Team 47 - My Summer Trip to Washington

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is critical of mayors and governors who are obstructing immigration enforcement efforts by ICE and other federal agencies. She sees this as a major issue that the public overwhelmingly supports. Senator Blackburn discusses the Republican tax cut bill, emphasizing the need for permanence in the tax cuts to spur long-term economic growth. Assistant Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin defends the immigration enforcement actions taken by the Trump administration, arguing that they are focused on removing dangerous criminal illegal aliens. Clay and Buck also share behind-the-scenes details from their recent visit to the West Wing, where they met with President Trump and key administration figures. They describe a confident and energized president, particularly proud of his recent move to terminate California’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate, restoring consumer choice and protecting the U.S. auto industry from overregulation. The repeal of the EV mandate is framed as a major victory for free markets, energy independence, and American manufacturing. Finally, the episode touches on the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, with real-time updates on missile attacks and air raid sirens in Tel Aviv. The hosts analyze the strategic implications of Israel’s precision strikes and the broader geopolitical fallout, emphasizing the strength of U.S.-Israel relations under President Trump and the potential for regime change in Iran.

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0:34.5	You're listening to Team 47 with Clay and Buck. I'm sitting in studio right now
0:40.0	with Senator Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee, and I'm up here because my son is going to be doing
0:45.2	an internship. And this is an intern season for so many different offices out there. Do you
0:53.0	remember the first time you came to D.C.?
0:55.2	I know you've been up here for a while.
0:56.6	What do you remember about that?
0:58.1	Yeah, you know, I was in high school,
1:01.8	and it was a 4-H club leadership summit,
1:05.8	and it was absolutely so exciting to me
1:09.1	and to come up and to have lunch with my senator and get that
1:15.9	photo and you know what fun what what do you think young marcia blackburn on that 4-H
1:22.7	trip would have thought if you had told their hey one day you're going to be a congresswoman and a senator yourself.
1:29.2	Do you think you would have believed it? Were you interested in politics at that age?
1:32.6	I was very involved. Yes, I thought that good citizenship was important.
1:39.5	And we even as I was cleaning out some things, one day I found a flyer I had done and distributed
1:46.2	to all my neighbors as part of a citizenship project reminding them to go vote and the
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