
Episode 4320: Pass A Clean CR To Give Power To Cut Wasteful Departments ...
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Chris Matthews
Happened with Doge. He's gone back and forth on Doge so many times whether Elon Musk is in charge or whether he's not in charge. And yesterday that changed again, I think in one of the most significant ways.
Brian Glenn
Yeah. And back and forth on tariffs, which we'll get to. Amid growing backlash over these sweeping federal cuts by Elon Musk's Doge team, President Trump appears to be somewhat limiting the billionaires power within the federal government. Yesterday, the president told his cabinet secretaries they're in charge of their own departments, not Musk. Trump said Musk's role is to make recommendations on staffing and policy. Following that meeting, the president posted on Truth Social that he's instructed his cabinet secretaries to work with Musk on cost cutting measures. He later elaborated on that statement while speaking to reporters at the White House.
Steve Bannon
I want the cabinet members to keep the good people and the people that.
Chip Roy
Aren'T doing a good job, that are.
Steve Bannon
Unreliable, show up to work, etc.
Chip Roy
Those people can be cut. Elon and the group are going to.
Steve Bannon
Be watching them and if they can cut, it's better.
Chip Roy
And if they don't cut, then Elon will do the cutting.
Chris Matthews
Chris Matthews, we I've always told people, if you understand what Donald Trump is trying to do in the White House, read the first three pages of the Art of the Deal where he says, I show up at work, I pick up the phone, I make calls, kind of figure out how things are going and I sort of feel my way through it. Well, you get that sense with Elon Musk. One day he says Elon's in charge, the next day his cabinet members call up and they're upset. So he goes, he lines not in charge. He says it said the union's in charge. Now he says he lines not in charge. That is the cabinet members that are not in charge. It bounces back and forth. But there are of course real consequences to that, especially for those people that are taking these cases to the courts. But, but for now, it does seem he's gotten enough pushb from cabinet members who are now saying, including people like Cash Patel, who he's very close to, are saying, this is my agency. I don't need this guy with a chainsaw telling me who's going to work for me and who's not going to work for me and how I'm going to reorganize my own bureaucracy.
Brian Glenn
For the first time, President Trump may be reining in Elon Musk. Just hours ago, the president convening his Cabinet Secretaries and musk at the White House to send this message. The cabinet secretaries have power over who gets fired inside their agencies. Trump writing on his Troop truth social platform that the secretaries quote can be very precise as to who will remain and who will go. Trump also writing that government cuts should be made with a scalpel, not with a hatchet. Which one of those implements might this chainsaw more resemble?
Joe
Top 10% of Americans are 40 or 50% of consumption. And that is an unstable equilibrium. The bottom 50% of working Americans have gotten killed. We are trying to address that. We're trying to get rates down. And, you know, could we be seeing that this economy that we inherited starting to roll a bit? Sure. And look, there's going to be a natural adjustment as we move away from public spending to private spending market and the economy have just become hooked and we become addicted to this government spending and there's going to be a detox period.
Cash Patel
Trade deficits, do you view those as inherently bad? I know the president always points to that. But we do consume, and we're always going to consume more than the rest of the world. And if you do indeed want a strong dollar, it seems like it's something we're going to have to live with. A couple of other ones, punishing bad behavior, security concerns with China. That's a whole slew of reasons to put on tariffs. And it just. At this point, I guess critics would say it looks a little haphazard the way they go on. They come off. We, we talk to Mexico and Canada. Okay. We talked to the automakers. They don't want us to do it, so we're not going to do it. It just seems like it's being levied in a somewhat haphazard way. Is that not fair?
Joe
Of course it's not there, Joe. But that's what you all do. Not all. Look, it's not linear. It's an. It's an organic process. But if we were to look back to a similar process over what President Trump's talked about it, its first administration. He talked about it in the campaign trail. He's talked about it since November, is the need for Europeans to fund their own defense. And you just had a very long conversation with Pascus and that all of a sudden, voila. This week, this week, after 25 years of baiting and cajoling, President Trump achieved what five other presidents couldn't achieve. The Europeans are going to up their defense spending. The German debt break is coming off. That was not a linear process. That was not always an attractive process. But now the Europeans say that they are going to pay their fair share. As of yesterday, energy Prices were down 15%. Crude was down 15%. Since Inauguration Day, 10 year rates are down, mortgages are down. The spreads between the 10 year rate and mortgages have come in. So we saw housing, the, we saw mortgage applications pop up last week. I think if we can keep on that trajectory and Joe, the American dream is to be able to buy a house. Access to cheap goods is not the asset is not the essence of the American dream. The American dream is rooted in the concept that any citizen can achieve prosperity, upward mobility and economic security. For too long the designers of multilateral trade deals have lost sight of this. International economic relations that do not work for the American people must be re examined.
Steve Bannon
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going.
Chip Roy
Medieval on these people. I got a free shot.
Steve Bannon
All these networks lying about the people.
Chip Roy
The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but.
Steve Bannon
You'Re not going to stop it.
Chip Roy
It's going to happen.
Stephen K. Bannon
And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul.
Chip Roy
I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
Steve Bannon
Ask yourself what is my task and.
Chip Roy
What is my purpose? If that answer is to save my.
Steve Bannon
Country, this country will be saved.
Stephen K. Bannon
WAR ROOM here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.
Chip Roy
It's Friday the 7th of March in the year of our Lord 2025. Welcome. You saw right there two things, two things happening. Number one, this whole doge situation, who's in charge and who's not in charge. And then you have the, and then you have the situation with the, with the, with spending and in the budget and all that. So let me break it down first. Let's take Scott Besant first. In fact I want to get ready and play that Cash Patel part of the Cash Patel part. So you saw Scott Besson, you're seeing a big pivot from the White House to get very focused on and be focused on the economy. This started yesterday with the, with the economic club talk. It continue with Scott Bessant afterwards. Given a lot of press briefings. It then this morning he, for 45 minutes, 45 minutes he was on with squawk box which he walked through tariffs, he walked through spending, he walked through particularly the case he's making is that right now I'll go back to that top, the top 10% of the population. In economics, the top 10% has 50% of the consumption. It's a very unstable situation. What President Trump is trying to do. And this is the entire. When we talk about tariffs, they're not traditional tariffs. That's what they're hammering on TV in. We gotta get better surrogates. You gotta get more surrogates out there telling the story. Because the story is just not about tariffs on goods and tariffs on a tariff on a tomato coming in from Mexico. This is a total rethinking of the American business model. It shouldn't be lost on people which none of the mainstream media is talking about. They're not talking about which is last month the greatest trade deficit I think in any one month. Now I think we're up to six or seven. I think we're up to $600 billion just this year in a trade deficit. We're going to be over a trillion dollars in a trade deficit. People don't want to talk about that. And this is President Trump with the tariffs. It is protection it's bringing. We would not have Taiwan Semiconductor coming if we didn't have the tariffs. Understand the defense of Taiwan, I got that. But they would not come with a hundred billion dollar investment paid over four years. You would not have Apple Computer with a half a trillion dollars, $500 billion to build state of the art manufacturing here in the United States if you didn't have the tariffs. And I do, I do agree, I think the messing and Peter Navarro and people have to, I think, get better. You have to message us and we can't be, you know, like for instance, the Canadian tariffs and saying that there's not enough Mounties on the border. That's just not going to wash. You have to make the case. President Trump is making the case. You have to stick to the case because the tariffs are a very, very powerful tool to bring high value added manufacturing jobs back to the United States and start to rebuild us as a manufacturing superpower. You are not going to get the, you're not going to break this. Top 10% of earners have 50% of the consumption unless you have high value added jobs for the working class and the middle class that you then have money to both save. Number one, buy a house, get some real estate. Number two, actually invest in either gold stocks or bonds. Right. And have money left over for consumption. This is kind of the macro issue that Scott Bessant is dealing with. I wish on two things. Number one, I wish we had EJ and Tony going through exactly what the economy, they've been handed. The economy is terrible. Underlying economy is terrible. What President Trump done is pretty extraordinary, I think in the jobs report today, 9,000 new jobs, 9,000 new jobs in the automotive industry, not even mentioned by the mainstream media. 9,000 new jobs by the automotive industry. So the pivot to the economy. And later in the day you're going to have the crypto conference. And look, the crypto conference, some people are pro, some people are. I got to know more and even talk about the crypto conference, that issue about the government underwriting liquidity in bitcoins kind of off the table. They're going to take some of the various bitcoins, take other things and kind of put it into some sort of either trust front or some reserve, but these ones that they've already picked up. So there's no underwriting. But that's all about the economy. That's more of the kind of, you know, financial and more, I guess, speculative financial economy, but it's still part of it. And Scott Bessem will be back this afternoon. I think he's going to meet with the president. And you're seeing a major pivot to the economy. Now, this gets down to the cr, okay, it gets down to funding the government. And finally they're all hands on deck to focus on how you're going to fund the government through the end of the year. Every piece of polling is coming out is that people want to cut government spending. It's about how you cut government spending. This is one of the reasons I'm such a big proponent of DOGE and what they're doing. Waste, fraud and abuse. You definitely have to go into waste, fraud, abuse. I think the way to do it with going to, with shock troops to try to find it is quite smart. Now you have to manage that process. You have to manage that process. But eventually I'm very skeptical about the aggregate number of waste foreign abuse. It's out there and has to be taken out, number one, to give people confidence, their tax dollars going somewhere. Number two, to make sure that particularly on this waste foreign abuse, it's normally going to lefties to fund these horrible programs against MAGA and against the United States itself, the populist nationalists, and particularly the sovereignty of the country. But eventually, folks, you're not going to do this without tears. You're not going to get $6.5 trillion managed, okay? You're not going to close a $2 trillion deficit a year. We're not going to stop the madness without some tears. You're just not going to do it. Let's go to. We have Brian Glenn. Brian. Okay, fine. Then we didn't need to skip the break. Do you have the cash clip? Thanks. Let's play that.
Chris Matthews
But, but for now, it does seem he's gotten enough pushback from cabinet members who are now saying, including people like Cash Patel, who he's very close to, are saying, this is my agency. I don't need this guy with a chainsaw telling me who's going to work for me and who's not going to work for me and how I'm going to reorganize my own bureaucracy.
Chip Roy
Okay, I want to thank Real America's Voice for skipping the break here. Let's go to Doge the cr. And here's what's coming down now is the CR is going to be a clean cr, although they are adding some healthcare things, I think overnight, although it's kind of very unformed. You have the cr. It comes due on. You know, we kind of run out of official ability to spend money at midnight on the 14th. You know this right now they're talking about a clean CR with maybe some attachments of some health care. But it's kind of an up or down vote. We already know no Democrats are going to vote for this before in December and then earlier to get past the September 30th. You have tons of Democrats because they feed off of big government. The last thing they want is the government to shut down and stop those payments. They live for it. They're prepared to block it totally right now in the House. Why? They want Trump's government to be shut down. They want Trump's government to actually be shut down with the force of Senate Democrats so you don't get to the 60 break cloture. But to be able to say, to be able to say that, to be able to say that you didn't, that you'd be able to say is that we have Chip or Chip Roy. Okay, hang on for a second. We're going to get the latest right here from Chip Roy. Let's go to the White House. Chip, you've just stepped out of a meeting. Can you get us up to speed on what's happening on this? On this? Because you're kind of one of the, you're probably the lead, I don't know if negotiator or architect of what's going on. Can you walk us through what's happening?
Stephen K. Bannon
Yes, Steve, great to be on the show, as always. It's great to be here at the White House with a lot of good friends like what we have here are our people who are wanting to, you know, clean out all the mess, cut all the waste, fraud and abuse, and end what has been happening to the American people's, you know, money through waste here in Washington. And so you've got Elon shining the light on it with Doge. You've got great patriots like Russ Boat at the Office of Management and Budget prepared to use impoundment and all the tools of the president's authority to restrict spending and cut the spending. So what we need to do is keep the lights on. Like, look, I am no big proponent of a CR as a general rule, but when you've got this president, when you have these guys down here doing the hard work of cleaning out the clutter, I want to keep the lights on. I don't want Democrats turn the power off and, you know, prevent them from being able to do the job the American people sent them here to do. And which, by the way, Congress has utterly failed to do in the past. And I've been fighting my colleagues in Congress to try to cut spending. And we've hit a wall. The president is breaking that wall down. So we don't want to prevent that from occurring. So the CR is critical. Look, I liken it to this, Steve. If you've got a bunch of crap in your House, it's all cluttering up your House and the, you know, Democrats and the swamp Republicans want to keep adding crap to the House. Well, I want to. We're in there now. We got all these guys cleaning it out. They've backed up the moving truck. They're moving all the stuff out, and we just need to keep the power on long enough for them to finish the job. And if they don't, or if they hit a wall or if the courts try to stop them, I think the President ought to, of course, you know, be very strong against whatever the courts do to try to stop his constitutional prerogatives. But then we need to have the power in the FY26 appropriations process, which, by the way, is already underway, because we've got to get that done by September. We need to step in as Congress and back up the President and put cuts into those bills in the House and send those over to the Senate. So I think we've got a week to go. A CR freezes spending at current levels. And by the way, I'm going to police that. I don't want the speaker to send me a dirty cr. Send me a clean CR that freezes spending, empower the President. I think that's something that we conservatives can support to give him the latitude he needs to do the job.
Chip Roy
Okay, just a couple of questions and this gets, let's, let's start with, you know, we kicked the can down the road from, from the, from the middle of December you were one of the leaders of saying we got, we got a shot to do these appropriation bills. Just explain the audience because my understanding is that 75% or 80% of the appropriations bills are done. Has the Senate not done theirs? Could he not do a conference? Could, could we agree and it's work for 72 straight hours and agree on at least get appropriations and then do a CR for the remainder? Is that even a possibility or is it, is that process that. Because you were one of the big guys that fought for single subject appropriations bills. I think we got seven of them done or at least 75 or 80% of the spending. So what, what is your thoughts on that?
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, look, I mean I obviously fully support trying to do our job the right way with single purpose bills, with appropriations bills. We fought that with McCarthy and look, we moved the needle a long way. Two years ago we got seven bills across. Last year we got five bills across. But we hit the wall. Right. Of Democrats. Since we've gotten now the trifecta over the last, what, five, six weeks we have been trying to work through the reconciliation effort. And look, I'm going to be a little blunt. I wish we had already sent a bill over to the Senate from the House with spending cuts attached. I wish we would have taken our five good appropriations bills attached, the rest in the firm, the form of a CR or some other version of a minibus, sent it over to the Senate and jammed them up. We didn't do that. But now we're sitting here with a seven day clock. I think we need to focus on FY26 and use the bills you just talked about, the five bills we passed last year as a baseline. Go look at what Doge has done, insert that into the mix and then drop spending levels down for FY26 and send it to the Senate. And I know this is inside baseball. The basic simple terms is a spending freeze is generally speaking a win in the swamp. We have expectations, you and I and your, your viewers. We have expectations that we want radical cuts. I think we can deliver those cuts, but we need the force of the White House to do that because Congress is going to always get hung up on their pet projects. The White House is organizing to identify the waste. We need to insert that into the mix. A seven day, you know, window here where we pass a CR that freezes spending in this moment is actually a win, even though I would have rather done it a different way had we started a year ago with Republicans.
Chip Roy
Okay, so one more thing. Look, Rasmussen's got polling out this polling out today. People overwhelmingly support, and particularly Republicans overwhelmingly support the concept of DOGE to get to waste foreign abuse because there's two things. There's waste foreign abuse and then there's programmatic cuts. And we know we're going to have to get to program cuts in defense, in Medicaid and they're going to be tough and there's going to be pain and there's going to be a fight, a firestorm. That's all going to happen in the summer of 26. Is there a possibility because people saying, hey, I think this is the hard one to swallow. Elon's been out there, they've announced this stuff. It's kind of ill formed totally what the number is. But how do we do an up or down vote and approve the CR where we're essentially saying we're going to approve the spending of the money we know is wasted? Is there any way to attach something to the cr just in a broad range of numbers that gives Russ vote empowers him after March, after the 14th of March, between the 30th of September, in the next five or six months to use impoundment to go back to the president with Elon and say hey, here's actually the number, right. And we're going to impound that number and then go to the courts and fight it all the way up to the Supreme Court. Sir.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah. So two or three thoughts on that. First of all, I co sponsor Andrew Clyde's great bill to make very clear that the language that Congress passed in the 70s that tries to restrict the president on impoundment is a bad idea and we should get rid of it. It's the president's authority. Now to be clear the second point, I think the president has that authority. I think that restriction by Congress is unconstitutional. I think that will fail in the court if it's tried to be applied against when the president actually uses the impoundment authority. So my issue here right now is we've got to decide what we need to do to keep the lights on for Elon to keep shining the light on it so we can keep winning public opinion and fight it in the FY26 appropriations. So we're agreeing. What I'm saying is I think the President already has the power. I don't want Congress to interfere with President Trump's power because usually Congress messes things up. So I think they need to go win that in the courts. Russ has the power now, in my opinion.
Chip Roy
Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. I see your logic. You're saying you don't need to attach to the cr pass a clean cr. The President has the inherent power in the unified executive theory that he's the chief executive of the US Government. When Elon gets more definitive about what it is, and if it's 50 billion or 100 billion, whatever the number is, that Russ can go to the President and say, this is waste, fraud and abuse that we found. Right. And the president then can make a decision to impound that money immediately. And then, of course, the Democrat, they'll take you to court immediately, but you fight it out at that point. But you're saying you don't need that in a cr. The President has the inherent power and that Russ votes going to be on point. Is that. Is that how you're. That's how the concept of people ought to be thinking of?
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah. I mean, I couldn't have said it any better. You just outlined it perfectly. In fact, I'm going to grab that clip and use it for my colleagues, because that's exactly right. And let me give you the final backstop. If the courts try to get in the way of the President, I think it will empower us in Congress to do our part to go in and say, guys, stop funding this garbage. So, for example, why would we fund a $32,000 transgender comic book in Peru? Right. Let's go cut that. Like, why would we do any of that? And importantly, we can then send a loud message. Remember this? Eli Crane, our good conservative friend, he offered an amendment in the fall of 23 to cut USAID in half. One hundred and two Republicans voted for it. 114 voted against it. We need to back the President.
Chip Roy
One last thing before you go. It got brought up in the Senate yesterday. Rescissions. Rescissions kind of counters. The impoundment is the executive acting. Rescissions is going back up to Capitol Hill. We want to avoid rescissions. Correct. We want. We want to give Russ a full backing, the president, full backing. That they come back and say, hey, look, we've gone through Elon's numbers. It's $50 billion. We want to impound that. We're Going to impound that immediately, Correct?
Stephen K. Bannon
That is. That is roughly correct. There are a few things in there that I'll tell you privately that I'm going to hold on to a little bit later in the year about what the President's power is. I'm going to let them do that. But I'll say this with rescissions. There is another rescissions play that when the president decides and moves it to the Hill, we can get it through the Senate with 51 votes. If Congress jumps the gun, then it's 60 votes in the Senate. We need to work directly with the White House to do this the right way and then we can use rescissions, I think to better effect. So, yes, you basically summarized it right, but there's a little more to it.
Chip Roy
Okay, I know you got to go back up the Hill. When can we anticipate seeing this beauty? What do you think? Whether it's clean or dirty, Chip, are we going to get. Hold on. We're going to get this dropped on us on like the afternoon, like 4:00 in the afternoon of the 14th, or do you anticipate that Speaker Johnson will move a little quicker?
Stephen K. Bannon
Well, I think the Speaker, I hope, learned a lesson of what happened right before Christmas when we got a 1500 page Christmas tree, the people spoke, Elon spoke, everybody spoke and that bill got shot down and then the bill got narrowed down. I think we're going to get a cleaner bill on Saturday. Now, it might have a number of pages in it because you have to deal with anomalies for contracts and defense, but the numbers should still be flat and frozen. And we'll get that hopefully by tomorrow Saturday so that we have the full 72 hours before we're moving the bill next week because we believe very strongly in that. So you, the American people can see it, know what's in it before these guys are voting on it.
Chip Roy
Yeah. Okay. Chip, what's your social media? Because people run, I'm gonna follow you moment by moment because this thing's a very movable this a movable feast until midnight on the 14th. How do people get to you?
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, yeah, thanks, Steve. Yeah, my, my Twitter or my X handle is Chiproy Tx C H I P R O Y T X. That's the best way to follow or my official one is Rep. Chiproy on.
Chip Roy
Chip. We're just glad you're up having a cup of coffee and the President's having a Diet Coke. You two guys are working on this thing together. The audience really happy about that.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah. Look, I agree with the president on virtually everything. Happy to be here. Happy to be here with my friends. Man, this is the opportunity of a lifetime, but we got to deliver. So we're going to be working tirelessly to deliver for the president.
Chip Roy
Thank you, brother. Appreciate you. Congressman Chip Ward, Texas, one of the top, one of the guys leading this negotiation. It kind of is what it is right here. Right. We'll have to see more of it, but I'm sure it's going to be quite hopefully clean as possible. You're going to have to, I think the president, I'm sure the president in talking to members because look, there's 30 or 40 of the deficit hawks and the House Freedom Caucus guys and people not in the House Freedman caucus or deficit hawks are going to have to have this walk through. And I'm sure the president's going to have to have a discussion with people saying, hey, I'm going to get these Doge cuts done. I'm going to get them done as soon as possible. Russ Vogt is going to get his arms around it and then come back to me and we're going to be impounding these as soon as possible. And that'll lead to another firestorm, the only flying the ointment. Well, there's a lot of complexity in actually getting that. One of the big issues I have right here, and I love Mike Davis, but I was not convinced the other day of Robertson, Amy Coney Barrett, this situation on this foreign of the $2 billion that Doge kind of came up with originally that said, hey, one of the $2 billion things they found about foreign affairs that the president backed, he didn't want this foreign aid money going out. And this judge, this kind of source, federal judge, a Biden appointee is held up and the Supreme Court didn't totally have our back. So I think that's a huge question. The issue, as I told you, it was always going to come down to this. It was going to come down to a cr. You notice nobody's talking about reconciliation. You can't talk about reconciliation because it's a bridging effect. You have to get the first one done first. My concern, and this goes to Johnson and this entire crowd, you have to you can't live in fantasy, you have to live in reality. And the president deserves people who are prepared to talk to him and say, hey, look, here's the reality. We wouldn't be having this fiasco if this had been put first and reconciliation had been put off to the side. It Just wouldn't. We should have gotten this done and you should have gotten it done with the appropriations bill. That was the deal that was kind of cut in mid December. It was an agree. And that I think is what President Trump was thinking. I mean that's what he was told. There was no way that he ever thought that he would get back here to mid March and we're going to do another cr. There was supposed to be the appropriations bills, supposed to be done both in the House and the Senate, then conference, hammer it out, take that to President Trump. That's just supposed to work. It did not work. And we have to start holding people accountable, particularly leadership. You can't run away from this because this one is going to. This is where this is. This is this a huge missed opportunity even with Russ coming with the impoundments? Hey, I believe Russ believes, the President believes, the Office of Legal Counsel believes many scholars believe he has the absolute right on impoundment. That's not a slam dunk. It's just not. It's a five foot bank shot, jump shot could hit the rim or get blocked. We're going to get more into this because this is what's important. It's tied back to Scott, the big pivot on the economy coming both tariff taxes. As President Trump, weight of the world's on his shoulders needs a little help. Guys want to thank Chip Roy, Brian Glenn from the White House next Monday.
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Chip Roy
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Stephen K. Bannon
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon.
Chip Roy
It would obviously help if we had our arms around where Doge stands right now, where they really stand on the numbers. And we have to get to that number. The sooner you get to the number, the better we're all going to be. And I think for this audience and for the President, I think before any deal is agreed to on the clean CR that there's going to have to be some indication. I'm just asking for a first cut, you know, not going to hold you to the number. Give Is it 25 billion to 50 billion? Is it 100 billion? Is it 10 billion? I really don't care what the number is right now, what it is the absolute number. Just let's drive a stake in the ground. I've said before and this is not a smear on Doge. I love what Doge is attempting to do, but the waste, fraud and abuse is not going to be a trillion dollars. It's just not going to be. Just not. And we have to, this is all important. We got to cut federal spending. It's driving inflation, it's driving anything. And I think the numbers are going to rapidly deteriorate. Going to rapidly deteriorate. And the Democrats are going to use that against President Trump also. In fact, if we can get the EJ and Tony three minute clip from the other day, I want to play that again as soon as we get it. The EJ and Tony J and Tony came on here and did the best job of walking through where the economy was in two and a half or three minutes. The economy handed over by, by Biden. So the whole pivot to the economy, the underpinning of that is to get this budget done for the rest of this year because it's going to be real money spent. Real money spent. Let's go back to the Doge of the operating side of Doge and this all the news you've seen coming out on this again today. There was a Cabinet meeting yesterday, impromptu. And in the Cabinet meeting, the President said, hey, these guys actually make the cuts. You're an advisor and you should advise to the cuts. That was brought up, I think by a number of things. Number one, obviously the Cabinet. And you remember all the heavy lifting you this audience did to get the President Trump's Cabinet. I happen to think it's the best cabinet that's been put together since Lincoln's war cabinet. And people are bad. You're over the top. They said, no, it's not. You've got serious. You got Bobby Kennedy, you got Pete Hegseth. And Pete, I think people realize now is a very serious guy. As we said the whole time, Pete's a very serious guy. In fact, he's so serious that the president, you can tell there is a preparation for eventually going kinetic against the cartels if they're not totally taken down by the Mexicans. Pete Hexit as Secretary of Defense with the uniformed armed services paramilitary CIA are going to eradicate them. Eradicate. That's how much confidence I think the President has in Pete Hexseth. What people are doing in Ukraine, what they're doing in the Middle east, the negotiations, what they're doing with the Russians and the rapprochement. Now Persia wants to come to the table, the Chinese Communist Party. Alex Leary's piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, which says that Xi is gathering everybody and what are they studying? They're studying the Soviet Union in the late 60s, early 70s when containment really was kicking in. Then eventually President Reagan came to office and his thing knowing that we had containment and he had all these people want to do detente and all these deals said, no, let's take it down. We win, they lose. They're very panicked about that. Why? Because they see President Trump's overall grand strategy here, what President Trump's doing on hemispheric defense. These are monumental. These are using your big muscles. This is not like we talk about decades wasted. Look at Clinton. You go back in Clinton, it's like besides Monica Lewinsky, you know, Newt Gingrich, you know, getting, enforcing, you know, budget surpluses. It was really about school uniforms. It was, it was when his farewell dress, it was kind of. It was small ball. Every day President Trump is moving the big muscles. It's just extraordinary. I do want to say the President has told us he's going to give remarks in the Oval Office. I think at 11 approximately. The real America's Voice team and Brian Glenn are heading over there right now. Brian is as. And this goes with this whole restructuring of the White House and White House Correspondents Association. I think Brian will be in the room and that's a huge compliment to Brian Glenn and the real America's Voice team and of course the war room, all of it. I think that Natalie and Brian, Amanda Head are just really killing it over there and doing a fantastic job, reaching a huge, massive audience. Back to Doge, I think, and just connect dots. I want to tie together Wednesday on Capitol Hill because this is important for you to know. With the Thursday meeting the Cabinet and Wednesday on Capitol Hill, you gotta. The polling showing, particularly as some of these things get more dramatic and the media blows it up. Of course they do that. Some of the polling looks like it's. Some of the polling looks like it's not the best. And President Trump's had great polling. But I would say that Elon has gone from a heat shield to maybe actually, you know, someone that's actually driving numbers. I don't want to say an anchor or a lodestone. It's not that yet. But it's trending that is starting to affect everybody. So when he goes to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to the Senate lunch and then to the Hill to that nighttime meeting, people are looking for specifics. As we have been on the show, it's like, yo, you've been doing this now for, you know, seven weeks. We're not, we're not looking for a final. We know you got a long way to go and yes, and we're glad you're talking about the post office going public, spending it off in the Amtrak. But quite frankly, we can do that or we can think that through. We need you there for the waste, fraud and abuse that you're the shock troops. You're like the 82nd Airborne on D Day. You're going in the night before, going behind enemy lines and you're finding this stuff out. But we need to know where this is coming out because we got this ticking time bomb called a, you know, a CR that we have to do. And we would love to attach some numbers to it. The guardians reporting in that meeting. A couple things happened in the meeting. Number one, Lindsey Graham and Thune were kind of taking the leadership and Rand Paul and Lindsey Graham, I think made the statement, hey, we're losing altitude here and we're here the Senate to help you, Elon, regain altitude. And Elon, I think was very open to that in this conversation, according to the Guardian, take over what it's worth. But it hasn't been denied by anybody that he said, hey, look, I haven't been doing the mass cuts. The guys in the Cabinet, which I think was a point of difference between some of the Cabinet officials. That was a big point of this other thing was about rescissions. Remember, a rescission is where. And Chip has got some more refinement to it. But remember, Chip is in the House. So that's the difference. That's the separation of powers. Rescissions are where the Congress is actually rescinding something they already passed saying, hey, upon further review, the green new deal, the 300 billion is not going to be there. We're going to rescind that. It does not happen often because they're addicted to spending. But the Senate wanting their prerogatives laid out to Elon, hey, what we want to do is rescissions and we want to do it up to 500 billion. If you think you got to a trillion, let's assume, worst case, let's cut it in half, 500 billion. Rand Paul said, Look, we'll do it in $100 billion tranches. $100 billion tranches. And suppose according to the reporting, Elon said, well, yeah, I can work with that. Well, the White House has been, hey, we're not going back up to Capitol Hill. This is a separation of powers. As soon as this passed, we and I told you ideas have consequences. This is going to be a big old fight, folks, as we've said now for months and months and months because President Trump is sitting there going, hey, we've allowed the office of the president to be weakened by the administrative state because all this fourth branch of government came up and they think they run it. And no offense, the courts right now are kind of backing up the fact, until I guess, last kind of backing up the fact he doesn't have ultimate authority to fire people in some of these agencies. These are court fights going on right now. In fact, the special counsel guy kind of won. He knew they were going to go back. He said, hey, I don't have the money to do this personally. I'm going to drop out. He's on Rachel Maddow last night, but I think technically he kind of won and then walked off the field. Others are sitting there and these radical judges are saying Trump doesn't have the ability. Trump's sitting there going, I'm the chief executive officer, I can fire him and I am going to fire him. This also gets the money. What President Trump is saying, hey, look, the appropriations. So if we had done the bills this time and gotten that all done, you pass it next week on the 14th, President Trump is sitting there going, hey, my interpretation of the Constitution, that's a ceiling. That's what we spend up to. But I, as chief executive officer, the lead manager of this place, if I see in that process where programmatically you're not hitting it or things change or I have the ability, and it's not an unlimited ability because that would be a line in a veto, but I have the ability to impound certain funds and not to spend them. And that's what Chip Roy is just talking about there. That is kind of what they intend to do, what they're proposing they do for this fiscal year on a clean CR that there would be. And I would like to, just because, you know, on this one, I'm from Missouri, I would love to see a range of numbers or just a number. Give me something that you can say, okay, this is what we anticipate it's going to be. We got to plan. But sometime in the summer, Russ Vogt and OMB are going to go to the President and say, okay, we reviewed this a couple of times. We've double checked Elon's numbers. This is what they've done. So instead of us spending and paying for it, this is what you're going to impound. And President Trump, you see with his executive orders, hey, he will impound away. He's actually looking for this fight on this one. He's looking for the fight. If they can't do it the first time. He's going to sit there and say, I have full managerial discretion. That, ladies and gentlemen, is going to be decided by the Supreme Court of these United States. That is a big time separation of powers issue and we'll see how it plays. I'll be blunt with you. As we've talked about this now for months and months and months, I had a lot more confidence in this. That's part of it up until the last couple weeks, because I thought, particularly on this foreigner, I thought it was pretty straightforward on these cuts they've already made or talking about making with, particularly with the foreign, you know, the foreign affairs money, the money we sent internationally is $2 billion. Right. They ordered it immediately. I think this came up in the Doge initial Doge situation. I think part of it is actually usaid, if not all of it, but some of it's coming out of the State Department and they've said, and right now that's kind of hung up. Now. Mike Davis and people that back the impoundment, they say no, no, no, no. They're just backing the judge and I'll come through the system. We fine. If we got to depend on Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett, I think all bets are off and I think on something as controversial as impoundment, because it will be a firestorm. Remember, the Democrats live on government spending. They're the party of big government and they want government to be bigger. The budget, I think today from 2019 was 2019 so bad. 2019, pretty good year. Great year economically. I think federal spending's up 40, 35 or something. At least a third, maybe 40% since that time. As Scott Besant maybe we pull that clip for later. Scott Bessant said again yesterday at the Economic Club and he said it again Today on the 42 Minute Interview on CNBC. We don't have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem. I agree with that. But now it's time to get down to it on spending. And let me add once again, we're not going to get there with waste, fraud and abuse. It's time. It's going to be something. I hope it's something big. I think it's in a shock to the system. I think it's been great. We had to follow up on it. I hope it's a big number. It's not going to be a trillion dollars. I think we have to get to a trillion because we're not calculating in future deficits the tax cuts on no tax on tips no tax on overtime and no tax on Social Security, which is a big one. We have to bake those in. So you're going to have to find some spending cuts. You're going to have to find it programmatically. You're going to have to find some out of the Defense Department. You're going to have to find some out of Medicaid. Just start. 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Okay, we have not said. We have if that said go to the ramparts, we're still thinking this through. This is all in process. One of the things I think being about being a member of this audience, you're seeing history being made in a few moments. We're going to go to the Oval. I believe that part of I know the president's talking about today, they're supposed to sign the executive order to eliminate the Education Department. Going to be highly controversial. We'll be all over that throughout the day. I think the president may actually say some words, I think, about what's going on in Ukraine. I think Russia, we've made it pretty adamant that we're not sending more weapons. I think we've told them we're cutting off intelligence. I think Russia is pounding Ukraine overnight. President Trump put out a truth that, hey, that's not going to continue or he's going to take some action. And President Trump, you know, he's calling people's bluff. He ain't bluffing. He's calling people's bluff. I think we're going to that John Lechner, who really knows how the Russian army and particularly this new kind of mercenary part of the Russian army fights, is going to join us in the 11 o'clock hour. We'll dip in and out of the, we'll go to the Oval Office and also get John up. There's no decisions made on the CR And I realize this audience hates them. You fought them from the beginning. This is not supposed to be what happened. President Trump, I think, got blindsided. We're going to work it all out throughout the day today. We're going to work it out to tomorrow morning and then through the weekend on social media and back next week, between now and midnight on the 14th, there's going to be, you're going to get a lot of information and I'm sure there's going to be some shifting sands underneath our feet. So just, you know, have a cup of coffee, take a deep breath. We're all going to be fine. We're going to get through this one. Trevor Comstock, Sacred Human Health we want the war and posse to be healthy. What you guys have come up with, your supplements are absolutely incredible. The feedback I get, people love them. What do you got for us today, sir?
Trevor Comstock
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Why? In other things, like people, women, it's kind of controversial. Why is it not controversial? And taking it as a supplement and provides all this good stuff and other times people say, well, there's taking too much collagen, they're going to shop with too much collagen. What's the difference? I'm a total neophyte and obviously I have not been taking your. I have not been. I take the grass fed beef liver. There's many of your supplements I love and I take the collagen is not one because, you know, I don't, I don't do botox and I don't take collagen. What's the controversy about it?
Trevor Comstock
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Perfect. Thank you, brother. Appreciate it. Trevor Comstock, CEO of Sacred Human Health. It's a healthy guy right there. What a day. Another historical day. Education department may be e owed out of business. The war in Ukraine heating up a little bit. President Trump dropping the hammer. He's put a deadline on the war in the Middle East. Got the Chinese giving him stink eye. Capital markets roiling both home and away. Brian Glenn's going to be over at the Oval. President Trump's going to make himself available. We're going to leave you this hour with the right stuff. We're going to take a 90 second break. We're going to return. We're going to talk about. About President Trump's trying to bring peace to the Eurasian landmass. You're going to see how tough it is next. In the war.
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Release Date: March 7, 2025
Host/Author: WarRoom.org
Episode Title: Pass A Clean CR To Give Power To Cut Wasteful Departments
In Episode 4320 of Bannon's War Room, host Stephen K. Bannon and Congressman Chip Roy delve into the pressing issue of federal budget management, emphasizing the necessity of passing a clean Continuing Resolution (CR). The discussion centers around empowering cabinet secretaries to effectively cut wasteful spending within their departments without external interference, particularly from influential figures like Elon Musk's Doge team. The episode also touches upon broader economic strategies, trade policies, and the looming challenges facing the federal government.
President Trump's recent move to restrain Elon Musk's Doge team's influence within the federal government sparked significant debate. Previously, Musk's team had considerable sway over staffing and policy recommendations. However, during a cabinet meeting, President Trump clarified that while Musk can advise, the ultimate control lies with the cabinet secretaries.
Notable Quote:
Steve Bannon [00:57]: "I want the cabinet members to keep the good people and the people that..." Chip Roy [01:00]: "Those people can be cut. Elon and the group are going to..." Steve Bannon [01:07]: "...be watching them and if they can cut, it's better."
This shift aims to ensure that cabinet members have the autonomy to manage their departments without undue external pressure, fostering a more accountable and efficient federal bureaucracy.
Brian Glenn highlights a strategic pivot towards economic stability, addressing the disproportionate consumption by the top 10% of Americans and the resultant instability. The discussion underscores the importance of shifting from public to private spending to rejuvenate the economy.
Notable Quote:
Bill Glenn [03:01]: "Top 10% of Americans are 40 or 50% of consumption. And that is an unstable equilibrium."
Joe further elaborates on the economic adjustments being made, including the reduction of trade deficits and the revitalization of manufacturing within the United States.
Chip Roy and Stephen K. Bannon advocate for passing a clean CR to maintain government operations while enabling cutting of wasteful expenditures. The CR is presented as a tool to freeze spending at current levels, ensuring fiscal responsibility without drastic budget cuts.
Notable Quotes:
Stephen K. Bannon [17:15]: "The CR freezes spending at current levels. And by the way, I'm going to police that." Chip Roy [15:09]: "Here's what's coming down now is the CR is going to be a clean CR..."
Bannon emphasizes the importance of a clean CR in enabling the administration to identify and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse within federal departments.
The conversation delves into the mechanisms of impoundment—where the executive can withhold funding—and rescissions—where Congress retracts previously allocated funds. Bannon supports the president's authority to impound funds deemed unnecessary, arguing for its alignment with the unified executive theory.
Notable Quote:
Stephen K. Bannon [20:51]: "I think the president has that authority. I think that restriction by Congress is unconstitutional."
Chip Roy seeks clarity on whether attaching additional provisions to the CR is necessary, to which Bannon responds affirmatively, emphasizing the president's inherent power to manage federal funds effectively.
Scott Bessant's analysis at the Economic Club highlights the administration's reevaluation of trade practices, particularly concerning tariffs. The aim is to protect and revitalize American manufacturing by imposing strategic tariffs that deter unfavorable trade practices.
Notable Quote:
Chip Roy [07:13]: "...the top 10% of earners have 50% of the consumption unless you have high value-added jobs for the working class and the middle class."
Bessant advocates for tariffs not merely as punitive measures but as catalysts for bringing high-value jobs back to the United States, thereby strengthening the national economy.
The discussion underscores the critical need to address the burgeoning federal deficit, projecting it to exceed a trillion dollars. Strategies proposed include cutting federal spending, particularly targeting waste, fraud, and abuse, to restore fiscal balance.
Notable Quote:
Stephen K. Bannon [19:40]: "...we need to put cuts into those bills in the House and send those over to the Senate."
Bannon outlines a comprehensive approach to deficit reduction, emphasizing the role of both executive and legislative actions in achieving sustainable fiscal health.
Autonomy in Federal Departments: Empowering cabinet secretaries to make independent decisions is pivotal in curtailing wasteful spending and enhancing governmental efficiency.
Economic Realignment: Transitioning from public to private spending is crucial for economic stability, addressing consumption disparities, and fostering sustainable growth.
Clean Continuing Resolution: Passing a clean CR serves as a foundational step in freezing federal spending, allowing for systematic identification and elimination of inefficiencies within government operations.
Impoundment Authority: Strengthening the president's authority to impound funds aligns with the unified executive theory, promoting fiscal responsibility without overreach.
Strategic Tariffs: Implementing thoughtful tariffs can rejuvenate American manufacturing, protect domestic industries, and contribute to deficit reduction.
Deficit Reduction Strategies: Comprehensive approaches involving both executive directives and legislative action are essential in addressing the national deficit, ensuring long-term fiscal health.
Episode 4320 of Bannon's War Room provides an in-depth exploration of the strategies aimed at reforming federal spending practices. By advocating for a clean CR, enhancing executive authority over federal departments, and implementing strategic economic policies, the discussion outlines a roadmap for achieving fiscal responsibility and economic stability. The episode underscores the importance of collaborative efforts between the executive and legislative branches in addressing systemic financial challenges facing the United States.