Congressman Warren Davidson joins the show this morning

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:13):
It's seven oh five. Are fifty about Kerosene Talk station.
Great time to betune in the morning show. They think
it's always a good time. But the return of Congressman
Warren Davidson. Welcome back, Congressman Davidson. It's always a real
pleasure having you on the show.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, always an honor. Thanks for talking, Brian, and.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I hear your voice. So clearly the world did not end.
We're in the middle of our what second day and
a half, two days into the shutdown. Let me get
this straight. The Democrats are arguing about cutting these healthcare benefits,
the subsidies that flow to folks with Obamacare premium. So
it used to be sixty four thou I believe five
hundred dollars was the cutoff. If you made a dollar

(00:49):
more than that, then you got to know subseedy. That
was in the original text of the legislation. That when
they waved the cap because of COVID nineteen they passed
the bill, the COVID nineteen bill, or whatever the hell
it was called, they got rid of that. So if
you made six hundred thousand dollars, you still be eligible
for a subsidy on an Obamacare plan. Fine, but when
that was passed, it had a finite end date, which

(01:12):
is the end of this year. Right, that was what
the Democrats pushed through or am I wrong on that reality?

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Now You've got it right, And it was because there
was a pandemic. And part of the reason for the
subsidy was, well, there's going to be a lot of
extra expenses. You don't want the health insurance companies to
just pass those on to everybody. So if we pay
the money to the help insurance companies, it's supposed to
hold down premiums. Well, how'd that work out about? Like Obamacare,

(01:39):
premiums kept going up almost vertical the whole time, whether
you pay the subsidies or not. And you know, there's
been a long offering. Pandemic's been over for a long time,
so it's like, oh, we have to phase them out.
They were phased out. This is pandemic has been over.
So that's one of the things they're fighting about. And
of course the other one is undoing. You know, the
way that we made it hard to states pay to

(02:01):
have illegals selecting Medicaid and other forms where states were
bypassing Medicaid not a big issue in Ohio, because we
didn't do that, but states like California and New York
Illinois they did well.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
And you know, it's interesting because Jdvans pointed it out
and pointed to the legislation that the Democrats prepared, which
indeed gave taxpayer health care money to illegal aliens, and
they want to put that back on. So on one thing,
we can argue that Listen, we all knew, we saw
it five years ago during the pandemic, that this supplement
was going to end. You wrote it that way. There's that,

(02:37):
and you have that content or that discussion in the
context where no illegal immigrants are getting free medical insurance,
but they've added on this extra layer here in those
states that extended it to illegal immigrants. You and I
are shouldering the burden for that. They shouldn't have been
on it in the first place to begin with, because
they're not in our country legally. So there's a separate
argument over here, which I think the Democrats are on

(02:59):
the wrong side given the immigration problem we're facing as
kind of an eighty twenty issue with the Republicans being
on the vast majority percentage side.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, look, and yeah, I think that's probably right. It's
probably in our district bigger than eighty twenty. Yeah, but
you know a lot of Democrats would agree, like this
is crazy, and that's why we didn't do it in Ohio.
But in some states. And you remember the twenty twenty
presidential primary where they had still like fifteen candidates on
the stage and you're like, raise your hand if your

(03:30):
plan for healthcare would cover health care for illegals. Everybody
raise their hands and they say, oh, well, this doesn't
do that. And you're like, well, check page fifty seven
in the bill that Chuck Schumer presented to Donald Trump.
He's like, no, no, our demands are written down. I like, okay,
well they're written down. Really checked Page fifty seven is
right there. They want to undo what we did to
make it hard for states to cover, you know, medicaid

(03:53):
for illegals. And they say, oh, well, it's illegal to
give medicaid federal dollars to illegal I'm like, well, it's
illegal for the illegals to be here, but they're here,
and you're not supposed to be doing it in states
like California, but you are. And they're saying, oh, we're
using state dollars for that, but it's for medicaid, so
we need to count that for our federal match. What

(04:14):
Republicans did is say, no, you can't count that for
federal match. You spend your state dollars, which you shouldn't do.
You're actually an accomplice for I legal immigration. We haven't
got to that phase yet, but the Tom Homan's actively
getting people out of the country. And as for whether
we should extend the Affordable Care acubsities further, I mean,
I don't think we should. Some people think we should,

(04:36):
but that's why we're having the debate on appropriations. And
so you know, I've got things that I want mostly
to spend less money on, and we're going to have
that debate too. But that's what we're doing with the
appropriations fight. The idea that Democrats are going to shut
it down is crazy. And look, we passed a bill
in the House. Simple majority runs the House. A majority

(04:57):
of the Senate actually passed a bill to keep the
guvern open. But the Senate has a sixty vote rule.
So if we were going on simple majorities, the government
would be open right now, or more open, I guess,
because as we can tell, it's actually pretty much open,
and it'll.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Be open at the Biden level funding from last year, right,
that's what you voted on status quo.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Look, this is this is the frustrating thing for us.
And we didn't get our way in March. I mean
we we funded the government at the Obama I mean
the Biden Schumer level when OK, technically the House had Republicans,
but this was the agreement in the previous presidency. And
so we didn't change anything when Donald Trump became president,

(05:36):
except we did pass the big beautiful bill and turn
some stuff off and I'll make the tax cuts permanent.
Things like that give money to secure the border. And
they want to undo some of these things. They even
want to undo the defunding of MPR. And you know,
we didn't accidentally defund MPR. We basically said go fund yourself.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah. I love that phrase too, by the way. That's
that's great. Well, let me ask you this specific question
because you probably served your country. You enlisted in the
Army and third Infantry Division. I might point out you
also went to West Point, graduating in the top of
your class, so you served. I'm kind of wondering what
the how the American the active duty service members are
going to do with this shutdown, Well, how is it

(06:14):
going to impact my veteran friends? And I also want
to know when you were serving, did you ever go
through a shutdown where your pay was suspended until the
shutdown ended?

Speaker 2 (06:25):
You know, if we did, I was oblivious to it,
you know, I was like, yeah, I'm just focused on
the mission. You know, at the end of the day,
you're going to get paid. The frustrating thing is, you know,
you look at the military and go, well, these guys
are essential. Why wouldn't the payroll clerk that cuts the
check to them be essential too? So this is really
frustrating with a lot of things. And so you know,

(06:47):
we've got a bill called the Shutdown Prevention Act. It
would close some of those stupid things like that, like, well, okay,
if you're essential enough to be at work, we're essential
enough to get paid. So we're going to take care
of the payroll function for that. And it'll prevent these
sort of shut down gamesmanship things here at that level,
and you would intentionally turn things off or intentionally turn
them on, otherwise they just kind of continue. So that's

(07:11):
why I'm a sponsor of that Shutdown Prevention Act. But yeah,
to my knowledge, we never had this kind of drama,
you know, while I was on active duty, well.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Thankfully, and beyond the Yamkapor holiday, the while the government
is shut down and I know representatives and senators continue
to get their paychecks. You know that, could you be
working on the twelve appropriations bills right now? I mean,
could work get done toward that end, which is really
what the cr is supposed to do by you some

(07:41):
time until November so you can iron out the details
of the twelve appropriation bills in regular order.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, I mean, in fact, we are. I mean we're
working on you know, the Unfortunately, some of my colleagues
are already working on ways to compromise with Democrats on
these Affordable Care Acts extensions, which is you know, terrible.
You should stop wasting your time on that. Hopefully we
don't have the votes for that nonsense, but or a
speaker that will put such a crazy idea on the floor.

(08:09):
But we've got other provisions that we're working on, the amendments,
and look, the appropriators tims to the Chairman. They got
all twelve of the bills through the House Appropriations Committee.
We've got I think four across the floor of the House.
But we got to get the other eight across the floor.
And look, occasionally the House will get all of them done.

(08:31):
The Senate hasn't got all their bills done since the nineties.
So the Senate really is the hold up here with
a lot of the things broken on appropriations and that
usually results in some sort of omnibus cromn the bus
or continuing resolution. But in the meantime, you are jockeying
for amendments that you would want to do, and you're
working the phones with colleagues or staffs working to try

(08:54):
to collaborate to get that done. Those kinds of things
are going on right now, and they're going on kind
of in a turbo charge way, because you know, our
phones are busy if people are calling in and they
always are like, well, what's gonna happen? Am I going
to get my Social Security check? And yes, you are
all right?

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Let's pause. Congressman Davidson back talk a little bit more
about issues as well as his Empower Youth seminar which
is taking place tonight. I strongly encourage you to register
empower you America dot org. You can watch from home
or you can show up at three hundred great Oaks
Great Oaks Drive, which is the Scarlett Oaks Empower You
studio address More with Congressman Warren seven eighteen. If you

(09:31):
have KCD talk station, Happy Friday Eve. Congressman war and
Davidson one more segment with him. You gonna be doing
Anna Power You seminar tonight. Get over to empower your
America Dot organ register, show up live or watch from
your own home. What are the things Congressmen you're gonna
be talking about tonight and empower you? The one day,
one vote proposal and to eliminate no excuse mail and voting.
Interesting timing on that, Congressman Davidson. It was widely reported

(09:54):
yesterday there's a woman in Maine. They've got a November
fourth election day in Maine as well, had to over
to her front door a box containing temper evident packs
of fifty ballots totally two hundred and fifty what appear
to be authentic ballots, filled out and cast that landed
in this one private citizens front door. And they're suggesting

(10:14):
a federal criminal investigation should be launched. There's a huge
problem with dropping off stacks of mail in ballots, and
that's a lot of reason why many people, including Maureen,
I know you're out there, believe that the twenty twenty
election was stolen. How do we address this problem? Congressman Davidson,
considering how much states have control over their own voting.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Oh I was told that was illegal and so it
wouldn't happen, you know, just like drugs, you know, So
obviously this kind of stuff does go on. And look,
we were told illegal aliens do'll vote, But we just
found the superintendent of Des Moines Schools is not only
in the United States illegally and not only didn't have
the academic credentials he said he did, but he was

(10:54):
also a registered voter in the state of Maryland and
had a voting record. So these kinds of things have
gone on. We need election integrity, and for that reason,
the House of Representatives as passed laws that would be
binding on federal elections. So, you know, we don't necessarily
have a system where the federal government could say, well,
here's how Ohio has to do their state Supreme Court elections,

(11:15):
except to say, you know, we protect civil liberties and
things like that. But when you look at criteria for
federal elections, there's a lot that we could do. We've
had a hard time getting over the sixty vote threshold
in the Senate, which is the same struggle we're having,
you know, with keeping the government open. And yes we
do have a majority, but the Senate's still got this

(11:37):
sixty vote rule. But for that, we could be passing
election reform, we could be keeping the government open, and
we could do on a lot of things. Nevertheless, the
Senate keeps protecting their sixty vote rule. We keep sending
stuff over in the House, and this is one of
those things that we could do. And you know, another
one of the things we're going to talk about tonight, Brian, is, Yeah,
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States
of America and just looking at the legacy of our country,

(11:59):
and you know, there's so many milestones that no other
countri has been like America. We're still the greatest country
in the world, and we've not yet made a perfect union,
but we've made it more perfect in some respects, and
I to say, maybe less perfect in a few other ways.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Well, I know, one of the topics tonight's secure borders,
and obviously it is a profound night and day difference.
It's like somebody flipped a white switch on between the
Biden administration's approach to the southern border, which was, you know,
don't touch it, and Donald Trump, which is the media
shut it down. I mean, the flow of illegal immigrants
into our country has just almost disappeared, at least in
the southern border. I know we have some problems in

(12:38):
the north, and that's kind of leading to my question,
where are we in connection with border security? What else
needs to be done considering the Trumps success in the
southern border.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Well, I mean, we need a law so that, you know,
no government could actually do what the Biden administration is doing.
And in my own opinion, I think we need a
you know, charges, we need doj to actually bring charges.
Alejandro Mahorkis, as a Secretary of Homeland Security, was charged
with securing the border. The laws are already pretty clear,

(13:10):
and he actually spun those on the head. He literally
built an app at Homeland Security to make it easy
to you know, bypass our laws and come here illegally.
So to me, that's treason. I think he should be charged.
I think you should go to jail for a long time.
And that's one of the problems. You know, people people
do rightly say, you know, when is somebody going to jail?

(13:33):
And you know, people are going to keep depriving others
of their rights. They're going to abuse the power of
the office until somebody sell to account for it. And
I think there are a lot of those folks that
need to be held to account. And I think you know,
that's where people are saying, oh, Trump is weaponizing the government. Well, no,
we had a weaponization committee lasts Congress because the Bide
administration was weaponizing the government. And so holding those people

(13:56):
to account isn't retribution, it's justice. You know. Even Google
just this past week, you know, they say, yeah, here's
what we were doing because the government told us to
do it, right, we were censoring people. Well, who's going
to be held to account for that? And I think
that's why, you know, hopefully the Telly charges or the
tip of the Iceberg.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Well Google may very well be held accountable because by
operating at the behest of the American government, that means
they're inextricably intertwined with the government, meaning they have to
extend First Amendment rights to the people who use their platform,
and by so restricting the speech they may have committed
a civil rights violation and could be held accountable in
a lawsuit. So Google might pay the price for their
frank admission that they did just that.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Yeah, and look, they say, oh, we're a neutral platform. Well,
you're not a neutral platform when you engage in editorial content.
You're acting as a publisher and you're deciding you know
these things, and you did it really at to be
hest of the government. So I think, look you, in
my view, I would work a plea deal with Google
to out the federal officials who were violating the councilitution.

(15:00):
And you know these people should go to jail.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Amen. Now, one final point for we part company to
day Warren Davidson. The reason the Democrats are so held
bent on getting illegal immigrants in this country and keeping
them here is because it's going to impact the House
of Representatives. So the more warm bodies you have in
your state of your jurisdiction, the more likely it is
you're going to get another representative. We know California is
pushing for that because everybody who has any ability to

(15:24):
leave the state has already left. Can we fix that legislatively?
Ignoring the impediment we have in the Senate with the votes.
But is conceptually, can we do that illegal immigrants, if
you're not here legally in our country, you're not counted
for census purposes.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Well, you could do it legally. We've got bills that
would simply change the law to make that clear, and
I'm a co sponsor for that. I am the sponsor
of a bill that would amend the Constitution to basically
override the courts. And frankly, the courts could do what
they did in Dabbs and say, look, we then messed up.
We haven't really provided the right clarity here on the census.

(15:59):
And so you know, Donald Trump in his first term
tried to get the census done the right way. And
if you don't have an honest census, I don't know
how you can have an honest election. Because you know,
right now, the congressional maps are drawn based off of
all persons in the country, whether they're here legally or not,
citizens or not. And Democrats are united and saying citizenship
is irrelevant. We just want to count everybody that's here.

(16:20):
And you know, Republicans are united and saying no, citizenship
does matter and we should count citizens and California would
lose like, I don't know five to seven members of
Congress if they would do that, and they don't just
lose them anywhere. They lose them in the sanctuary cities
because you know, the rural areas generally aren't over sampled
with all this stuff. If you look, Yeah, Texas and

(16:41):
Florida and some other states would lose representation too. That's
why Ohio would probably gain at least one seat, because
we do have some illegals, but as a proportion compared
to other states, it's very small. So we went from
sixteen seats to fifteen. Last time, we would have held
that seat but for a bad census.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Congressomore and Davidson, we're looking forward to your seminar tonight
again seven pm. You can show up at three hundred
Great Oaks Drive at the Empower Youth Studios, Carlet Oaks campus,
or you can log in from home and empower you
America dot org. Either way you slice the make sure
you register at the website. First Congress from Davidson, thanks
as always for your time in the program this morning.
Keep up the great work speaking truth to power and
holding the Democrats accountable for their insanity. Enjoy the seminar tonight,

(17:23):
and I'll look forward to having you back on the
show well, as soon as we can