Christmas From Capitol Hill Part 2

On a recent trip to Washington, Stigall sat down with 14 different members of the House from across the country. In this two part episode, hear from leadership as well as rank and file members on their successes of 2025 and their plans to win the mid terms in 2026.
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Speaker 5 (00:29):
Hey, they're merry Christmas, and I guess I will say
a happy New Year. Welcome into the Christagall Show podcast.
I want to say thank you for another tremendous year
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this show means more than I can say. Our entire
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We didn't want to leave you without quality content during
the holidays. While we're taking some time away, we've put
together from some various shows, some special long form interviews.
There will be some repeat content of some shows and
segments that we really enjoyed. Maybe they're new to you
if you missed them before. But over the next few days,
while we're away taking some time with family, I hope
you're able to as well. But we never want to

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with Congressman Jim Jordan, how are you, sir?

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Chris's going to be with you man.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
So, this is one of those times of the year where, frankly,
a lot doesn't happen on Capitol Hill. It's kind of
known as sort of Christmas seas and everything. It's just
kind of grinding to a halt. Do you feel that's
a fair organization of what's going on.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
We're trying.

Speaker 7 (03:18):
We're trying to get a bill done this week that
that we think will help help the situation in college sports.
We're trying to do some things in the healthcare that
will actually bring down premiums versus what the Democrats want
to do, which is just another subsidy, this expanded extend,
this expansion of the Obamacare subsidies to insurance companies makes

(03:41):
no sense to me. Subsidies never bring down costs. In fact,
they typically drive up costs. Choice and competition bring down costs,
and that's what we so we we want to build
in the healthcarea that health savans, account association, health plans,
ability to purchase insurance across state lines, all those things
that create more choice, more competition, and out costs. That's
what we want versus more substas into a system that

(04:03):
just has all kinds of fraud.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
Congressman, wasn't Wasn't Obamacare always designed to be about this
day where people became deprect, it became dependent on this
thing that was affordable to them, but really isn't affordable
to the system.

Speaker 7 (04:18):
No, right, And and I feel like it was to
always to get to a single payer, which we're opposed to,
but it was always to get to this, as you said,
to this point where.

Speaker 5 (04:29):
It appears like you're taking something away when in fact
that's not true.

Speaker 7 (04:33):
Actually, And I think the frustration level of because so
much government involvement in healthcare that doesn't allow choice and competition.
You drive at the cost where so many American families
are just ready to throw their hands out. It's like
I can't take it anymore, you know. And so the
frustration level I think was is almost by design as well,
it seems, because remember what they told us, you like

(04:55):
your plan, you can keep your plan, You like your doctor,
you can keep your doctor, and premiums will go down. Yeah,
Well those are three lives, because fifteen years later, none
that's worked.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
And the cost of everything has gone up. Yeah, and
theangan medicine's gotten.

Speaker 7 (05:06):
Cheaper and they want to just like keep throwing more
taxpayer money at it, like, no, that's not and a
system where that we know there's a ton of fraud. Yes,
So I think are our approach and choice and competition
is much better.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Do you.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Hear this argument about affordability? I mean, whether it's realer,
whether it's perceived. That is the word of the day,
and I continue to hear people say, particularly online, whether
it's perceived. Young people are starting to gravitate towards the
AOC Mandami attitude of socialism because they feel like the
system's broken and what the heck, let's give it a try.

(05:42):
Are you hearing that? And what do you say to.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
A little a little?

Speaker 7 (05:45):
And I do think there's some frustration. You're a young family,
you're looking to purchase at first home because Joe Biden
and the Democrats spent so much and had this record levels.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Of inflation over the last four years.

Speaker 7 (05:59):
Though President Trump and Republicans have brought that down significantly.
Look at the gas prices today as an example. Even
though we brought that down significantly, things still cost a
lot and you know you want to you want to
buy that new home even in you know, we're not
talking about the East coast of the West coast, but
even in the Midwest where where I'm from, it's it's expensive.

(06:20):
It's like four hundred thousand bucks, three hundred thousand, four
hundred fifty thousand in certain communities to buy a nice
family home. Yes, so I do think that's it is
a concern.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
Can Republicans harness that argument and fix it? I mean,
can you tell a young person in the next I
mean we're talking about, you know, the midterms, so not
long here. Can we make the case to young people, hey,
easy socialism something so we can make houses cheaper.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
I think so in a couple of ways.

Speaker 7 (06:47):
One is, I do think that the big beautiful bill
will begin to kick in. Those tax cuts and good
things we've done on regulation, on taxes, tax policy will
kick in and a help our economy. So I do
think that's coming. We've already seen inflation is come down dramatically,
but it was so darn high it's still like troublesome
for for lots of families. And then I think you
also remember campaigns, both sides get to talk right now

(07:09):
the way the mainstream press works and Democrats like seemed
like all you ever hear is what they're saying is
thank goodness for folks like you are given given the truth.
But I think we also talk about how crazy they are,
and like I always I always say, like, not all
Democrats are crazy, but the left that controls their party is,
And you can go, it's crazy to not have a border,
which is what we had under Joe Biden. It's crazy

(07:31):
to defund the police, which is what we had under
Joe Biden. It is crazy to say minchi compete against
women in sports, which is what we had under Joe Biden.
President Trump and Republicans that changed all that, And you
could just keep going on all the it's crazy to
say that you know, you don't want more law enforcement
presence in the capital city.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
I mean, it's broad down crime.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
Now.

Speaker 7 (07:50):
We had this tragedy last week with these two National
Guard folks from from the great state of West Virginia.
But the left was against bringing National Guard to the
capital city, which you're definitely allowed to do under our constitution.
So every position they take, I mean, my favorite is
it's crazy to let a Chinese spy balloon fly clear

(08:11):
across the country and then.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Shoot it down for eight days.

Speaker 5 (08:15):
It's nuts.

Speaker 7 (08:16):
I think you and I would have probably shot it
down before I went as I know Trump would, right,
But that like, that's the that's the left. So I
think you can also point out that in a campaign
and then talk about what we've done to to change
the cost of things.

Speaker 8 (08:29):
With Republicans in charge.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
You have been looking deeply at what has been a
deep state stacked against Donald Trump for a long time.
And I know your time is limited, but this look
for some water. Oh no, we get you something to drink.
This report the Miranda Divine in the New York Post
have have released on Cash Betale and Dan Bongino and
dysfunction of the FBI. I am very mindful that the
FBI is riddled with people that hate Donald Trump and

(08:54):
this administration. They're institutionalists, that's clear. Yeah, But is there
any legitimate to the idea that there is discord in
the FBI and that Cash and Dan and maybe paying
BONDI over DJ aren't doing their job.

Speaker 9 (09:06):
We've had nothing.

Speaker 7 (09:07):
I mean, our committee works you know a lot with
the Justice Department. We've had nothing, but you know, a
great relationship, working relationship with Attorney General Bondi, Deputy Attorney
General Blanche uh, Director Patel, Assistant Director bon Gino. Nothing
but nothing but positive. We've asked for the first day
Cash took got the job, first day sworn in, we

(09:28):
sent him seven subpoenas and we we got we got
response that was night and day compared to what we
had with Ray and Garland in the previous administration. So
I appreciate the work they're doing. We've had a great
relationship with him.

Speaker 5 (09:42):
Is institutionalists that are just unhappy.

Speaker 7 (09:44):
Well, I'm sure there's still some of that. I mean,
I'm sure there's still some of that. I mean, look
look at look at what we found out in the
last few weeks. UH, the the Arctice Frost investigation, the
Jack Smith Special Counsel were surveilling members of Congress, and
we just found that week and a half ago that

(10:04):
they went and got my phone records for a two
and a half year time periods. They know who you're calling,
who's calling you, when you called them, how long the
call lasted, and if you initiated the call, where you
were at when you did so that is crazy for
every call I make in two and a half years.
So you can pattern a person's life. Every morning, I
text my wife when she's not here in town, and

(10:25):
I text her and then I and I to call
her and then I call my brother or I call
my colleague. Like, that's frightening that the government's getting an
information because somehow they they conjure up this crazy idea
that there was a conspiracy that President Trump was leading
to Like, what are you talking about? So do I
think there's still some of that element around? Of course,

(10:47):
look what they did.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
But you look what they did. There's this reporting that
there's discord in the FBI, or that Cash and Dan
are over their heads. Not true in your view.

Speaker 7 (10:55):
No, I appreciate the work they've done, and we've had
a we've, like I said, we've had a really good
work in relationship with those guys. They're the ones helping
us get this information. They're the ones helping Chairman Grassley
get the information. I mean, but for them giving us information,
we would not have been able to go to Verizon
and figure out what they did, tour with our phone records,
with others phone records, in a host of other things.

(11:18):
So No, I think they're good folks.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
I know you're busy Congressman, I'll let you a run,
but I really appreciate your time to be sure. I
hope you come back and see us soon.

Speaker 7 (11:25):
We will, we will thank you.

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this is my favorite member of Congress today.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
He is to say that to all the guy.

Speaker 5 (14:01):
He is a dear friend of mine, and he happens
to represent well the congressional district of number four in
Missouri's Mark Offerd.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
Good to see you, cons to see you, and supposedly
the new fourth in Missouri after redistricting, which will include
downtown Kansas City. How about that the Plaza Crown Center,
that's what your new dast summit. Yeah, pretty much everything
west of seventy one Highway, which kind of bisects north
to south Kansas City area. So I'm looking forward to that.

(14:32):
I was on TV there for twenty five years.

Speaker 5 (14:34):
Say that district now will encompass a lot of kind
of the our TV metro where you were now.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
And I tell people, I'm not just at home in
a corporate boardroom talking to folks there or the cornfields
of Camden County. I'm just as much at home in
the urban core of Kansas City. My son lives one
street over from the MLK Park that my wife helped
build and got the trees done when she worked for

(15:01):
the Parks Department there. We're very much in touch with
the churches in the urban court. Pastor Modest Miles is
one of my good friends. We've done a lot in
the past working with his community center and continue to
do so. And I've kept these relationships alive because there
are real relationships to me, not knowing that we might

(15:24):
have part of this city back in.

Speaker 8 (15:28):
Missouri's fourth the new fourth but people.

Speaker 5 (15:30):
That don't know that district just so they do. We're
talking now about metropolitan Kansas City, but far south in
some rural parks. Missouri was central to the redistricting fight
that President Trump wants to have to try to pick
up some seats. Missouri will pick up one because of it.
Talk about again, for people that don't know your district,
what it is to represent the city you've just described,

(15:52):
as well as I think maybe the most impoverished county
in Missouri by numbers. I mean, those are entirely different places.
Is how do you talk well about both of them here?

Speaker 3 (16:01):
So here's the deal of the critics say, no one
can do that. You can't represent people down in Hickory County.
I know you love Hickory County too, and as well
as Kansas City. They're not the same issues.

Speaker 8 (16:13):
They're not.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
I'm like b S.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
Everyone wants the same thing. I don't care what color
you are, how much money you have, what county.

Speaker 5 (16:21):
You live in.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
They want safe streets, a secure economy. I don't think
they want an open border because of the stress that
illegals have put on in our.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Economy, which we're seeing right now.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
We want to be able to provide for our families.
We want to be able to go to our churches
without fear, our synagogues without fear. We want communities that work.
And that's what Republicans stand for. And I fight just
as hard in Hickory County, Dade County, everywhere I go

(16:57):
down in the southern part of our district as I
will in Kansas City. And I think that scares the
Democrats because they know that they know my history of
helping charities and helping the under privileged in Kansas City.
That is to me, that is the true heart of Republicans. Anyway,

(17:18):
I think we've gotten a bun rap over the years.
Where the country club party or where the Chamber of
Commerce party. Yeah, I like business. I love small business.
I'm on the Small Business Committee. It's the fabric of America.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Thirty three million small businesses.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
But I want to plant that seat of entrepreneurship and
capitalism in places where socialism.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Is taking over.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yes, where that message, that fraudulent message that the government
should take care of you from cradle to grave. I
want to dispel that because there's nothing more satisfying than
a man or woman who puts his or her life
on the line, basically to go out and start a
small business and be really the captain of your destiny

(18:03):
with the help of God.

Speaker 8 (18:04):
Of course, this is.

Speaker 5 (18:05):
What scares me. Mark, you're a communicator. You know this
better than most. That Mam Dannie AOC thing, he's got
a gro song. It's working, I'm afraid. And they're starting
to see in social media and younger voters they're excited
because they feel like, rightly or wrongly, they're up against it.
And I'm even hearing some conservative social media types say, well,

(18:28):
the Republicans aren't really offering any solutions, so maybe we
ought to talk about Mandami's prescription or AOC's prescription. That's frightening.
If so, can Republicans make the case in these closing
months before next year's midterms that's not the way. There
is a better way.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Well, let's look at who Mandami and AOC and ilhan
Omar and all these radical people are going after. They're
going after the so called disenfranchised people, people who feel
like they've been cheated somehow, that they're victims. They are
really profiting off of victim mentality. My message to the

(19:07):
American people is, if you're the poorest of the poor.
In America, you are one hundred times better than the
average person in the world, especially those living in so
called third world countries. God, we are here because of
the providence and protection of God Almighty, and He has
given us each the opportunity to make something of our lives.

(19:31):
I don't believe in diversity, equity and inclusion. I don't
believe in equity. I believe in equal opportunity. We have
that in America. We have the chance, the opportunity. And
I don't care where you come from, what station in life.
There are ways for you to make your life better.
And it doesn't mean the government having you to do that.
Now when Dommy's got a great smile, Yeah, he's very charismatic.

(19:54):
If you just sometimes I just turn off the words
and watch people. Yes, and Reagan about this too. It's
about photo opportunities or the visual We are Republicans are
very logical. Uh, I'm probably generalizing here. We're not that emotional.

Speaker 5 (20:18):
Charts and grasps, yeah, day charts, right.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
We can be emotional, some of us, some of my brother, Yes,
he did. We've got to realize and I hate this
term that that Bill Clinton used. I feel your pain.
But we do have to empathy. We've got to be
better empathizers. Yes, okay, we've got to understand where people
are coming from, listen to them, and try to come

(20:43):
up with viable, reasonable, rational solutions to make life better
for those who feel like they're victims.

Speaker 5 (20:51):
Your children are relatively young, yes, Perdy do they that?

Speaker 8 (20:55):
Do they own homes?

Speaker 3 (20:57):
My daughter does well, My oldest son does too. I
mean he's the one who lives in the urban core.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
What would they say, because I like to talk, you know,
my sons are twenty nineteen and twenty What do you
say to young people there? Mark, I can't There's just
no way I can go buy a home right now?

Speaker 3 (21:13):
What you say to them, I'd say, you're right, because
not only do you have to come up with a
down payment, you've got to come up with a monthly payment.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Which includes insurance, YEP, utilities.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
I think President Biden has done a lot of damage
to the housing market.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
And let's back up just a little bit.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
Under the Inflation Reduction Act, the New Green scam, these
building codes that were propagated.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Kansas City adopted these.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
It made building a house twenty three percent more expensive
for six month time period after that pass, there was
only two or three building permits on a house pulled
in Kansas City. That brought supply down. Builders moved out
of Kansas City.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
At the same.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Time, the government there and the mayor was trying to
concentrate on affordable housing. How do you make housing affordable
when you're raising the price of it by twenty three percent.
Add on to that the interest rate that skyrocketed. My
old home that I had in Kansas City, we had
three percent interests. We built a new house in our

(22:25):
new district in Cass County, it's almost a seven percent interest.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
My house payment more than doubled down. Okay, that was.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
Due to Joe Biden pumping in four trillion dollars into
our economy, and some of it during COVID, And I
know that Trump did too during COVID, but Biden did
it on steroids, yes, with impunity, and that caused the
interest rate to go up. Now President Trump has brought
that interest rate down, it will continue to come down.

(22:56):
We're under three percent now. It needs to be down
near the low twos to be effective. But I think
you're going to start seeing the first second quarter, in particular,
you're going to see the true benefits of the one
big beautiful bill combined with interest rates down, energy prices down,
hopefully premiums coming down in healthcare.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
There, we're going to be able to pass some legislation.

Speaker 5 (23:21):
Do that.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
We are setting ourselves up for success in the mid terms.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
You're gonna have a story to tell by it next year. Yes, yeah,
that was.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
A long answer.

Speaker 5 (23:32):
No, no, no, I love the answer. You've not been here
a terribly long time, Marjorie Taylor Green. I've just got
to ask you. On her way out the door, she's
taking quite a few shots at the GOP broadly, could
you imagine I just I'm asking you, because you're relatively
new here, could you imagine hanging it up mid term,
not finishing out a term? And what do you think
about that? Regardless of what you think of what she

(23:53):
is or has just.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Been directed at Marjorie, I actually brought Marjorie to speak
out of the Jackson County Republican Club in Kansas City
two years ago.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
I didn't know that, you know.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
They asked me and said, could you get Marjorie come?
I asked her, got Matt Gates to come.

Speaker 5 (24:06):
Back on the show. I mean, she's she's been a
guest a few times.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
She's been on my podcast too. But look, when you
this is my belief, Chris. It's like a contract. I
had contracts in television on three year cycles, right. I
wouldn't imagine just walking off the air. I signed a
contract that means something to me. Yes, And when you know,

(24:32):
eighty thousand people elected me to Congress in the fourth
Congressional district. If I just up and left, I would
breaking my word, my contract with eighty thousand people who
put trust in me. I don't think that's right. I
understand her frustration with President Trump. I don't like what

(24:55):
he said about her, you know, but that's what' between
those two. And I don't like everything Marjorie says either.
I don't you know, but I will tell you this
I have I've seen very few people up here who are.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
In have as much passion for America as Marjorie does.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
And and I think, until a couple of weeks ago,
passion for a President Trump and his America First agenda.
She she is a make America Great Again candidate and
always will be where that takes her. I don't know,
maybe she's going to get into the media.

Speaker 5 (25:35):
I bet, I bet she does.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
You know her boyfriend, Brian Glenn works for Real America's Voice.

Speaker 5 (25:39):
Oh, I didn't know that.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
And he's a correspondent at the White House. He and
I competed against each other in Dallas and morning television.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
Oh that's interesting. Yeah, okay. And is that where Matt
Gates is too Real.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
America's Matt is at OAM.

Speaker 5 (25:50):
Oh yeah, okay, I forget in Florida.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
Which that the one that's the one that surprises me
most because I was an anchor, got frustrated, came into Congress.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Matt I think always won.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
A news anc.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
I'm like, what would you want me? He's probably thinking,
why do you want to be in Congress?

Speaker 5 (26:05):
Right? So, do you think the messaging can turn around?
Or is it manufactured? Because here's what I know, and
here's what you know in our realm, in the media realm,
I still consider you somebody who knows it. But now
because you're in office and you're looking at media and
you study it and you watch it, and I'm in

(26:25):
it and I'm studying it. I was talking with a
Collige here today. Are we just trying to by we
I mean some of the conservative media space, the new
if you want, influencer, podcast or class. Are they chasing
a new trend? Trump is yesterday, He's lame duck. What's
happening next? Or is it the next trend? Is it

(26:45):
something else? Is it cynical? There's this negativity swirling around
before a full year is up of Donald Trump. You
think in the media in general, no, in specifically in
conservative media. Okay, I think there are I'm not gonna
name names, but I just think there are podcasters and
people they're trying to that have built followings feeding this beast,
that cash and Dan at the FBI or Pambondi or

(27:10):
and I'm not saying I'm in love with everything they've
done or are doing, but that they've not been terribly effective,
or President Trump's too busy overseas and he's not focused
enough at home. I don't know how people have that perception,
but that's what I hear. I don't know if you're
hearing it, is that real or am I making that up?
Because that's the vibe I get from a lot of
time spent.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
On my phone.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Well, number one, get off your phone, amen, I try.
I'm trying to too. That's the hardest thing. And I'll
get you your I'll answer your question. Yeah, getting off
of social media because I lived on it when I
was on television.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
It's the way I communicated. Now it's very it's toxic.
It's toxic. So look, do you think that's real?

Speaker 5 (27:49):
Am I making that up?

Speaker 2 (27:50):
Or are you hearing that.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
And seeing that I'm not seeing as much as you
do because you're in that world. And you know, I
get on some different sites and you know, I know
there's some nation about cash betel.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Is he perfect?

Speaker 3 (28:02):
No?

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Is President Trump perfect?

Speaker 3 (28:04):
No?

Speaker 2 (28:05):
I didn't elect the perfect person. I put it on
someone who come up here and.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
Kick butt, shut down the swap, to port illegal aliens,
get our economy.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Back on track. Trump's doing that.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
I think he's hurting a lot of feelings. But I
don't care about your feelings. What about Israel stuff?

Speaker 2 (28:22):
You're in that?

Speaker 5 (28:22):
The Israel stuff. He's too too pro Israel. There's been
this whole move.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
You can't be a pro enough Israel.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
For me, I was pro Israel, and I get criticized
for taking money for APAC, which really APEC's not giving
you money. It's members of the Jewish community who want
to give you money and it goes through a pack.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
They're portal. That being said.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
I was pro Israel when I was in fifth grade
in Sunday School, learning about God's chosen people. And then
later on my knowledge based increase knowing that we are
here I think in part as a nation through the
proberts and protection of God Almighty, but also we're here
to support Israel.

Speaker 5 (29:04):
You brought up a pack this criticism that Israel, the
government of Israel a PAK has this undue influence over
this place. The only thing I can say about that
is are lobbying firm and effort on Capitol Hill.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
No Lord A Pak has ever told me how to
vote on anything.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
No one.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
And I'm very tight with our Jewish community in the
Kansas City area.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
I go into their homes and I talk. I've been
to Israel three times now.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Last time flew in on a C one thirty with
our Appropriation Subcommittee and met with Benjamin Yet and Yahoo uh.
And what's fueling this is this irrational, illogical, uninformed notion
that Israel does not have a right to exist, driven
by the socialist Islamic radicals that have infiltrated our country,

(29:59):
which we're seeing in Kansas City at a mosque there
yes a guy standing up saying they basically they need
to kill the Jews.

Speaker 5 (30:07):
This is my concern Islamists, whatever that means. Muslim entities,
Muslim governments also may have their share of money pumping
into various voices or points of influence too. You're false fair,
I mean it's kind of be fair if not. If
Israel has undo influence on Capitol Hill, they're not.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Alone, right, true, I would think so. I don't know.
I'll ask the Ilano Mark. I don't know.

Speaker 8 (30:32):
It just drives me.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Check the FBC. Everything's there on the record.

Speaker 5 (30:36):
Yeah, you guys are in total control right now on
Capitol Hill. And the theory is in the midterms that
the party in total control loses. Is that a fae
to complete or no?

Speaker 9 (30:46):
No?

Speaker 3 (30:47):
You know historically that has been true, but it's not
every time. I do think this, Chris. We have to
be aware and we have to be ready, and that means.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
We're to have to be on our game.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Trump is not going to be on the ballot, but
people who support the America First agenda and what he
stands for, getting rid of the bureaucratic machine that has
monopolized control here in America. I saw it when I
first got here. When I first got here three years ago,

(31:27):
Biden was in office. Secretaries were, you know, Democrat of
our agg Department small business.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
And I tried to get into these buildings just to.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
Meet people, and they wouldn't let me in the building
as an elected member, as a sending member of Congress.
And I wasn't coming into do a gotcha like the
Democrats want to do at ice facility.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
That went in.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
I just want to come in and meet people. They
wouldn't let us him. President Trump wants to turn Washington around.
He is setting the apple cart, and it's upsetting people
and threatening them their livelihoods, their futures, and what they

(32:11):
see is should be the future of America. Cash Bettel's
doing the same thing over the FBI. Pam BONDI the
same at DOJ. Judgeanine Piro, who I'm working with to
try to get more funding for her district here in
DC for the Justice here. I'm on the appropriation subcommittee

(32:33):
that oversees that she's going up against the same thing
you've got. I would say half the people that are
working under you, trying to sabotage you. So imagine in
your work environment having to deal with that and trying
to be successful. The one thing we can't do on

(32:57):
this midterm, though, Chris, we cannot continue to look in
the rear view mirror and say, oh, this is all
that was wrong. Biden calls all this. We've we've got
to offer and I've told President Trump this as well.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
We've got to offer hope for America.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
We've got to restore hope to America, like Ronald Reagan did.
When I grew up in the eighties, there was higher
inflation that we had now Jimmy Carter had been in office.
Interest rates on our house were almost like seventeen fourteen
seventeen percent, much higher.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
But Reagan came in with hope. If we can give
hope to the.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
American people and restore trust that the previous administration had
squandered on the American people, then we will win this midterm.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Hands down.

Speaker 5 (33:45):
The best friend I have on Capitol Hill, I mean that,
and he's a friend of the constituents he represents. And Mark,
I know when we talk, you're telling me from your
heart exactly what you believe that's what I know about you.
I can't say that about everybody in this room, but
I can say that about you. Thank you for your time.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Thank you, God, bless you, God bless you.

Speaker 5 (34:02):
Mark Hey, everybody's trying to save money where they can.
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(35:07):
with you. By the way, Congress, thank you so much.
Here's what you said. At least as of this last post.
Americans deserve a future with a home of their own, family, dinners,
good jobs, safe neighborhoods. President Trump and the House GOP
are working to make the stream attainable again for every American.
You and I've not met before, but I know that
your account and those that I have talked to about
you say agriculture. Farming is a huge part of your district.

(35:29):
I know in Illinois fifteenth. So talk to me about
food affordability and inflation, because this is something I hear
from the agricultural community. Still beef and soybeans and the
like have still been a problem out there in the market,
coming down, but still needs.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Work right well.

Speaker 6 (35:46):
President Trump has lowered the cost of food. He inherited
a disaster. Inflation was raging because of Joe Biden's reckless
spending and policies like shutting down our American energy independence
because everything goes back to energy, the cost of everything.
So President Trump is working tirelessly to bring grocery prices

(36:08):
down a couple things. So I'm on the Ag Committee
and I'm very happy to fight to make illegal aliens
ineligible for SNAP benefits. Federal benefits should be available only
for American citizens, American families, children, veterans, the people in need.
Back to agriculture.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Though, yes, I.

Speaker 6 (36:29):
Represent a very heavy ag district and I'm very proud
of that. We're highly productive. That's what causes nations and
communities to thrive as production. But we under Joe Biden,
we had a non existent at best, a passive trade policy.
We've been taken advantage of on the world stage for decades.

(36:50):
President Trump recognizes it, and he would say, you know,
why are we doing it this way? Why have we
agreed to this trade agreement? And he's scrappy because he
cares about us. He's looking at better trade agreements. He's
looking at new emerging markets, which we're grateful for. But
the other side of the equation for egg producers is inflation.

(37:12):
And you know, obviously energy costs affect our fertilizer. We
use a lot of diesel fuel. I talked to Secretary
Zelden the other day about the ridiculous death requirement, which
it's causes all kinds of maintenance problems in our diesel engines.
It's a ridiculous requirements based on the whole net zero goal.

(37:37):
So excessive regulation hurts egg producers and then they have
to pass the costs along to the consumers.

Speaker 8 (37:47):
Do you.

Speaker 5 (37:49):
Deal with both crops and livestock? Yes, so, I know
beef and poultry, and there's been a lot of discussion
about the big four meat producers, but I also know
that they're a lot of people in smaller agricultural communities.
I know where I live, a lot of people will
buy their beef directly from a farm.

Speaker 10 (38:06):
Right.

Speaker 5 (38:08):
Can we should we encourage more kind of direct to
consumers small farm livestock rearing as opposed to these larger producers.

Speaker 6 (38:17):
Absolutely, And I think the American people do not realize
that eighty five percent of the protein processed in our
country is done by only four companies, and this is
a national security issue. Two of the companies are for
one is Brazilian and one is Chinese. And we should
never have allowed public policies to have driven this kind

(38:38):
of consolidation. I think we should use antitrust laws to
break them up.

Speaker 5 (38:42):
The President said, he's having DJ look into this. Is
this true?

Speaker 2 (38:46):
This is great?

Speaker 5 (38:46):
What do you know about it?

Speaker 2 (38:47):
What are we looking at?

Speaker 6 (38:48):
I think that there's been a lot of back and
forth over the last couple of months about in particular beef,
but it also affects the fork industry. But I think
it's highlighted the problems here and now he's listening to
people on the ground, not just the big four packers
coming in. He's listening to the producers, and he's listening

(39:11):
to consumers. Consumers want locally grown and produced food. So
when first of all, we're under way more regulations than
say Paraguay, who wants to eat Paraguay and beef?

Speaker 7 (39:23):
I don't want to.

Speaker 6 (39:25):
But people want to support the American family farm. It's
part of our culture and it is for national security
that we produce our own food. We can, and we
should be producing our own food. But the producers are
abandoning ship.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
You have to.

Speaker 6 (39:42):
You can't go year after year, decade after decade without
making money. And our young people are leaving the farms
because they've seen their parents struggle hand the mouth year
to year and they're going on to greener pasture, so
to say, and leaving the farm. But there has to
be financial incentive for the young people stay and for
the family farm to continue.

Speaker 5 (40:02):
Final question. I've asked all of your colleagues this question,
and it is younger people in this country who may
be trending if you believe it, and it kind of
depends if you're on social media, and I know that
you are. It seems younger people are more willing to
embrace the Mamdani AOC socialism thing. I don't know how
real it is or measurable it is, but it seems

(40:22):
like the energy is behind it right now, and it's
because economically they feel up against it. Can Republicans combat
that before the midterms if that energy is.

Speaker 6 (40:31):
Real, well we can if we have new sources like
you that are able to reach the people. Whoever controls
the information controls the people. We have too pronged problem
with the youth. One is education system they have not
learned that ninety nine point nine percent of people are
crushed under socialism. A lot of times it turns into communism.

Speaker 8 (40:53):
Then you have mass.

Speaker 6 (40:54):
Murder of people.

Speaker 8 (40:55):
They don't know that.

Speaker 6 (40:56):
They've never learned it, they haven't had good civics education
and are country. They don't understand that we're the most
free and prosperous nation that's ever existed. It's not udoti a.
Nobody's saying that, but is the best we've ever had.
And they should be encouraged that way. But I think
the other thing is they feel hopeless, and I want
to encourage people to feel positive. There still are a

(41:17):
lot of opportunities. Every generation has had its battles to fight.
It's worth fighting for what we have. And the only
people that will prosper under socialism is Mundami and his close,
tight knit family and friends. Otherwise it will be a disaster.
But we do need to reduce costs for young people.
Obviously college is out of control is because the government

(41:39):
got involved. Not everybody is college material. We pushed everybody
to college. We determine because you're poor, you should get
free college. And also the colleges were not holding the
debt the taxpayers were, and they loan money and exorbitant
amounts for ridiculous degrees that they would never be able
to pay it back. One they have a ball and

(42:00):
chain on them from like their early twenties because of
college debt. Then housing prices, well, if we deport twenty
million people, if we deregulate, if we get energy American
energy independence going again because everything goes back to energy,
we can reduce the cost of housing. President Trump knows this.
He's inherited a problem. He's taking bold steps to do this.

(42:23):
And also food prices have gone down, and we need
to get illegals off of taxpayer funded benefits so be
more for the American people. Then it's driving the cost
of everything.

Speaker 5 (42:33):
Congresswoman, it is a thrill to meet you. I hope
you'll come back and see us soon. Thanks for your
time today.

Speaker 8 (42:37):
You're welcome.

Speaker 5 (42:39):
It's always nice to talk with some new faces on
Capitol Hill that aren't jaded from the politics of this
town yet. Congressman Michael Bomgardner, welcome to the show.

Speaker 11 (42:47):
Yeah, well, thank you, it's great to be here. Yeah, no,
not jaded yet, you know, I love you know, being
a member of Congress is a challenging job, but it's
a job I really enjoy because I really like America.

Speaker 5 (42:55):
This is your first term, it is Yeah, we're getting
right here to the end of the first year. So
talk to me about being a new member here and
what that means.

Speaker 8 (43:02):
Does this.

Speaker 5 (43:05):
I don't know ho else to say it, but you
get here, maybe you run for office, you work hard
to get here, and then you hit this buzzsaw of bureaucracy,
and I always imagine that that's got to feel very frustrating.

Speaker 11 (43:15):
Well, I just wake up every day proud that I
have what it takes me a memor of Congress in
the sense that you know, this is a challenging job.
You know, you get people that say nice things to
you, You get a lot of people that to say some
not many nice things to you. So there are some
challenge aspects for ever your family. But just very grateful
every day that I get to do it. You know,
we live in such a wonderful republic, and you know
what America has given me and the opportunities we have

(43:37):
in this country, and so to get to come to
work and work in this process, you know, it is
it is an interesting process.

Speaker 1 (43:43):
Say at least, you know, there's four hundred.

Speaker 11 (43:44):
I'm one of four hundred and thirty five members of
the House, and that's a big number. There's two hundred
and twenty Republicans, and to get a bill out of
the House, you got.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
To get two hundred and eighteen to agree with you.

Speaker 11 (43:54):
And so, you know, you think about being back home
and getting two hundred eighteen people to agree on everything,
you know, that could be that could be a challenge.
But I think we've had a lot of success this year.
It's been fun to be part of.

Speaker 5 (44:04):
Why did you win in Washington's fifth I don't know
your district, but I assume there are people in our
audience that do. So tell me about why you won
your election and how you think you're going to deliver
being here.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Well, that's, you know, a great question.

Speaker 11 (44:15):
We won because the American people were concerned about the
rising cost of living, and they were concerned about the
chaos at the southern border. And we're concerned about the
reckless policies that Joe Biden and the Democrats. And the
great thing about this year is that we've delivered on
the promises that we campaigned on.

Speaker 5 (44:30):
If you look at.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
Start with the border.

Speaker 11 (44:32):
You know, under Joe Biden, over twelve million illegals were
brought into the country and circumventing our rule of law,
you know, essentially abusing our refugee settlement process. And you know,
under Republicans leadership this year, we've brought that down to
essentially know what legal immigrants coming into the country. So
it's a good feeling to deliver on that campaign promise.

(44:52):
You know, we also campaign on making life more affordable
and helping folks. You look at what we did in
the Working Families tax Cut to give the largest tax
reduction in American history, families on average about eleven thousand
dollars in savings for American family, no taxes on tip,
no taxes on overtime, reduce taxes on so security for seniors.
You know, those are tremendous wins. So it feels good
to deliver on that. And then you know, we have

(45:14):
so many energy resources here in America, you know, and
under the extreme environmental policies that Joe Biden and the
radical Democrats there, essentially we're trying to.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
Lock up the use of our energy.

Speaker 11 (45:23):
And it feels good as a Republican to come in
here and open up those energy resources. So there's so
much for us to be proud of this year. It's
one of the reasons that makes those flights across the
country I do every week, you.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Know, worthwhile.

Speaker 5 (45:35):
Yeah, you do. That's one of the longest trips I'm
sure outside of maybe Hawaii, right or Alaska. What was
your professional background prior to being here.

Speaker 11 (45:43):
So, I've been blessed to do a variety of things.
I was a recovering state senator. I had also been
a county treasurer working in local government, which I really
appreciated because local government asked to be very practical on it.
And before that, I was in the State Department in Iraq,
in Afghanistan dealing with some of the threats of Islamic
terriors and been very very blessed to work around the

(46:03):
world and know what freedoms we have here at home
and how they have to be protected.

Speaker 5 (46:06):
Interesting you bring that up terrorism. We just saw two
of our guardsmen assault attacked, murdered one sadly one and
critical condition right now? How big is terrorism still an
issue here? We know homeland security is obviously tackling it,
but I mean, is that something that's still on your mind.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
Oh very much.

Speaker 4 (46:24):
So.

Speaker 11 (46:24):
You know, the threat radical Islamic terrorism continues to be
one of the most dangerous threats to the US and
to our freedoms. You know, that's one of the reasons
that what President Trump did this summer with the dismantling
Iranian's nuclear arsenal.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
Was so important.

Speaker 11 (46:41):
There's been no greater supporter of Islamic terrorism across the
globe than the Mulahs of Iran, and you.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
Think about them, with those.

Speaker 11 (46:49):
Terrorist cells that they support and also being equipped with
the backstop of the nuclear weapon. It was extremely dangerous
and you know, it couldn't be allowed to happen. And
President Trump was very direct and determined with the runnings
the threat would be limited. And you know, I think
what he has done on foreign policy, particularly in the
Middle East, has been you know, America's best foreign policy
really since Dwight Eisenhower and so just really impressive there.

(47:11):
But yeah, terrible what happened to those National guards men.
I know, I feel safer in Washington, d C. With
the Guard out on the streets. And it was awful
what happened. You just ran and won.

Speaker 5 (47:21):
So now we're talking about mid terms, can you run
and win again the same way. What do you say
to your colleagues who maybe you're now looking at a
standing on the barrel of what is historically a loss
for the party that's in charge total control of the legislature.
Does it have to be that way?

Speaker 3 (47:40):
No?

Speaker 11 (47:40):
I feel really confident if we continue to do what
we said we were going to do on the campaign,
which was like make America more secure and grow our economy,
I think we're going to be just fine. You know,
I just don't think the Democrats have a vision that
can can govern America responsibly. You know, they're locked in
a box of identity politics, and they are so beholden
to some of their special interests that they just don't

(48:00):
have a program that can build things in America anymore.
You know, the Democrats used to be a party of
working class folks that can actually build things. But you know,
if we all know in Democrat cities that it takes
you know, eighteen committees and ten thousand trial lawyers to
build simple things, and so how can they be the
party that's going to build the infrastructure that you know
American needs, you know, just to take one example. So

(48:22):
I really believe that whether it's the economy, keeping America secure,
or build the infrastructure America needs.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
It's Republicans, you know, in the.

Speaker 11 (48:28):
House Republican Conference that has the solutions for America. I
think we get out and campaign on those. Obviously, we've
got to raise us a lot of funds to get
that message out because certainly their traditional left wing media
they distort what we're doing here. But that's why the
fundraising is so important. But we put the resources together
very confident what we're going to do in the midterms.

Speaker 5 (48:47):
Congressman, it's nice to meet you. I hope you'll come
back on the show when you can.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
I would love to do. It's so great to meet
you as Weella thanks you.

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couple of weeks ago over the line. Now I get
to see him in person here on Capitol Hill. He's
the majority whip of these United States House Representatives, Tom
m or Congressman. Good to see us, sir.

Speaker 8 (49:54):
It's good to see you, Chris.

Speaker 10 (49:55):
But I got to tell you when I saw you
by way of zoom or the video that we were
and I mean, this is quite an impressive room, right
the canon I Conference room.

Speaker 5 (50:05):
But I kind of like your studio, you know, thank you. No,
it's definitely not as decorative as this. I was just
talking with a colleague about this place. You can't buy
this stuff at home depot going to decorated here. Now
do you ever get to you ever stop? I mean,
I know you've been here a few years, but do
you ever look around and go this is still a beautiful,
impressive place.

Speaker 10 (50:22):
Where it is it is pretty amazing. But I will
tell you that when I got here, because there's only
ten to twelve thousand people in our almost two hundred
and fifty year history that have ever served in Congress.

Speaker 8 (50:33):
People don't understand.

Speaker 10 (50:35):
It's a smaller number of people that have actually made
it to then have actually made it to Major League
Baseball at the highest level. It's a very small group.
And I remember when I first got here, I walked
down to the house floor. I told my dad this,
he was still alive. I said, you walk onto the
house floor for the first time, you look around, you go, why,
it's amazing? How did I get here? And it only

(50:55):
takes three to six months. You walk onto the house
floor and you look around, you go, how did all
these people get here. I mean, some of these guys
are just nutbags.

Speaker 5 (51:04):
That is one thing that I do wonder about when
we talk about it, And not to start off with
a negative, but I'm curious when you see somebody like
a Marjorie Tayter Green who says I'm out, I'm frustrated,
I'm leaving. That doesn't happen a whole lot, but that
happened in a pretty high profile way. What do you
say about that? What do you say to your constituents?
Would you would you see yourself doing something like that?

(51:25):
Leaving early?

Speaker 8 (51:26):
And oh, absolutely not. They're not going to be that lucky.

Speaker 5 (51:30):
I'm gonna. I'm gonna.

Speaker 10 (51:32):
I'm gonna be here and do the job that I
was sent here to do, and I won't be here forever.

Speaker 5 (51:38):
Your job is to whip votes, I mean, and it's
a thin majority you guys have. That's that's that hurts
the process, doesn't it?

Speaker 8 (51:45):
To see her leave, you know, it doesn't make it easier.

Speaker 10 (51:49):
And look, whether it's Marjorie or you can name any
other member, everybody has their personal life. These are human beings, sure,
and everybody comes here with a different set of understanding, beliefs,
Background and employment education.

Speaker 8 (52:06):
It's what makes our party so great.

Speaker 10 (52:08):
So if you think about it, no, you don't have
to agree with everybody and the decisions that they make.

Speaker 8 (52:14):
I may not make the same one. In this case,
I would not, but that's.

Speaker 10 (52:18):
Me and I will respect everyone no matter whether I
agree with him or I think they're crazy. They were
elected by some seven hundred thousand people, Chris to be
their voice in Congress. It's not my job as the
whip to tell them what they're supposed to do. It's
their job to explain to me what they will do,

(52:38):
what they won't do, what they can do, what they
can't do, and why. My job is kind of like
I told the members, this is the best coaching job
anybody's ever given me, because my job is to know
every player on the bench, understand their strengths, their weaknesses,
and then try to make sure they have the best
opportunity to succeed at what they came here to do.

Speaker 5 (52:58):
Hear you know, when you're trying to get Republicans to
vote in line with one another, it's like herding cats.
And I know every Republican in different districts. They have
their different priorities. But with a thin majority, with the
midterms coming, you guys have got to have a story
to tell. And so what do you tell the Republicans?
What do you encourage them, and what are you looking
at that you can try to get them all on

(53:20):
the same page to talk about and sell and push
before the midterm.

Speaker 8 (53:23):
First off, that.

Speaker 10 (53:26):
Line about or the analogy of comparing herding cats to whatever,
Chris I got to tell you, I wish they were
all cats. We are hurting a variety of exotic animals nowadays.

Speaker 8 (53:37):
It's not one or the other.

Speaker 10 (53:39):
Your question is a great one, and it's one that
does not get covered enough. Donald Trump got elected by
seventy seven million people with a mandate to fix the economy,
to secure the border, to make America safe again, just
to begin with three of them, make America healthy again,
et cetera. In just in less than a year, he

(54:00):
and the Republican majorities, including the House that the public
elected at the same time, have been delivering on all
those promises. You know, the left wing media in this
country wants to set their own narrative. They want a
cherry pick facts to make it look like something it's not.
Whether it's the president's current popularity, which for sitting presidents

(54:23):
is incredibly stable and high. But no, now they want
to try and claim it's dropping. It's something else. It's
that old adage that I heard from a farmer once
about figures lie and liar's figure. We have accomplished more
in less than a year to fix this country than
I would argue Joe Biden did in four years destroying

(54:46):
this country that he did in forty years representing his
state and then the country in the vice presidential position
and then as the president.

Speaker 8 (54:56):
This president has got inflation under control after they He's
cut it in half.

Speaker 10 (55:02):
We saw double digit inflation like we hadn't seen in
five decades under Joe Biden. Donald Trump in less than
a year has cut that in half. That's something Republicans
can run on. Donald Trump has sealed the southern border
where they were having one hundred and fifty thousand or
more contacts with illegals a day under the Biden administration,
and they were allowing them to flood into our country.

(55:25):
Donald Trump has ended eight wars since he became the president,
and I would argue eight wars that probably started because
of the feckless leadership of Joe Biden. Anthony Blincoln, Jake Sullivan,
these people that looked the other way while bad people
were doing bad things around the globe.

Speaker 8 (55:42):
We have a ton to run on and.

Speaker 10 (55:43):
Get ready, Get ready, Chris, because the big stuff ain't
even started yet. We passed a bill back in July.
It was signed into law on July fourth. That bill
makes the twenty seventeen Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent.
I mean you are going to have economic growth like
we saw in twenty eighteen twenty nineteen when that kicked in.

(56:05):
You are going to start seeing that at the beginning
of next year because nobody has felt it yet. These
don't go into effect until January first. And what did
we do in addition to making them permanent? Why is
that important? Because your listeners are probably like, yeah, but
it's not changing anything. If you made that permanent. Now
you have to understand money. It actually waits to see

(56:26):
how it's going to be treated before it gets deployed.
So there was a lot of investments sitting on the
sidelines up until last July, for new projects, for new businesses,
for new whatever to grow our economy, main street businesses.
It's sat on the sideline because they didn't know how
they were going to get treated come January first of
twenty twenty six. When Donald Trump signed that bill into

(56:49):
law on July fourth, Now they know how it's going
to get treated. So that money that was not being
pumped into the economy has been getting deployed now for
a new product, new jobs, new opportunities all across this country.

Speaker 8 (57:04):
Think about this for a second.

Speaker 10 (57:05):
It takes a little while for the shovels to get
into the ground and the employees to be hired. We
should start to feel that by next spring and next
summer it will be picking up. And next fall, if
all goes the way we expect it to, we're going
to have not only a lot to be selling in
terms of promises made, promises kept, but people are going
to feel good about where this country is and where

(57:27):
it's going. And then, don't forget the last piece. No
taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime. Those are going
to hit at the beginning of the year, and working
men and women across this country that have been forgotten
until Donald J. Trump and Republicans took over, those people
are going to not only feel it, they're going to
experience it in their pocket. And then the last one

(57:50):
is seniors. There's a certain demographic that shows up more
than any other in midterms. It's our more experienced Americans.

Speaker 8 (57:59):
Yes, we reduced.

Speaker 10 (58:01):
Their tax burden on Social Security benefits as well, and
that's going to have a lasting impact. So I'm very
bullish on the midterms. You just push the button. Sorry,
that was just a little bit.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
No.

Speaker 5 (58:13):
I'm glad to hear it, because that is something that
I think people would like to know, is if you
feel like it's just a given that a Republican legislature
has to lose, because that's just always what happens historically.

Speaker 10 (58:24):
You're telling me, no, Donald Trump has broken every one
of these legendary This is never going to change is
the way it's always been. Really, since Donald Trump has
arrived on the stage, he has rewritten the book when
it comes to elections. And I believe Donald Trump and
Republicans are going to rewrite the book when it comes
to midterms in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 8 (58:46):
For the House.

Speaker 10 (58:47):
Keep in mind, twenty eighteen is first midterm. He didn't
understand how bad it would be without a without a
Republican House, and you remember those ridiculous impeachment proceedings and
our president. We have never had a lane duck president
and I don't even like calling Donald Trump that because
his impact is going to last well beyond when he's

(59:09):
done serving. We've never had a president who is finishing
his second term that is invested as Donald J. Trump
in the midterms for the House. He's already raised like
two billion dollars and he plans on being involved in
the midterms. This is something no one's ever seen before.
So yes, I believe it's going to rewrite that history book.

(59:29):
Where as we go forward, we're going to win in
the midterm.

Speaker 5 (59:31):
And I know you have to run. So last question
just because I want to ask about your home state
and your governor and this unbelievable scandal. Can you speak
to this this.

Speaker 10 (59:41):
Chris, I'm so frustrated by this myself. I'll just focus
on me.

Speaker 5 (59:46):
And by the way, we're talking about Tim Walls for
people that don't know, Governor Tim Walls.

Speaker 10 (59:49):
The governor of Minnesota for the last almost seven years,
is a pathological liar. He lied about his military career.
He's lied about something as stupid as when he was
at Tieneman's Square and he was caught on national TV
doing it.

Speaker 8 (01:00:03):
And his answer was, well, you know, I.

Speaker 10 (01:00:05):
Grew up in a small town and sometimes I'm a
bit of a knucklehead. He's a liar, and he stood
by as Minneapolis burned to the ground. And guess what
we're now finding out. And this is where I was frustrated.
We've been trying to raise the alarm on.

Speaker 8 (01:00:18):
This for over three years.

Speaker 10 (01:00:21):
The fraud that has gone on under his administration is unprecedented.
The former acting US Attorney who's been involved in this
now for well over a year, said the amount of
fraud under the Walls administration is breathtaking. It is a
billion dollars and they are still counting it could grow
to as much as two billion. You start with a
two hundred and fifty million dollar feeding our future fraud

(01:00:45):
case during the pandemic, largest pandemic fraud case.

Speaker 8 (01:00:48):
In the country.

Speaker 10 (01:00:50):
You've had what eighty some people have been indicted. Seventy
eight of those are Somali immigrants. Okay, and he wants
he wants to call this a racist thing. No, we're
talking about criminal activity. The Tim Walls and his Attorney General,
Keith Ellison, not only haven't investigated, they have purposely not

(01:01:13):
investigated since he started his term as governor his first
term as governor. Listen, there's housing fraud. There's a medicaid fraud.
The numbers we have from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty
three show it started at three million. By twenty twenty
three it was four hundred million. God knows what that
is Right now. I know that the Department of Health

(01:01:34):
and others here in Washington are really starting to pay attention.
But I'm complaining about it because we have known about
this in Minnesota for three years. No one nationally until
Donald J. Trump said something about the Somali fraud, nobody
was covering it. Nobody was actually talking about how bad
this is. Now, thanks to Donald Trump, everybody's talking about it,

(01:01:57):
and finally we're going to get some answers because you
might have seen yesterday. Even the Treasury Secretary recognizes said
a lot of this. It's not that all Somali's are criminals.
It just happens to be that these crimes have been
committed by Somali immigrants, and by the way, they've been
shipping the money back to Somalia. Think about this for

(01:02:17):
a second. Al Shabab is a known terrorist group. They
control all the financial infrastructure in Somalia. That means millions
of dollars of Minnesota taxpayer dollars have been funneled back
to a terrorist group allegedly in Somalia through this network.

Speaker 5 (01:02:37):
The thing's growing.

Speaker 10 (01:02:38):
Last thing, I don't think Tim Walls. I do think
he's incompetent and definitely he doesn't know what he's doing.
He's not a smart man. But you can't let a
billion dollars go out of your administration without somebody noticing.
And he went on National TV on Sunday and said,
I'll take responsibility for prosecuting these people. Even on that, Chris,

(01:03:01):
the FEDS are the ones prosecuting. He has done absolutely nothing.
He hasn't even bothered to identify who in his administration
was responsible for the oversight of all these funds. But
I DOJ should be involved, absolutely, because it's not just incompetence.

Speaker 5 (01:03:17):
Somebody here I believe was complicit. Congressman, it is pleasure
to catch up. I really appreciate your time today and
your passion. Thank you, sir.

Speaker 8 (01:03:23):
I'm excited.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Thank you, brother.

Speaker 8 (01:03:25):
I have a great day here, too.

Speaker 5 (01:03:27):
Good to be with Kansas's first district Representative, Tracy Man
good to be with your congressman.

Speaker 8 (01:03:31):
How are you.

Speaker 9 (01:03:31):
You're fantastic, Thanks for having me this morning.

Speaker 5 (01:03:33):
We are talking here today on Capitol Hill about Republicans.
The theme has been how do you get to midterms
when traditionally midterms are never very forgiving to the party
that's in charge. It's almost always historically true. Are you
guys looking down the barrel of just an inevitable loss
or do you think that can be turned around? Oh?

Speaker 12 (01:03:51):
Absolutely not at one hundred percent. I don't think there's
anything to turn around. I think we need to keep
accurately communicating to the American people all the weak accomplished
so far, all they we're going to do. You know,
this has been a very active Congress, three hundred and
thirty one bills passed so far off the floor of
the House. The Working Family Tax Cut, the biggest bill
in history to deliver real tax rey to working Kansas,

(01:04:12):
working Americans. We need to continue to trout these you know,
to tout these winds and then see the economy take
off next year.

Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
The affordability issue is when I know you hear a
lot about you come from a big agricultural state. We
were just talking with Congressman Miller of Illinois fifteenth about
ag I hear a lot about it. I know you do.
Beef prices, grocery prices, they have come down. Housing is
obviously another thing. What's the message to the American voter,
particularly the younger voter if they still and they do

(01:04:42):
even if things are improving right now, they still feel
up against it or affordability is still an issue.

Speaker 12 (01:04:46):
Well for agriculture right now, Beef prices are very high,
which is good for producers. Commodity prices are low, which
is very bad for our farmers. You know, commodity prices
are low, but inputs are out forty percent, so farmers
are getting squeezed. That's of sleep very bad for Kansas,
a lot of our egg districts. Remember the mess that
we inherited from President Biden. Under President Biden, we were

(01:05:07):
up a nine to ten percent inflation, the numbers for
Trump's first term so far right away. You know, we
inherited a mess just started January, you know, below three percent.
So things are coming back under control. It just takes
a little bit more time to get that done. You know,
Biden spent four years in House, Democrats four years messing
up the country and now we're on the path through revival.

Speaker 5 (01:05:28):
I mean, I do see it. Not to sound as
though I'm sucking up. I know people get irritated with me.
I see the momentum and the movement President Trump is making.
I know, you guys passed the big beautiful bill. I
don't know if it's social media. I don't know if
it's just left wing media. This constant hammering of affordability
is still out of hand, and people don't feel like
they're getting ahead, even though consumer spending went through the

(01:05:48):
roof for the Black Friday holidays, so people are spending money.
What is that? Is that a perception? Is it real?
What are you up against it?

Speaker 9 (01:05:56):
It's perception.

Speaker 12 (01:05:57):
Some of it is reality from the mess that Biden
left us. You know, you look, when you have annual
inflation year of a year under Biden of six percent,
eight percent, nine percent, you know, add that up, that's
twenty five thirty percent. It's going to take a while
to come off of that. Now under Trump, you know,
Trump's first term, around two percent. Now so far this
year around three percent, much much lower than under Biden,

(01:06:19):
which is a good thing, but it's going to take
a wile for that toll. The other thing to not
forget is the Working Families tax cut signed July fourth,
but a lot of those provisions don't go into law
until January one, and so the lift that that's going
to be for working families has not really happened yet,
but it will after For the first do you.

Speaker 5 (01:06:36):
Think by summertime people will be feeling different economically than
they do right now?

Speaker 9 (01:06:40):
I do, I really do.

Speaker 12 (01:06:41):
It's going to take time, but all the indicators are
of the economies head in the right direction who need
more time to let that take effect.

Speaker 5 (01:06:49):
The Republican Study Committee, this group, it's the largest on
Capitol Hill? Is I understand it? Do you think you're
going to impact legislatively something that will get over to
the Senate and maybe make its way through the Senate.
Are we going to see more action before the midterm?

Speaker 12 (01:07:01):
Very much so, and proud to be part of the
Republican Study Committee, really the offensive line of the Congress.
You know, nothing's going to happen without the republic the
Republican Study Committee, the largest caucus in the Congress, moving
forward together.

Speaker 9 (01:07:14):
That's what we're seeing. We having a successful year so far.
We'll have a lot more to do.

Speaker 5 (01:07:18):
We're glad to have you here today. Hope you'll come
back and see us soon.

Speaker 9 (01:07:21):
Sir, thanks for having me have a great rest today.

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