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Speaker 1: Welcome in as Verdict with Center Ted Cruz. We're in

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Speaker 1: studio this week as well, so people that are listening,

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Speaker 1: they can also watch this episode on YouTube or on Facebook, acts,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. This is gonna be a fun show, one

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Speaker 1: that people are gonna want to share with their family

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Speaker 1: and their friends because we're gonna talk about how just

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Speaker 1: six months in to this presidency, the winds are incredible,

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Speaker 1: even comparing it to twenty sixteen, this is moving at

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Speaker 1: such an incredible pace for the president's agenda items. Having

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Speaker 1: the sen in the House on your side and working

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Speaker 1: with you is amazing, and there's been some celebration on that,

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Speaker 1: but the media is not covering much of the success.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly right.

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Speaker 3: And this is one of those episodes where the value

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Speaker 3: of a podcast becomes clear because the corporate media does

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Speaker 3: not want the American people to know the size the

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Speaker 3: scope of President Trump's success, and so the only way

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Speaker 3: you can get the information we're gonna have in this

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Speaker 3: podcast is listening to this podcast or other things similar,

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Speaker 3: although I'm not sure there's a whole lot similar to

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Speaker 3: listen to. But let's take what President Trump just put

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Speaker 3: up on Truth Social Wow Time flies. Today is the

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Speaker 3: six month anniversary of my second term. Importantly, it's being

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Speaker 3: hailed as one of the most consequential periods of any president.

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Speaker 3: In other words, we got a lot of good and

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Speaker 3: great things done, including ending numerous wars of countries not

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Speaker 3: related to US other than through trade and or in

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Speaker 3: certain cases friendship. Six months is not a long time

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Speaker 3: to have totally revived a major country. Quote, one year ago,

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Speaker 3: our country was dead with almost no hope of revival. Today,

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Speaker 3: the USA is the quote hottest and most respected country

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Speaker 3: anywhere in the world. Happy anniversary it I got to

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Speaker 3: say that is not hyperbole.

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Speaker 2: YEA.

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Speaker 3: The six months that we have seen in twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: five under President Trump's second term, I believe have been

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Speaker 3: the most consequential six months of any president of our lifetime.

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Speaker 3: We are going to break down the victories, the major

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Speaker 1: a celebratory dinner at the White House. Not a bad

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Speaker 1: place to hang out. The President decided, let's celebrate the

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Speaker 1: Accomplishment's the big beautiful Bill. I actually think this speaks

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Speaker 1: to him understanding politics so much more now than he

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Speaker 1: did in twenty sixteen. When you win, celebrate with your team.

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Speaker 1: There does seem to be a team mentality with his

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Speaker 1: got together for a dinner to celebrate the hard work.

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Speaker 3: So it was a fantastic celebration dinner. It was Friday night.

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Speaker 3: The President invited Republican senators to come join us. About

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Speaker 3: thirty Republican senators came with our spouses. So Heidi was there,

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Speaker 3: and it was great fun. We were celebrating the victories

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Speaker 3: of the first six months, but in particular the one big,

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Speaker 3: beautiful Bill. And I'll tell you you can see some

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Speaker 3: of the images from that night. Heidi and I were

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Speaker 3: as I have ever seen him. He was jubilant. Look,

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Speaker 3: we were celebrating. We were lebrating that night. We were

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Speaker 3: feeling fantastic. It turns out winning is a good thing.

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Speaker 3: I'm not tired of winning yet. Yeah, and none of

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Speaker 3: the rest of us are either. And it was the

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Speaker 3: entire atmosphere the President said, but the rest of us

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Speaker 3: agreed with what he said in that truth, these have

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Speaker 3: been the most consequential six months of any president of

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Speaker 3: I want in this podcast, I want to highlight five

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Speaker 3: of those victories. But the fifth one is the One

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Speaker 3: to do in this podcast is we're going to break

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Speaker 3: is extraordinary how many wins were in the One Big

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Speaker 3: six months, the number one victory is obvious and it

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Speaker 3: has to be the border, because doubt this election was

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Speaker 3: a referendum on Joe Biden, the Democrats open borders on

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Speaker 3: four years of twelve million illegals flooding into this country.

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Speaker 3: The American people said enough is enough. And the results

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Speaker 2: Even if you.

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Speaker 3: Don't want to believe me, believe ABC News and God

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Speaker 3: helped me that. I just uttered that sentence. But give

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Speaker 5: Today mark six months since President Trump returned to office.

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Speaker 5: For his second term. It has been a head spinning

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Speaker 5: half year, from sweeping changes in the federal government to

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Speaker 5: mass deportations and bombs dropped on Iran. The President promise changes,

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Speaker 5: and there is no question he has made them. President

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Speaker 5: Trump won the twenty twenty four election based largely on

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Speaker 5: his vow to improve the economy and crack down on

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's coming from ABC News. It was also

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Speaker 1: interesting this week. I was up in New York for

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Speaker 1: and what was said to me was, you guys screwed up.

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Speaker 4: Y'all secured the border too quick.

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Speaker 1: I would have slow played it longer to get more

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Speaker 4: And they said, politically, you should have played it out

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Speaker 3: You know what, that doesn't shock me a Democrat says

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Speaker 3: that because to Democrats everything is political. Yeah, it's all

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Speaker 3: You should have let more Americans be murdered for longer.

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Speaker 3: You should have let more women be raped by illegals

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Speaker 3: for longer, you should have let more children be brutalized

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Speaker 3: I got to say, I disagree even as just a

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Speaker 3: matter of political strategy with whatever that unnamed operative named

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Speaker 3: the fact that it was done so quickly demonstrates for

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Speaker 3: all times that what the Democrats did was deliberate. Yep,

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Speaker 3: that they could have fixed it at any time, and

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Speaker 3: every single Democrat said, Hey, if it benefits me politically,

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Speaker 2: That's just wrong.

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Speaker 1: It's also interesting in the conversation that we had, and

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Speaker 1: I think this is a bigger point the America view

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Speaker 2: They were completely open about it.

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Speaker 3: But in terms of the successes on this, let's go

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Speaker 3: is you can tell Martha hates this.

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Speaker 2: She yeah, miserable.

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Speaker 3: In that last segment we played, she describes it as

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Speaker 3: media's heads are spinning. I want them to spin a

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Speaker 3: whole lot more. But listen to ABC describing the president's

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Speaker 5: You will hit the border with Mexico where there is

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Speaker 5: little question that Trump is fulfilling a campaign promise.

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Speaker 6: All illegal entry will immediately be halted.

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Speaker 5: In a matter of months. Migrant crossings have hit record lows.

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Speaker 5: Apprehensions that the southern border dropped to six thousand and

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Speaker 5: seventy two in the month of June, a massive reduction

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Speaker 5: from the eighty three thousand, five hundred and thirty two

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Speaker 6: Over twenty five miles of Concertino our US marines put up.

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Speaker 5: For US Acting Patrol Chief Jeffrey Stollnucker tells US the

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Speaker 5: San Diego sector has seen a significant drop in illegal entries.

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Speaker 6: And what that has done, it's allowed us to get

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Speaker 6: our agents back on the border to do their traditional work.

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Speaker 6: In addition to that, we have maximized consequences. It can

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Speaker 6: be an immigration consequence or a consequence because of a

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Speaker 5: So in other words, if they come across, you find

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Speaker 5: out they have criminal history, they go to jail and

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Speaker 5: probably be kicked out later, or if they don't, they're

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Speaker 1: So criminal history and immigration, you go back to one

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Speaker 1: thing he said there, he said, we've been able to

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Speaker 1: now get our officers to be able to go back

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Speaker 1: to the border and do their job. One of the

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Speaker 1: things as that happened was there was so much taking

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Speaker 4: Don't mess with them, all right? Big victory number two?

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Speaker 3: Number five is the one, big beautiful bill. And you

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Speaker 3: know it's interesting. We have seen for months Democrats in

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Speaker 3: the media trying to demagogue this bill, trying to spread

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Speaker 3: lies about this bill, trying to fear monger about this bill.

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Speaker 3: I will tell you something. The President said Friday night,

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Speaker 3: and multiple of us, including me, said Friday night, this

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Speaker 3: bill has the most conservative victories in it of any

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Speaker 3: piece of legislation I think that has ever passed into law.

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Speaker 3: I don't like it as hyperbole. There is no other

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Speaker 3: bill that has as many major conservative victories. I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: walk through quickly, twelve of them. We're gonna do this fast.

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Speaker 3: But this is information you cannot get anywhere else. In

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Speaker 3: this segment right now is the reason to listen to Verdict.

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Speaker 3: It's the reason to share it with your friends. It's

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Speaker 2: If you do.

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Speaker 3: Your eyes will bleed, you will go insane and run

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Speaker 3: around in circles. But you could watch it all day

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Speaker 3: long and you will not get this information that you're

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Speaker 3: getting right now on Verdict. Twelve victories that are in

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Speaker 3: the One Big Beautiful Bill. Victory number one, we have

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Speaker 3: stopped a four trillion dollar tax increase. If we did

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Speaker 3: nothing on December thirty first, the Trump tax cuts would disappear,

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Speaker 3: and every American taxpayer, your taxes would go up significantly

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Speaker 3: trillion dollars every time taxpayer. And by the way, the

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Speaker 3: Democrats wanted your taxes to go up. To stop a

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Speaker 3: four trillion dollar tax increase is a massive victory. That's

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Speaker 3: victory one and the one big beautiful bill. Victory two.

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Speaker 3: We enacted new tax cuts. No tax on tips. Yep,

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Speaker 3: that's my legislation. I drafted it. It is in this bill.

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Speaker 3: That means if you're a waiter or waitress, if you're

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Speaker 3: a bartender, if you're a barber or a hairstylist, if

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Speaker 3: you work in a nail salon, if you're a taxicab

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Speaker 3: driver or an uber driver. Millions of Americans rely on tips.

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Speaker 3: We're providing real and meaningful tax relief to working Americans.

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Speaker 3: That's in there. No tax on overtime is in there,

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Speaker 3: No tax on Social Security is in there. All three

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Speaker 3: of those were President Trump's campaign promises. We delivered on

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Speaker 3: all three of those, and working Americans all across Texas

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Speaker 3: and all across this country will see the benefits of

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Speaker 3: those major tax cuts.

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Speaker 4: That's huge. I mean, it's just huge.

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Speaker 1: When you think about that and you think about the

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Speaker 1: promise and how it was, you know, you look at

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Speaker 1: the President I go back to the campaign. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: he came out he was in Vegas, and he was like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: we shouldn't be taxing people that are working their tails

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Speaker 1: off and the tips and everything else. And then the

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Speaker 1: left actually came out immediately started attacking him for the

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Speaker 1: say it will never happen. This is not a good idea.

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Speaker 1: This is they did say it will never happen. He said,

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Speaker 1: it's an empty promise.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 3: By the way, I've told the story of where he

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Speaker 3: came up with the idea of no tax on tips.

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Speaker 3: He was the day of his Vegas rally. He was

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Speaker 3: having lunch in Vegas. He said, there was a waitress

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Speaker 3: who came up to him. I was serving him lunch,

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Speaker 3: and Trump being Trump, he told us he said she

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Speaker 3: was beautiful.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you.

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Speaker 3: She was beautiful. And she he said, she was saying

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Speaker 3: how stressful it was to pay taxes on tips and

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Speaker 3: how complicated it was. And he said, he just put

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Speaker 3: out a piece of paper and he wrote on the

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Speaker 3: piece of paper, no tax on tips. He said, what

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Speaker 3: do you think she says that sounds great? And he said,

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Speaker 3: I had a rally that afternoon, so I went out

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Speaker 3: to the rally and I said, all right, let's try

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Speaker 3: it out. And he said, no tax on tips.

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Speaker 4: Place went nuts.

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Speaker 3: It went nuts, and town I mean it. Yes, people

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Speaker 3: will make five percent of the workers in Nevada are

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Speaker 3: tipped and so rely on it as their im guests.

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Speaker 3: And so I saw it, and I said, this is

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Speaker 3: political genius, and I immediately drafted the legislation to make

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Speaker 3: it happen. That is part of One Big Beautiful Bill

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Speaker 3: Victory three Securing the Border. We mentioned what the President

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Speaker 3: has done by enforcing the law. What we put in

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Speaker 3: One Big Beautiful Bill is one hundred and fifty billion

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Speaker 3: dollars to secure the border. It is the largest investment

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Speaker 3: in border security in the history of America. It will

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Speaker 3: build the wall, it will complete the wall. We will

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Speaker 3: hire more border patrol agents, we will hire more ice agents.

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Speaker 3: We will build more detention facilities, we will have more

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Speaker 3: detention beds, and we will employ technology, infrared, drones, helicopters.

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Speaker 3: It is, as I said, the biggest investment ever to

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Speaker 3: secure the border that is in the bill.

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Speaker 4: One of the things that you mentioned there was technology.

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Speaker 1: It is amazing to see how far behind we've been

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Speaker 1: on technology and how we didn't have the funding for

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Speaker 1: the technology that we knew we needed. That was done

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Speaker 1: on purpose by the prior administration, because if you don't

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Speaker 1: have the technology, then you're behind. The cartails are ahead,

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Speaker 1: the human traffickers are ahead, the people are ahead of you.

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Speaker 1: They held us back on purpose to again open the border.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so we've been.

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Speaker 1: Playing catch up, and that's why this money was so

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Speaker 1: important this bill.

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Speaker 3: There's another strategic victory, which is every spending bill the

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Speaker 3: Democrats hold border spending and military spending hostage.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 3: What we've done is funded the things that are critical

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Speaker 3: to keeping this country safe, which means the Democrats can't

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Speaker 3: hold it hostage anymore. So it has there's a tactical

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Speaker 3: advantage going forward on the next budget battle because this

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Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty billion dollars we have appropriated it.

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Speaker 3: It is going out the door and there's not a

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Speaker 3: damn thing Chuck Schumer or AOC can do to stop it.

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Speaker 1: That is valuable on the psyche aspect of it, because

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Speaker 1: I do think this is one of the things that

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Speaker 1: is I'm witnessing a change our border patrol agents, whether

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Speaker 1: it's Department Home Security ICE. Yes, their mentality right now

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Speaker 1: has got to be on a high.

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Speaker 3: It is like a drowning man about to die given

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Speaker 3: a life preserver, lifted out, saved, they were able to

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Speaker 3: do their jobs. They're locked, they're fired up, they're ready

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Speaker 3: to go to war. The traffickers, they're stopping drug traffickers.

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Speaker 3: Every time I see a border patrol agents are an

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Speaker 3: ice agent. To be honest, half the time we just hug.

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Speaker 3: I mean the level of their just like, thank god,

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Speaker 3: we got your job. Victory number four repaying the States

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Speaker 3: for border security thirteen and a half billion dollars over

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Speaker 3: ten billion dollars going to Texas. Texas taxpayers spent over

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Speaker 3: ten billion dollars to secure the border because Joe Biden

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Speaker 3: and the Democrats refused to do so. I help lead

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Speaker 3: the charge to repay the States. That is in there.

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Speaker 3: That means Texas is getting over ten billion dollars paid back.

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Speaker 3: That's a huge victory. Victory number four. Victory number five

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Speaker 3: rebuilding the military over one hundred and fifty billion dollars

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Speaker 3: to support our soldiers, our sailors, our airmens, our marines,

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Speaker 3: to build new submarines, to build build new next generation

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Speaker 3: fighter jets, to improve our ability to stand up to China,

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Speaker 3: to stand up to our enemies to combat hypersonics, the

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Speaker 3: next generation of warfare. Look, with the military often you're

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Speaker 3: fighting the last war. We're going forward. We're going to

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Speaker 3: face ten thousand drone swarms using AI. Investing one hundred

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Speaker 3: and fifty billion dollars to make sure we can defend

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Speaker 3: this nation. There's no responsibility the federal government has that

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Speaker 3: is more important. And by the way, this is the money.

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Speaker 3: The Democrats always hold hostage, so we funded it. Right

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Speaker 3: now they can't. They can no longer touch this hostage

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Speaker 3: because this is done.

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Speaker 2: Huge victory number six. The Coastguard.

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Speaker 3: Now, this is something I'm particularly proud of because, as

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Speaker 3: you know, I'm the chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science,

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Speaker 3: and Transportation. Yep, the Coastguard is in our jurisdiction. So

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Speaker 3: I wrote the Coastguard Provision twenty four billion dollars for

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Speaker 3: the Coast Guard. This is the single largest investment in

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Speaker 3: the Coast Guard in the history of the United States

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Speaker 3: of America. To give you a sense of the scope

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Speaker 3: of the order of magnitude, the annual budget of the

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Speaker 3: Coast Guard is about twelve million dollars. We are spending

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Speaker 3: about two hundred percent of the annual budget on the

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Speaker 3: Coast Guard in investments, and what are we doing. We're

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Speaker 3: buying new ships, We're buying new helicopters, We're buying new

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Speaker 3: physical infrastructure, and critically, we are investing in ice cutters,

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Speaker 3: in polar ice cutters and Arctic ice cutters. Right now,

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Speaker 3: China is kicking our ass in the Arctic, and the

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Speaker 3: Arctic is critical for national security. Any war ICBMs are

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Speaker 3: going to come over the Arctic. The Arctic is now

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Speaker 3: You've got the United States on the Arctic. You've got

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Speaker 3: China playing on the Arctic, You've got Russia playing on

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Speaker 3: the Arctic, and we are losing. This funding will enable

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Speaker 3: us not only to compete, to win. And by the way,

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Speaker 3: a huge theme of every everything I do in Congress

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Speaker 3: is beat China, Beat China, Beat China. This investment in

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Speaker 3: the Coastguard is to beat China and the Arctic. But

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Speaker 3: let me tell you a huge America first benefit for this,

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Speaker 3: which is shipbuilding in America has almost entirely disappeared.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's scary from national security symbol.

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Speaker 3: It is very scary. But this Coastguard bill will bring

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Speaker 3: ship building back to America. You look at Galveston, Texas.

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Speaker 3: There's a huge, multi billion dollar shipyard that is being

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Speaker 3: built and expanded right now to build these ice cutters.

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Speaker 3: And the problem previously is if you're a private company,

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Speaker 3: you couldn't make the multi billion dollar investment because you

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Speaker 3: didn't know where demand was going to come from. Because

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Speaker 3: we have twenty four billion dollars appropriated, there is a

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Speaker 3: multi year stream of buy orders coming from the Coastguard

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Speaker 3: for these ice cutters. That is going to bring back

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Speaker 3: thousands of jobs, good American jobs right here building ships

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Speaker 3: to keep America safe. That is in the bill out

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Speaker 3: Tik tell you when I was in the Hill Country,

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Speaker 3: when I was with the Coast guardsmen who were rescuing

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Speaker 3: Texans from the floods, every single coasting every one of them,

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Speaker 3: every man and woman, knew exactly about this investment in

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Speaker 3: the Coast Guard. They knew it was the biggest in history,

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Speaker 3: and every one of them said, thank you, this will

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Speaker 3: make a massive difference in our ability.

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Speaker 2: To do it.

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Speaker 1: I've got a good friend the Coast Guard, and he

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Speaker 1: said to me the other day about this. He said,

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Speaker 1: you know the Coast Guard, and he's been in for

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Speaker 1: twenty plus years. He said, we've always gotten the hand

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Speaker 1: me downs, we get the leftover equipment and the old equipment.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of their equipment literally come from surplus

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Speaker 1: from military and other things. He said, this is the

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Speaker 1: first time that we are now like on the cutting

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Speaker 1: edge on our own because of what you just described.

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Speaker 1: He said, not only has morale gone through the roof,

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Speaker 1: we're no longer like the forgotten agency, like we're kind

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Speaker 1: of like, oh, the fifth wheel of military and government.

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Speaker 1: He's like, now we matter, and it matters for national security,

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Speaker 1: as he described it. And I think that's a great point.

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Speaker 3: That is absolutely right. And by the way, the Coast

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Speaker 3: Guard also does drug interdiction, it does border security. The

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Speaker 3: Coastguard is critical for securing our border. And so this

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Speaker 3: investment having those Coastguard cutters to stop drug traffickers, stop

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Speaker 3: human traffickers, and also to engage in search and rescue,

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Speaker 3: which is hugely important. That investment something I care deeply about.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, we're at number six. I told

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Speaker 3: you I'm going to give you twelve major conservative victories

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Speaker 3: in the one big beautiful Bill. We're at six. I

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Speaker 3: actually want listeners to pause for a second. How many

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Speaker 3: of you could list the first six before this podcast,

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Speaker 3: and I just want to make the point, what kind

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Speaker 3: of job does the corporate media do. I'm willing to

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Speaker 3: bet virtually none of our listeners could have listed those

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Speaker 3: first six because the news hasn't covered. And it's why

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Speaker 3: we do this podcast to give you information so that

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Speaker 3: when you're talking to your friends and your colleagues, you

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Speaker 3: will know what's being accomplished. There's a reason President Trump

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Speaker 3: is so excited about this one big, beautiful bill because

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Speaker 3: it is massive, massive.

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Speaker 2: Victories for a America.

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Speaker 3: Number seven, Number seven spectrum now spectrum. What is spectrum?

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Speaker 3: Electromagnetic spectrum. It is how we communicate. It's how our

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Speaker 3: cell phones work, it's how Wi Fi works, it's how

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Speaker 3: satellites work, it's how streaming works. It's all of electronics spectrum.

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Speaker 3: The largest holder of spectrum is the United States government.

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Speaker 3: The United States government has vast swaths of spectrum, and

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Speaker 3: under Joe Biden, the United States Government stop making new

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Speaker 3: spectrum available to the private sector. They ended auction authority.

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Speaker 3: It was grotesquely irresponsible. It did massive damage to America,

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Speaker 3: It destroyed jobs in America, and it let China get

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Speaker 3: ahead of America in this Bill. I wrote the legislation

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Speaker 3: that directs the federal government to auction to the private

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Speaker 3: sector eight hundred megahertz of spectrum for private sector investment.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean?

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Speaker 3: Number One, that will generate in excess of one hundred

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Speaker 3: billion dollars of revenue to the federal government.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Real money. Now, even in government terms, one hundred billion

702
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Speaker 3: dollars is real money. And listen, you and I are

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Speaker 3: deeply concerned about the deficit and the debt. The entire

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Speaker 3: commerce title that I wrote that had historic investments in

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Speaker 3: coast Guard and a bunch of other things, I ended

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Speaker 3: up saving over forty billion dollars, reducing the deficit and

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Speaker 3: the debt by over forty billion dollars. And the driver

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Speaker 3: was because of spectrum auction authority we brought in. We

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Speaker 3: will bring in one hundred billion dollars to pay down

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Speaker 3: the debt. Credible, that's real money. But it's not the

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Speaker 3: biggest piece of this. The biggest piece of this is

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Speaker 3: by auctioning the spectrum off, we will open up billions

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Speaker 3: and billions of dollars of private sector investment. The companies

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Speaker 3: that buy this spectrum are going to invest. It is

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Speaker 3: going to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. That is

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Speaker 3: not an exaggeration. Hundreds of thousands of jobs. And you

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Speaker 3: know what spectrum is all about, beating China to six G.

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Speaker 3: I mentioned my consistent theme, beat China, Beat China in

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Speaker 3: the Arctic with the Coastguard, beat China to six g

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Speaker 3: h with Spectrum. And I gotta tell you, three months ago,

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Speaker 3: there was nobody in Washington who thought we could get

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Speaker 3: this done. I sat in the office of the Speaker

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Speaker 3: of the House, Mike Johnson, a good friend of mine.

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Speaker 3: I said, Mike, We're gonna do Spectrum on the one big,

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Speaker 3: beautiful bill. And Mike laughed in my face. He's a

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Speaker 3: good friend. But yeah, there's no way, he said, there's

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Speaker 3: no chance because the Department of Defense and the CIA

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Speaker 3: will fight you. They will stop you. You cannot get

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Speaker 3: it done. We not only got it done when I

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Speaker 3: cut the deal and got it in the bill. President

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Speaker 3: Trump called me the next morning. He said, Ted, this

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Speaker 3: is incredible. This is like, how did you get such

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Speaker 3: an incredible deal? Historic spectrum auction authority producing hundreds of

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Speaker 3: thousands of jobs and beating China to six G that's

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Speaker 3: in the bill number eight air Traffic Control. This bill

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Speaker 3: invests twelve and a half billion dollars modernizing our air

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Speaker 3: traffic control. To keep your family safer when you fly,

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Speaker 3: to keep my family safer when we fly. To stop

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Speaker 3: using outdated radars, to stop using computers that have floppy discs,

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Speaker 3: and a little copper wire copper wire, to modernize our

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Speaker 3: air traffic control. A massive investment in keeping the American

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Speaker 3: public safe. This bill, I wrote that portion that is

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Speaker 3: also in the Commerce title. So I wrote that portion

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Speaker 3: that will fund and improve air traffic control. A huge

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Speaker 3: victory Number nine space YEP. This bill has ten billion

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Speaker 3: dollars for NASA to go to the Moon, for the

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Speaker 3: Artemis program, for the Gateway program, to beat China to

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Speaker 3: the moon. China has said they intend to return to

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Speaker 3: the Moon by twenty thirty. In my view, if we

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Speaker 3: lose the Moon to China, it would be a catastrophic loss.

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Speaker 3: It would be a loss if we woke up in

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Speaker 3: a few years and China was on the Moon and

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Speaker 3: China established a base on the Moon, which is what

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Speaker 3: they said they intend to do with the Russians, and.

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Speaker 4: They made that very clear. That is the sole intent

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Speaker 4: of going. It's not just to go to the moon.

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Speaker 4: It's to have a base on the Moon.

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Speaker 3: Yes, if they did that and we lost, I think

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Speaker 3: it would be worse than Sputnik that it would be

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Speaker 3: a national body blow that would crush this country. And look,

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Speaker 3: the Moon is critical number one for national security. The

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Speaker 3: Moon is the high ground you look at. So much

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Speaker 3: of our national security and so much of our commerce

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Speaker 3: depends on satellites in orbit around the Earth. The Moon

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Speaker 3: gives you the high ground. It is very dangerous for

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Speaker 3: us to see that to China. It is unacceptable for

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Speaker 3: us to see that to China. But number two, there

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Speaker 3: are massive rare minerals on the Moon. There are enormous

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Speaker 3: economic advantages. It is current US law that it is

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Speaker 3: the policy of the American government to have a sustained

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Speaker 3: human habitation either on the lunar surface or in cis

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Speaker 3: lunar orbit. This investment in beating China to the Moon.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, the Moon is a stepping stone

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Speaker 3: to Mars. We will go to Mars, but we haven't

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Speaker 3: landed on a celestial body in over fifty years. So

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Speaker 3: we're gonna land on the Moon first to make sure

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Speaker 3: we know how to do it, and then we're gonna

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Speaker 3: go to Mars, this investment. I wrote this investment in there,

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Speaker 3: I will say there was significant resistance, and without getting

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Speaker 3: too much into the sausage making, we won against the resistance.

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Speaker 3: This is in there. It is a massive investment. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 3: that is exactly right.

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Speaker 2: That's number nine. Number ten.

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Speaker 3: Cafe standards, the standards that mandate you keep having to

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Speaker 3: have higher and higher fuel efficiency on your cars. That's

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Speaker 3: what the Biden administration has used as its tool, as

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Speaker 3: one of its tools to wage the war on the

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Speaker 3: internal combustion engine, to try to force every car to

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Speaker 3: be electric. Is they keep jacking up cafe standards higher

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Speaker 3: and higher and hire. What does that mean? Number on,

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Speaker 3: It drives up the cost of your cars. You notice

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Speaker 3: cars have gotten a lot more expensive. Trucks have gotten

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Speaker 3: a lot more expensive. Number two, it makes cars less

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Speaker 3: safe because one of the ways you get the gas

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Speaker 3: efficiency hire is you replace metal with plastics. You che

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Speaker 3: cheap plastic that crumbles it in a crash and more

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Speaker 3: people die. In the commerce section of the one beful,

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Speaker 3: big beautiful bill, you know what we did to cafe standards?

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Speaker 4: What was that?

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Speaker 2: Zeroed them out? Really they're gone.

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Speaker 1: So it's actually in this so you're telling me that

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Speaker 1: my car, instead of being all plastic, we have a

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Speaker 1: little finder burt and everything breaks. They can actually go

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Speaker 1: back and say, hey, we're not trying to save weight here,

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Speaker 1: we're trying to actually make safe cars.

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Speaker 3: It can be a great American car again, made a

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Speaker 3: steel tough as hell. And by the way, you want

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Speaker 3: to buy electric car, great, that's your choice. You want

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Speaker 3: to hire a hybrid, great, you want to buy a

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Speaker 3: gas car.

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Speaker 2: Great.

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Speaker 3: It ought to be consumers choosing. And actually the way

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Speaker 3: we did this we very much modeled how in twenty

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Speaker 3: seventeen we repealed the individual mandate on Obamacare, So that

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Speaker 3: was fight I led in twenty seventeen. The individual mandate.

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Speaker 3: The way we eliminated it is under the rules of reconciliation,

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Speaker 3: we could not eliminate the legal mandate to buy health insurance,

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Speaker 3: which was the individual mandator under Obamacare. So you know

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Speaker 3: what we did. We made the penalty zero. So you

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Speaker 3: used to be the IRS finds you. If you didn't

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Speaker 3: buy health insurance, the IRS would find you. It is

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Speaker 3: still the law. You're required to buy health insuran. Don't,

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Speaker 3: you will be fined zero dollars and zero cents. We

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Speaker 3: did the same thing to Cafe standards, so they can

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Speaker 3: put their standards out, but the penalty for violating it

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Speaker 3: is zero. And I want to mention, look, this is

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Speaker 3: again like PBS and NPR, this has been a conservative

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Speaker 3: battle for fifty years.

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Speaker 4: And Democrats have been winning for fifty years, unfortunately.

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Speaker 3: And we got this done. I wrote this portion, it

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Speaker 3: is in the bill, it is zeroed out, and we

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Speaker 3: got this done. And I'm willing to bet fewer than

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Speaker 3: one percent of our listeners even knew we had done it,

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Speaker 3: because we won so many victories that this falls all

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Speaker 3: the way down to number ten on the list.

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Speaker 4: Incredible, well done.

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Speaker 3: The final two, yep, the final two, as you know,

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Speaker 3: are very near and dear to my heart. Number eleven

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Speaker 3: is school choice. In this bill, we pass the single

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Speaker 3: largest and most consequential federal school choice bill in the

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Speaker 3: history of our country. I wrote this provision. Every single

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Speaker 3: American taxpayer can now contribute up to seventeen hundred dollars

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Speaker 3: a year to a scholarship granting organization in the States

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Speaker 3: and get a dollar for dollar credit on their taxes.

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Speaker 3: It means the money is free. The effect of this

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Speaker 3: is going to be tens of billions of new scholarship

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Speaker 3: money in the States for school choice, for K through

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Speaker 3: twelve school choice. We're going to do a subsequent pod

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Speaker 3: that does a really deep die because this.

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Speaker 1: Is part of your legacy. By the way, this is

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Speaker 1: going to be part of your This.

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Speaker 3: Is the issue I care more about than anything else else.

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Speaker 3: I have spent thirty years fighting for it, and we're

854
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Speaker 3: gonna do another pod where we do a very deep

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Speaker 3: die because there's some aspects of this that I want

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Speaker 3: the listeners to appreciate that are both incredible policy victories

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00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 3: but also massive political victories. We are creating incentives to

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Speaker 3: turn blue states red, to build constituencies of parents and

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Speaker 3: kids who want fantastic educations. This is I told the President.

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Speaker 3: If and when we get this done, you will go

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Speaker 3: down in history as one of the greatest civil rights

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Speaker 3: presidents in our nation's history. Your critics will never acknowledge that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but the reality will be you're going to change

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Speaker 1: poor communities.

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Speaker 3: The reality is the school choice provision is massive, and

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Speaker 3: it's in the bill. And then the final number twelve

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Speaker 3: are the Trump accounts, the invest America accounts. Again, I

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Speaker 3: wrote this provision.

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Speaker 4: This could fundamentally change this country bay the way.

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Speaker 3: Starting next year July fourth of next year, the two

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Speaker 3: hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States of America,

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Speaker 3: every child in America will have a personal and vement account.

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Speaker 3: Every newborn child will have it seated with one thousand dollars. Parents,

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Speaker 3: family employers can contribute up to five thousand dollars a

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Speaker 3: year in a tax advantage account. All of that money

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Speaker 3: is invested in the S and P. Five hundred is

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Speaker 3: invested in the stock market. That enables every kid to

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Speaker 3: enjoy the incredible benefits of compound growth, which will transform

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Speaker 3: our kids. The wealth creation for the next generation of

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Speaker 3: Americans will be utterly transformative. And not only that, this

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Speaker 3: creates a new generation of capitalists, as our kids will

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Speaker 3: all be owners of the largest employers in America. These

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Speaker 3: two victories school choice and personal investment accounts for kids

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Speaker 3: without exaggeration, Ben and I've told the President this. I

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Speaker 3: think ten years, twenty years, thirty years from now, these

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Speaker 3: will be the two things everyone remembers from this bill.

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Speaker 3: Everything else. I listed one through ten, which are massive,

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Speaker 3: Yeah that they are conservative victories for the generations. I

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Speaker 3: think eleven and twelve will dwarf one and ten because

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Speaker 3: the difference, we will see trillions of dollars invested in

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Speaker 3: four oh one case for kids in these Trump accounts.

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Speaker 3: That will change the future of every one of our

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Speaker 3: kids and make them all have skin in the game

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Speaker 3: in our capitalist society. And school choice is going to

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Speaker 3: literally provide hope and opportunity to millions of kids. We

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Speaker 3: got both of them done. Those are victories, generational victories,

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Speaker 3: and when the President signed it on July fourth, they

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