WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.400 So Senator, what legislative priorities can we expect in the first 100 days? 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:11.160 What bills are you gonna be pushing for to get on the president's desk and sign in the 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:12.160 law? 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:15.880 Well, I think the first two orders of business then we're gonna work closely with the Trump 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:16.880 administration. 00:00:16.880 --> 00:00:21.880 I mean, one of the reasons I'm excited about this is that I think that the effort between 00:00:21.880 --> 00:00:25.840 the Republican House, Republican Senate and the White House now, I mean, we can 00:00:25.840 --> 00:00:27.360 do a lot of important things. 00:00:27.360 --> 00:00:31.720 I think when he comes in on day one, I mean, he's gonna bunch of executive orders, but 00:00:31.720 --> 00:00:35.720 mission I think number one will be securing our border, right? 00:00:35.720 --> 00:00:43.000 Like the truth is Biden's team, they came in on day one, they issued 94 executive orders. 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:47.640 All were meant to undo the successes we had under President Trump like Romain in Mexico. 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:50.520 I would anticipate that we get operational control of our border. 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:54.320 They're gonna be deportations and that'll be a good thing. 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:58.280 So I think that's the, and if there's legislation that we need to backfill that, I think a lot 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:01.440 of that's gonna be executive action because the laws are there, they're just not being 00:01:01.440 --> 00:01:02.440 enforced. 00:01:02.440 --> 00:01:06.480 But if there's something we need to do, I'm sure that those illegal immigration issues 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:07.480 will be front of mind. 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:13.000 Also, one thing to look out for is a lot of those tax cuts are expiring that President 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:17.000 Trump got through in 2017, they expire at the end of 2025. 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:21.400 We need to make those permit so that middle class families get the tax relief they 00:01:21.400 --> 00:01:25.440 deserve, small business owners, make sure they're not stuck with higher price tags. 00:01:25.440 --> 00:01:32.000 And I think that the, so those two things and then energy policy, you know, the inflation 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:35.760 that everybody's experienced, it's not some act of God, it's not like a hurricane. 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:40.120 The truth is if you declare war on domestic energy production, you spend trillions and 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:43.360 trillions and trillions that you don't have, the cost of everything's gonna go 00:01:43.360 --> 00:01:44.360 up. 00:01:44.360 --> 00:01:47.880 So I would fully expect American energy to be unleashed and that'll be a good 00:01:47.880 --> 00:01:48.880 thing. 00:01:48.880 --> 00:01:50.280 It's good for our national security as well. 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:51.920 We're not relying on other countries. 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:55.200 So for me, I think those are gonna be focused as also, I think we need to make 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:57.640 sure that free speech is protected in this country. 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:01.960 So, you know, I've got the legislation that if you're a bureaucrat and you are 00:02:01.960 --> 00:02:07.160 working with social media companies to suppress speech, you can be sued individually by 00:02:07.160 --> 00:02:08.160 Americans. 00:02:08.160 --> 00:02:10.800 It shouldn't have to be some attorney general, some state to do it. 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:11.880 You yourself can do it. 00:02:11.880 --> 00:02:16.400 I think that'll help change the culture of the administrative state to say, listen, 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:18.040 people can have information. 00:02:18.040 --> 00:02:19.320 They can find it wherever they want. 00:02:19.320 --> 00:02:22.520 It's good that media is diffused and they can make their own decisions. 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:27.280 This command and control, disinformation, governance, foreign mentality's gotta go. 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:30.960 And then also those reforms that we talked about about the administrative state. 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:34.600 Like for example, if you're an agency and you're proposing some new rule that's 00:02:34.600 --> 00:02:38.600 gonna have an economic impact of, pick your number, mine would be really low, 00:02:38.600 --> 00:02:42.040 but let's just call it $100 million, then Congress should have to vote on 00:02:42.040 --> 00:02:43.800 that first, right? 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:46.960 We should have to vote on it before it ever goes into effect. 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:47.960 That's something I'm gonna be pushing. 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:50.880 And also if you've got a new rule, you gotta pull back three. 00:02:50.880 --> 00:02:54.960 I think again, it changes that dynamic, puts the power back with the people, 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:57.840 and takes it away from permanent Washington. 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:01.400 So is there any appetite in the conference, just really quickly the time 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:06.200 we're made to go back to pre-COVID spending, to go back to the 2019 levels? 00:03:06.200 --> 00:03:08.920 I mean, because this is not a big ask, by the way, I've been going, 00:03:08.920 --> 00:03:10.920 I've been here on transition, Senator. 00:03:10.920 --> 00:03:14.600 I learned that almost every federal worker now works from home. 00:03:14.600 --> 00:03:15.600 I mean, I- 00:03:15.720 --> 00:03:18.720 Listen, Charlie, listen, it's worse than that. 00:03:18.720 --> 00:03:25.480 On any given day, only 17% of the federal workforce is in a building, right? 00:03:25.480 --> 00:03:30.480 So that means that based on not there being in person, but at any particular 00:03:30.480 --> 00:03:33.680 day, only 17% of the people employed are there. 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:35.360 It's nuts, and you're right. 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:39.280 If you, look, Joe Biden wanted to spend $7 trillion. 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:45.360 We take in about $5 trillion, pre-COVID spending was about $4 trillion. 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:49.080 So you think about that, the explosion of spending since COVID on wasteful 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:52.680 programs, there is a lot that we can do to balance the budget. 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:53.960 We need to balance the budget. 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:58.760 And we also, by the way, we ought to be the oil and gas, all this liquid 00:03:58.760 --> 00:04:01.120 gold, everything under our feet. 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:02.840 That's all new revenue, right? 00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:05.560 Why wouldn't we use some of that revenue to help pay down the national 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:07.040 debt, $36 trillion? 00:04:07.040 --> 00:04:09.600 I think the American people would support that, which is why if we 00:04:09.600 --> 00:04:12.880 actually do our jobs, we work with President Trump, we can have an 00:04:12.880 --> 00:04:17.040 agenda and build out this coalition, I think for the long term, which is 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:20.800 working-class people, common sense folks, normal people who don't want to be 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:25.720 hit with critical race theory and DEI and taxpayer-funded transgender 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:27.160 surgeries for inmates. 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:28.680 That's the Democrat Party. 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:32.520 Our alternative is, I think, an agenda that works for normal people, 00:04:32.520 --> 00:04:36.360 working people who just want to be able to have a good life and 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:39.080 their kids to have a better life. 00:04:39.080 --> 00:04:40.520 Senator, thank you so much. 00:04:40.520 --> 00:04:43.480 Yeah, I mean, I think 17% is generous, by the way. 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:46.640 For what I've learned on transition is that the rules are that you have to 00:04:46.640 --> 00:04:49.080 only come in for one day a month. 00:04:49.080 --> 00:04:54.040 So what they do is they'll work on the last and the first day of a month, 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:56.240 and then they don't come in basically for two months. 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:59.440 It's totally the same. 00:04:59.440 --> 00:05:01.280 But they say that they come in for one day a month. 00:05:01.280 --> 00:05:04.160 So they'll come in on the 31st and then work on the first, and 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:07.840 then they're done basically all for whatever two months those are. 00:05:07.840 --> 00:05:09.520 The looting operation has to stop. 00:05:09.520 --> 00:05:11.200 Thank you so much, Senator. 00:05:11.200 --> 00:05:12.040 Agreed, thanks, Charlie.