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Speaker 2: very happy Friday.
Speaker 3: Every day.
Speaker 2: Knows how much I love my Fridays, and I love
Speaker 2: him and folks in studio, most notably when they are
Speaker 2: congress people like Congressman David Taylor Davis in studio to
Speaker 2: talk about what it's like to be a congressman. He
Speaker 2: is our newest congressman from the Greater Sin Santi area,
Speaker 2: representing district COUP, which was former Congressman brad winstro Seed.
Speaker 2: Brad used to come in all the time.
Speaker 3: David. It's good to have you here. Great to be here, Brian,
Speaker 3: thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately for me, I was you know, winsterp likes to
Speaker 2: come in and you know, jawbone about issues because it's
Speaker 2: still of its critical importance to him. Of course he
Speaker 2: still has an active role, and of course you intellected
Speaker 2: capacity of an active role. And gee, it's a shame day.
Speaker 2: We don't have anything to talk about by way of
Speaker 2: subject matter today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's it is real shame. There's nothing going
Speaker 3: on whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Well as a new politician. I know you had a
Speaker 2: huge feel.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: He beat ten Republicans and one Democrat to succeed Winster.
Speaker 2: This is, you know, a new foray in your life.
Speaker 2: What's it like to be in this Trump administration? And
Speaker 2: I was joking with you off air, it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: Trump's sworn in and he has been sprinting ever since.
Speaker 2: You compare the amount of and whether you like him
Speaker 2: or not, and as listen as he sucks, well, fine whatever,
Speaker 2: he's been able to accomplish more in this very short
Speaker 2: period of time than Joe Biden did in his entire administration.
Speaker 2: And I suppose we should pause from it and thank
Speaker 2: our our our maker that Biden wasn't as active and
Speaker 2: engaged as Donald Trump or well, I don't know where
Speaker 2: we would be right now, but amazing. What's it like
Speaker 2: being in that environment? It's been great, Brian. And like
Speaker 2: like you said, we were talking off air a little bit.
Speaker 2: We got sworn into Congress in January third, and we
Speaker 2: got right to work. We passed into the Lake and
Speaker 2: Riley Act, we passed legislation to get man out of
Speaker 2: women's locker rooms and sports, and right on down the line,
Speaker 2: we were working every day, but then January twentieth came
Speaker 2: and President Trump got sworn in, and if it felt
Speaker 2: like we were tied to as tied to a stump,
Speaker 2: he took off running. And since then it's been quite
Speaker 2: a ride. Lot's happening. Most of the people, obviously in
Speaker 2: my district are thrilled with it. I am too.
Speaker 3: The big goal now is to change a lot of
Speaker 3: these executive orders into law so that they stay at
Speaker 3: the way they are.
Speaker 2: Well executive orders, and also the work that Doge has
Speaker 2: accomplished so far as so far, and you know, I
Speaker 2: find it almost impossible to behold or and I do
Speaker 2: find it impossible to comprehend people who are resisting what
Speaker 2: Elon Musk and his team have revealed to the American
Speaker 2: public by way of where our dollars are being spent,
Speaker 2: coupled with and this is almost more offensive the idea
Speaker 2: that our taxpayer dollars weren't more, they weren't as mindful
Speaker 2: of our tax player dollars. We knew they always weren't.
Speaker 2: They could take as much as they want from us,
Speaker 2: but no sense of a fiduciary obligation. When you look
Speaker 2: at systems like social security, which is already headed for,
Speaker 2: you know, a collapse, it has been for They've been
Speaker 2: predicted for decades. But that hundreds of thousands of people
Speaker 2: that are obviously dead could still have active Social Security
Speaker 2: numbers on the system. And people are outraged that DOGE
Speaker 2: has access to this information and a court order just
Speaker 2: he said, no, it's we're keeping the injunction in place
Speaker 2: keeping them away from that information. How many people work
Speaker 2: at the IRS have access to that information? These people
Speaker 2: with DOGE have the same level because security clearances the
Speaker 2: people that work in the Social Security Department. I don't
Speaker 2: find what the big problem is, but that someone might
Speaker 2: be against cleaning it up right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's not just the waste, which is terrible,
Speaker 3: but the way we're finding out this money is actually
Speaker 3: used against Americans' best interests. And it seems like people
Speaker 3: in DC that you hear the most from are are
Speaker 3: more mad about the discovery of the fraud, waste and
Speaker 3: abuse than they are about the fraud, waste and abuse.
Speaker 3: It's a big issue. Dough has to be allowed to
Speaker 3: do it. It's work. It's dually appoint by the executive branch.
Speaker 3: We didn't even have anything that I could discern as
Speaker 3: an actual functioning executive branch for four years, and they're
Speaker 3: complaining about actual designees of President Trump doing the work
Speaker 3: that the executive branch is supposed to do. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a little puzzling when you look at it from
Speaker 3: that aspect that they're they're more worried about how the
Speaker 3: problems are discovered than fixing the problems.
Speaker 2: That's that's what it is. It's one of those the
Speaker 2: jig is up kind of things, right, And the dollars
Speaker 2: that flowed out of USA, for example, by all accounts,
Speaker 2: circuitously made their way back into the pockets of politicians,
Speaker 2: either directly or indirectly in the form of political action
Speaker 2: committees or campaign contribution. So you know, no, you weren't
Speaker 2: funding Sesame Street and Iraq, You're actually funding some political
Speaker 2: action committe in DC to fund left wing causes.
Speaker 3: Right, and and Elon Musk kind of explained how that
Speaker 3: went down, where people like Soros and other activists would
Speaker 3: put a little need money into an NGO and then
Speaker 3: receive these huge grants from USAID and of course funnel
Speaker 3: those right back into whether it's electing prosecutors that having
Speaker 3: no intention of doing their job or funneled into Democrat
Speaker 3: candidates for all number of offices. I know they said
Speaker 3: it was like approximately two billion dollars a week in fraud,
Speaker 3: waste and abuse that they discovered early on from Social Security.
Speaker 3: And we actually sponsored a bill suggesting using you know,
Speaker 3: less than one week's worth of that money to address
Speaker 3: There are eighty one Tier one VA facilities with needs
Speaker 3: for their Tier one projects, meaning they need acute either
Speaker 3: restoration or rebuilding. So less than one week worth of
Speaker 3: waste from the what they found in the Social Security
Speaker 3: program would knock these all out. Whereas under the current
Speaker 3: system they're only putting one hundred and fifty million dollars
Speaker 3: towards this this long list of projects. At that pace,
Speaker 3: it will never get done. So those are the kind
Speaker 3: of things we're trying to turn turn this this negative
Speaker 3: situation into a positive as quickly as possible.
Speaker 2: Well, and you know, you talk about the one hundred
Speaker 2: fifty million dollars or two billion dollars that the pace
Speaker 2: at which these projects can get done. Go back to
Speaker 2: the Green New Deal stuff and what five billion dollars
Speaker 2: awarded to build you know, a Tesla charge and it's
Speaker 2: charging stations for octe vehicles and after four years or
Speaker 2: three years or so, seven of them got built. A
Speaker 2: high speed rail line out in California. That's literally billions
Speaker 2: of dollars over budget and they haven't gotten much of
Speaker 2: it done. That Baker's feel sacramenty whatever, that small leg
Speaker 2: that's connecting no One to no one, and for no
Speaker 2: particular reason, it's not even done. And it's been on
Speaker 2: the books and as a project now for what a decade.
Speaker 3: Right, And that money spent, it's it's not like, it's
Speaker 3: not like it's allocated, and it's it's still waiting for
Speaker 3: them to get the program together. That money's gone. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so if they ever want to do that, that light
Speaker 3: rail program, they're gonna need that money again. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it's absolutely ridiculous. And you know that money didn't disappear,
Speaker 3: and California you can pretty much guess where it went.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I used to live in Chicago for eight years,
Speaker 2: so I can guarantee I know where it went. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's why nothing's been done yet in terms of the
Speaker 2: legislation that you're interested in moving forward. I know one
Speaker 2: of the big focuses in the vic grama swim it
Speaker 2: was just on talking about focusing here in Ohio and education.
Speaker 2: It's a big It's a big deal for me. I
Speaker 2: am bussed who have had a good classical education. My
Speaker 2: parents insisted on me getting an education victim of public schools,
Speaker 2: and I got two degrees in the University of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: But classical education, you know, phonics, arithmetic, just old school stuff, right,
Speaker 2: and I would love to have a return to that
Speaker 2: and moving away from this, DEEI woke kind of nonsense.
Speaker 2: It's the education system, as reflected by test scores, has
Speaker 2: become more of an a doctrination camp where you have
Speaker 2: more time spent on things that have nothing to do
Speaker 2: with the foundation and the building blocks that allow children
Speaker 2: to advance in the next grade, reading, writing, arithmetic, core
Speaker 2: key things and sciences too. By getting rid of the
Speaker 2: Department of Education, which is forcing this using federal dollars
Speaker 2: as a vehicle to force schools who accept the money
Speaker 2: to engage in those programs, Donald Trump and Congress can
Speaker 2: flip all that. Did you see a bill to eradicate
Speaker 2: the Department of Education? Because that will be required being
Speaker 2: advanced and where do you think it would go if
Speaker 2: it is?
Speaker 3: Well, there should be a bill and it's going to
Speaker 3: be a challenge to get it across the line with
Speaker 3: the current setup. I think it would be successful in
Speaker 3: the House. I think it would face challenges in the
Speaker 3: Senate with the lack of the sixty votes. And I
Speaker 3: don't see a way immediately around the bird rule on that.
Speaker 3: But they can definitely limit what the Department of Education
Speaker 3: is doing, and they're doing that when we appreciate that
Speaker 3: very much. And as you said, Vivek has got some
Speaker 3: great ideas for Ohio's education. You merit based pay for teachers,
Speaker 3: and that's not just based on test scores, as he's
Speaker 3: pointed out. I don't know if you've had a chance
Speaker 3: to hear him speak yet on this since he's declared
Speaker 3: UH for governor, but he's got some great ideas for
Speaker 3: multi factor analysis of teachers performance and paying you know,
Speaker 3: based on actual merit, which is a long overdue and
Speaker 3: they should be paid better and paid better because of
Speaker 3: the great work they do. It's there's no more important job.
Speaker 3: And he's got so many great ideas for Ohio. And
Speaker 3: if you haven't heard him speak to those, you will soon.
Speaker 3: I know he was on with you earlier today and
Speaker 3: UH and we're looking forward to announce my endorsement of
Speaker 3: him tonight as our next governor. I think, you know,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, oops. But you know, he's got great ideas
Speaker 3: for Ohio. He knows like I do, that Ohio is
Speaker 3: on the on the verge of a time where we
Speaker 3: can really move forward talking about energy production, talking about Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you know, the Second District stands ready, that's that's
Speaker 3: our history. We want to get back to doing that.
Speaker 3: The small modular nuclear facilities. We've got the only uranium
Speaker 3: enrichment American owned facility in the United States, smack dab
Speaker 3: in the middle of the Second District. And now we're
Speaker 3: not afraid of the work. You know, it's not, as
Speaker 3: he stated, it's not three mile Island anymore. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: a very safe, clean, affordable, you know, abundant source of energy.
Speaker 2: I've been screwing on the top of my lungs about
Speaker 2: that for years now. I mean, we're not building three
Speaker 2: mile islands. We have evolved since the nineteen seventies in
Speaker 2: nuclear technology and nuclear energy production, and these babies. It's
Speaker 2: kind of like legos. Yeah, you design one and you
Speaker 2: could pick it up and use the same damn thing
Speaker 2: over here. You don't have to, you know, tailor it
Speaker 2: to your landscape necessarily. They don't use a whole lot
Speaker 2: of space up they abundance of electricity and all. If
Speaker 2: you believe in climate change and you think carbon dioxide,
Speaker 2: which is plant food, is changing our climate, they don't
Speaker 2: produce any of that either, right, you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: why is the entergy, the the the the green. Where
Speaker 2: are the green folks against it? It's a mystery to me.
Speaker 3: They're starting to figure it out because they want all
Speaker 3: these electric mandates. They want data centers, which I'm all
Speaker 3: for data centers, but they find out you have to
Speaker 3: have energy for that. Windmills don't run data center. They
Speaker 3: don't neither, do you know, solar panel fields for the
Speaker 3: most part. So they're recognizing that and that's a good thing,
Speaker 3: I think, but it's going to take a while thing
Speaker 3: to get them to actually do it. And sometimes you
Speaker 3: wonder if not, you know, actually fixing the problem shuts
Speaker 3: off the fundraising that goes around the problem. Hopefully that
Speaker 3: wouldn't be it. Let's pause.
Speaker 2: We're going to be Congressman Dave Taylor back for another segment,
Speaker 2: and then we'll hear from Mayor Old candidate Corey Bowman
Speaker 2: is gonna have any one and every everybody know about
Speaker 2: and we'll get a recap of his lunch with Smitherman
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Speaker 2: Taylor and studio are proudly representing the second District here
Speaker 2: in Ohio and seems enthused about the job and obviously
Speaker 2: is impressed by what's been going on so far by
Speaker 2: way of progress, at least as he and you and
Speaker 2: I might perceive it. I want to ask you, though,
Speaker 2: and a lot of people sitting on the fence on
Speaker 2: this or you know, strong pro oponents or strong opponents,
Speaker 2: even folks on the same side of the political ledger.
Speaker 2: Of course, I got to ask you about tariffs.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I wasn't a big fan of tariffs until I took
Speaker 2: a look at it was fine. I don't know how
Speaker 2: it took so long for me to see and know
Speaker 2: and for all of us to genuinely come to an
Speaker 2: understanding about what other countries were charging by way of
Speaker 2: tariffs on the United States. I mean China sixty seven percent,
Speaker 2: I had no idea, and so ours now isn't even
Speaker 2: sixty seven percent, although it's pretty onerous. But nonetheless, you know,
Speaker 2: you look out in the world, some countries charging ninety
Speaker 2: percent tariffs. Most of them were at ten to twenty percent,
Speaker 2: but we didn't have any tariffs on them previously, So
Speaker 2: what gives on that? And we've been able to play
Speaker 2: along nicely in the world up until now, and then
Speaker 2: now people are in their hair out and losing their
Speaker 2: minds because, oh, we're going to cause a global economic
Speaker 2: collapse because we decided to do what they've been doing
Speaker 2: to us all the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Brian, I couldn't agree more on that. You know,
Speaker 3: we have in the United States the greatest consumer market
Speaker 3: on the planet possibly ever, which we've allowed every country
Speaker 3: in the world to access basically almost all of them,
Speaker 3: with no tariffs whatsoever. Meanwhile, they want to charge us
Speaker 3: to have access to their markets. So somehow in leveling
Speaker 3: that playing field, we're the bad guy. So I don't
Speaker 3: really understand that either. And you know, as far as
Speaker 3: expert opinions on tariffs, for every economists that says they're terrible,
Speaker 3: I can find you one that says they're great, and
Speaker 3: economists is probably the only job in the world where
Speaker 3: you can be right less often than the weather man
Speaker 3: and still be considered an expert. But you know, since
Speaker 3: obviously you have to recognize that the tears have had
Speaker 3: a big impact on the markets over twenty four hours,
Speaker 3: but everybody knows that we were taking a long way
Speaker 3: the wrong way over the last twelve of the last
Speaker 3: sixteen years. And it's it's not going to be utterly
Speaker 3: painless to fix it, but I do think it's going
Speaker 3: to be a short term thing. We're seeing the ten
Speaker 3: year Treasury bill going down, which is a huge good
Speaker 3: sign for the United States. That's I mean, that's how
Speaker 3: you finance your your long term debt.
Speaker 2: Right that's the interest payment on the credit card basically,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean you got to pay that, so
Speaker 2: we got to pay other countries. You'll be buying your
Speaker 2: tea bills six percent or eight percent. Clearly that's a
Speaker 2: lot of money annually. But if you only have to
Speaker 2: pay two or three percent, then you are saving money.
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, you know, we're Americans are for are for
Speaker 3: free trade, but it has to be fair too. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's nothing fair about one one one way tariffs.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm hoping it is short and a man that
Speaker 2: I have a tremendous amount of respect for, even though
Speaker 2: he is an economist. Thomas Sowell was asked about this
Speaker 2: the other day, and he went on to point out that, well,
Speaker 2: if the tariffs are intended as short term, limited measures
Speaker 2: to achieve strategic goals, they may be effective. But if
Speaker 2: they're left in place over the long term, they could
Speaker 2: replicate the devastating history of the global trade war that
Speaker 2: the Smooth Holly terrifact caused back in the Hoover administration.
Speaker 2: And everybody that studied history knows about that, and that
Speaker 2: certainly is a possibility, and that's what's that's the kind
Speaker 2: of thing that's got me worried.
Speaker 3: I agree that there's a I think the bulk of
Speaker 3: these these tariffs are are intended to be short term.
Speaker 3: Now with certain UH international players who might you might
Speaker 3: have longer term ones to project, you know, the American
Speaker 3: UH worker, say China, countries like that New North Korina,
Speaker 3: North Korea, of course. But it's interesting also that how
Speaker 3: many people over the last few years have expressed the
Speaker 3: the opinion that the tariffs are a good idea and
Speaker 3: and long overdue for for America, including everybody from Obama
Speaker 3: to Pelosi to uh even Bernie Sanders. So it's funny
Speaker 3: how when when they're they're finally enacted, they're they're screaming
Speaker 3: bloody murder.
Speaker 2: But well, it's cause evil orange man, right, because.
Speaker 3: Somebody actually had the temerity to do it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, but and the person who did it is
Speaker 2: evil orange man. If anything that Trump does that they
Speaker 2: wanted to do five minutes ago, they don't want to
Speaker 2: do now simply because Trump embraced the concept like fraud,
Speaker 2: waste and abuse. I mean, you've got every one of
Speaker 2: the politicians you just mentioned on record at some point
Speaker 2: in their political career saying we need to get rid
Speaker 2: of fraud, waste and abuse in government. Lo and behold,
Speaker 2: Elon Musk comes in starts doing that job, and they're
Speaker 2: all pissed off about it.
Speaker 3: It's like, what, Yep, you can add Schumer to that list. Yes,
Speaker 3: he did the same thing, absolutely, And they're right. You know,
Speaker 3: it's it's it's always popular to get up and say
Speaker 3: something that's true, and and when it was safe for
Speaker 3: them to do that and not have to worry about
Speaker 3: actually doing the work. That's when they said it.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what, David, it's been a real
Speaker 2: pleasure to having you in studio. We need to do
Speaker 2: this more often, either on the phone or you can
Speaker 2: come in. And I always welcome folks come in studio,
Speaker 2: and I appreciate taking the effort to do that. I
Speaker 2: know you do a fine job representing the second district,
Speaker 2: and I uh, and keep up the great work and
Speaker 2: keep playing nicely together up there. I know you've got
Speaker 2: that big, that big, massive what is it a reconciliation
Speaker 2: build to accomplish? Just real quick, what's the water temperature
Speaker 2: on that right now?
Speaker 3: I think it's I think things are progressing well. There
Speaker 3: was there was a brief sort of uh slow down
Speaker 3: in the in the procedure with the Senate, but it's
Speaker 3: up and running again, and it looks like what they
Speaker 3: call the vote rama is going to happen where they
Speaker 3: get their end of it nailed down and send it
Speaker 3: back to us and finalize it and get it to
Speaker 3: the President's desk. So very hopeful. You know, I'm very
Speaker 3: proud of the work that Speaker Johnson has done dealing
Speaker 3: with you know, a million different kinds of personalities and agendas.
Speaker 3: And I'm very as Vivac was speaking about earlier in Ohio. Nationally,
Speaker 3: the Republican Caucuses is together. It's united. It understands that
Speaker 3: this is an opportunity that can't be missed to h
Speaker 3: to get this country going in the right direction again.
Speaker 3: And that's what we're doing.
Speaker 2: I just wish it had more spending cuts in it.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, Well, well we'll get another bite at the
Speaker 3: reconciliation apple before the end of this term. So what
Speaker 3: we do want to get the biggest bite we can
Speaker 3: of things that are fraud, waste, and abuse. We don't
Speaker 3: want to affect the benefits of people who deserve the
Speaker 3: benefits they're receiving. We want to enhance those understood. Well,
Speaker 3: it's been a real pleasure talking with you, my friend.
Speaker 3: I look forward to talking to you again real soon. Likewise,
Speaker 3: thanks for having me in.
Speaker 2: It's been great. Have a wonderful weekend. It's eight twenty six, folks.
Speaker 2: Stick around, Corey Bowman. It's going to have any wants
Speaker 2: to talk to you about, and we're going to get
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