Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 2: It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with
Speaker 2: you and Senator Uh. I got to say, this is
Speaker 2: an email I feel like should be sent out every
Speaker 2: single week.
Speaker 1: What did you do at work last week?
Speaker 2: That is an actual email sent out from doges to
Speaker 2: government employees.
Speaker 1: You even responded to it, well, it's it's amazing. Uh.
Speaker 3: Every day, it seems we see the same story playing out.
Speaker 3: We see Elon Musk holding the federal government to account.
Speaker 3: We see Donald Trump standing up to the swamp in Washington,
Speaker 3: and we see the media and the Democrats losing their mind.
Speaker 3: Elon Musk with the most basic question any any boss,
Speaker 3: asks of what did you accomplish this week? And and
Speaker 3: somehow that is deemed shocking and unbelievable and and it
Speaker 3: really is a sign of of of what needs to happen.
Speaker 3: We're going to break that down and break down the
Speaker 3: response to it as well. We're also going to talk
Speaker 3: about a back and forth between President Trump and the
Speaker 3: governor of Maine, where the governor of Maine, a Democrat,
Speaker 3: is continuing what a lot of the Democrats are doing,
Speaker 3: which is massive resistance. And in this case, boys and
Speaker 3: Girls Sports, it turns out the Democrats they want them
Speaker 3: some boys and girls sports, and they're willing to stand
Speaker 3: and fight and do anything. And Trump made clear Maine
Speaker 3: is at risk of losing hundreds of millions of dollars
Speaker 3: in federal funds if they continue to defy the executive
Speaker 3: orders on boys and girls sports. And the Democrat governor
Speaker 3: is eager for that fight because that is apparently what
Speaker 3: today's Democrat party is all about.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's right. This is a list that is done
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Speaker 2: Yeah, huge win there, and you want to talk about
Speaker 2: another big win you mentioned in a moment ago. I
Speaker 2: got to say, there's certain emails that happen in headlines
Speaker 2: right now with this administration that center I find great
Speaker 2: joy in.
Speaker 1: I smile.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people listening to show we're
Speaker 2: going to smile at this story we're about to tell
Speaker 2: you about, which is there was an email that went
Speaker 2: out to all government employees saying, what'd you do last week?
Speaker 1: Tell me the top five things you did in your job.
Speaker 2: And the left and the unions and the woke people
Speaker 2: in the government are just like crying and losing their minds.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: Elon Musk tweeted out this week quote, consistent with President
Speaker 3: Trump's instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email
Speaker 3: requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure
Speaker 3: to respond will be taken as a resignation. Very simple,
Speaker 3: five bullet points, tell me what you got done in
Speaker 3: the past week. Now, the media and the Democrats, they
Speaker 3: are freaking out. A classic example is Senator Tina Smith,
Speaker 3: senator from Minnesota, very liberal Democrat. She tweeted out the
Speaker 3: following quote, this is the ultimate dick boss from Musk,
Speaker 3: except he isn't even the boss, He's just a dick.
Speaker 3: So that's the Democrats response. Asking someone what did you
Speaker 3: get accomplished this week at work? Is unacceptable because they
Speaker 3: live in a world where apparently meritocraty doesn't exist, where
Speaker 3: government workers aren't expected to do anything positive for the voters,
Speaker 3: for the taxpayers. And Elon responded to Tina Smith a
Speaker 3: very simple question, what did you get done last week? Now,
Speaker 3: I got to say I read that, and my reaction
Speaker 3: immediately was, Okay, this is something, frankly, bosses do all
Speaker 3: the time. It's a very reasonable thing. I've been in
Speaker 3: a lot of jobs where my bosses have asked for
Speaker 3: a weekly report at the end of the week, what
Speaker 3: did you get accomplished. I've submitted hundreds or thousands of
Speaker 3: weekly reports over the year of what's been accomplished during
Speaker 3: the past week. That's something a lot of very productive
Speaker 3: workplaces do. So I responded on Twitter. Here's what I
Speaker 3: tweeted out in response to Elon A fair question, Elon Musk,
Speaker 3: Here's mine. One passed out of the Senate to Take
Speaker 3: it Down Act to Protect Kids from Deep Fake Porn.
Speaker 3: Two confirm cash Pattel at FBI and Lutnike at Commerce. Three,
Speaker 3: pass the Budget Resolution to secure the border, rebuild our military,
Speaker 3: and unleash energy. Four char it a hearing on freeing
Speaker 3: up six hundred Megahertze spectrum for commercial development so the
Speaker 3: US will beat China to six G and five met
Speaker 3: with twenty African ambassadors on strategies to combat China in Africa.
Speaker 3: So that's what I did last week. And I got
Speaker 3: to say, you know, it's an interesting thing. Why does
Speaker 3: it all hundred senators report back on what they accomplished
Speaker 3: last week. I think it's a perfectly fine thing for
Speaker 3: federal employees to do it. But at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, I've got thirty one million bosses. I work
Speaker 3: for every man, woman, and child in the great State
Speaker 3: of Texas, and I try on a regular basis. In fact,
Speaker 3: this podcast is an aspect of that accountability. It's an
Speaker 3: aspect of sharing with the men and women I work for,
Speaker 3: what it is that I'm doing, what I'm fighting for,
Speaker 3: and what we're able to get accomplished. And it really
Speaker 3: does say something about the current surreal expectations of Democrats
Speaker 3: and federal government workers that asking what did you do
Speaker 3: last week?
Speaker 2: You know when the woke left was like, oh, we
Speaker 2: got to have like safe spaces for people in colleges
Speaker 2: and kids. That's in essence what their response is here.
Speaker 2: They came out hardcore and they're like, how dare you?
Speaker 2: This is harassment to ask what we did last week?
Speaker 2: You're making us stressed out. This is making people worry
Speaker 2: and fearful for their jobs. Yeah, if you're not doing
Speaker 2: your job, you should be fearful. If your job is
Speaker 2: something that you can't even explain, you should be fearful
Speaker 2: you're going to lose your job. But this idea that
Speaker 2: this is quote harassment, We had unions that came out
Speaker 2: saying you can't harass our union members this way, all
Speaker 2: by asking a simple question.
Speaker 1: What did you do?
Speaker 3: Let me ask you, Let me ask you, Ben, you've
Speaker 3: worked in a white house in comms, is this a
Speaker 3: strange question to get?
Speaker 1: What did you accomplish last week?
Speaker 2: No? And especially when you work, for example, on campaigns,
Speaker 2: you know there's accountability every ten, twelve, fifteen, twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: What did you do to respond to this? What are
Speaker 1: you doing this?
Speaker 2: Here's the next project? What have you done with this?
Speaker 2: Like that is a very normal way of doing things.
Speaker 2: And I can tell you whether it was on the
Speaker 2: campaign or we were working on Social Security reform, you
Speaker 2: had deadlines and you had meetings every day, and if
Speaker 2: you came in unprepared, it could cost your job, no
Speaker 2: doubt about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, it's the basic idea of having deliverables. But there's
Speaker 3: a very strange dynamic in Washington right now. The average
Speaker 3: federal office building, up until a few weeks ago, was empty.
Speaker 3: The attendance is five to eight percent. More than ninety
Speaker 3: percent of federal workers are not going to the office now.
Speaker 3: Now that is bizarre. Look, I get in the height
Speaker 3: of COVID, there was a period where everyone stayed home.
Speaker 3: But you know what happened. The rest of the world
Speaker 3: went back to work. Like everyone's gone back to work.
Speaker 3: And in the private sector, I don't know a place
Speaker 3: where people don't go into the office anymore except the
Speaker 3: federal government. And I got to say to Democrats this
Speaker 3: is treated as an entitlement that they are owed this,
Speaker 3: and to see people freaking out, well, if we have
Speaker 3: to go to work, that makes it very hard to
Speaker 3: figure out child care. Well, guess what that that's called work? Yeah,
Speaker 3: it is hard to figure out childcare. I mean every parent,
Speaker 3: that's real. Look, every parent who has a job has
Speaker 3: to figure out childcare. Why do federal employees get to
Speaker 3: stay at home in their pajamas and bunny slippers when
Speaker 3: everyone else has to.
Speaker 1: Go to work?
Speaker 3: And and and it. I think these two are intertwined.
Speaker 3: That this this expectation. I am entitled to a federal
Speaker 3: paycheck for the rest of my life. I don't have
Speaker 3: to produce anything, I don't have to ever go to
Speaker 3: the office. And I can do my job simply by
Speaker 3: diverting funds to radical left wing groups. All of this
Speaker 3: is intertwined. It is the politicization of government. It is
Speaker 3: the lack of respect for the taxpayers, the lack of respect. Look,
Speaker 3: this is intertwined. We've talked about this as well with
Speaker 3: how Joe Biden behaved the last three months of his
Speaker 3: presidency after the election. I have never in my life
Speaker 3: seen a president behave like Joe Biden did, because he
Speaker 3: behaved with absolute contempt. He spent three months trying to
Speaker 3: do everything he could to stop Donald Trump from delivering
Speaker 3: on the promises that he made to the American people
Speaker 3: that the voters said overwhelmingly we want. Most presidents when
Speaker 3: they leave, when they lose, they're like, okay, fine, all right,
Speaker 3: the next guys are coming in. We're going to transition over.
Speaker 3: The voters have spoken. You know, I may not like
Speaker 3: what the voters say. I was on the other side,
Speaker 3: you know, if you if your side loses. But the
Speaker 3: absolute arrogance, the lack of regard for the voters and
Speaker 3: the taxpayers, it is also intertwined. Name a Democrat, an
Speaker 3: elected Democrat who has said once, thank god doj just
Speaker 3: pointing out all of this waste, fraud and abuse. Thank
Speaker 3: god we have stopped sending millions of dollars for transgender
Speaker 3: surgeries in Guatemala. I haven't heard a single Democrat, not
Speaker 3: one of them. And it's because they don't think they
Speaker 3: owe anything to the taxpayers or the voters. For them,
Speaker 3: it's about power. It's not about honoring the commitment you
Speaker 3: made to the men and women who elected you.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: The other part about this is there was a lot
Speaker 2: of people that were trying to spend this email as
Speaker 2: like this was a national security risk because it went
Speaker 2: out to all employees and there was guidance that came
Speaker 2: back very quickly from certain departments going hey, like, you
Speaker 2: can't necessarily say what you did this week, so hold
Speaker 2: on before you respond back. And yet the media tried
Speaker 2: to spin this into oh my gosh, all these rules
Speaker 2: were about to be broken, and you were putting people's
Speaker 2: lives at risk, Elon must by sending out this email.
Speaker 2: I think it's important that we clarify. Look, there were
Speaker 2: some positions that it was totally fine to say, hold on,
Speaker 2: we can't do this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, of course, and so there were natural places
Speaker 3: where employees were told don't respond to this email. For example,
Speaker 3: cash Betel told FBI agents, don't respond to this email.
Speaker 3: Un run through your management to respond to this email.
Speaker 3: Why because when you're dealing with classified and confidential law enforcement,
Speaker 3: there are national security and intelligence operations where you can't
Speaker 3: have this kind of report going and going through non
Speaker 3: classified channels. So of course that's the case. But if
Speaker 3: you're a run of the mill employee in the FED
Speaker 3: federal agency, those constraints are not there, and those employees
Speaker 3: are are obligated to respond, no.
Speaker 2: Doubt about it. Also, let's talk a little bit about
Speaker 2: c pack. You at a meeting with Elon Musk right
Speaker 2: after he was given this chainsaw. You even got a
Speaker 2: picture I was there with the chainsaw that we tweeted out.
Speaker 2: It was actually really fun and Elon Musk is loving
Speaker 2: this new opportunity to make a difference in this country.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say. And in addition to the five
Speaker 3: things that I tweeted that I accomplished last week, I
Speaker 3: did did follow up with one more tweet and said,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, and six, I got to hold a really
Speaker 3: badass chip chainsaw. And and and this is okay, you
Speaker 3: got to understand. So Javier Malay, the President of Argentina,
Speaker 3: showed up with a gold and silver chainsaw for Elon Musk.
Speaker 3: And this is not a run of the mill chainsaw.
Speaker 3: This is a gold plated chainsaw. It had Elon Musk's
Speaker 3: musk on it. It had Viva la Libertad on the blade.
Speaker 3: The blade was long, it was it was a massive chainsaw.
Speaker 3: It had uh, brass spikes coming coming out of the
Speaker 3: main body of the chainsaw, like something out of Mad
Speaker 3: Maxim Thunderdome. And and and and the pull cord where
Speaker 3: you started was a set of brass knuckles.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just that was just so cool.
Speaker 3: It was seriously bad ass and and and and it was,
Speaker 3: I told Elon. So you and I spent the afternoon
Speaker 3: at Seapack last week and we did Friday's podcast. We
Speaker 3: did from Seapac on Thursday, and we interviewed Pambondy. We
Speaker 3: interviewed Pambondy live on the stage. We've done done Verdict
Speaker 3: live on the stage of Seapac several times. Let me
Speaker 3: encourage folks, by the way, if you didn't listen to
Speaker 3: Friday's podcast interviewing Pam Bondy, it was one of the
Speaker 3: very first major interviews of the new Attorney General that
Speaker 3: has happened. Pam and I have been friend friends a
Speaker 3: long time, and so we had a really good and
Speaker 3: candid conversation about what she's doing, what she's accomplishing, what
Speaker 3: her objectives are. So if you didn't listen to Friday's podcast,
Speaker 3: go back and listen to it, because it was an
Speaker 3: interview that I think was really worthwhile. But afterwards, you
Speaker 3: and I hung out. Afterwards, I spent about twenty minutes
Speaker 3: with Elon and Javier and Malay delivered this chainsaw to Elon.
Speaker 3: By the way, Malay brought it up on stage while
Speaker 3: you and I were doing the podcast. I gotta say
Speaker 3: my security guys were freaked out. They're like, a guy
Speaker 3: is running on stage with a chainsaw, and and never
Speaker 3: mind that it was ahead of state running on stage
Speaker 3: with a chainsaw. That that's just a little surreal, Like
Speaker 3: you have guys that whose job it is to keep
Speaker 3: you safe. It is despite the movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
Speaker 3: we rarely deal with people running at us with chainsaws.
Speaker 3: And yet yet that happened at Seapack, and yet somehow
Speaker 3: it was okay, Yeah.
Speaker 1: It really was.
Speaker 2: There was also another bad A moment, since we're talking
Speaker 2: about bad A moments at the White House, that happened
Speaker 2: while we were.
Speaker 3: Come on, Benjamin and Benjamin, if you're gonna do it,
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 1: There is a badass moment there we go.
Speaker 3: There was a bad right, I'm trying to rest I'm
Speaker 3: trying to rescue your dignity because because a bad A
Speaker 3: moment is just a weeny way of putting this.
Speaker 1: All right, well go with bad house.
Speaker 2: There's a badass moment the White House where the President
Speaker 2: straight up called out a governor who was in attendance
Speaker 2: for the governors that a bunch of governors come to
Speaker 2: the White House.
Speaker 1: They had their big governors at meeting.
Speaker 2: They invited these governors come to the White House, and
Speaker 2: the President just straight out called out or the governors
Speaker 2: for the plan that had leaked in essence that he
Speaker 2: was going to defy the directive from the federal government
Speaker 2: about protecting women from men playing in their sports transgendered
Speaker 2: you know, individuals claiming that their chick and the President
Speaker 2: just said like, I don't.
Speaker 1: Care, you're here, Glad you're here. Are you going to
Speaker 1: not go along with what I told you do?
Speaker 2: And it was one of those flashpoint moments, just showing you.
Speaker 2: I think the difference is time and the mentality of
Speaker 2: this president.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's exactly right. Trump is not backing down.
Speaker 3: And I got to say the Democrats that seems they've
Speaker 3: learned nothing from the election. Here, give a listen to
Speaker 3: the exchange betwtween the governor of Maine and President Trump.
Speaker 4: The NCAA has complied immediately, by the way, that's good,
Speaker 4: But I understand Maine is the main here, the governor
Speaker 4: of Main are you not going to comply with it? Well,
Speaker 4: we are the federal law. Well you better do it.
Speaker 4: You better do it because you're not going to get
Speaker 4: any federal funding at all if you don't. And by
Speaker 4: the way, your population, even though it's somewhat liberal orlough,
Speaker 4: I did very well there. Your population doesn't want men
Speaker 4: playing in women's sports, so you better you better comply
Speaker 4: because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding. Every state. Good.
Speaker 4: I'll see you in court. I look forward to that.
Speaker 4: That should be a really easy one. And enjoy your
Speaker 4: life after governor, because I don't think you'll be an
Speaker 4: elected politics.
Speaker 1: I mean, the trush talking.
Speaker 2: I just got to say, looking at the female governor,
Speaker 2: maintained like, hey, the people there want this too. You
Speaker 2: should listen to people. I'll see you in court, all right, great,
Speaker 2: look forward to it. I don't think you're in me
Speaker 2: in politics much longer either, if you keep this up.
Speaker 2: This is just a different Donald Trump this time around.
Speaker 3: Well it is, and by the way, there's also real
Speaker 3: teeth to it. So simultaneously with this exchange, the US
Speaker 3: Department of Agriculture announced that it had initiated a compliance
Speaker 3: review of the University of Maine, and the state could
Speaker 3: be in jeopardy of losing one hundred million dollars in
Speaker 3: federal USDA funding over non compliance with the Executive order
Speaker 3: on keeping males out of female sports. And at the
Speaker 3: end of the day, and and and by the way,
Speaker 3: this is not hypothetical that this is happening in in Maine.
Speaker 3: Uh in Maine, that there was a transgender boy who
Speaker 3: identifies as a girl who took first place in the
Speaker 3: girls pole vaulting at Maine's Class B state championship. And
Speaker 3: and it's a win that helped helped the high school
Speaker 3: take first place overall. And and and so you know,
Speaker 3: how would you feel if it if it's your daughter
Speaker 3: who's in second, and she's the best pole vaulter in
Speaker 3: her in the state, who's a girl, but there's a
Speaker 3: dude who says, no, I'm a girl who beats her
Speaker 3: and dominates. It's just fundamentally unfair. And I got to
Speaker 3: say overwhelmingly eighty to ninety percent of Americans agree with
Speaker 3: that proposition. And what's striking is this is not Democrats
Speaker 3: fighting on some issue where where the voters are with them.
Speaker 3: I promise you, even in Maine, the voters don't want this.
Speaker 3: They're not happy about this. And today's Democrat party this election.
Speaker 3: If there is an elected Democrat who learned anything from
Speaker 3: this election, I don't know who it is, because not
Speaker 3: only are they this has.
Speaker 2: Become like the new Littus Test though of the extreme
Speaker 2: left right.
Speaker 3: They're also doubling down in open borders. They're also doubling
Speaker 3: down on anti Israel. Look that the Democrats in the
Speaker 3: Senate voted against sanctioning the ICC, the International Criminal Court,
Speaker 3: which has gone after Benjamin et Yahu in Israel. Every
Speaker 3: Democrat but one Democrat but John Fetterman, voted against Israel.
Speaker 3: And they did that after the election. They did that
Speaker 3: just a few weeks ago. I mean, that's where the
Speaker 3: Democrats are right now, is they're still open border, they're
Speaker 3: still anti Israel, They're still pro boys and girls sports.
Speaker 3: And it's look, look, this is the same issue we
Speaker 3: started with fundamentally. I think, you know, the Democrats love
Speaker 3: to prattle on about democracy, but when they prattle on
Speaker 3: about what democracy, what they really mean is they want power,
Speaker 3: and they don't care what the voters want. They don't
Speaker 3: care about respecting the will of the voters. Instead, they
Speaker 3: want to fight against the will of the voters. It's
Speaker 3: why they indicted Trump not once, not twice, not three times,
Speaker 3: but four times. It was designed to stop democracy It's
Speaker 3: why you had multiple Democrats, judges, and state officials trying
Speaker 3: to remove Donald Trump from the presidential ballot because nothing
Speaker 3: says defending democracy like stopping the damn voters for voting
Speaker 3: for your opponent and making it impossible. This is all intertwined,
Speaker 3: which is it is a lack of humility, a lack
Speaker 3: of understanding that you have a boss, and the boss
Speaker 3: is the men and women who elected you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great point, and it goes back, I
Speaker 2: think to the core issue of he's listening to the people,
Speaker 2: as you mentioned, and he's doing what the people said
Speaker 2: with a mandate, and that is what this election was about.
Speaker 2: And it's also I think it's clear the reason why
Speaker 2: he's doing things which.
Speaker 1: Moves me to the FBI.
Speaker 2: You got to go to the squaring end of cash
Speaker 2: Fortell at the FBI. But it's clear that the presence
Speaker 2: not just like checking a box at the top and
Speaker 2: saying okay, now, business as usual. We also found out
Speaker 2: today that he has decided to name Dan Bongino, who
Speaker 2: many that listen to show probably listen to his show
Speaker 2: his podcasts as well, and knowing from Fox News Channel,
Speaker 2: former Secret Service agent, former police officer in New York City,
Speaker 2: a very outspoken critic of the deep state. He's now
Speaker 2: the deputy director of the FBI. I mean he is
Speaker 2: truly draining the swamp and bringing in people that are
Speaker 2: all about reform.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: On Friday, I was at Cash Betel swearing in, and
Speaker 3: it was a terrific moment. I think Cash is going
Speaker 3: to bring fundamental reform to the FBI, and I think
Speaker 3: it is desperately needed.
Speaker 1: The FBI is an institution.
Speaker 3: It is an institution with a long and storied history,
Speaker 3: and I don't think there is any institution in America
Speaker 3: that has lost more respect, that has had its integrity
Speaker 3: compromised more than the FBI has. Actually, the CDC may
Speaker 3: be rivaling it. FAUCI may have done as much damage
Speaker 3: to the credibility and respect of government health sciences as
Speaker 3: James Comey and Christopher Ray did did to the FBI.
Speaker 3: But both institutions are sorely in need of reform. I
Speaker 3: think Cash Hotel's going to come in and do that.
Speaker 3: And I got to say, Dan Bongino, he's a good
Speaker 3: friend of mine, he's a good friend of yours. He
Speaker 3: is a strong conservative, he is a reformer and that
Speaker 3: combination of Cash Motel and Dan Bongino, I think.
Speaker 1: Is going to be really.
Speaker 3: Potent to bring the FBI back to its core mission,
Speaker 3: and its core mission is stopping bad guys. It's stopping
Speaker 3: violent crime. It's catching the very worst criminals. It's stopping terrorism.
Speaker 3: It's putting terrorists in jail. It's keeping America safe. It's
Speaker 3: not being a politically woke enforcer for left wing ideology,
Speaker 3: or for that matter, for right wing ideology. I don't
Speaker 3: expect the FBI to suddenly be a right wing inforce.
Speaker 3: So I want the FBI to lock up murderers. And
Speaker 3: to be clear, I want him to lock up murderers
Speaker 3: whether they're Republicans or Democrats. I don't care if you're
Speaker 3: killing people, if you're raping women, if you're hurting kids,
Speaker 3: if you're human trafficking, if you're drug trafficking, if you're
Speaker 3: a terrorist, I want the FBI to go after you
Speaker 3: and lock you up. And that's what their core more
Speaker 3: mission is. And I'm very confident that Cash Mattel and
Speaker 3: Dan Bongina, with Pam Bondy as Attorney General, that they're
Speaker 3: going to bring the FBI right back to that.
Speaker 2: Let's give a quick update about where we are with
Speaker 2: all these cabinet positions. You guessed that you thought all
Speaker 2: the big ones were going to get through so far
Speaker 2: that has been exactly the case. And look, they didn't
Speaker 2: want Pam, they didn't want Patel, they didn't want several
Speaker 2: of these others. They went after Christy Noame. We saw
Speaker 2: a lot of them at SEAPAC this weekend. The big,
Speaker 2: big positions are getting filled with the people that Donald
Speaker 2: Trump promise the American voter. How encouraged are you by
Speaker 2: I would also say the Republicans that are in Congress
Speaker 2: right now seeming to stick together pretty well.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, I think the Republicans in the Senate and the
Speaker 3: Republicans and the House are aware that that that we've
Speaker 3: got an historic mandate from the election in November, and
Speaker 3: we've got an obligation to deliver on our promises. We
Speaker 3: can't screw around. Failure is not an option. And I
Speaker 3: do think that is something in both the House and
Speaker 3: Senate that that that that Republicans get. I'll tell you
Speaker 3: when it comes to confirmations, we we are moving at
Speaker 3: the fastest pace in twenty five years. We're moving at
Speaker 3: a much faster pace than than cabinet nominees were confirmed
Speaker 3: under Biden or in the first Trump term. I predicted
Speaker 3: on this podcast that that that all of President Trump's
Speaker 3: cabinet nominees would be confirmed. And that's been the path,
Speaker 3: that's that's been the ones they went after. They went
Speaker 3: after Pete Hegseth. Hegseth was confirmed. They went after Toolsei
Speaker 3: Gabbard Tulci was confirmed. They went after Bobby Kennedy Bobby
Speaker 3: was confirmed. Uh, and and so other than Matt Gates
Speaker 3: who withdrew very early and and and Gates would have
Speaker 3: faced a very rocky path. But other than that, once
Speaker 3: once once Gates withdrew, and I made the prediction after
Speaker 3: Gates withdrew, that's exactly what happened, which is every cabint
Speaker 3: nominee has been confirmed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 2: What do we have on the horizon when it comes
Speaker 2: to what's next when it comes to confirmations.
Speaker 3: Well, next week the confirmations that are coming up, we're
Speaker 3: going to do the Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll uh.
Speaker 3: And then we'll be voting on Jamison Greer to be
Speaker 3: the United States Trade Representative. Both of those are expected
Speaker 3: next week, and then we're going to go after some
Speaker 3: of Biden's failed energy policies in the Senate. We're going
Speaker 3: to go after rules and regulations that drive up the
Speaker 3: cost of energy and make it harder to to heat
Speaker 3: your home, harder to to that that drive inflation and
Speaker 3: so that So that's going to be the priority in
Speaker 3: the Senate this coming week.
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