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Speaker 1: 7 0 6 55 care cd talk station happy friday e brian thomas always pleased to welcome the 55 care c morning show proudly representing ohio's eighth district it's congressman warren davidson congressman davidson welcome back and you know i i wouldn't know it but you are running for re-election uh uh and early voting begins tuesday correct.
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Speaker 2: Uh i hope a lot of other people know it brian but yeah you know i'm on the ballot this time love to have everyone vote for me and vote for all the good people. They're easier to identify. They get R's by their name.
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Speaker 3: That is correct.
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Speaker 2: Go out and vote for the people that are trying to save our country from the people that are working to destroy it.
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Speaker 1: Well, I only bring it up because you've had many occasions to mention your campaign and that you are running for re-election here on the 55KRC Morning Show. I just viewed it as a sign of confidence, although I'm not taking the role for granted, that you're not going to automatically get re-elected. Of course, people need to get out and vote for you, but you've got a solid, solid base of voters that support you in the 8th District, Congressman Davidson, and I think there's a reason for that.
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Speaker 3: It's because you're doing such a wonderful job.
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Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate your confidence and the support of a lot of folks, but look, there's a lot of new people. I mean, Hamilton County is now the biggest portion of the district, so this map kind of cuts things a little differently where the lines are. So, you know, places like Montgomery, Blue Ash, Amberley Village that weren't, they're currently in the 1st District, represented by Greg Lansman, and But those are drawn now in the 8th District. So I was out knocking doors this past week, and people didn't realize that their district lines had moved. So I think there are a lot of people that are going to go out on– whenever they vote, they'll get their ballot by mail or they'll go vote early or they'll go vote on Election Day. And they'll look at the ballot and go, wait, what's this? And so that's the big thing. On the east side of Hamilton County, we have a lot of that area now in the 8th District. So– Big shift, and hopefully people know, and I'd love to have their support.
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Speaker 1: And I've had quite a few listeners who are very disappointed that you're no longer their congressman after the change. So DavidsonForCongress.com. Get over there and help them out. Again, get out and vote on Tuesday and just get it over with and vote Republican, as Congressman Davidson suggested.
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Speaker 3: It's the only way to go.
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Speaker 1: Now, let us start with the Ohio August unemployment rate. On the heels of this great news that I read about the U.S. economy yesterday, Some revised numbers have gone up. Our GDP has gone up. The amount of tax dollars flowing into the federal and state coffers has gone up. Business has increased like 20% compared to last year.
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Speaker 3: There's spending. People are hiring.
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Speaker 1: I mean, with the exception of the price of gasoline, Congressman Davidson, everything seems to be going swimmingly, in large part swimmingly. So Trump presidency is paying off, and it's paying off here in Ohio with the lowest unemployment rate in Ohio's history ever.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of really good news out there in the economy, and there's a lot of folks working to make sure that doesn't get out. It's like I expect 51 intelligence agencies, former intelligence officers will come out any day now and say, oh, this is all some sort of Russian plot to say the economy is going fine. Look, they're expensive things. They haven't somehow magically gotten cheaper, but the rate of growth and the spending in the economy is looking strong. And the manufacturing sector in particular, I mean, that's been been humming. And a lot of that investment's happening right here in Ohio, southwest Ohio in particular. So there are plenty of signs of good life in the economy. And with the cost of gas, I mean, the Ohio legislature came in yesterday. Vivek Ramaswamy asked for it. They came in early. and they're going to have a tax holiday on gas prices through the end of this year. So that ought to show up on the pump this week, and people will feel it. I mean, $ 0. 40 a gallon, almost $ 30- something, I think, on gas, and plus $ 40 on diesel. So it'll be a big deal for people.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm sure AMIAC is going to take credit for it, because literally every article I read, and I saw four articles on the gas tax relief in Ohio, and every single one of them said, Amy Acton said it first, and Vivek Ramaswamy came out a couple hours later and also joined in the party to get rid of the gas tax for at least some measure of time.
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Speaker 3: So I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It just seems to me that neither maybe should get credit for it because currently the Republicans in Columbus under Governor Mike DeWine, I hate to give him any credit for it, they accomplished it before the election.
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Speaker 3: So bully for us. They finally did something that helps Ohioans.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, this is the controlled media. They'll go out there and run out the narrative. I mean, I had a town hall with, I don't know, 250, 300 people up in Dark County, a rural part of the district. And they were concerned about not just data centers, but high-powered lines. They have an eminent domain issue where high-powered power lines are coming through. And no one likes eminent domain, even the people that are using it. Certainly, people don't want something sort of force-fed to their backyard. And so people were concerned about it. They're concerned about the health effects of high frequency or high power power lines. So we introduced a bill following that to get a study. The last federal study of it was 99. And so we went on, did the research, said, hey, we'll share with you. Well, there's not a lot. There's a lot of private sector research on it. So let's get a federal study of it. And as I introduced the bill, the local press interviewed my opponent about the bill. They never even called me about the bill. So this is par for the course. It's called the CHARGE Act. So we're trying to make sure that we trust the science. Let's get the science out there published. But fair enough, when the federal government puts it out, you ought to rightly look at it with a little bit of skepticism and say, okay, what part of this is true?
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Speaker 1: Well, maybe AI will answer that question for us, Congressman Davidson.
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Speaker 2: People are turning to it in big measure, right? So the capabilities are amazing, but, you know, you're still the human fact. You look at things and, no, no, no, that's not correct. This is not correct. So it's still got a little ways to go. I will say when you look at Siri and just say talk to text, it makes a lot of errors. But when you look at some of these models like Clotter, you know, chat, GTP, X is Grok, it spits out some pretty impressive answers. So the capabilities dynamic, I mean, I think everybody that I know is working to you. How do I integrate this with what I already do to kind of keep up with, you know, the capabilities, the productivity is amazing. I did a financial model with a chat to you or a plod and, and, been 20 hours of working with this on financial modeling. I mean, it probably did the work that had a former staffer do about four months worth of work, and it spit out this multi-tab spreadsheet, and it's pretty accurate. I mean, we're fact-checking it against prior work, and I mean, it's an impressive tool.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I had a friend who did the exact same thing, Congressman Davidson, and it really was mind-blowing to hear him go through the process. You know, I just went over the to AI and I gave him all of the information about my small business. He's been, he opened his doors about a year and a half or two years ago and he was trying to do a business strategy. And I guess there are consultants, or at least I should probably use the word were consultants that you would pay to do this kind of analysis. And it probably would have cost a lot. He had this whole thing. It was like 20 plus pages churned out. He said it was absolutely amazing. Great suggestions, great ideas, all with the real numbers that came from his business. So the more information you give these programs to do this type of thing, the more accurate they are.
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Speaker 3: But it didn't take any time at all. And he's like, I've been using it. It's great. So all I see with that, though, is it's amazing.
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Speaker 1: It's wonderful. Obviously very beneficial. But who used to do that work before AI came along? And what are those people doing now for jobs? Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the concern. But, you know, productivity, maybe one of the best stories about productivity I heard is they went to the Panama Canal when they were building it. And they're like, you know, hey, why is everybody using shovels? Well, it's a jobs program and it's going to help everybody have more work. And why not use spoons?
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Speaker 3: You know, right. And it's a great point.
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Speaker 2: You use the technology that's available and you become better at that. And on balance, it does help. tend to grow. You remember, you know, all through history, there's like, oh, we're doomed. Well, not really. We keep getting higher quality of life. I mean, the Malthusians thought everyone was going to starve. And now look at ag. I mean, it's more productive than ever.
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Speaker 1: Well, we're going to bring Congressman Davidson back after the break to talk about the three bills that all Americans want that the Senate Democrats just blocked. They do not want to give anything by way of relief to us in the name of, well, not giving Donald Trump something he can grow about. More with Congressman Davidson at 715 right now, 55KRC, the talk station.
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Speaker 3: I get to make... KRC, the talk station.
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Speaker 1: 718, 55KRC, the talk station. Brian Thomas with Congressman Warren Davidson. Vote Davidson. Get out and vote. Tuesday, you can start early voting and why even bother waiting and vote Republican, please, dear God. Eric Conroy is going to join the program after 8 o'clock hour, 8.05. He, of course, is running against Greg Lansman. And good morning, Steve. Thank you for serving my country or our country militarily. And he is reminding folks, my friend Steve, who is angry or upset that you are no longer his congressman, but pointing out that Hamilton County is the west side anyway, half of which is now Eric Conroy potential territory. So you have a choice between Lansman and Conroy in Hamilton County. So vote appropriately. Senate Democrats, what is with Chuckie Schumer? There was a poll out. And I suppose if you just asked any random person who's not familiar with the issue and said, what do you think? Should lawmakers in Congress be banned from trading stocks on insider trading? I can't imagine a single human being say, well, they can do that.
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Speaker 3: No, they shouldn't.
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Speaker 1: Be banned because they have access to all the inside information and you and I would be criminally charged if we traded on insider information.
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Speaker 3: So yeah.
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Speaker 1: And according to a poll back from 2023, and I know how we feel about polls, 86% of Americans, both sides of the political spectrum said, right, they should be banned from trading stocks. So Had an opportunity to do that in the Senate yesterday, but Chuckie Schumer said no. Also, saying no to the SAVE Act. And there was one other issue I believe you wanted to chime in on. The data center issue about the power bill that Bernie Moreno was behind. What is the deal here? This is all about denying Trump what he could argue is a victory, but it would be a victory for all Americans?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, the Senate Democrats have put partisan advantage– over the interest of Americans, over the interest of Ohioans. They're doing that. Look, there are party line bills like the Save America Act, which is 80% polling with public on voter ID and only citizens vote. And look, they say, oh, that doesn't happen. Well, they're in the process of removing 50,000 non-citizens from the voter rolls in Arizona. And they're having to do that county by county because the state controlled by Democrats is isn't helping. So they're finding illegals on the ballot. And part of the reason is they don't have a good tool to detect it. So Save America does that. But when you call the votes, despite it being 80% with the public, it breaks on party lines in the House and Senate. So not all the bills. We have 700 bills that have passed the House that are laying in inventory over there in the Senate. Some of them are really important, like Save America. And we've got a recent one that passed 417-3. You think in the House, well, this isn't partisan. Even the Democrats are like, yeah, this is a common-sense bill. It's called the Ratepayer Protection Plan so that if you're putting in a high-demand thing like a data center that you take into account, is this going to raise the rates of other ratepayers? So average households, are their rates going to get jacked up because we put all this extra demand on the power without adding capacity? And pass 417 to 3 in the House. And it can't get past the 60-vote rule in the Senate. I think it had 57 votes because John Husted is the lead sponsor in the Senate. They wouldn't give John Husted a win because they want to help Sherry Brown. So it's all politics all the time, and Democrats, unfortunately, aren't getting hit for their obstruction. I mean there is a 60-vote rule in the Senate. There's been a lot of pressure on Senate Republicans to change it. I will say when Democrats have had the majority in the Senate, we've used it to block things that we thought were bad ideas. So they have their rules, but it's obstruction by Democrats. And again, these things sometimes in the House, like this Ratepayer Protection Act, it would make a difference for households. It isn't partisan in the least, but they still want to obstruct because they feel like, well, we want to keep the pressure on John Husted. We don't want We don't want to see them get a win in the homestretch.
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Speaker 1: No doubt about it. Anything they can do, that's what they're going to do. And, of course, the media is not going to do the conservative side of the ledger any favors in accurately reporting on this. Oh, by the way, the Senate denied you what you want in overwhelming numbers.
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Speaker 3: Crazy. Well, here's something that, well, honestly, I.
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Speaker 1: Keep trying to point people out what the realities of the Democrats are with this obvious DSA takeover. The gender mutilation thing is driving me crazy. It always had, but also the idea that men can play against women in sports. Biden just rescinded the Title IX rules under the Biden administration, and this is so important. And again, I go back to this. Does this have a political stripe, Congressman Davidson? I know it does for the Democrats, but what sane human being with a daughter would want them to have to face competing with a larger, stronger, in most all cases, man? That is insane from a position. I don't get why this is traction for some Democrats or why they, you know, are angry about the rescission of the Biden era Title IX rules.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, they are trying to keep the emphasis off of that in the election cycle when the votes are called. when the votes are called, it becomes partisan. Now in Southwest Ohio, it's not that partisan. We pulled it a couple of years ago. And I think 86% agree that men shouldn't compete against women in sports. There's a whole reason we created women's sports, you know? So this is just the reality.
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Speaker 3: Isn't that the point of title nine?
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Speaker 2: That look track, track and field sports, cross country. And my daughter was a runner. She ran in college. My son was on varsity and, but he wasn't as, you know, so he's technically slightly faster than her, but you know, he was a kind of an average high school runner. She went to state, you know, I mean, there's a difference physiologically. You have categories for a reason. And so, you know, women aren't going to get a fair shake, uh, if men are blended into the sports and okay, this is a little different. They're doing hormones or doing other things. People are like, look, sort that out outside of the arena. And, uh, This is the law in Ohio, and it's the practice right now in the country because of executive orders from the administration. I mean, Cincinnati Children's Gender Clinic is now kind of closed, sort of. I think it's embedded in everything else, but it's a different issue. So fundamentally, why do people keep talking about this? Because they see it as a basic fairness thing. It is. But when the politics come in, Democrats consistently vote on this. And The agenda on that, look, when MASH was on, I mean, they were pointing this out to say, look, this guy has a mental disorder, right? So he was trying to get kicked out of the army so he wouldn't have to be in the Korean War.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, Klinger. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Klinger, right? So this is a lot of people too young to remember this. story, but this is a mainstream TV because they know, yeah, everybody knows that's a guy wearing a dress. And the whole point was something's off. And people just blew past it because they know, look, this is all a shtick for this guy. But the reality is a lot of people do start to believe for whatever reason, all right, I should be a man or I should be a woman and cross it all up. Great. Sort that out outside of the arena. And I think that's broadly public, you know, public mindset until you vote. But that's the tip of the iceberg on the Democrat socialist agenda. I mean, look, the open border isn't open anymore because we have a president that is securing it, and we have a Congress that has funded a secure border. The minute Democrats had a chance to obstruct in the Senate, they blocked funding for ICE and Border Patrol. And the only way that we were able to contain the problem is because in 2025, we had passed a big, beautiful bill that provided a surge of funding to Homeland Security so they could do an increased level of activity. So they were draining that cash. We didn't provide the funding so you could maintain current operations. We provided it for the surge. And they were draining that. It took nine months to fix this issue because Democrats, particularly in the Senate, were obstructing on funding ICE and Border Patrol. So they want to do this to all layers. I mean, Democrat socialists literally want to get rid of the Senate because of their agenda. They want to pack the Supreme Court. Mondami, the mayor of New York, is saying, hey, I got elected on a Democrat socialist platform. I will govern with a Democrat socialist platform. So this is who is increasingly controlling the Democrat Party. So no matter how disappointed you are in things that haven't gotten done yet, You can't turn the country over to people that are actively working to undermine our country. And look, ground you won't defend, you can't hold. So you got to go out there and hold ground and then at least pick it back up. I think we're going to have a chance if we can hold our majorities to really build momentum here. And you're going to see the economy continue to grow. You're going to see an increased focus on America first on a lot of levels. And I'm excited about it.
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Speaker 1: Well, and the Trump administration and Congressman Davidson, part of it's trying to find fraud, waste, and abuse and cut funding for things like, oh, illegals, foreign nationals, and DEI programs. We're going to bring Congressman Davidson back to talk about $ 810 million in Office of Management budget rescissions thanks to the Trump administration, at least looking out for our bottom line to some degree.
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Speaker 3: 728-55-KRC.
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Speaker 1: The Talk Station. Brian Thomas with Congressman Warren Davidson. Appreciate his willingness to talk with my listening audience and me. About these important issues. And real quick, Congressman Davidson, one of the listeners just chimed in to me via instant message. I want to know if you would just say a word in favor of Eric Conroy, who's running against Greg Lansman. That race is a lot more challenging than your race currently. So do you have some thoughts or comments from our listening audience about the importance of that race?
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Speaker 2: Well, look, this is the thing. You know, we need reinforcements. Why are we not going to get certain things done that could get done? Well, a big part's the Senate. So we've got to hold that and make sure Sherrod Brown stays fired and elect John Husted. But part of the reason my district's far more competitive is to make sure that Greg Lansman's district's more competitive. And we have a chance to elect a great American, Eric Conroy, you know, Grew up on the West Side, went to Elder High School, went to the Air Force Academy, did well in the Air Force, got out, worked for the CIA for a while, got into the private sector, had success there. Wants to come back home and serve his country in a different way. I think he'll be a great guy to serve with. He's got a lot of support, and I hope everyone will join the momentum and get Eric Conroy over the finish line. Send me one more ally there so we can get more things done.
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Speaker 3: No doubt about it.
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Speaker 1: In spite of the fact that Democrats hate finding fraud, waste, and abuse because I think somehow, in some way, I think every nongovernmental organization gets a handout on the taxpayer dollars, ends up funneling some of that money back to the people who handed it to them, the Democrats. But nonetheless, Donald Trump and the administration continues to forge ahead and, well, cut where cuts can be made, including rescissions from the Office of Management and Budget under the Impoundment Control Act. Let my listeners know about this one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the Impoundment Control Act creates consequences if you misuse federal money. If you spend money that you're not supposed to, you're supposed to get in trouble. So I was hoping that we could use that to kind of pull back the $ 2 billion they gave to a nonprofit Stacey Abrams created, and they were trying to shovel gold bars off the Titanic. In their own words, in the wake of the 2024 election, they were trying to get the cash out. One of the people they got to cash out to was Stacey Abrams, $ 2 billion. Talk about fraud, waste, and abuse. I mean, this is a nonprofit that hadn't done a dime worth of business until they got $ 2 billion shoved at them. So what does the Impoundment Control Act do? Well, it lets the government not cut the check. So the Office of Management and Budget, that's the wonky office that cuts the checks, disperses the money to the other agencies. They've looked at it and said, look, we are We're looking at a situation where some of these grants are just going to illegal immigration. They're funding something that we're trying to shut down. It's working at cross purposes. We're not going to make the grants that we're going to facilitate illegal immigration. We're not going to make the grants that are funding transgender activities that we are shutting down with our health care. We are not going to make the grants that are funding DEI initiatives that we just shut down. And all that together adds up to, I think, $ 810 million. But it's a start, right? So it's not going to balance the budget right away, but it is directionally the right way. It's authorized by the Amendment Control Act. And Democrats and, frankly, some Republicans are like, wait, you can't do that. You can't not spend the money. You have to spend all the money. And so that's what they're trying to do is rein it in, and not just on willy-nilly things, but things that are clearly not in the American interest.
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Speaker 1: Now, in the American interest, like so many of the things that Doge revealed right when it started doing an analysis under the USAID program, which the Democrats pulled their hair out and screamed and wailed and gnashed teeth because all these crazy projects that we found out were being funded, not to the interest of the American people, you know, shrimp on treadmill or transgender prostitutes in China. I mean, the list is just absolutely mind boggling. And when that's brought to the attention of the American public, I mean, sane people react and say... First off, I can't believe we were funding that in the first place. What idiot approved my taxpayer labor going to any of those given projects? But there's so much fraud, waste, and abuse and so much failure of oversight. So you can say all day long and make a great argument for one of these programs, but if no one like an inspector general is looking where the money is spent and who got their hands on it and whether they even accomplished the goal that they were given the money to accomplish... That isn't being done. So all of this is just ripe for fraud, waste and abuse, which it's being confirmed. There was a lot of fraud, waste and abuse out in these programs. That's good. We get rid of the fraud, waste and abuse. But why are the Democrats so upset about that, Congressman Davidson? Can I ask that question sort of in a direct way? What's the problem with that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, here's why they were so mad about Doge is Doge was saying, wait, wait, let's follow the money. We don't have a good enough accounting system to follow the money. So Doge came in and followed your money, tax dollars, who we're paying what, right? And they're mad that you're finding it because, wait, we're paying how much to who? And your leering centers were funding leering centers. Last week, we talked about people that were fraudulently enrolled in Obamacare. Why would states not crack down on people fraudulently enrolled in Obamacare? Well, they get nine federal dollars for every dollar they spend. So in California, why would they want to stop people from fraudulently enrolling in Obamacare when for every state dollar they put in, they get nine federal dollars? So as much as 50 percent of the Obamacare dollars that we're putting out there, no wonder health care spending is going through the roof because you've got more dollars flowing into it everywhere. So when you have more dollars going at the same amount of stuff, what happens? The price goes up. And this is exactly what Obamacare has done. And they say the remedy is, well, let the government take over the whole thing. Well, no. They would still have federal dollars paying for all of it and private people benefiting from it. And this is exactly why the Democrats want their non-government organizations are fully funded by the government in a lot of cases. And it redistributes the wealth to these organizations. And then they spend the money throwing it back into their campaign money. We found this with ActBlue where they're getting– Money, and they're falsely attributing it to sweet little old ladies, and they go out and interview them, and they're like, well, good heavens, no, I don't have $ 60, 000 to give to anybody, let alone political candidates. Well, it says right here on the Federal Election Commission report that you gave $ 61, 000 over the past X years. No, I didn't do that.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: Okay, how is that happening? They're laundering the money through all these things that they're doing, and Doge was finding all that. So they are still putting this to use today. Doge is still in operation. We're not doing as much with the productivity side of that as I would like to see, but this rescissions is one component. of doing the same kinds of things of shutting down fraud, waste, and abuse. The vice president's leading a task force on this. We treated an extra office in the Department of Justice just to find and prosecute the people committing these fraudulent activities. Including in Ohio, you have a bunch of Medicaid fraud, in Columbus in particular, shutting those kinds of things down and prosecuting people. When is somebody going to jail? Soon. They've made arrests in a lot of these fraud cases. And the trials are starting to get underway.
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Speaker 1: It does take time. That's why I've always told my listening audience, you know, they're going to find it. You just got to wait for it. It's evidence gathering. It's enough, you know, gathering of evidence. If you're going to do a criminal prosecution to prove guilty on a reasonable doubt, putting it all together, filing the charges, maybe doing indictments. It's a long process, but at least this administration is doing it. Because if you look backward, I don't think any administration at any time in our country's history has done a good enough job to monitor where our taxpayer dollars are being spent.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I mean that's something that should be unifying. I think for a lot of the public it is. And the good thing is that the illicit finance, when you're ripping off the regular public, and this is the committee I chair, the subcommittee for national security and illicit finance, if you're going after little old ladies, scamming them in scam centers, there's no partisanship there. So it's great to have something that we can work on, that we agree on. We've had bipartisan legislation that's passed this Congress that's helping– bolster the scam detection operations. They just recently shut down one with $ 17 billion. They're scamming people out at $ 10, 000, $ 15, 000, $ 25, 000 at a time, but it's adding up to billions of dollars. A lot of what's behind it are basically cartels. Sadly, some of it is also they're trafficking people, sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and other ways. They're earning their freedom by scamming enough people. And then they'll say it gives them at least some level of hope to get out of the bad circumstance they're in. Sick stuff. So at least the level of depravity isn't to where they're willing to let you be formally ripped off by others, but they're all in when it comes to letting the government conspire to rip you off with your tax dollars. So it's a little bit inconsistent there by my Democrat colleagues.
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Speaker 1: Well, if you just have a question mark puzzling over how they could be against this, somebody's getting the money. And I think that's a clear indicator that, you know what? Well, it's a funding source for us. We won't admit it out loud, but what other possible reason could they be for against finding fraud and abuse in American taxpayer dollar expenses.
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Speaker 3: We all work for it.
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Speaker 1: We all pay regardless of political stripe into the pot, and they have an obligation to mind it. Unless, of course, it's taking away something that is extraordinarily valuable to their lifeline, and I think that's exactly where we land on this, Congressman Davidson.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I keep going back to Act Blue. I mean, that's the conduit for a lot of this. But, you know, Stacey Abrams is one of the tells. Like, seriously, why would you give This nonprofit of all the things, $ 2 billion. They've done nothing. Well, because Stacey Abrams was carrying a lot of water for the Democrat team. And it's all going to go back out into community organizers. I guess this is what people wonder when Barack Obama was first running. What is a community organizer? What does that qualify you to do? Well, you're seeing it. That's what it qualifies you to do.
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Speaker 1: Those worthless college degrees have to turn into something, Congressman Davidson. I appreciate you coming on the program.
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Speaker 3: Get out and vote.
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Speaker 1: You can start on Tuesday. Vote, of course, for Congressman Davidson. And, of course, also vote for Eric Conroy, who's going to join the program after the top of the hour news. Congressman Davidson, thanks again. I appreciate this. And I look forward to having you back on the show real soon and wish you the best of luck.
Speaker 1: 7 0 6 55 care cd talk station happy friday e brian thomas always pleased to welcome the 55 care c morning show proudly representing ohio's eighth district it's congressman warren davidson congressman davidson welcome back and you know i i wouldn't know it but you are running for re-election uh uh and early voting begins tuesday correct.
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Speaker 2: Uh i hope a lot of other people know it brian but yeah you know i'm on the ballot this time love to have everyone vote for me and vote for all the good people. They're easier to identify. They get R's by their name.
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Speaker 3: That is correct.
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Speaker 2: Go out and vote for the people that are trying to save our country from the people that are working to destroy it.
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Speaker 1: Well, I only bring it up because you've had many occasions to mention your campaign and that you are running for re-election here on the 55KRC Morning Show. I just viewed it as a sign of confidence, although I'm not taking the role for granted, that you're not going to automatically get re-elected. Of course, people need to get out and vote for you, but you've got a solid, solid base of voters that support you in the 8th District, Congressman Davidson, and I think there's a reason for that.
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Speaker 3: It's because you're doing such a wonderful job.
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Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate your confidence and the support of a lot of folks, but look, there's a lot of new people. I mean, Hamilton County is now the biggest portion of the district, so this map kind of cuts things a little differently where the lines are. So, you know, places like Montgomery, Blue Ash, Amberley Village that weren't, they're currently in the 1st District, represented by Greg Lansman, and But those are drawn now in the 8th District. So I was out knocking doors this past week, and people didn't realize that their district lines had moved. So I think there are a lot of people that are going to go out on– whenever they vote, they'll get their ballot by mail or they'll go vote early or they'll go vote on Election Day. And they'll look at the ballot and go, wait, what's this? And so that's the big thing. On the east side of Hamilton County, we have a lot of that area now in the 8th District. So– Big shift, and hopefully people know, and I'd love to have their support.
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Speaker 1: And I've had quite a few listeners who are very disappointed that you're no longer their congressman after the change. So DavidsonForCongress.com. Get over there and help them out. Again, get out and vote on Tuesday and just get it over with and vote Republican, as Congressman Davidson suggested.
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Speaker 3: It's the only way to go.
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Speaker 1: Now, let us start with the Ohio August unemployment rate. On the heels of this great news that I read about the U.S. economy yesterday, Some revised numbers have gone up. Our GDP has gone up. The amount of tax dollars flowing into the federal and state coffers has gone up. Business has increased like 20% compared to last year.
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Speaker 3: There's spending. People are hiring.
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Speaker 1: I mean, with the exception of the price of gasoline, Congressman Davidson, everything seems to be going swimmingly, in large part swimmingly. So Trump presidency is paying off, and it's paying off here in Ohio with the lowest unemployment rate in Ohio's history ever.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of really good news out there in the economy, and there's a lot of folks working to make sure that doesn't get out. It's like I expect 51 intelligence agencies, former intelligence officers will come out any day now and say, oh, this is all some sort of Russian plot to say the economy is going fine. Look, they're expensive things. They haven't somehow magically gotten cheaper, but the rate of growth and the spending in the economy is looking strong. And the manufacturing sector in particular, I mean, that's been been humming. And a lot of that investment's happening right here in Ohio, southwest Ohio in particular. So there are plenty of signs of good life in the economy. And with the cost of gas, I mean, the Ohio legislature came in yesterday. Vivek Ramaswamy asked for it. They came in early. and they're going to have a tax holiday on gas prices through the end of this year. So that ought to show up on the pump this week, and people will feel it. I mean, $ 0. 40 a gallon, almost $ 30- something, I think, on gas, and plus $ 40 on diesel. So it'll be a big deal for people.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm sure AMIAC is going to take credit for it, because literally every article I read, and I saw four articles on the gas tax relief in Ohio, and every single one of them said, Amy Acton said it first, and Vivek Ramaswamy came out a couple hours later and also joined in the party to get rid of the gas tax for at least some measure of time.
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Speaker 3: So I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It just seems to me that neither maybe should get credit for it because currently the Republicans in Columbus under Governor Mike DeWine, I hate to give him any credit for it, they accomplished it before the election.
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Speaker 3: So bully for us. They finally did something that helps Ohioans.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, this is the controlled media. They'll go out there and run out the narrative. I mean, I had a town hall with, I don't know, 250, 300 people up in Dark County, a rural part of the district. And they were concerned about not just data centers, but high-powered lines. They have an eminent domain issue where high-powered power lines are coming through. And no one likes eminent domain, even the people that are using it. Certainly, people don't want something sort of force-fed to their backyard. And so people were concerned about it. They're concerned about the health effects of high frequency or high power power lines. So we introduced a bill following that to get a study. The last federal study of it was 99. And so we went on, did the research, said, hey, we'll share with you. Well, there's not a lot. There's a lot of private sector research on it. So let's get a federal study of it. And as I introduced the bill, the local press interviewed my opponent about the bill. They never even called me about the bill. So this is par for the course. It's called the CHARGE Act. So we're trying to make sure that we trust the science. Let's get the science out there published. But fair enough, when the federal government puts it out, you ought to rightly look at it with a little bit of skepticism and say, okay, what part of this is true?
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Speaker 1: Well, maybe AI will answer that question for us, Congressman Davidson.
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Speaker 2: People are turning to it in big measure, right? So the capabilities are amazing, but, you know, you're still the human fact. You look at things and, no, no, no, that's not correct. This is not correct. So it's still got a little ways to go. I will say when you look at Siri and just say talk to text, it makes a lot of errors. But when you look at some of these models like Clotter, you know, chat, GTP, X is Grok, it spits out some pretty impressive answers. So the capabilities dynamic, I mean, I think everybody that I know is working to you. How do I integrate this with what I already do to kind of keep up with, you know, the capabilities, the productivity is amazing. I did a financial model with a chat to you or a plod and, and, been 20 hours of working with this on financial modeling. I mean, it probably did the work that had a former staffer do about four months worth of work, and it spit out this multi-tab spreadsheet, and it's pretty accurate. I mean, we're fact-checking it against prior work, and I mean, it's an impressive tool.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I had a friend who did the exact same thing, Congressman Davidson, and it really was mind-blowing to hear him go through the process. You know, I just went over the to AI and I gave him all of the information about my small business. He's been, he opened his doors about a year and a half or two years ago and he was trying to do a business strategy. And I guess there are consultants, or at least I should probably use the word were consultants that you would pay to do this kind of analysis. And it probably would have cost a lot. He had this whole thing. It was like 20 plus pages churned out. He said it was absolutely amazing. Great suggestions, great ideas, all with the real numbers that came from his business. So the more information you give these programs to do this type of thing, the more accurate they are.
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Speaker 3: But it didn't take any time at all. And he's like, I've been using it. It's great. So all I see with that, though, is it's amazing.
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Speaker 1: It's wonderful. Obviously very beneficial. But who used to do that work before AI came along? And what are those people doing now for jobs? Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the concern. But, you know, productivity, maybe one of the best stories about productivity I heard is they went to the Panama Canal when they were building it. And they're like, you know, hey, why is everybody using shovels? Well, it's a jobs program and it's going to help everybody have more work. And why not use spoons?
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Speaker 3: You know, right. And it's a great point.
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Speaker 2: You use the technology that's available and you become better at that. And on balance, it does help. tend to grow. You remember, you know, all through history, there's like, oh, we're doomed. Well, not really. We keep getting higher quality of life. I mean, the Malthusians thought everyone was going to starve. And now look at ag. I mean, it's more productive than ever.
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Speaker 1: Well, we're going to bring Congressman Davidson back after the break to talk about the three bills that all Americans want that the Senate Democrats just blocked. They do not want to give anything by way of relief to us in the name of, well, not giving Donald Trump something he can grow about. More with Congressman Davidson at 715 right now, 55KRC, the talk station.
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Speaker 3: I get to make... KRC, the talk station.
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Speaker 1: 718, 55KRC, the talk station. Brian Thomas with Congressman Warren Davidson. Vote Davidson. Get out and vote. Tuesday, you can start early voting and why even bother waiting and vote Republican, please, dear God. Eric Conroy is going to join the program after 8 o'clock hour, 8.05. He, of course, is running against Greg Lansman. And good morning, Steve. Thank you for serving my country or our country militarily. And he is reminding folks, my friend Steve, who is angry or upset that you are no longer his congressman, but pointing out that Hamilton County is the west side anyway, half of which is now Eric Conroy potential territory. So you have a choice between Lansman and Conroy in Hamilton County. So vote appropriately. Senate Democrats, what is with Chuckie Schumer? There was a poll out. And I suppose if you just asked any random person who's not familiar with the issue and said, what do you think? Should lawmakers in Congress be banned from trading stocks on insider trading? I can't imagine a single human being say, well, they can do that.
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Speaker 3: No, they shouldn't.
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Speaker 1: Be banned because they have access to all the inside information and you and I would be criminally charged if we traded on insider information.
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Speaker 3: So yeah.
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Speaker 1: And according to a poll back from 2023, and I know how we feel about polls, 86% of Americans, both sides of the political spectrum said, right, they should be banned from trading stocks. So Had an opportunity to do that in the Senate yesterday, but Chuckie Schumer said no. Also, saying no to the SAVE Act. And there was one other issue I believe you wanted to chime in on. The data center issue about the power bill that Bernie Moreno was behind. What is the deal here? This is all about denying Trump what he could argue is a victory, but it would be a victory for all Americans?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, the Senate Democrats have put partisan advantage– over the interest of Americans, over the interest of Ohioans. They're doing that. Look, there are party line bills like the Save America Act, which is 80% polling with public on voter ID and only citizens vote. And look, they say, oh, that doesn't happen. Well, they're in the process of removing 50,000 non-citizens from the voter rolls in Arizona. And they're having to do that county by county because the state controlled by Democrats is isn't helping. So they're finding illegals on the ballot. And part of the reason is they don't have a good tool to detect it. So Save America does that. But when you call the votes, despite it being 80% with the public, it breaks on party lines in the House and Senate. So not all the bills. We have 700 bills that have passed the House that are laying in inventory over there in the Senate. Some of them are really important, like Save America. And we've got a recent one that passed 417-3. You think in the House, well, this isn't partisan. Even the Democrats are like, yeah, this is a common-sense bill. It's called the Ratepayer Protection Plan so that if you're putting in a high-demand thing like a data center that you take into account, is this going to raise the rates of other ratepayers? So average households, are their rates going to get jacked up because we put all this extra demand on the power without adding capacity? And pass 417 to 3 in the House. And it can't get past the 60-vote rule in the Senate. I think it had 57 votes because John Husted is the lead sponsor in the Senate. They wouldn't give John Husted a win because they want to help Sherry Brown. So it's all politics all the time, and Democrats, unfortunately, aren't getting hit for their obstruction. I mean there is a 60-vote rule in the Senate. There's been a lot of pressure on Senate Republicans to change it. I will say when Democrats have had the majority in the Senate, we've used it to block things that we thought were bad ideas. So they have their rules, but it's obstruction by Democrats. And again, these things sometimes in the House, like this Ratepayer Protection Act, it would make a difference for households. It isn't partisan in the least, but they still want to obstruct because they feel like, well, we want to keep the pressure on John Husted. We don't want We don't want to see them get a win in the homestretch.
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Speaker 1: No doubt about it. Anything they can do, that's what they're going to do. And, of course, the media is not going to do the conservative side of the ledger any favors in accurately reporting on this. Oh, by the way, the Senate denied you what you want in overwhelming numbers.
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Speaker 3: Crazy. Well, here's something that, well, honestly, I.
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Speaker 1: Keep trying to point people out what the realities of the Democrats are with this obvious DSA takeover. The gender mutilation thing is driving me crazy. It always had, but also the idea that men can play against women in sports. Biden just rescinded the Title IX rules under the Biden administration, and this is so important. And again, I go back to this. Does this have a political stripe, Congressman Davidson? I know it does for the Democrats, but what sane human being with a daughter would want them to have to face competing with a larger, stronger, in most all cases, man? That is insane from a position. I don't get why this is traction for some Democrats or why they, you know, are angry about the rescission of the Biden era Title IX rules.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, they are trying to keep the emphasis off of that in the election cycle when the votes are called. when the votes are called, it becomes partisan. Now in Southwest Ohio, it's not that partisan. We pulled it a couple of years ago. And I think 86% agree that men shouldn't compete against women in sports. There's a whole reason we created women's sports, you know? So this is just the reality.
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Speaker 3: Isn't that the point of title nine?
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Speaker 2: That look track, track and field sports, cross country. And my daughter was a runner. She ran in college. My son was on varsity and, but he wasn't as, you know, so he's technically slightly faster than her, but you know, he was a kind of an average high school runner. She went to state, you know, I mean, there's a difference physiologically. You have categories for a reason. And so, you know, women aren't going to get a fair shake, uh, if men are blended into the sports and okay, this is a little different. They're doing hormones or doing other things. People are like, look, sort that out outside of the arena. And, uh, This is the law in Ohio, and it's the practice right now in the country because of executive orders from the administration. I mean, Cincinnati Children's Gender Clinic is now kind of closed, sort of. I think it's embedded in everything else, but it's a different issue. So fundamentally, why do people keep talking about this? Because they see it as a basic fairness thing. It is. But when the politics come in, Democrats consistently vote on this. And The agenda on that, look, when MASH was on, I mean, they were pointing this out to say, look, this guy has a mental disorder, right? So he was trying to get kicked out of the army so he wouldn't have to be in the Korean War.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, Klinger. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Klinger, right? So this is a lot of people too young to remember this. story, but this is a mainstream TV because they know, yeah, everybody knows that's a guy wearing a dress. And the whole point was something's off. And people just blew past it because they know, look, this is all a shtick for this guy. But the reality is a lot of people do start to believe for whatever reason, all right, I should be a man or I should be a woman and cross it all up. Great. Sort that out outside of the arena. And I think that's broadly public, you know, public mindset until you vote. But that's the tip of the iceberg on the Democrat socialist agenda. I mean, look, the open border isn't open anymore because we have a president that is securing it, and we have a Congress that has funded a secure border. The minute Democrats had a chance to obstruct in the Senate, they blocked funding for ICE and Border Patrol. And the only way that we were able to contain the problem is because in 2025, we had passed a big, beautiful bill that provided a surge of funding to Homeland Security so they could do an increased level of activity. So they were draining that cash. We didn't provide the funding so you could maintain current operations. We provided it for the surge. And they were draining that. It took nine months to fix this issue because Democrats, particularly in the Senate, were obstructing on funding ICE and Border Patrol. So they want to do this to all layers. I mean, Democrat socialists literally want to get rid of the Senate because of their agenda. They want to pack the Supreme Court. Mondami, the mayor of New York, is saying, hey, I got elected on a Democrat socialist platform. I will govern with a Democrat socialist platform. So this is who is increasingly controlling the Democrat Party. So no matter how disappointed you are in things that haven't gotten done yet, You can't turn the country over to people that are actively working to undermine our country. And look, ground you won't defend, you can't hold. So you got to go out there and hold ground and then at least pick it back up. I think we're going to have a chance if we can hold our majorities to really build momentum here. And you're going to see the economy continue to grow. You're going to see an increased focus on America first on a lot of levels. And I'm excited about it.
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Speaker 1: Well, and the Trump administration and Congressman Davidson, part of it's trying to find fraud, waste, and abuse and cut funding for things like, oh, illegals, foreign nationals, and DEI programs. We're going to bring Congressman Davidson back to talk about $ 810 million in Office of Management budget rescissions thanks to the Trump administration, at least looking out for our bottom line to some degree.
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Speaker 3: 728-55-KRC.
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Speaker 1: The Talk Station. Brian Thomas with Congressman Warren Davidson. Appreciate his willingness to talk with my listening audience and me. About these important issues. And real quick, Congressman Davidson, one of the listeners just chimed in to me via instant message. I want to know if you would just say a word in favor of Eric Conroy, who's running against Greg Lansman. That race is a lot more challenging than your race currently. So do you have some thoughts or comments from our listening audience about the importance of that race?
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Speaker 2: Well, look, this is the thing. You know, we need reinforcements. Why are we not going to get certain things done that could get done? Well, a big part's the Senate. So we've got to hold that and make sure Sherrod Brown stays fired and elect John Husted. But part of the reason my district's far more competitive is to make sure that Greg Lansman's district's more competitive. And we have a chance to elect a great American, Eric Conroy, you know, Grew up on the West Side, went to Elder High School, went to the Air Force Academy, did well in the Air Force, got out, worked for the CIA for a while, got into the private sector, had success there. Wants to come back home and serve his country in a different way. I think he'll be a great guy to serve with. He's got a lot of support, and I hope everyone will join the momentum and get Eric Conroy over the finish line. Send me one more ally there so we can get more things done.
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Speaker 3: No doubt about it.
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Speaker 1: In spite of the fact that Democrats hate finding fraud, waste, and abuse because I think somehow, in some way, I think every nongovernmental organization gets a handout on the taxpayer dollars, ends up funneling some of that money back to the people who handed it to them, the Democrats. But nonetheless, Donald Trump and the administration continues to forge ahead and, well, cut where cuts can be made, including rescissions from the Office of Management and Budget under the Impoundment Control Act. Let my listeners know about this one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the Impoundment Control Act creates consequences if you misuse federal money. If you spend money that you're not supposed to, you're supposed to get in trouble. So I was hoping that we could use that to kind of pull back the $ 2 billion they gave to a nonprofit Stacey Abrams created, and they were trying to shovel gold bars off the Titanic. In their own words, in the wake of the 2024 election, they were trying to get the cash out. One of the people they got to cash out to was Stacey Abrams, $ 2 billion. Talk about fraud, waste, and abuse. I mean, this is a nonprofit that hadn't done a dime worth of business until they got $ 2 billion shoved at them. So what does the Impoundment Control Act do? Well, it lets the government not cut the check. So the Office of Management and Budget, that's the wonky office that cuts the checks, disperses the money to the other agencies. They've looked at it and said, look, we are We're looking at a situation where some of these grants are just going to illegal immigration. They're funding something that we're trying to shut down. It's working at cross purposes. We're not going to make the grants that we're going to facilitate illegal immigration. We're not going to make the grants that are funding transgender activities that we are shutting down with our health care. We are not going to make the grants that are funding DEI initiatives that we just shut down. And all that together adds up to, I think, $ 810 million. But it's a start, right? So it's not going to balance the budget right away, but it is directionally the right way. It's authorized by the Amendment Control Act. And Democrats and, frankly, some Republicans are like, wait, you can't do that. You can't not spend the money. You have to spend all the money. And so that's what they're trying to do is rein it in, and not just on willy-nilly things, but things that are clearly not in the American interest.
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Speaker 1: Now, in the American interest, like so many of the things that Doge revealed right when it started doing an analysis under the USAID program, which the Democrats pulled their hair out and screamed and wailed and gnashed teeth because all these crazy projects that we found out were being funded, not to the interest of the American people, you know, shrimp on treadmill or transgender prostitutes in China. I mean, the list is just absolutely mind boggling. And when that's brought to the attention of the American public, I mean, sane people react and say... First off, I can't believe we were funding that in the first place. What idiot approved my taxpayer labor going to any of those given projects? But there's so much fraud, waste, and abuse and so much failure of oversight. So you can say all day long and make a great argument for one of these programs, but if no one like an inspector general is looking where the money is spent and who got their hands on it and whether they even accomplished the goal that they were given the money to accomplish... That isn't being done. So all of this is just ripe for fraud, waste and abuse, which it's being confirmed. There was a lot of fraud, waste and abuse out in these programs. That's good. We get rid of the fraud, waste and abuse. But why are the Democrats so upset about that, Congressman Davidson? Can I ask that question sort of in a direct way? What's the problem with that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, here's why they were so mad about Doge is Doge was saying, wait, wait, let's follow the money. We don't have a good enough accounting system to follow the money. So Doge came in and followed your money, tax dollars, who we're paying what, right? And they're mad that you're finding it because, wait, we're paying how much to who? And your leering centers were funding leering centers. Last week, we talked about people that were fraudulently enrolled in Obamacare. Why would states not crack down on people fraudulently enrolled in Obamacare? Well, they get nine federal dollars for every dollar they spend. So in California, why would they want to stop people from fraudulently enrolling in Obamacare when for every state dollar they put in, they get nine federal dollars? So as much as 50 percent of the Obamacare dollars that we're putting out there, no wonder health care spending is going through the roof because you've got more dollars flowing into it everywhere. So when you have more dollars going at the same amount of stuff, what happens? The price goes up. And this is exactly what Obamacare has done. And they say the remedy is, well, let the government take over the whole thing. Well, no. They would still have federal dollars paying for all of it and private people benefiting from it. And this is exactly why the Democrats want their non-government organizations are fully funded by the government in a lot of cases. And it redistributes the wealth to these organizations. And then they spend the money throwing it back into their campaign money. We found this with ActBlue where they're getting– Money, and they're falsely attributing it to sweet little old ladies, and they go out and interview them, and they're like, well, good heavens, no, I don't have $ 60, 000 to give to anybody, let alone political candidates. Well, it says right here on the Federal Election Commission report that you gave $ 61, 000 over the past X years. No, I didn't do that.
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Speaker 3: Exactly.
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Speaker 2: Okay, how is that happening? They're laundering the money through all these things that they're doing, and Doge was finding all that. So they are still putting this to use today. Doge is still in operation. We're not doing as much with the productivity side of that as I would like to see, but this rescissions is one component. of doing the same kinds of things of shutting down fraud, waste, and abuse. The vice president's leading a task force on this. We treated an extra office in the Department of Justice just to find and prosecute the people committing these fraudulent activities. Including in Ohio, you have a bunch of Medicaid fraud, in Columbus in particular, shutting those kinds of things down and prosecuting people. When is somebody going to jail? Soon. They've made arrests in a lot of these fraud cases. And the trials are starting to get underway.
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Speaker 1: It does take time. That's why I've always told my listening audience, you know, they're going to find it. You just got to wait for it. It's evidence gathering. It's enough, you know, gathering of evidence. If you're going to do a criminal prosecution to prove guilty on a reasonable doubt, putting it all together, filing the charges, maybe doing indictments. It's a long process, but at least this administration is doing it. Because if you look backward, I don't think any administration at any time in our country's history has done a good enough job to monitor where our taxpayer dollars are being spent.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I mean that's something that should be unifying. I think for a lot of the public it is. And the good thing is that the illicit finance, when you're ripping off the regular public, and this is the committee I chair, the subcommittee for national security and illicit finance, if you're going after little old ladies, scamming them in scam centers, there's no partisanship there. So it's great to have something that we can work on, that we agree on. We've had bipartisan legislation that's passed this Congress that's helping– bolster the scam detection operations. They just recently shut down one with $ 17 billion. They're scamming people out at $ 10, 000, $ 15, 000, $ 25, 000 at a time, but it's adding up to billions of dollars. A lot of what's behind it are basically cartels. Sadly, some of it is also they're trafficking people, sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and other ways. They're earning their freedom by scamming enough people. And then they'll say it gives them at least some level of hope to get out of the bad circumstance they're in. Sick stuff. So at least the level of depravity isn't to where they're willing to let you be formally ripped off by others, but they're all in when it comes to letting the government conspire to rip you off with your tax dollars. So it's a little bit inconsistent there by my Democrat colleagues.
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Speaker 1: Well, if you just have a question mark puzzling over how they could be against this, somebody's getting the money. And I think that's a clear indicator that, you know what? Well, it's a funding source for us. We won't admit it out loud, but what other possible reason could they be for against finding fraud and abuse in American taxpayer dollar expenses.
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Speaker 3: We all work for it.
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Speaker 1: We all pay regardless of political stripe into the pot, and they have an obligation to mind it. Unless, of course, it's taking away something that is extraordinarily valuable to their lifeline, and I think that's exactly where we land on this, Congressman Davidson.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I keep going back to Act Blue. I mean, that's the conduit for a lot of this. But, you know, Stacey Abrams is one of the tells. Like, seriously, why would you give This nonprofit of all the things, $ 2 billion. They've done nothing. Well, because Stacey Abrams was carrying a lot of water for the Democrat team. And it's all going to go back out into community organizers. I guess this is what people wonder when Barack Obama was first running. What is a community organizer? What does that qualify you to do? Well, you're seeing it. That's what it qualifies you to do.
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Speaker 1: Those worthless college degrees have to turn into something, Congressman Davidson. I appreciate you coming on the program.
00:29:16
Speaker 3: Get out and vote.
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Speaker 1: You can start on Tuesday. Vote, of course, for Congressman Davidson. And, of course, also vote for Eric Conroy, who's going to join the program after the top of the hour news. Congressman Davidson, thanks again. I appreciate this. And I look forward to having you back on the show real soon and wish you the best of luck.
