Russ Vought
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 18 Apr
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There was far more that we could have done, Congressman.
I always have empathy for individuals, including those that get improper and false information from the media that pumps this false and ignorant information out to the American people.
I'm not.
CFPB caused $350 billion of added costs on consumers.
We intend to take the Doge agenda and the cuts and the momentum and the initiative and turn those into permanent savings. That's what we believe is our responsibility.
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
Thanks for having me, Charlie. President Trump and the White House are sending up to Congress when they get back in two weeks a proposal to get cut a billion dollars for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting. That's predominantly NPR, PBS, which isn't just leftist indoctrination.
where you're not covering the Hunter Biden laptop or the fact that the Wuhan lab leaked the coronavirus, but you're actually on the forefront of the cultural revolution in this country and pushing programmatic coverage to children about drag queens, dividing us, doing documentaries about white privilege and reparations.
And then on the other hand, we have $8.3 billion in doge cuts to USAID, which is all the things that we've heard that shock the conscience of waste, fraud, and abuse there.
Everything from paying for Sesame Street in Iraq to voter ID in Haiti to just flat-out pushing of an LGBTQ movement in all of these countries, strengthening the resilience of these movements, programs like Being Gay in the Caribbean,
Over and over, when you scratch the surface of all of these programs, literally, development assistance, economic support, all of the programs at USAID, you found this funding of a leftist NGO operation that was pushing a very, very woke cultural agenda. We're sending that up to get rid of it, make these cuts permanent. They've been on hold.
We want to make them permanent, and we need Congress's vote in this particular set of funds to do so.
Sure, and this is just the first of a series of rescissions bills. As we get comfortable with what's the annual amount of permanent savings that can be done, and if it's multi-year money, we're going to go ahead and send those up, so long as Congress is actually going to be passing those. That's critical.
We have executive tools that we can use if Congress is not going to pass these bills, but they've been demanding them. The process is one of an exception –
or a a procedure in the impoundment control act and you and i know and are not big fans of the impoundment control act and how it has bound the president correct but there is a there is a process it's called a fast track procedure to give an up or down vote in both the house and the senate without concern with regard to the filibuster that will allow this to be voted on in the house and the senate leadership of both parties has said look we're going to get this thing passed
we're going to send that up when they get back formally. They need to be there to receive it, and then we'll start working with them to get the votes to get this thing through.
Well, I think the reality of these rescissions is that I think we all think that government is too big, and it has been for quite some time, decades. But when you see the fine print, when you see what the contracts are and you see what we're funding –
You come away with this aha moment, this realization, of course these countries think worse of us and dislike us because we're funding this kind of garbage in their countries. We would not accept or we shouldn't be accepting, and part of the Trump administration is to push back and make sure domestically we're not funding this as the Department of Education. Or USDA.
But then you add the fact this was our foreign policy. This is our foreign policy to fund, quote unquote, the resilience of the queer and trans sex movement in other countries. Like what on earth are we doing? And of course, that's going to have an implication as to whether these countries are listening to what our interests. And of course, it has led to great.
We would be concerned if we were their citizens with it. And so one after another, all we did, Charlie, is we took straight doge cuts, contracts, grants saved. We added them up and we sent this first tranche – we will be sending this first tranche over. So I think the debate is very simple on the Hill. Do you stand with us against these ridiculous items? The president would call them fraudulent.
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