Phil Kerpen is president of American Commitment, a free-market advocacy organization in Washington. He writes and testifies on federal spending, energy policy, health care prices, and taxes, and he was working alongside Jenny Beth Martin in the earliest days of the Tea Party movement.
Robert McNeily is Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action and co-host of The Jenny Beth Show. He anchors the back half of this episode while Jenny Beth joins a scheduled America First Policy Institute meeting.
Key topics:
- Declassified intelligence showing China obtained the voter files of 220 million Americans
- The FBI official who wrote that she was running a shadow government, and the analysts who deliberately massaged the President's Daily Brief
- More than 250,000 noncitizens found on American voter rolls by the Department of Homeland Security
- The SAVE America Act attached to Reconciliation 3.0, and the ten billion dollar grant fund meant to move the states
- How the SAVE America Act actually started, on a coalition call with Senator Mike Lee and Cleta Mitchell about Arizona's bifurcated ballot
- Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, and why gas is knocking on four dollars a gallon
- Ninety three billion dollars out the door at the Energy Department in the last administration's final seventy six days
- Maine Democrats coalescing around Troy Jackson against Senator Susan Collins
- The Democratic Socialists of America manifesto: abolish the Senate, abolish the Electoral College, put the Supreme Court under Congress
- Hospital price transparency, why fewer than half of hospitals comply, and why price caps backfire
- Food stamp fraud, work requirements, and the HHS finding on poverty
Timestamps:
00:00 — Cold open: someone inside our own government ran a shadow government
00:36 — China obtained the voter files of 220 million American voters
05:22 — Rogue bureaucrats buried the intelligence
06:34 — This makes me so angry: unelected officials do not outrank the elected President
09:46 — Homeland Security finds more than 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls
12:54 — What I am asking you to do: call 202-224-3121
13:47 — Panel: Phil Kerpen of American Commitment
14:11 — Robert McNeily, and the service members lost in Jordan
16:14 — Gas near four dollars: Phil Kerpen on Hormuz and the pump
19:59 — Honoring the fallen
21:57 — Ninety three billion dollars out the door at the Energy Department
26:51 — Maine Democrats coalesce around Troy Jackson
28:28 — The Democratic Socialists want to abolish the Senate
30:17 — Phil Kerpen: restoring the system versus destroying it
33:52 — The SAVE America Act rides Reconciliation 3.0
34:28 — The ten billion dollar offer to the states
36:56 — How the SAVE America Act actually started
42:54 — What happens if the Senate goes home in August
44:32 — Health care price transparency and who is not complying
47:15 — Why price caps hurt the patients they claim to help
50:11 — Food stamp fraud, work requirements, and the HHS study
52:26 — Thank you, Phil Kerpen
53:29 — The World Cup came to America
56:05 — Apollo 11 at fifty seven years
59:57 — Closing: keep the pressure on
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