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,879 Speaker 1: subject matter is just make government work campus like? Is 13 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: that even possible? They have to be open to get 14 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 1: work done, apparently, although they were able to approve one 15 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: hundred and seven of Donald Trump's nominees and positions yesterday, 16 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: fast tracking that. But they had a solution for that 17 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: that didn't require sixty votes in the Senate. They need 18 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: that many votes to get the government open again. So 19 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: absent and open government, I doubt it's going to be working. 20 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: Some of my listeners are actually quite pleased about that. 21 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: Before we jump to the Make Government Work program. Your 22 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 1: reaction to the Democrats line in the same position on this. 23 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: I mean, we keep going back to the fact that 24 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:09,279 Speaker 1: the premium supplements were waved. The cap was waved because 25 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: of COVID, and they put an end date in that legislation, 26 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: which is the end of this calendar year. That was 27 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: by the Democrat's own hand. It's something they agreed to. 28 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: They're going to end. COVID is over. We have no 29 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: reason to continue this. And yet they're the Democrats are 30 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: insisting that we give all kinds of people, including illegal immigrants, 31 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:30,759 Speaker 1: but even people who make two hundred and three hundred 32 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: and four hundred thousand dollars a year or how whatever 33 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: amount over sixty two to five, they're going to get 34 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: a break and have their premium supplemented by the American 35 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: tax payer. I don't get how they have any traction 36 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 1: on this at all, Donovan, and I just want to 37 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: get your reaction to their position relative to the Republicans. 38 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and the reality is there is zero connection 39 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 2: between this government shut down and the demands of Chuck 40 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 2: Schumer on these COVID subsidies. This is their entire and 41 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 2: wholly unrelated, and the fact that this narrative continues to 42 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 2: be able to exist, you know, in traditional media, and 43 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 2: that they're not being laughed out of Washington, DC, the 44 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 2: Democrats over this is just unbelievable, zero connection, Brian, between 45 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 2: our government not functioning right now, military pay at risk, 46 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,799 Speaker 2: federal employees pay at risk next week, and these COVID 47 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 2: subsidies totally unrelated. 48 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: And it's such a black and white there's no gray 49 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,279 Speaker 1: area in this. The continued resolution offered by the Republicans 50 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: is the Biden level of spending. So the Democrats aren't 51 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 1: complaining about all the evil Republicans CR wants to cut this, 52 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 1: that and the other thing. No, it doesn't, so that 53 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: argument isn't there. So we really are talking about extending 54 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: these COVID era supplements that that message the reality the 55 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 1: black and the reality of the black and white nature 56 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: of this dispute, that it isn't resonating or maybe is 57 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: lost on the American people. That's a struggle that you 58 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: deal with Americans for prosperity all the time. If people 59 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 1: don't pay attention, if they don't bother looking into the 60 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: whys and wherefores, they're just going to listen to a 61 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,239 Speaker 1: SoundBite from the Democrats or the Republicans as the case, maybe, 62 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: but they're going to be in a factual vacuum. 63 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:13,399 Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that's part of what we've been 64 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 2: out there driving and I think Speaker Johnson and the 65 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 2: Republican majority in Congress have done a great job of 66 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 2: driving that home. We have to reject the Democrats premise here. 67 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 2: There's no need for a deal, that it's a manufactured 68 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,799 Speaker 2: crisis that is easily resolved with the clean continuing Resolution 69 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 2: that's already passed out of Congress is over sitting with 70 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 2: the Senate and just takes sixty votes. It'd be great 71 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 2: to get one hundred, right, to get everybody to agree 72 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 2: we're just going to keep our government running while we 73 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 2: proceed through the normal order of business of getting these 74 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 2: budget bills completed and sent to the President. And so yeah, 75 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 2: the idea here, Brian right, is reject the premise of 76 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 2: what Democrats are putting for because it's bogus, it's not real. 77 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 2: They're unconnected issues, and the crisis exists only because I 78 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer wants to use the September thirtieth end of 79 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 2: the federal fiscal year he used the September thirtieth end 80 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 2: of the fiscal year to create a crisis and try 81 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 2: to score some partisan wins on an issue that they 82 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 2: can talk about, debate, and discuss beyond the government shutdown. 83 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned Johnson when he was he did his 84 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 1: press conference on this issue. He was bulletproof, rock solid, 85 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 1: very just laid out point by point reason why this 86 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: is all on the Democrats corner. The point that I 87 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:34,559 Speaker 1: just boiled down a moment ago about these COVID nineteen 88 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 1: year or something. 89 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:35,799 Speaker 2: I mean, you couldn't. 90 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 1: It was just easy to unpackage and easy to listen to. 91 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,840 Speaker 1: But if no one's listening to that message. I heard 92 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:45,720 Speaker 1: a talking head comment on that that you know X 93 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 1: number of people actually watched it or clicked on the 94 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: replay on social media versus Bernie Sanders or whoever else 95 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: rambling about the evil Republicans which had millions and millions 96 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 1: by contrast clicks on it. So if you're hiding in 97 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: that factual back, can you not interested in hearing what 98 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,280 Speaker 1: Johnson's going to say? You're not going to see how 99 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: bulletproof is logic is. So there's that uphill struggle we 100 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: constantly deal with waking the American people up and getting 101 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: them to try and pay attention. 102 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:12,719 Speaker 2: So let's pause. 103 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: We'll bring Donovan O'Neil back and talk specifically about how 104 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 1: you and I can help make government work. To the 105 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: extent that's a good idea. We'll continue to detalk Station 106 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: Brian Thomas with Americans for Prosperities Dominant O'Neill on the 107 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 1: concept of make government work. Over at makegovernmentwork dot org. 108 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,279 Speaker 1: You can find all the I love this one, Donovan particularly. 109 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: You have five specific acts, the Reorganizing Government Act, to 110 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: Prevent Government Shutdowns Act, the Rains Act among them, and 111 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 1: each one would go a long long way to accomplish 112 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: the goals of my listeners and I are really hoping 113 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: to see someday, you know, getting rid of inefficiency, getting 114 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: rid of bureaucracy, streamlining processes, making government more efficient, and 115 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: preventing the government from shutting down in the event they 116 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 1: can't resolve things. So let's talk about some of these. 117 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: Congressman Massey has brought up some of these particular acts before. 118 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: But an opportunity you've made so easy for our listeners 119 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,280 Speaker 1: to get engaged. Just give them your name and your 120 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: email address, and so they'll send you a call to 121 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: action from time to time. This is the well oiled 122 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 1: machine that we need on our side of the political ledger, 123 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: much in the same way those leftists and Marxists and 124 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: socialists have such a well low machine when it comes 125 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 1: to social media. So help you help yourself, help Americans 126 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 1: for our prosperity. Let's talk about some of these. Donovan, 127 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: the Reorganizing Government Act. 128 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is This is a piece of legislation from 129 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 2: Kentucky Representative James Comer. It's active legislation. We've got nineteen 130 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 2: co sponsors right now. And what it would require is 131 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 2: an independent review for waste and overlapping services, provide Congress 132 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 2: with reorganization plans right to help sort of pinpoint from 133 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 2: independent analysis what needs to be done to get you know, 134 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 2: the duplicative regulatory bodies and just the bloat and overweighted 135 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 2: government streamlined so it can actually operate efficiently. And these 136 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 2: aren't like I mean, they are pie and a sky 137 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 2: ideas Brian right. But like outside of government, large organizations, 138 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 2: large complex organizations are able to do this stuff, and 139 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 2: we just need to bring some of those practices and 140 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 2: ideas to government to make it work. At a cost 141 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 2: effective way with the precious tax tape pair dollars we 142 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 2: give it so that it can function without chaos and craziness. 143 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: Well, because the free markets out here in the real world, 144 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: where real work has to be done and they have 145 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: to make a real profit, they're allowed to streamline and 146 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: engage in rifts and reorgs and elimination of departments without 147 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: fear of litigation. Because most of the employers have the 148 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: freedom to hire or fire at will. You don't have 149 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 1: that in the federal government. They have rules, regulations, unions 150 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: protecting the government employees. And there's so much red tape 151 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: involving eliminating a position. It just gets bigger and bigger, 152 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: and no one ever seems to get fired. 153 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and I think you know, we see glimmers 154 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 2: of this the early days of Trump forty seven. Right, 155 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,400 Speaker 2: just a few short months ago, there was a there 156 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 2: was that energy existed, I think in Washington to make 157 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 2: some of those reforms. Now you're taking you know, you're 158 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 2: going up against what is that that immovable object and 159 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 2: an unstoppable force, right, yes, kind of colliding here, but 160 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 2: you know it's it's legislation like this, right that it 161 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 2: has the opportunity of Congress has the courage to reassert 162 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 2: its authority and right side the ship. It's possible, it's constitutional, 163 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 2: and we appreciate Senator or Representative Comer for bringing this forward. 164 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 2: And we're kind of beating that drum out there on 165 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 2: this as a key solution to fixing the bloat and 166 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 2: wasting government. 167 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,320 Speaker 1: And there is no reason to be against the Prevent 168 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 1: Government Shutdowns Act. We wouldn't be in the middle of 169 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: this stupidity if we had this. And this is one 170 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: of the ones that I've talked about with Congressman Massy. 171 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 1: Remind my listeners about this one. 172 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, So this is from Senator James Langford, and this 173 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 2: actually has been around for a few sessions of Congress. 174 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 2: It came about in twenty nineteen when we had the 175 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 2: thirty five day shut down. Shutdowns are a more recent 176 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 2: in art in American history phenomenon. It actually came out 177 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 2: of the nineteen seventies and an interpretation from the Carter 178 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:10,319 Speaker 2: administration on the function of government when it fails to 179 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 2: pass a budget, it's created a crisis to crisis environment 180 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 2: where like we're seeing right now right wholly unrelated issues 181 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 2: like COVID era Health ACA subsidies are trying to be 182 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 2: connected to the normal funding of our federal government at 183 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 2: current levels, totally unconnected issues. We can prevent government shutdowns though, 184 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 2: by automatically funding government at current levels till the budget 185 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 2: process is done and putting some accountability measures like hey, congressman, 186 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 2: you can't use taxpayer dollars to get out of Washington. 187 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 2: Go home, and you know, you know peacock in front 188 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 2: of your constituents, you got to stay in Washington till 189 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 2: the job is done and you get the budget. It's 190 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 2: the most essential function of Congress, Brian, we know this 191 00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 2: right is to fund our federal government and manage it 192 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 2: to prevent government shutdown. Act. It would eliminate the crisis 193 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 2: to crisis approach that exists right now when Congress and 194 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 2: government can shut down because Congress builed to act. 195 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:12,319 Speaker 1: All right, moving over the Comprehensive Congressional Budget Act. 196 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, so what this would do when we budget at home? Right? 197 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 2: And I know Congress in Washington, DC aren't like budgeting 198 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 2: at home, but you put everything together, right, You don't 199 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 2: get to just say, hey, you know, my mortgage payment's 200 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 2: over here, and you know, date night with the wife 201 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,559 Speaker 2: budget is over here. It's all one big budget, right, 202 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 2: you get one paycheck and it all gets You got 203 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 2: to budget it all out right now, Congress has shrunk 204 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,439 Speaker 2: discretionary spending is only about twenty five percent seventy five 205 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 2: percent or more. Is this direct spending like Social Security, Medicaid, 206 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:49,079 Speaker 2: Medicare these these programs that are sort of I would 207 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 2: describe as being on autopilot for budgeting. We need to 208 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 2: put the whole picture together and have a full picture 209 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 2: of what our federal government is in taking and outgoing spending, 210 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 2: so that we're actually making decisions about the total ledger, 211 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 2: not just that small percentage that is discretionary. We want 212 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:11,079 Speaker 2: Congress to be in control of the purse. And what 213 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 2: this would is would require that. 214 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 1: So they take in X, they've got mandatory spending, which 215 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 1: is a pile that represents why so X minus Y 216 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: is what's left over, and that has to be allocated 217 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 1: responsively among what's left the non discretionary spending. So if 218 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 1: you have a finite amount of cash left over in 219 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: the pile, you limit your spending to what's left over. 220 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 1: That's responsible budgeting, which means a lot of stuff is 221 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: going to have to get cut because it isn't really 222 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 1: truly a priority. 223 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know cut adjusted. You know, not 224 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 2: that I would advocate or we would allgate for this, right, 225 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 2: but if you you know, Congress deems this a priority, 226 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 2: we're going to have to raise taxes or some other 227 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 2: form of revenue to get it done. But right now 228 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 2: we kind of look at these things in pieces and parcels. 229 00:11:56,640 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 2: We want Congress to look at this as the whole picture, 230 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 2: right Congress, Like you said, it takes an X, it's 231 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 2: got to spend. Why what do you what are the 232 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 2: actual priorities? Where can the where is the federal government 233 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 2: best position to be impactful or have programs? But again, 234 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 2: right now, as long as it's sort of sliced and 235 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:16,439 Speaker 2: diced and split up, more of it's on autopilot. When 236 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 2: we actually want Congress to take a more active approach 237 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 2: to governing, that's what we send them there to do. 238 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 2: We elect them to go there and do that a 239 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 2: handful do we need all of Congress to do that? 240 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 1: And the next one's come up quite frequently. Again, again 241 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 1: I've talked with Congress from Kes about the Rains Act. 242 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: This is a really important one. 243 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:37,120 Speaker 2: Well, absolutely, once we get the and we can get 244 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 2: government reorganized. We can get you know this, this shutdown 245 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 2: threat removed from the equation in Washington, d C. And 246 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:46,960 Speaker 2: you get the budgeting figured out. You also got to 247 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 2: make sure the bloat doesn't come back, right, And each 248 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:51,679 Speaker 2: of these are important on their own, but the Rains 249 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 2: Act in particular. You know, as we start, especially this 250 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 2: Trump administration with does starts clearing out rules and regulations 251 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 2: and streamlining permitting if we can clear out the cobwebs. 252 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 2: But what we need to do is by enacting the 253 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 2: Rains Act, keep that proliferation of rules and regulations from 254 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 2: coming back, and it would the regulations from the executive 255 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 2: in need of scrutiny. Is good for both Republicans and 256 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 2: Democrats because it'd keep these most egregious, economically harmful rules 257 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 2: from going into effect without at least Congress taking another 258 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 2: look at him and saying, yeah, this is what we intended. 259 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:28,599 Speaker 2: We believe this is important and it's right now. I 260 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 2: got ninety two co sponsors, including Ohio's and Dave Taylor 261 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 2: from southern Ohio, so we appreciate that cool from him. 262 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, and force the Democrats to defend what they want, 263 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 1: which is egregiously intrusive and irresponsible regulations. Make them justify it. 264 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: Now at least the conversation will be air, will air 265 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: all this out in the public. 266 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:48,079 Speaker 2: Now. 267 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,959 Speaker 1: Finally, we have the Midnight Rules Relief Act. I'm not 268 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 1: familiar with this one, Donovan. 269 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,959 Speaker 2: So this is from Arizona Representative Andy Biggs, and this 270 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 2: is an important piece in that How many times do 271 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 2: we hear? Right, you get to December January when a 272 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,319 Speaker 2: new administration is coming in and the outgoing Lane Duck 273 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 2: president starts writing rules and auto penning rules whatever they're doing, right, 274 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 2: they're just going on a flurry of enacting the things 275 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 2: that might have been politically unpopular in the early part 276 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 2: of their tenure of their administration. But they jam that 277 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 2: stuff through. We shouldn't be doing that stuff. What it 278 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 2: would do is it would target some of these late 279 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 2: term regulations. So anything sort of that your the administration 280 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 2: is trying to do in the final year an office, 281 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 2: give that a little more scrutiny. Expand the Congressional Review 282 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 2: Act to be able to bundle some of those reviews together, 283 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 2: where right now I believe they have to do them 284 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 2: sort of individually, with each individual rule. Ultimately saving time 285 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 2: and taxpayer dollars. Some rules need to be implemented, right, 286 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 2: but we want to reassert that congressional authority that if 287 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 2: you know you're on the Biden administration and you're you're 288 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 2: on your way out, you don't get to put all 289 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 2: this stuff in, you know, Monday night and Tuesday morning. 290 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 2: When the next president comes in, they've got to figure 291 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 2: out what the damage is and what actually needs to. 292 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 1: Be a just I couldn't agree more with that. So, 293 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: as we typically end on the call to action, I 294 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: know the website is Makegovernmentwork dot com. How can my 295 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 1: listeners get engaged? 296 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 2: Well, go to that website. And the important part about 297 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 2: this toolkit why I wanted to join you and talk 298 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 2: about this today is so many of our friends on 299 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:21,280 Speaker 2: the left say, well, Republicans have no solutions, Conservatives have 300 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 2: no solutions to these problems. We have solutions, Brian, Makegovernmentwork 301 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 2: dot com. It's a place you can go. There's five 302 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 2: active pieces of legislation in Congress right now that would 303 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 2: solve many of the structural problems that have put us 304 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 2: in the situation we're in here today, eight days into 305 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 2: a government shutdown. Go there, arm yourself with some information 306 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 2: and go out and have that conversation with folks. And 307 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 2: if you want to join us, go there, share your information. 308 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 2: We'll reach out and we'll get you plugged into some 309 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 2: of the events and activities we have going on around 310 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 2: the Buckeye State. 311 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: I know you will. You always have and you'll continue 312 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: to do so. Americans for Prosperity head on over to 313 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: Makegovernmentwork dot com just trek. We'll put a link about 314 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: my blog page fifty five cat com in case you 315 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 1: can't remember that. Donovan O'Neil, thanks for what you and 316 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 1: Americans Will Prosperity do each and every day. Appreciate your 317 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: willingness to help out voters here in the state of 318 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: Ohio get involved, as well as dealing with national legislation, 319 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: which of course is the scope of this Make a 320 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 1: Government Work Plan. Donovan will get you out back on 321 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 1: real soon. Have a great day and keep up the 322 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: excellent work.