Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's time to check in with the US Senator for Oklahoma, James lank
Fred And first of all, a lot going on here too. I understand
that we've got a little bit of a problem with our dead ceiling. We
do have a little problem with our dead sailing. Let me just do a
quick PSA if I can. It's today is the national day of prayer that
has been set aside for decades now to be able to just stop and pray
for the nation. And what a good time to be able to pray for
the nation and be able to pray for each other. We are facing a
lot of different crisis. None of these are bigger than God, and we
just need to be able to ask for help and get to work on it.
But I do encourage people to be able to look seriously at the debt.
It's really remarkable. There's a whole group of folks in DC. They're
saying, don't negotiate on the dead ceiling, just increase the debt ceiling and
keep going. And I realize, you realize that is like pressing the accelerator
as you're driving towards the cliff to say, ignore the cliff, it's not
going to be that bad. Just keep going. We know that there's overspending,
we know that we're out of balance. It is entirely reasonable to be
able to stop and say, let's look at this, let's sit down and
talk together. And I understand both parties don't want to talk to each other
in DC, but this is exactly the wrong time to say we're not going
to talk. This is the right time to say, Okay, let's let's
sit down and visit. There's a lot of things that need to be done.
We've got to be able to balance this budget, and just a whole
lot of bad things could happen on this. And now I understand what June
first is a deadline, Well, that's a loose date. The Treasury secretaries
come and say it could be as early as June first, but in all
likelihood is going to be after that. Either way, we shouldn't default on
our debt. But for all the folks say bad things will happen if we
don't extend the dead ceiling, I smile at them and say, what's the
economy doing right now with our overspending, high inflation, challenging environment, all
the high mortgage rates. We're already dealing with the effects of all this overspending,
so we can't say in the future it's going to get bad. It's
difficult right now for most Americans. So we've got to be able to deal
with those fiscal realities to be able to have some balance. Here we're talking
with US Senator for Oklahoma James Lankford. Title forty two ends on May eleventh
at the southern border. What kind of problems could this pose? Yeah,
okay, crisis number two here to be able to walk through because there's quite
a few things going on. So Tittle forty two, let me just give
you a quick school on this one. This is a pandemic related stop at
the border to say, because of the pandemic, we're going to turn a
lot of folks around that would normally be able to apply to be able to
go through the process for asylum, but during the pandemic, we're going to
turn that off and say that we can't. Obviously, everyone knows the pandemic
is over. Tittle forty two was always going to be temporary, but the
President has only done about thirty percent of the folks that he could turn around.
He is turning around, So the vast majority of folks he's just waving
in at this point, what he's saying is on May the eleventh, I'm
going to end even that. Well, what's happening is we literally have years
of thousands of people now coming through Central and South America that are coming at
us to say great, now it's going to be wide open borders even more,
and they're panicking the administration. I've worked with them for several months now
to say, you know, the end is coming, let's talk through the
issues. There is a proposal on the table dealing with redefining asylum that would
block off asylum and say you've got to apply for asylum in another country before
you get here, or you're not eligible to even apply here, we'll turn
you around. That would make an enormous difference, But the administration has yet
to be able to say, yep, we're actually going to implement that.
We're talking about it, but we're pushing them behind the scene and say you've
got to actually implement this. We cannot have a crisis that's bad get even
worse again. I don't find a lot of people that are for just wide
open borders like this administration's done. Right now. If you apply for asylum,
he waves you into the country and says, I'll get your hearing in
eighteen years. Eighteen years. So the folks that are coming across, no,
they're just being no one expects them visual for they're hearing in eighteen years.
It's this nod, nod, wink wink. Yes, you're applying for
asylum, Come on in whenevery one knows. They actually don't qualify for asylum.
They're just coming for economic opportunity, which is great with the greatest country
in the world, I understand that, but it's not really asylum and they're
just being winked in. We've got to fix that. Also, I understand
that the president was talking about using national Guard troops down at the border.
We've seen this before, but how would this be effective in this case?
Actually he's talking about using an active duty military, not national Guard this time,
and putting fifteen hundred troops on the ground on the border. Those troops
would be there for humanitarian for setting up tents, for carrying out water,
for doing transportation for migrants away from the border, so they're not used for
a law enforcement. But it is really funny. I do get the joke
on this because Biden came into office saying, while building is evil, putting
troops on the border is evil. I'm not going to do this mean enforcement
on all these policies like Trump did. But in the meantime, over the
last six months, Biden's quietly started building a wall again because he realizes it's
totally out of control. So there's wall building going on right now in Arizona.
He's now putting troops on the border, and he's talking about putting an
asylum policy in that would actually turn people around. Like suddenly, he's waking
up and understanding that you've got to actually enforce the law on our border or
people will run over you, as they have for the last two and a
half years. They've literally just run all over him. Senator, I understand
Federal Fumbles Volume seven is coming, tell us about it. It is.
We're two weeks away from that. So this is what I do annually to
be able to release out here. Here's some really painful overspending and overregulation that's
happening in the federal government. I'm going to release out the whole thing in
the next two weeks, but I would tell you it couldn't have couple it
better timing. While we're talking about the dead ceiling, and all these folks
are saying, just raise the dead ceiling because there's no problem here. I've
exposed a bunch of them, and I'll give you just a uple of them.
Here at Napa Valley, California is one of the wealthiest communities in the
entire world, not just in the country, in the world. They just
got a federal grant to do a four million dollar walking trail through Wine Country.
So you and I are paying for a walking trail through Wine Country because
apparently Wine Country couldn't afford it. So that's not the way that it should
go. There's also all these different grants that go out into these different spending
that happened. Let me give you a couple of them that I found particularly
interesting. There's one that deals with studying Mexican colonial sounds. So we sent
a researcher to Mexico to study the sounds of colonial Mexico. With our dollars,
we sent researchers to Ghana to study helmet safety in Ghana. Now let
me help you with this. This is pretty inexpensive free advice helmet save lives.
Okay, period, We're done. We don't need to spend hundreds of
thousands of federal dollars to go to Ghana and do a helmet in seat belt
study there. So over and over again, there's wasteful spending that's out there.
We're going to expose a lot of it and remind everyone and we can
be more efficient as a federal government. So let's do These are our taxpayer
dollars. We don't want them wasted. Senator, how can people get a
hold of you? They can always reach out to me on our website.
It's the best way to get all the information. Lankford dot dot gov.
That's got our phone numbers for our Oklahoma offices and our Washington DC office has
got email addressed if you want to email us. If you actually have a
stamp in a drawer, still congratulations, you can use that stamp email me
a letter. It's got all the addresses physical address. If you want to
do that, you go to social media at Senator Lankford on the end of
social media sites and get a chance to follow us there. Just my one
request, don't believe every comment that you see on social media posts. Senator,
thank you very much for taking time out of visit with us