Transcript
A (0:02)
Not sure how to tackle your taxes? Are you sweating the small print?
B (0:06)
You may be experiencing FOMO, the fear
A (0:09)
of messing up the answer using TurboTax
B (0:12)
on Intuit credit Karma. They help you get your biggest refund
A (0:16)
and then we help you do more with it with a personalized plan designed
B (0:20)
to help you hit your money goals.
A (0:23)
It's time to take your taxes to the max. Start filing today in the Credit Karma app. Everybody, good to talk to you this morning. It's Friday in America. Good to have you with us on this edition Events, a mighty show ahead for you. We're going to talk about how the president just outmaneuvered the Democrats. You know, it's funny, there's a major story developing overnight about TSA funding finally coming through, at least by way of the United States Senate. And I'm seeing some dooming around this this morning. Like, oh, they're those Republicans. They were so weak. I don't, I don't share that opinion right now. I actually think that this was a Donald Trump masterstroke. I'll explain why in just a moment here. We'll get into the details. And Chad, you can tell me if you think I'm wrong. Of course, this is a, this is a freewheeling free speech show. But I think something very, very interesting just transpired. So we're gonna go over all the details of that. Also coming up today, the great David Buzzell will be with us from the Media Research Center. He's gonna assess all the latest insanity from the legacy press and why the truth is so much better. It's all ahead on this edition of. Vince, great to have you with us on a Friday. Always so nice to talk to you. We've got great sponsors on this program today. I want to tell you about Patriot Mobile. Patriot Mobile is, well, they're just amazing. What a great company that really, really loves our country. You know, when, when I first got connected with Patriot Mobile, my impression of them was like, well, you're the patriotic company. It's in your name. And very quickly I realized not only are they patriots, they have top of the line technology. It really is incredible. And it's made my phone so much better. Having Patriot Mobile, I just love it. I think you will, too. We're in such a great, great year. It's the 250th anniversary of our country. No phone company appreciates that like Patriot Mobile. They actually like the country. I don't know about these other phone companies, but Petro Mobile actually likes this country. It works for this country. They give money to all sorts of great conservative Christian causes. This is a company you should support as well. You're not going to regret this. Patriot Mobile is great. They offer prioritized premium access on all three major US networks that give you the same or better coverage than the main carriers. That means fast speeds, dependable nationwide coverage. They're backed by 100% US based customer support. They've got unlimited data plans, mobile hotspots, international roaming, and so much more. With simple seamless activation, you can switch in just minutes. Keep your number, keep your phone. You can even upgrade. Here's the difference. When you switch to Patriot Mobile, you're supporting a great company that supports what you believe in. It supports the Christian conservative movement. It's amazing. Take a stand today. Go to patriotmobile.com Vince or go to 972-patriot. That's the number. Use the promo code Vince for a free month of service. Don't wait. That's patriot mobile.com Vince or call 972-patriot foreign. You know, this is, this is kind of fascinating. Yesterday, late yesterday, the President of the United States was looking to resolve the chaos going on at the nation's airports. And for those of you who didn't see or hear yesterday's episode, I'll just tell you in brief that Democrats love the chaos. They love the chaos. They're agents of chaos. They're AOCs. They're running around creating chaos on purpose because they think that it's going to hurt Donald Trump. They believe that there are enough voters who don't pay close enough attention who are going to see chaos going on around them and think I need to change the status quo. Who's the president right now? Let's get rid of that guy. Or who's the party that's in charge right now? Let's get rid of those people. I'm not going to vote for them or I'll vote for the other guys. This is what Democrats want. It's a tried and true method that they keep on employing. They did it in 2020 with the George Floyd riots. They're trying to do it yet again here in this year, 2026, going into the midterms. They love chaos. The purpose of all of this chaos you're seeing right now is to protect illegal aliens, keep them in the country, get derive electoral strength from having all of those illegals here and to depress Americans about the state of the country. That's it. That's all right. You know, we all nod in agreement. Yeah, that's right. That's true. Democrats love the cake. Yes. That's Star wars fan, 1977. The Democrats just want to watch the world burn. That's true. They want to watch it burn. They're happy with that. They think they derive power from the burning. But here's the way the President outmaneuvered them. Yesterday. He said this thing at the airports, you know, where people are getting log jammed for hours, where ice has done some effort to. Ice was relieving a lot of the pressure. Ice was showing up helping at like 14 airports, busy airports across the country. They're relieving the pressure, but there's only so much ICE can do. There's only so much they can do. TSA agents were calling out more and more and more. We were looking at 50% call out rates at airports. It just doesn't work. And so travelers miserable trying to figure out how they're gonna get to their destinations. The President said, you know what? I've had enough. I've had enough. In Washington, Democrats were demanding all sorts of favors for illegal aliens. Keep them here. Keep them here. And the President said, I've had enough of your crap. Here's what I'm gonna do. I'm going to declare an emergency, and I'm going to fund TSA anyway. Can he do that? I just did. Here's the President of the United States yesterday making a move on this very thing. He said, the radical left Democrats and their leader, Kryon Chuck Schumer, have made it very clear where they stand, and that is on the side of criminal illegal aliens and not the American people. They are refusing to fund immigration enforcement unless the Republicans agree to their open border policies, which will never, ever happen again. They almost destroyed our country, allowing 25 million people to enter from prisons, mental institutions, insane asylums, those that are drug dealers, thousands of murderers, many of whom killed more than one person. Because the Democrats have recklessly created a true national crisis. I'm using my authorities under the law to protect our great country as I always will do. Therefore, I'm going to sign an order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Mark Wayne Mullen, to immediately pay our TSA agents in order to address this emergency situation. Got it. And to quickly stop the Democrat chaos at the airports. Not an easy thing to do, but I'm going to do it. I want to thank our hardworking TSA agents and also ICE for the incredible help they've given us at the airports. I will not allow the radical left Democrats to hold our country hostage any longer. Thank you for your Attention to this matter. President Donald J. Trump. So where were we? We were at Democrats make Americans miserable. And they wanted to use it, as the President says, as a hostage crisis to protect illegal aliens. They were hoping that Republicans in the Senate, Republicans in the Congress and the President of the United States would just roll over and make the lives of ICE agents harder and more dangerous, that they would make it easier for illegal aliens to stay in the country. What did Democrats want? Democrats wanted judicial warrants, judicial warrants for every illegal alien to deport them from the United States of America. That would create immense amounts of traffic in our judicial system, like routing a five lane highway into a one street neighborhood. A complete traffic jam of our court system designed to protect illegals. And the President said, nah, I'm not doing that. I'm paying TSA anyway. I'm paying them. I'm going to use emergency powers to do it. Mark Wayne Mullen, the new DHS secretary, he's been on the job for like what, 48 hours? Instantly grateful for the President's action. Yesterday he said this. I want to thank President Trump for his leadership in finding a way to pay our TSA officers to end this chaos at the airports. These hours, long lines and thousands of Americans missing their flights was caused solely by the Democrats and their reckless DHS shutdown. Many of dhs, his frontline workers, are still not being paid. That included fema, the Coast Guard, cisa, that's the cybersecurity agency. The Democrats must stop playing political games with our national security, quit punishing our employees and reopen dhs. And he was right about that when he posted that last night at 8:02pm Eastern Time. That's when Mark Wayne Mullen posted this. So what transpired after that? After we get the President of the United States declaring an emergency, Mark Wayne Mullen thanking him for that and saying Democrats better do something. What happened? The Senate just passed funding for TSA and there are no restrictions on ice. I only repeat that. The Senate just sent a clean funding bill, clean funding package right out of the Senate overnight under unanimous consent. And there are no restrictions on ice. Now, where's the but in this but there's no funding, there's no additional funding right now for ICE or Border Patrol. And that specifically affects the civilian employees for those agencies. So you know, at those agencies they've got like administrative workers, people who assist the agents, the ICE agents, the Border Patrol agents, they work in administration, these types of things. The civilian employees of those agencies are not receiving money right now and they need to get paid. They've got families to feed. So does that fight continue? Yes, it does. But what happened here is overnight, the United States Senate suddenly had a window of opportunity to get TSA funding out the door, and they put. They. They took advantage of it. And the reason that window opened was because of what President Trump did. Under any other circumstance, it wouldn't work. It. It wouldn't work. But here's what President Trump did. Here's what he did. He took the chaos off the table. He brought relief to America's airports. Yesterday, he announced, I'm paying TSA anyway. I'm doing under an emergency provision. And in so doing, as Democrats are suddenly watching like crap, the chaos we were trying to create, the misery we were trying to create for the American people is suddenly disappearing. Democrats try and sprint in at the last second to try and share in the credit for that funding finally going through, because what other options do they have? Because at that point, President Trump has relieved the pressure at the airports, and then Democrats would be the only thing left for anybody to stare at. And they're like, wait a second. What? Why is there still a DHS shutdown? That's Democrats. So the second the misery ends for the average American, Democrats finally concede, and they're like, okay, fine, we'll pass some funding. So that's what happened overnight. I'm telling you, President Trump outmaneuvered these guys. Take a look at this. This is a CNN headline. This is just the overnight headline here. Senate unanimously moves to fund most of DHS except ICE and Border Patrol. In rare overnight session, the Senate unanimously moving to to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, except for ICE and part of Customs and Border Protection. Again, administrative positions with Border Patrol and administrative positions with ice. The agreement would fund other DHS components such as tsa, the Coast Guard. But the House will still need to act before the funded agencies within the department can reopen. More on that in a moment. The role that the House plays here. The move is meant to alleviate long lines at airports while lawmakers continue to debate possible reforms to immigration enforcement by dhs. The move came just hours after President Trump had directed his newly installed DHS chief to swiftly pay TSA agents in a bid to reduce lines at airports as talks appeared to have fallen apart. Talks appeared to have fallen apart. And President Trump somehow rescued the entire negotiation by paying TSA agents. While much of Washington slept and officials mauled how to implement Trump's order, senators focused on moving the funding they were able to agree on by unanimous consent. On his way to the floor in the wee hours of the morning Friday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters, we're going to execute on as much as DHS as we can tonight, and then we'll fund the rest of it later. Okay, so what happened? President Trump got funding for these agencies. He actually got it through the Senate and it passed via unanimous consent. And just to remind you, when, when, when they ask for unanimous consent in the Senate, the way it works is if any senator objects, then the only way to pass it with an act is with an actual vote. But nobody objected, so you're not going to see a vote tally for that funding effort. Last night it was just, hey, we want to pass this via unanimous, unanimous consent. Are there any objections? No objections were voiced. It moves on. Now. There are still other components. You still have ICE and Border Patrol administrative funding, civilian funding that needs to go through. And we still have the Save America act that we need to pass. There's some business before us to deal with. And this brings us to what will the United States House of Representatives do? Great question. So here's the state of play with the House right now. The House, according to some of the political reporting this morning, has, quote, big problems at least today in moving this DHS funding bill. This may not all go all the way through until at least Monday, but here's what's going on. Here's Jake Sherman at Punchbowl and he says the House is going to have big problems moving the DHS funding bill today. In the rules for this Congress, Republicans have handcuffed themselves. The majority cannot move bills under suspension of the rules on Thursdays, free Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Hardline conservatives hate moving bills under suspension because it bypasses the rule vote where they have the most leverage. Suspensions short circuit that process, but they need 2/3 majority anyway. The point, what he's getting at here is that there are all sorts of rules that Republicans have imposed on the House on themselves that would prevent a speedy push of this legislation through. So Speaker Johnson can go to the Rules Committee for this where he can try to get basically a temporary rule. There's no sure thing. If he does get one, he can try to pass it on the floor. That's also no sure thing. Rules are party line votes. Or he can wait until Monday where he can pass this on suspension. Either way, it's going to be controversial. He says maybe Trump can convince the House Freedom Caucus to join him, but I don't know that'll work. So no, Save America act is in this. And rules are hard in the best of times. So what you need is everybody has to be for it, essentially. And there are Republicans in the House right now who've already taken a pledge of kind of no new legislation without the SAVE Act. Now, is this technically legislation? Well, as a matter of, like, I mean, this is what the, you know, anything the Congress produces can be called legislation. But this is just a continuation of funding. It's not like. This is not like the invention of a new law. This isn't the creation of some brand new law. This is the authorization of funding to agencies that need it. This is to relieve pressure on the American people. And to be very clear, the White House has already indicated that DHS funding is definitely allowed. It was the President who originally said, I'm not signing anything else legislatively until I get the Save America Act. Yes. DHS funding. Yes. Let's get Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen into position. But for the rest of it, no. No new legislation. We need the Save America Act. We need it. That's the position. And I think House Republicans will probably be with the President on that specific arrangement. We'll see. But keep your eyes open on this. If you're listening to this on the podcast, chances are some of this has kind of been resolved by the time you hear this. Maybe. And if it hasn't been, then it might be Monday that we finally get that. That House vote. But I just don't see. I don't see a scenario, ladies and gentlemen, where this happens overnight. Were it not for President Trump paying TSA on his own yesterday. I don't. I don't. Oh, and in case you were wondering, remember when Elon Musk offered to pay tsa, Remember that, like a week ago, he was like, I'll pay tsa. Apparently, the White House said it's just. It's just not possible. They wish it was, but under the law, it doesn't work that way. You have to pay these officers. You have to pay federal government employees through congressional authorizations. That's the way it has to work as a. As a constitutional matter. So he. He wasn't able to do that, which is too bad, because that was a really nice and generous offer by Elon Musk. But the President came up with an option, an emergency order. An emergency order to pay tsa. And if Democrats had decided to fight that, and I guess they could have, but, like, what, were they really going to have a big battle and say, you're not allowed to pay tsa, you're not allowed to use Emergency powers to make people's lives better. Yeah. They saw what was coming, and suddenly they're now for TSA funding. And again, it doesn't include any restrictions on ice. The left was looking to make it easier for illegal aliens. There are no restrictions on ice. Are there still components to fight for? Absolutely. But this was a masterful move, I think, by the President of the United States. One more thing on the process here, because, you know, this really does matter. Lindsey Graham, who is the ridiculous United States Senator, he's the head of the Budget Committee, and he promises that the. The other component here, the civilian funding for eyes, the civilian funding for Border Patrol, that it's going to come through in the reconciliation package. Remember that? And that's fine. You can fund those guys through reconciliation. That's a simple majority vote in both the House and the Senate. He said that bill will focus on ensuring ICE and other vital functions of homeland security, as well as US Military and efforts to increase voter integrity are Democrat resistance proof. This is where he's BSing you, the voter thing, where he says that they're going to get aspects of the SAVE act reconciliation. Lindsey Graham is lying to you. There is no meaningful way to get elements of the SAVE act through reconciliation. Mike Lee, Sean Davis, Anna Paulina, Luna, anybody who's on our side in this fight has already been telling you there is no way we're getting any meaningful real reforms for election integrity through reconciliation. So Lindsey Graham can pay lip service to all that. That's not happening. That's not happening. He claims he's going to work closely with the President and his team in writing the bill. That'll be his effort to try and pass off blame to President Trump if it doesn't give us what we need. And this will be one of the most important assignments I've had during my time in the Senate. I'm looking forward to hitting the ground running. Yeah, good luck. Good luck. Lindsey Graham, anyway. But Lindsey Graham, he wields power in this conversation because he is in charge of that Budget Committee. He does handle this reconciliation process. And apparently he's been quarterbacking this notion that, oh, we're going to get parts of the Save America act passed. A reconciliation. Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it. And I don't believe we'll ever see it ever.