July 5, 2025 • 63 mins
Trump's signature legislative achievement of his second term has finally become law. The massive 887-page "Big Beautiful Bill" represents a sweeping attempt to reshape America's economic, healthcare, and immigration landscapes while extending the tax cuts that defined his first administration.
For Christians concerned about life issues, the bill delivers a significant win by temporarily defunding Planned Parenthood—potentially shuttering 200 clinics across the country. While this provision lasts only one year, it represents concrete action on an issue many voters prioritized in the 2024 election.
The bill's new Medicaid work requirements have sparked intense debate. Able-bodied adults 18-64 must now engage in work, education, or community service for approximately 18.5 hours weekly to maintain benefits. Critics argue millions will lose coverage, while supporters see this as encouraging self-sufficiency while protecting benefits for those who truly need them—pregnant women, elderly, disabled individuals, and nursing mothers remain exempt.
Border security receives massive funding with $46.5 billion allocated toward completing Trump's promised border wall. The legislation provides another $75 billion for detention facilities and ICE operations, representing the largest investment in border security in decades. The tax provisions create new deductions for tipped workers and those earning overtime, though these benefits phase out in 2028 and must be claimed when filing annual returns rather than being exempt from regular paychecks.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates the legislation adds $3.4 trillion to the federal deficit over a decade while potentially leaving 11.8 million Americans without health insurance—figures Republicans strongly dispute. The bill also raises the debt ceiling by $5 trillion, potentially avoiding financial crisis later this summer.
How will these sweeping changes affect your family, business, or community? What provisions matter most to you? Share your thoughts with us and subscribe for continued analysis as these policies begin impacting American life.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, everyone.
I hope everyone had a great 4thof July, independence Day.
Hopefully you didn't commit thesin of gluttony by eating too
many hot dogs, as easy as thatcan be.
I'm going to talk about a fewthings.
We're going to talk about thebig beautiful bill and we're
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going to read the Declaration ofIndependence in honor of it
being the 4th of July weekend.
I hope everyone had a goodweekend, continues to have a
good and safe weekend.
But, as we always do, we'regoing to read the Lord's Prayer,
the Apostles' Creed, and thenwe're going to read the
Declaration of Independence.
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If you stick around until afterthat, we're going to talk about
Trump's big beautiful bill thatwas signed into law yesterday,
because there's so much stuff init.
There's actually a video youcan watch on YouTube about it
being read in the Senatechambers.
It is 15 hours long.
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I listened to about an hour ofit.
It's a long bill, so there'sgoing to be stuff in it that I
don't know of, but the stuff Ido know of, the stuff that is
being widely reported, the stuffthat people are arguing about,
we're going to talk about andthen after that, after that,
after this, we'll be gettingback on to king david's life and
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we'll be doing a part two inking david's life.
But this is kind of big.
Uh, this bill is um, well, it'sa huge deal, so we got to talk
about it.
So the lord's prayer, our father, which art in heaven, hallowed
be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth as itis in heaven.
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Give us this day our dailybread.
Forgive us our trespasses, aswe forgive those who trespass
against us.
Lead us not into temptation,but deliver us from evil, for
divine is thy kingdom, the powerand glory, forever and ever.
Amen.
We'll go to the Apostles' Creedand read it.
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The Apostles' Creed.
I believe in God, the FatherAlmighty, maker of heaven and
earth, and in Jesus Christ, hisonly Son, our Lord, which was
conceived by the Holy Spirit,born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,was crucified, died and buried.
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He descended into hell In thethird days.
He rose from the dead.
He ascended into heaven and satat the right hand of God, the
Father Almighty.
From hence he shall come tojudge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost,the Holy Catholic Church, the
communion of the saints, theforgiveness of sins and the
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resurrection of the body andlife as everlasting Amen.
The Holy Catholic Church meansuniversal, and many people
believe hell is just to be death.
Okay, now let's go to theDeclaration of Independence.
We're not going to do this allthe time, but we're going to add
it to our reading because it'sthe 4th of July weekend In
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Congress.
July 4th 1776, the unanimousdeclaration of the 13 United
States of America.
When, in the course of humanevents, it becomes necessary for
one people to dissolve thepolitical bonds which have
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connected them to another and toassume, among the powers of
earth to separate, the equalstation to which the laws of
nature and nature's God entitledthem, a decent respect to the
opinions of mankind requiresthat they should declare the
causes which implied them toseparation.
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We hold self to be self-evident.
That all men are created equaland that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain andinalienable rights.
That among these are life,liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.
That to secure these rights,government are instituted among
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men, delivering their power fromthe consent of the governed.
That when any form ofgovernment becomes destructive
of these ends, it is the rightof the people to us to abolish
or to alter or abolish it and toinstitute a new government
laying its foundations on suchprinciples and organization.
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It is powers, in such a form asthem shall see, most likely to
affect their safety andhappiness, produce, indeed, with
dedication, that governmentsalong established should not be
charged of light and transitioncauses and accordingly, all
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expressionath, so that mankindare more deposed to suffer while
evils are suffering, the rightof themselves to abolish the
forms to which they areaccustomed.
But when a long train of abuseand aversion, pursuing
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invaluable in valuable, the sameobjectives, endeavors a design
to reduce them under absolutedepose, it is their right and
their duty to throw off suchgovernment and provide new
guards for their future security.
Such has been the patiencesuffered under these colonies
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and such is now the necessarywhich contains them to alter
their form system of government.
The history of the present kingof Great Britain is a history of
repeat injustices and allhaving indirect objects the
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establishment of an absolutetyrant over these states.
To provide this, let's saylet's facts be submitted to a
canny world, he has refused hisassent to all the most wholesome
and necessary of public good,to law the most wholesome and
necessary of public good.
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He has forbidden his governorsto pass laws of immediate and
pressing importance unlesssuspended in their operation
till the assist should beobtained.
And when suspending, he hasutterly neglected to attend them
.
He has refused to pass overlaws for the accommodations of
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large districts of people,unless these people would
require the right ofrepresentation and legislation,
a right intimate to them andforbidd them to tyrants only.
He has called togetherlegislative bodies at places
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unusual, uncustom and distantfrom the depose of their public
records, for the solid purposeof fatiguing them into
compliance with his measures, hehas dissolved representative
houses repeatedly for opposingwith mainly firmness of his
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invasions on the rights of thepeople he has refused for a long
time.
As such, dissolving to causeothers to be elected will bear
the legislative powers incapableof annihilation have returned
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to the people at large for theirexercise, the state remaining
in the means of expulsion andall the dangers of invasion
without the conclusions withinthem.
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He has endeavored to prevent thepopulation of the states for
the purpose of obtaining thelaws of naturalization of
foreigners, refusing to pass theencouragement of their
migration hikers and raising theconsiderations of appropriating
new lands.
He has objected to theadministration of justice and he
has refused his assets to thelaw for establishing judicial
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power.
He has made judges dependent onhis will alone for the tenure
of the office and he the amountof payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude ofnew offices and sent henceforth
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swarms of other offices toharass people and eat out their
substances.
He has kept us, in times ofpeace, standing armies without
the consent of our legislature.
He has afflicted to hinder themilitary independence and of the
superiority to the silver power.
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He has combined with others tosubjugate us to a jurisdiction
of foreign to our constitutionand acknowledge by our laws his
assess and acts of legislationfor quartering of large bodies,
arms of truth, among us, forprotecting them by a mock trial
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from punishment by any murderswhich they should commit on the
inhabitants of these states.
For cutting off our trade withall parts of the world.
For imposing taxes on uswithout consent.
For depriving us in much casesof benefits by trial of jury.
For transporting us beyond seaand tried of pretending offenses
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.
For abolishing the free systemof English law in a neighbor,
provence, providenceestablishing and hereby
arbitrary government andenlarging its boundaries as to
render it once an example ofunfit institution and
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instruments in intruding thesame absolute law of these
counties, colonies.
For taking our way, ourcharters, abolishing our most
valuable laws, alteringfundamental forms of our
government for suspending ourown legislations and declaring
themselves invested in the powerof the legislations and cause
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whatsoever.
He has abdicated governance hereby declaring out his
protections and wages of war.
He has plundered our seas,ravaged our coasts and burned
our towns and destroyed thelives of our people.
He at this time transportinglarge armies of foreign
mercenaries to complete theworks of death.
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Desolation and tyranny alreadybegin, with circumstances of
cruelty and profound scalesparallel in the most barbarous
ages and total unworthy heads ofcivilized nations.
He has consents our fellowcitizens take captive on high
seas and bearing arms againstthe colonies and become
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executors of their friends andbeverage to follow himself.
He has actually the domesticinsurrection among us and has
endeavored to bring on theinhabitants of our frontiers and
the merciless Indian savageswho knows no rules of warfare
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and is indigenous, distinct fromall sexes and conditions In
every state.
Of these oppositions we havepetitioned for regards in the
most humble terms.
Our relative petitions haveanswered alone by repeating in
juries a prince whose characteris thus marked by every act
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which may define a tyrant, isunfit to rule a free people.
Nor have we been wandering inour attentions to our British
brethren.
We have warned them from timeto time of attempts by the
legislature to extend ourunwarranted justification over
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us.
We have reminded them of thecircumstances of our immigration
settlement here.
We have appealed to the nativejust and magisterium and we have
conjured them, by the side ofour own common kindred, to
disavow the person which wouldinevitably interrupt our
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connections and correspondence,to have to bend down to the
voice of the justice and ofconsternance.
We must therefore acquire inthe necessary which denounces
our separation and hold them aswe hold the rest of mankind,
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enemies in war in in peace,friends.
We therefore, therepresentatives of the united
states of america in congressassembled, appealing to the
supreme judge of the world ofthe gratitude of the intentions
to do in nature and by theauthorities of good people,
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these colonies, summatelypublished and declared that
these united colonies are ofright, ought to be free and
independent states, that theyshould absolve all allegiances
from the British crown and allpolitical connections between
them and the state of GreatBritain is it ought to be
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totally dissolved, and that asfree and independent people they
have full power to levy war,conduct peace, contact allies,
establish commerce and to do allother acts and things which
independent states may right todo, and for the support of this
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Declaration, with a firmreliance on the protections of
divine providence.
We mutually pledge to eachother our lives, our fortitudes
and our sacred honor.
Thank you for bearing with meas I read that and I know I'm
not a good reader, I know Imispronounced words, so please
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forgive me.
That was penned down by thefamous Thomas Jefferson of
Virginia.
The third president of theUnited States offered the
Declaration of Independence.
You know, before I get to thebig beautiful bill, after
reading the Declaration ofIndependence, I just want to
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state this is a secessiondocument and so many people that
have talked so poorly about theSouth for succeeding during the
Civil War quote-unquote CivilWar and leaving the United
States and becoming their owncountry.
We did the exact same thing toGreat Britain and the South had
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more precedent, legal precedentand more historical precedent to
do it than the colonies did.
Now you can disagree.
You can disagree with thereasoning.
You can say that you believethe Civil War and the South left
because of slavery.
We can have that debate.
But secession is an Americanthing, it's very American.
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It's inseparable from ourhistory as Americans and the
South choosing to leave theUnion is exactly what the 13
colonies did to Great Britainand you can't say it wasn't
because it was.
And you could say well, there'sa difference.
They would be betraying theUnion instead of the crown.
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And my question that is so what?
That's what their forefathersdid.
That's what their forefathersdid.
Thomas Jefferson, who wrote thisdocument, would have agreed
with the South's right to leavethe Union.
He, he would have I'm notsaying all the founding fathers
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would have, I'm not sayingeveryone that's sound, the
Constitution would have, becausethat's not true.
But the birth of our countrystarts with this document.
The birth of our country startson this document.
That's when we recognize ourindependence.
When we recognize ourindependence isn't when we
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recognize our Constitution.
Our Constitution didn't comeuntil 1789.
We left the United Kingdom.
When we left the United Kingdomon July 4th 1776.
There's a little bit of a timedifference there.
And when we left we operated onthe Articles of the Confederacy
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.
Now you can say it was a badgoverning document, and I would
agree with you in some states.
In some ways, yeah.
But guess what happened afterthat?
The states that freely joinedthe Articles of Confederation
left to join what the Union.
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They actually made the Union.
They actually made theConstitution.
Don't forget, the states madethe Constitution.
The states made the federalgovernment.
The federal government did notmake the states.
So all those sovereign states,did it take them a while to
leave?
Yeah, because they wereconcerned about a very big
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federal government,understandably too.
And when they signed, theysigned under the notion they
believed they could leave ifthey wanted to.
Why?
Because they had left twoprevious governments, the
British crown and the Articlesof Confederation.
So that's about as far I'mgetting, to the Civil War.
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I just think it's hypocriticalto belittle the South for doing
exactly the same thing thatyou're celebrating this weekend.
You can say, well, it's thereason they left, okay, then say
you don't support the reasonthey left.
Then say you don't support thereason they left.
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Do not say that you're againstthem leaving on principle,
because if you're eating a hotdog and singing the
Star-Spangled Banner, you'recelebrating the secession of
these colonies.
Remember, thomas Jefferson wrotedown that these colonies are
free and independent states.
What do you mean by that?
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He didn't mean state the way wemean state.
He meant independent countries.
In his world, virginia was acountry, massachusetts was a
country, georgia was a countrythat were uniting.
He wanted some form of unitybetween these states.
That's true and that's whyThomas Jefferson was opposed to
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the Constitution.
And you could say well, I lovethe Constitution, I love the
Constitution too, but it's not aperfect document and we need to
be very careful.
We need to put a little bitmore nuance in the way we view
history and the way we viewthese things.
Now you can say it was wrong.
But you could say if you saythe confederacy was wrong and
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you say the founding fatherswere wrong, then I have a little
more respect for your positionbecause it's more coherent.
And there are people peoplebelieve it or not.
There are proud Americans thatbelieve what the founding
fathers did in leaving GreatBritain was wrong and they
shouldn't have rebelled againstthe government.
I'll leave that up for you todecide.
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I'll leave that up for you todecide.
I just want to point out thehypocrisy.
So, but yeah, there's room forus to grow.
Let's go back, and I want toread just a little.
Go back to these With thesetruths to be self-evident,
meaning they're obvious, thatthey're abundantly obvious.
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That all men are created equal,that they have been endowed by
their creator.
That's not an atheist documentright here either.
I'm not claiming ThomasJefferson was a Bible-believing
evangelical, because he wasn't.
He was a deist.
He believed in a God, but hedid not believe in the true God
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of the Bible.
He might have said he did, buthe didn't believe in the Trinity
.
He didn't believe Jesus wasdivine.
He also was not an atheist thatsome people like to claim.
We hold these truths to beself-evident.
We hold these truths to beself-evident that all men are
created, equal and dialed withtheir creator with certain and
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a-lible rights.
Among these are life, libertyand the pursuit of happiness.
This comes from the philosopherThomas Paine.
We change the word property tohappiness.
Now we always lift up to thatnote In the same document we
call Indians savages, we callNative Americans savages, and
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that same very document.
So we definitely had room toimprove and we had to put aside
our prejudice to allow everyoneto be able to live to this
document, allow everyone to beable to live to this document.
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But now I'm going to go to thebig, beautiful bill and we're
going to read some things anddiscuss some things about it.
Okay, guys, I'm going to readyou an article from cbsnewscom
by Kate Hubbard or, yeah,harbard forgive me for
mispronouncing her name.
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Here's what's in Trump's bigbeautiful bill passed by
Congress Washington.
The House passed a massivespending and tax bill that
includes signature policies ofPresident Trump's second-term
agenda Thursday, spending theso-called big beautiful bill to
the President's desk ahead of aJuly 4th deadline.
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Mr Trump signed the bill intolaw on Friday afternoon.
The House approved the bill ina 218-214 vote Thursday, after
the Senate narrowly passed thebill Tuesday in a 51-50 vote
that required Vice President JDVance to break the tie.
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At the center of the bigbeautiful bill is an extension
of Mr Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts andJob Acts, which was slanted to
sunset and to end at the end ofthe year.
To sunset and to end at the endof the year.
The legislation would make mostof the tax cuts permanent,
while increasing spending forbroader security, defense and
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energy production.
The bill is partially paid forby significant cuts in health
care and nutrition programs likeMedicaid and Supplemental
Nutrition and Assistance Programor SNAP.
The Congressional Budget Officeestimates the bill will add
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$3.4 trillion to federal deficitover the next 10 years and will
leave millions without healthinsurance.
Republicans in the White Housedispute these forecasts.
Senate Republicans use a processknown as a budget reclamation
bill, to pass the bill, whichlimits the types of policies
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that can be included, in asimple majority vote.
A handful of provisionsinitially approved in the bill
were immediately removed,including one that would have
ordered the sale of public landsand others that would have
paused state regulations onartificial intelligence.
The House passed its owninitial version of the
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legislation last month with somekey differences to the final
Senate-crafted version.
The lower chamber approved theSenate's changes Thursday.
Spending the measure to thepresident's desk.
Here is what's in the 887-pagebill.
887-page bill.
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The legislation providedrestrictions on Medicaid, which
provides governing-sponsoredhealth care for low-income and
disabled Americans.
The bill imposes workrequirements for some
able-bodied adults and morefrequent eligibility checks.
The Congressional Budget Officeestimates that the bill would
result in 11.8 million Americanslosing their health coverage
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over.
The Congressional Budget Officeestimates the bill would result
in 11.8 million Americanslosing their health coverage
under Medicaid over the nextdecade.
Let's pause right there andtalk about that.
So Democrats are claiming thatwe're just being evil and
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kicking everyone off of Medicaid.
Everyone's going to lose theirhealth care and people will lose
their health coverage becausehere's what you got to do.
Anyone that's over the age of 18and under the age of 64, that
is well-bodied, that is not ondisability, that is not a
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nursing mother, a caretaker forsomeone who is sick in the
family, that has to havecaretaking someone that is not
working a job.
Even that job could be apart-time job.
The work requirements areextraordinarily reasonable.
You can go to college, you canwork a part-time job, you can do
volunteer work for around 20hours a week.
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I think the official hours is18.5.
That's not unreasonable guys.
All this is doing is it'sgiving people incentive to work
or go to school or volunteer forsome of the benefits that they
are doing.
Other states have already donethis.
Indiana has done this.
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And will some people be droppedoff of this?
Yes, because there are somepeople that aren't going to work
, that aren't going to go toschool, they're not going to
contribute to America.
And if you're dropped off ofthis because you're just being
lazy, you're not disabled,you're not a nursing mother,
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you're not going to college,you're not taking care of a
family member, then you shouldbe dropped off of this.
You should not be gettingMedicaid, you should not be
getting SNAP benefits if you'renot willing to contribute to the
United States of America.
If you're not willing to work,if you're not willing to do
anything for yourself, thetaxpayer should not have to pay
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for you.
Now, how is this going to beimplemented?
We can criticize that.
I do worry about how it's goingto be implemented, how we're
going to be showing the federalgovernment that someone is
actually doing legitimatevolunteer work for a 501 C
organization organization, orhow people are doing, you know,
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in school or a part-time job,okay.
So I do think we need to begracious in implementing this
and setting up the properchannels that it can be done
easy so they can keep theirbenefits.
Also, I do think this protectsthe benefits for those that need
them, but from people that justare not willing to work.
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Yeah, absolutely.
I do think this protects thebenefits for those that need
them, but from people that justare not willing to work.
Yeah, absolutely I do.
I don't think you should be onMedicaid if you're not working
or SNAP if you're not workingand you're not on disability and
if you don't meet theexceptions and there's a lot of
exceptions out there.
I'll look at them and I'll readsome of them before we end the
podcast.
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There's a lot of exceptions forthis guys.
It's not unreasonable.
It's not.
Then you shouldn't be gettingMedicaid, you shouldn't be
getting food stamps.
So I think this is a good thing.
It's a good way to save somemoney.
Now I'll say this the bill.
So some of the reasonlibertarians like Thomas Massey
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wouldn't vote for the bill.
It does add $3.4 trillion tothe federal deficit and I've
come to the conclusion thatAmerica is never, under a
Republican or a Democrat, goingto start to pay off the national
debt.
We're just not, because you'regoing to even have to cut
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entitlements and this does cutentitlements in a good way,
because it just does it for lazypeople mostly.
It does do that and I want tosee how it's implemented.
If it's being implemented in away where they can't submit
stuff easily to keep theirbenefits, then I condemn that
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right.
We have to have a smooth way ofgoing about this.
No one that's working, no onethat's meeting the work
requirements, should be kickedoff Medicaid food stamps.
They shouldn't.
I agree with that, no oneshould.
But if you're just being lazy,then yeah, you should be kicked
off Medicaid food stamps.
They shouldn't.
I agree with that, no oneshould.
But if you're just being lazy,then yeah, you should be kicked
off, and I'm not saying you cannever get back on it again.
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If you get kicked off and you go, oh crap, I need to do
something that gives you a kickin the rear end, that encourages
you to go get a part-time jobor to go do something to earn
your benefits back, then I'mfine with that.
Or here's an even here's anidea that could be even better,
and this is why republicansreally put in there.
What if you find a job thatgives you more than the federal
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benefits does and you no longerneed those benefits?
That's a win for amer andthat's a win for you, because
you're providing them foryourself and it takes the burden
off the taxpayers and you'rebeing self-sufficient.
That's a good thing, not a badthing.
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Do I realize that some peoplearen't able to do that and some
people need federal help?
Yes, that's why we have that.
But I do support the workrequirements.
I just want them to go smoothly, and let's keep an eye on how
smoothly they go.
We'll see what happens, but inprinciple, I think we all should
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be able to support this.
Now, if you want to reallyreduce the federal deficit, do
you have to cut backentitlements like we just did.
Yes, you also have to cut themilitary, and Republicans will
never do that.
So Democrats are willing to dothat, but they're not willing to
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cut back the federal deficit.
Both parties are going to haveto cut something that they don't
want to cut, and I understandboth of their concerns.
So, in my mind, I'm beyond theidea of us getting out of debt,
because I just don't see ithappening If we can just manage
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it enough to where we have moremoney coming in.
That's what this is partiallytrying to do, by cutting taxes,
giving us more wealth into oureconomy so that we can be better
off.
But America has an addiction tospending and Congress is the
world's worst, because we need alot of these government
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programs.
Maybe we don't need them to thedegree we have them.
That would include the militaryand that would include
entitlements, and that's not aconversation people are willing
to have, because if you cut themilitary well, you're not a
patriot, you hate America andyou hate our troops.
If you cut entitlements, evenif you do it the smart way, the
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way the Republicans are doing it, you hate poor people and you
want them all to die, and no onewants that optic when they're
running for re-election.
Let's just be honest.
I can tell you that because I'mnot running for election and
I'm a podcaster and mostly thispodcast is mostly a spiritual
podcast.
But I keep up with politics.
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I never quit.
I don't quit reading the news.
I didn't quit reading the newswhen the United States hit Iran.
I didn't quit reading the news.
With all of this, I just wantedto focus more on the Bible,
because there are so many peoplethat do political podcasts and
yes, it's important and yes, I'mgoing to cover it.
That's why I'm covering it now.
Podcast, and yes, it'simportant and yes, I'm going to
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cover it.
That's why I'm covering it now.
But there are people thatlisten to my podcast that
wouldn't listen to it becausethey know me and there is a real
need for spiritual content andreal biblical stuff out there.
And I'm not saying I'm the best.
I'm not Dr James White, I'm notDr Brown, I'm not Keith Foskey,
I'm not Mike Winger, I'm not.
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I'm a redneck with the Biblethat asked the Holy Spirit to
help me.
And I have a lot more resources.
I do have a lot more resourcesthan the early church did.
But that's all I can do andthat's all I'm trying to do.
That's all any of us can reallydo is try our best, and God has
gave us this wonderful bookcalled the Bible and I think we
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should read it.
That's why I want to turn thisinto a more biblical podcast
that occasionally talks aboutpolitics and cultural issues.
Oh so, forgive me for my rant,I'm going to keep going.
The Senate parliamentariandetermined that a measure
cutting federal funds to statesthat use Medicare infractions to
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prove health care coverage toundocumented immigrants, along
with banning medical fromcovering gender transition
surgeries, wasn't complex withthe Senate recommendation rules.
The parliamentarian alsoweighed in on what's known as
the provided tax, which statesuse to help fund their portion
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of Medicaid costs.
And, below to the Senate GOPinitial plan, senate Republicans
proposed steeper cuts toMedicaid funding in part of
inclement lowering provision taxfrom 6% to 3.5% by 2032.
The timeline is delayed by oneyear for Senate GOP initial
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proposals after the issue becameone of the bill's sticking
points in recent weeks.
It's a departure from theinitial House bill, which sought
to lower federal costs byfreezing states providing taxes
at current rates and providingthem from establishing new
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provider taxes.
This bill also includes ahospital stabilization fund
after some GOP senatorsexpressed their concerns over
how hospitals could be impactedby medicaid restrictions.
Allowing 50 billion for royalhospitals over the same period
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that the providers tax would belowered, and all that does is
help.
It helps hospitals in thecountryside that would be
impacted by the Medicaid tax sothey don't go out of business.
So I keep seeing Democrats saythey're going to go out of
business, but the Republicansprovided a $50 billion provision
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for those hospitals so theydidn't go out of business.
That's not bad.
That's pretty good.
Homeland security andimmigration that's not bad,
that's pretty good.
Homeland Security andImmigration this legislation
includes more than $46.5 billionfor the border wall
construction and expenses, $45billion to expand detention
capacity for immigrants incustody, and about $30 billion
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to fund for hiring, training andother resources for US
Immigration and CustomEnforcement, otherwise known as
ICE.
That is great, guys.
We have got the money to finishthe border wall.
Trump's promise in 2015 that hestarted working on when he was
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president in the first term isnow coming true.
We're going to finish the wall.
We're going to get very closeto it.
By the end of Trump's term, weshould have the wall finished,
and if we don't, then that is ahuge failure on President
Trump's wall.
If we don't, we should have atleast 90% finished by the time
he is gone.
That is amazing.
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That is a good way to preserveour country, to keep flows of
illegal immigrants out.
That will help us in puttingmore resources into ICE, which
does a great job in protectingour country from illegal
immigration.
And you can say they're mean.
I've seen the left call themNazis, so such horrible things
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for men and women that aretrying to protect us from
illegal aliens.
That doesn't mean I hateillegal aliens.
You know my position.
You have to come.
I want legal immigrants to cometo the United States.
You just got to come here theright way and we don't know
who's coming across the southernborder, so we have to stop it.
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That's a good thing.
That's not unchristian toprotect your people.
That's not.
And it's providing.
It's providing $45 billion toexpand capacity for immigration
customs.
So this will this.
You know if we have detainmentcenters trying to get them the
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resources they need to as well.
So so we're going to care forthese illegals while they wait
on the court date.
Okay, they should still betreated humanely.
I've seen some stuff where theyhaven't been treated humanely
and that's bad Overall they are,but they should have warm beds,
they should have warm mealsuntil they can have their court
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date and if the judge says theyhave to go home, then we send
them home.
We don't need to be cruel tothese people.
They're still made in God'simage, but we have to protect
our citizens.
Okay, we have to protect ourcitizens and illegal immigration
hurts our citizens.
Let's continue.
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It also includes a minimal $100fee for those seeking asylum,
down from the $1,000 feeoutlined in the initial House
bill.
The Senate Parliamentary ruledout the $1,000 fee outlined in
the initial House bill.
The Senate Parliamentary ruledout the $1,000 fee for anyone
applying for asylum, so thatmakes it easier for people
seeking asylum.
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You still have to go throughproper channels, but it makes it
easier, so liberals should likethat.
Increasing the state and localtax deductions are salt.
The package also includesincentives to the caps on the
state and local deductions,raised it from $10,000 to
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$45,000 after five years.
It would also return $10,000, adeparture from the initial
House bill passed.
The issue was a major stickingpoint in the House where blue
state Republicans threatened towithhold their support without
increase to the deductions, butwith no Republicans halting from
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blue states in the Senate, theupper chamber has been
consistent with its own dynamics.
Before the rule, taxpayerscould deduct all their state and
local tax from federal taxes,which some policymakers have
said mainly benefit wealthyhomeowners and states with high
taxes such as New York andCalifornia.
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But advocates for increasingthe cap argue that the $10,000
cap is increasingly impactingmiddle-class homeowners who live
in regions where property taxesare rising.
Green energy policy the finalbill passed by the Senate would
largely terminate numerous taxincentives from the 2022
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Inflation Reduction Act forclean energy, electric vehicles
and energy efficiency programsthat benefit customers.
It would end tax credits fornew and used electric vehicles,
installed installation of homeEV charging equipment and
installations, and energyefficient heating and cooling
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systems.
The bill also ends theGreenhouse Gas Reduction Fund,
which gives funding tonon-profit organizations
providing financial for projectsthat reduce pollution and
greenhouse gases emissions inthe community's existing
contracts and grants under theprograms are not effective.
Restrictions on food stamps thebill shifts costs of SNAP and
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food stamps to some states.
The federal program iscurrently fully funded by the
federal government.
The federal government wouldcontinue to fully fund the
benefits for states that have anerror payment below 6%,
beginning in 2028, states withan error rate above 6% would be
on the hook for 5 or 15% of thecost.
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States are also given someflexibility in calculating their
share.
This package also aligns withthe initial home version on age
requirements and able-bodiedadults to qualify for SNAP
benefits.
Currently, in order to qualify,able-bodied adults between 18
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and 54 must meet workrequirements.
Both Senate and House billwould update the age requirement
to 18 and 64, with someexceptions for parents.
Alaska and Hawaii could receivewaivers for work requirements if
it's determined that they aremaking good faith efforts to
comply.
That's mostly because ElisaMurkowski was pushing for Alaska
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to have an exception to therule so she could sign the bill.
That's mostly what it was andshe got the non-contiguous
states to have an exception.
You can disagree with it, butsometimes it gets hard when you
make these bills.
You have to make compromisesfor certain representatives and
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senators to sign on, senators tosign on and that's 100% because
of Lisa Murkowski being amoderate Republican from Alaska,
pushing for that and otherthings before she would vote for
it and that's something sheprovided for Alaska that Alaska
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and Hawaii will get that andother states won't.
They'll get that exception.
It does say if they're making agood faith effort to comply,
but how are people going tointerpret that?
To enforce that law on me?
So they basically get anexception.
The rest of the 48 do not.
The legislation would rise tothat ceiling by $5 trillion,
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going beyond the $4 trillionoutlined in the initial
House-passed bill.
Congress faces a deadline toaddress the debt limit later
this summer.
Bessette has agreed Congress toaddress the debt limit by
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mid-July, saying that the UScould be unable to pay as early
as August when Congress is onrecess.
By adding the national debtceiling as a part of the larger
package, republicans in Congressaim to bypass negotiations with
Democrats on issues.
Congress aimed to bypassnegotiations with Democrats on
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issues.
Unlike most other legislationsin the Senate, the budget
recognizes the progress thatgoverns the impact requires a
simple majority rather than 60vote, therefore, to move others
with a bill Tax child credit.
So if you have a kid um underthe age of 18, this would apply
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to you.
The current two thousand dollartax credit is set to return to
the pre-2017 level of onethousand dollars in 2026.
The tax credit wouldpermanently increase to $2,200
under the bill, $300 less thanthe initial house past time
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Limits on overtime and tipsdeduction.
So this has a lot of peoplethat work overtime and people
that work in the serviceindustry that make tips.
This is important to you andthere's something that really
bothers me about this and I'lltell you when I get done reading
it.
The bill would allowindividuals to deduct a certain
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amount of tip wages and overtimewages.
The provision would expire in2028.
The no tax on tips provision inthe spending bill would create
a new deductions for Trippedworkers, eliminating that they
owe in federal income.
Tipped workers would also haveto pay State and local income
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and payrolls tax.
The Senate version Very variesfrom the initial house provision
on a few key points, includinghow a worker could claim in.
On a few key points, includinghow a worker could claim in
deductions, the Senate proposallimits that the deductions of
$2,500, while the early housewas a cap.
So you have okay.
So if you're working a tips jobat a restaurant or whatever
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you're getting tips, or ifyou're working overtime, this is
you can only claim this on yourtax deduction.
Oh to $25,000.
The house version was unlimited.
The Senate version caps it at$25,000.
If you make $26,000 you stillhave to pay taxes on, but when
you get your pay stub if you, ifyou're working and you make
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overtime, you will still paytaxes on it.
On your pay stub, you're stillgoing to pay taxes on it.
You can deduct that at the endof the year when you're getting
your taxes.
So you can get it back at theend of the year.
But throughout the week, if youget paid once a week or twice a
week or, sorry, if you get paidonce a week or once every two
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weeks, guess what You're stillpaying taxes on that overtime.
So if you need help that weekand you worked extra overtime to
provide it, you're still payingtaxes for it.
That's dirty.
That's dirty.
They should just say you don'thave to pay taxes on this.
I mean, that's one thing thatreally bothers me about this
bill.
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Now, tips is a little different.
If you're working a serviceindustry job, a lot of times
you're supposed to just well,you are supposed to just write
how much you make on tips At theend of the year, save a certain
percentage and pay it back tothe government.
Now, a lot of people that dothis don't really write their
tips down or they skew it alittle bit.
I didn't make that much on tips.
Okay, I'm not saying that'sright.
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I'm just saying a lot of peopledo that.
You're going to be able towrite off $25,000 on that.
I just wish they wouldn't dothat.
Instead of just giving peopletheir money back at the end of
the year, why don't you just letthem keep it?
And why is there a provisionthat it's only until 2028,
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during an election year?
So in 2028, when we have ournext election, if a Democrat
comes into office in 2029, thiscould go to the wayside and
you're just getting taxed again.
So is it better than what itwas before?
Yes, but it could have been somuch better.
It could have helped thefamilies out immediately and
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right now, but instead we'llhelp you out at the end of the
year.
That frustrates me.
That frustrates me.
Under the initial House measure,meanwhile, only people with an
annual income of $60,000 or lesswould qualify for the tipping
tax break, while the Senateversion phases out benefits for
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individuals whose incomes exceed$150,000 or couples who exceed
$300,000.
Changing to standard deductions, the bill seeks to permanently
expand basic standards deducted,which was nearly doubled in
2017.
The increase will expire at theend of the year.
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That's the end of the bill.
That's the end of the articlediscussing the bill and I do
think that was.
I do think that's veryimportant.
I think overall, it's a goodbill.
Um, there may be things in thebill that I do not like, but
overall I think it's a good bill.
I, I I'm at.
I absolutely love that.
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We're going to we're basicallygoing to finish the wall.
We've come very close to it.
We're going to spend a lot moremoney on the wall and on ICE
agents that President Trumppromised.
I voted for that.
I want the border wall.
You can call me a racist.
You can call me evil.
You can call me Nazi.
You can call me all the namesyou want to call me.
You can say I'm a bad Christianbecause I want to protect the
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citizens of this country.
That doesn't mean I hate thepeople that are past the border
wall, because I don't hate thosepeople.
I do love them.
I do want them to becomeChristian and go to heaven, and
I'm okay with some of thosepeople becoming American
citizens.
But I want to know wherethey're coming from and who they
are.
That's not much to ask.
That's not much to ask.
I think this was a good bill.
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I understand it could have beenbetter, but when you're dealing
with a Congress as divided asit is, it gets messy.
It gets messy.
This is representativegovernment and if we had the
clear closure, if we had tobreak the filibuster we can't.
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You don't have to break thefilibuster when you're passing
the budget bill.
But I'll be honest, I'll behonest, guys.
This I don't think this Senate,I don't think that the United
States of America is matureenough to have, uh, the
filibuster rule right now.
I know we always debate, goback and forth between who you
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know, go back and forth between,um, what party it is, if we
want it, dare or not.
In principle I like it, but Idon't even.
I just don't think we're matureenough to handle it.
I don't, this country's notmature enough, this Congress is
not mature enough to handle it.
And you could say, well, thiswould hurt, this could put out a
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bunch of bad legislation.
Yeah, it could, and then wecould vote those people out and
we can get rid of that badlegislation.
But that's just a side note.
I do want to share somethingelse this bill does, and I think
it's something Christians havebeen pounding for and we finally
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got it.
It's only for a year, but it isfor a year.
So I'm going to read you all alittle bit about that.
All right guys, I'm going toread y'all a little bit about
that.
All right guys.
I'm going to read just a littlebit from an NPR article.
A provision in Trump's MAGA billspending bill defunds Planned
Parenthood.
The organization says 200clinics may close.
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Most are in states whereabortion is legal.
That's great, that's a win.
They could close 200 clinicsbecause we're not going to fund
them.
Absolutely, I'll take the win.
Now does the article go on towhine and cry?
Yeah, you know they're going to.
You know they're going to.
Oh well, what about?
We don't only kill babies, wedo other things.
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200 clinics, baby.
That is what I voted for.
That is what I voted for.
That is a good thing.
That is lives being saved.
And, yeah, it's only for a year, but 200 clinics has an impact
for years and has an impact onhuman beings not being murdered.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, praiseGod.
And you can get a lot of thesethings from pregnancy resource
centers.
Ultrasound Counseling will haveyou be a good parent.
You can get a lot of thesehealth benefits from pregnancy
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resource centers and hospitals.
So you know what?
I'm just going to read thatlittle clip right there.
A provision in President Trump'smega-expanding bill defunds
Planned Parenthood.
The organization says 200clinics may close.
Most are in states whereabortion is legal.
Good, good, you do not have aright to kill a baby.
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Good, oh well.
What if, shut up, you killbabies?
Moloch is crying that youcannot sacrifice more and more
childs to him.
Devils are screeching in hellright now as we are preserving
life.
And I voted for it.
If you listen to this podcast,if you agree with me, more than
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likely, you voted for it.
Congratulations, seriously,congratulations, congratulations
.
We did this.
We did this by the grace of theHoly Spirit and by the ballot
box.
This is why I always tellpeople you've got to vote.
This is why voting is soimportant.
It is life and death and we wonthis fight.
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It's not a permanent win, butwe did it.
Be proud, be humble.
It's a victory in a battle.
It's not over yet, but be proud, be humble.
It's a victory in a battle.
It's not over yet, but be proud.
Be thankful to the Holy Spiritthat we did this.
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I'm going to read you one morething.
For those of you that are inthe 9th Congressional District
Congressman Morgan Griffith isyour congressman and as he is
mine.
He made a statement on thepassing of the bill and I just
want to read it.
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A day ago, griffith's statementon the House passing of the
Reconciliation Bill, the USHouse of Representatives voted
to pass Senate Bill HR 1, thebudget requisition bill.
This requisition package goesto President Trump to be signed
into law.
Following the passage of thebill, us Congressman Morgan
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Griffith issued the followingstatement Say I vote in favor of
HR 1, the budget reconciliationbill.
As with every bill, I weighedthe pros and cons.
The positives of the billclearly outweigh the negatives.
A tax structure that encouragesgrowth in the economy is
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extremely important.
This bill contains a number ofconstituents of pro-small
businesses policies to helpfamily-owned farms and
family-owned businesses.
In addition, it adds no tax ontips for most of our service
industry, improving weightedstaff and hospitality workers.
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It also implements wage workfor overtime for hourly workers.
Another significant impact isthe increase of money to help
protect our nation's border.
The emulation of American energypotential contained in the bill
is significant and will lead tothe increase in population.
Because of this bill, americanenergy's costs are expected to
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stabilize and even be lower inthe common decades.
On Medicare, we strengthenedthe program for the traditional
Medicaid population.
That population includespregnant women, the disabled,
the elderly and the young.
Opponents criticized thecommunity engagement or work
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requirement provisions for ablybodied medicaid Expanded
recipients.
I consider this a strength ofthe bill.
While commonly called workrequirements, the community
engages in provisions ofable-bodied medicaid expansion
recipients, does not require aWork requirement to per se but
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per se, but would require themto contribute to our communities
to engage only in an average of18 point hours a week.
Eligibility can be achieved byparticipating in education or
substance abuse recoveryprograms, holding a traditional
job or volunteer communityservice.
I believe it is only fair toexpect those able-bodied
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Medicaid expansion recipients tocontribute to the communities.
According, I sponsored the bill.
Accordingly, I sponsored thebill.
He voted for it.
I agree with him.
I agree with him on that.
So I just want to read that foreveryone that is a 9th district
resident.
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That is our congressman'sreason for voting for the big,
beautiful bill.
I'm going to read y'all guys ascripture verse of the day and
then we will be on our way.
All right, guys.
Most of the time I try to picka bible verse that relates to
the topic if we're doing apolitical show, but there's only
one that kind of came to mindand I didn't like how it tied in
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, so I'm going to read you guyssomething from a private
devotion I've been reading in 1Timothy.
1 Timothy, chapter 1.
Here is a trustworthy sayingthat deserves full acceptance
Christ Jesus came into the worldto save sinners, of whom I am
the worst.
And what this reflection thatSt Paul is telling us is when we
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look upon our own sins, whenthe Holy Spirit opens our heart
up enough to open up to put usin a place where we're seeing
our own sins, the sins of therest of the world don't look as
big as ours.
Our sins look so horrible to usbecause the holy spirit has
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opened up our hearts to wherethey he's, showing us how bad
they truly are, and that JesusChrist came into the world fully
.
Here is a trustworthy sayingthat is full of acceptance.
Jesus Christ came into theworld to save sinners, whom I am
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the worst of.
That.
Jesus Christ came to die for us, the worst of us sinners, and
we should focus more on our ownsins than the sins of other
people.
It's hard to do, isn't it?
And but he came and died foreveryone.
He came and died for thesinners of the world.
God bless you, guys, and wewill be back here next week,
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hopefully next week.
Talk about part two in the lifeof David series.
I believe we're going to betalking about David and Goliath,
one of the greatest stories ofthe Bible.
God bless you and have a big,beautiful weekend.
All right, everyone.
I hope everyone had a great 4thof July, independence Day.
Hopefully you didn't commit thesin of gluttony by eating too
many hot dogs, as easy as thatcan be.
I'm going to talk about a fewthings.
We're going to talk about thebig beautiful bill and we're
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going to read the Declaration ofIndependence in honor of it
being the 4th of July weekend.
I hope everyone had a goodweekend, continues to have a
good and safe weekend.
But, as we always do, we'regoing to read the Lord's Prayer,
the Apostles' Creed, and thenwe're going to read the
Declaration of Independence.
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If you stick around until afterthat, we're going to talk about
Trump's big beautiful bill thatwas signed into law yesterday,
because there's so much stuff init.
There's actually a video youcan watch on YouTube about it
being read in the Senatechambers.
It is 15 hours long.
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I listened to about an hour ofit.
It's a long bill, so there'sgoing to be stuff in it that I
don't know of, but the stuff Ido know of, the stuff that is
being widely reported, the stuffthat people are arguing about,
we're going to talk about andthen after that, after that,
after this, we'll be gettingback on to king david's life and
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we'll be doing a part two inking david's life.
But this is kind of big.
Uh, this bill is um, well, it'sa huge deal, so we got to talk
about it.
So the lord's prayer, our father, which art in heaven, hallowed
be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth as itis in heaven.
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Give us this day our dailybread.
Forgive us our trespasses, aswe forgive those who trespass
against us.
Lead us not into temptation,but deliver us from evil, for
divine is thy kingdom, the powerand glory, forever and ever.
Amen.
We'll go to the Apostles' Creedand read it.
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The Apostles' Creed.
I believe in God, the FatherAlmighty, maker of heaven and
earth, and in Jesus Christ, hisonly Son, our Lord, which was
conceived by the Holy Spirit,born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,was crucified, died and buried.
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He descended into hell In thethird days.
He rose from the dead.
He ascended into heaven and satat the right hand of God, the
Father Almighty.
From hence he shall come tojudge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost,the Holy Catholic Church, the
communion of the saints, theforgiveness of sins and the
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resurrection of the body andlife as everlasting Amen.
The Holy Catholic Church meansuniversal, and many people
believe hell is just to be death.
Okay, now let's go to theDeclaration of Independence.
We're not going to do this allthe time, but we're going to add
it to our reading because it'sthe 4th of July weekend In
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Congress.
July 4th 1776, the unanimousdeclaration of the 13 United
States of America.
When, in the course of humanevents, it becomes necessary for
one people to dissolve thepolitical bonds which have
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connected them to another and toassume, among the powers of
earth to separate, the equalstation to which the laws of
nature and nature's God entitledthem, a decent respect to the
opinions of mankind requiresthat they should declare the
causes which implied them toseparation.
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We hold self to be self-evident.
That all men are created equaland that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain andinalienable rights.
That among these are life,liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.
That to secure these rights,government are instituted among
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men, delivering their power fromthe consent of the governed.
That when any form ofgovernment becomes destructive
of these ends, it is the rightof the people to us to abolish
or to alter or abolish it and toinstitute a new government
laying its foundations on suchprinciples and organization.
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It is powers, in such a form asthem shall see, most likely to
affect their safety andhappiness, produce, indeed, with
dedication, that governmentsalong established should not be
charged of light and transitioncauses and accordingly, all
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expressionath, so that mankindare more deposed to suffer while
evils are suffering, the rightof themselves to abolish the
forms to which they areaccustomed.
But when a long train of abuseand aversion, pursuing
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invaluable in valuable, the sameobjectives, endeavors a design
to reduce them under absolutedepose, it is their right and
their duty to throw off suchgovernment and provide new
guards for their future security.
Such has been the patiencesuffered under these colonies
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and such is now the necessarywhich contains them to alter
their form system of government.
The history of the present kingof Great Britain is a history of
repeat injustices and allhaving indirect objects the
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establishment of an absolutetyrant over these states.
To provide this, let's saylet's facts be submitted to a
canny world, he has refused hisassent to all the most wholesome
and necessary of public good,to law the most wholesome and
necessary of public good.
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He has forbidden his governorsto pass laws of immediate and
pressing importance unlesssuspended in their operation
till the assist should beobtained.
And when suspending, he hasutterly neglected to attend them
.
He has refused to pass overlaws for the accommodations of
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large districts of people,unless these people would
require the right ofrepresentation and legislation,
a right intimate to them andforbidd them to tyrants only.
He has called togetherlegislative bodies at places
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unusual, uncustom and distantfrom the depose of their public
records, for the solid purposeof fatiguing them into
compliance with his measures, hehas dissolved representative
houses repeatedly for opposingwith mainly firmness of his
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invasions on the rights of thepeople he has refused for a long
time.
As such, dissolving to causeothers to be elected will bear
the legislative powers incapableof annihilation have returned
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to the people at large for theirexercise, the state remaining
in the means of expulsion andall the dangers of invasion
without the conclusions withinthem.
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He has endeavored to prevent thepopulation of the states for
the purpose of obtaining thelaws of naturalization of
foreigners, refusing to pass theencouragement of their
migration hikers and raising theconsiderations of appropriating
new lands.
He has objected to theadministration of justice and he
has refused his assets to thelaw for establishing judicial
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power.
He has made judges dependent onhis will alone for the tenure
of the office and he the amountof payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude ofnew offices and sent henceforth
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swarms of other offices toharass people and eat out their
substances.
He has kept us, in times ofpeace, standing armies without
the consent of our legislature.
He has afflicted to hinder themilitary independence and of the
superiority to the silver power.
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He has combined with others tosubjugate us to a jurisdiction
of foreign to our constitutionand acknowledge by our laws his
assess and acts of legislationfor quartering of large bodies,
arms of truth, among us, forprotecting them by a mock trial
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from punishment by any murderswhich they should commit on the
inhabitants of these states.
For cutting off our trade withall parts of the world.
For imposing taxes on uswithout consent.
For depriving us in much casesof benefits by trial of jury.
For transporting us beyond seaand tried of pretending offenses
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.
For abolishing the free systemof English law in a neighbor,
provence, providenceestablishing and hereby
arbitrary government andenlarging its boundaries as to
render it once an example ofunfit institution and
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instruments in intruding thesame absolute law of these
counties, colonies.
For taking our way, ourcharters, abolishing our most
valuable laws, alteringfundamental forms of our
government for suspending ourown legislations and declaring
themselves invested in the powerof the legislations and cause
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whatsoever.
He has abdicated governance hereby declaring out his
protections and wages of war.
He has plundered our seas,ravaged our coasts and burned
our towns and destroyed thelives of our people.
He at this time transportinglarge armies of foreign
mercenaries to complete theworks of death.
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Desolation and tyranny alreadybegin, with circumstances of
cruelty and profound scalesparallel in the most barbarous
ages and total unworthy heads ofcivilized nations.
He has consents our fellowcitizens take captive on high
seas and bearing arms againstthe colonies and become
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executors of their friends andbeverage to follow himself.
He has actually the domesticinsurrection among us and has
endeavored to bring on theinhabitants of our frontiers and
the merciless Indian savageswho knows no rules of warfare
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and is indigenous, distinct fromall sexes and conditions In
every state.
Of these oppositions we havepetitioned for regards in the
most humble terms.
Our relative petitions haveanswered alone by repeating in
juries a prince whose characteris thus marked by every act
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which may define a tyrant, isunfit to rule a free people.
Nor have we been wandering inour attentions to our British
brethren.
We have warned them from timeto time of attempts by the
legislature to extend ourunwarranted justification over
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us.
We have reminded them of thecircumstances of our immigration
settlement here.
We have appealed to the nativejust and magisterium and we have
conjured them, by the side ofour own common kindred, to
disavow the person which wouldinevitably interrupt our
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connections and correspondence,to have to bend down to the
voice of the justice and ofconsternance.
We must therefore acquire inthe necessary which denounces
our separation and hold them aswe hold the rest of mankind,
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enemies in war in in peace,friends.
We therefore, therepresentatives of the united
states of america in congressassembled, appealing to the
supreme judge of the world ofthe gratitude of the intentions
to do in nature and by theauthorities of good people,
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these colonies, summatelypublished and declared that
these united colonies are ofright, ought to be free and
independent states, that theyshould absolve all allegiances
from the British crown and allpolitical connections between
them and the state of GreatBritain is it ought to be
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totally dissolved, and that asfree and independent people they
have full power to levy war,conduct peace, contact allies,
establish commerce and to do allother acts and things which
independent states may right todo, and for the support of this
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Declaration, with a firmreliance on the protections of
divine providence.
We mutually pledge to eachother our lives, our fortitudes
and our sacred honor.
Thank you for bearing with meas I read that and I know I'm
not a good reader, I know Imispronounced words, so please
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forgive me.
That was penned down by thefamous Thomas Jefferson of
Virginia.
The third president of theUnited States offered the
Declaration of Independence.
You know, before I get to thebig beautiful bill, after
reading the Declaration ofIndependence, I just want to
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state this is a secessiondocument and so many people that
have talked so poorly about theSouth for succeeding during the
Civil War quote-unquote CivilWar and leaving the United
States and becoming their owncountry.
We did the exact same thing toGreat Britain and the South had
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more precedent, legal precedentand more historical precedent to
do it than the colonies did.
Now you can disagree.
You can disagree with thereasoning.
You can say that you believethe Civil War and the South left
because of slavery.
We can have that debate.
But secession is an Americanthing, it's very American.
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It's inseparable from ourhistory as Americans and the
South choosing to leave theUnion is exactly what the 13
colonies did to Great Britainand you can't say it wasn't
because it was.
And you could say well, there'sa difference.
They would be betraying theUnion instead of the crown.
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And my question that is so what?
That's what their forefathersdid.
That's what their forefathersdid.
Thomas Jefferson, who wrote thisdocument, would have agreed
with the South's right to leavethe Union.
He, he would have I'm notsaying all the founding fathers
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would have, I'm not sayingeveryone that's sound, the
Constitution would have, becausethat's not true.
But the birth of our countrystarts with this document.
The birth of our country startson this document.
That's when we recognize ourindependence.
When we recognize ourindependence isn't when we
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recognize our Constitution.
Our Constitution didn't comeuntil 1789.
We left the United Kingdom.
When we left the United Kingdomon July 4th 1776.
There's a little bit of a timedifference there.
And when we left we operated onthe Articles of the Confederacy
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.
Now you can say it was a badgoverning document, and I would
agree with you in some states.
In some ways, yeah.
But guess what happened afterthat?
The states that freely joinedthe Articles of Confederation
left to join what the Union.
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They actually made the Union.
They actually made theConstitution.
Don't forget, the states madethe Constitution.
The states made the federalgovernment.
The federal government did notmake the states.
So all those sovereign states,did it take them a while to
leave?
Yeah, because they wereconcerned about a very big
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federal government,understandably too.
And when they signed, theysigned under the notion they
believed they could leave ifthey wanted to.
Why?
Because they had left twoprevious governments, the
British crown and the Articlesof Confederation.
So that's about as far I'mgetting, to the Civil War.
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I just think it's hypocriticalto belittle the South for doing
exactly the same thing thatyou're celebrating this weekend.
You can say, well, it's thereason they left, okay, then say
you don't support the reasonthey left.
Then say you don't support thereason they left.
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Do not say that you're againstthem leaving on principle,
because if you're eating a hotdog and singing the
Star-Spangled Banner, you'recelebrating the secession of
these colonies.
Remember, thomas Jefferson wrotedown that these colonies are
free and independent states.
What do you mean by that?
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He didn't mean state the way wemean state.
He meant independent countries.
In his world, virginia was acountry, massachusetts was a
country, georgia was a countrythat were uniting.
He wanted some form of unitybetween these states.
That's true and that's whyThomas Jefferson was opposed to
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the Constitution.
And you could say well, I lovethe Constitution, I love the
Constitution too, but it's not aperfect document and we need to
be very careful.
We need to put a little bitmore nuance in the way we view
history and the way we viewthese things.
Now you can say it was wrong.
But you could say if you saythe confederacy was wrong and
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you say the founding fatherswere wrong, then I have a little
more respect for your positionbecause it's more coherent.
And there are people peoplebelieve it or not.
There are proud Americans thatbelieve what the founding
fathers did in leaving GreatBritain was wrong and they
shouldn't have rebelled againstthe government.
I'll leave that up for you todecide.
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I'll leave that up for you todecide.
I just want to point out thehypocrisy.
So, but yeah, there's room forus to grow.
Let's go back, and I want toread just a little.
Go back to these With thesetruths to be self-evident,
meaning they're obvious, thatthey're abundantly obvious.
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That all men are created equal,that they have been endowed by
their creator.
That's not an atheist documentright here either.
I'm not claiming ThomasJefferson was a Bible-believing
evangelical, because he wasn't.
He was a deist.
He believed in a God, but hedid not believe in the true God
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of the Bible.
He might have said he did, buthe didn't believe in the Trinity
.
He didn't believe Jesus wasdivine.
He also was not an atheist thatsome people like to claim.
We hold these truths to beself-evident.
We hold these truths to beself-evident that all men are
created, equal and dialed withtheir creator with certain and
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a-lible rights.
Among these are life, libertyand the pursuit of happiness.
This comes from the philosopherThomas Paine.
We change the word property tohappiness.
Now we always lift up to thatnote In the same document we
call Indians savages, we callNative Americans savages, and
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that same very document.
So we definitely had room toimprove and we had to put aside
our prejudice to allow everyoneto be able to live to this
document, allow everyone to beable to live to this document.
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But now I'm going to go to thebig, beautiful bill and we're
going to read some things anddiscuss some things about it.
Okay, guys, I'm going to readyou an article from cbsnewscom
by Kate Hubbard or, yeah,harbard forgive me for
mispronouncing her name.
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Here's what's in Trump's bigbeautiful bill passed by
Congress Washington.
The House passed a massivespending and tax bill that
includes signature policies ofPresident Trump's second-term
agenda Thursday, spending theso-called big beautiful bill to
the President's desk ahead of aJuly 4th deadline.
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Mr Trump signed the bill intolaw on Friday afternoon.
The House approved the bill ina 218-214 vote Thursday, after
the Senate narrowly passed thebill Tuesday in a 51-50 vote
that required Vice President JDVance to break the tie.
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At the center of the bigbeautiful bill is an extension
of Mr Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts andJob Acts, which was slanted to
sunset and to end at the end ofthe year.
To sunset and to end at the endof the year.
The legislation would make mostof the tax cuts permanent,
while increasing spending forbroader security, defense and
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energy production.
The bill is partially paid forby significant cuts in health
care and nutrition programs likeMedicaid and Supplemental
Nutrition and Assistance Programor SNAP.
The Congressional Budget Officeestimates the bill will add
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$3.4 trillion to federal deficitover the next 10 years and will
leave millions without healthinsurance.
Republicans in the White Housedispute these forecasts.
Senate Republicans use a processknown as a budget reclamation
bill, to pass the bill, whichlimits the types of policies
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that can be included, in asimple majority vote.
A handful of provisionsinitially approved in the bill
were immediately removed,including one that would have
ordered the sale of public landsand others that would have
paused state regulations onartificial intelligence.
The House passed its owninitial version of the
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legislation last month with somekey differences to the final
Senate-crafted version.
The lower chamber approved theSenate's changes Thursday.
Spending the measure to thepresident's desk.
Here is what's in the 887-pagebill.
887-page bill.
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The legislation providedrestrictions on Medicaid, which
provides governing-sponsoredhealth care for low-income and
disabled Americans.
The bill imposes workrequirements for some
able-bodied adults and morefrequent eligibility checks.
The Congressional Budget Officeestimates that the bill would
result in 11.8 million Americanslosing their health coverage
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over.
The Congressional Budget Officeestimates the bill would result
in 11.8 million Americanslosing their health coverage
under Medicaid over the nextdecade.
Let's pause right there andtalk about that.
So Democrats are claiming thatwe're just being evil and
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kicking everyone off of Medicaid.
Everyone's going to lose theirhealth care and people will lose
their health coverage becausehere's what you got to do.
Anyone that's over the age of 18and under the age of 64, that
is well-bodied, that is not ondisability, that is not a
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nursing mother, a caretaker forsomeone who is sick in the
family, that has to havecaretaking someone that is not
working a job.
Even that job could be apart-time job.
The work requirements areextraordinarily reasonable.
You can go to college, you canwork a part-time job, you can do
volunteer work for around 20hours a week.
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I think the official hours is18.5.
That's not unreasonable guys.
All this is doing is it'sgiving people incentive to work
or go to school or volunteer forsome of the benefits that they
are doing.
Other states have already donethis.
Indiana has done this.
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And will some people be droppedoff of this?
Yes, because there are somepeople that aren't going to work
, that aren't going to go toschool, they're not going to
contribute to America.
And if you're dropped off ofthis because you're just being
lazy, you're not disabled,you're not a nursing mother,
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you're not going to college,you're not taking care of a
family member, then you shouldbe dropped off of this.
You should not be gettingMedicaid, you should not be
getting SNAP benefits if you'renot willing to contribute to the
United States of America.
If you're not willing to work,if you're not willing to do
anything for yourself, thetaxpayer should not have to pay
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for you.
Now, how is this going to beimplemented?
We can criticize that.
I do worry about how it's goingto be implemented, how we're
going to be showing the federalgovernment that someone is
actually doing legitimatevolunteer work for a 501 C
organization organization, orhow people are doing, you know,
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in school or a part-time job,okay.
So I do think we need to begracious in implementing this
and setting up the properchannels that it can be done
easy so they can keep theirbenefits.
Also, I do think this protectsthe benefits for those that need
them, but from people that justare not willing to work.
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Yeah, absolutely.
I do think this protects thebenefits for those that need
them, but from people that justare not willing to work.
Yeah, absolutely I do.
I don't think you should be onMedicaid if you're not working
or SNAP if you're not workingand you're not on disability and
if you don't meet theexceptions and there's a lot of
exceptions out there.
I'll look at them and I'll readsome of them before we end the
podcast.
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There's a lot of exceptions forthis guys.
It's not unreasonable.
It's not.
Then you shouldn't be gettingMedicaid, you shouldn't be
getting food stamps.
So I think this is a good thing.
It's a good way to save somemoney.
Now I'll say this the bill.
So some of the reasonlibertarians like Thomas Massey
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wouldn't vote for the bill.
It does add $3.4 trillion tothe federal deficit and I've
come to the conclusion thatAmerica is never, under a
Republican or a Democrat, goingto start to pay off the national
debt.
We're just not, because you'regoing to even have to cut
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entitlements and this does cutentitlements in a good way,
because it just does it for lazypeople mostly.
It does do that and I want tosee how it's implemented.
If it's being implemented in away where they can't submit
stuff easily to keep theirbenefits, then I condemn that
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right.
We have to have a smooth way ofgoing about this.
No one that's working, no onethat's meeting the work
requirements, should be kickedoff Medicaid food stamps.
They shouldn't.
I agree with that, no oneshould.
But if you're just being lazy,then yeah, you should be kicked
off Medicaid food stamps.
They shouldn't.
I agree with that, no oneshould.
But if you're just being lazy,then yeah, you should be kicked
off, and I'm not saying you cannever get back on it again.
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If you get kicked off and you go, oh crap, I need to do
something that gives you a kickin the rear end, that encourages
you to go get a part-time jobor to go do something to earn
your benefits back, then I'mfine with that.
Or here's an even here's anidea that could be even better,
and this is why republicansreally put in there.
What if you find a job thatgives you more than the federal
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benefits does and you no longerneed those benefits?
That's a win for amer andthat's a win for you, because
you're providing them foryourself and it takes the burden
off the taxpayers and you'rebeing self-sufficient.
That's a good thing, not a badthing.
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Do I realize that some peoplearen't able to do that and some
people need federal help?
Yes, that's why we have that.
But I do support the workrequirements.
I just want them to go smoothly, and let's keep an eye on how
smoothly they go.
We'll see what happens, but inprinciple, I think we all should
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be able to support this.
Now, if you want to reallyreduce the federal deficit, do
you have to cut backentitlements like we just did.
Yes, you also have to cut themilitary, and Republicans will
never do that.
So Democrats are willing to dothat, but they're not willing to
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cut back the federal deficit.
Both parties are going to haveto cut something that they don't
want to cut, and I understandboth of their concerns.
So, in my mind, I'm beyond theidea of us getting out of debt,
because I just don't see ithappening If we can just manage
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it enough to where we have moremoney coming in.
That's what this is partiallytrying to do, by cutting taxes,
giving us more wealth into oureconomy so that we can be better
off.
But America has an addiction tospending and Congress is the
world's worst, because we need alot of these government
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programs.
Maybe we don't need them to thedegree we have them.
That would include the militaryand that would include
entitlements, and that's not aconversation people are willing
to have, because if you cut themilitary well, you're not a
patriot, you hate America andyou hate our troops.
If you cut entitlements, evenif you do it the smart way, the
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way the Republicans are doing it, you hate poor people and you
want them all to die, and no onewants that optic when they're
running for re-election.
Let's just be honest.
I can tell you that because I'mnot running for election and
I'm a podcaster and mostly thispodcast is mostly a spiritual
podcast.
But I keep up with politics.
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I never quit.
I don't quit reading the news.
I didn't quit reading the newswhen the United States hit Iran.
I didn't quit reading the news.
With all of this, I just wantedto focus more on the Bible,
because there are so many peoplethat do political podcasts and
yes, it's important and yes, I'mgoing to cover it.
That's why I'm covering it now.
Podcast, and yes, it'simportant and yes, I'm going to
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cover it.
That's why I'm covering it now.
But there are people thatlisten to my podcast that
wouldn't listen to it becausethey know me and there is a real
need for spiritual content andreal biblical stuff out there.
And I'm not saying I'm the best.
I'm not Dr James White, I'm notDr Brown, I'm not Keith Foskey,
I'm not Mike Winger, I'm not.
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I'm a redneck with the Biblethat asked the Holy Spirit to
help me.
And I have a lot more resources.
I do have a lot more resourcesthan the early church did.
But that's all I can do andthat's all I'm trying to do.
That's all any of us can reallydo is try our best, and God has
gave us this wonderful bookcalled the Bible and I think we
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should read it.
That's why I want to turn thisinto a more biblical podcast
that occasionally talks aboutpolitics and cultural issues.
Oh so, forgive me for my rant,I'm going to keep going.
The Senate parliamentariandetermined that a measure
cutting federal funds to statesthat use Medicare infractions to
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prove health care coverage toundocumented immigrants, along
with banning medical fromcovering gender transition
surgeries, wasn't complex withthe Senate recommendation rules.
The parliamentarian alsoweighed in on what's known as
the provided tax, which statesuse to help fund their portion
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of Medicaid costs.
And, below to the Senate GOPinitial plan, senate Republicans
proposed steeper cuts toMedicaid funding in part of
inclement lowering provision taxfrom 6% to 3.5% by 2032.
The timeline is delayed by oneyear for Senate GOP initial
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proposals after the issue becameone of the bill's sticking
points in recent weeks.
It's a departure from theinitial House bill, which sought
to lower federal costs byfreezing states providing taxes
at current rates and providingthem from establishing new
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provider taxes.
This bill also includes ahospital stabilization fund
after some GOP senatorsexpressed their concerns over
how hospitals could be impactedby medicaid restrictions.
Allowing 50 billion for royalhospitals over the same period
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that the providers tax would belowered, and all that does is
help.
It helps hospitals in thecountryside that would be
impacted by the Medicaid tax sothey don't go out of business.
So I keep seeing Democrats saythey're going to go out of
business, but the Republicansprovided a $50 billion provision
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for those hospitals so theydidn't go out of business.
That's not bad.
That's pretty good.
Homeland security andimmigration that's not bad,
that's pretty good.
Homeland Security andImmigration this legislation
includes more than $46.5 billionfor the border wall
construction and expenses, $45billion to expand detention
capacity for immigrants incustody, and about $30 billion
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to fund for hiring, training andother resources for US
Immigration and CustomEnforcement, otherwise known as
ICE.
That is great, guys.
We have got the money to finishthe border wall.
Trump's promise in 2015 that hestarted working on when he was
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president in the first term isnow coming true.
We're going to finish the wall.
We're going to get very closeto it.
By the end of Trump's term, weshould have the wall finished,
and if we don't, then that is ahuge failure on President
Trump's wall.
If we don't, we should have atleast 90% finished by the time
he is gone.
That is amazing.
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That is a good way to preserveour country, to keep flows of
illegal immigrants out.
That will help us in puttingmore resources into ICE, which
does a great job in protectingour country from illegal
immigration.
And you can say they're mean.
I've seen the left call themNazis, so such horrible things
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for men and women that aretrying to protect us from
illegal aliens.
That doesn't mean I hateillegal aliens.
You know my position.
You have to come.
I want legal immigrants to cometo the United States.
You just got to come here theright way and we don't know
who's coming across the southernborder, so we have to stop it.
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That's a good thing.
That's not unchristian toprotect your people.
That's not.
And it's providing.
It's providing $45 billion toexpand capacity for immigration
customs.
So this will this.
You know if we have detainmentcenters trying to get them the
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resources they need to as well.
So so we're going to care forthese illegals while they wait
on the court date.
Okay, they should still betreated humanely.
I've seen some stuff where theyhaven't been treated humanely
and that's bad Overall they are,but they should have warm beds,
they should have warm mealsuntil they can have their court
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date and if the judge says theyhave to go home, then we send
them home.
We don't need to be cruel tothese people.
They're still made in God'simage, but we have to protect
our citizens.
Okay, we have to protect ourcitizens and illegal immigration
hurts our citizens.
Let's continue.
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It also includes a minimal $100fee for those seeking asylum,
down from the $1,000 feeoutlined in the initial House
bill.
The Senate Parliamentary ruledout the $1,000 fee outlined in
the initial House bill.
The Senate Parliamentary ruledout the $1,000 fee for anyone
applying for asylum, so thatmakes it easier for people
seeking asylum.
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You still have to go throughproper channels, but it makes it
easier, so liberals should likethat.
Increasing the state and localtax deductions are salt.
The package also includesincentives to the caps on the
state and local deductions,raised it from $10,000 to
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$45,000 after five years.
It would also return $10,000, adeparture from the initial
House bill passed.
The issue was a major stickingpoint in the House where blue
state Republicans threatened towithhold their support without
increase to the deductions, butwith no Republicans halting from
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blue states in the Senate, theupper chamber has been
consistent with its own dynamics.
Before the rule, taxpayerscould deduct all their state and
local tax from federal taxes,which some policymakers have
said mainly benefit wealthyhomeowners and states with high
taxes such as New York andCalifornia.
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But advocates for increasingthe cap argue that the $10,000
cap is increasingly impactingmiddle-class homeowners who live
in regions where property taxesare rising.
Green energy policy the finalbill passed by the Senate would
largely terminate numerous taxincentives from the 2022
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Inflation Reduction Act forclean energy, electric vehicles
and energy efficiency programsthat benefit customers.
It would end tax credits fornew and used electric vehicles,
installed installation of homeEV charging equipment and
installations, and energyefficient heating and cooling
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systems.
The bill also ends theGreenhouse Gas Reduction Fund,
which gives funding tonon-profit organizations
providing financial for projectsthat reduce pollution and
greenhouse gases emissions inthe community's existing
contracts and grants under theprograms are not effective.
Restrictions on food stamps thebill shifts costs of SNAP and
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food stamps to some states.
The federal program iscurrently fully funded by the
federal government.
The federal government wouldcontinue to fully fund the
benefits for states that have anerror payment below 6%,
beginning in 2028, states withan error rate above 6% would be
on the hook for 5 or 15% of thecost.
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States are also given someflexibility in calculating their
share.
This package also aligns withthe initial home version on age
requirements and able-bodiedadults to qualify for SNAP
benefits.
Currently, in order to qualify,able-bodied adults between 18
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and 54 must meet workrequirements.
Both Senate and House billwould update the age requirement
to 18 and 64, with someexceptions for parents.
Alaska and Hawaii could receivewaivers for work requirements if
it's determined that they aremaking good faith efforts to
comply.
That's mostly because ElisaMurkowski was pushing for Alaska
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to have an exception to therule so she could sign the bill.
That's mostly what it was andshe got the non-contiguous
states to have an exception.
You can disagree with it, butsometimes it gets hard when you
make these bills.
You have to make compromisesfor certain representatives and
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senators to sign on, senators tosign on and that's 100% because
of Lisa Murkowski being amoderate Republican from Alaska,
pushing for that and otherthings before she would vote for
it and that's something sheprovided for Alaska that Alaska
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and Hawaii will get that andother states won't.
They'll get that exception.
It does say if they're making agood faith effort to comply,
but how are people going tointerpret that?
To enforce that law on me?
So they basically get anexception.
The rest of the 48 do not.
The legislation would rise tothat ceiling by $5 trillion,
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going beyond the $4 trillionoutlined in the initial
House-passed bill.
Congress faces a deadline toaddress the debt limit later
this summer.
Bessette has agreed Congress toaddress the debt limit by
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mid-July, saying that the UScould be unable to pay as early
as August when Congress is onrecess.
By adding the national debtceiling as a part of the larger
package, republicans in Congressaim to bypass negotiations with
Democrats on issues.
Congress aimed to bypassnegotiations with Democrats on
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issues.
Unlike most other legislationsin the Senate, the budget
recognizes the progress thatgoverns the impact requires a
simple majority rather than 60vote, therefore, to move others
with a bill Tax child credit.
So if you have a kid um underthe age of 18, this would apply
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to you.
The current two thousand dollartax credit is set to return to
the pre-2017 level of onethousand dollars in 2026.
The tax credit wouldpermanently increase to $2,200
under the bill, $300 less thanthe initial house past time
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Limits on overtime and tipsdeduction.
So this has a lot of peoplethat work overtime and people
that work in the serviceindustry that make tips.
This is important to you andthere's something that really
bothers me about this and I'lltell you when I get done reading
it.
The bill would allowindividuals to deduct a certain
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amount of tip wages and overtimewages.
The provision would expire in2028.
The no tax on tips provision inthe spending bill would create
a new deductions for Trippedworkers, eliminating that they
owe in federal income.
Tipped workers would also haveto pay State and local income
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and payrolls tax.
The Senate version Very variesfrom the initial house provision
on a few key points, includinghow a worker could claim in.
On a few key points, includinghow a worker could claim in
deductions, the Senate proposallimits that the deductions of
$2,500, while the early housewas a cap.
So you have okay.
So if you're working a tips jobat a restaurant or whatever
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you're getting tips, or ifyou're working overtime, this is
you can only claim this on yourtax deduction.
Oh to $25,000.
The house version was unlimited.
The Senate version caps it at$25,000.
If you make $26,000 you stillhave to pay taxes on, but when
you get your pay stub if you, ifyou're working and you make
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overtime, you will still paytaxes on it.
On your pay stub, you're stillgoing to pay taxes on it.
You can deduct that at the endof the year when you're getting
your taxes.
So you can get it back at theend of the year.
But throughout the week, if youget paid once a week or twice a
week or, sorry, if you get paidonce a week or once every two
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weeks, guess what You're stillpaying taxes on that overtime.
So if you need help that weekand you worked extra overtime to
provide it, you're still payingtaxes for it.
That's dirty.
That's dirty.
They should just say you don'thave to pay taxes on this.
I mean, that's one thing thatreally bothers me about this
bill.
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Now, tips is a little different.
If you're working a serviceindustry job, a lot of times
you're supposed to just well,you are supposed to just write
how much you make on tips At theend of the year, save a certain
percentage and pay it back tothe government.
Now, a lot of people that dothis don't really write their
tips down or they skew it alittle bit.
I didn't make that much on tips.
Okay, I'm not saying that'sright.
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I'm just saying a lot of peopledo that.
You're going to be able towrite off $25,000 on that.
I just wish they wouldn't dothat.
Instead of just giving peopletheir money back at the end of
the year, why don't you just letthem keep it?
And why is there a provisionthat it's only until 2028,
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during an election year?
So in 2028, when we have ournext election, if a Democrat
comes into office in 2029, thiscould go to the wayside and
you're just getting taxed again.
So is it better than what itwas before?
Yes, but it could have been somuch better.
It could have helped thefamilies out immediately and
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right now, but instead we'llhelp you out at the end of the
year.
That frustrates me.
That frustrates me.
Under the initial House measure,meanwhile, only people with an
annual income of $60,000 or lesswould qualify for the tipping
tax break, while the Senateversion phases out benefits for
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individuals whose incomes exceed$150,000 or couples who exceed
$300,000.
Changing to standard deductions, the bill seeks to permanently
expand basic standards deducted,which was nearly doubled in
2017.
The increase will expire at theend of the year.
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That's the end of the bill.
That's the end of the articlediscussing the bill and I do
think that was.
I do think that's veryimportant.
I think overall, it's a goodbill.
Um, there may be things in thebill that I do not like, but
overall I think it's a good bill.
I, I I'm at.
I absolutely love that.
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We're going to we're basicallygoing to finish the wall.
We've come very close to it.
We're going to spend a lot moremoney on the wall and on ICE
agents that President Trumppromised.
I voted for that.
I want the border wall.
You can call me a racist.
You can call me evil.
You can call me Nazi.
You can call me all the namesyou want to call me.
You can say I'm a bad Christianbecause I want to protect the
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citizens of this country.
That doesn't mean I hate thepeople that are past the border
wall, because I don't hate thosepeople.
I do love them.
I do want them to becomeChristian and go to heaven, and
I'm okay with some of thosepeople becoming American
citizens.
But I want to know wherethey're coming from and who they
are.
That's not much to ask.
That's not much to ask.
I think this was a good bill.
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I understand it could have beenbetter, but when you're dealing
with a Congress as divided asit is, it gets messy.
It gets messy.
This is representativegovernment and if we had the
clear closure, if we had tobreak the filibuster we can't.
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You don't have to break thefilibuster when you're passing
the budget bill.
But I'll be honest, I'll behonest, guys.
This I don't think this Senate,I don't think that the United
States of America is matureenough to have, uh, the
filibuster rule right now.
I know we always debate, goback and forth between who you
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know, go back and forth between,um, what party it is, if we
want it, dare or not.
In principle I like it, but Idon't even.
I just don't think we're matureenough to handle it.
I don't, this country's notmature enough, this Congress is
not mature enough to handle it.
And you could say, well, thiswould hurt, this could put out a
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bunch of bad legislation.
Yeah, it could, and then wecould vote those people out and
we can get rid of that badlegislation.
But that's just a side note.
I do want to share somethingelse this bill does, and I think
it's something Christians havebeen pounding for and we finally
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got it.
It's only for a year, but it isfor a year.
So I'm going to read you all alittle bit about that.
All right guys, I'm going toread y'all a little bit about
that.
All right guys.
I'm going to read just a littlebit from an NPR article.
A provision in Trump's MAGA billspending bill defunds Planned
Parenthood.
The organization says 200clinics may close.
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Most are in states whereabortion is legal.
That's great, that's a win.
They could close 200 clinicsbecause we're not going to fund
them.
Absolutely, I'll take the win.
Now does the article go on towhine and cry?
Yeah, you know they're going to.
You know they're going to.
Oh well, what about?
We don't only kill babies, wedo other things.
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200 clinics, baby.
That is what I voted for.
That is what I voted for.
That is a good thing.
That is lives being saved.
And, yeah, it's only for a year, but 200 clinics has an impact
for years and has an impact onhuman beings not being murdered.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, praiseGod.
And you can get a lot of thesethings from pregnancy resource
centers.
Ultrasound Counseling will haveyou be a good parent.
You can get a lot of thesehealth benefits from pregnancy
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resource centers and hospitals.
So you know what?
I'm just going to read thatlittle clip right there.
A provision in President Trump'smega-expanding bill defunds
Planned Parenthood.
The organization says 200clinics may close.
Most are in states whereabortion is legal.
Good, good, you do not have aright to kill a baby.
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Good, oh well.
What if, shut up, you killbabies?
Moloch is crying that youcannot sacrifice more and more
childs to him.
Devils are screeching in hellright now as we are preserving
life.
And I voted for it.
If you listen to this podcast,if you agree with me, more than
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likely, you voted for it.
Congratulations, seriously,congratulations, congratulations
.
We did this.
We did this by the grace of theHoly Spirit and by the ballot
box.
This is why I always tellpeople you've got to vote.
This is why voting is soimportant.
It is life and death and we wonthis fight.
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It's not a permanent win, butwe did it.
Be proud, be humble.
It's a victory in a battle.
It's not over yet, but be proud, be humble.
It's a victory in a battle.
It's not over yet, but be proud.
Be thankful to the Holy Spiritthat we did this.
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I'm going to read you one morething.
For those of you that are inthe 9th Congressional District
Congressman Morgan Griffith isyour congressman and as he is
mine.
He made a statement on thepassing of the bill and I just
want to read it.
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A day ago, griffith's statementon the House passing of the
Reconciliation Bill, the USHouse of Representatives voted
to pass Senate Bill HR 1, thebudget requisition bill.
This requisition package goesto President Trump to be signed
into law.
Following the passage of thebill, us Congressman Morgan
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Griffith issued the followingstatement Say I vote in favor of
HR 1, the budget reconciliationbill.
As with every bill, I weighedthe pros and cons.
The positives of the billclearly outweigh the negatives.
A tax structure that encouragesgrowth in the economy is
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extremely important.
This bill contains a number ofconstituents of pro-small
businesses policies to helpfamily-owned farms and
family-owned businesses.
In addition, it adds no tax ontips for most of our service
industry, improving weightedstaff and hospitality workers.
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It also implements wage workfor overtime for hourly workers.
Another significant impact isthe increase of money to help
protect our nation's border.
The emulation of American energypotential contained in the bill
is significant and will lead tothe increase in population.
Because of this bill, americanenergy's costs are expected to
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stabilize and even be lower inthe common decades.
On Medicare, we strengthenedthe program for the traditional
Medicaid population.
That population includespregnant women, the disabled,
the elderly and the young.
Opponents criticized thecommunity engagement or work
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requirement provisions for ablybodied medicaid Expanded
recipients.
I consider this a strength ofthe bill.
While commonly called workrequirements, the community
engages in provisions ofable-bodied medicaid expansion
recipients, does not require aWork requirement to per se but
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per se, but would require themto contribute to our communities
to engage only in an average of18 point hours a week.
Eligibility can be achieved byparticipating in education or
substance abuse recoveryprograms, holding a traditional
job or volunteer communityservice.
I believe it is only fair toexpect those able-bodied
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Medicaid expansion recipients tocontribute to the communities.
According, I sponsored the bill.
Accordingly, I sponsored thebill.
He voted for it.
I agree with him.
I agree with him on that.
So I just want to read that foreveryone that is a 9th district
resident.
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That is our congressman'sreason for voting for the big,
beautiful bill.
I'm going to read y'all guys ascripture verse of the day and
then we will be on our way.
All right, guys.
Most of the time I try to picka bible verse that relates to
the topic if we're doing apolitical show, but there's only
one that kind of came to mindand I didn't like how it tied in
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, so I'm going to read you guyssomething from a private
devotion I've been reading in 1Timothy.
1 Timothy, chapter 1.
Here is a trustworthy sayingthat deserves full acceptance
Christ Jesus came into the worldto save sinners, of whom I am
the worst.
And what this reflection thatSt Paul is telling us is when we
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look upon our own sins, whenthe Holy Spirit opens our heart
up enough to open up to put usin a place where we're seeing
our own sins, the sins of therest of the world don't look as
big as ours.
Our sins look so horrible to usbecause the holy spirit has
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opened up our hearts to wherethey he's, showing us how bad
they truly are, and that JesusChrist came into the world fully
.
Here is a trustworthy sayingthat is full of acceptance.
Jesus Christ came into theworld to save sinners, whom I am
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the worst of.
That.
Jesus Christ came to die for us, the worst of us sinners, and
we should focus more on our ownsins than the sins of other
people.
It's hard to do, isn't it?
And but he came and died foreveryone.
He came and died for thesinners of the world.
God bless you, guys, and wewill be back here next week,
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hopefully next week.
Talk about part two in the lifeof David series.
I believe we're going to betalking about David and Goliath,
one of the greatest stories ofthe Bible.
God bless you and have a big,beautiful weekend.
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