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The WallBuilders Show

Faith, Freedom, and Constitutional Wisdom: Exploring America's Roots

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Ever wonder how the Constitution actually distributes power between government branches? Today's episode dives into this question with a fascinating exploration of presidential authority versus judicial oversight. When a listener asks about Trump's foreign aid policies, we unpack how courts increasingly function as referees in political disputes—a role never intended by our founders. The conversation shifts to education when we examine Benjamin Rush, the "father of education under the Consti...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Wall Builder Show.

0:08.6

We're the intersection of faith and culture, and we take on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective.

0:15.5

David Barton, Tim Barton, and I'm Rick Green.

0:17.4

We appreciate you joining us.

0:18.3

Go to wallbuilders.com for more information, our wallbuilders. Show to catch up with some of the radio programs from the last few weeks and months. Today is Thursday, guys. So Foundation of Freedom Thursday, we got lots of questions that have come in over the wires. Okay, is that even still a term over the wires? I mean, is the internet essentially the wire now? I guess it is. Anyway, we got a lot of great questions that came in

0:37.5

and anybody else that wants to join you can send them to radio at wabblers.com radio at wallbillers

0:43.2

com first ones from right here at home in texas out of fort worth Monty asked the question why is

0:48.7

President Trump asking the Supreme Court if we can freeze foreign aid isn't that a job for

0:54.1

Congress it's a great question Monty there's a lot of Supreme Court, if we can freeze foreign aid, isn't that a job for Congress?

0:55.0

Yeah, that's a great question, Monty.

0:57.7

There's a lot of things that the court is being asked to rule on that really should be either

1:02.7

the president or Congress.

1:03.7

Guys, what do you think about this one on foreign aid specifically?

1:06.4

Yeah, I would rephrase it or reframe it just a little bit.

1:10.5

I don't think the president is asking the

1:12.8

court if he can freeze foreign aid. He's already frozen foreign aid and somebody objected to it and went to

1:18.0

the court and now he's having to argue in front of the court, but he never went to the court. He just

1:22.7

said, hey, this is a presidential power. I'm preaching foreign aid. The court's not in charge of

1:27.3

foreign affairs. The president is not in charge of foreign affairs.

1:28.1

The president is.

1:29.5

And then as with most other things he's done, somebody sued and took it in the court and said, no, you can't do that. We don't like it. And so now it's in the courts. And so he's having to argue his side of the case in the courts. and his side of the case is that, hey, this is not your business.

1:45.3

This is my business.

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