Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. We
Speaker 1: have Congressman Josh Urkeen on the line here with us.
Speaker 1: Got wow, a lot going on. First of all, kind
Speaker 1: of a reaction to what's been taking place here in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: We had a would be terrorist apprehended. Oh my godness sake,
Speaker 1: it's your reaction to that.
Speaker 2: Well, this is a result of what happened in a
Speaker 2: disasters withdrawal from Afghanistan and in timing with an administration
Speaker 2: that was saying to Afghanistan through visas, come on over.
Speaker 2: I mean, so what lack of vetting occurs when someone
Speaker 2: that would want to conduct terrorism in the boundaries of
Speaker 2: the United States brought here by the United States through
Speaker 2: a program. It just it's it's it just shows you
Speaker 2: how vulnerable this administration through wack of do policies they've
Speaker 2: they've they've made our country for terrorism.
Speaker 1: Activity other things going on here. We of course, we
Speaker 1: always go to money problems, and.
Speaker 2: Well, well, I'm assuming you're talking about the depth, Okay,
Speaker 2: I just want to make sure. Well, look, there's plenty
Speaker 2: of revenue flowing in. It's a matter of how much
Speaker 2: is being spent, and this spent talking about why I
Speaker 2: could do policies. As this conversation is continuing about my
Speaker 2: orc is saying that FEMA did not have the amount
Speaker 2: of money to finish out the year. Well, when you
Speaker 2: look at the one and a half billion dollars in
Speaker 2: a two year time frame they've spent on provided services, housing, food,
Speaker 2: et cetera for illegal immigrants. And then in addition to that,
Speaker 2: what they're doing to grant operisations to non government organizations
Speaker 2: whomen who then in turn take federal moneyes as a
Speaker 2: pastor of these non government organizations. These charities then are
Speaker 2: moving these people like a taxi service to wherever they
Speaker 2: want to go. So it's not a single person gut
Speaker 2: level on us would say the federal government spends efficiently.
Speaker 2: We all know that there's waste and then the lack
Speaker 2: of time spent on when a measure is introduced in
Speaker 2: Congress to say you want new money, what are you
Speaker 2: going to cut to pay for it? I mean, that
Speaker 2: is the standard policy I have in an office. If
Speaker 2: somebody wants to come to us and say this is
Speaker 2: a real need, all right, We're we're willing to a
Speaker 2: set to pay for it. But that ought to be
Speaker 2: a reasonable understanding given two trillion dollars destines, and so
Speaker 2: you don't have that question being asked much less you
Speaker 2: don't have questions being asked as to the insane policies
Speaker 2: and why we should be spending money on things like
Speaker 2: what we're talking about to begin with.
Speaker 1: Now, this is incredible. We've got one hurricane that's already
Speaker 1: affected a lot of people, a lot more than anyone
Speaker 1: ever anticipated. We've got another one coming that's probably going
Speaker 1: to tear out the whole I four corridor down in Florida.
Speaker 1: And as a you've we don't have enough money for
Speaker 1: one hurt game, let alone two and possibly a third
Speaker 1: or fourth that might hit us in this one season,
Speaker 1: let alone the potential for other natural disasters. Where do
Speaker 1: they go with the printing press or do they just
Speaker 1: pull out their pockets inside out and say, sorry, no money.
Speaker 2: Well, there is ample funding for FEMA, so I want
Speaker 2: to start there. There was, and I didn't vote for it.
Speaker 2: So don't want to duplicit this and say that this
Speaker 2: result of something I did. There was a twenty million
Speaker 2: dollar supplemental increase that is going to get down through December.
Speaker 2: That was a standalone as a part of the continuing
Speaker 2: resolution I did not vote for. So there's twenty million
Speaker 2: dollars to move them along for the disaster Relief Fund,
Speaker 2: which is a segment of femous funding. And so the
Speaker 2: funding is there. My orchestras spoke a couple of weeks
Speaker 2: ago and he I guess he didn't know that Congress
Speaker 2: had done that. But again, the entirety if we'd have
Speaker 2: followed what the prescription that we started last year under
Speaker 2: the Homeland Security Appropriations process, what those of us that
Speaker 2: started on the homelands to the committee wanted as much
Speaker 2: as anyone through the authorization, and then it was appropriate
Speaker 2: to the appropriators follow suit on is we end the
Speaker 2: six hundred to eight hundred million dollars every year that's
Speaker 2: going towards the illegal immigrants. You free up eight hundred
Speaker 2: million dollars a year, six hundred eight hundred million dollars
Speaker 2: a year. That's a significant amount of money to be
Speaker 2: able to move from the programming that the Biden administration
Speaker 2: is put on steroids in the way that they're doing
Speaker 2: this deals with the illegals, and move that towards speaking
Speaker 2: of offsets into disaster related expenses, that just makes too
Speaker 2: much sense for this administration.
Speaker 1: To do what I just said, though, what else you
Speaker 1: seen in Washington, DC that effects us here in Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: Just an over overspend and with with without reguard of
Speaker 2: what this is doing to us with the inflation area.
Speaker 2: I know I'm a broken record on this, but the
Speaker 2: power of the purse, James Madison said, of all the
Speaker 2: things that leverage exists for members of Congress, the power
Speaker 2: of the purse is that leverage, and we keep giving
Speaker 2: it away when we continue to maintain the status quo
Speaker 2: and we don't get serious about reducing the deficit spending
Speaker 2: that devalues the dollar that is driving the reason that
Speaker 2: everybody right now continues to have heightened twenty percent above
Speaker 2: what you were just two years ago to afford the
Speaker 2: same goods and services. What that's doing to you on
Speaker 2: an annual basis that the Budget Committee says is about
Speaker 2: fifteen thousand dollars over the course of a year. No
Speaker 2: increase in buying power, just lost the hidden tax of
Speaker 2: inflation upon the average family. For and until Congress sees
Speaker 2: their real job is using the power of the purse
Speaker 2: to say no to so much reckless spending and so
Speaker 2: much people will say, well, you know, you know it
Speaker 2: just waste for our debuse. No, it's a percentage reduction
Speaker 2: has to occur. We have been heightened since COVID era
Speaker 2: of thirty percent in the non defense discretionary budget thirty
Speaker 2: percent increase, and we've not returned back to normalcy. And
Speaker 2: if we'll start there, just go back to twenty nineteen
Speaker 2: spending levels, which is what most of my midments as
Speaker 2: I directed staff that we put forward, is to take
Speaker 2: this program or that program back to twenty ninete spending level.
Speaker 2: Is someone going to be able to come up to
Speaker 2: me and say, hey, you voted to cut the spending
Speaker 2: for this program I really like And my answer to
Speaker 2: them would be yes, Because the bigger thing is not
Speaker 2: how much in terms of what Washington is bringing home
Speaker 2: to you. They're stealing more from you through devaluation of
Speaker 2: your currency than you think the returning to you through
Speaker 2: government programs.
Speaker 1: Wow, interesting way of looking at that. I had an
Speaker 1: old congressman telling me this a long time ago, that
Speaker 1: when somebody else brings home a big project, that's pork,
Speaker 1: but when congressman does that for his own state, it's bacon.
Speaker 1: And I fail to see the difference. It both came
Speaker 1: off the same animal. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Look, in this case thinking, that way of thinking is
Speaker 2: why we are thirty five training in debt. That way
Speaker 2: of thinking is why we are place facing forty year
Speaker 2: high inflation, and that line of thinking lead us off
Speaker 2: the cliffs financially.
Speaker 1: How can people get ahold of you, Josh and ask
Speaker 1: you questions or you just get some information or maybe
Speaker 1: give you some information.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you want to ride to us? It's a
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Speaker 2: I know you know if you you take down to
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Speaker 1: Very good, Hey, joshould be good to yourself and thank
Speaker 1: you very much for stopping buying this seeing with us
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