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Speaker 1 (00:00):
They were able to get the votes that they needed
to pass this thing. So all of the worrying about
it not getting passed, well, all these weeks of working
and working, all of the times that Elon Musk said
something really negative about Donald Trump in the interim for this,
all the different stuff that's going down, Holy cow, it's
(00:23):
over with. Now what do we do with ourselves? I mean,
what do we talk about now? Because Donald Trump is
in Iowa actually right now, and he's going to be
kicking off the America two fifty celebration, since tomorrow is
the two hundred and forty ninth first day of the
United States and their independence, our independence, then we would
(00:46):
look at you know what he would do tomorrow. I'd
imagine on the fourth of July, he'll go back to
the White House and he'll sign this thing because that's
what he wanted, right, an Independence Day celebration.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Of different types. Yeah, how about that? Pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Thomas Massey and Brian Fitzpatrick, a representative Republican from Pennsylvania,
those are the two representatives who did not vote for
the bill. Everyone else in the Republican Party did. But man,
it's a it's a party in there. I was told
that there's a chance, small chance I would get a
chance to talk to Don Bacon today. I don't see
(01:24):
Don in the these videos of the dancing in some
of the gyrating that they're doing there. Everybody's taking photos.
All these congress people are taking pictures with Mike Johnson.
There's nothing but a like a gigantic swath of press
cameras that are also trying to take pictures of the posing.
It's hard to explain what's going on right now. All
(01:46):
I can tell you is that the big beautiful bill
has passed. It's going to be on the desk for
Donald Trump to sign, and then we don't have to
talk about it ever again. Well, I mean, we'll probably
talk about the implementation of some of it, but.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, pretty difficult.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
The question I was asked via my email was when
is all this going to take effect? Right since this
is a timeline when we can expect the build to
go to an effect. And I said, I say, no,
I don't know that for sure. And Donald Trump will
sign this now, but I'm sure that there will be
a date. Once he signs it, it will be fast
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tracked to becoming a law. Got to keep in mind
that a lot of the stuff that was in there
was set to replace things that were expiring either in
August or later in the calendar year. I don't know
if these just pick up immediately and wipe out whatever
was about to happen later, or if it will take effect,
you know, a couple of weeks from then. But it
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will be taking effect I think, sooner rather than later,
for whatever that's worth.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So it is it is there.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Let's go ahead and listen in Mike Johnson taking questions
from the press.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I believe here. Let's take a listen in.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, so the question he didn't hear, it's kind of loud.
And here the question was how did we get the
hold out to Yes, here's it. So my leadership style
is I try to be a servant leader. And as
I mentioned earlier, I know what every member of this
body ever remember, this conference brings to the table, and
the leader's job is to bring out the everybody's best
(03:16):
and get them to their highest and best use.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
And that takes some time.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
So what happened procedurally, Not to get too deep in
the weeds, but we got the Senate modifications to the
House bill. Now we're really proud because the big beautiful bill,
eighty five to ninety percent of it is the original
House product that we ourselves drafted over the course of
more than a year. But when we went to the Senate,
of course, as the other chambers have to do, they
made some changes.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
They sent it over to us.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
We didn't have it for a lot of time, and
so some members wanted to go really deep in the
weeds on the changes, and they wanted to fully understand
what those amendments were and how they would interact with
the rest of the bill, and how the administration would
administer the new laws. And so there was a process
there for a couple of days where we allowed that
time for them to explore all that, to talk with
leaders in the administration. President Trump was so generous with
(04:02):
his time answering questions himself.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Vice President J. D. Vance was directly engaged.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
We had Cabinet secretaries at a number of different federal
agencies answering questions from members. Some of them even brought
their agency attorneys in to get really deep in the
weeds on the details.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I knew as the leader that we would have to.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Take the time to do that, and so some of
that went into late end of the night, and I
was not going to make anybody, uh. I was not
going to demand anybody's vote or or their position on
the bill until they felt that they had exhausted that
that opportunity. So we did it, and that's how we
got everybody else.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
You talked about the process afore, about how white else
practically play to your accountal, I've talked to me a
little bit about how you got the members to yes,
what day sessions were made names the seven bill clad
in three executive quarter or nal legislation are looking at no.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I mean, look, as I said, a lot of these
members wanted to talk with the administration about how the
new law would be administered by the Trump administration and
the team, and I think they answer those questions. I
don't think they exacted a lot of specific commitments or
concessions or anything like that. It was just more an
understanding how that would interact. As you know, this president
(05:19):
has been a bold leader. By last count, he's issued
over maybe close to one hundred and sixty executive orders
so far. We're trying to codify as many of those
as possible. So a lot of the discussions were about
what executive orders will be forthcoming as it relates to
the new legislation, and how can we be involved as
a house to codify that and do all that in
a coordinated fashion.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
The beauty of unified government is this.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Is exactly how it can work, and how it's supposed
to work, is that you have an interaction between the
executive and the legislative branches, because that's what's best for
the people, and that coordination is going to yield great
results for the folks.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
So that was part of the discussion yesterday.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
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Speaker 4 (06:12):
How you wouldn't admit that I literally don't know anything
about that. I mean, I wasn't privy to the conversation,
So I would tell you there's lots of rumor and conjecture,
and then NEU indo the flats around, especially when you
got so many people wandering around the building and deliberating
over their votes. So I don't know how much stock
I'd put into much of that. But all right, last question,
guess Mami, and I had.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
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Speaker 2 (06:40):
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Speaker 6 (06:42):
Have of justice study.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
How do you say those on the communities facing.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
More pollution forclosure, folks.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Have to look.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I think a lot of the estimations about what this
legislation would do in a negative manner to communities in
my state or any other are far overblown. I can
tell you that this bill is going to be a
great thing for everybody around the country, my constituents, especially
what's good for Louisiana is good for America. We've got
great tax policy here. I think they're going to feel
this pretty quickly. Wages will rise, I think household income
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will go up. I think the job participation rate will
increase dramatically. I think unemployment will be low. We're going
to duplicate what we did in the first Trump administration. Remember,
at the first two years, y'all have heard me say
a thousand times. It's objectively true. We had one of
the greatest comedies in the history of the world. And
we're going to do that again, except this time much
more comprehensively. We did tax cuts and regulatory reform, and
that brought about a resurgence of the US economy. That's
(07:36):
about That's what's going to happen here. It's about to
happen on steroids, and we can't wait for that to happen.
This is jet fuel for the economy and all boats
are going to rise. Thank y'all for being here. We
got to get a little rest.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
God bless Yeah, they've been working really hard. There was
Mike Johnson, Seeker of the House, taking some questions here
from the price and saying, hey, we got those hold outs,
We've the bold leadership. I'm trying to be a servant leader,
and they were able to get get it done. I
color me a bit surprised. I'm strying to think Thomas
Massey's a full of croc though. I mean, he yesterday
(08:08):
said that he had enough votes on Republicans not going
to vote for this that he felt comfortable that it
wasn't gonna happen, and him and one other guy ended
up being the only ones that voted against it. I mean,
what are we what are we doing here? Anyway, there
we go, big beautiful bill. It's passed there's other things
in the news that we'll get to as well, and
we're gonna have a lot of fun. You know why,
(08:29):
because it's gonna It's a Thursday that feels like a Friday,
doesn't it, Matt, Don't it feel like a Friday? It's Thursday, Yeah,
but it feels like a Friday.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Tomorrow's Friday. Does tomorrow feel like a Saturday?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Tomorrow feels like a holiday, and today feels like a Friday,
and tomorrow feels like a holiday.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yeah, and then Saturday feels like Saturday. Sunday feels like Sunday.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
We're back.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, Okay, here we go. See this is Negotiation Network
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Speaker 5 (08:55):
And where he's doing here?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Do you think there'd be a medical clinic in a
place where with less than a thousand people? Apparently there was, though,
a hospital located in Curtis, the Curtis Medical Center. And
again I don't know exactly how comprehensive the hospital itself is,
simply because I haven't been there before. But they have
(09:19):
announced they are going to close Community Hospital, and mccok
announces it will close the Curtis Medical Center and the
quote from their president and CEO said in a news release, Unfortunately,
the current financial environment, driven by anticipated federal budget cuts
to Medicaid, has made it impossible for us to continue
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operating all of our services, many of which have faced
significant financial challenges for years.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So, yeah, what this was a fear that I think,
you know, there was a fear that some of this
stuff would probably be happening. I think maybe a bit
unfair to blame that this bill in any cut to
the Medicaid system for people who are living in or
near a place like Curtis, unless they know something that
we don't. It doesn't surprise me to hear them kind
(10:08):
of add the appendage that, hey, we've actually been struggling
on a lot of the stuff that we've offered for years.
I don't know how a lot of that stuff works.
You know, there are certain places that are clinics that
I am aware of back where I'm from in Southeast Iowa,
that you can actually go and get care for free.
I don't know exactly know how it works. Maybe not
for free free, but it's like super cheap. Not exactly
(10:31):
sure how that works and all that stuff, but whatever
gets the job done. I suppose Jed Hansen, who is
in the executive director for Nebraska Rural Health Association, in
a Zoom meeting earlier this week, said quote, we currently
have six hospitals that we feel are in a critical
financial state, three that are in an impending kind of
(10:53):
closure or conversion over to the rural emergency hospital model.
We would likely see the closures within a year or
two years once this bill is fully enacted. End quote. Well,
this one is. I mean, it didn't even wait till
it was signed. It was announced this morning that the
Curtis Medical Center will be shutting down. But again, before
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we overreact, I'd like to know how a medical center
that is kind of operating as a sort of hospital
in a town of eight hundred and twenty four people
or so, how well it was operating in the first place.
Not to say that small towns shouldn't have hospitals, but
if you're relying on Medicaid and government stuff just to
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keep you open, and this is going to sound insensitive,
but I'm just going to say it, how many people
of eight hundred and twenty four people in your town
are needing to go see like a doctor or the
hospital on a day to day basis, like how many
people were there, how many people were working there, how
many people you know, Like, again, I don't know how
many small rural communities under the size of a thousand
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people have hospitals in general around the United States, and
Southwest Nebraska, I know, can be kind of sparsely populated.
So you'd like to have as many medical centers available
as possible for whatever reason. But if we're talking about
them operating as a business, were they honestly just getting
propped up by the Medicaid program and system? Was anybody
actually using them in the first place. These are questions
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that I'm not going to really have good answers to.
But you're going to see a lot of this. You're
going to see a lot of people sharing that story
from Curtis, Nebraska and saying, well, the big beautiful bill
already at work closing hospitals, making sure people don't have
the care that they need. That's what you're going to
be seeing. So be prepared for that, be ready for that.
That is the reality that we are going to have
(12:42):
to face. And if you're just going to have to
understand that, people who are posing this bill they're going
to use that as the ammunition to say this is
why I pose the bill. So there you go, that
being done. It's done in the process of this vote.
By the way, this morning, team Jeffries did a speech. Matt,
(13:03):
do you want to know how long Keem Jeffery's speech
was in the House Representatives today?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Not really, but you can tell me.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
He started at roughly three fifty five am Eastern time,
and the I mean the House had been in session
since nine thirty am Eastern time on Wednesday morning, so
they were still there. It felt like they had the
final votes. And then House Minority Leader could Kim Jeffries
started speaking at three fifty five am Eastern time, and
(13:32):
he spoke four eight hours in forty four minutes.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
It's probably about the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Right there.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Eight hours and forty four minutes.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I can hear the tin whistle. Now what are we.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Doing for what? To delay a vote that was coming?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
No matter what you want to to voice his descent,
that's Congress in action for.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Eight hours and forty four minutes.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
He went right as he could.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I could watch the movie Little Giants like five times
probably in that span. You know what else I could
have been doing getting a full night's sleep, being being
at all like productive. Either way, though, it's making some
headlines to congrats to Keem Jefferies. That is, by officially,
are you ready officially the longest speech on the House
(14:18):
floor in the history of the United States.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
He did it, Wow, nine hours and eighteen minutes for
the theatrical editions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
So I was off by about forty minutes.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
That's not too bad. Pretty good.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I mean, if you adjust for like you got to
go to the bathroom, you know, I think it checks out.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I remember when Corey Booker did this or was it
earlier this year? Did he stood up there and did
you know? However many hours and everybody's like, wow, go
Corey Brooker, go. I haven't heard much from Corey since then.
Remember that when he was breaking the speaking record in
the Senate. That was quite an interesting time when that
was going on. And now that it's over with and
(14:56):
it's been a couple of months, has anybody said anything
about Corey Booker since then? What about all that momentum?
People were like, oh, yeah, Corey Booker putting himself in
the in the hat to potentially be a future leader
of the Democrats with the speech like this, I've heard
a peep from Corey Booker.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Well, but this is news talk radio. What are you
gonna say about him? Uh, he's bald, Like they've probably
been talking about him on MSNBC, CNN, have they.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I don't really watch cable news.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, mean neither the Keem Jeffrey is also bald. Maybe
you just have to be bald. If you're bald, maybe
you can like talk for eight hours at a time
on the floor of the House or the Senate. Maybe
that's the Maybe that's the correlation there. So the hair
makes you be able to talk less. I'd have to
research it. We'd have to look into this. Yes, you know,
not sure this tracks, but we'll work on that.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I know.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
In swimming, the balder the better.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Oh yeah, less hair all over.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
That's why they wear the caps.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
The caps and they'll shave their bodies just to like
get that minimum water resistance. Two thirty Thanks for listening
News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Oh here, we'll be right back on news radio elevens
and okay, if abe.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I will not be here and you will be here,
Matt case, we're gone tomorrow. Yeah, why does stuff like
this happen during our show's time frame on the days
that we're not here?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Who cares?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Man?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I care? You know.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Some days I'm sitting here and I'm like giving myself
a purple nurple to wake myself up about some of
the news.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
In the day.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I'd go with caffeine, but you know, you do you
I'll have to try that.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Thanks they You know, some days I'm not here and
all of a sudden, it's like, oh yeah, ron cease firing.
Oh yeah, Donald Trump sgning the big beautiful Bill.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Come on, man, really really.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It's the cool thing is is they can record this
stuff and then you can play it when you're there
next time.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, it's gonna be four days after it happens, but
you know whatever, anyway, it's happening. Donald Trump's into one today,
you know what. He's in the one for tick off
for the America to fifty. Now America turns two and
fifty years old a year from tomorrow. Theoretically, right, We
kind of discussed why the fourth is the fourth.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
And why do you say theoretically because within the timeframe
of the next year code America ceased to exist. Is
that what you're implying?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Uh No, But what I'm implying is that maybe July
second was the right date, and we messed that up
back in seventeen seventy six. But it's okay, it's okay.
We've already discussed that. I accept the fourth as the
fourth of July as opposed to accepting the second as
the fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
You know, Independence Day, But look up.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
The history of Independence Day and you would probably come
to the same conclusion I've come to. Maybe July the
second was actually the more important day. That's all I'm
saying now. Regardless even though I accept July fourth as
the day. The America two fifty organization, which is planning
all these celebrations is I see Governor Camerinalds now on
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the television talking on National TV to preview this big
event that's taking place in the Iowa State Fairgrounds tonight.
There's gonna be a lot of there's already a lot
of people. They were telling people that you can park
as early as eight am at the fairgrounds today and
the gates open for you to get like your spot
so you can go through. You were supposed to RSVP
online ahead of time. You get screened by you know,
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Secret Service and stuff as you are arriving, and then
you go when you wait, and starting at like five o'clock,
there's going to be a bunch of speakers and performers,
including Lee Greenwood. I'm proud to be an American, remember him.
We're going to have the Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy
Nome is going to be there.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
You know, you know, you know what she looks like.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Brook Rawlins, Secretary of Agriculture is going to be there.
That's important talking to Iowa people. Secretary of ag you know,
Nebraska HOS, Secretary of bag is going to be there,
and plenty more and then roughly around seven thirty or so,
Donald Trump is scheduled to speak. Now, whether or not
Donald Trump will be there to speak right on time
at seven thirty, we will see. But it's going to
be a great celebration of America and Iowa, Iowa gets
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to be the spot where this big kickoff of this
celebration takes place, so we will see what happens there.
And by the way, only about a month away from
that Iowa State Fair.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Are you ready for that? I'm ready for that. That's
that's great time. Have you been to that? We talked
about this.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Have I been to the Iowa State Fair?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah? No, man, we got to get you out there.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
What's in it for me?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Good food, good music, a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Can I have some money too?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
How much money?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
A lot?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
How much a lot?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
It's not a numbright now tens of thousands of dollars
to go to the Iowa State Fair?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yes, I could get you a ticket.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
The ticket's worth like fifteen bucks. That that that work
for you?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I don't think I can resell that for tens of
thousands of dollars. You're right, you wouldn't. Okay, then I'm out.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
What if I got you your first deep fried oreo?
To me, that feels like a lot of wasted calories.
Uh yeah, Fair food generally is. There's a lot of
great meat products there. They have a couple of veggie
booths if you're looking for or vegetable based stuff. They
got some good treats. Ice cream, twinking on a stick,
deep fried butter on a stick. Ah, that's a real thing,
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real thing. In fact, that was a joe. No, that's
a real thing. The Iowa Fair not really my cup
of tea, but people like it. Deep fried butter on
a stick, real thing. We're counting it down, dude, We're
classy Iowa.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
What do you say?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
You know what I'm saying? No, no, I stop it
right there. No more, people know what I'm saying. Keep
it classy Iowa?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Enjoy your deep fried butter on a stick and your
eight and four football season? Oh, keep it classy, Hawkeye steak. Hey,
take it easy. I don't like the Hawkeyes any more
than you do, but eight and fours a lot better
than Windebraska has been able to talk about the last decade.
You're right, so watch what you're saying there, and don't
be trying to poop on somebody while you're stepping in poop.
(20:54):
Oh oh, how about that for an analogy? Okay, and
now we eat your deep butter on a stick. I
won't I won't be eating that. It's two forty five.
We're gonna get you the IYTWA State Fair.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
At some point, we got an interesting artificial intelligence story
that I have to bring up because you know I
have to bring it up. You know how we feel
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They were able to get the votes that they needed
to pass this thing. So all of the worrying about
it not getting passed, well, all these weeks of working
and working, all of the times that Elon Musk said
something really negative about Donald Trump in the interim for this,
all the different stuff that's going down, Holy cow, it's
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over with. Now what do we do with ourselves? I mean,
what do we talk about now? Because Donald Trump is
in Iowa actually right now, and he's going to be
kicking off the America two fifty celebration, since tomorrow is
the two hundred and forty ninth first day of the
United States and their independence, our independence, then we would
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look at you know what he would do tomorrow. I'd
imagine on the fourth of July, he'll go back to
the White House and he'll sign this thing because that's
what he wanted, right, an Independence Day celebration.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Of different types. Yeah, how about that? Pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Thomas Massey and Brian Fitzpatrick, a representative Republican from Pennsylvania,
those are the two representatives who did not vote for
the bill. Everyone else in the Republican Party did. But man,
it's a it's a party in there. I was told
that there's a chance, small chance I would get a
chance to talk to Don Bacon today. I don't see
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Don in the these videos of the dancing in some
of the gyrating that they're doing there. Everybody's taking photos.
All these congress people are taking pictures with Mike Johnson.
There's nothing but a like a gigantic swath of press
cameras that are also trying to take pictures of the posing.
It's hard to explain what's going on right now. All
(01:46):
I can tell you is that the big beautiful bill
has passed. It's going to be on the desk for
Donald Trump to sign, and then we don't have to
talk about it ever again. Well, I mean, we'll probably
talk about the implementation of some of it, but.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah, pretty difficult.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
The question I was asked via my email was when
is all this going to take effect? Right since this
is a timeline when we can expect the build to
go to an effect. And I said, I say, no,
I don't know that for sure. And Donald Trump will
sign this now, but I'm sure that there will be
a date. Once he signs it, it will be fast
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tracked to becoming a law. Got to keep in mind
that a lot of the stuff that was in there
was set to replace things that were expiring either in
August or later in the calendar year. I don't know
if these just pick up immediately and wipe out whatever
was about to happen later, or if it will take effect,
you know, a couple of weeks from then. But it
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will be taking effect I think, sooner rather than later,
for whatever that's worth.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So it is it is there.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Let's go ahead and listen in Mike Johnson taking questions
from the press.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I believe here. Let's take a listen in.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, so the question he didn't hear, it's kind of loud.
And here the question was how did we get the
hold out to Yes, here's it. So my leadership style
is I try to be a servant leader. And as
I mentioned earlier, I know what every member of this
body ever remember, this conference brings to the table, and
the leader's job is to bring out the everybody's best
(03:16):
and get them to their highest and best use.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
And that takes some time.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
So what happened procedurally, Not to get too deep in
the weeds, but we got the Senate modifications to the
House bill. Now we're really proud because the big beautiful bill,
eighty five to ninety percent of it is the original
House product that we ourselves drafted over the course of
more than a year. But when we went to the Senate,
of course, as the other chambers have to do, they
made some changes.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
They sent it over to us.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
We didn't have it for a lot of time, and
so some members wanted to go really deep in the
weeds on the changes, and they wanted to fully understand
what those amendments were and how they would interact with
the rest of the bill, and how the administration would
administer the new laws. And so there was a process
there for a couple of days where we allowed that
time for them to explore all that, to talk with
leaders in the administration. President Trump was so generous with
(04:02):
his time answering questions himself.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Vice President J. D. Vance was directly engaged.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
We had Cabinet secretaries at a number of different federal
agencies answering questions from members. Some of them even brought
their agency attorneys in to get really deep in the
weeds on the details.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I knew as the leader that we would have to.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Take the time to do that, and so some of
that went into late end of the night, and I
was not going to make anybody, uh. I was not
going to demand anybody's vote or or their position on
the bill until they felt that they had exhausted that
that opportunity. So we did it, and that's how we
got everybody else.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
You talked about the process afore, about how white else
practically play to your accountal, I've talked to me a
little bit about how you got the members to yes,
what day sessions were made names the seven bill clad
in three executive quarter or nal legislation are looking at no.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I mean, look, as I said, a lot of these
members wanted to talk with the administration about how the
new law would be administered by the Trump administration and
the team, and I think they answer those questions. I
don't think they exacted a lot of specific commitments or
concessions or anything like that. It was just more an
understanding how that would interact. As you know, this president
(05:19):
has been a bold leader. By last count, he's issued
over maybe close to one hundred and sixty executive orders
so far. We're trying to codify as many of those
as possible. So a lot of the discussions were about
what executive orders will be forthcoming as it relates to
the new legislation, and how can we be involved as
a house to codify that and do all that in
a coordinated fashion.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
The beauty of unified government is this.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Is exactly how it can work, and how it's supposed
to work, is that you have an interaction between the
executive and the legislative branches, because that's what's best for
the people, and that coordination is going to yield great
results for the folks.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
So that was part of the discussion yesterday.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
They understand and pard oft able to consider court ere
stolar time Neil, And also we were sure little about
maybe using your offer about my friends and can you
almost understand what that might bok play?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
How you wouldn't admit that I literally don't know anything
about that. I mean, I wasn't privy to the conversation,
So I would tell you there's lots of rumor and conjecture,
and then NEU indo the flats around, especially when you
got so many people wandering around the building and deliberating
over their votes. So I don't know how much stock
I'd put into much of that. But all right, last question,
guess Mami, and I had.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Only lost most down of human be sat on Baptist
Saint James, whose funding is now the entirely cut off.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
From the higher rate climate, and I.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Have of justice study.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
How do you say those on the communities facing.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
More pollution forclosure, folks.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Have to look.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
I think a lot of the estimations about what this
legislation would do in a negative manner to communities in
my state or any other are far overblown. I can
tell you that this bill is going to be a
great thing for everybody around the country, my constituents, especially
what's good for Louisiana is good for America. We've got
great tax policy here. I think they're going to feel
this pretty quickly. Wages will rise, I think household income
(07:14):
will go up. I think the job participation rate will
increase dramatically. I think unemployment will be low. We're going
to duplicate what we did in the first Trump administration. Remember,
at the first two years, y'all have heard me say
a thousand times. It's objectively true. We had one of
the greatest comedies in the history of the world. And
we're going to do that again, except this time much
more comprehensively. We did tax cuts and regulatory reform, and
that brought about a resurgence of the US economy. That's
(07:36):
about That's what's going to happen here. It's about to
happen on steroids, and we can't wait for that to happen.
This is jet fuel for the economy and all boats
are going to rise. Thank y'all for being here. We
got to get a little rest.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
God bless Yeah, they've been working really hard. There was
Mike Johnson, Seeker of the House, taking some questions here
from the price and saying, hey, we got those hold outs,
We've the bold leadership. I'm trying to be a servant leader,
and they were able to get get it done. I
color me a bit surprised. I'm strying to think Thomas
Massey's a full of croc though. I mean, he yesterday
(08:08):
said that he had enough votes on Republicans not going
to vote for this that he felt comfortable that it
wasn't gonna happen, and him and one other guy ended
up being the only ones that voted against it. I mean,
what are we what are we doing here? Anyway, there
we go, big beautiful bill. It's passed there's other things
in the news that we'll get to as well, and
we're gonna have a lot of fun. You know why,
(08:29):
because it's gonna It's a Thursday that feels like a Friday,
doesn't it, Matt, Don't it feel like a Friday? It's Thursday, Yeah,
but it feels like a Friday.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Tomorrow's Friday. Does tomorrow feel like a Saturday?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Tomorrow feels like a holiday, and today feels like a Friday,
and tomorrow feels like a holiday.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yeah, and then Saturday feels like Saturday. Sunday feels like Sunday.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
We're back.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, Okay, here we go. See this is Negotiation Network
two eighteen. More on the Way on news Radio eleventh
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Speaker 5 (08:55):
And where he's doing here?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Do you think there'd be a medical clinic in a
place where with less than a thousand people? Apparently there was, though,
a hospital located in Curtis, the Curtis Medical Center. And
again I don't know exactly how comprehensive the hospital itself is,
simply because I haven't been there before. But they have
(09:19):
announced they are going to close Community Hospital, and mccok
announces it will close the Curtis Medical Center and the
quote from their president and CEO said in a news release, Unfortunately,
the current financial environment, driven by anticipated federal budget cuts
to Medicaid, has made it impossible for us to continue
(09:40):
operating all of our services, many of which have faced
significant financial challenges for years.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
End quote.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So, yeah, what this was a fear that I think,
you know, there was a fear that some of this
stuff would probably be happening. I think maybe a bit
unfair to blame that this bill in any cut to
the Medicaid system for people who are living in or
near a place like Curtis, unless they know something that
we don't. It doesn't surprise me to hear them kind
(10:08):
of add the appendage that, hey, we've actually been struggling
on a lot of the stuff that we've offered for years.
I don't know how a lot of that stuff works.
You know, there are certain places that are clinics that
I am aware of back where I'm from in Southeast Iowa,
that you can actually go and get care for free.
I don't know exactly know how it works. Maybe not
for free free, but it's like super cheap. Not exactly
(10:31):
sure how that works and all that stuff, but whatever
gets the job done. I suppose Jed Hansen, who is
in the executive director for Nebraska Rural Health Association, in
a Zoom meeting earlier this week, said quote, we currently
have six hospitals that we feel are in a critical
financial state, three that are in an impending kind of
(10:53):
closure or conversion over to the rural emergency hospital model.
We would likely see the closures within a year or
two years once this bill is fully enacted. End quote. Well,
this one is. I mean, it didn't even wait till
it was signed. It was announced this morning that the
Curtis Medical Center will be shutting down. But again, before
(11:14):
we overreact, I'd like to know how a medical center
that is kind of operating as a sort of hospital
in a town of eight hundred and twenty four people
or so, how well it was operating in the first place.
Not to say that small towns shouldn't have hospitals, but
if you're relying on Medicaid and government stuff just to
(11:35):
keep you open, and this is going to sound insensitive,
but I'm just going to say it, how many people
of eight hundred and twenty four people in your town
are needing to go see like a doctor or the
hospital on a day to day basis, like how many
people were there, how many people were working there, how
many people you know, Like, again, I don't know how
many small rural communities under the size of a thousand
(11:58):
people have hospitals in general around the United States, and
Southwest Nebraska, I know, can be kind of sparsely populated.
So you'd like to have as many medical centers available
as possible for whatever reason. But if we're talking about
them operating as a business, were they honestly just getting
propped up by the Medicaid program and system? Was anybody
actually using them in the first place. These are questions
(12:21):
that I'm not going to really have good answers to.
But you're going to see a lot of this. You're
going to see a lot of people sharing that story
from Curtis, Nebraska and saying, well, the big beautiful bill
already at work closing hospitals, making sure people don't have
the care that they need. That's what you're going to
be seeing. So be prepared for that, be ready for that.
That is the reality that we are going to have
(12:42):
to face. And if you're just going to have to
understand that, people who are posing this bill they're going
to use that as the ammunition to say this is
why I pose the bill. So there you go, that
being done. It's done in the process of this vote.
By the way, this morning, team Jeffries did a speech. Matt,
(13:03):
do you want to know how long Keem Jeffery's speech
was in the House Representatives today?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Not really, but you can tell me.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
He started at roughly three fifty five am Eastern time,
and the I mean the House had been in session
since nine thirty am Eastern time on Wednesday morning, so
they were still there. It felt like they had the
final votes. And then House Minority Leader could Kim Jeffries
started speaking at three fifty five am Eastern time, and
(13:32):
he spoke four eight hours in forty four minutes.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
It's probably about the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Right there.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Eight hours and forty four minutes.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I can hear the tin whistle. Now what are we.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Doing for what? To delay a vote that was coming?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
No matter what you want to to voice his descent,
that's Congress in action for.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Eight hours and forty four minutes.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
He went right as he could.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I could watch the movie Little Giants like five times
probably in that span. You know what else I could
have been doing getting a full night's sleep, being being
at all like productive. Either way, though, it's making some
headlines to congrats to Keem Jefferies. That is, by officially,
are you ready officially the longest speech on the House
(14:18):
floor in the history of the United States.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
He did it, Wow, nine hours and eighteen minutes for
the theatrical editions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
So I was off by about forty minutes.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
That's not too bad. Pretty good.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I mean, if you adjust for like you got to
go to the bathroom, you know, I think it checks out.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I remember when Corey Booker did this or was it
earlier this year? Did he stood up there and did
you know? However many hours and everybody's like, wow, go
Corey Brooker, go. I haven't heard much from Corey since then.
Remember that when he was breaking the speaking record in
the Senate. That was quite an interesting time when that
was going on. And now that it's over with and
(14:56):
it's been a couple of months, has anybody said anything
about Corey Booker since then? What about all that momentum?
People were like, oh, yeah, Corey Booker putting himself in
the in the hat to potentially be a future leader
of the Democrats with the speech like this, I've heard
a peep from Corey Booker.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Well, but this is news talk radio. What are you
gonna say about him? Uh, he's bald, Like they've probably
been talking about him on MSNBC, CNN, have they.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I don't really watch cable news.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, mean neither the Keem Jeffrey is also bald. Maybe
you just have to be bald. If you're bald, maybe
you can like talk for eight hours at a time
on the floor of the House or the Senate. Maybe
that's the Maybe that's the correlation there. So the hair
makes you be able to talk less. I'd have to
research it. We'd have to look into this. Yes, you know,
not sure this tracks, but we'll work on that.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I know.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
In swimming, the balder the better.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Oh yeah, less hair all over.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
That's why they wear the caps.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
The caps and they'll shave their bodies just to like
get that minimum water resistance. Two thirty Thanks for listening
News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Oh here, we'll be right back on news radio elevens
and okay, if abe.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I will not be here and you will be here,
Matt case, we're gone tomorrow. Yeah, why does stuff like
this happen during our show's time frame on the days
that we're not here?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Who cares?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Man?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
I care? You know.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Some days I'm sitting here and I'm like giving myself
a purple nurple to wake myself up about some of
the news.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
In the day.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I'd go with caffeine, but you know, you do you
I'll have to try that.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Thanks they You know, some days I'm not here and
all of a sudden, it's like, oh yeah, ron cease firing.
Oh yeah, Donald Trump sgning the big beautiful Bill.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Come on, man, really really.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
It's the cool thing is is they can record this
stuff and then you can play it when you're there
next time.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yeah, it's gonna be four days after it happens, but
you know whatever, anyway, it's happening. Donald Trump's into one today,
you know what. He's in the one for tick off
for the America to fifty. Now America turns two and
fifty years old a year from tomorrow. Theoretically, right, We
kind of discussed why the fourth is the fourth.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
And why do you say theoretically because within the timeframe
of the next year code America ceased to exist. Is
that what you're implying?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Uh No, But what I'm implying is that maybe July
second was the right date, and we messed that up
back in seventeen seventy six. But it's okay, it's okay.
We've already discussed that. I accept the fourth as the
fourth of July as opposed to accepting the second as
the fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
You know, Independence Day, But look up.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
The history of Independence Day and you would probably come
to the same conclusion I've come to. Maybe July the
second was actually the more important day. That's all I'm
saying now. Regardless even though I accept July fourth as
the day. The America two fifty organization, which is planning
all these celebrations is I see Governor Camerinalds now on
(17:51):
the television talking on National TV to preview this big
event that's taking place in the Iowa State Fairgrounds tonight.
There's gonna be a lot of there's already a lot
of people. They were telling people that you can park
as early as eight am at the fairgrounds today and
the gates open for you to get like your spot
so you can go through. You were supposed to RSVP
online ahead of time. You get screened by you know,
(18:14):
Secret Service and stuff as you are arriving, and then
you go when you wait, and starting at like five o'clock,
there's going to be a bunch of speakers and performers,
including Lee Greenwood. I'm proud to be an American, remember him.
We're going to have the Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy
Nome is going to be there.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
You know, you know, you know what she looks like.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Brook Rawlins, Secretary of Agriculture is going to be there.
That's important talking to Iowa people. Secretary of ag you know,
Nebraska HOS, Secretary of bag is going to be there,
and plenty more and then roughly around seven thirty or so,
Donald Trump is scheduled to speak. Now, whether or not
Donald Trump will be there to speak right on time
at seven thirty, we will see. But it's going to
be a great celebration of America and Iowa, Iowa gets
(18:58):
to be the spot where this big kickoff of this
celebration takes place, so we will see what happens there.
And by the way, only about a month away from
that Iowa State Fair.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Are you ready for that? I'm ready for that. That's
that's great time. Have you been to that? We talked
about this.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Have I been to the Iowa State Fair?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah? No, man, we got to get you out there.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
What's in it for me?
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Good food, good music, a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Can I have some money too?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
How much money?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
A lot?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
How much a lot?
Speaker 1 (19:26):
It's not a numbright now tens of thousands of dollars
to go to the Iowa State Fair?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Yes, I could get you a ticket.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
The ticket's worth like fifteen bucks. That that that work
for you?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I don't think I can resell that for tens of
thousands of dollars. You're right, you wouldn't. Okay, then I'm out.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
What if I got you your first deep fried oreo?
To me, that feels like a lot of wasted calories.
Uh yeah, Fair food generally is. There's a lot of
great meat products there. They have a couple of veggie
booths if you're looking for or vegetable based stuff. They
got some good treats. Ice cream, twinking on a stick,
deep fried butter on a stick. Ah, that's a real thing,
(20:08):
real thing. In fact, that was a joe. No, that's
a real thing. The Iowa Fair not really my cup
of tea, but people like it. Deep fried butter on
a stick, real thing. We're counting it down, dude, We're
classy Iowa.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
What do you say?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
You know what I'm saying? No, no, I stop it
right there. No more, people know what I'm saying. Keep
it classy Iowa?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
What does that mean?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Enjoy your deep fried butter on a stick and your
eight and four football season? Oh, keep it classy, Hawkeye steak. Hey,
take it easy. I don't like the Hawkeyes any more
than you do, but eight and fours a lot better
than Windebraska has been able to talk about the last decade.
You're right, so watch what you're saying there, and don't
be trying to poop on somebody while you're stepping in poop.
(20:54):
Oh oh, how about that for an analogy? Okay, and
now we eat your deep butter on a stick. I
won't I won't be eating that. It's two forty five.
We're gonna get you the IYTWA State Fair.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
At some point, we got an interesting artificial intelligence story
that I have to bring up because you know I
have to bring it up. You know how we feel
about AI on this show on news radio eleven ten
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