January 8, 2026 • 16 mins
summary
The conversation covers the dynamics of protests related to law enforcement actions, particularly in Minneapolis, and the political implications of government shutdowns. Congressman Davidson discusses the challenges faced by law enforcement, the impact of political agendas on public perception, and the need for biological data protection in the context of national security.
takeaways
- Protests often arise from organized efforts by specific groups.
- Law enforcement actions can lead to significant public backlash.
- The political landscape influences the response to law enforcement incidents.
- Government shutdowns can be used strategically by political parties.
- Subsidies in healthcare can mask underlying program failures.
- The inflation of healthcare costs is exacerbated by government subsidies.
- Bipartisan support is crucial for effective legislation.
- Biological data protection is a growing concern in national security.
- The narrative around race and law enforcement is often manipulated for political gain.
- The impact of local governance on national issues is significant.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
So No six here, bitty five krcdcalk Dation, are very
happy Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
You extra special day to day.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
The return of Congressman more and Davidson. Great timing on
that one, considering the ice shooting of Minneapolis the other day.
Congressman Davids and welcome back to the fifty five Casey
morn showing a very happy new year to you, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, Happy new year, Brian. Always an honor to join you.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So I honored to have you on. And I was
lamenting that they're we're expecting massive protests today. Of course,
immediately the placards from all the different various anti American
organizations joined together and they're going out there calling this
this ice action shooting, the woman who tried to run
over the ice agent, whether automobile murder. I was lamenting that,
(00:44):
you know, this is not the first time this immediate,
well organized response has come out. We've been watching this
unfold now for years. Where is the conservative corollary to that?
The answer apparently to the question, which was which a
lot of people chimed in on over the break, the
conservatives are all work, They have jobs, they don't have
time to run out in the street. And protest. But
putting aside any levity associated with that, where are we
(01:06):
on this one? I think the correct answer to the
question is, don't interfere with federal law enforcement operations and
try to run over an officer with your car and
you won't run the risk of getting shot. Congressman Davidson,
your take on this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, look, you know, to your point about where you know,
the rentom mob kind of program, how do you get
all this turnout to create the riots and protests. Well,
one of the easiest ways is you just cancel school.
So that's what Minneapolis has done. They canceled school so
all the teachers can go out and organize, you know,
their regular job, which is agitating the public and continuing
(01:42):
the Marxist revolution. They just do it outside the classroom
for a few days here this week, and then if
you've got older students, they can also participate and you know,
get their street cred in the little revolution. So, you know,
this is the kind of stuff that's going on in Minneapolis,
and for them, it's essentially a religious war. I mean,
(02:02):
you know, conservatives have crossed the heresy code line, which is,
you know, don't disrupt the invasion, and so they're doing
this righteous protection of the Somali pirates. They're plundering Minnesota
and frankly the taxpayer wealth around the country. And they're
doing it because you know, well, you know, you want
(02:23):
to help these people. Well okay, well a little fraud
is going to happen, but you know, you've got to
do the right thing. And there are people that bought
into this book line and sinker and and ice is evil.
They're like Nazi stormtroopers. And that's how you've agitated people
like this crazy lady that was all day driving her car,
getting between ICE agents and blocking people. And you know,
(02:45):
the normal the normal law enforcement program goes, you know, ask, tell,
make you know you man, please, could you please get
out of the car? Get out of the car. Then
you see the ICE agent going and they're going to
make her get out of the car, so she you know,
punishes it to go move. Now, the car was on ice,
so it slipped a little bit or it would have
(03:07):
gone to the left and fast right over the agent.
It started that way anyway, and that's when he draws
the fires. And so to me, when I look at
that video, I think, okay, is there possibility he could
have done something else. Yeah, but that's not the obligation.
The obligation is he feared for his life and the
safety of others, and he took action. And you know,
(03:30):
lesson learned. Just as you said, hey, listen to the
law enforcement even when they're wrong. You know, eventually, just
count on winning. But don't do something escalatory that is
going to be seen as a threat or you're gonna
get hurt. And if you do something that's viewed as
a lethal threat, there's a good chance you're going to die.
(03:50):
And instead of saying that, Governor Waltz and the mayor
of Minneapolis is out escalating the situation, instead of saying, look,
take note, I don't want anyone to get hurt, So
to take note, we're working with the federal government to
make sure we're doing this stuff better or whatever. But
that's exactly it. They're not working with the federal government.
They've tried to completely lock the federal government out of
(04:12):
their sanctuary city and their sanctuary state, even in the
wake of massive fraud and scandal.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah. Well, and this is a clear, clear parallel to
the defund the police movie he had the George Floyd Shiitting.
Then if people took to the street, police are illegitimate.
They are a racist organization. When you do everything we
can to stop policing neighborhoods and in crime ensues, we've
seen the aftermath of that. Hell, we can't even get
lateral hires in the city of Cincinnati. Thirty open spots
(04:38):
for a job with a pension and working with one
of the greater law enforcement agencies here in the country.
Seven people showed up to take up on the opportunity
to join the law enforcement. See, we've demonized police so
much that people don't even want to do the job anymore.
They're doing the same thing with Ice. Ice is out
trying to enforce the law. They're trying to pick up
and round up the worst of the worst of the
illegal immigrants here. They have the lawful right to do it. Here,
(04:59):
you go interfere with police doing their duty, and something
bad is going to happen. I think this is what
they were waiting for. All these leftist organizations couldn't wait
for this to happen. This poor woman is dead because
she did something that she was encouraged to do by
elected officials and all these other organizations. They've got their martyr.
Now it's time to go to the streets.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, and look it's there's there's not a coincidence that
the Summer of Love started in Minneapolis, right. I mean,
this is ground zero for the neo Marxist ajut agitation
that that they're doing in the country. So they're not
going to miss the moment. They've got essentially field trips
to the streets for the students there because that's what
(05:41):
they've done, and they did the March Long March through
the institutions. One of the first things they seized was education,
and now they're doing, you know this to make sure
that the students don't draw the wrong conclusion. You know
that that you know, hey, don't break our laws and
invade our country by coming here illegally, and then don't
(06:02):
stop the people that are just enforcing the laws of
the country. We wouldn't want them to learn those things.
We want them to learn that you got to join
the cause and fight demand and you know, continue this
you know, anti anti law and order regime that they're doing.
So I hope the country takes a note because the
(06:23):
reality is this is the vanguard for what democrats want
to do all around the country. And it's the same
kind of thing like it spread in twenty twenty. They
wanted to spread. Look at the progress that was made
in Cincinnati, and it's still not recovered to where it
was in twenty twenty. So they want to do this
all over the country, cities around the country. And it
(06:45):
is the agenda for the people leading the Democrat Party.
I'm not saying every Democrat believes these things, but that's
where the direction of the leadership for the Democrat Party is.
And it is as Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, so, well,
well normal versus crazy, and you see crazy every day,
especially in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Well, and then the other underlying point of all this,
or the argument that's made by those defending this fraud,
waste and abuse going on in Minneapolis, is that if
you bring it to anybody's attention, or you go after
and you enforce the law and you prosecute people for
violating the law, somehow, that's an active racism, which is
the most comical, stupid argument I think I've ever heard.
In making that argument, you're saying you're just going after
(07:26):
the black and brown community of the Somalis and you're
targeting them because you're racist. Now for you to protect,
to try to defend and protect the fraud, the criminal
activity by claiming it's racist to go after it is
in and of itself an active racism, which means you're
going to treat that community differently from other law breakers.
We're giving them a past because they're members of the
black and brown Somali community. That's nonsensical and in and
(07:49):
of itself racist.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Your take, Yeah, I mean that's right. But look how
long that worked, right, I mean, this is the same
playbook they effectively rolled out on pat You can and right,
oh he's a racist, And there was a well, I
don't know if you're a racist. I mean I'm not
a racist guy. So you've you've had you know, conservative
couckery here where you've not fought back or raised anything forever. Right,
(08:12):
It's like, look, it's not race, it's we don't get
mad at them because they're black or brown or from
this community. That it's because they're stealing after the people
that are stealing, or when you look at the crime,
the law and order, you know, you look at in Washington,
d C. Two percent of the population was accounting for
(08:35):
ninety percent of the crime. So when you target that
two percent, it's not racist. It's the two percent that's
causing the crime.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Right, right, that's the bottom line, Just not Caucussan Davids
And we got so much more to talk about. Got
to take a break though, let me just go straightforward
in the conversation. But it is time for a quick
couple of words. Here seven fifteen fifty five Karcity Talk Stations,
we're going to talk about whether there's going to be
another governation sevent nineteen Fiftybouck Karcite Talxictionan, Brian Thomas A
(09:07):
Congressman Warren Davidson moving over. That's right. We did have
a government shutdown over these subsidies that were brought and
put in place for Obamacare because of COVID nineteen. COVID
nineteen's left us, thankfully, that's a good thing. The Democrats
put in place an end date for those supplements. That
date's come and gone. They have disappeared, and that resulted
(09:28):
in the government shutdown last fall. They were fighting like
hell to keep them in place, even though the justification
for them no longer existed. Are we going to have
another government shutdown? Since that situation has not been resolved yet,
or are we going to come up with some probably
ridiculous compromise. Congressman Davidson.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah, Democrats really want another shutdown. They feel like it worked,
and on balance, when you look at the Democrat base,
Democrats have declined with their base. Uh. And part of
the reason they declined is they agreed to reopen the government. Right,
(10:07):
So they were they were getting phrase from their base
when they had the government shut down. They were you know,
fighting you know, the evil Empire. Uh. And they were,
you know, great righteous warriors in this holy war they're
trying to wage. Uh. And then when they reopened the government,
they took blowback, you know, after six weeks of shutdown.
(10:27):
So now they're like, well, let's let's get back and
engage the base again and shut down the government again. So,
you know, that's what that's what Schumer's take, And from
talk to some colleagues, they're like, yeah, you know, I
don't really see where everybody's coming from, but that's kind
of where some of our base is. And uh, you know,
so they're probably going to try to do that. Uh.
The challenge has been that Republicans continue to try to
(10:50):
have a way to accommodate that. And just last night,
you know, we had nine Republicans joined Democrats. They signed
a discharge petition that takes the power away from the
majority party. The Speaker didn't want to put this on
the floor, but some of our colleaguesjoined with all Democrats
to say, let's do three year continuation of the status quo.
(11:12):
And what is the status quo. It's sending more cash
to the insurance companies, and it's to give subsidies to
people that are at the very high end of the market.
A member of Congress who has no other income or
assets than the base pay from Congress, which is reasonably generous,
(11:32):
would qualify for subsidies for a family of flour. I mean,
that's crazy. You're looking at five thousand dollars going to
health insurance companies. And the fraud on this program has
been insane because all you have to do is sign
somebody up for it, and the money is getting sent
in their behalf to the insurance companies. So there are
people that are that are quote getting this benefit that
(11:55):
don't even know that the benefit exists, but the checks
are getting cut. There are no controls on a lot
of these programs, and that's what Doge was identifying, and
instead of going after the fact that hey, even if
it was working, which it isn't, it's rife with corruption,
and they're like, yeah, but let's keep doing it while
(12:16):
we fix it. And I mean, that's one of the
biggest things I miss about manufacturing. Even if you don't
know everything that's wrong, once you know you're making bad parts,
you at least stop making bad parts.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's a good parallel well, and the subs you just
mask the failure that is Obamacare. That's the real devil
in the details here. You know, the premiums keep going
up with Obamacare because of the claims exposure. If you
don't have premium dollars coming in, there is no nothing
to cover the losses that are being shelled out.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
So like, why is my.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Premium going up? Well, is because it's just so damn
expensive to ensure everybody out there, You've got to pay
more to get to get the benefits. By giving a subsidy,
you're masking the reality of the failure of the program,
and so you just keep going down with the same program,
not fixing. What you just pointed out is the overall problem,
which is the program itself.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, and look, this is the mastery, right, This, this
subsidy that they're fighting about, isn't even everything with Obamacare.
So if you're like a normal Obamacare person, you say,
you make forty fifty thousand dollars a year, you know,
you've got a you know, a family plan, and you're
you know, getting by. This is a program where you know,
(13:24):
let's say you work at a restaurant, you don't have
health insurance, or you're a real real estate agent or something,
you don't have health insurance. You're sort of independent. That's
what Obamacare was designed to do. And they're not affected
by this program. This is the other portion of Obamacare, right.
So it's like the really successful real estate agent that's
making one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, but
(13:45):
they're getting even more subsidies for it. Yeah, and a
thing that you put subsidies on, every single thing that
we're subsidizing the rate of inflation is higher than if
you didn't subsidize it. So for the broader market, the
broader market, everybody in regular insurance, insurance is getting even
more expensive. Healthcare is getting more expensive for everyone, including
(14:07):
the people that are paying cash. You know, it's the
same for education, right, all of tuition is getting more
expensive because you're dumping more and more federal subsidies into it.
So it's inflating the market. So more government equals worse
for everybody else in virtually every program.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Well, in the interest of times, since we're almost out
of it, briefly, the Biological Intellectual Property Protection Act, what's
just real? Briefly explaining that to my listeners, Congress Mo
Warren Davidson.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Well, it's a band on China, right, So look, if
you look at DNA, RNA, m RNA, all this kind
of stuff that's going on, China is basically buying up
data on Americans, indexing stuff. So if you want to
do therapeutic drugs, you know, you might want to look
at this kind of data and you would design it
in labs. If you wanted to engineer viruses, on the
(14:57):
other hand, and build bioweapons, you know, things that are
really bad bioweapons, you could also use this kind of data.
And so we're saying, you know, maybe just don't do
this in China, like particularly in Wuhan, for example, don't
don't send this biologic data out of the United States,
and so now you know it's basically treating it like
(15:19):
subject to our review on export controls for sensitive technology,
especially Americans. Biologic data is now going to be viewed
as sensitive information that doesn't get exported without a proper review.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Please tell me this enjoys bipartisan support.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
So far, it is completely bipartisan in the House and Senate,
and we're hopeful that it'll get clear consensus. And it's
the kind of thing that a lot of time, it
won't be like a steamed the Loan bill where you
can get the Senate to vote on it. They'll hopefully
get passed through committee and then incorporated into a bigger package.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Well, as long as there's bipartisan support, because that sounds
like a very logical, reasonable, and necessary thing to put
in place. Congressman Warren Davidson, thank you very much for
joining the program. I look forward to our conversations and
appreciate you coming on and being willing to talk about
these sensitive and important issues. We'll do it throughout the year,
I hope, and happy New Year to you and your family.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Sir,
So No six here, bitty five krcdcalk Dation, are very
happy Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
You extra special day to day.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
The return of Congressman more and Davidson. Great timing on
that one, considering the ice shooting of Minneapolis the other day.
Congressman Davids and welcome back to the fifty five Casey
morn showing a very happy new year to you, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah, Happy new year, Brian. Always an honor to join you.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So I honored to have you on. And I was
lamenting that they're we're expecting massive protests today. Of course,
immediately the placards from all the different various anti American
organizations joined together and they're going out there calling this
this ice action shooting, the woman who tried to run
over the ice agent, whether automobile murder. I was lamenting that,
(00:44):
you know, this is not the first time this immediate,
well organized response has come out. We've been watching this
unfold now for years. Where is the conservative corollary to that?
The answer apparently to the question, which was which a
lot of people chimed in on over the break, the
conservatives are all work, They have jobs, they don't have
time to run out in the street. And protest. But
putting aside any levity associated with that, where are we
(01:06):
on this one? I think the correct answer to the
question is, don't interfere with federal law enforcement operations and
try to run over an officer with your car and
you won't run the risk of getting shot. Congressman Davidson,
your take on this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, look, you know, to your point about where you know,
the rentom mob kind of program, how do you get
all this turnout to create the riots and protests. Well,
one of the easiest ways is you just cancel school.
So that's what Minneapolis has done. They canceled school so
all the teachers can go out and organize, you know,
their regular job, which is agitating the public and continuing
(01:42):
the Marxist revolution. They just do it outside the classroom
for a few days here this week, and then if
you've got older students, they can also participate and you know,
get their street cred in the little revolution. So, you know,
this is the kind of stuff that's going on in Minneapolis,
and for them, it's essentially a religious war. I mean,
(02:02):
you know, conservatives have crossed the heresy code line, which is,
you know, don't disrupt the invasion, and so they're doing
this righteous protection of the Somali pirates. They're plundering Minnesota
and frankly the taxpayer wealth around the country. And they're
doing it because you know, well, you know, you want
(02:23):
to help these people. Well okay, well a little fraud
is going to happen, but you know, you've got to
do the right thing. And there are people that bought
into this book line and sinker and and ice is evil.
They're like Nazi stormtroopers. And that's how you've agitated people
like this crazy lady that was all day driving her car,
getting between ICE agents and blocking people. And you know,
(02:45):
the normal the normal law enforcement program goes, you know, ask, tell,
make you know you man, please, could you please get
out of the car? Get out of the car. Then
you see the ICE agent going and they're going to
make her get out of the car, so she you know,
punishes it to go move. Now, the car was on ice,
so it slipped a little bit or it would have
(03:07):
gone to the left and fast right over the agent.
It started that way anyway, and that's when he draws
the fires. And so to me, when I look at
that video, I think, okay, is there possibility he could
have done something else. Yeah, but that's not the obligation.
The obligation is he feared for his life and the
safety of others, and he took action. And you know,
(03:30):
lesson learned. Just as you said, hey, listen to the
law enforcement even when they're wrong. You know, eventually, just
count on winning. But don't do something escalatory that is
going to be seen as a threat or you're gonna
get hurt. And if you do something that's viewed as
a lethal threat, there's a good chance you're going to die.
(03:50):
And instead of saying that, Governor Waltz and the mayor
of Minneapolis is out escalating the situation, instead of saying, look,
take note, I don't want anyone to get hurt, So
to take note, we're working with the federal government to
make sure we're doing this stuff better or whatever. But
that's exactly it. They're not working with the federal government.
They've tried to completely lock the federal government out of
(04:12):
their sanctuary city and their sanctuary state, even in the
wake of massive fraud and scandal.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah. Well, and this is a clear, clear parallel to
the defund the police movie he had the George Floyd Shiitting.
Then if people took to the street, police are illegitimate.
They are a racist organization. When you do everything we
can to stop policing neighborhoods and in crime ensues, we've
seen the aftermath of that. Hell, we can't even get
lateral hires in the city of Cincinnati. Thirty open spots
(04:38):
for a job with a pension and working with one
of the greater law enforcement agencies here in the country.
Seven people showed up to take up on the opportunity
to join the law enforcement. See, we've demonized police so
much that people don't even want to do the job anymore.
They're doing the same thing with Ice. Ice is out
trying to enforce the law. They're trying to pick up
and round up the worst of the worst of the
illegal immigrants here. They have the lawful right to do it. Here,
(04:59):
you go interfere with police doing their duty, and something
bad is going to happen. I think this is what
they were waiting for. All these leftist organizations couldn't wait
for this to happen. This poor woman is dead because
she did something that she was encouraged to do by
elected officials and all these other organizations. They've got their martyr.
Now it's time to go to the streets.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, and look it's there's there's not a coincidence that
the Summer of Love started in Minneapolis, right. I mean,
this is ground zero for the neo Marxist ajut agitation
that that they're doing in the country. So they're not
going to miss the moment. They've got essentially field trips
to the streets for the students there because that's what
(05:41):
they've done, and they did the March Long March through
the institutions. One of the first things they seized was education,
and now they're doing, you know this to make sure
that the students don't draw the wrong conclusion. You know
that that you know, hey, don't break our laws and
invade our country by coming here illegally, and then don't
(06:02):
stop the people that are just enforcing the laws of
the country. We wouldn't want them to learn those things.
We want them to learn that you got to join
the cause and fight demand and you know, continue this
you know, anti anti law and order regime that they're doing.
So I hope the country takes a note because the
(06:23):
reality is this is the vanguard for what democrats want
to do all around the country. And it's the same
kind of thing like it spread in twenty twenty. They
wanted to spread. Look at the progress that was made
in Cincinnati, and it's still not recovered to where it
was in twenty twenty. So they want to do this
all over the country, cities around the country. And it
(06:45):
is the agenda for the people leading the Democrat Party.
I'm not saying every Democrat believes these things, but that's
where the direction of the leadership for the Democrat Party is.
And it is as Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, so, well,
well normal versus crazy, and you see crazy every day,
especially in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Well, and then the other underlying point of all this,
or the argument that's made by those defending this fraud,
waste and abuse going on in Minneapolis, is that if
you bring it to anybody's attention, or you go after
and you enforce the law and you prosecute people for
violating the law, somehow, that's an active racism, which is
the most comical, stupid argument I think I've ever heard.
In making that argument, you're saying you're just going after
(07:26):
the black and brown community of the Somalis and you're
targeting them because you're racist. Now for you to protect,
to try to defend and protect the fraud, the criminal
activity by claiming it's racist to go after it is
in and of itself an active racism, which means you're
going to treat that community differently from other law breakers.
We're giving them a past because they're members of the
black and brown Somali community. That's nonsensical and in and
(07:49):
of itself racist.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Your take, Yeah, I mean that's right. But look how
long that worked, right, I mean, this is the same
playbook they effectively rolled out on pat You can and right,
oh he's a racist, And there was a well, I
don't know if you're a racist. I mean I'm not
a racist guy. So you've you've had you know, conservative
couckery here where you've not fought back or raised anything forever. Right,
(08:12):
It's like, look, it's not race, it's we don't get
mad at them because they're black or brown or from
this community. That it's because they're stealing after the people
that are stealing, or when you look at the crime,
the law and order, you know, you look at in Washington,
d C. Two percent of the population was accounting for
(08:35):
ninety percent of the crime. So when you target that
two percent, it's not racist. It's the two percent that's
causing the crime.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Right, right, that's the bottom line, Just not Caucussan Davids
And we got so much more to talk about. Got
to take a break though, let me just go straightforward
in the conversation. But it is time for a quick
couple of words. Here seven fifteen fifty five Karcity Talk Stations,
we're going to talk about whether there's going to be
another governation sevent nineteen Fiftybouck Karcite Talxictionan, Brian Thomas A
(09:07):
Congressman Warren Davidson moving over. That's right. We did have
a government shutdown over these subsidies that were brought and
put in place for Obamacare because of COVID nineteen. COVID
nineteen's left us, thankfully, that's a good thing. The Democrats
put in place an end date for those supplements. That
date's come and gone. They have disappeared, and that resulted
(09:28):
in the government shutdown last fall. They were fighting like
hell to keep them in place, even though the justification
for them no longer existed. Are we going to have
another government shutdown? Since that situation has not been resolved yet,
or are we going to come up with some probably
ridiculous compromise. Congressman Davidson.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Yeah, Democrats really want another shutdown. They feel like it worked,
and on balance, when you look at the Democrat base,
Democrats have declined with their base. Uh. And part of
the reason they declined is they agreed to reopen the government. Right,
(10:07):
So they were they were getting phrase from their base
when they had the government shut down. They were you know,
fighting you know, the evil Empire. Uh. And they were,
you know, great righteous warriors in this holy war they're
trying to wage. Uh. And then when they reopened the government,
they took blowback, you know, after six weeks of shutdown.
(10:27):
So now they're like, well, let's let's get back and
engage the base again and shut down the government again. So,
you know, that's what that's what Schumer's take, And from
talk to some colleagues, they're like, yeah, you know, I
don't really see where everybody's coming from, but that's kind
of where some of our base is. And uh, you know,
so they're probably going to try to do that. Uh.
The challenge has been that Republicans continue to try to
(10:50):
have a way to accommodate that. And just last night,
you know, we had nine Republicans joined Democrats. They signed
a discharge petition that takes the power away from the
majority party. The Speaker didn't want to put this on
the floor, but some of our colleaguesjoined with all Democrats
to say, let's do three year continuation of the status quo.
(11:12):
And what is the status quo. It's sending more cash
to the insurance companies, and it's to give subsidies to
people that are at the very high end of the market.
A member of Congress who has no other income or
assets than the base pay from Congress, which is reasonably generous,
(11:32):
would qualify for subsidies for a family of flour. I mean,
that's crazy. You're looking at five thousand dollars going to
health insurance companies. And the fraud on this program has
been insane because all you have to do is sign
somebody up for it, and the money is getting sent
in their behalf to the insurance companies. So there are
people that are that are quote getting this benefit that
(11:55):
don't even know that the benefit exists, but the checks
are getting cut. There are no controls on a lot
of these programs, and that's what Doge was identifying, and
instead of going after the fact that hey, even if
it was working, which it isn't, it's rife with corruption,
and they're like, yeah, but let's keep doing it while
(12:16):
we fix it. And I mean, that's one of the
biggest things I miss about manufacturing. Even if you don't
know everything that's wrong, once you know you're making bad parts,
you at least stop making bad parts.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's a good parallel well, and the subs you just
mask the failure that is Obamacare. That's the real devil
in the details here. You know, the premiums keep going
up with Obamacare because of the claims exposure. If you
don't have premium dollars coming in, there is no nothing
to cover the losses that are being shelled out.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
So like, why is my.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Premium going up? Well, is because it's just so damn
expensive to ensure everybody out there, You've got to pay
more to get to get the benefits. By giving a subsidy,
you're masking the reality of the failure of the program,
and so you just keep going down with the same program,
not fixing. What you just pointed out is the overall problem,
which is the program itself.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, and look, this is the mastery, right, This, this
subsidy that they're fighting about, isn't even everything with Obamacare.
So if you're like a normal Obamacare person, you say,
you make forty fifty thousand dollars a year, you know,
you've got a you know, a family plan, and you're
you know, getting by. This is a program where you know,
(13:24):
let's say you work at a restaurant, you don't have
health insurance, or you're a real real estate agent or something,
you don't have health insurance. You're sort of independent. That's
what Obamacare was designed to do. And they're not affected
by this program. This is the other portion of Obamacare, right.
So it's like the really successful real estate agent that's
making one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, but
(13:45):
they're getting even more subsidies for it. Yeah, and a
thing that you put subsidies on, every single thing that
we're subsidizing the rate of inflation is higher than if
you didn't subsidize it. So for the broader market, the
broader market, everybody in regular insurance, insurance is getting even
more expensive. Healthcare is getting more expensive for everyone, including
(14:07):
the people that are paying cash. You know, it's the
same for education, right, all of tuition is getting more
expensive because you're dumping more and more federal subsidies into it.
So it's inflating the market. So more government equals worse
for everybody else in virtually every program.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Well, in the interest of times, since we're almost out
of it, briefly, the Biological Intellectual Property Protection Act, what's
just real? Briefly explaining that to my listeners, Congress Mo
Warren Davidson.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Well, it's a band on China, right, So look, if
you look at DNA, RNA, m RNA, all this kind
of stuff that's going on, China is basically buying up
data on Americans, indexing stuff. So if you want to
do therapeutic drugs, you know, you might want to look
at this kind of data and you would design it
in labs. If you wanted to engineer viruses, on the
(14:57):
other hand, and build bioweapons, you know, things that are
really bad bioweapons, you could also use this kind of data.
And so we're saying, you know, maybe just don't do
this in China, like particularly in Wuhan, for example, don't
don't send this biologic data out of the United States,
and so now you know it's basically treating it like
(15:19):
subject to our review on export controls for sensitive technology,
especially Americans. Biologic data is now going to be viewed
as sensitive information that doesn't get exported without a proper review.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Please tell me this enjoys bipartisan support.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
So far, it is completely bipartisan in the House and Senate,
and we're hopeful that it'll get clear consensus. And it's
the kind of thing that a lot of time, it
won't be like a steamed the Loan bill where you
can get the Senate to vote on it. They'll hopefully
get passed through committee and then incorporated into a bigger package.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Well, as long as there's bipartisan support, because that sounds
like a very logical, reasonable, and necessary thing to put
in place. Congressman Warren Davidson, thank you very much for
joining the program. I look forward to our conversations and
appreciate you coming on and being willing to talk about
these sensitive and important issues. We'll do it throughout the year,
I hope, and happy New Year to you and your family.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Sir,
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