Senator Eric Schmitt
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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Thanks, Charlie. Appreciate you. Bye.
Kash Patel is a crown jewel in this lawless rampage. He's an instrument of Donald Trump's effort to destroy the Justice Department and the FBI. so that he is absolutely and completely not only above the law, but beyond the law.
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Yeah, no, I think that's exactly right, Charlie. And, you know, he's got a great team. And you've talked about it. I've talked about it. I think the conference understands, and certainly something that I've been talking about a lot is, This election cycle was the disruptors versus the establishment, right? And he deserves to have a team in place that's going to be real reformers on the inside.
And I think, you know, the RFK pick, the Tulsi Gabbard pick, which were, you know, some of the results maybe were in question a little bit earlier in the weekend committee. They both came out of committee and I expect them to get confirmed next week. Both of them, Kash Patel, um, we'll probably vote on him in judiciary next week. So he'll be a few days behind that.
But having said that, I think they're all in really good shape and I think it's important. I think it's important to honor, you know, the trust that voters gave president Trump to pick his team in this broad coalition now that we have. And I think his cabinet reflects that broad coalition. And, uh, you know, one of the main reasons they all need to move forward. And I think they will.
One last point on that. Um, We're way ahead. I mean, Senator Thune deserves some credit here. Way ahead of the timetable that we've seen was Joe Biden or President Trump's first term, where 12 confirmed by the end of this week, maybe 13, I think it might end up being. It was at six in his first term. Biden had six. So you'd have to go back to the Obama era where we were moving as quickly.
So that's a good sign, too.
Yeah, normally on these confirmations, like basically you have an executive calendar in the Senate, you have a legislative calendar in the Senate, and you have an impeachment calendar in the Senate. There's only three things that you're doing at any one time, and you've got to switch back and forth, which takes a little time. But we're staying on the executive calendar.
We're staying on these nominees. They can force us to go longer. We can only do one at a time, but we're plowing through it. We've made it clear we're going to be here nights, weekends. We're getting this done. And I think they as much as they're kicking and screaming about it and are throwing some procedural hurdles, it's going to happen.
And so it's interesting this week, Charlie, they're really setting this up to be, you know, their Spartacus moment. for rough vote because they're really zeroing in on this Doge stuff, which I think it is the fight that we want. I totally agree. We should relish this. People have been clamoring to rein in government, this administrative state that's out of control. It needs to be dismantled.
And now that the, you know, permanent Washington really doesn't want people to know how this money gets spent. And USAID is at the top of the list of corrupt organizations that have spent money on DEI programs in Uganda and sex change operations in South America. It's an insult to taxpayers. So this is really shaking up sort of business as usual in Washington. They like this stuff in the dark.
It's all coming out in the open and under scrutiny, and that's a good thing. And they're mad about it. So like I said, they can kick and scream about it, but we're going to get this done.
Yes. And I think that's a great, great point. And one of the things I try to mention is pre COVID we were spending about $4 trillion. Okay. The budget this year will be hope like Biden wanted to spend 7 trillion.
Maybe it's going to be six trillion. Right. So pre COVID 2019, president Trump's in office, 4 trillion. Our revenues now, Charlie are 5 trillion. Like if we were just spending what we were spending a few years ago, we would have a surplus, right? But the Democrat, they don't they do not want to give any of that money back.
So we're going to have a real fight on our hands in this next reconciliation package to sort of rein this in. And, you know, I kind of get tired of saying, well, it's only a couple of billion dollars or the waste is only a few hundred million dollars. Like, I still count my money.
And in Missouri, when you if you were to tell somebody that that like, oh, it's only a few hundred million dollars or a billion dollars, they would they'd be pissed and they should be pissed. So I think any money we save, whether it's a dollar or a trillion dollars, we ought to be focused on it. And I think that for now, that is where the momentum is. And we ought to hold on to that.
And we ought to fight that fight with the Democrats every single day.
Yeah, that's exactly what's happening. And I think it's also important to put in context here that this is sort of – this is kind of business as usual in permanent Washington. It's also part of this decades-long failed foreign policy establishment that is being forced now to look in the mirror a little bit. It's not working for the American taxpayer.
As Secretary Rubio said, the only money that we should be spending anywhere in the world is if it advances US interests, our core US interests. Providing sex change operations and doing this DEI stuff in foreign countries is
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