1 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:20,679 Speaker 1: And we are back with another edition of the Federalist 2 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:24,239 Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle, Senior Elections correspondent at the 3 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:28,800 Federalist and your experienced Shirpa on today's quest for Knowledge. 4 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,359 As always, you can email the show at radio at 5 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:37,119 the Federalist dot com, follow us on x at FDR LST, 6 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,840 make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast, and 7 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,320 of course to the premium version of our website as well. 8 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,880 Our guest today is Representative Brandon Gill, public in Texas, 9 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:54,240 the fighting twenty six congressional district. Representative Gill represents, and 10 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:58,679 he joins us for a conversation on border security, birthright citizenship, 11 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:04,159 and the swamp. That's three big things. We could take 12 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,200 many hours to go into this, but we have but 13 00:01:07,239 --> 00:01:09,519 a few minutes time here and wanted to get to 14 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:13,439 the most important issues of the day. Representative Gil, thank 15 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:15,840 you so much for joining us on the Federalist Radio Hour. 16 00:01:16,599 --> 00:01:21,719 Speaker 2: Matt, thanks for having me. Absolutely. Let's start with the border. 17 00:01:21,799 --> 00:01:26,640 Securing the border. We have spent four years in this country, 18 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:31,200 the previous four years under the Biden regime, living without 19 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,560 a border. Effectively, nobody knows that better than the people 20 00:01:34,599 --> 00:01:36,920 of Texas, the good people of Texas who have been 21 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:42,719 inundated the front lines of the invasion. You have joined 22 00:01:42,799 --> 00:01:46,799 a number of your colleagues in the House, not only 23 00:01:47,239 --> 00:01:54,400 in presenting legislation on a very important aspect of this 24 00:01:54,599 --> 00:01:55,920 birthright citizenship. 25 00:01:55,959 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: You're also on an amicus brief filed in the United 26 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:05,239 States District Court for the Western District of Washington and 27 00:02:05,319 --> 00:02:08,400 the United States District Court in the District of Massachusetts 28 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,280 in support of President Trump's executive order in protecting the 29 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:18,520 meaning and value of American citizenship. This obviously is an 30 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:19,719 important battle for you. 31 00:02:21,599 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 3: It absolutely is. 32 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 4: You know, whenever I was running, no issue came up 33 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:33,000 more often and had people more upset about than open borders. 34 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:37,680 I mean, we had four years of absolute chaos under 35 00:02:37,719 --> 00:02:41,520 the Biden administration. As you know, well over ten million 36 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:45,479 illegal aliens who poured into our country over that four years, 37 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:51,039 probably more than that. That includes murderers, rapists, criminals of 38 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:51,719 all sorts. 39 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 3: I think there's about fourteen thousand. 40 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 4: Illegal aliens who have come into this country who have 41 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:04,080 murdered guilty of murder. That's a serious national security problem, 42 00:03:04,439 --> 00:03:07,639 and it's something that the people of Texas know very 43 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:09,960 well and are very very focused on. So you're right, 44 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,960 we've been very active in trying to bring back border security. 45 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,439 I can tell you my biggest priority in Congress right 46 00:03:17,479 --> 00:03:22,520 now is taking the great executive orders that President Trump 47 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:27,599 has been signing over the past several weeks, particularly related 48 00:03:27,599 --> 00:03:30,960 to border security, and codifying them into law to make 49 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:36,120 them permanent so that we cannot have another Democrat administration 50 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:40,000 who unleashes the same kind of hell on America that 51 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,439 Joe Biden did. We just can't do that again. So 52 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,879 that's my biggest priority, and we are working very hard 53 00:03:45,919 --> 00:03:46,439 towards that. 54 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:50,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, you said in a recent release, I think you 55 00:03:50,199 --> 00:03:54,439 summed it up. The left has misused and abused birthright 56 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:58,719 citizenship for too long in this country. President Trump's executive 57 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,520 order must be swiftly an act. Did you said you 58 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,280 were proud to join the Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan 59 00:04:04,479 --> 00:04:11,360 in signing the amicus brief supporting President Trump's executive order. 60 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:16,759 You mentioned the legislation which would codify the reforms that 61 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:21,759 we've seen in a very robust start to the new administration. 62 00:04:22,319 --> 00:04:25,399 This is the problem that you face. It's the problem 63 00:04:25,519 --> 00:04:30,000 that anybody reasonably trying to get a handle on this 64 00:04:30,079 --> 00:04:32,360 invasion over the last four years, and what we're dealing 65 00:04:32,399 --> 00:04:35,040 with America face is that's an accomplice media what I 66 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,240 like to call the prov de press. Get this from 67 00:04:37,319 --> 00:04:41,759 the liberal publication Washington State Standard. They talk about the 68 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:44,959 legislation that you signed on to that would amend federal 69 00:04:44,959 --> 00:04:48,800 immigration law to narrow the scope of citizenship. And this 70 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:51,560 is the part that drives me crazy. I want to 71 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:56,759 get your take on it. This is the obligatory line 72 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:02,319 in every corporate media story as although the right is 73 00:05:02,519 --> 00:05:07,759 enshrined in the US Constitution, that is the marrow of 74 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:13,680 the matter, because while the left in this country assumes 75 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:17,240 that that is a right enshrined in the US Constitution, 76 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:22,720 there is a good deal of legitimate disagreement on this 77 00:05:22,879 --> 00:05:27,319 fact in law. And the whole notion that this is 78 00:05:27,519 --> 00:05:32,480 just automatically enshrined is what these court cases ultimately are about, 79 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:33,040 are they not. 80 00:05:34,399 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 4: Well, that's exactly right, And let's think through the Fourteenth Amendment, 81 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,800 its text and a little bit of its history as well. 82 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,360 It is any person born or naturalized in the United 83 00:05:45,439 --> 00:05:49,879 States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, and that phrase 84 00:05:49,959 --> 00:05:54,680 and subject to the jurisdiction thereof is key here that 85 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:58,279 means that people who are in this country and are 86 00:05:58,319 --> 00:06:00,680 not subject to our laws. And there's a con and 87 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:04,240 this goes back, says deep roots in English common law, 88 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:09,639 for instance, that jurisdiction here refers to both allegiance to 89 00:06:09,759 --> 00:06:13,639 this country and obedience to its laws. Neither one of 90 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,399 those apply to illegal aliens who are coming here, who 91 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:21,560 remain loyal to their home nations, wherever that may be, 92 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,040 and are clearly not operating in obedience to our laws, 93 00:06:25,079 --> 00:06:28,959 or they wouldn't be here to begin with if we had. 94 00:06:29,079 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 3: And let me give you another example. 95 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 4: If we had a foreign army that invaded American territory, 96 00:06:35,199 --> 00:06:38,720 where foreign soldiers were giving birth to children in our nation, 97 00:06:38,879 --> 00:06:42,600 we would not expect those children to be citizens of 98 00:06:42,639 --> 00:06:43,560 the United States. 99 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:45,759 Speaker 3: We would everybody on both sides. 100 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:47,519 Speaker 4: Of the isle, I believe, would say that that is 101 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:52,759 patently absurd, and that is consistent with the text and 102 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:56,759 the spirit of the fourteenth Amendment. You know very well 103 00:06:57,199 --> 00:07:01,959 that the fourteenth Amendment was in ref reference to freed slaves. 104 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:05,839 It had nothing to do with illegal aliens who are 105 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:11,199 coming across our southern border, and it certainly had nothing 106 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:17,040 to do with facilitating one political party structurally rigging our 107 00:07:17,079 --> 00:07:21,120 elections by importing a new set of voters, which is 108 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:23,680 of course exactly what is happening right now. 109 00:07:23,759 --> 00:07:27,079 Speaker 3: So I think that, you know, the liberal media may 110 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,360 frame this as what we're. 111 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,199 Speaker 4: Doing as unconstitution I would simply say that that is 112 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:36,480 a not only a very poor reading of the Constitution, 113 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,879 but it, you know, lacks any historical precedents or any 114 00:07:41,399 --> 00:07:42,639 any logical. 115 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:45,879 Speaker 3: Understanding of what the fourteenth Amendment was meant to do. 116 00:07:46,399 --> 00:07:49,399 Speaker 1: And there in lies the challenge. You know, therein lies 117 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:54,399 what you are hoping for. As I understand it, Congressional 118 00:07:54,399 --> 00:07:59,519 colleague of yours said, we appreciate want these challenges so 119 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,199 we can get it into the Supreme Court of the 120 00:08:02,279 --> 00:08:05,120 United States. This thing could take up to three years 121 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,199 before it winds up on the High Court, and let's 122 00:08:08,199 --> 00:08:12,079 see how they rules. That's really the direction here. As 123 00:08:12,439 --> 00:08:14,160 you knew going in, there was going to be a 124 00:08:14,199 --> 00:08:17,079 fight from the left for all the things that they 125 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,920 want out of you know, sustained massive the legal immigration 126 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,839 in this country. You knew there was going to be 127 00:08:22,879 --> 00:08:26,120 a fight. Now this thing ultimately has to be decided. 128 00:08:27,519 --> 00:08:28,399 Speaker 3: That's exactly right. 129 00:08:28,439 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 4: I mean, we saw in the first Trump administration, nearly 130 00:08:31,879 --> 00:08:34,840 every single thing the President tried to do. 131 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 3: Was fought in the courts. 132 00:08:37,519 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 4: The left has weaponized our judicial system to thwart the 133 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:47,480 constitutionally protected will of the executive and that's that's been 134 00:08:47,519 --> 00:08:50,600 a serious problem in this country. But we knew that 135 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:52,279 this would go to the courts. We knew that the 136 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:55,279 left was going to have a major problem, and I'm confident, 137 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:59,759 I feel very good that ultimately this executive order will 138 00:08:59,759 --> 00:09:02,879 be held and that's why we're so I'm strongly in 139 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:05,799 support of it. But you know, the left is going 140 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,440 to go after everything President Trump does, particularly related to 141 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:11,960 the border. As we know, they tried to stop him 142 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,840 from funding the border wall in his first administration. They're 143 00:09:15,879 --> 00:09:19,200 going to try to stop him from deporting illegal aliens. 144 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:23,000 Just recently, there's a court order that stopped three members 145 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:28,080 of the Trende Arragua Venezuelan gang from being sent to 146 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:34,080 Guantanamo Bay. So this is just another example of a 147 00:09:34,159 --> 00:09:37,080 weaponized judicial system and left wing law fare. 148 00:09:37,639 --> 00:09:38,840 Speaker 3: But we're here for the fight. 149 00:09:40,039 --> 00:09:43,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt in the fight couldn't be any more important. 150 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:47,399 We're talking about the integrity of our nation. You don't 151 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:50,679 have a nation without a border. That's what we have 152 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:52,960 had to learn the hard way over the last four 153 00:09:53,039 --> 00:09:56,080 years in this country. Of course, I'm just curious. I 154 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,360 wanted to get your response to this. I know it's 155 00:09:58,360 --> 00:09:59,960 a question that's been asked. I think it's a question 156 00:10:00,039 --> 00:10:02,360 that should be asked repeatedly of our members of Congress, 157 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:07,120 particularly our left wing members of Congress. Why do they 158 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:14,320 seem so much more committed to the rights of a 159 00:10:14,399 --> 00:10:21,639 woman to abort her unborn child than they are to 160 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:26,399 the you know, the integrity of our borders. In essence, 161 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:34,879 they're more in line with supporting illegal immigrants to give 162 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:39,720 birth than they are to women in general in this 163 00:10:39,759 --> 00:10:41,720 country when it comes to the abortion issue. 164 00:10:43,919 --> 00:10:47,159 Speaker 4: That's a great that's a great point that you're making. 165 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:49,840 And I really do think that the left's views on 166 00:10:49,919 --> 00:10:57,840 illegal immigration, particularly over the past several decades, were solely 167 00:10:57,879 --> 00:11:01,960 designed to rig our political system. And that's not a 168 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:06,480 conspiracy theory. For decades, the left has talked about very 169 00:11:06,519 --> 00:11:12,840 openly about how demographics or destiny, how the changing demographics 170 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:16,159 in the United States were politically beneficial for the Democrat 171 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,879 Party at the expense of the Republican Party. They have 172 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:25,919 been facilitating open borders for decades, and unfortunately, for part 173 00:11:25,919 --> 00:11:28,799 of that time, Republicans sort of looked the other way 174 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:31,679 and allowed it to happen because they want, you know, 175 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:35,679 Democrats wanted voters, Republicans wanted cheap labor, and that was 176 00:11:35,759 --> 00:11:40,600 the sort of faustian bargain that was made. But we've 177 00:11:40,639 --> 00:11:44,159 heard even Chuck Schumer a couple of years ago out 178 00:11:44,159 --> 00:11:47,039 in the open saying that the goal is to provide 179 00:11:47,039 --> 00:11:50,639 a pathway to citizenship for all of the illegal aliens 180 00:11:50,639 --> 00:11:53,799 who came into this country under Joe Biden's administration. And 181 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:57,639 of course with a pathway to citizenship comes voting rights, 182 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:03,559 and historically the idea that illegal aliens voting would benefit Democrats, that. 183 00:12:03,879 --> 00:12:07,159 Speaker 3: Has been a pretty safe bet historically. 184 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 4: To make you know, I'm a little skeptical how long 185 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:13,840 that's going to hold. As the Left embraces some of 186 00:12:13,879 --> 00:12:18,639 the particularly the more radical iterations of wokeness, you know, 187 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:23,159 the transing four year olds and the drag queens in 188 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:28,840 schools and on our military basis, and just unrestrict completely 189 00:12:28,919 --> 00:12:34,159 unrestricted abortion up until birth. These are things that most Hispanics, 190 00:12:34,159 --> 00:12:37,279 for instance, don't agree with, but that has been the 191 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,240 bet that the left has made, and I think that 192 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:43,320 that is fundamentally why they've supported open borders, and that's 193 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:47,840 why I think I truly believe that mass migration is 194 00:12:47,879 --> 00:12:50,720 one of the biggest threats not only to the United 195 00:12:50,759 --> 00:12:53,200 States but all of Western civilization. 196 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 3: This is something we have got to be serious about. 197 00:12:56,639 --> 00:12:59,559 Speaker 4: This was a key part of the Trump agenda, not 198 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:03,679 only twenty fifteen and sixteen, but this election cycle too. 199 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:08,879 Of course, we have got to build the wall. We've 200 00:13:08,919 --> 00:13:14,559 got to fund deportations on a large, large scale. Mass 201 00:13:14,639 --> 00:13:18,399 deportations were That wasn't just a talking point. That was 202 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,320 something that we're very serious about. The American people want 203 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:25,320 their country back. They don't want to see our election 204 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:30,600 system rigged by massive hordes of people from foreign countries 205 00:13:30,639 --> 00:13:33,759 who are ultimately going to be voting in our elections. 206 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:39,080 That's a serious problem. So we're serious about it. In frankly, 207 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:40,399 we're going to take our country back. 208 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:44,519 Speaker 1: You raise a very good point. I think that the 209 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:48,279 left in this country, the Democratic Party, is still smarting 210 00:13:48,399 --> 00:13:53,919 from the results of November, which showed that a significant, 211 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:59,000 relatively speaking number of Hispanic voters were behind Republicans. They 212 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:05,600 were definitely hind Donald Trump and they just feel their feelings. 213 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:10,759 Left's feelings are because they said, hey, we supporters wide 214 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:14,919 open for you, We granted asylum for whatever reason, catch 215 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:18,240 and release, it was all there for you. You owe us. 216 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:20,320 Do you get that sense from your colleagues on the. 217 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:24,679 Speaker 4: Left, You know, I do, and I think that they're 218 00:14:25,639 --> 00:14:28,600 and they haven't quite come around to the fact that 219 00:14:29,759 --> 00:14:32,919 not only Hispanics, but but other minority groups are moving 220 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:37,320 away from them. You know, the whole mantra of the 221 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:41,720 Democrat Party this past cycle was don't believe the evidence 222 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:43,679 of your eyes in years, and that was true on 223 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:47,080 the border, where they will try to make absurd claims 224 00:14:47,159 --> 00:14:51,679 about how, you know, border security was tighter under President 225 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:55,720 Biden than it was under President Trump or underpast administrations. 226 00:14:56,399 --> 00:14:58,559 Whenever they try to tell you that that boys can 227 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:01,120 become girls, or that it makes sense in any world 228 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:05,000 for boys to be playing in girls' sports, these things 229 00:15:05,039 --> 00:15:08,919 are just patently absurd, and they kind of overplayed their 230 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:12,919 hand with the wokeness. And I think that there comes 231 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:16,519 a point where normal Americans look at this and they say, 232 00:15:17,159 --> 00:15:21,679 you know, you've so lost touch with reality that I 233 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:26,000 can't stand with you anymore, you know, And that's why, 234 00:15:26,159 --> 00:15:28,120 you know President Trump was elected, or one of the 235 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,960 reasons he was elected with such a massive mandate from 236 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:35,679 the American people. But I'll tell you also this, the 237 00:15:35,679 --> 00:15:38,879 American people are sick of having their country taken away 238 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,440 from them. It's like for so many people, it's like 239 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:44,080 you went to bed one day and you woke up 240 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:47,279 the next morning and all of the sudden, everything in 241 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:51,759 America was different, all of the sudden, gender had no meaning, all. 242 00:15:51,639 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 3: Of a sudden. 243 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:56,559 Speaker 4: You know, there were tampons in boys' bathrooms. I mean, 244 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:00,799 things that are just mind blowingly ridiculous. Because the norm 245 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:07,519 under Democrat rule for four years, open borders, inflation raging, 246 00:16:07,919 --> 00:16:11,799 economic opportunity declining. You know, this isn't the America that 247 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,000 so many people grew up in, and they just want 248 00:16:14,039 --> 00:16:15,080 their country back. 249 00:16:15,639 --> 00:16:16,919 Speaker 3: You know, if you look at. 250 00:16:16,679 --> 00:16:20,759 Speaker 4: What President Trump and Elon Musk and the Doge Committee, 251 00:16:20,759 --> 00:16:24,240 which I serve on, have been doing over the past 252 00:16:24,799 --> 00:16:27,799 few weeks. You know, remember President Trump hasn't even been 253 00:16:28,159 --> 00:16:31,519 in office for a month. I mean, this stuff moves 254 00:16:31,559 --> 00:16:36,039 so fast. But we're uncovering an enormous amount of waste 255 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:40,960 and showing how the federal government has been operating not 256 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,120 only in an unaccountable way, but in ways that are 257 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:48,320 directly opposing and against the interests of the American people. 258 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 3: And that's what people are sick of. 259 00:16:50,559 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 4: And that's why I think President Trump has such high 260 00:16:53,679 --> 00:16:55,279 approval ratings right now. 261 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 5: Have you been keeping track of the Trump scorecard? The 262 00:17:00,879 --> 00:17:04,000 Watch Dout on Wall Street podcast with Chris Markowski. Every day, 263 00:17:04,079 --> 00:17:07,079 Chris helps unpack the connection between politics and the economy 264 00:17:07,079 --> 00:17:09,799 and how it affects your wallet. In only a few weeks, 265 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:16,160 border crossings have plummeted, DEI programs canceled, Mexico caved, Canada caved, 266 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:20,200 Panama caved, and dough is saving billions. Whether it's happening 267 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:22,720 in DC or down on Wall Street, it's affecting you financially. 268 00:17:22,799 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 3: Be informed. 269 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:25,279 Speaker 5: Check out the watch Dot on Wall Street podcast with 270 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:28,519 Chris Markowski on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. 271 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:34,400 Speaker 1: We're going to get to the Doge. The Doge Committee, 272 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,359 which as you mentioned, you're a member of, coming up 273 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:39,799 in just a moment. I want to stay just one 274 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:45,720 final question for you on the border issue on national security. 275 00:17:45,839 --> 00:17:49,000 On that front, our guest today is Representative Brandon gil 276 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:53,160 Republic in Texas from the twenty six Congressional District, joining 277 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:57,519 us for a conversation on border security, birthrights, citizenship, and 278 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:01,480 draining the swamp. You had mentioned earlier in our conversation. 279 00:18:01,559 --> 00:18:03,920 I thought it was a great point about the perils 280 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,960 this Republic faces from mass migration. When you have people 281 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:13,599 not coming through the process through the system, not coming 282 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:19,079 to be Americans, their allegiance still lying with their former 283 00:18:19,319 --> 00:18:23,720 countries where they're coming from. In so many cases, what 284 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:28,839 happens when the people who are here are citizens of 285 00:18:28,839 --> 00:18:33,720 this country, naturalized citizens of this country, like your colleague 286 00:18:33,799 --> 00:18:38,920 on the left, Representative il Han Omar, When they are 287 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:46,200 holding press conferences and big media shows to advise illegal 288 00:18:46,279 --> 00:18:52,839 immigrants on how to thwart immigration and customs enforcement, but 289 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:58,680 thwart the laws of this land. You have called for 290 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,559 Representative oma are to be deported. There was some backlash 291 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:07,480 from the usual suspects and the accomplice media. This is 292 00:19:07,519 --> 00:19:12,119 what Representative Omar had to say about your statements, and 293 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,559 I want to get your take on them. She said, 294 00:19:14,559 --> 00:19:17,039 how stupid you have to be to be a member 295 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,920 of Congress and think your colleague who is a member 296 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:23,759 of Congress can be deported. She told Politico. By the way, 297 00:19:23,799 --> 00:19:27,319 Politico has taken millions upon millions of dollars of your 298 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:30,519 taxpayer money. If you're scoring along at home anyway, She 299 00:19:30,519 --> 00:19:32,519 goes on to say, I had to crawl my way 300 00:19:32,559 --> 00:19:35,680 into Congress, and I think these idiots who buy their 301 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,559 seats have no idea what a privilege it is to 302 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,559 be a member of Congress and what it takes. How 303 00:19:41,559 --> 00:19:43,759 do you respond to her comment, and let me follow 304 00:19:43,839 --> 00:19:48,079 up with this, do you think that Congressman Omar and 305 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,480 others like her in the squad and on the far 306 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:55,160 left forget what a privilege it is to be an 307 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:56,359 American citizen? 308 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 3: I do, And let me there's few things there. One. 309 00:20:01,839 --> 00:20:04,119 Speaker 4: I do find it a bit rich that she would 310 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:08,440 talk about buying a seat, especially after we've been finding 311 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:12,240 out over the past several weeks that so much of 312 00:20:12,319 --> 00:20:16,759 the left's institutional ecosystem and their influence in political life 313 00:20:16,799 --> 00:20:21,759 in America is based on taxpayer subsidies. I do think 314 00:20:21,799 --> 00:20:24,279 we and we can get to this whenever we're discussing Doge, 315 00:20:24,279 --> 00:20:26,440 But we do have to ask the question of where 316 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:30,240 would the left's ideological movement be were it not for 317 00:20:30,559 --> 00:20:33,759 the millions upon millions If not billions, if not hundreds 318 00:20:33,759 --> 00:20:37,440 of billions of dollars being funneled into left wing media, 319 00:20:37,519 --> 00:20:41,960 left wing NGOs, another left wing advocacy groups that are 320 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:47,480 doing everything from facilitating open borders to censoring American citizens. 321 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,920 So I do think that that's quite peculiar that she 322 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:56,519 would take things that route. But you know, I think 323 00:20:56,559 --> 00:21:02,759 if you think about whether it's Congressman Omar or anybody 324 00:21:02,759 --> 00:21:07,440 else who clearly doesn't have a sincere allegiance to this country, 325 00:21:09,039 --> 00:21:13,480 it really is a damning indictment of our legal immigration 326 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:16,880 system that we would allow somebody who hates this country, 327 00:21:17,279 --> 00:21:21,119 hates its heritage, hates the principles upon which it was 328 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:25,279 founded to come into this country to begin with. I 329 00:21:25,319 --> 00:21:28,240 will say I didn't say that she should be deported. 330 00:21:28,319 --> 00:21:32,200 I said that America would be better off were she deported, 331 00:21:32,279 --> 00:21:36,799 and that is entirely correct. She is a citizen, she's 332 00:21:36,839 --> 00:21:39,960 a member of Congress. She can't be deported. But I 333 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:44,720 do think that this does raise her conduct, raises serious 334 00:21:44,799 --> 00:21:49,640 questions about to whom is she most loyal American citizens 335 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,319 and the American government in the American way of life, 336 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,599 or illegal alien Somalis who have no business being here. 337 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,920 To begin with, and her conduct and her rhetoric. You know, 338 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:06,079 she's talked about being Somali. First, she's aiding and telling 339 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:10,200 illegal aliens how to avoid our laws and our customs. 340 00:22:10,519 --> 00:22:15,880 Speaker 3: That is utterly repugnant. Her behavior indicates that she is 341 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,720 more illegal to loyal excuse me, to illegal aliens than 342 00:22:19,759 --> 00:22:24,160 she is to American citizens into this country. But you know, 343 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:25,839 we we. 344 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 4: Have to ask ourselves also, is American citizenship the most 345 00:22:30,839 --> 00:22:34,400 valuable thing in the world or is it not? And 346 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:38,599 we've allowed our in this instance, our legal immigration system 347 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:43,160 to hand out citizenship to people who really have no 348 00:22:43,319 --> 00:22:47,319 business being here, who get an enormous amount of benefits 349 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:52,319 from being in America, not only from their constitutionally protected 350 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,640 rights here, but also an enormous oftentimes welfare. 351 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,759 Speaker 3: And that's a problem, and. 352 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 4: I think in this instance it's a serious It does 353 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:07,200 raise serious questions about our immigration system, and I think 354 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,000 that this is something that we should tackle over the 355 00:23:10,039 --> 00:23:11,079 next four years. 356 00:23:11,519 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 1: I think that's a great transition into the Department of 357 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,400 Government efficiency, into what Elon Musk is doing, what the 358 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,839 President wants out of this, what you folks are doing 359 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,759 on the Doge Committee. Let's keep in mind that congres 360 00:23:24,799 --> 00:23:31,279 Congresswoman Omar had recently talked about how beneficial us AID 361 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:36,799 us AID was in terms of her eventually getting here 362 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:41,640 to the United States. Say what you want about Representative Omar. 363 00:23:41,759 --> 00:23:44,640 There are a number of people in the refugee camps 364 00:23:45,839 --> 00:23:50,519 where she once lived that absolutely hate America. There's no 365 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:55,319 denying that we've seen that. We have lots of evidence 366 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:57,759 to show that, not just in those camps, but elsewhere 367 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:02,079 people coming to this country that were indoctrinated in their 368 00:24:02,079 --> 00:24:05,960 home countries to hate the evil Empire, the Great Satan, 369 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,759 or however they wanted to find that. So this does 370 00:24:09,839 --> 00:24:13,599 tie into what you have. What you are uncovering right 371 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:19,200 now is not only waste, massive inexcusable criminal waste of 372 00:24:19,279 --> 00:24:24,119 taxpayer dollars. As you note, there's a lot of money 373 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:29,519 going against the interest of America and its national security. 374 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,680 Can we what have you? What have you seen so 375 00:24:32,839 --> 00:24:36,640 far based on what the committee is doing, what you've 376 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:41,480 seen Musk doing, and others working on this very important project. 377 00:24:42,599 --> 00:24:45,839 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that you're you're exactly right there. I mean, 378 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,920 it's funny that the left is furious about Doge, They're 379 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,400 furious about Elon Musk. They talk about it at every 380 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:57,319 single committee that we have, whether it's on the Budget 381 00:24:57,319 --> 00:25:00,480 Committee or I'm hearing about it being talked about on 382 00:25:00,559 --> 00:25:01,799 the Energy and Commerce Committee. 383 00:25:01,799 --> 00:25:04,400 Speaker 3: I mean, they are furious. It's all they'll talk about. 384 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:08,440 Speaker 4: But the left isn't furious that our tax dollars are 385 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:12,039 being wasted, that they're being abused, that they're going to 386 00:25:12,079 --> 00:25:13,200 fraudulent programs. 387 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,559 Speaker 3: They're just furious that all of this waste is being exposed. 388 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 4: As I mentioned earlier, I mean, you have Politico getting 389 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,279 over eight million dollars of American tax payer dollars, who 390 00:25:23,319 --> 00:25:27,480 sent millions to the BBC. We've sent a significant amount 391 00:25:27,519 --> 00:25:30,880 to the New York Times. So ask yourself, you know, 392 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:34,200 if we're funding these left wing organizations, who are they 393 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,000 going to back. Are they going to back the party 394 00:25:37,079 --> 00:25:40,759 that is continuing the gravy train that is sustaining them 395 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,839 or the party who wants to end waste fraud abuse 396 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:45,640 in our federal government. 397 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 3: I mean, that's a very clear conflict of interest. 398 00:25:49,039 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 4: It's kind of a joke whenever these media outlets describe 399 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,480 themselves as independent, whenever a large portion of their funding 400 00:25:56,559 --> 00:25:59,599 comes from the federal government. But that's a different issue. 401 00:26:00,039 --> 00:26:04,880 But We've found things that are absolutely contrary to the 402 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:08,680 interests of American citizens, and we found the federal government 403 00:26:08,839 --> 00:26:15,839 promoting values that most American citizens find utterly repugnant. Two 404 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:22,319 million dollars going towards sex change operations in Guatemala, millions 405 00:26:22,319 --> 00:26:27,920 of dollars going towards DEI programs in all over Asia, 406 00:26:28,039 --> 00:26:31,160 in South America, a million and a half going to 407 00:26:31,279 --> 00:26:36,039 DEI and serbian workplaces. I've got a little list here. 408 00:26:36,319 --> 00:26:39,799 One point one million on gender diverse people in Bangladesh. 409 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:46,119 Six million to transform digital spaces to respect feminist democratic principles. 410 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,400 I mean, I could, I could talk about these all day. 411 00:26:48,759 --> 00:26:52,559 Lord in there, it's easy to laugh at them because 412 00:26:52,599 --> 00:26:58,279 they're so ridiculous. But the American people, whenever they find 413 00:26:58,319 --> 00:27:01,279 out that at the end of every year, whenever they 414 00:27:01,319 --> 00:27:04,440 go and pay their taxes and even irs, that wants 415 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:09,200 you to disclose six hundred dollars transactions, and you're trying 416 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:13,079 to dot every tea, dot every eye, and cross every 417 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,799 t whenever you're filing your income taxes to make sure 418 00:27:15,799 --> 00:27:18,880 that the federal government doesn't come after you for tax 419 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,599 fraud or tax evasion. You're finding out that they're spending 420 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:28,240 millions of dollars on sex changes in foreign countries. It's insulting, 421 00:27:29,079 --> 00:27:34,000 it really is. We found just found out last week 422 00:27:34,079 --> 00:27:38,359 that the federal government FEMA disaster relief funds to spend 423 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:45,039 over fifty nine million dollars just last week on luxury 424 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,559 hotels for illegal aliens. That's money that could have gone 425 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:53,359 to hurricane relief in North Carolina or a wildfire relief 426 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:58,640 in California. So we are diverting funds from American citizens, 427 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,720 from the people who pay for this, to find bizarre 428 00:28:02,839 --> 00:28:06,599 projects and to find welfare for illegal aliens. That's a serious, 429 00:28:07,519 --> 00:28:10,880 serious problem. And that's what we're going after here. That's 430 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,720 what Elon Musk is going after. So President Trump is 431 00:28:13,759 --> 00:28:15,200 going after, and that's what we're going after with the 432 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:16,119 Doge Committee. 433 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 1: Just all so gross. It makes you, as a taxpayer, 434 00:28:18,799 --> 00:28:20,599 just want to take a shower after you. I mean, 435 00:28:20,799 --> 00:28:23,799 this is important stuff, don't get me wrong, but I mean, yeah, 436 00:28:23,839 --> 00:28:26,960 we laugh, but I mean this, listen, this is money. 437 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,319 You know, you talk, well, it's you know, for this 438 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,720 grant or that grand one point seven million dollars, that's 439 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,799 a drop in the bucket to the you know, the 440 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:39,279 national debt to the annual budget. That's obscene that kind 441 00:28:39,319 --> 00:28:42,480 of argument, because one point seven million dollars is the 442 00:28:42,559 --> 00:28:44,680 kind of money that a lot of Americans will never 443 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:48,000 see in their lifetimes. I mean, that's that to me. 444 00:28:48,519 --> 00:28:52,680 And then when we see that, you have a left 445 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:58,880 rallying around the fact that it's it's such a travesty 446 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,160 in their minds that the federal government is being audited. 447 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,839 How many small business owners and the Americans get audited 448 00:29:06,039 --> 00:29:10,160 every year? Why can't their government get audited? But I 449 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,920 have to ask you this, how do we get at 450 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:22,519 and sustain world peace and American presence in the world 451 00:29:22,839 --> 00:29:25,160 without Guatemalan sex changes? 452 00:29:27,319 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 4: Well, you know, that actually kind of hits it at 453 00:29:30,039 --> 00:29:34,200 a key point that the problem here isn't that we're 454 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:38,839 projecting values abroad or that we are spending money. I mean, 455 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,880 we the United States is the global hedgemon. We are 456 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:44,039 the most powerful country in the world. Of course we're 457 00:29:44,079 --> 00:29:47,720 going to have some kind of present internationally. The problem 458 00:29:47,799 --> 00:29:53,039 is the values themselves that we're projecting are un American 459 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:59,480 and they're disgusting. You know, if you oftentimes hear defenses 460 00:29:59,559 --> 00:30:02,799 of some of this international aid that comes in the 461 00:30:02,799 --> 00:30:05,839 form of well We've got to spend money on roads 462 00:30:05,839 --> 00:30:08,720 and bridges in Africa, because if we don't, China's going 463 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,440 to do that, and that's going to move the developing 464 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,599 world closer and closer to China, which is one of 465 00:30:12,599 --> 00:30:16,079 our biggest threats right now. Sure, but it's very well 466 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:20,400 understood internationally that the problem with American aid is that 467 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:24,279 we're not building roads and bridges. We're going to foreign countries, 468 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,759 oftentimes with more traditional values than we have and lecturing 469 00:30:27,799 --> 00:30:31,240 them on why you know, they're using the wrong pronouns 470 00:30:31,319 --> 00:30:33,480 or why they're not transing their young kids. 471 00:30:34,079 --> 00:30:34,960 Speaker 3: That's the problem. 472 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 4: There's what USAID and so many of these programs in 473 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:44,799 the federal government doing are not actually helping America's presence abroad. 474 00:30:44,839 --> 00:30:47,720 They're not actually putting us in a stronger position on 475 00:30:47,759 --> 00:30:49,920 the world stage. They're undermining us. 476 00:30:51,039 --> 00:30:53,480 Speaker 1: We're also sending a lot of money, and a lot 477 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:57,559 of Americans are waking up to this and have been 478 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,799 fully awake to this for some time. We're sending billions 479 00:31:01,839 --> 00:31:05,079 of dollars every year to countries that absolutely despise US. 480 00:31:05,279 --> 00:31:07,480 I want to see US, I want to see the 481 00:31:07,519 --> 00:31:11,720 country no longer exist, want to see Americans no longer exist. 482 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,759 That's something that really has to hit home. I'll close 483 00:31:15,799 --> 00:31:20,640 with this final question because I'm curious. I would really 484 00:31:20,799 --> 00:31:26,880 like to see, for instance, the Biden bill that passed 485 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:31,680 with just Democrats support. The infrastructure bill supposedly, you know, 486 00:31:31,799 --> 00:31:35,279 a trillion plus dollars for infrastructure. How much of that 487 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:39,359 money is going to these kinds of programs. And so 488 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,799 that leads me into the final question, what's next for 489 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,680 the Doge Committee? What do you want to be able 490 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:47,599 to accomplish in the coming weeks and months. 491 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,799 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I would like to see the Inflation Reduction 492 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:58,680 Act completely repealed. That was a wildly unpopular piece of legislation. 493 00:31:58,799 --> 00:32:01,640 It's stoked inflation in this country, and I think we 494 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,839 ought to get rid of it now that Republicans are 495 00:32:03,839 --> 00:32:07,720 back in power. But we're going to be going after 496 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,240 things like this and auditing where where a lot of 497 00:32:10,319 --> 00:32:13,599 that money went. That's something that you'll see over over 498 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,799 the coming month. It is something that we're working on. 499 00:32:16,279 --> 00:32:18,599 Our next step is we've got We've got a hearing 500 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:24,160 tomorrow where we're going to be looking at fraudulent Medicare 501 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,880 excuse me, Medicaid payments, and we're going to be exposing 502 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,039 a lot of the waste in that system. We're going 503 00:32:30,079 --> 00:32:33,519 to have hearings in the future that have been publicly 504 00:32:33,559 --> 00:32:37,200 announced where we're going to go after the five hundred 505 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,640 million dollars that we spend every single year to fund 506 00:32:40,839 --> 00:32:47,119 NPR in PBS. That's a problem. So we're we're not stopping, 507 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:50,799 We're not resting. We are working with the doge in 508 00:32:50,839 --> 00:32:54,440 the executive branch, and we're not going to stop until 509 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:55,799 every penny is accounted for. 510 00:32:56,759 --> 00:32:58,599 Speaker 1: This is critical work. I mean, what we were talking 511 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:02,359 about before securing the border, bringing a border back, making 512 00:33:02,359 --> 00:33:05,960 sure that our federal government is accountable spending our taxpayer 513 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:10,400 dollars appropriately. Thanks so much for joining us today. I 514 00:33:10,599 --> 00:33:13,440 appreciate your time, your perspective, and the work that you're doing. 515 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,039 Speaker 3: Awesome, Thanks Matt, thanks for having me. 516 00:33:16,319 --> 00:33:19,680 Speaker 1: Absolutely thanks to my guest today, Representative Brandon Gill, Republic 517 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,359 in Texas. You've been listening to another edition of The 518 00:33:22,359 --> 00:33:26,279 Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at 519 00:33:26,319 --> 00:33:29,480 the Federalist. We'll be back soon with more. Until then, 520 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,680 stay lovers of freedom and anxious for the frame