WEBVTT - House Budget VICTORY, Cartels Escalate War Zone at Southern Border & Dems DIg in on Boys in Girls' Sports 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:01.520 Welcome. 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:04.640 It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:08.600 you as always and Senator it was a wild night 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:12.920 last night in Washington, DC, and the big headline is 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.600 a four point five trade ar tax cut has passed 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:16.160 the House. 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:17.680 It was touch and go. 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:20.479 It's a slim majority of the House, but they got 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:21.960 it done for the American people. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.439 Well, this is the first step. So you and I 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:27.000 are recording this. It is twelve twenty in the morning 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.280 Tuesday night. The House had a touch and go vote 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:33.640 on the floor of the House on whether to begin 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:38.120 the first step of budget reconciliation. They ended up getting 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:41.320 the votes by one vote. Initially they put it on 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.000 the floor of the House and it failed. Then they 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.559 brought it back. President Trump was whipping the votes that 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:51.240 were on the sidelines and it passed by one vote. Now, 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.040 this doesn't mean it's done, but it's the beginning of 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.040 the process. We're gonna break that down. We're gonna explain 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:00.560 what it means, what that is st uarding us on 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.160 the path to do. We're also going to talk about 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.720 the rather shocking news from this week about an ied 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:10.400 that exploded in South Texas, blowing up a Texas rancher, 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:15.480 as the Mexican cartels are engaged in what you would 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.680 have to call just open warfare at this point. IED's 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.920 you envision in Iraq, you envision in war zones, You 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:24.600 don't envision them in the state of Texas. 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:25.600 We're going to break that down. 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.520 And finally we're going to talk about the latest step 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.640 in the battle over boys and girl sports, which is 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.279 the Department of Justice is coming after the state of Maine, 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.600 the State of California, and the State of Minnesota to 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:43.440 comply with the federal law and Trump's executive order concerning 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.760 boys and girl sports, and Maine and California and Minnesota 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.400 are saying hell no, we're going to break that down 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:49.800 as well. 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:51.680 Yeah, it's awesome, all right. 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.120 I gotta tell you today I did something that was 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.760 just really fun, and it was to spend a little 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:01.720 time at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Dallas, Texas 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.720 with my friends of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.280 and I got to see just what their work looks 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.360 like with some videos that I was shown, some pictures 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:14.000 of the impact that so many of you are having 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:18.240 by being involved with IFCJ and helping the people in Israel. 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.040 After more than a year of war, tear and pain 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.200 in Israel, there is still a great demand for basic 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.400 humanitarian aid and that is where the International Fellowship of 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:31.040 Christians and Jews has supported and they continue to support 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:34.400 those in the Holy Land still facing the lingering horrors 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:37.960 of war and those who are in desperate need. 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All right, So, Center, it was an exciting 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:50.840 and intense night on the floor of the House. 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:52.800 It was the vote was on, it was off. 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:57.240 You literally could physically see people on the floor taking 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.960 phone calls, speaking on the phone. That's been reported was 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.560 with the President United States of America. This was part 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.280 of the whipping votes. And by the way, this is 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:08.560 when I tell people please share this podcast on social 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.120 media because we're going to pull back the curtain here 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.920 and explain to you what happened and what is next. 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.120 So you guys, they're messing with the algorithms now, So 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.839 we ask for your support of the show by sharing 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.200 it on social media hitting that subscribe or download the 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.559 episode button every time you see the show. But Senator, 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:28.760 this was one of those moments where it's like, Okay, 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.719 this is real. It's a tight majority in the House 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.080 and it passes because of phone calls literally from the 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:36.239 President on the floor. 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:40.600 Well, tonight was the first step in delivering on our 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.560 promises to the American people. And if you look at 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.560 the election in November, there was a mandate from the voters. 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.560 Number one, the mandate is secure the border, and that 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:53.320 is the most overwhelming mandate we have. Beyond that, there's 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.840 a mandate to rebuild the military and defend America. There's 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.840 a mandate to unleash American energy and by doing so, 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:04.120 to lower energy cost, to lower inflation. And there's a 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.919 mandate to bring the economy back to help small businesses, 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.960 and that means extending the twenty seventeen Trump tax cuts 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:15.080 that are expiring this year. All of that we got 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:19.520 to get done, and I got to say failure is 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:23.560 not an option. So tonight what the House did is 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.400 they voted on their budget resolution. Now, why does a 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:31.080 budget resolution matter? The reason it matters is ordinarily to 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:35.720 pass legislation in the Congress, you need sixty votes in 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.880 the Senate. Why is that because the Senate rules give 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.400 the minority of the ability to filibuster, and the ability 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:45.560 to filibuster is the ability to block legislation unless you 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:49.520 have sixty votes to cut off debate. Now, we only 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.200 have fifty three Republicans in the Senate, which means if 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.679 you need sixty votes, you need seven Democrats. The seven 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.960 Democrats are not going to vote. There are not seven Democrats. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.440 There's not even one Democrat who's going to vote to 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:03.600 secure the border, who's going to vote to cut taxes, 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.120 who's going to vote to rebuild our military, And so 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.039 if you've got to go through the filibuster, you can't win. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:10.120 Now. 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:15.000 The main exception to the Senate filibuster rule is something 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:19.320 called budget reconciliation. Budget reconciliation is a law that was 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:24.320 passed in the nineteen seventies that provides for moving forward 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:30.680 on budgetary matters, and by statute, a budget reconciliation cannot 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:34.719 be filibusters, which means you can pass it with only 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:37.880 fifty votes in the Senate. You don't need sixty. So 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.680 if you go back to twenty seventeen, the twenty seventeen 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:46.440 Trump tax cuts we passed using budget reconciliation. If you 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.360 go back to the Biden administration, the Democrats use budget 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:54.919 reconciliation multiple times to pass things like their incredibly misnamed 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.920 Inflation Reduction Act, which was the Green New Deal spending scam. 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:04.080 They use that because they couldn't get sixty. Now, in 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.920 order to pass our agenda, we are trying to pass 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:12.760 budget reconciliation. The House and Senate have a difference in 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.080 strategy on how to do this, and we've talked about 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.640 this in a previous podcast, but I'm going to explain 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.080 a little bit of it. The House, the Speaker of 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:25.000 the House, believes we should pass one single reconciliation bill. 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:29.400 What he refers to it as is one big, beautiful bill. 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:34.080 Donald Trump has repeated that multiple times, and he believes 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.920 that's the best way, with his exceptionally narrow majority in 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.760 the House, to get all of this across the finish line. 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:45.720 I will tell you virtually every Republican Cenator, including myself, 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.440 believes the way to do this is two bills, starting 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:53.520 with one bill that secures the border, rebuilds the military, 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:58.640 and Unleasha's energy, and then a second bill that extends 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:02.000 the tax cuts and makes the bigger and bolder. 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:04.320 I don't know who's right. 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:05.880 I don't know if the Senate's right or the House 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.440 is right, but at at some level, Ben I don't care. 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.200 We just have to get the job done. So tonight 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.440 I had dinner with Steve Scalise. Steve is a good friend. 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:18.320 He is the House Majority leader. 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.040 By the way, what's he doing for people that know 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:25.600 his history of being shot and the health issues. I 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.160 just I want to pause and ask, how is he 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:29.040 doing physically? 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.640 Really really well? So Steve, Steve has been is a 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:36.240 good friend. He's from Louisiana. He's a conservative, he's a friend. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.280 He and I have been friends a long time. He's 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.120 doing great. And and and listen, Steve. We all remember 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:46.040 where Steve was shot with with with the crazed angry 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.920 leftist who went to the practice of the congressional baseball 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:54.880 game and wanted to kill Republicans and and shot and 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.400 badly wounded. Steve shot him in the pelvis, and he 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.679 was in a coma for some days. He almost died. 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.199 He's recovered from that. And then I got to say, 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:08.280 Steve has had some tough health scares because he had 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.400 just a couple of years ago cancer and he was 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:16.080 down in Houston at MD Anderson being treated. And m 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:20.360 d Anderson is an amazing hospital. My mom, who's ninety now, 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:24.160 she was treated there for cancer. It is look cancer 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:28.400 is a terrifying diagnosis. I hope never in my life 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:29.520 to be a patient. 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:29.920 At MD Anderson. 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:31.400 I don't want to be a patient there because you're 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.120 only a patient there if you have cancer. 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.280 I'd really like not to have cancer. 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:37.880 But I'll tell you this, if I ever get cancer, 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.240 I want to be patient at MD Anderson. I mean, 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.960 they do an amazing job. And I got to say Steve, 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:48.080 his health is doing great. I told him tonight he is. 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:53.040 He's in remission, he's finished with his cancer treatment. He 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.960 is strong, his color is back, he is full of 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.440 life and vim and vigor. I told him said, look, 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.720 even you know, five six months ago when he was 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.000 coming out of the cancer treatment, you could see, Look, 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.560 when you go through that, you go through chemo, it 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.400 weakens you. You can just see it's hard, your body 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:17.680 is I mean it exact cost, it's brutal. But you 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.320 know what, Steve is strong and effective and good. I 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.440 was really encouraged, as the best I've seen Steve in 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:28.000 years and he's come through this. And he was jubilant. 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:30.960 So he was on the House floor. He's the House 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.720 majority leader. He was trying to get the votes to 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:35.880 pass this on the House and he wasn't sure. So 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:37.760 the first time they brought it on the House. It failed, 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.920 and then he kept pressing and then he got it done. 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.640 And he got it done. Look, a critical piece of 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.079 getting it done was President Trump. And I sort of 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.680 joked when Steve showed up at dinner. I said, you know, 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.839 it does help when the chief whip in the House 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:53.679 is named Donald J. 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:54.160 Trump. 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:55.640 Yeah, no doubt about it. 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.640 And they were putting President Trump on the phone with 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.520 the publican votes that are wobbly, and he was saying, listen, 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:04.800 I need you to vote with us, and he flipped 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.800 the votes. And so it was. Steve told me, so 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.040 we're supposed to have dinner at seven thirty. He didn't 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.200 get there at about about eight thirty because he was 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.360 on the floor badly. Sure, and Steve told me, he's like, 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.719 all right, I'm late for dinner. So he said, I'm 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:20.960 picking up the tab, which I appreciated last time. 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:21.600 Steve and I had dinner. 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.319 I picked up the tab and he said, I'll tell 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:28.960 you what, order a drink, whatever you like, make it expensive. 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.600 I'm paying And he said, I want. 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.679 To celebrate, That's what I want to know. Did it 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:34.400 hurt a little bit? 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:38.120 So I ordered McCallen twenty five neat there you go, 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.240 which which is a great single malt Scotch. And and 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.760 and I you know, Steve is not a big Scotch guy. 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.200 I actually don't drink Scotch a lot, but I but 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.760 I do like McCallen and so we toasted it. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.080 And when someone else by the way is paying, it's 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:52.520 just a nice little touch there. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.360 Look, ste Steve said, hurt me a little bit and 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.880 ordered something pricey. So I thought about michelb Ultra. But 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.840 but but somehow McCallum twenty five seemed to better call me. 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.360 As long as it wasn't a bud Light or a Budweiser, 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.720 I'm good with it. That's that's I'm still on the 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:09.120 Boycott train there by the way. 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:11.439 By the way, I will say you and I have 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:15.280 been to a lot of Astros games. Yes, I love 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.960 the Stros. You know, it used to be a few 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.480 years ago. I'd go the Astros in every baseball game. 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:22.360 I have a bud Light. I mean, that's just what 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:23.120 I what I drank. 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:27.120 You know, I'm old enough that I don't I drink 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.400 light beer instead of regular beer because you know, I 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:35.160 like you know, water that's slightly fave flavored. I like 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:39.280 it but after the whole bud light thing, it's an 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:44.520 amazing thing. You go, you go to the Minute Maide Stadium, 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.440 you go to watch uh or although I guess it's 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:48.760 now the Dykings Stadium there. 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:50.800 The Dyking's like, no, no, we paid a lot of 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:51.800 money to change that name. 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:53.920 I know, but it's it's hard to make. 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:55.120 It's going to be a minute made. 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:55.439 There's this. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.800 I laugh because when they change it, I'm like, dude, 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.000 how many people are gonna remember this. It's it's gonna 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.240 been it made for the majority of my lifetime. 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.440 So but I'll say this, you'd go to the stadium 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.679 in a few years ago, like everyone was drinking bud light. 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:10.840 It was literally every person in the stadium. That's what 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.839 they drink. And now I don't even think they sell 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.360 bud light. I mean, I mean, it is an astonishing difference. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.400 No, it's it is. It's it is a real boycott. 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:24.240 It has not gone away at all. And I do 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.200 love every once in a while when when conservatives say, okay, 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.720 you insult us to this point. Enough already, we're not 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:31.959 backing down, and we have it like I don't think 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:33.800 I'll ever drink one again. The rest of my life. 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.600 So, by the way, there's a structural reason for that. 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.480 So listen, you take something like the NBA. The NBA 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.120 got all woke. It put all the damn slogans on 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:47.080 the court and on the jerseys. It pissed me off. 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.520 It pissed a lot of conservatives off. Here's the problem. 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:55.160 I love basketball, like for me, the price of boycotting 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.319 the NBA, the price of boycotting the NFL, the price 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.640 of boycotting sports is painful. Like, I get great joy 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:06.079 from watching professional sports, and so I didn't like their politics. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.280 But I'm like, I'm not willing to. 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:13.600 Sacrifice my joy just because I'm pissed about politics. 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:15.840 What got bud light. 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:21.240 Is they have a product that is easily substitutable. 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:22.880 Yeah, easily replaceable. 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.800 Every place you could get a bud light, there's a 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:30.560 course light. Yeah, there's a Miller's light. It's right next 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:34.000 to it. And by the way, show me the guy 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.120 that if you do a blind taste test between bud Light, 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.800 Miller's LT and Coreslight, I tell you the difference. I 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.880 don't know, that's someone with a better palette than me. 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.160 They're all light beers and they all taste pretty much 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.560 the same to me. I'll probably piss off some listens, 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.360 but I can tell the difference between a getness and 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.040 a bud light. Yes, yes, but I'll be damned if 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:54.560 I can tell the difference between a bud light and 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.200 a course light. That meant every customer. It was not 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:00.880 a boycott that was painful. It was not a boycott 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:02.840 that's like I got to give up something that gives 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:04.880 joy to me. It was a boycoth that said, oh. 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:09.080 Yeah, let me return it, and I'm going to get 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.200 a different one and watch how easy this is for. 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.760 Me, right right, and and and that got them in 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.640 in real trouble. By the way, Target got in a 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.760 little bit of this when they got super woke. And 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:23.200 Target is somewhat substitutable. But I'll say I think Target 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.120 and that they suffered a big drop, But I think 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:29.880 they've come back because listen, I mean, I guess instead 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:33.320 of Target, you can go to Walmart. But they're not 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.480 a ton of choices. I'll tell you my girls. I'll 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.760 confess my teenage girls love Target. 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.840 Yeah, trust me, my wife loves it, and there's no 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:43.440 way she was substituting Walmart for it. 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:48.520 Yeah, I mean it's but it's a more expensive substitution. 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.160 Bud light got hit because it was a cost free 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:54.600 way to say I don't like what you did. 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.120 All right, I want to ask you one other questions 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.560 on the budget issue. So for people that say, okay, 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.720 this past, how quick is this going to move forward 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:04.360 or how long is this going to. 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:05.240 Be's a long way to go. 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:09.200 So what's the timeline on this? So we limit expectations 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:10.120 or be realistic. 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:14.800 So the Budget resolution just starts this process. Now what's 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.360 happened in the House is they've directed each of the 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.720 House committees to draft the underlying bill. So what was 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.600 voted on tonight was not securing the border, it was 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:28.360 not rebuilding the military, it was not cutting taxes. It 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:33.040 was the opening resolution to say, go draft that legislation. 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:35.280 That was a real fight. 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.600 So this is the first sitting to use a baseball analogy. 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.880 Yes, now it actually gets your batter at the plate, 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.000 Like if they'd failed, they don't even get a batter 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:46.480 at the plate. 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.400 So now we can start swinging. 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:49.400 We're in the game. 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:54.680 But they're going to be harder steps forward, and I 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.360 believe we're going to get this done. I believe we're 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.280 going to get this done. We're going to secure the border, 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.280 we're going to rebuild the military, we're going to unleash 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.719 American energy, and we're going to extend the tax cuts. 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:06.760 But but it is going to be a lot of 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.880 trade offs. It's gonna be hard. It's gonna be hard 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:16.000 because the House majority is so excruciatingly tiny that on 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.600 any issue, if you lose two votes, you're you're you're 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:22.199 out of luck. But I think we will get the 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:25.719 job done. And I will say both Mike Johnson, the Speaker, 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.959 and Steve Scalise, the Majority leader, they're both good friends. 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:32.520 I work very closely with both of them, and I 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:38.840 think we will go through some difficult paths to get there. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:43.280 But all of us, from the most conservative Republican to 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:48.320 the most moderate, squishy, wobbly Republican, all of us want 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:52.040 to produce these victories we get. There was a mandate 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.119 from the election, and we can't fail. And by the way, 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:59.159 if we fail, if we don't secure the border, if 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:02.320 we don't rebuild the milliyitary, if we don't unleash energy, 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.320 if we don't extend the tax cuts, we'll get killed 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:08.040 in November of next year. 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:12.160 Yeah, And that's I'm a big believer a Trump said 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:13.840 on the floor, right like, Hey, you don't want to 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:14.640 be involved in this. 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.400 Right, get it done. We made a promise to the voters. 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.159 Let's deliver on the voters, and I think today was 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:22.439 an important step to doing that. 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:24.879 Let's talk about the border for a second. There was 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:27.639 there was another big story, and I want you to 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.439 just read part of this for people, because it truly 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:32.480 is heartbreaking. 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:33.760 It makes me angry. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.159 It's what you see in war in the Middle East, 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:42.440 and it's happening now against ranchers and people in agriculture. 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:46.199 The warning is very real now that the cartels are 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:50.119 acting like what they are, terrorists organizations. I think this 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.680 is another example of the President getting it right, saying 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.680 we're going to declare them as terrorist organizations because they 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:59.240 that's what they do. They are terrorist organizations. And now 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:01.440 we have another We had a point of saying, here's 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:01.919 the proof. 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:04.439 So let me read from a story in the New 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:10.240 York Post. Texas rancher killed by suspected cartel ied on 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.960 Mexican border as authorities worn of growing threat. 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:16.000 Here's what the New York Post. 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:20.560 Reported, quote a Texas border rancher was killed near the 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:25.879 border by a suspected cartel ied earlier this month. The 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:30.600 Texas Department of Agriculture told the Post Tuesday, as officials 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:34.560 issued an urgent safety warning for the Rio Grande Valley. 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:42.240 Rancher Antonio Gespenes Saldierna, seventy four, who worked on both 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:47.200 sides of the border along with Horatio Lopez Pena, was 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:52.080 killed in the blast in Tamalipas, Mexico, which was just 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:59.480 south of Brownsville, Texas. Lopez's wife, Ninphi Griselda Ortega, was 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:04.760 hospit vitalized with injuries. Saldirna was driving on his ranch 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:09.159 when he hit the explosive device, causing it to detonate. 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:14.439 According to KRGV, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said the 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:19.360 deadly explosion is part of a quote growing threat posed 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:23.920 by cartel activity along our southern border and encourages ranchers 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:27.840 to quote exercise extreme caution in the area. 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:28.680 Quote. 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:32.800 I encourage everyone in the agricultural industry to stay vigilant, 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:37.120 remain aware of their surroundings, and report any suspicious activity 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:42.800 law enforcement. Additionally, you can avoid dirt roads and remote areas, 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:47.400 refrain from touching unfamiliar objects that could be explosive devices. 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:52.000 Limit travel to daylight hours, stay on main roads, and 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:54.080 avoid cartel controlled regions. 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:54.639 Said Miller. 0:20:55.840 --> 0:21:00.800 This is happening right at the Texas Mexico border. I 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:05.719 gotta say it is dangerous and it shows. You know, 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.880 some in the media say, gosh, it's hyperbole, it's rhetoric 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:13.520 to call the cartel's terrorists. They are terrorists and they're 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:14.520 murdering Texans. 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:18.200 What does this mean moving forward if they continue this? 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:20.880