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February 4, 2026 13 mins
Interview: w/Rep. Byron Donalds - "Chuck Schumer Can Go to Hell" - The SAVE ACT, ICE & More...
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to the Brian Mud Show.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's the info you need to start your day in
the Bomb Beaches and the Treasure Coast.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
So, as I have been talking about today, Democrats want
maximum voter fraud and the real shutdown battle begins. So
yesterday we did have the vote on the revised spending
package to end the partial government shutdown. The final vote
two seventeen, two fourteen. In the House, you had twenty

(00:35):
one Republicans that ended up voting against that bill. Ultimately,
we had several in Florida, including many conservatives within our state,
one of which happens to be representative Byron Donalds, who
is joining us now.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Good morning, and tell.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Us why you felt compelled to vote against the final
spending package advanced yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Oh, well, it's good to be with you, Brian. First,
the first reason is that in that spending package there
were just terrible left wing earmarks that I voted against.
Two weeks ago when the House voted to send appropriation
bills to the Senate, I voted against most of those
bills because I thought there was a lot of programs

(01:23):
in there that I just simply don't support. And I
Southwest Florida doesn't support and quite frankly, to pay to
Florida doesn't support. Two. What what's happened here is that
there was already a spending deal in place between House
leadership and Senate leadership. The Senate Democrats walked at the
deal because of you know, all the the radical organized

(01:46):
protests going on in Minneapolis, and so now Senate Democrats
are trying to play to their base. So the deal
got cut at the eleventh hour to send for the
Senate to send it back to us, but with two
weeks of homeland funding, and I just didn't think that
that was a propriate And I know that I understand
that people are trying to get through most of the
government not being shut down to avoid that, so you

(02:08):
could focus specifically on homeland. But I'm just not interested
in negotiating with the Senate Democrats. I'm not. They are
playing games with the security of the nation. They are
using these organized protests in Minnesota to create a flashpoint
because they have no agenda to take to the American

(02:29):
people in the midterm elections. And make no mistake, this
is all about the midterm elections. And so my position
was I'm not voting for this. I told the Speaker,
I wasn't voting for it. Bought the White House, I
wasn't voting for it. Was not going to play this
game with them. And the third thing is if we
had put the Save America Act into that bill. The
President talked about that yesterday in the Oval Office about
how we need to get that done, and I agree

(02:50):
with the President on that. If we have put that
with this bill and sent it back to the Senate,
I would have been all for it, because if you're
going to protect the voting franchise of the American people,
acquiring voter I D frankly requiring an ID before you
get a ballot to go vote in our elections. And
that's worth whatever spending court they put into those fills.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
So a couple of notes Sponsor of the Act in
the House, Chip Roy, he had this to say to
Laura Ingram, the.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Only threat to elections are the people who are here
who will steal our elections by voting without voter ID.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah. Pretty straightforward and simple. But then you take a
look at what Chuck Schumer has to say in the
Senate and he calls.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
It nothing more than Jim Crow two point zero here.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
You are a black man, Byron, So what do you
tell Chuck Schumer he thinks this is some kind of
Jim Crow racism taking place here with the Save Act.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
I have not heard that clip. But in short, Chuck
Schumer can go to hell. I just find this to
be sick and outrageous. They do this every single time.
We want to have just actual, real security of voting
in our country. A couple of years ago, when Georgia
changed their voting law. By the way, George's voting law

(04:07):
is basically Florida's voting law, because I've read George's law.
When Georgia changed their law, you had Joe Biden and
all these Democrats running around talking about it was Jim
Crow two point zero. But you have a clown like
Chuck Schumer, and he's a clown. Folks, you have a
clown like him gonna say that if you have to
demonstrate show a picture, I d a voter ID, a

(04:29):
driver's license to get your ballot to vote, that's Jim Crow.
This man is disgusting, and this again proves why I
have no interest in negotiating with these clowns in the
Senate or these Democrats appear on Capitol Hill. If they
decide they want to shut the government down over ICE
doing its job, which is to deport criminal, illegal aliens

(04:52):
out of the United States, they want to shut the
government down, that is their choice. This is the other
reason why I stand with President Trump. It's on the
end the sixty vote threshold of the filibuster. If senators
want a filibuster a package, let them take their old
behinds to the well of the Senate and explain to

(05:12):
the American people why they're opposing a measure. But sitting
in their office and refusing to vote to move forward
is not compromised. That's not even debates, and it's definitely
not democracy. It's not. But this is where the Senate
Democrats are taking us too. Everybody knows that they're just
so simple. You can't get on a plane without an ID.

(05:34):
You can't even go through tsa security to get on
the plane. You can't get a hotel room without showing
an ID. You can't buy beer without showing an ID
unless you look older. And then they probably just let
you go because you look older and everybody knows you're
twenty one. But I mean, this is the deal, and
so you have these clowns who are truly stopping us
from actually fixing this government and doing the right thing

(05:57):
on behalf of the American people. And then when you
try to do that, they try to say that you're
a segregationist, when the truth is the Democrat Party they
were the party behind Jim Crow, they were the party
behind segregation, they were the party behind lynching, they were
the party behind slavery. I'm not playing these games with them.
So that's my position on this.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
I don't know that it's ever been said better, that
was well done. The yeah, you get me think that
I crack up about the alcohol stuff and getting carted there.
And my wife and I are are Whinos, and so
will frequently order wine to be delivered and I still
get carted by the delivery drivers for wine at my house.
And it was actually funny. A couple of weeks ago,

(06:39):
I had my water in the house and couldn't find it.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's like I can't even take.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Possession of but I could go vote, you know, and
like that in any number of different states.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
The whole thing is absurd on its face.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
And you mentioned about the legislative filipbuster in the Senate.
You had Alabama Senator Tommy Tupperville yesterday say this, a group.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
Of US Senate Republican side are not going to allow
the Democrats to get their way here. We have the
majority in the House and the Senate and the White House.
Let's take advantage of it. Now, let's get something done.
If we have to bust a filibuster, the.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Hell with them. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
And so as Senator Rick Scott about that earlier this morning,
he said he's absolutely on board with ending the legislative filibuster.
You think that's what ultimately is going to have to
happen here in order for proper funding for ICE, for
TSA for that matter too, but the Department of Homeland Security,
and perhaps to get something that's common sense oriented as

(07:36):
a save acts past.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah, I think so, because we've hit the point in
the Republic where the Democrats don't even have a plausible
solution that they're asking for. Well, the Democrats want in
a proposed DHS funding bill, which is now DHS funding
is going to expire in two weeks, is they're going
to want to put major restrictions on ICE enforcement. You know,
I'm quite sure you have Senate Democrats who want ICE

(07:58):
to be put back in off balls the way it
was under Joe Biden, and that will satisfy them. And
so I think it's important for people to understand they
are now going to hold hostage the security of the
United States of America because you know it's also in
DHS funding, or to patrol agents that's in DHS funding.
You know, it's also customs that's in DHS funding. Secret

(08:19):
Service that's in DHS funding. This is where we've gotten to,
where you have this radical party and look, listen, the
crazy part is people have been playing the twenty ten
version of the Democrats. When Barack Obama talks about deporting
illegal aliens out of the country. This Democrat party is
no longer the Bill Clinton Democrats, and you know, well

(08:39):
meaning Democrats in the state of Florida or around the country.
They need to understand this. You are now dealing with
Bernie Sanders and AOC and Zorhan Mamdani. These people are radicals.
They are not interested in having sound borders and enforcement.
They want wide open borders. And at this point they'll
just hold their breath and not do anything and let

(09:00):
DHS funding last. And then you have Republicans on Capitol Hill,
we'll say, well, we can't let that happen. Well, let's
try to find a way to find common ground. You
cannot negotiate with crazy. Well, you bring up in the
business world, and I'm real quick, I'm gonna y see
you again in the business world. When you're dealing with
somebody across the table who is crazy, you don't negotiate

(09:20):
with them. You get up from the table. Though. Senator
Tupperville is right, it's time to end the charade. It's
time to end the legislative filipbuster. Let's actually get the
business of the American people done, and let's move forward.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
You bring up a really good point too, something I
was talking about earlier. A lot of times, you'll have
some of the elected congressional Democrats in Florida sound a
bit more moderate when they get in front of camera,
especially a local media that kind of thing, and then
their votes are absolutely as radical as any radical in Congress.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
You know, they might as well be AOC you voting
against this a act.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
You have people Frederick wod Now single Florida Democrats, So
Frederick W. Wilson, Sheila Scheerflest, McCormick, Lowis, Frankel W. Wauser,
Minscheld Staring, Maxwell Frost, Kathy Caster, Jared Mokoit Mosquoitz. There's
no distance between any of them and AOC. They vote
the exact same way on these things. And I think
that's really important for people to realize. And Byron, just
one more on the race piece, because institutionalized racism and

(10:16):
the bigotry of low expectations really has annoyed me historically.
And you have somebody like Chuck Schumer, you have Democrat
Party at Large that's saying that it's Jim Crow. You know,
if you have voter i D eighty per Gallop survey,
black voters eighty percent say they want voter ID. So

(10:36):
at what point will black men and women stand up
and say, you, Chuck Schumer, you Democrats are the races here.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
I think we're capable of coming by ID.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
I think that's coming more and more by the day.
You can even tell the shift of black voting the
last two to three election cycles, you know, because this
is about common sense. To be blunt, it's not even
about race. It's common sense. And even everybody people are
looking at this and saying, yeah, they're having to present
of a driver's license in order to vote makes sense.

(11:11):
We should do that. You should be able to demonstrate
who you are. You should also be to demonstrate that
you're an American citizen if you're going to vote in
our elections. That's common sense. What the Democrats do, and
they've been doing this for decades now, is that they
use the history of segregation and racism in the United
States to weaponize fear and emotion to override logic and

(11:37):
common sense. And I think people are sick of it.
And I think this is why it's important that when
you have, you know, people like Chuck Schumer or Hakeem
Jeffries or whoever else wants to run their mouth on
this topic, you can't negotiate with this craziness. You have
to stand against it. You have to oppose it with
every fiber of your being. And yes, the United States Senate,
and this is to Senate Republicans now, not Rick Scott

(11:59):
and Nashley, They're fantastic, but to Senate Republicans, they need
to wake up and realize this is not nineteen ninety Washington, DC.
The countries on the line, and what's holding up us
actually being able to do real things like codifying Donald
Trump's Order Security Measures, making that federal law, doing all
the necessary work around energy, for curing raw materials, to

(12:22):
make housing cheaper, cut spending, get rid of wasteful of projects,
doing real audits and a lot of these programs so
that states are required to do audits and eligibility checks,
that you can end the fraud. The people who oppose
that are Senate Democrats. They oppose it every single time.

(12:43):
Can common sense energy policy. You can't get that done
because you have Elizabeth Warren and Senate Democrats who still
believe that we have to save the planet, even though
all of America has been freezing to death for the
last week. And then if you don't oppose these people,
they continue to elect crazy nuts like Zorhan Mamdani, where
you had sixteen homeless people freeze to death in the

(13:06):
streets of New York and this guy talked about he
was going to have the warmth of collectivism save New Yorkers.
This is how idiotic and insane this stuff is. So
to my colleagues, my Republican colleagues in the Senate, please
wake up. It's not nineteen ninety on Capitol Hill anymore.
It is now twenty twenty six. The Democrats are radical.

(13:26):
You gotta do the right thing, and let's actually pass
this stuff, make it federal law, get it to the
desk at a president, because we have a country to save.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
And to that, sir, I say amen. And that folks
is our next governor as well. Congressman Byron Donalds be well,
good talking with you.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
See you, Brian, take it easy.
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