July 4, 2025 • 18 mins
🏛️ Legislative Milestone
- Ben opens with the announcement that Congress has passed what is described as the “biggest tax deduction of your lifetime,” referred to repeatedly as the “Big Beautiful Bill.”
- The bill passed with a narrow margin (218–214), and Speaker Johnson is portrayed as a central figure in its success.
- The passage is framed as a major Republican victory, with strong partisan language contrasting Republican celebration with Democratic opposition.
🇺🇸 Patriotic and Religious Rhetoric
- The speech by Speaker Johnson is filled with patriotic references, religious overtones, and historical allusions.
- He emphasizes belief in America, God, and the founding principles of the nation, quoting the Declaration of Independence and Abraham Lincoln.
- The bill is framed as a fulfillment of the Founders’ vision and a restoration of American greatness.
📉 Criticism of Democrats and the Previous Administration
- The episode harshly criticizes the Democratic Party, referring to them as “socialist communists and Marxists.”
- It blames the Biden-Harris administration for economic mismanagement, labeling their policies as “radical woke” and a “disaster.”
- Hakeem Jeffries is mentioned for delivering a record-breaking 8-hour speech in opposition to the bill.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Happy fourth of July. Wee can.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I hope you had a fabulous time celebrating America with
your family and your friends. And to all of those
that protect and defend this country wearing a badge, whether
it's here locally in your community, or wearing a uniform
around the world. If you are a veteran, if you've
served this country a first responder, God bless you, Thank
(00:23):
you for what you do, and I hope you've had
a just incredible weekend celebrating America. I was planning on
being on family vacation and just taking some time off
for the next week, but with so many things happening
in the world, we're deciding we're not going to be
doing that. So what we're going to be doing instead
is I'm going to be doing a hybrid with this
(00:43):
show and the forty seven Morning Update. It's that show
that I do every morning that's about ten to twelve
minutes long, three biggest stories of the day coming out
of the White House or that affect the White House.
So for the next few days, that is what you're
going to be hearing here, and I just want to
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Speaker 2 (01:03):
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This is the forty seven Morning Update, the new show
I do hit subscribe auto download to it as well,
and yeah, take a listen to the big stories of
the day.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It just shows you.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
When you can get every story, one hundred percent of
the stories, no matter what you do.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
That's good. They make it as bad as possible. But
the fake news hit me with eggs.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Remember the first week, four days, eggs through the roof.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
I said, I just got here.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
What's going on with eggs?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Tell me I didn't hear about it.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Happy for the July so nice to have you with
us on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got
exciting news, including the fact that at five o'clock Donald
Trump is gonna sign the Big Beautiful Bill in the law.
We also are going to cover another big story, and
that is how everyone got it wrong with the jobs
numbers that show a major resurgence in our economy. It's
(04:12):
the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Story number one.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Congratulations America, you just got the biggest tax deduction of
your lifetime. After Congress sent Donald Trump the Big Beautiful
Bill to his desk after a dramatic all night House
vote if you missed it because it.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Was an all nighter.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
This is what it sounded like when Speaker Johnson walked
up to the best job there is in Washington right now,
that job of him being in charge of passing the
big beautiful bill in the House. And here is what
he said and listened to the reaction in the room
on the four of the House.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Hey, so he had to impose a deadline.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
It just happened to coincide with our two hundred and
forty ninth birthday to eighteen the Theser two fourteen. The
motion is adopted without objection. The motion to reconsider is
(05:25):
laid on the table.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
There it is the House passing the big beautiful bill,
chanting ussay, ussay, ussay. Now, don't get too excited. Only
half the room was chanting at ussay. The other side
of the room was angry. That would be your socialist,
communists and Marxist masquerading as the Democratic Party. And it
didn't take long to hear exactly what the President's plans were.
(05:49):
After the Republicans delivered, the President said, I'm signing this sucker.
Friday afternoon at the White House five o'clock Eastern Yes,
and effort to delay Thursday's vote. The Majority leader, by
the way, didn't want there to be a fourth of
July celebration. Hakim Jeffries, that democrat from New York, spoke
(06:09):
for eight hours and forty four minutes, breaking a record
for the longest House floor speech. Jeffrey decried what he said,
we're terrible cuts to things like Medicaid and yes, we
did cut of legal immigrants from abusing the program. He
also said this was the worst legislation and it was
a quote crime scene from the floor of the House. Meanwhile,
(06:32):
Donald Trump went to Iowa to showcase next year's celebration
of the nation's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. So there's
two different Americas right now, the one where democrats hate
you getting more of your money, and there are others
on the other side that are celebrating the largest tax
break the American population in my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Has ever seen.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
The present making it clear that it is his job
to do whatever it takes to get our economy rolling again.
And when the Republicans had their press conference and the
Leader of the House, the Speaker, came to the podium.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
This is the vote tally card. We're gonna frame this one,
okay to eighteen two fourteen. Listen, I'm not going to
give you a long speech. A lot has been said today,
and these people are exhausted. A couple of us quite
literally haven't slept in two days. So I'm a danger
to myself and others right now. I'm not gonna I'm
not gonna speak off the cup. I'll just say this.
I mean, many of you have asked me this question
in the hall of the last couple of days. But
(07:31):
when it looked like that we might actually deliver this thing,
particularly this morning, how did you know? I mean, what
what kept you going? Why did you did? Why did
you think this was possible? You guys made an audacious plan.
You brought the most comprehensive, complicated piece of legislation, probably
arguably in the top two or three in the history
of the Congress, with the smallest margin in US history,
(07:52):
which we had for big chunk of the first hundred days.
And you put this audacious timeline. You said you're going
to pass it out of the House by Memorial Day.
I mean, some of you openly laugh, did me when
I said that back in early February, and then we
said we would get it done by July fourth. We
beat Memorial Day by four days, and we got this
one done a day early. I just want to point out, Okay,
I schedule and under wage. So the question was, I mean, like,
(08:19):
why why did you do that? Why did you think
that was possible? Because it just it sums up somebod
up with one word. It's belief. Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
We had a vision for what we wanted to do
as a group.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
We believed in the election cycle last fall that we
were going to be given this great blessing of unified government,
that we would have the White House and the Senate
and the House aligned and alignment unified government. And we
did not want to waste that opportunity because we understand
the history that that comes along with it, the opportunity
that we can do for the country, and we believe
that we would have that chance. And then I believe
in the people that are standing here behind me. I
(08:49):
believe in this group, every single one of them individually.
Some of them are more fun to deal with than others,
you know. I mean that with the greatest level of respect.
I love every single one of my colleagues, you know,
even the ones I gotta spend the more time with, right,
because everybody's here, their motive is right, their heart is right.
They're trying to do right for their constituents. They're trying
to serve the greatest nation in the history of the
(09:11):
world that we're going to celebrate tomorrow. We don't take
that lightly. I know their hearts, and I know what
their skill sets are, and I know what they bring
to the table, and I get up every day excited
because I know that each of them are going to
bring that to the table, and they're going to serve
their constituents. You could not have a greater group of
public servants. And the people stand in this room right here,
they will give their all for this country. And man,
(09:31):
that's what the Framers intended when they put this thing
together two hundred and forty nine years ago. This is
what it was about.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So I believe.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
I believed in this vision. I believed in the group.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I believe in America. I believe we have the RAI stations.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
I'm gonna say this very simply, and everybody here would
articulate it in their own way. We had a tough
four years Before this last election cycle, America was in
We're in deep trouble, and we knew that if we won,
and we believed we would, we knew that if we
got unified government, we'd have to quite literally fix every
area of public policy. Everything was an absolute disaster under
the Biden Harris radical woke, progressive Democrat regime. And we
(10:15):
took the best effort that we could in one big,
beautiful bill to fix as much of it as we could.
And I am so grateful to God that we got
that done as we did because of the dedication. Yeah, lastly,
it's no secret I do believe in God. I believe
(10:35):
in that motto that I've referenced in the fore speech
of a while ago. I believe that that is what
has made our nation the greatest in the history of
the world. And some people shake their heads and they
think that's old fashioned or something that is a fact.
When the Framers put this together, they stepped out in faith.
They did something that no nation had ever done before.
The great statesman philosopher G. K. Chesterson, a great Britain
(10:55):
set America is the only nation in the world it
was founded upon a creed, and he said it's list
with almost theological lucidity or clarity. In the nation's birth certificate,
the Declaration of Independence, we all these trees to be
self but evident that we recognize, we boldly proclaim the
self evident truth that our rights do not come from
the government. They come from God himself. He's the one
that gave us our rights. Let's go it, Abraham Lincoln
(11:22):
said in the Gettysburg Address, we are dedicated to this proposition,
to one nation under God, a government of the people,
by the people, for the people, shall not perish from
the earth. This is an experiment. It's only two hundred
and forty nine years. Oh that's not a long span
of time in human history. It's just a real blip
on the whole scale of human history. It is up
to us to save it. It's up to the duly
elected representatives of the people to come here and represent
(11:45):
and it's up to every single one of us, of
the people, by the people, for.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
The people, all of us.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
So you've got to be engaged, and we got to
pass this along in the next generation. Reagan reminded us
freedom's not inherited in the bloodstream.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It's got to be protected. It's got to be bought for.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
It's got to be taught to the generation so that
they will have the same liberty, opportunity, and security that
we have all known and too often ticket for granted.
So I just want to say, we're going to get
to the main event here. We're about to sign this
bill and get it over to the White House.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Okay, Speaker Johnson, making it clear that the Republican Party,
as slim as the majority is in the House, is
working together to deliver on all of these important issues.
As for the President of United States of America, he
couldn't be happier to deliver to the American people on
the fourth of July a massive bill that protects families
(12:33):
and allows you to keep more of your money in
your own pocket. Now, story number two, it's amazing what
happens when you get a real president in the White House.
With President Donald Trump in office, the US economy is
continuing to revitalize and grow. It's no longer the fake
numbers that we know we're given out by Joe Biden,
(12:55):
where they just lied and made up hundreds of thousands
of jobs that never existed. Yeah, we found out that
they created nearly a million jobs it didn't exist, just
to try to get them re elected. Remember when they
were talking about the build back better days, Yeah, and
bid nomics. Well it was a disaster, but under Donald Trump.
The June job report showed another massive win for the
(13:19):
American people. It's once again exceeding expectations big time. Now,
the best part of all with all of this news
is how the media is having to deal with it.
Fox News dealt with it the appropriate way by giving
you good news. In fact, they made it pretty short,
just twenty six seconds when the numbers came out about
(13:40):
job growth.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Take a listen, it's a.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
Fox News alert. The June jobs report just released and
it shows the US added one hundred and forty seven
thousand jobs last month. That is stronger than expected. Revisions
to April and May reports also show sixteen thousand more
jobs created than previously reported, the unemployment rate unexpectedly falling
to four point one percent.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
So a strong report.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Guys, that's good news heading into this holiday weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Good news right heading into the weekend. Great way of
putting it. But what did they actually say at other
networks when they had to deal with the reality that
US job growth continued at a steady pace last month,
surprising many of the doom and gloom economists right that
it actually predicted rooting against America and the president a
slow down in hiring amid what they said was well
(14:30):
Donald Trump's insane trade war and his fiscal policy.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Well, here's how CNN had to report it to you.
Enjoy it. You expected some of this, but this is
better than expected, Yeah, Sarah, it is.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Look, this jobs market is like the energizer bunny. Every
single time we expected to run out of esteem, it
just keeps going and going. So these new numbers of
the US economy added one hundred and forty seven thousand
jobs in June. That was well ahead of the expectation
of a about one hundred and eighteen thousand, well ahead
of some whispers that we heard on Wall Street of
a sub one hundred thousand number. So this is indeed
(15:07):
beating expectations. We were also expecting a slowdown, we did
not get that. This is basically in line with May,
which was revised higher.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
It's also good news.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
The unemployment rate was expected to go up.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It didn't.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
It went down to four point one percent. That is
a very healthy number. This is still relatively historically low.
And again it's below the four point three percent that
we had expected.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You just got to laugh.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Even CNN, in their own words, says there quote, we
were expecting a slow down.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
We did not get that.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
These numbers are what we got without passing the big
beautiful bill.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So what does that mean? You could expect the numbers
to get even better.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
CNN's John Bergman was paining to tell his audience the
predictions of the job losses right, which means people are
actually out of work. That's terrible for families, and due
to terror policy, Well, they were wrong. Here's how he
described it again.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Since you know, March and before, there were predictions that
the terroriffs, granted a lot of them have been pulled back,
most of them pulled back. But all that terrorff policy
was going to lead, perhaps to inflation, would lead to
job losses, predictions of doom.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That doom just hasn't happened yet. It hasn't happened.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
And you know, John, I've been doing a lot of
reporting on this topic, and what I'm hearing is that
for the last few years, really since COVID, but even before,
companies have realized that their supply chains can be interrupted
for lots of reasons, for a virus, for a geopolitical event,
for a war, for a climate event. And so they've
been using technology to really streamline things. They've been getting
(16:44):
their systems in place, and there's just a lot more
efficiency in the system now. In some ways, I think
this is a triumph of business and how business has
been optimizing.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Now.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
That said, when we think about who's going to do
well in this period, it's going to be big businesses.
I am hearing that there's more pressure on small and
mid sized businesses that will be far less able to
cope with whatever tariff inflationary impact we do see. That
concerns me because small and mid sized businesses are what
fuels a lot of communities around the country. If you
(17:15):
see them going under because they can't take even a
little bit of tariff pressure that could.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Have a job's impact.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
So again, optimistic right now, but it's you know, there
are some issues on the horizon.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Still, don't worry.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
We still have your doom and gloom for you that
you know it could be just around the corner. Even
though we got this one completely wrong. You gotta wonder
how much they really hate America when this is the
type of commentary you get.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I mean this type of commentary. It's truly incredible.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
You hear it, and they're really not happy that more
Americans are at work now than we've seen in a
long time.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
We've got President Donald Trump in the White House, Republicans
in charge in the Senate and the House, and that
should make everyone happy.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.
Happy fourth of July. Wee can.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I hope you had a fabulous time celebrating America with
your family and your friends. And to all of those
that protect and defend this country wearing a badge, whether
it's here locally in your community, or wearing a uniform
around the world. If you are a veteran, if you've
served this country a first responder, God bless you, Thank
(00:23):
you for what you do, and I hope you've had
a just incredible weekend celebrating America. I was planning on
being on family vacation and just taking some time off
for the next week, but with so many things happening
in the world, we're deciding we're not going to be
doing that. So what we're going to be doing instead
is I'm going to be doing a hybrid with this
(00:43):
show and the forty seven Morning Update. It's that show
that I do every morning that's about ten to twelve
minutes long, three biggest stories of the day coming out
of the White House or that affect the White House.
So for the next few days, that is what you're
going to be hearing here, and I just want to
make sure that you knew that on the front end.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But first, I got to ask you a question.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Are you one of those that is just so tired
of giving your money to radical left woke companies that
actually are fighting against your values every day?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well, there are certain bills that you pay.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Every month that if you can go with a conservative company,
why not do it? In fact, why not go with
a conservative company that actually takes part of your bill
every month that you're going to pay to somebody and
they give it back to organizations that support your First
and your Second Amendment rights, that support the rights of
unborn children, that stand with our military, are first responders,
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and so many wounded warriors that need help. Well, that
bill I'm talking about is your cell phone bill. And
I've been telling you for a long time about Patriot Mobile.
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This is the forty seven Morning Update, the new show
I do hit subscribe auto download to it as well,
and yeah, take a listen to the big stories of
the day.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It just shows you.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
When you can get every story, one hundred percent of
the stories, no matter what you do.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
That's good. They make it as bad as possible. But
the fake news hit me with eggs.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Remember the first week, four days, eggs through the roof.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
I said, I just got here.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
What's going on with eggs?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Tell me I didn't hear about it.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Happy for the July so nice to have you with
us on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got
exciting news, including the fact that at five o'clock Donald
Trump is gonna sign the Big Beautiful Bill in the law.
We also are going to cover another big story, and
that is how everyone got it wrong with the jobs
numbers that show a major resurgence in our economy. It's
(04:12):
the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Story number one.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Congratulations America, you just got the biggest tax deduction of
your lifetime. After Congress sent Donald Trump the Big Beautiful
Bill to his desk after a dramatic all night House
vote if you missed it because it.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Was an all nighter.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
This is what it sounded like when Speaker Johnson walked
up to the best job there is in Washington right now,
that job of him being in charge of passing the
big beautiful bill in the House. And here is what
he said and listened to the reaction in the room
on the four of the House.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Hey, so he had to impose a deadline.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
It just happened to coincide with our two hundred and
forty ninth birthday to eighteen the Theser two fourteen. The
motion is adopted without objection. The motion to reconsider is
(05:25):
laid on the table.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
There it is the House passing the big beautiful bill,
chanting ussay, ussay, ussay. Now, don't get too excited. Only
half the room was chanting at ussay. The other side
of the room was angry. That would be your socialist,
communists and Marxist masquerading as the Democratic Party. And it
didn't take long to hear exactly what the President's plans were.
(05:49):
After the Republicans delivered, the President said, I'm signing this sucker.
Friday afternoon at the White House five o'clock Eastern Yes,
and effort to delay Thursday's vote. The Majority leader, by
the way, didn't want there to be a fourth of
July celebration. Hakim Jeffries, that democrat from New York, spoke
(06:09):
for eight hours and forty four minutes, breaking a record
for the longest House floor speech. Jeffrey decried what he said,
we're terrible cuts to things like Medicaid and yes, we
did cut of legal immigrants from abusing the program. He
also said this was the worst legislation and it was
a quote crime scene from the floor of the House. Meanwhile,
(06:32):
Donald Trump went to Iowa to showcase next year's celebration
of the nation's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. So there's
two different Americas right now, the one where democrats hate
you getting more of your money, and there are others
on the other side that are celebrating the largest tax
break the American population in my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Has ever seen.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
The present making it clear that it is his job
to do whatever it takes to get our economy rolling again.
And when the Republicans had their press conference and the
Leader of the House, the Speaker, came to the podium.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
This is the vote tally card. We're gonna frame this one,
okay to eighteen two fourteen. Listen, I'm not going to
give you a long speech. A lot has been said today,
and these people are exhausted. A couple of us quite
literally haven't slept in two days. So I'm a danger
to myself and others right now. I'm not gonna I'm
not gonna speak off the cup. I'll just say this.
I mean, many of you have asked me this question
in the hall of the last couple of days. But
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when it looked like that we might actually deliver this thing,
particularly this morning, how did you know? I mean, what
what kept you going? Why did you did? Why did
you think this was possible? You guys made an audacious plan.
You brought the most comprehensive, complicated piece of legislation, probably
arguably in the top two or three in the history
of the Congress, with the smallest margin in US history,
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which we had for big chunk of the first hundred days.
And you put this audacious timeline. You said you're going
to pass it out of the House by Memorial Day.
I mean, some of you openly laugh, did me when
I said that back in early February, and then we
said we would get it done by July fourth. We
beat Memorial Day by four days, and we got this
one done a day early. I just want to point out, Okay,
I schedule and under wage. So the question was, I mean, like,
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why why did you do that? Why did you think
that was possible? Because it just it sums up somebod
up with one word. It's belief. Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
We had a vision for what we wanted to do
as a group.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
We believed in the election cycle last fall that we
were going to be given this great blessing of unified government,
that we would have the White House and the Senate
and the House aligned and alignment unified government. And we
did not want to waste that opportunity because we understand
the history that that comes along with it, the opportunity
that we can do for the country, and we believe
that we would have that chance. And then I believe
in the people that are standing here behind me. I
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believe in this group, every single one of them individually.
Some of them are more fun to deal with than others,
you know. I mean that with the greatest level of respect.
I love every single one of my colleagues, you know,
even the ones I gotta spend the more time with, right,
because everybody's here, their motive is right, their heart is right.
They're trying to do right for their constituents. They're trying
to serve the greatest nation in the history of the
(09:11):
world that we're going to celebrate tomorrow. We don't take
that lightly. I know their hearts, and I know what
their skill sets are, and I know what they bring
to the table, and I get up every day excited
because I know that each of them are going to
bring that to the table, and they're going to serve
their constituents. You could not have a greater group of
public servants. And the people stand in this room right here,
they will give their all for this country. And man,
(09:31):
that's what the Framers intended when they put this thing
together two hundred and forty nine years ago. This is
what it was about.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So I believe.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
I believed in this vision. I believed in the group.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I believe in America. I believe we have the RAI stations.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
I'm gonna say this very simply, and everybody here would
articulate it in their own way. We had a tough
four years Before this last election cycle, America was in
We're in deep trouble, and we knew that if we won,
and we believed we would, we knew that if we
got unified government, we'd have to quite literally fix every
area of public policy. Everything was an absolute disaster under
the Biden Harris radical woke, progressive Democrat regime. And we
(10:15):
took the best effort that we could in one big,
beautiful bill to fix as much of it as we could.
And I am so grateful to God that we got
that done as we did because of the dedication. Yeah, lastly,
it's no secret I do believe in God. I believe
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in that motto that I've referenced in the fore speech
of a while ago. I believe that that is what
has made our nation the greatest in the history of
the world. And some people shake their heads and they
think that's old fashioned or something that is a fact.
When the Framers put this together, they stepped out in faith.
They did something that no nation had ever done before.
The great statesman philosopher G. K. Chesterson, a great Britain
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set America is the only nation in the world it
was founded upon a creed, and he said it's list
with almost theological lucidity or clarity. In the nation's birth certificate,
the Declaration of Independence, we all these trees to be
self but evident that we recognize, we boldly proclaim the
self evident truth that our rights do not come from
the government. They come from God himself. He's the one
that gave us our rights. Let's go it, Abraham Lincoln
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said in the Gettysburg Address, we are dedicated to this proposition,
to one nation under God, a government of the people,
by the people, for the people, shall not perish from
the earth. This is an experiment. It's only two hundred
and forty nine years. Oh that's not a long span
of time in human history. It's just a real blip
on the whole scale of human history. It is up
to us to save it. It's up to the duly
elected representatives of the people to come here and represent
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and it's up to every single one of us, of
the people, by the people, for.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
The people, all of us.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
So you've got to be engaged, and we got to
pass this along in the next generation. Reagan reminded us
freedom's not inherited in the bloodstream.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It's got to be protected. It's got to be bought for.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
It's got to be taught to the generation so that
they will have the same liberty, opportunity, and security that
we have all known and too often ticket for granted.
So I just want to say, we're going to get
to the main event here. We're about to sign this
bill and get it over to the White House.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Okay, Speaker Johnson, making it clear that the Republican Party,
as slim as the majority is in the House, is
working together to deliver on all of these important issues.
As for the President of United States of America, he
couldn't be happier to deliver to the American people on
the fourth of July a massive bill that protects families
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and allows you to keep more of your money in
your own pocket. Now, story number two, it's amazing what
happens when you get a real president in the White House.
With President Donald Trump in office, the US economy is
continuing to revitalize and grow. It's no longer the fake
numbers that we know we're given out by Joe Biden,
(12:55):
where they just lied and made up hundreds of thousands
of jobs that never existed. Yeah, we found out that
they created nearly a million jobs it didn't exist, just
to try to get them re elected. Remember when they
were talking about the build back better days, Yeah, and
bid nomics. Well it was a disaster, but under Donald Trump.
The June job report showed another massive win for the
(13:19):
American people. It's once again exceeding expectations big time. Now,
the best part of all with all of this news
is how the media is having to deal with it.
Fox News dealt with it the appropriate way by giving
you good news. In fact, they made it pretty short,
just twenty six seconds when the numbers came out about
(13:40):
job growth.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Take a listen, it's a.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
Fox News alert. The June jobs report just released and
it shows the US added one hundred and forty seven
thousand jobs last month. That is stronger than expected. Revisions
to April and May reports also show sixteen thousand more
jobs created than previously reported, the unemployment rate unexpectedly falling
to four point one percent.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
So a strong report.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Guys, that's good news heading into this holiday weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Good news right heading into the weekend. Great way of
putting it. But what did they actually say at other
networks when they had to deal with the reality that
US job growth continued at a steady pace last month,
surprising many of the doom and gloom economists right that
it actually predicted rooting against America and the president a
slow down in hiring amid what they said was well
(14:30):
Donald Trump's insane trade war and his fiscal policy.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Well, here's how CNN had to report it to you.
Enjoy it. You expected some of this, but this is
better than expected, Yeah, Sarah, it is.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Look, this jobs market is like the energizer bunny. Every
single time we expected to run out of esteem, it
just keeps going and going. So these new numbers of
the US economy added one hundred and forty seven thousand
jobs in June. That was well ahead of the expectation
of a about one hundred and eighteen thousand, well ahead
of some whispers that we heard on Wall Street of
a sub one hundred thousand number. So this is indeed
(15:07):
beating expectations. We were also expecting a slowdown, we did
not get that. This is basically in line with May,
which was revised higher.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
It's also good news.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
The unemployment rate was expected to go up.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It didn't.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
It went down to four point one percent. That is
a very healthy number. This is still relatively historically low.
And again it's below the four point three percent that
we had expected.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You just got to laugh.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Even CNN, in their own words, says there quote, we
were expecting a slow down.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
We did not get that.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
These numbers are what we got without passing the big
beautiful bill.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
So what does that mean? You could expect the numbers
to get even better.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
CNN's John Bergman was paining to tell his audience the
predictions of the job losses right, which means people are
actually out of work. That's terrible for families, and due
to terror policy, Well, they were wrong. Here's how he
described it again.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Since you know, March and before, there were predictions that
the terroriffs, granted a lot of them have been pulled back,
most of them pulled back. But all that terrorff policy
was going to lead, perhaps to inflation, would lead to
job losses, predictions of doom.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That doom just hasn't happened yet. It hasn't happened.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
And you know, John, I've been doing a lot of
reporting on this topic, and what I'm hearing is that
for the last few years, really since COVID, but even before,
companies have realized that their supply chains can be interrupted
for lots of reasons, for a virus, for a geopolitical event,
for a war, for a climate event. And so they've
been using technology to really streamline things. They've been getting
(16:44):
their systems in place, and there's just a lot more
efficiency in the system now. In some ways, I think
this is a triumph of business and how business has
been optimizing.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Now.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
That said, when we think about who's going to do
well in this period, it's going to be big businesses.
I am hearing that there's more pressure on small and
mid sized businesses that will be far less able to
cope with whatever tariff inflationary impact we do see. That
concerns me because small and mid sized businesses are what
fuels a lot of communities around the country. If you
(17:15):
see them going under because they can't take even a
little bit of tariff pressure that could.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Have a job's impact.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
So again, optimistic right now, but it's you know, there
are some issues on the horizon.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Still, don't worry.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
We still have your doom and gloom for you that
you know it could be just around the corner. Even
though we got this one completely wrong. You gotta wonder
how much they really hate America when this is the
type of commentary you get.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I mean this type of commentary. It's truly incredible.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
You hear it, and they're really not happy that more
Americans are at work now than we've seen in a
long time.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
We've got President Donald Trump in the White House, Republicans
in charge in the Senate and the House, and that
should make everyone happy.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
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