Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture.

Thanks for joining us today on The Wall Builder Show, where we're taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective.

Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton later in the program.

Jerry Newcomb will be joining us.

We're going to be talking about, well, a lot of things that are going on in Washington, D.C., but specifically,

the USA, the discovery of all of this money that's been, you know, fraudulent and wasteful and the

debt that it's created and what we can do about it. And David, Tim, you know, usually I'm

approaching this topic in a bad mood and, you know, really down.

I'm actually excited because I sense that we can turn this thing around.

There's some good things happening.

Republicans really only have one vote to spare on this thing.

They can only afford to lose a vote, and then Democrats are at a place where they can take possession.

And so actually, yesterday, Mike Johnson actually canceled the vote on the budget.

They canceled the vote because they just didn't have the votes.

And there were four particularly that were holding out.

And then they really worked on the whip in the house, worked on talking to them throughout the afternoon.

And Mike canceled the vote

and then he called them back in and they voted and so Thomas Massey did not vote with them but they

got it passed and one bill and that's a really big deal because the Senate's doing one bill now

there's some differences between them they'll have to have reconciliation on it but when you look at

what they got done is massive because the Freedom

Caucus said, hey, there's not enough cutting of the debt in here. You know, there's some

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