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Welcome, welcome. Welcome to the Pro America Report. This is Ryan Hite Filling in today for Mr. Ed Martin, who is out on assignment, but we do have a couple of great interviews from Ed and the few things he was able to prerecord, but I am happy to be here with you. Grateful to spend the time with you. We’ve got a lot to talk about today on the program.
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We’ve got a great program today. I am really excited. Looking forward to it. And there are some things that we should talk about before we get into it. We got a couple of great guests. Richard Lyons joining us as well as retired Sergeant Major John Deaver Tai. We’ve got some really, really good ones coming up here. I’m looking forward to hearing those and glad Ed was able to record with these great guests. But before we get there, there is something we should talk about. And of course, we do it every segment, every first segment. Of the Pro America Report. Right here, we do the WYNK. What you need to know, and I tell you what today is a doozy. This is something I want to pick apart just a minute.
You may have seen the news here. Well, we’ll just back up. Let me give you a little bit of a brief perspective.
You’ve seen what over the last week or two, we have been arguing and it’s been going on longer than that. Make no mistake, but what we have been seeing publicly play out. In dueling headlines is the House and the Senate going back and forth. We’re talking about a new, well, going back and forth and then the Biden administration in the middle talking about a border bill, a possible border bill that would have fixes or this or that or the other. Several Conservative senators got caught up in this, and it was it. It just turned into a whole big thing.
But here’s, here’s the deal. Overnight, I guess I should say early this morning the Senate passed a bill. It has absolutely nothing to do with the border. The Senate bill that came through focuses on foreign aid. In fact, it’s a supplemental package providing aid not just to Ukraine, Israel and Gaza and the Indo Pacific. This is a bill that contains. 95, just over $95 billion in foreign aid.
But there is nothing to do with the border.
There is no other bill that has anything to do with the border. There is nothing at all anywhere that has to do with the border, with here at home, with the things that are happening in America. And this is the question that we’re this is the question that we’re left to look at here. I mean this is, we talked about this a couple of weeks ago on the program, pardon my by the way, pardon my frog-iness if you hear it a little bit here. We’ve got some allergies opening up here in the Midwest and it’s it’s hit me here, but. This has absolutely nothing to do with the border and and it’s just incredible. It’s as if they have come along and said, well, we couldn’t come to a compromise about the border bill, about anything having to do with our own homeland about domestic affairs here in America.
So let’s just go ahead and give away $100 billion to other countries.
Excuse me? What you you – pardon me? You want to run that one by me again? I think every single American taxpayer said all at once, collectively, would you like to run that one by me again?
Congress is broken, the system is broken. The system must change. That’s what you need to know. Congress is broken and we need major change. We need upending, tumultuous change to make it to a different place in our country, where we are actually managing and taking care of our country. That’s where we are this this is just beyond the pale.
So there’s a few numbers I want to get into and break down here now. So first of all, like I said, 95. It’s over $95 billion foreign aid package. 61 of it. Is going to Ukraine, $61 billion is going to the conflict in Ukraine, which at this point is coming to a grinding halt. Now we’re not gonna get into all of the different conversations that could be had about the the, Tucker’s interview with Putin and this and that and the other, but that this conflict is coming up on it is this the second year or going into its third year, I should say. We’re closing out the second year of this conflict. We have almost an entire generation by some accounts of Ukrainian men lost, and there is no end in sight, and we’ve already given. More than a. $100 billion in aid to Ukraine since this war began, February of 2022 and another 60 billion this morning from the Senate.
Now, of course this. This package is Dead on arrival, DOA, Speaker Mike Johnson says. Which may we hope that it in fact it is. It is not going to go through the House and that they, the House must stand firm. But the what we must pick apart here I think and the the big thing for us to take away is just like we said A couple of weeks ago we talked about how it is time for some up or down single issue votes. All of this omnibus thing throwing it together, trying to get it here. We’re trying to package up this foreign aid alongside this border bill.
No, just vote on things that have to do with the border, then vote on things that have to do with foreign aid.
But here’s the here’s the big divide. And this is kind of what I want to talk about. It’s very interesting because you talk about the divide in the Republican Party. The divide amongst conservatives. You see this America First movement. Now, of course, the old guard. I would call them the the NEO cons, the neoconservatives, this new conserve. Is, that’s what that means, Neo new conservatism. We’re referring to this era of globalism like the the Bushes and the Dick Cheneys of the world and the policies here that led to us feeding into the military industrial complex, us feeding into trying to democratize other nations. us essentially entangling ourselves in in all of the worst ways that George Washington warned us against in terms of the United Nations and treaties and agreements and free trade, which isn’t fair at all to the United States and all sorts of things, and I I know I am throwing out some major topics here that are deserving of probably their own individual segments, let me be clear. I understand we’re just kind of glossing by some of it.
But all that to say, there is a huge divide amongst conservatives right now. That we must address and and. And here’s what it comes down to.
Fix our country first, fix our nation first versus no, Just maintain the status quo. These are the two things that that we’re dealing with.
Now here’s an interesting fact for you. And this is actually, I saw this published by my own senator. Eric Schmitt from here in Missouri. He pointed out that that, two different facts, nearly every Republican senator now, by the way, this, this, this bill let me back up. This bill was voted through early. I’m sorry not, I said Wednesday morning. To begin with, I meant Tuesday. This bill was voted through early Tuesday morning, 70 to 29, 70 senators for, 29 against. Now, of the 29 who voted no, nearly every Republican, obviously we’ve we’ve got a nearly half and half divided Senate chamber here. Republican Democrat. Nearly every Republican senator under the age of 55 voted no on this bill, which he described as America. Last was very correct. He observed also 15 out of 17 senators elected since 2018 voted no. So as he says, things are changing, just not fast enough. This is really. Really, really interesting.
Because you look at the response from the other side of the aisle, from not just Chuck Schumer and from the the from the left, from the Democrats, but from the Republican side of leadership. You see stuff that Mitch McConnell, who at this point I think all all of us we have big problems with Mitch McConnell. It’s not just that he is old and should retire. And make way for someone newer and younger, but there there is a fundamental disconnect between Mitch McConnell’s actions and what I think is pretty clearly the will of the American people moving forward. And his response to to these 29 who voted no was, you know that what did he say here? Let me find it. I I know it’s become quite fashionable in some circles to disregard the global interests we have as a global power. To bemoan the responsibilities of global leadership. Well, guess what? The leadership in America. Is failing Americans. Our global leadership be hanged. I want our American leaders To take care of this homeland first.
If you can’t even deal with a basic domestic issue like having a border, you are not competent to handle our affairs and relationships and ally allyships around the world. Period. This. This is just this is the fundamental disconnect. It’s Absolutely mind boggling to me that people say let’s just keep going along. While stuff is is just being completely ignored here at home. No. Pay attention to what’s going on here at home, so there there’s a little bit of an inside as to something that’s happened this week that the Senate vote came through. It is DOA on the House side, according to Speaker Johnson.
But there is a very interesting thing to pick apart here. There is a division amongst the Republican Party. There is a division amongst Republican senators.
The younger ones, the ones who have come in more recently, they are carrying the mandate that don’t, make no mistake, the news, the fake news media, the narrative machine, they’re all trying to call you isolationists. It’s not that. It is you have to fix the problems here before we can maintain some sort of status across the globe. That’s it. And that division is there. We are seeing the lines being drawn.
We need more change and we need it faster when it comes to putting better leaders in office. There you go. That’s what you need to know today. And we’re going to come right back after the break with a couple of really good interviews.
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