Tom Davis, and you are listening to K one the one you trust.
Congressman Brakin, how are you all righty? Thank you very much, Josh
Brakin as a living breathe. How are you doing there, young man?
I'm good man. I hope my sales service day's good throughout this, So
I apologize. I'm on the road. Well, that's nothing new. We
know that you're going to be in town here soon for a town hall,
but right now I want to kind of push a little something here with you.
We are facing a possible government shutdown. Are we not here within a
matter of days. Yeah, let's just want to clarify this government shutdown was
likely to have happened even three weeks ago before those of us in the Freedom
Caucus said, wait a minute, we don't feel like that our negotiation is
starting at the strongest point. The government shutdown was going to happen three weeks
ago. Sure, or at least the timing of it, looked highly likely
that we would say something even if we could have gotten what was kind of
offered at a lower level than what money and the Freedom Cauchins were comfortable with
the time that was gonna take for the Senate. We knew they would likely
reject it, so a government shutdown was already likely to happen. So I
just want to make sure that I'm clear with everyone. It's not the Freedom
Caucus causing the government shutdown. It's because the Republicans as a whole, Democrats
as a whole did what they always do, and they didn't get their twelve
appropriations bills done in the summertime. So I just want to start with that.
Yeah, that seems to be very common. In fact, it's gone
on for many many years, has it not. Yeah, yeah, ten
years. And then that's a big part of a lot of the issues that
many of us have is that we can't we always come up against, you
know, these timetables. We deal continuing resolution, which always leads to a
omnibus, which spends more money, which is further leading us to bankruptcy.
And and what many of us are asking for these Republicans to get really serious
about our debt and or justice spending and to stop talking about on a campaign
trill and let's really bitch a shoe in these negotiations, and the American people
stand with us. Tom. That's if people want to know, why is
it that Republicans in the past have not held firm. It's because they've got
constituents who say, yeah, I'm more interested in now than I am my
kid's future. And so we love to talk about our debt and dest is
spending. We love to talk about how we're headed towards bankruptcy. You know,
as I said on your show, a lot of times, we're within
ten years. I mean, this thing could really implode within ten years.
It's no longer twenty and thirty years, it's no longer talking about our grandkids.
Within ten years, when we hit Medicare and social Security and solvency,
and when we are far surpassing our annual debt service payments, are spending more
flushing down the toilet on interest in what we spend on the national defense,
and we're in a death cycle financially at that point. So so say,
let's that's too dramatic. It's the numbers. It was just where we're at,
and the sunshine and rainbow narrative that people want to put out there is
quantitative easy. We can't cheat history. And and so I think for me,
what I'm trying to do is drive us as a conference to a place
where we can and we had we got there last week. For many people,
the number I was saying felt like it was a good compromise. We
was a conversation last week. It was great optimism that we could land on
that number. We'll see this week if we can get there. I understand
that because we have many voices, a couple kind of squeaked in at the
last minute and kind of put that on pause. Am I not correct?
Well, I think they ultimately like the number that we were able to come
up with, the top line number. I think what Gate, marjor Tylor
Green and some others are advocating for, you know, is outside that.
But I've not been privy to those conversations this weekend. I'm not sure what
you know has happened on that front. All right, So this is gonna
be a lot more of getting people on the same page and try to get
them focused in the in the same direction with these negotiations. Yeah, and
look, the other thing is it only takes five Republicans to join the Democrats
to do what's called the discharge position, and there's already a live round setting
out there that at least two of the five Republicans two have come up publicly,
one from New York, one from Nebraska, these Republicans and said,
if you guys take us into a shutdown and we're not, we're we're willing
to stand with you, We're going to join Democrats. So Tom, we've
got to have a position that Republicans can all agree upon, at least two
or an eighteen republicans agree upon. That's what we're trying to get to.
And some of us are trying to pull it because they didn't have the vote
to where conservatory conservatives in the conference can be agreeable and got those are left
that are trying to pull up the other direction. If folks want to know
more about this situation, I imagine you got something on your Facebook and also
on your website. Am I correct? Yeah, I mean we'll have this
thing is so fluid, I don't know the latest. Yeah it is put
on our website or Facebook. Yeah, I would say, I would say,
say a tune to Congressman Josh mcken on our Facebook page. That would
probably be the quickest way to see you know the latest. All right,
but I'm not sketching playing and we're headed to getting the more negotiations all right,
good luck. Thanks man. I'll let you've been listening to Congressman Josh
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