I had three two one. Good morning, good morning, good morning,
and welcome, welcome, welcome. It's time down to check in with Congressman
Josh McKean, Oklahoma. How are you doing, sir, I'm good man,
well great, I tell you what. We've got another busy go around
coming up here. As far as the budget, I understand. I look
forward on with the next day to two days a conference meeting that is likely
to happen to where the speaker is going to, you know, have to
answer some questions like I'm greatly concerned about this deal way. It's been reported
as a seventy billion dollars plus up over that far a deal from last June,
and that is not with what information I have right now. I don't
see how I can support that. And I think most people you know,
who see the financial woes, that inflation is just the typically Iceberg showcasing that
are underneath the water within ten years in solvency of Medicurian SOID security, and
the fact that I keep saying this the last couple of months, one hundred
percent of our entire twelve appropriation bills money now the revenue to pay for those
twelve apropriation bills is now one hundred percent borrowed money. The only thing getting
paid for an annual basis because of our annual deficits that are massive is Medicare,
medicais sold security, veteran benefits, and a few other programs within the
mandatory spending, which also includes food stamps, those things locked away in mandatory
where Congress you know, over years has moved, you know, so much
more in the mandatory where all we can adjust is eligibility. Leaving the twelve
appropriations, the discretionary spending where Conngresce actually sets the dollar figures. Now the
twelve appropriation bills, the discretionary spending has been reduced to only borrowed money from
our kids and our grandkids. So the one point seven trillion dollars it was
last year's spend for discretionary is one hundred percent laid on the back of our
kids and our grandkids to pay off. So how can we conscious continue to
even contemplate a plus up? Y'all Democrats have the Senate, y'all Democrats have
the White House. We have got to get serious leverage that the American people
have given us. And you know, and there are a lot of Americans
out there. You know, if we went into a government shutdown would be
you know missed. But Tom, there's no other leverage right now to tell
the Democrats we're serious and we have to have the American people who understand the
mass, who we're willing to go in comfort to be able to solve our
nation's problems that we keep punning year after year. Well, what Gos gainst
me is that we have a new House speaker who said that we weren't going
to do all that, and now we're on the presupposed of doing all that.
I I uh, look, Mike Johnson is a conservative. This decision
is not as it's being reported. So I'm I'm hopeful that there's something that's
not being reported. I've not had a chance to talk to the speaker.
I've not had a chance to talk to the staff. It's gonna happen within
twenty four to forty eight hours. I'm disappointed what I'm hearing about this deal.
Well, it doesn't sound very promising, that is for sure, and
it sounds like you're beside yourself just in disbelief. I am in disbelief.
But what's being reported? So, like I said, I want to get
more information. I'm hopeful that there's something that's not making the press that that
you know, that's not that I'm not aware of it, others aren't aware
of But as of right now, this is not good. Well, many
of the members of Congress, both House and Senator members have been down at
the border visiting the border. How much how much is getting accomplished with a
change in geography and scenery. Well that the the the border trip. What
you would hope is people would come back renewed to hey, you know,
let's I'm you know, it's one thing to have, you know, getting
the troops paid for and paying for salaries there, which is how Trump was
able to move forward with the longest government shut down in our nation's history in
twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen over the border last year for thirty five days,
and most people don't even remember it because there was a partial government shut down
where they'd already brought forward funding levels for the troops. So my ask is,
why don't we put a funding level out there to fund DoD and hand
it to the Senate and walk away and say until you shut this border down,
We're done. Till you shut the border down. We're not gonna have
any more conversations about keeping the government open because our national security is threatened.
This is no longer talking point. Something can happen within the next six months,
a terrorism activity that could rival what happened in New York City could happen
when you're letting anywhere from five hundred to seven hundred and fifty people on the
Special Interest Alien watch list from Syria and Iran. Those are just those that
we've encountered. And that's different. That's in a different watch listen than to
the terrorist watch list, where we know we've had you know, between last
year and this year, approximately three hundred people that have come across on the
terrorist watch list that have been encountered, and we don't know out of the
one point seven million people that have are known god aways, meaning we just
know that there's footprints showing they came across the border. We don't know who
they were, we don't know what's in this country. And and so there's
no time to not play hardball with this administration and with the Senate, you
know, under the Democrat control. I'm frustrated the American people. I have
to be frustrated if they understand the math of our spin problems, and they
understand the true status of our national security that is letly undermine right now because
in this open border. Now I'm on Homeland Security. This week, we're
going to start hearings on what we hope by the end of the months will
be out of the committee I set on Homeland Security and impeachment vote that will
will come out of our committee go to the House floor. I don't want
to overpromise, under deliver. You know, that doesn't mean that the Senate,
led by Democrats, will do anything with it. But whatever you tolerate,
you empower. And if Congress House representative handed the majority by the American
people, we've got to start producing results and say we can't control the Senate,
but we can control what we do. You know, I'm hearing from
from you one side of the story, but the other side of the story
escapes me, and I just don't understand, perhaps maybe the mindset, how
people in the same country can see two different worlds in a completely different lens.
When it seems very apparent that there are things that could be improved upon,
like our financial situation and like our border. Is it is it something
I don't understand. Yeah, I don't understand it either, Tom. It's
a it is a chasm that can't be jumped across. Understand how anybody thinks
that we don't need to shut down the spend and shut down the border.
I don't understand it. Were living on borrowed money, borrowed time. It
is insanity. So but the reality is, these people are reflection of people.
These people get in office because people vote to them, and so we've
gotta have It's why, you know, people say, well, why are
you gonna always talk about biblical morality because it's been eroded and eroded and eroded
generation upon generation. The philosophy the Iraham Lincoln said, philosophy and school room,
and one generation will be the governing philosophy in the next. And we've
seen this cultural rot. It started small and started with you know when oh,
adultery no big deal in the seventies, sixties and seventies, you know,
embracing the homosexuality movement of the nineties. Now we're in the transgender movement.
And there is a there is a scripture that says in Isaiah, woe
to the nation, woe to the nation that calls evil good and good evil.
It's those students bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter, light for
dark. It matters what we call is right and right standard. And it's
because we don't see these other things under through the lenses that our founders talked
about. Benjamin Rush, Benjamin rush founding father, said without virtue, you
will have no liberty. And he goes on to say that liberty is the
object and life of all republics. The reason why we're losing this country is
we started calling that which was evil right. So our financial situation, it's
the downstream impurity of the urination upstream started happening in us, in our lack
of virtue. That's quite a visual painting for you know, that's a guy
who grew up ranching, cowboying for a living. Uh. Where the cattle
are crossing up stream, you don't drink downstream. That's what we're doing in
this country. Yikes. Oh wow. On another note, any good news
happening in Washington? Do you understand what I'm saying? I absolutely do.
What we're what we're what we're doing is we can't see reality. Our eyes
are dim to truth and this other stuff. You look and go, what's
how can how can this develop to where we don't pay as we go?
Where we where we you know, are allowing transgender reassignment surgeries. We recruit
people in our military and then they're not deployable because we're doing elective surgeries with
a taxpayer of moneys, and we got to have other people feel their spot
because they're not deployable for months to year. It's insanity. Line upon line,
precepts upon free said, a little here, a little here is how
we got here. Indeed, there's been a big problem on the college campuses
large cities, not so much in the small towns anti Semitism. I didn't
think I would ever in my day see this take place to the extent where
it has as of late. I read a history book and it talks about
an evil time where anti Semitism was kind of popular in a certain country and
a world war had to be fought in order to end it. What has
happened? Here? Have we thrown away our history? Sanity, insanity,
colleges of embracing this? You know, there's a study I handed over to
Virginia Foxy, chairs the Education Committee. We had a group that came before
our Homeland Security Committee who talked about out of on average, the average college
and then don't think about the regional colleges, think of your larger institutions.
An average about fifty people that work in diversity equity inclusion taxpayer funded. Now
in ours, they did a study. This group, I forget their name,
it's alluding me in this moment. I turned the study over to Virginia
Fox to using their Education Committe. I actually told the speaker about it.
Also in a meeting, we had a group that said that they did an
assessment of eight hundred emails from these on average, fifty DEI officials that worked
at these college campuses all across the country. They wanted to analyze their social
media when they're not at work. What they found was a super majority ninety
plus percent of everything. They were saying, these people not doing it at
work, but oft time anti Israel, anti Israel. So that tells you
who's in these diversity equity inclusion groups. They are espousing from the river to
the sea type ideology. Abraham Lincoln said, the philosophy in the school room
in one generation will be the governing philosophy in the next. We're seeing in
college campuses being reflected the people in Congress and the alls of Congress who are
chanting the same type of mind. Scary times. Scary times. Look as
a friend said to me, as Thomas Massey said to me in a group
setting we were having a podcast couple of weeks ago. He said, man,
I used to blame these officials, he said, Now I'm getting a
place from blaming the people who elect them. We have to have a cultural
moral revival in this country. Yeah, whether you're a teacher, whether you're
a college administration, whether you're a college professor, you know, whether you
you just got the kids that you're raising in your home, stay at home
mom, that most valuable position. How are we raising our kids like the
form of government starts in the home. Now, I'm challenging every every families.
Are you doing Bible studies? Are you teaching your kids what moral virtue
how to look like in this country? Because that's the smallest form and those
children grow up and they're the leaders of our country. Dads, are we
leaving our homes we're teaching our kids right from wrong? Are we standing up
and saying get off social media? Who are getting your virtue off of that,
and let me tell you what's right and what's wrong. All of us
have a responsibility. All we get so complex in society when we say the
thing has become unmanageable, it's unmanageable because we're not watching over our functions individually.
So take your post, moms and dads in your home, Take your
post in the sphere of influence that you have. I read a scripture in
Ezekiel three and thirty three that basically says, if the watchmen see destruction coming
and they don't cry. They're talking about the times when there were watchmen who
stood on these walls and they had these cities they were protecting against foreign invaders.
And it says, if you see destruction coming, you don't cry out,
the blood's on your head. Wow. What are we doing to cry
out in our culture? What are we doing to cry out to our kids?
What are we doing to make sure that we're Johnny on the spot to
make sure that we're being the moms and dads that our kids deserve, grandparents
that are kids deserve. Deuteronomy six talks about when you walk down the road,
when you put it over the door frames of your home, talk to
your kids about righteousness, about the Lord. We're losing our country because of
the lack of virtue. Benjamin rush Side of the Declaration of Independence said,
without virtue, there's no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of
all republics. That's what John Adams, second President the United States said.
He said that our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
It's holy inadequate to the government of any other. The reason why liberty works
in tandem with moral virtue is because it gives people self governance, opportunities to
regulate their own behavior, and it keeps the government out of their life to
the large part. But what's happened is is our virtue has gotten smaller.
Governments invaded that space and said, well, we'll tell you what's right.
My goodness, Josh, our time is just about up. How can folks
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got our website, send me an email some time. I'm not saying
everybody's gonna agree with me, but I know I'm called to cry out and
to blow the trumpet on what I see. There's destruction coming to our nation
that there's gotten all other countries that have did devoid the virtue. It's coming
to us if we don't stand up and start taking our influence and using it
to the inst degree. Josh, thank you very much and really appreciate you
checking in with this here. I'm K one, the one you trust