Senator Eric Schmitt
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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Well, the first half of the year was Biden and the Republicans who supported the Biden levels. But then we got to March, and almost every Republican, myself and a few others opposed this, almost every Republican voted for the Biden spending levels in March. That's what we're living under now.
So it's no longer any blame on the deficit on Biden, all the blame's on Republicans, not just the president. Every Republican who voted for the March spending levels is responsible now for a $2.2 trillion deficit this year, in one year. Historic. But what's going to be even more historic is voting on a raise of the debt ceiling $5 trillion.
So that means they're anticipating another $2.8 trillion in the following year. So I raise my hands and I shake my head and I say, well, what happened to Doge? What happened to all these great things Elon Musk was doing? What happened to we were going to balance the budget? Why are we raising the deficit five trillion? So what I've offered is what I think a reasonable compromise.
And so far, I'm about the only person who believes that it's a good compromise. But I offer let's give them three months. Let's give them three months of debt ceiling, which is $500 billion, which is an extraordinary amount. We used to never borrow that in one year. Give them $500 billion. It'll last three months.
And then at the three months we have a meeting, we come together and say, well, what have you done on spending? What are the spending levels? You promised us these spending levels. Now you're giving us these spending levels. Maybe we have a debate whether we're going to vote for any more debt ceiling. So I think the debt ceiling vote could be a lever.
So instead of voiding the debt ceiling and let it go two years and just ignore the debt as it accumulates, let it go three months and come back and let's have this debate every three months. Are they doing their job? Are they cutting spending? The doge cuts have to come back to us. And so about three or four weeks ago, we got a promise from the administration for $9 billion.
Well, $9 billion is a lot to you and I, but to the government, it's a rounding error. So the deficit this year is going to be $2.2 trillion. If you cut it $9 billion, it's going to be $2.191 billion. It's a rounding error, and yet it still hasn't come to us because... I think they're worried that there are too many weak-kneed Republicans that we can't even cut $9 billion.
This is the $9 billion that was like sex change surgeries in Guatemala, trans comic book in Peru, trans opera in Colombia. This is the low-hanging fruit. If Congress can't vote this, you need to get rid of the people who vote against this. So we should force the vote. But it has to come from the president. $9 billion. It's not enough. But I'll vote for it. And let's see who won't.
And the people who won't really either know to go to the Democrat Party or be reelected by real Republicans. Because if we can't cut $9 billion, the future of the republic is hopeless. We are going to be devoured by debt if we can't even cut $9 billion.
Well, I've said I will vote for the bill if they remove the debt ceiling from it. So I'll take imperfect spending cuts. I'll take an imperfect tax bill. I'm not asking for perfection. I'm for the tax cuts. I'm for making them permanent. I'm for spending cuts, but if I don't get everything I want, I'll still vote for that.
The only thing I won't vote for, and the line in the sand I've drawn is over raising the debt ceiling $5 trillion, because there has to be someone left in Washington. There may only be a handful of us, but there has to be someone left who cares about the debt. But once conservatives are hoodwinked into voting to raise it $4 or $5 trillion, there is no high moral ground.
You can't say, I wasn't part of the problem. They are the problem. The conservatives assume the problem. Once you vote for Biden's spending levels, which they all did in March, they have assumed the problem. The deficit now belongs to the Republicans and the Democrats. But we're losing the faction of the Republicans who could stand on high moral ground and say, I didn't vote for that.
I'm not raising the debt ceiling. I'm principled for balanced budgets. That's what we're losing.
The Charlie Kirk Show · How Conservatives Embody Biblical Values — Live at Texas A&M · 11 May 2025
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I didn't even say anything yet. You guys have too much of this system, I'll tell you. All right, so my name is Eric Stoll and I'm currently a senior here at A&M. I just had a question, like I know you talked a lot about like your faith kind of driving your politics and how important that is to you.
I think when I look at the scriptures and like Jesus in particular, I think there's a lot of admirable things about what Jesus talks about. caring for the poor, trying to heal the sick, and things like that. I was just curious, for your faith and political beliefs, how does that reconcile?
I feel like taking away and advocating for reducing welfare and advocating for kids not having free and reduced lunches and not wanting to expand that program, that kind of seems antithetical to the whole message of Jesus, in my opinion.
Secondly... Do more than they currently do? Say that again. I can't hear what you're saying.
Can I ask one more thing? Sure. Like, I feel like someone embodying, like, Christ in a leader is important. So, like, as far as Donald Trump, like, what Christ-like characteristics do you feel like he embodies? I feel like oftentimes he uses hateful rhetoric or kind of... The Bible talks about, like, the meek shall inherit the earth. I don't really see a lot of meekness in his character.
Do you agree with that?
That's good.
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