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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The big beautiful bill has passed through the Senate, Thank
you very Vice President JD. Vance, and it is back
to the House, joining us now to talk a little
bit more about what is next. Congressman Gary Palmer is here.
Good morning, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You in DC.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I am number of things that obviously people were concerned
about on the other side of the aisle, and the
one of the big ones was medicaid and losing the
funding in this As Schumer put it, if you listen
to him, you know the world's coming to an end
and people are dying.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
So you're back in DC.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I heard there were some weather issues, but glad to
hear that you've got the big beautiful bill now in
the House. So do you believe this will go through
smoothly or is there going to be some more all right,
we got to go back and look at it now.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Are we going to make the July fourth deadline? Do
you believe?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I'm not sure. There's some talk that some of the
Republicans are not going to vote for the rule, which
you have passed the rule to bring the bill to
the floor, and so I don't know if we're going
to take it up today or not.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, there was a couple of people that called in
and asked me to check with you on some issues
specifically in the bill.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
One trans surgery.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Apparently this was an issue and it didn't you know,
it didn't you know, make it through. Apparently they were
going to ban that and now that's you know, still available.
And also planned parenthood. We were going to strip the
funding on that, but now that's back in. So your
thoughts on those issues.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, the Senate Parliamentarian stripped those out, claiming they violated
the Bird rule, that it was policy. And and first
of all, I think I think that she should have
been fired at the very beginning of this congress. She
was awful in the last congress. She was awful when
Trump was in the first time. I don't know why
(01:44):
Majority Leader soon didn't go ahead and replace her with
somebody else, because she's she's so inconsistent JT. I mean,
if there were consistency here, you might could say, Okay,
we understand this, but it's clearly partisan.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
One hundred percent, and to allow trans surgeries on and
you know minors is just crazy, and funding planned parentood.
That's first of all, not that you know what they're
doing over they're not they're not helping parents plan for parenthood.
I mean, they're just basically in abortion shops. Yeah, it's
kind of disturbing. Obviously, you can't get everything in the
(02:18):
bill that you want, but those are two pretty big
issues with conservatives, that's for sure. You're talking to me
about Medicaid now, Senator Britt said, the look, Alabama's not
going to struggle with this. You know, this whole thing
Schumer's painting a picture people are going to be dying
because we're not taking care of you know, Medicaid people
is hogwash here, what what exactly is going on with
Medicaid here? Once and for all, we're not putting people's
(02:40):
lives in jeopardy. We're just putting the money where it
needs to go for the people that need it and
those that aren't qualified to get it don't get it.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Now. Senator Britt and I had a long discussion about this,
and I talked with about a dozen members of the
Senate the other night. I work my butt off JT
to try to fix Medicaid in this bill by taking
some of the savings that we're going to get from
reducing the enhanced match and expansion states and phasing down
(03:07):
the provider attacks, to set up a fund where the
governors of each state could fix their rural hospitals, could
take care of their weight list. Because there's over seven
hundred ten thousand people on weight list, over half of
them ran home care and take care of the long
term disabled, and this would have been the best way
to fix this. And Susan Collins Center Collins remain agreed.
(03:31):
Of all people, she was on board with this, and
so we've missed some opportunities. But back to your point, did.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Back up, back up, to back up to what you
were talking about with you and Susan Collins on this.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Did it go through as you suggested?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
No, there is, I think there is a fund, but
it's not like I suggested. So we're I'm going to
try to work on this some more. But here's the
thing that the Democrats just flat out lied about what's
going on. Medicaid's going to grow by twenty percent over
the next ten years, so that's not a cut by
any sense of the imagination. Plus, when they said that
(04:08):
seven point eight million people are going to lose their insurance,
four point eight million them are people who refuse to
even take a part time job or volunteer part time JT.
That's the able body of adults, guys sitting at home
playing video games, drinking a cold beer that are covered
by Medicaid. Another one point four million of them are illegal.
(04:30):
They're not supposed to be on it to begin with.
And the other one point six which this accounts for
the entire sex point eight are already eligible for insurance
under the Obamacare exchanges. Nobody's going to lose their health
insurance that are legally eligible to have health insurance.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Look, let's just call it.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
The country's been sloppy with their money and who they're
handing it out to, depending on who's running the show
in the White House here. And there's a fiduciary responsibility
with members of the Congress, House and Senate to govern
and use our money responsibly and to go through it
and go through the budget and look at it and go,
wait a minute, what's all this over here? I mean,
(05:06):
we got a clean house a little bit here and
tighten it up.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Well, let me give you an example here of this.
The CBO we need to stop using the Congressional Budget Office.
They said that this will increase the federal deaths by
three point three tree and over the next ten years,
it's actually going to reduce save US five hundred billion.
And here's why when they when they did the estimate
on this, they assumed that we would not extend the
(05:30):
tax cuts and that there'd be another four point five
trillion dollars tax increase coming into the federal government instead
of working with the current baseline. If they had worked
with the current baseline, with the tax cuts in place,
we save five hundred million dollars. But with these are
pro tax people JT. And they want us to not
(05:50):
pass this bill so that they're the four and a
half trillion dollar tax increase. It starts January first, and
that's just ridiculous mathematics.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Well, you, Dan, you don't anticipate there being a problem
and getting this through once again and onto the President's.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yest, do you?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I don't know. I talked to Scolice last night and
I saw him last night, and he thinks that we're
going to pass it today. Uh. Good, You know, this
is Washington. Anything can happen.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Ain't that the truth? Ain't that the truth? Well?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Gary, I think there's certainly a lot more positive to
this bill than negative. I mean, if you want to
find tooth and pick through things, you know, there may
be some things that, like you said you you wanted
more in somearies that didn't get there. You know, the
trans surgery thing and the planned parenthood issue are things
that I wouldn't want to see in you know, my
(06:41):
tax dollars going to But you know, in the bigger
picture of all of this, the good far outweighs the bad,
and Chuck Schumer is just exasperating and accentuating those smaller
things and turning them into you know, mountains from mole
hills and his fear mind.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You're right, you know, it's just.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
You're right. If we don't pass it come January first,
there'll be a four point five trillion dollars tax increase
that will just tank the economy.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, one hundred percent. Well, Gary, I appreciate you this morning.
We'll chat later today see how things are going, and
maybe get an update with you tomorrow as well.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Thank you, all right, Thanks you think
The big beautiful bill has passed through the Senate, Thank
you very Vice President JD. Vance, and it is back
to the House, joining us now to talk a little
bit more about what is next. Congressman Gary Palmer is here.
Good morning, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You in DC.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I am number of things that obviously people were concerned
about on the other side of the aisle, and the
one of the big ones was medicaid and losing the
funding in this As Schumer put it, if you listen
to him, you know the world's coming to an end
and people are dying.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
So you're back in DC.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I heard there were some weather issues, but glad to
hear that you've got the big beautiful bill now in
the House. So do you believe this will go through
smoothly or is there going to be some more all right,
we got to go back and look at it now.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Are we going to make the July fourth deadline? Do
you believe?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I'm not sure. There's some talk that some of the
Republicans are not going to vote for the rule, which
you have passed the rule to bring the bill to
the floor, and so I don't know if we're going
to take it up today or not.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, there was a couple of people that called in
and asked me to check with you on some issues
specifically in the bill.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
One trans surgery.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Apparently this was an issue and it didn't you know,
it didn't you know, make it through. Apparently they were
going to ban that and now that's you know, still available.
And also planned parenthood. We were going to strip the
funding on that, but now that's back in. So your
thoughts on those issues.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, the Senate Parliamentarian stripped those out, claiming they violated
the Bird rule, that it was policy. And and first
of all, I think I think that she should have
been fired at the very beginning of this congress. She
was awful in the last congress. She was awful when
Trump was in the first time. I don't know why
(01:44):
Majority Leader soon didn't go ahead and replace her with
somebody else, because she's she's so inconsistent JT. I mean,
if there were consistency here, you might could say, Okay,
we understand this, but it's clearly partisan.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
One hundred percent, and to allow trans surgeries on and
you know minors is just crazy, and funding planned parentood.
That's first of all, not that you know what they're
doing over they're not they're not helping parents plan for parenthood.
I mean, they're just basically in abortion shops. Yeah, it's
kind of disturbing. Obviously, you can't get everything in the
(02:18):
bill that you want, but those are two pretty big
issues with conservatives, that's for sure. You're talking to me
about Medicaid now, Senator Britt said, the look, Alabama's not
going to struggle with this. You know, this whole thing
Schumer's painting a picture people are going to be dying
because we're not taking care of you know, Medicaid people
is hogwash here, what what exactly is going on with
Medicaid here? Once and for all, we're not putting people's
(02:40):
lives in jeopardy. We're just putting the money where it
needs to go for the people that need it and
those that aren't qualified to get it don't get it.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Now. Senator Britt and I had a long discussion about this,
and I talked with about a dozen members of the
Senate the other night. I work my butt off JT
to try to fix Medicaid in this bill by taking
some of the savings that we're going to get from
reducing the enhanced match and expansion states and phasing down
(03:07):
the provider attacks, to set up a fund where the
governors of each state could fix their rural hospitals, could
take care of their weight list. Because there's over seven
hundred ten thousand people on weight list, over half of
them ran home care and take care of the long
term disabled, and this would have been the best way
to fix this. And Susan Collins Center Collins remain agreed.
(03:31):
Of all people, she was on board with this, and
so we've missed some opportunities. But back to your point, did.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Back up, back up, to back up to what you
were talking about with you and Susan Collins on this.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Did it go through as you suggested?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
No, there is, I think there is a fund, but
it's not like I suggested. So we're I'm going to
try to work on this some more. But here's the
thing that the Democrats just flat out lied about what's
going on. Medicaid's going to grow by twenty percent over
the next ten years, so that's not a cut by
any sense of the imagination. Plus, when they said that
(04:08):
seven point eight million people are going to lose their insurance,
four point eight million them are people who refuse to
even take a part time job or volunteer part time JT.
That's the able body of adults, guys sitting at home
playing video games, drinking a cold beer that are covered
by Medicaid. Another one point four million of them are illegal.
(04:30):
They're not supposed to be on it to begin with.
And the other one point six which this accounts for
the entire sex point eight are already eligible for insurance
under the Obamacare exchanges. Nobody's going to lose their health
insurance that are legally eligible to have health insurance.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Look, let's just call it.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
The country's been sloppy with their money and who they're
handing it out to, depending on who's running the show
in the White House here. And there's a fiduciary responsibility
with members of the Congress, House and Senate to govern
and use our money responsibly and to go through it
and go through the budget and look at it and go,
wait a minute, what's all this over here? I mean,
(05:06):
we got a clean house a little bit here and
tighten it up.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Well, let me give you an example here of this.
The CBO we need to stop using the Congressional Budget Office.
They said that this will increase the federal deaths by
three point three tree and over the next ten years,
it's actually going to reduce save US five hundred billion.
And here's why when they when they did the estimate
on this, they assumed that we would not extend the
(05:30):
tax cuts and that there'd be another four point five
trillion dollars tax increase coming into the federal government instead
of working with the current baseline. If they had worked
with the current baseline, with the tax cuts in place,
we save five hundred million dollars. But with these are
pro tax people JT. And they want us to not
(05:50):
pass this bill so that they're the four and a
half trillion dollar tax increase. It starts January first, and
that's just ridiculous mathematics.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Well, you, Dan, you don't anticipate there being a problem
and getting this through once again and onto the President's.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yest, do you?
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I don't know. I talked to Scolice last night and
I saw him last night, and he thinks that we're
going to pass it today. Uh. Good, You know, this
is Washington. Anything can happen.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Ain't that the truth? Ain't that the truth? Well?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Gary, I think there's certainly a lot more positive to
this bill than negative. I mean, if you want to
find tooth and pick through things, you know, there may
be some things that, like you said you you wanted
more in somearies that didn't get there. You know, the
trans surgery thing and the planned parenthood issue are things
that I wouldn't want to see in you know, my
(06:41):
tax dollars going to But you know, in the bigger
picture of all of this, the good far outweighs the bad,
and Chuck Schumer is just exasperating and accentuating those smaller
things and turning them into you know, mountains from mole
hills and his fear mind.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You're right, you know, it's just.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
You're right. If we don't pass it come January first,
there'll be a four point five trillion dollars tax increase
that will just tank the economy.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Yeah, one hundred percent. Well, Gary, I appreciate you this morning.
We'll chat later today see how things are going, and
maybe get an update with you tomorrow as well.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Thank you, all right, Thanks you think
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