1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,760 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,839 my daily show prep with all the links, become a 6 00:00:18,839 --> 00:00:22,559 patron go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Make sure you hit 7 00:00:22,559 --> 00:00:25,039 the subscribe button. Get every episode for free, write to 8 00:00:25,039 --> 00:00:27,600 your smartphone or tablet, and again, thank you so much 9 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:32,880 for your support. Where to begin? I guess we'll start 10 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:37,600 with the history of the Continuing Resolution. I'm just kidding. 11 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:40,079 We're not gonna We're not gonna start there. We're not 12 00:00:40,119 --> 00:00:43,439 gonna do that. We will start here about two days ago, right, 13 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:51,240 two days ago? Story? Oh, I don't know where this was. 14 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,679 That's weird. I usually include when I print these out 15 00:00:54,719 --> 00:00:59,520 where they came from. This might be well, sorry, well, 16 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:05,439 I yeah, Emily Brooks and Michael Schnell. This might be 17 00:01:05,519 --> 00:01:08,840 the Washington Examiner, but I'm not sure it could be 18 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:13,200 the Washington Times. I forget. House Republicans are fuming at 19 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker Mike Johnson's handling of an end of year measure 20 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:20,760 to extend government funding until March, saying it is more 21 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:25,079 like a sprawling omnibus which they have whore, than a 22 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:31,959 simple temporary funding measure. So again, an omnibus bill is 23 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:37,040 one that has like a whole bunch of crap thrown 24 00:01:37,079 --> 00:01:43,040 into it, unrelated items policy spending, just a bunch of 25 00:01:43,079 --> 00:01:46,920 stuff tossed in. I don't know why they call it omnibus, 26 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:51,560 Like this is a word that sort of came into 27 00:01:51,599 --> 00:01:53,760 the lexicon, I want to say, about ten years ago 28 00:01:53,799 --> 00:01:57,480 when they started doing these ridiculous monstrosities because they couldn't 29 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:02,319 do their freaking jobs to a budget, so they just 30 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,000 keep doing these omnibus spending bills and these continuing resolutions, 31 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:12,319 and then the Continuing Resolution or the CR became the omnibus, 32 00:02:12,719 --> 00:02:17,840 and the omnibus became the CR because they're like technically different, right, 33 00:02:17,879 --> 00:02:20,960 And omnibus is any kind of a bill that has 34 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,400 a bunch of stuff tossed in, and the continuing resolution 35 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,080 is just, you know, be it resolved, Like we're just 36 00:02:28,159 --> 00:02:32,039 going to pass a resolution that continues the funding that 37 00:02:32,199 --> 00:02:36,599 is existing right now. The problem is is that they 38 00:02:36,719 --> 00:02:39,280 just can't help themselves. They have to add some stuff 39 00:02:39,319 --> 00:02:44,120 to the CR, and so then the CR starts getting 40 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:47,319 lauded up with a whole bunch of stuff, and then 41 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:52,879 it turns into an omnibus. And that gave us the Cromnibus, 42 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:58,639 a melding of these two abominations, the Continuing Resolution and 43 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:04,360 the omnibus. Now it's a cromnibus. And now today we 44 00:03:04,479 --> 00:03:13,599 have the Kramnibus. So now you're injecting a tactical term. 45 00:03:14,039 --> 00:03:17,199 They're going to cram it down our throats. They're going 46 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,639 to ram it through the Congress. So now it is 47 00:03:19,719 --> 00:03:23,719 a cromnibus that's being rammed through and crammed down. And 48 00:03:23,759 --> 00:03:28,719 so now it's a cramnibus. I don't know. I don't 49 00:03:28,759 --> 00:03:31,120 know where we go from here, people, I really don't. 50 00:03:32,159 --> 00:03:34,800 So I mean on the language thing, Like, I don't 51 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:36,800 know how many different names we can give this thing, 52 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:39,479 because it's all the same. It's just a different permutation 53 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:46,360 of the same garbage. Right, So the Continuing Resolution, which 54 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,759 will keep government funding at a at current levels through 55 00:03:49,759 --> 00:03:53,840 March fourteenth, is also set to include See there's the 56 00:03:53,879 --> 00:03:57,560 giveaway right there, right when it says that the Continuing 57 00:03:57,639 --> 00:04:01,919 Resolution will also include additional money. Well, then that's no 58 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,879 longer simply a continuing resolution, right because a CR would 59 00:04:06,919 --> 00:04:09,800 just continue what we've got. When you start adding more stuff, 60 00:04:10,039 --> 00:04:15,280 now it becomes something else, the cramnibus. Right, So it's 61 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,680 going to include one hundred point four billion dollars in 62 00:04:18,759 --> 00:04:23,319 disaster aid for people affected by hurricanes, including Helene, so 63 00:04:23,399 --> 00:04:30,600 western North Carolina is directly impacted by whatever happens with 64 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:35,279 this thing. And then there's another ten billion dollars in 65 00:04:35,399 --> 00:04:41,800 economic assistance for farmers. Marjorie Taylor Green, congresswoman from Georgia Republicans, 66 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:44,920 said it's not a CR, which is a continuation of 67 00:04:44,959 --> 00:04:49,279 the budget. It's turning into an omnibus. And she's exactly correct. 68 00:04:52,319 --> 00:04:53,879 So there are two. And by the way, they have 69 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:59,839 a deadline to pass this continuing resolution because the budget ends. 70 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:05,560 The funding ends tomorrow, so they've got till like midnight tomorrow, 71 00:05:06,079 --> 00:05:09,199 so I guess that would be end of Friday. I 72 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:13,879 think so Saturday morning. And if this seems familiar, it's 73 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:20,600 because it is familiar. They do this every Christmas. I 74 00:05:20,639 --> 00:05:23,600 remember being out of town. I want to say, I 75 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,000 was down in Atlanta at my brother's house when they 76 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,959 did the Obamacare crap, when they rammed that thing through 77 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:38,480 with the reconciliation process, why do they do this? Why 78 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:42,639 do they do this? Well, Thomas Massey, congressman from Kentucky, 79 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:50,639 he explained this. I believe this was in September. Let 80 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,759 me see, I got time. This was him speaking in 81 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:56,360 a congressional hearing. 82 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:00,879 Speaker 2: I also predicted this would fall right before Christmas, and 83 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:06,399 I believe this does fall on December twentieth. Now, why 84 00:06:06,439 --> 00:06:11,439 have we picked December twentieth, Because it's the same reason 85 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,959 we always have December twentieth. Everybody up here is human. 86 00:06:16,959 --> 00:06:21,199 There are no ais or robots in Congress. And when 87 00:06:21,199 --> 00:06:24,319 you get to December twentieth, you're five days from Christmas, 88 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,279 You're four days from Christmas Eve, and you desperately want 89 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:31,160 to be there with your family. So this is when 90 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:35,560 the leadership here has the maximum influence. And again I'm 91 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,160 talking to the Democrats and the Republicans because you've seen 92 00:06:39,199 --> 00:06:41,759 it on the Democrats side of the aisle. They love 93 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:46,519 to pick the week before Christmas for this showdown because 94 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,240 you can smell the jet fuel fumes over at DCA. 95 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,279 It smells like Christmas that you're going to get to 96 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,279 go home in open presence. I've been in HC five 97 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,199 when literally the speaker of the House, not the speaker 98 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:02,480 we have now walks in and says, if you vote 99 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:04,959 for this, you can go home and unwrap presents with 100 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,000 your kids. And if you don't vote for this, you're 101 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,240 going to spend Christmas here with Nancy Pelosi. And then 102 00:07:10,279 --> 00:07:11,279 the chance starts. 103 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:19,199 Speaker 1: Vote vote, vote vote. How screwed up is that? How 104 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:23,240 screwed up is that you want to go home and 105 00:07:23,279 --> 00:07:26,839 open presence with your grand babies, you know, your first 106 00:07:26,879 --> 00:07:29,759 grand kid, your first or maybe you're a young lawmaker 107 00:07:29,759 --> 00:07:32,040 and you've got very young kids. You want to be 108 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,759 there Christmas Eve, Christmas morning. You want to be there 109 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:38,439 when the kids wake up and come downstairs. And they 110 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,079 use that in order to get you to vote for 111 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:49,759 an omnibus cromnibus, cramnibus, cr crap sandwich. And people do it, 112 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:53,439 and they don't. They don't read the bill, they haven't 113 00:07:53,439 --> 00:07:59,639 read it. It doesn't matter, and the leadership knows it. 114 00:08:00,279 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 2: Literally, people get enthusiastic to vote for something that they 115 00:08:03,519 --> 00:08:06,560 haven't read. So let me predict what we're not going 116 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,680 to do on December twentieth, before I take a guess 117 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:11,680 at what we're going to do. What we're not going 118 00:08:11,759 --> 00:08:14,160 to do. We're not going to do twelve separate bills. 119 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,759 We are not going to spend this time. We've got 120 00:08:17,759 --> 00:08:20,560 a few months between now and December twentieth. We could 121 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:22,879 go back to working on appropriations bills. 122 00:08:23,399 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: What he's talking about, the twelve bills. These are the 123 00:08:25,759 --> 00:08:29,240 twelve appropriation bills that Congress is supposed to be doing 124 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:33,399 for these different sectors of the government of the budget. 125 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:37,159 And they haven't done it. I don't think in my 126 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,080 entire adult life, like I don't think I've ever actually 127 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:42,840 seen this process unfold what was supposed to be quote 128 00:08:42,879 --> 00:08:45,279 regular order, very irregular. 129 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,279 Speaker 2: We are not going to do this this sucker. Whatever 130 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,559 happens on December twentieth, whether it's another cr to punt, 131 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,840 to kick the can down the road for three more months, 132 00:08:55,919 --> 00:08:58,440 or whether it's an omnibus that funds all of government 133 00:08:58,519 --> 00:09:01,759 with one bill, it's going to be written. 134 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 1: Behind closed doors. It was. 135 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:07,759 Speaker 2: Every lobbyist in this town is going to try to 136 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,480 attach their little thing to this bill. 137 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 1: They did. 138 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:14,639 Speaker 2: This train is leaving the station. It did on December twentieth. 139 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:18,080 It's the only one that we know is going to pass. 140 00:09:18,159 --> 00:09:22,799 They call it up here, must pass legislation, So everybody's 141 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:25,679 going to try and get their little thing on this bill, 142 00:09:25,879 --> 00:09:29,399 whatever it is, on December twentieth, whether it's another continuing 143 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:33,879 Resolution or another omnibus. It's so it's not even really 144 00:09:33,879 --> 00:09:36,240 a prediction that I'm making. I'm just telling you what 145 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,840 has happened for twelve years, regardless of whether Democrats are 146 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,360 in charge or Republicans are in charge. There may be 147 00:09:42,399 --> 00:09:45,440 a little twist. We may do half of a CR, 148 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,639 or it'll be a whole CR, and half of it 149 00:09:48,639 --> 00:09:51,639 will end in February and half of it'll end in April, 150 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:54,080 and they'll convince you that got something more clever this 151 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:56,919 year than they had last year. But it's going to 152 00:09:56,919 --> 00:10:01,799 be the same old thing, warmed over, written behind closed doors, 153 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:03,919 rolled out here. We're not going to have time to 154 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,799 read this thing. That's also predictable, and we're going to 155 00:10:07,879 --> 00:10:10,639 be told vote for this and you can go home 156 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:14,080 and open presence with your kids. Don't vote for it, 157 00:10:14,159 --> 00:10:16,559 and you're going to be stuck here, and there will 158 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,159 be people. It pulls at heart strings. We are humans, 159 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:27,200 and that's why I think it's really disingenuous or despicable 160 00:10:27,279 --> 00:10:30,360 really to pick four days before Christmas Eve to put 161 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:33,919 this bill on the floor. The bill I'm talking about. Obviously, 162 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:39,279 nobody here knows what it is yet and we're not 163 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:41,000 going to have time to read it. But people are 164 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:42,600 going to be inclined to vote for it because they 165 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:44,320 just want to be with their family. 166 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 1: Right on Christmas. 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All right, So, content and 186 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:11,360 process regarding the content of the cramnibus quote total dumpster 187 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:20,159 fire quote, it's garbage quote, crap sandwich. Sorry, I know 188 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:24,240 it's lunch time. Chip Roy said, we get this negotiated 189 00:12:24,279 --> 00:12:27,000 crap and we're forced to eat the crap sandwich. Why 190 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:30,759 because freaking Christmas is right around the corner. It's the 191 00:12:30,759 --> 00:12:35,519 same dang thing every year. Legislate by crisis, legislate by calendar, 192 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:40,399 not legislate because it's the right thing to do. Speaker 193 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,600 Johnson received an ear full of criticism during a closed 194 00:12:43,639 --> 00:12:48,399 door House GOP conference meeting on Tuesday, where he briefed 195 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:52,279 members on the emerging details of the government funding package. 196 00:12:52,639 --> 00:12:56,480 So this gets to the process. A lot of Republicans 197 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:02,120 not happy with the process because, as Donald Bryson, the 198 00:13:02,519 --> 00:13:05,559 CEO of the John Locke Foundation here in North Carolina 199 00:13:05,639 --> 00:13:09,639 points out on Twitter, the House GOP promised that the 200 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:13,159 budget would be returned to regular order more than two 201 00:13:13,279 --> 00:13:15,759 years ago. Yet here we are at the end of 202 00:13:15,799 --> 00:13:20,279 another continuing resolution because nobody in Washington is willing to 203 00:13:20,279 --> 00:13:25,519 do the hard work of appropriations committees and subcommittees, right, 204 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:30,879 they are unwilling to work. Yet they put into the 205 00:13:30,919 --> 00:13:39,120 CR a pay raise for themselves. Now, look, you've probably 206 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:41,559 heard people say that what I'm about to say, which 207 00:13:41,759 --> 00:13:45,559 I don't have a problem with them giving themselves a 208 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,519 pay raise. They haven't gotten a pay raise in like 209 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:52,399 fifteen years. They still make one hundred and seventy four 210 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:57,679 thousand dollars. Actually, I think I'm going to run for 211 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,879 Congress now, No, I'm kidding, But they make so they 212 00:14:00,879 --> 00:14:04,399 get one hundred and seventy five k basically. But the 213 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:11,080 optics of stuffing a pay raise without any debate or 214 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:15,159 any kind of conversation, any kind of transparency. It's just 215 00:14:15,279 --> 00:14:18,200 put into the Krami bus and then everybody's told to 216 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,919 vote on it and they don't have time to read it. Which, 217 00:14:21,919 --> 00:14:26,759 by the way, that's going to change, you know why AI. 218 00:14:28,519 --> 00:14:32,200 This will probably be the last kind of monstrosity that 219 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:36,120 we have seen where AI will not be able to 220 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:40,279 filter it like that and tell us everything that's in it. 221 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:50,039 This is like things are changing and you can lead, follow, 222 00:14:50,159 --> 00:14:54,879 or get out of the way. Right regarding the process, 223 00:14:55,759 --> 00:15:00,279 the gripes are not just coming from hardline conservatives. By 224 00:15:00,279 --> 00:15:04,000 the way, you never hear hard line leftists. You never 225 00:15:04,039 --> 00:15:08,440 hear hard line liberals or progressives. I don't even think 226 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:10,919 the media realizes there's such a thing as a hard 227 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:14,840 line progressive. They at best you get, you know, the 228 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,519 leader of the Progressive Caucus or a member of the 229 00:15:17,559 --> 00:15:22,240 Progressive Caucus. Sometimes you'll get left leaning. You never get 230 00:15:22,279 --> 00:15:25,240 hard left because I don't even think they realize there 231 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:31,399 is such a thing. But anyway, Representative Mike Lawler no 232 00:15:31,519 --> 00:15:34,159 relation to the wrestler. I don't well maybe I don't know. 233 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:37,360 Actually he could be, but he's a Republican from New York. 234 00:15:38,679 --> 00:15:42,519 He represents a district that Joe Biden won. So these 235 00:15:42,559 --> 00:15:49,919 are your squishy rhino you know, Northeastern Republican, swing district, 236 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:54,440 moderate whatever you want to call them. Republicans. They are 237 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:58,879 most susceptible to the pressure that might come from the 238 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:01,240 left because they are in a district that the President, 239 00:16:01,799 --> 00:16:05,399 Joe Biden, that a Democrat carried, but he won the district. 240 00:16:06,039 --> 00:16:08,960 He stood up during the GOP conference meeting and told 241 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,279 Mike Johnson that the government funding process has not been 242 00:16:12,399 --> 00:16:16,799 member driven. Lawler also aired Grievances which it is that 243 00:16:16,919 --> 00:16:19,840 time of year with festivs and all Democrats play. He's 244 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,799 about Democrats who played a key role in the funding process, 245 00:16:23,879 --> 00:16:27,200 telling Johnson at one point, I'm not a bleeping Democrat. 246 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:32,039 How come they got all of this input and your 247 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:39,600 own membership did not? Fair question? 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So the article 258 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,200 I've been reading actually is from the Hill. I went 259 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:17,400 and double checked it's from the Hill, and this was 260 00:17:17,519 --> 00:17:22,359 two days ago. All right, When Speaker Johnson rolled this 261 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:26,359 thing out fifteen hundred pages, started talking to his members 262 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:33,559 in the conference meeting, and they they went ballistic. The 263 00:17:33,599 --> 00:17:39,160 Republicans are supermit and at one point, when Johnson told 264 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:43,640 the members that the Continuing Resolution the CR was a 265 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:48,680 collaborative effort that had committee involvement, Representative Jason Smith, the 266 00:17:48,799 --> 00:17:54,279 chair of the Ways and Means Committee, responded, quote, not true. 267 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:59,079 That's never That's never a good sign when you're up 268 00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:02,240 in front of the crowd. We had committees that worked 269 00:18:02,279 --> 00:18:09,920 on this. Not true. Oh hang it. If your conference 270 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:16,279 doesn't trust you, you're done. You are done. Smith declined 271 00:18:16,319 --> 00:18:18,799 to answer questions from reporters as he left the meeting. 272 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker Johnson, for his part, sought to sell the Emerging 273 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:25,039 Package to his conference during the meeting, claiming to members 274 00:18:25,039 --> 00:18:29,480 that Chuck Schumer negotiated in bad faith and the Democrats 275 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:33,119 did not secure any wins at all in the bill, 276 00:18:34,039 --> 00:18:39,359 and that is false. That is false. Democrats did secure 277 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:43,599 some big wins in the bill, most notably the GECK, 278 00:18:44,519 --> 00:18:51,279 the GEC, the Global Engagement Commission or something. This is 279 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:55,720 the UH. This is the infrastructure that was built up 280 00:18:55,759 --> 00:19:02,319 eight years ago where the government could use that infrastructure 281 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:07,200 to censor people on social media. That's due to sunset, 282 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:14,960 and Democrats attempted to build that into the State Department 283 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,319 for an additional year, so they changed it from an 284 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:21,759 eight year sunset to a nine year sunset so it 285 00:19:21,799 --> 00:19:24,440 could live on for one more year, and to house 286 00:19:24,519 --> 00:19:27,720 that infrastructure inside the State Department, which would make it 287 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:37,240 more difficult to dismantle under a doze program of cuts. 288 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,640 That was a big win. They also sought to immunize 289 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,480 all of the members of the J six Select Committee 290 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:50,799 from subpoena. That's a big win for them. Fifteen hundred pages. 291 00:19:50,839 --> 00:19:52,920 You're going to tell me there's no wins for Democrats 292 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:55,640 in there after you negotiated with them, and now they're 293 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:58,640 all squawking about a deal is a deal? We are 294 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,119 in an agreement. Why would maybe fighting so hard for 295 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:05,440 this then? Please so once again a lie. That's not 296 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:12,880 good for the speaker next Washington Examiner from this again Tuesday. 297 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:15,880 This is just by the way, This is just for 298 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:18,000 the background to tell you how we got to where 299 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:23,440 we got to and what unfolded yesterday basically on Twitter, 300 00:20:23,759 --> 00:20:27,519 which is kind of nuts. I thought everybody was going 301 00:20:27,559 --> 00:20:31,279 to be over on blue sky for this so weird. 302 00:20:32,319 --> 00:20:36,559 Congressional leaders have finalized a deal to extend government spending 303 00:20:36,599 --> 00:20:39,240 into the new year, teeing up a vote later this week, 304 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:43,920 just days before funding for federal agencies is scheduled to lapse. 305 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,680 The first question I had when I saw this story was, 306 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,359 if ever there is a time to shut down the government, 307 00:20:54,079 --> 00:20:59,680 why wouldn't it be right now? You just won the presidency, 308 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,960 you just won the Senate, You've retained the House. You've 309 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,839 got Elon Muskin, Vivic Ramaswami coming in with their doze, 310 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:12,920 the Department not a department, uh, Department of Government Efficiency 311 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:17,319 coming in to start laying waste to some of the 312 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:21,559 bloat that is in the federal government budgets to get 313 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:28,640 us back onto a fiscally solvent footing. You have all 314 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,440 of these Republicans running around getting their pictures taken with 315 00:21:31,559 --> 00:21:34,680 Musk and Ramaswami like, Oh, I'm down for doge. I 316 00:21:34,759 --> 00:21:36,720 want to be a part of this, And everyone's running 317 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:40,000 around like they're part of the solution here, and then 318 00:21:40,039 --> 00:21:48,759 you give them this yeah there, Yeah, is the juice 319 00:21:48,799 --> 00:21:53,359 worth the squeeze for this? Right now? After we just 320 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:58,440 saw what we saw, the massive shifts in all these 321 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:03,960 different voting demographics to Trump. Elon Musk out there campaigning 322 00:22:04,079 --> 00:22:08,960 with Trump promising this stuff. They got all this momentum, 323 00:22:09,519 --> 00:22:13,000 and this is what you do. One last deal for 324 00:22:13,079 --> 00:22:22,640 the lobbyists in the swamp why. House leaders unveiled the 325 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:27,720 legislation Tuesday evening, which would extend government the current funding 326 00:22:27,839 --> 00:22:31,640 levels through March fourteenth, and include one hundred and ten 327 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,599 billion dollars supplemental package for the disaster relief and farmer 328 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:40,599 economic assistance. The legislation comes after weeks of negotiations between 329 00:22:40,599 --> 00:22:42,880 House and Senate lawmakers, and it includes a number of 330 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:48,480 policy provisions intended to thwart Chinese influence. Oh so, I 331 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:53,200 guess Joe Biden is out effective immediately, then no Chinese influence, 332 00:22:53,279 --> 00:22:56,880 oh man, And also to respond to recent concerns stemming 333 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:01,839 from drones. The continuing resid portion of the funding legislation 334 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,119 will keep current spending levels for government agencies at the 335 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:09,519 same level while being paired with a supplemental spending bill. 336 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:14,039 Major provisions tucked inside of the disaster relief include twenty 337 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,519 nine billion to replenish the FEMA Disaster Relief Fund, twenty 338 00:23:17,559 --> 00:23:20,680 one billion in disaster relief for farmers, and eight billion 339 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:25,000 towards the Federal Highway and Roads Disaster Fund. The supplemental 340 00:23:25,039 --> 00:23:28,519 bill also includes ten billion for economic assistance to farmers 341 00:23:28,839 --> 00:23:31,480 and a one year extension of the Farm Bill, which 342 00:23:31,519 --> 00:23:33,559 is set to expire at the end of this year. 343 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,319 Some lawmakers said the provisions are not as much as 344 00:23:36,319 --> 00:23:39,559 they were hoping for, but it is a start again. 345 00:23:39,599 --> 00:23:44,400 This is from the Washington Examiner. Senate Appropriations Committee chairwoman 346 00:23:44,519 --> 00:23:48,440 Patty Murray told reporters, quote, we should be done, but 347 00:23:48,559 --> 00:23:52,279 unfortunately we've been delayed by an eleventh hour demand from 348 00:23:52,279 --> 00:23:57,680 the speaker. It's not clear what that demand was, but 349 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,680 the fifteen hundred and forty seven page legislation is filled 350 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:05,559 with provisions unrelated to government funding, such as language to 351 00:24:05,599 --> 00:24:10,359 reform how pharmacy benefit managers operate, provisions that would allow 352 00:24:10,559 --> 00:24:14,440 Washington to redevelop the site of the shuttered Robert F. 353 00:24:14,519 --> 00:24:19,000 Kennedy Memorial Stadium that would possibly woo the Washington Redskins 354 00:24:19,039 --> 00:24:24,119 AKA Commanders away from their current location in Maryland. The 355 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:28,359 bill also includes a reauthorization of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program, 356 00:24:28,559 --> 00:24:31,960 intended to address and counter the potential threats from drones. 357 00:24:32,759 --> 00:24:36,920 That provision came after thousands of drone sightings. Oh wait, 358 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,079 I think I just saw one out in the hallway there. 359 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:44,559 Oh no, no, sorry, that was That was Brent Winnable. 360 00:24:44,799 --> 00:24:49,000 The unrelated funding has ignited a firestorm among House Republicans 361 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,319 who are criticizing Speaker Johnson for what they call an 362 00:24:52,400 --> 00:25:01,000 omnibus spending bill in disguise. Why not do a stand 363 00:25:01,039 --> 00:25:09,839 alone CR and a separate stand alone relief package disaster 364 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:15,799 relief package? Why wouldn't both of those pass? Right? Run 365 00:25:15,839 --> 00:25:19,920 the bills, Run a clean CR saying we're gonna spend 366 00:25:20,319 --> 00:25:22,119 what we're spending now. We're just going to continue it 367 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,960 for another three months. We have one hundred and ten 368 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:30,160 billion dollars in disaster relief. Run that bill, put it 369 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:37,279 up for a vote. Done again, Like, what better time 370 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:41,759 do you have to fight this fight? The election is 371 00:25:41,799 --> 00:25:45,160 already over. But oh my gosh, there's gonna be a 372 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,720 shutdown and we're gonna get blamed for it. Do you 373 00:25:48,839 --> 00:25:54,559 think people care at this point? Like, seriously, I know 374 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,880 Republicans have been snake bitten by this. They get, you know, 375 00:25:58,279 --> 00:26:04,480 pilloried in the media, But so did Donald Trump? Like, 376 00:26:04,559 --> 00:26:06,880 were they calling you Hitler for shutting down the government 377 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,079 because they were calling that guy Hitler and he won. 378 00:26:10,079 --> 00:26:14,119 So I don't know if the media holds the sway 379 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:18,160 any longer to move this needle, especially a month after 380 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,319 the election. You got two more years, guys. This is 381 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:24,759 why I said, I'm not sure that Trump is going 382 00:26:24,799 --> 00:26:27,480 to be able to get everything done that he has promised, 383 00:26:28,039 --> 00:26:30,920 because he's got to have a Congress that does this 384 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,480 stuff with him. This is the concern. We're not going 385 00:26:34,559 --> 00:26:37,559 to know for sure until tomorrow. But because like right now, 386 00:26:37,599 --> 00:26:40,480 everything's still in flux. I believe there was actually a 387 00:26:40,519 --> 00:26:46,039 meeting started started earlier this hour among the Republicans in 388 00:26:46,079 --> 00:26:50,640 the House, so I'm not sure what will come of that, 389 00:26:51,519 --> 00:26:55,400 but they're scrambling because the government's going to shut down 390 00:26:55,799 --> 00:27:00,160 no after tomorrow. And I did get a mess said 391 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,839 your hang on, let me read some messages here. This 392 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:08,200 is from Junior, who says, I'm not sure if the 393 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,240 public is aware, but most of the time a furloughed 394 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:16,680 government worker is paid eventually when these shutdowns occur. I'm 395 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,240 not sure about the long one with Trump's last term, 396 00:27:19,279 --> 00:27:23,079 but as a retired federal employee, I witnessed and experienced 397 00:27:23,079 --> 00:27:28,319 about five shutdowns. Every time I watched as non essential 398 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:32,400 employees were sent home quote without pay. When the shutdown 399 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:41,200 budget was resolved, those same non essential employees were returned 400 00:27:41,279 --> 00:27:44,759 to work and then received pay for the time they 401 00:27:44,799 --> 00:27:47,799 were off. So the bottom line was they got a 402 00:27:47,839 --> 00:27:54,640 paid vacation. The system is so crazy. This is from 403 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:59,880 tim omnibus bill and Mike Johnson that Mike Johnson Folds 404 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,960 got cheap suit to Democrats on most any subject. I 405 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,960 think they have him blackmailed, like pictures with him in 406 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,240 bed with an underage girl or maybe an underage boy 407 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,440 for that matter. Well, maybe a fire mantle. You don't know, 408 00:28:11,519 --> 00:28:16,119 it could be anything we've heard about the parties, if 409 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,400 I'm not mistaken, says Brett. It was either you or 410 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,000 Vince who talked about this months ago when they passed 411 00:28:22,039 --> 00:28:26,160 the previous Continuing Resolution to continue to fund the government. 412 00:28:26,519 --> 00:28:29,240 Johnson set it up specifically so there would have to 413 00:28:29,279 --> 00:28:35,960 be a forced vote just days before Christmas, and Dennis says, 414 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,240 at this point, should in Congress call this bill the 415 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:47,519 omnibusted bill. Denny says, I'm okay with Congress giving themselves 416 00:28:47,599 --> 00:28:50,440 a raise, as long as there were also provisions, revoking 417 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,599 their own special health care program, and the elimination of 418 00:28:53,599 --> 00:28:56,039 insider training on the stock market. Any chance that that 419 00:28:56,079 --> 00:28:59,079 would fly. Keep up the great content. Let's continue to 420 00:28:59,119 --> 00:29:03,119 expose all of this government misbehavior that Congress hopes nobody 421 00:29:03,119 --> 00:29:07,079 will notice. Right, So I saw somebody else suggest, Hey, 422 00:29:07,119 --> 00:29:09,759 you know what I would say. Take how about congressional 423 00:29:09,799 --> 00:29:13,839 pay of a million dollars a year if you balance 424 00:29:13,839 --> 00:29:16,400 a budget? All right, that'll do it for this episode. 425 00:29:16,480 --> 00:29:18,559 Thank you so much for listening. 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