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Good Tuesday morning. It's so nice to have you with us on the forty seven Morning Update. Here are the big stories we're talking about. The biggest one is the Big Beautiful Bill. We have a lot that is happening as we're recording this a little after midnight right now, and there's word that there are some Republican holdouts in the Senate. Much is changing and the President is working the phone lines. We'll give you the latest that we
have for you right now in just a moment. Also, in a shocking move, a major TV network is now helping warn individuals where ICE agents are so that they can get away from being held accountable for breaking our laws. Who's doing it? We'll expose that coming up as well. It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts.
Right now story number one.
So you're tuning in right now wanting to know what's going on with a Big Beautiful Bill. A lot is changing and it's happening very quickly. I'm going to timestamp this for you to let you know. It's approaching midnight as we speak right now. When you hear this, Depending on when you download it, it may change drastically from what I'm telling you now. That's why i'm letting you know that as I literally just got the phone with members of Congress to get an update on what they're hearing.
And I'm going to be honest with you. After talking and texting with several different people in Congress, many of them still don't know exactly what this final bill is going to look like. There is a lot of back and forth that is taking place right now now. There's also a rumor that at midnight tonight, there are up to six GOP senators that are holding out on the
big beautiful Bill. I talked to another senator who said it's five different GOP members, but they believe that those five will come around after they get some concessions that they need. This is how the sausage is made in Washington, DC. And yes, all of the people I talked to are sitting around their offices waiting for what's gonna happen next. So let's go back to earlier in the day, and I want to explain to you how we got to
the point that we are at right now. Caroline Levitt taking a lot of heat at the White House Press briefing today on the big beautiful Bill because there are so many in the Democratic Party and in the mainstream media that want to destroy this from becoming a reality. I want you to listen to what she had to say about this legislation.
To speak on it.
How can you respond to the CBO estimates that the Senate would increase the defisode when you're only eighty three point three trolly. This is one of the most fiscally conservative pieces of legislation that has ever made its way through Capitol Hill. There's two trillion dollars in mandatory savings in this bill, and not only that, the projected growth that this bill will bring to our economy, it will
be an economic boom. The Council of Economic Advisors has an analysis that shows that the bill will generate four point one trillion dollars in economic growth, and it will cut taxes, putting more money back into the American people's pockets. That's why this president wants this bill to pass, and I know he's busy working the phones and doing what he needs to do today to make it happen. So we'll see you all later.
Thank you.
We'll see you in Florida.
Thank you now, as you heard Caroline say there, we'll see you tomorrow in Florida, meaning right now as you're listing this show. There's also another important part of what she just said. The President is working the phones and has been working them from what I've been told all day long and late into the evening and very well maybe pulling what you would refer to in college is a good old all nighter making sure that this gets
across the finished life. Now, there is also other centers that are going on TV talking about where they believe this is going. Center Turber Bill from Alabama, you may know him as the football coach. Here's what he had to say on Fox Business.
What is your assessment when you look at the whole thing, what would you have liked to have gotten in that didn't and what do you think is the best things in it? Well, first of all, two thirds of the bill is the tax cuts, which obviously we've got to get done. It's necessary. Then one third of the bill is we're reforming most of the agencies, which is Medicaid, you know, school loans, all those things that are really
costing us a lot of money. They've Right now we have forty seven million young Americans that are in debt with student loans for one point seven trillion dollars. We can't sustain that. We can't sustain it. So we've done some work on that. We've done some work on Medicaid. Medicaid is basically reforming, kicking people off that's not supposed to be on their illegals and people that should be working.
So all this, most of it is good. You just sometimes you hate to do things that you know is going to put people in a situation where they're going to be uncomfortable. But at the end of the day, we all have to adjust to this because we can't keep spending the way we're spending right now. We can't do it.
We can't keep spending the way we're spinning right now. We just can't keep doing it now. Senator Turberville brought up an excellent point there as well. Two thirds of this big beautiful bill are actually tax cuts and one third is reforming most of the agencies. That is extremely important. Now there's also many that are saying the American people actually don't want this. One of the things that Tom Tillis has been saying about this bill that actually is
not true. In fact, if you go back and look at what Donald Trump ran on, he ran on the issue of making the Trump tax cuts permanent. How are we doing it? It is through the Big Beautiful Bill. So the President United States of America is burn the Midnight Oil Center. Ron Johnson defending the Big Beautiful Bill as well on CNN, saying this to Jake Tapper.
Billion So Biden deficits were three times larger than pre pandemic levels of deficit, and spending is just out of control. So it's easy to be a Democrat. Spend mortgage and kids future, never be held accountable by the media. It's pretty hard what we're trying to do, and so this may take a little bit more time.
Well, deficit spending is a bipartisan affliction. You know that better than anyone. Earlier this month, you were warning about this bill adding trillions to the national debt. You told ABC News quote, I'm worried about our kids and grandkids. The fact that we're mortgaging their future. It's wrong, it's immoral. Is has your position changed? It's this bill, I mean, this legislation is still going to happen to the deficits.
So Democrats their only solution is increased taxes. We don't want to do that. That harms economic growth. We will get the revenue you ever look for it. All Democrats do is spend. By the way they're talking about, you know, we're going to you know, task cuts for millionaires. No, we're just not going to increase taxes. They could have done that in the four years when they were in power. They could have gotten rid of the Tax Cutting Jobs Act.
They could have increased taxes on every American. That's what we're trying to avoid. So again, Democrats love to spend. I'm not saying that we don't have Republicans that are a big spender as well. I've been focusing on spending, spending, spending, trying to put pressure on the process, and I think right now the stumbling block is what the Senate build does. Even though we actually reduce spending more, we also make sure that those business tax provisions with which will incentivize
growth are permanent, so that holds a bigger score. But the difference between the House and Center is about six hundred and fifty one billion dollars. Rick Scott's amendment, which is eminently reasonable. It doesn't kick anybody off of Medicaid. It just limits, at some point in time in the future additional adults who are childless, who are working age, who could work. It's going to deny them that nine
to one match, which is distorted Medicaid jake. For every dollar the state puts into a to provide health care for a disabled child, the federal government puts a buck thirty three. But for every dollar they put in toward a single childless adult who should be working, we kick in nine. That has led to all kinds of abuse, provider taxes, provider fees. By the way, that's not healthcare, but you have the federal government's kicking out nine dollars
for every one of the states. That's what we're trying to address. We're not trying to take Medicaid away from disabled children. We're trying to stop that scam the states and providers have been using to draw down hundreds of billions of dollars for the federal government that we can't afford.
You listen to Ron Johnson there defending the Big Beautiful Bill. DEM's only solution has increased taxes and saying, quote, it's easy to be a Democrat. You can also find it very interesting that Jake Tapper it see it, and now actually cares about government spending, something he didn't care about under the Biden administration, not one single time, but all of a sudden, the media now is like, well, we need to be looking at the deficit. At the end
of the day. Donald Trump promised to make the tax cuts permanent and to rein in the size of government. That's clearly what he's advocating for and what he's trying
to do right now. Now, I'll say this for the five that are apparently holding out at this hour a little after midnight as I am recording the show, anything can happen in the next few hours, and I have a feeling that at the end of the day, Donald Trump will be working those phones and making sure that the Big Beautiful Bill gets across the finish line for the American people.
Now, story number two.
The media yet again putting ice agents lives at risk, this time CNN featuring a segment on ice Block. It is an app that lets users anonymously crowd source ICE agents sightings across the app and send alerts to others within a five mile radius. Now, the app's creator framed as a quote harmless early warning system to help people
avoid ICE, not to incite violence against the agents. Ice Block enforces constraints, they claim as well, one post every five minutes, auto deletion after four hours, and explicitly recommends users not interfere with officers. That's their get out of jail free card.
Apparently.
The White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt accusing CNN of encouraging violence by publicizing the app, especially amid a reported five percent surge in assaults on ICE agents nationwide. The acting ICE Director called CNN's coverage quote reckless and irresponsible, warning that it paints a target on federal law enforcement officers.
Backs and Tom Homan, the former ICE director, and the current borders are branded the app is simply disgusting, and urge the DOJ to investigate CNN's role in all of this. I want you to hear more of what Tom Holman had to say on Fox News channel about this.
So this next story is outrageous. A new iPhone app is alerting people about ICE sightings in the area. As if that's not bad enough, Seeing in it appears to be promoting the app, talking to the creator, and doing a whole story on it. That is not sitting well with My next guest borders our. Tom Holman joins me, Now, Tom, they've crossed the line here. This is out of control. I know.
It's just simply disgusting, and any network that covers that is disgusting as well. So I'm hoping the DOJ steps in here and see if they cross that line. I'm competing federal LA enforcement offshoes. Look, Laurence, you're not talking about this. Assaulting CONCIS is up over five hundred percent. Now you've got an app that's going to tell where
ICE operators are going to be. It's only a matter of time for ICE stages are ambushed by some nut like we're happening in LA throwing them a top cocktail, throwing bricks and these officers. This is just disgusting at every level. So I hope DOJ dives in this deeply, because you know ICE is constraint on public safety threats and national security threats. This shouldn't be a partisan issue.
There shouldn't be an issue anybody's is against. So they're already a dangerous job going after the worst the worst. These guys are putting their lives on the line every day going after the worst and worst international security threats, and this app makes it that much more dangerous. It's it's incredible that those who enforce law, all of a sudden, they are the bad guys you wanted to break the law.
They're victims.
It's disgusting.
Why I was seeing in promote this, Why would they do a story on this?
I can't figure out. I've been look, I've been doing this for four decades. I've never seen anything like this in my life. You know, it's got to be they hate Trump more than love law enforcement or I can't figure it out, but something needs to be done. I mean, you advertise this guy's app on a national TV network, They're just going to bring more followers, sick followers to the app and use it again, letting the bad guy know ice is coming. They're here, here's where they're going next.
This is dangerous for the men and women law enforcement.
Tom Homan clearly slamming CNN for promoting the Ice tracking app, and now is saying maybe it's time for law enforcement the DOJ to step in here and see if they cross the line. Competing federal law enforcement officers. Yet again another example of how the Left is doing everything they can to protect illegal immigrants and put American lives at risk.
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