Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's time now to speak with our Congressman Josh McKeen. And boy,
interesting interesting turn of events over the weekend and actually you know, everything from
dropping bombs on enemies to maybe something that's going to be coming over to the
House in the form of a bill where it comes to our borders. Where
do we start. It's been busy well on the border bill. In sent
over from the Senate Mike Johnson, our speaker deiscalis Are majorda leader who schedules
before. Both said that the bill is dead on arrival, so that conversation
is mute, and you know, like he's been reported, you know,
since May, the opportunity to pick up the bill that came out of parts
seat of my committee that I sat on, the Homeland Security Committee, partially
out of the committee Jim Jordan chairs Judiciary HR two, widely seen as taking
most of what President Trump was able to to do by his pen by utilizing
you know, even the Immigration Nationality Act gives the president's abilities to spend any
illegal or any class of illegal alien action and so that authority already exists.
In fact, President Biden actually used it tom he day five of his presidency
when it came to the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil. He employed
that section of the Immigration Nationality Act and again allows you President, United States,
authorized by congressional law says you can suspend all or any class of illegal
interests or and so or immigration entrants. So you know, the president knows
that section of law has used it before, he just refuses to use it.
And most of us see how dangerous twenty thousand nationalists coming into this country
under his administration can be. These are military age men. Yes, it's
the one point seven you know million guidaways that nobody knows what they are but
we But we also know we've had twenty plus thousand people from Chinese that are
Chinese nationalists come into this country. We know we've had seven hundred and fifty
people on the now they're not just the terrorists watch list, the Special Interest
Alien list that includes people from Syria and Iran's come into this country. The
seven hundred fifty people that we have apprehended from those countries. And then you
have the two hundred and fifty people that are on the terrorist watch list that
have been apprehended and two hundred and fifty people in the last two and a
half years under by the administration, in the entirety of Trump's administration, and
he only had eleven. We've got a real dangerous situation. And the House
position has been HR two. Or use the executive authority that you used when
it came to Brazil and South Africa. We know you know it's in there,
Miss President. I have a quick question. It's about the five thousand
or four thousand people who meet the threshold. It's in that bill. Does
that mean that the door is open for the first four thousand or what does
that mean? There's a well what it So you're talking about the bill,
the Democrat Republican compromise bill that has been explained different ways. So I will
let the Senate speak to the Senate. That's good, that's good, it's
pretty cool. I just I don't I don't want to. There's been a
lot of misinformation on online. What we mean, here's what, here's the
here's the simplicity of this. Why for nine months is that bill not been
picked up that we sent over from the House. Why not it codifies it
puts into law. What happened when in twenty seventeen you had the lowest number
of illegal immigrants in forty years in our country's history. It shows you that
that the President of United States, Democrat President of States, and his Democrat
part counterparts in the Senate, they really don't want to solve this. What
they want is to bundle it with sixty billion more in Ukraine funding, because
I contend that's the real prize they really want. Senate Democrats and President Biden
really want Ukraine money. So they want to pretend that they want to do
something. But yet that authority exists already and he doesn't use it and he
doesn't move on it. Because I know I'm ascribing motive and you gotta be
careful with that. But there's either it's insanity on the on their behalf of
the Senate Democrats, or they really do see these people coming across the illegally
as potential voters, with their design at some point wanting to give them citizenship.
I contend that's what the real aim is. Okay, let's go to
this otherwise otherwise it's just plain insanity. Well, let's go say to something
related that you had to put off a town hall, telephone town hall,
because you were marking up the impeachment thing for the Secretary Homeland. Go.
Yeah, I was on the committee that moved forward. I voted for and
was a part of the full day hearing to impeach my work as he is
a part of disobeying the will of the people. Congressional law says you have
to detain somebody until they're deported. That's in the Immigration Nationality Act also,
and yet he has purposely sent out a letter under his authority, under his
authority, not under congression law, but under his authority, saying that just
because you come in this country illegally, that alone does not grounds for deportation.
That's in direct violation of congressional law. It says otherwise that you have
to be detained until there's a proceeding, and that proceeding pronounces innocence or guilt.
When it comes to parole, parole is to be done on a very
limited, case by case basis. He's turned that on his head and given
thirty thousand a month entrants people from Cuba and Haiti, Venezuela, a number
of other Ukraine He's bringing people in, He's flouting congressional law. I keep
saying, whatever you tolerate, you in power, if we don't oust him
for not following congressional law. You know, even the Democrat witness before our
committee a couple of weeks ago said that impeachment has to be rise to the
level of a serious issue of constitutionality. We gets more serious when you refuse
to follow congressional law. And I ask three attorney generals, one of which
are oklahom attorney generals in this jury, and I asked them. The Democrat
witness says, this has to be a serious nature of a constitutional nature.
Does not following congressional law rise to that all state attorney generals? And that
hearing said yes. So there's no definition of crit crimes and misdemeanors, but
high crimes and misdemeanors is something if you look at Federalists sixty five, it
clearly says that it's a betrayal of the public trust. Alexander Hamilton, writing
in Federal sixty five, one of our founding fathers, says, on impeachment,
impeachment, it's a betrayal of the public trust. When you don't follow
congressional law. That's a betrayal of public trust. Let's go to our budget.
We've been doing these crs basically to kind of cover our behind. When
it's the time for that to stop. I thought that was going to stop
soon years ago, ten years ago. You know, I know people are
probably tired of hearing me talk about the financial status that we're in. But
I think if you don't know it well. I heard Collen of years ago.
I thought it was interesting said you learned ten percent of what you hear,
fifty percent of what you do, and ninety percent of what you teach.
Still the American get to where they can actually teach their neighbor about the
true numbers of the financial straits. I don't think we'll ever have the will
to cut when I'm putting up amendments, when other members of our conference are
putting up amendments, And can we not go back to the spending of twenty
nineteen, And you can only get anywhere from eighty to one hundred and twenty
votes on average of Republicans have two hundred and twenty Republicans to agree to that.
It tells you that the people aren't demanding the representation cut spending. It
tells you that people still think that we can borrow past our capacity and things
are going to be okay. And so when you when I keep talking about
these twelve appropriation bills we're asked to bring forth. That's that is the sole
mission, the power of the purse, sole mission of priority for Congress to
deliberate on those twelve appropriation bills, and we continue to punt is continuing resolution.
The twelve appropriation bills that we debate are one hundred or one hundred percent
borrowed money. Now, the only thing that gets paid for based on the
amount of revenue is coming into our offers in the United States government. Medicuri
is being fully paid for now, so security is being fully paid for,
food stamps are being fully paid for, Medicaid is being fully paid for,
in some veteran benefits are being fully paid for. That's those programs are locked
a side on the mandatory side. Congress does not debate that because Congress is
stupidity. Over the last you know, twenty thirty and forty years, they've
locked those programs into a side called mandatory spending. And only a third of
that the stupidity is only a third of our budget now is where Congress actually
gets to determine the spending levels. Everything of the mandatory set aside an autopilot
and a Congress fae only it's just eligibility. So on the discretionary spending,
one hundred percent. Now what we had left of our total spend is borrowed
money. One point seven trillion was the size of our discretionary budget last year,
and our depths, meaning our overspend last year was above two trillions.
So all year we debate over borrowed money. When will we get serious about
cutting borrowed money If we can't get back to twenty nineteen spending levels on discretionary
it shows you where just the the level of lack of reality that's in existence
in Washington, d C unbelievable. Over the weekend, President Biden decided to
retality eight. Some would say it took a took long enough when it came
to the Iran backed factions that have been taking aim in some of our ships
and our drones and wound up killing three of our service bend your reaction to
the timing, and you know just the whole the episode that took place Friday
when everyone was out to dinner and no one saw a TV. Yeah,
well, you know, we've had one hundred and sixty plus different attacks targeting
the United States, in the United States interest in the Middle East since October
seventh. That's what happened in Israel, and so when three service members were
killed, the right thing to do was to respond defensively, for them to
wait a number of days and to you know, there are accounts that many
of these bases, many of these locations were cleaned out because they knew it
was coming. That's that's scary. Those that may have heard the interview that
President Trump talked about he was president years ago, that Iran called him and
said, we're going to hit you back for I think it was over the
Solemn money, uh, solem money. And President Trump said, they called
us and said, just so you know, we're not gonna inflict any casually.
We're just going to make sure that that the Iranian people see us respond.
It tells you the messaging that takes place within governments. And so,
you know, my my question is was this just messaging or we're really targeting
bad actors. Now that it's been reported that we actually launched in Yemen,
I hope that wasn't the case. I hope that there was not any forecasting
uh of the United States government to tell them that was coming, so that
there was real consequences for taking out uh, you know, US troops.
But I've yet to learn tom on on on the uh you know, on
the impact there. Well, I I will tell you that NBC News had
the game plan and they put it out there on television and on the world
wide web on Wednesday. Yeah. Was it really impactful or was it just
to pretend strength? Was it real strength or pretend strength? I hope that.
I hope that Yemen the distraction Yemen were truly the American people saying that
what you do when you come after our men and women in arms will not
be tolerated. Wow, Josh, how do people get ahold of? Yeah?
They I know they try that. Well, we're gonna have a We're
gonna have a telephone town hall tomorrow night. Yeah, seven pm. I
encourage people to you know, uh to join us seven pm. So that's
one way, and then you know, we're gonna start up town halls across
the congressional district. People can come live and visit with me in person.
They can call our DC office and give their input. They can talk to
our field reps and tell them what their thoughts are. Our field reps right
those field of ports and I read those when I'm flying. And then in
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office two two two two five two seven zero one. Very good, Josh,
thank you very much. We appreciate you being with us today.