Roger Marshall (Clip)
Appearances
Morning Wire
Government Shutdown Countdown & EPA Makes Historic Cuts | 3.14.25
I saw something today that over 90, 95% of Americans support Make America Healthy Again. Think about this. My grandma always said, if you have your health, you have everything. But 60% of Americans have a chronic disease. 20% of our children are on a prescription drug. 30, 40% of our adolescents are pre-diabetic or diabetic as well. So America is very sick.
Morning Wire
Government Shutdown Countdown & EPA Makes Historic Cuts | 3.14.25
And what I look forward to doing is working with Secretary Kennedy now and trying to make America healthy again.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congressman Jake Auchincloss on GOP Blunders
If I was Elon, I'm asking him to double down, not go slower, double down, and we're going to correct the pieces as we go along as well. Think about what Elon did with Twitter. He fired 80% of the people when he took over Twitter. He changed the name of it, and now today it's worth twice as much as it was before.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Well, I wasn't surprised because they've been very consistently against this. They just seem to be wallowing in their own pig barn, I guess. And they can't get off of this issue. Look, this poll is more like 95 to 5 back home. 95 of Kansans don't think it's right for boys to compete against girls. It's not an 80-20 issue. It's at least a 90-10 issue.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
And I think that's why you see Gavin Newsom, who thinks he's the next president of the United States, is saying, gosh, I got to walk away from this one. But our Democrats, I'm just going to say it. They've got they've got a psychosis right now. Not shake this Trump derangement syndrome. This should be a very easy issue to get off of for them. And they just they can't stop. They're in this hole.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
They can't stop digging.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Yeah, but I think it's solid in the sense if the swamp will do what we've exposed. So look at it this way. Elon Musk is not out there looking at people's Social Security numbers. He's too busy for that. He has... chosen some people that are now full-time employees of the federal government. They went through all that process you're supposed to, and they're in there shining a flashlight.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
And so they find some fraud, waste, abuse, frankly, and confidence. They go back to those agency heads and say, hey, here's some money. Here's some opportunities. Why in the world do we have 2 million federal employees but over 4 million credit cards? Why in your agency you have 10,000 employees but 20,000 software subscriptions to the same company. So I think that those will come to fruition.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
But eventually we need to go back to a rescission process. And that's where the president makes a request to rescind this money. And you've seen these lists of things. And then Congress gets to vote on those rescissions and, and we'll see if the Democrats can stay together and continue to vote against some of this fraud waste and abuse.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Um, in speaking with Elon just yesterday, he truly believes that there's 15 to 25% of government spending as waste. I think more than that, I'll give you a quick example. The government accounting office, not Marshall, not Elon Musk. The government accounting office says last year, the federal government issued $250 billion.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
of improper checks, not fraud, waste, abuse, just improper checks, $250 billion. So we're trying to track down things like that. The sky's the limit here.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Well, Clay and Buck, this is absolutely a child abuse. Again, I'm an OBGYN. I'm just not a doctor. I'm an OBGYN. I've had to work on some young ladies, girls born with with ambiguous genitalia. I won't go into the details, but it's a very painful surgery to try to fix things. Any type of surgery, young ladies I've known and older women have had mastectomies. They have pain the rest of their life.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
They get lymphedema. The blood doesn't drain right. Any of these surgeries, anyone that's gone through enough surgeries knows that that there's going to be chronic pain because of this. And my guess is it will lead to many, many more surgeries. So I think just from a child abuse standpoint, from a physician standpoint of doing no harm, I don't know why anyone can do this.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
I can't believe the governor of Kansas detoed a bill that would have prevented this from happening as well. And then the mental anguish. Look, I feel for these people that feel like they should be the opposite sex. I mean, there's something going on there. something that's irreversible.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
You know, a mom would bring in their teenage daughter to me and, you know, talking about, frankly, promiscuity and and I would talk to them both, look, you don't want this what I call permanent scar tissue. Once you get a tattoo, it never goes away. If you get an STD, you become infertile for the rest of your life.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
So these surgeries, they leave them infertile, obviously, and the medicines they give them lots of times also cause infertility that's not reversible and a whole lot of other changes. There's nothing right about this. I just yet can anyone look me in the eye and say that they think this is a good idea. I don't know where it came from.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Look, I think there could still be a second and third bite of the apple, but we need to focus right now on giving the president a win. What he's asking is to make his tax cuts permanent. If we don't, then it's going to mean thousands of dollars to hardworking families. If we don't make those tax cuts permanent. it'll mean trillions of dollars of lost income to America.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
So we need to make the tax cuts permanent in this first big, beautiful bill. So we're going to take the House bill and try to improve it. So we're going to try to make the tax cuts permanent.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
The House does a nice job of giving the president enough money to fund building the wall and also the money to get rid of these criminal, violent aliens that are in the country as well, plus up the military some as well. So I think we've got to take what we can get. President Reagan said this, take 80% if you can get it.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
I think this will get 90% of what we wanted, and then we're going to have to come back and hopefully find more cuts. Believe it or not, the Senate wants to cut more money than the House does. So we're trying to figure out if there's a way to cut more money. And I talked about these recisions earlier. To me, this is all one problem. They're all woven together.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
What can we do to work towards a balanced budget? But we'll take the House bill. and see if we can approve it over here on the Senate side, come back and take a second bite at the apple on some of those other issues that President Trump wants us to get at.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Look, I think that most of us, especially conservatives, think that education should be controlled at the local level with parents and their local school board. Because the federal government is controlling so many of the dollars, they also have rules and regulations that go along with that.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
What I expect this executive order to do is to have Secretary McMahon present a plan to Congress to say, this is how we disassemble the Department of Education. Now, look, this is a sad day for me in the sense that President Eisenhower helped start this Department of Education, but it's out of control.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
President Eisenhower also said that he would rue the day when the federal government was giving money to universities and to schools as well. So I think that she'll present a policy. I think there's limits to what he can do with an executive order, and then it's going to be up to Congress to act on this.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
But whatever he can do within the constitutional limits of his abilities as an executive branch, I think they're going to push everything they can to the state level. I think he can do school choice through an executive order, but I need to check that.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Yeah. A couple of thoughts. Uh, you know, I can feel this momentum from back home that when the night Donald Trump was elected, you could just literally feel this big shift. We call America turning in the right direction. I've never been more bullish on America than I am today that our better days are ahead of us.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
And you saw, I think his cabinet, did you see the interaction, the body language of his cabinet members up front? That's really different than any I've seen. And I've just been up here for eight years. But these people are godly men and women. They have their own Bible study. I mean, these folks are focused. on America first. Now let's contrast that to the Democrat side.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
I, I, this was, this was rude. You know, I suffered through four years of the first lady. Mrs. Biden is introduced. We stand up and politely applaud her, uh, the people he's chosen that Biden chose to come and celebrate their lives. There were, there were great stories, all of them, most of them, and we stood up and applauded them.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
But when the Democrats wouldn't get up and applaud for a young boys who survived brain cancer, the secret service was deputizing him. Another young man, his life dream to go to West Point, and they announced that in front of everybody as well. You know, I understand that they don't like President Trump. They are mistaken on the policies, though.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
80% of Americans, I'm going to back up, probably 70% of Americans, I don't want to exaggerate. 70% of Americans at least support President Trump's agenda. If you take them one at a time, 70% of America support those agenda items. The Democrats, again, are wallowing there in a pigsty, if you will, and they just can't get out. But it was an embarrassment. It was worse than what you saw on TV.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Very petty to see these little signs flashed in front of us.
Verdict with Ted Cruz
Bonus Episode: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Yeah, I appreciate that. And my Jayhawks and Wildcats, Kansas schools aren't doing very well either. We'll live to fight another day. Thanks for giving us a voice. My Kansans love listening to you guys. Thank you so much. Have a great day.