July 21, 2025 • 46 mins
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Border Security:
- Massive reduction in illegal crossings.
- Record-low apprehensions.
- $150 billion allocated to border infrastructure and enforcement.
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Military Action in Iran:
- Targeted bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities.
- No U.S. casualties; described as a decisive and successful operation.
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The “Take It Down Act”:
- Legislation to combat non-consensual intimate imagery and deepfakes.
- Co-signed by Melania Trump, marking a symbolic moment.
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Spending Cuts (Recissions):
- $9 billion in federal spending cuts.
- Defunding of PBS and NPR.
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The “One Big Beautiful Bill”:
- A comprehensive legislative package with 12 major conservative victories, including:
- Blocking a $4 trillion tax hike.
- New tax cuts (e.g., no tax on tips, overtime, or Social Security).
- Massive investments in border security and military.
- Largest-ever investment in the Coast Guard.
- Spectrum auction to boost 6G development and reduce the deficit.
- Modernization of air traffic control.
- $10 billion for NASA to beat China to the Moon.
- Elimination of CAFE standards to protect internal combustion engines.
- Historic federal school choice program.
- Creation of “Trump Accounts” — investment accounts for every American child.
- A comprehensive legislative package with 12 major conservative victories, including:
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome in as Verdict with Center Ted Cruz. We're in
studio this week as well, so people that are listening,
they can also watch this episode on YouTube or on Facebook, acts,
et cetera. This is gonna be a fun show, one
that people are gonna want to share with their family
and their friends because we're gonna talk about how just
six months in to this presidency, the winds are incredible,
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even comparing it to twenty sixteen, this is moving at
such an incredible pace for the president's agenda items. Having
the sen in the House on your side and working
with you is amazing, and there's been some celebration on that,
but the media is not covering much of the success.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Well, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
And this is one of those episodes where the value
of a podcast becomes clear because the corporate media does
not want the American people to know the size the
scope of President Trump's success, and so the only way
you can get the information we're gonna have in this
podcast is listening to this podcast or other things similar,
although I'm not sure there's a whole lot similar to
(00:58):
listen to. But let's take what President Trump just put
up on Truth Social Wow Time flies. Today is the
six month anniversary of my second term. Importantly, it's being
hailed as one of the most consequential periods of any president.
In other words, we got a lot of good and
great things done, including ending numerous wars of countries not
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related to US other than through trade and or in
certain cases friendship. Six months is not a long time
to have totally revived a major country. Quote, one year ago,
our country was dead with almost no hope of revival. Today,
the USA is the quote hottest and most respected country
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anywhere in the world. Happy anniversary it I got to
say that is not hyperbole.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
YEA.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
The six months that we have seen in twenty twenty
five under President Trump's second term, I believe have been
the most consequential six months of any president of our lifetime.
We are going to break down the victories, the major
victory right now.
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a celebratory dinner at the White House. Not a bad
place to hang out. The President decided, let's celebrate the
Accomplishment's the big beautiful Bill. I actually think this speaks
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to him understanding politics so much more now than he
did in twenty sixteen. When you win, celebrate with your team.
There does seem to be a team mentality with his
president now in Congress. I don't know if we had
that in twenty sixteen, that's paying dividends. And you guys
got together for a dinner to celebrate the hard work.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
So it was a fantastic celebration dinner. It was Friday night.
The President invited Republican senators to come join us. About
thirty Republican senators came with our spouses. So Heidi was there,
and it was great fun. We were celebrating the victories
of the first six months, but in particular the one big,
beautiful Bill. And I'll tell you you can see some
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of the images from that night. Heidi and I were
with the President. He was in as good a mood
as I have ever seen him. He was jubilant. Look,
we were celebrating. We were lebrating that night. We were
feeling fantastic. It turns out winning is a good thing.
I'm not tired of winning yet. Yeah, and none of
the rest of us are either. And it was the
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entire atmosphere the President said, but the rest of us
agreed with what he said in that truth, these have
been the most consequential six months of any president of
our lifetime, and also we have seen the most conservative
victories in any six months period in our lifetime, and
I want in this podcast, I want to highlight five
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of those victories. But the fifth one is the One
Big Beautiful Bill. And one of the things we're going
to do in this podcast is we're going to break
down some of the major elements of that One Big
Beautiful Bill because the press has demonized it. And it
is extraordinary how many wins were in the One Big
Beautiful Bill. But if you're looking at President Trump's first
six months, the number one victory is obvious and it
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has to be the border, because doubt this election was
a referendum on Joe Biden, the Democrats open borders on
four years of twelve million illegals flooding into this country.
The American people said enough is enough. And the results
President Trump has produced are utterly unprecedented. And by the way,
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if you don't want to believe Ben well, that's usually
a good instinct.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Even if you.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Don't want to believe me, believe ABC News and God
helped me that. I just uttered that sentence. But give
a listen to what ABC News says about what President
Trump is accomplished on the border.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Today mark six months since President Trump returned to office.
For his second term. It has been a head spinning
half year, from sweeping changes in the federal government to
mass deportations and bombs dropped on Iran. The President promise changes,
and there is no question he has made them. President
Trump won the twenty twenty four election based largely on
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his vow to improve the economy and crack down on
illegal immigration. He has declared success on both.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I mean, that's coming from ABC News. It was also
interesting this week. I was up in New York for
a couple of days, and I love green room conversations
because you get you're hanging out with usually someone from
the opposite party, and I won't say their name. It
was a Democrat operative high up in the Democratic Party,
and what was said to me was, you guys screwed up.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Y'all secured the border too quick.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I would have slow played it longer to get more
of a victory lap out of it because it was
shut down so fast. They said to me, They're like,
we can't believe how fast you guys had the success
of closing the southern border.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
And they said, politically, you should have played it out
a little longer.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
You know what, that doesn't shock me a Democrat says
that because to Democrats everything is political. Yeah, it's all
about political battles. Never mind what that Democrat is saying.
You should have let more Americans be murdered for longer.
You should have let more women be raped by illegals
for longer, you should have let more children be brutalized
by child molesters. I mean, what a revealing comment. And
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I got to say, I disagree even as just a
matter of political strategy with whatever that unnamed operative named
David Axelrod said. But and here's why I disagree, because
the fact that it was done so quickly demonstrates for
all times that what the Democrats did was deliberate. Yep,
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that they could have fixed it at any time, and
they didn't because they wanted the border open. And they
were perfectly fine everyone who died the last four years,
every single Democrat said, Hey, if it benefits me politically,
I will let your family die. That level of cynicism,
I think it's very hard to come back from. And
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even now they're telling you, gosh, you should let more
people die because you'd get some political advantage from it.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
That's just wrong.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
It's also interesting in the conversation that we had, and
I think this is a bigger point the America view
needed saying about the win and how big of a
deal this is. They were even talking about how flooding
the border and illegal immigrants really helped shape the map
for Democrats. We're able to give them more votes in
Congress because of population, and we were counting illegal immigrants
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is a part of the population. They were saying, that's
one of the things that because the border was open.
I mean, this was an open conversation.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
They were completely open about it.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
But in terms of the successes on this, let's go
back to ABC News because again, and what's very funny
is you can tell Martha hates this.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
She yeah, miserable.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
In that last segment we played, she describes it as
head spinning. I gotta say, I am glad the corporate
media's heads are spinning. I want them to spin a
whole lot more. But listen to ABC describing the president's
success on Secure in the Border.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
You will hit the border with Mexico where there is
little question that Trump is fulfilling a campaign promise.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
All illegal entry will immediately be halted.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
In a matter of months. Migrant crossings have hit record lows.
Apprehensions that the southern border dropped to six thousand and
seventy two in the month of June, a massive reduction
from the eighty three thousand, five hundred and thirty two
apprehensions recorded in June of last year.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Over twenty five miles of Concertino our US marines put up.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
For US Acting Patrol Chief Jeffrey Stollnucker tells US the
San Diego sector has seen a significant drop in illegal entries.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
And what that has done, it's allowed us to get
our agents back on the border to do their traditional work.
In addition to that, we have maximized consequences. It can
be an immigration consequence or a consequence because of a
criminal history something they've done in the past.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
So in other words, if they come across, you find
out they have criminal history, they go to jail and
probably be kicked out later, or if they don't, they're
just immediately.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
So criminal history and immigration, you go back to one
thing he said there, he said, we've been able to
now get our officers to be able to go back
to the border and do their job. One of the
things as that happened was there was so much taking
care of all these legal immigrants were coming across on
purpose that you pulled them away from their jobs of
the border, which allowed more people to come across the
border and allowed the cycle to continue to grow.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
The patrol agents were processing that, they were changing diapers,
they were administering baby food. Look, one of the things
we covered at a previous pod talking about the flooding
in the Texas Hill Country, Texas DPS said, we were
able to be here rescuing people from drowning. Why because
we're not on the southern border anymore. Because finally the
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federal government is doing its job. So DPS was able
to be in Texas saving Texans and so that consequence
is massive. All right, that's victory number one the border.
In the first six months, we have secured the border
and we're going to lock that in and make it permanent.
Victory number two. President Trump won a war with Iran.
Yes period the end Iran, the Iatola channing death to America,
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Death to Israel. Israel defeated Hamas, Israel defeated Hesbela with
our support YEP, and Israel defeated Iran, took out their
nuclear capabilities in one of the most amazing successful military
strikes of our lifetimes. And President Trump ordered a targeted
bombing strike B twos flew all the way around the world,
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took out Iran's nuclear facilities, not a single US casualty,
utterly decimated and destroyed Iran's nuclear capability, secured the border,
and won a war and we're just six months into it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Hold on, Democrats said he's gonna start War three if
he did this.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
What happened to that.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Narrative by Democrats? Do you mean Tucker Carlson.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Let's be clear that's true. He didn't say that as well.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
So let's be clear that Tucker and others said if
Donald Trump bombs Iran, he said it will start World
War three yep. He said thousands of Americans will die, yep.
And he said it's a world war that America will lose.
So that was his prediction. Iran will beat US in
World War three. Now that wasn't just a teeny weeny
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bit wrong. Yeah, it was totally one hundred percent absolutely false.
And all of the Democrats who agreed with Tucker Carlson,
all of the aocs and left wing nuts who agreed
with Tucker Carlson, all of the corporate media hacks who
agreed with Tuck Tucker Carlson, all of them were wrong,
and President Trump was how.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Much safer are we now that we actually much not
just took out their nuclear facilities and pushed them way back.
But also I do think it also sends a very
big message to other terrorists around the world and to
other bad actors around the world. If you push America,
we will defend ourselves.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Under this administration, the enemies of America are terrified of
Donald Trump. That is a very good thing. Look, I
believe in peace through strength. I want our commander in
chief to be strong. Now that doesn't mean that we
engage in forever wars. Look, it's important to understand Donald
Trump didn't invade Iran. He didn't send boots on the grid.
He's not trying to turn or Ran into Switzerland. But
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what he did do is acted decisively to take out
nuclear weapons being developed to potentially be used against the
United States of America. That is a strong commander chief.
By the way, he is also acting to take out
the Huthis who are bombing American ships and harassing American commerce.
And the message the message to Iran, the message to
North Korea, the message of Venezuela, the message to Cuba,
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the message to Russia, the message to China. If you
are an enemy of America, you are dealing with a
commander in chief who will stand up and defend America.
And here's what the isolationists never understand. Weakness produces more
military conflict. Because our enemies are afraid of President Trump,
we are much much less likely to go to war.
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I want our enemies afraid of the American president.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
This again, I think you said it's victory number two.
I think it's so understated by the media mass just
how big of a victory this was. And the fact
that there was no loss of American lives and World
War three wasn't started, and now the rest of the world.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
It wasn't guaranteed.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
I mean, when Trump gave that order, it could have
gone very very differently. Imagine if those B two's had
dropped a bunker buster and had missed its target and
hit a civilian target instead, and there had been hundreds
or thousands of casualties. That would have been a dramatically
different event. Imagine if those American planes had been shot down.
Remember Jimmy Carter. When Iran took Americans hostage, he launched
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a military strike to try to get them down, and
our helicopters crossed, crashed in the desert with no opposing fire.
The entire dynamic would have been very different if we
had lost American servicemen and women on that on that attack. Instead,
it was delivered with incredible precision and total success. That's
valuable not only for defeating Iran, but for every one
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of our enemies, and by the way, every one of
our friends to sit back and say, holy cow, don't
mess with it.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Don't mess with them, all right? Big victory number two?
What's three?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Victory number three?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
It's one that I care particularly about, to Take It
Down Act, And I'll tell you Friday at the White House,
the President brought the Take It Down Act as one
of the major victories of his first six months. He
brought up Malania Trump.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Yeah, she was all involved in that.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
She leaned in hard. I wrote the Take It Down Act.
It is the first bill in years restricting big tech.
It is protecting children, women, and teenage girls from non
consensual intimate imagery, either real intimate intimate images or deep
fakes made using AI we passed it through the Senate,
we passed it through the House.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
We had a great bill.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Signing at the on the South Lawn And in fact,
when you walk into the White House and you can
see this is framed. This is the first picture that's
framed as you come into the White House. I'm standing
directly behind the President and this is the signing of
the Take It Down Act. And what was interesting is
after President Trump signed it, he handed it to the
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First Lady and he said, here, Milania, you want to
sign it. So the picture is actually of her signing it.
Remember we talked on this podcast, I'm willing to bed
I'm virtually certain this is the first and only law
on American history that's been signed by the first Lady.
And so the bill has two signatures, Donald Trump and
then Milania Trump under it. And one of the questions
you asked as you said, well, does that create a
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legal problem that Milania sign its lept No. Once the
president signs it, Mickey Mouse can sign it and it
doesn't undo it. But it's still very cool that the
First Lady signed it. It was a great victory for kids,
and what an idea right It was not autopen we
were standing there, and I just love that that's the
first picture when you come into the White House.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And I also think it talks about how important this
is to the White House and to the First Lady.
And and Milania Trump has made it pretty clear she says,
out of the political stuff, this was a moral issue
for her.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, this was a ting kids and protecting women.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
And that to her was a non political issue, which
is I think why she's there and signing it.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Absolutely Yes. So fourth big victory decisions. This past week
we past the first recisions recisions.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
It is an.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Expedited process to cut spending. We cut nine billion dollars
in spending. We cut a bunch of foreign aid spending,
which was a good thing. We codified some of the
Doze cuts on foreign affairs. But most notably, we cut
the federal funding for PBS and for NPR. Now, that
is something conservatives have been fighting to do for fifty years,
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as long as you and I have been alive. Conservatives
have been fighting to cut the funding of PBS and NPR.
We talked about the President talked at dinner when we
were at the White House. He said, you know what
Reagan couldn't do it Bush couldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
And they've tried, and they tried, they did.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
When people understand the history of this, this is something
they tried to do, couldn't get it done.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
And just a week ago we were on the Senate
floor till two thirty in the morning. I'll tell you
the reason we were there at two thirty in the morning.
The last four hours there was a real chance we
were not going to get the votes. It looked like
the votes it was going to go down, and we
were spending four hours. It wasn't that we wanted to
vote at two thirty in the morning, It's that at
ten pm we didn't have the votes, and so we
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spent four hours trying to get the votes.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
We got them.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
How hard is that?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I just got to ask, like, when you're and you're
one or two votes, I'm assuming at that point, right
we were one?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Who they are?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
There were four no votes. We could only afford to
lose three, and so we had to work and talk
to the folks and strategize and go back and forth.
And we got it done. But it was four hours
of major uncertainty because if it had been voted down,
it would have been catastrophic and so we avoided that.
And I just want to say, and look, there's going
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to be more recisions that come over. Heidi and I
were sitting, we were sitting with Russ Vote, who's the
head of omb great conservative, great friend. We were telling
Russ send more and he's like, look, this was a
test case that will Republicans in Congress stand up and
actually cut spending? And we did, and for it to
be PBS and NPR. You know, I spoke on the
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Senate floor. We talked about this in the last podcast
and I said, listen, if if you want to listen
to left wing propaganda, turn on MSNBC.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Yep, but they do a great job.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
There's no reason I wouldn't know, but there's no reason
the taxpayer should subsidize it. And we actually got that done.
I will confess I did somewhat somewhat tongue in cheek
ask the President if the dinner menu Friday night if
they were serving big burg for dinner, with which some
of my colleagues have grown a bit at, But look
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it was. That is a massive conservative victory. That's victory
number four.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
It's a huge one.
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Speaker 3 (22:37):
Number five is the one, big beautiful bill. And you
know it's interesting. We have seen for months Democrats in
the media trying to demagogue this bill, trying to spread
lies about this bill, trying to fear monger about this bill.
I will tell you something. The President said Friday night,
and multiple of us, including me, said Friday night, this
bill has the most conservative victories in it of any
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piece of legislation I think that has ever passed into law.
I don't like it as hyperbole. There is no other
bill that has as many major conservative victories. I'm gonna
walk through quickly, twelve of them. We're gonna do this fast.
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Speaker 2 (23:30):
If you do.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Your eyes will bleed, you will go insane and run
around in circles. But you could watch it all day
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getting right now on Verdict. Twelve victories that are in
the One Big Beautiful Bill. Victory number one, we have
stopped a four trillion dollar tax increase. If we did
nothing on December thirty first, the Trump tax cuts would disappear,
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and every American taxpayer, your taxes would go up significantly
trillion dollars every time taxpayer. And by the way, the
Democrats wanted your taxes to go up. To stop a
four trillion dollar tax increase is a massive victory. That's
victory one and the one big beautiful bill. Victory two.
We enacted new tax cuts. No tax on tips. Yep,
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that's my legislation. I drafted it. It is in this bill.
That means if you're a waiter or waitress, if you're
a bartender, if you're a barber or a hairstylist, if
you work in a nail salon, if you're a taxicab
driver or an uber driver. Millions of Americans rely on tips.
We're providing real and meaningful tax relief to working Americans.
That's in there. No tax on overtime is in there,
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No tax on Social Security is in there. All three
of those were President Trump's campaign promises. We delivered on
all three of those, and working Americans all across Texas
and all across this country will see the benefits of
those major tax cuts.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
That's huge. I mean, it's just huge.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
When you think about that and you think about the
promise and how it was, you know, you look at
the President I go back to the campaign. Yeah, and
he came out he was in Vegas, and he was like, Hey,
we shouldn't be taxing people that are working their tails
off and the tips and everything else. And then the
left actually came out immediately started attacking him for the
say it will never happen. This is not a good idea.
This is they did say it will never happen. He said,
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it's an empty promise.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
By the way, I've told the story of where he
came up with the idea of no tax on tips.
He was the day of his Vegas rally. He was
having lunch in Vegas. He said, there was a waitress
who came up to him. I was serving him lunch,
and Trump being Trump, he told us he said she
was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I'm telling you.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
She was beautiful. And she he said, she was saying
how stressful it was to pay taxes on tips and
how complicated it was. And he said, he just put
out a piece of paper and he wrote on the
piece of paper, no tax on tips. He said, what
do you think she says that sounds great? And he said,
I had a rally that afternoon, so I went out
to the rally and I said, all right, let's try
it out. And he said, no tax on tips.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Place went nuts.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
It went nuts, and town I mean it. Yes, people
will make five percent of the workers in Nevada are
tipped and so rely on it as their im guests.
And so I saw it, and I said, this is
political genius, and I immediately drafted the legislation to make
it happen. That is part of One Big Beautiful Bill
Victory three Securing the Border. We mentioned what the President
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has done by enforcing the law. What we put in
One Big Beautiful Bill is one hundred and fifty billion
dollars to secure the border. It is the largest investment
in border security in the history of America. It will
build the wall, it will complete the wall. We will
hire more border patrol agents, we will hire more ice agents.
We will build more detention facilities, we will have more
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detention beds, and we will employ technology, infrared, drones, helicopters.
It is, as I said, the biggest investment ever to
secure the border that is in the bill.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
One of the things that you mentioned there was technology.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
It is amazing to see how far behind we've been
on technology and how we didn't have the funding for
the technology that we knew we needed. That was done
on purpose by the prior administration, because if you don't
have the technology, then you're behind. The cartails are ahead,
the human traffickers are ahead, the people are ahead of you.
They held us back on purpose to again open the border.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yes, so we've been.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Playing catch up, and that's why this money was so
important this bill.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
There's another strategic victory, which is every spending bill the
Democrats hold border spending and military spending hostage.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
What we've done is funded the things that are critical
to keeping this country safe, which means the Democrats can't
hold it hostage anymore. So it has there's a tactical
advantage going forward on the next budget battle because this
one hundred and fifty billion dollars we have appropriated it.
It is going out the door and there's not a
damn thing Chuck Schumer or AOC can do to stop it.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
That is valuable on the psyche aspect of it, because
I do think this is one of the things that
is I'm witnessing a change our border patrol agents, whether
it's Department Home Security ICE. Yes, their mentality right now
has got to be on a high.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
It is like a drowning man about to die given
a life preserver, lifted out, saved, they were able to
do their jobs. They're locked, they're fired up, they're ready
to go to war. The traffickers, they're stopping drug traffickers.
Every time I see a border patrol agents are an
ice agent. To be honest, half the time we just hug.
I mean the level of their just like, thank god,
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we got your job. Victory number four repaying the States
for border security thirteen and a half billion dollars over
ten billion dollars going to Texas. Texas taxpayers spent over
ten billion dollars to secure the border because Joe Biden
and the Democrats refused to do so. I help lead
the charge to repay the States. That is in there.
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That means Texas is getting over ten billion dollars paid back.
That's a huge victory. Victory number four. Victory number five
rebuilding the military over one hundred and fifty billion dollars
to support our soldiers, our sailors, our airmens, our marines,
to build new submarines, to build build new next generation
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fighter jets, to improve our ability to stand up to China,
to stand up to our enemies to combat hypersonics, the
next generation of warfare. Look, with the military often you're
fighting the last war. We're going forward. We're going to
face ten thousand drone swarms using AI. Investing one hundred
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and fifty billion dollars to make sure we can defend
this nation. There's no responsibility the federal government has that
is more important. And by the way, this is the money.
The Democrats always hold hostage, so we funded it. Right
now they can't. They can no longer touch this hostage
because this is done.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Huge victory number six. The Coastguard.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Now, this is something I'm particularly proud of because, as
you know, I'm the chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation. Yep, the Coastguard is in our jurisdiction. So
I wrote the Coastguard Provision twenty four billion dollars for
the Coast Guard. This is the single largest investment in
the Coast Guard in the history of the United States
of America. To give you a sense of the scope
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of the order of magnitude, the annual budget of the
Coast Guard is about twelve million dollars. We are spending
about two hundred percent of the annual budget on the
Coast Guard in investments, and what are we doing. We're
buying new ships, We're buying new helicopters, We're buying new
physical infrastructure, and critically, we are investing in ice cutters,
(30:32):
in polar ice cutters and Arctic ice cutters. Right now,
China is kicking our ass in the Arctic, and the
Arctic is critical for national security. Any war ICBMs are
going to come over the Arctic. The Arctic is now
You've got the United States on the Arctic. You've got
China playing on the Arctic, You've got Russia playing on
the Arctic, and we are losing. This funding will enable
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us not only to compete, to win. And by the way,
a huge theme of every everything I do in Congress
is beat China, Beat China, Beat China. This investment in
the Coastguard is to beat China and the Arctic. But
let me tell you a huge America first benefit for this,
which is shipbuilding in America has almost entirely disappeared.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, and that's scary from national security symbol.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
It is very scary. But this Coastguard bill will bring
ship building back to America. You look at Galveston, Texas.
There's a huge, multi billion dollar shipyard that is being
built and expanded right now to build these ice cutters.
And the problem previously is if you're a private company,
you couldn't make the multi billion dollar investment because you
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didn't know where demand was going to come from. Because
we have twenty four billion dollars appropriated, there is a
multi year stream of buy orders coming from the Coastguard
for these ice cutters. That is going to bring back
thousands of jobs, good American jobs right here building ships
to keep America safe. That is in the bill out
(31:59):
Tik tell you when I was in the Hill Country,
when I was with the Coast guardsmen who were rescuing
Texans from the floods, every single coasting every one of them,
every man and woman, knew exactly about this investment in
the Coast Guard. They knew it was the biggest in history,
and every one of them said, thank you, this will
make a massive difference in our ability.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I've got a good friend the Coast Guard, and he
said to me the other day about this. He said,
you know the Coast Guard, and he's been in for
twenty plus years. He said, we've always gotten the hand
me downs, we get the leftover equipment and the old equipment.
That's a lot of their equipment literally come from surplus
from military and other things. He said, this is the
first time that we are now like on the cutting
edge on our own because of what you just described.
(32:44):
He said, not only has morale gone through the roof,
we're no longer like the forgotten agency, like we're kind
of like, oh, the fifth wheel of military and government.
He's like, now we matter, and it matters for national security,
as he described it. And I think that's a great point.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
That is absolutely right. And by the way, the Coast
Guard also does drug interdiction, it does border security. The
Coastguard is critical for securing our border. And so this
investment having those Coastguard cutters to stop drug traffickers, stop
human traffickers, and also to engage in search and rescue,
which is hugely important. That investment something I care deeply about.
(33:17):
And by the way, we're at number six. I told
you I'm going to give you twelve major conservative victories
in the one big beautiful Bill. We're at six. I
actually want listeners to pause for a second. How many
of you could list the first six before this podcast,
and I just want to make the point, what kind
of job does the corporate media do. I'm willing to
(33:38):
bet virtually none of our listeners could have listed those
first six because the news hasn't covered. And it's why
we do this podcast to give you information so that
when you're talking to your friends and your colleagues, you
will know what's being accomplished. There's a reason President Trump
is so excited about this one big, beautiful bill because
it is massive, massive.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Victories for a America.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Number seven, Number seven spectrum now spectrum. What is spectrum?
Electromagnetic spectrum. It is how we communicate. It's how our
cell phones work, it's how Wi Fi works, it's how
satellites work, it's how streaming works. It's all of electronics spectrum.
The largest holder of spectrum is the United States government.
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The United States government has vast swaths of spectrum, and
under Joe Biden, the United States Government stop making new
spectrum available to the private sector. They ended auction authority.
It was grotesquely irresponsible. It did massive damage to America,
It destroyed jobs in America, and it let China get
ahead of America in this Bill. I wrote the legislation
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that directs the federal government to auction to the private
sector eight hundred megahertz of spectrum for private sector investment.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Number One, that will generate in excess of one hundred
billion dollars of revenue to the federal government.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Real money. Now, even in government terms, one hundred billion
dollars is real money. And listen, you and I are
deeply concerned about the deficit and the debt. The entire
commerce title that I wrote that had historic investments in
coast Guard and a bunch of other things, I ended
up saving over forty billion dollars, reducing the deficit and
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the debt by over forty billion dollars. And the driver
was because of spectrum auction authority we brought in. We
will bring in one hundred billion dollars to pay down
the debt. Credible, that's real money. But it's not the
biggest piece of this. The biggest piece of this is
by auctioning the spectrum off, we will open up billions
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and billions of dollars of private sector investment. The companies
that buy this spectrum are going to invest. It is
going to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. That is
not an exaggeration. Hundreds of thousands of jobs. And you
know what spectrum is all about, beating China to six G.
I mentioned my consistent theme, beat China, Beat China in
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the Arctic with the Coastguard, beat China to six g
h with Spectrum. And I gotta tell you, three months ago,
there was nobody in Washington who thought we could get
this done. I sat in the office of the Speaker
of the House, Mike Johnson, a good friend of mine.
I said, Mike, We're gonna do Spectrum on the one big,
beautiful bill. And Mike laughed in my face. He's a
(36:28):
good friend. But yeah, there's no way, he said, there's
no chance because the Department of Defense and the CIA
will fight you. They will stop you. You cannot get
it done. We not only got it done when I
cut the deal and got it in the bill. President
Trump called me the next morning. He said, Ted, this
is incredible. This is like, how did you get such
(36:49):
an incredible deal? Historic spectrum auction authority producing hundreds of
thousands of jobs and beating China to six G that's
in the bill number eight air Traffic Control. This bill
invests twelve and a half billion dollars modernizing our air
traffic control. To keep your family safer when you fly,
(37:12):
to keep my family safer when we fly. To stop
using outdated radars, to stop using computers that have floppy discs,
and a little copper wire copper wire, to modernize our
air traffic control. A massive investment in keeping the American
public safe. This bill, I wrote that portion that is
also in the Commerce title. So I wrote that portion
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that will fund and improve air traffic control. A huge
victory Number nine space YEP. This bill has ten billion
dollars for NASA to go to the Moon, for the
Artemis program, for the Gateway program, to beat China to
the moon. China has said they intend to return to
(37:52):
the Moon by twenty thirty. In my view, if we
lose the Moon to China, it would be a catastrophic loss.
It would be a loss if we woke up in
a few years and China was on the Moon and
China established a base on the Moon, which is what
they said they intend to do with the Russians, and.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
They made that very clear. That is the sole intent
of going. It's not just to go to the moon.
It's to have a base on the Moon.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Yes, if they did that and we lost, I think
it would be worse than Sputnik that it would be
a national body blow that would crush this country. And look,
the Moon is critical number one for national security. The
Moon is the high ground you look at. So much
of our national security and so much of our commerce
depends on satellites in orbit around the Earth. The Moon
(38:37):
gives you the high ground. It is very dangerous for
us to see that to China. It is unacceptable for
us to see that to China. But number two, there
are massive rare minerals on the Moon. There are enormous
economic advantages. It is current US law that it is
the policy of the American government to have a sustained
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human habitation either on the lunar surface or in cis
lunar orbit. This investment in beating China to the Moon.
And by the way, the Moon is a stepping stone
to Mars. We will go to Mars, but we haven't
landed on a celestial body in over fifty years. So
we're gonna land on the Moon first to make sure
we know how to do it, and then we're gonna
go to Mars, this investment. I wrote this investment in there,
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I will say there was significant resistance, and without getting
too much into the sausage making, we won against the resistance.
This is in there. It is a massive investment. Well, yeah,
that is exactly right.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
That's number nine. Number ten.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Cafe standards, the standards that mandate you keep having to
have higher and higher fuel efficiency on your cars. That's
what the Biden administration has used as its tool, as
one of its tools to wage the war on the
internal combustion engine, to try to force every car to
be electric. Is they keep jacking up cafe standards higher
and higher and hire. What does that mean? Number on,
(40:03):
It drives up the cost of your cars. You notice
cars have gotten a lot more expensive. Trucks have gotten
a lot more expensive. Number two, it makes cars less
safe because one of the ways you get the gas
efficiency hire is you replace metal with plastics. You che
cheap plastic that crumbles it in a crash and more
people die. In the commerce section of the one beful,
big beautiful bill, you know what we did to cafe standards?
Speaker 4 (40:25):
What was that?
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Zeroed them out? Really they're gone.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
So it's actually in this so you're telling me that
my car, instead of being all plastic, we have a
little finder burt and everything breaks. They can actually go
back and say, hey, we're not trying to save weight here,
we're trying to actually make safe cars.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
It can be a great American car again, made a
steel tough as hell. And by the way, you want
to buy electric car, great, that's your choice. You want
to hire a hybrid, great, you want to buy a
gas car.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Great.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
It ought to be consumers choosing. And actually the way
we did this we very much modeled how in twenty
seventeen we repealed the individual mandate on Obamacare, So that
was fight I led in twenty seventeen. The individual mandate.
The way we eliminated it is under the rules of reconciliation,
we could not eliminate the legal mandate to buy health insurance,
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which was the individual mandator under Obamacare. So you know
what we did. We made the penalty zero. So you
used to be the IRS finds you. If you didn't
buy health insurance, the IRS would find you. It is
still the law. You're required to buy health insuran. Don't,
you will be fined zero dollars and zero cents. We
did the same thing to Cafe standards, so they can
put their standards out, but the penalty for violating it
(41:36):
is zero. And I want to mention, look, this is
again like PBS and NPR, this has been a conservative
battle for fifty years.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
And Democrats have been winning for fifty years, unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
And we got this done. I wrote this portion, it
is in the bill, it is zeroed out, and we
got this done. And I'm willing to bet fewer than
one percent of our listeners even knew we had done it,
because we won so many victories that this falls all
the way down to number ten on the list.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
Incredible, well done.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
The final two, yep, the final two, as you know,
are very near and dear to my heart. Number eleven
is school choice. In this bill, we pass the single
largest and most consequential federal school choice bill in the
history of our country. I wrote this provision. Every single
American taxpayer can now contribute up to seventeen hundred dollars
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a year to a scholarship granting organization in the States
and get a dollar for dollar credit on their taxes.
It means the money is free. The effect of this
is going to be tens of billions of new scholarship
money in the States for school choice, for K through
twelve school choice. We're going to do a subsequent pod
(42:51):
that does a really deep die because this.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Is part of your legacy. By the way, this is
going to be part of your This.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Is the issue I care more about than anything else else.
I have spent thirty years fighting for it, and we're
gonna do another pod where we do a very deep
die because there's some aspects of this that I want
the listeners to appreciate that are both incredible policy victories
but also massive political victories. We are creating incentives to
turn blue states red, to build constituencies of parents and
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kids who want fantastic educations. This is I told the President.
If and when we get this done, you will go
down in history as one of the greatest civil rights
presidents in our nation's history. Your critics will never acknowledge that.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Yeah, but the reality will be you're going to change
poor communities.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
The reality is the school choice provision is massive, and
it's in the bill. And then the final number twelve
are the Trump accounts, the invest America accounts. Again, I
wrote this provision.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
This could fundamentally change this country bay the way.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Starting next year July fourth of next year, the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States of America,
every child in America will have a personal and vement account.
Every newborn child will have it seated with one thousand dollars. Parents,
family employers can contribute up to five thousand dollars a
year in a tax advantage account. All of that money
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is invested in the S and P. Five hundred is
invested in the stock market. That enables every kid to
enjoy the incredible benefits of compound growth, which will transform
our kids. The wealth creation for the next generation of
Americans will be utterly transformative. And not only that, this
creates a new generation of capitalists, as our kids will
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all be owners of the largest employers in America. These
two victories school choice and personal investment accounts for kids
without exaggeration, Ben and I've told the President this. I
think ten years, twenty years, thirty years from now, these
will be the two things everyone remembers from this bill.
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Everything else. I listed one through ten, which are massive,
Yeah that they are conservative victories for the generations. I
think eleven and twelve will dwarf one and ten because
the difference, we will see trillions of dollars invested in
four oh one case for kids in these Trump accounts.
That will change the future of every one of our
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kids and make them all have skin in the game
in our capitalist society. And school choice is going to
literally provide hope and opportunity to millions of kids. We
got both of them done. Those are victories, generational victories,
and when the President signed it on July fourth, they
were victories for all of America.
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Welcome in as Verdict with Center Ted Cruz. We're in
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they can also watch this episode on YouTube or on Facebook, acts,
et cetera. This is gonna be a fun show, one
that people are gonna want to share with their family
and their friends because we're gonna talk about how just
six months in to this presidency, the winds are incredible,
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even comparing it to twenty sixteen, this is moving at
such an incredible pace for the president's agenda items. Having
the sen in the House on your side and working
with you is amazing, and there's been some celebration on that,
but the media is not covering much of the success.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Well, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
And this is one of those episodes where the value
of a podcast becomes clear because the corporate media does
not want the American people to know the size the
scope of President Trump's success, and so the only way
you can get the information we're gonna have in this
podcast is listening to this podcast or other things similar,
although I'm not sure there's a whole lot similar to
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listen to. But let's take what President Trump just put
up on Truth Social Wow Time flies. Today is the
six month anniversary of my second term. Importantly, it's being
hailed as one of the most consequential periods of any president.
In other words, we got a lot of good and
great things done, including ending numerous wars of countries not
(01:20):
related to US other than through trade and or in
certain cases friendship. Six months is not a long time
to have totally revived a major country. Quote, one year ago,
our country was dead with almost no hope of revival. Today,
the USA is the quote hottest and most respected country
(01:40):
anywhere in the world. Happy anniversary it I got to
say that is not hyperbole.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
YEA.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
The six months that we have seen in twenty twenty
five under President Trump's second term, I believe have been
the most consequential six months of any president of our lifetime.
We are going to break down the victories, the major
victory right now.
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did in twenty sixteen. When you win, celebrate with your team.
There does seem to be a team mentality with his
president now in Congress. I don't know if we had
that in twenty sixteen, that's paying dividends. And you guys
got together for a dinner to celebrate the hard work.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
So it was a fantastic celebration dinner. It was Friday night.
The President invited Republican senators to come join us. About
thirty Republican senators came with our spouses. So Heidi was there,
and it was great fun. We were celebrating the victories
of the first six months, but in particular the one big,
beautiful Bill. And I'll tell you you can see some
(04:49):
of the images from that night. Heidi and I were
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as I have ever seen him. He was jubilant. Look,
we were celebrating. We were lebrating that night. We were
feeling fantastic. It turns out winning is a good thing.
I'm not tired of winning yet. Yeah, and none of
the rest of us are either. And it was the
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entire atmosphere the President said, but the rest of us
agreed with what he said in that truth, these have
been the most consequential six months of any president of
our lifetime, and also we have seen the most conservative
victories in any six months period in our lifetime, and
I want in this podcast, I want to highlight five
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of those victories. But the fifth one is the One
Big Beautiful Bill. And one of the things we're going
to do in this podcast is we're going to break
down some of the major elements of that One Big
Beautiful Bill because the press has demonized it. And it
is extraordinary how many wins were in the One Big
Beautiful Bill. But if you're looking at President Trump's first
six months, the number one victory is obvious and it
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has to be the border, because doubt this election was
a referendum on Joe Biden, the Democrats open borders on
four years of twelve million illegals flooding into this country.
The American people said enough is enough. And the results
President Trump has produced are utterly unprecedented. And by the way,
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if you don't want to believe Ben well, that's usually
a good instinct.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Even if you.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Don't want to believe me, believe ABC News and God
helped me that. I just uttered that sentence. But give
a listen to what ABC News says about what President
Trump is accomplished on the border.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Today mark six months since President Trump returned to office.
For his second term. It has been a head spinning
half year, from sweeping changes in the federal government to
mass deportations and bombs dropped on Iran. The President promise changes,
and there is no question he has made them. President
Trump won the twenty twenty four election based largely on
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his vow to improve the economy and crack down on
illegal immigration. He has declared success on both.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I mean, that's coming from ABC News. It was also
interesting this week. I was up in New York for
a couple of days, and I love green room conversations
because you get you're hanging out with usually someone from
the opposite party, and I won't say their name. It
was a Democrat operative high up in the Democratic Party,
and what was said to me was, you guys screwed up.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Y'all secured the border too quick.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
I would have slow played it longer to get more
of a victory lap out of it because it was
shut down so fast. They said to me, They're like,
we can't believe how fast you guys had the success
of closing the southern border.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
And they said, politically, you should have played it out
a little longer.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
You know what, that doesn't shock me a Democrat says
that because to Democrats everything is political. Yeah, it's all
about political battles. Never mind what that Democrat is saying.
You should have let more Americans be murdered for longer.
You should have let more women be raped by illegals
for longer, you should have let more children be brutalized
by child molesters. I mean, what a revealing comment. And
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I got to say, I disagree even as just a
matter of political strategy with whatever that unnamed operative named
David Axelrod said. But and here's why I disagree, because
the fact that it was done so quickly demonstrates for
all times that what the Democrats did was deliberate. Yep,
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that they could have fixed it at any time, and
they didn't because they wanted the border open. And they
were perfectly fine everyone who died the last four years,
every single Democrat said, Hey, if it benefits me politically,
I will let your family die. That level of cynicism,
I think it's very hard to come back from. And
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even now they're telling you, gosh, you should let more
people die because you'd get some political advantage from it.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
That's just wrong.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
It's also interesting in the conversation that we had, and
I think this is a bigger point the America view
needed saying about the win and how big of a
deal this is. They were even talking about how flooding
the border and illegal immigrants really helped shape the map
for Democrats. We're able to give them more votes in
Congress because of population, and we were counting illegal immigrants
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is a part of the population. They were saying, that's
one of the things that because the border was open.
I mean, this was an open conversation.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
They were completely open about it.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
But in terms of the successes on this, let's go
back to ABC News because again, and what's very funny
is you can tell Martha hates this.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
She yeah, miserable.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
In that last segment we played, she describes it as
head spinning. I gotta say, I am glad the corporate
media's heads are spinning. I want them to spin a
whole lot more. But listen to ABC describing the president's
success on Secure in the Border.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
You will hit the border with Mexico where there is
little question that Trump is fulfilling a campaign promise.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
All illegal entry will immediately be halted.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
In a matter of months. Migrant crossings have hit record lows.
Apprehensions that the southern border dropped to six thousand and
seventy two in the month of June, a massive reduction
from the eighty three thousand, five hundred and thirty two
apprehensions recorded in June of last year.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Over twenty five miles of Concertino our US marines put up.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
For US Acting Patrol Chief Jeffrey Stollnucker tells US the
San Diego sector has seen a significant drop in illegal entries.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
And what that has done, it's allowed us to get
our agents back on the border to do their traditional work.
In addition to that, we have maximized consequences. It can
be an immigration consequence or a consequence because of a
criminal history something they've done in the past.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
So in other words, if they come across, you find
out they have criminal history, they go to jail and
probably be kicked out later, or if they don't, they're
just immediately.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
So criminal history and immigration, you go back to one
thing he said there, he said, we've been able to
now get our officers to be able to go back
to the border and do their job. One of the
things as that happened was there was so much taking
care of all these legal immigrants were coming across on
purpose that you pulled them away from their jobs of
the border, which allowed more people to come across the
border and allowed the cycle to continue to grow.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
The patrol agents were processing that, they were changing diapers,
they were administering baby food. Look, one of the things
we covered at a previous pod talking about the flooding
in the Texas Hill Country, Texas DPS said, we were
able to be here rescuing people from drowning. Why because
we're not on the southern border anymore. Because finally the
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federal government is doing its job. So DPS was able
to be in Texas saving Texans and so that consequence
is massive. All right, that's victory number one the border.
In the first six months, we have secured the border
and we're going to lock that in and make it permanent.
Victory number two. President Trump won a war with Iran.
Yes period the end Iran, the Iatola channing death to America,
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Death to Israel. Israel defeated Hamas, Israel defeated Hesbela with
our support YEP, and Israel defeated Iran, took out their
nuclear capabilities in one of the most amazing successful military
strikes of our lifetimes. And President Trump ordered a targeted
bombing strike B twos flew all the way around the world,
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took out Iran's nuclear facilities, not a single US casualty,
utterly decimated and destroyed Iran's nuclear capability, secured the border,
and won a war and we're just six months into it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Hold on, Democrats said he's gonna start War three if
he did this.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
What happened to that.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Narrative by Democrats? Do you mean Tucker Carlson.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Let's be clear that's true. He didn't say that as well.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
So let's be clear that Tucker and others said if
Donald Trump bombs Iran, he said it will start World
War three yep. He said thousands of Americans will die, yep.
And he said it's a world war that America will lose.
So that was his prediction. Iran will beat US in
World War three. Now that wasn't just a teeny weeny
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bit wrong. Yeah, it was totally one hundred percent absolutely false.
And all of the Democrats who agreed with Tucker Carlson,
all of the aocs and left wing nuts who agreed
with Tucker Carlson, all of the corporate media hacks who
agreed with Tuck Tucker Carlson, all of them were wrong,
and President Trump was how.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Much safer are we now that we actually much not
just took out their nuclear facilities and pushed them way back.
But also I do think it also sends a very
big message to other terrorists around the world and to
other bad actors around the world. If you push America,
we will defend ourselves.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Under this administration, the enemies of America are terrified of
Donald Trump. That is a very good thing. Look, I
believe in peace through strength. I want our commander in
chief to be strong. Now that doesn't mean that we
engage in forever wars. Look, it's important to understand Donald
Trump didn't invade Iran. He didn't send boots on the grid.
He's not trying to turn or Ran into Switzerland. But
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what he did do is acted decisively to take out
nuclear weapons being developed to potentially be used against the
United States of America. That is a strong commander chief.
By the way, he is also acting to take out
the Huthis who are bombing American ships and harassing American commerce.
And the message the message to Iran, the message to
North Korea, the message of Venezuela, the message to Cuba,
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the message to Russia, the message to China. If you
are an enemy of America, you are dealing with a
commander in chief who will stand up and defend America.
And here's what the isolationists never understand. Weakness produces more
military conflict. Because our enemies are afraid of President Trump,
we are much much less likely to go to war.
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I want our enemies afraid of the American president.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
This again, I think you said it's victory number two.
I think it's so understated by the media mass just
how big of a victory this was. And the fact
that there was no loss of American lives and World
War three wasn't started, and now the rest of the world.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
It wasn't guaranteed.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
I mean, when Trump gave that order, it could have
gone very very differently. Imagine if those B two's had
dropped a bunker buster and had missed its target and
hit a civilian target instead, and there had been hundreds
or thousands of casualties. That would have been a dramatically
different event. Imagine if those American planes had been shot down.
Remember Jimmy Carter. When Iran took Americans hostage, he launched
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a military strike to try to get them down, and
our helicopters crossed, crashed in the desert with no opposing fire.
The entire dynamic would have been very different if we
had lost American servicemen and women on that on that attack. Instead,
it was delivered with incredible precision and total success. That's
valuable not only for defeating Iran, but for every one
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of our enemies, and by the way, every one of
our friends to sit back and say, holy cow, don't
mess with it.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Don't mess with them, all right? Big victory number two?
What's three?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Victory number three?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
It's one that I care particularly about, to Take It
Down Act, And I'll tell you Friday at the White House,
the President brought the Take It Down Act as one
of the major victories of his first six months. He
brought up Malania Trump.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Yeah, she was all involved in that.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
She leaned in hard. I wrote the Take It Down Act.
It is the first bill in years restricting big tech.
It is protecting children, women, and teenage girls from non
consensual intimate imagery, either real intimate intimate images or deep
fakes made using AI we passed it through the Senate,
we passed it through the House.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
We had a great bill.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Signing at the on the South Lawn And in fact,
when you walk into the White House and you can
see this is framed. This is the first picture that's
framed as you come into the White House. I'm standing
directly behind the President and this is the signing of
the Take It Down Act. And what was interesting is
after President Trump signed it, he handed it to the
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First Lady and he said, here, Milania, you want to
sign it. So the picture is actually of her signing it.
Remember we talked on this podcast, I'm willing to bed
I'm virtually certain this is the first and only law
on American history that's been signed by the first Lady.
And so the bill has two signatures, Donald Trump and
then Milania Trump under it. And one of the questions
you asked as you said, well, does that create a
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legal problem that Milania sign its lept No. Once the
president signs it, Mickey Mouse can sign it and it
doesn't undo it. But it's still very cool that the
First Lady signed it. It was a great victory for kids,
and what an idea right It was not autopen we
were standing there, and I just love that that's the
first picture when you come into the White House.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
And I also think it talks about how important this
is to the White House and to the First Lady.
And and Milania Trump has made it pretty clear she says,
out of the political stuff, this was a moral issue
for her.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, this was a ting kids and protecting women.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
And that to her was a non political issue, which
is I think why she's there and signing it.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Absolutely Yes. So fourth big victory decisions. This past week
we past the first recisions recisions.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
It is an.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Expedited process to cut spending. We cut nine billion dollars
in spending. We cut a bunch of foreign aid spending,
which was a good thing. We codified some of the
Doze cuts on foreign affairs. But most notably, we cut
the federal funding for PBS and for NPR. Now, that
is something conservatives have been fighting to do for fifty years,
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as long as you and I have been alive. Conservatives
have been fighting to cut the funding of PBS and NPR.
We talked about the President talked at dinner when we
were at the White House. He said, you know what
Reagan couldn't do it Bush couldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
And they've tried, and they tried, they did.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
When people understand the history of this, this is something
they tried to do, couldn't get it done.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
And just a week ago we were on the Senate
floor till two thirty in the morning. I'll tell you
the reason we were there at two thirty in the morning.
The last four hours there was a real chance we
were not going to get the votes. It looked like
the votes it was going to go down, and we
were spending four hours. It wasn't that we wanted to
vote at two thirty in the morning, It's that at
ten pm we didn't have the votes, and so we
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spent four hours trying to get the votes.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
We got them.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
How hard is that?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I just got to ask, like, when you're and you're
one or two votes, I'm assuming at that point, right
we were one?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Who they are?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
There were four no votes. We could only afford to
lose three, and so we had to work and talk
to the folks and strategize and go back and forth.
And we got it done. But it was four hours
of major uncertainty because if it had been voted down,
it would have been catastrophic and so we avoided that.
And I just want to say, and look, there's going
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to be more recisions that come over. Heidi and I
were sitting, we were sitting with Russ Vote, who's the
head of omb great conservative, great friend. We were telling
Russ send more and he's like, look, this was a
test case that will Republicans in Congress stand up and
actually cut spending? And we did, and for it to
be PBS and NPR. You know, I spoke on the
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Senate floor. We talked about this in the last podcast
and I said, listen, if if you want to listen
to left wing propaganda, turn on MSNBC.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Yep, but they do a great job.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
There's no reason I wouldn't know, but there's no reason
the taxpayer should subsidize it. And we actually got that done.
I will confess I did somewhat somewhat tongue in cheek
ask the President if the dinner menu Friday night if
they were serving big burg for dinner, with which some
of my colleagues have grown a bit at, But look
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it was. That is a massive conservative victory. That's victory
number four.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
It's a huge one.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
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Here five this is the big one. Number five is
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the whole meat potatoes.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Number five is the one, big beautiful bill. And you
know it's interesting. We have seen for months Democrats in
the media trying to demagogue this bill, trying to spread
lies about this bill, trying to fear monger about this bill.
I will tell you something. The President said Friday night,
and multiple of us, including me, said Friday night, this
bill has the most conservative victories in it of any
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piece of legislation I think that has ever passed into law.
I don't like it as hyperbole. There is no other
bill that has as many major conservative victories. I'm gonna
walk through quickly, twelve of them. We're gonna do this fast.
But this is information you cannot get anywhere else. In
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Speaker 2 (23:30):
If you do.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Your eyes will bleed, you will go insane and run
around in circles. But you could watch it all day
long and you will not get this information that you're
getting right now on Verdict. Twelve victories that are in
the One Big Beautiful Bill. Victory number one, we have
stopped a four trillion dollar tax increase. If we did
nothing on December thirty first, the Trump tax cuts would disappear,
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and every American taxpayer, your taxes would go up significantly
trillion dollars every time taxpayer. And by the way, the
Democrats wanted your taxes to go up. To stop a
four trillion dollar tax increase is a massive victory. That's
victory one and the one big beautiful bill. Victory two.
We enacted new tax cuts. No tax on tips. Yep,
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that's my legislation. I drafted it. It is in this bill.
That means if you're a waiter or waitress, if you're
a bartender, if you're a barber or a hairstylist, if
you work in a nail salon, if you're a taxicab
driver or an uber driver. Millions of Americans rely on tips.
We're providing real and meaningful tax relief to working Americans.
That's in there. No tax on overtime is in there,
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No tax on Social Security is in there. All three
of those were President Trump's campaign promises. We delivered on
all three of those, and working Americans all across Texas
and all across this country will see the benefits of
those major tax cuts.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
That's huge. I mean, it's just huge.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
When you think about that and you think about the
promise and how it was, you know, you look at
the President I go back to the campaign. Yeah, and
he came out he was in Vegas, and he was like, Hey,
we shouldn't be taxing people that are working their tails
off and the tips and everything else. And then the
left actually came out immediately started attacking him for the
say it will never happen. This is not a good idea.
This is they did say it will never happen. He said,
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it's an empty promise.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
By the way, I've told the story of where he
came up with the idea of no tax on tips.
He was the day of his Vegas rally. He was
having lunch in Vegas. He said, there was a waitress
who came up to him. I was serving him lunch,
and Trump being Trump, he told us he said she
was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I'm telling you.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
She was beautiful. And she he said, she was saying
how stressful it was to pay taxes on tips and
how complicated it was. And he said, he just put
out a piece of paper and he wrote on the
piece of paper, no tax on tips. He said, what
do you think she says that sounds great? And he said,
I had a rally that afternoon, so I went out
to the rally and I said, all right, let's try
it out. And he said, no tax on tips.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Place went nuts.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
It went nuts, and town I mean it. Yes, people
will make five percent of the workers in Nevada are
tipped and so rely on it as their im guests.
And so I saw it, and I said, this is
political genius, and I immediately drafted the legislation to make
it happen. That is part of One Big Beautiful Bill
Victory three Securing the Border. We mentioned what the President
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has done by enforcing the law. What we put in
One Big Beautiful Bill is one hundred and fifty billion
dollars to secure the border. It is the largest investment
in border security in the history of America. It will
build the wall, it will complete the wall. We will
hire more border patrol agents, we will hire more ice agents.
We will build more detention facilities, we will have more
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detention beds, and we will employ technology, infrared, drones, helicopters.
It is, as I said, the biggest investment ever to
secure the border that is in the bill.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
One of the things that you mentioned there was technology.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
It is amazing to see how far behind we've been
on technology and how we didn't have the funding for
the technology that we knew we needed. That was done
on purpose by the prior administration, because if you don't
have the technology, then you're behind. The cartails are ahead,
the human traffickers are ahead, the people are ahead of you.
They held us back on purpose to again open the border.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yes, so we've been.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Playing catch up, and that's why this money was so
important this bill.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
There's another strategic victory, which is every spending bill the
Democrats hold border spending and military spending hostage.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
What we've done is funded the things that are critical
to keeping this country safe, which means the Democrats can't
hold it hostage anymore. So it has there's a tactical
advantage going forward on the next budget battle because this
one hundred and fifty billion dollars we have appropriated it.
It is going out the door and there's not a
damn thing Chuck Schumer or AOC can do to stop it.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
That is valuable on the psyche aspect of it, because
I do think this is one of the things that
is I'm witnessing a change our border patrol agents, whether
it's Department Home Security ICE. Yes, their mentality right now
has got to be on a high.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
It is like a drowning man about to die given
a life preserver, lifted out, saved, they were able to
do their jobs. They're locked, they're fired up, they're ready
to go to war. The traffickers, they're stopping drug traffickers.
Every time I see a border patrol agents are an
ice agent. To be honest, half the time we just hug.
I mean the level of their just like, thank god,
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we got your job. Victory number four repaying the States
for border security thirteen and a half billion dollars over
ten billion dollars going to Texas. Texas taxpayers spent over
ten billion dollars to secure the border because Joe Biden
and the Democrats refused to do so. I help lead
the charge to repay the States. That is in there.
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That means Texas is getting over ten billion dollars paid back.
That's a huge victory. Victory number four. Victory number five
rebuilding the military over one hundred and fifty billion dollars
to support our soldiers, our sailors, our airmens, our marines,
to build new submarines, to build build new next generation
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fighter jets, to improve our ability to stand up to China,
to stand up to our enemies to combat hypersonics, the
next generation of warfare. Look, with the military often you're
fighting the last war. We're going forward. We're going to
face ten thousand drone swarms using AI. Investing one hundred
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and fifty billion dollars to make sure we can defend
this nation. There's no responsibility the federal government has that
is more important. And by the way, this is the money.
The Democrats always hold hostage, so we funded it. Right
now they can't. They can no longer touch this hostage
because this is done.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Huge victory number six. The Coastguard.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Now, this is something I'm particularly proud of because, as
you know, I'm the chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation. Yep, the Coastguard is in our jurisdiction. So
I wrote the Coastguard Provision twenty four billion dollars for
the Coast Guard. This is the single largest investment in
the Coast Guard in the history of the United States
of America. To give you a sense of the scope
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of the order of magnitude, the annual budget of the
Coast Guard is about twelve million dollars. We are spending
about two hundred percent of the annual budget on the
Coast Guard in investments, and what are we doing. We're
buying new ships, We're buying new helicopters, We're buying new
physical infrastructure, and critically, we are investing in ice cutters,
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in polar ice cutters and Arctic ice cutters. Right now,
China is kicking our ass in the Arctic, and the
Arctic is critical for national security. Any war ICBMs are
going to come over the Arctic. The Arctic is now
You've got the United States on the Arctic. You've got
China playing on the Arctic, You've got Russia playing on
the Arctic, and we are losing. This funding will enable
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us not only to compete, to win. And by the way,
a huge theme of every everything I do in Congress
is beat China, Beat China, Beat China. This investment in
the Coastguard is to beat China and the Arctic. But
let me tell you a huge America first benefit for this,
which is shipbuilding in America has almost entirely disappeared.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, and that's scary from national security symbol.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
It is very scary. But this Coastguard bill will bring
ship building back to America. You look at Galveston, Texas.
There's a huge, multi billion dollar shipyard that is being
built and expanded right now to build these ice cutters.
And the problem previously is if you're a private company,
you couldn't make the multi billion dollar investment because you
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didn't know where demand was going to come from. Because
we have twenty four billion dollars appropriated, there is a
multi year stream of buy orders coming from the Coastguard
for these ice cutters. That is going to bring back
thousands of jobs, good American jobs right here building ships
to keep America safe. That is in the bill out
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Tik tell you when I was in the Hill Country,
when I was with the Coast guardsmen who were rescuing
Texans from the floods, every single coasting every one of them,
every man and woman, knew exactly about this investment in
the Coast Guard. They knew it was the biggest in history,
and every one of them said, thank you, this will
make a massive difference in our ability.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
To do it.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I've got a good friend the Coast Guard, and he
said to me the other day about this. He said,
you know the Coast Guard, and he's been in for
twenty plus years. He said, we've always gotten the hand
me downs, we get the leftover equipment and the old equipment.
That's a lot of their equipment literally come from surplus
from military and other things. He said, this is the
first time that we are now like on the cutting
edge on our own because of what you just described.
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He said, not only has morale gone through the roof,
we're no longer like the forgotten agency, like we're kind
of like, oh, the fifth wheel of military and government.
He's like, now we matter, and it matters for national security,
as he described it. And I think that's a great point.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
That is absolutely right. And by the way, the Coast
Guard also does drug interdiction, it does border security. The
Coastguard is critical for securing our border. And so this
investment having those Coastguard cutters to stop drug traffickers, stop
human traffickers, and also to engage in search and rescue,
which is hugely important. That investment something I care deeply about.
(33:17):
And by the way, we're at number six. I told
you I'm going to give you twelve major conservative victories
in the one big beautiful Bill. We're at six. I
actually want listeners to pause for a second. How many
of you could list the first six before this podcast,
and I just want to make the point, what kind
of job does the corporate media do. I'm willing to
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bet virtually none of our listeners could have listed those
first six because the news hasn't covered. And it's why
we do this podcast to give you information so that
when you're talking to your friends and your colleagues, you
will know what's being accomplished. There's a reason President Trump
is so excited about this one big, beautiful bill because
it is massive, massive.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Victories for a America.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Number seven, Number seven spectrum now spectrum. What is spectrum?
Electromagnetic spectrum. It is how we communicate. It's how our
cell phones work, it's how Wi Fi works, it's how
satellites work, it's how streaming works. It's all of electronics spectrum.
The largest holder of spectrum is the United States government.
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The United States government has vast swaths of spectrum, and
under Joe Biden, the United States Government stop making new
spectrum available to the private sector. They ended auction authority.
It was grotesquely irresponsible. It did massive damage to America,
It destroyed jobs in America, and it let China get
ahead of America in this Bill. I wrote the legislation
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that directs the federal government to auction to the private
sector eight hundred megahertz of spectrum for private sector investment.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Number One, that will generate in excess of one hundred
billion dollars of revenue to the federal government.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Real money. Now, even in government terms, one hundred billion
dollars is real money. And listen, you and I are
deeply concerned about the deficit and the debt. The entire
commerce title that I wrote that had historic investments in
coast Guard and a bunch of other things, I ended
up saving over forty billion dollars, reducing the deficit and
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the debt by over forty billion dollars. And the driver
was because of spectrum auction authority we brought in. We
will bring in one hundred billion dollars to pay down
the debt. Credible, that's real money. But it's not the
biggest piece of this. The biggest piece of this is
by auctioning the spectrum off, we will open up billions
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and billions of dollars of private sector investment. The companies
that buy this spectrum are going to invest. It is
going to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. That is
not an exaggeration. Hundreds of thousands of jobs. And you
know what spectrum is all about, beating China to six G.
I mentioned my consistent theme, beat China, Beat China in
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the Arctic with the Coastguard, beat China to six g
h with Spectrum. And I gotta tell you, three months ago,
there was nobody in Washington who thought we could get
this done. I sat in the office of the Speaker
of the House, Mike Johnson, a good friend of mine.
I said, Mike, We're gonna do Spectrum on the one big,
beautiful bill. And Mike laughed in my face. He's a
(36:28):
good friend. But yeah, there's no way, he said, there's
no chance because the Department of Defense and the CIA
will fight you. They will stop you. You cannot get
it done. We not only got it done when I
cut the deal and got it in the bill. President
Trump called me the next morning. He said, Ted, this
is incredible. This is like, how did you get such
(36:49):
an incredible deal? Historic spectrum auction authority producing hundreds of
thousands of jobs and beating China to six G that's
in the bill number eight air Traffic Control. This bill
invests twelve and a half billion dollars modernizing our air
traffic control. To keep your family safer when you fly,
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to keep my family safer when we fly. To stop
using outdated radars, to stop using computers that have floppy discs,
and a little copper wire copper wire, to modernize our
air traffic control. A massive investment in keeping the American
public safe. This bill, I wrote that portion that is
also in the Commerce title. So I wrote that portion
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that will fund and improve air traffic control. A huge
victory Number nine space YEP. This bill has ten billion
dollars for NASA to go to the Moon, for the
Artemis program, for the Gateway program, to beat China to
the moon. China has said they intend to return to
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the Moon by twenty thirty. In my view, if we
lose the Moon to China, it would be a catastrophic loss.
It would be a loss if we woke up in
a few years and China was on the Moon and
China established a base on the Moon, which is what
they said they intend to do with the Russians, and.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
They made that very clear. That is the sole intent
of going. It's not just to go to the moon.
It's to have a base on the Moon.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Yes, if they did that and we lost, I think
it would be worse than Sputnik that it would be
a national body blow that would crush this country. And look,
the Moon is critical number one for national security. The
Moon is the high ground you look at. So much
of our national security and so much of our commerce
depends on satellites in orbit around the Earth. The Moon
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gives you the high ground. It is very dangerous for
us to see that to China. It is unacceptable for
us to see that to China. But number two, there
are massive rare minerals on the Moon. There are enormous
economic advantages. It is current US law that it is
the policy of the American government to have a sustained
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human habitation either on the lunar surface or in cis
lunar orbit. This investment in beating China to the Moon.
And by the way, the Moon is a stepping stone
to Mars. We will go to Mars, but we haven't
landed on a celestial body in over fifty years. So
we're gonna land on the Moon first to make sure
we know how to do it, and then we're gonna
go to Mars, this investment. I wrote this investment in there,
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I will say there was significant resistance, and without getting
too much into the sausage making, we won against the resistance.
This is in there. It is a massive investment. Well, yeah,
that is exactly right.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
That's number nine. Number ten.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Cafe standards, the standards that mandate you keep having to
have higher and higher fuel efficiency on your cars. That's
what the Biden administration has used as its tool, as
one of its tools to wage the war on the
internal combustion engine, to try to force every car to
be electric. Is they keep jacking up cafe standards higher
and higher and hire. What does that mean? Number on,
(40:03):
It drives up the cost of your cars. You notice
cars have gotten a lot more expensive. Trucks have gotten
a lot more expensive. Number two, it makes cars less
safe because one of the ways you get the gas
efficiency hire is you replace metal with plastics. You che
cheap plastic that crumbles it in a crash and more
people die. In the commerce section of the one beful,
big beautiful bill, you know what we did to cafe standards?
Speaker 4 (40:25):
What was that?
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Zeroed them out? Really they're gone.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
So it's actually in this so you're telling me that
my car, instead of being all plastic, we have a
little finder burt and everything breaks. They can actually go
back and say, hey, we're not trying to save weight here,
we're trying to actually make safe cars.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
It can be a great American car again, made a
steel tough as hell. And by the way, you want
to buy electric car, great, that's your choice. You want
to hire a hybrid, great, you want to buy a
gas car.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Great.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
It ought to be consumers choosing. And actually the way
we did this we very much modeled how in twenty
seventeen we repealed the individual mandate on Obamacare, So that
was fight I led in twenty seventeen. The individual mandate.
The way we eliminated it is under the rules of reconciliation,
we could not eliminate the legal mandate to buy health insurance,
(41:14):
which was the individual mandator under Obamacare. So you know
what we did. We made the penalty zero. So you
used to be the IRS finds you. If you didn't
buy health insurance, the IRS would find you. It is
still the law. You're required to buy health insuran. Don't,
you will be fined zero dollars and zero cents. We
did the same thing to Cafe standards, so they can
put their standards out, but the penalty for violating it
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is zero. And I want to mention, look, this is
again like PBS and NPR, this has been a conservative
battle for fifty years.
Speaker 4 (41:46):
And Democrats have been winning for fifty years, unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
And we got this done. I wrote this portion, it
is in the bill, it is zeroed out, and we
got this done. And I'm willing to bet fewer than
one percent of our listeners even knew we had done it,
because we won so many victories that this falls all
the way down to number ten on the list.
Speaker 4 (42:06):
Incredible, well done.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
The final two, yep, the final two, as you know,
are very near and dear to my heart. Number eleven
is school choice. In this bill, we pass the single
largest and most consequential federal school choice bill in the
history of our country. I wrote this provision. Every single
American taxpayer can now contribute up to seventeen hundred dollars
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a year to a scholarship granting organization in the States
and get a dollar for dollar credit on their taxes.
It means the money is free. The effect of this
is going to be tens of billions of new scholarship
money in the States for school choice, for K through
twelve school choice. We're going to do a subsequent pod
(42:51):
that does a really deep die because this.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Is part of your legacy. By the way, this is
going to be part of your This.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Is the issue I care more about than anything else else.
I have spent thirty years fighting for it, and we're
gonna do another pod where we do a very deep
die because there's some aspects of this that I want
the listeners to appreciate that are both incredible policy victories
but also massive political victories. We are creating incentives to
turn blue states red, to build constituencies of parents and
(43:20):
kids who want fantastic educations. This is I told the President.
If and when we get this done, you will go
down in history as one of the greatest civil rights
presidents in our nation's history. Your critics will never acknowledge that.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Yeah, but the reality will be you're going to change
poor communities.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
The reality is the school choice provision is massive, and
it's in the bill. And then the final number twelve
are the Trump accounts, the invest America accounts. Again, I
wrote this provision.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
This could fundamentally change this country bay the way.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Starting next year July fourth of next year, the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States of America,
every child in America will have a personal and vement account.
Every newborn child will have it seated with one thousand dollars. Parents,
family employers can contribute up to five thousand dollars a
year in a tax advantage account. All of that money
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is invested in the S and P. Five hundred is
invested in the stock market. That enables every kid to
enjoy the incredible benefits of compound growth, which will transform
our kids. The wealth creation for the next generation of
Americans will be utterly transformative. And not only that, this
creates a new generation of capitalists, as our kids will
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all be owners of the largest employers in America. These
two victories school choice and personal investment accounts for kids
without exaggeration, Ben and I've told the President this. I
think ten years, twenty years, thirty years from now, these
will be the two things everyone remembers from this bill.
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Everything else. I listed one through ten, which are massive,
Yeah that they are conservative victories for the generations. I
think eleven and twelve will dwarf one and ten because
the difference, we will see trillions of dollars invested in
four oh one case for kids in these Trump accounts.
That will change the future of every one of our
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kids and make them all have skin in the game
in our capitalist society. And school choice is going to
literally provide hope and opportunity to millions of kids. We
got both of them done. Those are victories, generational victories,
and when the President signed it on July fourth, they
were victories for all of America.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
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