WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:09.240 By Billy Cunningham, the Great America, and they welcome this 2 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:12.240 Thursday afternoon in the tri State, and of course many 3 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:15.679 are traveling thither and fro. The gasoline prices at our 4 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:19.239 all time low this morning. The employment number was unbelievable. 5 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:24.000 Donald Trump has broken four consecutive months. The expectations inflations 6 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.079 on was non existent. Gasoline. I'm get gasoline now for 7 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:29.519 about two dollars and eighty five cents a gallon. And 8 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:31.800 the economy is great. Things are looking well on the 9 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:35.840 southern border. The illegal crossings are non existent. Donald Trump 10 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:39.320 is the peacemaker between the Congo and Rwanda, also between 11 00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:42.759 India and Pakistan. Also, what going on in Iran right 12 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:45.679 now is incredible because of the leadership of Donald Trump 13 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:49.200 and more. But until then, of course, Congressman Warren Davidson 14 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:51.719 is with us now to talk about what's happening as 15 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:55.320 we speak. And Congressmen, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham 16 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:57.439 showing first of all, I'm one of those weird guys 17 00:00:57.439 --> 00:00:58.960 that was up at about three point fifteen and am 18 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:02.079 this morning. So they vote was taken to proceed to 19 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:04.439 the vote, and I guess there's a role in the 20 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:07.319 House that says you can speak unlimited, and it looks 21 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:10.439 like it came. Jefferies has succeeded the role. It's unlimited. 22 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:13.040 He's exceeded it. So can you tell the American people 23 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:14.799 what's happening as we speak right now? 24 00:01:16.079 --> 00:01:18.200 Well, the House came back into session to vote on 25 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:21.120 the Big Beautiful Bill, and we had voted on it 26 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:23.799 back in May, but the Senate changed it, so it 27 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:25.879 really doesn't have a way to the President until we 28 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:29.159 vote on the same version. So the House was voting 29 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:32.719 essentially on the Senate's version that passed earlier in the week. 30 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:36.359 And not everyone gets unlimited time. The leader of each 31 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:39.840 party gets what's known as a magic minute, and they're 32 00:01:39.879 --> 00:01:43.680 recognized for one minute, but it's never a minute. You know, 33 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:45.760 they can speak as long as they hold the floor. 34 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:50.159 And last Congress, or the last time Republicans were in 35 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:53.719 the minority, Kevin McCarthy, I think on the American Rescue 36 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:57.040 Plan or the Inflation Reduction Act one, he spoke for 37 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:00.439 about eight and a half hours, and so I think 38 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:05.120 at one twenty six Keem Jeffries will blow past that record. 39 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:06.200 And hold the longest for speech. 40 00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:09.439 So I think that's what he's going for and you know, 41 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:11.800 who knows how much longer after that he'll go, but 42 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:15.000 I think he's likely to go until at least roughly 43 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:15.599 one point thirty. 44 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:18.520 Well, activity is not the same as productivity, So there's 45 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:22.199 lots of activity but no productivity. How did Congressman Warren 46 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:24.800 Davidson go from a no to a yes? It was you, 47 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:28.439 And of course Thomas Massey was a no. Now you're 48 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:31.080 going to be a yes? Explains your explain your position? 49 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:35.319 Well, I mean, Beck, in May, there was still time 50 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:39.479 to make progress. And I had hoped and frankly worked 51 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:42.400 with a number of senators to make this a better bill. 52 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:44.360 And you know, they made a great effort at making 53 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:47.120 you a better bill. They did make some progress. I mean, 54 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:49.719 if you look at people are like, what is salt 55 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:55.599 salt state and local tax deductions. So most everyone, you know, 56 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:59.120 if you're doing itemized deductions, ends up paying more than 57 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:02.680 ten thousand dollars in state and local taxes, property taxes, 58 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:06.479 income taxes, all that stuff, and you know at your 59 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:10.159 state or local level. And so they settled on ten 60 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:13.840 thousand dollars as a cap. Last time we did the 61 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:18.199 tax bill in twenty seventeen, Well, the high tax states 62 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:21.280 like New York and California. They wanted to be They 63 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:24.479 wanted it to be unlimited, and they negotiated to get 64 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:28.360 it to be forty thousand dollars. But what the Senate 65 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:30.000 did is they put an income cap on it. So 66 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:32.439 instead of it costing about three hundred and fifty billion 67 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:35.240 dollars to do this through twenty twenty eight, which is 68 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:37.840 essentially a gift of three hundred and fifty billion dollars 69 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:42.000 to blue amnesty states. It's a terrible deal. Shouldn't be 70 00:03:42.039 --> 00:03:44.719 in there at all, but unfortunately it is. But the 71 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:46.520 Senate took it down to about two hundred billion, so 72 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:49.080 we said about one hundred fifty billion dollars there. They 73 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:53.400 had an AI surveillance expansion bill in there portion in 74 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:55.560 the bill we got rid of that. They did do 75 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:58.919 a little more aggressive reform on Medicaid. A lot of 76 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:02.759 the rest of this stuff got work, honestly, but then you're, well, 77 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:05.439 then why vote for it, And frank, it isn't great 78 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:08.199 on deficits. It doesn't you know, in the long run, 79 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:10.680 it does do better things if if you stayed with 80 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:14.400 current policy, but no one ever does so, even with 81 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:17.720 the even with high tariffs. Even with huge growth rates 82 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:20.000 and even with very low interest rates, which I think 83 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:25.120 is kind of unlikely, you still have bigger deficits under 84 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:29.040 the big beautiful bill the entire Trump presidency. So that's 85 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:30.480 hard to take. I mean, I said, I don't like 86 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:33.399 that portion, and unfortunately we didn't get it better. But 87 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:36.480 as I looked at the momentum, we run into the 88 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:38.319 debt limit, we need to borrow more money to keep 89 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:41.639 run in the country by mid July. And you look 90 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:43.759 at the momentum in the Senate and talk with senators 91 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:45.639 over there and just talk with our own conference and 92 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:46.800 know where the votes are. 93 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:49.480 There's not really a path to make it better. 94 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:53.040 So you know, at the end of the day, you know, 95 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:56.800 if you're going to get something done, you could either 96 00:04:57.040 --> 00:04:58.800 you know, vote for the status quo, or you can 97 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:01.879 vote for an imperfect bill that at least changes it 98 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:02.680 in the right direction. 99 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:04.839 So I think this moves in the right direction on 100 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:06.279 a lot of policy. 101 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:09.319 And it gives us the reason to come back and 102 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:11.839 try again on another reconciliation bill. 103 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:17.600 Congressman on the Medicaid front headlines constantly, one trillion dollar 104 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:22.160 cut in Medicaid. We're being told relentlessly by the media. 105 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:24.399 If you pay attention to the media, the mainstream media, 106 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:27.160 all you hear about are the cuts, the cuts of 107 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:30.680 the cuts and the cuts. In the last four years. 108 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:33.879 Medicaid spending has gone up about fifty percent in the 109 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:36.720 last four years, which is about twelve percent a year, 110 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:38.800 as I understand it, Correct me if I'm wrong. It 111 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:42.560 is perceived that medicaid spending will go up about six percent, 112 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:45.600 go up six percent instead of going up ten to 113 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:48.439 twelve percent now by correct of my numbers. And is 114 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:51.600 that a cut? If you spend six percent more, is 115 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:53.360 that a cut? 116 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:56.000 Well, I mean characterizing any of it as a cut 117 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:58.319 is really dishonest. I mean, we're going after fraud, waste, 118 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:01.120 and abuse. You spend about nine hundred billion dollars a 119 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:03.800 year on Medicaid, and the number that they throw out there, 120 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:07.360 it's cutting by a trillion, is It's like, it cuts 121 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:10.439 it by about you know, one hundred billion dollars a year, 122 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:14.879 So ten times one hundred billion is a trillion, right, 123 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:19.160 So they count these ten year scores, and what's quote 124 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:22.120 getting cut? Well, you know, everyone I know would help 125 00:06:22.120 --> 00:06:25.000 a friend or need, not necessarily everyone, but you have 126 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:27.879 somebody that you would help in need. But at some 127 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:30.079 point you would say, well, you're going to if they're 128 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:33.360 able bodied, work in age, don't have kids at home, 129 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:35.480 you would say, well, you're going to get a job right, 130 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:39.600 or go to school or do something productive. And you know, 131 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:43.040 somehow Democrats act like it's mean if the government expects 132 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:46.800 the same thing that every single person I know, regardless 133 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:49.839 of their political ealogy, would do for their own family members. 134 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:52.879 And so that's really you know, Bill Clinton and Nuke 135 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:56.319 Gingrich did work requirements back in the nineties, but it's 136 00:06:56.360 --> 00:07:00.759 become superpartisan and that's hard to understand. But the even 137 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:03.680 harder thing to understand is they're like, well, you're you know, 138 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:05.839 you're kicking illegals off of Medicaid. 139 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:07.319 Well, they're not supposed to be on medicaid in the 140 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:07.839 first place. 141 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:12.959 So states like California, in New York and you know, Illinois, 142 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:17.240 they're working these loopholes to give medicaid to illegals. Everybody 143 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:19.319 that shows up, they want to say, oh, yeah, healthcare 144 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:22.319 is are right, Well, your neighbor's money is never your right. 145 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:26.399 So and so that's the that's the challenge there. 146 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:29.879 So we're kicking illegals off and we're kicking working age 147 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:34.519 eighteen to sixty two adults with no kids at home. 148 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:38.480 Off Medicaid, and that's the only people that are losing Medicaid. 149 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:41.600 They're like, oh, well, this disabled kid, well you know 150 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:42.839 that's not going to change. 151 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:45.319 If you're an American with this disease, that's not going 152 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:45.800 to change. 153 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:49.160 If you're an American on Medicaid, you're actually an American 154 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:52.079 and you're receiving medicaid. Is anything going to. 155 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:56.120 Change only if you're like an able bodied eighteen to 156 00:07:56.160 --> 00:08:00.279 sixty two year old who isn't working or going to 157 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:05.439 school or volunteering somewhere or in a rehab program. So like, 158 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:09.839 if you're perfectly healthy and you're just not working, but 159 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:12.279 you want to keep getting your neighbor's money for healthcare 160 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:13.639 or food stamps. 161 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:15.839 Well now you got to go to work eventually. 162 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:20.160 So the cuts in medicaid are two individuals that are 163 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:24.480 illegally getting it, or able bodied adults that refuse to 164 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:26.959 get off their mother's couch in the basement and actually work, 165 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:29.360 go to school, or donate at time. And there are 166 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:33.279 no cuts to Medicaid for Americans. But that message garbage in, 167 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:37.399 garbage out. If all you hear from ABCNBCCBS, New York Times, 168 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:40.200 Washington Boast. All you hear is cut, cut, cut, And 169 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:43.000 then a poll is taken. Do you like cuts to medicaid? 170 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:45.919 The garbage in, garbage out? The answer is going to be, well, 171 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:49.519 guess what, I'm against that. But in reality it's not happening. 172 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:52.840 But the truth has a hard time getting its pants 173 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:55.600 on before lies can circle the globe, and so the 174 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:58.559 lies circulate and the truths not getting out. 175 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:03.879 That's ease, and the media works. The controlled media is 176 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:07.639 out there. They're not just sitting by idly. They're actively 177 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:10.360 selling the lie. They're doing everything they can to deceive 178 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:13.559 the American people. And that's you know, it's just so dishonest. 179 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:15.480 I mean, we need a free press in the country, 180 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:20.200 but we get this controlled opposition that's got a huge megaphone. 181 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:22.600 And you know, thank goodness for outlets like you guys 182 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:27.840 and seven WLW, and you know platforms like x and 183 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:29.320 Twitter where the truth can get. 184 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:29.919 Out all right. 185 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:34.240 Now, Secondly, the road not taken. Let's say King Jefferies 186 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:37.039 at some point or caught flapping his jaws. You know, 187 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:39.559 activity is not the same as productivity. And let's say 188 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:42.080 he stops talking at some point later today, tomorrow, god 189 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:44.639 knows when the media loves this kind of stuff, as 190 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:47.519 if that this kind of behavior has a measurable impact. 191 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:51.799 Number one, is the BBB actually going to pass sometime 192 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:53.759 today or tomorrow? Are the votes there? 193 00:09:55.240 --> 00:09:55.759 We believe? 194 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:58.000 So, I mean, you don't know until you vote. But 195 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:02.440 right now, everybody thinks that it's going to pass. I 196 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:04.200 have it checked with Thomas. I don't know if he's 197 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:08.360 gone from no to yes. For sure. There's at least 198 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:10.399 one or two other people that I think are considering 199 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:13.679 voting no. But you know, we can lose four and 200 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:17.759 it still passes. So I think I think we're very 201 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:21.960 likely to see Built the Big Beautiful Bill pass the 202 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:25.200 House today in President Trump's planning to sign it tomorrow 203 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:26.080 on July fourth. 204 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:27.720 As he asked. 205 00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:31.679 Congressman, what if it doesn't happen, talk about the impact 206 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:36.200 on wag journers, the butchers, the bakers, the candlestick makers 207 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:38.559 if it doesn't pass. I would also note, as you 208 00:10:38.600 --> 00:10:41.159 and I know, I think American people a few note 209 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:44.559 some don't. The top one percent pay forty percent of 210 00:10:44.559 --> 00:10:48.159 the taxes, the top five percent pay seventy percent, and 211 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:50.799 about fifty percent of the American people that work pay 212 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:54.240 zero income tax. So when the media runs these scrawls 213 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:56.519 about if you make five hundred thousand dollars a year, 214 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:59.360 you get a tax cut, the fact of the matter 215 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:02.440 is that those who pay taxes will get a tax cut, 216 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:05.240 and those who don't pay taxes won't get a tax 217 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:07.960 cut because they don't They don't pay taxes anyway. And 218 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:11.279 when you take away taxes on tips in overtime, that's 219 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:14.200 even fewer people under the fifty percent tle they're gonna 220 00:11:14.200 --> 00:11:17.039 pay any federal income tax. I know, the top one 221 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:20.360 percent pay forty, the top five percent pay seventy. So 222 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:23.120 when it's across the board tax cuts, those who pay 223 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:25.480 the most will get the most tax cuts because they 224 00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:28.279 pay the most anyway. What if it doesn't pass? What 225 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:31.919 happened to the average middle class American? If if this 226 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:35.600 doesn't pass sometime today or tomorrow and the new tax 227 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:38.159 rates kick in in January, what happens then? 228 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:42.720 Well, here's the most immediate thing, is isn't the tax thing? 229 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:45.120 I mean, we run out of the borrowing capacity. 230 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:48.639 So by mid July or early August, we would run 231 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:51.879 out of borrowing capacity, and we could we could risk 232 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:54.200 the faulding on our day. And I mean that's the 233 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:56.840 thing that we're worried about here. You know, as you 234 00:11:56.919 --> 00:11:59.840 talk about big spending and growing death sits and having 235 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:00.559 more or debt. 236 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:04.799 If you if you keep you know, spending more money 237 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:07.120 than you bring in, you get. 238 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:09.120 To borrow a lot. I mean, we're borrowing a ton 239 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:11.759 of money. And that is the most immediate That is 240 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:15.240 the real deadline. Donald Trump once July fourth, But we 241 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:17.600 have to do something about the debt limit. And a 242 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:18.919 lot of people are like, well, how do you how 243 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:21.480 do you raise the debt limit? Well, if we don't, 244 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:25.000 there's no path to a balance budget quick. I mean, 245 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:28.000 and let's be clear, this doesn't just there's no plan 246 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:32.080 out there that has been taken seriously that balances the 247 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:35.519 budget faster than about ten years, because you got to 248 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:38.120 you know, ease into it would be pretty dramatic. I mean, 249 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:41.120 you could go, I've seen an aggressive plan that you know, 250 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:43.240 maybe you could get by doing it in seven years, 251 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:45.679 but you're gonna have to borrow money. You have to 252 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:48.320 raise the debt limit, you know, for that kind of timeframe. 253 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:51.320 So the debtlimit increase here gets the debt limit out 254 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:54.519 past Donald Trump's presidency, so he doesn't have to deal 255 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:57.879 with it and you know the rest of his presidential term. 256 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:00.960 And we are going to not have a balanced budget 257 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:05.679 the entire time Donald Trump's president and well into whoever 258 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:08.440 the next president is, even if we start taking aggressive action. 259 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:11.399 So that's the most immediate thing. The other thing is, look, 260 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:15.799 the tax rates are are aren't going to go lower 261 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:16.240 for a. 262 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:16.799 Lot of people. 263 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:20.480 They would go up if we don't change the law 264 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:23.399 by January. And so I think, no matter what, we 265 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:26.840 would at some point. But either way, we got to 266 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:29.240 do something to prevent a tax increase. 267 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:29.799 Right. 268 00:13:29.879 --> 00:13:32.000 And then there's people that there's people that are supposed 269 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:34.440 to get a tax cut, and who are those people? 270 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:36.559 They say, oh, you know, millionaires and billionaires. That's the 271 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:39.039 whole narrative, and the media is sawing that line. The 272 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:42.559 status quo is just locked in with this bill. The 273 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:46.279 new taxes are going to people that get tips, waitresses, 274 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:50.039 service industry people on cash tips. It's going to people 275 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:52.440 that work overtime, so you don't have to pay tax 276 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:53.480 on the overtime hours. 277 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:55.840 I think about the Oliver Anthony. 278 00:13:55.519 --> 00:14:02.159 Song, you know, north of Richmond ain't crap and and 279 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:05.080 it's tax to no end. And you know, working overtime 280 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:09.039 hours for BSPA, And there's a lot of great lines 281 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:11.200 in that song. I love the music. And you know 282 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:13.759 you're thinking about the overtime hours. You're spending more time 283 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:15.799 away for your family. You're pouring it in to keep 284 00:14:15.799 --> 00:14:18.200 the company going until you get through this surge or 285 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:21.679 whatever with the overtime and you're making time and a half, 286 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:24.600 sometimes double time whatever, but you're paying a lot of 287 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:27.240 tax on that. So this gets rid of that, and 288 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:30.679 it's a it's an incentive to surge and grow the economy. 289 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:34.879 Uh and and so work the overtime and I think 290 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:37.279 that'll change productivity in the country, which is what it's 291 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:38.000 designed to do. 292 00:14:38.840 --> 00:14:39.679 So those are those. 293 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:42.799 Aren't millionaires and billionaires working overtime hours. I mean, you 294 00:14:42.840 --> 00:14:45.879 know on an hourly basis, right, they're not. They're not 295 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:49.879 collecting cash tips in the service industry. So those are 296 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:51.679 the people that wouldn't get a tax break. And the 297 00:14:51.679 --> 00:14:55.360 other people is senior citizens. I mean, there's a four 298 00:14:55.399 --> 00:14:59.399 thousand dollars credit for Social Security recipients and you know 299 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:01.360 the reason you and just exempt them is some people 300 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:03.759 are making tons of money off real estate or whatever 301 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:06.600 their other income is, so you didn't just exempt them 302 00:15:06.600 --> 00:15:09.799 from the income tax. But most people on their pure 303 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:13.279 Social Security pay, I think over ninety percent their pure 304 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:17.600 Social Security pay is going to be completely eliminated by 305 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:20.639 a four thousand dollars credit if that was their only income. 306 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:24.240 Well, the thing is, Congressman, that truth is a casually 307 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:27.519 when the media opens its mouth and well, I don't 308 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:31.399 think Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are working for tips. 309 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:34.919 I don't think they care much about overtime pay. I 310 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:37.600 don't think they care much fucking in and out, I'm 311 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:41.600 not sure. But the whole media focuses on billionaires and millionaires. 312 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:45.519 But if you're a tipped person, or if you're working overtime, 313 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:48.720 how many cops and firefighters and bartenders and bar backs 314 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:54.600 and those in the service industry really get overtime time 315 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:56.759 away from family and friends and fund because they need 316 00:15:56.759 --> 00:15:59.919 more money. So if you work and you get tips, 317 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:03.080 if you work and you look forward to overtime, if 318 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:06.480 you get Social Security, this bill is for you. Is 319 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:08.399 that the way the media pictures it is? 320 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:09.000 That is? 321 00:16:09.320 --> 00:16:11.799 Does that what I hear from the media, Well, that's. 322 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:13.480 Why we got to have one us free press like 323 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:14.039 you guys. 324 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:17.039 But but yeah, that's the mainstream controlled media is out 325 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:20.200 there selling the lie that it's millionaires and billionaires and 326 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:22.840 and and you know these guys aren't clocking in. You know, 327 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:25.440 they're not on the clock working overtime hours. Right, So 328 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:28.279 you know that's the consequence. I mean, there's a lot 329 00:16:28.279 --> 00:16:29.799 of good things in here. And you know the other 330 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:33.360 thing is, look, this border security is going great, but 331 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:35.639 we got to get the illegals out of the country. 332 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:37.399 Yeah, and they need they need money. 333 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:40.000 They need money to do it, and this bill provides 334 00:16:40.039 --> 00:16:42.840 the money. Uh and uh and then you know, we 335 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:43.840 got the wins in the court. 336 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:45.679 Now we just need to get the momentum out there 337 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:48.120 and uh, you get the people that came in illegally 338 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:51.000 out and uh and then we'll have the momentum to 339 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:52.080 really do reforms. 340 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:52.440 Uh. 341 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:54.399 So I think it until we get all that done, 342 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:56.399 there's really no path or reform anything. 343 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:00.080 Lastly, about a minute remaining, Congressman Warren Davidson, I look 344 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:04.680 again at the rebellion of the Neo Confederacy, which has 345 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:08.319 risen its ugly head again by the Democrats. We spent 346 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:11.880 about one hundred years fighting them, resulting in the Civil War. 347 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:15.440 About five hundred thousand, six hundred thousand my countrymen were 348 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:18.559 killed because the Democrats will not comply with federal law. 349 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:22.079 Here we are at another time, another place. Democrats are 350 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:25.519 not complying with federal law. They ignore it. Whether it's Illinois, 351 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:29.839 New York, the city of Cincinnati's a sanctuary city, California, 352 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:33.079 et cetera. What would you say to those neo Confederates 353 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:36.880 who now again went to violate federal law by not 354 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:40.240 cooperating with Ice on the deportation of illegals. 355 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:43.920 Well, look, the Articles of Confederation didn't have a national 356 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:48.359 standard for citizenship, and the Constitution does. It was touted 357 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:51.160 in the Federalist papers as one of the reasons to 358 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:54.400 adopt the Constitution, and it's common sense. You can't have 359 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:58.799 citizenship standards in every city in America or every state 360 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:00.480 in America. There has to be one standard of what 361 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:02.640 it means to be a United States citizen. And they 362 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:05.759 want to nuke the entire idea of citizenship and Donald 363 00:18:05.799 --> 00:18:07.839 Trump's right to do that. We need to do another 364 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:10.960 census so that we know who are the citizens. Because 365 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:14.400 I represent citizens, Members of Congress represent citizens. If you're 366 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:16.119 not a citizen, I'll help you find an embassy or 367 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:19.480 a consulate. You have an ambassador. And we need to 368 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:22.799 draw the congressional maps that way. Ohio's losing representation because 369 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:25.359 of it. In California has five to extra five to 370 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:28.720 seven extra members of Congress because they're counting non citizens. 371 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:31.559 We need to fix that and you get to treat 372 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:34.480 You got to citizenship matters, and that's that's what we 373 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:37.240 got to force. And if it means putting some state 374 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:40.200 and local officials in jail, I think the Trump administration 375 00:18:40.279 --> 00:18:41.000 is ready to do it. 376 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:43.119 Well, let's see what happens. Is going to be an 377 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:47.200 interesting afternoon. Hopefully by by sundown tonight or maybe by tomorrow. 378 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:50.960 The fourth of July came, Jefferies will quit flapping his 379 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:55.119 jaws a sound and fury signifying nothing, and hopefully there'll 380 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:56.720 be a vote. And if you get a tip, if 381 00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:59.279 you're on Social Security, if if you will work for 382 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:01.720 over time, you're going to love this bill and Congressman 383 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:04.240 Warren Davidson, you're a great American. Once again, thank you 384 00:19:04.279 --> 00:19:06.440 for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show, and good luck 385 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:07.440 later this afternoon. 386 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:11.359 Thanks a lot, God bless you and all your listeners. 387 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:13.160 And happy for Thank you very much, Congress. Well let's 388 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:15.440 continue with more. As you may know, Reds Baseball is 389 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:18.079 off today, having a dramatic win last night in Boston, 390 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:21.599 and they're back at it on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 391 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:25.279 in Philadelphia. Who can't pick up their garbage? Bill Cunningham 392 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:27.079 with you every day. You're home of the Reds News 393 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:32.880 Radio seven hundred. Wow. All right, Dave Keaton, hit the 394 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:36.359 music release, hit the music coming up later. As Jeff 395 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:39.519 Drue air from New Orleans about some of the job 396 00:19:39.640 --> 00:19:42.160 numbers came out this morning, I know reality doesn't matter. 397 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:46.519 What really is important is a performance art, which is 398 00:19:46.519 --> 00:19:49.160 what a keem Jefferies is doing. Is I speak and 399 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:52.079 you cannot delay. It will not be denied. At some point, 400 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:55.119 average Americans are going to get the benefits of the 401 00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:57.839