Transcripts For CSPAN2 Freedom 20240704

We believe that what you learn here or right here or way out in the middle of anywhere, you should have access to past reliable internet thats why we are reinventing the way. Supporting cspan as a Public Service along with these other Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Next to the conservative Freedom Caucus calls on republicans from both the house and senate to rein in federal spending. This press conference is just over 20 minutes. [inaudible conversations] thank you for being here today. Thank you to adam, brando man Freedom Works for putting on this press conference today. There is no greater responsibility the house house band to manage and control the nations finances, the nations ability to meet our obligations to appropriately fund our government when necessary, and only when necessary to borrow to meet those obligations and the greatest reflection of where the people are politically is the house of representatives. Its proportionate across the country each person across the country equally represented by their member of congress and the American People gave us the majority back in november because we ran on fiscal responsibility. We ran on combating the biden agenda. We ran against the reckless spending, the unprecedented amount of spending for the first time in the history of the country, 10 trillion of new Government Spending in the first few years of the administration, now a record 32 trillion in National Debt approximately 100,000 per american citizen. We will spend this year about 20,000 per american citizen. Only about 15 of which come only about 3,000 per citizen of which will be for the primary responsibility of the federal government with the safety and security of the nation. Back in january when this new congress formed and we voted in a speaker there was an agreement to go back to pre covid level spending for nondefense discretionary spending. This republican majority was united for the first five months of the year passing strong republican legislation. Thats what the country gave us come the majority, to do to pass republican legislation to reverse the harmful policies of the Biden Schumer and then pelosi agenda. We passed to the limit that was a significant step towards fiscal responsibility and had lots of good components like the energy bill, the border bill and eliminating much of the biden reckless woke agenda thats harming the country then we passed the fiscal responsibility act or what i called the failed responsibility act we failed the American People with the fra which essentially kept in place all the biden spending. Everyone who voted for that bill essentially owned the biden agenda for the remaining one and a half years of the Congress However it was said by leadership at that time that we will use thers appropriations process that the fra was the ceiling, not the floor, but we would go back to the pre covid level spending for nondefense discretionary and calling on republicans to do that. There are some republicans in the house who dont want toom ct spending. Worse yet many republicans in the senate want to increase spending. But we are committed to using every tool in our disposal to making, to going back to the 1. 471 pre covid level spending for nondefense discretionary on the current levels and my colleagues behind us and our friends at Freedom Works are united in doing that that the republican approach to the appropriation bills ought to implement republican priorities reversing the reckless harmful dangerous policies of the Biden Administration and take a step towards putting us on the path to fiscal responsibility so im proud toty stand with my colleagues on the house Freedom Caucus and with our friends at Freedom Works and i will turn it over and he will introduce the next house Freedom Caucus speaker. Im the president of freedm works and i want to thank you for joining today. We are here the activists tend to come from swing districts and the reason we are trying to bring people in from the districts is that this is a big issue thats not just a conservative is your republican issue but we are having to 50 trillion in debt in the next ten years. So, 30 trillion you may look at this is the salad days at some point this is the beginning of the spending fight. We are not even talking about entitlement yet but just making some first steps in getting our spending under control. When talking about the greatest threat to the United States it twasnt russia or china, it was our spending so we are proud our activists were speaking here. They are going to go visit with their congressman and what these folks are asking for is very reasonable. These areas the first steps to getting the fiscal house in orderwe and we intend is an organization to be involved in this wave of the valued and future waves because it is years to come because we are done kicking the can down the road. We are running out of room. This is a wakeup call. We are paying more interest and with that im going to turn it over to the congressman. Please take it away. Thank you very much. [applause] what a privilege and honor it is to be. I want to thank Freedom Works and all the patriots we met with last night that have been active in this fight and i will tell you this is a fight for the freedom of america. This is the heart and soul, Economic Security is National Security and im tired of hearing it will be next year or this affects five years down the road. As adam said, we are approaching 50 trillion in debt. Its going to be more so as time goes on if the interest alone will exceed the Defense Budget and i would say when you add to socialwo security, medicare, medicaid to it, we are far greater than the 32 that we have been talking about. The spending since 2018 has increased 33 . That is not acceptable. Its unacceptable. Imagine we are trying to get the taxpayers back money and redirect funds. Theres no reason in the world with our military budget that we ought to be having spending on woke programs. We stopped that. Weve got to stop that. Theres no reason the world we oughtn to be putting money forn hofbi building and if you want o stop a program, cut the funding. Thats what youre seeing with the patriots behind me and the house Freedom Caucus willing to do because if we dont do it now, tell me when. Im just excited that we are addressing it now. Weve got 16 days left to get the appropriation bill out for the next budget cycle which is october 1. We are out in august but hopefully we are going to address it and as it has been said we want the 22 levels and no rescissions, no smoking mirrors for the American People. Its time to present a budget that is trimming the fat, goes to programs that will defend and protect this country. We ought to be spending money for ships, planes, cybersecurity, not for transgender surgeries or puberty blockers were the woke programs, diversity equity conclusion. Folks what we are voting on today shouldnt be a social experiment, and thats with the programs have become to be. We are going to in the next 16 days you will see it play out where we examine all the 12 appropriation bills and let the American People decide. The problem with washington, d. C. , the reason its broken. Every dollar spent as an advocate. The problem is we need an advocate for the american taxpayer and thats what we are going to do. Nowit my pleasure to introduce mike rosendale. [applause] hello and thank you everybody for coming out today. Basically what we are going to watch over the next several weeks is the house of representatives going to keep their word. When we pass the act earlier this year we made a commitment to the American People we were going too reduce spending antifreeze this spending level and make sure that we remove all of the woke spending programs that the Biden Administration has put forth over the last couple of years out of the spending because that is what the american peopl sent us to do and the only way that we are going to be able to make sure that we do that is if we see all 12 of these appropriation bills totaled up so we know what the total spending is and the leadership believes they willele able to trickle these down to ao a time, three a week, for a week. Thats not going to be feasible because we will never be able to see what the total spending is until the very end and when we then try to upend our commitment, our word to the American People that we will not push spending beyond the 1. 471 trillion for nondefense discretionary, and if we have one piece of legislation left that we have to try to make up 50, 60, 70 billion, that isnt going to be acceptable. We want to see all 12 of the appropriation bills we want leadership to uphold their end of the deal and that way 218 members of congress that voted to curb spending, to rein in spending can actually get the job done. I heard of the minority leader speak last week when we passed the National Defense authorization act and he said this is woefully irresponsible. It was woefully irresponsible what theyd been doing for the last two decades. They got it out the military then they wonder why as they sit in their rooms and look at each other and to see why is the recruitment number down across the board. Thats why because the brave young men and women that have the ability and the desire to defend our country are concerned about the people that are actually running the enterprise. The mechanism thats going to help them do that. So, what you will see is whos going to stand up for the advocate, for the regular people across this nation and thats what you will see over the next couple ofth weeks. Im pleased to be here with all of them and now i would like to introduce my good friend of the representative from the great state of texas. [applause] im from texas and its finally getting warm enough that we can hold a pressod conference today. Im proud to stand with of the members behind me. They are all members of the 20. Back in january we said we were goingng to change the culture of congress and we are still at it today because make no mistake what youre going to hear is the cuts are draconian. We are talking about less than 2 of all spending that this government will do in the next year. Less than 2 . Youre going to hear that we have made rescissions to get down to the number that you heard the 1. 471, but then the rescissions are going to be added back later. Watch for it. That shouldnt happen if we go down to the 1. 471, we stay there because that was the agreement in january. Watch for it. Im proud to introduce my friend the member of congress. [applause] good morning or afternoon. Its hot out here so i will be brief. I first want to thank Freedom Works for standing with us and for taking a stand and being an advocate for less spending. When i think about the 32. 6 trillion with of debt that we are racing towards 50 trillion worth of debt, i like and our economy to the titanic. We are on a course and theres a collision ahead. Its a big ship that turns slowly but if we course correct today we can avoid the disaster that lies ahead. At the current path trajectory we are on is unsustainable, and we owe it to the American People to make the cuts otherwise like the titanic, this will end in catastrophe. Thank you. [applause] hello, everyone. The fifth congressional district. First of all thank you to adam, brandon and at the folks from Freedom Works who were out. Constantly work on behalf of the American People and i encourage all similar groups to get involved. Let your voices be heard. Thats what this great country is about. Its governed by the people and i also thank my colleagues from the Freedom Caucus behind me and those who were with us. And also thank some of the members of the media, no, i think you all for being here. [laughter] thank you for being out here today. Its warm and humid and i come from arizona. It is a dry heat i can tell you that. So lets talk about what this means. Even if you move to the 2022 levels of spending for discretionary funding or nonmilitary spending, that 1. 8 trillion in spending will be borrowed. Every penny of that will be borrowed so youre looking at 32 trillion nationalli debt toy and a year from now it will be in excess of 34. 5 trillion because as we finish out. The fiscal year and move on. Thats what youre looking at, the National Debt which is a threat to the National Security for many reasons and i encourage my colleagues to join me and i call upon the speaker to bring my bill, the National Debt as a Security Threat to the floor. 1. 8 trillion more in National Debt ladies and gentlemen. Thats why ive staunchly encouraged us to go back to 2019 nondiscretionary levels across the board. Wouldnt it be nice if for just three months or six months we didnt spend more than we brought in everyry month . But on average [applause] on average, we spend about 100 to 25 billion more every month than we bring in revenue and thats when we had record revenue. Its not a revenue problem, it is a spending problem and the only way we get it under control is to have the courage to say in 2019, pre covid no one was saying we are underfunded we are too small as a federal government. No one was saying that so why not get back to those 2019 levels . Well i thank you for being here. We are sounding the morning call. We are reminding our leadership you need the votes and we are begging the leadership to listen to us. Do not take us on a further irresponsible spending path and tell us that your i want to use that dog in the ring thing that the representative talks about all the time,e, dont tell us is raining when its not. Dont tell us its raining when its not raining. Lets have the truth, lets be honest and allow for participation in the American People but also elected representatives, all of us. Thanks for being here. We will keep fighting. Lets take a few questions now. Yes sir. [inaudible] could lead tont a Government Shutdown in october [inaudible] thats what we call a compound question back in my previous life. Let me answer i do not believe that youre looking at a Government Shutdown. I think what you would be looking at as i think representative goode and rosendale and others have mentioned, you will see some aspects. Some of the 12 appropriation bills come out and what we call a minibus and then a shortterm continuing resolution with continuous spending. I am not worried about a Government Shutdown at this point. I think that they will continue on and try to run it out until december to be honest with you, but thats my own perspective. I know im not speaking for everybody else. I would add to that we shouldnt be the Government Shutdown. Most of what we do appear is bad anyway and hurts the American People. When we do stuff to the American People while promising to do stuff for the American People, the operations continue. 85 as i was just given that number. Most American People wont even miss of the government to shut down temporarily. But our speaker has an opportunity to be a transformational historical speech or that stairs down the democrats and stairs down the free spenders and the president and said no, we are going to do with the American People elected us to do, and the house is going to say no. We are going to pass a good republican bill out of the house and force the senate and the white house to accept it or we are not going to move forward. What would happen if republicans stared down the democratsn and were the ones who refused to cave and betrayed the American People into the trust they gave so we do not fear the Government Shutdown. [inaudible] we are united in the belief that we have to see what the entire cost is before we can start working on individual pieces of it because again, you will be left with a very small piece of that pie that we might have to take a lot of spending out of, so the best way, the most reasonable and at the smartest way to handle it is to look at all 12 bills together so we can see with the total spending is and make sure we are at that 1. 7 [inaudible] we havent been denied that yet and thats what we are going to see play out over the next i would say week as whether we are going to be able to get all the bills together. The question is what we support the aggie bills coming to the floor this week. We havent even seen whats in there. I dont believe they are drafted yet. Weee need to see whats in there and we need the 72 hours they promised to givein us on every bill and be able to read those and buy just before we make a decision on that. The question is who, me personally i wont speak for anybody else i think the low hanging fruit is sec. My with the evidence weve introduced in the Oversight Committee and the Judiciary Committee with regards to the biden what i would call the Crime Syndicate i dont know what else you can call it, the corruption that so there that would certainly be very interesting and perhaps even a necessary step i would say we probably should before we talk about impeachment, move on to an impeachment inquiry to give more teeth into our investigations and allow us to expand and broaden those investigations and use them to bring more witnesses and bring more evidence. I will tell you the evidence that ive seen is overwhelming and it would lead one to believe that our president , our sitting president is corrupted and compromised. Next question. Its all of the above. Look at the evidence we have. We havent had hearings before the republicans took over in january. And you know, the president is the head of the free world. What it looks like this guy has done, forget the damage hes doing to the country while hes in office, but the money that he has accepted it appears what his son is involved in, if that doesnt pay to play, i dont know what is but lets let the evidence lead us there and people ask me all the time what are the consequences. We had all these hearings, where are the consequences into the same thing now. Theres got to be consequences and i realize the replacement for joe biden is probably giggling somewhere now. There ought to be consequences in this country. Next question [inaudible] i would not support that personally. I dont know what the rest of my colleagueses would say. [inaudible] they promised 12 bills. They are going to try to put a question or two this week. I understand why they need to push through the two, but we havent seen the language they promised 72 hours and they need to deliver on that as well. The reality is my biggest concern is that they are going to cram through a couple minibuses and then youre in for a world of hurt because there will be a lot of pressure to do something particularly onerous like they are comfortable and lets not forget that Chuck Schumer and Mitch Mcconnell are very comfortable with doing omnibus bills late in the year. [inaudible] we will see how we strategize that later on. Thank you for being here. We are done. [applause] now a discussion on voter outreach with the chair of the North Carolina democratic party, Anderson Clayton happens to be the youngest state party chair in the country. She highlighted the groups outreach efforts and ways young people can get involved in the political process while speaking with the washington post