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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Big Beautiful Bill advances as Democrats Stall plus Trump Wins BIG at SCOTUS
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Ben Ferguson
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Ben Ferguson
You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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Donnie
Good Monday morning. So nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update. And we've got a packed show for you. First up, the big beautiful bill. It is, well, sausage being made in the Senate. Democrats doing everything they can to try to stop this from becoming a reality. I'll give you the latest on where we are right now on that. Also, who are the Republicans that decide to vote against the big beautiful bill moving forward in the Senate? Well, one of them has just announced they're not running for re election. And we'll give you those details as well. And finally, not one, not two, but three major Supreme Court cases have been massive victories for the Trump administration. The rule of law, why is the media not covering it? And what just happened at the Supreme Court? I'll give you all the details.
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Donnie
So let's give you a big update on the big beautiful bill. It is a very important part of Donald Trump's momentum moving, moving forward and could have a massive impact on lower and middle class Americans especially. So let's start with where we are now. The Senate voted 51 to 49 along party lines to move the bill forward into what they describe as formal debate. Now you may ask why was it so tight of a vote? Senators Thom Tillis, and we're going to have an update on Thom Tillis in a moment. What we're hearing after this vote as well as Senator Rand Paul, they decided to go with the Democrats opposing the motion. GOP leaders had to strike last minute deals to secure the votes. And it did pass 5149 to move forward. Now, it is 940 pages long. It is covering a lot. It's covering tax cuts. It's covering Medicaid. It's also covering SNAP food stamp benefits. It is expanding border and deportation funding. It also has defense and clean energy tax changes as well as an increased salt deduction cap as well as child tax credit changes. Now, here's what this bill looks like in its grand form, 940 pages long. What we're hearing from the Congressional Budget Office is it estimates it will add $3.3 trillion to the national debt over 10 years and result in 11 million fewered, they claim insured individuals by 2034. That's what Democrats are seizing on right now to say this is a terrible bill. But let's talk about what is actually reality here. Donald Trump coming out praising the vote is a great victory and pushing this for the final vote by July 4. Democrats led by Chuck Schumer are now forcing and you want to talk about a moment of hypocrisy, they are actually forcing to stall the vote. A quote, full reading of the 940 page text. It will be 16 to 20 hours. Why are they doing that? To slow the proceedings. Now, you may remember back in the day when Nancy Pelosi referring to Obamacare said we won't know what's in the bill until we pass the bill. Apparently now they're more than happy to read a bill only if it means stalling Donald Trump's agenda. Now, there have been a lot of critics, Elon Musk calling it utter insanity. Rand Paul mocking child account provision at and making jabs also at Elon Musk, Senator Mark Warner calling it a political albatross. So there's always going to be people that don't like what is in the bill. And you're hearing from them right now. The big question is what is next? Well, number one, the debate is ongoing as I'm recording this. Senators now have a marathon vote, as they described it, a Votorama session to propose amendments. And what Democrats are trying to do is they're trying to tie amendments to this bill that would kill the bill, hurt the bill that no Republican would ever want to vote for for that is to try to stop the bill from becoming law or to postpone this bill so they can get more things in there that they want. There is also what we refer to as the sausage being made. Many Republicans who aren't hardcore conservative American first individuals, they're wanting something for their vote. And that doesn't count the Democrats who are doing a whole hell of a lot of horse trading as we speak right now. Now you have parliamentarian ruling. All right. They have already struck down several provisions under the Byrd rule limits and that further adjustments are expected to this bill before the final vote once amendments wrap up. A final Senate vote is likely to happen sometime this week, possibly, or in theory, the president's hoping it will be a July 4th celebration. More than likely, this could happen on Tuesday, maybe Wednesday, as far away as Thursday or Friday. Now, if it passes, and many conservatives expect that it is going to pass, then it would return to the House for approval yet again and then it would go to Donald Trump's desk for signing, potentially as he is asking for it before the July 4th. That is the goal of the GOP and the administration. So let's just give a quick recap on what I've given you. In substance, it advanced in the Senate in a massive 5149 procedural vote. That was the biggest hurdle. This is the reason why I and the White House believe, and insiders on Capitol Hill are telling me they believe this will become law. There are key contents to this that every American should care about, number one. And the biggest thing is broad tax cuts. There's also safety net reductions for those that deal with waste, fraud and abuse. Many Americans voted for that. And that is where people are saying, okay, what's next? There's also the argument that if we did nothing, we would actually see the the deficit grow at even a faster rate than the 3.3 trillion that this is going to cost. So now you are up to date on where we are at the very moment and what is happening as we speak. It is called voterama. It is voting on amendment after amendment after they read this bill which will take 16 to 18, 19 hours, depending on who you talk to. And then the final votes in the Senate, in theory, are going to happen early this week, then House concurrence, and then Donald Trump will sign off on this bill, hoping to celebrate it on the 4th of July, which would be a very monumental moment for him. So this is where we are. Could things change? Yes. Are there Democrats right now trying to derail all of this? Absolutely. By the way, there's also Republicans that are trying to derail this as well. Which brings me to my second story. Thom Tillis, one of the two Republicans that voted against the big beautiful bill, is not running for reelection. After opposing the big beautiful bill, Senator Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, announcing that he's not running for reelection. And in a statement issued on Sunday, Tillis highlighted how he is, quote, proud of his career in public service. Tillis also expected he is most proud of his bipartisan victories, such as passing the first in the nation, eugenics compensation as speaker and working across the aisle in the Senate to pass the largest investment in mental health in the history of the United States of America. Till has continued to admit that sometimes, quote, those bipartisan initiatives got him in trouble with his own party. Saying this in Washington over the last few years, it's been increasingly evident that leaders who are willing to embrace bipartisanship, embrace compromise and demonstrate independent thinking are becoming an endangered species. Democrats recently lost two such leaders who were dedicated to making the Senate more of a functional and productive legislative body. Tillis continued, they got things done, but they were shunned after they courageously refused to cave to their party bosses to nuke the filibuster for the sake of political expediency. They ultimately retired and their presence in the Senate chamber has been sorely missed every day since. Tillis continued on this grandstanding moment and expressed that he was beyond grateful for his friends that he had made and added and that he looked forward to continuing to serve North Carolina over the next 18 months. Tillis issuing this statement also Saturday expressing that he had done his homework on behalf of North Carolinans and was unable to support the big beautiful bill in its current form, saying, I did my homework, I cannot support the bill. It would result in tens of billions of dollars in lost funding for North Carolina, including our hospitals and rural communities. This will force the state to make painful decisions like eliminating Medicaid coverage for hundreds of thousands and the expansion population and even reducing critical services for those in traditional Medicaid population. So there you have it. Now Donald Trump did have a response to this. Trump expressed in a post on Truth Social that the people of North Carolina would not allow Tillis to grandstand in order to get some publicity for himself, saying, quote, looks like Senator Tillis as usual wants to tell the nation he's giving them a 68% tax increase as opposed to big tax cuts in American history that I'm giving them. At the same time, he's unable to understand the importance of a debt extension which Republicans gave to the Democrats just prior to the November 5 election because of its significance and how important it was for the future of the usa. Trump writing in a post now, at the end of the day, Thom Tillis voted the way he did for one reason, because he knew he couldn't win re election. And now he's acting like he is a martyr. Thank goodness Donald Trump is involved and I'm sure that he will be helping find a Great America first candidate to run in that election. I want to also bring to your attention a story that's being under reported, especially because it's such massive news for the Trump administration and law in America. The Supreme Court has come out with their latest rulings and they have a significant impact on the country. The Supreme Court, the Supreme Court's term came to a close and it dealt major wins for President Trump and well, as well as the rule of law. Three different cases that I want to get into here so you understand just how big they were. Number one was Trump versus Casa. It was under the issue of a universal injunctions. And this is something that was such a big issue because you had these judges that were basically blocking the president, president's agenda. And as they were blocking the agenda of the president, they were doing it in smaller lower courts. Well, guess what, the Supreme Court says universal injunctions aren't actually going to work this way moving forward. There was also another ruling that was massive as well and it dealt with the free speech coalition versus the state of Texas, aka the attorney general there, Ken Paxton. It was a 6 to 3 ruling as well. And it held that Texas's age verification law for porn sites is in fact constitutional. This was a massive victory, especially after we just had the Take it Down act where you could not bully people by putting up fake pictures of them naked on the Internet or revenge pictures maybe that you received of someone and then throw them up on the Internet to get revenge. It was making it clearly against the law and parties had to take it down immediately. They could also be fined. So you look at this big fight in Texas, it was very simple. What this was was a moment where we were trying to protect those 18 and under from hardcore pornography on the Internet by using AIDS verification. Now, almost every one of the porn sites in America had gotten together with lobbyists to try to stop this and suing Texas to try to say that this was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court came down the side of Texas saying they have a right to protect those 18 and under from pornography on the Internet by using AIDS verification. Now, what is this going to do, for example, in a place like Texas? It drastically reduces the amount of time that is spent on the Internet by underage individuals looking at pornography. And again, this should be a state's issue, and that's what the Supreme Court is saying. There was also a third Supreme Court decision that came down, and it was massive. Muhammad versus Taylor. And what this dealt with is it held that parents of public school children can opt out of LGBTQ curriculum. Now, this is not only a big win for religious liberty and parental rights, it is also another example of why it's so important to have school choice in this country. Now, you look at what this dealt with, and it was very simple. Should a parent have the right in a public school to be able to opt their child out of the propaganda that the left is trying to force on them? When it comes to transsexuals, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and everything else under the LGBTQ plus flag, there are parents that tried to opt their kids out, and there were schools that said, no, you cannot do it. It's part of the public school curriculum. And this was obviously taking away parents rights. Well, now we know that parents do, in fact, have a right to decide what their kids are indoctrinated with, especially when it's something as controversial and as radical as the extreme viewpoints of the LGBTQ activist community. Now, you look at all three of these rulings. If these were rulings in favor of Joe Biden's agenda, for example, it would be wall to wall coverage. If this was the rulings of Barack Obama that helped him when he was the president, it would have been wall to wall coverage. But there's a very good chance that about 99% of you listening to me right now knew nothing about any of these three cases that all came down in favor of parents and came down in favor of the Trump agenda and. And the Trump White House and his presidency. The Supreme Court, as Fox News put it, rules on Trump's birthright citizenship order. Testing lower court power was another one of the big things that came through the Supreme Court is also deciding whether to allow parents to shield children from these books in school in the LGBTQ community. Again, a victory for us. This was a massive the White House putting out a statement putting it this way, saying, quote, today's decision restores the proper separation of powers between the branches of government. Ending nationwide injunctions is a tremendous victory for the American people and the rule of law. That coming from the White House counsel David Warrington saying, quote, no longer can rogue activist judges abuse their authority to dictate the executive powers of the President of the United States, the Supreme Court ruled. It's a massive victory for the Constitution, the rule of law and the presidency itself, the White House says in their statement saying this. Since the moment President Trump took office, low level activist judges have been exploiting their positions to kneecap the agenda of which he was overwhelmingly elected. In fact, of the 40 nationwide injunctions filed against Trump's executive actions in his second term, 35 of them came from just five far left jurisdictions in California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington, the District of Columbia. So now the Trump administration can properly proceed and critical action to save the country can happen. Congratulations, the Trump Administration for every American that believes in the rule of law.
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Ben Ferguson
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Of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Recipients have done the improbable, the unexpected, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves.
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Ben Ferguson
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