and senator haggerty joins us now
senator hagerty i i gotta
i gotta give you uh uh an a-plus on this
because we love somebody who's willing
to fight against the odds but the odds
are against you
you have this handful of republican
senators
who for some reason uh don't see this as
a problem the fact that
more than half the bill is not paid for
against which
the bill's authors said so how do you
fight
members of your own party who say this
bill's okay well i certainly do see it
as a problem david and
the last thing i'm going to do is
accelerate the process and make it
easier for chuck schumer to shove this
through just so we can get to the 3.5
trillion
totally partisan tax and spending spree
that he's got in store for us
each of our each of my republican
colleagues going to have to make their
own decision
but i think what we've done is bought
ourselves some time
to actually dig in and understand what's
happening and allow the american public
to understand what's happening
you know i was sent to the senate by the
people of tennessee not to
make things more convenient for chuck
schumer to expedite things as he wants
to
i was sent there to protect the
taxpayers interest that's exactly what i
want to do here
well in standing on principle again that
that is a worthy fight you have backbone
and not many people in politics do
maybe it's because you're a first term
or you haven't been corrupted yet by the
institution
but even senator rand paul who's a
libertarian from way back his father was
a
great libertarian as well he said it's
time to wrap up the debate and and get
back home for the vacation i mean
when when you're up against rand paul
because you're standing on
on uh good libertarian principles it's
tough
well again i knew i would have a tough
job coming into the united states and i
saw the threat
coming toward america from the socialist
radical policies that the left are
putting out
i realize now it's going to be lonely
too but i'm here to represent the people
of tennessee and to look after their
best interest and that's precisely what
i intend to do
now besides the fact that the bill is
not paid for
and i always it bothered me that phrase
paid for because it's paid for
by us by taxpayers and we haven't signed
often
what exactly in the bill do you object
to
well if you look at the bill again this
initial infrastructure bill
it's been billed as infrastructure but
only about a quarter of it is what you
or i would call infrastructure david i'm
talking about roads bridges highways
things that actually have a return on
investment for taxpayers
a large portion of this is what others
call soft infrastructure but it's really
more government involvement more
distortion of the economy
and again that's what's driving this
into the deep deep red again we're
talking
over a quarter of a trillion dollars the
bill itself over 2 700 pages
a king james bible is 1300 pages just to
put it into perspective
this is crazy they just opened the
numbers up to us hours before chuck
schumer then tries to push to expedite
it
because he's got this 3.5 trillion
dollar package that's waiting on the
back end
again he's trying to shove us in that
direction i'm not going to do anything
to expedite his movement toward
the transformation of america that joe
biden has talked about so
how does explain to us how it kind of
greases the skids into those other
trillion dollar
spending plans well i think chuck
schumer would have enjoyed passing this
in the dark of night last night that was
the plan
that was that was the scheme and move
right into the 3.5 trillion dollar
package over the weekend and hope that
this is all
you know distorted by people's focus on
what's happening with governor cuomo or
mass mandates and restaurants in new
york city
that he could slip this through and in
the process transform america
and put the green new deal fully into
motion you know he's going to destroy
the fossil fuel industry
more death taxes more taxes on job
creators
you know more personal taxes are going
to kill capital investment in america
and they're going to shove more american
jobs overseas
that's where we're headed and someone
needs to make this clear
this gives us the opportunity to have
the conversation you are having right
now for your viewers
and i want to continue talking about
this well you only got 20 seconds but
what happens now
procedurally speaking with the
infrastructure bill we go back to
washington tomorrow
the the floor of the senate opens back
up at noon and
i'll see where we go from there see how
many of my colleagues have
have thought about this have dug into
what the congressional budget office
numbers have revealed to us
and see if we can make some movement
happen in a positive direction from our
side
what i don't want to see is chuck
schumer get a free pass
to move right in again in the dead of
night last night and then move right
into this 3.5 trillion dollar bill that
is so deeply concerning
i think to most of america and as they
hear more and more about it i think
we're going to see a much broader
resistance to what's about to happen
well you remind me a little bit of don
quixote but i hope
your battle unlike his is not a hopeless
battle i i hope that you do
uh you do get traction here i know a lot
of americans are pulling for you so stay
with a fight it's worth fighting for
senator it's about principal dave thank
you
absolutely senator hagerty