Congressman Dave Taylor joins the show this morning

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Eight oh five at fifty five KRC, the Talk Station,
A very happy Wednesday to you up to see it
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East Kemper. Welcome back to the fifty five KRC Morning Show.
Representing Ohio's second District, Congressman Dave Taylor.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Dave good heavy back on the program.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Good morning, Brian, thank you very much for having me.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
And you were there, weren't you? I was, indeed, indeed,
I just I obviously want to hear anything you want
to say about that. But former innercent Township trust Trusty
Drew Peppis called in this morning and he just just
could not believe and I understand. Apparently the Democrats got
a memo saying, do not stand for literally anything Donald

(00:53):
Trump says or does, period, end of story. We don't
know what they were threatened with, but clearly the message
got out. They couldn't even stand up for the thirteen
year old brain cancer survivor DJ Daniel.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, it would take a very serious threat to keep
everybody from standing up for that, and I can only
assume that's the case. I never known mister Pappus to
be wrong about anything, after all. But DJ Daniel wasn't
the highlight of my night, not just the part where
he was made our newest secret Service agent. But when
I was walking out going to meet my wife that

(01:27):
head home, I bumped into him in the hallway and
he was staying there. So I went over to congratulate him,
and he said, I'm going to give you a hug.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Oh man, you are.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Thank you young man. He was. He was quite a
young guy.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
That's like an allergy inducing moment there, I imagine, Dave.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah, I know that's what happened.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Experience does. But shameless that the Democrats couldn't even stand
for a cancer survivor and just an honoree like that.
But whatever I thought Trump did, and I didn't watch
it live, I acknowledge because I got a bed early
because they get up at two thirty to the morning show.
But I read every single word in the transcript, and
he did a phenomenal job outlining the accomplishments. It took

(02:09):
him a record setting length to do it. The guy
just got sworn in like five minutes ago, and it
took him at plus an hour to get through all
the accomplishments and what he wants Congress to get accomplished
as well. It really is amazing, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
It is. I didn't realize how long the speech was
until afterwards, because it didn't seem long. It was such
a great speech when we were enjoying it, and as
you say, it's always nice to hear all the things
that are being done and moving us in the right direction.
And it's a long list, and it's just going to
get longer, and it made for a very enjoyable.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Night well, particularly when I have fully appreciate the work
that Doge is doing the Apartment of Government Efficiency. And
although they're for whatever reason they think Elon Musk is
a Nazi or something, because he's ferreting out all this fraud,
waste and abuse. The highlight for me was that section.
Then the Democrats sitting on their hands as they were

(03:01):
and screaming madly throughout the week's last several weeks about
the cuts. These are absolutely indefensible expenditures of money. How
can anyone in a country that's broke. If we were
sitting on a pile of cash and had all kinds
of money to throw around, maybe you could try justifying
circumcisions in Mozambique or whatever. But in the final analysis,

(03:23):
we are broke, and none of these programs sound legitimate
at all. And more fundamentally, that money isn't followed, and
nobody's doing an accounting on how it was spent or
even if they accomplished the goals that they purport to serve.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
That last point you made, Brian is the thing that's
on my mind the most when he's reading the laundry
list of the trocities that the doses discovered. There's silly sounding,
and they are silly and sometimes worse than silly. But
are those dollars really ever leaving the United States or
are they being funneled into regime change operations under US

(03:58):
eight or all the other in nefarious things been up
to here in abroad? These you know, the studies they
do on transgender rodents or whatever. Yeah, other country. Let's
see the studies. If that money has been spent, Let's
see the results of the studies, so we can at
least know that it wasn't used for that terrible idea.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well, you know it.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
It sounds like a simple proposition, But you'd have to
grow the number of government employees tremendously, filled them with
accountants in order to track all this money. It's just
an illustration of how bloated and insane the expenditures flown
out of Washington, DC are so much so And I'll
have a stab at the military budget. We can't even
audit our own military budget of eight hundred and fifty
billion dollars.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Right, and they failed what eight in a row? And yeah,
and when they interviewed the lady about it, says, that's
not an indication that there's fraud, waste or abuse. How
in the world is not not obviously evidence of fraud,
waste and abuse when you can't account for the money
you were sent to spend on defending our nation.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yes, I also got a kick in seeing a fraud,
waste and abuse. The numbers of folks in this country
apparently who are over than one hundred and twenty years old,
or one hundred and fifty or one case, three hundred
and sixty years old. That's an open account. Now, I'm
not suggesting in every single one of those circumstances, checks
are still going to some presumably dead person, but that
is a vehicle for fraud. If someone illegally in our

(05:21):
country without a work permit wants to work, they can
grab one of those active social Security numbers and assert
it as their.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Own, exactly. And you know, they found cases where they're
the same social Security numbers being used for the thousands
of different accounts. They were the benefits going a bunch
of different directions. But I was glad to hear that
there's a two hundred and forty nine year old, so
they can they're two hundred and fiftieth birthday will coincide
with our nation's two hundred and fiftieth. I know feltrations

(05:48):
next fourth of July.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
I know Congress and Dave Taylor, Donald Trump did illustrate
and highlight a number of things that Congress is going
to have to do that are outside of the controls
of executives already. And you know, no one wants an
imperial president, but Congress must act. He talked about cutting taxes,
making them permanent, among other things. Is that is any
of the thing or are any of the things that

(06:11):
Donald Trump suggested he wants Congress to Act on and
do are they going to be accomplished or we're going
to end up in one of these oh not in
my district kind of arguments that we quite often get
from some Republicans out there.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
I believe so, Brian. We're working very hard on that.
You know, the Tax Cuts and Job Act, which which
the media and Democrats say it's only benefits billionaires, benefits
every single tax paying household the United States.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
It's complete.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
It's absolutely vital that we get that extended, if not
made permanent, this go around. But yeah, we're going to
get to a lot of those things accomplished. Nobody ever
gets everything they want in politics. But I think we're
going to really move the ball forward in this round
of reconciliation. We'll have another crack at it in twenty
twenty six. It's going to be a transformative couple of years.
And I just want to assure you that the uh,

(07:01):
the political will is there on our side, and you know,
we understand that there. So everybody knows somebody who's employed
by the federal government, and nobody really wants anybody to
lose their job, but we don't want you know, people's
tax dollars going to support an unnecessary job either. So
that's that's that's a reality that's gonna have to be addressed.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
And the other thing that he obviously burst the bubble
of those who were ginty with happiness that that meeting
imploded with Vladimir Zelensky. But uh, I guess vlad came
back around, didn't he.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah, It's funny how how money changes his mind so
quickly he went over to immediately ran over to Europe
to beg for money. He didn't get nearly what he needed.
And uh then President Trump rightly said, you know, we're
not selling you any more weapons provong, you know, prolong
this bloody war that that's going nowhere. No one even
really understands what winning it means. It changes his mind

(07:57):
pretty quickly. Hopefully we actually moved towards East, which everybody wants.
I think everybody wants that. I know, you know, it
sort of benefits the other side of the aisle that
when when the if the war is not ended quickly,
when President Trump made it a priority, tended quickly, so
they may want to interfere. And there's some certainly some
indications that that has been happening. But I think every

(08:21):
normal thinking person in the country and the world will
like say that war.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
End without question.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
And if the he does sign the minerals deal, that
would create an American lasting presence there. American business would
be established there to extract the minerals, which I suppose,
as we do in other areas of the world where
we have American interests, that would provide at least some
sort of argument whether it's legitimate or not. I'm not
a warhawk, and I don't like the fact that we

(08:48):
always act as the world's police officer, as evidence by
this particular conflict. But if we have an American presence there,
then that does justify defending the American interests on some
life level, does it not?

Speaker 3 (09:01):
It absolutely doesn't. You know that those rare minerals are
so important to so many of the things we were
moving into and technology now, it would be not just
an American interest, but a vital one that we would
take very seriously. I mean that, as you said, is
in and of itself a security guarantee.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, and I love that.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
After highlighting the fact that he ended a lot of
these green projects, would seem to be a tremendous waste
of the taxpayer dollar. I think it's it's rather interesting,
ironic perhaps that Europe spent more money buying Russian oil
than gas, and they've spent on defending Ukraine so far,
and Ukraine's in their backyard, not ours, right right.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
That that that's you know, when you get to the
bottom of it, it's it's usually the case that that
money is the reason this war continues. It's become profitable
for Iran, for Russia, and you know, half of our
three hundred billion that's gone over there's un accounted for
to a country that the only thing you heard about
in the media before this war started about Ukraine was

(10:03):
the most corrupt country in the world, and now the
money's missing and erect and surprise. So yeah, it's it
usually comes down to money and Europe's the relationship with
Russia in this situation, and then they're purported undying support
for Ukraine doesn't make a lot of sense.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Well it doesn't.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
And using Russian gas and oil while not extracting their
own in the European Union flies in the face of
all of their green arguments. I mean, if you're still
using petroleum products as we traditionally call them, then how
can you get to net carbon zero, which they seem
to be chasing their tail over. It just doesn't make
a witsworth of sense, right.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
And President Trump in his first term warned Germany and
other European nations that they'd regret, you know, buying their
or depending on Russia for their energy, and you know
they laughed. And now here we are, Yes, we are.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Any other observations you want to mention, Congressman Taylor.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
You know it was it was a great night. It was,
like you said, an absolute laundry list of of of highlights.
And there's something you mentioned earlier, President Trump's requests for
Congress and that he wants to see us do more
of our job. And I do too, and we've been
doing that. Our our goal and my goal in my office,
and lots of my colleagues on the Republican side have

(11:25):
been actively trying to codify President Trump's executive orders into
law because I mean, frankly, that's the way it ought
to be done. I'm not a fan of executive orders.
I think, as we've talked about before, supposed to be
governed by legislation. And we're only trying to make a
point of doing that because Obviously, the things he's doing

(11:46):
need to be done. They're they're great, they're going to
move us forward, but we need to make them the
law so they don't get flipped over. Uh. In the hopeful,
hopefully unlikely event that I see another Democrat president in
my lifetime.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Well, given the Democrats' strategy right now is just say
absolutely no to literally everything Donald Trump does, regardless of
how good it is for our country, I'm not quite
sure what they're going to run on. With the notable
exception of inflation, and I thought Donald Trump may have
stepped in it when before the election he said he
was going to stop inflation on day one. That's not
a thing that one single man can accomplish on his own,

(12:20):
and with all the pressures and all the factors and
things that influence inflation, it's going to be a tough
road to hoe. And again, going back to Trump's executive orders,
the tariffs are going to cause things to go up
in price. I think any economists will acknowledge that.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
I think that there's something he acknowledged too. There could
be a little time of adjustment, but the tariffs are
going to help with one thing that I think is
vitally important, if not a lot of other things. I'm
not an economist, but I'm learning. I think we all
realize that we've let too much of our vital supply
chain move off shore, and the tariff will help us
on shore those things. We need the American steel production

(12:57):
to increase. We need agricultural products here, believe it or not.
Over the last two years, we're uh a net importer
of agricultural UH brought agricultural goods, which is just shocking. Yes, unleashed,
unleashing the energy sector, getting our pharmaceuticals back, and we're
depending on China for a lot of these things. But
depending on them for pharmaceuticals is just crazy. You know,

(13:18):
computer chips, which obviously the President announced two days ago
and then spoke about last night that the big the
Taiwan chip making investment that's come in our way. So
it will help a lot with that. And I believe
the economy is going to really thrive under President truff
I obviously is I think most people do. And we'll

(13:42):
be making more money, and under the tax cuts and
Job Act when extended, we'll be keeping more of it. UH.
So that's going to help the economy in general, but
hopefully that the teriff aren't necessary forever, because really, all
all it takes to to remove the tariffs, which are reciprocal,
is for the our trading partners to remove their TIFFs.

(14:04):
Canada has been leveling these extremely high teriffs on us
for a long time, and we really didn't say a
thing about it, and then eventually we politely said, hey,
could you you mind stopping these people from across on
your border into our country and bringing this deadly drug
that's killing our people. And they couldn't be bothered. So
some things have to be done until they start acting

(14:26):
like the friend that they have always been again, and
that's what President Trump's trying to do, I.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Believe, yep. And it's already starting to bear fruit.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
You mentioned the investments one point seven trillion over the
past several weeks. You did have some crackdowns by the
Mexican government sending truth to the southern border. They did
extra dight twenty five or six of the worst cartel
folks for prosecution here, and of course Canada is taking
similar actions on their border, so maybe it'll work. Congressman
Dave Taylor, second District of High it's been a pleasure
talking with you this morning. Keep up the good work

(14:55):
and I look forward to having back on the show
real soon.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
Brian. I appreciated it, and talk to you sooner and
have a great day.

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