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Joe Bidens’ No Regrets Tour; New Exclusive Polling on the Trump Agenda; Mayor Pete’s Big Mess
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Biden’s Media Tour, Air Traffic Mayhem, China Trade Talks & Tariff Tantrums | The 10 Minute Drill (May 8) President Biden says he has “no regrets” about his delayed 2024 exit—but will voters agree? In this episode of The 10 Minute Drill,...
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Host
Joe Biden is back and he has no regrets. You are never going to guess what Mayor Pete just said with this fun new beard. And we have brand new data on President Trump and Republicans. Big, beautiful bill, all of that and so much more today on 10 Minute Drill. Everybody get up. Get up.
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Joe Biden
The story of America is the story of an adventure. I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. We are a nation under God. And. And I believe God intended for us to be free.
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Host
Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Biden is back and he has no regrets.
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Joe Biden
Should you have withdrawn earlier, given someone else a bigger chance? I don't think it would have mattered.
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Host
That was not great. But you will never guess why. He said he didn't need to drop out.
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Joe Biden
I had become what we had set out to do, no one thought we could do and become so successful.
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Host
I am not sure that that is the exact reason things didn't pan out for the transition from Joe Biden to candidate Kamala Harris. But we will look forward to seeing the next phase of the Joe Biden return tour today on the View. The View famously ended the Kamala Harris campaign when they asked her the very difficult question of what would you have done differently than Joe Biden?
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Joe Biden
And.
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Host
And she failed to answer.
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Pete Buttigieg
We are one copper wire away from chaos. Last week, Newark's air traffic control system went dark for 90 seconds.
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Host
As this unfolds at Newark and with air traffic control around the country, Democrats like Chuck Schumer are already jumping in to blame President Trump, new Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Doge. But as the Wall Street Journal points out, Chuck Schumer has opposed important reforms to this for several years and is just now fighting his voice. And one dynamic that we've been hearing about from the beginning, the Trump administration, is as Secretary Duffy took over, he was horrified to find that air traffic control stations around the country were still relying on things like floppy disks and Post it notes to control the skies. It's also important to note that President Biden and Mayor Pete Buttigieg, while they discussed spending a lot of money on improving our transit systems, most of that money never made it to them. And we also know that discussing things like air traffic control and transportation safety was not as big a priority for Secretary Pete Buttigieg as things like transit equity.
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Pete Buttigieg
Transportation equity means making sure that we have policies that serve everybody. And we know, for example, when it comes to racial justice in this country, this is one of the biggest things that I think is at stake in transportation policy.
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Host
Thank goodness Secretary Buttigieg was finally there. To deal with those racist roads. Anytime you saw Secretary Buttigieg on tv, he most likely wasn't talking about transportation issues, but he was talking about every other issue, things like abortion or visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. We are not clear on what that visit and that photo op had to do with fixing US Transportation, but likely our tax dollars paid for it and he likely did it on a private plane. Perhaps one of my favorite Secretary Buttigieg nuggets came from this article about him from Wired. As Secretary Buttigieg and I talked in his under furnished corner office one afternoon in early spring, I slowly became aware that his cabinet job requires only a modest portion of his cognitive other mental facilities, no kidding, are apportioned to the Iliad, Puritan histography and Nazgaard Spring, though not in the original Norwegian slacker. Fortunately, he was willing to devote yet another apse in his cathedral mind to making his ideas about three mighty themes, neoliberalism, masculinity and Christianity intelligible to me.
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Joe Biden
Wow.
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Host
Perhaps he should have used a little bit more of that cathedral mind to focus on fixing our transportation sector. But Secretary Duffy later today will announce a plan to reform the air traffic control system. We'll report back on that next week. But airlines are already lining up behind this as a critical, critical move to try and fix the transportation system in our country. As President Trump tries to realign trade around the world with his tariff agenda, we've discussed some of the messages that help and hurt that cause. Here's one of the latest an acknowledgement that some prices will go up.
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Joe Biden
I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs that's 11 years old, needs to have $30. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls.
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Host
There are messages that are helpful to President Trump's cause on trade, things like onshoring manufacturing, especially after the pandemic exposed the fact that our supply chains have major issues. Also, any discussion about progress in these trade deals and improving our trade relationships also is very helpful in polling. But a discussion about how we have too many dolls and pencils is less helpful. And I hope the administration will continue to focus their messaging on how this is going to make Americans more prosperous, have more options and a lower cost of living in the long run. This week, China announced that they will be sitting down with our trade representatives, a delegation led by Treasury Secretary Besant in Switzerland. Secretary Besant discussed this on Fox News last night.
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Joe Biden
This isn't sustainable, as I said before, especially on the Chinese side.
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Host
These trade talks with China will be some of the most important in this entire conversation globally. One thing that we've discussed here is these dynamics about how China is a producer economy, the United States is a consumer economy. So when President Trump says they need us more than we need them, he's right. Because they desperately need our markets to sell the massive volume of goods they're producing. Otherwise, they're just stacking up little trinkets and things in warehouses with nowhere for them to go. But one dynamic that is challenging for President Trump is the fact that Xi is a dictator and he does not have to worry about political pressure at home because it's a totalitarian state. We saw what they did locking people up during the COVID pandemic. Whereas President Trump is trying to balance pressures at home, market volatility, and the need to get the best deal possible, he's already taking a tough stance, saying we will not be changing our 145% tariffs on China anytime soon. So we'll watch how this unfolds this weekend. Yesterday, the Washington Reporter released exclusive new polling from CRC Research conducted for the 85 Fund, talking about two key components of current congressional negotiations on the big beautiful spending bill. First, on extending the Trump 2017 middle class tax cut. We're back at our big board and we're gonna go through some polling specific to these tax cuts. Now to set a baseline, we ask people. Now, this is a poll of American registered voters. When it comes to Americans in taxes, do you believe the average person is paying? Naturally, about 65% say too much. 21% say just the right amount. I think that's a little bit surprising to see, but this gives you a baseline of where people are. A large majority believes they're paying too much in taxes. Over the last four months, media reports have highlighted extravagant fraud, waste and abuse in the federal government. Found by the Department of Government Efficiency. After learning about these findings, do you believe you should be paying? 52% say less taxes. Again, 23% say the same amount. Only 14% have gotten to know government spending better and said, actually, we should be paying more. I think that's a notable part of this. Would you be more or less likely to vote for an elected official who opposed extending the 2017 tax cuts? 45% said less likely to vote for. Now, we're going to throw something into the mix here that will change this. Would you be more or less likely to support an elected official who voted to raise your taxes by blocking an extension of the 2017 middle class tax cuts? 57% are less likely. So when this is framed as what it is, which is Democrats voting to raise taxes by blocking an extension of those 2017 tax cuts, look across the board here at all of that red those are people who are less likely. That includes independents. Even Democrats and liberals are less likely to support somebody when they understand that what they're voting to do is to raise their taxes. Below are possible reasons someone might support extending the middle class tax cuts. For each, please indicate whether that state would make you more likely or less likely. The Current cost of living 64% of people say that the current cost of living makes them more supportive of extending those 2017 tax cuts. Learning about Fraud, Waste and Abuse Tax dollars have been used to fund 56%. Now, when you look at these cross tabs over here, it's interesting to look at independents 54% Republicans 66% the threat of increased taxes if they're not extended 55% research and data showing that everyone benefited from the 2017 tax cuts 63% as you hear Democrats say this is a tax cut for the rich, you have to look back at all the reporting and data that showed virtually everyone benefited from those 2017 tax cuts. Despite all the media misinformation and Democratic tax at the time, every study that followed showed everyone benefited from those tax cuts. To look at this holistically, reasons for supporting those tax cuts 64% cite the current cost of living as the biggest reason they would support extending those research and data showing everyone benefited on down Next on to Medicaid. Now, Medicaid has been a major political football in this back and forth fight. CBO real released a report just yesterday talking about the number of people who will, quote, lose coverage if any of these adjustments to Medicaid are made. But the important thing to understand here is when CBO points to things like people losing coverage, a lot of times it's talking about adding eligibility checks and people getting off of Medicaid because they're not eligible for it. So as Democrats attack Republicans for trying to get ineligible people off of Medicaid, our polling that we're about to go through shows why that's so important. So as we talk about Medicaid and the importance of cutting fraud, waste and abuse in it to make the program work better, it's important to understand again, President Trump was elected to cut fraud, waste and abuse in government, and programs like this are a good place to start. Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are three government programs aimed at assisting the elderly, low income families and those with disabilities There have been many reports recently about fraud, waste and abuse in these programs. When thinking about these programs, how concerned are you about possible fraud, waste and abuse in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security? 71% are concerned, including 34% who are very concerned. Look across the board at these crosstabs. Everyone is concerned about fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid. So when you hear somebody say you can't cut fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid, they're wrong. And people want that fraud, waste and abuse to be cut. Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources in the United States. Would you support efforts to save taxpayer money and ensure Medicaid is reserved for people who need it most, the elderly, people with disabilities and low income children, by instituting a work requirement that ensures anyone receiving health insurance through Medicaid is either working or looking for work? 59%. That tracks with a lot of public polling we've seen over the last several years. Support for checking to ensure that people are receiving Medicaid are actually eligible is very strong. People believe taxpayer funds shouldn't go to people who shouldn't be on Medicaid. They should find other ways to get health care or in many cases get jobs that would require them to get health care. So the work requirement is incredibly popular. Again, as you look across the board here, support from independents in every group across the board. Lastly, a recent study found that Medicaid has distributed as much as 1.1 trillion in improper payments or payment errors over the last decade. Would you support efforts to cut back on fraud, waste and abuse in programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security to ensure those programs are able to last longer and provide better service to recipients? 68% said yes. Again, it goes back to the fact that there is massive concern about fraud, wasting, abuse in those programs, not just to save money, but to make sure that these programs work better and provide better service to recipients. Across the board, there is concern about that. There is concern about the improper payments. And so when you see Democrats and many in the media highlight efforts to check eligibility as a way of throwing people off, people support checking that eligibility and making sure we don't have this kind of $1.1 trillion in waste over a 10 year period. For today's you can't make it up segment, you will never guess what Mayor Pete had to say about building things in America.
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Pete Buttigieg
The fact that it is so hard to build and do things in this country, and I lived this when I was at the Department of transportation, we got 20,000 infrastructure projects done, but we could have done more if it were easier to complete the things that we start in this country, and we could have done it more efficiently with our dollar. There's a lot of work that needs to be done.
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Host
But when Secretary Buttigieg oversaw the Department of Transportation, they had programs like spending $7.5 billion to build EV charging stations and only building eight of them in about three years when they had promised to build hundreds of thousands of them. And the reason for that delay had a lot to do with Secretary Buttigieg and his leadership at the Department of Transportation, where they prioritized equity rules over actually building. In order to qualify for a grant, applicants must demonstrate how meaningful public involvement, inclusive of disadvantaged communities, will occur throughout a project's life cycle. That public involvement is vague and includes things like hosting multicultural neighborhood block parties. So again, in order to build an EV charging station under Pete Buttigieg, you had to hold a multicultural neighborhood block party to make a case to the community that you cared about equity and for everyone involved. This is a major issue for Democrats as they move forward. When you look at things like California's high speed rail and the fact that they began that project in 1979, years before I was born, and are now celebrating the fact that only part of it will be completed by 2045 when I am in my 50s, that is the consequence of liberal governance and overregulation. And Mayor Pete, in so many ways, is the current modern, newly bearded face of it. Now I want to give a shout out to an important bill that is being pushed by my first boss in Washington, Mike Lee, along with Senator Ted Cruz. Cruz called the REINS Act. The REINS act would prevent major regulations, those imposing compliance costs of at least $100 million from taking effect without being passed by Congress, not just rubber stamped by unelected bureaucrats. This is one of the most important things for the Trump administration and Republicans while they're in power to deal with Joe Biden introduced more consequential regulations that drove up the cost of building and the cost of everything in our lives. More regulations than any president in over 40 years. We have a chance to undo so much of that, but also to change the way that's done with things like the REINS Act. So I hope you'll take a look at that. That is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for joining us on 10 Minute Drill. Please subscribe on YouTube. Like follow us. Tell your friends, tell your neighbors. Thanks again.