where to find areas of
What do you have a thing or
>> Checks have been going out
to millions of Americans this
past week. Part of the 1.9
trillion dollar stimulus
package signed into law a
week ago, bill was passed
without one Republican vote.
Not that there wasn’t some good
in the bill for the GOP it’s
just big. They say the boots
too big, not targeted. Now what
congressman Dan Crenshaw is
among those voting against that
House version. We’re going to
have extra time a little bit to
talk about some extra stuff
here this morning. But
congressman, thank you. Good to
see you again. Always good to
have you on. I’ve heard a lot
from Republicans about how big
the bill was and how it wasn’t
hard enough. Tell me about
which part of that bill.
You might have agreed with and
which parts with this. OK way
out
of bounds.
>> Well, that one percent of
the bill is for vaccine
distribution you can certainly
I can get my not fund. That’s
been 90% was for health care
costs related to covid.
So, you know, those are things
we would agree but many states
unemployment benefits. The $300
level that’s a reasonable thing
to remember is to be $600 extra
per week. But that was just
incentivizing people to work to
come up with a decent
compromise
on that. But we’d love to
Recent standards for how to
apply for PPP because the
shuttle fleet is about a
100 billion dollars still left
in that fund lot of small
businesses don’t quite make the
cut because that it was quite
enough revenue. Okay. Well,
let’s use that money lose some
of the standards. But it’s that
they just added a few more
billion to it didn’t
change anything. So that’s some
of the good things and a lot
more bad things. And there’s
there’s bailouts for states and
localities that really have
to manage their budgets.
But even that doesn’t make a
lot of since May call for new
had a 10 billion dollar budget
surplus, but they’re going to
get another 40 Billion. That’s
your taxpayer dollars. This
doesn’t make any Just
lots of lots nearly half
actually wanted to be spent
this year. So they’re calling
an emergency bill, but it’s not
an emergency go. It’s tough
to spend You know, next year
years regional centers open
schools. Now we’re lucky that
we are we can take our schools
and to him or to your kids into
school and you sense the states
that sources. We’re delivering
money, but they’re still doing
to the classrooms and hurting
their children as a result.
Don’t sense of Dover.
Some of the problems I will
also say this and I know
everybody likes to hash things.
I would love to get $1400 just
for free things is
not free for you. Divide up
1.9 trillion dollars. And what
is what is that cost. Every
American in the long term.
It’s about $5700 per person.
So some people get $1400 M.
Yeah. The vast majority of
which never lost
their job. Think about it.
This way. Government workers,
federal workers, they’re all
getting $1400 checks or lost a
job, though, is this really
fair? Is this really a good
use of money. We could have
directed that forced people
who lost their jobs or doctor
hours, we could actually
standardize this. So it’s just
it’s so much waste time and so
much data almost 2 trillion
Our kids have to pay for so
what is so what does this do to
the climate for bipartisanship
anything going forward. Does
it hurt.
>> The opportunity to do that.
>> Oh, my gosh, let me give you
an example of what we’re doing
was so we get to offer some
amendments
as well. Well, we can show my
nonetheless, we want
transparency in the vaccines.
One of the formula being used
to distribute vaccine
specifically because we have
found out that Texas is not
getting its fair share.
Not a single Democrat in the
Texas delegation from Miami
icing on.
So it like this. This process
was so hyper partisan. These
recant reconciliations of
passive, which means you only
need 51 votes in the Senate
instead of 60 votes to to
overcome a filibuster. There
was 0 bipartisanship. We
offered lots of common sense of
moments like that. You go to
single Democrat to vote for
some
the law.
>> Some satisfied. So what so
what’s the future look like in
certainly infrastructure.
You can find some common ground
on
You think.
>> I would do. We are a number
like 2 years ago. We are going
to Congress and we would always
just kind of since the fall to
the infrastructure conversation
because like this as a
Republican, I I want to spend
money on infrastructure.
I think the Army Corps of
Engineers needs to be fun.
we got some infrastructure
rebuilding, the Houston area.
And I think we would all agree
on is the last year when the
Democrats unveiled their big
infrastructure bill and passed
a lie down along party lines in
the House and made it harder
to build infrastructure.
It’s all right. If you’re going
to build infrastructure, you
have to you have to you have to
reduce some of the excessive
permitting and regulatory
standards that make it
impossible to build anything
these days. We have some of the
worst in the developed the
facts takes years and years and
years to build something when
it shut so that’s the first
step right. You’ve got to
remove the excessive permitting
because of the private sector
wants to build infrastructure
forces. Look at these and check
out some great examples.
First Christi ship channel so
great examples in the wind and
even these channels and the
private sector. That’s funding.
Most of the day. We seem to get
the federal government moving a
little bit. The right
direction. It’s fun. It’s fun.
Some agents here and there.
We can get it on. So there’s a
good formula for these private
or a public partnerships.
But the Democrats and you add
more regulations which makes it
impossible for me to vote for
because you’re not going to
spend way more tax money and
take longer to build the
sayings that Americans need.
So this is very different
priorities is all of the
cigarettes reach out to us and
we find that common ground.
I hate to do that. You’ve got
about a minute left. But I want
to ask you, do you there’s a
viable way to change what’s
going on in the border.
>> To get to because
there’s never the challenge.
Immigration just been a problem
for all kind of administrations
to several administration.
Nobody’s been able to get
anything done. What about now?
>> Well, look, this happened 2
years ago under Trump and then
you’ve got this and the reason
I was was was for 3 reasons.
Mostly surrounding we just
enforce our laws. That was
really a stop to catch and
release programs so remain in
Mexico policy needs to come
back by the media plea
rescinded that we took office.
Some cooperation agreements
need to combat. Those are the
greatest coverage title
countries firing Those what
those agreements with those
countries as he took office.
Also pasta dishes.
So is he really saying what he
says. Oh, no, I don’t want
people cross the border
illegally by all of his actions
can sometimes people to come
across. You will never. And
this problem is that you keep
putting incentives in place for
people to this is simply bring
their kids across the border is
actually very simple. Problem
to fix it. Did get checks in
our press. All congressman, you
know, I love to have extra time