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Welcome into it. It is the Todd Stearns Radio program. No, it is not Todd Starnes.

However, he is out and about one more day, rocking it in New York, by the way, over at the Stock Exchange earlier this morning, watching the bell be rung by Newsmax as they officially went public. And that's really exciting. We will, by the way, have a chat with Todd Stearns coming up on the program in just a little bit. Probably at the bottom of this source if I had a crystal ball of what we could foresee in the relatively near future. Until then, though, what's up, my friends?

It's Andy Hoosier sitting in moving the Liberty University Studios from Memphis, Tennessee, out to Wichita, Kansas. With my station here at KQAM, my flagship station, and a great affiliate of the Todd Starnes radio program. Here's how the game is going to run today. Give us a call at three 901-260-5926. 901-260-5926.

I want to hear from you as there is obviously plenty to discuss. The Liberation Day 2.0. We're seeing the results already from the tariffs that Trump had implemented yesterday afternoon.

Some countries liking it, be like, all right, we're going to come to the table and actually have a conversation again. Others, well, not so much.

So. We'll see how the trade war continues on moving forward. But there is a lot, obviously, to talk about outside of that as well. Apparently, are you aware? Congress, they're just like, meh.

We're just going to reconvene like next week. We're done. The House, especially, not going to get a whole lot done. The Senate yesterday moving against Donald Trump with one of the tariffs, especially on Canada, after the resolution passed with four Republicans siding with the Democrats on that one. It seems to me the theme of the day, the Republican Party, is now in disarray.

And are you honestly really surprised? Are you honestly really surprised? The Republican Party, I love you. I obviously have been a registered Republican for a long time as the vice chair for the state Republican Party in the state of Kansas. I see it.

I understand that there's a lot of hotly contested ideals within the party with our wide umbrella. And Donald Trump's unifying has been a really good thing for the party. But yet we're not quite where we need to be. Which again is okay because we can have our own different opinions. We're allowed to think the way we want to.

But at the end of the day, I thought could be wrong here, but I thought we were moving relatively in the right direction. Or at least we should be. At the same time, we may have different ideas on how to get to a certain point. But we're moving in that direction. And that is limited government, that's less regulation, that's less taxes, a focus on the private sector, a focus on private business, and a focus on individual liberties.

That's what conservatism is. That's what Republicans believe, or the Republican Party should be believing in, whether they actually do that or not. But the division is now showing its ugly face, and we knew it was going to come at some time. This apparently happened last night with Mike Johnson making a statement after a vote on proxy voting that got shot down to ban the proxy voting that some were not very happy with, that has now created a major tear and riff within the Republican Party.

Well, it's a very disappointing result on the floor there. A handful of Republicans joined with all the Democrats to take down a rule. That's rarely done. It's very unfortunate in this case. 96% of House Republicans voted against proxy voting because they believe it's unconstitutional and they agreed that it would open a Pandora's box.

And so that's what we just saw. Let me just make this clear. That rule being brought down means that we can't have any further action on the floor this week. That means we will not be voting on the SAVE Act. for election integrity.

We will not be voting on the rogue judges who are attacking President Trump's agenda. We will not be taking down these terrible Biden policies with the CRA votes. All that was just wiped off the table. It's very unfortunate. We'll regroup and come back and we'll have to do this again.

Mr. Speaker, we're asking you to... All right, so that was the statement that he made last night. Here's the question I have for you, and you can give us a call and let us know your thoughts at 901-260-5926. Are you in favor of proxy voting?

Now, I know this is a controversial statement to make, but I think that overall, still, Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, does a relatively good job at what he does as Speaker of the House. He was a solid conservative before he became Speaker. He obviously has had to adjust a little bit going into the Speakership, which isn't usually ideal for the ideologues and strong conservatives that want him to hold on to those roots. And I believe that he has done the best that he can, in my humble opinion. for what he's been given.

With really the slimmest margin of a majority out of any House of Representatives that we've seen in a very long time. For him to get as much done productively as we can with such a slim majority, we have to give him credit to do. And I do applaud him for what he's been able to do on that front. That being said, I got a question. I don't honestly know that the majority of Republican voters in the nation are against proxy voting.

And what I mean by that is not having someone stand in your place to vote for you. I am completely against that whatsoever. I am, however, open to the idea of having an elected official being able to vote remotely on rare occasion. The rare occasion that we're discussing right now, and which is why we've seen the rift now within the Republican Party, is from Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna from the great state of Florida. I am a huge fan of what she's been doing, especially on the Transparency Committee.

that she's been working on with the disclosure for nine eleven documents and JFK assassination documents and even UFO and UAP documents. She has been a rock star on those issues, and I am so excited to see what else she's going to bring. But she has officially left, for those that don't know, she's officially left the... The Freedom Caucus, which is not good because she has one of the best conservative voting records out there, and she's being ostracized by the Republican Party. Why?

Because they wanted to put up this bill that would ban all types of proxy voting. And she stood against that, saying, Hey, there are actual women in Congress now, unlike what there was like a hundred years ago. And if they have children, we should be able to vote at least for 12 weeks or so remotely on particular issues. And I got to admit, I'm kind of in favor of that. If I'm wrong, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it, but I think that that's a great idea.

Number one, because there is a vastly different idea between the public servant and the private sector. In the private sector, when you go on maternity leave and you're out for what, your six weeks or the 12 weeks or whatever you get, depending on whatever company that you work for, then you're out. Like you're done. They replace you. They still get the job done.

There's someone else covering it or picking up the slack. Maybe you work from home just a little bit, but you are spending mommy time with the kiddo, and that's extremely important for us strong family value to oriented individuals. We want that in society, right? We want the family values. And we want that mother to have that opportunity.

As a public servant. I don't want someone going into their stead to vote for a particular issue. I do want them, however, to still be a representative if they are representing a certain demographic or a certain region of a state. And the perfect case to me was going all the way back to John McCain. Remember that my friends, my friends, run a straight talk express, like that guy.

The guy that I respected dearly for his military service, he was one of the worst elected officials that we've seen. And God bless you, the state of Arizona. I don't know what the heck you were thinking when you voted for him and nausea over and over and over again. And why he even became a presidential candidate against Barack Obama. That was a failure.

Sorry. I'm not going to take that one back. That was a major misstep for us. John McCain. Really?

Really? That's what we had? I remember that.

So, just a little side story. Being 36 now, that was my very first election I got to vote in going into college. It was 2008, 2007, 2008. And we got to vote. And I was so excited to vote for my first presidential election.

And that's the candidate that we get. My friend, my friend, we're in the Straight Talk Express. I had a t-shirt that had the McCain-Palin emblem on it, and I ended up duct taping over McCain because I was voting for two reasons. I was voting one for Sarah Palin, I was voting for two against Barack Obama. That was my vote in 2007, and I'm sticking to it.

That was a horrible vote. But nonetheless, that was a side story. John McCain, if you remember, when he had his brain cancer, rest his soul. I mean, I don't just because I don't like the guy doesn't mean we don't think ill will of anybody. That's not the case.

But when he had his brain cancer and he was battling that, he didn't show up for anything, which means essentially, Arizona, you are missing half of your vote in the Senate. And at that time, especially with the first administration of Donald Trump, It was extremely important to have a vote on particular issues. And if you remember the one vote that he did when he was sitting at home dealing with his brain cancer, spending time with his family, when he should have resigned at that time. was that he flew back to DC for one particular reason, and that was the stop the overturning of the reversal of Obamacare. And he did not want that to happen.

He wanted to do that to particularly be in spite of Donald J. Trump. And then he flew back, and then we didn't see him again. He didn't do any work when he was at home. And then he passed away, rest his soul.

That being said, those types of issues Until he was not able to actually vote, which I think he should have stepped down a long time ago. That kind of shows the ego of the person not wanting to relinquish any power, but wanting to hold on to it, even though they're incapable of actually doing their job. As a mother, on the other hand, if you're there with a newborn child, you obviously are not incapacitated mentally from being able to vote, and you should still have the ability to vote. I am all for the idea. Of a proxy vote if you're on some type of video cam and that you show that you're not under duress under any way and you're not being bullied by any way and that you actually are casting the vote yourself because you're sound of mind.

We do live in the 21st century. And we do have technology that gives us the capability of casting votes in remote areas.

Now, should it be abused and taken advantage of to where no one's ever in DC any longer? Of course not. And, like, the bill that Anna Polina Luna was advocating for was that it was going to allow someone to do remote voting like that, proxy voting, for like 12 weeks. While they're at home with their child. And they could still have the ability to vote remotely, but not have someone do it for them, which I am vehemently against because they are a representative.

I want them to cast the vote for us. But if you can't make it for some type of emergency, for whatever reason, then you still should have a say. To cast your ballot in a particular issue, a piece of legislation, especially when it's something that's really important for the American people to give that proper voice to your constituents. I think that we should have that right. On the other hand, the Freedom Caucus, the conservatives, did not want that, put up a piece of legislation to ban proxy voting altogether that led to Anna Paulina Luna leaving the Freedom Caucus and then saying this on the House floor.

As many of you might know, for over two years now, I've been championing the cause to allow new female members of Congress the right to vote.

Some of the American people might be surprised that if you are a female member and you have a child that you can't vote, which means that you can't execute your constitutional authority. For almost two years now in this cause, I've met with leadership and I've exhausted all tools in my legislative toolkit to be able to bring this to the floor. As I was met with much opposition, I finally used the last tool that I had at my disposal, which was something known as a discharge petition, where I collected 218 signatures and expanded the ability to vote while recovering from childbirth not just to mothers but also to young fathers in our governing body.

Now, leadership, because of the fact that they don't like that I was successful at this, is now trying to change the rules. But I want to talk about how fundamentally dangerous this rule changes. As of right now, they've slipped language into this rule, and we'll get to what they attached the rule to in a second, that would permanently kill any ability for new members of Congress to be able to bring this up and allow those members with they just had a child to be able to vote. That's dangerous because of the fact that, A, not only, if I'm arguing this from a Republican standpoint, that we have a very slim majority, but also to think about the message that that sends allowing female members to be able to vote. All right, so he goes on and talks about how now it's also a purity test, apparently, because even though she's ultra-conservative, that now she's been walking out of the Freedom Caucus and now she's not MAGA enough to support President Donald Trump because she stepped away from the Republican movement.

And that's another concerning issue to this altogether: what kind of purity test are we having to use the label MAGA and whether you get on board with the mindset of everyone else who is MAGA or else you're not. Not MAGA enough. We've seen this purity test in other aspects before as well. And I think that this is very concerning. This is the divide that we've seen internally with the Republican Party for a while.

It's concerning to me because we're supposed to be kind of on the same page, generally moving in the same direction. And as a party that I think. It does a relatively good job at promoting family values and the unity of the family and having the family together to raise a child and not have the government raise the child for them. That whoever it is, a man or a woman, although I guess that's assuming to you can't assume someone's gender, Andy. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I confused it. I'm sorry. I just assumed everybody's gender. But if you are a man or woman, then you should have at least some amount of time with your newborn child because you are still a family at heart.

It is family first and then everything else. But as a public servant, you are still a representative and you have another weight on your shoulder, unlike anybody else has. And I think you should have the right to be able to vote remotely if that's what you're going through. God bless you, Anna Polina Luna. I am in support of what she's doing right now.

It's unfortunate that we're seeing this rift within the Republican Party. But because of that, we've essentially shut down the House. We're not voting on any major issues right now, including the SAVE Act that would stop the illegal migrants from being able to vote and other issues that we're dealing with right now as well. The process of the reconciliation bill with the one big beautiful package kind of on pause right now. What the heck's going on, man?

901-260-5926. I want to get your thoughts on this. Am I right? Am I wrong? Do you think that we should have this proxy voting or not?

And are we a party that's limiting the ability of individuals to have their family and be able to vote at the same time as a public servant to properly represent the people of their district that they got elected to do so? We'll do some of that when we come back right around the corner for the Todd Starns radio program. Stay here. Folks, we have some exciting news about MyPellow. They're having their first ever mega sale.

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Welcome back into it. It is the Todd Starns radio program. Andy Hoosier filling in for the great Todd Starns today. We will be chatting with him, by the way, in a few minutes from New York. You can, by the way, watch as well his Newsmax TV program.

You did yesterday. You can today as well. He will be back behind the microphone on the radio airwaves tomorrow for your Friday.

So I'm watching some of the video feeds and comments during the program and getting some comments from others that are listening. And apparently, it's kind of a mixed content. And some are maybe on the other side. Maybe I am in the minority on this issue about changing the ability to do some type of proxy voting if you have a Family emergency, if you have a child, if you have something going on, should you have the ability? In limited cases, very strict cases that I think Congress could, you know, probably get together and have a conversation, sit down around a roundtable and decide what those were and the limits on them to have the ability to do proxy voting to vote on issues remotely.

And you know that politicians are going to find a way to abuse that. I get that. And we need to tighten that up. And we need to have harsh punishments for those that try to do it extremely or do it, try to bend those rules and take advantage of the situation as much as possible. But at the same time, I truly believe that if we are going to encourage family values and yet encourage anyone to have the voice to run for office, that we do live in the 21st century and that we should have the ability, at least for a limited time, to do a proxy voting or at least be able to vote remotely.

Again, I am not for someone stepping in and voting in place of the elected official. I do not like that idea. But if you are a woman that is in Congress, Then and you have a child, then, yeah, you know what? For the 12 weeks that I'm taking care of my newborn and there's a major vote coming up, if there's, look, if there's not major votes and it's just, you know, just the normal run-of-the-day stuff, a proclamation here, just type of whatever there, or it's a vote where you already have the majority, you don't have to worry about it, then you can still miss those votes. But if it's a narrow one, hey, we're going to get rid of all federal income tax with this bill.

Kind of a big deal. Can you vote on this?

Well, I can't get there, or I can fly there one day and then come back, whatever I need to do. Or, you know what? I'm just going to do this remotely and vote because it's really important and you need me, and it's a slim majority. Uh is there really a problem there? But a lot of people hate, no, no, the rules are the rules.

And if you can't do it, then you shouldn't be in office. Is that the stance of the conservatives? It's an interesting conversation, and I'm honestly surprised by some of the back and forth with this one. Mike Johnson. Obviously, most conservatives in the Freedom Caucus not for the proxy voting at all.

And now with, by the way, Annapolina Luna was not the only one on the Republican side. Nine Republicans ended up voting to try and stop this proxy voting ban that they were doing.

So it is a very divisive conversation to have now, which is good for us to get out. The good news being the Eternal Optimist, purge all of this division out of the party now because we need to keep the momentum going. And with the House being stagnant for multiple days on end, that's not going to be a good thing for us with Donald Trump needing to get things done now and midterms coming up before we know it. Lots more coming up for the Todd Starns Radio Show. Hi everyone, Tom Mustin here for the Legal Help Center.

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Okay. Welcome back to it. It is the Todd Starns Radio Program. Andy Hoosier sitting in for Todd Starnes today as he is out in New York. We're going to chat with him here soon and get his thoughts on the big celebration that they had at Newsmax yesterday, actually this morning.

He got there yesterday. The celebration was today, and he will be talking about it, by the way, on his Newsmax TV program as well. You can find all the information at ToddStarnes.com, 901-260-5926, 901-260-5926. If you want to jump on here, the proxy voting idea, the split within the Republican Party right now, and the division that we have, for just a moment, let's step away from just the proxy voting issue itself. Because that's obviously controversial.

Can you do the job? If not, then you should step down and let somebody else do that. I would, I got to be honest, would really hate to lose Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna. She is a rock star. She has one of the most conservative voting records out there, according to the Conservative Review.

She was at least a member of the Freedom Caucus, but stepped away because they essentially just shut her down. It was like, yeah, no, we're not doing that. And I. Understand, I guess, both sides of the aisle trying to play the middle ground there for just a moment. But at the same time, I think we have the ability to at least have a conversation about what we can do in the future to make it a little more accessible for elected officials to do their job and be the proper elected official.

They need to be in the public service area compared to just, well, Too bad.

So sad. And I like to use that John McCain reference of how he definitely tried to sabotage. And then it was just MIA with the narrow margins that we had back in that day as well. But besides that, I think we have maybe a little bit of a deeper issue that we need to work out. And I say this because the Democrat Party right now is in absolute shambles.

As you know, they have their four-way race to the top right now, the civil war brewing internally from the party. Where's the Democrats going to go? They have multiple different lists of people that are trying to rise up to be that new mantle holder for the Democrat leadership. They really want, they want somebody. Because they had their marching orders before the DNC, they had Barack Obama.

He was the god of the Democrat Party. Before that, they had Bill Clinton, who played the saxophone and was the cool suave dude out there. I mean, they've always had their leaders of the DNC, of the Democrat Party, that always gave the marching orders. What they said, that was it. It was the march down.

And everybody else just got in line. And now that they don't have that, They're kind of like the blind squirrels that don't know how to go about their day because they don't have any guidance. They don't have any guardrails any longer. I don't want the Republican Party to go down that same road as well. And are we going and eating ourselves alive because of a purity test now saying that Anna Paulina Luna is not conservative enough and not part of the MAGA purity any longer?

We'll get back to that here in just a moment: 901-260-5926. But let's go ahead and head off to the Old Glory Bank Newsmaker hotlines. And do we have the audio of the bell being rung this morning? Yeah, okay. Let's go ahead and do that.

We're going to go to Chris Ruddy. He is about to ring the opening bell for Newsmax, an idea he had in 1998. And here we go at going public this week. Let's listen up. That's awesome.

Well done. That's so cool. I love it. That is really exciting to be part of something like that. And on the line to talk about that, obviously, the man himself, the host of the Newsmax TV program, the host of this program, the Todd Starns Radio Show, best-selling author, and so much more, the man himself, Todd Starnes.

Todd, how is it out there in New York? This sounds really exciting.

Well, it really was, Andy, and it was really a moment in history. And quite frankly, when you look at the and what's happening with Newsmax and the massive growth in popularity. Especially in this media environment, it really is a story of miracles. And what a testament to people like Chris Ruddy, the founder and CEO. who had a vision and saw that vision through.

And today was really the people say this is the climactic moment. I would say that we have yet to reach that climactic moment. Mmm, this is the start of the beginning. Yeah.

Yeah, I think it really is. And just the enthusiasm and the excitement. A lot of people are talking about how high the shares are now, which is a huge financial story. Financial Times actually coming out and really lavishing a lot of praise. On Newsmax, but really, I don't think that's the story.

And we're going to be talking about this tomorrow when I get back to Memphis. I think the true story here is that so many Americans Are feeling disenfranchised by the legacy media that they are tuning into news max. And they like what they see, and they're telling other people to tune in. And I think that's really going to be the big. The big story moving forward is the massive growth in ratings.

Oh, absolutely. There is a massive pushback from, I mean, you see CNN almost going bankrupt. MSNBC cutting hosts left and right right now. The mainstream legacy media, like you call it, is dying before our eyes. And it's kind of fun and entertaining to watch right now as well.

But to replace that, people are looking for that alternative. And Newsmax has been one of those. And like you said, the stock numbers have been soaring with this announcement. It's really remarkable. And of course, mister Ruddy threw an incredible gathering last night at the famous Sparks Steakhouse in New York City over on the East Side.

just really right around the corner from Newsmax, the Newsmax Bureau here in New York. And it was really just wonderful to see all the folks that you see on TV, a lot of the movers and shakers. It was just really a fun night to celebrate. And then this morning, to take the bride down to Wall Street and to be there on the stock market floor when he rang the bell. It was really a great memorable moment.

Yeah, that's really neat.

Now, Todd, I have to ask you, I've always wanted to go see the stock market and see where everybody does the trading. I know it's so digitized nowadays, you don't hear as much of the craziness, but are there still people down there that do the screaming at the screens of buy, buy, buy, sell, sell, sell? Is it still mass pandemonium out there?

Well, yes, but you're right though. Back when I was a reporter for another cable channel, I was assigned to go down there every now and again, and it was chaos back in the day. A little bit more subdued, but still a lot of fun, and there's just this energy and this enthusiasm. And it was just really fun for us to be a part of it. And I know that we have a lot of our radio listeners, they are Usmax viewers.

And a lot of them are now stock holders.

So they went out there and they purchased stocks, and they are now officially a part of the Musemax family. Yeah, that's really neat.

Todd, I know you got to run here in just a minute. I have to ask you about a couple of the issues of the day. I know you're going to talk about them on the Newsmax TV program this afternoon as well. You made an X or a tweet as well talking about the tariffs. Yesterday was Liberation Day, so happy post-it Liberation Day 2.0 with the tariffs.

But there was the resolution that did pass out of the Senate with those four Republicans that voted to end the tariff on Canada because they did not see that one necessary. Is that a concern we're seeing now as well with the House of Representatives that's essentially shut down with this proxy voting issue? Are we seeing the internal riff of the Republican Party kind of slow down the Trump progress right now? Yes, I think we are. And while it certainly is in the House, it has been slowed down.

Look, here's my take on what's happening in the House. And of course, all of this is a result of Anna Paulina Luna. Uh she wants um all The parents of newborns serving in Congress should Receive 12 weeks off so they could vote proxy, so they could vote in their home in their pajamas. And we all know from Jeffrey Toobin, that did not end well.

So we don't want anything like that happening. in the House of Representatives. But the reality is, and the great irony is that you've got all these people, the Republicans, saying, hey, look, it's time for all these federal government workers to come back and work in the office So it's a bit hypocritical for them to take twelve weeks off. To deal with the birth of a child.

So I say, get back to the office. As far as the Senate goes, This is a disturbing development. Look, it's not going to mean anything. The House is certainly not going to pass the resolution. But I think it does, it is a reminder that President Trump does.

He does not have 100% support within his own caucus, his own party, and that could be a problem down the road. Yeah, it is concerning. I mean, we've always had to tear the riff in the Republican Party and be divided on issues, which is good. I mean, we have individual, wicked, wild, free thinking thought, which is awesome. You know, but sometimes it does slow down our progress.

What I'm worried about, Todd, is that Donald Trump has had the most successful, most productive two months of any president that we've ever seen. And the Republican Party, I really hope, gets on board to work with his agenda because they see his vision for the long term. And right now, it seems like we're maybe starting to waffle on that. And that could damage us moving down the road to midterms.

Well, we've got to get it together. And again, we have a couple of other moments, I guess, stress tests. You've got the election coming up in New Jersey later this summer in Virginia. And that will give us an indication of where the Republican voters are. Right now, the voters just are not that enthusiastic unless Donald Trump is on the So that seems to be a big issue that the Republicans are going to have to figure out.

I think Michael Watley over at the RNC headquarters is going to have to figure that out as well. Otherwise, it could really come back and bite the Republicans and the behind when it comes to the midterms. Yeah, it's a great point. Todd Starrens, ToddSarns.com, go and check it out. Also, go and make sure to watch the Newsmax TV program this afternoon as well.

I know you got to run. It's an exciting time to see all the events with Newsmax down there at the Stock Exchange today, and the celebration continues. And we see all the information at newsmax.com where you can go and see some of those shares as well. They are skyrocketing today, which is really exciting with this announcement.

So, Todd, keep the celebration going, my friend. We look forward to seeing you on Newsmax this afternoon.

Well, dude. Thanks, Andy. Hey, always a pleasure and always an honor to be able to fill in for you here on the radio program at any time. Got to take a break. We'll get your phone calls and more as well when we come back right around the corner for the Todd Starns radio show.

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And I really appreciate it. He made some great points when it comes to these shutdowns of the House right now, the diversion that we're seeing within the Republican Party. And there was a great point from, I believe it was Dorothea, I believe, that was on the live stream as well that said, why are we dealing with this and why are we shutting down progress of Congress right now when there's so much to vote on? I mean, we are only two months into the Trump administration. Con has been working hard.

And I'll give them credit for that. They've been stepping up and trying to keep up with the pace of Donald Trump. I really hope that now the focus needs to be shifted to the SAVE Act, to this reconciliation bill, to the major issues that Donald Trump needs to get done right now so he can continue on with his agenda and stop bickering about, for example, like the tariffs of, well, we're going to stop Donald Trump's tariff on Canada because they're a really close friend and there's really no need for it. Donald Trump has a vision right now. And I'm not saying he's always perfect.

I'm not saying he's always right because there's been many things that I've disagreed with him on issues as well. That being said, he's got a long-term vision. And I think that if you have a long-term vision, that you should at least be heard out on what that vision looks like and what we can do to actually support that. Rand Paul, who was one of those four in the Senate that voted for the message to counter the Donald Trump tariff, especially on Canada, made the comment that, well, he's just not for it because a tariff is a tax. And as a limited government libertarian kind of guy, that he's not for taxes.

You know, tariffs are taxes, and anything that increases the cost of a good will ultimately increase its price.

Now, generalized inflation or a generalized increase in prices is caused by debt and the Federal Reserve buying the debt and a devaluation of every dollar.

Okay, so I agree. Look, in concept, I completely agree with him. Makes sense. I'm not a fan of tariffs. I said that when during the first Trump administration, I haven't been a fan of using the stick as opposed to the carrot and trying to incentivize.

I've always been that kind of guy. The light bulb to me has kind of done the aha moment of. Like, okay, I understand what Donald Trump's trying to do.

Next hour, we're going to break down exactly what some of those tariffs look like after the announcement from Trump. But it makes sense: this isn't supposed to be long-term. We don't want these high tariffs on everything for the long-term goal here. These are negotiating tools, bringing people to the table. And by the way, it's already starting to work.

Other nations are saying, Yeah, let's come to you. What do you need? How can we get our relationship back on track? And how can we work closer together? Which is really exciting.

I really hope.

Now, of course, you're going to have the Lisa Murkowskis and the Susan Collins and some of those that are always the never trumpers. We've done really good at weeding out some of the never trumpers within the Republican Party, but we still have a few lingering out there. And those are a couple of them. Rand Paul is not a never-trumper. He does support Donald Trump.

He just disagrees with them on this issue. He also voted against the continuing resolution because he wanted to see the government spending levels go downward. We didn't. We just kept it at a flatline pace until the rest of the fiscal year that ends in September. While I, again, in principle, agree with someone like Rand Paul on that issue, I understand right now that, number one, we had way too slim of a majority to actually make that happen with spending numbers going down.

And two, having it flatlined for six months is also kind of an impressive feat.

So, I mean, I get it. I get it. But I don't think I've ever seen a continuing resolution, which by definition, the name of a continuing resolution would be to just continue what you're currently doing right now. I've never seen a CR that didn't have additional funding in it. And we even tried to do that with this one before.

We're like, yeah, no, we actually want to flatline government spending right now until we can figure out what to do with our fiscal budget for 2026.

So to me, it was a semi-win. We're not getting everything, but. We're moving in the right direction. I understand the ideological purism that goes on with conservatism, but if I can still get 40% of my agenda while we still have the momentum to get the rest later on, I'm down with that idea as well. It doesn't have to be all in one big, beautiful package on the purest mindset of either all or nothing, and we'll go off the edge of the cliff with our flag waving high.

As opposed to the House, we need to get back to order. It's a great question. If we don't have proxy voting right now, then is it something that we address later? Do we put it on hold? Do we just kind of pause it for a little bit?

Because we need to pass the Save Act. We need to finish the reconciliation bill and we need to get things done. And I think that's a priority numero uno that we should be focused on right now. And if proxy voting is that number one issue, I'm not sure why. All of a sudden it became like the number one, we have to address this right now, or else we're never going to get anything else done, and people will die in the streets.

We're all going to die, Victoria! Because of you! I don't know why that all of a sudden became the problem number one. I know there are some people apparently that are planning on having children, or they're already pregnant, or there's going to be issues, or families that are about to grow, which, if that's the case, Mozotov, congratulations. That's exciting.

But we need to figure this out at some point. But could we at least put it on pause a little bit and say, hey, let's vote on the Save Act before the end of the week? Let's finish off this reconciliation bill until we get that done here in the next few weeks. And then we can deal with it when we go into summer break, when things kind of slow down. Then we can deal with proxy voting in case there's an emergency that pops up and Donald Trump starts knocking on the House door and says, Hey, we need to act on this right now.

Things already slowed down during the summertime. Why would we not just put a pause until then? Why the urgency? This fast and furious, where it came out of essentially nowhere that said we have to vote on this right now, or else we're just going to shut things down for the rest of the week. Not the most productive way to get things done, and that's criticizing both Anna Paulina Luna and Speaker Mike Johnson.

Both sides of this, calm down, let's get back together here, let's rally the troops, let's calm down and just let the anger and the emotion settle for a little bit. Let's start working together again as a MAGA Trump conservative Republican Party. Lots more coming up. Stay here. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's common sense conservative commentary from Todd Starr.

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It is hour number two, and it's so great for you to be along for the ride today on a pre-Friday celebration, man. You can smell it. It is the weekend right around the corner, and hopefully, you've had a great one as well. We're going to continue to carpe DM all over this place and set that tone to get you through another workday.

So, welcome into it as we do our thing like we do each and every day. Andy Hoosier sitting in for the Todd Starnes radio program as Todd is out in New York. We just chatted with him a little while ago as he was there for the ringing of the bell for the New York Stock Exchange with Newsmax. He will be doing his Newsmax TV program later on this afternoon. And He'll be back behind the microphone tomorrow.

So that's really exciting. As we get into our Let's Do This thing: Have No Fear, the Tot Cearns program is here. And we have a lot to get to this hour for sure. We are in day number two of Liberation Day. I'm going to call it Liberation Day 2.0 because the tariffs are officially taking effect.

We have the details of what they actually look like. But Donald Trump yesterday afternoon, when he officially implemented them, speaking about the unfairness of what's going on with our trade deals and negotiations around the world and how we're going to get back to square one. American steel workers, auto workers, farmers, and skilled craftsmen, we have a lot of them here with us today. They really suffered gravely. They watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American dream.

We had an American dream that you don't hear so much about. You did four years ago, and you are now, but you don't too often, for many years and decades even, you didn't hear too much about. Our country and its taxpayers have been ripped off for more than 50 years, but it is not going to happen anymore. There it is, President Donald Trump speaking yesterday as those officially went into effect. Mixed reviews of what's going on and what could happen in the long term in the nation.

And that's where we start off with our guest right out of the gate this hour as we go to the old Glory Bank Newsmaker hotline and we go all the way to the great sixth congressional district for the great state of Ohio, Congressman Mike Rooley with us here. Congressman, how are you, my friend? I'm well, Todd. How are you? Hey, doing great.

It's so great to have you with us and join us today. What's been the immediate response to this? Because we did see out of the Senate they passed their resolution against the whole tariff on Canada. But outside of that, what's been the feel in DC after this quote unquote shake up in this new vision that Trump has for the country?

Well, I guess it depends on what side of the aisle you sit on. Of course, our side of the aisle is pretty jubilant about it, and we're pretty excited, and we have such anticipation of the wonder that could come. The other side of the aisle is literally losing their minds. But I think like it's guys like you and other people and open the forum that could actually explain things and allow people to understand what this reset really means, Todd. Yeah, it really is a reset.

It is a reset that we've needed for a long time. When we heard Caroline Levitt, the White House press secretary, talk about the 100% tariff that other nations put on our agricultural products, for example, the 400% tariffs that they put on certain goods to either block those products from going into their country altogether or we're just paying massive amounts to allow them to go there. That's insane, Congressman. It's about time that we've seen a reset. And I guarantee that at the end of the day, even though some are trying to balk right now, that they will come back to the table, will renegotiate.

Trump will get rid of many of the tariffs. And that at the end of the day, we're going to have a way better relationship, I think, with so many other countries around the world. That's really well said, Andy. It's kind of like Something I want people to think about.

So like the high school I went to was Pullman Seminary, and that was actually William McKinley's high school.

So I've always felt a kindred soul to him. And if you people want to go back into history, I think when he was a congressman, before he actually took the oath of presidency, he actually was really big with tariffs. And so what do I mean by this? When you look at the different amounts of carrots that are put onto us, and I think we saw it on full display yesterday, I think we have to think to ourselves, what happened? And to me, you want to look to the nineteen fifties.

The nineteen fifties after World War two was the highlight of American excellence. We got back from World War II, kicking everyone's butt, came back here, American industries just exploded. And I want to go through some cities. These are a list of America's most influential metropolitan areas, and this is from the census of 1949. Number one, Cleveland.

Number two, Milwaukee. Number three, Chicago. Toledo. Jayton. Akron, San Francisco, New York, Hartford.

Youngstown. Rochester. Buffalo. Think about these cities that I just mentioned. We literally gutted the working class blue collar, okay?

Now, for the next 60 years, the Democrats would just lie and say we have your back. A lot of the Republicans were so worried about actually perhaps making these deals with other countries, we actually gutted the the very working class that built this country.

So what we're seeing right now is a correction. And that's, and I think President Trump is the only one that could do this correction because when we see people. charging us forty percent, fifty percent, sixty percent, even even Thailand. Who would ever think? You know, we have these countries that over the years have put these huge tariffs on us, and you know what we've done?

Like Brandon, all we've done is said, okay, we'll pay your tariff. I mean, I think if President Trump didn't do this, It would never be done. And America would keep being ripped off. I think this is such a glorious time.

Now, the cash flow will need to be baked. And that great, big, beautiful bill that you keep hearing the President talk about has to happen. I wish people like Rand Paul and these and some of these Republican so called senators would relax a little bit and let the President do his magic. It's called Art of the Deal. There's a book about it, Rand, if you actually want to read it.

And we could see that You know, I mean, I'm curious your thoughts, my friends. I think he's going to be willing to make some serious deals. I think this great, big, beautiful bill needs to get to his desk first because you're going to see the tax relief, you're going to see the borders, you're going to see energy, you're going to see all these exciting things in that bill. And I think that's going to be the blueprint. And I think this is going to play cleanup because these countries aren't going to rip us off.

And when people say, oh, a company's not going to come to America, well, there was Honda who was planning on building in Mexico and now is building in Indiana, and that's already happened. Exactly. Yeah, no, you're absolutely right, and I completely agree with you. Look, I ideologically, I support and I love what Rand Paul stands for. And when he votes on particular issues, because he, you know, he believes the government needs to be smaller and he believes that tariffs are taxes.

I understand that, but like you said, the art of the deal is this long-term goal that we're playing for, this golden age that President Trump wants to bring in with this Republican movement that we have right now. And we have to look long-term instead of the immediate with the taxes because Donald Trump does not plan, and he said that many times, he's not planning to use tariffs for long-term. He wants them to bring him for a new negotiation, a new partnership with these nations, and for us to get rid of them and have a better relationship moving forward. And we got to see that, like you said, through this art of the deal. Last question on this, and I want to move on to a different issue here, but being in Ohio, I grew up in Ohio as well, near the Toledo area.

I went to Boeing Green State University, actually. But Ohio is full of agriculture and manufacturing. There's a lot of union workers out there, a lot of manufacturing work all across the state, obviously where you're at as well in the 6th Congressional District. What's been the response from them? There was a story today that I saw.

The union workers were praising Donald Trump for these tariffs because, like you said, they're already seeing the response of businesses being reinvested here in the United States. Is that what you're hearing, Boots on the Ground as well? I am. I mean, you know, ironically, the union voters turn Republican now because we're into closed borders. We're into America First.

And really, if you know, once I get off this phone, I mean, really think about America first. America First means what it says, America First.

So if you're a union guy, and I don't care if you're a mill right or a pipe fitter or an auto worker, you have to be excited about this. More American jobs, more American ingenuity, more American development. And that's whether it's in energy, whether it's in cars, whether it's in straight up textiles. How about if North Carolina could start making furniture again? How incredible would that be?

Wow. I mean, it's a whole different dynamic. We wouldn't have to do IKEA any longer or import something from China with some of our furniture that we have. We're talking with Congressman Mike Rowley from the 6th Congressional District of Ohio. Let's shift gears a little bit.

I got to ask you: the House of Representatives apparently semi-shut down right now because of this issue about proxy voting. We heard the drama, unfortunately, that's gone from behind the scenes of the Republican Party out forward with Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna on this issue, leaving the Freedom Caucus. What's the state here, and when do you think we could get back to operations?

Well, I think we're going to be back in the saddle on Monday. I think leadership is going to get involved and we're going to really figure it out. Anyone that knows Anna, she's a heck of an individual. America is so lucky to have her serve with us. She's an exciting person.

She represents Florida well. But even like we were just talking with Rand Paul, I mean, Rand Paul, I don't think you could have a better champion for the vaccine crisis as you do with him. I think he was the voice of all of us. And Anne has been the voice with all of us in a lot of different issues. This particular subject, I'm going to say this.

Anna's vision is in the right place. She's worried about moms. She's worried about moms that are representatives, that they can be a mom and they can still represent their constituents. The only problem is there's a rough ride when you go to look at parliamentary procedure. Which she did as far as that discharge, because I actually respect Anna, and I think even the Speaker respects her for the cause and for the thought process of what she was trying to accomplish.

Unfortunately, Anna used completely the wrong vehicle to make that a reality. You know, when you do a discharge, a discharge is a procedure done by the opposition party.

So you actually embolden them. But more importantly than that, I'm really not worried about that, but you actually change rules. And I want to t explain to the people how it goes two ways. Back in the day, Harry Reid changed all the rules of the Senate. If Harry Reid didn't change the rules to the Senate, you would have not had those three Republicans appointed to the Supreme Court.

So when Harry Reid changed those rules, a lot of people said you well, actually I don't think Harry Reid actually lived to see the day, but his friends lived to see the day. And the reason why the American Supreme Court is is weighed heavily towards the Republicans is because Harry Reid sold his soul to the devil and karma is the expression. Yeah.

Yeah, you put that perfectly. I love how you broke that down to understand kind of what's going on here. And like you said, Anna Polina Luna is a wonderful conservative. She's been a rock star on so many issues. I really hope that we can figure this out to be able to unify again and move forward.

Because, Congressman, last question for you, and I know you got to run. There's a few major things you guys are working on. We have the SAVE Act that's lingering out there right now. We have that reconciliation bill with the one big, beautiful bill that President Trump wants. Where are we with these?

And what kind of timeframe do you think that we could see these actually move forward? Perfect way to end this little conversation, and I thank you for having me. We are in really good shape.

So you noticed yesterday, the media was only talking about the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, and that wasn't good. But what was good are those two Republicans we picked up in Florida.

So we have a lease the phonics gain put. And we picked up these two seats. And unfortunately for the opposition party, they lost two seats because they had two members die. And we pray for their souls, absolutely. But now we go from a two or three state majority up to five or six feet.

And like, you know, when we point out people like how wonderful Anna is, you know, another guy who's a wonderful guy, that if you got a chance to know him, you would just love him. It's Thomas Massey. I mean, Thomas Massey is just he's a character on the hill that is second to none. But you could almost never count on that vote for any spending at all because he's a purist and he just feels that the government shouldn't spend it. And I get it.

With $36 trillion in debt, if we keep going, we're not going to have a country, folks.

However, we are with America First agenda right now. And with these five or six different votes, I think that big, beautiful bill will be done before the summer break. I really honestly do. And I think we're going to play cleanup. I think we'll take care of all these other different loose ends that we have.

And I think it's going to come by July. I'm excited. That is really encouraging, Congressman. I appreciate that because you're right. We have a vision and we have some great fighters out there.

We need to find a way to turn that fighting into productive fighting to be done in a positive way where we can move forward with our agenda. It is Congressman Mike Rille, the 6th District of the great state of Ohio. Congressman, keep up this fight. We appreciate everything you're doing. Got to get you back on for another update soon.

Congrats you, my friend. Hey, you as well. Got to take a break. Your thoughts on that and more when we come back right around the corner. It is the Todd Starns Radio Program.

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Great conversation with him. I love how fired up he was as well and how we need to kind of redirect that passion that people like Anna Paulina Luna have, that people like Rand Paul have. We need to redirect that passion in that fight, in that purity, essentially, ideologically, and channel it into something that's actually productive and actually getting things done the way they need to, which is good. I love them. I love Thomas Massey.

I love Rand Paul. I'm a huge fan of Anna Paulina Luna. They're great fighters. They're great conservatives. We have to find a way to channel that passion into productivity.

We can go off our cliff holding the flag all we want to, but unless we actually see progress moving in the direction we need to, then it doesn't really do anything for us, right? It's kind of a failure. For example, Prime example of this, and then we'll get back to the tariffs after the break because there is a lot of details I want to go over with these tariffs and how it's affecting some of these certain industries, including union workers for sure. But a prime example of that productivity is the record pace that we're seeing with the FBI. Three out of the 10 most wanted on the FBI's list under a month of Cash Patel when he just says let good cops do copy things and actually get the bad guys.

That's awesome when we already are seeing a record number of people applying for jobs to work for the FBI because they have the ability to do what they're supposed to do. Record low border crossings at the southern border right now, according to the White House and Christy Noam with the Department of Homeland Security talking about what they've been doing with deportations. We have deported over 120 people that are on the known terrorist watch list out of this country, over 800 TDA members, and over 100,000 different arrests have been made of criminals that are out of this country. Every single family that can identify With Lake and Riley's family, Jocelyn Nungery's family, people who were devastated by these criminals are thankful that they're gone and President Trump is on the right side of history. That's right.

We are doing the right thing, and the other side's doing their meltdown because they've never seen this type of productivity. Before it was, well, we only have to pass a bill, and therefore it'll be fixed. And we have so many laws on the books. That hasn't worked. Remember the Biden and the Harris campaign?

Well, if we just passed a new, if Congress would act, then we could shut down the border. Yeah, we saw how well that worked because that was a major failure, and that was not true. In fact, you were. You are fake news. Yeah, so instead, Trump comes in, and within two months, we have record low border crossings.

Actually, record low as in like the last like 60 years of the amount of people crossing the border, which is absolutely phenomenal. And the deportations, and the other side doesn't know what to do about it. We're kind of booting out their voter base if you think about it. And they don't like that. Between the voter ID that we're seeing pass across the nation, the latest big victory out of the state of Wisconsin, and the executive orders that the Trump administration had been signing as well on voter ID laws, making sure that illegal aliens don't vote, and then shocker getting bad guys and criminals off the streets, which is what we're doing at record levels.

And they don't like that either. We are winning. We're not dealing with the governmental slow process of.

Well, it'll be a 10-year plan. Get me reelected in the next session and we'll be able to address it, pass this bill that's really difficult to pass, and we don't have the majority to do, but we'll try it. But that's the only way to fix the issue. We're not doing that. We're not playing that game anymore.

We need to get done. Let's get her done. Trump will sign an executive order. We'll sign a bill after that to make it happen. Let's get her done.

We're getting rid of the bureaucracy, and it's kind of fun to watch. No longer, not to poke fun at a certain individual, but Mr. Squirrel Cheeks himself, Rich McConnell. No longer are we just going to play the victim of being in the minority, not being allowed to get anything done. Lots more to get to here on the Tot Sarns Radio program.

Stay here. Welcome back to it. It is the Todd Starns Radio Show. Andy Hoosier setting in for Todd Starnes. He will be back behind the microphone tomorrow for your Friday, and he will be on his Newsmax TV program this afternoon.

So stay tuned in for that. All the information you can find at ToddStarnes.com. Before we get off the immigration thing, then I want to go back to the tariffs because I really do want to read these. These are great. I love how Donald Trump presented it yesterday with his big screen, and he had his little projector with the tariffs that the countries have put on us, and then the tariffs that we're going to put on them as the reciprocal.

But he said they're discounted as well, which is really hilarious.

So it's the trolling that Donald Trump does, and it's pretty brilliant. Winning.

So we'll continue to win that way because why? We're fixing the country, and Donald Trump's the one to do. That's right. did that. I smell the desperation from the other side of the aisle.

And Democrats are desperate to find ways to go after Trump. And we, I know Todd's talked about it. I've talked about it as well on here. That right now they've been so far behind the eight ball. of being able to counter the Donald Trump agenda because it's been going at such a record pace.

They don't really know how to create a talking point to counter what he's doing because by the time they do, he's already like five topics ahead of them. And he's already well beyond that. And he's like, dude, that was like four days ago. What are you talking about? We have other bigger fish to fry.

And it's been fun to watch.

So now, on the immigration issue itself, as we played the clip from Christy Noam with the Homeland Security, they're trying to find ways to nitpick at Donald Trump to not allow him to deport people. Because apparently, if you deport criminals like terrorists and gang leaders, then that's Bad for the country or something. I get that. So now they're trying to go after this old law that. They're using to say that you're not welcome in the country and that you are allowed to be deported because you're a criminal in the nation and you're an illegal migrant.

And now they've gone all the way to the extreme, again, desperate to try and find exactly who they are, their identity as a Democrat Party. I don't even know this person. I've never heard them before. This is on CNN or MSNBC, one of the news networks out there. Ellie Mistel, is that his name?

Saying that apparently we should just be irrelevant to all of the laws prior to the reconciliation of race relations in this country. My premises for the book is that every law passed before the 1965 Voting Rights Act should be presumptively unconstitutional, right? Because before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, we were functionally an apartheid country. Not everybody who lived here could vote here.

So why should I give a. About some law that some old white man passed in the 1920s like the Immigration and Nationality Act. Come on, man. Is that what we're doing nowadays? Before that, we were just an apartheid country.

We just had this massive segregation, which, again, you know, we've learned from our mistakes. Do we support slavery? No. Do we support segregation? No.

That's why the Republican Party was the one that ended slavery. That's literally the creation of the Republican Party under Abraham Lincoln, right? We ended segregation. We ended the Jim Crow laws. We don't play identity politics in this whole victimization of I'm a certain skin color, I'm a certain gender, I'm a certain alien species.

Apparently, now I'm a certain whatever that now I'm a victim in society, and I'm not just a victim, but you should applaud me for being a victim in society. That's kind of going to the wayside. It's not working any longer. Can I play it one more time? Please, I want to play it one more time because this is the most absurd thing I've ever heard in my life.

We are an apartheid country before that, so any law. Prior to 1965, should be essentially just. Irrelevant in the nation. My premises for the book is that every law passed before the 1965 Voting Rights Act should be presumptively unconstitutional. Right?

Because before the 1965 Voting Rights Act Act Act Act Act, it should be every law passed since before 1965 should be labeled as unconstitutional. How do you have laws that are unconstitutional? Being meaning that they actually contradict the Constitution when the Constitution itself was passed before 1965. Can someone please explain that one to me? How can it be unconstitutional if it's contradicting a law that was passed in your terms before 1965?

So, therefore, the Constitution itself would be unconstitutional.

So, therefore, the Constitution would be irrelevant and void as well.

So, we would have no founding documents. We would have no basis of a society right now, and that we should just rewrite everything because it's the flavor of the day and because the Constitution apparently is racist or something as well. My brain hurts. Right? Because before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, we were functionally an apartheid country.

Not everybody who lived here could vote here.

So why should I give a. About some law that some old white man passed in the 1920s, like the Immigration and Nationality Act. Oh, man. If this is the direction the Democrat Party's going, then we're going to be just fine. I talk about the division and the brokenness of the Republicans right now, this inner bickering that we always have.

And we've always had it. We've never had a straight unified party, which is good and bad, depending on how you look at it. And at certain times right now, with the productivity we're trying to pass. But if this is the direction Democrats are going, we're going to be okay, my friends. I think we're going to be just fine.

One more for you: Scott Jennings. Probably my favorite guy, and the only reason anybody would half pay attention to the CNN network at all was on a panel discussing the immigration issue with sending terrorists out of the country and deporting them. That apparently is wrong. This relationship that we've built with President Naib Bukeley from the country of El Salvador has been Muy Bueno, so to speak. I am a big fan of El Salvador and what he's done to the nation, turning it from the number one murder capital country of the world to now the safest nation in Central America.

He's done a good job of that. And now, willing to work with President Donald Trump to send our gang members and terrorists that aren't supposed to be here in the country to his prisons. They don't like that because they've already said that Naibu Kelly somehow violates human rights or something, and yet they're going after him.

So that's what they were talking about, attacking Scott Jennings for on CNN. And he handled that one pretty well with the meltdown of these progressive ideologues. I put you in the middle of the moment. When it comes to the law and due process, that is not a distinction.

Well, if you are here, would you like to argue that Trend Aragua should have the same rights and that you get as an American citizen? Go ahead. Here's the argument. You can change the constitutional.

Well, that's the distinction argument. You're saying that a terrorist can walk across the border and become effectively. That's not all I'm saying. It's hard to listen to, right? I mean, this, Scott, Scott, Scott, why are you mansplaining to me?

Scott, why are you interrupting me? Why don't you let me talk? He handled it well, though, but they say it's a violation of human rights. Do you have constitutional rights? And this is, I think, a question for the mass public.

Do you have constitutional rights? If you, number one, can you Come across the border illegally, aka breaking the law before you even do anything else in this nation because you broke immigration law. And then, two, commit crimes in the country that you came into illegally by like assaulting somebody, murdering somebody, vandalizing something, living on the streets, breaking and entering, causing crime in small businesses, stealing issues, whatever it is. If you come in here illegally first, And then you do all of those things as well. Do you have any constitutional rights?

It's kind of like the whole birthright citizenship thing. Like, I agree with President Trump having this conversation of where we stand on birthright citizenship with the anchor baby movement, because that was not the intent of that amendment in the Constitution. We were supposed to, that was supposed to be: hey, you are brought here forcefully as a slave and you're having children. We're not going to send you back to where you came from after decades of being here as a slave, that we brought you here forcefully against your will.

So you're allowed to stay. Instead, you're allowed to stay here and become a U.S. citizen because that's the proper thing to do as your family and as your lineage after decades of this issue that we've had to deal with. For them, they're like taking advantage of it now and saying, okay, now we're going to willingly come here, break the law in doing so, and then be like, well, I guess I can't go anywhere because my kid's here. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, and that's not the interpretation of how the amendment was supposed to be for the Constitution for the birthright citizenship.

They're trying to use that same type of argument for this and say, well, if you come here and you break the law and then you commit crimes that continue to break the law, you still have the rights under the Constitution in due process. No, you don't. What kind of due process did they give to anybody else? You're going to be sent to a foreign nation because the U.S. is still a foreign nation to you for coming here illegally and breaking the law on multiple different accounts.

And then you're going to go to a different country and you're going to serve time and you're going to be in probably some not-so-good living situations because of living in El Salvador in a prison that was made literally for the parallel government they had in El Salvador. That was the gang members and the cartels that were trying to run the government in the shadows. That's not happening any longer, and you're going to be punished for what you're trying to do because we will not allow that to be here in the United States. It's wild that we have to have that conversation nonetheless. Crazy.

901-260-5926, 901-260-5926. Do we have human rights for people that come here illegally? And Donald Trump right now, and Tom Holman, and everybody else, Christy Noam with the Department of Homeland Security, they don't care. They're cleaning up our streets. We're already starting to see crime rates drop in the nation two months in.

Record low immigration with border crossings across the country. And we're starting to see the effects of it already. Excuse me. If we can see that again going into the next year. In the next two years, the next four years, I think we're going to be in pretty good shape.

All right, we'll get your thoughts on that when we come back around the corner. Also, I want to read these tariffs, exactly what type of tariff are we putting onto these nations and what's their response so far. We're getting some mixed reviews from around the world, some not too happy and some willing to cooperate with the Trump administration. It is the Todd Starns Radio Program. Lots more to get to.

Stay here. Welcome back to it here, wrapping up hour number two of the Todd Stearns Radio Program. Andy Hoosier sitting in for you. As always, such a great honor to sit in the seat for the great Todd Stearns, moving the Liberty University studios out here to Wichita, Kansas, with my flagship state, KQAM, a great affiliate of the Todd Stearns Radio Program. Call into the program.

We want to hear from you today at 901-260-5926. I've been teasing this the entire hour. The ultimate radio tease. I can hear you through the radio now. Andy, stop teasing me.

Nonetheless, we're going to get to the finally, we're going to get to the tariffs. and what these numbers are. If you did not watch the press conference yesterday. Donald Trump was pretty epic on how he did this, talking about what it's going to do for the nation. Obviously, where we're going to recorrect, we're going to hit this reset button for the country.

It was kind of brilliant how he did it. American steel workers, auto workers, farmers, and skilled craftsmen, we have a lot of them here with us today. They really suffered gravely. They watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories. All right.

So, okay, well, there's a lot of it. He went on. It was pretty impressive. But he had these visuals that were up there with him showing what the tariffs are that we pay to have our stuff imported to other countries with our exports. And then what he said, it was the number one, the tariffs.

charged to the U.S. by country. And then beside that, with the category, it was, again, this is the brilliance, the winning of Donald Trump. Winning.

Of the USA discounted reciprocal tariffs.

So it wasn't just this is what we're going to do. And these are our tariffs against them. These are the discounted. If you want the full-on tariff against you to try and make it reciprocal to do exactly matching what you're putting on us, we're totally willing to do that. We're giving you a discount right now in order for you to come to the table and have a better conversation, which, again, the art of the deal.

Yeah.

The mind games that Donald Trump likes to play, and he wins across the board. Just to read a couple of these, China was at top of the list. They have apparently a 67% tariff on U.S. imports. We have given them the discounted reciprocal tariff of 34%.

Kind of okay with that. The European Union, they have their Tariff of charge to the US at 39%. USA discounted reciprocal tariff at 20%. Kind of okay with that. Vietnam, 90% tariff charged onto the U.S.

with their imports of our exports going to them. Our discounted reciprocal tariff at 46%. And the list goes on.

Now, the question is: what's been the response from different nations around the world so far? They're not very happy about it, although many nations are beginning to cut the table already and saying, Hey, let's negotiate, let's have a conversation, and again, let's strengthen our relationship together. But instead, the European Commission has come out and said that tariffs, quote, are a major blow to the world economy. Hold on here. This is the European Union that charges tariffs on our products.

But if we do a reciprocal, they're like, this is going to do a major blow to the U.S. economy. This is going to destroy the economy worldwide.

Okay, China as well. China's foreign minister has come out and said that: quote, there are no winners in trade wars and tariff wars. Which, again, you're right.

So, why are you creating such a tariff on us? And why have we been in such a trade deficit for oh, so long? The reset that Donald Trump's doing is pretty impressive on that front. Peter Navarro, his trade advisor for the White House, has also come out to make that comment. It's a drug war, not a trade war.

And anybody who's talking about inflation right now is dishonoring, dishonoring the men and women and children who have died at the hands of Chinese, Mexican, Canadian fentanyl. That's what this is about. Yeah, that one, by the way, audio from Fox News, that was specifically geared towards Canada during the whole conversation with the Senate, wanting to pass their resolution to end the tariff on Canada. But he's absolutely right. It is a trade war that we're doing, and we're going to hit that reset button.

And I think we're going to be better off in the long term for it. The other question, and we mentioned it with our previous guest with Congressman Mike Rowley, was the conversation with union workers. How is this affecting in the wildest thing? I never thought. Thought that we would be in a situation like this.

And again, this is the Trump world that we live in. I think we've crossed timelines or something because it's completely foreign to me. But now, union workers, the workers themselves overwhelmingly starting to vote more Republican, which is exciting, but the union leadership themselves. Also, gearing themselves more towards the Republican side of the aisle and working with Donald Trump. I left during the election because for the first time ever.

Many unions did not do an endorsement for the presidential candidate, which to me, how do you endorse Donald Trump without actually saying you endorse Donald Trump? And that's just you just say, I don't want to be part of it. Remember The Rock, Dwayne, The Rock Johnson? Yeah, I'm just going to stay out of it. I'm not going to endorse anybody this time.

Donald Trump, he's been a great fan and a great supporter of me in the WWE. Even though I voted against him last time and I supported someone like Joe Biden, I'm just staying out of it. But I have a lot of respect for Donald Trump. How do you say you support Donald Trump? Without saying you support Donald Trump.

That one was kind of interesting to me, but now we have these union workers overwhelmingly supporting Republicans and supporting Donald Trump. I don't know if that's necessarily, it is a good thing, obviously, but someone who's very anti-union is myself, as I am, and I've said that for a very long time, that it is exciting. That they're starting to realize that collective bargaining may not be the best for them. And that if we are going to bring jobs and opportunity back for workers, they need to realize they can't be asking for outrageous demands with their union leadership, telling them to go and pick it unless you make $50 an hour and only have to work like 30 hours a week. That's not going to fly.

We have to come back to realism, and union leadership is going to have to recognize that while the economy is changing, unions are going to have to change as well because they have record low union membership across the nation right now. Only 6% of the workforce right now are actual union workers, and it's dwindling because right now you can go and start off your own business. With the remote working that we've had for the past few years, you can kind of set your own hours. With the ability to do like sole proprietorships and LLCs and corporations that you can create for yourself and become a contract worker and actually do what a W9 instead of a W2, is that what it is? Where you can become essentially your own private contractor to still do the same job, but just handle your own taxes, be your own independent contractor, and actually work for a company, which a lot of people are doing because it does give them more flexibility.

That negates any ability for you to join a union. And I'm going to say it right now. If unions are going to survive moving forward, they're going to have to change their policy and how they actually operate themselves as well. But we'll see. What the response is.

Union workers right now, though, loving the tariffs, loving the business that's coming back to America and making America great again by the manufacturing that we can do, that's parading around and actually supporting. the American worker. And I really hope that we don't trash the non-union companies like, I don't know, Tesla that actually takes care of their company and takes care of their employees without having to go through a union and that collective bargaining ship. Because that's what they're used to, and they want that viva la revolution of anybody who is working in the private sector that's not part of a union, that they say you are part of the problem. And I kind of laugh at that mindset.

So, well done. We'll see what the future holds, but bringing them to our side. And oh, by the way, the labor secretary Laurie Chavez-Darimer also being able to move them farther to the right by supporting the Trump administration after being a very pro-union individual. Hour number three around the corner, lots more to get to. Stay here.

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Well, yeah, what is up, America? Welcome into it. It is our number three of the Todd Stearns Radio Program, the glorious program for a pre-Friday celebration. Todd Stearns out today. He is back at it again tomorrow, but you can hear him on his Newsmax TV radio TV program coming up this afternoon.

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Going live! Yeah, that's what we're all about. There's a big, there's a lot of stuff to talk about, man. There's a lot to get to, and we have some really great guests this hour.

So, strap in, buckle up, and let's have some fun and do this thing. I really this per ties in perfectly with our next guest. There was, and I was not aware this was a thing. I didn't know that this was even like a reality, although I guess nothing surprises me today because, well, we just live in a very strange time. But did you know?

There was a GLAAD award last week, and by GLAD, I mean G-L-A-A-D that apparently is a media award ceremony for those in the LGBTQ, whatever community. And they love to talk about how woke they are and be very prideful of how woke things are in society, apparently. It isn't easy. None of it is. Waking up and choosing to be yourself.

Proclaiming a space belongs to you when you don't feel welcome. Teaching people on a daily basis how to address you, and dealing with the frustration of reteaching people a word that has been in the human vocabulary since the dawn of time. They, them. Words used to describe pedantically two or more people. Poetically, I think A person who is simply More.

That's right. Someone who is just more, that's pedantically, poetically, very described as more than one person. And it's so weird that we have to redefine exactly what those individuals are. And it's so difficult in the world for us to be able to express ourselves poetically as more. than just one person.

That's what we're up against. That was, I don't even know who this person is, Cynthia Arivo, I guess, part of the Glad Awards that won the 39th annual GLAAD Awards and was giving her speech speech. We'll just go with that one. That apparently it's so difficult in society for us to be accepted as more than just one person. All right.

Well, that leads us into our next conversation as we try to battle this ridiculous wokeness that just doesn't make any sense any longer, especially with the social experiment that we've seen in culture and society that unfortunately also bled into our military and the purpose of the military in defense for people to just go get the bad guy and actually hold our standards in order to do so. And to talk about some of that, we move back to our old Glory Bank Newsmaker Hotline is really happy to have on. She is a retired U.S. Marine and CEO of VETCOM U.S. as we see some of the changes going on in the Department of Defense right now.

Really happy to have on Kate Monroe. Kate, how are you, my friend? I'm excellent. I can't believe I had to be subject to that constant. I'm terribly sorry, but it's so pedantically absurd that we aren't just more than just one person.

Right, Kate? I I don't know. That word solid was just really something.

Well, the good news is that we're starting to weed this out of our military.

Okay, I never thought, I knew that it was always kind of a social experiment in the military, but I never knew until the past year or so when we started hearing more of this in the committee hearings that we had these, you know, these drag shows on military campuses, that we were encouraging this type of mindset in our own military.

Okay, I thought the military was just, we're going to train you to be a super badass and to go get bad guys. Yeah, when I was in the service, I was in the Marine Corps, and it was a totally different time, a totally different Marine Corps. They did not care about your feelings. It was a very different time. And me and all the people, I served last year about 12,000 veterans, and all we hear from the veteran community is, where are they going?

Like, what are you doing? Like, iron your uniform. Stop with the drag shows. Do some freaking PT. Put down your vape.

You know, it's just absurd what has happened. And I'm so glad that we got Pete Higseth in, that we're going to dial up, you know, get back to some esprit de corps, some military standard. This isn't everybody gets a trophy. This is, you know, all that stands in between our national sovereignty of our country are these military personnel. And we just got to we got to get it together.

Yeah, it's so wild. Where did we get to a point where we started lowering these standards? Because of, well, someone may have a disability, someone may be a woman, and obviously can't lift as much as a man.

So we're just going to change these different requirements. Like, who thought of this idea of, like, we need to have the strongest, most toughest military on the face of the earth.

So let's go ahead and lower the standards to make it easier for more people to come in and actually do this. Like, where did that concept even come from?

Well, we have very weak and feckless leaders in place for a long time. And the more woke the leadership is from the top down, the more woke the military is going to get. There's always going to be seepage into other things. But it is not safe for our active duty military to be serving alongside people who, quite frankly, have no business being part of the war machine. It's embarrassing.

to our country. It's lunacy. It you wonder why you have a recruiting crisis, 'cause all the people who should be serving are like, Yeah, I'm not so cool on serving in the uh you know, drag queen corps. That is true.

Well, and I'm glad you brought that up because I wanted to go there with recruitment. We've seen for a long time now a lot of issues with recruitment where 70% of the young generation is unqualified to be in there. Whether it's because of either they don't want to be in there, which is a whole nother issue because of the brainwashing that we see in public schools teaching them that defending the country is a bad thing and they wouldn't want to stand up to defend this country with their life. But then we have the mental health issues, we have drug abuse issues, we have obesity issues and chronic illnesses. We have a major crisis right now of a generation incapable.

Of standing up and defending this nation if we actually call to do so, that to me, Kate, is a very scary thought. It is very scary. But the thing is, we have branded this generation that way, as such, right? We've done a very good branding campaign. To coddle them to nearly death.

That whole generation, if they could go get in a pod and take a eternal night night, they would do it. They they completely would just walk off of life. I've never met more hopeless, Kids in my entire life. I employ a ton of young people. I breathe a lot of power and might into their lives, so I'm getting them the traction they need.

But if you smoke weed, you're very likely not going to get into the military.

Well, most of these kids nowadays do some kind of drug. They are overweight. They don't play sports. They don't care about camaraderie because of social media. They get all their camaraderie online.

It's a very scary place we find ourselves. And then to compound it, to add insult to injury, we're like, hey, we're going to go kick out all these great warriors because they won't take the jab. And now you find just a vacuum of talent and warrior quality that we used to have in the military.

So I'm excited to see what they're going to do during this administration to get us back on track. Yeah, amen to that. Speaking of that transition that we are seeing, are you optimistic that we're going to welcome and invite these people back in, that were booted out because they didn't take the COVID-19 vaccine to welcome them back in? And do you think that they're willing to come back and say, yeah, I trust our government enough now to come back and serve again because of how it was treated in the past?

Well, I don't think that anybody who's ever served in the military necessarily ever trusted a company. And they certainly don't trust the VA. And I don't think that, that's necessarily why they serve. I do think that a lot of them would come back to the military because they've realized how hard it is also to be a civilian right now. The job market's very difficult, things are very costly.

And so I do think that they will get a lot of them to come back into the service. At least I hope that they do. I helped make claims for probably four thousand people who were kicked out. And so and we felt for them. We had people calling us crying, just not knowing what to do with their life because their plan and their purpose really was to be part of that war machine.

And then, you know, to just be kicked out and set aside like trash wasn't a good look for our country. No, not at all. It's absolutely unbelievable we had to go through that. We're talking with Kate Monroe. She's a retired U.S.

Marine. Thank you for your service, by the way. Also CEO of Vetcom U.S. Talk about VETCOM and what you guys do there and working to get people into the private sector, getting their benefits with the VA. Are you confident the VA could be reformed a little bit with this new administration to actually be a little more efficient?

But talk about what you guys are doing right now and what we can do for our veterans. Yeah, the first I want to just say a big thank you to Doug Collins. I'm absolutely amazed that we got a chaplain into the VA secretary position. I think that between him and Doge, We're going to clean up what's been going on at the VA. I've been fighting this bureaucracy for thousands of people, and I can tell you it needed a cleanup.

The veteran community needs to see this as a win. Stop freaking out. People are lying to you. First off. Second off.

We will help 25,000 people this year navigate the very arduous bureaucratic process of making their VA claim.

So if somebody's listening right now, if they were to call us and got signed into our program, in roughly four months, They could be up to $4,000 a month, richer for life. We only charge a small one-sign payment. We guarantee our results. And we are just, I think, the flat best at doing this. We have a heart to.

For veterans, we move with a lot of speed. We have 125 team members that talk to veterans 14 hours a day. We filled one to two hundred suicide calls per month. Because the VA does not answer the phone when people call, you know, they're at the brink of pulling the trigger and and here we are to take those phone calls.

So I I just feel like we do outstanding work, make it very hassle-free and anxiety-free for a veteran to face the DA.

Well, God bless you for doing that. That is incredible because it breaks my heart every day to hear what so many veterans have to go through mentally, emotionally, their PTSD, struggling to get into the private sector again, the homelessness. I know for a while there was like that, you know, 22 push-up challenge to try and represent the 22 suicides that we hear a day from veterans. That is absolutely heartbreaking. I got to ask, and just, you know, just out of the norm here, working with the new health department with Robert F.

Kennedy Jr., And working on ways to try and help more individuals through the VA and through our health departments on mental health issues, especially for PTSD. What's your thoughts on this new push of alternative mindsets of like psilocybin, magic mushrooms to try and rewire the brain, help with PTSD? It's been growing in popularity. Is there something to this, do you think? It works absolutely amazing for veterans.

Every veteran we know that has gone through it, it's absolutely radically revolutionized their life. I'm all for that. They're better served to do that sort of protocol than they are to just be on some kind of drug and be miserable for the rest of their life with no hope.

So I'm absolutely all for everything that we can do to create opportunities around Mental health care. Because in the last administration, they sort of wiped out the community care aspect, so the continuity of the mental health care went away. And we're getting back to that, but we have to do a lot more. We have to do better at transition transitioning veterans because we transition them with mental health problems. to a jobless environment, like literally overnight.

Yeah, no, you're right. I love it. Last question for you, and I appreciate your time very much. You mentioned the Department of Defense and the reform that we're seeing, especially with Doge. There's the push that Pete Hegseth has done and talked about during his confirmation hearings of kind of getting rid of the top-down marching orders, getting rid of so much of the paper pushers and the generals at the top because we don't need as many of them compared to what we've had in the past.

Is that going to clean up a lot of this bureaucracy, do you think, in the DOD? I think it will clean up a ton of the bureaucracy because I like I said, a lot of that wokeism comes from the top down. You have these generals who haven't really been actively part of the war machine. They don't really have their pulse on what's going down going on on the ground. And they end up being coming Part of the DOD, the defense lobby machine.

So, you know, they end up getting sort of bought and sold for things, and their decisions are not necessarily based on what's good for America and good for the troops. It's based on how much money is this going to put in my pack. How much money is this? Am I going to get a good board seat when I get out? And, you know, I think that he's absolutely right to bring it down further, closer to the ground.

That's awesome.

A lot of optimism. We can see a lot of transformation, and hopefully we can get back to being the strongest military in the world. Yeah, it's very exciting. Vetcom.us. Go and check it out.

Vetcom, C-O-M-M-2-M's.us. Go and check out their stuff. Kate, we appreciate it. Thank you again for your service, for everything that you guys are doing. God bless you for all of your work.

Let's get you back on again real soon. Thanks so much. Have a great day. You bet. Appreciate it.

There it is. On our Old Glory Bank Newsmaker hotline. That again, Kate Monroe, go and check out vetcom.us and all that great information. We'll take your phone calls and more when we come back around the corner for the Todd Starns Radio Program. Welcome back to it.

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I love that glad hearing that they did. That was kind of pretty good. By the way, There was a during the break, I was scrolling through social media looking at some of the headlines, and there's a page on Facebook that's just Democrats, and there's like two million followers on it.

So it's one of the bigger Democrat platforms. And they had something about showing the stock market for, or at least the shares for Tesla, sky just bombing because of all these protests. And then they had a picture of Elon Musk that looked like he was sliding down it when he was like jumping up and cheering up and down or whatever.

So they did this graphic.

So I, of course, had to troll and just make a comment. Which is now getting a whole bunch of angry comments on there. But then after that, there was a private message that came through from the organization of this Democrats page in my messenger on Facebook that said, hey there. That's how Democrats speak. Hey there, we believe that America needs a Congress that will stand up to Donald Trump on the MAGA Project 2025 agenda.

Do you agree with us? And it did a survey of yes or no.

So obviously, I hit no, and then they blocked me and said, Thanks for sharing.

So I can't comment anymore. The Project 2025, is that still a thing? I mean, I know it was done by the Heritage Organization, which is a great conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. And I know that they have a lot of conservative beliefs of what we're trying to implement, so they just kind of coincide. But are they still like that was the campaign during the election?

And the message from Democrats was, hey, Donald Trump's just doing nothing other than just promoting this 2025 or Project 2025 agenda or agenda 2025 or whatever the hell they called it. And that's what they were using as the campaign slogan. It didn't work. Again, Democrats have not learned their lesson yet. It didn't work.

And yet they're now still using that as a talking point and saying, we need to fight the 2025 agenda. And I guess the only way you can fight it is if you have Corey Booker that's out there doing a 25-hour grandstanding, not for or against a bill, but just in a generalized, we don't like anything Donald Trump's doing, so we're just going to stall all types of progress. I'm going to lump up this week as probably the slowest week in Congress since the Trump administration took office. Because we have been cranking right along. We've gotten a lot done.

We even were able to pass. Multiple bills like the first week or two of the Trump administration, which is pretty impressive with sometimes how slow Congress works. But this week, we've had, of course, the bickering between the Republican Party and shutting down the House for the rest of the week, taking some time off, cooling things down. We'll reconvene on Monday. We had the Republicans that kind of divided themselves a bit in the Senate with that resolution against Trump's tariffs on Canada.

And now we have the Corey Booker 25-hour-long grandstanding of not getting anything done. I guess we're allowed to have some time off, but I really would have liked to have seen another insanely productive week from Congress and the Trump team. And we just didn't get that. And I know we have one more day. Maybe they can get their act back together, but at least maybe we'll just write off this week as this was the odd week.

Republicans will get back on track. They'll start working together starting on Monday, and we can actually be productive, pass the SAVE Act, get this reconciliation, the big, beautiful package all wrapped up and done, and then we can start moving forward again. When we come back, we'll have another great guest on here for you. Your phone calls as well. And.

DEI showing its ugly face in California. Can you have a discounted speeding ticket because of your skin color? We'll get to all that in more right around the corner. Stay here. All right, welcome back into it.

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901-260-5926. And let's go right back to our old Glory Bank Newsmaker hotline as we have a lot of news. I mean, it's been a busy day, even with maybe the slowdown this week of productivity from both chambers, but especially when it comes to the productivity of Washington, D.C. in general. Christy Noam, Homeland Security Director, made the comment about the deportation levels that we're seeing right now.

We have deported over 120 people that are on the known terrorist watch list out of this country, over 800 TDA members. And over 100,000 different arrests have been made of criminals that are out of this country. Every single family that can identify with Lake and Riley's family, Jocelyn Nungery's family, people who were devastated by these criminals are thankful that they're gone and President Trump is on the right side of history. How awesome is that? To talk about some of that and so much more.

Really happy to have on from the third congressional district from the great state of Indiana. Happy to have on at Congress. Congressman Marlon Stutzman. Congressman, how are you, my friend? Hey, I'm doing great this afternoon, Andy.

Great to be with you. Yeah, I appreciate you jumping on with us here. It's exciting to see. We saw the press release from the White House this week that we have seen record number or record low numbers of border crossings right now. We see the deportations continuing on in all of this, Congresswoman, without Congress actually having to act like we heard from Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.

What a concept, right? Ha ha ha ha ha. Mm-hmm. Absolutely. You know, the best line that the President Trump used In the joint address to Congress several weeks ago, was that we just needed a new President.

And that's exactly it. President Biden nor Vice President Erasmus. would even go to the border. It just shows you that it was not a high priority of theirs. In fact, their priority was But to allow as many illegal to come into the United States is possible.

If they're It was a political issue for them. They wanted any new voters, they thought, would be voters that would vote Democrat because that they have no plan for the American people. They're going to simply continue to build an administrative state And hope that those who come in illegally would vote Democrats. That was their plan, but President Trump and his administration have done incredible jobs. of um Closing the border Shutting it down, stopping the trafficking, and Christy Noam, who I served with.

in Congress.

So she's a no nonsense A woman from South Dakota that is doing a fantastic job of making sure that people. American faith. It is pretty incredible. What is the next step for Congress to address this issue? I know we're working on this big, beautiful bill that President Trump wants with this reconciliation package.

We're working on funding for continuing building the wall and getting more resources, possibly, I'm sure, hiring more border patrol. But what's the next step and what's the conversation that you've heard when it comes to this reconciliation bill in regards to specifically the southern border and trying to stop this flow of immigration?

Well, what had happened was the Biden administration basically diverted a lot of the funding. that was supposed to go to the border patrol and to the border security. And uh so we actually uh gig that back a lot of that back through the continuing resolution. We froze all other spending in the budgetary process. through the end of September.

budget. We increased the funding for our border and for our military. And so they they should have the resources that they need. One of the things I'll say, Andy, it's been incredible to to hear This administration, I served under the Obama administration. from twenty ten to twenty seventeen.

And there was nothing but excuses generally. There was a lot of talk and no action. But that is just not the case under the Trump administration. It expects maybe it is action and talk as well. uh to back it up.

And so that's a huge difference. between the two administrations. And one of the things that the President Trump knows He had four years in office. course uh after the twenty twenty election is out he was able to come back in with a perspective Knowing what was going to Needs to be done. And uh he had the team uh ready to be But in play So, right at its job on day one, and they have done it, and they have done a remarkable job.

So much has been done in the past three months. Uh, way more than what was done in the past four years. Yeah, oh, amen to that. Yeah, I mean, we are we're not even to the hundred-day market of the administration, and we're already rocking this one.

So, hat tip to the trumpet admin on that one. That's right, yeah, Donald Trump. Did that. That's right. I want to shift gears a little bit though.

It was Liberation Day yesterday, today being Liberation Day 2.0. Get your thoughts on these tariff conversations. Many nations already responding back to the tariffs. Many of them wanting to come to the table and have a conversation with Trump again and saying, Let's renegotiate. Let's have a better relationship.

Let's lower the tariffs across the board. Others trying to actually push back and raise their own tariffs or battle against us and say, We don't want a trade war. But where are we at? What have you heard so far with these nations? And do you think at the end of the day, we're going to see a better, healthier relationship with these other countries?

Yeah, I do. I really believe that this is the reset. It's going to be a little bumpy. There's no doubt about it. And I can give you kind of a a micro example.

of where you're going to see a Spike in increase, there potentially. I'm not saying it's going to happen, it doesn't have to happen. But um uh Related to Australian beef, I actually dropped a bill. That would raise the tariffs on the wagyu that comes out of Australia into the United States.

So back in the early two thousands, We had a a bad cow disease case case this year in the United States. And Australia banned beef going from the United States into Australia.

Okay, that's we understand that. We've got to make sure that safety protocols are put in place.

Well, now twenty years later, guess what? The Australians kept the ban And we they also So they don't allow any of them, the American beef, to go to Australia. But just on the Wagyu product alone, fifty percent of the Wagyu consumed in the United States comes from Australia.

So we're building There are Beef industry in Australia. While the American farmer here is at a discount because of the currency difference, between the Australian value of their currency compared to the American price. And so restaurants, food buyers. they're all willing to buy the Australian product. Because it's cheaper rather than buying the American product.

Well, the American farmer. doesn't have the a fair level playing field and access to the marketplace. like the Australians do. And so uh President Trump He'd actually put a ten percent tariff on Australian beef My bill actually was a 70% tariff because I really wanted to get somebody's attention. And boy, it has.

And so I know that's happening with other countries as well. I've got Australian media calling me saying, you know, why would you do this to your friends? Things like that. Why would you take advantage of your friends?

So this is really forcing conversations and resetting the trade imbalances and the trade conversations that we've been needing to have for a long time. We were the ones that they put tariffs on or banned their products from going into their countries. We finally have a leader down that's willing to Push back on them. Yeah, no amen to that. And you're spot on with that, trying to balance that out.

I don't think a lot of people know about the tariffs or even the bans, like you said, of our exports of meat and agricultural products going out to Australia, which is really fascinating. That they're okay to ban our stuff, but yet they're surprised when we start putting a tariff on theirs, which comes in, which leads me to speaking of the agricultural side. I know that we're working on a farm bill as well. We're also partnering with the tariffs and even with the health department, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with the Department of Health and Human Services, wanting to create more of that demand for the agricultural products grown and bred here in the U.S.

to remain here in the U.S. as well because of these trade deals with schools and different communities, being able to utilize the agriculture that's being grown right in their communities. Are you seeing that as an opportunity? And can we utilize more of what we actually grow here on the home front? Mm-hmm.

Oh, we absolutely can. That's one of my efforts. and actually talk to uh um RFK a little bit about that a couple of weeks ago. and making sure that, um, we What's happened? Andy, is the food industry has consolidated In QV Large.

corporation And for example, just going back to beef again, there's about four companies in the United States that have four big processors That process for the majority of these in the United States.

Well, what happened during COVID They had to shut a plant down, and that disrupted the entire supply chain because all of a sudden you got these large plants. And all of a sudden, you know, one of them goes dormant because of COVID. they all of us it messes up the the supply chain pricing. and uh it's a real disruption.

So my belief is that you need to really break these things down and spread them out around the country. And uh in You know, let them operate independently. Yeah.

rather than having everything so big from the top down, And I believe that's what RFK wants to see as well. But What we've done in the United States. We have done a remarkable job of producing enough quantity not only to feed the United States and other parts of the world, And now we need to start focusing on quality and making sure that our food is healthy. Healthier. Uh and that the American people have a healthy diet.

consistently available to them. and now that we've been able to accomplish the quantity.

So that's been my message. Part of the farm bill problem is we put so much of the food stamp program Into the farm bill, that it's almost eighty percent of the farm bill, and we can't really focus on the ag portion anymore because food stamps are out of control. Yeah, it's unfortunate. We follow being from, I'm from Kansas, where my flagship is here, and it's unfortunate because we follow a lot of this farm bill in the agricultural industry and the beef industry is especially a big one here for the Mid-America region. And it's sad that the farm bill has been hijacked by so many social programs when crop insurance and actually dealing with the farmer, the one that produces the product that we actually consume and that we need for our livelihood, that they get kicked back to only having like 5% to 10% of an actual bill that's supposed to be targeted toward them.

And it's pretty unfortunate. Congressman, we got just a minute or so left, and I appreciate your time very much as well. It sounds like that. With you mentioned the processing for the meat and for the egg to disperse it around the country, it sounds like we're almost toppling another monopoly-styled industry with big pharma that's controlling everything. And now, with the big processing plants that deal with all of the meat production in this country, we're starting to finally recognize this and break it back down to where we can have local product done in the local communities and actually break down some of that supply chain to not have to over-process it.

Yes, and I think that's good for all Americans. It's good for our communities. It creates jobs that is more spread out. around the country and also, you know, if there's a problem, you can isolate it much quicker.

So I think we're on the right path. And what President Trump is doing, starting with tariffs and looking out for America first, That's something that we've needed for a long time. It's what we need. I love it, Congressman Marlon Stutzman from the 3rd Congressional District of the great state of Indiana. Keep up this fight, my friend.

It's an important one behind the scenes that not too many focus on, but it's extremely important for us to keep going the way we need to. We'd love to chat with you again here, real soon, my friend. Happy to do so. Thanks for having me on today. Hey, you bet.

Appreciate that. Again, Congressman Marlon Stutzman, the 3rd District of Indiana. One segment left for the day. We'll take your phone calls when we come back. We'll shift gears a little bit.

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Speaking of the agricultural industry, they're the media, the Democrats are not the most forward thinking individuals. If you know what I mean, they don't recognize the long-term discussion we're trying to have here with negotiation and the reset that's happening. with making things more fair, which is why when the Congress said he wanted to put a 70% tariff on Wagu beef coming from Australia, they'd be like, well, crikey, mate, why are they doing that? America's supposed to be our friends. And we're like, well, you guys are banning all of our beef from even coming into your country from a ban that was done like 30 years ago because we are concerned about a disease going through the beef line.

Rightly so. You should protect yourself from getting sick, but it's kind of outdated and old. And if you're not going to even allow our stuff to come in, why would we allow your stuff to come here into our nation? Nonetheless, the media still trying to do their best. Look at the stock market.

Look at how everything's responding. Temporarily, Don't worry, it'll all settle itself down. But a new headline on Drudge Report, don't highly recommend you go check out Drudge. They're kind of insane now. But there's a story from Reason.com that they shared showing that the agricultural sector is going to be one of those hit the worst on trade because it's so heavily involved and relies on trade, saying despite exporting over $175 billion worth of ag products, they say imports outpace the exports.

For 2024. Yeah, that's because the other nations don't like our stuff because they charge it too much and they put too many tariffs on it. That's why we're not allowed to do this. Are we on the same wavelength there? Because they openly say, well, we imported more than we exported.

Because our exports aren't allowed to go to many places. And when they do, they have ridiculously high tariffs.

So we stop some of those trades. Oh, I know.

Now, I will say, as Rand Paul has said, that tariffs do and taxes and regulations do create higher prices on goods, which is why the reset's happening temporarily in order for us to have a long-term victory. And I'm reminded of the dairy industry. And I know some of them are like, agriculture, what are you talking about? You know, this is all the food and stuff that you eat, right? I mean, this is kind of important.

The dairy industry left California en masse. Like, they wanted nothing to do with California any longer because California was regulating the dairy industry way too much. It's bad for the environment and cow's farts are really bad for the earth and whatever else they were trying to say.

So the dairy industry said, see ya, we're out. And they left and left to multiple different states around the country. And that was a major hit on their economy, which I get it. California is kind of crazy. We love most of you conservative Republicans out there in California.

What are you doing out there with those major cities? Because you have some really strange laws. For example, there was a headline moving and you like that transition off of AG. There was a new story, a local news TV story out of California that apparently you can get discounts if you get ticketed for speeding in the state or certain areas. San Francisco is launching a new speed safety pilot program backed by Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom where how much you pay for a speeding ticket depends on who you are.

And it's all in the name of equity. On its website, the City Transportation Authority goes out of its way to explain that speed safety cameras will be dispersed across San Francisco in a, quote, equitable fashion. But not everyone will have to pay the same if they get a ticket. Get this. Low-income offenders qualify for steep fine discounts, guys, up to half off.

And if you're homeless but speeding in your vehicle, you can get up to 80% discount. Come on, man. If you're homeless, you can get 80% off your speeding ticket.

Now, I'm curious on if you're homeless, how you have a vehicle in the first place, because I don't really know how that one works. But if you are a certain skin color, you can get up to 50% off of your speeding ticket because of the equity, inclusion, and diversity, the DEI movement that's in California. This shows me again, number one, that while Gavin Newsom is really trying to play on the race of the Democrat reality TV show, who's the next leader for the Democrat Party? While he's trying to play nice and play middle of the road, he started his podcast now. He's trying to reach the younger generation.

He's working with like Charlie Kirk and having Charlie Kirk on the program to talk about conservatives and his idea on what Democrats should be doing and trying to play nice across the aisle. We know that it's a bunch of malarkey, as Joe Biden would say. But that also brings up the question in California, with one of the states that have the biggest number of transitioning people: is that can I? If I get a speeding ticket or if I get pulled over by a cop, Can I identify? as a homeless person.

Because maybe I'm not in my house at the time of being pulled over for the speeding ticket.

So, could I identify as a temporary homeless person and get my speeding ticket knocked off by 80%? That's the question you have to ask yourself. Or I could identify as maybe a black lady, and therefore I could use that for a 50% discount as well. Makes you think a little bit, right? Always a pleasure to fill in for Todd Starns.

Everybody, have a great day. We'll see you back on the radio. Bye.