joining me right now is house minority
leader and house republican leader
kevin mccarthy leader mccarthy it's
great to see you this morning thanks so
much for being here
thanks for having me on the show again
maria so
what what is the deal with this 1.9
trillion dollar package
you uh were the first to tell us all
that it's only
nine percent covert related was this an
opportunity to jam in as much spending
as
your colleagues on the left could do
during a crisis
it's exactly that less than nine percent
goes to covid but if you're a
pelosi friend you're getting a lot of
favors in this think just for one moment
san francisco has a 650 million dollar
deficit the city but they're going to
get 92 percent of that deficit wiped
away because they're getting 600 million
dollars
they reward bad behavior they change the
structure of how
states get money so if you shut down or
if you
overspend on pensions you get more money
than those who stayed open
they reward people in the swamp if
you're a
federal employee you get a 21 000 more
dollars
but if you're in the private sector you
get nothing
this is really about favors to pelosi's
friends
it's not about covin and we have already
now
will have spent more than five trillion
dollars
if you put it in today's numbers the
world war ii we only spent over four
trillion dollars
it's a real concern that your viewers
understand this more than others
the amount of money going into the
system it really could cause inflation
in the future well i just spoke with
mark zandy from moody's and i know that
he uh is is is constantly
uh looking at the economy and its impact
and he said no no no you know i guess
if you could look hard enough maybe
you'll find something that's not covered
related
but he sat here just a few minutes ago
congressman and he said to me no no this
is all covent
so can you walk us through the specifics
that are
mind-boggling in terms of what's not
coveted uh to make it
real clear yes i think if you're
republican democrat or independent this
is what you care most about
what put people back to work back to
school and back to health
well if you're concerned about the
school's opening two-thirds of this
money doesn't even come
till 2023 so it has nothing to do with
schools
if you look at what they're doing for
states they're rewarding bad behavior
for states many of these states just as
you've shown have a higher revenue than
they had last year
if only less than nine percent goes to
the vaccines or kovitz or testing
that is what is needed and that's where
you find individuals go
then they plussed up in here now if
you're a state employee you get a 25
000 bonus they plus up in here where
illegals
get health care this is not in related
to what we need happening today it
doesn't put anybody back into school
it doesn't put anybody back to work and
it's less than nine percent dealing with
our health
so what are you going to do about it as
the leader of the republican party is
this how we're governing now
with no republican support at all there
was no republican support here
you've got policies that i know that
half the country
does not agree with you look at the
border crisis growing every day
border officials reporting more than one
hundred thousand migrant encounters in
february alone
28 higher from january 3 000 of those
include children under the age of 12.
congressman i know that you're going to
be traveling to texas on monday
you're taking about a dozen other
republican lawmakers to see this
firsthand
can you tell us more about the trip and
also about this issue of
you've got policies coming at you
whether it's border
spending higher taxes is there anything
you can do about it
yes we can and remember maria is a
five-seat majority for the democrats the
smallest majority in more than a hundred
years
and the bipartisan vote on this bill was
no so it's not just republicans opposed
to it
it is the bipartisan vote you understand
the border because you have traveled
there before
what we understand in a short amount of
time in this bite administration
biden has created a border crisis a
hundred thousand
people were caught trying to immigrate
across this border so how many got
through who are not
captured but the one thing you'd have to
remember a hundred thousand
put that in perspective a hundred
thousand is larger than
president biden's hometown of scranton
pennsylvania that was in one month
why has this all changed why has it
increased by 20 and 90 percent
of what's happening down there it's his
policies that have changed
when we people come for asylum but they
pass two or three other countries
what president trump was able to do have
him sit on the other side of the border
while you went through the court process
to see if you're able to stay
he is now president biden releasing him
into america
not checking him for covent he's taken
away the coveted restrictions for
people that's being held so now they're
closer together dispersing them across
the country thinking they're going to
show up in a short amount of time
allowing them to get into the work
process over those 10
million americans out of work they have
more people to compete against
for their work job going into the future
and think about this
the affordability is now what he's done
with xcel pipeline and what he's done on
the federal lands he's now increased our
gasoline price
i've watched every single day so those
who are struggling to try to get back to
school
back to work or even keep the resources
that they have
he has made it more difficult in a short
amount of time and refuses to
take any questions about it to the
american public or reporters
why is he doing this though congressman
i don't understand these decisions i
don't understand
allowing illegals in who may or may not
have covet
i don't understand canceling the xl
pipeline and in one swoop
killing 11 000 jobs i don't understand
the
massive amount of spending which likely
will be followed by a massive amount of
tax increases
who's driving this agenda well
as they say the most progressive they
ever had remember what just happened
this week
the socialist wing of the democratic
party just got elected to run the
democratic party in december
they've watched what's happening in
washington and they're mirroring it
across this nation
this is what we feared most this coveted
bill that is less than nine percent
cost every hard-working american
taxpayer more than five thousand dollars
and some americans will get fourteen
hundred we used to warn people about
emails that cause that type of damage
and now congress is passing those by the
direction of pelosi
and pelosi is rewarding san francisco i
don't think america wants to see less
than nine percent for covid but san
francisco to get 92 percent
of their deficit taken care of because
what does san francisco spend their
money on
if you're homeless in san francisco
they'll buy your alcohol
they'll buy your marijuana that's what
they're spending their money on
and we're using that as hard-working
taxpayers that's the real challenge we
should be focused on three things
back to work back to school and back to
health