THE DOW INDUSTRIALS WERE DOWN
1,276 POINTS ON THE SESSION.
TODAY WE LOOK AHEAD TO MORE
INFLATION DATA.
WE’VE GOT THE PRODUCER PRICE
INDEX OUT AT 8:30 A.M. EASTERN,
IT IS EXPECTED TO BE UP 8.8%
YEAR OVER YEAR.
WE’LL HAVE THE NUMBERS AS SOON
AS THEY HIT THE TAPE.
PRESIDENT BIDEN CELEBRATING HIS
SO-CALLED INFLATION REDUCTION
ABILITY AS THE MARKETS WERE
CRASHING.
HE IS TALKING ABOUT EVERYDAY
ITEMS AT THE WHITE HOUSE
YESTERDAY, WATCH THIS.
>> THIS BILL ALONE IS GOING TO
LOWER THE DEFICIT BY
$300 BILLION OVER THE NEXT
DECADE.
THIS BILL CUT COSTS FOR
FAMILIES, HELPED REDUCE
INFLATION AT THE KITCHEN TABLE
BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT THEY LOOK
AT, HOW MUCH OF THEIR MONTHLY
BILLS AND HOW MUCH THEY HAVE TO
PAY OUT FOR NECESSITIES.
MARIA: JOINING US NOW ARIZONA
CONGRESSMAN AND HOUSE WAYS AND
MEANS COMMITTEE MEMBER, DAVID
SHWIKERT.
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
>> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
MARIA: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE
PRESIDENT’S CLAIM THAT HE’S
CUTTING THE DEFICIT BECAUSE I’VE
GOT A REPORT RIGHT HERE FROM
MAYA McGINNIS ON THE COMMITTEE
FOR A FEDERAL -- A RESPONSIBLE
FEDERAL BUDGET.
SHE SAYS SINCE TAKING OFFICE THE
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ADDED
NEARLY $5 TRILLION TO THE
DEFICIT, OVER THE NEXT DECADE
THROUGH HIS LEGISLATION AND
EXECUTIVE ACTIONS, HOW DOES HE
GET AWAY WITH SAYING HE’S
ACTUALLY CUTTING THE DEFICIT,
SIR?
>> LOOK, THE PRESIDENT’S
COMMENTS YESTERDAY WERE
BORDERING ON LUNACY.
I MEAN, EVEN WHEN LEFTIST GROUPS
ARE SCORING THEIR INFLATION
REDUCTION BILL, WHICH IS AN
ABSURD TITLE, IT’S BUILD BACK
BETTER TWO, THAT OVER THE HALF
DECADE IT ACTUALLY RAISES THE
DEFICIT AND HE THEN THE GIMMICKS
IT REQUIRES A SERIES OF FAKE
MONEY TO ACTUALLY T GET GET TO T
PRESIDENT PRESIDENT’S CLAIM OF
DEFICIT REDUCTION.
LOOK, THE DEMOCRATS HAVE BECOME
THE PARTY OF SUBSIDIES, HAND-OUT
CASH, PARTICULARLY TO GROUPS
THAT VOTE FOR THEM.
YOU KNOW, WE ALL NEED TO BE
ADULTS ABOUT THIS.
THE PARTIES HAVE ACTUALLY SORT
OF SPLIT IN SUBSTANTIALLY IN
THEIR ECONOMIC VIEW. DEMOCRATS JUST ARE USING YOUR
DEMOCRATS JUST ARE USING YOUR
TAX MONEY TO FUNCTION FUNCTIONAL
VOTES.
MARIA: KEVIN SMITH SAYS THIS IS
REALLY CALLED THE INFLATION
EXPANSION ACT OF 2022, TALKING
ABOUT TAX INCREASES OF 250 OF
BILLION DOLLARS FROM
PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICE
CONTROLS, $222 BILLION TAX
INCREASES ON AMERICAN
BUSINESSES, LAST MINUTE TAX
INCREASES ON SMALL BUSINESSES.
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT
IT?
YOU’RE AN ELECTED OFFICIAL.
WE’RE AT A POINT IN OUR ECONOMY
WHERE WE’RE TEETERING ON RECESSI
THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS ABOUT TO
RAISE RATES AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
YOUR COLLEAGUES ON THE LEFT ARE
PUTTING IN PLACE HIGHER TAXES.
CAN YOU STOP THIS?
>> IT MAY BE WORSE THAN YOU’RE
SPEAKING ABOUT.
I REPRESENT THE SCOTTSDALE, HE
PHOENIX AREA, I REPRESENT THE
AREA WITH THE HIGHEST INFLATION
IN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED
STATES.
IF YOU’RE A WORKING MAN OR WOMAN
IN MY COMMUNE P AT THIS AND YOU
HAVEN’T -- COMMUNITY AND YOU
HAVEN’T HAD A PAY HIKE IN THE
LAST 12 MONTHS, YOU’VE LOST SIX
WEEKS, SIX WEEKS OF YOUR LABOR.
IF YOU HAD THE AVERAGE PAY HIKE,
YOU LOST ONE MONTH OF YOUR
LABOR.
YOU WOULD THINK THERE WAS A TIME
WHEN THE DEMOCRATS ACTUALLY GAVE
A DAMN ABOUT WORKING MEN AND
WOMEN.
THEY DON’T ANYMORE.
EVERY SINGLE DAY THE WORKERS,
THE PEOPLE FROM MY COMMUNITY GET
POORER AND I HOPE THE VOTERS ARE
STARTING TO REALIZE THE SORT OF
DYSTOPIAN WORLD THAT THE
DEMOCRATS SAY I’M GOING TO MAKE
YOU POORER EVERY DAY BUT I’M
GOING TO GIVE YOU HAPPY TALK
THAT HIDES THE FACTS.
MARIA: A LOT OF HAPPY TALK
GOING ON THERE.
BUT CONGRESSMAN, I GUESS YOUR L
COLLEAGUES EVEN THE REPUBLICANS
ARE AGREEING WITH DEMOCRATS AND
VOTING ON ALL A OF ALL OF THIS S
THEY CONTINUE TO VOTE ON MORE
SPENDING.
DID YOU VOTE FOR THE CHIPS ACT?
DID YOU VOTE FOR THE
INFRASTRUCTURE PACKAGE.
>> GOD NO.
MARIA: YOU DIDN’T.
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO GET
YOUR COLLEAGUES TO UNDERSTAND
THE BORDER AND ITS IMPLICATIONS?
LOOK AT THIS VIDEO WE HAVE, SIR.
FOX NEWS CAMERAS CAPTURED A
GROUP OF CAMOFLAGUED ILLEGAL
MIGRANTS SCALING THE WALL BEFORE
MAKING A BREAK FOR IT IN
ARIZONA.
BORDER CITIES LIKE YUMA ARE
BECOMING MORE OVERWHELMED, THE
CITY REPORTEDLY TAKING IN ALMOST
250,000 MIGRANTS IN THE LAST
YEAR.
OFFICIALS NOW FACING A
$20 MILLION MEDICAL BILL FOR
TREATING THESE MIGRANTS, SAYING
THE CRISIS IS CAUSING A DROP IN
TOURISM AS WELL BUT THE WHITE
HOUSE IS CLAIMING THE BORDER IS
SECURE, SIR.
HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THIS WHEN
YOU’VE GOT LIES AND
MISINFORMATION IN PLAIN SIGHT?
MY FAVORITE ANECDOTE OR METRIC
TO LOOK AT IS THIS $80 BILLION
THAT’S GOING TO THE IRS NOW AND
THAT’S GOING TO MEAN WE HAVE
166,000 IRS AGENTS VERSUS, WAIT
FOR IT, 20,000 BORDER AGENTS.
>> LOOK, CONSIDER THE FACT THAT
THE IRS IS ONE OF THE MOST
UNIONIZED AGENCIES IN THE
GOVERNMENT.
YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE DEMOCRATS
JUST FINANCED ANOTHER ARMY OF
UNIONIZED EMPLOYEES WHO WRITE
THEIR CHECKS OF THE LEFT.
I’M FROM ARIZONA.
COME TO YU M MA WITH HE ME
SOMETIME.
I HAVE FAMILY THAT LIVES NEAR
THE BORDER.
YOU WALK DOWN, YOU’LL BE THERE
SIX, SEVEN MINUTES AND YOU’LL
SEE GROUPS JUST WALKING, JUST
WALKING RIGHT THROUGH THE
BORDER, JUST WALKING YOU
THROUGH.
AND THE POOR BORDER PATROL
AGENTS YOU CAN JUST SEE THE
FRUSTRATION, THE SADNESS IN
THEIR FACES BECAUSE THEY’VE
BECOME A CONCIERGE SERVICE.
THEY SIT THERE OR THEY STAND
THERE AND ACTUALLY JUST POINT
SAYING THE SUVS ARE OVER THERE,
THE SUVS ARE OVER THERE.
THEY’RE A DELIVERY SERVICE.
THIS WHAT IS THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION HAS DONE.
AND IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND
WHY THE LITTLE BOY, THE LITTLE
GIRL DOWN THE STREET OVERHE
DOSEDOVERDOSEDLAST NIGHT FROM FE
UNDERSTAND WHAT THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION, THE DEMOCRATS
HAVE DONE IN OUR BORDER,
PARTICULARLY IN ARIZONA.
MARIA: I KNOW.
NO, I’VE BEEN TO THE BORDER FIVE
TIMES, SIR.
I RECOGNIZE WHAT YOU’RE TALKING
ABOUT.
>> THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT.
MARIA: IT’S EXTRAORDINARY THAT
THIS ADMINISTRATION IS NOT.
IN THE MEANTIME, ALL WE HAVE ARE
ATTACKS ON ORDINARY CITIZENS
FROM TEACHERS, TO PEOPLE WHO
WANTED TO HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT
ELECTION B 2020, THEY’RE GETTING
SUBPOENAS NOW.
A FLORIDA JUDGE UNSEALED MORE OF
THE AFFIDAVIT USED TO RAID
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S MAR-A-LAGO
HOME LAST NIGHT, ONE PORTION
DISCLOSED THE FORMER PRESIDENT’S
TEAM DID PROVIDE ADDITIONAL
CLASS FIDE DOCUMENTS TO THE
NATION -- CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS
TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES.
WHERE IS THIS GOING AS THE
BULLYING FROM THE DOJ GETS
HIGHER AND HIGHER AND HIGHER ON
ORDINARY AMERICANS, RAIDING A
FORMER PRESIDENT’S HOME.
>> MARIA, I’M GOING TO WALK
RIGHT UP TO THE EDGE OF BEING A
JERK.
I NEED THOSE IN THE CONSERVATIVE
SIDE TO TOUGHEN UP AND
UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING WEAPONIZED
AND THIS DIDN’T JUST START, THIS
HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE THE
DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER CONGRESS,
WHAT, IN 2018.
EVERYTHING’S WEAPONIZED, FROM
THE PARKING SPACE YOU GET TO
YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, YOUR
OFFICE, THE BUREAUCRACY -- THE
DEEP STATE ISN’T DEEP.
MARIA: THAT’S DISGUSTING.
>> THEY’RE RIGHT IN FRONT OF
YOU AND A AND EVERYTHING IS ABOU
MONEY AND POWER.
THE LEFT FIGURED OUT THEY’RE
GOING TO USE EVERY POSSIBLE
LEVER AND IF THAT MEANS
INVESTIGATING YOU AS A WAY TO
POKE YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE
WRONG TEAM, YOU’RE GOING TO GET
POKED.
MARIA: I’LL ASK YOU ONCE MORE,
CONGRESSMAN, WE’RE 55 DAYS AWAY
FROM THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS.
CAN YOU DO ANYTHING TO STOP THIS
MADNESS?
>> THE NUMBER ONE THING I CAN DO
IS WIN THE DAMN ELECTION.
THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE
CONSTITUTION, OUR FOUNDING
FATHERS GAVE US TWO INCREDIBLY
POWERFUL THINGS.
OVERSIGHT AND THE MONEY.
WE NEED TO EXPOSE THE BAD ACTS
AND THAT HAPPENS WHEN WE CONTROL
THE CHAIRMAN PSHIPS CHAIRMANSHIP
IS WE NEED TO BE TOUGH SO THE
APPROPRIATIONS WE CANNOT
CONTINUE TO FUND THE CHAOS
THAT’S BEEN COMING FROM THIS
ADMINISTRATION.
MARIA: ALL RIGHT, SIR.
WE’LL BE WATCHING.
THANKS VERY MUCH FOR JOINING HE
ME THIS MORNING.
>> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.