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I reported this morning that Amazon will soon display a little number next to the price of each product that shows. how much the Trump tariffs are adding to the cost of each product.

So isn't that a perfect crystal clear demonstration that it's the American consumer and not China who is going to have to pay for these policies? I will take this since I just got off the phone with the president about Amazon's announcement. This is a hostile and political act by Amazon. Why didn't Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years? And I would also add that it's not a surprise because, as Reuters recently wrote, Amazon has partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm.

So this is another reason why Americans should buy American. It's another reason why we are onshoring critical supply chains here at home to shore up our own critical supply chain and boost our own manufacturing capabilities.

So this is one of the big Fights this morning.

Well, there's several actually. We're going to highlight those because we've got. the budget battle, which looks like it's going to get stalled out. In the Senate, and that's where they're hoping to.

Well, they're fighting over tax cuts in the House, so we're not even there yet. We'll explain that coming up, but the Uh Senate. is where it's that's p Probably gonna get hung up. I mean, come on, it's the Senate, guys. You guys know all this.

It's um. It's The Senate is just full of cantangerous old Bush League rhinos. I don't want to sound mean, but. you know come i mean kane's like lying you're not wrong i know i'm not wrong I'm a thousand percent correct, that's exactly what it is.

So. I am uh this because of the Whole with with the tariffs and on top of inflation and everything, the biggest argument that I've heard coming from people has been, well, why didn't they why didn't they do this Amazon? Meaning, why didn't Amazon do this when we had Biden era inflation. And I think that's a fair point. But I also think it's silly to expect them to not tell people what they're going to be paying.

And I, you know, I don't know if it's so much as a way to like shame the administration. I don't think that that's what it is. And we can, we can, we can discuss it. But. I mean Why can't we also discuss the vast amount of Chinese-made stuff that's on Amazon and how, like, there's so many, there's so much fake stuff on Amazon, and there's so much imitation and everything else.

So, welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you. We are at the top of this first hour here as we get started. But that's the big thing: the Amazon fight.

Now, as you know, They basically just declared war on Amazon, the administration versus Amazon. This was right after Jeff Bezos was up. Was right out there and they were all hanging out and just saying So they were all up there hanging out. He was at the White House. He also, I think.

How much did he donate to The uh Inauguration, sorry, the inaugural festivities. Wasn't it like a million dollars? I think Bezos donated like a million dollars to all the inaugural stuff. And Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like him and Facebook and all this, they had all donated.

you know, about a million dollars to make that happen. And I think the expectation from some was that they were all going to be best friends, which is never going to happen. I mean, you know, he's a business person, but I. I will say one of the also arguments that I've seen is: oh, well, Jeff Bezos, their profit margins continue to increase and he's having a $500 million wedding. Can we just full stop?

Full stop for a second. Everybody just. Everybody chill TF. Out for a minute. And just listen.

We can make the argument. about China and the tariffs and all of this other stuff and businesses that facilitate this. Or facilitate, well, it's a business, facilitators that facilitate it like Amazon. We can do that without making communist arguments. The moment The moment we start criticizing a capitalist system, and that's what it is, whether you like it or not.

It's a system. It is a system and in the The value of that system, whether it's being used for good or bad, is dependent upon the people who are using the system. Do not be baited. Into these low IQ commie arguments. Dear sweet heaven above, do not.

So it is, and I've had some really good friends of mine make this argument this morning. And I was actually literally texting with someone as I was coming on air: like, what is your damage? Who hurt you? Because they were like, well, you know, he's going to be, you know, how expensive his wedding's going to be. And I'm like, yeah, I know.

And. Do I sit here and begrudge you for going out and buying Gucci loafers? My friend wears Gucci loafers. My friend also works on television. I'm like, do I sit here and begrudge you wearing Gucci loafers?

Am I sitting here like, no, because that's what you earned? Right. If someone else wants to go and get a horse, if someone wants to buy a new tractor, someone wants to get a new toolkit, if someone wants to get, you know, land, I don't care. You do what you do with the fruits of your labor. And we can exempt that from this argument about Some of the Things at Amazon.

Has now look. I'm going to be the first one to be like, there's certain things I just don't order on Amazon.

Now, certain things they do. You know, there's like certain, you know, day-to-day things that I will get on Amazon, but there's a lot of stuff that I don't because you cannot verify the origin. And I think that that needs to be verified, you know, front and center. But that's a business decision that they're going to have to make. I don't need the government to come in and be like, oh, well, let's see.

We're going to get into how Amazon lists things. I just, you know. I I I I don't know. I think that that's a bad argument. But we don't need to be baited into this commie stuff.

We're going to talk more about this throughout the program because this is just one of the topics that's up. We also have the Canadian election. Can we just say for one moment? Oh. Um they had a chance for a great A great Conservative candidate.

in Canada. And they decided to re-elect. Uh the circus freak. Mark Carney. I know, they decided to elect him, re-elect him.

Instead of Pierre Poliver. I don't think that Poli Vair is uh I don't think that their Uh Uh h his career's done. I think he's got a long road ahead of him because he's a great candidate. He's a great candidate. He's quick.

Everybody was loving this guy five seconds ago. And can I say, I'm going to say two things that are probably going to make some people mad and some people not mad. Number one, you don't have to go to DEF CON 1. Just because somebody disagrees with POTUS. It is okay to not agree with every syllable that comes out of somebody's mouth.

Because you're a freak if you do. I'm sorry, but you are. I don't even agree with my husband all the time. Dear heavens, I don't even agree with him all the time. Kane and I don't even, I don't even agree with my damn dog all the time, okay?

My wick is like one of the sweetest, most obedient things ever, right?

So stop. I see people freaking out at other people because they're making genuinely good points. Like for instance, going into the Canadian election I I think the conservatives are actually trending really well. And then the And I understand I'm not arguing tariffs. I'm just saying when the tariffs happened.

than the Liberals in Canada. Are progressives, I hate saying liberals, the liberals were able to finagle that into this narrative that they were standing against Trump and the United States, and that actually did. Impact a little bit in the polls.

Now, how much all of that remains to be seen? They're doing the, they always do the post-mortem on these losses, but I think that that did play into it. I think too, some of the other, some of the rhetoric also, the Liberals were able to use that.

Now, you could say, well, if Canadians are going to be so dumb that they're going to elect somebody like that, look. A person's smart, people are cheap. Tommy Lee Jones was right, man, in men on black. That was one of the smartest things I've ever heard in any film, and it's right. And you know it.

So There's a lot into that. And I think that I think that Carney is going to have a very unsuccessful term. And unfortunately, Canadians are going to get hit the hardest with this. We're going to talk more about this as well because they're going to get hit the hardest with us. And I, you know, it's just one of those things.

There's a lot, it was a perfect storm. He was doing really well. In fact, I was looking at some of the polling last night. I mean, before this. Uh I I mean, Pierre Polavera had every appearance of being able to beat.

Mark Carney. He had every, Polivera had every, every appearance of going after Carney because Trudeau ruined it. I mean, think about this. How do you go from Trudeau? to Trudeau Jr.

You know, how do you go to that? And that's what ended up happening. I think there's a lot that plays into it. I do think the tariffs had some. I'm not saying that.

The uh because I know we have drive-bys who read with pictures, and so I have to baby talk them.

So, for you smart people out there, bear with me for a moment. Yes, the tariffs did impact their decision, regardless of whether or not. It had to be done, which I think it, you know, I think you have to take a monumental. uh step in order to enact action and effect change you have to I think the messaging on it could have been handled a hell of a lot better, if I'm being honest. That being said, you know, it's a monumental change, and you got to take some risks, and that's what's happening right now.

But, I do think that you don't have to lose your allies in that process. And I think that there maybe could have been a little because you want your allies to have healthy leadership too. You don't want people, I mean, for crying out loud, would you want, do you want Canada to fall into an abyss of communism and Sharia? No, you don't. Because that's right on our border.

And and we have to have strong allies. That also feeds into our NATSEC, which is opposite actually nation building. We're very hands off. You're just encouraging. And you try not to create an optical tornado.

Especially on the eve of an election.

So, all of this stuff plays into it, which we're going to break down.

Now, in addition to all of this, I know it's like. Then we have these rolling blackouts that have been happening in Europe. in Spain and Portugal. Of course, they are big fans of that renewable energy. Although I will say, Spain's leadership was trying to argue in its press, both sides.

They were trying to say, well, Mm. Yes, we're very big. We're like leaders in Europe for green energy, but also we just we really don't have enough evidence that this actually contributed to that. You don't? Can you imagine?

I mean, they didn't even know when the power was going to come back on. They said it cost something like half a trillion dollars, all the hundreds of billions of dollars this cost. Wild. Absolutely wild. They, I don't know, they declared a state of emergency.

They had panic binds. Spain and Portugal were hardest hit. Gridlock everywhere, flights canceled. And the chaos is still ongoing, especially with the flights, 'cause you know how that is. And the s the store shelves looked like they were going out and getting French toast supplies ahead of A hurricane.

But that renewable energy is a that's one of the big people are pointing a lot of fingers at this. It's very similar to kind of Texas with its um solar and wind, right? Because they've they've moved a lot to Renewable energy. Parts of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands also suffered, Andorra also suffered outages. Red Electrica is Spain's electricity network provider.

They've been very gradually restoring power to the country and to Portugal. And they said it's a it was a very s the the explanation was quote, very strong oscillation in the electric network that caused their sa power system to disconnect from the European system. Kane, you're an audio technical dude. That sounds like, I don't know. That sounds like word salad.

Did Kamala write this? I'm curious. Just wondering. Kalama wrote it. Yeah, so we're going to come back to this.

We've got a lot of stuff to hit. I haven't even gotten to the tip of it because. Oh my gosh, we've got, of course, the stuff happening in Congress. We have LNG talks. POTUS says also that they've secured deals, no details yet, that they have a bunch of deals with countries.

Trade deals already that they are looking to implement. Maybe we're going to get some more details about that coming up.

So, we're going to have all the latest on that also on deck today. Coming up, we got Florida Governor Ron DeSantis who's going to be joining us in our second hour. And in our third hour, Congressman from Texas, Chip Roy. Why, yes, the two biggest red states that are fighting rhinos. Yes, yes, of course.

And we'll continue with our red state rhino hunting.

So, a very packed show today, and we're going to dive deep into some of this green energy stuff as it relates to Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, et cetera. And we're also going to look at some of this Amazon and the budget battle in Congress.

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And so they're trying to scare you about the planet melting so that you give up some of your money and shoot it to the sun, which is in no more scientifically advanced than back in the day when people tossed virgins in volcanoes to make the fire gods happy.

So tick off with all that stuff. I'm so done. If I was president, I would round up the climate change people. Oh, yeah, you don't want me. I'm glad we're all with the one ring.

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The Dana Joe Podcast, your fast, funny and informative news companion for those always on the move. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. The first answer that comes to mind, Deborah, is definitely tax cuts. The president is working closely with Congress as we speak. He met with leadership from both chambers.

The administration met with leadership from both chambers yesterday to talk about how we can quickly pass the largest tax cuts in American history. And the president promised on the campaign trail he wanted no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security for our hardworking seniors, no tax on overtime pay. He intends to keep those promises. And he needs Congress's help to do so. That's why he's working with them.

How about just no taxes? Have a graduated consumption tax. Because if you're doing, my only gripe with the no tax on tips is like you're shirting the bus boys and the line cooks and all that stuff, you know, because that's not how. You know, uh not how they roll.

So I get it. I mean, it's a It's a tactic, but we need to go for it. But I love hearing them say that. I want more of this. Oh my gosh.

Yes, big, beautiful, fatty, fat tax cuts. Oh my gosh. That's how we guess that we that's how you made best friends, Kane. Oh, yeah. That's how you get that best friend gold card right there.

Welcome back to the Dana Show. It's humid as I'll get out in Texas. I feel like a fish. I feel like I need to grow gills. How do you people right on the Gulf live with that?

I mean, your skin looks great. that, oh my gosh, I'm dying a million deaths right now. I'm like, Mm-hmm. I can't even can't breathe. I don't know, I didn't mean to quote George Floyd.

Okay, the uh. What?

So the big, beautiful tax cuts, need those in my life. We need more of them. And as long as the administration continues messaging this, because even if they talk about it, the American people will file that away like, oh, I can expect this. Oh, we got tax cuts. I can expect some tax cuts.

I can, okay, I can deal with this. And that makes it a heck of a lot easier. And it also is the shot in the arm that we need. You know, it's the shot in the arm that these long-suffering voters need. And Continue cutting taxes, reduce spending, that's how you get good times.

And we like good times, right? You want to have, I mean, I think we all deserve a little bit of a break. You know what I'm saying? Don't we all? We all deserve a little bit of a break here.

Now the Amazon thing I grew up my friend Carol Roth, who you all know, she's on the show. made a really good point. If if Amazon should show tariff costs, because see the the White House went after them because they're showing the cost of tariffs along with their products. Amazon made this they made this statement about this. And it's I get it.

I I don't necessarily think that it is. I don't think it was done maliciously. I do think That I mean, it's a great point to ask, well, why didn't why wasn't the inflation as well? Why wasn't inflation shown as well? But look, if Amazon, and as Carol said, gonna if they're gonna take a Transparency or victory lap on transparency, they need to clean up their business, get rid of your knockoffs, get rid of the AI slot books, she said, and the free writing content and all the other garbage on their site.

Otherwise, It's it's just It's just a stunt. It is just a stunt. If they don't do that, it's a stunt. I don't buy it. And then I will believe that it's just a way that, you know, a tactic for them to try to screw the admin.

I think it's fine to see. You know, if you go on Amazon, you can find like a whole made in Italy section. Where's the made in US section? They have like a whole literally, they have like the little Italian flag colors that they've got on Amazon. And you can go to it and click on it, and it shows you all these made in Italy products, right?

Why There isn't one for the United States. Have you ever noticed that, Kane? You do stuff on Amazon. There's not one like that for the U.S. That would be a great first step.

You'd be lucky to run across one, and it may say it in that product description, but I don't see a category. They do show you when you click on the individual products. Like if you go down. And you We'll look for so okay, full disclosure. You guys know that, like, I'm in brown today.

This is an Easter pastel for me.

So, everything I have is black, and I am a psycho about. Purchase, like if I find something I like, how I purchase it. I don't like I I I like watching fashion stuff, but I don't like doing it. I don't like figuring out outfits and what to wear for TV. That's why I'm like, oh, you guys get black, because it's easy, and I like it.

So I there's this one guys I'm sorry hold on hold on a second. There's a there's this one um Black tank top that I found on Amazon. Loved it. And it was made in Taiwan, even better, not made in China. I bought 10 of these things.

They were like $7.99. And I just wear it, because when they I because they do fade, and the material makes it a little bit harder to dye. and a a top loader because that's what you can do to refresh your blacks. And it it clearly states when you look down, when you scroll down on this particular garment and you look down and it says, you know, where is it made and the fabric type and how do you wash it and all that, it'll tell you where it's made. But You gotta Scroll down.

It's not It's not exactly hidden, it's just not right up there in your face. And then but even then the made in America You have to have assembled in America, made in America. And I think that there are some of the shops that on Amazon that skirt. the compliancy on that.

So if you can get inputs from other countries And they can assemble it in the United States, but it's not necessarily all like from the United States, you know what I mean?

So I think that they need a lot more transparency and they need to clean some of the stuff up. There's some garbage out there. I mean, I would say over half of what's on Amazon is still garbage. They got a lot. I feel like, yes, they're a super successful business.

But because they don't weed out the trash. I d it makes them Mm. I don't know how to say it, Kane. It makes it less mid-high-end, even, right? I don't know how to put it.

They need to clean up a lot of it. A lot of those companies are China, Chinese. and they make a lot of money.

Someone said that if they sell an item in their Amazon shop, And it's like a $10 item in fees, $7 of like every $10 goes to Amazon for fees.

So they actually lose money on stuff. And a lot of people just end up, you know, closing shop. If you really want to buy made in USA stuff and you like small business stuff, I'm telling you, Etsy is the way to go. Etsy's fantastic. You got all kinds of cool stuff on there, all homemade stuff.

You can find exactly, you can literally nail it down to a region. It's great. It's really nice. Amazon's a heck of a lot harder. And then some stuff it'll say made in the USA, but then that's a storefront that might be, you know, dumb sealed in the United States, but it's like based elsewhere, right?

Overseas.

So it's not. I know, it's not exactly forthright.

So there's a lot of stuff there. I don't want to see a war on Amazon. I want to see Amazon clean up its act. And I think that. These people respond more to positive affirmation than negative.

I mean, to be frank. But I love the talk on tax cuts because we need more of this. We're gonna, I mean, we have to, we have to have this.

Now, I've heard if you get my email prep, and there's been a lot of good stuff that's come out on uh over at Substack. My newsletter, if you go sign up for that. Because if you get the prep email, you have this today. One of the things. That POTUS revealed, or the White House revealed, this is per the Washington Times, Carrie Pickett.

The. United States has made 200 trade deals. but they have yet to name which nations are involved. And China, of course, is exempted from this 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs, although they have the 145 on them. He says he's made he told Time magazine on Friday.

That quote I've made 200 deals 100% He didn't specify the terms of the countries, but he said over the next three to four weeks, once deliberations are finished. He's going to announce these deals.

Now. I think that that is something that they need to constantly hammer. Every single time he's in front of a microphone, he needs to find a way to bring this up. If he finds a way to bring up, yeah, these deals, we just got another one. We're in the final stages of negotiation for this one.

We got tax cuts coming. I think that buys them some time. And bear with me here because I understand what's being done, but I need everyone else to understand how this is being interpreted by the polls because you guys. consume this stuff every day, right? I mean, let's be honest, we're all kind of nerds, right?

That's why we're here every day. That's why we all, and that's a, I'm not saying that as a bad thing. Not everybody else does that, right? And not everybody else follows it as closely.

So they're a little bit more susceptible to push-pulling than I would say other people are.

So when they see this bad stuff with the economy, when they see the higher prices. For certain items that have been hit with tariffs, they're factoring that in. They get one of these push-pulls and they're responding to it, and it's going to look bad, right? That's why he's doing great on immigration, but some of the polling coming in on the economy is starting to get harsh. That was expected because we knew it was going to be a big, major realignment.

That it was going to be a big shift and it wasn't going to be kittens and sunshine. And they were upfront about that. They were upfront about it. They said, look, they're going to be tough. That's why I was, you know.

Hoping the administration will go out and say, but follow me because there's a way out of it. It's bumpy, but we're going to come out on the other side. This is what we have to do for long-term sustainability and prosperity. And keep messaging, he needs to keep messaging that as well. But also put out there: yes, we got these deals.

This is going to be in the final stages of negotiation because what that's going to do is buy him some more time.

so he can get these members of Congress in order. It's going to ease. people's fears and concerns They'll tell themselves internally, all right, I can hold out a little bit longer. I can do a little bit longer. And also, as we gear up for midterms, it's going to buy these lawmakers some more time.

It's also going to ease the market. Messaging is everything. You know, not Not all conflicts are are military military conflicts.

Some of them are monetary.

Some of them are a spoken word. It's very simple. That's all they have to do. and just control the narrative on this. And say, yeah, we're in the final stages of negotiation.

He told this to Time, but this was on Friday. Kane, how often have you heard this? This interview. Have you ever really heard of this interview a lot? No.

No. Because there's an intention to that.

Well, obviously, because the media doesn't want the markets to ease. They don't want voters to have confidence. They don't want people to take a deep breath. They don't want any of that. They want chaos and fear.

So He can do better what the media does in terms of just getting his message out there. Don't rely on the media to launder it. Go right to the people. And he just needs to keep saying this stuff. I mean, just as the left repeats a lie u until they believe it and they repeat it over and over again, it's a it's a communist tactic of trying to brainwash people.

Just put the truth out there.

Okay, yeah, we're making these deals, and this is we're going to be announcing them. And don't just tell time. You know, tweet it out. I tweet it out every damn day. Multiple times a day.

Every time I to where to the point where People are tired of hearing of it. Because that buys some time. And that's what they need to be doing. And I mean, they gave an aggressive schedule when they were going to sign this stuff. He said, now, he also added: he goes, some countries may come back and ask for an adjustment, and I'll consider that.

But this is a major realignment, and I get it, it has to be made. And I know people are saying, oh my gosh, the tax look, I agree with you on the sequencing. I think tax cuts should have come first, but this is where we're at. Regardless of what came first, Honestly, this is something that needs to be done because we're getting slapped around. One of the our manufacturing Our ability to be self-sustaining is all affected by how much we're penalized.

to the nth degree by all of these other nations. And they're all weeping and gnashing of their teeth because we're demanding the same and equal treatment. That's something that the left used to love to say.

Now they don't like to say it anymore. All right, a couple of other things. That we're gonna gotta get into. This uh we talked about the rolling blackouts. over in Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, elsewhere.

I mean if had a a hard time. What gets me? I was looking at this. I was looking at a couple of things like climate realism. Uh looking at uh g uh some of the previous demands.

On the United States, when everybody's been silent on China for close. Climate demands. And then, of course, then reading about all of these EU nations. They did all of this stuff. Think about it.

Because It's kind of seeming like these blackouts and everything else are caused by their obsession with green energy and not having a backup. Did they even lower the Earth's temperature by one degree? with all this. Oh, no. This is suicide.

It's suicide to do this. Like in Texas, we didn't we we were relying on wind and solar. And then we had these natural gas lines that weren't insulated. That was a big part of it, but wind and soul, they were not, the output wasn't what was promised. And so everybody found themselves in a bit of a pickle.

It's suicide. It's virtue signaling for whom? And meanwhile, the biggest offender is China, and really India, but China. They get to go without any repercussions at all whatsoever. Why is the world so scared of China?

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I'm Michelle Obama. I do still worry about my daughters in the world, even though they are somewhat recognizable.

So, my fears are for what I know is happening out there in streets all over the city. And now that we have leadership that is sort of indiscriminately determining who belongs and who doesn't, and we know that those decisions aren't being made with courts and with due process, and you know, that it's being made like this cop. That pulled my brother over when he was 12. Oh my gosh, you go back to your 12-year-old brother just for the love. You know what?

I would take her a lot more seriously if she was just this concerned about the indiscriminate deportations that happened under her husband, who, by the way, love it or hated, Barack Obama deported more people than Donald Trump.

So far. And he also droned the hell out of Americans overseas. Oh, wait a minute, what? You mean indiscriminate yeah, one of them was a kid. Wasn't one of them also a twelve year old boy?

That he droned at a cafe? I didn't hear I didn't hear uh Michelle Obama talk about how upset she was over that then. She wasn't she didn't object to it. Oh, but now, oh, because see, it's somebody different. It's because it's Trump that's in the White House.

And now she has now she has objections. Oh, yeah. They they like, what was it? How many did they? It was over two million people that he deported.

It was a lot. A lot of people. that he deported. But mm. And he also started the Kids in Cages program.

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We're at the top of the second hour. You can listen all across the country. The streams at Channel 347. We've been talking, well, a few things. Uh Red State rhino hunting, we focused on Texas and Florida.

Because both states, God love them, beautiful states. One's my backup state, got a lot of family in both. And I have no idea what's up with some of the Republican and name-only folks. And also, can I just say? One of the states has the most conservative governor on God's green earth.

I don't know of any other governor who has been more conservative. I mean, it's like kind of Calvin Coolidge 2.0 and has done such a great job governing the state of Florida. And yet you have a group of, I don't know, ragtag rhino bums that are just trying to undercut everything that he's done. It's humid and I have sinus issues in Texas today, guys.

So I'm like really feeling myself right now. And he's joining us right now via video, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who's made who I know he's in the middle of a budget battle, but we always like checking in with him, seeing where everything is. You know, I'm feeling out my backup state, Governor. It's good to have you. How you doing?

We're doing good. You know, I've been talking recently about this Operation Tidal Wave that we're doing with the federal government on immigration enforcement. We're going to have more details about that later in the week, but it is the biggest deportation sweep that the federal government has done since President Trump has taken office. And it's being done in conjunction with all the Florida state agencies as well as the relevant local agencies. And you remember when I was on your program back in January, I had called a special session of the Florida legislature to do, among other things, impose a duty on all state and local agencies to not just, we're not a sanctuary state, we banned that my first year as governor, but you can't just sit on your hands.

You got to actively cooperate and participate in immigration enforcement efforts. And the leadership in the Florida House of Representatives rejected that. They said it wasn't necessary, that we could get around to it at the regular session. We obviously fought over that. The voters demanded action, and we eventually were able to land the plane.

But all the stuff we've been doing with all the immigration enforcement over these last few months, none of that would have happened had they got their way.

So I'm pleased with the success. I mean, I think if you look, President Trump just finished 100 days, clearly, The securing the border has been a huge, huge success. I think it's the biggest drop in border crossings in American history. It's down to 98% secured, 99%, depending on the statistics, which is great.

So the invasion has been stopped. But then I think the question is, well, Biden had the floodgates open. four years and that's on top of a millions of illegals who are here anyways and so you have to be able to deal with that the only way i think you're going to be able to make a big dent in it is if you have that state and local cooperation because there just aren't enough ice agents uh right now in the federal government uh to get the type of numbers we need in florida they already announced the first kind of part of tidal wave 800 a lot of these people were under active deportation orders some of them were convicted of crime some of them were known gang members i think you're going to see those numbers updated i look forward to providing that information very soon but that's what it's going to take and so we're leading the way on that uh to support the trump administration's efforts if we can't do it now When are we ever going to get it done? Yeah, and this is exactly how it should have gone. It reminds me under the Obama-Biden DOJ when they were going after Governor Gian Brewer out in Arizona and they caught her up in all kinds of lawfare and prevented her from doing, I don't even think that it was going as far as what you're doing in Florida with state and local agencies, but she wasn't allowed to do anything.

And of course, that established this precedent where nobody could do anything.

So now you're able to actually exercise your state sovereignty and use these, utilize these local agencies to the extent that they're meant to be used. Yeah, although, you know, the thing about it is that these blue states, I mean, it's kind of a heads they win, tails we lose, because when you have a Biden, He just throws out his constitutional oath to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. He doesn't enforce immigration law. And so if you live in like a California or even Florida at the time, you have no federal enforcement effectively.

Well, now that you have President Trump who's willing to do it, what a California or New York will do is they say they're a sanctuary jurisdiction. And so somehow they can nullify. The enforcement of federal law.

So, if you have a Democrat president in there, he will just simply not enforce. But then, if you have a Republican who's serious about it, then somehow the blue states can simply opt out of that. That is not the way the founding fathers drew this up. I think Congress really needs to get serious about conditioning funding. To the states on the condition that they participate in immigration enforcement efforts.

So if you're a sanctuary city, a sanctuary state, you will be defunded of federal grants. And if you do that, I think you would change the behavior. But Congress has not been willing to use the power of the purse. And so a lot of these blue states are able to get away with flagrantly undermining federal law enforcement. I want to point out, too, for those who are just tuning in, we're talking to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

When you're talking about arresting and deportation, I want to give people the size of some of these operations that you have under Operation Tidal Wave. I saw this tweet just a couple of days ago from ICE, and they talked about how it's the first of its kind partnership, just as you described, 800. illegal aliens one just the first four days of one week. In four days, 800, that is a staggering amount. 800, they said it was a massive multi-agency immigration enforcement crackdown.

And I mean, that's just one, that was just one operation. And that operation's ongoing.

So that'll be updated. We're working with DHS. We're going to do a public announcement together probably sometime in the middle or to the end of the week.

So stay tuned on that. But I think the results will be even more significant. And of course, we have people on the ground at the state level and at the local level that are absolutely critical in these efforts. Because if you think about it, like our highway patrol, if you have an illegal driving drunk on the road, they get pulled over under Biden. If we called ICE, basically they wouldn't come get them, right?

Now, not only will the Trump administration accept, they've deputized our folks. To exercise immigration enforcement power.

So, our highway patrol can take the illegal, transport them to ICE, and be a part of that effort to get them off the streets.

So, it's working well in Florida. We're gonna continue to do more. We're also in a position where. We have really good emergency response and management in Florida. And so we obviously have to deal, utilize that when we have hurricane response.

But we also use that, for example, during COVID when they had the monoclonal antibodies. We set up clinics and people got treatments and we used our emergency management folks to do that.

So likewise on immigration, we actually have proposals that we'll be able to hopefully get approval from the feds to do where we can do a lot of this independently and then bring the illegals to Gitmo or wherever they want us to bring them and be even more significant.

So hopefully we'll be able to take it to the next level. I know that ICE has not, they don't really have the adequate funding. I know they just did a continuing resolution. I don't think that was enough.

So we'll see what happens. But yeah, we're on the tip of the sphere here in Florida. And if you think about it, of all the issues that animated the 2024 election, this was certainly near the top if it wasn't the top. It was. And it's operational.

Tidal wave, and I'll clarify for folks: that's one operation under one giant ongoing operation.

So you have all of these different These different partnerships. And then this was just one crackdown under Operation Tidal Wave. I wanted to ask you too, because we were talking about immigration enforcement and budget and all the stuff that the state does. I wanted to ask you about Hope Florida. I've been following this pretty closely, and I think that this is such an amazing partnership between state and local organizations, charitable organizations, where you have people partnering with the governor.

Your wife, First Lady of Florida, Casey DeSantis, spearheaded this. And it really eliminates, honestly, government involvement. You're saving taxpayers millions and millions of dollars. You're eliminating government resources by empowering these private charities and people who want to do charitable work by meeting these people where they are and empowering them and empowering families. I mean, that to me is the whole conservative goal.

But. As you know, Governor, you know, there are some people in Tallahassee, in that state legislature, that don't like it because it squeezes out special interest kickbacks and it squeezes out their ability to wring these programs of all the cash that they can. And so I feel like there's been some pretty unkind and unfair attacks on the Florida First Lady. And I just kind of wanted to get your thoughts on that, if you have some. Oh, no question.

Well, you know how this business works. They smear what they fear. And so this is all manufactured and orchestrated. But if you look at Hope Florida, and this was something that the First Lady developed on her own, she didn't need to do it. She's never gotten one red cent for all the stuff she's done for the state over this period of time.

She just does it because she believes in it. But what it really represents is a frontal assault on the LBJ war on poverty approach, where you'd create bureaucracies. The goal of the responsibility of the bureaucrat was to try to get people in need on as many government programs as possible. And then keep them on those programs indefinitely.

Well, we know that doesn't broaden people's horizons. That creates a vicious cycle of dependency. And so, Casey's insight was: okay, rather than have these bureaucrats serve that function, why don't we have these bureaucrats be what we call hope navigators, where they are familiar with the resources that are in our communities, particularly with the faith-based community, also private charity, local businesses, even individual volunteers. And so, she's been able to enlist thousands and thousands of churches and businesses around Florida. They participate in the HOPE program through what's called the care portal.

So, if you have a single mom who maybe got evicted from an apartment and she's got two young kids, she can go. And yes, she can go to the government office and maybe there's something that they give. But when they put her in the care portal, guess what's going to happen? Usually, a church or a charity or someone will come and fill that need. And so, what you've done by doing That is, you're really showing people in need and navigating them to all the resources that are available.

It's help finding help, but help that is going to actually lift people up and get them on a pathway to self-sufficiency.

So, since this program has been fully instituted, they've gotten 30,000 people off of government assistance and they've saved taxpayers $106 million. And so, that is a model that we're looking to expand across other agencies in the state of Florida and then expand into specific areas like helping families that have children with unique ability and then also helping with childcare, because we think there's a lot of churches and faith organizations who are wanting to be enlisted in the child care space. And if you think about it, if you have like a single mom, she has to put food on the taper, looking at the kids, that's a huge component of it. Childcare is very expensive.

So, we're going to have more announcements coming up very shortly, but it's been a remarkably successful. Program. That's how it should be. It's something that people realize it's successful. People realize that she's done a good job.

And there's some people that don't like it. Obviously, the left and some of these liberal media don't like the fact that Florida enlists the faith-based community.

Now, we have other states come to try to learn about Hope Florida and even mimic it. And what we found is liberal states, once they know you're using, utilizing the faith community, They don't want to be in the middle of the street. Of course they are. I have two other things I want to ask you about, Governor, too. And I apologize because we're, I wish I could keep you for the whole hour.

It'd be great. I have so many things I'd love to ask you. I wanted to ask you, real quick, there's one lawmaker who was talking about taking Florida to the next level. Where does Florida go? I mean, how can Florida go to the next level after you were in the governor's office?

I mean, where do they go to the moon? Like, where? What does that mean?

Well, we've had, since I become governor, we've had almost a 40% increase in our GDP, second most of all 50 states. We've paid down 41% of our state's total debt for our 180-year history. We paid it down. We have the lowest per capita amount of government employees at the state level per capita in the entire country. We've cut taxes by billions of dollars.

Registered Republicans. Universal school choice. We took on the woke in higher education. We took on woke corporations. We've done what people wanted us to do.

And that's why when I became governor, there were almost 300,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans.

Now we have 1.2 million more registered Republicans. You didn't get that, Dana. By offering pale pastels. We got that because we drew a sharp contrast with the left. People knew that Republicans under my leadership, we'd protect your kids from gender insanity in the elementary school, in all the schools.

They knew that we were not going to let rioters take over our streets or our cities, that we were going to be a law and order state. They knew all these things. And that's why people have responded, not just by moving to Florida, but people like in Miami-Dade, who used to be Independents or Democrats, switching over to Republican in record numbers. I have one last quick question for you. I have under 60 seconds.

Are you and Tucker friends? You and Tucker, Carlson? Are you guys, you guys see me? We were when he had his Fox show. You know, when he lost the Fox show, I kind of lost track of what he was doing.

You know, he was talking about hunting. I think he was saying that I signed an anti-Semitism bill, which shows somehow I'm controlled by donors. I'm thinking to myself, this was like a unanimous bill that passed. I don't know that donors were even involved in it.

So some of this stuff is just bizarre, but I'll let people say what they want. What I don't want to do is give anyone grist for the mill to try to increase their engagement or anything like that. Yeah, there you go. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, always a pleasure to talk with you. Great success in Florida.

Love the state. We vacationed there quite a bit. We appreciate it. Governor, we'll love to have you back. Thanks so much.

We'll talk again soon. Thanks so much. Take care. We have more to come, folks, as we wrap up this first segment. We got headlines on the way.

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So, I don't know, we'll see on that one. Uh, also, let's see, we got oh, a pilot threatened to uh turn the plane around because some D-bag passenger was vaping in the boys' room.

Well, I was in the laboratory there. The New York Post, they have the story. They were going from LA to Cancun, and somebody literally got in trouble vaping in the laboratory. And the pilot actually had to make an announcement because it set off a smoke alarm. It's a federal offense, and they said they were going to turn the plane around if they had to tell anybody else again.

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What?

that some people have done to try to say That the media missed this story. They didn't miss this story. Oh, no. David Ignatius wrote: I just refuse to accept this stupid premise because it's a right-wing manufactured right-wing premise in order to stain the media. The media's got plenty of things to attack them for, and there are MSNBC and CNN.

First off, that's nonsense. And as Kane noted, Democrats and the media are the same thing. They are. But what's more, no, you guys didn't ignore the story. No, I actually disagree with that.

I agree. I don't think that Democrats ignored the story, or sorry, the media ignored the story, Kane. No, they saw it and they ran the other way. They went out of their way to. Report on it.

So It's not that they ignored it, they just omitted it. Because they're a bunch of lying rat bastards. That's why. And we all know this. Like, that's a big right wing.

It's what's right wing. The fact that you guys defended him when he would fall upstairs? Oh, no, that's just his stutter. Where the hell did that narrative come from? Because it sure as hell didn't come for the right wing.

Oh, my gosh, Kane, Joe Biden fell up the stairs. Normally, one falls down them. He fell up them. How dare you make fun of his stutter? What?

With his feet? This doesn't make any sense. Or when he would say things that are totally not even true, he would talk about people who were dead that he talked to the other day. It's like, no, no, that's um. No, that's pretty much not a right that's not a stutter and that's not a right wing narrative.

You can't tell us that the stuff that we saw with our ear our eyes and heard with our ears that It's a right-wing narrative. I mean, everybody saw this. Democrats saw it too. And here's the other reason why I also say the Democrats themselves. They would ignore it.

To a point But They they ended up they they didn't want to go vote for him. They didn't want him. And then the whole party had to go to Kamala Harris and switch them out. I mean, it's just crazy. It's just absolutely insane.

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We got Congressman Chip Roy. He's going to be coming up next hour as well. And uh This, a couple of things to touch on.

So, first and foremost, on the Amazon thing. We were talking about how Amazon It was reported. Where, and it was Punch Bowl News that said this, and I read this this morning over, I saw this at Punch Bowl this morning. They were saying that Amazon is going to display the tariff costs for consumers. Where did they get their sourcing?

Because Amazon is now denying this report. Let me pull this up. Uh this is uh over at USA Today.

Now Amazon is saying no punch bowl news. That's not right. They said that Punchbold cited an unnamed source. that they're going to rep that they're going to uh have these the prices uh uh the t the increase in prices caused by tariffs next to the products. And They, but it was even, what's more, it was even underscored by Caroline Levitt, who said that she got off the phone.

with the president of Amazon. And she said it was a hostile and political act by Amazon. But then the spokesperson of Amazon said, that's not true.

So what is it? Are they Amazon's trying to I guess clarify I was under the impression when I saw that conference this morning, the presser, Um that when she said she got off the phone with the president, she was referring to Trump. And that They were responding to that rumor. I don't I didn't get that they that apparently she got off the phone with Bezos or because he's not even in charge of Amazon anymore. But I mean, I th my impression was that she talked to President Trump about it.

I Let's pause all here for a moment. I would like to think. That it You know, if you're a business, you wouldn't. be responded to so publicly. if you knew.

Or if it was known that Ye you weren't doing this. And it was unconfirmed. You see what I'm saying? Which is why I think she had to talk with President Trump as opposed to anyone from the United States. But she said that it was a hostile and political act.

So I I which I don't necessarily agree with, but But I do think, is it disingenuous if they were going to do it, if they didn't do it for inflation? Yeah, but it's also stupidly disingenuous to not accurately note, like, okay, this is legit made in China and this isn't.

So apparently Uh I guess POTUS called Bezos, although Bezos, he's not really involved in Amazon anymore. Because he didn't he sell basically the daily operations of that? I can't remember. But I pr but he did. He's like he's he's like removed from that.

But apparently and and and that's why it's so weird that they would I that's why I don't think that it's a political act because they donated a million.

Now, granted, you can make it a tax write-off, I think, to some extent, however it's structured, to an extent. And To the inaugural, for the inaugural party, and he was there. They were there a couple of different times. He was at Mar-a-Lago. I mean, that's definitely not the.

I don't think that that's the association, the level of association you would see if someone's going to do something like this later. I don't know. But. They uh Amazon spokesperson said the move wasn't considered for the main Amazon site, but for Amazon haul. And then they sent CNN a statement.

This was less than an hour ago. saying that it was not approved and not going to happen.

So wait, can I just pause? What the hell is Amazon haul? What is that? Steve, do you know what Amazon Haul is? Is it H-A-U-L?

Yeah, H-A-U-L. Uh no. Huh?

So, Amazon Haul, I have no idea what I've never even heard of this. Is it like Amazon? But. More Nerdy, I don't know. What is it?

We don't know. Larger items from Amazon that require hauling? I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Is it like wholesale?

Maybe it's like wholesale stuff. I feel like I need to be a better consumer at this point to know about it, right? I'm like, how do I not know about this?

Well, what I'm seeing here is just the regular hyperbole that we see from the media. Let's say there was a rumor that got to the Trump administration that said Amazon's considering doing these tariff numbers by their items. And then Trump's like, well, I'm going to get on the phone with Bezos and find out if this is true or not. And so Trump calls. And all this, the reporting is Trump is, you know, he actually is complaining to Bezos.

The hyperbole from the media is what I think is muddying this thing up. It is. And I think some of the hyperbole, although. I mean, so if they're saying that it was supposed to be for that it was being considered for Amazon haul and not Amazon. And they said it was never approved and not going to happen.

So And let's consider the fact that this was a unnamed source. That got all of this started. Have we seen something like that before? Where an unnamed source starts this big media friendship? Here's Amazon Hall.

I asked AI. Oh, well here we go. Amazon Haul is a new shopping experience on the Amazon app and website that focuses on budget-friendly products, primarily items reduced at $20 or less.

So it's the The cheap manny stuff? Cheap Chinese stuff. Just call it the CCS, cheap Chinese stuff. That's what it is.

Okay. All right, so uh okay, I didn't know what that was. I didn't know it was a whole thing. Oh, interesting. I mean, how is that different from Amazon?

Inquiring minds want to know. And just so you know, it's not that we impose this big tariff on China. It's always been China's giant tariff on us. The reciprocal nature of Trump's policies are what is the issue.

So, China's next move, which by the way, they cannot sustain what they're doing right now, is to come back to the table and negotiate a fair tariff. tariff or eliminated completely. You know what's kind of funny though? Because In all of the debates between the right and left that I've seen on this, You know, people are like, well, why didn't they do this with Biden's inflation? Why didn't they can we just admit that both of these things increase prices?

The media is accidentally having to admit. But one is a tough thing. Like, we've always said: look, the tariff thing is going to be tough. It's a tactic. To equalize the playing field.

That's not what's being debated. I mean, you're going to have to take a tough move, tough move like that. And I'm not, I wanted tax cuts to come first. That's my big thing. But no, but what have I, what have I said?

This is going to hurt. For a little bit.

So, do you want the permanent policy? People don't have the spine for it. Do you want the permanent pain of Biden policies or do you want the temporary pain? No, but my point is: the media is actually having to admit that Biden's inflation raised prices. Yeah.

And we're seeing already inflation year over year is down significantly. These people are clowns. Oh, my gosh.

Sometimes when I sit here and try to understand and process, like I'm like Democrats were were are argu it's weird how they argue things from a certain perspective because I feel like they're they in order to score a win on someone that they think is a politically ideological opponent, they are admitting something that they were denying forever as as a get. When I talk, I feel like I'm referring to a drunk person. Like I'm babysitting a drunk. That's what it feels like. Whenever I'm trying to dive in and understand the hell you people on the left are talking about.

It's like I'm the sober friend at the social get-together, and I'm babysitting a room full of drugs, which is. Chaos It's just what it's like. It's this Yeah, it's p Who boy, I'm telling you. All right, a couple of things that I miss. Blah, blah, blah.

Well, we're going to get into coming up Red State rhino hunting.

So, we're going to have all of that coming up. The um Where's this at?

Okay. I saw this headline. That I don't, it's Washington Post. It's a Washington Post headline. And I saw this headline.

And I want to give you. how it states. And then I do think it's interesting now that some of the polling is kicking in, and then you have these headlines coming out. I'm glad that the admin is starting to put more pressure on the tax cut stuff, which is great. And I love that.

This is Washington Post. Public sours on Musk's roll is skeptical that government is cutting waste.

Alright, so here's a new crack they think they found. And it said, here's the first graph, and that's all you need to know. They said that I didn't look at their poll, it's a WALPO ABC poll amp. I didn't look at it 'cause I don't put a lot of stock in the A B Z stuff, I'm being honest. They said Americans are increasingly critical of Elon Musk's role in the admin.

They said that there are some negative reactions to cuts. and they're skeptical that he's cutting waste and fraud.

Okay, well. I need the left to pick a lane. They're either mad that he's not cutting enough. or cutting anything. or they're mad that he has the authority to do so, which he doesn't.

So which is it? He doesn't have the authority to do it. All he can do is audit it. recommend it to Congress and then they do it. But do you see what's happening here?

And as this is what I had on my Rundown. This is exactly how I have it on my show rundown for today. When Republicans fail to pass meaningful economic reform, this is going to happen. And everyone's going to throw him under the bus.

So, the big spenders that are in Congress that are dragging their feet on meaningful economic reform. the big spinning bush leagues. They're going to drag this out, and then the public is going to say, Well, wait, what is all this show about Doge then? What's this show about him actually cutting spending, etc., etc.? And then they're going to question the validity of Doge.

And then from there, it's just going to make them angrier and angrier. And it's going to, they're going to try to, they're trying to inflame. passions and create a chasm. That's the goal here.

So The longer it takes. And it's not just, you know, obviously all of Democrats, but there are a couple of Republicans that. I mean, let's be honest. They are the pork barrel Republicans. I mean, we know people like this, and they're not just in the House, they're in the Senate.

Right, they're the ones who also are insider trading people. We're going to talk about that in a minute. But They like bringing home the bacon to their district, and it's a real thing. the long the longer this drags out, The more that they're going to be able to use Musk as the avatar for everything that's wrong. They want to scalp.

The left wants a scout. They really want musks. And Out of all of this, I think ultimately. The pressure is More on Republicans in Congress than it is on anybody else in this. Because Trump is doing everything that he can.

Musk has done everything that he can.

Now these other people need to do their part. And it has to happen, and it needs to happen soon.

So I'm glad to see that they're starting to really put that, really call them out at press conferences. It needs to continue happening. But If people don't see cuts, they're going to wonder what Doge is about and what's been happening this whole time. And you know, there's going to be some independents that don't follow it as closely as we all do. And that's what I get it, they're going to ask these questions.

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To me, those things would be, I would imagine, celebrated pretty much universally. Subscribe to Culture and Christianity, an Alan Jackson podcast on your favorite podcast app. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. Yeah. It's time for Florida Man.

Oh my gosh. All right.

So here's the headline. Florida man dressed as Ronald MacDonald rustled to the ground by cops, saying, I am a clown, stupid. Mm-hmm. Is that his actual mug shot? I think so.

The guy, so he's got he's a white dude with red locks. You know how I feel about that, and he's got real messed up teeth.

Okay. They're not teeth at that point, they're teeth. Uh yeah, when it's when it's the color of honey. You got teeth.

So um Apparently, so the story is: body cam footage has a Florida man being busted while dressed as Ronald McDonald in a scuffle. Oh my gosh, he's forty What? Christopher Marlowe. This guy's four. He's 40.

Oh, wow. Dude, he looks like Jeff Lebaski. He's f he's... forty. He was dressed as the McDonald's character, bright yellow, red, white costume, big nose.

He was trespassing at a shopping center. Pombay police were called. and they had to wrestle him to the ground. And he was told by one of their arresting officers, you look like a clown. And he yelled back, no, redacted.

I am a clown, stupid. And yeah, that's but they were cited for trespass at the shopping plaza once, this guy, and he went back. And then he got in trouble again.

So he was taken into hard 40. You sure didn't say he's in his late 40s? No, dude. It said he's 40. I know, right?

I'm like, what? Can we talk about a dude who I saw this, I think it was Vegas Larry that sent this to me. The Man Wrangling and Out brand new. This is a new one. I think we've seen this guy before, a barefoot alligator wrestler.

So he was there to go and get this Gator off the road. And it was on Sunday. It was a giant alligator. Dude was barefoot. I think he was in camo shorts and barefoot.

And he was uh he wrestled that gator in true Florida man style and got it off the highway. Barefoot. That's impressive. Third hour next. Stick with us.

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We are once again at one of those hinge moments of history. Our old relationship with the United States. a relationship based on steadily increasing integration. is over. The system Of open global trade anchored by the United States, a system that Canada has relied on since the Second World War.

A system that, while not perfect, has helped deliver prosperity for a country for decades. Gosh, he just even looks like a Davo stooge. That's Mark Carney. He's uh I mean, he's taken over after Ah, Justin Trudeau those elections yesterday And uh he's the new PM. And I I just You know, in looking at this.

It's unfortunate. I just can't believe that this is what they chose in Canada. Not everybody, but the Liberals in Canada, they wanted some more of this. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash here with you.

or at the top of this third hour says, oh, the old relationship with the U.S. is over. Whoa Yeah. I I mean this guy he When you look at Um I don't think Carney, from what I understand, Carney has never. been in elected office before.

And His political acumen is just horse feces. It is. And he's, you know, he's a woke globalist. He's the exact type of dude that you do not want. running an ally or a neighbor to the north.

He's I he was what governor of the uh Bank of England from 2013 to 2020. Uh he was very anti-Brexit from what I understand. He's just one of those. He's just one of those guys. He's a Justin Trudeau, all in that same vein.

All of these guys, they're all like the. That all came from the same cookie cutter factory, right? They all look the same, they act the same, they say the same thing, they have the same technocrat, you know, globalist kind of worldview speech approach. And this was the last thing that Canadians needed. But you know in four years we'll see we'll see what else happens, but I don't know In the meantime, we're in our first 100 days here.

with this administration. And We've got some really good things. We've got the the the closed border. We have really good action on immigration. These are all really good, but we're going to need some more.

I'm not the only one saying that. I think I've been saying it the longest, but I'm not the only one saying it. We have to have some serious reform. And I saw a headline.

Something like Republicans in Congress need to act, or it's going to be more show than doe, which I liked that saying. flowed nicely. But Congress has to back up Doge. And by backing up Doge, you're backing up POTUS. And if you're not backing up Does, you're not backing up POTUS.

And I think a lot of these people out here, I'm going to tell you, instead of getting into these stupid slap fights over. Uh either over primary stuff from 2016. People need to be spending, if they're truly, actually America first, they need to be spending their time and their attention. on these rhinos in Congress who are dragging their feet at this. Honestly, I mean, I kind of wonder if we had somebody other than Mike Johnson, would we be getting some more of this done?

Yes, we've got a razor-thin majority. But how in the world, think about it like this: how in the world does that matter? How in the world does that matter at this point when you saw what the results of last election were? Why did everybody go and vote the way that they did? Why does the right have this newfangled coalition that it barely knows how to manage?

It's because people were tired. Of inflation, they were tired of the woke scold, they were tired of lawless, total, unfettered. you know, chaos and disorder at the border. Those three things drove everybody to vote the way that they did.

So why in the world are we not Doubling down on that and expanding on that, and making and delivering on. Uh promises immediately. Because Trump honestly, he's done everything that he can do. In terms of reducing the size and scope of government. He can do a million things with executive order.

He's had more executive orders. I think Probably even more than LBJ at this point. In his term, I think. And Where's the legislation? You know, I mean, it should be boom, done, this is codified, boom, done, this is codified, boom, done, boom, over and over.

That's what it should be like. And If we had people. NDC who are a little bit better at messaging. You can't tell me that you could not bend some of these weaker purple Democrats. Over a barrel and get them to support this stuff.

I don't believe you couldn't. I don't believe you couldn't. You know why? How crazy would it be if you were able to get some of these Democrats to go along with tax cuts and that? Why not have POTUS?

Like, now this is going to sound crazy.

Now keep in mind, these are Democrats from areas that Are purple, where you're probably not going to have a good Republican candidate in those areas. Doesn't mean you shouldn't see the ground. But I think you got to look at it like a give and take, right? I've been watching too much mob land. You got to work, you got to look at it like a give and take.

Okay, you did that for me. Maybe I'll rally for you. Because you gave us tax cuts. Right, you did something for me. You know, you take care of the harrigans, the harrigans take care of you.

One of those things, you know, I'm like, why can't you do that? It's a little Machiavellian, yeah, but does it get the job done? That's the whole point. Does it get the job done? Does it get what you want?

Does it get you closer to the end zone? That's the whole point. And if that's not your point, what are you doing? And if those moves are not getting you to where you need to go, what are you doing? Everybody in every issue that is a distraction, I feel like, should be dragged out at this point.

We have our times even shorten out. Where are you after the first hundred days? Congress holds the power of the person. That's great. And the executive branch.

Their legitimacy comes from having this mandate of the people. Congress represents the individual constituents. They all derive their legitimacy and authority from us. We've given them the authority to do that. They can legitimately act in doing this.

They need to have it done. And You know, this I I I really think That Lawmakers need to kind of. I know that they're trying to look at their localities and do the best thing for their district while balancing that with the needs of national interests. But at this point we're right on the cl on the cliff. What are we, like thirty something trillion in debt?

Something to that point. I can't even imagine that I'm out of money. That's insane. I think by the end of this year we're going to be. I read.

I think it was over at Wall Street Journal that we're going to be near 40 trillion in debt. And it's going to grow. Either Congress is going to change it. or our economy is going to collapse. That's why these moves are so drastic.

Like with trade and manufacturing, these tariffs, it's a short-term tactic to just try to get us to some equilibrium. to where we can be in a position to start onshoring our manufacturing. and our production, all this stuff. And it's a drastic move. And I have said, going into this, that there are a lot of people that are not going to have the stomach for it.

That's why you got to be out there. Populism. is a tactic, it's not a set of beliefs. But it requires that you be in front of people regularly.

So Trump is going to be, is he rallying in Michigan? That's smart. Oh man, I hope he hammers tax cuts. If you get Trump out there at a rally, you get Trump out there in front of the camera talking about tax cuts and throwing it in Democrats' faces. He can shame them into he can force them into acting or at least force them to feel the pressure of the people in their district who withdrew their support of the Democrat and went to go support Republicans.

Presidents as Much As As much authority as they have in the executive office, they are still limited in how much spending they can cut. They're incredibly limited. I mean, even some of the EOs have a shelf life. I think it was through rescissions previously that some Republican presidents have tried to get a handle on spending. And but you've seen what happens when Trump Tries to stop already spending that Congress has passed appropriations bills to secure.

So appropriated spending, when Trump moves to stop that, the courts intervene. That's what we're seeing with some of this stuff. The executive branch, not just Trump in particular, but the executive branch is limited on how much spending they can cut and the shelf life of EOs that dictate it. And it doesn't even matter. And I know some people will say, and I can art because I can say it myself: like, oh, but yeah, but this appropriation was stupid.

I agree. Some of their preparations are incredibly stupid. But it goes through Congress. That's how it works. It's not a bug, it's a feature of the system.

That's how it works. And so He He can make, he can propose these reforms. He has, you know, an auditing system, basically. And Every time they cut the appropriated spending, they're challenged in the courts. When they don't, they're challenged in the courts for everything.

Congress has to act. Otherwise it's all theatre. He is at the limit of what he can do. He's done everything he said he's going to do. You can love him or hate him, but he's done it.

Agree with it or not, he's done it.

Now Where's Congress? That's the issue. And Like I was saying earlier, you know, the headline that I had last hour. how they're targeting Musk. Saying, oh, you know, Musk, you know, people are wondering if Doge is all show.

Lorraine and I were talking on Slack. She was like, Well, and I, because I had said they want to scout. And she noted, yeah, if they can't get Trump, or they want Musk. That's exactly right. They can't get Trump.

They're going to go after Musk. Let me tell you something else that's on deck. Who is that guy that Indian lawmaker came? Let me pull. his thing up.

He is Sri Thanadar? Yeah. What state is he out of? Michigan. Michigan.

So this guy they're already talking about He wants to already start impeachment, which is stupid. I don't know, based on what? He's saying, oh, well, he ignored a Supreme Court order about, well, he's exercising the power of the executive, so that's irrelevant. I mean, they want to accuse him of a crime without showing actual, again, here we are, evidence of any kind of criminal activity. I'm so tired of this stuff.

I could. I'm trying not to say something really rude right now. I'm trying to be a nice person, a better person, right? It was so fiery first hour. I'm trying to like take it back down, you know, because you you guys, you guys wanna go home and have a chill evening.

But All of this is linked. If we don't get the economy in order, we're going to lose our hats on midterms. And then, guess what's going to happen? Guess what happens when you lose Congress? Guess.

That little Freak nut. Is going to start filing articles of impeachment. Democrats are going to go along with it. Think guess what we got for two years. More impeachment fight and it's going to be non-stop that.

Non-stop. They're going to bungle up everything. Goodbye cuts. No, you're not gonna you won't you won't get tax cuts you might get an increase All of that, and we have less than two years to make this happen right now. He has literally done everything he said.

Congress needs to show up. There ought to be some kind of um Rolling Caravan Going after. Congressional members that are refusing to do what's required. If they don't have a spine, then make them feel the heat. Make it hot.

That's going to have to happen. Republicans, you're going to have to get nasty. I think that's what's going to have to happen. We'll talk more about this here coming up. We got headlines on the way as we move.

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All right, so bags of cash, sweet cash, fell from a Brinks truck in suburban Chicago. Crowds of people stole $300,000. Wow, it somehow opened. They don't know how. It opened by unknown means and all this money, people were just grabbing all this money in Oak Park.

Three bags of currency fell out. It happened when the driver was moving on Tuesday and Brinks, they returned to the area and 50 to 100 people were seen taking money and fleeing.

So they estimated it was $300,000. Don't they have. They don't have anybody in custody, but I mean, can't they track that? Like, you can track the money. Yeah, I mean you guys serial everything serialized so you can track that cache.

They know so people are gonna get caught. Oh my gosh, the rarest baby names in each state. I think this is so dumb. They apparently no name. Although, what did you say?

It's like no name? I think it might be pronounced noname. That's Still done.

Sorry if you named your kid that, but it's. I don't know why. It just, you know, I don't mind unique names, but when people try to make it really obnoxiously unique, I feel like you're setting your case, like you deserve to be made fun of. Right, you know, because we care about your kids' safety and health. You know, I feel like, hmm.

Let's see. Here's a headline: quote: Walking 53 miles dressed as a giant bird was harder than I thought. Who did this? A British guy, of course. He decided to hike.

As a bird, because he wanted to protect, he's like an environmentalist, and so he uh dressed at I don't even know what this bird is, Kathy the Curlew. I don't know, he dresses like this giant ostrich bird-looking thing, and he had a hard time. I don't feel bad, it looks dumb. Like, what's the point of this? Like, you know, if you want to go out and save some animals, go out and save some animals.

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Channel 347 is the stream. Chats at Rumble, X, Facebook, everywhere. We were talking, well, a million things, the Amazon stuff, the tariffs, now more and more, I feel like POTUS is talking about tax cuts. And of course, that press conference, Caroline Lovett today, on behalf of the admin, where they were talking about, yeah, we're going to make these tax cuts, we're going to get this passed, talking about that big, beautiful budget, the BBB.

Well, we need to ask Congress about this joining us. One of our favorite people, and we can literally only say that about like two or three, honestly, in Congress from the Great Republic of Texas, Congressman Chip Roy, he joins us now. He literally just ran over from doing his job and cast in votes for Texans, and he's now sitting and talking to us. Congressman, good to see you. Great to see you, Dan.

I hope you have Chris and your family are well. We are doing very well, and I hope the same for you and yours. And I'm getting excited because everybody's talking about tax cuts, and I am living and dying on tax cuts. Tell me, are we going to actually get this? Because I know it's a slim majority in the House.

I know it's tough. I know it's like herding cats, and you got some really stubborn Democrats to say nothing of some pretty stubborn Republicans, too. But where are we at on that? And I know you guys feel the pressure.

So let me try to put in context for your audience what we're dealing with, right?

So we have the tax cuts that were passed under President Trump in 2017. The corporate rates were made permanent. The individual rates then varied somewhat. And then there were some other corporate rates that are research and development, some expensing stuff, and other things that have already expired. But all the personal rates, those expire this December.

And what am I talking about? There was a doubling of the standard deduction, which usually helps your non-homeowners and a little bit more of your lower income filers. there was the rate reductions for a lot of people. Also, a doubling, I think, of the child tax credits, a significant increase in child tax credits.

Now that stuff expires in December.

So if we don't do anything, then that means those rates will go up. In other words, we're not actually talking about a cut at the moment. What we're doing is we're trying to stop an increase. Right. Now, That's all a part of a larger question.

which is the deficit question. Are we going to do the spending cut side of the equation?

So the reconciliation bill that we're dealing with right now. Which is done with 51 votes in the Senate, so we can avoid the nonsense with Democrats in the Senate. That's why it's such a big deal. That's why there's the big, beautiful bill. It's to try to get the spending side done and the tax side done.

Now here's the fundamental problem, and then I'll stop filibustering.

Now Republicans always choose the easy path. which is the tax cut side. I support it. I'd like to cut taxes in half. I'd like to abolish the income tax altogether.

Get rid of the IRS, right? I'm in. Comma, however. Republicans simultaneously promise a lot of free crap.

Okay, and the last time I checked is not the United States House of Free Crown. And but yet that's what we do. And so now we're having a debate about whether or not we can reform Medicaid. And other programs to constrain spending so that we don't have deficits exploding out of control. And our budget in the House said: look, we're going to just Reduce the increase in Medicaid.

By so it would increase about a trillion and a half instead of about two and a half trillion.

So we'd save a trillion or so. I'm ballparking. And now a bunch of Republicans are saying, oh, we can't touch Medicaid. By the way, there's so much fraud and abuse of Medicaid. Of course, we can reform it.

The Republicans have got to have the backbone to do it. The final point is: if we don't, then I think the tax increases that might occur. The extension of the tax cuts is in jeopardy. And I got to tell you, I won't vote for a bill that doesn't have enough on the spending reduction side of the equation. Just because My colleagues are trying to put me into a corner over the tax cuts, if that makes sense.

No, it does make sense because that's kind of always been the argument from the left is that. Tax cuts cost, and you got to pay for them somehow.

So, they always want to increase, they think you have to, or the government spending, you have to increase taxes in order to pay for government spending, which I agree with you. You have to do both. It's not, oh, especially right now. I mean, we're what, 30-something trillion dollars in debt. I think it's projected to be 40 trillion by the end of the year.

I, I mean, you, you have to have both at this at this stage of the game. And I knew that there were going to be some of your colleagues in the house that were going to drag their feet about Medicaid. I knew that there were going to be some that were going to drag their feet about this. Is there, are you hopeful? I mean, give us a sense of how hard we should be, how many times we should be calling our elected officials a day.

So it's a mixed bag. I think there is a genuine effort and a desire at the White House and among Republican leadership to deliver. The budgets that we voted for before Easter were designed to get us on a path to be able to succeed. The committees are working, but I'll just tell you, there are a lot of yellow flags, if not red flags, popping up all over the place. as I look at what they're trying to produce in these various committee products.

Let me give you an example.

So we're getting revenue going down in the highway trust fund because there are more EVs compared to gas cars, and a lot of the gas cars have better mileage, right?

So the gas tax, which used to fund the highway trust, still funds the highway trust fund. That's going down as a percentage, right, of the overall vehicles.

So they want to come up with a solution to that. The solution being put forward in the committee at TNI. is a car registration fee. Federal. that would be applied to EVs and gas-powered cars.

Now, I'm against that. I don't register things with the federal government. I don't think the federal government should have anything to do with my existence.

So that would be a significant amount, like $48 billion of fees to pay for stuff, like Coast Guard and the air traffic controllers. They need money.

Okay. But then when I complained about it, I was told, Chip, don't worry about it. We're going to strip that out in the Highway Trust Fund later. What that means is, it's a gimmick. They want to put it in the bill as a pay-for.

Shriven out later, they say, and then that way you get rid of the tax, but you use it as a fake pay for it. I think it is doubly bad that way. And this is what I'm dealing with. And I'm trying to push back Republicans. Like, let's be open, let's be honest, let's reduce the size and scope of government.

Let's cut taxes so the American people can have more money in their pockets. Let's actually be the party of limited government, the actual party of the Constitution, the actual party of believing we can have health care that is affordable and that is actually effective rather than the disaster that has been an expanded Medicaid under Obamacare. Yeah, we're talking with Congressman Chip Roy out of Texas's 21st congressional district. That's because that's the fear. And I know that the pressure is all on, particularly members of Congress.

I mean, I know it's really on y'all's shoulders right now because you have the recommended cuts from Doge, and then you have the executive orders that are coming in from POTUS. And none of this means anything unless it can be made either codify it, make it permanent, however, it has to be done legislatively in order to give it the weight that it needs. Otherwise, it's just going to be stripped out and be everything redone. Heaven forbid, if we have. Gavin Newsom in 2028, or if Democrats take over the House coming up in a couple of years, which I don't even like saying that out loud.

But that's the thing. I mean, there, it. The Doge cuts. How realistically much of that Is going to be able to be legislatively backed up. I mean, up until the time when midterms kick in, because I'm just thinking that we only have a short period of time.

The problem that we face is what I told Elon in Vivek when he was still a part of it before running for governor. They came in and met with Congress in December. And I went to the mic. And I ticked off all our Republican colleagues because I looked at Elon and I said: your problem isn't going to be finding the waste and the fraud and the abuse and the stuff to cut. You're going to find lots of that.

Your problem is looking at you right now. It's my colleagues. It's all of these Republicans who run on cutting spending, but yet vote for it all. Let me give you an example.

USAID. Right? You've heard about all the ridiculous programs, the $32,000 transgender comic book. the funding for operas and whatever.

So We offered an amendment. Eli Crane, our good friend from Arizona, great guy, former Navy SEAL, sniper. Superhuman. He offered an amendment to cut USAID in half. because we knew there were some good programs but a lot of bad ones.

102 Republicans voted for it. 114 Republicans voted against it. That was in 18 months ago in the fall of 23. I give you that as an example. I can give you hundreds where Republicans will not deliver.

So go to Doge. Or actually go to recisions. You've heard about rescissions. The president can send up recisions through his office of management and budget to the Hill. And if he does so, we can pass them with majority votes in the House and the Senate.

So only 51 in the Senate.

So there's rumors, I don't have any actual backing yet, but there's rumors that they're going to send up a residence package to cut public broadcasting. PBS, et cetera. And now I'm hearing that a bunch of Republicans are up here going, ooh, I don't know if I can do that. We've got to save and preserve public broadcasting. This is what we're dealing with.

Now, I might say we should call that bluff. But that's what we're dealing with. Doge is the same way. They're gonna find all this stuff. But then Congress has to go act.

That's why you heard Elon go, well, it's going to be 2 trillion in savings. And then it was like, well, trillion.

Well, that last one, it was like, well, maybe $150 to $200 billion in 2026. is because you start looking at the programs that Congress votes for. and supports so they can go back home and say I'm giving you your free crap And then suddenly you hit a wall.

Well, guess what? Ain't no free lunch. We gotta solve this problem. Talking with Congressman Chip Roy. I mean I appreciate your transparency on this and your forthrightness on this.

I think you're one of few people in Congress that are actually telling it as it is. And I think that was that, I mean, when you were just the story that you just told, you know, telling Elon Musk, the problem is looking at you right now. Is there, are we at the point and I So much of this feels like Tea Party 3.0, really. Are we at the point Where it's time for Republicans to start getting, I mean, mean with some of these Republican lawmakers. And I'm asking you because you're in there and I trust your stance on it.

Well, look. I've been trying to take an approach over the last two months. of finding a way to work together. And not draw any red lines in the sand. I mean, I've certainly made some comments about what I think ought to happen.

I've certainly said that I don't think that I could support anything and won't support anything that's going to increase deficits. And that you got to balance tax policy, economic growth and spending cuts, put it in the pot and guarantee that we're not going to increase deficits.

So that's sort of a red line. But I haven't said I won't vote for it if we don't get X or Y or Z. A lot of my colleagues are doing that. And I think we do need to start having a really honest conversation about it because here's what's going to happen. The movement, the party, and even the White House, there's going to be a lot of movements saying we've got to get the tax.

Cuts extended, right? We can't have a tax increase. They're gonna say we've gotta get the border security money. And then they're going to say, We've got some spending cuts on the table, and it's not everything you wanted, but we've got a lot of good stuff. and the tax cuts will create economic growth and everything will be great and we'll have deficits go down.

And I'm going to be looking at the math going, I don't believe that. I think that was it's going to go up and I think we're going to see scoring and our own math that will show that. And we're not going to get the policy, we're not going to get the full elimination of the Inflation Reduction Act or whatever. There's going to be a lot of pieces to this puzzle. And then, if I'm sitting back going, guys, I'm not going to vote to increase deficits.

I'm not going to vote for something that doesn't fully repeal these disastrous policies like the Inflation Reduction Act, et cetera. But you're going to try to hold over my head that, yes, taxes might go up if we don't do our job. That's not on me. If you're unwilling to do your job to reduce spending, reform Medicaid, end the disastrous inflation reduction act do all the things we should do then you can't blame me. Any tax increases are on you.

And that's going to be the fight that we're going to have over the next couple of months. I'm trying to be respectful of my duly elected colleagues. I want to work with my colleagues, but I wasn't sent here to increase debt. We're 36 trillion in debt, a trillion dollars of interest every year. More on interest in the national debt.

If we refinance at existing rates, it's still going to be over a trillion and growing. If we go at higher rates, which is going to happen, we're going to have two, four, or six or eight trillion more in interest. We have got to deal with it. We've got to deal with it now, or we're going to lose the country. We will, absolutely.

Any names you want to give us now, we'll take them. I'm going to hold back. I'm going to hold back because I got to work with my colleagues to figure out how we can get this done. And I hope that we will do that. A lot of people are giving their own names.

They're out there in the media talking about what they will and won't do. Oh, yeah, we've seen that. I wanted to ask you about the SAVE Act as well, because this is, you gave an example of somebody who was literally charged with voting by aliens, is accused of illegally voting in the 2020 election. Doge has been assisting this. It's an Iraqi national.

I mean, yeah, you, you, I. I'm shocked that After the election results of this passional election, that Democrats are still like, meh, SAVAC, we don't need to prove anything. We don't need to, it floors me because you think they would at least, that used to be their position 10 years ago. Yeah, I mean, that just tells you the state of the Democratic Party. I mean, you know, I think that was in the Northern District of New York, the case you're just referencing, where you've got this guy who's a refugee who could vote.

Now they're charging him, you know, for having violated the law. And so they might say, Democrats will say, look, it's working, it's illegal. And so they're charging. Yeah, but here's the thing: as a prosecutor, former prosecutor, you know, I know, I mean, I charged a lot of crimes, but I certainly wasn't getting them all. There's a lot of people out there voting.

We know it. Democrats want them to vote. The same act would simply make the system work better by ensuring that only American citizens can register to vote. There's a lot of ways to make sure that nobody's burdened. We passed it out of the House last year.

Democrats killed it in the Senate. We passed it out of the House this year, right before Easter, with four Democrats joining us. You know, hopefully they'll pull it up on the floor of the Senate. I expect Chuck Schumer Democrats to work to kill it. uh because it's our holy grail.

They need non-citizens voting. to build out their electorate and to try to transform the country in the image that they see. And that's the truth. Everybody knows it. They shouldn't stop hiding.

They just want non-citizens to vote. We've got the bill to stop it. But unfortunately, we've got to get through the 60-vote threshold in the Senate in order to get it turned into law. Last question for you. I know you and Tim Burchett have talked about banning.

Passing law to ban congressional stock trading.

Some of these people that walk in with like $70,000 in their bank account and then five years later they got $22 million. I'm not going to say names, but I'm not talking about a Democrat, although they are kind of the most guilty of them. I mean, it's stunning. I can't imagine people voting against their own interests in Congress on this.

Well, it really is a stunning reality that we have members of Congress who are so actively day trading on things that we're voting on every single day. I think it is an inherent conflict of interest. I don't even want to impugn the motives of most members of Congress. They come in, they want to just, you know, they like every other American, they've got investments, they want to continue. And some don't come to Congress with significant means.

But it is extraordinary how much people are voting on things that they have a say in on a daily basis, where they get information, they know what's happening. It might be a pharmaceutical, it might be a big tech company, it might be debating on an antitrust policy. And so, are you gonna vote for that and then not have that affect your investment decisions? We have legislation that would solve that problem and say you got to take your dollars, put them in broadly held mutual funds, maybe a blind trust if you want to, but the broadly held mutual funds would be the best solution, and that we ought to just implement that. And look, that is what it is.

You'll line and fall with the market, and that's okay. But we've had not been able to get it onto the house floor.

So I think we're starting to get a little bit of an itchy trigger finger. Myself, Tim Purchet. Brian Fitzpatrick, a more moderate number from Pennsylvania. He's a good friend and he wants to do it. Wow.

There are several Democrats, including AOC, who are interested in doing it. Seth Magazine, who I work with, who I don't agree with on many things. But this is something I think we should do to try to change the institution for the better. Amen to that. Amen to that.

Congressman Chiproy, you do so much good in D.C. We're grateful to have you there and glad that you joined us on the program today. Anytime, we'd love to have you back. Thank you, Seth. God bless you, Dana.

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