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If She Were Queen (or President) For A Day ... U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Gotta get right to it. It is a show five thousand and eight,
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  Tuesday, March fifth, Super Tuesday across the country. Trump will be on
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  all ballots and it's The Morning Show with Preston Scott. Great to be with
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  you this morning, everybody. Thanks so much for joining us. Grant Allen
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  over there running the program and great to have back on the show. It's
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  been a minute, as the kids like to say us. Congresswoman Kat Cammick,
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  Florida's third congressional district, how are you, Kat? Good mornin.
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  Always great to be back with you. I feel like I need walk up
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  music, you know, like we need like a theme song for you.
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  It's it's been a minute since you've been with us, So there's so many
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  things to talk about. What let me just let me turn this around.
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  If you were, you know, calling the shots, and you had had
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  people across America listening to you as you do, what's what's most important on
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  your mind right now? As a member of Congress, Oh man, if
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  I were queen for a day, well, first walk up music, theme
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  song, entrance music. It has to be Tom Petty, you know,
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  won't back down, you know, especially Repen the Gator nation. Of course,
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  got to make sure that you're you know, paying tribute to the man.
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  But obviously the hill to die on for us is the border. So
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  within the first millisecond, it would be securing the border. That that has
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  to be the first thing I would this. This is why I could never
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  probably run for for higher national office, because I would flash and burn so
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  many federal agencies that it would be unrecognizable. I would cut so many government
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  agencies and unelected, nameless, faithless bureaucrats that it would be unreal. I
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  I would pair down the size of government by like eighty percent or so.
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  It's just so overgrown, And that right there would solve so many problems.
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  Because you think about the regulatory environment, you think about how Congress is essentially
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  hamstrung. It's because of the imbalance in Washington. The founding fathers always wanted
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  us, through Article on Authority, to make the laws, to have the
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  most power of the people leveraged so that the executive branch would execute on those
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  laws. Well, now we have effectively an imperial presidency, so it's completely
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  out of whack. So of course I think border would be number one.
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  Slashing the size of government would be number two, instituting a structured debt repayment
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  plan. Number three. No one ever gets to ask. No one asks
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  me these questions, Preston. It's like if I was queaned for the day,
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  what would I do? There's just so much, see I think,
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  And I'm glad I asked the quoest question. And and you're one of the
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  sharpest members of Congress that I know of, Congresswoman, and I think it's
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  sometimes it is important for each of you individually. I hate to sound like
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  dear old dad, although I am old enough. I think it's important for
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  you to think about it that way. You know, this is a story
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  that we talked about earlier in the program, and I know it's near and
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  dear to your heart because you know Florida's role in agriculture across the country.
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  But to kind of merge all this together, we're funding Ukrainian farmers, and
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  we're supporting the Ukrainian border and protecting it. We're not protecting American farmers.
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  We're not protecting our border. Let's talk about agriculture for a second. What's
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  it going to take to turn around what's going on in the regulatory environment and
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  just in general to keep farmers from going out of business every day. Oh
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  it's and it's so important for Florida. Florida is a massive state, top
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  ten in the nation, number one in cowcaf production, three hundred specialty crops.
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  I mean, people always think about our state's economy and they think it's
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  you know, yeah, they think they think that it's tourism. And in
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  any given year, agriculture is the number one economic driver. Of course,
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  tourism is a big one. Sometimes it's number one, sometimes it's number two.
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  But we have the most to lose if we continue to erode agricultural production
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  and support in this country. And of course the farm bill is coming up
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  and everyone's very very focused on that. That being said, I don't think
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  that there is a legislative piece of work that is going to save us from
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  this mess. It will help, but we have to stop thinking about agriculture
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  in the United States as a nice to do, and we have to start
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  thinking about it as a need to do. This is national security. A
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  nation that can't feed itself is not secure, and we are dangerously close with
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  all those things that are happening to the family farms around the country. The
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  EPA, the cost of input, fuel, labor, all these things that
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  are continually happening that are just unsustainable. You think about in Florida, we
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  have so many multi generational operations and the thing that is so heartbreaking to me
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  is I'll talk to these families and their newest generation that is part of the
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  operation. There's always at least one kid that is in real estate and they're
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  selling off pieces of the family farm. Don't forget to subscribe to the Conversations
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  with Preston Scott podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome to the Morning Show with
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  Preston Scott, continuing with Congresswoman Cat Camick. All right, in a minute
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  or less, react to this. How do we keep Bill Gates from single
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  handedly ruining the cattle industry because he's endeavoring to do that. How do we
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  make some carve outs and make sure that we incentivize people to grow, you
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  know, raise cattle to you know, to survive this. A lot of
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  that has to do with the regulatory environment and President you and I both know
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  that's my number one thing is we've got to get these nameless faith with beeraucrats
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  out of the way, you know, respecting personal private property rights that is
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  a core fundamental issue in this country, and we are seeing more and more
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  assaults on that. You have to protect a family farm. You have to
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  make it so that we don't have ridiculous tax structures that force people to sell
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  the family farm to these people like Bill Gates, or even worse, you've
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  got these Chinese nationals that are doing the bidding of the CCP, buying up
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  farmland all over America. We have got to get back to a place of
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  incentivizing all the right things rather than continuing to punish people for success. We'll
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  expand on this next Monthfully we can carve out a little bit more time.
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  I want to get your thoughts on the continuing resolution plague that is hit government
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  for decades. Now, how do we get out of this pattern of crs
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  And we say, Okay, we're going to do one more. It's going
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  to get us through the rest of the year and then it's a budget next
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  year, or we're not doing anything. We're going to shut government down because
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  a bunch of us aren't really scared of the government shutting down. Yeah,
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  and I absolutely despise crs, these continuing resolutions. I have not supported one
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  and I don't know why. But now all of a sudden, some of
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  my good friends, could conservative friends, are saying we should do a year
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  long cr with a one percent cut. A couple of things on that it's
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  going to lead us right back to where we are because people just they haven't
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  felt the pain and there's no consequences. The other thing is a R is
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  just a rubber stamp of Nancy Pelosi's policies. Exactly. I would damned if
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  I'm going to her horrific, destructive policies. And then the other thing is
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  everyone says, oh, well, you know, I had a couple of
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  my good friends like Chip Roy and others like Kat we need that one percent
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  cut. I said, we need way more than one percent cut. And
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  also, let us not forget when you do a er and you do it
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  with a cut, the president, the OMB director, and the president are
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  the ones that determine where those cuts come from. And if people think for
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  one second that Biden is going to be okay with across the board cut,
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  no, they're going to cut us where it hurts Republicans most, or it
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  hurts rural America most, and he's going to protect things in the urban clusters
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  and areas where there's blue states and cities. So there's that element. But
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  then Preston, there's another thing that I always hit on that no one wants
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  to talk about, and that's with the fact that the one percent cut would
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  basically equate to what we borrow in a week. If we're borrowing seven point
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  eight billion dollars a day, and that one percent cut comes out to you
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  know, that delta is about a week's worth of borrowing. Don't stand there
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  and tell me that you're some fiscal conservative and that you are all in for
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  fighting. No, we need to really take a hatchet to it. We've
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  got to start going after all the debt and the interest on the debt,
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  which has now outpaced our defense spending. There's real problems, and the politics
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  of telling people that you're fighting for fiscal conservatism insanity. It's just it's so
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  wrong when people are like, yeah, but we're doing this and we're doing
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  that, and like, yeah, you're literally scratching the surface. Yep,
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  we're going to be right back where we were just a year ago. It's
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  sad you're fighting members of your own party on this, and it's something we
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  ya. We lament that last thing we have been really focused on the January
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  sixth what i'll call political prisoners that we have, And the latest example of
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  the weaponization of government is the reporter for Blake Media, Stephen Baker, being
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  marched out. This is a reporter charged with four misdemeanors. Congresswoman. He
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  was marched out in leg chains, handcuffed with belly chains. He's been charged
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  with four misdemeanors in essence for what he wrote. What the heck is going
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  on? This is not America, This is not America. This is not
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  the America that we all know and love. This is so wrong. And
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  when we talk about the weaponization of government, it's real, Yes it is.
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  I mean, you see obviously four misdemeanors and they're treated like that.
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  Meanwhile, you can be in illegal in this country with a rap sheet,
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  commit crimes, be released the very next day on no cash bail, murder
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  someone, and you're still treated better than that individual. It's just it's absolutely
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  mind blowing and a sign of how far away we've gotten from just the basics.
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  But I will say this week we have another weaponization hearing, and I
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  think this is so important that people start paying attention to this Bank of America
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  and other financial institutions voluntarily took our information, and by our I mean everyday
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  Americans. And they said, if you shop at bath Pro, if you
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  shop at Cabella's Right, if you shop at these places, you are now
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  going to be under a lens where you could consider you a domestic terrorist or
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  an extremist. And I mean, so you know, color me guilty apparently
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  because I do shop at mass Pro. And this is again flying in the
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  face of our constitutional rights and protections. There's no Fourth Amendment protections that that
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  they are that they're using. They're saying, well, we didn't need a
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  warrant, we we Well, actually you do need a warrant because all that
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  information went to the dj and the FBI, and they're using that to basically
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  build this this hollow case of domestic extremism, and they're trying to paint a
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  picture where there hasn't been a crime. That is such a wild departure of
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  where we normally would be in this country, and it's just so quiet it
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  blows my mind. The weaponization of government is a very real thing. Whether
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  you are a Catholic attending math, you've got the FBI watching you, if
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  you are a parent going to a PTA meeting, oh heaven forbid, you've
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  got an FBI agent in the parking lot scribbling down your license plate number.
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  Absolutely wild times that we're living in. I know you got a bolt.
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  Please remember in the meeting this week Stephen Baker Blaze media use him as an
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  example. I will thank you, Kat, God bless bye bye, all
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  right. Kat Camick, US Congresswoman, third Florida District, on the Morning
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  Show with Preston Scott