1. Illegal Immigration and Sanctuary States
- Sanctuary states (Illinois, California, New York) are releasing undocumented immigrants charged with serious crimes instead of honoring ICE detainers.
- Statistics:
- Illinois released 1,800 illegal aliens charged with crimes (including murder, assault, sex crimes).
- Over 4,000 active ICE detainers reportedly ignored.
- Specific Cases: Individuals were involved in kidnapping, sexual assault, and fatal DUI crashes.
- Political Criticism: Democratic leaders (Gov. Pritzker, Gov. Newsom, NYC Mayor-elect Mundani) are prioritizing illegal immigrants over public safety.
2. Gas Prices and Affordability
- Key Data Points:
- Biden-era peak: $5.16 per gallon (June 2022).
- Current average: $2.90 per gallon (December update).
- Diesel average: $3.67 per gallon.
- Regional Contrast: Southern and Midwestern states report prices below $2.50, while California remains high at $4.46.
3. Farm Aid and Trade Policy
- Main Argument: Trump proposes a $12 billion aid package for farmers impacted by tariffs and trade wars, funded by tariff revenue rather than taxpayer money.
- Details:
- Aid targets soybean and sorghum farmers hardest hit by China trade disputes.
- References past aid: $22 billion (2019) and $46 billion (2020).
- Underlying Issue: Farmers face rising costs, market uncertainty, and risk of consolidation favoring large industrial farms.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Democrats have chosen to put more lives at risk. Your
life is one of them with the new moves that
they're doing to undermine Donald Trump and the laws in
this nation. The sanctuary state of Illinois has now released
more than one thousand, eight hundred illegal aliens. They've been
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charged with crimes such as murder, assault, burglary, robbery, and
sex crimes, including crimes against children, and they've released them
on purpose back in the communities since Donald Trump took
office in late January. The new data is exposing all
of this. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons
(00:47):
released the data on Monday while urging Illinois Attorney General
to honor more than four thousand active ICE detainers that
the agency has lodged against criminal illegal aliens in the
sanctuary state of Illinois. In particular, Lions said, Illinois officials
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have already failed to honor more than one thousand, seven
hundred and sixty eight ICE detainers and released the illegal
aliens back into neighborhoods. Among those illegal aliens that have
been released back into America are five charged with murder
who are now walking, among us one hundred and forty
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one charged with assault, walking among us, twenty three charge
of burglary, walking among us, ten charged with sex crimes
now walking among us, and four charged with robbery, twenty
four charged with drug crimes, many of them dealing with
fetnol that are killing Americans, and fifteen charged with weapons
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offenses as well. Meanwhile, the crimes of more than four
thousand illegal aliens with active ICE detainers in Illinois, including
fifty one charged with murder, one thousand, one hundred and
thirty four charged with assault, one hundred and seven charged
with burglary, thirty six charged with robbery, two hundred and
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seventy five charged with drug crimes, and one hundred and
twenty charged with weapons offenses. And this is the one
that is the most shocking, eight hundred and thirteen illegal
aliens charged with sex crimes. Governor Pritzkerb and his fellow
Illinois sanctuary politicians are releasing these murderers, pedophiles, and kidnappers
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back into our neighborhoods and putting American lives at risk,
the Department of oland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in
his statement. She then said, we are calling on Governor
Pritskerb and his administration to stop this dangerous arrangement and
commit to honoring the ICE arrest detainers of the more
than four thousand criminal legal aliens in Illinois's custody. It
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is common sense criminal legal aliens should not be released
back into our streets to terrorize more innocent Americans. ICE
officials said Illinois has released from custody and failed to
honor detainers for illegal aliens, such as a forty nine
year old Victor Manuel Menendez Garcia of Mexico, who was
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convicted of kidnapping for ransom and sentenced to eighteen years
in prison. A new release from ICE detailed other instances
where illegal aliens were released from custody instead of being
turned over to ICE agents. Juan Morales Martinez, an illegal
alien from Guatemala, for example, was arrested after a vehicle
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crash near Westfield, Illinois, where he was a passenger. Early
reports the vehicle crash showed not one, but two fatalities.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It was a county board member and his wife.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Police also found an extended magazine and ammunition in the vehicle.
On October the twenty fifth, ICE lodged a detainer on
Morales Martinez. October the twenty seventh, ICE arrested Morales after
his release from the Clark County Jail. The jail did
not cooperate with ICE, but ICE officers suspected his release
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and performed an enforcement action outside of the county jail.
He has now been removed from the United States of America,
but he would be among us if it was left
up to the sanctuary state of Illinois. There was another
man by the name of Gonzales Jimenez, an illegal alien
from Mexico. He was arrested and convicted for one count
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of driving under the influence and domestic battery and two
counts of criminal sexual assault. Yet again, Illinois chose deliberately
to refuse the ICE detainer for this individual, again a
accused of two counts of criminal sexual assault. On November
the thirteenth, ICE arrested the man as he was released
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from jail. Juan Alberto Carl Morin, an legal alien from Mexico,
was arrested and convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of
a victim and a family and sentenced to six years
in Illinois Department of Corrections. ICE detainer for that man
was also not honored. On November ninth, ICE arrested Carl
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Marin where he is currently in ICE custody. Yet again
Illinois saying no, We'd rather play politics than keep our
citizens safe from these dangerous criminals. This is just one
example of what Donald Trump and our government is up against,
as time and time again, these radicals in radical cities
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and states around the country are constantly refusing to work
with ICE to keep American safe, and yet again the
President is not backing down, sending more resources to Illinois
to find and to put into custody these more than
one thousand, eight hundred legal aliens charged with murder, assault,
sex crimes.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And what has happened?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Illinois chose to put them back into our neighborhoods instead
of hand them over to ICE.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
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where the radicals are defying Donald Trump and putting Americans
lives at risk, and many Americans are actually losing their lives.
(07:32):
Another sad and shocking story is now coming out of California,
where an illegal alien is accused of drunk driving and
causing a crash that left an eight year old girl
dead in the sanctuary state of California. Last week, Immigration
and Customs enforcement agents lodged a detainer against a twenty
five year old Guatemala man after he allegedly caused a
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head on collision on a San Diego highway that resulted in.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
The death of the eight year old little girl.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
According to local police, Alva Rodriguez was driving a two
thousand and five Toyota to Coma truck when he crossed
lanes and hit a Toyota camery head on. The driver
of the camera, a twenty six year old man from you, Arizona,
suffered major injuries, as did his front passenger, a twenty
eight year old woman. Three children in the back of
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the camera, a five year old boy, a four year
old girl, and an eight year old girl were taken
to a nearby children's hospital. The girl did not survive
her injuries and died at that hospital. How many deaths
of children at the hands of criminal legal aliens need
to happen before Governor Knewsom and sanctuary politicians will prioritize
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the safety and security of American families. That's what the
Department of Homeland Security said in his statement. ICE officials
said that Rodriguez had a history of drunk driving, including
a twenty twenty arrest for driving under the end influence,
and then another arrest in twenty twenty one for driving
under the influence and a hit and run. This serial
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drunk driver should never have been allowed back onto California roads.
We are praying for the family of this child who
will be grieving this holiday season. Secretary Nome is now
calling on Governor Newsom to honor this ICE arrest attainer
for this illegal alien. And yet again you have another
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elected official in another sanctuary state that is saying I
will put illegal immigrants ahead of American citizens. And that's
not the only place that's happening. The New York Mayor
Mundani now telling illegal aliens in New York City how
to stand up to ICE agents. The New York City
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Democratic Socialists mayor elect now giving lessons telling illegal immigrants
in this area that you must stand up to ICE agents.
The news comes as President Trump's administration has been working
as safeguard American communities from illegal alien crime, and as
federal officials have been arresting the worst of the worst
criminal aliens. In a video posted on Sunday, Mondani talked
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about a recent ICE rate in Chinatown, adding when he
officially becomes a mayor, he will protect all New York
residents and that means the illegal immigrants. He said, that
includes the more than three million immigrants who call the
city their home. But we can all stand up to
ICE if you know your rights, he said, and then
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he gave points about avoiding ICE agents altogether, saying, quote,
ICE cannot enter into private spaces like your home, school,
or private area of your workplace without a judicial warrant
signed by a judge. He went on to explain that
they had a right to keep their door shut, literally
telling the criminals exactly how to fight back and not
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be arrested.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Last weekend ICE attempted to raid Canal Street and detain
our impact. As mayor, I'll protect the rights of every
single New Yorker, and that includes the more than three
million immigrants who call this city in their home. But
we can all stand up to ICE if you.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Know your rights.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
If you encounter ICE. These are the things that every
New Yorker should know.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
First.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
ICE cannot enter into private spaces like your home, school,
or private area of your workplace without a judicial warrant signed.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
By a judge that looks like this.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
If ICE does not have a judicial warrant signed by
a judge, you have the right to say I do
not consent to enter it, and the right to keep
your door closed. Sometimes ICE will show you paperwork that
looks like this and tell you that they have the
right to arrest you.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
That is false.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
ICE is legally allowed to lie to you, but you
have the right to remain silent. If you're being detained,
you may always ask am I free to go repeatedly
until they answer. You are legally allowed to film ICE
as long as you do not interfere with an arrest.
It is important to remain calm during any interaction and
ICE for law enforcement, do.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Not impede their investigation.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Resist arrest to the world. One last thing, New York
has had a constitutional right to protest.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
When I'm there, we will protect that right.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
New York will always welcome them, and I will fight
each and every day to protect, support and celebrate our prossitors.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
That is the mayor elect of New York making it
very clear he doesn't work for the citizens of New
York and said he works for the illegal immigrants and
telling them everything he can to help them continue to
break the laws. So yet again we are having a
conversation about more Americans who are being killed.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
One thing is for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
The President of the United States of America has promised,
no matter what, to go wherever these criminals are to
find them to hunt them down and to bring them
to justice, even if the radicals on the left like
Mundani or Newsom or Prinz kerb are doing everything they
can to stop illegal immigrants from being deported. Affordability it
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is going to be the issue of the midterm elections
if there was an election today. It's the issue that
Democrats are saying. They believe they have the best footing
on to go after Donald Trump, saying that it's all
his fault that affordability is not where you want it.
But then you will get prices. And there are massive
successes that have happened that are the complete opposite of
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what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were doing. Energy Secretary
Chris Wright, for example, pointing to now what is historic
gas prices compared to Biden and the Secretary of Energy
Chris Wright saying this about where the gas prices are today, And.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
You know, I don't think there was there definitely wasn't
a time during the Biden administration when when the gas
went below the price they came in. Of course, they
came in during the pandemic when prices were very low
because people weren't traveling as much. But they basically, you
look at a chart and it's pretty amazing the way
it just stayed up there. It did come down for
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the high point of five bucks a gallon, but it
never really came down significantly enough for American car users.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Imagine if Harris had won the election, where would gasoline
prices be today? How would American consumers feel? I guess
you could visit California and get a preview of that,
where gasoline prices are over fifty percent higher than the
national average. Those are political choices. They're not unfortunate facts.
They're political choices to make energy expensive.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Now, political choices deliberately to make gas prices expensive. You
also go back to the chart that he was referring to,
and that chart is one that truly is incredible. When
Joe Biden became president of Member of twenty twenty, gas
prices were about two dollars and twenty cents a gallon.
By June of that of twenty twenty two, the Biden
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administration had gotten gas prices up to five dollars and
three cents a gallon average. They then tried to artificially
deflate that price by even releasing all reserves. Why because
they wanted to win reelection. And in November of twenty
twenty five, we were at three dollars and seventeen cents
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a gallon national average, meaning fifty percent. We're paying more
than that, and in many places much more so. Now
where are we the President of United States of America saying,
I understand affordability, and I understand there are many Americans
that are concerned about it. And here's part of what
he had to say at the White House.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
We're now at about two dollars and fifty cents a gallon.
We're going to be I think at two dollars a gallon.
We could even crack that at some point. I'd love
to do it, and we could do it more easily
if we weren't building up the rategic national reserves, which
Biden emptied out before the election so that he could
try and get elected, meaning she he started it, then
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he got thrown out of the race.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Then she took over, and she kept.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
It going, and they emptied out these strategic national reserves,
which are really meant for something else. They're not meant
to keep people happy with the gasoline price. They're meant
for war. They're meant for problems, big problems. He emptied
it out and then she continued it during the process
of trying to get elected. Didn't work out too well
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for him, and they virtually brought it down to the
lowest level I believe in history, and it didn't have
much of an impact because the prices were very high.
But our price is now for energy put for gasoline
or really low electricities coming down.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
And when that comes down, everything comes down.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
When that comes down, everything comes down. Now the president
saying that just a few days ago, and now what
we're seeing is we're winning. The US average gas price
has dropped again, now under three dollars a gallon. The
average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline the United
States dipped again this week, now standing at under three
dollars a gallon, according to gas Buddy the December eighth update,
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gas prices fell five cents over the last week, reaching
two ninety a gallon, and the national average is down
seventeen point six cents from a month ago, seven point
three cents per gallon lower than a year ago. And
the national average price of diesel has also fallen five
point one cents in the last week, standing at three
dollars and sixty seven cents per gallon average. Now, this
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is also incredible because Americans are now paying less for
a lot of different things. Because of the price of
a gallon of gas going down, You, depending on where
you're listening right now, can look at signs that will
make you not be stressed like they were under the
Biden administration when it was again five dollars a gallon.
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Triple A also reflect the reality of an average under
three dollars. According to its data, the national gas price average,
they say, stands at two ninety five and for greater perspective,
one week ago, the average stood at three oh one.
One month ago, it stood at three oh seven. States
across the south in the Midwest are also seeing prices
even lower. In Oklahoma, for example, the average gas price
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rings in at two dollars and thirty six cents a gallon.
Texas is average now sits below two fifty a gallon,
Missouri at two sixty a gallon. In other states including Florida, Alabama, Michigan, Ohio,
South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Montana, and others are seeing
averages now under three dollars a gallon, which they did
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not see under the Biden regime. Now, some of the
highest prices, and this goes back to what was said
earlier by the Energy Secretary, are in leftist states. California,
for instance, is seeing an average of four dollars and
forty six cents per gallon. That is a dollar fifty
seven a gallon higher than the national average. Others such
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as New York, Washington, Hawaiian, Nevada average above three dollars
per gallon as well. Still, this is dramatically lower than
the all time summer high Americans experience in twenty twenty two.
That summer gas price is sword reaching an all time
high of five dollars and sixteen cents average for a
gallon of regular unleaded on June the fourteenth, right in
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the middle of summer travel of twenty twenty two days later,
and even a more shocking moment, the diesel prices, which
are eighteen wheelers use, reach an average high of five
dollars and eighty one cents a gallon, the White House
putting it out in a tweet this way, in thirty
seven states, the average price for gas is blowed three
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dollars a gallon. In twenty two states, it's blowed two
seventy five gallon in five states, it's below two fifty
a gallon, and all states are now trending lower now.
All of this follows an update last week announced that
gas prices had fallen below the three dollar gallon for
the first time in four years. Last month, President Trump
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celebrated the strides's administration has made since last year's election,
making living more affordable for the American people, with gas prices, groceries,
and rental prices actually falling. So when you hear the
media and Democrats saying that we have a quote affordability crisis,
I agree, it costs too much for a lot of things.
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But are the prices heading in the right direction? The
answer is yes, they are going in the right direction.
They are not going in the wrong direction. They are
headed exactly where Donald Trump said they were going to
be headed. And that is part of why so many
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Americans should take a moment pause and look and see
what the President is actually doing to get all this
moving the way it needs to. Quick break Ben Ferguson Show,
there is one group of people that I want to
make sure we hit pause and think and talk about,
and that is our forgotten farmers in this country. President
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Trump understands that the farming industry, especially in the US,
has been under siege and undercut by so much foreign influence.
And the President understands, also from a national security and
a food security standpoint, that we need to be allies
and advocates of our men and women and family farms
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in this country. Secretary Rawlings recently on Fox and Friends
said this about the farmers in our nation.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Farmers said, if who have credit problems and are wondering
they maybe have too many soybeans in stockpiled money coming,
You're going to give them the figure a little bit later,
even though they prefer to sell.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
This is one way to keep them.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Yeah, they don't want to farm for government checks, right,
They want to farm for real, for real pay for
what they do. But soybeans are looking better. I think
it's the highest price it's been in fifteen months. We've
got some other road crops that we're working on, but yes,
soon to be announced, likely the week after Thanksgiving. And
we're just so grateful for our farmers and our ranchers,
and prices are coming down. I think from the affordability perspective,
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we once we sow for these inputs. You're going to
see some incredible, incredible numbers in.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Our Agriculture Secretary rawlings there making it clear that we're
not going to forget which moves made a Part two.
President Trump has now proposed a twelve billion dollar aid
package for farmers that have been hit hard by China's
trade or the President at the White House describing it
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this way, delighted.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
To announce this afternoon that the United States will be
taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of
dollars we in tariffs.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
We are making.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
A lot of money from countries that took advantage of
us for years. They took advantage of us like nobody's
ever seen. Our deficits are way down because of tariffs.
I guess because of the election, because without the election,
you wouldn't have tariffs. You'd be sitting here losing your shirt.
But we're taking in billions. We're really taking in trillions
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of dollars if you think about it, Scott, because they're
real numbers, you know, when you think of all the
money being poured into the country for.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
New auto plants and all of the other things. AI.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
So what we're doing is we're taking a relatively small
portion of that and we're going to be giving and
providing it to the farmers in economic assistance.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
And we love our farmers, and as you know, the
farmers like me because based on voting trends, you could
call it voting trends or anything else, but they're great people.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
They're the backbone of our country.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
So we're going to use that money to provide twelve
billion dollars in economic assistance to American farmer's.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Twelve billion is a lot of money. Mertal what do
you think peanuts for you?
Speaker 9 (24:11):
Though?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Right she's a farmer of rice.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
This release will, this relief will provide much needed certainty
to farmers as they get this year's harvest to market
and look ahead to next year's crops, and it'll help
them continue their efforts to lower food prices.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
You hear the present there, and this goes back to affordability.
He understands that American farmers have been hit, and they've
been hit hard by China and the trade wars, and
that's why he's taking the tear iff money. And that's
why I announced a twelve billion dollar farm made package.
It will be a boost to farmers who have struggled
to sell the crops while getting hit by rising costs
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after the President raised tariffs on China as part of
that broader trade war. And that's why the President build
the and Monday afternoon at the White House a round
table with the Treasury Secretary of Scott descent, the Agricultural
Secretary Brook Rawlings, lawmakers and farmers who raise cattle and
grow corn, cotton, soybeans, rice, wheat, potatoes, etc. Twelve billions
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a lot of money, Trump said, adding that the additional
aid will help provide certainty for farmers. The money is
coming from the tariff revenue, again, not directly from you,
the taxpayer, which is another great thing. Rawlings said, by
the way, in her own remarks to the White House
that eleven billion is being announced on Monday, while another
one billion is being held back for specialty crops. Farmers
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have backed Trump politically, but his aggressive trade policies and
shifts and tariff rates have come under increasing scrutiny because
of the impact of the agricultural sector and because of
broader consumer worries. The AID is the administration's latest effort
to defend Trump's economic stewardship and answered voter anks about
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rising costs, even as the president's dismiss concerns about the
concept of affordability as a straight up democratic hoax because
prices are in fact coming down now. Upwards of eleven
billion is set aside for the Department of Agriculture's Farmers
Bridge Assistance Program, which the White House says will offer
one time payments to farmers for row crops. That is
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a huge help to so many farmers. Soybeans and sorghum
will hit the hardest by the trade dispute with China
because more than half of those crops are exported each year,
with most of the harvest going to China. The eight
is meant to help those farmers who have suffered from
trade wars with other nations, inflation, and other market disruptions.
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The rest of money will be for farmers who grow
crops not covered under the Bridge Assistant's program. That according
to White House officials, who said it's important that we
protect all of our farmers. The money is intended, they say,
to offer certain to farmers as they sell their current
harvests as well as planned for next year's crops. In October,
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after Trump met with Leader j in South Korea. The
White House said Beijing had promised to buy at least
twelve million metric tons of US soybeans by the end
of the calendar year, plus twenty five million metric tons
a year in each of the next three years. Soybean
farmers have been hit especially hard by Trump's trade war
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with China, which is the world's largest buyer of soybean. China,
just so you know, has purchased more than two point
eight million metric tons of soybeans since Trump announced the
agreement at the end of October. That's only about one
quarter of what administration officials said China had promised, But
Scott Descent, Treasury Secretary, said China is on track to
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meet its goal by the end of February, saying, quote,
these prices haven't come in because the Chinese actually used
our soybean farmers as pawns in their trade negotiations, what
he said on Sundays Face the Nation on CBS. That
also explains why a bridge payment to farmers is needed now.
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The size of the twelve billion dollar aid package is
roughly the value of total US soybean exports to China
in twenty twenty four. And half of the total exports
of US farm goods to China in twenty twenty four
as well. Farmers they're beyond thrilled about the aid package,
but some of them say it's likely only a down
payment on what's needed, and government aid doesn't solve the
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fundamental problems that farmers are facing of soaring costs and
uncertain markets for their crops altogether.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
During Trump's first term, he gave farmers more than twenty
two billion in aid payments in twenty nineteen at the
start of his trade war with China, and nearly forty
six billion in twenty twenty, although that year also included
a that was related to the COVID pandemic as well.
The farmers want to make a profit off of selling
their crops rely on government aid to survive, saying quote,
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that's a start, but I think we need to be
looking for some avenues to find other funding opportunities, and
we need to get our market going.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
That's where you want to be able to make a
living from.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Is where a Kentucky farmer who serves the president of
the American Soybean Association had to say at a conference,
if farmers can't make ends meet this year, there will
likely be additional consolidation the industry, with giant industrial farmers
only getting bigger while the number of smaller family farmers
continue to shrink. The farmers most at risk are younger
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farmers and those who rent instead of own most of
the ground they farm, because they don't have much ability
to borrow against the equity in their land. Most established
farmers will be able to borrow more to survive the
trade war, but older farmers who spend their whole lives
building up equity may decide to retire instead of risk
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everything that they built up, unless they are trying to
help the next generation of farmers get established on their land,
which brings us back to what President Trump said, it's
clearly a broken system. We've got to fix it, and
we also have to make farmers understand that we're on
their team and that they can survive and they can
make a living doing exactly this. Don't forget to share
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Democrats have chosen to put more lives at risk. Your
life is one of them with the new moves that
they're doing to undermine Donald Trump and the laws in
this nation. The sanctuary state of Illinois has now released
more than one thousand, eight hundred illegal aliens. They've been
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charged with crimes such as murder, assault, burglary, robbery, and
sex crimes, including crimes against children, and they've released them
on purpose back in the communities since Donald Trump took
office in late January. The new data is exposing all
of this. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons
(00:47):
released the data on Monday while urging Illinois Attorney General
to honor more than four thousand active ICE detainers that
the agency has lodged against criminal illegal aliens in the
sanctuary state of Illinois. In particular, Lions said, Illinois officials
(01:08):
have already failed to honor more than one thousand, seven
hundred and sixty eight ICE detainers and released the illegal
aliens back into neighborhoods. Among those illegal aliens that have
been released back into America are five charged with murder
who are now walking, among us one hundred and forty
(01:29):
one charged with assault, walking among us, twenty three charge
of burglary, walking among us, ten charged with sex crimes
now walking among us, and four charged with robbery, twenty
four charged with drug crimes, many of them dealing with
fetnol that are killing Americans, and fifteen charged with weapons
(01:52):
offenses as well. Meanwhile, the crimes of more than four
thousand illegal aliens with active ICE detainers in Illinois, including
fifty one charged with murder, one thousand, one hundred and
thirty four charged with assault, one hundred and seven charged
with burglary, thirty six charged with robbery, two hundred and
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seventy five charged with drug crimes, and one hundred and
twenty charged with weapons offenses. And this is the one
that is the most shocking, eight hundred and thirteen illegal
aliens charged with sex crimes. Governor Pritzkerb and his fellow
Illinois sanctuary politicians are releasing these murderers, pedophiles, and kidnappers
(02:38):
back into our neighborhoods and putting American lives at risk,
the Department of oland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in
his statement. She then said, we are calling on Governor
Pritskerb and his administration to stop this dangerous arrangement and
commit to honoring the ICE arrest detainers of the more
than four thousand criminal legal aliens in Illinois's custody. It
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is common sense criminal legal aliens should not be released
back into our streets to terrorize more innocent Americans. ICE
officials said Illinois has released from custody and failed to
honor detainers for illegal aliens, such as a forty nine
year old Victor Manuel Menendez Garcia of Mexico, who was
(03:25):
convicted of kidnapping for ransom and sentenced to eighteen years
in prison. A new release from ICE detailed other instances
where illegal aliens were released from custody instead of being
turned over to ICE agents. Juan Morales Martinez, an illegal
alien from Guatemala, for example, was arrested after a vehicle
(03:48):
crash near Westfield, Illinois, where he was a passenger. Early
reports the vehicle crash showed not one, but two fatalities.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It was a county board member and his wife.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Police also found an extended magazine and ammunition in the vehicle.
On October the twenty fifth, ICE lodged a detainer on
Morales Martinez. October the twenty seventh, ICE arrested Morales after
his release from the Clark County Jail. The jail did
not cooperate with ICE, but ICE officers suspected his release
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and performed an enforcement action outside of the county jail.
He has now been removed from the United States of America,
but he would be among us if it was left
up to the sanctuary state of Illinois. There was another
man by the name of Gonzales Jimenez, an illegal alien
from Mexico. He was arrested and convicted for one count
(04:45):
of driving under the influence and domestic battery and two
counts of criminal sexual assault. Yet again, Illinois chose deliberately
to refuse the ICE detainer for this individual, again a
accused of two counts of criminal sexual assault. On November
the thirteenth, ICE arrested the man as he was released
(05:09):
from jail. Juan Alberto Carl Morin, an legal alien from Mexico,
was arrested and convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of
a victim and a family and sentenced to six years
in Illinois Department of Corrections. ICE detainer for that man
was also not honored. On November ninth, ICE arrested Carl
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Marin where he is currently in ICE custody. Yet again
Illinois saying no, We'd rather play politics than keep our
citizens safe from these dangerous criminals. This is just one
example of what Donald Trump and our government is up against,
as time and time again, these radicals in radical cities
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and states around the country are constantly refusing to work
with ICE to keep American safe, and yet again the
President is not backing down, sending more resources to Illinois
to find and to put into custody these more than
one thousand, eight hundred legal aliens charged with murder, assault,
sex crimes.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And what has happened?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Illinois chose to put them back into our neighborhoods instead
of hand them over to ICE.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
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where the radicals are defying Donald Trump and putting Americans
lives at risk, and many Americans are actually losing their lives.
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Another sad and shocking story is now coming out of California,
where an illegal alien is accused of drunk driving and
causing a crash that left an eight year old girl
dead in the sanctuary state of California. Last week, Immigration
and Customs enforcement agents lodged a detainer against a twenty
five year old Guatemala man after he allegedly caused a
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head on collision on a San Diego highway that resulted in.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
The death of the eight year old little girl.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
According to local police, Alva Rodriguez was driving a two
thousand and five Toyota to Coma truck when he crossed
lanes and hit a Toyota camery head on. The driver
of the camera, a twenty six year old man from you, Arizona,
suffered major injuries, as did his front passenger, a twenty
eight year old woman. Three children in the back of
(08:24):
the camera, a five year old boy, a four year
old girl, and an eight year old girl were taken
to a nearby children's hospital. The girl did not survive
her injuries and died at that hospital. How many deaths
of children at the hands of criminal legal aliens need
to happen before Governor Knewsom and sanctuary politicians will prioritize
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the safety and security of American families. That's what the
Department of Homeland Security said in his statement. ICE officials
said that Rodriguez had a history of drunk driving, including
a twenty twenty arrest for driving under the end influence,
and then another arrest in twenty twenty one for driving
under the influence and a hit and run. This serial
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drunk driver should never have been allowed back onto California roads.
We are praying for the family of this child who
will be grieving this holiday season. Secretary Nome is now
calling on Governor Newsom to honor this ICE arrest attainer
for this illegal alien. And yet again you have another
(09:30):
elected official in another sanctuary state that is saying I
will put illegal immigrants ahead of American citizens. And that's
not the only place that's happening. The New York Mayor
Mundani now telling illegal aliens in New York City how
to stand up to ICE agents. The New York City
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Democratic Socialists mayor elect now giving lessons telling illegal immigrants
in this area that you must stand up to ICE agents.
The news comes as President Trump's administration has been working
as safeguard American communities from illegal alien crime, and as
federal officials have been arresting the worst of the worst
criminal aliens. In a video posted on Sunday, Mondani talked
(10:17):
about a recent ICE rate in Chinatown, adding when he
officially becomes a mayor, he will protect all New York
residents and that means the illegal immigrants. He said, that
includes the more than three million immigrants who call the
city their home. But we can all stand up to
ICE if you know your rights, he said, and then
(10:39):
he gave points about avoiding ICE agents altogether, saying, quote,
ICE cannot enter into private spaces like your home, school,
or private area of your workplace without a judicial warrant
signed by a judge. He went on to explain that
they had a right to keep their door shut, literally
telling the criminals exactly how to fight back and not
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be arrested.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Last weekend ICE attempted to raid Canal Street and detain
our impact. As mayor, I'll protect the rights of every
single New Yorker, and that includes the more than three
million immigrants who call this city in their home. But
we can all stand up to ICE if you.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Know your rights.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
If you encounter ICE. These are the things that every
New Yorker should know.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
First.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
ICE cannot enter into private spaces like your home, school,
or private area of your workplace without a judicial warrant signed.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
By a judge that looks like this.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
If ICE does not have a judicial warrant signed by
a judge, you have the right to say I do
not consent to enter it, and the right to keep
your door closed. Sometimes ICE will show you paperwork that
looks like this and tell you that they have the
right to arrest you.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
That is false.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
ICE is legally allowed to lie to you, but you
have the right to remain silent. If you're being detained,
you may always ask am I free to go repeatedly
until they answer. You are legally allowed to film ICE
as long as you do not interfere with an arrest.
It is important to remain calm during any interaction and
ICE for law enforcement, do.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Not impede their investigation.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Resist arrest to the world. One last thing, New York
has had a constitutional right to protest.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
When I'm there, we will protect that right.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
New York will always welcome them, and I will fight
each and every day to protect, support and celebrate our prossitors.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
That is the mayor elect of New York making it
very clear he doesn't work for the citizens of New
York and said he works for the illegal immigrants and
telling them everything he can to help them continue to
break the laws. So yet again we are having a
conversation about more Americans who are being killed.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
One thing is for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
The President of the United States of America has promised,
no matter what, to go wherever these criminals are to
find them to hunt them down and to bring them
to justice, even if the radicals on the left like
Mundani or Newsom or Prinz kerb are doing everything they
can to stop illegal immigrants from being deported. Affordability it
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is going to be the issue of the midterm elections
if there was an election today. It's the issue that
Democrats are saying. They believe they have the best footing
on to go after Donald Trump, saying that it's all
his fault that affordability is not where you want it.
But then you will get prices. And there are massive
successes that have happened that are the complete opposite of
(13:35):
what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were doing. Energy Secretary
Chris Wright, for example, pointing to now what is historic
gas prices compared to Biden and the Secretary of Energy
Chris Wright saying this about where the gas prices are today, And.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
You know, I don't think there was there definitely wasn't
a time during the Biden administration when when the gas
went below the price they came in. Of course, they
came in during the pandemic when prices were very low
because people weren't traveling as much. But they basically, you
look at a chart and it's pretty amazing the way
it just stayed up there. It did come down for
(14:14):
the high point of five bucks a gallon, but it
never really came down significantly enough for American car users.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Imagine if Harris had won the election, where would gasoline
prices be today? How would American consumers feel? I guess
you could visit California and get a preview of that,
where gasoline prices are over fifty percent higher than the
national average. Those are political choices. They're not unfortunate facts.
They're political choices to make energy expensive.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Now, political choices deliberately to make gas prices expensive. You
also go back to the chart that he was referring to,
and that chart is one that truly is incredible. When
Joe Biden became president of Member of twenty twenty, gas
prices were about two dollars and twenty cents a gallon.
By June of that of twenty twenty two, the Biden
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administration had gotten gas prices up to five dollars and
three cents a gallon average. They then tried to artificially
deflate that price by even releasing all reserves. Why because
they wanted to win reelection. And in November of twenty
twenty five, we were at three dollars and seventeen cents
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a gallon national average, meaning fifty percent. We're paying more
than that, and in many places much more so. Now
where are we the President of United States of America saying,
I understand affordability, and I understand there are many Americans
that are concerned about it. And here's part of what
he had to say at the White House.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
We're now at about two dollars and fifty cents a gallon.
We're going to be I think at two dollars a gallon.
We could even crack that at some point. I'd love
to do it, and we could do it more easily
if we weren't building up the rategic national reserves, which
Biden emptied out before the election so that he could
try and get elected, meaning she he started it, then
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he got thrown out of the race.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Then she took over, and she kept.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
It going, and they emptied out these strategic national reserves,
which are really meant for something else. They're not meant
to keep people happy with the gasoline price. They're meant
for war. They're meant for problems, big problems. He emptied
it out and then she continued it during the process
of trying to get elected. Didn't work out too well
(16:32):
for him, and they virtually brought it down to the
lowest level I believe in history, and it didn't have
much of an impact because the prices were very high.
But our price is now for energy put for gasoline
or really low electricities coming down.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
And when that comes down, everything comes down.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
When that comes down, everything comes down. Now the president
saying that just a few days ago, and now what
we're seeing is we're winning. The US average gas price
has dropped again, now under three dollars a gallon. The
average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline the United
States dipped again this week, now standing at under three
dollars a gallon, according to gas Buddy the December eighth update,
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gas prices fell five cents over the last week, reaching
two ninety a gallon, and the national average is down
seventeen point six cents from a month ago, seven point
three cents per gallon lower than a year ago. And
the national average price of diesel has also fallen five
point one cents in the last week, standing at three
dollars and sixty seven cents per gallon average. Now, this
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is also incredible because Americans are now paying less for
a lot of different things. Because of the price of
a gallon of gas going down, You, depending on where
you're listening right now, can look at signs that will
make you not be stressed like they were under the
Biden administration when it was again five dollars a gallon.
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Triple A also reflect the reality of an average under
three dollars. According to its data, the national gas price average,
they say, stands at two ninety five and for greater perspective,
one week ago, the average stood at three oh one.
One month ago, it stood at three oh seven. States
across the south in the Midwest are also seeing prices
even lower. In Oklahoma, for example, the average gas price
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rings in at two dollars and thirty six cents a gallon.
Texas is average now sits below two fifty a gallon,
Missouri at two sixty a gallon. In other states including Florida, Alabama, Michigan, Ohio,
South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Montana, and others are seeing
averages now under three dollars a gallon, which they did
(18:47):
not see under the Biden regime. Now, some of the
highest prices, and this goes back to what was said
earlier by the Energy Secretary, are in leftist states. California,
for instance, is seeing an average of four dollars and
forty six cents per gallon. That is a dollar fifty
seven a gallon higher than the national average. Others such
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as New York, Washington, Hawaiian, Nevada average above three dollars
per gallon as well. Still, this is dramatically lower than
the all time summer high Americans experience in twenty twenty two.
That summer gas price is sword reaching an all time
high of five dollars and sixteen cents average for a
gallon of regular unleaded on June the fourteenth, right in
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the middle of summer travel of twenty twenty two days later,
and even a more shocking moment, the diesel prices, which
are eighteen wheelers use, reach an average high of five
dollars and eighty one cents a gallon, the White House
putting it out in a tweet this way, in thirty
seven states, the average price for gas is blowed three
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dollars a gallon. In twenty two states, it's blowed two
seventy five gallon in five states, it's below two fifty
a gallon, and all states are now trending lower now.
All of this follows an update last week announced that
gas prices had fallen below the three dollar gallon for
the first time in four years. Last month, President Trump
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celebrated the strides's administration has made since last year's election,
making living more affordable for the American people, with gas prices, groceries,
and rental prices actually falling. So when you hear the
media and Democrats saying that we have a quote affordability crisis,
I agree, it costs too much for a lot of things.
(20:43):
But are the prices heading in the right direction? The
answer is yes, they are going in the right direction.
They are not going in the wrong direction. They are
headed exactly where Donald Trump said they were going to
be headed. And that is part of why so many
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Americans should take a moment pause and look and see
what the President is actually doing to get all this
moving the way it needs to. Quick break Ben Ferguson Show,
there is one group of people that I want to
make sure we hit pause and think and talk about,
and that is our forgotten farmers in this country. President
(21:26):
Trump understands that the farming industry, especially in the US,
has been under siege and undercut by so much foreign influence.
And the President understands, also from a national security and
a food security standpoint, that we need to be allies
and advocates of our men and women and family farms
(21:46):
in this country. Secretary Rawlings recently on Fox and Friends
said this about the farmers in our nation.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Farmers said, if who have credit problems and are wondering
they maybe have too many soybeans in stockpiled money coming,
You're going to give them the figure a little bit later,
even though they prefer to sell.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
This is one way to keep them.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Yeah, they don't want to farm for government checks, right,
They want to farm for real, for real pay for
what they do. But soybeans are looking better. I think
it's the highest price it's been in fifteen months. We've
got some other road crops that we're working on, but yes,
soon to be announced, likely the week after Thanksgiving. And
we're just so grateful for our farmers and our ranchers,
and prices are coming down. I think from the affordability perspective,
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we once we sow for these inputs. You're going to
see some incredible, incredible numbers in.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Our Agriculture Secretary rawlings there making it clear that we're
not going to forget which moves made a Part two.
President Trump has now proposed a twelve billion dollar aid
package for farmers that have been hit hard by China's
trade or the President at the White House describing it
(22:51):
this way, delighted.
Speaker 7 (22:53):
To announce this afternoon that the United States will be
taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of
dollars we in tariffs.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
We are making.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
A lot of money from countries that took advantage of
us for years. They took advantage of us like nobody's
ever seen. Our deficits are way down because of tariffs.
I guess because of the election, because without the election,
you wouldn't have tariffs. You'd be sitting here losing your shirt.
But we're taking in billions. We're really taking in trillions
(23:23):
of dollars if you think about it, Scott, because they're
real numbers, you know, when you think of all the
money being poured into the country for.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
New auto plants and all of the other things. AI.
Speaker 9 (23:34):
So what we're doing is we're taking a relatively small
portion of that and we're going to be giving and
providing it to the farmers in economic assistance.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
And we love our farmers, and as you know, the
farmers like me because based on voting trends, you could
call it voting trends or anything else, but they're great people.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
They're the backbone of our country.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
So we're going to use that money to provide twelve
billion dollars in economic assistance to American farmer's.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Twelve billion is a lot of money. Mertal what do
you think peanuts for you?
Speaker 9 (24:11):
Though?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Right she's a farmer of rice.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
This release will, this relief will provide much needed certainty
to farmers as they get this year's harvest to market
and look ahead to next year's crops, and it'll help
them continue their efforts to lower food prices.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
You hear the present there, and this goes back to affordability.
He understands that American farmers have been hit, and they've
been hit hard by China and the trade wars, and
that's why he's taking the tear iff money. And that's
why I announced a twelve billion dollar farm made package.
It will be a boost to farmers who have struggled
to sell the crops while getting hit by rising costs
(24:53):
after the President raised tariffs on China as part of
that broader trade war. And that's why the President build
the and Monday afternoon at the White House a round
table with the Treasury Secretary of Scott descent, the Agricultural
Secretary Brook Rawlings, lawmakers and farmers who raise cattle and
grow corn, cotton, soybeans, rice, wheat, potatoes, etc. Twelve billions
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a lot of money, Trump said, adding that the additional
aid will help provide certainty for farmers. The money is
coming from the tariff revenue, again, not directly from you,
the taxpayer, which is another great thing. Rawlings said, by
the way, in her own remarks to the White House
that eleven billion is being announced on Monday, while another
one billion is being held back for specialty crops. Farmers
(25:38):
have backed Trump politically, but his aggressive trade policies and
shifts and tariff rates have come under increasing scrutiny because
of the impact of the agricultural sector and because of
broader consumer worries. The AID is the administration's latest effort
to defend Trump's economic stewardship and answered voter anks about
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rising costs, even as the president's dismiss concerns about the
concept of affordability as a straight up democratic hoax because
prices are in fact coming down now. Upwards of eleven
billion is set aside for the Department of Agriculture's Farmers
Bridge Assistance Program, which the White House says will offer
one time payments to farmers for row crops. That is
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a huge help to so many farmers. Soybeans and sorghum
will hit the hardest by the trade dispute with China
because more than half of those crops are exported each year,
with most of the harvest going to China. The eight
is meant to help those farmers who have suffered from
trade wars with other nations, inflation, and other market disruptions.
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The rest of money will be for farmers who grow
crops not covered under the Bridge Assistant's program. That according
to White House officials, who said it's important that we
protect all of our farmers. The money is intended, they say,
to offer certain to farmers as they sell their current
harvests as well as planned for next year's crops. In October,
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after Trump met with Leader j in South Korea. The
White House said Beijing had promised to buy at least
twelve million metric tons of US soybeans by the end
of the calendar year, plus twenty five million metric tons
a year in each of the next three years. Soybean
farmers have been hit especially hard by Trump's trade war
(27:27):
with China, which is the world's largest buyer of soybean. China,
just so you know, has purchased more than two point
eight million metric tons of soybeans since Trump announced the
agreement at the end of October. That's only about one
quarter of what administration officials said China had promised, But
Scott Descent, Treasury Secretary, said China is on track to
(27:47):
meet its goal by the end of February, saying, quote,
these prices haven't come in because the Chinese actually used
our soybean farmers as pawns in their trade negotiations, what
he said on Sundays Face the Nation on CBS. That
also explains why a bridge payment to farmers is needed now.
(28:08):
The size of the twelve billion dollar aid package is
roughly the value of total US soybean exports to China
in twenty twenty four. And half of the total exports
of US farm goods to China in twenty twenty four
as well. Farmers they're beyond thrilled about the aid package,
but some of them say it's likely only a down
payment on what's needed, and government aid doesn't solve the
(28:31):
fundamental problems that farmers are facing of soaring costs and
uncertain markets for their crops altogether.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
During Trump's first term, he gave farmers more than twenty
two billion in aid payments in twenty nineteen at the
start of his trade war with China, and nearly forty
six billion in twenty twenty, although that year also included
a that was related to the COVID pandemic as well.
The farmers want to make a profit off of selling
their crops rely on government aid to survive, saying quote,
(29:04):
that's a start, but I think we need to be
looking for some avenues to find other funding opportunities, and
we need to get our market going.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
That's where you want to be able to make a
living from.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Is where a Kentucky farmer who serves the president of
the American Soybean Association had to say at a conference,
if farmers can't make ends meet this year, there will
likely be additional consolidation the industry, with giant industrial farmers
only getting bigger while the number of smaller family farmers
continue to shrink. The farmers most at risk are younger
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farmers and those who rent instead of own most of
the ground they farm, because they don't have much ability
to borrow against the equity in their land. Most established
farmers will be able to borrow more to survive the
trade war, but older farmers who spend their whole lives
building up equity may decide to retire instead of risk
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everything that they built up, unless they are trying to
help the next generation of farmers get established on their land,
which brings us back to what President Trump said, it's
clearly a broken system. We've got to fix it, and
we also have to make farmers understand that we're on
their team and that they can survive and they can
make a living doing exactly this. Don't forget to share
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