Welcome, welcome. It is Monday morning, current time, 6.06 a.m. How was your weekend, Daryl? Well, it was the last weekend in... We're still in the April showers mode. I was looking at the weather for everybody. And basically, of course this happened because I washed my car yesterday. So you're all welcome. But it's supposed to rain today.
But that'll be good to pull down the dust and the allergens. Oh, all around Anchorage right now, it has got rain coming down. I won't say guaranteed all of Anchorage, but we've had a nice little bit of rain coming down. As you said, knocking the dust down. I definitely need that, but I need the trees to get done with all their pollen. Get them all done with on this next week.
so i can have my nose back it is allergy season yeah welcome welcome to spring right yeah it's it's one of those i'm looking you know as i was driving around the valley this weekend you know you're starting to see the trees really bud and my usually it always seems like it happens really fast like
All of a sudden one day it's just really green. So I think within a week or so we're going to see. I mean, it was beautiful. I mean, you're starting to see the green grass come through. We need the rain. because my grass is starting to get green. So bring on the rain. I'm not sad about that. But it was nice. This weekend I went over to Point Blank Firearms and Self-Defense Training for their open house. It was fantastic. I got to see their shoot house.
I want to thank LD Howard for giving me a cool tour. My dad and I went over there, and we toured their new facility. So WECA Tactical. has uh you know firearms and tactical stuff in the front of the you know And then you go in through there, and there's a shoot house. You go upstairs, and they have a classroom, and they still have the simulator. They have a simulator. I used it years ago. It's pretty cool. It's a very fun experience if you've never done one.
And then in the very back of the building, they have a place where they do Krav Maga, like, I think three times a week. Yeah, there's a trainer that uses the back of the facility, and they... They do that training, I think, three times a week. So there's something for everyone literally there if you're interested in self-defense training at all. So point blinks, firearms, and self-defense training. Again, I don't get paid by telling you this, but I've used them many times.
My last concealed carry class I took with them, I took a self-defense kind of firearms class with my son when he was I think Riley was just 18 at the time. Maybe he was 17. I don't remember. But when he was still living at home, we took a firearms class together. But it was, like I said, it was a lot of fun. And I've used them multiple times. And I'm a big fan. Big fan.
Sounds like a fun weekend over there. What was the name of the business you went through in the front? I didn't quite know. Weka Tactical. Weka, okay. Yeah, yeah, so W-E-K-A. They haven't done, they're not doing the full opening yet for the gun store itself because... Federal regulations require them to have certain types of security measures on their windows.
and they didn't have them yet, so they think it'll be, you know, the next couple of weeks, I think, next few weeks anyways, they'll be fully open with that. You know, it was a really cool event, and Donna Anthony and all the folks over there at Point Blank, they pulled off a really good grand opening, I think. Mayor Edna was there and did the ribbon cutting, so that was fun. And they had some prizes and some giveaways and all kinds of stuff.
I think they, gosh, I think they had probably, I think I heard her say in one of her things, there was nearly 400 people that came through on Saturday. Wow, so they must not have had any raffles because you didn't say you won. I did not win. I did not win. So you mean there was a raffle? They did have a raffle. They raffled off a Glock, which, you know.
We've had this discussion about glocks. Like, I will never discriminate against a raffled gun. I will always be happy to accept it. In my family, we have this debate about... Glock versus not Glock. My son and my husband are firm Glock supporters. I think they're too hard to pull the slide back. They're too hard to rack. I don't like their trigger pull. I think it's too long. Do you see how tiny my hands are? I have little tiny hands. Itty-bitty hands.
And the grip on it will be too big for you also. Yeah, and so it's like my little tiny weenie hands cannot rack it very well. And the trigger pull is too long for me. That's why I'm a big fan of the Walther PPQ. It's because Don Anthony... Again, the owner of Point Blank, she and I got in this discussion about guns, and she pulls out her Walther, and she's like, hey, this is what I carry. And she was showing it to me, and then as soon as I put it in my hand, It was like the angels saying...
And I heard, I heard, I heard, I don't know, the lights came on. But it was, it's just a very comfortable, very comfortable. You know the other gun that I really like? And I didn't, I was struggling between which one I would get. But I really like the Smith & Wesson MP Shield, too. I was going back and forth between the Walther and the Smith & Wesson, which one? I ended up with the Walther because, to me, it has, like, a very ergonomic feel to it.
Why are you laughing? So just as a side note here, because you like that Walther PPK. Yes, PPQ. PPQ. Oh, you like the Q. So my brain triggered on it because... Do you know the super spy named James Bond? No. Yes. What does he carry? James Bond carries a Walther PPK and a Chris & Wesson MP. Can you believe this? You literally like the guns. I did not know that.
I did not know that. So you've been watching those shows for all these years. It just impressed me into your mind. Didn't know. Had no idea. And he had his pretty little hands. You know, I will tell you, if you have arthritis or if your hands aren't maybe the strongest, I don't know. But they're just very comfortable to me. So, anyways, but that's what I said. They did raffle off a Glock on Saturday.
Sadly, neither me or my dad won. So, you know, what can I say? Because, you know, I drug my dad along with me. But he enjoyed it. He enjoyed the tour. Toured, you know, shooting house, I guess is what we'll call it. It was a lot of fun, though. It's a very cool facility. You know what that means to me also?
What? Ben's the actual good luck charm. Ha ha, we figured it out. That's true. 100% that's true. Well, you know, my dad, you see, I told you, everyone's in the family, my dad won a nationwide good housekeeping contest. And he just went to, you know, Kroger. It was somewhere in the lower 40. He went to Kroger and he bought stuff to make chili.
He gets this call from somebody telling him he won this nationwide good housekeeping. He's like, oh, it's a scam. So he just kind of hung up on the guy. And then he keeps calling back. He gets certified letters, everything. He won. He won, like, a car. My dad's actually won two cars, believe it or not. He won the Iditarod raffle, where he won the truck here, too. Wow. But my dad won, like, everything for a house. Like, he had just bought a brand-new house. And so...
And when he went to this thing, he won, right, like windows. So he was able to sell a lot of it to pay the taxes on this stuff. But he won so much stuff. I can't even explain. Washers and dryers. And he won. He won couches and new furniture. It was ridiculous how much stuff. He thought for sure it was a scam. He calls me and he's like, what do you think? He's like, now they're sending me this certified letter. I said, well...
Aunt Pam works for Kroger, which is the parent company in a different state, you know, his sister. I said, you should call her. So he calls her, and she says to him, well, let me check. Some guy in Virginia won it. Well, my dad was living in Virginia. So it turns out, you know, he really did win it. So I'm just saying my husband and my dad are very lucky when it comes to these raffles. So what you're saying is good luck runs in your family, Gene.
I'm telling you. I'm jealous. The only thing that runs in my family's jeans is... Never mind, I won't say that. I'll be good. Well, you know, I personally have won... I've won a couple trips to Hawaii, so that's not anything to sneeze at either. So I'm just saying, my husband and my dad win cars, four-wheelers, six-wheelers. I mean, it's ridiculous what they win.
But you don't win if you don't enter. It's funny you say that because I will enter that same contest with you. They'll sell 100 tickets. I'll buy 89 of them. And I will lose. Somebody's got to win, Daryl. Don't be Hayden! Somebody's gotta win! That's why my cardinal rule is you only buy tickets.
from organizations that you're going to support anyway. And that's exactly the way I look at it when I buy all the chickens and don't win. It's like, I was giving them the money anyway. Yeah, I was going to give them the money anyway. That's how I look at it. Exactly, exactly. All right, well, let me zoom through our public announcements because we don't have very many of them. So for the Mat-Su Borough, the Perks Rec Trails Advisory Board meeting that was scheduled for today has been canceled.
The only meeting that I see in the city of Wasilla is a regular city council meeting that's going to be from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight. There's nothing that I see on the calendar in the city of Palmer. For the Municipality of Anchorage for today, the Board of Adjustment meeting regarding an appeal has been rescheduled to 11 o'clock this morning. That will be in Conference Room 240 at City Hall.
Saversa, the Chukyak-Birchwood Eagle River Rural Road Service Area Board, has their meeting tonight at 630 at Eagle River Town Center. That's going to be in the community meeting room right down the hallway from the library. I don't see anything on the Anchorage Assembly's calendar for today. Service Area Board has a meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight at the Nikiski Pool. At 7.30 tonight, the Kenai Peninsula Burrow has a Planning Commission meeting.
If you want more information on either of these meetings, just go to kpb.us. I don't see anything on the calendar for... The city of Saldana, the city of Homer, does have a special city council meeting starting at 3 p.m., a work session at 4, committee of the whole at 5, and their regular city council meeting at 6 p.m. So, of course, if you want to participate, there's multiple ways to do that. You can attend via Zoom or by phone.
Or you can attend in person at the CAL's Council Chamber. If you need more information on any of these meetings in Homer, just go to cityofhomer-ak.gov. All right, that does it for our morning announcements. We're going to go ahead and take our first break of the day. If you'd like to call in and be part of the show, 522-0650. Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Monday morning. Currently a light rain falling in the Anchorage area. No major stoppages. 5-0-7-5-2-2-0.
Well, we survived another weekend. It was quite entertaining for me. I was very busy. Yesterday was my mother-in-law's birthday, so we did birthday things. That was nice. Saturday was the grand opening out there at Point Blank's new facility. That was cool. Friday, I just felt busy. You know, we worked in the morning. I had just all kinds of errands to run. So it was just one of those weekends where you got a lot done.
You didn't get to lounge around in your pajamas like you had hoped you were going to be able to do. That is a failed weekend. I'm sorry. I'm telling you. That was my hope. My big hope was to do nothing all weekend. That did not happen. But I was very productive. So that was good. That was good. You know, I've been watching some of the things. Man, Beckett is just super busy down in D.C. I'm watching Nick as he's...
as he's rolling through D.C. and getting his bearings. And he is just not letting the grass grow under his feet at all. Suzanne had a new article out yesterday. Congressman Begich co-sponsors bill to increase transparency for candidates holding dual citizenship. I love this idea. If a candidate for president held dual citizenship in any other country, wouldn't voters want to know that? I think so.
I absolutely think so. I can't believe this isn't a thing already. It says the dual loyalty disclosure act is a new congressional bill aimed at requiring candidates for federal office to publicly disclose all countries. in which they hold citizenship. While no current sitting member of Congress is known to have dual citizenship, there have been instances in the past. For example, Senator Ted Cruz
was a dual citizen with Canada before renouncing his Canadian legal status. So did former Congressman Michel Bachmann, who inherited Swiss citizenship through marriage, but soon turned it down. House Resolution 2356 was introduced On March 26th, with Congressman Nick Begich among the bill's prominent co-sponsors, along with Tom Massey of Kentucky. That's the bill's prime sponsor.
He says that voters have a right to know whether candidates owe legal allegiance to any countries other than the United States. I think this is a no-brainer. I don't know why this one would be controversial at all. I think it's a no-brainer. And I would say it shouldn't be limited to president, anybody. It says right now, the legislation amends the Federal Election Campaign Act to require candidates for federal office to disclose both their possession of dual citizenship.
and also the foreign country in which their dual citizenship is held. The disclosure would appear publicly in a statement of candidacy filed when political candidates seek election to federal office. So that means it's not prohibitive. It's just. You have to declare it, which I have zero problem with. I think you should absolutely declare it. Just like where's your money coming from? Who are you loyal to? I think that would be a helpful data point for a lot of people.
The bill has just one committee of referral, House Administration. Other co-sponsors of the bill include Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, and Clay Higgins. of Louisiana. I love Clay Higgins. Have you ever watched any of these videos? You get too distracted by Kennedy to watch it.
He is fantastic. So Clay Higgins used to be, I think, I guess a sheriff. I don't know what they call him down in Louisiana. I don't know. He was law enforcement in Louisiana. Yeah, I think he was a sheriff.
But he used to do these great videos when he was in law enforcement about stupid criminals and how we're coming to get you. And he would recount different... different cases they had and dumb criminals that were caught it was hilarious like well before he was in Congress this is somebody my husband and I would follow because he was just It reminds you of Florida sheriffs. You know, there's a couple Florida sheriffs that are very outspoken and direct and very pro-2A and very pro-common sense.
And Clay Higgins was one of them. So now I was thrilled to see he ran for Congress from Louisiana. And like I said, look. When you have common sense people that realize criminals should be in jail, Law-abiding citizens should have their right to defend themselves. Like, I'm all over it. I think it's great. And seeing Clay Hankins, I've watched him a couple times since he's been in Congress. Same guy. Different venue. It is entertaining to watch. There's no doubt about that.
Oh, my goodness. Well, the other news, we should switch a little bit to Alaska news. Suzanne had this out yesterday, too, in Mustry, Alaska. Trump administration to host LNG summit with Japan South Korea here in Anchorage in June. Alaska will roll out the red carpet in June as the Trump administration's National Energy Dominance Council is set to convene a high-level summit in Anchorage to advance the Alaska LNG project, the $44 billion initiative.
That would get Alaska's liquefied natural gas from the state's North Slope to global markets, according to reports from Reuters. The summit will bring together leaders from Japan and South Korea, two of Asia's. largest LNG importers to discuss potential investments and purchase agreements for the project. The LNG project is basically an 800-mile pipeline to transport natural gas from the North Slope to an export facility in Nikiski.
So the project, which has been stalled for decades due to the high costs of expected natural gas and logistical challenges, is a priority for the Trump administration. and it says as part of its push to expand U.S. energy exports, this is going to be one of the projects. So this will be something that will be talked about a lot in the coming months. So let's see, we're practically already in May. Just over a month away is when this will happen. The summit is scheduled around June 2nd.
So we'll see. So it's, we'll see how this all. shakes out, but there's no doubt that Trump administration is pushing hard. for Alaska energy to be brought to bear in an effort to shore up not only independence but national security. So this is a good sign for Alaska. We'll see what comes of it.
We'll see what comes of it. Not sure, but we will see. All right, well, let's go ahead and take a quick break. When we come back, we will continue to get through the headlines of the day and take your calls. If you'd like to call in, 522-0650. Police are unveiling a special tip line in the case of an Eagle River man who has been missing for nearly two months. The Anchorage Police Department announced the new tip line for information related to the disappearance of Tony Cronos.
Kronos, formerly known as Joshua Kronbach, was last seen at his home in Eagle River back in early March. His parents told police the back door of his house had been kicked in and they found his wallet in the house. A nurse practitioner will face lesser charges in a 2015 death after manslaughter charges were dismissed.
Chris Kyle was charged in 2020 for allegedly providing opioids believed to cause the death of 22-year-old Jennifer Jones. Kyle will be in court today on charges of second and third degree misconduct involving a controlled substance. Ice Classic is officially over. Contest officials say the tripod fell through the ice on the Tanana River at 3.56 Sunday afternoon. Officials say they're still working on tabulating guesses to determine the contest winner. That's the latest. I'm John Fink.
What happens next happens here. News Radio 650 KENI. Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Monday morning. Currently a light rain falling in the Anchorage area. No major stop. That's nine... Welcome, welcome back. Current time is 634. Well, I will tell you, you know, man, the best, the biggest troll out there is Donald Trump. Like, he is so...
Like, he's just living in the media's kitchen. Like, he is rearranging the dishes. I mean, I laugh because I follow D.C. Drano, Rogan O'Hanley. He has called into the show before. Very nice guy. A lawyer used to do entertainment law in California, now has moved to the free state of Florida. But he is a social media influencer and somebody who is just entertaining to follow. So I'm a huge fan of DC Drano. But he just posts this video.
New, President Trump has put up posters of violent, illegal aliens who were arrested right outside the press tents on the White House lawn. Now these posters will be in the background of every news hit. Have you seen these posters? I have not, that's what I'm looking right now. They're fantastic. Go to DC Drano's Twitter feed and you'll find it. But as I'm watching, like, all the way down, it says Arrested, and it has their big, their big...
you know, picture, and then it'll have the charge underneath it. Murder, rape, you know, human trafficking, sexual assault, and you can see all, it's lining the White House lawn. And it's right behind where the press tents are, where they all set up. So anytime they do a picture of the White House, they're going to have to, these pictures will be.
in the background. I mean, you have to get past the media. Look, I've got to be honest with you, the more I watch the media, the more I don't trust any of them. I just don't trust them. And I think if you do, I think it's a foolhardy errand to trust the media without verifying anything they're saying. Did you see it? I haven't got to see those, but I noticed on his page the last thing that was put up there.
Did you know that Rogan O'Hanley now has a seat in the White House press room? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's a whole new thing right there. Oh, my. Well, they're letting a lot of different social media. people in independent journalists is what we call them right he's like they're letting a lot of different people in and I think this is the only way you get accountability in the media you know you look the White House correspondence dinner and you see all the you look they're also look
All these people lied to you about Joe Biden for four years. The guy clearly has cognitive decline. You know, he couldn't find his way off a stage. Never mind remember where he was at, what he was talking about. made no sense. All you have to do is listen to one speech he's making, and you can tell he clearly had diminished capacity, and they clearly covered it up. So the reality is those people that did that for four years clearly, you can't trust them. Why would you?
It'd be foolish to trust him. So, you know, we'll see what happens. But Trump is triggering them all over the place. And I laugh. Yes, they're fantastic. But you look at it, and Trump's... Honestly, I think it's beyond Republican and Democrat. I think it's just common sense. I think that's why you're starting to see so many independents and so many people just say, you know, this just makes sense. You'll start to see, look.
The media is going to propel a narrative. They're doing anything they can to hurt Trump. This is no different than what they've always done. Right? It's no different than what they've always done. And I laugh because over the weekend I was looking at a couple different polls. And they're like, oh, look, you know, his approval rating is going down. And I just kind of chuckle because Fox News had one up this morning.
And Trump's job performance on border security, 55% approve. That's of all voters. 55%, you know, sampling of all voters approve. For anybody, anytime you breach that, I would even say 45% is pretty good, but anytime you breach that 50%, that's good. But out of the approval on the border security, 90% of Republicans approve. You know, those 10%, it's the Liz Cheney's and Lisa Murkowski's, let's be honest. Independents, 44%. Democrats, 24%.
Not too shabby. Not too shabby, right? So when you start seeing the approval ratings or not approval, I mean... The media is trying to push this narrative, and the same thing goes with the stock market, frankly. They're trying to push this narrative that we've seen the biggest stock decline. in history since the Great Depression, right? A week later. When we recreate or we retake those gains back, do you see a headline that says the greatest comeback since the Great Depression? No.
Didn't see it once. So this is my point. It's a propaganda machine. And right now, what I think you're seeing to a large extent, because... I truly believe it. If you have investors out there, there's a lot of people out there that recognize this is a great opportunity right now. You're starting to see trillions with a T, trillions of dollars of investment. coming back to the U.S.
This is going to be good for our economy. It's going to be good for jobs. I mean, look, all they have to do, Republicans can't screw this up. They have to make the 2017 tax rates permanent. They have to do that. We win, right? Trump will lock in these tariff deals. That will happen. But the combination of the two, there's no doubt in my mind it's a winning combination. Frankly, I'm putting my money where my mouth is. I believe it to be true.
I think now is the time to strategically invest. I think it's smart. But that's just me. You know, what do I know? But I will tell you, I'm putting my money where my mouth is. But I laugh because I see the media all the time. Just negative, negative, negative, negative.
When you actually look at a graph and you see the dips that happened during the Biden era, every two seconds when the market would go down for a second, did you see massive negative headlines? No, you didn't. They didn't say a word. And you know what? These things, they all work themselves out. They all work themselves out because if you're investing in stock market, if you're investing...
In bonds, what are you investing in? You're investing in the American economy. You're saying, I believe that it's going to go up. It's either going to go up or go down. I mean, you've got a 50-50 shot. I mean, I don't know, but I just I find no credibility in most of the media. I got to agree with you. And with that stock market thing, that to me was a planned event when it started.
because, as you said, they immediately focused on, and I mean immediately, on, oh my gosh, how bad it is. In fact, this is going to crash us. We're going to get a recession. And that's where they went. They went literally into a... They went hard into the paint. future I give that this wasn't where it was going it was possible and that caused people to panic
And even sell more because they're going, you're 401k. Have you checked it? You've lost money. No, that's not how it works. Well, and that's exactly what they did. And they didn't do it during the Biden era. You didn't see him when Obama or Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton, there's a number of good...
sound bites on her talking about tariffs, even on tariffs on China. You didn't see them decimating that. When a Democrat brings it up, it's a great idea for the media. When a Republican brings it up, oh, the world is going to come to an end. And so you just have to realize the sensationalism that you're faced with daily. And it's unbelievable how bad it is. But, you know, that's what we deal with. And so we know it. But I just don't get too worked up about it. You know, I look at it and I think.
You know, I personally find everybody believe the hype at this moment because I feel like it's going to help me make money. So I'm like, make it a little cheaper for me to buy. I got to be honest with you. Well, that was the other member, the other headline in that. Is this insider trading by Donald Trump? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just kind of chuckle. I'm just like, whatever.
All right, let's go to the phones, and Gary is with us. Good morning, Gary. Good morning, ma'am. I always listen to media. I can see where Murkowski gets her. ideas on things going on. I live in Seward and all we have is PBS on the radio. And the vile things that they were saying. There's a young gal talking about the trade wars. And then she said, Trump says he's getting China to come over. And then China says, no way, she says. It's really too bad when the leader of China
You can believe him and not our leader. And then they went on about the tornado of the recession. It's just waiting to hit. See, it's fear-mongering. See, it's fear-mongering. That's exactly what you're seeing. And here's the thing. Did you hear any of them talking about anything on PBS? How critical were they of Joe Biden when he led 20 million people into this country? Did they talk about how that would impact the economy? Probably not. No.
Yep, that's it. That's it. That's why I just kind of shake my head at it, and I just don't get too worked up when they... When they get on their rants, I just think if they're spewing it, the opposite is probably true. Yeah, but we're paying for it. PBS to talk that way. Yeah, that's right. We shouldn't be paying a dime for public radio, to be honest. I agree. Thank you, Ian and Larry. Appreciate it. All right, Gary. Well, it's always great to talk to you. Thanks for calling in.
You're welcome. All right. Bye-bye. All right, let's take a quick break. We're hitting that time. When we come back, Roland is in queue, so we'll see what his thoughts are. We'll talk to him in just a second. If you'd like to call in, 522-0650. Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Monday morning. Currently a light rain falling in the Anchorage area. No major stoppages here in Anchorage. Looks like there is now back.
Welcome back, current time 650. We're going to go to the phones. All right, Roland, give us your wisdom, sir. Well, I don't know if it's wisdom, but I definitely agree with you because at Biden's first year, he went to 33%. After Afghanistan, he was at 33%. After he fell off the stage, after everything, every time he was at 33%. The only time he wasn't at 33%. is after the debate, and they just didn't mention it.
Yeah, you're exactly right. And I chuckle because I see some of these different polls from RealClearPolitics and other places saying Trump has dipped from 50% to 46%. And I'm saying in national politics, not so bad, because let's talk about where Congress is, right? Congress is at the lowest level. Democrats right now are in the toilet, basically. I mean, so they're not even breaching 30%. I think they're in the 20s. I mean, it's pathetic. But the thing is, when they're in the bad,
They're just not mentioned. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. Trump drops one or two points and they're like, it's a travesty. The world's ending. Look, Trump is so unpopular. I don't think so. I don't think so. I've got to be honest with you. He seems like he's gaining in popularity, to be honest with you. I think there's a lot of people that are looking at the Democrats realizing they're nuts.
and their policies stink. And Trump's doing exactly what he was elected to do. So I agree with you 100%. They just don't talk about the bad for their side. But they try to gin up bad for the other side. But it was so amazing, you know, after he did Afghanistan, it was still at 33%. You know, after all, every little thing, you know, he's at 33%, and I'm going, he just did something really stupid, and he's still at 33%.
It was just amazing to me, you know, and I kept going, you know, it was something that for some reason it was something that really hit me. Because he would do something stupid and he'd still be at 33%. Well, it's either one of two things. One, you either can't trust the polls. Or two, no matter what he does, there are people that are going to back him no matter what. And I think you do have those people on both sides that just no matter what, they're going to back him.
I think you see that on both sides. But, you know, I laugh when I see the men on the street interviews because You'll have these independent journalists in places that go into, and they'll say, okay, what do you think about Trump? Or they'll go into these rallies and, oh, you know, he's a fascist, he's a this, he's that. You know, I don't like his policies. What policies don't you like?
You know, he's deporting people without due process. Well, actually, the person you're talking about had not one but two actually times in front of a judge, and they had a deportation order. Oh. Didn't know that. Like, you know, it's so funny because so many people, they just jump on and they don't know why they don't like him. It's just they're told by the media they don't like him, so they don't like him. That's what I get. Yeah, it's just so amazing how...
And, you know, like I've talked to some of the – you can't talk to these people because as soon as you start defending Trump, You're a racist, you know, or something else, you know. Yeah. One guy told me that, well, you know that he's an axe murderer. What? And I'm going, yeah, Trump, he said it with a deadpan face. He said, well, you know that Trump is an axe murderer, and I just, it's kind of like, you know.
He was probably dead serious, too. He probably believed it. This is why I always say you have to double-check your sources. You know, I used to always say trust but verify, but now I say verify before you trust. You betcha These guys are amazing
Well, it's great talking to you. All right, Roland, have a great week. It's great talking to you. Well, Suzanne had an article in last week that I just didn't get a chance to mention, but I think it's fitting in today's conversation. Media Research Center. 506 times the media lied about illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Remember when they kept calling him a Maryland man? He's not a Maryland man. He's an illegal immigrant from El Salvador.
He's not an American. Hence, he's not a Maryland man. He's not here on a green card. He's not in the country illegally. 506 times the media lied. This is a snapshot where he was mentioned. He was mentioned as a Maryland man. You know, and we covered this when the story first came out. Anybody who says that is either ignorant or willfully lying to you.
Right? I mean, that's the reality because it's factually inaccurate. He's not a Maryland man. He's an El Salvador citizen in the country illegally. Hence, he's not a Maryland man. So if they're telling you he's a Maryland man, it's because they either think you're stupid or they're completely ignorant, one or the other. I don't see any in between. Maybe I'm being too harsh on the media, but I don't think so. That and there's no proof that he's a gang member or done anything wrong. He's innocent.
Yeah, right, right. Except for the fact that he was driving the human trafficker's car. That he was busted with a bunch of other MS-13 gang members. And all the tattoos on him are gang-related tattoos. I do believe you've hit the trifecta there, Amy. I'm just putting it out there. If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. Or it could be a Maryland man. That was funny, Daryl. Gosh, they need to give you a raise. That was funny. Oh, my chair moves up now.
They gave you, yeah, very nice, very nice. You know, what are you going to do? What are you going to do? Yeah, right. I was going to say we'll get you a standing desk next. Oh, look at you trying to get me to get my exercise in here. The problem is I have to have a standing board. So it's kind of funny you say that because.
My studio here, and the one that I share with Crash, our main control one here, it's a desktop one, so I get to sit here and do my computer stuff. The Fox's studio is a standing studio. It is. I've seen it. And it is so much nicer. It's pretty sweet. Literally, until I came here, every studio I've worked in is a standing studio. Really? So to be able to sit down, I'm literally, this has just blown my mind. A lap of luxury. Look at you. Exactly.
Well, I think we should switch and get back to some state issues. We're going to hit the top of the hour break here, but when we come back, let's take a shift, and I'll tell you what's going on. We'll talk about, actually, what's going on in the Alaska legislature, and I think I may be getting a phone call from a... So we will double check that. All right. We'll take a quick break. We'll be right back. Oh man, it's easy.
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And now he has agreed to, when time permits, entertain you thoroughly as well, too. And that is giving us a no-nonsense view of what is happening in Juneau, what we should be watching for in the discussions that are happening, and that is Mondays with McCabe. I would like to... Welcome back to the show, Representative McCabe from District 30. Good morning, sir. I am good. I had a great weekend. It was very productive. Got a lot of stuff done.
But I will tell you, I kind of chuckle because this is the time of year where things start going fast and furious and the deals are happening in Juneau. It's almost hard to keep up with as fast as things move sometimes towards the end of session. Yeah, that's one reason I didn't get a chance to go to Donna Anthony's thing this weekend, is we decided kind of collectively that we were going to hang around in case more shenanigans happen.
That's probably a wise choice, to be honest. You know, it's always interesting to people when they see the legislature, you know, through, you know, Typically, 90-day session is what we expect. It always seems like it often goes to 120 days. As we look at the legislature, it's...
Things move fast and furious towards the end of session, and you almost don't want to miss anything, so I can understand staying in Juneau for that. As I'm watching, I'm seeing a little discussion about HB 57 in the Senate. That obviously hasn't passed out of the Senate yet to come over to the House. But what are you hearing on the ground when it comes to the big topic this week? I'm assuming it's going to be education funding.
Sure. Again, once again, it has taken up most of the session is the education funding. So I think what's going to happen today, and this is all subject to, you know, change with the with negotiations and the call of the Senate. But I think the Senate is scheduled to go in at 930, where they will be taking up amendments on HB 57.
HB 57 came from the House, and just so people know, so now it's a House bill that's in the Senate, and it dealt with cell phones allowing or not requiring but suggesting that the school districts limit cell phone use. while kids were in school. So since it deals with schools, now they can stuff anything they want to in it that has to do with schools. So the Senate did that. They put a $700 BSA increase in there.
Governor Dunleavy said that he would support it if it had more put in there, his stuff, the stuff that we want, that conservatives want. Policy changes, right? Right, right, and not even expensive policy changes.
You know, the correspondence school language, the homeschool language, some of the accountability measures, the READS Act, you know, some of those things he wanted in there. And then he said he would support it. So this is how... the Senate is going to get by or the legislature thinks they're going to get by actually not taking up a governor's bill to repair.
what we did with HB 69 to repair the issues. So it's a step towards capitulating, that's the wrong word, but agreeing with the school districts. And the NEA and all the education funding people, yes, we need more funding, but we want more policy. Well, it seems like common sense to me. You know, I see this article up in Must Read Alaska, and I saw one in Alaska public media, too. The one thing that is surprising to me when it starts, it looks like they're attempting to gather data.
When they start talking about now in this bill, and I haven't read this amendment, so I'm not sure how it would even work, but they're talking about. Now in this bill that they would track every student for 20 years after they graduate from high school, I don't even know functionally how they would do that. I mean, we have a lot of people that join the military, move out of state, go out of state for college.
I mean, they can't force people to give the state of Alaska data. So I don't even know what to think about this provision yet other than I don't even know how they would implement it. Yeah, I haven't read that much into that amendment, Amy. I didn't spend a lot of time with it because I've been told that it will be stripped out. kind of focusing on other stuff. So the Senate goes into, with HB 57, to put some amendments in and try to get some policy in it at 930.
My guess is we will either do that and then recess until the Senate gets done with HB 57. or maybe just be delayed to the call of the chair, waiting for the Senate to get done with HB 57, because then it will come back to the House for concurrence. So we'll be given maybe half an hour or an hour to read and see if we concur with the Senate's changes to HB.
57, and if so, we will vote on it. So, you know, the vote's all kind of up in the air. We don't know because we don't know what's going to be in it based on the amendments that... they're going to try to put in it this morning. This is absolutely where it gets crazy because they're using time compression as a weapon, sort of. Welcome to Juno. Welcome to Juno, right? Well, I will be watching intently to see what happens. I'm very curious to see what happens because, like I said,
I'm very leery about adding $700 to the base student allocation. I just look down the road and say, how are you going to afford that in two or three years? And if there's inflation-proofing language in there, it's going to be an escalator. I have more questions than I have answers, I'll be honest.
I guess we'll see what happens after the Senate passes it, because I expect they will. But an interesting conversation. As I was listening, because I listened to the Senate Finance Committee hearing yesterday, And both Kronk and Kaufman raised the point of Have you talked to the governor? Is there discussions with the governor about this and about the policy? Because we don't want to be in the same situation again where we're putting money into something, and I'm paraphrasing greatly.
But we're putting money into a bill, but we don't have the policy changes that the governor is going to support. And I heard the co-chair's response, well, we've talked to the other body. And what was very telling to me was, have you talked to the governor?
And so, again, is it a possibility that we're going to be back in the same situation again where they're really not putting forward substantial policy changes that the governor is going to support, and so we're going to be right back in a veto situation? Is it possible? Yeah, and that's the hamster wheel. I mean, this is all Kevin's opinion, but I suspect that if...
If HB 57 does not have the policy changes in it that the governor wants for our children, and that, frankly, many of us conservatives want as well, if not most of us conservatives, If it doesn't have those policy changes in there and it manages to pass,
then the governor will consider vetoing it. Then they'll come back to us for a veto override. And if that manages to get through, then I suspect that the money... that is being leveraged for the policy change, essentially, because that's what we do down here is we leverage each other. um the money will be stripped out in the budget so um hello legislature let's get a clue and let's work together with the governor right and let's work together
For the students. Exactly. It only makes sense. And that's why I keep saying if I hear these conversations and... and they're not having robust negotiations and discussions with the governor, you're going to be right back where you were last week, right? And so to me, it's just. Like you said, it's a hamster wheel. At what point are they going to get serious about actually solving things? I don't know. But we will see.
We have a month before the end of session, so we will see. As far as the other things that we're talking about, are you hearing anything about potential new taxes? Because I keep hearing... You know, I've heard Josephson refer to, well, you know, the other body is looking at revenue measures, and I've heard Lyman Hoffman refer to three potential revenue measures. Are we... keeping our eyes open for potential taxes coming out of this legislative session.
Well, sure. I mean, you know, I certainly am. Representative Galvin put a tax bill in state affairs. She didn't get anything entirely introduced. And it's amazing. It just sets my teeth on it sometimes to listen to their discussion. I mean, one of the very first things she says when she was presenting this to us was, that Alaska is required by our Constitution to pay for a quality education for our children. That's not quite what it says.
it says that the legislature will establish a system of public schools open to all children or all students, right? I don't know how they get... I mean, I know there was a court case, and yes, we have to pay the legislature. It's been determined that we have to pay for it. I understand that, but that's not what it says in the Constitution. I have found that any time I hear a Democrat tell me what it says in the Constitution, if I don't know it down cold, I go look it up.
because most of the time they have added something in there that makes it kind of fall, swing their way, if you will. Yeah, well, you know, it's like anything else. My general rule of thumb these days is I don't trust and then verify. I verify first, and then I'm like, okay, well, then I'll determine if I trust it.
the information i'm getting i think that makes a lot of sense uh representative mccabe i'm up against a break do you have time for one more segment sure all right we're talking with representative kevin mccabe he represents district 30 we're going to take a quick break we'll be right back
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Representative McCabe, I know there's so many different topics that come up in the legislature, and this time of year they are moving fast and furious. Beyond the base student allocation discussion, the debate around the budget, what are the things you're eyeing this week or you think people should be tuned into? Well, so let's touch briefly on the taxes again, Amy. So that was one tax measure that I talked about previously that Representative Galvin put in. But I urge people to remember that.
Any kind of a tax measure that we put in is going to take years to implement, a couple years at least. So it's not going to solve our immediate issue. I mean, you can't just say, yep, we're going to. put down taxes, and that's going to fix the BSA. So I think there is some in the legislature who think that, but it's not going to happen. When I was on the fiscal policy working group, we discussed that at great length.
In addition to the fact that income taxes, even if they're structured like Galvin's tax, which is a head tax and a broad-based income tax on those making over $150,000 a year or something like that. that's not going to raise enough money to even make a dent in the fiscal hole that we are in right now. And I'm certainly not in support of that, and I won't vote for it. Keep that in mind. But one of the other things that came up last week was this...
bill to regulate campaign finance. We call it the campaign finance limit bill that Representative Schragge put in. So I dealt a lot with APOC, the Alaska Public Offices Commission, so I decided that it, because I'm not ever going to get any bills passed from the minority this session, so I thought I'd put some amendments, try to put some amendments in that would...
Give APOC some guidance on independent expenditure groups, on outside money, many amendments, four or five amendments dealing with... accepting huge amounts of money from out-of-state donors to influence our ballot measure elections. and ballot initiative elections. And I just, you know, I looked at the recent ranked choice voting thing where they put $11.9 million from outside, three outside billionaires, frankly, in Denver and L.A. and New York.
put a total of $11.9 million into staving off our desire to get rid of ranked choice voting. You know, I had some language in there for more dark money, strengthening APOC. Requiring a disclosure bundled campaign contributions. So there is a move afoot right now to... have people accept small donations from a number of people, put them all together, and then donate them to one candidate or donate them to an independent expenditure group.
And people get to hide their intent that way. So a lot of transparency regulations or amendments. And every single one of them was rejected right on party lines. Every single one. There were a few outliers. But I think I had nine amendments. I think Sarah Vance had two. I think George Rauscher had one that. At the end, he didn't introduce but didn't offer it.
all trying to limit outside money. Outside money in campaigns is what's killing Alaska right now. We're seen as a cheap date by the billionaires in the lower 48. They think that they can use Alaska as an experiment to see how it works. Ranked choice voting was that exact thing, was, well, let's put this in place in Alaska because they're very cheap.
And, you know, it only cost us $10 million, $12 million to do it, where if we tried to do it in California, the advertising would be, you know, $100 million. So that's what we were trying to limit. Basically, Representative Schragi, whose bill it was, HB 16, he stood up and denied every single one of them, and then they all voted along the party lines. Of course they did. Yeah, I mean, he just wants campaign limits.
And, frankly, they're trying to limit Republicans. Well, that's it. They're not going to limit the money coming in from the unions, right? They're not going to limit the dark money coming in from out of state. And you know what's so frustrating and infuriating about this is your amendments. I actually shared your video on Facebook. You had a really good breakdown on Facebook about your amendments that you put forward, and I thought it was a good, quick breakdown of them.
They're common sense. And the reality is, is all you're doing is giving voters information. 30% or so of the money is coming from out of state, you should disclose that. If, you know, whatever the amendments were, I mean, the reality is I always say follow the money because it may not be everything, but it is a data point that voters should be able to consider. but they can't even consider it if you're able to hide the money and you don't have to disclose where the money's coming from.
Right. And, you know, I don't know why the other side, the Democrats, would not want transparency, but you're absolutely right. Republicans always say, follow the money, and Democrats always seem to say, hide the money. And, you know, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are going to depend on these independent expenditure groups, the outside money. to fund maybe the Democrats' pick for the next governor gubernatorial race. That's all going to come from out of state.
You know, the state doesn't, with 550 odd thousand voters, we don't have enough money, contribution money, flowing free money in this state. to actually put millions and millions of dollars into all the different elections that go on, whether it be for governor or for... You know, the U.S. congressman is going to be up at the same time. All of the state house will be up at the same time. That's a lot of people running for election. And it takes money to advertise.
They know, the Democrats know, that they can get that money from Arabella Fund, 1630 Fund, Soros. I mean, even George Soros' son in the last election was very open about it. He gave two of the Democrat ladies up in the interior and up on the North Slope He gave money to them publicly, $500, him and his wife each, which would seem abnormal until you look at it and it's like, oh, they're transmitting that they are very interested in Alaska elections. Well, why is that?
That's because Alaska has huge resource potential with the high Arctic now and with our Arctic capabilities. The resource potential, the money that the state of Alaska will generate in the future, whether any of us want it or not, is incredible. So that's what this is for. This is a battle for Alaska, if you want to think of it that way. Republicans are just barely hanging on by our fingertips right now. Yeah, it's unbelievable, really, because, you know, to me...
When I started to see the debate and the discussion around campaign finance laws, it's very obvious. There's one side that is fine with transparency and that actually pushes for it. And then there's another side. who wants to limit their opponent's ability to donate, and they want to hide where their money is coming from.
I say pick your side. I know what side I'm on, and I think you were right on the money with your amendments. So I appreciate the fact that you not only offered them, but you highlighted to people the discussion that is happening. I think it's an important one. And it's one that we're going to have a lot more because, look, this isn't going to end. I hope if this bill ends up making it to the governor's desk, I hope he vetoes it because I think it's necessary. I think at the end of the day.
We have to take much stronger stances to be able to clean up our election rules. And I think this is one part of it. The money part of it is an important part because voters deserve to know who's paying for each campaign. That's my opinion. 100% agree. And if you really look in aggregate at everything that the Democrats are doing, even from from the dumbing down of our children if you want to think of the bsa discussion in the school discussion that way to this kind of thing
They're getting very, very granular in their battle for Alaska. And we need to get down there. I'm sorry, but we need to get down there in the mud and get very granular and back up and find the root causes and the root... sort of battle for every single thing. And this is one of them. The transparency in our elections is one of them. Teaching our kids civics and American history and learning how to read. That's another one.
And we just need to find those granular areas where we can battle, and it starts in the school boards and the city councils and the borough assemblies, and it percolates all the way on up to... maybe all the way down to the legislature. Yeah, no, I agree with you 100%. I think you're right on the money. And it's conversations like this that open people's eyes to what actually is going on in Juneau and where those fights are. Because, you know, when it comes to election time,
I would ask every legislator who voted against your amendments and say, why did you vote against me knowing where money is coming from in campaigns? I mean, it's a very fair question, and they should be able to answer it. Right. And I think the answer for them is going to be that's because what my caucus told me to do. That's not a good answer. It's not a good answer. For anybody who's been in a caucus, you know, I mean, you know you have very independent voters in your district, too.
And people want, they want you to vote your conscience and they want you to vote what their best interests are. Being told I was told to vote this way is not a good answer. But, you know, that's going to be their answer. It's okay. Then we know, right? Then we know. 100%. But I really want Alaskans to keep in mind. The United States is an Arctic...
country only because of Alaska. And the Arctic has trillions of dollars of resources. It's the next frontier for the battle for resources. And if we don't solve this... We're going to give up control of the Arctic to China and Russia, frankly. Yeah, that is not a good position to be in. I think you're exactly right. I think the Arctic discussion, Alaska resource discussion, is a national security discussion, and I think you're exactly right.
Representative McCabe, as always, a man of so much information. Unfortunately, I'm a woman with so little time, so our time today is up, but thank you so much for calling in. I appreciate it. Okay, Amy, thanks for the opportunity. I appreciate it. And keep an eye on us today. I will do it, sir. Thank you so much. All right, that's Representative Kevin McCabe. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. Turn up your radio.
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Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Monday morning. Currently light traffic inbound on the Glenn Highways. Amy Demboski, 6 to 8 mornings on NewsRadio 650. Senator McCabe for calling in and giving us an update from Juneau on what is going on at the end of session. Look, there's lots of shenanigans that happen at the end of every session. This is how the game is played. And as I was listening last night to Senate Finance,
I went back to see if there was any good audio I could pull. There really wasn't. To be honest, they weren't talking close to the microphone, so they were hard to hear, and it just wasn't great audio. But what I will say is Senator Kaufman and Senator Kronk... Both had very on point comments in that, look, are we reaching out to the governor?
to make sure that he would support this. And when I hear Lyman Hoffman say, we've talked to the other body, So again, if you're just trying to throw money at an issue and you don't have adequate policy to ensure people's money is going to give us the return on investment that is required. that we expect, governor's going to veto it again.
Right. And so I don't know. Is there enough in there for the governor to take this pill and swallow it? If I was the governor, the answer would be heck no. Thank you. Absolutely not. Not a chance in tarnation would I sign this bill. Not happening. Go ahead. And if I was going to do it, it would be outside of the BSA. It would not be inside the BSA. I mean, there's a whole list of reasons why I'm like, unless they meet the governor in the middle.
unless they actually have a discussion. You know, and the other thing they're talking about in this bill. A 10% hike in transportation of cost allocation for school districts. The reality is the Anchorage School District keeps that transportation money. The people that go to charter schools, they don't see that money.
So all it's going to do is it's going to line the school district's coffers. You think that's going to get transferred over to the charter schools and the home schools and all these other ones? No, it's not. It's just yet another way. So a $700 BSA increase plus 10%. for transportation costs. All it's doing is it's creeping it right back up to that $1,000 PSA.
This is a whole shell game. This is what they're playing. But this is part of the bill that Representative McCabe said he heard is probably going to be stripped out, but it says Section 7 of the Community Substitute Bill, according to Mustry Alaska. says the government will collect, here's a quote, quote, gather data on the progress of each high school graduating class in a district by collecting career post-secondary education and residency data
on each student in graduating class. The department shall gather the data required under this paragraph every five years for 20 years after the high school graduation date of each high school graduating class. The department shall publish a biennial report on the data gathered under this paragraph, in this paragraph, blah, blah, blah. So basically they're saying for 20 years they're going to track the students that graduate.
The reality of the situation is how? Think about this. If you move out of the state of Alaska, you graduate from Alaska high schools and you move to, you join the military. You go to college out of state and you don't come back. From a practical standpoint, How are they going to force people to, I wouldn't disclose that data. I'd be like, none of your business.
I'm going to say data mining. I'm going to say that this is. So my problem with this is A. It goes against my feelings of freedom and rights to privacy that they do this. or want to do this. But the big thing is, is that This is going to create a whole new department. This is not going to be like a single school can't do it. It's going to have to be a state agency that now is nothing but following these students. It's going to take that many people.
to try to process. And they're going to use data mining, Amy. Well, it doesn't seem practical to me. They say they're going to work with labor and workforce development. And again, if you're somebody who stays in the state of Alaska, it'll be much easier for them to do that. But if you live out of the state of Alaska, it is not going to be that easy for them to track in. To me, it's not even practical.
I look at it and I'm like, okay, again, if you stay in the state of Alaska, it might be one thing. The other way that they could potentially is if, for example, If you get an Alaska student loan, you know, from the Alaska Student Loan Corporation, there could be caveats in there where you're required to report. Right. Look, I have multiple college degrees. I've never taken out a loan. I've always paid as I went.
I did not ever take out a loan. So it's nobody's business what my data is. And do you think for one second I would be reporting to the state of Alaska every five years where I live and what job I'm doing? No, I'm not going to do any of your business. Again, they might find ways to be able to find it, you know, like, for example, through unemployment insurance or something like that. But I think, to your point, I think it will grow the bureaucracy.
You know, I just shake my head. We'll see. We'll see if this stays in there, because I'd love to see how they think they're going to actually track all these students' data for the next 20 years. Data is important in helping shape policy and make informed decisions, there's no doubt about it. We'll see. I don't know. Sometimes legislators come up with ideas, and I think, well, how are they practically going to actually do it? I just don't see it in this one. But we'll see. HB 57.
has been stuffed with multiple provisions. The biggest one, of course, is the increase to schools funding. It'll go from $5,960 per student to $6,660. per student, that's a $700 increase, and another 10% added to pupil transportation costs. which is just another way to pad it because the charter schools will not see the pass-through from the Anchorage School District. You can take that to the bank.
So we'll see. So the Senate will have a hearing this morning. They'll have a floor session this morning, and they'll vote on this bill. and then it'll get passed over to the House. We'll see if the House concurs. My guess is they probably have the votes. They probably will concur to pass this through.
And then the question is back on the governor's desk, will he or will he not veto it? That is the million-dollar question. Actually, I should say hundreds of millions of dollars question. Billion-dollar question? Are we going to vote for it? $100 million question. Yeah, exactly. So we'll see. We'll see if there's enough. In there for the governor bite, I would say it's lackluster at best. So we'll see. We'll see.
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Hi, I think you said my name. I kind of cut out there for a minute. I did. You are up and you are live. I was just going to say that we now have universal ID. So talking people is going to be really easy. Yeah, you're right. And, you know, the fact is, the more they move people to a digital currency or a digital versus cash-based society, it'll be a lot easier to track people, too.
Absolutely. Yeah, I see you're striking fear in my heart. Good point. Good point. Thank you for calling this morning. I appreciate it. All right, bye-bye. All right, take care. All right, well, see that? Daryl, see?
I got to tell you, our listeners are thinking, because I got to tell you, the more the government knows, the less freedom you have. Some of these things are just not their business. That's my opinion. Not their business. When I heard it, my dyslexia kicked in. So you said that they hear. What was it again you said? I don't know what I said. Fear in your heart. That's what you said. It put fear in your heart and my brain said it put
Never mind. I won't go there. Well, you know, I will tell you some things I just sit back and I chuckle over because it's just common sense. And that's why I say I don't think Trump. Do I believe Trump is an overly conservative guy? Probably not. You know, he was a Democrat for the majority of his life. I think what he has become is the common sense president. I think that's where he's going, and I think that's why he's getting so many people that are independent.
and I would say more moderate than I am that are supporting him because it's just common sense, the policies that he's going after, whether it's securing the border, getting criminal illegals out of the country. Bringing business back to the U.S., manufacturing back to the U.S., resource development in the U.S., it all lends to a strong national security, a strong economy. It's good for American workers. This stuff is all common sense.
Caroline Levin, I heard her last week, and she was speaking from the podium in the White House. And to me, you know, she was talking about education. And look. The Biden administration illegally, in violation of the Supreme Court decision, kept trying to discharge student loan debt. And look, they're not having it anymore. This is Caroline Leavitt last week talking in the White House.
In other news, the Trump administration has announced we will put an end to Joe Biden's illegal student loan bailout attempt. No student loan has been referred to collection since March of 2020. That comes to an end. On May 5th, the Department of Education will resume involuntary collections for borrowers with defaulted federal student loans. The student loan portfolio controlled by the federal government is nearly 1.6%.
trillion dollars. But fewer than four out of ten borrowers are in repayment. This is unsustainable, unfair, and a huge liability for American taxpayers. debt cannot be wiped away it just ends up getting transferred to others So why should Americans who didn't go to college or went to college and responsibly paid back their loans pay for the student loans of other Americans? The Trump administration will never force taxpayers to pay student loan debts.
that don't belong to them. Student loan borrowers need clarity and we're finally giving it to them. Borrowers will now be clearly expected to repay their loans and those who default on their loan obligations will face involuntary collections. You know what, what you just heard there is basically 60% of people are not
are not current on their payments, right? But Joe Biden, even when the Supreme Court said, nope, you can't just wipe away these debts. You don't have the authority to do that. They did it anyway, right?
They refused to collect on anybody. They were just ignoring it like it wasn't going to happen. And they were just trying to discharge it. What was Joe Biden really trying to do? He was really trying to buy votes in the election. Let's be honest. That's really what he was trying to do. But explain to me, Daryl.
Why, if I go to college, you should pay for my college. I cannot explain that at all. There are millions and millions of Americans out there that chose not to go to college, right? Whether they decided to... into a trade, whether they decided to pay for it themselves, whatever. They didn't ask their fellow Americans to pay for their college. I didn't ask anybody to pay for my college.
And I look around and I'm thinking, why should the cook, why should the hairdresser, why should the truck driver? Why should the oil field worker, why should these people have to pay for other people's gender studies degrees? Bingo. Why should they have to pay for that? It is Bravo Sierra with capital B and a capital S. Like, I think it's total nonsense. And when we think about the portfolio, I mean, $1.6 trillion? Yeah. If you take out a loan, it's not a gift. It's a loan.
You have made the adult decision that you are going to borrow money, which means you have to pay it back. It's not your neighbor's job to pay back your student loan. And I don't care if you went to an Ivy League school or if you went to some big school that costs fifty thousand dollars a year and now you have two hundred thousand dollars in student loans not my problem you're an idiot Like, if you go and get a social work degree and you end up racking up $120,000 in student loan debt,
you probably didn't pick a career field that's going to pay off your student loan debt. You can't get a gender studies degree. and rack up $80,000 in student loan debt and think that you're going to be able to pay it off super easy. Because, again, like, if you're going into some specialized career feel, and you're going to make a ton of money, and you're going to become a nuclear physicist or something or whatever and make a ton of money, great. Good on you.
But if you're not smart enough and you get a stupid degree that's not applicable to the private sector and to making money, it's not my fault you can't pay off your student loan debt. And maybe, just maybe, you need more than one job. You know, you racked up the loan. You got to pay it back. It's your responsibility. I have no sympathy for student loan borrowers. None. Zero. Zip. Nada.
If I go buy a car and take out a loan, I'm not expecting my neighbor to pay off my car loan. Why would I expect my neighbor to pay off my student loan? I would expect my neighbors to buy everything for me, plus my house. Too much with this greedy kind of mentality that I'm owed everything. Get off your butt and work. The rest of us do it. I've got to be honest with you. I've had a job every...
And oftentimes more than one job. So I have no sympathy for these people whatsoever. All right. Well, that does it for us for today. We're going to go ahead and end the show today. We will be back with you tomorrow morning. Stay tuned on deck. Clay Travis and Buck. Followed by Sean Hannity at 11. And, of course, this afternoon, Mike Piccaro will be back live and local from 4 to 6. Daryl and I will be back with you tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. Until then, stay safe. God bless.
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