House Gets a Deal Done plus Woke Department Chains STILL going after Your Kids

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, we got a deal done in the House. That
is the headline. The question is how was the deal
done and how did it turn out to be so
different than what was originally going to happen. It is
the art of the deal, that's the best way I
can describe it. And it was a deal that certainly
was going to put us in a better place than
we were before because many Conservatives were willing to stand

(00:24):
up and fight hard. The Maga revolt, that's how it's
being described in the press right now. Slash the original
one thousand, five hundred and forty seven page spending bill
all the way down to just one hundred and eighteen
pages this Friday, and the House bill to a verta

(00:46):
government shutdown was trimmed by one thousand, three hundred and
fifty nine pages after conservatives said, no, we are not
going to have this massive expansion of government and it
can continuing resolution and we're not going to have the
pork barrel spending in the cr as Well, House Speaker
Mike Johnson's original measure was filled with pork, There's no

(01:10):
doubt about it. Now. He also had to work a
deal because he had to deal with Republicans and Democrats,
and that's a very tough spot to be in. I
want to be clear about that, and I'm going to
explain more about why I say that in a moment.
But the reduction in size underscores what I would say
is that failure by the pork barrel spenders in DC

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who wanted to pass a massive spending bill with Democrats
support that few had even read before members were asked
to vote on it, and that is a problem. There
is an appetite for government reform right now. There's an
appetite for reducing the size of government. It's very clear
that there was a mandate for that in this last election.
There is a huge appetite in people supporting and advocating

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for DOGE. That is going to be streamlining and changing
how we do and run and spend our money in
the US. That's being done by Elon Musk and by
the vic Ramaswamie at the leadership of Donald Trump. Now
you put all that together and Democrats are angry. They're

(02:15):
angry at Elon Musk, and they're angry at MAGA. They're
angry at Conservatives for standing up to the government waste
and abuse. How angry are they let me play for you.
Rosa Delaro, who lost her mind on the floor of
the House. Is she's angry as she describes it, that
there is some man who is elected by no one

(02:38):
who is now giving marching orders to the House and
the Republicans to shut down the government. As she described it,
take a listen to the purpled haired Democrat from Connecticut.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
We are on the cusp of an agreement to move
this country forward. But two days ago, a multi billionaire
with apparently no working knowledge of our government or of appropriations,
someone who is a self appointed President of the United States,

(03:12):
Elon Musk, issued a marching order for House Republicans to
go against their own elected leadership. Shut down the government.
Shut down the government. House Republicans are responsible for any
harm and uncertainty brought upon the American people, and should

(03:33):
some get their wish for a month long government shut down,
they will be responsible for cleaning up their mess come
inauguration day. Indeed, we are in completely unprecedented times when
someone who has no knowledge of government, who has no
knowledge of an appropriations process, who is external to the

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House of Representatives, can make his weight felt here in
turning what was a bill that was on its way,
a bipartisan bill, a bi camer bill, was on its
way to achieving its goal of keeping the US government open.

(04:19):
And the goal actually is providing services to American citizens,
to working families, middle class families, vulnerable families, where our
responsibility lies. The world's richest man reaping billions in government

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contracts is calling the shots in the Republican Party at
the behest of the world's richest man, who no one
voted for. The United States Congress has been thrown into
pandemonian It leads you to to the question of who
is in charge. I thought that there was a Republican

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majority in this body, not a President Musk majority.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Now let's talk about what she said. Quote the self
appointed President of the United States, Elon Musk Is, he'd
a marching order for House Republicans to shut the government down.
What he made, what he actually did was he said, no,
I'm calling out the abuse of power. I'm calling out
the fact that you've got a bill that no one's read.
There's one five and forty seven pages long, filled with

(05:39):
port Belle spending, and I want to reduce it. And
we did and condensed it into one hundred and eighteen pages,
and excluded the extreme amount of pork that Johnson allowed.
By the way, in the original bill, Elon Musk is
not the President of the United States of America. But
what Elon Musk did was give a voice to the
voiceless in this country and those that don't have the

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type of power to get the word out that he
clearly does. And the American people clearly agreed with him,
and the American people acted, and the American people called
their congressman, and the American people got rid literally, this
is not exaggeration, got rid of one thousand, three hundred
and fifty nine pages of government waste, abuse and fraud.

(06:25):
That is incredible. So was it worth it? Yes? Was
it anarchy? No? Was it Elon Musk giving power to
the people to make sure that the people were able
to do what they need to do and saying no
to mass suspending. Yes. Now, here's what you need to

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know about what they have passed on the House side.
And I'm going to get to the Senate in a moment,
because the Senate is controlled, as you know, by the Democrats.
Right now, the bill will fund the government until March fourteenth.
It also includes disaster relief and farm aid, which is
very important. The builders does not include an extension of

(07:08):
the debt limit, which President elect Donald Trump demanded. That
will place Johnson's reelection on January third for Speaker in
a very precarious position. I want to be clear, I
support Speaker Johnson, and I think we would get a
much more liberal speaker if Speaker Johnson is pushed out.
And I don't like what we're doing right now. Every
time somebody because there's such a thin margin for Republicans

(07:32):
that there's a lot of power now given to certain
members in Congress, and I don't like where we're headed
with this because if you don't like your one way
or the way things are going, the fact that you
can get rid of another speaker, I think is a
very bad decision. I also think that Speaker Johnson has
done a very good job, and I think you will
serve Donald Trump very well, much better than Kevin McCarthy

(07:53):
would have ever done. And if he's not careful, what's
going to happen is you're going to end up getting
a much more liberal member of the body who would
end up becoming the Speaker of the House because they'll
get some votes from Democrats to do it more than likely,
and then you'll lose an actual conservative in Speaker Johnson.
That's where we are now with this. Now, let me

(08:14):
also put it this way. Punch Bowl News reported on
the politics the latest proposed measure, saying this Johnson is
now pushing a short term funding bill that keeps federal
agencies open until mid March. The bill would include one
hundred billion in disaster aid for the hurricane battery Southeast
and other states. There's also thirty billion in aid for

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farmers and a one year extension of the current agriculture policy.
The measure will be taken up under suspicion according to
senior GOP lawmakers and AIDS meeting, meaning it needs a
two third majority to pass. There'll be one vote instead
of individual votes on the component parts as Johnson's first envisioned. Now,

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what we know is what happened. What we know now,
it's very clear this has past the House, and it's
past the House, and it now is the sentence. And
I'm going to talk about that vote obviously in a moment.
But what I want you to understand is this Speaker
Johnson was able to get this bill to drop significantly

(09:17):
in size and save you the taxpayers, hundreds of billions
of dollars. The problem now is you're now going to
have a debt ceiling vote come early next year, and
that's going to be under the Republican leadership and under
Donald Trump. There are many people that didn't want that,
don't like it, didn't want to have to deal with this,
and that's a political issue that we're going to obviously

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have to deal with. So let's talk about the fallout
now of this deal. There is clearly blood in the
water over this deal, and the sharks are circling around
Speaker Johnson because of the fighting and the pork and
everything that's in this bill. Now, I want to be clear,
when you have this razor thin the majority as he does,

(10:01):
it gives a lot of yahoos in Congress a lot
of power, and it makes you have to listen to
more people and to give people more things they want
to make sure you get their vote. Otherwise then you
have a government shut down and it's on you, the
Republican Party. I want to make it very clear that
I still believe that Speaker Johnson is a conservative, and

(10:22):
I also want to be clear that I think he's
probably the most conservative that we could get elected that
would have the votes to be elected as a Speaker
of the House. I don't like what we're doing right now,
which every time there's a vote on saying significant, there's
this litanus test. It's like, well, if you don't give
me what I want, then I'm going to get you
out of your office and your job. And I don't

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like a speaker being held hostage by his own party.
But that's the road that Republicans are going down right now.
And I'm saying it again, I think you have to
be extremely careful. You have to be very, very, very
very careful, because this is what the Democratic Party does
better than us. They don't eat their own. We keep
eating our own. And you have to understand that there's

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ideals and then there's the reality of the numbers. And
if you look at the majority and just how thin
it is right now, we're lucky to have the majority
in the House, to be clear, We're very lucky, and
it is a razor thin majority. What Speaker Johnson is
having to walk into every day where any one or
two or three Congressmen can hold him hostage every single

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day of the week, on any issue is not a
healthy place for us to be. And it's not Democrats
that are holding him hostage, it is Republicans that are
holding him hostage. This is an extremely hard job, especially
when you have Republicans there are, in essence willing to
walk in every day different ones and blackmail him. Now,

(11:51):
the deal he negotiated with the Democrats failed to get
a vote amid Republican outrage because of what he was
having to do, which was to give pork. He had
no other option but to do that or to have
a government shut down. Now, I want to be clear
about what did and didn't happen here because some people
are blaming Johnson for all this and they don't understand

(12:14):
the reality of the situation. The reason why we got
this bill reduced by thirteen hundred plus pages is because
the American people started calling not Johnson, but they're actual
members of Congress, and the actual members of Congress for
feeling the heat. They were afraid they were going to
get in trouble or be primaried, and so then they
decided to do the right thing that allowed Johnson to

(12:37):
get a different deal done. When you and there's people
that are ignorant. They don't understand Johnson does not have
near as much power as you think when it comes
to counting, because you still have to count to two
eighteen to pass something, and Johnson was put in an
impossible situation. And one of the good things that came
out of Elon Musk's tweets and the Vicaramasom's tweets and

(12:57):
Donald Trump's tweets is that there was so much pressure
put on members of Congress to do the right thing
that that's what happened. This was not Speaker Johnson's fault.
And if you think that it is, you need to
understand how Washington works. And that's my job here is
to explain it to you. I also think that there
is a problem, and this is a storm that is

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brewing because we're going to have a debt ceiling vote
going into next year. I don't like that, but this
is the best deal we apparently could get done at
the time, and you still have to be able to
count to two eighteen. Now Friday afternoon, for example, there
was a Republican representative from New York delivered the latest
blow to Johnson, walking into a House Republican conference being

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to hash out another path forward and made clear that
she stands on Johnson's leadership or lack thereof, saying quote,
I don't know what's going on, and really that's part
of the problem, is what she said to reporters, adding
there has been quote zero communication from leadership to the membership.
Something should change before January third. So you can already
see Republicans are saying hey, and it's one or two

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of them that can have this much power. This is
also an example of Representative Thomas Massey, Republican from Kentucky.
He's committed to voting against Johnson as well. Representative Rich McCormick,
a Republican from Georgia, said on Thursday he would oppose
Johnson if the vote were held today. When asked how
frustrating frustrated she was with Johnson, the congresswoman that I

(14:25):
mentioned a moment ago from New York answered, how does
it sound, referring to how mad she is? Now that's
three Republicans. Look at the majority. It's razor thin. I
will tell you right now, there is no one else
on the list to be Speaker of the House that
is as conservative and or as solid of a Christian

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is Speaker Johnson. Okay, Speaker Johnson keeps getting put in
an impossible situation over and over and over and over
and over again. Put in to an impossible situation because
he has such a small window for success, and there

(15:08):
are so many liberals out there, an opportunists, I would argue,
in the Republican Party that can just straight up screw
with him whenever they want to. And that is one
of the biggest problems here, and that's why they're saying, ooh,
there's blood in the water. Oh, maybe we can get
rid of him. My question is careful what you wish for.
Who are you going to get? That's the question that

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everybody needs to be asking who are you going to get? Now?
Representative Chip Roy, for example, asking the question today, sidestepping
the question over Trump's primary thread over the spending bill, saying, quote,
I'm not worried about the politics here. Take a listen, all.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Right for the very latest on all of this, Let's
bring in Texas Republican Congressman Chip Roy, who serves on
the House Budget Committee. So the meeting with the House
Republican Conference is still going on. I assume you were
there for a time. What's going on inside and are
we going to see a deal? Are we going to
see a vote? We're going to see a government shuts
down all options on the table. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Hey, John, Hey Shannon.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
Great to be on And yeah, the meeting is still
underway as we speak, and we're having a good conversation.
And look, President Trump is absolutely right. We need to
deal with the debt ceiling. We need to get it
off the table so that he can proceed to do
what he needs to do without Chuck Schumer rattling the
markets with threats of default. That's what Chuck Schumer has
said publicly and to people in the Senate he wants
to do so.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
President Trump is right. The question is how we get there.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
The first bill that was negotiated obviously was a non
starter once the American people saw everything that was in
five hundred and fifty pages.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
So we've moved the needle forward to a better bill.
But it was a bill.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
And you asked why did I oppose the bill last night?
Thirty eight Republicans opposed it was because it came with
two year extension of the debt ceiling, which would be
about five trillion dollar a lift in our credit card
without any structural spending reforms. Our position is, mister President,
we want to deliver for you on a debt ceiling
increase to get it out of the way. Chuck Schumer

(17:07):
can't abuse it, but we need spending restraints. So what
we've been doing for forty eight hours is meeting, meeting
with the Vice president, meeting with a lot of folks
in his incoming administration. I think we've got the outlines
of something that would work, but we're still discussing it
as we speak. I think we can get something done
that will make everybody happy.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
We're working hard to do it.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
Okay, Well, talk about the outlines in just a second,
and let me come back to this idea of the
debt ceiling and voting against the proposal the President Trump
was proposing and was getting behind. He was supporting it,
because he's now taking aim at you, saying that you
Chip Royer getting in the way of what he wants done,
and he's encouraging Republicans in Texas to primary.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
You mean you've really poked the bear here. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
Look, at the end of the day, my job is
to honor God, my family, the Constitution, of voters, the voters.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Who sent me here. That is what drives me.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
But I am working tirelessly to get what the president wants.
Think the president knows that at the end of the day,
look politics or politics. Rick Perry called President trumpet cancer
and then ended up in his cabinet. I'm not worried
about politics. I'm worried about the American people. I'm worried
about inflation. I'm worried about a five trillion dollars dead
sealing increase with no spending cuts. The President is rightly

(18:17):
motivated to block Chuck Schumer's abuse, but we Republicans here
in Congress, in the House, have an obligation to get
it done correctly. That's what we're working to try to
do on behalf of the President and our constituents and
our obligations under the Constitution.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
All right, So let's look behind the curtain if we
could just a little bit, because our Aisha Husti tells
us that there's a couple of options being talked about
right now. One is a cr that will be coupled
with disasterrate and farm made. It would be effective through March.
It would be the vote would be on a suspension
of the rules which limits debate no amendments. Our option
number two is a CR disaster rate and farm made

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is separate bills in separate votes. Which way do you
think is going to go?

Speaker 4 (18:58):
Well, that is what is being debated as we speak.
And I don't want to get in front of the
speaker or my colleagues making news here or violate confidences
of a private meeting. But everything hinges on getting comfortable
with the outlines and the contours of spending restraint next
year in reconciliation as part of the agreement on how
much we can lift the debt ceiling. I think we're

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getting comfortable with that outline as we speak, and then
if so, one of two things will happen. Either the
package last night without the debt ceiling attached to it
will move forward because the President is comfortable that we're
going to be able to get that done in January,
or there might be some standalone votes on a continual
resolution plus the farm bill extension of one year a separate.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
Now you can hear there they're talking to him about
this vote. We know what happened, We understand this, but
I want you to notice now what the media has done.
They are now trying to turn these votes into civil
war within the Republican Party. Chip Roy's a good man,
he's a fiscal conservative, he's a Christian, he's a hard

(20:00):
fighter for our constitution, and he's somebody that I would
argue as a great member of Congress. I tell you
this tale to remind you to be careful to not
fall into the civil war idea within the Republican Party,
because this is what Democrats want. They want Donald Trump

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angry to conservative hardcore member of Congress and being at
odds with one another. That is a problem. We do
not need to be in a civil war period. Many
of you may be doing your last minute Christmas shopping
and I want you to understand what we have just
found out about. Major corporations including Kia TJ Max listed

(20:45):
as corporate sponsors of the Rainbow Library pushing trans books
on your children. The retailers TJ Max and the automaker
Kia are listed as co spon munsters of a program
that is distributing the LGBTQ themed books to k through

(21:06):
twelve schools across the United States. This according to a
Wednesday report from the conservative nonprofit Consumer Research obtained by
the Daily Caller News Foundation. Now, the initiative titled the
Rainbow Library is run by national LGBTQ plus activist organization,

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the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network known as GLSEN.
What does it do It sends participating teachers books that
push transgenderism and homosexuality onto kids as young as five.
Over eight thousand, one hundred schools in thirty three different

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states nationwide are now participating in the program. Meaning there's
a very good chance that your kids, are grandkids are
at a public school where this is actually in the
library system and being used in the classroom. Now, let
me read you this quote. TJ Max and KIA are

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pushing radical gender ideology on kids through their sponsorship of
the g LSEEN Rainbow Network, which promotes transgender ideology and
classrooms across the country through books and recommended lesson plans
for teachers. So it's not just the books are available,
it is actual lesson plans for the teachers to then

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follow to then indoctrinate your children. That is what Will Hoild,
Executive director of Consumer Research, set and a statement. By
sponsoring organizations with a political activist agenda like this organization
in the Rainbow Library, these companies are putting woke politics

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specifically ahead of their consumer base. In other word, words,
TJ Max and kir are hoping that you won't find
out that this is what they are involved in. Now
here's something else that you need to understand as well.
A spokesman for Kia has come out understanding that they
have walked into a major problem, and they have denied

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in a statement that the auto company sponsored the Rainbow
Library in twenty twenty three or twenty twenty four, but
they did not respond to further inquiries about why it
was prominently displayed as a sponsor on the GLSN website.
I am looking at the website. It is there right now,

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to understand, uh about these companies and what they're doing.
When you go and shop at Tjmac slash Marshals, or
you go and buy Kiya Kar, I want you to
understand just how extreme they are in pushing transgenderism on
your kids or your grandkids. One of the books distributed
by Rainbow Library is titled When Aiden Becomes a Brother.

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It tells the story of a black girl who becomes
or comes out as, quote unquote transgender and quote explores
plural different ways of being a boy. The GLSN recommends
the story as part of its lesson plan for second graders.

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According to the Rainbow Library website, The program also instructs
the educators to keep it confidential, in other words, hide
it from the parents, right so that we can help
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to go back to going to Target, even after the

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radical agenda of Target to have like tucking swimsuits for
toddlers and binding swimsuits for young girls. And I said,
you watch, There'll be some moms that will stop going
to Target for a little bit, but the majority are
going to come back. And that's why Target is still

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giving two thousand, three thousand, four thousand, whatever the number
is of square feet to their stores for hardcore LGBTQIA
and doctor Nation and support during the summer months. And
I was right. You look at the stock value of Target,
you look at their sales numbers. They came down a
little bit after that controversy, and then after the controversy

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kind of moved on to other things. What ended up happening.
They moved on, folks, They moved on and they went
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