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Speaker 3: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 4: Good Tuesday morning. It's so nice to have you with
Speaker 4: us on the forty seven Morning Update. Here are the
Speaker 4: big stories we're talking about. The biggest one is the
Speaker 4: big beautiful Bill. We have a lot that is happening
Speaker 4: as we're recording this a little after midnight right now,
Speaker 4: and there's word that there are some Republican holdouts in
Speaker 4: the Senate. Much is changing, and the President is working
Speaker 4: the phone lines. We'll give you the latest that we
Speaker 4: have for you right now in just a moment. Also,
Speaker 4: in a shocking move, a major TV network is now
Speaker 4: helping warn individuals where ICE agents are so that they
Speaker 4: can get away from being held accountable for breaking our laws.
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Speaker 3: Now, story number one.
Speaker 4: So you're tuning in right now wanting to know what's
Speaker 4: going on with a big, beautiful bill. A lot is
Speaker 4: changing and it's happening very quickly. I'm going to timestamp
Speaker 4: this for you to let you know it's approaching midnight
Speaker 4: as we speak right now. When you hear this, depending
Speaker 4: on when you download it, it may change drastically from
Speaker 4: what I'm telling you now. That's why I'm letting you
Speaker 4: know that as I literally just got the phone with
Speaker 4: members of Congress to get an update on what they're hearing.
Speaker 4: And I'm gonna be honest with you. After talking and
Speaker 4: texting with several different people in Congress, many of them
Speaker 4: still don't know exactly what this final bill is going
Speaker 4: to look like. There is a lot of back and
Speaker 4: forth it is taking place right now.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: There's also a rumor that at midnight tonight they're up
Speaker 4: to sit GOP senators that are holding out on the
Speaker 4: Big Beautiful Bill. I talked to another senator who said
Speaker 4: it's five different GOP members, but they believe that those
Speaker 4: five will come around after they get some concessions that
Speaker 4: they need. This is how the sausage is made in Washington, DC.
Speaker 4: And yes, all of the people I talked to are
Speaker 4: sitting around their offices waiting for what's gonna happen next.
Speaker 4: So let's go back to earlier in the day and
Speaker 4: I want to explain to you how we got to
Speaker 4: the point that we are at right now. Caroline Levitt
Speaker 4: taking a lot of heat at the White House Press
Speaker 4: briefing today on the Big Beautiful Bill because there are
Speaker 4: so many in the Democratic Party and in the mainstream
Speaker 4: media that want to destroy this from becoming a reality.
Speaker 4: I want you to listen to what she had to
Speaker 4: say about this legislation.
Speaker 5: You speak on it, can you respond to the CBO
Speaker 5: estimates that the Senate would increase the deficite on nearly eight.
Speaker 1: Three point three trophy.
Speaker 5: This is one of the most fiscally conservative pieces of
Speaker 5: legen that has ever made its way through Capitol Hill.
Speaker 5: There's two trillion dollars in mandatory savings in this bill,
Speaker 5: and not only that, the projected growth that this bill
Speaker 5: will bring to our economy. It will be an economic boom.
Speaker 5: The Council of Economic Advisors has an analysis that shows
Speaker 5: that the bill will generate four point one trillion dollars
Speaker 5: in economic growth and it will cut taxes, putting more
Speaker 5: money back into the American people's pockets. That's why this
Speaker 5: president wants this bill to pass, and I know he's
Speaker 5: busy working the phones and doing what he needs to
Speaker 5: do today to make it happen. So we'll see you
Speaker 5: all later. Thank you, We'll see you in Florida.
Speaker 6: Thank you now.
Speaker 4: As you heard Caroline say there, we'll see you and
Speaker 4: tomorrow in Florida, meaning right now as you're listing this show.
Speaker 4: There's also another important part of what she just said.
Speaker 4: The President is working the phones and has been working
Speaker 4: them from what I've been told all day long and
Speaker 4: late into the evening and very well maybe pulling what
Speaker 4: you would refer to in college is a good old
Speaker 4: all nighter making sure that this gets across the finish line. Now,
Speaker 4: there is also other centers that are going on TV
Speaker 4: talking about where they believe this is going. Centater turber
Speaker 4: Bilt from Alabama, you may know him as the football coach.
Speaker 4: Here's what he had to say on Fox Business.
Speaker 7: What is your assessment when you look at the whole thing,
Speaker 7: what would you have liked to have gotten in that
Speaker 7: didn't and what do you think is the best things
Speaker 7: in it?
Speaker 6: Well, first of all, two thirds of the bill is
Speaker 6: the tax cuts, which obviously we've got to get done.
Speaker 6: It's necessary. Then one third of the bill is we're
Speaker 6: reforming most of the agencies, which is Medicaid, you know,
Speaker 6: school loans, all those things that are really costing us
Speaker 6: a lot of money. They've right now, we have forty
Speaker 6: seven million young Americans that are in debt with student
Speaker 6: loans for one point seven trillion dollars. We can't sustain that.
Speaker 6: We can't sustain it. So we've done some work on that.
Speaker 6: We've done some work on Medicaid. Medicaid is basically reforming,
Speaker 6: kicking people off that's not supposed to be on their
Speaker 6: illegals and people that should be working. So all this,
Speaker 6: most of it is good. You just sometimes you hate
Speaker 6: to do things that you know is going to put
Speaker 6: people in a situation where they're going to be uncomfortable.
Speaker 6: But the end of the day, we all have to
Speaker 6: adjust to this because we can't keep spending the way
Speaker 6: we're spending right now.
Speaker 2: We can't do it.
Speaker 4: We can't keep spending the way we're spinning right now.
Speaker 4: We just can't keep doing it now. Senator Turberville brought
Speaker 4: up an excellent point there as well. Two thirds of
Speaker 4: this big, beautiful bill are actually tax cuts and one
Speaker 4: third is reforming most of the agencies that is extremely important. Now,
Speaker 4: there's also many that are saying the American people actually
Speaker 4: don't want this. One of the things that Tom Tillis
Speaker 4: has been saying about this bill that actually is not true.
Speaker 4: In fact, if you go back and look at what
Speaker 4: Donald Trump ran on He ran on the issue of
Speaker 4: making the Trump tax cuts permanent. How are we doing it?
Speaker 4: It is through the Big Beautiful Bill. So the president
Speaker 4: United States of America is burning the mid Oil Center.
Speaker 4: Ron Johnson defending the Big Beautiful Bill as well on CNN,
Speaker 4: saying this to Jake Tapper.
Speaker 8: Billion So Biden deficits were three times larger than pre
Speaker 8: pandemic levels of deathsit and spending is just out of control.
Speaker 2: So it's easy to be a Democrat.
Speaker 8: Spend mortgage a kid's future, never be held accountable by
Speaker 8: the media. It's pretty hard what we're trying to do,
Speaker 8: and so this may take a little bit more time.
Speaker 7: Well, deficit spending is a bipartisan affliction.
Speaker 2: You know that better than anyone.
Speaker 7: Earlier this month, you were warning about this bill adding
Speaker 7: trillions to the national debt. You told ABC News quote,
Speaker 7: I'm worried about our kids and grandkids, the fact that
Speaker 7: we're mortgaging their future. It's wrong, it's immoral. Is has
Speaker 7: your position changed? It's this bill. I mean, this legislation
Speaker 7: is still going to add to the deficits.
Speaker 8: So Democrats their only solution is increased taxes. We don't
Speaker 8: want to do that that harms economic growth. We will
Speaker 8: get the revenue you ever look for it. All Democrats
Speaker 8: do is spend. By the way they're talking about we're
Speaker 8: going to you know, test cuts for millionaires.
Speaker 2: No, we're just not going to increase taxes.
Speaker 8: They could have done that in the four years when
Speaker 8: they were in power. They could have gotten rid of
Speaker 8: the Tax Cutting Jobs Act. They could have increased taxes
Speaker 8: on every American. That's what we're trying to avoid. So again,
Speaker 8: Democrats love to spend.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying.
Speaker 8: That we don't have Republicans that are a big spender
Speaker 8: as well. I've been focusing on spending, spending, spending, trying
Speaker 8: to put pressure on the process, and I think right
Speaker 8: now the stumbling block is what the Senate bill does.
Speaker 8: Even though we actually reduce spending more, we also make
Speaker 8: sure that those business tax provisions which will incentivize growth
Speaker 8: are permanent.
Speaker 2: So that holds a bigger score.
Speaker 8: But the difference between the House and Center is about
Speaker 8: six hundred and fifty one billion dollars. Rick Scott's amendment,
Speaker 8: which is eminently reasonable. It doesn't kick anybody off of Medicaid.
Speaker 8: It just limits at some point in time in the
Speaker 8: future additional adults who are childless, who are working age,
Speaker 8: who could work. It's going to deny them that nine
Speaker 8: to one match, which is distorted Medicaid. Jake, for every
Speaker 8: dollar the state puts into a to provide health care
Speaker 8: for a disabled child, the federal government puts a buck
Speaker 8: thirty three. But for every dollar they put in toward
Speaker 8: a single childless adult who should be working, we kick
Speaker 8: in nine. That has led to all kinds of abuse,
Speaker 8: provider taxes, provider fees.
Speaker 2: By the way, that's not healthcare.
Speaker 8: But you have the federal government's kicking out nine dollars
Speaker 8: for every one of the states. That's what we're trying
Speaker 8: to address. We're not trying to take Medicaid away from
Speaker 8: disabled children. We're trying to stop that scam the states
Speaker 8: and providers have been using to draw down one hundreds
Speaker 8: of billions of dollars for the federal government that we
Speaker 8: can't afford.
Speaker 4: So you listen to Ron Johnson there defending the big
Speaker 4: beautiful bill. DEM's only solution has increased taxes and saying, quote,
Speaker 4: it's easy to be a Democrat. You can also find
Speaker 4: it very interesting that Jake Tapper it see it and
Speaker 4: now actually cares about government spending, something he didn't care
Speaker 4: about under the Biden administration, not one single time, but
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, the media now is like, well,
Speaker 4: we need to be looking at the deficit. At the
Speaker 4: end of the day. Donald Trump promised to make the
Speaker 4: tax cuts permanent and to rein in the size of government.
Speaker 4: That's clearly what he's advocating for and what he's trying
Speaker 4: to do right now. Now, I'll say this for the
Speaker 4: five that are apparently holding out at this hour a
Speaker 4: little after midnight as I am recording the show, anything
Speaker 4: can happen in the next few hours, and I have
Speaker 4: a feeling that at the end of the day, Donald
Speaker 4: Trump will be working those phones and making sure that
Speaker 4: the big, beautiful bill gets across the finish line for
Speaker 4: the American people.
Speaker 3: Now, story number two.
Speaker 4: The media yet again putting ice agents lives at risk,
Speaker 4: this time CNN featuring a segment on ice Block. It
Speaker 4: is an app that lets users anonymously crowd source ice
Speaker 4: agents sightings across the app and send alerts to others
Speaker 4: within a five mile radius. Now, the app's creator framed
Speaker 4: as a quote harmless early warning system to help people
Speaker 4: avoid ice, not to incite violence against the agents. Ice
Speaker 4: block enforces constraints, they claim as well, one post every
Speaker 4: five minutes, auto deletion after four hours, and explicitly recommends
Speaker 4: users not interfere with officers. That's their get out of
Speaker 4: jail free card. Apparently, the White House Press Secretary Caroline
Speaker 4: Levitt accusing CNN of encouraging violence by publicizing the app,
Speaker 4: especially amid a reported five hundred percent surge in assaults
Speaker 4: on ICE agents nationwide. The acting ICE Director called CNN's
Speaker 4: coverage quote reckless and irresponsible, warning that it paints a
Speaker 4: target on federal law enforcement officers. Backs and Tom Homan,
Speaker 4: the former ICE director, and the current borders are branded.
Speaker 4: The app is simply disgusting, and urge the DOJ to
Speaker 4: investigate CNN's role in all of this. I want you
Speaker 4: to hear more of what Tom Holman had to say
Speaker 4: on Fox News Channel about this.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 9: This next story is outrageous. A new iPhone app is
Speaker 9: alerting people about ICE sightings in the area. As if
Speaker 9: that's not bad enough. Seeing in it appears to be
Speaker 9: promoting the app, talking to the creator, and doing a
Speaker 9: whole story on it. That is not sitting well with
Speaker 9: my next guest the borders. Our Tom Holman joins me. Now, Tom,
Speaker 9: they've crossed the line here. This is out of control.
Speaker 10: I know. It's just simply disgusting, and any network that
Speaker 10: covers that is disgusting as well. So I'm hoping DOJ
Speaker 10: steps in here and see if they cross that line.
Speaker 10: I'm competing federal law enforcement offshoes. Look, Lawrence, you're not
Speaker 10: talking about this. Passaulting concise is up over five hundred percent.
Speaker 10: Now you've got an app that's going to tell where
Speaker 10: ICE operators are going to be. It's only a matter
Speaker 10: of time for ICE stages are ambushed by some nut
Speaker 10: like we're happening in LA throwing them a top cocktail,
Speaker 10: throwing bricks, and these officers. This is just disgusting at
Speaker 10: every level. So I hope DOJ dives in this deeply,
Speaker 10: because you know, ICE is constraint on public safety threats
Speaker 10: and national security threats. This shouldn't be a partisan issue.
Speaker 10: There shouldn't be an issue anybody's is against. So they're
Speaker 10: already a dangerous job going after the worst of the worst.
Speaker 10: These guys are putting their lives on the line every day,
Speaker 10: going after the worst and worst international security threats, and
Speaker 10: this app makes it that much more dangerous. It's it's
Speaker 10: incredible that those who enforced law, all of a sudden,
Speaker 10: they are the bad guys you want to break the law,
Speaker 10: they're victims. It's disgusting.
Speaker 9: Why I was seeing in promote this, Why would they
Speaker 9: do a story on this?
Speaker 10: I can't figure out. I've been look, I've been doing
Speaker 10: this for four decades. I've never seen anything like this
Speaker 10: in my life. You know, it's got to be they
Speaker 10: hate Trump more than love law enforcement or I can't
Speaker 10: figure it out, but something needs to be done. I mean,
Speaker 10: you advertise this guy's app National TV Network, They're just
Speaker 10: going to bring more followers, sick followers to the app
Speaker 10: and use it again, letting the bad guy know Ice
Speaker 10: is coming. They're here, here's where they're going next. This
Speaker 10: is dangerous for the men and women.
Speaker 9: So true, Tom, I want.
Speaker 2: To get you.
Speaker 4: Tom Homan clearly slamming CNN for promoting the ice tracking
Speaker 4: app and now is saying maybe it's time for law enforcement,
Speaker 4: the DOJ to step in here and see if they
Speaker 4: cross the line. Competing federal law enforcement officers. Yet again
Speaker 4: another example of how the left is doing everything they
Speaker 4: can to protect illegal immigrants and put American lives at risk.
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