Senator Eric Schmitt

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The Charlie Kirk Show · How the UnitedHealth CEO Killer Was Caught... In a McDonald's · 10 Dec 2024 podcast
The legislative branch plays a very important role with appropriating and oversight. But you have to have true believers leading those organizations. It's the reason why we got into this goofy DEI stuff in the first place. It was political. It was meant to send some sort of virtue signal. It's hurt recruiting. The Navy's recruiting is down.
They fired over 6,000 well-qualified men and women from the armed forces because they refused to get the COVID shot. I mean, this stuff is nuts. So you really do need leadership that's going to change it culturally beyond just any legislation that we would pass or not pass.
Yeah, the good news is we're only here for the rest of this week and next week. So there's a limited amount of time for Chuck Schumer to do shenanigans. I think we're about done. I think we kind of know the federal judges that he's going to appoint. He's got a limited number he can do on the district court level. There's not going to be any more.
circuit level, meaning appellate judges, that's a win. There's like four more that President Trump's going to get when he comes in because they have their own attendance issues. But we got to make sure we show up. The NLRB stuff is a great example. These are five-year positions.
It's a five-member board that decides a lot of potential disputes between business and labor and might have a role to play, quite frankly, with when President Trump wants to come in And and have a reform agenda. And if you're not willing to show up to work, you probably shouldn't have a job in this town. Right. So this is an important board.
It's important, I think, that we try to knock these people out. I'm not going to support either one of them. Those votes are coming this week. But we've got to if to the extent we can beat them, we don't have the numbers of everybody shows up. But you don't know that until everybody shows up. We got to all vote no on these, I think, to sort of beat this.
Yeah. So I think the idea is in our committees are going to come out. They're actually working on the composition because we've got new members coming in. I would expect Charlie either later this week. Worst case next week, our committees will be set, which will be an important first step.
And then I think you'll see the committee chairman start to announce committee hearings right when we're back. And you're right. We don't we should not wait until January 20th. Let's get rolling. I met with Pam Bondi actually today. Pam is a great friend. Pam is going to be an incredible attorney general.
She's going to restore, I think, respect to an agency that completely has lost its way, has been overtly politicized. Kash Patel, you know, I'll be meeting with Kash soon. He's going to do a great job at the FBI. He's got all this great team, but we've got to get him in place. So I think the idea is at the beginning of January, as quickly as we can, let's start scheduling these hearings.
Let's start getting votes so that President Trump has his team in place as quickly as possible. That is the goal.
Yeah, theoretically, because the new Congress is sworn in on January 3rd. The new members are sworn in. We come back in earnest really that next week, whatever that is, January 6th. That's when we begin our work. So they're sworn in on the 3rd. The new members, January 6th, we come in and then it's go time, right? And so my position would be,
let's like that first week like let's not wait there's no organizing to do anymore uh everybody's been had their committee assignments let's roll and so yes we can have the committee hearings we can vote them out of committee we can vote on the floor i mean there's some timing issues there about you know But but we're not talking about a very long time.
So I think in January and even in early February, let's get going. But to my look, if we can get everybody done by January 20th, I would love to do it. But at a minimum, let's just start. Let's get the hearing set. Let's air this stuff out. Let's let the American people see all these great picks that President Trump has offered up now. And let's get going.
Yeah, so I wasn't here in 2017. I was AG in Missouri in that era. But Senator Thune has made clear. We had a meeting last week with our Senate conference, and President Trump joined in by phone. We were very unified about having a sense of urgency. And to me, this is what I'm telling my colleagues. We do not get these opportunities very often.
I mean, the idea that we have a Republican White House, a Republican House, a Republican Senate, that people work so hard, your listeners, you, everybody across the country works so hard for this. We cannot be back on our heels. We have to move an agenda forward that's reflective of what the American people wanted, getting key people into these positions.
I also think, by the way, we ought to move immediately on I don't want to get too wonky, but reconciliation is a way that if it's tax-related, there's budget savings. We only need 51 votes in the Senate. You don't have to deal with the 60-vote threshold. Let's get some big wins early for President Trump. Let's deal with the border. Let's deal with energy.
The tax cuts that President Trump got in in 2017 will expire at the end of the year. We should do that quickly, but let's not, in my view, let's get some
big wins and some points on the board early we can deal with those tax provisions you know throughout the year too and get those done but i think that's the way to do this because the american people are going to be watching they're going to see the flurry of executive orders there's a lot president trump can do on day one but there are some things that we need to be able to do and i think we need to move quickly
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