July 1, 2025 • 30 mins
Sean Hannity sits down with Kurt Couchman, Senior Fellow in Fiscal Policy at Americans for Prosperity, to dismantle three persistent myths about the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” With facts and fiscal clarity, Couchman sets the record straight:
Myth #1: “Only the wealthy benefited from the Trump tax cuts.”
FACT: The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act delivered across-the-board tax relief—from doubling the standard deduction to lowering rates at every income level.
Myth #2: “The bill cuts Medicaid for those who depend on it.”
FACT: Reforms focus on efficiency and restoring Medicaid’s intended mission—not slashing support for vulnerable populations.
Myth #3: “This bill explodes the deficit.”
FACT: The real culprit is out-of-control spending—not tax cuts. Federal spending has tripled since 2001, while the 2017 cuts spurred growth, boosted incomes, and actually helped revenue. Growth, Couchman argues, is the antidote to deficits.
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Speaker 4 (00:18):
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it is so much money in a moment of such inequality.
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York City are trying to send to our party.
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to be a part of the PROGRAMM right. So, with
the one big Beautiful bill being passed in the Senate,
now we'll go to the House. Plans now as of
today are that it will be debated and voted on.
Hopefully tomorrow, uh, and hopefully passed. And UH, there's more
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good in it. But as I said both on radio
yesterday on TV last night, there are a lot of
provisions policies I don't like, uh, and there's a lot
more cutting that I want to see. And I think that.
But with that said, this legislation, you know, the it'll
be the largest tax cut in American history, and Democrats
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will be voting for the largest tax increase in American history.
The bill also eliminates taxes on tips, and over time,
eighty eight percent of seniors will not pay taxes on
Social Security as a result of this bill. There is
a misnomer and a myth, Oh, these tax cuts, we
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can't afford them. We've got to pay for them, which
is the argument that some of my friends make. And
I'm like, no, you're wrong, because Reagan cut taxes from
seventy to twenty eight percent the top marginal rate, and
revenues to the federal government actually doubled. The bill not perfectly,
but it eliminates you know, it tackles waste, fraud and
abuse of Medicaid, creates a new work requirement for able
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bodied Americans. You know, just to fact check it. There's
been a lot of demagoguery going on, and thank god,
most Americans, unlike me, were sleep last night. You know, Oh,
only the wealthy benefit from the tax cuts. Well, we're
going to introduce shit a Kurt Couchman, a senior fellow
in Fiscal Policy for Americans for Prosperity, and he points
out it doesn't make it true because they say it.
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The twenty seventeen Tax Cuts and Jobs Act helped all Americans,
not just a fortune a few, and lower taxes across
every income level and simplified you know, filing by doubling
the standard deduction and adjusting it annually annually for inflation.
The bill cuts Medicaid for people who rely on it.
That's another lie. The reforms to Medicaid and the One
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Big Beautiful Bill aren't about cuts. They're focused on fixing
a broken system to better serve the people that need
it most, and you know, and putting in work requirements
for able bodied people. You know, I thought, we're you know,
it is the reform that has been necessary for a
long time. The idea that Medicaid and medicare you get
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the same service you literally paid nine times more in
some cases for the exact same medical procedure, if you're
getting Medicare versus Medicaid. It's insane. And the idea that
tax cuts somehow, Oh, no, it's going to explode the deficit. Well, no,
hopefully it's not going to explode the deficil because again,
Reagan doubled revenues by cutting taxes, and that's what happens
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every time he cut taxes. But Trump's first three years
in office, when he cut taxes, it created record low
after record low unemployment for every American, for African Americans,
Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, African American
youth unemployment. That would be inclusive, that would be one
that's helping working men and women. Democrats voted against what
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they want to keep taxing tips to the maximum level
and tax overtime to the maximum level and not incentivize
people to work harder. That's insane, and this is a
great first step. I want to see other things. I
didn't like the salt deduction in the bill, but on measure,
it's the having been up all night, we did not
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have the votes by eight am this morning because I
was up talking to senators all night. They did not
have the votes as of eight am this morning. And
then people say, well, you know, this is unfortunately the
way the swamp works, but it is the most conservative
bill I've seen in my lifetime. Kurt Couchman with US
Senior Fellow Fiscal Policy at Americans for Prosperity.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
How are you, sir, Hey San, I'm doing well. That
was all very well said, and I'm glad to be
with you today.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
All right, you have studied all of this, and you know,
a lot of the demagoguery that we heard is like
the typical, you know, language that we hear every two
and four years during elections that Republicans of racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic,
is lamophobic. They want dirty air and water, and they
want grandma and grandpa ty dog and cat food before
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Donald Trump throws them over a cliff in a wheelchair.
And when they say, and they were out there saying
this only benefits the wealthy, that's a lie. When they
said this bill cuts medicaid for the people who rely
on it, that's a lie. That it will explode the deficit.
You point out all three of those of major lies.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Yeah, absolutely true. The tax cuts in this bill build
on the twenty seventeen tax cuts, and those have benefited
all Americans, sometimes directly through your personal income taxes, but
also through making investment more profitable and more investment going
into the economy increases our productivity and also our wages.
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There are provisions in this that will improve healthcare for
all Americans. It will shift resources from the inefficient, low
value green energy nonsense into the energy resources that will
make electricity cheaper for all Americans, and drive manufacturing and
innovation all across the country.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Well, there's other things that the President's doing that will
benefit the economy also. It seems to have gone unnoticed
by most in the legacy media, but nobody really pays
attention to them anymore anyway. But I think it's a
big deal that the President has made this push and
as part of this build to push America towards energy dominance.
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Not only will that make us an energy rich country
and result in a lot of revenues that we're really
not planning on, but similarly create high paying career jobs
in the energy sector. The President was able to secure,
through his trade policy and tariff policy, over ten trillion
dollars in manufacturing commitments for the next four years, and
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in critical national security areas like pharmaceuticals and semiconductor chips,
but also auto manufacturing. That's a big win again for
American workers, and that's high paying career jobs and they
won't be competing with Biden Harris, the illegals that are
being deported every day.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Yeah, there are a lot of things going on right now.
The administration is doing many, many different things that are
good for the country, good for growth. This bill also
includes a lot and it's not the only effort to
restrain spending. I get the spending and the debt under control.
We had a full year continuing resolution that reduced appropriations
compared to the economy has requested recisions, which is canceling
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appropriated spending, this wastehold that we don't need. The House
has past that, it's sitting in the Senate. That should
be the next thing they take up and pass. Cut
wasteful spending. There's more recisions requests coming. There are savings
the Trump administration could do on its own just by
changing some of the regulations for some of these programs.
And then there's fixing the whole system. You know, the
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federal budget system is totally dysfunctional and broken. It's amazing
that we can get the good things that we're getting
this year given that, But imagine if we had a
functional budget system, like all the incredible things that Congress
could actually deliver along with President Trump for the American people.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Let me ask you about this. I know that there
are some Congressmen and maybe justifiably so, and I understand it.
But on the other hand, it is what it is
that are frustrated. They weren't up all night talking to
senators as I was, and I'm just telling you, I'm
giving you, you know how the sausages. We did not
have the votes at eight am this morning, and then
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finally push came to shove and it was like, okay,
finally they got the last vote that they needed. I'm
not going to get into personality. So the changes that
were made correct me if I'm wrong. This bill in
the Senate, which never in my lifetime, can I think
of another instance where this happened, saves more money than
the House bill, and some Republican Congressmen are upset that
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any changes were made. But the problem is the Senate
has this parliamentarian and this process called reconciliation, which caused
them to have to make some changes, not really much
different in my view from what the House passed.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Yeah, there are a lot of great savings in the
House past version. There are a lot of great savings
in the Senate past version. There have been so many
changes that we're still digesting what they've all been, and
of course we need to wait for the scorekeepers to
come out and say how much each provision saved costs
or whatever. But there's a lot of really good important things,
and that you touched on the border security and the
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other defense pieces. One of the things that's really important
about that is that it avoided having to make a
deal with the Democrats when we did the full year
continuing resolution earlier in the year. That would have been
crazy expensive, and so we were able to get those
resources where they were needed without having to make a deal.
There are a lot of things that will have dynamic effects.
There are expansions in health savings accounts and direct primary
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care that will help to transform our healthcare system over
the coming years and decades. And of course there's just
so much more that needs to be done. We do
have too much spending, but there are narrow margins in
the House in the Senate, and so this was probably
the best that could have been agreed to under these circumstances.
And it's also important to compare that to what would
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have happened if these tax cuts had to be extended
in a bipartisan deal at the end of the year.
A lot of the great reform that we're seeing would
be totally impossible. There'd be no way you could get
rid of the Biden green energy stuff. You couldn't make
the substantive changes to healthcare, you couldn't overhaul the student
loan program, you couldn't expand the provisions that will lead
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to more investments that make Americans better off. So passing
or not passing this bill would end up being would
end up leading to a far worse deal because it
would have to be done with Democrats, and on every dimension,
whether it's fiscal or the policies or anything else, it
would be inferior to what is currently on the table
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and going to the House.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
No, I totally agree with you, And again, there are opportunities,
and I'm not going to count on it. I'm not
going to be naive because I've followed this process for
far too long. But there's a window of opportunity here
to get all these good things in the bill, from
border security and deportation money and defense spending that is
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desperately need, did for the next generation of weaponry, to
energy issues, to tax cuts that are permanent, to really
looking out for working men and women in the service industry,
and it just it has a lot of good things
in there. The energy sector is another one. Those are
things that are desperately needed. I'll take those as a
win now and hopefully they'll come back and do even more.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
That's right, Take the win, keep coming back, and there's
just a lot more work to do. But this is
something that is right there, ready to go. So let's
do it right now, and then let's keep working at it.
I mean, Congress is not you know, we've done the
one thing and now we're done. No. No, there's a
lot more on the agenda that we'll need to be
done in the coming months and years.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I totally agree with all of that. We appreciate your
time anyway. Kirk Couchman, Senior Fellow Fiscal Policy Americans for Prosperity,
Thank you, sir, Thanks.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
For having me. Sean good to be with you.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
All right, let's get to a busy, busy telephones. All right,
let's say hi to Cody and Alabama didn't like the
big beautiful bill. What's up, Cody? How are you glad
you called?
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Oh, thank you Sean for taking our calls. My first
time I've ever gotten on. I'm just concerned about the
increased deficit and I hear up to four trillion and
that the spending cuts are delayed after supposedly after Trump's
second term.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
But no, that's not actually true, because the spending cuts
are ongoing with DOZE and they're trying to weed out
in every department. And DOZE has not stop since Elon
Musk left. Always fraud, abuse and corruption. And you know
last week, for example, they came up with billions of
dollars in discoveries. I mean, it's insane.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Well, concerns of me for when my reading is that
so security will be cut by twenty three percent for everybody.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And who told you that that's not true? Eighty eight
percent of seniors. No, they're not getting cuts, they're getting increases,
and they won't pay taxes on Social Security.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Why now they're talking eight years in the future.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It'll be well, I'm asking a question, where did you
hear this? Who's telling you this?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Wall Street Journal? And a check it out The New
York Times. Both of them said the same thing.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
The New York Times isn't worth the paper it's printed
on number one, number two.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I agree with that.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
I agree with that.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
But yeah, you know, look, there is an assumption, and
I think this is where a lot of people make mistakes,
is that when you cut taxes, and I think you
would agree, cutting taxes on hard working Americans is a
good thing, right. I believe that eliminating tax on tips
and social and overtime, or at least reducing them greatly, I
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think that's a good thing. Would you agree with that?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yes, And making the tax cut permanent, that's a good thing,
rather than the largest tax increase in history, which would
happen if this bill expired.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
My biggest concern is increasing the death of another four
trillion dollars about it.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
But here's here's you're right, and I see the numbers
like you do. Let me tell you what's not factored in.
Tell me what happened when Reagan dropped the top mark
general rate from seventy to twenty eight percent, what happened
to revenues to the federal government while he was president?
Do you know?
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Yeah, they increased, No.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
They didn't increase, They doubled, Okay, and we ended up
with twenty one million new jobs and the longest period
of peacetime economic growth in history. When Trump first implemented
the tax cuts in twenty seventeen, what happened to the economy.
We had three incredible years with record low after the
record low unemployment because of all the money that was
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being invested because it was saved. And then that results
in more revenues to the government. The problem is they
take in more money, and then Congress spends more money.
Now there's more that they can do. But to not
take the tax cuts, and to not take the money
invested in securing our border, getting rid of criminal illegals,
not putting reforms in medicaid, et cetera, not bringing out
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the next generation of weaponry, and investing in defense and
energy dominance, I think would be a mistake. The opportunity
would be missed, and I would you can just tell you,
having been up all night, that this is the best
they were going to get out of the Senate or
your calls on the other side. All right, let's get
to our busy telephones. Kelly in my free state of Florida.
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Alligator Alcatraz, the Big Donald Trump and Ron De Santis
were there today. It was great. What's going on? How
are you, Kelly?
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Hey, I'm doing great. I'm here in red, the red
of Fort Myers. Anyways, I just want to call it.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I love Fort Myers. I know you guys got whacked
really hard. As has the city come back after that
hurricane wiped out a lot of the coastal areas.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
A lot of it. Surprisingly, Yes, it taken. It's going
on two years now, but the downtown area is back
up and running. Lot business centers are going on.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I'm glad to hear that. I really am. The people
in Fort Myers are great.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Yes, So I just called to sit there say hey,
your show was great on Saturday night. I enjoyed it.
Thank you, I said, two rows behind this wonderful bombshell blonde.
I think.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I wonder who, but yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
It was an excellent show. It's a shame they have
people on the East coast Clint see it.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
But yeah, Saturday now we're going to be We're rescheduling
that we're gonna we'll probably do it because a lot
of people go away for the summer. We'll probably do
it in the early fall. But we're definitely doing it.
Just had unforeseen circumstances. Life happens, unfortunately, and I feel
bad that people were you know, I just feel I
never want to let anybody down. Ever, we're doing it.
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We're we're definitely going to do it.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Great. Yeah, and you know, hey, maybe next time down
here in Fort Minors, I'll tell you it's this light
ever read and you'll handle You probably won't have the
two protesters which were sitting out there Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Hey, you had it.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Oh there were two protesters outside.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Yeah, you had two protesters.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
We had the one liberal inside. I kept kept going
at him until he finally said, all right, I give up.
I'm a conservative. I agree with you.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
That was funny. But yes, excellent, excellent show. And I
hope that poor guy got his jacket back from Jimmy
after Jimmy moudom for it.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
That's probably Jimmy's Jimmy is a pro and and uh uh,
look I did my level best on the comedy side
and had fun doing it and loved being around great
Americans like you that make the country great every day.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Hey, you're very welcome.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
You know what, what a beautiful what a beautiful hall,
Ruth Eckert Hall was beautiful back to the brim, you know,
I don't know. It wasn't an empty seat in the house.
It was great, all right, all right, my friend, God
bless you appreciate it. All right. So, well, this is
going to be interesting. Mac in Texas. I'm a Marxist
Mandani supporter. Uh, what's up? Mac? Tell me why you
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support the Marxist and global entifata And there shouldn't be
any billionaires and we should take over the means of production.
I've got a new cup we're gonna play on TV tonight.
Apparently wants to buy up large parcels of land and
have community you know, communes for people.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
He well, sir, the uh, the reason I called in
is I think you were being way too hard on him,
because he at least he comes out and he tells
you what he is. He tells you that he's a socialist, communist,
anti Semite, anti capitalist guy. And too many Rhinos in
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the Republican Party that they don't you don't know who
they are. Until they get elected and then they screw
up the works. I am not a supporter of around
mom Downey. I just I just I do admire him
for coming straight out and saying what he is.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, but he really doesn't come straight out. I mean,
he had three opportunities over the weekend taking them Like,
for example, if I asked you macint Texas, do you
condemn racism.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Him, Yes, I do.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Of course, of course you do. If I asked you,
do you condemn anti Semitism?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yes I do. But also here in America.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Well, why well, he was given three opportunities to do so,
and based on some of his other previous remarks and
events that he attended, I think it's pretty obvious where
he stands, and that makes him as far as I'm concerned.
You know a guy that is radicalized and extreme to
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the maximum level, and you're just applauding his honesty. But then,
you know, here's the danger we have as a country
is that this is what the Democratic Party as a
whole now is evolved into. That scares me.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
That is true that there are a lot of anti
Semites in the Democratic Party. That's why he doesn't denounce it.
Those people are voting for him.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And well, that's that's the bigger picture I'm trying to
get people to understand. But his party is now run
by Donnie Marxistmondami. It's run by aoc Kasamine Crockett, the Squad,
Grandpa Bernie Pocahontas. And and there's a reason why you
don't hear from Hakeem Jeffries or Chucky Schumer is because
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they're scared to death of their own face. And where
they would previously in a past life, they would have
condemned it outright. The party now is just owned by
the radicals, which maybe is a good thing. The American
people see it. We learned a lot about Kamala Harrison.
You know, in the last election, we saw Joe Biden
leave wide open borders and then lie to us, lie
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about his cognitive state, lie about the economy. And we
see with you know, Kamala Harris, she wants taxpayer funded
sex change operations for illegals. You know, her running mate
wanted taxpayer funded education college education for illegals. Also wanted
to put tampons in boys' bathrooms and schools and grammar schools,
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and also supports gender affirming care without parental consent. That
is the party on top of the Marxism and statism
and you know, radicalism. You know, the party that tolerated
no problem, you know, tolerating violence against Elon Musk, the
party that remained silent in the summer of twenty twenty
and the case of Kama didn't just remain silent, silent,
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she stood in solidarity with the rioters. And the party
that you know is it's tolerating virual and anti Semitism.
And I just think as long as the American people
are fully aware of who they are and how bad
they've gotten, you know, I don't think I've done a
good enough job. I've got, We've got We've got to
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spread the word because we have a midterm coming up
in eighteen months. And you may think that's a long
way away, it's going to be here in a blink
of an eye and we'll be doing our election countdown
in six months and this is going to be probably
the most important midterm in our life. Otherwise we're going
to spend the two the two years after the twenty
sixth election, you know, dealing with impeachment. Impeachment. Impeachment not
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good anyway. My friend, appreciate the call. Uh Todd Louisiana.
Next on the Sean Hennity Show.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
What's Up, Todd good effning sewn. I was just like
watching the whole debate thing in Schumer and and and
the fact that he just sits there and lies and
lies and lies. If a Republican had done that, I mean,
you would have helped him run a model out of Washington.
But Schumer sits there for telling the lies about Biden
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for for four years basically, and then and then they
comes back and they gets caught in the bald face
line and they ask him about it. He says, well,
we're just ready to move on now.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
They don't tell you the truth. I mean, that's that's
the bottom line. And you know, if you want to
know why the Democratic Party, this is an amazing thing.
They're they're like scratching their heads and they have no
idea why they lost the last election. And I just
ran through a series of reasons. Why did the party
of woke elites? We saw this on displaying the Senate.
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They claimed to be the party of working men and women?
Then why did they vote for the largest tax hike
in American history? Why wouldn't they vote to cut taxes
on working men and women, no tax on tips, no
tax on overtime. Why wouldn't they vote for those things?
Why did they leave the border wide open and lie
to us? Why do they support our champion the rights
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of men to play women's sports rather than protect women.
You know, why are they the party that's against energy
dominance and but they're perfectly fine with us importing energy.
I mean, it's the lifeblood of the world's economy. Why
are they the party that that depleted our defense department
and put us in a hole that we have to
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now dig ourselves out of a gap of vulnerability that
like when Reagan was president. I mean, it's on every
one of these issues. They're radical and they're wrong, and
they just care about wokeness and getting pronouns and gender
affirming care and all these other issues. And then I'm
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focused on the people, the vast, overwhelming ninety nine percent
of Americans that just want a better life for themselves
than their children. Yeah, no, no, what do you spectacular?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
What?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
And on the border, they they're coming out and they're saying, oh,
Trump is against border security because he didn't want to
go he didn't he told everybody to vote against their
boondoggle of a bill, and then he's already proven it
that they were lying, that they were not even trying
to secure the border. They were just gaslighting the American
publican and I just I'm just thankful that we got
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places to go to listen to somebody that actually makes sense.
I mean, every now and then you have to give
an econ one on one lesson to some of your listeners,
which I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
But oh, I mean, for example, you know, we shouldn't
have billionaires. Think about that. Yeah, And now, if you
really look at this, anybody that I don't know people
that inherited money in their life, I really don't. But
I have met millionaires and I have met billionaires in
my life, and in every case, they earned it the
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old fashioned way. You know, they worked their ass off
number one. Number two, they were they were providing goods
and services that people wanted, needed and desired and that
they freely paid for them. And I would argue the
world is better off because we now have computers and
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phones at our disposal at all times. And you know,
I think we're better off that Elon Musk is doing
all of his work, don't. I don't care about his politics,
about the big beautiful bill, and you know the idea.
You know, I never got a job from a poor
person when I worked in restaurants. Poor people can't afford
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to go to a restaurant. They just can't. And so
the people that are we're paying my salary at a
point when I needed that job to pay my rent,
I'm glad they came in. I'm glad they had the
money to buy and leave me a tip if I
did a good job. When I did construction, I was
not hired by poor people. I got hired by people
that could afford my services. And you know, my entire
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radio and TV career, I got hired by people that
own radio and TV stations. And I'm very grateful to
all of them, and I don't hate them that they're successful.
And the American Dreams was supposed to believe in freedom.
They don't believe in freedom or pro choice, except we
want to tell you what car to drive, what stove
you can or cannot use, what refrigerator and freezer you
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cannot and cannot use, what washer and dryer you cannot
and cannot use, and what straw you can and cannot use.
I mere break all right, quick break right back to
our phones are toll free numbers eight hundred and ninety
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Speaker 7 (28:08):
Hi, Hey Sean, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Appreciate it, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
I just I was.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Thinking about the left, how they are with how they
were so against us sending bombs over to Iran and
taking care of what needed to be taken care of,
and then after it was said and done, how now
they are complaining that the bombs weren't big enough, that
they didn't destroy enough of what we went over there
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to destroy. They just can't figure out what they want
to do. The left, they are so lost that whole
Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Oh look, I can tell you right now it is.
This is what they are. And in spite of them,
you know, in spite of everything they threw at Trump,
the media was ignored, Democrats were ignored, and the American
people saw through it, and the American people have embraced
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the cause of American greatness again, and we saw that
on display with foreign policy and taken out a Ram's nukes,
a very dangerous, bold decision by the president. Incredible, you know,
professionalism of the greatest military on Earth. You know, he's
doing the same thing with the borders, the same thing
with the economy, same thing with law and order, same
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thing with our Defense department, same thing with energy. These
are all big, big ideas and he's implementing them and
the most conservative agenda I've seen in my lifetime. There's
a poll out today that Republican voters now give Trump
a higher approval rating than they did Reagan. I mean,
you know, sixty three percent rating among Republican voters as
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of Tuesday. Fake news CNN reported this. Anyway, I appreciate
the call, my friend eight hundred and ninety four one Sean,
if you want to be a part of the program. Wow,
our friend Chris Hahn is going to join us. This
is going to be interesting. Chuckie Schumer's protege
Well, we'll come in.
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I don't think that we should have billionaires because frankly,
it is so much money in a moment of such inequality.
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This isn't just.
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About mister mom doniy as an individual.
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This is about the message that the people of New
York City are trying to send to our party.
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What do you think the message is?
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Uh?
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People want to be able to afford to dream and
they want a government that bets on them.
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Freedom is back in style, welcome to the revolution.
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to be a part of the PROGRAMM right. So, with
the one big Beautiful bill being passed in the Senate,
now we'll go to the House. Plans now as of
today are that it will be debated and voted on.
Hopefully tomorrow, uh, and hopefully passed. And UH, there's more
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good in it. But as I said both on radio
yesterday on TV last night, there are a lot of
provisions policies I don't like, uh, and there's a lot
more cutting that I want to see. And I think that.
But with that said, this legislation, you know, the it'll
be the largest tax cut in American history, and Democrats
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will be voting for the largest tax increase in American history.
The bill also eliminates taxes on tips, and over time,
eighty eight percent of seniors will not pay taxes on
Social Security as a result of this bill. There is
a misnomer and a myth, Oh, these tax cuts, we
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can't afford them. We've got to pay for them, which
is the argument that some of my friends make. And
I'm like, no, you're wrong, because Reagan cut taxes from
seventy to twenty eight percent the top marginal rate, and
revenues to the federal government actually doubled. The bill not perfectly,
but it eliminates you know, it tackles waste, fraud and
abuse of Medicaid, creates a new work requirement for able
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bodied Americans. You know, just to fact check it. There's
been a lot of demagoguery going on, and thank god,
most Americans, unlike me, were sleep last night. You know, Oh,
only the wealthy benefit from the tax cuts. Well, we're
going to introduce shit a Kurt Couchman, a senior fellow
in Fiscal Policy for Americans for Prosperity, and he points
out it doesn't make it true because they say it.
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The twenty seventeen Tax Cuts and Jobs Act helped all Americans,
not just a fortune a few, and lower taxes across
every income level and simplified you know, filing by doubling
the standard deduction and adjusting it annually annually for inflation.
The bill cuts Medicaid for people who rely on it.
That's another lie. The reforms to Medicaid and the One
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Big Beautiful Bill aren't about cuts. They're focused on fixing
a broken system to better serve the people that need
it most, and you know, and putting in work requirements
for able bodied people. You know, I thought, we're you know,
it is the reform that has been necessary for a
long time. The idea that Medicaid and medicare you get
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the same service you literally paid nine times more in
some cases for the exact same medical procedure, if you're
getting Medicare versus Medicaid. It's insane. And the idea that
tax cuts somehow, Oh, no, it's going to explode the deficit. Well, no,
hopefully it's not going to explode the deficil because again,
Reagan doubled revenues by cutting taxes, and that's what happens
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every time he cut taxes. But Trump's first three years
in office, when he cut taxes, it created record low
after record low unemployment for every American, for African Americans,
Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, African American
youth unemployment. That would be inclusive, that would be one
that's helping working men and women. Democrats voted against what
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they want to keep taxing tips to the maximum level
and tax overtime to the maximum level and not incentivize
people to work harder. That's insane, and this is a
great first step. I want to see other things. I
didn't like the salt deduction in the bill, but on measure,
it's the having been up all night, we did not
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have the votes by eight am this morning because I
was up talking to senators all night. They did not
have the votes as of eight am this morning. And
then people say, well, you know, this is unfortunately the
way the swamp works, but it is the most conservative
bill I've seen in my lifetime. Kurt Couchman with US
Senior Fellow Fiscal Policy at Americans for Prosperity.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
How are you, sir, Hey San, I'm doing well. That
was all very well said, and I'm glad to be
with you today.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
All right, you have studied all of this, and you know,
a lot of the demagoguery that we heard is like
the typical, you know, language that we hear every two
and four years during elections that Republicans of racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic,
is lamophobic. They want dirty air and water, and they
want grandma and grandpa ty dog and cat food before
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Donald Trump throws them over a cliff in a wheelchair.
And when they say, and they were out there saying
this only benefits the wealthy, that's a lie. When they
said this bill cuts medicaid for the people who rely
on it, that's a lie. That it will explode the deficit.
You point out all three of those of major lies.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Yeah, absolutely true. The tax cuts in this bill build
on the twenty seventeen tax cuts, and those have benefited
all Americans, sometimes directly through your personal income taxes, but
also through making investment more profitable and more investment going
into the economy increases our productivity and also our wages.
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There are provisions in this that will improve healthcare for
all Americans. It will shift resources from the inefficient, low
value green energy nonsense into the energy resources that will
make electricity cheaper for all Americans, and drive manufacturing and
innovation all across the country.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Well, there's other things that the President's doing that will
benefit the economy also. It seems to have gone unnoticed
by most in the legacy media, but nobody really pays
attention to them anymore anyway. But I think it's a
big deal that the President has made this push and
as part of this build to push America towards energy dominance.
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Not only will that make us an energy rich country
and result in a lot of revenues that we're really
not planning on, but similarly create high paying career jobs
in the energy sector. The President was able to secure,
through his trade policy and tariff policy, over ten trillion
dollars in manufacturing commitments for the next four years, and
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in critical national security areas like pharmaceuticals and semiconductor chips,
but also auto manufacturing. That's a big win again for
American workers, and that's high paying career jobs and they
won't be competing with Biden Harris, the illegals that are
being deported every day.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Yeah, there are a lot of things going on right now.
The administration is doing many, many different things that are
good for the country, good for growth. This bill also
includes a lot and it's not the only effort to
restrain spending. I get the spending and the debt under control.
We had a full year continuing resolution that reduced appropriations
compared to the economy has requested recisions, which is canceling
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appropriated spending, this wastehold that we don't need. The House
has past that, it's sitting in the Senate. That should
be the next thing they take up and pass. Cut
wasteful spending. There's more recisions requests coming. There are savings
the Trump administration could do on its own just by
changing some of the regulations for some of these programs.
And then there's fixing the whole system. You know, the
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federal budget system is totally dysfunctional and broken. It's amazing
that we can get the good things that we're getting
this year given that, But imagine if we had a
functional budget system, like all the incredible things that Congress
could actually deliver along with President Trump for the American people.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Let me ask you about this. I know that there
are some Congressmen and maybe justifiably so, and I understand it.
But on the other hand, it is what it is
that are frustrated. They weren't up all night talking to
senators as I was, and I'm just telling you, I'm
giving you, you know how the sausages. We did not
have the votes at eight am this morning, and then
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finally push came to shove and it was like, okay,
finally they got the last vote that they needed. I'm
not going to get into personality. So the changes that
were made correct me if I'm wrong. This bill in
the Senate, which never in my lifetime, can I think
of another instance where this happened, saves more money than
the House bill, and some Republican Congressmen are upset that
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any changes were made. But the problem is the Senate
has this parliamentarian and this process called reconciliation, which caused
them to have to make some changes, not really much
different in my view from what the House passed.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Yeah, there are a lot of great savings in the
House past version. There are a lot of great savings
in the Senate past version. There have been so many
changes that we're still digesting what they've all been, and
of course we need to wait for the scorekeepers to
come out and say how much each provision saved costs
or whatever. But there's a lot of really good important things,
and that you touched on the border security and the
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other defense pieces. One of the things that's really important
about that is that it avoided having to make a
deal with the Democrats when we did the full year
continuing resolution earlier in the year. That would have been
crazy expensive, and so we were able to get those
resources where they were needed without having to make a deal.
There are a lot of things that will have dynamic effects.
There are expansions in health savings accounts and direct primary
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care that will help to transform our healthcare system over
the coming years and decades. And of course there's just
so much more that needs to be done. We do
have too much spending, but there are narrow margins in
the House in the Senate, and so this was probably
the best that could have been agreed to under these circumstances.
And it's also important to compare that to what would
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have happened if these tax cuts had to be extended
in a bipartisan deal at the end of the year.
A lot of the great reform that we're seeing would
be totally impossible. There'd be no way you could get
rid of the Biden green energy stuff. You couldn't make
the substantive changes to healthcare, you couldn't overhaul the student
loan program, you couldn't expand the provisions that will lead
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to more investments that make Americans better off. So passing
or not passing this bill would end up being would
end up leading to a far worse deal because it
would have to be done with Democrats, and on every dimension,
whether it's fiscal or the policies or anything else, it
would be inferior to what is currently on the table
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and going to the House.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
No, I totally agree with you, And again, there are opportunities,
and I'm not going to count on it. I'm not
going to be naive because I've followed this process for
far too long. But there's a window of opportunity here
to get all these good things in the bill, from
border security and deportation money and defense spending that is
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desperately need, did for the next generation of weaponry, to
energy issues, to tax cuts that are permanent, to really
looking out for working men and women in the service industry,
and it just it has a lot of good things
in there. The energy sector is another one. Those are
things that are desperately needed. I'll take those as a
win now and hopefully they'll come back and do even more.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
That's right, Take the win, keep coming back, and there's
just a lot more work to do. But this is
something that is right there, ready to go. So let's
do it right now, and then let's keep working at it.
I mean, Congress is not you know, we've done the
one thing and now we're done. No. No, there's a
lot more on the agenda that we'll need to be
done in the coming months and years.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I totally agree with all of that. We appreciate your
time anyway. Kirk Couchman, Senior Fellow Fiscal Policy Americans for Prosperity,
Thank you, sir, Thanks.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
For having me. Sean good to be with you.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
All right, let's get to a busy, busy telephones. All right,
let's say hi to Cody and Alabama didn't like the
big beautiful bill. What's up, Cody? How are you glad
you called?
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Oh, thank you Sean for taking our calls. My first
time I've ever gotten on. I'm just concerned about the
increased deficit and I hear up to four trillion and
that the spending cuts are delayed after supposedly after Trump's
second term.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
But no, that's not actually true, because the spending cuts
are ongoing with DOZE and they're trying to weed out
in every department. And DOZE has not stop since Elon
Musk left. Always fraud, abuse and corruption. And you know
last week, for example, they came up with billions of
dollars in discoveries. I mean, it's insane.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Well, concerns of me for when my reading is that
so security will be cut by twenty three percent for everybody.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
And who told you that that's not true? Eighty eight
percent of seniors. No, they're not getting cuts, they're getting increases,
and they won't pay taxes on Social Security.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Why now they're talking eight years in the future.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It'll be well, I'm asking a question, where did you
hear this? Who's telling you this?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Wall Street Journal? And a check it out The New
York Times. Both of them said the same thing.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
The New York Times isn't worth the paper it's printed
on number one, number two.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I agree with that.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
I agree with that.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
But yeah, you know, look, there is an assumption, and
I think this is where a lot of people make mistakes,
is that when you cut taxes, and I think you
would agree, cutting taxes on hard working Americans is a
good thing, right. I believe that eliminating tax on tips
and social and overtime, or at least reducing them greatly, I
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think that's a good thing. Would you agree with that?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yes, And making the tax cut permanent, that's a good thing,
rather than the largest tax increase in history, which would
happen if this bill expired.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
My biggest concern is increasing the death of another four
trillion dollars about it.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
But here's here's you're right, and I see the numbers
like you do. Let me tell you what's not factored in.
Tell me what happened when Reagan dropped the top mark
general rate from seventy to twenty eight percent, what happened
to revenues to the federal government while he was president?
Do you know?
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Yeah, they increased, No.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
They didn't increase, They doubled, Okay, and we ended up
with twenty one million new jobs and the longest period
of peacetime economic growth in history. When Trump first implemented
the tax cuts in twenty seventeen, what happened to the economy.
We had three incredible years with record low after the
record low unemployment because of all the money that was
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being invested because it was saved. And then that results
in more revenues to the government. The problem is they
take in more money, and then Congress spends more money.
Now there's more that they can do. But to not
take the tax cuts, and to not take the money
invested in securing our border, getting rid of criminal illegals,
not putting reforms in medicaid, et cetera, not bringing out
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the next generation of weaponry, and investing in defense and
energy dominance, I think would be a mistake. The opportunity
would be missed, and I would you can just tell you,
having been up all night, that this is the best
they were going to get out of the Senate or
your calls on the other side. All right, let's get
to our busy telephones. Kelly in my free state of Florida.
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Alligator Alcatraz, the Big Donald Trump and Ron De Santis
were there today. It was great. What's going on? How
are you, Kelly?
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Hey, I'm doing great. I'm here in red, the red
of Fort Myers. Anyways, I just want to call it.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I love Fort Myers. I know you guys got whacked
really hard. As has the city come back after that
hurricane wiped out a lot of the coastal areas.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
A lot of it. Surprisingly, Yes, it taken. It's going
on two years now, but the downtown area is back
up and running. Lot business centers are going on.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I'm glad to hear that. I really am. The people
in Fort Myers are great.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Yes, So I just called to sit there say hey,
your show was great on Saturday night. I enjoyed it.
Thank you, I said, two rows behind this wonderful bombshell blonde.
I think.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I wonder who, but yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
It was an excellent show. It's a shame they have
people on the East coast Clint see it.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
But yeah, Saturday now we're going to be We're rescheduling
that we're gonna we'll probably do it because a lot
of people go away for the summer. We'll probably do
it in the early fall. But we're definitely doing it.
Just had unforeseen circumstances. Life happens, unfortunately, and I feel
bad that people were you know, I just feel I
never want to let anybody down. Ever, we're doing it.
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We're we're definitely going to do it.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Great. Yeah, and you know, hey, maybe next time down
here in Fort Minors, I'll tell you it's this light
ever read and you'll handle You probably won't have the
two protesters which were sitting out there Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Hey, you had it.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Oh there were two protesters outside.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Yeah, you had two protesters.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
We had the one liberal inside. I kept kept going
at him until he finally said, all right, I give up.
I'm a conservative. I agree with you.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
That was funny. But yes, excellent, excellent show. And I
hope that poor guy got his jacket back from Jimmy
after Jimmy moudom for it.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
That's probably Jimmy's Jimmy is a pro and and uh uh,
look I did my level best on the comedy side
and had fun doing it and loved being around great
Americans like you that make the country great every day.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Hey, you're very welcome.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
You know what, what a beautiful what a beautiful hall,
Ruth Eckert Hall was beautiful back to the brim, you know,
I don't know. It wasn't an empty seat in the house.
It was great, all right, all right, my friend, God
bless you appreciate it. All right. So, well, this is
going to be interesting. Mac in Texas. I'm a Marxist
Mandani supporter. Uh, what's up? Mac? Tell me why you
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support the Marxist and global entifata And there shouldn't be
any billionaires and we should take over the means of production.
I've got a new cup we're gonna play on TV tonight.
Apparently wants to buy up large parcels of land and
have community you know, communes for people.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
He well, sir, the uh, the reason I called in
is I think you were being way too hard on him,
because he at least he comes out and he tells
you what he is. He tells you that he's a socialist, communist,
anti Semite, anti capitalist guy. And too many Rhinos in
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the Republican Party that they don't you don't know who
they are. Until they get elected and then they screw
up the works. I am not a supporter of around
mom Downey. I just I just I do admire him
for coming straight out and saying what he is.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, but he really doesn't come straight out. I mean,
he had three opportunities over the weekend taking them Like,
for example, if I asked you macint Texas, do you
condemn racism.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Him, Yes, I do.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Of course, of course you do. If I asked you,
do you condemn anti Semitism?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yes I do. But also here in America.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Well, why well, he was given three opportunities to do so,
and based on some of his other previous remarks and
events that he attended, I think it's pretty obvious where
he stands, and that makes him as far as I'm concerned.
You know a guy that is radicalized and extreme to
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the maximum level, and you're just applauding his honesty. But then,
you know, here's the danger we have as a country
is that this is what the Democratic Party as a
whole now is evolved into. That scares me.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
That is true that there are a lot of anti
Semites in the Democratic Party. That's why he doesn't denounce it.
Those people are voting for him.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And well, that's that's the bigger picture I'm trying to
get people to understand. But his party is now run
by Donnie Marxistmondami. It's run by aoc Kasamine Crockett, the Squad,
Grandpa Bernie Pocahontas. And and there's a reason why you
don't hear from Hakeem Jeffries or Chucky Schumer is because
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they're scared to death of their own face. And where
they would previously in a past life, they would have
condemned it outright. The party now is just owned by
the radicals, which maybe is a good thing. The American
people see it. We learned a lot about Kamala Harrison.
You know, in the last election, we saw Joe Biden
leave wide open borders and then lie to us, lie
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about his cognitive state, lie about the economy. And we
see with you know, Kamala Harris, she wants taxpayer funded
sex change operations for illegals. You know, her running mate
wanted taxpayer funded education college education for illegals. Also wanted
to put tampons in boys' bathrooms and schools and grammar schools,
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and also supports gender affirming care without parental consent. That
is the party on top of the Marxism and statism
and you know, radicalism. You know, the party that tolerated
no problem, you know, tolerating violence against Elon Musk, the
party that remained silent in the summer of twenty twenty
and the case of Kama didn't just remain silent, silent,
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she stood in solidarity with the rioters. And the party
that you know is it's tolerating virual and anti Semitism.
And I just think as long as the American people
are fully aware of who they are and how bad
they've gotten, you know, I don't think I've done a
good enough job. I've got, We've got We've got to
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spread the word because we have a midterm coming up
in eighteen months. And you may think that's a long
way away, it's going to be here in a blink
of an eye and we'll be doing our election countdown
in six months and this is going to be probably
the most important midterm in our life. Otherwise we're going
to spend the two the two years after the twenty
sixth election, you know, dealing with impeachment. Impeachment. Impeachment not
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good anyway. My friend, appreciate the call. Uh Todd Louisiana.
Next on the Sean Hennity Show.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
What's Up, Todd good effning sewn. I was just like
watching the whole debate thing in Schumer and and and
the fact that he just sits there and lies and
lies and lies. If a Republican had done that, I mean,
you would have helped him run a model out of Washington.
But Schumer sits there for telling the lies about Biden
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for for four years basically, and then and then they
comes back and they gets caught in the bald face
line and they ask him about it. He says, well,
we're just ready to move on now.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
They don't tell you the truth. I mean, that's that's
the bottom line. And you know, if you want to
know why the Democratic Party, this is an amazing thing.
They're they're like scratching their heads and they have no
idea why they lost the last election. And I just
ran through a series of reasons. Why did the party
of woke elites? We saw this on displaying the Senate.
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They claimed to be the party of working men and women?
Then why did they vote for the largest tax hike
in American history? Why wouldn't they vote to cut taxes
on working men and women, no tax on tips, no
tax on overtime. Why wouldn't they vote for those things?
Why did they leave the border wide open and lie
to us? Why do they support our champion the rights
(24:32):
of men to play women's sports rather than protect women.
You know, why are they the party that's against energy
dominance and but they're perfectly fine with us importing energy.
I mean, it's the lifeblood of the world's economy. Why
are they the party that that depleted our defense department
and put us in a hole that we have to
(24:53):
now dig ourselves out of a gap of vulnerability that
like when Reagan was president. I mean, it's on every
one of these issues. They're radical and they're wrong, and
they just care about wokeness and getting pronouns and gender
affirming care and all these other issues. And then I'm
(25:13):
focused on the people, the vast, overwhelming ninety nine percent
of Americans that just want a better life for themselves
than their children. Yeah, no, no, what do you spectacular?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
What?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
And on the border, they they're coming out and they're saying, oh,
Trump is against border security because he didn't want to
go he didn't he told everybody to vote against their
boondoggle of a bill, and then he's already proven it
that they were lying, that they were not even trying
to secure the border. They were just gaslighting the American
publican and I just I'm just thankful that we got
(25:44):
places to go to listen to somebody that actually makes sense.
I mean, every now and then you have to give
an econ one on one lesson to some of your listeners,
which I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
But oh, I mean, for example, you know, we shouldn't
have billionaires. Think about that. Yeah, And now, if you
really look at this, anybody that I don't know people
that inherited money in their life, I really don't. But
I have met millionaires and I have met billionaires in
my life, and in every case, they earned it the
(26:16):
old fashioned way. You know, they worked their ass off
number one. Number two, they were they were providing goods
and services that people wanted, needed and desired and that
they freely paid for them. And I would argue the
world is better off because we now have computers and
(26:39):
phones at our disposal at all times. And you know,
I think we're better off that Elon Musk is doing
all of his work, don't. I don't care about his politics,
about the big beautiful bill, and you know the idea.
You know, I never got a job from a poor
person when I worked in restaurants. Poor people can't afford
(27:00):
to go to a restaurant. They just can't. And so
the people that are we're paying my salary at a
point when I needed that job to pay my rent,
I'm glad they came in. I'm glad they had the
money to buy and leave me a tip if I
did a good job. When I did construction, I was
not hired by poor people. I got hired by people
that could afford my services. And you know, my entire
(27:24):
radio and TV career, I got hired by people that
own radio and TV stations. And I'm very grateful to
all of them, and I don't hate them that they're successful.
And the American Dreams was supposed to believe in freedom.
They don't believe in freedom or pro choice, except we
want to tell you what car to drive, what stove
you can or cannot use, what refrigerator and freezer you
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cannot and cannot use, what washer and dryer you cannot
and cannot use, and what straw you can and cannot use.
I mere break all right, quick break right back to
our phones are toll free numbers eight hundred and ninety
four one sean. If you want to be a part
of the program, right back busy phones eight hundred nine
to four one sean. If you want to be a
part of the program. David and Arizona have about a
(28:05):
minute and twenty seconds. It's all yours.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Hi, Hey Sean, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Appreciate it, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
I just I was.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
Thinking about the left, how they are with how they
were so against us sending bombs over to Iran and
taking care of what needed to be taken care of,
and then after it was said and done, how now
they are complaining that the bombs weren't big enough, that
they didn't destroy enough of what we went over there
(28:37):
to destroy. They just can't figure out what they want
to do. The left, they are so lost that whole
Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Oh look, I can tell you right now it is.
This is what they are. And in spite of them,
you know, in spite of everything they threw at Trump,
the media was ignored, Democrats were ignored, and the American
people saw through it, and the American people have embraced
(29:09):
the cause of American greatness again, and we saw that
on display with foreign policy and taken out a Ram's nukes,
a very dangerous, bold decision by the president. Incredible, you know,
professionalism of the greatest military on Earth. You know, he's
doing the same thing with the borders, the same thing
with the economy, same thing with law and order, same
(29:31):
thing with our Defense department, same thing with energy. These
are all big, big ideas and he's implementing them and
the most conservative agenda I've seen in my lifetime. There's
a poll out today that Republican voters now give Trump
a higher approval rating than they did Reagan. I mean,
you know, sixty three percent rating among Republican voters as
(29:52):
of Tuesday. Fake news CNN reported this. Anyway, I appreciate
the call, my friend eight hundred and ninety four one Sean,
if you want to be a part of the program. Wow,
our friend Chris Hahn is going to join us. This
is going to be interesting. Chuckie Schumer's protege
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