Congressman August Pfluger battles to pass the "big, beautiful bill" in the House, facing opposition from Democrats and media scrutiny. With provisions to cut spending, boost the economy, and fulfill President Trump's promises, the bill aims to reshape America's future.
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Can President Trump’s Bill Transform the Country? | Allen Jackson Now | May 21, 2025
- Well.
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- Good evening.
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- I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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- The seasons are changing.
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- Spring is in full bloom.
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- And summer is right around the corner.
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- Every year it's a treat to see what happens
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- When the sun and the rains come.
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- Colorful flowers and green grass everywhere.
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- Hope seems to fill the air.
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- The days are longer.
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- If you happen to work at the u.s.
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- Capitol, they last far into the night.
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- These days, long after the sun goes down, president
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- Trump's one big, beautiful bill is still under construction.
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- And while republicans
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- Have the lead in both the house and the senate,
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- Writing a bill that encapsulates a lot of necessary change,
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- It's no easy task.
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- There's only one president.
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- But remember, there are 535 members of congress,
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- And only slightly more than half are republicans.
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- Well, one of the house republicans is with us today.
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- He's a former air force fighter pilot
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- Who was deployed in syria and north iraq.
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- He's from texas.
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- Now he's serving his third term in washington.
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- And he has a seat on the
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- All important house energy and commerce committee.
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- Congressman august pfluger,
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- Thank you for your important service to our country.
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- And welcome to our show.
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- Well, thank you for the kind words
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- And always nice to be here.
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- Well, according to the house speaker,
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- The one big, beautiful bill is close to ready.
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- But there are some loose ends that are still being negotiated.
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- So i'd like to go through
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- What's been resolved and what's still in play.
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- Overall, it appears there are two big issues in play.
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- The spending, the waste
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- And abuse of government funds, taxpayer funds actually,
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- That has left a $36 trillion federal debt.
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- The second piece is the promises the president made to not tax
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- Social security
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- Tips and interest on loans for cars made in america.
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- Well, the council of economic advisers says the current plan
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- Shows savings of $1.6 trillion,
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- But it's based on an ambitious growth strategy
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- That some people are skeptical will work.
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- How do you see what's planned on the spending side, versus
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- Will the revenue be enough to lower any deficit spending?
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- Well, you've nailed the
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- Exact crossroads of where this bill
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- Appeals to a variety of people throughout our conference.
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- And it takes 218 votes to get this passed in the house
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- To to send it over to the senate.
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- We've been working on this for almost a year now
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- Since president trump was inaugurated.
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- Four and a half months of very diligent work
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- To find that balance, to find him.
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- You know, in my case,
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- How conservative can we make this bill?
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- We know that our government is bloated.
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- We know that there is fraud, waste and abuse throughout
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- The entirety of government.
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- We also know that we need to extend the tax code
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- That president trump worked so hard in his first term.
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- We need to unleash american energy,
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- Secure the border, and help our military.
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- So all those provisions come together.
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- And you're right.
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- The big question is
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- We know that we're going to spend some money
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- In tax cuts, that we want to allow
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- American businesses and families to prosper from,
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- In some cases will cost us, and we need to be able to save.
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- So those savings and those, expenditures have come together.
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- This is the most ambitious piece of legislation
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- When it comes to savings that has ever been presented.
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- And the founders knew this.
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- They knew that the work and the deliberation
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- And the dialog needed to be hard.
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- It needed to be methodical.
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- We have done that.
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- I'm confident that we have struck
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- That balance with over 1.5 trillion in savings
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- And the ability to help our border security,
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- Help our military, and do a few other things
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- That i believe will kick our economy into high gear.
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- Well, in terms of getting to the goals,
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- Is it
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- The overall assumption that no democrats
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- Will approve a bill that your party puts together,
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- Even if those members are getting projects
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- In their districts approved in the bill?
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- Is that assumption?
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- Unfortunately that's true.
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- And there are many provisions in this bill that that are aimed
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- At helping every single american.
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- In fact, all of the provisions are aimed at helping americans.
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- So democrats should support it.
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- But but unlikely.
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- I mean, the reconciliation process only requires
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- 51 senators.
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- Remember, this is not a house issue.
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- We pass bills every single day with a simple majority.
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- This is a senate rule that allows them
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- To go from a 60 vote threshold to 51.
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- And so it's unlikely
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- They will get any
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- Democrats to support this even though their districts
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- Will benefit.
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- Well, i understand that a big priority is the modernization
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- Of the antiquated air traffic control system.
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- Newark had a fourth outage this week houston too, as well
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- As shutdowns in philadelphia.
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- I ask because i heard the transportation secretary
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- Say that there's only money to get a new air traffic control
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- Started, rather than completely overhauled.
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- Well, secretary duffy is right.
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- Every control tower in america needs to be revamped.
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- The entire
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- System needs to be upgraded to a digital system that works
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- And has more safety checks.
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- You know, we got a pilot myself. i know this very well.
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- But i think, you know, probably,
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- The secretary is right that this bill will help
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- Get that started.
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- But look, president trump likes to build things.
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- He likes our infrastructure
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- To be the gold standard around the world.
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- And unfortunately, we need work on this particular issue.
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- And i think there will be some more work to be done.
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- On the issue of defense.
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- The president made a priority of the golden dome.
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- It's a protective shield
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- To protect the entire country from incoming missiles.
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- Here's how the president explains the need
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- And the push to start building as soon as possible.
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- To immediately begin the construction
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- Of a state of the art iron dome
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- Missile defense shield, which will be able to
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- Protect americans.
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- You can see that with israel.
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- We're out of 319 rockets.
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- They knock down just about every one of them.
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- So i think the united states is entitled to that.
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- And everything will be made right here in the usa.
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- Is enough money going to be approved
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- To start on this golden dome project?
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- Well, the president has been clear on his priorities.
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- This is one of them.
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- The supplement to defense, which is over $100
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- Billion, will help with projects like these.
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- And let me just say that, you know, our military,
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- We've been deployed, we've been all over the world,
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- In a lot of different conflicts.
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- And we need to recapitalize.
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- This is one aspect of that recapitalization.
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- And whether it's air power or in the
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- The f 47, the next generation of air dominance,
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- Or it's the golden dome is making the right decisions
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- To show strength and not weakness,
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- Which is something that his predecessor knew nothing about.
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- Well, one more security issue.
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- There's money in the bill to complete the border wall
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- And to hire more personnel for ice.
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- Well, the border patrol have what it needs to complete
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- The deportations that may take years to complete.
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- Well, absolutely.
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- And i sit on the homeland security committee.
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- This is where we're going to spend almost $70 billion
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- In order to make sure that they do have the resources
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- That they do get, not just the technology,
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- But also the construction of the wall.
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- And they have the ability, whether it's,
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- The facilities here or the ability to deport,
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- Those that are dangerous criminals
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- That need to go back to their country.
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- That is in the bill.
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- They will have the resources will be worked
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- Very closely with the department of homeland security.
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- In fact,
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- Secretary noem just testified in front of our committee
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- Last week, and i think they're very happy
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- For the first time in four years that we're taking good,
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- Strong steps to give, the dhs and customs and border
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- Protection agents what they need to defend our country.
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- Well,
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- Congressman pfluger, please stay with us for another segment.
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- When we return,
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- I'd like to hear your thoughts
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- On the democrats response to the big beautiful bill.
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- We'll be right back.
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- We'll be right back.
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- We're back now with the texas house republican,
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- August pfluger.
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- As much as anything else, consumer
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- Confidence is what drives the economy.
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- The big, beautiful bill is still on the assembly line.
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- But do you think the american people
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- Will end up feeling that the country is on the right
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- Track going forward when they see the final product?
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- Especially when the legacy media is going to be looking for
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- Every possible way to make it all sound like a bad plan.
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- Look, i mean, this is the most important question.
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- The legacy media,
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- It will never give him a fair shake, but we're in
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- The middle of a massive reset to a worldwide system
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- That was taking advantage
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- Of america
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- Into a government system
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- That was taking advantage of americans.
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- And what president trump is doing,
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- Is really, really important.
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- Consumer confidence, the markets,
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- The the health of the economy will stabilize.
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- What people will see.
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- And especially as we have seen, a downgrading of our credit
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- Worthiness is these markets,
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- Especially the bond markets, are going to notice
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- That we are serious about savings.
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- We are serious about cutting the debt and deficit.
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- And i feel very confident the economy is going to kick
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- Into high gear very soon.
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- Well, democratic leaders are claiming
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- That people are going to be left
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- To die with the changes planned for medicaid and medicare,
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- But it seems clear that what your party is
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- Really trying to do is tighten up the waste, fraud and abuse.
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- Listen to how the democrats are trying to spin the media.
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- Is this really a responsible thing
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- To do to increase the debt, to increase the deficit?
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- Throw people
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- Off of the medicaid rolls and other programs
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- That they need all.
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- So donald trump can give one last big,
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- Beautiful tax break to elon musk and the richest
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- People in the country.
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- Not only do
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- They want to deny health care to so many of our neighbors,
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- But they want to eliminate the great renewable credits
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- That are generating jobs all over the country
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- And helping us respond to the climate crisis.
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- You know, both
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- Parties have sat by while the waste and fraud was growing.
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- So why do they think
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- They need to lie to fix what's been going on?
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- Well, where do i even start to respond to those clips?
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- Because it's pretty rich to hear
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- From a democrat about expanding the debt
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- And the deficit when they increased our debt
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- By $7 trillion under biden's regime.
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- So we need no lecture from any democrat on that.
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- And let me just say you're right.
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- The falsehoods, the lies,
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- The fear mongering that goes into it.
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- Medicaid is a program that was specifically designed
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- To help children,
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- To help pregnant women, to help those
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- Who are disabled, who cannot work,
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- Who are in their working age years, but yet can't do that.
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- And unfortunately, president obama, in his terms,
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- Expanded that to working age adults to keep people
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- Under the thumb of government.
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- Republicans and conservatives are completely against that. so,
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- When you ask any american, do you believe
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- That working age adults should receive federal benefits
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- Without at least doing about 20 hours of work a week?
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- It's an 80% issue.
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- Most americans agree that that should happen.
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- That is what we're doing.
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- So the fearmongering is not going to work.
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- We're going to drive ahead.
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- And you know what i think is going to happen?
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- I think that many of those recipients of federal aid,
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- Whether it be, snap or whether it be medicaid
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- Or any other federal program,
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- They're going to get back into the labor force,
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- They're going to feel better about where they are in life.
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- They're going to get a better health
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- Care plan as a result of that.
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- And our country is going to benefit
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- Because we're going to have more productive citizens
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- Who aren't being held down by the government.
- 00:11:48.100 --> 00:11:51.236
- Well, the white
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- House calls the current bill pro small business and pro-family,
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- A bill that also makes good on the president's promises
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- To stop taxing tip's
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- Social security and loans on american made vehicles.
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- They say that people who earn between 30,000 and $80,000
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- A year will see a 15% reduction in their taxes.
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- It sounds too good to be true.
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- So tell us how that will happen, especially with the overall
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- Goal of bringing back down the deficit spending.
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- Well, look, president trump is a businessman.
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- He understands how to get a deal done.
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- We are going to make good on his campaign promises.
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- And in some cases, when you start accelerating
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- Some of the, the business, tax, items and entities,
- 00:12:32.711 --> 00:12:38.550
- There's an initial cost to that, which is why we're garnering
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- Savings in other areas.
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- But eventually the growth rate,
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- Because our economy is going to grow.
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- And we're making some bold assumptions here.
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- But we know that we're
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- Bringing business back to the united states of america,
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- That we are bringing business back to workers
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- Who are here in america that need to get back to work.
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- And that's i don't think you can really put a number on that.
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- But we're proud of the direction that we're going.
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- It's taken a long time to get here,
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- But i think
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- The world in, in specifically this country is going to see
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- A massive positive impact from this one big, beautiful bill,
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- Especially surrounding president trump's campaign promises.
- 00:13:17.155 --> 00:13:20.659
- Well, finally, the president had quite a week
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- In the middle east, and he brought back
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- Some huge commitments
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- To invest trillions of dollars in our country
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- That will create thousands of new jobs and new taxes
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- For the u.s. treasury.
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- Is that part of what republicans
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- Are counting on for our growth?
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- Was it also part of the estimate
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- That came out about the slowing of the deficit spending,
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- Or is it just money that will add to whatever
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- Growth comes from the bill you all are finalizing?
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- Well, well, this will be additive in
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- President trump's meeting with republicans on capitol hill
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- This week.
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- He talked about that, but it is not part of our calculation.
- 00:13:52.758 --> 00:13:55.494
- So this is really the icing on the cake
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- That we have a president
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- Who's going out to other countries
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- And saying, please invest
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- In the united states by our weapons systems, upgrade,
- 00:14:01.466 --> 00:14:04.569
- You know, your fighter jets with our fighter jets.
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- Which is american jobs.
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- It's american business. it helps our economy.
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- So it is additive.
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- It's not part of the calculation.
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- And i think
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- All of these things together, a rebalancing of the trade
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- Throughout the world,
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- Us taking our fiscal problems seriously for the first time
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- In decades.
- 00:14:21.920 --> 00:14:22.888
- President trump
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- Being the businessman
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- That he is and bringing good deals back to america.
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- This is why i'm confident that it's the most important
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- Bill we've seen in decades.
- 00:14:30.429 --> 00:14:32.597
- Well, congressman
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- Pfluger, thank you for your service
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- To our country and for your time today.
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- You're welcome back any time.
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- Thank you so much.
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- We'll be back in just a moment with some devotional thoughts
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- On hope for our future.
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- On hope for our future.
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- You know,
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- I've heard it a lot since the election. people
- 00:15:00.258 --> 00:15:01.460
- Will come up to me and say, look, i'm tired of politics.
- 00:15:01.460 --> 00:15:03.729
- I'm tired of paying attention.
- 00:15:03.729 --> 00:15:06.131
- You know, let the elected officials,
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- The people we voted for, they can go fix our problems.
- 00:15:08.033 --> 00:15:10.902
- I want to go back to my life.
- 00:15:10.902 --> 00:15:12.304
- It's somebody else's problem now.
- 00:15:12.304 --> 00:15:14.840
- Well, i believe that thought process is deeply misguided.
- 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:18.844
- Billions of dollars or trillions of dollars
- 00:15:18.844 --> 00:15:21.613
- Were spent recklessly over the years
- 00:15:21.613 --> 00:15:23.215
- By elected officials from both parties.
- 00:15:23.215 --> 00:15:26.251
- Unfortunately, we didn't pay enough attention
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- To all the foolish things
- 00:15:27.986 --> 00:15:29.287
- That our taxpayer money was being allocated to.
- 00:15:29.287 --> 00:15:32.424
- We just assumed that those in leadership, regardless
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- Of political affiliation,
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- Would be good
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- Stewards of the people's money
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- And have our best interests at heart.
- 00:15:38.864 --> 00:15:41.233
- We were the proverbial frog in the kettle
- 00:15:41.233 --> 00:15:44.503
- While the church stayed silent.
- 00:15:44.503 --> 00:15:46.138
- Our government was spending billions of dollars
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- On an ideology that opposed our biblical worldview.
- 00:15:48.740 --> 00:15:52.978
- You know, they say the separation of church and state.
- 00:15:52.978 --> 00:15:56.081
- Yet if you review
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- The expenditure of dollars
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- By the united states in recent years,
- 00:15:58.250 --> 00:16:00.519
- You should be quite convinced that we had a religion
- 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:03.488
- And that religion wouldn't be christianity.
- 00:16:03.488 --> 00:16:06.425
- Our government has been a very powerful, vocal
- 00:16:06.425 --> 00:16:09.394
- Advocate for a worldview.
- 00:16:09.394 --> 00:16:11.396
- It's been defined by the lgbtq plus community,
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- By dfi, by crt, and a host of other things.
- 00:16:14.933 --> 00:16:19.104
- Here are some of the projects our taxpayer dollars funded.
- 00:16:19.104 --> 00:16:22.307
- 2 million for sex changes in guatemala.
- 00:16:22.307 --> 00:16:25.444
- 32,000 for transgender comic books in peru.
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- 1.5 million for die in serbia.
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- Now, i'm grateful for the current administration
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- That has exposed these expenditures
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- And begun taking steps to put a stop to it.
- 00:16:38.390 --> 00:16:41.626
- But how did we get to this point?
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- Well, i regret to say that the greatly
- 00:16:43.962 --> 00:16:46.031
- Weakened condition of the church has really been
- 00:16:46.031 --> 00:16:48.433
- The primary contributor to the weakening of our nation.
- 00:16:48.433 --> 00:16:51.570
- We haven't had the courage to stand up for biblical values,
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- For biblical morality and biblical definitions
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- Of marriage and family and our roles within our families.
- 00:16:56.942 --> 00:17:00.712
- We as christ followers have an attached value
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- To what we represent in our culture.
- 00:17:03.448 --> 00:17:05.617
- It's time for us to change.
- 00:17:05.617 --> 00:17:07.552
- We've demanded political change and i don't disagree with that.
- 00:17:07.552 --> 00:17:10.822
- But now it's time for those of us
- 00:17:10.822 --> 00:17:12.357
- That are people of faith to change our behaviors.
- 00:17:12.357 --> 00:17:15.560
- If we do that and honor god, i promise
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- There's more reasons for hope than despair.
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- We'll be back with your emails in just a moment.
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- We'll be back with your emails in just a moment.
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- Karen is from texas said what is the issue of the muslims
- 00:17:58.704 --> 00:18:02.074
- Taking over our cities going to be addressed?
- 00:18:02.074 --> 00:18:04.110
- I've heard enough about woke and gender
- 00:18:04.110 --> 00:18:05.845
- And deportations of illegals.
- 00:18:05.845 --> 00:18:07.847
- The muslim takeover is the snake in the grass slowly
- 00:18:07.847 --> 00:18:10.616
- Creeping in and no one is saying anything about it.
- 00:18:10.616 --> 00:18:13.352
- Well, karen, i think the root of the question
- 00:18:14.253 --> 00:18:16.556
- Really has to do with immigrants honoring u.s. law.
- 00:18:16.556 --> 00:18:21.194
- You know, we've been so confused about the issue
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- Of immigrations and borders and the united states
- 00:18:23.162 --> 00:18:26.499
- And the privileges of citizenship.
- 00:18:26.499 --> 00:18:27.867
- We've lost the idea that when people immigrate to our country,
- 00:18:27.867 --> 00:18:31.204
- That the goal is to assimilate
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- And to assimilate into our country.
- 00:18:32.805 --> 00:18:34.974
- You have to honor our laws, our constitutions,
- 00:18:34.974 --> 00:18:37.743
- And the principles of this nation.
- 00:18:37.743 --> 00:18:39.745
- That means sharia law can't be more significant than u.s. law.
- 00:18:39.745 --> 00:18:43.983
- I think you will come back to those principles.
- 00:18:43.983 --> 00:18:46.052
- We can still gain strength from being a diverse nation,
- 00:18:46.052 --> 00:18:49.355
- But not if we forfeit the sovereignty of our constitution.
- 00:18:49.355 --> 00:18:54.026
- Tony from columbia, south carolina said, pastor,
- 00:18:54.994 --> 00:18:57.230
- Thanks for the wonderful program.
- 00:18:57.230 --> 00:18:58.664
- My question is,
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- Do you agree with the sentiment that after world war
- 00:18:59.765 --> 00:19:01.534
- Two, it's been said that the communist socialist
- 00:19:01.534 --> 00:19:04.237
- Infiltrated our media and our universities?
- 00:19:04.237 --> 00:19:07.840
- Well, tony, i don't think there's any question
- 00:19:08.774 --> 00:19:10.476
- That since world war two,
- 00:19:10.476 --> 00:19:11.444
- There's been a tremendous shift in education,
- 00:19:11.444 --> 00:19:14.247
- Particularly higher education, and it has been a drift away
- 00:19:14.247 --> 00:19:18.217
- From that judeo-christian biblical worldview
- 00:19:18.217 --> 00:19:21.153
- That was the core of so much of our nation
- 00:19:21.153 --> 00:19:23.956
- And the values that guided us.
- 00:19:23.956 --> 00:19:26.058
- Something's gonna have to be done about higher education.
- 00:19:26.058 --> 00:19:28.227
- We've tolerate this trend for too long.
- 00:19:28.227 --> 00:19:31.097
- It's going to take some very difficult work over
- 00:19:31.097 --> 00:19:34.133
- A period of time,
- 00:19:34.133 --> 00:19:35.701
- But i believe it is very much worth the effort.
- 00:19:35.701 --> 00:19:38.437
- The media is changing.
- 00:19:38.437 --> 00:19:40.239
- There are new outlets, new delivery systems,
- 00:19:40.239 --> 00:19:42.875
- New opportunities for programs like this.
- 00:19:42.875 --> 00:19:45.077
- So the truth is being shouted from the housetops
- 00:19:45.077 --> 00:19:48.080
- And the legacy media is a bit frustrated
- 00:19:48.080 --> 00:19:50.116
- Because they don't seem to have the power to stop it.
- 00:19:50.116 --> 00:19:52.184
- God's moving. don't give up hope.
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- I want to thank you for watching tonight.
- 00:19:55.421 --> 00:19:57.723
- I'm alan jackson.
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- It's our honor to join you each evening
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- And share a bit of good news and god's truth.
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- Good night.
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- We'll see you tomorrow.
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