What Is the Purpose of the GOP Congress? | 4/4/25

Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

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🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The gaping hole in Trump’s righteous agenda to re-privatize the economy is a plan to fully wean off corporate and individual welfare. Lawmakers are trying to find every way imaginable to solve the debt problem without actually cutting spending. I also offer some more thoughts on the trade plan and how Republicans are taking legitimate observations and applying them in the wrong way and to a degree of demagoguery and sophistry. NAFTA was wrong, in my view, but it is not the primary reason for what ails us, and the notion that other countries taking advantage of us is the source of all ills is misleading. We can’t give people the impression that simply by ending illegal immigration and rebalancing trade, America will come back without internal reforms and sacrifices. Next, we’re joined by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), who is trying to fight for some sense of purpose in this Congress. We discuss the horrible Senate reconciliation bill and how there is zero interest in cutting spending. Chip says he will not support the bill without concrete evidence of real spending cuts or some sort of transformational policy change, such as health care reform. He also weighs in the judicial tyranny and why he believes the best approach is for Congress to cut funding for certain district courts that are violating the Constitution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Politics without the soap opera with unfiltered constitutional conservative truth.
0:06.3	The Conservative Review with Daniel Burns.
0:09.5	And welcome back fellow American patriots and Minutemen standing at the ready to fight anew
0:15.0	for the issues that matter and the way they matter at the time they matter.
0:19.3	That time is today, Friday, end of week here at
0:22.5	Sierra podcast. Always the time to sew up the miscellaneous forgotten items, kind of tied
0:29.5	together, weave together, the unfinished thoughts, the gaping hole, the gaping hole in Trump's agenda. Now, there's a lot of them, but the big gaping hole, the gaping hole in Trump's agenda.
0:38.8	Now, there's a lot of them, but the big gaping hole relative to the message he's trying to convey is cutting spending.
0:48.8	Everything revolves around cutting spending.
0:52.2	There's other ideas we could debate, and there's other ideas that may or may not work.
0:57.1	But if you don't cut the spending, you're not going to end the vicious cycle, and you run the risk of exacerbating everything else with a deep recession without even accomplishing lowering pricing.
1:13.4	And that all really hinges upon the budget reconciliation bill in Congress, which is horrible.
1:21.2	So we're going to have Chip Roy coming up the second half of the show to discuss from his perspective there what he's seeing with that.
1:30.3	But I think this is a good adjunct to yesterday's long conversation. If you haven't heard it,
1:35.2	I just went on for 75 minutes about trade and the tariffs. And the main point I was making is that what I find most offensive is not the policy in itself or the way it's messaged in some way.
1:55.0	I identified five ways it's being messaged, which often conflict with each other.
2:00.8	But it's the fact that we seem to think suddenly that the entirety of our problems in society
2:11.3	and economy are the result of random tariff rates, whatever you believe on them.
2:18.8	But that is the main thing, that that is the only policy we have, and that's everything.
2:26.1	And that's what I find so offensive.
2:29.4	We're trying to find all these shortcuts around cutting spending.
2:33.0	That's the only way out of this.
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