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Latino Power 'ICE Out, Welfare In?' plus Why The New $10.3 Trillion AI Race Matters · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Israel is also defending many of the countries whose delegates
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Friday morning. It's nice to have you with us
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  Speaker 3: on the 47 Morning Update. And we've got two big
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  Speaker 3: stories for you. First up, Democrats now going after Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump with a new campaign strategy. This time they're calling
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  Speaker 3: it Latino Power. Yes, Democrats now are coming out saying
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  Speaker 3: they want to abolish the Department of Homeland Security and ICE,
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  Speaker 3: and instead use the money to give out handouts, government
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  Speaker 3: aid to illegal immigrants. We'll break that down for you. Also,
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  Speaker 3: there was major meetings that took place yesterday in D.C.
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  Speaker 3: between the leader of China, Xi, and President Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: AI was a big part of that conversation, and we
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: So if you want to know what Democrats are planning
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  Speaker 3: if they get back the House or the Senate in
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  Speaker 3: the midterm elections, well, they're referring to it as Latino power. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: The elected daughter of two Guatemalan illegal immigrants is touting
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  Speaker 3: Latino power. That's what they're quoting it like. That's it.
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  Speaker 3: It's like imagine the big sign on the wall lit
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  Speaker 3: up at LED Latino power. So what is Latino power
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  Speaker 3: and what is the Democratic Party doing to sell it? Well,
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  Speaker 3: it is bribery. She is now demanding that the $ 150
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  Speaker 3: billion in funding for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, you
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  Speaker 3: know it as CBP, as well as the Immigration Customs Enforcement,
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  Speaker 3: known as ICE, will all that money be redirected to fund,
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  Speaker 3: you ready for this, illegal migrants. That's her words. Quote,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to completely defund and strip authority from ICE
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  Speaker 3: and CBP, which, again, she was excited about and all
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  Speaker 3: the other Democrats around her. She declared all of this,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, in Spanish. Yeah, you want to talk
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  Speaker 3: about getting out the vote for the midterms. She was
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  Speaker 3: also joined by her pro-migrant allies, including illegal immigrants, Islamic advocates,
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  Speaker 3: and Asian advocates as well. They also had a good
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  Speaker 3: old lesbian Chicago politician and other far-leaning Democrats who were
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  Speaker 3: all there while she spoke in Spanish. She also added
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  Speaker 3: in Spanish this. Instead, we're going to create a Department
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  Speaker 3: of Community Safety where immigration will no longer be handled
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  Speaker 3: by the Department of Homeland Security, which likes to call
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  Speaker 3: immigrants terrorists when it wants to attack them. And... Our
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  Speaker 3: immigrant people will no longer have to live with the
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  Speaker 3: fear of this system. I guess that means the fear
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  Speaker 3: of like law and order and deporting people that break
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  Speaker 3: into the United States of America, right? Now, why are
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  Speaker 3: they doing this? They're all doing it because of Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump and the success of closing down the southern border.
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  Speaker 3: And I guess that's why they're saying it in Spanish,
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  Speaker 3: because they only want to be talking to apparently people
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  Speaker 3: that speak Spanish only. And I guess they thought it
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  Speaker 3: would be like some sort of Jedi mind trick on
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  Speaker 3: the rest of America. They really won't know what we're
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  Speaker 3: doing if we just talk in Spanish. Now, the Democrats
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  Speaker 3: advocacy for illegal migration. has also been slammed by GOP
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  Speaker 3: legislators in response. Representative De La Ramirez shows exactly why
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  Speaker 3: it's time to end birthright citizenship for the children of
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  Speaker 3: illegal aliens. It can empower those with no loyalty to
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  Speaker 3: America to dismantle it from within. That's what Representative Brandon
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  Speaker 3: Gill of Texas said in a response on X. I
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  Speaker 3: believe in American power is what Gill also added, saying
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  Speaker 3: your parents were illegal aliens who showed no regard for
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  Speaker 3: our nation or its laws when they came here. You
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  Speaker 3: should be beyond grateful that a legal loophole allowed you
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  Speaker 3: to enjoy the fruits of a first world nation. Instead,
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  Speaker 3: you're working to end immigration enforcement, telling actual Americans that
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  Speaker 3: their birthright of citizenship doesn't belong to them and that
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  Speaker 3: our nation and its culture have no meaning or value
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  Speaker 3: to you. You have no love or appreciation for America because,
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, you still proudly consider
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  Speaker 3: yourself a Guatemalan before you are a citizen of America. Now,
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  Speaker 3: in August of 2025, Ramirez declared, quote, I'm a proud
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  Speaker 3: Guatemalan before I am an American. Let me say that again.
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  Speaker 3: This is a woman who is wanting to have power
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  Speaker 3: in America, who is declaring in 2025, I am proud.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm an American. Now, that
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  Speaker 3: was reported and there was video of it. Here's what
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  Speaker 3: it sounded like. Oh, wait, I'm sorry. It's in Spanish
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  Speaker 3: because apparently that's now how you run for office and
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  Speaker 3: apparently how you win if you're Representative De La Ramirez,
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  Speaker 3: who's again proud to be a Guatemalan before she is
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  Speaker 3: an American. Now, Ramirez support for migrants would shift vast wealth,
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  Speaker 3: as she described it, as well as political power from
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  Speaker 3: American citizens and their children to illegal immigrants. And as
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  Speaker 3: she described them, this is not a joke. Investors. It
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  Speaker 3: would exacerbate the wealth transfer that has accelerated since 1990
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  Speaker 3: when Democrats and Republicans united double the legalized migration up
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  Speaker 3: to roughly one million legalized migrants per year or roughly
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  Speaker 3: one migrant for every fourth U.S. birth. That actually happened,
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of people don't talk about it. Now,
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  Speaker 3: this new pro-illegal immigrant policy also has deep support in
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  Speaker 3: the Democratic Party, partly because migrants helped to fund and
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  Speaker 3: expand the Democrats' urban political machines. In New York, for example,
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  Speaker 3: Mondani has created an Office of Community Safety. What does
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  Speaker 3: it do? Literally, as he described it, it shields the
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  Speaker 3: city's huge population from of wage-cutting welfare using migrants from
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  Speaker 3: President Donald Trump's 2024 deportation mandate. And that is what
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  Speaker 3: your tax dollars are going for.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Representative De La Ramirez, who.
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  Speaker 3: Loves speaking Spanish, isn't the only one attacking Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: and law and order. Mondani earlier this year made a
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  Speaker 3: serious statement saying, about making sure that illegal immigrants are
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  Speaker 3: a number one priority above American citizens when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to welfare. And here was his warning to Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: and the White House.
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  Speaker 5: Just last month, the federal government finalized a set of
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  Speaker 5: drastic and unlawful changes to our country's public charge rule,
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  Speaker 5: a rule that makes it possible for someone to be
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  Speaker 5: denied immigration status based on the likelihood of their need
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  Speaker 5: for public benefits. Set to go into effect this coming Friday,
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  Speaker 5: September 18th, The new public charge rule expands the list
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  Speaker 5: of public benefits that might count against green card or
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  Speaker 5: visa applicants. If you are a citizen or an individual
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  Speaker 5: seeking humanitarian relief like asylum, these changes will not affect you.
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  Speaker 5: The new federal public charge rule not only sweeps aside
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  Speaker 5: more than a century of established law, it is intentionally
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  Speaker 5: vague as a means of creating uncertainty and fear to
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  Speaker 5: isolate immigrant New Yorkers, to force them to make an
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  Speaker 5: impossible choice between meeting their own basic needs and continuing
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  Speaker 5: to live in the city that they love. Make no mistake,
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  Speaker 5: this is an undisguised effort to strip New Yorkers of
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  Speaker 5: the services they rely on, the public benefits they are
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  Speaker 5: entitled to. Families, including those with children who are U.S. citizens,
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  Speaker 5: have already begun to forego essential services like SNAP, Medicaid,
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  Speaker 5: and affordable housing out of the fear that if they
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  Speaker 5: use these programs, immigration officers could use it as justification
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  Speaker 5: to deny them a future in our country. The toll
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  Speaker 5: of this new rule cannot be overstated. It is estimated
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  Speaker 5: that up to 4 million people from across the country
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  Speaker 5: could unenroll from their health care alone, including 1.8 million children.
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  Speaker 5: None of this is abstract. People could die.
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  Speaker 3: So there you have it. People will die. Not Americans.
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  Speaker 3: Illegal immigrants, he says. So therefore, that's exactly why we
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  Speaker 3: should do all of these radical things with your tax dollars.
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  Speaker 3: So this is the Democratic Party. This is what they
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  Speaker 3: want to do. They want to act. get rid of
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  Speaker 3: the Department of Homeland Security. They want to get rid
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  Speaker 3: of immigration enforcement. They want to make sure that any
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  Speaker 3: bad people in this country that get in here illegally,
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  Speaker 3: no one can arrest them. I'll say it again. This
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  Speaker 3: is what they're now calling Latina power. Latina power. And
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  Speaker 3: they'll say it all in Spanish. Yes, because why would
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  Speaker 3: we not say it in Spanish when we're an elected
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  Speaker 3: American citizen? Welcome, my friends, to exactly what the Democrats
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  Speaker 3: are wanting to do if they get their power back
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  Speaker 3: in the midterms.
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  Speaker 2: Next, story number two.
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  Speaker 3: One of the biggest things that President Donald Trump talked about,
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  Speaker 3: we now have learned with Xi Jinping, The man in
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  Speaker 3: charge of China and the Communist Party there, it was
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  Speaker 3: all about the war with AI. I've described this as
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  Speaker 3: a Cold War. It's happening right now. China is using
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  Speaker 3: influence campaigns, spending countless dollars and putting in bots on
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  Speaker 3: the Internet to try to turn Americans against AI. They
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  Speaker 3: understand that it's not only become a massive part of
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  Speaker 3: our economy, but they understand we're ahead of them when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to semiconductors and computer chips and AI in general.
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  Speaker 3: And they're trying to catch up. So how do they
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  Speaker 3: do it? By turning America against AI and AI development
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  Speaker 3: and data centers. Well, now we're starting to learn the
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  Speaker 3: financial aspects of just how big AI is for the
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  Speaker 3: United States of America. and to understand how enormous this
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  Speaker 3: new sector is, artificial intelligence. It is now being declared
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  Speaker 3: by universities as a revolution that has become America's number
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  Speaker 3: one driver of new innovation. How much are we talking?
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  Speaker 4: $ 10. 3 trillion. That is how much investment researchers now project
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  Speaker 4: that is going to be poured into America's AI infrastructure
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  Speaker 4: between 2025 and 2032. And according to new research being
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  Speaker 4: presented at the Brookings Institute, This could become one of
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  Speaker 4: the largest investment booms in America's entire history.
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  Speaker 3: Not just bigger than the internet boom. Researchers say relative
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  Speaker 3: to the size of the American economy. The AI build-out
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  Speaker 3: could actually be bigger than the investment booms that built
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  Speaker 3: America's railroads, electrified the entire country, constructed the interstate highway system,
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  Speaker 3: and built our modern telecommunications networks. Yes, AI. Just think
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  Speaker 3: about that. Now, we may be living through the construction
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  Speaker 3: of the next great piece of American economic infrastructure, except
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  Speaker 3: instead of railroad tracks and interstate highways, we're building data centers,
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  Speaker 3: power plants, electrical infrastructure, advanced semiconductor capabilities, and enormous computing networks. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the Brookings Institute also estimates that AI-related infrastructure investment could
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  Speaker 3: average approximately 3.6% of the U.S. GDP every single year
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  Speaker 3: between now and 2032. And that's not all of the
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  Speaker 3: data that we're finding out about how much this could
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  Speaker 3: help Americans financially. Not only are we talking about 3.6%
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  Speaker 3: of the U.S. GDP every single year through now, we
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  Speaker 3: think minimum 2032. But this is an extraordinary amount of
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  Speaker 3: money that is flowing into one technological transformation. Now, this
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  Speaker 3: isn't simply speculation about what AI might do someday. AI
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  Speaker 3: investment is already showing up in America's economic numbers right now.
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  Speaker 3: The U.S. Treasury Secretary recently estimated that throughout 2025, AI-driven
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  Speaker 3: investment accounted for nearly 30% of U.S. GDP growth. Now
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  Speaker 3: you understand why China wants to stop it at all costs.
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  Speaker 3: And the Treasury also said the trend continued through the
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  Speaker 3: first two quarters of 2026. Now, I got to say
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  Speaker 3: the number again, nearly 30%. of US GDP growth came
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  Speaker 3: from AI. In other words, roughly three out of every
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  Speaker 3: $ 10 of economic growth last year and the first two
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  Speaker 3: quarters of this year can be associated with investment in
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  Speaker 3: things like software, computers, hardware, data center infrastructure, all of
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  Speaker 3: it tied to this AI revolution. And another recent economic
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  Speaker 3: analysis also estimated that in the first quarter of 2026 alone,
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  Speaker 3: AI-related investment added roughly 0.73 percentage point of economic growth.
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  Speaker 3: That is unbelievable. It's becoming, in essence, a pillar of
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  Speaker 3: the American economy. Now, if you just look at the
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  Speaker 3: data centers, America now has roughly 1,500 major data center
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  Speaker 3: facilities in the data set studies by the Brookings researchers.
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  Speaker 3: When a large data center enters a community, Brookings researchers
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  Speaker 3: found employment in the local data processing industry rises approximately 58%
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  Speaker 3: over the first decade, while telecommunications employment rises approximately 43%.
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  Speaker 3: And then let's get to construction. Well, that number is
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  Speaker 3: also staggering. Data center construction spending in America has already
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  Speaker 3: crossed an annualized pace of roughly $ 50 billion. Now, here's
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  Speaker 3: what makes this even bigger. The fiscal infrastructure is only
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  Speaker 3: the beginning. AI is increasingly being deployed inside law firms, hospitals, banks, factories,
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  Speaker 3: logistics companies, energy companies, software businesses, and virtually every other
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  Speaker 3: major industry. And economists are confronting an interesting problem. We
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  Speaker 3: may actually be undercutting AI's economic impact with all of
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  Speaker 3: those different categories. Now, the Brookings researchers argue that traditional
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  Speaker 3: GDP statistics weren't designed for technologies like AI and this
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  Speaker 3: type of boom. A company might build its own AI model,
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  Speaker 3: develop proprietary data sets, create internal AI systems, or use
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  Speaker 3: AI to save thousands of employee hours. And much of
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  Speaker 3: that increased productivity and that capacity, well, it may not
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  Speaker 3: immediately appear as traditional investment in the economic statistics. Then
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  Speaker 3: there's productivity. This is the biggest economic story of all.
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  Speaker 3: If AI allows an employee to accomplish in four hours
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  Speaker 3: what previously required eight, America hasn't simply invented another product.
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  Speaker 3: We've literally expanded the productive capacity of the American worker.
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  Speaker 3: And even relatively small increases in productivity compounded across a
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  Speaker 3: nearly $ 30 trillion U.S. economy is Well, that translates into
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  Speaker 3: enormous increases in national wealth. By the way, those numbers, well,
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  Speaker 3: they back up that story. We just saw the medium
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  Speaker 3: income in this country hit the highest ever on record.
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  Speaker 3: And if you want to know why, look to AI.
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  Speaker 3: And that is exactly why the President of the United
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  Speaker 3: States of America has been advocating for AI. Now you
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  Speaker 3: understand why China is doing everything it can to stop
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  Speaker 3: AI in America. And it also brings up the bigger questions.
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  Speaker 3: Why are Democrats so hell-bent on stopping something that's such
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  Speaker 3: a big part of our economy? Could it be because
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  Speaker 3: they actually want to crash the American economy so that
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  Speaker 3: they can then blame Donald Trump and Republicans for a
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  Speaker 3: poor economy while shutting down AI, which means they get
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  Speaker 3: more political power moving forward? Well, that's something you should
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  Speaker 3: definitely think about.
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