Rep. Biggs on spending crisis: DoD can’t account for 61% of assets during audit, Congress still gives more money
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🗓️ 14 July 2023
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Rep. Andy Biggs discusses the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act today by 219 Republicans to 210 Democrats, a move that is seen as a huge win by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Biggs comments that the spending crisis in this country is a huge problem, so much that “there's been a bipartisan statement from Joint Chiefs of Staff, and over the last 20 years that our biggest threat is our national debt.” The member of Freedom Caucus says, ultimately, the bottom line is this, there are no consequences. Why? Because every time you fail an audit, [they] come back to Congress, and we give [them] even more money. And that's what this is about and then you throw in the woke programs that are DEI, ESG, paying for abortions, trans, kicking people out of the military because they didn't want the vaccine and then refusing to bring them back, and all those and the list goes on. And that's why this is so important.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello America and happy Friday. We've got a great show for you. It's been a busy busy |
| 0:10.6 | week. In fact, the news even finished big on Friday. Let me Friday, Congress set a |
| 0:15.0 | town in the middle of summer, not today. The House scored another major victory under |
| 0:19.3 | Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Why? They got the NDA, the National Defense Authorization Act |
| 0:24.5 | passed. Something that the mainstream median Democrats predicted would not happen. And |
| 0:29.8 | this makes major changes to the Pentagon, particularly rolling back several of the woke |
| 0:35.2 | ideological initiatives that the Biden administration had inserted into the Pentagon budget, like |
| 0:40.6 | abortion tourism and the EI ideological training inside the Pentagon. A major win for conservators, |
| 0:47.9 | a major win for Kevin McCarthy, major win for Republican parties, the bill, which a lot |
| 0:52.6 | of people predicted, wouldn't get passed this week, goes over to the Senate. Obviously, |
| 0:56.4 | there'll be some negotiations. Some things will drop out of it. But a win in another sign |
| 1:00.8 | that every time it looks like the Republicans are at war with each other, the war ends up in |
| 1:05.8 | a debate and it ends up in a negotiation that results in some pretty significant outcomes. |
| 1:10.8 | And so that is a big moment. We're going to have a great guest to kick off the show today. |
| 1:14.8 | One of your favorites, we have them on often, Congressman Andy Biggs from the great state |
| 1:19.1 | of Arizona. He is on the House Judiciary and Oversight Committee. So on the forefront of |
| 1:23.4 | all of the weaponization and under Biden investigations, he's also a major voice on spending |
| 1:30.7 | in the NDA, played a big role in the discussions about the NDA. He's going to join us at the |
| 1:35.1 | top of the show. Then Cash Betel is going to come here to react to a story that we broke |
| 1:39.6 | last night on just the news. House Judiciary, Jim Jordan, opening an investigation into a revelation |
| 1:46.4 | that was made on just the news. What is that revelation? The Justice Department and FBI opened up |
| 1:51.4 | an investigation on two House Intelligence Committee investigators back in 2017 with Devin |
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