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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It's time to check in with the
US Senator for Oklahoma, James lank

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Fred And first of all, a
lot going on here too. I understand

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that we've got a little bit of
a problem with our dead ceiling. We

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do have a little problem with our
dead sailing. Let me just do a

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quick PSA if I can. It's
today is the national day of prayer that

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has been set aside for decades now
to be able to just stop and pray

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for the nation. And what a
good time to be able to pray for

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the nation and be able to pray
for each other. We are facing a

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lot of different crisis. None of
these are bigger than God, and we

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just need to be able to ask
for help and get to work on it.

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But I do encourage people to be
able to look seriously at the debt.

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It's really remarkable. There's a whole
group of folks in DC. They're

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saying, don't negotiate on the dead
ceiling, just increase the debt ceiling and

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keep going. And I realize,
you realize that is like pressing the accelerator

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as you're driving towards the cliff to
say, ignore the cliff, it's not

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going to be that bad. Just
keep going. We know that there's overspending,

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we know that we're out of balance. It is entirely reasonable to be

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able to stop and say, let's
look at this, let's sit down and

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talk together. And I understand both
parties don't want to talk to each other

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in DC, but this is exactly
the wrong time to say we're not going

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to talk. This is the right
time to say, Okay, let's let's

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sit down and visit. There's a
lot of things that need to be done.

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We've got to be able to balance
this budget, and just a whole

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lot of bad things could happen on
this. And now I understand what June

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first is a deadline, Well,
that's a loose date. The Treasury secretaries

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come and say it could be as
early as June first, but in all

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likelihood is going to be after that. Either way, we shouldn't default on

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our debt. But for all the
folks say bad things will happen if we

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don't extend the dead ceiling, I
smile at them and say, what's the

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economy doing right now with our overspending, high inflation, challenging environment, all

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the high mortgage rates. We're already
dealing with the effects of all this overspending,

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so we can't say in the future
it's going to get bad. It's

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difficult right now for most Americans.
So we've got to be able to deal

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with those fiscal realities to be able
to have some balance. Here we're talking

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with US Senator for Oklahoma James Lankford. Title forty two ends on May eleventh

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at the southern border. What kind
of problems could this pose? Yeah,

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okay, crisis number two here to
be able to walk through because there's quite

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a few things going on. So
Tittle forty two, let me just give

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you a quick school on this one. This is a pandemic related stop at

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the border to say, because of
the pandemic, we're going to turn a

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lot of folks around that would normally
be able to apply to be able to

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go through the process for asylum,
but during the pandemic, we're going to

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turn that off and say that we
can't. Obviously, everyone knows the pandemic

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is over. Tittle forty two was
always going to be temporary, but the

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President has only done about thirty percent
of the folks that he could turn around.

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He is turning around, So the
vast majority of folks he's just waving

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in at this point, what he's
saying is on May the eleventh, I'm

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going to end even that. Well, what's happening is we literally have years

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of thousands of people now coming through
Central and South America that are coming at

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us to say great, now it's
going to be wide open borders even more,

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and they're panicking the administration. I've
worked with them for several months now

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to say, you know, the
end is coming, let's talk through the

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issues. There is a proposal on
the table dealing with redefining asylum that would

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block off asylum and say you've got
to apply for asylum in another country before

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you get here, or you're not
eligible to even apply here, we'll turn

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you around. That would make an
enormous difference, But the administration has yet

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to be able to say, yep, we're actually going to implement that.

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We're talking about it, but we're
pushing them behind the scene and say you've

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got to actually implement this. We
cannot have a crisis that's bad get even

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worse again. I don't find a
lot of people that are for just wide

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open borders like this administration's done.
Right now. If you apply for asylum,

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he waves you into the country and
says, I'll get your hearing in

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eighteen years. Eighteen years. So
the folks that are coming across, no,

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they're just being no one expects them
visual for they're hearing in eighteen years.

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It's this nod, nod, wink
wink. Yes, you're applying for

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asylum, Come on in whenevery one
knows. They actually don't qualify for asylum.

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They're just coming for economic opportunity,
which is great with the greatest country

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in the world, I understand that, but it's not really asylum and they're

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just being winked in. We've got
to fix that. Also, I understand

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that the president was talking about using
national Guard troops down at the border.

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We've seen this before, but how
would this be effective in this case?

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Actually he's talking about using an active
duty military, not national Guard this time,

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and putting fifteen hundred troops on the
ground on the border. Those troops

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would be there for humanitarian for setting
up tents, for carrying out water,

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for doing transportation for migrants away from
the border, so they're not used for

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a law enforcement. But it is
really funny. I do get the joke

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on this because Biden came into office
saying, while building is evil, putting

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troops on the border is evil.
I'm not going to do this mean enforcement

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on all these policies like Trump did. But in the meantime, over the

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last six months, Biden's quietly started
building a wall again because he realizes it's

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totally out of control. So there's
wall building going on right now in Arizona.

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He's now putting troops on the border, and he's talking about putting an

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asylum policy in that would actually turn
people around. Like suddenly, he's waking

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up and understanding that you've got to
actually enforce the law on our border or

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people will run over you, as
they have for the last two and a

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half years. They've literally just run
all over him. Senator, I understand

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Federal Fumbles Volume seven is coming,
tell us about it. It is.

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We're two weeks away from that.
So this is what I do annually to

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be able to release out here.
Here's some really painful overspending and overregulation that's

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happening in the federal government. I'm
going to release out the whole thing in

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the next two weeks, but I
would tell you it couldn't have couple it

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better timing. While we're talking about
the dead ceiling, and all these folks

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are saying, just raise the dead
ceiling because there's no problem here. I've

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exposed a bunch of them, and
I'll give you just a uple of them.

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Here at Napa Valley, California is
one of the wealthiest communities in the

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entire world, not just in the
country, in the world. They just

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got a federal grant to do a
four million dollar walking trail through Wine Country.

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So you and I are paying for
a walking trail through Wine Country because

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apparently Wine Country couldn't afford it.
So that's not the way that it should

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go. There's also all these different
grants that go out into these different spending

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that happened. Let me give you
a couple of them that I found particularly

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interesting. There's one that deals with
studying Mexican colonial sounds. So we sent

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a researcher to Mexico to study the
sounds of colonial Mexico. With our dollars,

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we sent researchers to Ghana to study
helmet safety in Ghana. Now let

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me help you with this. This
is pretty inexpensive free advice helmet save lives.

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Okay, period, We're done.
We don't need to spend hundreds of

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thousands of federal dollars to go to
Ghana and do a helmet in seat belt

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study there. So over and over
again, there's wasteful spending that's out there.

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We're going to expose a lot of
it and remind everyone and we can

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be more efficient as a federal government. So let's do These are our taxpayer

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dollars. We don't want them wasted. Senator, how can people get a

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hold of you? They can always
reach out to me on our website.

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It's the best way to get all
the information. Lankford dot dot gov.

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That's got our phone numbers for our
Oklahoma offices and our Washington DC office has

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got email addressed if you want to
email us. If you actually have a

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stamp in a drawer, still congratulations, you can use that stamp email me

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a letter. It's got all the
addresses physical address. If you want to

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do that, you go to social
media at Senator Lankford on the end of

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social media sites and get a chance
to follow us there. Just my one

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request, don't believe every comment that
you see on social media posts. Senator,

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thank you very much for taking time
out of visit with us