The Budget Bill deadline is July 4th...Are we close?

Fox's Ryan Schmelz says there is still a long way to go. Plus, Ryan reports on the buzz on Capitol Hill about the attack on Iran

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
At about twelve after seven on a Legacy Retirement Group
dot com phone line. Let's welcome in from Fox News
Ryan Schmel's Capitol Hill. I do want to get to
the big beautiful Bill at a minute. Get an update
there's that we're still having those discussions. But what's the
buzz on Capitol Hill about the strikes from Saturday night? Right?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I think it's mixed, right, you know, I think they're
a Republicans who are back in the Trump administration saying
this is the right move. You know, you cannot let
Iran have a nuclear weapon. They don't think this is
going to lead to World War III or major retaliation,
and you know, this in many ways as a way
to put iron on the fence. I think there's this
argument to be made and whether you don't really hear
this from the White opp beleefe sets that I've seen

(00:39):
just yet, but I think it's just from people who
like to strike where they think that, you know, Israel
has been kind of dominating Iran when it comes to
the airspace, at least that's what Israel's claiming, and Iran
kind of has their back against the wall and they've
been losing generals and other top officials left and right
who've been killed on some of the strikes in Israel
or in Iran, and so they feel it's really the

(01:02):
time to put Iran's back against the law. And now
you have President Trump saying, hey, look, come to the
table or surrender. And I mean, if this is probably
the closest they've ever been to being in that situation
or the toughest position they've been in for that. But
then on the Democrat side, and you've got some Republicans
saying this too, that Congress needs to be brought into
this more. And this is you know, a type of

(01:23):
escalation that could lead to potentially, you know, a pretty
severe conflict. So they feel that Congress should have been
more read in on this. And they're also those like
Marjorie Taylor Green Thomas Matthews say this Israel spike, not
the United States.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
And I understand that. You know, I don't know how
far Israel could have taken it on their own. I mean,
we're the only country that has these bunker busting bombs.
We're the only country that has the b two stealth
bombers that can deliver those bombs. So I don't know
how far Israel could have gone on their own. And
with regard to getting, you know, letting Congress in on this,
you know, do they want did they want to be

(02:00):
able to give their approval or did they just want
a heads up?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Approval certainly is the big one here when it comes
to getting a heads up. I mean, you know, the
White House, we've had confirmation through sources that Leader Thun
and Speaker Johnson were read in on this. There was
a CNN story that came out over the weekend saying
that Democrats were not really read it on this, that
was just Republicans. The White House has pushed back on

(02:24):
that pretty extensively, even asking CNN to retract the stories,
saying that Leader Jeffries and Leader Schumer book given courtesy calls.
The discussion was never had with them, but they were trying.
There were attempts made to give them a heads up, so,
you know, to take what you will out of what
both sides are saying there.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Interesting and now Congress has granted the President the authority
to use US armed forces and specific military actions and
you know au MF authorization for use of military force,
so he didn't need Congress's approval to do this, did
he technical?

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, I believe now right now the law is that, yes,
he's the president has the ability to utilize this. I mean,
the president has usually had the power to deploy troops,
and you know, I think that becomes a gray area
because you know, in a lot of cases like this
deployment of troops that i've been necessary, it's more of
you know, utilizing drone, utilizing missiles long range, and not

(03:21):
really you know, sending US troops into these territories. But
at the same time, that's been a debate that's been had,
and of course Congress does have the constitutional power to
declare war, so it's always kind of been a gray area.
And now I think there's this push on Capitol Hill
for Congress to force a vote on some of these
war power resolutions that will return a lot of that

(03:42):
power to the United States. So we'll see if that
goes anywhere. Obviously, with Republicans controlling the House and Senate,
it'll be hard to get the pass.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Ranja Mellis, Fox News. The other story, Ryan, the Big
Beautiful Bill. The sort of target deadline was July fourth.
We're just a couple of weeks away, are we close?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
We'll see. I think this week's going to be pretty
vital for that. Right now, they're trying to see which
policies will get approved by the Senate Parliamentarian, which won't.
We're doing to tease the idea of a vote possibly
happening this week. We'll see if he's able to get
that done and if the votes are actually there. Obviously,
you've got a number of different mallmakers who expressed their concerns.
Bernie Moreno is one of those we were actually watching

(04:24):
for going into last week. I was able to talk
to him briefly last week. He said that he is
actually good to go and he's going to be a
yes on this. So now it's to get the other
members to yes, who are concerned about the spending numbers,
concerned about the medicaid provisions. They still got a litany
of different items on here that could be a liability