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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh, welcome in, folks. It's another big, beautiful week. And
speaking of which, a big beautiful winning week last week.
Holy moly, I just look at it some of the
things and this is just going through certain list of
things that took place last week.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
The wins put on the board.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
From Trump for the administration for America and it is
it's it's kind of stunning when you stop to think
about it. Well, we've got those stories and what you
can expect.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
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Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's a big, beautiful, winning week. We'll talk more about
last week on the way, but first, in heartbreaking story
out of Idaho, we're following two firefighters killed a third
injured Sunday while responding to a brush fire in Portal Lane.
According to the county sheriff there, the crew came under
fire as they arrive. Firefighters night authorities discovering the ceaseman
(02:02):
the Canfield Mountain with a fire arm nearby. Investigators believe
he started that fire and then he opened fire on.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
The firefighters there when they responded to shelter and placewholder
has been left in a community, left grieving, still searching
for answers, and we continue to keep them in our prayers.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Today. It's one big beautiful bill advancing in the Senate
over the weekend, the Senate kicking off a marathon voting
session at welt nine just moments ago and course worked
through President Trump sweeping at gender bill. The lawmakers there
can offer unlimited amendments, so that's that's what we're probably
(02:41):
gonna see. Lots of back and forth on amendments before
a final vote lay the landscape for that. It's expected
to be a long day, by the way. Meanwhile, big
political news over the weekend. North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis
said not only is a no, but he's just a
no for running in twenty twenty six. It's one of
two Republicans who voted against advancing Trump's tax spending cuts
(03:05):
and setting concerns about medicaid. Trump's reaction on social media
on Trosey says, great news. Good we didn't want him anyway,
that's your dad. The Supreme Court on Friday, making it
a very big winning week. Last week a flurry of
major rulings. Here's what you need to know in a
(03:26):
huge win for parental rights. This happened all Friday morning.
Scottish ruling sixty three. Parents can opt their kids out
of a pornographic and questionable LGBTQ plus content or lessons
in school if it violates their religious beliefs. President comes
calling that a tremendous victory. But that's not all. There's
(03:49):
actually more. The court struck down nationwide injunctions. Judges can't
block federal policies across the board anymore. States can now
cut off Medicaid funds to plan parenthood. Another big when
Texas can require age verifications for adult websites to protect
kids online. Unfortunately they upheld Obamacare is preventative care mandates
(04:10):
and screatings and meds like preps they covered. They preserve
funding for rural internet through the Universal Service Fund. And
there's a few more. But listen, some of these are off. Uh,
they're just a little off the mark for us. But
we got big wins and we're gonna celebrate those. One
(04:34):
big case, the Louisiana redistricting question repunting. They're gonna punt
that to the next term. And they're not done. Still
more on the way. We're gonna stay tuned for some
of the latest there. All right, hang on there. In
the meantime, want to give you a chance to weigh
in on another big, beautiful week. The back and forth
(04:56):
on the bill. I've seen polling and I'm just curious,
and I take the pull with you. Are you for
these tax cuts? I mean, essentially, these are tax cuts
that Trump passed first time around that he wants to
see made permanent. Where are you on this? Because there's
been a lot of question and I think maybe propaganda,
(05:19):
uh in some disagreement.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I think.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I'll just call it and I think some ways rifle
and acting in goodwill, good faith from some Republicans.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But what do you make.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
About this one big, beautiful bill and the chance to
get it through an adding to the list of.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
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Speaker 3 (05:56):
Oh and Yeah, they're pushing the hunks again.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
A new narrative emerging last week of talking about the
US strikes in Iran. According to the latest head of
the UN's nuclear watch dog, Raphael Crossi, Iran could resume
could is the key word, and resuming resume enriching uranium
within months. They don't know that for sure, but he
believes it's possible. Talked about that on CBS. We'll get
(06:22):
some of those pieces coming up in just moments.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
But first, Trump.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
In his own words, this is on Maria's show over
the weekend, thinking about how big and beautiful the league was.
It was so fantastic, But it really is. It's hard
to imagine how it could have been any better.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
You were just coming off of one of the most
consequential weeks anybody has ever seen, from striking Iran, to
going to NATO, to announcing two deals and then the
Supreme Court victory. Have you been able to digest what
has occurred in the last seven days.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Not really, It was pretty wild curiod of time. I
think in six months, we've taken the country and turned
it around. It's I was told by the King of
Saudi Arabia, by the leader of Qatar and the leader
of UOE when we went over there. We've worked back
five point one trillion dollars investment into the United States.
They said, you know, you're presiding now over the hottest
(07:18):
country in the world, and a year ago we thought
your country was dead. It could never come back. It
was so incompetently run by a very band president. And
I said, you're right, this country is hot. And that
was a couple of months ago. You know, now we're
talking about what we've done recently. So the country is
(07:38):
really going and the numbers are great. I watch you
in the mornings and you're given those numbers and they're
really good. No inflation. We have a bad fed chairman,
but other than that, we have feed that great. It
doesn't even matter. The numbers are so good. It doesn't
matter that he keeps the rates artificially high. But it's
it's been an amazing it's been an amazing period of time.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Big beautiful winning week last week, absolutely fantastic. You know,
there is something about this leak story again. It's trying
to rear its ugly head again. IgA. It's trying to
just take the sail, the wind out of the sales.
Whatever they can do to try to bring.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Trump down.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I think that's essentially what they've been doing since day one.
Every hoax, Russia, Russia or Russia, all the rest of it,
in every single one.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Is all bit by the way, you remember the.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Classified documents when they write tomar Alago, et cetera, that
they said was all about Iran, something about selling nuclear
secrets or something like that. Remember that if if my
memory serves me, C, maybe it's wrong, correct me if
I'm if I'm wrong. That was Wasn't that all about
nuclear secrets? And the Democrats at the time tried to
(08:55):
push They thought that Trump was going to be the
one out there pushing and selling nuclear secrets.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
At a price. Meanwhile he's out bombing. It's just one we.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Treated the Democrats leaked intelligence.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Or should be prosecuted specifically. Do I know people did it?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Well, you're able to find out.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
By that if they wondered, they could find out easily.
You know, you go up and tell the reporter national
security who gave it.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
You have to do that.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
And I suspect we'll be doing things like that.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
This is interesting. What a question? What do you do
with these folks? You find out who they are and
you prosecute him?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Is what he says.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
These people that are that are leaking little bits and pieces. Again,
we told you last week they're out there pushing this
story again today. It's on Intel that's limited, it's on
Intel that isn't full in scope and in context. And
of course they're out there pushing. As I told you
(09:53):
last week, it's crazy. They're pushing this hoax, pushing it
on us once again, trying to get you the belief
that the strike was not massive in the scope and
the scale, it was not historic, and it did not
make peace in the Middle East. That's just nothing could
(10:13):
be further from the truth, folks. I mean all of
this it is in a look. I guess what I
would say to you is it is hard sometimes to
even fat when things are going so well. It's hard
to fathom how well they are going. And we have
a tendency to always point and look for the negative
(10:35):
in some ways. All right, I want to give you
a chance to weigh in on the phone lines coming up.
You'll have a shot to do that next if you
want to jump in. Also, the iHeartRadio app wherever you
download your podcast, you're going to get a chance to
join the conversation at any time. So just get on
the phone and we will let you sound off. After this.
(11:00):
It's West Michigan Live. Justin Barkley back next. But first,
if you're able, please all rise for our national anthem.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
F y I like literally, It's West Michigan Live with
Justin Barclay on News Radio Wood thirteen hundred and one
oh six nine a FM.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Here are your headlines from the Midwesterner this Monday, June thirtieth.
I'm Robin Poffman. We begin with a Midwesterner dot news
original story. A Michigan Democrat a no show as Congress
considered a bill to deport illegal aliens busted for drunk driving.
One Democrat representative from Michigan didn't bother to cast a vote.
House Resolution eight seventy five ultimately cleared the lower chamber
(12:55):
with a vote of two o nine to one sixty,
with thirty seven Democrats voting in some However, fifteen Democrats
did not vote, including Representative Haley Stevens, who's running to
replace Senator Gary Peters. In twenty twenty six, in Flint,
vandals stealing a pollution monitoring station for scrap metal. This
is at least the third time the facility has been vandalized.
(13:19):
And on Capitol Hill, one of the holdouts on President
Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is Kentucky Senator Republican Rand Paul.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
The bill increases the debt ceiling by five trillion dollars.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
That doesn't sound at all conservative to me.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
For these stories and more, visit The Midwesterner at the
Midwesterner Dot.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
New I'll tell you what the US automakers are worried about.
They don't want Japan and Korea to have a lower tariff.
If you do a deal with them, then the US
automakers are paying well.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
The US automakers are going to be so busy selling
cars in the US and not gonna even have to
worry about it. But that won't happen because I said
a tariff. Let's say I take a certain country and
I set a tariff at twenty five and they're charging
thirty five or forty. Always a tariff to thirty five
or forty. Did it come down.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
I'll tell you about the.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
US talking to them, talking about the automakers. There he
is over the week in Maria's show talking about the automakers.
In the course, tariff's being a big part of that conversation,
and of course President Trump trying to make clear that
what he's going to do is make these folks happy
by making sure that everyone has to Hey, remember, pay
(14:32):
their fair share. When the Left says that we'll let
this pay your fair share with these foreign made auto.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Tariffs is what's bringing the companies in. We have auto
companies building plants where they wouldn't have built here in
a hundred years. We have more investment in the United
States right now than we've ever had before. Think of it. Yeah,
up to almost fifteen trillion dollars. Look at this guy
from last year, what kind of numbers they were to
people leaving? They were coming in.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Now they're coming in.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Like you said, you brought wealth back to America.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Well and in spirit back we have spirit.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
It's beautiful, beautiful all I gotta get to Mike and
white Owming on the phones.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
First.
Speaker 9 (15:11):
Mike, good morning, Good morning, Justin.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Say, Justin, I probably talked a little bit to you
about this before, on this tax bill. Just seniors aren't
too happy about this deal?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Why not? Why not?
Speaker 8 (15:27):
But I'm going to tell you a guy, Justin, people
like me and my wife, we work part times apps
to supplement that that pity social security we get because
in these days and times, forty two or three thousand
dollars for a couple is poverty money? Justin, could you
live on that?
Speaker 9 (15:46):
Now? Hear me out?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Wait a minute, Well, let me let me ask you though, Mike.
Let's set the table there. I agree with you. I
understand that.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Is that Trump's fault? Is that Trump's fault?
Speaker 8 (15:58):
No, okay, let's get one thing clear, all right, this
is not got Trump's got nothing to do with this.
This is what Trump promised. It's the Congress, our good old,
good old can't do it Republicans that work again and
the rest of them justin, Okay, finding dandy. We still
pay in with it, but working part time, that's the
(16:20):
beauty of it. We should be rewarded by not texting
us on a single penny of it. We again, are
getting nothing out of this deal.
Speaker 9 (16:27):
Justin.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
It's our prerogatives in America to better our living because
we can't live on what we paid in there for
social We're glad we got the social We worked and
paid into it entire work and it's your money. Yes,
penalize this now.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Well, I agree with Yeah, I'm going to give us.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
Four thousand dollars reduction. But that's still ain't good enough.
It's got to be nothing.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
Take it up now.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I agree. Listen, I agree with you. Mike. How old
are you? And uh, maybe don't tell us how your
wife is back?
Speaker 9 (16:55):
Twenty one seventy one. I still work thirty hours a week.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Yeah, I don't have to, but I don't want to
live under a rock. I didn't get no inheritances from nobody,
me or my wife. We had to pay to marry
our folks. We've got work in an expense, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
So okay, so you should be getting eight thousand dollars
in deductions, so they the way that And by the way, listen,
I totally understand your your frustration here, and I got
to clear I gotta clean some of it up because
unfortunately some of this, some of this, yeah, let me
(17:35):
let me walk through it, because you're right, You're absolutely right.
You've worked all your life. You should be able to retire, right,
and this this is so security I need. The money
is yours.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
But I got to.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, I know, I one hundred percent agree with that too,
I really do. I think it's absolutely disgusting. They want
to tax you, uh all the way up until you're
dead and the beyond. It's just it's just disgusting what
they do. Now, let's break it, Mike. I gotta take
a break here. I gotta break some of this down.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
You can hold.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
You can hold if you want to come back and try,
just try and explain some of this because I think
you're right, but I also want to make sure that
I'm clear on some of the things that are in
in in this as it stands. Now again, they got
all these amendments. They're going to do this Voterama thing today,
so there's there's a lot that could still yet change,
but it might.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Get to your point.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
You're absolutely right, and your frustration is is certainly heard
and appreciated.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I can tell you that much. Hang on.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Back in just a moment. Got to take our quick
break at the bottom the art is. We're already flying
fastest town Radio, flying by the seat of our pants soaks.
Another big, beautiful week is underway, and we appreciate you
being here with us for it. It's an Independence Day week,
and Mike's saying, I don't really feel that free.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Let's set the record straight on some of this coming up.
You want freedom, real freedom. You can run around do
what you want this summer with your kids or your grandkids.
Enjoy the sunshine, the fresh air, get back on track,
no matter what.
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Speaker 2 (19:36):
I got to clear some of these things up, got
more audio from the weekend, the one Big Beautiful Bill
and more. You know, look, I understand there's a lot
of back and forth in this, and I get why.
I think one of the areas where the White House
maybe could effectively communicate a little bit better, is this
(19:58):
particular situation now Again, No, there's nobody in the media
that's going to do them any any help in getting
the truth out about any of this. So you've got
to realize that, first of all, they're working them again.
I mean, just look what just happened in Iran. I
mean there's a monumental, historic achievement about what they were
(20:19):
able to accomplish this mission. It involved the military and
everything else, and yet the media has still been able
to sew seeds of doubt and use that to divide
even conservatives and Republicans. So you just got to realize
when they're gonna and they're gonna do it with everything,
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and they've been effective in some things that should be
just pretty plain and simple and obvious when it comes
to something like this. I mean, you really have to
work over time. You're the White House, you're a president there.
You really have to work over time to explain these
things to people and make sure that people get it
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and they and they they can understand because it is there.
There's nuance to this that doesn't come out in a
SoundBite or in a news report. That's just it's just
part of how this this works now I'm not telling uh.
For instance, Mike and Wyamy the call that just came through,
and Mike's a great guy, calls in quite a bit,
(21:22):
love love him listenings.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I think he's right.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I think he's he's right to be upset with the
conditions first and foremost that he's in right now that
that you know he can't get by on what uh,
social security provides. I would say though that I would
the idea is social securities is a is a safety
that right, It's it's supposed to be there to catch
you so you can you can have.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Help if you know, if if you need it. Now.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
The ideal is to invest retirement. You know four oh one, K,
I ra all that right in the meantime, right, that
would be the ideal as you're going through your working
years and to be ready to be able to play. Now,
not everybody can do that, and not everybody has to
say everybody can do that. The length of which you
(22:11):
can't will is a different situation, and you know, I
get everybody's different, So I'm not gonna harp on that point, fingers,
But what I will say is that none of this
is President Trump's fault. So we have to set the
record straight on a couple of things what the big
beautiful bill can do and what it can't do. So
number one, if you were to ask, you know, GROC
(22:34):
which is the AI version, elon musk has on on
X or you know chat SHEETPT or one of these,
it would give you a similar breakdown.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
But this is essentially what it would say.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
The bill does not include a provision to eliminate taxes
on social Security benefits, despite the campaign promised.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
To do so. Now let me just stop. There doesn't mean.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That that won't actually happen in his term, and let
me explain why. Instead of eliminating that social security tax,
which I think I agree with wholeheartedly, does need to
get eliminated. I agree with no tax on overtime. That
wait till you hear what they've done with that too.
That's a whole other issue. Where you get Congress involved,
(23:22):
this is what happens. They start monking. And that's part
of what you're going to see today is at the
Senate they're going to have voterama, they're going to be
voting on amendments, and they're gonna try and changing things.
But then this thing's got to go back to the House,
you know that, right, and they got to either say, well,
we're good with this or we're not.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
The eventually president has to sign it.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
But the one big, beautiful bill, the most important piece
of the whole thing, is to make sure that they
solidify the Trump tax cuts from the previous administration and
they make them permit it. If not, they were temporary,
so if not, we're going to be in a world
(24:03):
of hurt. But they've got to get that done. That's
the first and foremost, the very first thing that has
to be done here. Everything else is secondary and comes next.
So let's talk about social security, because this isn't an
issue I believe is important. He ran on this and
then we ought to see that happen. Now, this particular
(24:25):
bill cannot do what Trump has promised. This particular bill
cannot actually make that happen. Why, it's all in the
rules of how the Senate works. Okay, how does this work?
First of all, let me tell you what they are
going to do. Because you can't take taxes off completely
(24:47):
out of Social Security. I want to make this as
clear as they can. So what they've done is they're
going to offer tax relief. It's a measure for seniors,
an additional standard deduction of four thousand dollars for individuals
sixty five and older, or eight thousand dollars for couples
(25:07):
filing jointly. So you may pay the tax that'll come
out on your Social Security check, but at the end
of the year, when you do your taxes, you'll getting
it back, or at least four to eight thousand if
you're an individual, four thousand if you're a couple filing jointly,
eight thousand dollars. Now, this bill says you can only
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get that done with incomes up to seventy five thousand
dollars for single filers or one hundred and fifty thousand
for joint filers.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
So Mike, who was listening.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Said, we got to go out and get part time
jobs just to be able to make it to the
level that we're used to. And I don't blame it
for that. I was just tell you on another note,
I don't. As long as I can work, I'm going
to work. But I understand being able to have the
choice and be able to have the freedom you ought
to be able to do what you want to do,
and especially when you've planned all your life and you've
(26:02):
made choices based on these things. So get this again,
four thousand dollars first single filers in comes up to
seventy five thousand dollars eight thousand dollars for couples filing jointly.
That's up to one hundred and fifty dollars one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars on joint filers. The Senate version
proposes a higher six thousand dollars deduction. The deduction is
(26:26):
temporarily set to expire in twenty twenty eight. Now again,
as I'm giving you these numbers, now it's just a
snapshot in time.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
What do I mean by that all of this can change.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
None of this is permanent yet, it's all just being
discussed and debated, so this can all change again.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I'm not trying to get in the weeds, but I'm
trying to warn you.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
One, you've got to understand the nuance to these things.
There's number one, the rules issue. They can't do what
they want to do right away because of the rules
of how they're moving this particular bill forward. And number two,
they still could go and say at another point, we
don't want anyone with Social Security that have to pay
(27:11):
taxes on it after sixty five years old. They can
still do that now. I don't know if that's in
a planned or will, but I would just say keep
your powder dry in the meantime, keep your powder dry
on this because everybody getting all worked up, and I
totally understand why in some ways, and I get I
(27:33):
get it. You're being pulled around by the nose by
so many different folks here. But this bill isn't perfect.
Nothing ever is. We've got to we've got to move
it forward, right, we gotta advance it, and we got
to keep it as much in tactics.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
And maybe this maybe the city can make it better.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I hold my breath for that, but maybe they can
make it better or hold it as much intact as possible.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Get this passed.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
And then you say, but what about all the dog cuts,
what about the promise to do this no tax on
social Security, et cetera. Well those things come in different bills.
This bill is first. While I love Thomas Massey and
Ran Paul and the rest of them, look, I love them.
They have always been They've always been folks who said
(28:21):
we got to get the debt in line where pet
we're spending too much money.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
And I agree with them.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I didn't agree with him on that in fact, But
this particular bill, if it's not passed and doesn't go through,
is catastrophic.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Can you forget about debt?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
You can forget about any of that stuff, because this
would have more catastrophic consequences that those tax cuts don't
get passed and get through.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Trust me, you do not want to see that happen.
But each one of these pieces is a piece of
the puzzle, and it fits in with the others. It's
got to work.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
You get this passed, then you go through and you
start with the other recision they call these recision bills,
and they will go through and take some of the
spending off that they promised to do it, and in
some of the dose cuts, all of that's gonna come off.
They're going to cut, cut, cut, and don't forget all.
While they're doing this, he's also increasing income or revenue
into the country through terris then a record number of revenue.
(29:20):
And I believe the tax cuts will also increase revenue
as well. Now and you say, how is that possible.
That's always how it works. You cut taxes, you will
increase revenue because more people are going to be willing
to go out there and put it on the line
and of course take those risks. It pays off every
single time. So again, the exclusion of a full tax
(29:40):
exemption on Social Security benefits is largely due to Senate
rules governing the budget reconciliation process, which Republicans use to
pass the bill with a simple majority. Why, because we
don't have the votes in order to go through the
budget reconciliation process. We need just a simple majority. That's
fifty one to forty nine. That's all we need to vote. Now,
(30:06):
if we didn't do that, we'd have to have like
sixty whatever the votes are, and those are just not there.
They're just not there. I mean, they're peeling off Republicans
every day. The latest is this tellus, guys is I'm
not running. I'm not gonna run for reelection. And that
Trump says, good, Maybe we can finally put a Republican.
(30:27):
We can finally put a conservative in there. So these
are parts and pieces of the nuance that you have
to understand. So all of that to tell you, I
get frustrations, and I'm by the way, you're allowed to
be frustrated. I'm fine with that. But let's also make
(30:47):
sure that we completely understand exactly how this is all
going to play out. And some of it again moving pieces,
moving parts here, This is gonna.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Change over time.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
It's going to just the nature of how this all works.
So that to be said again, if they're gonna lie
to you about the attack and Iran and they're coming
after him on even that, imagine what they'll do in
a situation like this. Of course they're going to be
able to get you all worked up over it.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Cutting one point seven let's see, we're cutting yeah, one
point seven trillion, think of it. I think I just
saw the number a little while ago.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
One points. That's big news, point seven trillion dollars.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
But we can grow our country so much more than that,
and we're not gonna have to do. You also have
to get elected, you know, when you do cutting, and
you have to be a little bit careful because people
don't like necessarily cutting if they get used to something.
And what I want to do is do it through growth.
We're gonna have growth like we've never seen before.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Cutting there, I go, that's that's part of the planet's
all part of it. Walk through what grab your calls to.
There's still a much more and more winning. By the way,
a beautiful winning week last week, another.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
One on tap. Only time will tell.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Speaking of that growth, they've had some record weeks at
the market. Do we continue well, we're already up two
hundred points today, the S and P five hundred outing
to its records as investors bet on those trade deals
that we could get word of any day. So that's
(32:27):
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in Flint and Air monitoring station is busted after vandals
steal parts of it to make money off scrap metal.
This is at least the third time the environ mental
facility has been targeted. Susan Kilmer with the Michigan Department
(34:04):
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we were looking at our daily data first thing in
the morning, we noticed that the Flint.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Site had stopped reporting, and so we thought, well, maybe
there's a power outage now.
Speaker 7 (34:18):
Detectives estimate the parts stolen worth around thirty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
In other news, under.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
The previous order, the Senate stands adjourned until nine am.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
President Trump staying in DC over the weekend as senators
worked on the Big Beautiful Bill, a key procedural vote
of fifty one to forty nine advancing the measure, and
then for close to sixteen hours it was read out
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Speaker 8 (35:02):
Four.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
As somebody just mentioned on the behind the scenes last
streak on the chat talking about money that we're spending
and how we're spending too much, and I again that's
another another point I agree with. I think it's a
fair when recision packages we just mentioned off the here
that have been been already introduced. One they're looking at
right now nine point four billion. So again this is
(35:27):
just to begin with. But this is all the USA
d DEI PBS remember sessing me straight for a rack
or whatever it was that they wanted to do. I mean,
you just look at all the money they're wasting. Now
this is just us dropping the bucket. But that is
part of some of the dose cuts. And that's again
another piece that's yet to come, so good to keep
(35:49):
in mind. Let's jump back on off. Steve is up
next in Finnville. Steve, good morning, welcome.
Speaker 9 (35:54):
In, good morning, justin.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
How you doing fantastic, sir.
Speaker 9 (35:58):
Now, I'm not super positive about this. I would suggest
that people check with their tax professional. But a four
thousand dollars deduction, let's say that you make two thousand
dollars a year from Social Security. Four thousand dollars deduction
(36:18):
means you take four thousand dollars off that twenty four
hundred dollars or the twenty four thousand dollars a year.
If you make two thousand dollars a month, Now that
brings it down the twenty one hundred, twenty one thousand.
You're you're paying taxes on twenty one thousand. If you're
(36:41):
in a twenty five percent tax bracket, that means your
actual tax savings is about one thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Yeah, I'm not I'm not an account I have.
Speaker 9 (36:53):
No I have no got that four thousand dollars deduction
is not well, four thousand dollars tax coming back to
you in your pocket, oh se four thousand.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
I see what you're saying.
Speaker 9 (37:04):
You're at the gross, then you pay taxes on what's left,
which is twenty twenty one thousand. Yeah, Now you take
that twenty five percent tax bracket if you happen to
be in that bracket, be it twenty five percent or
thirty percent. But let's just say twenty five percent tax bracket.
(37:25):
Has the bottle next one thousand dollars a year that
you're not paying in taxes.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
I wonder how much they're paying anyway, if they're if
they're you know, getting bottom of the barrel. Let's say
it is you know, the X amount of dollars, but
you know, uh, you're making seventy five thousand. Now that's
that's that's pretty high he meant. He mentioned earlier that
(37:52):
they're getting forty thousand. I think that was together on
their social security So right, So how much that can
even be Would you be.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Paying in taxes? Not allowed because you want to keep
every bit of it. I know that.
Speaker 9 (38:07):
Yeah. So still it's it's like any other deduction. You
got your gross you've made for the year, then you
take your deductions off it, your property taxes, you've given
the charity.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
You do.
Speaker 9 (38:21):
All this stuff is track that figure from your gross.
What's left over is what you pay taxes on.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
YEP, I got it.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Hey, thank you, Steve, Steve, thank you for the clarification
on that. And I appreciate the call. This is that this,
but this just I think solidifies the point here. There's
nuance to.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
All of this.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
So before we get all bit out of shape on
our hair out on this stuff, give them time, allow
them to work this true, because I mean, again, we're
just in the first half of the first year of
this presidency. So and I put that in there, and
and uh and remember that, Thank you, Steve, thank you
(39:00):
for the cloud. I appreciate that. Again, My point was
only to tell you they're trying. They're already lying to
you every single time they get up there, and they
move their lips when it comes to these stories. You
look at what they just did with Iran, Well, this
is the same thing. Don't get bent out of shape.
Definitely do all your due diligence and research. Don't believe
everything you hear on the radio, even or TV.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
Even me.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
You know, would do our best to get it right,
but sometimes that doesn't always happen right.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
But definitely make sure you get all of the information
you can't and keep your powdered RYE. That's well, that's
the best I can say for you. Anyway. It's the
fastest Starre radio have already flown by.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
I got some great stories and some really good news
I didn't get a chance to even barely scratch surface on.
We will do that, in fact in the after show.
That's what we credit it for. It's the show after
the show Ian to make sure you're up to speed
on all things that are flying together. And of course
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Back program is coming up next. Thank you so much
for being here with us today, folks.
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Speaker 3 (00:41):
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It's a big, beautiful, winning week. We'll talk more about
last week on the way, but first, in heartbreaking story
out of Idaho, we're following two firefighters killed a third
injured Sunday while responding to a brush fire in Portal Lane.
According to the county sheriff there, the crew came under
fire as they arrive. Firefighters night authorities discovering the ceaseman
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the Canfield Mountain with a fire arm nearby. Investigators believe
he started that fire and then he opened fire on.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
The firefighters there when they responded to shelter and placewholder
has been left in a community, left grieving, still searching
for answers, and we continue to keep them in our prayers.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Today. It's one big beautiful bill advancing in the Senate
over the weekend, the Senate kicking off a marathon voting
session at welt nine just moments ago and course worked
through President Trump sweeping at gender bill. The lawmakers there
can offer unlimited amendments, so that's that's what we're probably
(02:41):
gonna see. Lots of back and forth on amendments before
a final vote lay the landscape for that. It's expected
to be a long day, by the way. Meanwhile, big
political news over the weekend. North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis
said not only is a no, but he's just a
no for running in twenty twenty six. It's one of
two Republicans who voted against advancing Trump's tax spending cuts
(03:05):
and setting concerns about medicaid. Trump's reaction on social media
on Trosey says, great news. Good we didn't want him anyway,
that's your dad. The Supreme Court on Friday, making it
a very big winning week. Last week a flurry of
major rulings. Here's what you need to know in a
(03:26):
huge win for parental rights. This happened all Friday morning.
Scottish ruling sixty three. Parents can opt their kids out
of a pornographic and questionable LGBTQ plus content or lessons
in school if it violates their religious beliefs. President comes
calling that a tremendous victory. But that's not all. There's
(03:49):
actually more. The court struck down nationwide injunctions. Judges can't
block federal policies across the board anymore. States can now
cut off Medicaid funds to plan parenthood. Another big when
Texas can require age verifications for adult websites to protect
kids online. Unfortunately they upheld Obamacare is preventative care mandates
(04:10):
and screatings and meds like preps they covered. They preserve
funding for rural internet through the Universal Service Fund. And
there's a few more. But listen, some of these are off. Uh,
they're just a little off the mark for us. But
we got big wins and we're gonna celebrate those. One
(04:34):
big case, the Louisiana redistricting question repunting. They're gonna punt
that to the next term. And they're not done. Still
more on the way. We're gonna stay tuned for some
of the latest there. All right, hang on there. In
the meantime, want to give you a chance to weigh
in on another big, beautiful week. The back and forth
(04:56):
on the bill. I've seen polling and I'm just curious,
and I take the pull with you. Are you for
these tax cuts? I mean, essentially, these are tax cuts
that Trump passed first time around that he wants to
see made permanent. Where are you on this? Because there's
been a lot of question and I think maybe propaganda,
(05:19):
uh in some disagreement.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I think.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I'll just call it and I think some ways rifle
and acting in goodwill, good faith from some Republicans.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But what do you make.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
About this one big, beautiful bill and the chance to
get it through an adding to the list of.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
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Speaker 3 (05:56):
Oh and Yeah, they're pushing the hunks again.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
A new narrative emerging last week of talking about the
US strikes in Iran. According to the latest head of
the UN's nuclear watch dog, Raphael Crossi, Iran could resume
could is the key word, and resuming resume enriching uranium
within months. They don't know that for sure, but he
believes it's possible. Talked about that on CBS. We'll get
(06:22):
some of those pieces coming up in just moments.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
But first, Trump.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
In his own words, this is on Maria's show over
the weekend, thinking about how big and beautiful the league was.
It was so fantastic, But it really is. It's hard
to imagine how it could have been any better.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
You were just coming off of one of the most
consequential weeks anybody has ever seen, from striking Iran, to
going to NATO, to announcing two deals and then the
Supreme Court victory. Have you been able to digest what
has occurred in the last seven days.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Not really, It was pretty wild curiod of time. I
think in six months, we've taken the country and turned
it around. It's I was told by the King of
Saudi Arabia, by the leader of Qatar and the leader
of UOE when we went over there. We've worked back
five point one trillion dollars investment into the United States.
They said, you know, you're presiding now over the hottest
(07:18):
country in the world, and a year ago we thought
your country was dead. It could never come back. It
was so incompetently run by a very band president. And
I said, you're right, this country is hot. And that
was a couple of months ago. You know, now we're
talking about what we've done recently. So the country is
(07:38):
really going and the numbers are great. I watch you
in the mornings and you're given those numbers and they're
really good. No inflation. We have a bad fed chairman,
but other than that, we have feed that great. It
doesn't even matter. The numbers are so good. It doesn't
matter that he keeps the rates artificially high. But it's
it's been an amazing it's been an amazing period of time.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Big beautiful winning week last week, absolutely fantastic. You know,
there is something about this leak story again. It's trying
to rear its ugly head again. IgA. It's trying to
just take the sail, the wind out of the sales.
Whatever they can do to try to bring.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Trump down.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I think that's essentially what they've been doing since day one.
Every hoax, Russia, Russia or Russia, all the rest of it,
in every single one.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Is all bit by the way, you remember the.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Classified documents when they write tomar Alago, et cetera, that
they said was all about Iran, something about selling nuclear
secrets or something like that. Remember that if if my
memory serves me, C, maybe it's wrong, correct me if
I'm if I'm wrong. That was Wasn't that all about
nuclear secrets? And the Democrats at the time tried to
(08:55):
push They thought that Trump was going to be the
one out there pushing and selling nuclear secrets.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
At a price. Meanwhile he's out bombing. It's just one we.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
Treated the Democrats leaked intelligence.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Or should be prosecuted specifically. Do I know people did it?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Well, you're able to find out.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
By that if they wondered, they could find out easily.
You know, you go up and tell the reporter national
security who gave it.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
You have to do that.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
And I suspect we'll be doing things like that.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
This is interesting. What a question? What do you do
with these folks? You find out who they are and
you prosecute him?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Is what he says.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
These people that are that are leaking little bits and pieces. Again,
we told you last week they're out there pushing this
story again today. It's on Intel that's limited, it's on
Intel that isn't full in scope and in context. And
of course they're out there pushing. As I told you
(09:53):
last week, it's crazy. They're pushing this hoax, pushing it
on us once again, trying to get you the belief
that the strike was not massive in the scope and
the scale, it was not historic, and it did not
make peace in the Middle East. That's just nothing could
(10:13):
be further from the truth, folks. I mean all of
this it is in a look. I guess what I
would say to you is it is hard sometimes to
even fat when things are going so well. It's hard
to fathom how well they are going. And we have
a tendency to always point and look for the negative
(10:35):
in some ways. All right, I want to give you
a chance to weigh in on the phone lines coming up.
You'll have a shot to do that next if you
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(11:00):
It's West Michigan Live. Justin Barkley back next. But first,
if you're able, please all rise for our national anthem.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
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I'm Robin Poffman. We begin with a Midwesterner dot news
original story. A Michigan Democrat a no show as Congress
considered a bill to deport illegal aliens busted for drunk driving.
One Democrat representative from Michigan didn't bother to cast a vote.
House Resolution eight seventy five ultimately cleared the lower chamber
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with a vote of two o nine to one sixty,
with thirty seven Democrats voting in some However, fifteen Democrats
did not vote, including Representative Haley Stevens, who's running to
replace Senator Gary Peters. In twenty twenty six, in Flint,
vandals stealing a pollution monitoring station for scrap metal. This
is at least the third time the facility has been vandalized.
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And on Capitol Hill, one of the holdouts on President
Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is Kentucky Senator Republican Rand Paul.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
The bill increases the debt ceiling by five trillion dollars.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
That doesn't sound at all conservative to me.
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Speaker 5 (13:36):
New I'll tell you what the US automakers are worried about.
They don't want Japan and Korea to have a lower tariff.
If you do a deal with them, then the US
automakers are paying well.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
The US automakers are going to be so busy selling
cars in the US and not gonna even have to
worry about it. But that won't happen because I said
a tariff. Let's say I take a certain country and
I set a tariff at twenty five and they're charging
thirty five or forty. Always a tariff to thirty five
or forty. Did it come down.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
I'll tell you about the.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
US talking to them, talking about the automakers. There he
is over the week in Maria's show talking about the automakers.
In the course, tariff's being a big part of that conversation,
and of course President Trump trying to make clear that
what he's going to do is make these folks happy
by making sure that everyone has to Hey, remember, pay
(14:32):
their fair share. When the Left says that we'll let
this pay your fair share with these foreign made auto.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Tariffs is what's bringing the companies in. We have auto
companies building plants where they wouldn't have built here in
a hundred years. We have more investment in the United
States right now than we've ever had before. Think of it. Yeah,
up to almost fifteen trillion dollars. Look at this guy
from last year, what kind of numbers they were to
people leaving? They were coming in.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Now they're coming in.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Like you said, you brought wealth back to America.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Well and in spirit back we have spirit.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
It's beautiful, beautiful all I gotta get to Mike and
white Owming on the phones.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
First.
Speaker 9 (15:11):
Mike, good morning, Good morning, Justin.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Say, Justin, I probably talked a little bit to you
about this before, on this tax bill. Just seniors aren't
too happy about this deal?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Why not? Why not?
Speaker 8 (15:27):
But I'm going to tell you a guy, Justin, people
like me and my wife, we work part times apps
to supplement that that pity social security we get because
in these days and times, forty two or three thousand
dollars for a couple is poverty money? Justin, could you
live on that?
Speaker 9 (15:46):
Now? Hear me out?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Wait a minute, Well, let me let me ask you though, Mike.
Let's set the table there. I agree with you. I
understand that.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Is that Trump's fault? Is that Trump's fault?
Speaker 8 (15:58):
No, okay, let's get one thing clear, all right, this
is not got Trump's got nothing to do with this.
This is what Trump promised. It's the Congress, our good old,
good old can't do it Republicans that work again and
the rest of them justin, Okay, finding dandy. We still
pay in with it, but working part time, that's the
(16:20):
beauty of it. We should be rewarded by not texting
us on a single penny of it. We again, are
getting nothing out of this deal.
Speaker 9 (16:27):
Justin.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
It's our prerogatives in America to better our living because
we can't live on what we paid in there for
social We're glad we got the social We worked and
paid into it entire work and it's your money. Yes,
penalize this now.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Well, I agree with Yeah, I'm going to give us.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
Four thousand dollars reduction. But that's still ain't good enough.
It's got to be nothing.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
Take it up now.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
I agree. Listen, I agree with you. Mike. How old
are you? And uh, maybe don't tell us how your
wife is back?
Speaker 9 (16:55):
Twenty one seventy one. I still work thirty hours a week.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
Yeah, I don't have to, but I don't want to
live under a rock. I didn't get no inheritances from nobody,
me or my wife. We had to pay to marry
our folks. We've got work in an expense, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
So okay, so you should be getting eight thousand dollars
in deductions, so they the way that And by the way, listen,
I totally understand your your frustration here, and I got
to clear I gotta clean some of it up because
unfortunately some of this, some of this, yeah, let me
(17:35):
let me walk through it, because you're right, You're absolutely right.
You've worked all your life. You should be able to retire, right,
and this this is so security I need. The money
is yours.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
But I got to.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, I know, I one hundred percent agree with that too,
I really do. I think it's absolutely disgusting. They want
to tax you, uh all the way up until you're
dead and the beyond. It's just it's just disgusting what
they do. Now, let's break it, Mike. I gotta take
a break here. I gotta break some of this down.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
You can hold.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
You can hold if you want to come back and try,
just try and explain some of this because I think
you're right, but I also want to make sure that
I'm clear on some of the things that are in
in in this as it stands. Now again, they got
all these amendments. They're going to do this Voterama thing today,
so there's there's a lot that could still yet change,
but it might.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Get to your point.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
You're absolutely right, and your frustration is is certainly heard
and appreciated.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I can tell you that much. Hang on.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
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I got to clear some of these things up, got
more audio from the weekend, the one Big Beautiful Bill
and more. You know, look, I understand there's a lot
of back and forth in this, and I get why.
I think one of the areas where the White House
maybe could effectively communicate a little bit better, is this
(19:58):
particular situation now Again, No, there's nobody in the media
that's going to do them any any help in getting
the truth out about any of this. So you've got
to realize that, first of all, they're working them again.
I mean, just look what just happened in Iran. I
mean there's a monumental, historic achievement about what they were
(20:19):
able to accomplish this mission. It involved the military and
everything else, and yet the media has still been able
to sew seeds of doubt and use that to divide
even conservatives and Republicans. So you just got to realize
when they're gonna and they're gonna do it with everything,
(20:40):
and they've been effective in some things that should be
just pretty plain and simple and obvious when it comes
to something like this. I mean, you really have to
work over time. You're the White House, you're a president there.
You really have to work over time to explain these
things to people and make sure that people get it
(21:01):
and they and they they can understand because it is there.
There's nuance to this that doesn't come out in a
SoundBite or in a news report. That's just it's just
part of how this this works now I'm not telling uh.
For instance, Mike and Wyamy the call that just came through,
and Mike's a great guy, calls in quite a bit,
(21:22):
love love him listenings.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I think he's right.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I think he's he's right to be upset with the
conditions first and foremost that he's in right now that
that you know he can't get by on what uh,
social security provides. I would say though that I would
the idea is social securities is a is a safety
that right, It's it's supposed to be there to catch
you so you can you can have.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Help if you know, if if you need it. Now.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
The ideal is to invest retirement. You know four oh one, K,
I ra all that right in the meantime, right, that
would be the ideal as you're going through your working
years and to be ready to be able to play. Now,
not everybody can do that, and not everybody has to
say everybody can do that. The length of which you
(22:11):
can't will is a different situation, and you know, I
get everybody's different, So I'm not gonna harp on that point, fingers,
But what I will say is that none of this
is President Trump's fault. So we have to set the
record straight on a couple of things what the big
beautiful bill can do and what it can't do. So
number one, if you were to ask, you know, GROC
(22:34):
which is the AI version, elon musk has on on
X or you know chat SHEETPT or one of these,
it would give you a similar breakdown.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
But this is essentially what it would say.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
The bill does not include a provision to eliminate taxes
on social Security benefits, despite the campaign promised.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
To do so. Now let me just stop. There doesn't mean.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That that won't actually happen in his term, and let
me explain why. Instead of eliminating that social security tax,
which I think I agree with wholeheartedly, does need to
get eliminated. I agree with no tax on overtime. That
wait till you hear what they've done with that too.
That's a whole other issue. Where you get Congress involved,
(23:22):
this is what happens. They start monking. And that's part
of what you're going to see today is at the
Senate they're going to have voterama, they're going to be
voting on amendments, and they're gonna try and changing things.
But then this thing's got to go back to the House,
you know that, right, and they got to either say, well,
we're good with this or we're not.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
The eventually president has to sign it.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
But the one big, beautiful bill, the most important piece
of the whole thing, is to make sure that they
solidify the Trump tax cuts from the previous administration and
they make them permit it. If not, they were temporary,
so if not, we're going to be in a world
(24:03):
of hurt. But they've got to get that done. That's
the first and foremost, the very first thing that has
to be done here. Everything else is secondary and comes next.
So let's talk about social security, because this isn't an
issue I believe is important. He ran on this and
then we ought to see that happen. Now, this particular
(24:25):
bill cannot do what Trump has promised. This particular bill
cannot actually make that happen. Why, it's all in the
rules of how the Senate works. Okay, how does this work?
First of all, let me tell you what they are
going to do. Because you can't take taxes off completely
(24:47):
out of Social Security. I want to make this as
clear as they can. So what they've done is they're
going to offer tax relief. It's a measure for seniors,
an additional standard deduction of four thousand dollars for individuals
sixty five and older, or eight thousand dollars for couples
(25:07):
filing jointly. So you may pay the tax that'll come
out on your Social Security check, but at the end
of the year, when you do your taxes, you'll getting
it back, or at least four to eight thousand if
you're an individual, four thousand if you're a couple filing jointly,
eight thousand dollars. Now, this bill says you can only
(25:27):
get that done with incomes up to seventy five thousand
dollars for single filers or one hundred and fifty thousand
for joint filers.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
So Mike, who was listening.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Said, we got to go out and get part time
jobs just to be able to make it to the
level that we're used to. And I don't blame it
for that. I was just tell you on another note,
I don't. As long as I can work, I'm going
to work. But I understand being able to have the
choice and be able to have the freedom you ought
to be able to do what you want to do,
and especially when you've planned all your life and you've
(26:02):
made choices based on these things. So get this again,
four thousand dollars first single filers in comes up to
seventy five thousand dollars eight thousand dollars for couples filing jointly.
That's up to one hundred and fifty dollars one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars on joint filers. The Senate version
proposes a higher six thousand dollars deduction. The deduction is
(26:26):
temporarily set to expire in twenty twenty eight. Now again,
as I'm giving you these numbers, now it's just a
snapshot in time.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
What do I mean by that all of this can change.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
None of this is permanent yet, it's all just being
discussed and debated, so this can all change again.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
I'm not trying to get in the weeds, but I'm
trying to warn you.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
One, you've got to understand the nuance to these things.
There's number one, the rules issue. They can't do what
they want to do right away because of the rules
of how they're moving this particular bill forward. And number two,
they still could go and say at another point, we
don't want anyone with Social Security that have to pay
(27:11):
taxes on it after sixty five years old. They can
still do that now. I don't know if that's in
a planned or will, but I would just say keep
your powder dry in the meantime, keep your powder dry
on this because everybody getting all worked up, and I
totally understand why in some ways, and I get I
(27:33):
get it. You're being pulled around by the nose by
so many different folks here. But this bill isn't perfect.
Nothing ever is. We've got to we've got to move
it forward, right, we gotta advance it, and we got
to keep it as much in tactics.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
And maybe this maybe the city can make it better.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
I hold my breath for that, but maybe they can
make it better or hold it as much intact as possible.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Get this passed.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
And then you say, but what about all the dog cuts,
what about the promise to do this no tax on
social Security, et cetera. Well those things come in different bills.
This bill is first. While I love Thomas Massey and
Ran Paul and the rest of them, look, I love them.
They have always been They've always been folks who said
(28:21):
we got to get the debt in line where pet
we're spending too much money.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
And I agree with them.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I didn't agree with him on that in fact, But
this particular bill, if it's not passed and doesn't go through,
is catastrophic.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Can you forget about debt?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
You can forget about any of that stuff, because this
would have more catastrophic consequences that those tax cuts don't
get passed and get through.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Trust me, you do not want to see that happen.
But each one of these pieces is a piece of
the puzzle, and it fits in with the others. It's
got to work.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
You get this passed, then you go through and you
start with the other recision they call these recision bills,
and they will go through and take some of the
spending off that they promised to do it, and in
some of the dose cuts, all of that's gonna come off.
They're going to cut, cut, cut, and don't forget all.
While they're doing this, he's also increasing income or revenue
into the country through terris then a record number of revenue.
(29:20):
And I believe the tax cuts will also increase revenue
as well. Now and you say, how is that possible.
That's always how it works. You cut taxes, you will
increase revenue because more people are going to be willing
to go out there and put it on the line
and of course take those risks. It pays off every
single time. So again, the exclusion of a full tax
(29:40):
exemption on Social Security benefits is largely due to Senate
rules governing the budget reconciliation process, which Republicans use to
pass the bill with a simple majority. Why, because we
don't have the votes in order to go through the
budget reconciliation process. We need just a simple majority. That's
fifty one to forty nine. That's all we need to vote. Now,
(30:06):
if we didn't do that, we'd have to have like
sixty whatever the votes are, and those are just not there.
They're just not there. I mean, they're peeling off Republicans
every day. The latest is this tellus, guys is I'm
not running. I'm not gonna run for reelection. And that
Trump says, good, Maybe we can finally put a Republican.
(30:27):
We can finally put a conservative in there. So these
are parts and pieces of the nuance that you have
to understand. So all of that to tell you, I
get frustrations, and I'm by the way, you're allowed to
be frustrated. I'm fine with that. But let's also make
(30:47):
sure that we completely understand exactly how this is all
going to play out. And some of it again moving pieces,
moving parts here, This is gonna.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Change over time.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
It's going to just the nature of how this all works.
So that to be said again, if they're gonna lie
to you about the attack and Iran and they're coming
after him on even that, imagine what they'll do in
a situation like this. Of course they're going to be
able to get you all worked up over it.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Cutting one point seven let's see, we're cutting yeah, one
point seven trillion, think of it. I think I just
saw the number a little while ago.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
One points. That's big news, point seven trillion dollars.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
But we can grow our country so much more than that,
and we're not gonna have to do. You also have
to get elected, you know, when you do cutting, and
you have to be a little bit careful because people
don't like necessarily cutting if they get used to something.
And what I want to do is do it through growth.
We're gonna have growth like we've never seen before.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Cutting there, I go, that's that's part of the planet's
all part of it. Walk through what grab your calls to.
There's still a much more and more winning. By the way,
a beautiful winning week last week, another.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
One on tap. Only time will tell.
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Speaking of that growth, they've had some record weeks at
the market. Do we continue well, we're already up two
hundred points today, the S and P five hundred outing
to its records as investors bet on those trade deals
that we could get word of any day. So that's
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just another big piece of the puzzle here, folks. I'm
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This is at least the third time the environ mental
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(34:04):
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In other news, under.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
The previous order, the Senate stands adjourned until nine am.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
President Trump staying in DC over the weekend as senators
worked on the Big Beautiful Bill, a key procedural vote
of fifty one to forty nine advancing the measure, and
then for close to sixteen hours it was read out
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Speaker 8 (35:02):
Four.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
As somebody just mentioned on the behind the scenes last
streak on the chat talking about money that we're spending
and how we're spending too much, and I again that's
another another point I agree with. I think it's a
fair when recision packages we just mentioned off the here
that have been been already introduced. One they're looking at
right now nine point four billion. So again this is
(35:27):
just to begin with. But this is all the USA
d DEI PBS remember sessing me straight for a rack
or whatever it was that they wanted to do. I mean,
you just look at all the money they're wasting. Now
this is just us dropping the bucket. But that is
part of some of the dose cuts. And that's again
another piece that's yet to come, so good to keep
(35:49):
in mind. Let's jump back on off. Steve is up
next in Finnville. Steve, good morning, welcome.
Speaker 9 (35:54):
In, good morning, justin.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
How you doing fantastic, sir.
Speaker 9 (35:58):
Now, I'm not super positive about this. I would suggest
that people check with their tax professional. But a four
thousand dollars deduction, let's say that you make two thousand
dollars a year from Social Security. Four thousand dollars deduction
(36:18):
means you take four thousand dollars off that twenty four
hundred dollars or the twenty four thousand dollars a year.
If you make two thousand dollars a month, Now that
brings it down the twenty one hundred, twenty one thousand.
You're you're paying taxes on twenty one thousand. If you're
(36:41):
in a twenty five percent tax bracket, that means your
actual tax savings is about one thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Yeah, I'm not I'm not an account I have.
Speaker 9 (36:53):
No I have no got that four thousand dollars deduction
is not well, four thousand dollars tax coming back to
you in your pocket, oh se four thousand.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
I see what you're saying.
Speaker 9 (37:04):
You're at the gross, then you pay taxes on what's left,
which is twenty twenty one thousand. Yeah, Now you take
that twenty five percent tax bracket if you happen to
be in that bracket, be it twenty five percent or
thirty percent. But let's just say twenty five percent tax bracket.
(37:25):
Has the bottle next one thousand dollars a year that
you're not paying in taxes.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
I wonder how much they're paying anyway, if they're if
they're you know, getting bottom of the barrel. Let's say
it is you know, the X amount of dollars, but
you know, uh, you're making seventy five thousand. Now that's
that's that's pretty high he meant. He mentioned earlier that
(37:52):
they're getting forty thousand. I think that was together on
their social security So right, So how much that can
even be Would you be.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Paying in taxes? Not allowed because you want to keep
every bit of it. I know that.
Speaker 9 (38:07):
Yeah. So still it's it's like any other deduction. You
got your gross you've made for the year, then you
take your deductions off it, your property taxes, you've given
the charity.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
You do.
Speaker 9 (38:21):
All this stuff is track that figure from your gross.
What's left over is what you pay taxes on.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
YEP, I got it.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Hey, thank you, Steve, Steve, thank you for the clarification
on that. And I appreciate the call. This is that this,
but this just I think solidifies the point here. There's
nuance to.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
All of this.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
So before we get all bit out of shape on
our hair out on this stuff, give them time, allow
them to work this true, because I mean, again, we're
just in the first half of the first year of
this presidency. So and I put that in there, and
and uh and remember that, Thank you, Steve, thank you
(39:00):
for the cloud. I appreciate that. Again, My point was
only to tell you they're trying. They're already lying to
you every single time they get up there, and they
move their lips when it comes to these stories. You
look at what they just did with Iran, Well, this
is the same thing. Don't get bent out of shape.
Definitely do all your due diligence and research. Don't believe
everything you hear on the radio, even or TV.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
Even me.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
You know, would do our best to get it right,
but sometimes that doesn't always happen right.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
But definitely make sure you get all of the information
you can't and keep your powdered RYE. That's well, that's
the best I can say for you. Anyway. It's the
fastest Starre radio have already flown by.
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I got some great stories and some really good news
I didn't get a chance to even barely scratch surface on.
We will do that, in fact in the after show.
That's what we credit it for. It's the show after
the show Ian to make sure you're up to speed
on all things that are flying together. And of course
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