WEBVTT - Congress at 15% 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:03.920 Hey, America, is Peter Schweitzer sitting next to me as 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:06.800 Eric Eggers and we are filling in for Sean joined 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:09.240 the conversation at one eight hundred nine four one seven 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:11.720 three two six one eight hundred nine four one seven 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.480 three two six. I'm looking at front of me some 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:20.800 really disastrous numbers. Latest Gallup poll approval rating for Congress 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:25.960 fifteen percent, not fifty percent. Fifteen percent. I'm also noticing 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:28.760 that fifty three members of Congress are going to be 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.160 not seeking reelection in the twenty twenty six midterm elections. 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:34.640 That's pretty devastating for the institution. 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.320 So why do you consider that to be devastating news? 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:39.960 Number One? If Congress is so bad that they're approved 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.200 written is only fifteen percent, then maybe swapping out over 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:46.280 ten percent of it's not the worst idea. Maybe we 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.080 just got to get the roster better. It's like, you know, 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.239 the Jets and the Giants have had terrible years, so 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.760 I would expect a few of those team members to 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:56.520 come back. But I do think it's it's telling because 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.720 you know some people are leaving Congress to want to 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:01.680 go out out and you know they're gonna run for 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.600 different officers. Like Chip Roy's running for age in Texas, 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:08.680 Wesley Hunts winner for Senate, so as Jasmincrockett. But you 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:10.679 hear rumors, and we've been hearing it for some time, 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:15.040 there's a growing sense of dissatisfaction in specifically the House 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:16.040 GOP Caucus. 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.959 Yeah, that's exactly right. You know, it's a very razor 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:22.320 thin majority and a lot of people are frustrated. Seems 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:25.360 to be dysfunctional. You've got people like Marjorie Taylor Green 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.480 that make noise and kind of disrupt everything. So we 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.360 wanted to talk to somebody who's actually been there. Our 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.040 good friend Jason Chafis. He was the chairman of the 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:39.400 House Oversight Committee, very powerful committee serving Congress representing Utah, 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:43.240 and he's also a distinguished fellow with the Government Accountability Institute. 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:43.560 Where we work. 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.000 Jason makes sense of these numbers. I mean, why are 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:51.080 the numbers fifteen percent, which is historically low, and why 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.760 do you think so many people are leaving Congress at 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:54.480 this point in time. 0:01:55.480 --> 0:02:02.280 You're asking me to make sense of Congress. Listen and 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.720 look honored to be with you. A happy new year. Look, 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.840 it's a I think members are very frustrated and it's not. 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:10.920 It's on both sides of the aisle. It is not 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:15.960 solely a Republican situation. But members feel like they can't 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:20.160 do their jobs, and people buy start to glaze over 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.160 when you talk about regular order. But the way the 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:27.360 appropriations process is supposed to work is that we have 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.880 twelve appropriations built and every member can offer an amendment 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:34.520 or a striking amendment and participate in the process. But 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.239 the entire eight years that I was there, and even 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:40.560 the eight years since I've left, never, not once, have 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.800 they gone through a quote unquote regular order. So I 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.120 you know, I joke with people, I say, you know, 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:50.960 it's exhausting doing nothing, because what happens is they go 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.240 through all the process, they go through all the hearings, 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.280 they go through all the rigmarole, and then they want 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.240 to craft a bill and then it just gets superseded 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.800 by a continuing resolution and they flush all that good 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.640 work down the drain, and that get that wears on 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.760 people when you've been away from your family and all 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.280 the other opportunity costs, and people get set up with it. 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:13.600 No, that actually makes a lot of sense, and it 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:15.960 actually casts the people who are leaving Congress in a 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.800 positive light, no joking around, because it means like to 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:21.520 your point, like you know, you want your life to 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.959 matter and you want what you do to do something. 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.080 And it also kind of suggests that if given the 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.839 frustrations you run into on a daily basis of doing 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.160 that job, then the only reason why you might want 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.400 to stay in that job is if you're making money 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:38.080 doing something else, and so you then they get rid 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:39.960 of the inside of trading in Congress, which is something 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:41.960 that we expect them to vote on, but it doesn't 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.560 suggests like, hey, like why are we actually even here? 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:50.360 Then well, look, I think the body has to implement 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.880 and do and pass into law. It's not a constitutional 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:58.960 amendment to have term limits, get and get out. The 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:01.080 people you should worry about most are the ones that 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.720 stay there in perpetuity and never ever leave there. They're 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.440 a decade after decade. I when I left, there were 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.520 kind of three groups. There were people there, Hey, I 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.600 got nothing better to do, and it's a cool business 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.560 card and it's kind of fun. Number two is pretty 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:18.599 pretty weird, like they're they're all about the power and 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.359 maybe doing something that's pretty sketch. And then the third group, 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.839 I put myself in there. But there are really good 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.680 people who wanted to get in get work done, you know, 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:29.800 And I served with a number of those people, Trey 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.520 Goudie and John Ratcliffe and those types of people. Pulci 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:35.680 Gabbard was one of those people. You know. Now there 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.880 many of them are in the administration. But they they 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.520 got in, they served, and they got out, and you've 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.400 got to kind of force that. The other thing I 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.880 would do is get rid of the Appropriations Committee. I 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.200 would just totally flush it down the toilet, get rid 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:56.200 of it. It is totally worthless, top to bottom. You 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.600 have all these authorizing committees, they hold hearings, they know 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.560 natural resources, and then the appropriators come in and by 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:09.400 the hundreds fund programs that were never authorized by the 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.640 authorising committees. It's the craziest thing you've ever seen. And 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.320 so that again gets really frustrated. Hey, we held hearings. 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.720 And the other thing Congress never does is flex its muscles. 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.640 It never ever uses the power of the purse. That's 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:27.560 the one thing that Congress can do. It's like, you know, 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:31.120 all these daycare centers in Minnesota and all that, well, 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.000 there should be consequences, but Congress is feckless, and so 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.560 members are tired of taking those questions and they're like, 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:38.840 I can't change it. 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.000 Yeah, I mean, Jason, that's really as I hear you 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.119 talking about this, and I've known you for a while, 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.320 you're sincere in it. I think your analysis is right. 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.039 And then you wonder, like, so, this is this a 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:50.920 problem of leadership? 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:51.200 Right? 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.040 I mean, this problem didn't just sort of like land 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:58.400 on people's laps. Somebody is responsible for this dysfunction. I'm 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.440 not saying it's one person. I'm not even saying it's 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.640 half a dozen people. But is this a leadership problem? 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.159 I mean, you talked about some structural reforms, getting rid 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.640 of the committee, et cetera. But is it a leadership issue? 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.160 Do the wrong people rise to the top or why 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.640 do we get leaders that don't seem to be able 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.440 to tame this beast and get it to do the 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:19.560 things that's supposed to do. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.640 You know, it's interesting because I have long sought to 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.279 redefine the role of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.680 I think Mike Johnson is a fabulous person. He is 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.080 a man of integrity, of nothing but good things to 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.640 say about him. He has the most impossible jobs. We 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.599 give him no tools to actually do it. The expectation 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.960 is that he can herd all these cats and move 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.680 them in the right direction. We got rid of ear marks. 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.520 I was proud of the fact that I, you know, 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.680 I played a big role in that and say no, 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.839 we're done with ear marks, even though everybody in the 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.359 Utah delegation when I came there was supportive of it, 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:58.719 and I kind of forced him and shamed him into 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:02.000 getting rid of them. Well, that was the political candy 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.480 that made everything go down easier. And so when you 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.320 get rid of earmarks, what tools does the speaker have 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.400 to actually cajole and move people. I don't think you 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:14.040 necessarily want to. The role that speakers should be totally different. 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.080 But the body as the whole and the American people 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.520 have to force this issue. And it's not the sexiest 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.560 thing to say, all right, we're reconfiguring this. No more 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:28.480 appropriations committees, no more. But it's broken now and it 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.520 needs fixing. And term limits is I think one of 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.400 the very first steps a balanced budget amendment would go 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:39.040 a long way. Voter ID you know Mike Lee's, you know, 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:43.120 Dave acts to make sure we have voter identification because 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:46.640 you literally have more than a dozen seats in Congress 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:53.160 that are essentially illegal aliens that get representations. So these 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:54.680 things I think would make a difference. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.200 Let me let me ask you this, Jason. 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.640 I mean, it seems to me, and everything I've heard 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.640 about Speaker Johnson is the same, just high quality individual, 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.360 but seems to me, you look over the last twenty years, 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:10.480 Nancy Pelosi was absolutely had a spine of steel. She 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:14.440 could get all the Democrats to stay in line. Republicans 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:15.840 don't seem to be able to do that. 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:20.040 Why she controlled the money. If you wanted to raise 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.559 money and have a political future, look at Tim Ryan 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.480 out of Ohio, and when he went up against Nancy Pelosi, 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.320 he was done. We never talk about him anymore. So 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:33.600 she ruled that iron fist, and she was darn good 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:37.400 at it. And look, conceptually they were lemmings. They really 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:43.239 did believe in centralized government. Where Republicans talk about freedom, liberty, dealth, determination. 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:47.719 That just counter to oh okay, our leader says we're 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.520 going over here, so everybody get on board. The closest 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:54.439 I've seened actual you know, driving and moving everybody together 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.079 in the same direction as Donald Trump, and he does 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.680 it because he will when he lets know that that's 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:02.840 what he wants done, he is going to he is 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.679 going to make his way known. But you know he's 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:09.800 doing it the right way, the political way. But it's 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.400 going to probably take the outside groups, maybe some other 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:17.800 structural changes. But it is not functional right now, and 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.000 it's not serving the American people. Well, they're showing up 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:22.960 in the poll numbers. 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.640 We're talking to former Member of Congress Jason Chaffits. He's 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:28.360 also the former chair of the House Oversight Committee. Jason, 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.280 what grade would you give James Comer for the last 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:35.760 year and if you could request or sort of predict 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:37.760 one thing he will do next year, what would it be? 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:40.800 I give him an A plus. I think he will 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:45.400 ultimately end up running for governor of Kentucky, and I 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.920 think he'll be a fabulous governor. He has his hands full. 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:52.520 You know, we transformed that committee. He used to be 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.240 a committee nobody wanted on when I was there, and 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.760 you know, after we got done, it's the most popular 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:02.280 committee out there. The frustrating thing for I think for 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:07.880 the American public is they don't give Congress handcuffs, and 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:12.079 so it was a frustration because we point out all 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.680 the waste, the fraud, the abuse they have, the hearings, 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.760 you got people under oath, and you make a recommendation, 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.680 it goes over to the Department of Justice and it's 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:26.680 crickets and and that's that's the frustration. And uh, something's 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:28.880 got to give because I think the American people that 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.240 are doing things right, they're working hard, paying their taxes, 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.720 got a job taking care of that, they feel like 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.880 chumps right now. They just feel like they feel like 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.520 they're chumps, Like why should I do this? You know, 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.280 you see what's going on in Minnesota and other places. 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.960 You know who thinks James Comer's doing a lousy job? 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:47.720 Bill and Hillary Clinton? 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:48.560 Right? 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.560 I mean, here, here's here's here's a guy, really the 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.120 first government official who said we are going to subpoena 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.239 you and you were going to sit before the Congressional Committee. 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.360 How do you think that's all going to end up? Jason? 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.480 Do you think the Clinton's are actually going to have 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.160 to sit before this committee? 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:04.319 I'm not sure they can avoid it. 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:09.559 You know, Trey Goudy, I think said it out loud first. 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.360 He said, you your subpoena is only good as your 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:16.360 ability to enforce it. I went down that path, but 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.080 I had a speaker in Paul Ryan, who's no way 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:22.000 going to support that. You had an attorney general and 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:25.120 Jeff Sessions who told me, if it's Clinton's I'm doing nothing. 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.880 You know, it's in large bar why I left and so, 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.760 and then prior to that, it was the Obama administration. 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.640 So you know, good luck with you know, Loretta Lynch 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:39.719 and Eric Holder and that crew. So I think he 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:43.160 now finally probably has somebody in a Pam Bondi and 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.680 a judge Janine who's the US attorney for the District 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.760 of Columbia. But they're actually going to be able to 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:52.040 force the issue, and that showdown is going to be 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:53.680 a big one. But I think they're going to have 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.040 to come testify, I raise their hands and go under oath. 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.480 So every two years as an election year, obviously, but 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:03.319 this year, with especially tight majority of the Republicans are 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:07.240 holding How much does that impact how Congress operates? Does 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.640 it impact in terms of, like, hey, we're more willing 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.360 to hold hearings because we think it's better for you know, 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.960 there's only thirty seats that are kind of up for grabs. 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.520 How much does that impact just the way they do 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.880 their day to day business, Oh, one hundred percent. 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:24.320 I mean the last six months of this term, I 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:28.599 think is being dishonest if you don't think that that 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.360 has a big you know, their political ramifications. Look, a 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.640 lot of it depends on the economy, A lot of 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:39.160 it depends on some of these important court rulings of birthright, citizenship, 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.679 those types of things. There're gonna be some really big 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.960 rulings coming out of the court that will affect that. 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.880 But yeah, Congress has got to get it back together. 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:53.040 They get another shot at reconciliation and so you know 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:55.720 what can they couple together that will make a difference 0:12:55.800 --> 0:13:01.760 in people's lives. Yeah, Congress has it's full because there 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:06.520 is nowhere He's come so far in the first it's 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.640 hard to believe it's been less than twelve months of 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:13.320 Donald Trump here in his term. But yeah, there's a 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.360 lot that people want to see in terms of affordability, healthcare, 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:17.560 those types of things. 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.679 Well, Jason, we understand why you left Congress. Kind of 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.920 wish you hadn't because we need people like you in there. 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:27.080 But we appreciate you joining us. We appreciate the work 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.560 you're doing with us at the Government Accountability Institute and 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.400 also the work you're doing with the Oversight Project. And 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.479 we will have to wait and see how the midterms 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.760 roll out. So happy New Year to you, Jason, and 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.040 we will continue to watch this story closely in terms 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.520 of these midterms and how things are going to turn out. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.280 I don't know, Eric, if you have any thoughts on that. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:45.520 Well. 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.640 I like Jason Chafis. Not only does he go on 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.400 TV all the time as a fill and host for 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.880 many these programs, but he's just making news now. You 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.959 heard him say he thinks James Comer leaves Congress, joins 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.640 this ground swell of people trying to get out of Washington, 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.640 d C. And runs for governor Kentucky. That's the first 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.320 time I've heard that. You agree with that. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.960 Yeah, yeah, no, it's it's gonna be interesting to see 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.440 how that shakes out. It's going to be interesting to 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.600 see how all this jerrymandering affects the outcome of the 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.320 elections in November. I'm Peter Schweizer. That's Eric Eggers. We're 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:16.880 filling in on the Hannity Show. 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Alongside with me, 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.160 we co host a podcast called The Drill Down with 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:54.120 Peter Schweizer, which you can find at the Drilldown dot com. 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.080 Happy to be filled in for Sean yet again on 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.640 this first live show of the year twenty twenty six. 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.800 Peter that you do quite well because you're a best 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:05.240 selling author, but you live in Floridas. You don't have 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:08.280 this problem if you are as successful as Peter, if 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:12.080 you are a billionaire who lives in California, I have 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.639 terrible news for you. You're on the hook for some 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:16.359 really potentially expensive taxes. 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:19.240 Yeah, you are. And look, we have to remind ourselves. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.960 We have a federal system in America. So Donald Trump's 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.360 in the White House, Republicans control of the House, they 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.920 control the Senate, but there's a lot of states they're making. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:28.639 Their own decisions. 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:31.040 So we're going to talk in a little bit here 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.520 about the proposed wealth tax in California. There's not a 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.040 tax on income, there's not a property tax. This is 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.960 you're worth how much money, We're gonna take five percent 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:41.760 of it, and we're going to learn about some other 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:49.640 really bizarre woke laws, including ones involving horses. Coming up 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.040 in the next segment. We've got to remind ourselves there's 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.000 crazy things going on at the state level by the 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:55.320 woke mafia. 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:56.120 Even right now. 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:57.639 We'd love to hear from you. Give us a call, 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.240 Join the Conversation one eight hundred and nine four one 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.919 seven three tiour one. Shawn will take your calls and 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.119 tell you crazy things about horses and billionaires. Right after this, 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.520 he's Peter Schweitzer. I'm Eric Eggers. This is Sean Handy 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:13.000 Radio Show, Sean Hennedy. 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:16.800 That is Eric Eggers, and I'm Peter Schweitzer, and we 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.480 are filling in for Sean, who is getting a well 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:23.000 deserved break. Join the Conversation wearning eighte hundred ninet four 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.359 one seven three two six one eight hundred nine four 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:29.160 one seven three two six. You know, Donald Trump's done 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.240 a lot of the first years we talked about earlier 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.520 in the segment, changing a lot of things, but at 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:37.239 the state level there still is a lot of craziness, uh, 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:39.320 and some things that are really going to affect a 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:40.080 lot of people. 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.920 We're quite lucky because we both live in the Free 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.840 State of Florida, and so you know, we're we've got 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.320 people talking about getting rid of property taxes. Roon de 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:50.960 Sants has done a great job, but other states, to 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.360 your point, have maybe gone the other way on that's 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:56.680 as that kind of fells a little short of conservative 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:58.440 fiscal and social policy initiatives. 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.360 Yeah, this is a very interesting article by Camden Molder 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:03.760 in the National Review talking about what's going on some 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.800 of the blue state laws in twenty twenty five. Some 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:11.840 of them are obviously predictable. California mandates gender neutral bathrooms 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.720 in K through twelve schools. You're mandated, mandated required to 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.760 have them, whether it's a charter school or a public school. 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:21.520 And by the way, taxpayers will pay for all of 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:26.080 those renovations. But some of them are just downright crazy 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:28.960 if you ask me. In Washington State, they have now 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:34.720 mandated hate crime work leave, hate crime work leave. 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:36.840 That is to say, you get to leave work if 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:38.400 you've been a victim of a hate crime. 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.399 Yeah, if you have experienced a hate crime, your boss 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.240 is now required to give you ample time off to 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.720 heal and recover from the experience. Now, I can certainly 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.480 understand if you are attacked in the street, somebody beats 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:51.560 you up, you're gonna need. 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:52.000 Some time off. 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:56.280 But this covers everything. So if you are harassed online 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.160 or on social media, or somebody calls you a name 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:04.040 in in you know, online media, your employers required to 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:07.480 give you the time off without penalty to quote get 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:09.040 your affairs in order. 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:09.320 You know. 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:11.760 The real irony of that is, like, if you are 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:15.000 subjected to a hate crime as a Washington State resident, 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:18.080 the odds are that happened because you're goofing off at 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.760 work Online. You're probably just hanging on Reddit or something 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:23.560 and in too many of your comment's got down vote 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.320 and you're like, I'm triggering. I'm out, yes, and you're 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.520