WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:04.559 Good morning and welcome. I'm Tom Davis on the telephone. Whippy is Congressman 2 00:00:04.679 --> 00:00:09.400 Josh bra keen. Busy weekend. Not too many people can say that they 3 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:13.240 were involved in maybe what you had to do? Tell us a little bit 4 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:20.839 about how your weekend went in Washington, DC. Yeah, so it was 5 00:00:21.239 --> 00:00:27.039 intense. We came up against the government shutdown. High voted against a continuing 6 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:31.120 resolution. It was going to maintain spending levels. That was my major objection 7 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:34.960 to it. It did not have any border security or spinning reductions. It 8 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:40.280 was just a true continuing resolution, and so the majority of not only the 9 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:45.920 Freedom Caucus but many of the members voted against it. In the House Representatives 10 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:52.159 the day prior we had many of us contended was a best the best starting 11 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:58.240 point for a stop gap measure, which was a thirty percent cut to all 12 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:06.000 spending outside of veterans month security and Department of Defense and through Border security. 13 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:10.000 HR the bill we had passed back in the spring. HR two was attached 14 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:12.200 to it, and the majority of the Freedom Talk has voted for that. 15 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:18.799 He was a stop gap measure for thirty days, but it had significant cut, 16 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:23.159 significant policy reforms, and it would have led to real enforcement of border 17 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:27.760 security. And it was it gave us as the House what many of us 18 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:33.680 saw. It gave us the most leverage to begin to get to what you 19 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:34.959 know, it was going to be a negotiation of the Democrat led Senate, 20 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:38.200 but it gave us the most leverage in the leverage time only exists when you 21 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:42.840 get two hundred and eighteen votes on the board that the Republican held House of 22 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:49.680 Representatives is only with four votes. It takes two eighteen generally speaking, to 23 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:53.000 get to a majority. We only have four votes to spare when you have 24 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:59.120 one half of one third of the leg of government. The House Senate doesn't. 25 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:01.319 We have one half of one third of the leg of government. The 26 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:06.959 leverage comes from being unified and holding the line. And you know, I 27 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:10.680 was saddened that we couldn't. We came up to a three votes short even 28 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:14.639 after the whip count. We came up more than that short the day prior. 29 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:16.479 But when they came back with the revisits the whip counts, that can 30 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:20.439 you if it was less than the seven days, would you get there? 31 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:24.599 We were still two or three votes short, and so ultimately we ended up 32 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:30.879 with a less than desirable result. The one upshot is I'm headed back. 33 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:34.560 We've changed the schedule. We're gonna be doing town halls this week. What 34 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:37.400 I was pulling for two weeks ago was to try to get to a top 35 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:43.080 line number to finish these twelve appropriation bills, which was real cuts as much 36 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:46.680 as a twenty percent. If we can finish out these appropriation bills, we've 37 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:52.080 already passed almost more than one half of all the appropriation bills. And that's 38 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:53.240 what we're heading back up there to do, to try to show the American 39 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:57.919 people that we can do what's only been done four times in fifty years, 40 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:00.719 complete twelve appropriation bills. The last time it was done was in nineteen ninety 41 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:06.479 seven. And because even though that cr was passed that I was opposed to, 42 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:12.479 within forty five days we come up to another government shutdown, and if 43 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:15.080 we can get our appropriation bill and show the American people were serious about reducing 44 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:19.960 spending and seriously about mort of control, then we've got a leverage point again 45 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:23.479 to work with the Democrats. All they want to do is plus up the 46 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:28.080 spending question. For you, is mister McCarthy going to remain the Speaker of 47 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:31.560 the House at the end of this week. Now Matt Gates is foot forward. 48 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:37.840 He announced yesterday he said he's helping forth a motion of a k Tom. 49 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:40.960 I'm in deep prayer over this. The question is with the conditions after 50 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:46.719 January and then you know that I was involved in a conditional speakership, The 51 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:52.080 question is you can replace the speaker because you'll have a more conservative speaker that's 52 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:57.879 it is in their place. Then and you end up with somebody who is 53 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:00.479 unconditional, that's not willing to off on agreement. You just get a change 54 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:04.719 of speakership without conditions. That's not better for the conservatives. And then my 55 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:10.639 question is I'm prayerfully. I mean that I'm praying thing over and have been 56 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:15.040 since yesterday since I've heard the news. What produces the most conservative result Freedom 57 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:18.399 Caucus is the conscious of that conference at large, pulling them through the right. 58 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:23.120 The fact that we've got Ralph Norman and Hip Roy in the funnel of 59 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:26.560 the rules committee. Anything that goes to the floor has to go through the 60 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:30.399 rules committee. That was a condition of getting those two people on that on 61 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:33.920 that rules committee. That stops the crap from coming to the floor all too 62 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:40.439 many times because it's the funnel that every bill has to flow through. And 63 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:44.800 so I'm in prayer about does this produce a more conservative results or a less 64 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:49.800 conservative result just under the name change of doing something. And so look, 65 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:55.240 we've also got played along game here. We've got a presidential election to think 66 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:59.800 about, and if this erupts and in the midst of potentially a government shut 67 00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:02.600 down, we don't complete these still of appropriation bills, and it just looks 68 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:09.279 like a dumpster fire. We've got the Democrats on the ropes right now on 69 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:13.199 the border and on people knowing that they're spending twelve hundred dollars more months to 70 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:15.279 buy the exact same goods and services as compared to when Biden took office. 71 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:18.959 That's the long game. And I don't want to I don't want to pretend 72 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:21.959 you get a Republican president's going to solve all the problems we've seen that result 73 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:26.920 in the past. But think about the difference between forty five year low of 74 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:31.160 immigration on that border compared to we've never seen these type of numbers. Think 75 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:39.600 about when Trump was in and for every regulatory front that bureaucracy was imposing. 76 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:43.000 Trump say you're going to impose something, you getting rid of two regulations. 77 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:47.079 This administration, for every law that's been passed, has put thirteen different regulations 78 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:50.600 in place. For every law that's been fine, because you have a regulatory, 79 00:05:51.279 --> 00:05:56.079 the deep state run them up. So the president sadly was never designed 80 00:05:56.120 --> 00:05:59.720 to be this. So this is powerful. But because of the rule of 81 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:02.639 law all being thrown out the window generation upon generation and each party allowing it, 82 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:09.199 presidency is extremely powerful and we've got to make sure that we can get 83 00:06:09.279 --> 00:06:14.240 rid of this administration. Josh Ricken, thank you very much, because I 84 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:17.319 know you're busy catching planes and trying to get to and fro and get the 85 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:21.439 will of the people done in the capital. But thanks for spending time with 86 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:27.160 us, and will be consulting your Facebook page. On the makeup days for 87 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:31.000 the town hall in Bartlefeld, Tom, we did, we did cancel. 88 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:35.120 We had to cancel because I'm going back to vote. We had to cancel 89 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:39.920 our fifteen town halls we had planned in the next three days, so those 90 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:42.600 have been canceled. I just want to make sure ebody know that we appolgized, 91 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:45.319 but I got to do back in DC to vote now try to finish 92 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:47.839 out, hopefully get a start off finishing now these appropriation bills. Very good. 93 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:49.199 Josh Ricken, thank you very much.