Policy Changes Are Making an Impact - September 5th, Hour 1
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
4.0 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump is expected to officially announce today the renaming of the Department of Defense back to its historic title, the Department of War, along with several major policy alterations. Sean Hannity frames this as a return to Reagan-era prioritiesâhighlighting the development of new missile defense systems, advancing technologies like AI weaponry and hypersonics, and preparing the military for future threats. Hannity draws parallels with Reagan's "Star Wars" initiative and argues this move is both forward-looking and grounded in lessons from past presidential legacies. The guest spotlight falls on investigative reporter John Solomon, who breaks news on Biden's controversial outsourcing of presidential clemency decisions, showing why presidential authority and transparency remain crucial in turbulent times.
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| 0:14.0 | The president, by the way, will make an announcement. |
| 0:16.0 | We already know what the announcement is. |
| 0:18.1 | In the Oval Office today, he'll make it official and we fully expect that |
| 0:26.2 | the Department of Defense is now going to be renamed the Department of War, which is what |
| 0:33.0 | it used to be called. I'm sure this is outrageous. Now, this comes after the president indicated that he will make several |
| 0:40.6 | alterations to defense policy, renaming the Department of Defense as one of them, |
| 0:44.9 | moving forward with the Golden Dome Missile Defense Project, which probably, like Reagan, |
| 0:52.1 | I think you can make an argument as successful as Reagan was as president. |
| 0:57.2 | Remember, he gave us at the time the longest period of peacetime economic growth. |
| 1:01.8 | He dropped the top marginal rates, again, battling left-wing arguments. |
| 1:06.3 | Oh, it's going to reduce revenues to the government. |
| 1:08.4 | Never happened. |
| 1:09.6 | And he went from 70 to 28 percent |
| 1:12.1 | and ended up in an eight year period doubling the amount of money brought into the federal treasury |
| 1:18.7 | unfortunately congress spent a dollar and 30 for every new dollar he brought in and of course |
| 1:25.7 | adding to the debt the deficits and and we now see the |
| 1:29.3 | problem culminating where it is today and uh unfortunately that has to come to an end i i wish we'd |
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