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Congressman Warren Davidson joins Brian Thomas this morning · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: 7-0-6. Happy Thursday. Brian Thomas, always pleased to welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the 55KRC Morning Show. There's some you can be proud
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  Speaker 1: of and happy about and trust. That's Congressman Warren Davidson
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  Speaker 1: among a very small list of those politicians. Welcome back,
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson. Always enjoy having you on the 55KRC Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: It's my honor to join you. Thanks, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just start with the 760,000 fraudulent Obamacare enrollments, which J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance came out and identified. saving the American taxpayer roughly
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  Speaker 1: $ 2. 2 billion. I just have to observe, it seems to
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  Speaker 1: me that anybody who cares about fraud in any government
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  Speaker 1: program could easily identify the mechanisms that allow for fraud
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  Speaker 1: and plug the holes in the bucket that allow for that.
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  Speaker 1: But you have to have a political will to do that.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, allowing people who aren't eligible to enroll
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  Speaker 1: in any given government plan, apparently, according to Kamala Harris
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  Speaker 1: the other day, among the tools in the Democrat arsenal
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  Speaker 1: of useful items to benefit their side of the political ledger.
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  Speaker 1: But this is a great development. Is it not getting
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  Speaker 1: rid of ineligible enrollees who literally are harming every single
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  Speaker 1: American taxpayer?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this is why. But remember, Doge was partisan.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you bring it out. Department of Government Efficiency
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  Speaker 2: was identifying all the failures in the system that were
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  Speaker 2: allowing fraud to occur. We didn't have adequate accounting systems.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, small businesses running QuickBooks had better controls than
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  Speaker 2: a lot of our government agencies. And when you started
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  Speaker 2: following the money and finding it, and don't forget, the
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  Speaker 2: audit trail that's making a lot of this possible came
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  Speaker 2: because Doge developed these new computer technologies, updated the accounting mechanisms.
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  Speaker 2: Not all the way. There's still a lot of work
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  Speaker 2: left to be done. But people are following it, following
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  Speaker 2: the money. We're finding the fraud. We've created a whole
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  Speaker 2: department at the Department of Justice to focus on this.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of hard to believe we didn't already do it.
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  Speaker 2: But now not only is the fraud being detected, there
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  Speaker 2: are charges being filed, and soon we will see people
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  Speaker 2: actually going to jail, which is still one of the
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  Speaker 2: most common questions I get in this job. When is
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  Speaker 2: somebody going to jail? Well, that's underway right now. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it takes time, and I keep going back to
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  Speaker 1: the folks that scream out loud like, how come nothing's
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  Speaker 1: being done about it? Well, look, we just had an
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  Speaker 1: announcement the other day, 760,000 ineligible Obamacare enrollees. That could
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  Speaker 1: lead to some prosecutions. It takes time to develop a case,
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  Speaker 1: gather the evidence, and create a file that will allow
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  Speaker 1: a prosecutor to convict beyond a reasonable doubt. That's a
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  Speaker 1: time-intensive process, and I'm willing to wait for it to
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  Speaker 1: happen as long as it's being done. But pivoting over
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  Speaker 1: to your statement, and it's true. The work Doge was doing,
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  Speaker 1: I think, objectively nonpartisan because what were they doing? Getting
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  Speaker 1: rid of fraud and of waste and, I guess, trying
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  Speaker 1: to ensure that the money that actually went out into
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  Speaker 1: the world to fund nongovernmental organizations doing whatever it is
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  Speaker 1: they were doing, that they were actually doing what it
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  Speaker 1: is they're getting paid for. We don't even know that.
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  Speaker 1: So how does that prudent accounting exercise become partisan? Because
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  Speaker 1: this is the American taxpayer dollar. That does not bear
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  Speaker 1: a political stripe.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they knew what would happen once they found, were
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  Speaker 2: able to follow the money. Like, oh, all this money
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  Speaker 2: is going to the friends and family plan for Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you've got laundered money everywhere. The nongovernment organizations
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  Speaker 2: are essentially existent by government. Maybe the epitome of that
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  Speaker 2: was when they had the EPA money and literally boasted
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  Speaker 2: that they were like trying to shove gold bars off
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  Speaker 2: the Titanic. between November and January to get rid of
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  Speaker 2: all these grant dollars. And one of the grants, $ 2
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  Speaker 2: billion to Stacey Abrams, to a nonprofit that never done
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  Speaker 2: a dime worth of business, except open a bank account.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the kind of graft that was going on.
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  Speaker 2: And we turned that off because we found it quickly.
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  Speaker 2: And that That's gone on in spades. If you look
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  Speaker 2: at USAID, the essential functions of USAID still go on
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  Speaker 2: under the State Department, but they closed the entire department
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  Speaker 2: down because this was a department that was using that
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  Speaker 2: money to do nonprofits counter to the United States' interests.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I talked with ambassadors in multiple countries. as
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  Speaker 2: a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, talked with ambassadors
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  Speaker 2: in multiple countries who were saying, look, we want to
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  Speaker 2: talk to you guys about trade. We want to talk
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  Speaker 2: to you about investment. We want to talk about helping
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  Speaker 2: you deal with this migration through, say, Guatemala, for example.
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  Speaker 2: But the State Department only wants to talk to us
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  Speaker 2: about LGBTQ plus issues, transgender issues, how to shift our country,
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  Speaker 2: which has a constitutional requirement that to be pro-life and
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  Speaker 2: no abortion, to be a pro-abortion country. I mean, all
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  Speaker 2: these kinds of things are going on in country after
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  Speaker 2: country with our tax dollars, actually worsening our impression in
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the world.
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  Speaker 1: So they're undermining the actual mission that they're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be on, which is to serve America's interests by undermining
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  Speaker 1: all things American. So I don't know if that's necessarily
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  Speaker 1: a form of fraud, waste, or abuse, but it is
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  Speaker 1: a violation of the mission statement, I would argue. But
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  Speaker 1: then I'm viewing this from the standpoint of partisanship, Every
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  Speaker 1: single one of those things you just went through by
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  Speaker 1: way of illustration. So it's their fraud, the Democrats' fraud.
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  Speaker 1: It's their abuse of the taxpayer dollars. So that makes
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  Speaker 1: it okay. I mean, that's really what we're left with.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, they know a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: things that they're doing aren't popular. They know some of
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  Speaker 2: the things they're doing aren't legal. And another example is
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  Speaker 2: their campaign funding. ActBlue has been caught with massive fraud,
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  Speaker 2: clear money laundering, structuring. They're taking large dollars, and they've
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  Speaker 2: found mobile times where they follow what's reported in the
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  Speaker 2: Federal Election Commission. Some little old lady that supposedly gave
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  Speaker 2: $ 60, 000 to Democrats, and investigative journalists go to her house
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  Speaker 2: and say– ma'am, did you give $ 60, 000 to Democrat candidates
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  Speaker 2: over the last year? She's like, good heavens, no, I
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  Speaker 2: don't have $ 60, 000. Yeah, she's living off her Social Security check.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's okay because it's their fraud. That's what's crazy,
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  Speaker 1: that people aren't aware enough that this is going on
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  Speaker 1: to go after the ones that are perpetrating this. Is
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  Speaker 1: Doge still alive and well behind the scenes? We just
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  Speaker 1: don't hear anything reporting about it, Congressman Davidson.
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  Speaker 2: It's still alive. It doesn't have the kind of momentum
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  Speaker 2: that I wish it did, and And frankly, we ran
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  Speaker 2: into a little bit of challenge with the rescissions package.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, again, you go turn any spending off, no
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  Speaker 2: matter how crazy the spending is, Democrats lose their minds.
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  Speaker 2: So they're completely uncooperative. And frankly, we had some Republicans
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  Speaker 2: in maybe more moderate districts, maybe considered tougher races. They
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  Speaker 2: know Democrats and lots of others love the spending. So
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  Speaker 2: we had a hard time Scaling back, we did scale
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  Speaker 2: back about $ 9 billion with the Doge rescissions package. I
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  Speaker 2: had hoped that we would be into the hundreds and
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of billions of dollars just with Doge, but we
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  Speaker 2: are finding it and turning it off through a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the programs. You're not going to eliminate the program
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  Speaker 2: on Medicaid just because there was some Medicaid fraud, for example,
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  Speaker 2: but you're going to change the program. And so this
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  Speaker 2: makes it a little harder to do with the mechanisms
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  Speaker 2: than just say, hey, let's have a one line item
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  Speaker 2: vote on defunding certain things. It really does come to
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  Speaker 2: getting the Department of Justice to bring justice.
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  Speaker 1: All right, spinning over to your, you're joining with David
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  Speaker 1: Taylor as well as other members of the Ohio delegation,
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  Speaker 1: sending a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom about California giving
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  Speaker 1: CDLs to illegal immigrants who don't even have a grasp
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  Speaker 1: of the English language and therefore can't read road signs,
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  Speaker 1: among other things. I know you did that in response
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  Speaker 1: to a crash in Brown County that killed an Ohioan,
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  Speaker 1: obviously hitting here close to home, but it's happening all
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  Speaker 1: over the country. Did you get any response from that?
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  Speaker 1: Any traction?
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  Speaker 2: No, we haven't heard anything back yet. But look, Sean Duffy,
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  Speaker 2: Secretary of Transportation, he's been very aggressive on this. And
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  Speaker 2: why is the attention focused on California when we're in Ohio? Well,
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  Speaker 2: they were uniquely bad in issuing commercial driver's licenses. They
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  Speaker 2: even gave driver's license to people, and it says on
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  Speaker 2: the license, no name given. And they're catching these guys, oh, no,
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  Speaker 2: I have a license. Because they don't say that in
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  Speaker 2: English because they don't speak English. And, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: not because we have borders in our states, right? The
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  Speaker 2: borders are supposed to be at the national borders. So
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  Speaker 2: once you get a commercial driver's license issued in California,
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  Speaker 2: you can haul loads into Ohio. You can move to
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  Speaker 2: Ohio and be in Ohio, and you have a commercial
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  Speaker 2: driver's license. So these are the challenges with the, quote,
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  Speaker 2: you know, open border sanctuary states like California, right? do
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  Speaker 2: have real consequences for states like Ohio, and it'd be
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  Speaker 2: great if we had no sanctuary jurisdictions within our own state,
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  Speaker 2: but we do. And I think that's why it's so important,
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  Speaker 2: you know, is when Warren County, with Secretary Mullen's Homeland Security,
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  Speaker 2: did this 287G program. Butler County, Warren County, they do it,
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  Speaker 2: but Hamilton County doesn't. And all this says is, hey,
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  Speaker 2: when you find people who aren't here lawfully present— We're
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  Speaker 2: going to help ICE come bring them in. And you
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  Speaker 2: already have them in custody, so it's far less dangerous
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  Speaker 2: to the public, less dangerous to the officers and everything else.
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  Speaker 2: You found somebody who's here unlawfully. Help us help them leave.
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  Speaker 1: Help us help you. Help you help us collectively. Don't
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  Speaker 1: go away. More with Congressman Davidson, including the connected deep talks.
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  Speaker 1: it's 720 55 care city talk station brian thomas with
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  Speaker 1: congressman warren davidson going through the topics including the connected
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  Speaker 1: vehicle security act uh congressman davidson uh start talking about
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  Speaker 1: this i I just noted, and I saw a couple
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  Speaker 1: of reports on this, the European market for cars is
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  Speaker 1: just being overwhelmed by Chinese imports. Apparently, already they had 12%
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  Speaker 1: of all of the new car sales in the European
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  Speaker 1: Union last month, and that was up 25%. The numbers
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  Speaker 1: just keep going up and up.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Well, they're a lot cheaper, apparently, than the more expensive
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  Speaker 1: to make because of a multitude of self-inflicted wounds in
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  Speaker 1: the European Union. So they flood the market with the
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  Speaker 1: Chinese EVs, which may be the only ones that the
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  Speaker 1: European Union market can afford. But Buying those comes with
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  Speaker 1: a security risk, doesn't it, Congressman Davidson?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it comes with a lot of risk and privacy
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  Speaker 2: risks for sure. I mean, unfortunately, nearly every car you
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  Speaker 2: buy spies on you. And I'm working to deal with that.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a bill called the It's Your Data Act
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  Speaker 2: that would turn off all the surveillance that goes on
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  Speaker 2: your car or at least make it so you've got
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  Speaker 2: to opt in. I mean, if you've got a signal
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  Speaker 2: coming into your car or going out of your car,
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  Speaker 2: you've got data being stored, that's your data. But everybody
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  Speaker 2: and the brother wants to harvest it and use it. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think any company, whether they're American, Chinese, or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: any third party, should be able to do that without
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  Speaker 2: your consent. So this doesn't do everything on connected vehicles
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  Speaker 2: that it should. But China poses a particular problem. Not
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  Speaker 2: only should they not have your data, they shouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: your market share. Because how do they do this? They
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  Speaker 2: have their federal government data. subsidize their car companies so
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  Speaker 2: they can dump in below cost. So they're selling cars
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  Speaker 2: sometimes below what it costs the factory to even make
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  Speaker 2: them because they want to try to position their companies
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  Speaker 2: to get market share. They've done that in industry after industry,
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  Speaker 2: and we can't let them wreck our auto industry. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: think of the supply chains. And when I was in manufacturing,
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  Speaker 2: we had a couple hundred employees, a huge chunk of
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  Speaker 2: them We're devoted to making products that go into the
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  Speaker 2: automotive sector. And we need the strength of that sector
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  Speaker 2: in the United States. We don't need it in China.
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  Speaker 2: And we should learn from other sectors where this already happened.
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  Speaker 2: And China has taken massive market share. This is why
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to reauthorize and modernize the Defense Production Act
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  Speaker 2: so that we can reshore certain very strategic industries. China
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  Speaker 2: was very crafty in how they targeted certain industries. They
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  Speaker 2: certainly dominate critical minerals and rare earths especially. But they
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  Speaker 2: dominate a lot of chemicals that we can't even make
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  Speaker 2: certain goods in the United States without a Chinese supply chain.
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  Speaker 2: And President Trump and team have really tried hard to
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  Speaker 2: remedy this. And that's one of my big priorities along
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  Speaker 2: with this bill is modernizing Defense Production Act so we
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  Speaker 2: can get the focus on our own supply chains.
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  Speaker 1: Well, relatively speaking, why can't we? I mean, I know
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  Speaker 1: rare earth millers aren't really rare. It's just a question
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  Speaker 1: of digging them out of the ground. We've got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of supplies here in the United States. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it seems to me that maybe, oh, maybe nefarious Chinese
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  Speaker 1: Communist Party has been whipping up and ginning up the
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  Speaker 1: whole climate alarmism groups over and over and over again,
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  Speaker 1: resulting in environmental laws on the books and resulting in
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  Speaker 1: NIMBY lawsuits and every other form of environmental rule waged at, well,
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  Speaker 1: trying to equal the playing field with the Chinese, like
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  Speaker 1: digging out our own rare earth minerals. Am I close
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  Speaker 1: to maybe accurate on that, Congressman?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's part of it. Part of it
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  Speaker 2: is we don't have even a processing plant. We buy
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  Speaker 2: up a lot of these things that are found in
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  Speaker 2: other parts of the world. We get access to places
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  Speaker 2: in Africa where you'd find a rare earth mineral. We
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of it in the United States. You
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  Speaker 2: can't even process it. So even if you do mine
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  Speaker 2: it in the United States, you're shipping it. That's the
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  Speaker 2: environmental laws. But certain industries, you can't really do it because...
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  Speaker 2: There is no market price left. China has bought up
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  Speaker 2: the market with the same strategy they're trying to do
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  Speaker 2: with EVs. The government subsidizes them below cost. And that's
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  Speaker 2: why you've got to have some intervention. You need a
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  Speaker 2: high enough tariff at the border on these goods that
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  Speaker 2: you don't completely kill the market and make it impossible
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  Speaker 2: to do certain things in the United States. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, okay, I get it. It's fine if I
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  Speaker 2: buy T-shirts from other parts of the world or something.
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  Speaker 2: But You look at your whole supply chain, you can't
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  Speaker 2: have a country and stay as strong as the United
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  Speaker 2: States and make nothing. You can't just import it. You've
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  Speaker 2: got to have these kind of high-skilled, high-value-add jobs to
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  Speaker 2: keep our country strong and resilient and, frankly, secure.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm just contemplating this. Without a tariff, how can
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  Speaker 1: you ever complete with a country that basically has either
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  Speaker 1: slave labor or slave wage labor, no OSHA requirements, no
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  Speaker 1: environmental rules or regulations. They just do whatever the hell
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  Speaker 1: they want, obviously more efficiently, less money to have to
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  Speaker 1: extract manuals or otherwise process them. I mean, here in
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  Speaker 1: the United States, I mean, there's no way we could
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  Speaker 1: equally compete with them on that kind of field.
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  Speaker 2: No, and I mean, this is the thing. Even if
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  Speaker 2: you could, the government is subsidizing certain sectors where they
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  Speaker 2: do it below even that low cost. And so there
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  Speaker 2: is a, look, you don't have to necessarily do everything
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  Speaker 2: in the United States. We can move it to other places.
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  Speaker 2: Apple did that. They built up other options, but they're
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  Speaker 2: still very dependent upon China. And look, I would rather
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  Speaker 2: do business with China than see them as a pure adversary.
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  Speaker 2: But you don't want to make yourself completely dependent upon
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  Speaker 2: a Chinese supply chain. And I think in the United States,
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  Speaker 2: if you do that, look, Ross Perot said there would
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  Speaker 2: be a giant sucking sound of our jobs leaving the economy.
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  Speaker 2: People said, no, no, it's all going to work out great. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it worked out an awful lot, like Ross Perot said.
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  Speaker 2: And President Trump's the first president to come in and say,
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  Speaker 2: we have to do something about that. I mean, kudos
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  Speaker 2: to Bernie Marino for proposing this first in the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: Mike Kelly and a bunch of us jumped on to
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  Speaker 2: the House version. Mike Kelly from Pennsylvania jumped on and
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  Speaker 2: put this version through the House. But Bernie Marino, I
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  Speaker 2: think today, is going to try to get unanimous consent
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  Speaker 2: from through the Senate to get this to move. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think he'll get unanimous consent, but I hope he succeeds.
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  Speaker 1: But it sounds like it has some measure of bipartisan
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  Speaker 1: support anyway.
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  Speaker 2: It does.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good thing to hear. We don't see too
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  Speaker 1: much of that lately. Congressman Warren Davidson, I appreciate your
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  Speaker 1: willingness to come on the 55 KRC Morning Show and
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  Speaker 1: talk to my listeners and me about these important issues.
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  Speaker 1: And where you are on the issue is also very
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  Speaker 1: important to me and my listening audience. So thank you
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  Speaker 1: for being who you are, and I hope you have
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic week, sir. We'll talk again soon.
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  Speaker 2: Likewise, Brian. God bless you and all your listeners.
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  Speaker 1: And back to you, sir. 726 right now, 55 KRC
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