Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller are liars. Any administration that allows them to continue in office is rotten to its core. The vote on appropriations is coming up Thursday night, and Democrats will not let the Republicans move forward. [00:00:15] If Ice and DHS funding are in the bill. On this vote, the yeas are 45. The nays are 55. Looks like Senate Democrats certainly took that promise to heart. Every single one of them voted against a Department of Homeland Security funding [00:00:33] bill, which, of course, does jeopardize funding for the agency entirely. If they can't come up with a solution or an agreement with Republicans by 11:59 p.m. Friday night. Now, as you heard in that video, the final vote was 4555, meaning it didn't [00:00:52] come close to the 60 votes necessary to get past the legislative filibuster and approve the bill. Now, before I tell you about all the Republicans who voted against the bill. - Your $0.02. - Yeah. So you need overwhelming American support for the Democrats [00:01:09] to have just enough spine to oppose Trump. And apparently we got there. So good job America. You gave the Democrats a tiny bit of a spine, and we had some Republicans kind of join us, but we'll explain that in a second. But overall, after you get all the facts, I need to discuss one more thing [00:01:27] with you guys, which is. Yes, but what's going to happen next? Because there is a plan for what's going to happen next. And it's interesting. So let's let's give you the the whole story. Now, if you've been following the response or the reactions, I should say to Renee Goode and Alex Petty's fatal shootings in Minnesota, then you would know [00:01:47] why Democrats voted against funding DHS. Every single one of them did vote against it in the Senate, because they want concessions from the Trump White House in regard to the conduct of immigration enforcement agents. So that includes banning immigration officers from wearing masks, [00:02:05] which I think is a reasonable ask, and requiring them to wear body cameras and visible identification guys. For me, that's just it's the bare minimum. You need to be able to identify yourself when you are working for law enforcement. [00:02:20] And body cameras are beneficial for everyone, including the immigration enforcement agents who might have not done anything wrong and want to prove it through their body cameras. And they also want, meaning the Democrats, an end to random immigration sweeps [00:02:36] and raids. They want requirements for judicial warrants, for stop and searches, and requirements for immigration officers to follow the same use of force standards as community law enforcement. They also want an independent. And this is, to me, one of the most important asks. [00:02:53] They want an independent investigation into the fatal shootings of both Rene Good and Alex Pretty. Now on to the Republicans. That was a more interesting element to this this story for me. Because why? Why would the Republicans vote against this? Well, it turns out that eight voted against it, [00:03:11] although Senate Majority Leader John Thune did so for procedural reasons. We'll get to that in just a second. So let's show you the list of the Republicans who voted against it. So seven Republicans opposed it, including Senators Budd Johnson Lee, [00:03:27] Paul Moody, Rick Scott Tuberville, and again, John Thune. The Senate majority leader voted against it specifically for procedural reasons. Now, the other Republicans cited concerns about the ballooning federal deficit [00:03:42] and what they saw as the failure of the so-called appropriations minibus to significantly cut spending. My favorite part about all of this is you have Senator Rick Scott. He cites government spending is out of control, and I agree. [00:03:59] I agree government spending is absolutely out of control. And he cited the deficit. But then he proceeds to say, and I disagree about cutting spending for DHS. Okay, Jake, any comment on that? Yeah. So a couple of things here. First, on those Republicans, if they're talking about spending too much, [00:04:20] including DHS, well, that's literally what I said on the show yesterday. I said, why is spending another $64 billion on Department of Homeland Security? They already had one giant, influx just a little while ago on the huge budget. Right. They already have tons and tons of money. [00:04:37] They're already giving $50,000 signing bonuses, and they can't possibly work through all that money. And they're saying, okay, and another 10 billion to Ice. If you are a fiscal conservative, I think it's a no brainer to vote against that. But Anna's right that the Rick Scott's and the there's two different camps. [00:04:53] There's the Rand Paul camp, which is more close to Tom Massie, like, I'm uncomfortable with all the spending, including DHS. And then there's the Tuberville, and, and Rick Scott contingent that's like, oh, well. Yeah. DHS and ice and pork and military and waste. [00:05:11] We love all of that, but we just haven't heard the American people enough. So in the rest of the bill, I mean, maybe we could take more from the average American, cut more Medicare or Medicaid or something that helps that people that aren't my donors at all. More police, state, less social safety net, basically is [00:05:27] the point that's being made now. I want to just kind of give you a sense of what is being worked out between Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the Senate, and President Donald Trump, because it does appear that they're working on some sort of agreement or deal that would prevent a prolonged government shutdown. [00:05:45] So, as The New York Times reports, under the tentative framework, senators or Senator Schumer and President Trump discussed the measure funding DHS would be broken off for more negotiations while the other five bills would be approved, [00:06:01] funding the bulk of the federal government for the remainder of the fiscal year. I don't really understand why we don't do that already anyway. I think that's the right way to go about this. The Department of Homeland Security, as the times continues to write, would then be funded under a separate short term bill. [00:06:16] One sticking point, though, appears to be the length of time for that stopgap bill, which would keep the department funded at current levels. Democrats have pushed for a maximum of two weeks. Republicans apparently want more, and Democrats do not want [00:06:32] to prolong the negotiations. - So any final thoughts on that, Jake? - Yeah. A couple of final thoughts. So look, so what's going to happen next is, as Anna pointed out, they're going to split it. They're not going to split it all the way. What they're going to do is split the rest of the budget and just DHS. [00:06:48] So to answer this question of wait, why don't they split it all? Why don't we vote one by one? I, you know, I have a different opinion on DHS than I might about the Pentagon or I might have about other programs. Well, that's exactly why they don't normally split. It's like they want to put as much pork in there as possible stuffed [00:07:06] with pork so they can say, hey, you don't want military militaries in. We're all gonna die. Okay, so that's why you have to approve the $48 billion that I put for my donors in the other part of the bill. But DHS spending already has a baked in poison pill, if you will, because DHS [00:07:23] also deals with FEMA, does it not? Don't forget Noble Mobile, saving you a ton of money. So a lot of people are signing up now and beginning to realize what the hell, why am I paying so much to Verizon and AT&T? So your bill's only $50 a month, but it can actually be less because they give [00:07:39] you money back if you don't use your data. So if you're paying more than $50, there's no reason to not switch. It's crazy not to switch because same phone, same number, same contacts. Literally nothing changes. Titcomb. Switch. Titcomb. Switch. All right. We'll be right back. [00:07:55] Yeah. So, look, there's a lot of reasons that poison pills are a little bit different. Poison pills to kill a bill, right? Yeah. So. But they put in, like, a sugar pill. - Okay. - Yeah. Sugar pills. Fine. I made that. Up. Okay. So. And they're like. And they'll always point to that one provision out of millions. [00:08:11] By the way, if you're a conservative, you agree with me more than even the left does. Like they're like, are you going to let people die after a tornado? That's. But I'm like, yeah, but the other part of the bill has nothing to do with FEMA or the tornado. It's just a direct $8 billion subsidy to your top donor. Shut up. [00:08:27] You're dying killing people in tornadoes, right? So that's the kind of BS. And of course, establishment media loves that. And that's they focus on those, things and not the overall bill. They never talk about the pork and the waste and the donor money, etc.. So if it was up to me, I'd break it up and I'd vote one by one. [00:08:45] These are called omnibus bills. When you squeeze everything together. And look, I know the omnibus is coming, but it's not going to lead to any kind of party for us. It's going to be a party for the donors. Finally, on the request that they have look, that I read to you earlier, [00:09:00] if we can get the masks off and the badges on and get them to get warrants already, that's like even though it's the bare minimum, it's still a big win. Okay. Why? Because we've gotten them back into our constitutional system of government. Yes. [00:09:15] Because what Trump is doing is he's testing the limits. What if I don't follow the Constitution on X, Y, and Z? And if we get him back inside the Constitution, that's already a huge win. Then we're having policy debates and that's normal, right? So and then, lastly, I think the toughest one is going to be to end the random [00:09:34] immigration sweeps, because that's basically saying no more mass deportation. And that's where the extreme right is going to push back a lot, as we'll show you later in the show. So the, update on the funding bill for the government isn't really much of an update. [00:09:49] We did cover it. So it does appear that the Democrats in the Senate and Trump have come up with an agreement where they're going to pass all of the other government agencies or pass funding for the government agencies, with the exception of DHS. And I guess the negotiations over DHS will continue. [00:10:07] Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets its wings. Totally not true, but it does keep you updated on our live shows.