Trump’s Agenda Depends On This & All Illegals Are Criminals – Top 3 Takeaways

The President’s entire agenda – including what happens with your taxes could depend on it.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey, thanks for listening, and welcome back to the Brian
Mud Show. Time now for today's top three takeaways. Gazzo
Trumpa's agenda it depends on this and all illegals are criminals.
And I takeaways for you on this Thursday as we
head down the home stretch of Febuary. A big beautiful bill,

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A big old beautiful bill. A top takeaway. When you
think of something that is big and beautiful, what comes
to mind? Big and beautiful? Go for me? Come up
with insight the ocean right, big and beautiful A country.
I think you can make the case for our country.
I'm the world. Actually, you know, I wouldn't travel down

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the path of you know, things like you nor your
wife that could get you in trouble if kidding kidding,
you know, even if you were going to think about politics,
what would be like the closest political thing that might
be big and beautiful? I don't know the association of
mar A Lago mar A Laca is big and beautiful.

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When you think of things that are big and beautiful,
you are almost certainly not thinking about Congress or anything
that takes place within it, right, not big and beautiful?
Or if you are that is, with one exception, right,
because you've likely heard that President Trump's a plan for
enacting his agenda is to do so with a big,

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beautiful bill, one big piece of legislation that would pull
together all of the President's border, energy, defense, and tax priorities,
and with Republicans having a congressional majority in both chambers,
a United Republican Party would be able to deliver on
these presidential priorities. However, unity with any large body of people,

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of course, can be challenging, and the House and Senate
majorities for Republicans literally currently consists of only a few
in each, meaning that there needs to be nearly literal
unity to pass legislation. And as it pertains to passing
President Trump's agenda, that is precisely what we've seen, nearly

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literal unity, with one potentially big divide. That is, the
big divide is how each chamber is choosing to go
about addressing the President's agenda. Last Friday, at four forty
in the morning, the Senate passed the first phase of
what would be a two phased approach to enact the

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Trump Agenda by a fifty two to forty eight vote,
with all Democrats voting against it, and one Republican Ran
Paul also voting against it. The budget blueprint for Trump's border, immigration,
energy and defense priorities passed the Senate, clearing the way

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for a budget reconciliation process with the House to take place,
meaning that the legislation would be able to pass with
a simple Senate majority vote as opposed to a sixty
vote filibuster proof majority. However, House wasn't playing that might say, homie, homie,

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don't play that in the House. No, as they forged
ahead with what Trump said he wanted. The House continued
to move forward with the one bill approach, the bill
that you might say is aesthetically pleasing, at least in
the eyes of the president. Tuesday night, the House delivered,

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much like in the Senate. All Democrats were opposed, as
was one Republican that was Thomas Massey, which is all
that Republicans could lose in order to pass the forty
five page budget resolution that paved the way for budget reconciliation. Now,
President Trump was said to be typically supportive of what

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the Senate was doing last week, seemingly because hey, at
least they were doing something. President Trump made it clear yesterday,
which of the budget approaches he prefers. My second takeaway
today when Trump had this to say, the House and
Senate are doing a spectacular job of working together as

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one unified and unbeatable team. However, unlike the Lindsey Graham version,
of course, Lindsay Graham is Senator. He's the one who's
been leading the Senate process. Unlike the Lindsey Graham version
of the very important legislation currently being discussed, the House
resolution implements my full America First Agenda everything, not just

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parts of it. We need both chambers to pass the
House budget to kickstart the reconciliation process and move all
of our priorities to the concept of one big, beautiful
bill all gaps by the way. Thing must be just
absolutely gorgeous. It will without question make America great again. Okay,

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so there it is. There, It is from the President.
And here's the thing that is an especially big thing
that surely isn't lost in President Trump his second time around.
Splitting the process into two bills doesn't just create two
separate reconciliation processes, which would mean two sets of votes.

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History suggests that politically, few attempts are more challenging to
achieve than going out this multiple times. The last time
two reconciliation bills of any kind were signed in the
same year two thousand and six, two thousand and six,
and it's only happened four times in American history, with

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half of those coming during President Reagan's administration. And speaking
of President Reagan and budget reconciliation history, Reagan is the
only president to ever pass two budget reconciliation bills in
the same year. So when you have two that are
just about the budget, which is what the Senate is
trying to do here, So is it possible that Trump

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could help usher through an approach that only Reagan previously
had been able to achieve. Yeah, I mean it's certainly possible.
Is it advisable? Obviously not? Obviously not the best approach
to try to do something that's only happened once before.
History suggest this consideration is more than just a political game,

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and the House approach is the right approach, and the Senate,
as President Trump has suggested, well, it needs to get
on board. The President's entire agenda, including what happens with
your taxes depends on it. Speaking of defining things related
to the budget, deal preparing for phase two. My third

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takeaway for you today Phase two. So, Homeland Security Secretary
Christy no has activated the Immigration and Nationality Act, first
used in nineteen fifty two. Under the Act, those fourteen
and older currently in the country illegally, well, they have
an opportunity to register with the federal government and leave

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the country without penalty. Okay. So, and this is one
of the questions that's come up. If I had a
couple of people ask me, how is it that people
that are here illegally are supposed to self deport I mean,
they wouldn't just be able to go to an airport,
hop into plane, right, that kind of thing. Couldn't that
be a So this is aimed at just that, it's

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aimed at helping people do the right thing now while
still in the country. So under that Act, again, those
fourteen and older currently in the country, they can raise
their hand. They can register with the federal government and
then leave the country without any penalty. Doing so would

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enable them to potentially legally immigrate to the US in
the future, or at a minimum, legally re enter the
US at a later date. However, any illegal immigrant who
doesn't register with the federal government and is apprehended, Well,
they're going to be charged with criminal penalties for choosing

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to remain here illegally. Now, this is a critically important distinction.
You know, Today there's been a focus on on what
have commonly been referred to as criminal illegal immigrants, right,
or those who've been convicted of crimes committed in this
country aside from the crime of having been here illegally. Notably,

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in Press Secretary Caroline Levitt's first presser she made news
this went viral when she was asked of how many
of the illegal immigrants that have been arrested intact for
deportation had criminal records. Her response was, well, all of them,
because they illegally broke our nation's laws. Now, conceptually that

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was true at the time. It's accurate that by definition
any illegal immigrant breaking the law. But just like any law,
what does it come down to you You can have
all the laws you want on the books, if you
don't enforce any of them, what's the point. Right, So,
on the enforcement piece, with the activation the Immigration and

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Nationality Act, what GNOME is saying is that every illegal
immigrant fourteen years age of age and order has one
last chance to course correct and do the right thing,
or they will in fact all have criminal records because
nome of the DOJ will see two of the charges
are brought against them. Now, with hundreds of thousands of

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criminal illegal immigrants with existing records still estimated to be
in the country, boy, there's a lot of work to
do just in arresting and deporting those individuals before Phase
one is complete. But what this is setting up is

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the much bigger operation that is part of Phase two
after the Trump budget has passed. The reason I was
talking about the budget, reconciliation process, the peace and all
this Phase two can't happen until the Trump administration has
the resources to be able to do what they want
to do here, and the budget is what paves the

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way for them to have those resources to do all this.
So now no taking a look at where we are
in the process in Congress is saying all right, we're
going to go back and activate that and enforce the
Immigration Nationality Act of nineteen fifty two that will pave
the path for Phase two. Last week, an executive order

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called for ending government assistance programs for illegal immigrants within
thirty days. Now there's notice that those who remain will
have rap sheets that they continued to choose to not
do the right thing. So it has been about to
become that much less comfortable for illegal immigrants to continue
to remain in this country illegally