Senator Eric Schmitt
Appearances
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dems Need to Stand Up — Then Wake Up
Hey, Charlie, it was the best speech I've ever heard by a great president who's given many great speeches before. He not only broke the record for the longest speech, a speech before a joint address, but he owned the Democrats. They looked foolish. They look, they look stupid sitting on their hands, not clapping for what the president talked about in so many ways, making this country great again.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dems Need to Stand Up — Then Wake Up
They don't love our country like we do. And they proved it last night and their reaction was, It was a great night for the president, a great night for America, for Republicans. And we're just a short time into this second term for this president. We have a long ways to go, a lot more winning to come.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dems Need to Stand Up — Then Wake Up
Well, it's a sickness on their part. I mean, they they hate this president so much that they won't get up and clap for a 13 year old boy. A very special moment that President Trump created last night. Every one of them should have been on their feet. And Charlie, let me say this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dems Need to Stand Up — Then Wake Up
When Joe Biden walked out and when they announced the President of the United States of America before the State of the Unions on his watch, every Republican got up and clapped, not for Joe Biden, but for the position of the President of the United States of America. Those Democrats sat on their hands. They disrespected the president. They disrespected our country.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dems Need to Stand Up — Then Wake Up
And in that case, they disrespected the life of a 13-year-old boy. I'll tell you what, one moment I saw, because I was on the far right side, on the Republican side, and I could see the Democrats across the House chamber, and I saw one senator, when President Trump talked about capturing the terrorist who was the mastermind behind the Abbey Gate attack that killed 13 of our heroes,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dems Need to Stand Up — Then Wake Up
And by the way, none of the Democrats clapped for that either. I mean, how can you not clap for that? I saw one Democrat look to the Democrat to his right and say, we should stand up. You could see him mouthing it. We should be standing up. And they were all shaking their heads. No, we have to stay seated. That's how foolish these Democrats are.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dems Need to Stand Up — Then Wake Up
There is not a line that came out of President Trump's mouth last night that 75% or more of Americans don't agree with. There was nothing controversial last night that he said. He was speaking to the American people. Everything that came out of his mouth was something that the majority of Americans agree with, and the Democrats wouldn't stand up for it. Donald Trump has broken the Democrat Party.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dems Need to Stand Up — Then Wake Up
They are beyond repair, and just how foolish they looked last night is something that's going to linger over them for a long time to come.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dems Need to Stand Up — Then Wake Up
President Trump went on to say it turns out that we didn't need a we didn't need a bill. We just needed a new president. And we got that in Donald Trump after he took the. Oath of office, secure the border, go back to the remain in Mexico policy. It works. All it took was him being back in office. Trump kept making this point last night, looking at the Democrats.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dems Need to Stand Up — Then Wake Up
They're responsible for the mess at the border. They backed up the worst president in American history for four years. And that's why we have the travesty, the biggest humanitarian crisis at the border ever, the wide open border, fentanyl killing Americans. all the crime that came with it. It's all the Democrats' fault, and they know it. That's why all they could do was jeer last night.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dems Need to Stand Up — Then Wake Up
Well, the first thing has to be to extend the Trump tax cuts on working class families. President Trump talked about that last night. Democrats, again, stayed seated. Republicans stood and cheered because the tax cuts are on working class families and small businesses. It was a mistake in 2017 when Paul Ryan and those others in charge of the House and the Senate made decisions.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dems Need to Stand Up — Then Wake Up
corporate tax rates permanent, but didn't make the individual tax rates permanent on working class families. That's what we have to start with. President Trump brought it up. Republicans are unified behind it. It has to happen in the next few weeks in the reconciliation bill. That's where we have to start.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dems Need to Stand Up — Then Wake Up
But then we have to fund ICE to deport illegal criminals out of our country and back up the efforts to build the wall and secure the border. That's all part of the One big, beautiful bill, the reconciliation package that's going to come out of the Congress soon. Republicans are united more than ever before. You saw it last night on the floor.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dems Need to Stand Up — Then Wake Up
But we have to unite behind that piece of legislation to get it done.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dems Need to Stand Up — Then Wake Up
Well, the golden age of America has just begun. Last night, I was so proud of our president. The best speech I've ever heard him give. But it also reminds me that we have almost four years. We can't waste a single day. I saw President Trump after the speech. He was upbeat. And he makes that point to Republicans all the time. Do not waste a single day. Let's get it done.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dems Need to Stand Up — Then Wake Up
We have a lot of work to do. This is just the beginning.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dems Need to Stand Up — Then Wake Up
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
Yeah, no, I think that's exactly right, Charlie. And, you know, he's got a great team. And you've talked about it. I've talked about it. I think the conference understands, and certainly something that I've been talking about a lot is, This election cycle was the disruptors versus the establishment, right? And he deserves to have a team in place that's going to be real reformers on the inside.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
And I think, you know, the RFK pick, the Tulsi Gabbard pick, which were, you know, some of the results maybe were in question a little bit earlier in the weekend committee. They both came out of committee and I expect them to get confirmed next week. Both of them, Kash Patel, um, we'll probably vote on him in judiciary next week. So he'll be a few days behind that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
But having said that, I think they're all in really good shape and I think it's important. I think it's important to honor, you know, the trust that voters gave president Trump to pick his team in this broad coalition now that we have. And I think his cabinet reflects that broad coalition. And, uh, you know, one of the main reasons they all need to move forward. And I think they will.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
One last point on that. Um, We're way ahead. I mean, Senator Thune deserves some credit here. Way ahead of the timetable that we've seen was Joe Biden or President Trump's first term, where 12 confirmed by the end of this week, maybe 13, I think it might end up being. It was at six in his first term. Biden had six. So you'd have to go back to the Obama era where we were moving as quickly.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
Yeah, normally on these confirmations, like basically you have an executive calendar in the Senate, you have a legislative calendar in the Senate, and you have an impeachment calendar in the Senate. There's only three things that you're doing at any one time, and you've got to switch back and forth, which takes a little time. But we're staying on the executive calendar.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
We're staying on these nominees. They can force us to go longer. We can only do one at a time, but we're plowing through it. We've made it clear we're going to be here nights, weekends. We're getting this done. And I think they as much as they're kicking and screaming about it and are throwing some procedural hurdles, it's going to happen.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
And so it's interesting this week, Charlie, they're really setting this up to be, you know, their Spartacus moment. for rough vote because they're really zeroing in on this Doge stuff, which I think it is the fight that we want. I totally agree. We should relish this. People have been clamoring to rein in government, this administrative state that's out of control. It needs to be dismantled.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
And now that the, you know, permanent Washington really doesn't want people to know how this money gets spent. And USAID is at the top of the list of corrupt organizations that have spent money on DEI programs in Uganda and sex change operations in South America. It's an insult to taxpayers. So this is really shaking up sort of business as usual in Washington. They like this stuff in the dark.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
It's all coming out in the open and under scrutiny, and that's a good thing. And they're mad about it. So like I said, they can kick and scream about it, but we're going to get this done.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
Yes. And I think that's a great, great point. And one of the things I try to mention is pre COVID we were spending about $4 trillion. Okay. The budget this year will be hope like Biden wanted to spend 7 trillion.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
Maybe it's going to be six trillion. Right. So pre COVID 2019, president Trump's in office, 4 trillion. Our revenues now, Charlie are 5 trillion. Like if we were just spending what we were spending a few years ago, we would have a surplus, right? But the Democrat, they don't they do not want to give any of that money back.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
So we're going to have a real fight on our hands in this next reconciliation package to sort of rein this in. And, you know, I kind of get tired of saying, well, it's only a couple of billion dollars or the waste is only a few hundred million dollars. Like, I still count my money.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
And in Missouri, when you if you were to tell somebody that that like, oh, it's only a few hundred million dollars or a billion dollars, they would they'd be pissed and they should be pissed. So I think any money we save, whether it's a dollar or a trillion dollars, we ought to be focused on it. And I think that for now, that is where the momentum is. And we ought to hold on to that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
And we ought to fight that fight with the Democrats every single day.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
Yeah, that's exactly what's happening. And I think it's also important to put in context here that this is sort of – this is kind of business as usual in permanent Washington. It's also part of this decades-long failed foreign policy establishment that is being forced now to look in the mirror a little bit. It's not working for the American taxpayer.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
As Secretary Rubio said, the only money that we should be spending anywhere in the world is if it advances US interests, our core US interests. Providing sex change operations and doing this DEI stuff in foreign countries is
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
is lunacy but it's what happens when you have these agencies that are totally unaccountable they have a pot of money and they get turf and they feel important and they spend the money and then they have politicians that get to travel those places and then they get to feel important when the leaders thank them for that like that's not why i did this like it's i mean but that is why a lot of politicians in washington you know they love being greeted at the door and thank you thank you for all this
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
or whatever that we're spending money on. So anyway, I think the reckoning is coming. Um, and that's a good thing. And this is just the first step, by the way, this is USA. It is like top of the list, but it's not the only thing on the list. And I think that again, this fight is worth having across the board. Like again,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
dismantling the administrative state will do more to restore the health of this republic than almost anything else we can do because they're totally unaccountable. You can't vote them out. And so like this is this is an important fight.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
Yeah, and I think, look, COVID was... So informative in so many different ways. Power doesn't necessarily corrupt. It reveals. And what COVID revealed was that there is a class of people in this country, particularly on the left, that really does, you know, the whole trust the experts thing. This is a fight between we the people and the experts.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
It started with Woodrow Wilson, not to get too historical about this, but like maybe one of the worst presidents, if not the worst president ever. who believe that the experts knew better than the people. It's really a fundamental distrust of our republic, right? That the people actually get to decide what happens. And so you're right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
We have a vertical and horizontal separation of powers, whether it's federalism or the three branches of government. The founders envisioned that to constantly be checking one another so that no one branch, no one person ever got too powerful. Why is that? The fundamental goal was to protect individual liberty. That's the constitutional design that we have.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
They never envisioned a separate branch apart from that, that would have immense power over people's lives and livelihoods. And you never know who they are. Like you don't know their names. You've never heard of the agency, but they can send a guidance letter and totally destroy a third generation business.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
Or they can have an agency like OSHA that was created to make sure forklifts beep when they back up, force the COVID shot on a hundred million people. So this fight really is about, it's the opening salvo about returning power back to where it always belonged, which is with the people. And the Article I branch of the legislative body should be making these decisions.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
It's one of the reasons why Mike Lee and I and others are really pushing for the RAINS Act to get done. Because if you have an agency that's trying to get a rule done, right, we should have to vote on it. Like if you think banning gas stoves is such a great idea, make us vote on it. And the truth is those ideas would never come that far because they know they're ridiculous.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
They never get voted on. But if they did and somebody voted on it or voted against it, you could hold them accountable for it. So this is, I think, a really important fight about. Like, where does power reside in that permanent Washington and mostly the Democrats? They really don't like that being exposed because it's been a great deal for them.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
They get other people to do their bidding and they're never held responsible for it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
He's tipping the spirit. Oh, yeah. They're already language talking about Project 25. The irony is their opening and closing argument during the campaign was that Trump was a threat to democracy. They lost that. In the middle of that argument, somewhere along the way, they tried to scare people with Project 25, whatever. But here we go now.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Gaza, DOGE, and... Star Trek?
They're using similar language, and they're just going to lose. And we have to exercise the power that we have now that we're the majority to right-size government and put power back to where it always belonged.
The Charlie Kirk Show
No One Does It Like Trump
All of these things cannot be true. So are you lying to Congress today when you say you are pro vaccine or did you lie on all those podcasts?
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
Yeah, it's incredible, Charlie, what he's done in, what, 50 days or so. He's really literally rewriting everything, not just, you know, social structures, but he's also rewriting how things like Wall Street work with the tariff – situation, how he he's teaching people. And I'll be perfectly honest with you. I'm a free market person. I've my entirety. I started CNBC 20 something years ago.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
I've always been an advocate for the free market. I don't like government involvement in markets. They tend to adjust themselves better than government does, but he, He taught me something this time. He, you know, he mentioned something called, you know, we have the internal revenue service, which means we're all paying money. We work hard. We pay our taxes.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
That's the internal within the United States. But these tariffs are external revenue. Right. It's coming from the outside. And, you know, it really does tell you, well, maybe taking some of the burden off.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
us the people who are paying the vast majority of the four five trillion dollar budgets that were put seven trillion dollar budgets that we're putting together so he's he's rewriting all all the rules what i saw day before yes yesterday actually when he brought the teslas out after after uh By the way, after the market closed, he started around 3.56 or so. My show starts at 4 o'clock.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
He started a couple minutes before. Elon at 4.05 says, I'm here to double my automobile output to the United States next year. Wow. After the market closes. So what happened earlier in the day, what we didn't realize was the market was down yesterday. It was down, you know, a good amount of day before yesterday. It was down a good amount of two and a half, almost 3%. Tesla. was down 17%.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
It was five times the market move because there were people attacking Elon Musk and Tesla because of his closeness to Trump and Doge. And so they were punitively damaging, the Wall Street was punitively damaging Elon Musk and Tesla. After the close, Musk says, we're going to double our output. And Trump says, I love this car. I want to buy one of these cars.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
I said to the audience, I'm watching this at 408, 409. Tesla's going to open up a lot higher tomorrow, today. And it's going to run. And it's up $18 a share today. Here's my point. You don't mess with Donald Trump and Elon Musk, two of the smartest people in the world in markets. And that means it's not like they're making money for themselves, Charlie. They have plenty of money.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
They're the richest man in the world. Trump's got $5, $6, $7 billion. He doesn't need the money. That's not what this is about. It's about helping the American people. It's about helping the middle class. And it is just fascinating to see because these are all – rewriting the way finance works. And we are all going to benefit from it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
Every single American is going to benefit from those two guys right there. That handshake right there should scare the bejesus out of the liberals because that's going to make America great again and better.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
I'll give you very much. So historically, if you buy and hold, you've done amazing. You've literally, you've never, sure there are some bumps in the road, some recessions, 2007 hurt. But if you stuck it out, you're way better. We're triple, four times the level on all these indices that we were in 2007. Here's the thing that is really, really telling on all of this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
Trump gets inflation down, period. He does. Last time he was president, I started my career in the oil business. I was an oil trader for 15 years. Never once in my life have I ever seen what Trump did in 2018. He had oil prices negative. It went to zero, and there was so much oil in America, it went negative because oil People were looking for places to put the oil. They didn't have it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
There was so much oil and gas prices were $1.49, $1.89. I've never seen that in my entire life. He's going to do it again. Drill Baby Drill was one of his platform, one of the legs of the platform that he sold the American people on himself. He will do it. He'll get oil prices down. When oil prices go down, everything goes down. Everything goes down, not just food, not just energy.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
Everything is made with an oil kind of DNA in it. Toilet paper has an oil aspect to toilet paper to the manufacturing process. A tomato in California. has an oil price to it because you have to ship the tomato from California to New York or wherever. Everything's hinged and dependent on the price of oil. Trump knows to get oil prices down, inflation goes down.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
We just saw egg prices that have gone up for the past four years actually slam down to the price that when Trump took over six weeks ago, seven weeks ago, and it will continue to go lower. There it is. There's the egg price chart right there. Great job, producers. And this is a month and two weeks into this. It will continue. Prices are going to come down. That's more money.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
That's more everything for the family budget. Be patient. Yes, he's right. There's some red on some Wall Street stock indices. But over the long run, when prices come down and you have employment, we're still fully employed. The We are completely fully employed as an economy. We have strong employment and lower prices. That's fuel for much better things to come.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
Charlie, you're nailing it. Because for, I believe the price of oil... will turn everything better for America. If the tension in the Middle East, if Saudi Arabia is all of a sudden okay and everything's fine, Iran calms down because Russia says, calm down, we have a peace deal going on, you don't screw the peace deal up, we can now again access Russian oil. There's a
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
Russians are like the fourth largest oil producer in the world. We're the largest. Saudi Arabia is the second. If we all start, I mean, again, when we fully output, when we fully explore all of our oil, we're the top producer in the world. So if we have the U.S., we're friendly with Canada. Mexico is a major producer. We're friendly with Saudi Arabia.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
We can, again, tap into the Russian oil market because right now we're not because they're in war. This brings oil prices down. When oil prices go down, everything is better geopolitically everywhere. And we are far more prosperous. We are very, very dependent on the price of oil. Oil, crude oil is our lifeblood. It's literally the blood that runs through the veins of our economy.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
And Trump knows this. He's always known. Charlie, I started Fox in, I think, 2007. And I used to do these every Monday morning on Fox and Friends. I would host Donald Trump on a phone call. And we'd talk oil. And from that day, I realized he realized how important a lower oil price is. for the economy and for America. Joe Biden bought oil at $120 a barrel.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
He bought oil, he released it in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and then to replace it, he paid $120 a barrel for oil. Trump knows better. I can't tell you how... confident and excited I am to see what the next four years are going to be with Trump. Drill, baby, drill, and let this economy just go. Unleash it. Just let it be. And again, with the AI, with this whole AI movement that's going on,
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
We've become the global leader in AI. It's almost, we remember the, you know, back in the 80s when technology exploded for the first time and the internet exploded, we were the leader and then we farmed it out. We are again becoming the leader in technology with our AI companies, Apple, NVIDIA, Silicon Valley, and Elon Musk, really. Elon's one of the four.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
It's been amazing. I think I've been with DRAV and I share a network with you and Bannon and just absolutely loving it. We're every day live at 4 o'clock and it just so happens somewhere around 4 o'clock or 3.30, President Trump likes to sign some executive orders. So we usually come in and he's signing orders and he's just playing with the reporters. So it's just really free-flowing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
You know, it's, it's absolutely free falling, just reacting to the craziness of the day. We'll do a guest or two, but it's generally just, I've been doing this a long time, Charlie. And I bring some of the market stuff to the show as well. So just really enjoying an hour of television on Rev and Roku and all those. And then we, you know, we do the, you know, the old digital thing too.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
We post it everywhere as well. And since having a great time, having a ball.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
You know, I'm not a huge fan of continuing resolutions. I'd rather see real cuts and real cuts to programs, personally. But, you know, again, I'm a little bit more, maybe more hardcore. But this is a wonderful moment. This is a wonderful moment where Congress and...
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
the Speaker of the House, has got this vote that he has, and he's got it, and then they send it to the Senates, and the Senate Democrats are now in the biggest bind of their, probably of their careers, where if they sign it, they've
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
capitulated to trump and they'll hate themselves for it and if they don't sign it they're going to be responsible for shutting down the government and america will be really ticked off at them so i'm loving i'm actually like making the popcorn to watch how this plays out over the next couple days and the best part of this is is speaker johnson said we're done here here here it is let us know and then they they're skedaddling out of town um
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
You know, Charlie, personally, Doge is really, really important. It's cutting back waste, fraud, and abuse. I'd like to see the real hardcore spending cuts, and this may not sit well with a lot of people, a lot of folks, but I'd like to see some defense cuts. I mean, Pete's doing great. I love him. But maybe you can come in and maybe tie some things up.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
We're approaching a trillion dollars a year. A trillion dollars a year. I mean, the next closest is China at $240 billion. I mean, do we really need four times China? Maybe not. Again, I'm an old school, more hardcore person. balanced budget type guy, but that may not be realistic. But I really love the politics that's playing out right now because I can't wait to see what Chuck Schumer does.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
On interest. Servicing the debt. $720 billion a year. Of almost every country in the world, yeah. Just the interest, yeah.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
Can I throw a little thing in this very, very quickly? So when Trump reduces inflation, when Trump reduces inflation, this is a good thing because it reduces our cost to carry that debt. It brings the interest rates down.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
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The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
The problem is our country didn't respond. Look, the EU was set up in order to take advantage of the United States.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The People Voted for Tariffs, And Here's Why
Of course they are. I have great respect for Ireland and what they did. And they should have done just what they did. But the United States shouldn't have let it happen. We had stupid leaders. We had leaders that didn't have a clue. Or let's say they weren't business people, but they didn't have a clue what was happening. And all of a sudden, Ireland has, you know, our farmers.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
You know what? I'm not Charlie Kirk. I'll just keep it real simple and emotional. How much do I love this president? I love this president. He has just been so extraordinary. He gets it. And, you know, Charlie, what's at the heart of this? And it's not like I was thinking to link to Bonhoeffer, but of course it is. This is a man of courage. This president stands up to bullies.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
The Chinese have gotten away with literally murder and with cheating and lying. And on some level, Trump respects it. It's like, okay, if you can get away with it, why not take advantage? But guess what? We're not going to let you, sorry, we can't let you get away with it anymore. He is brilliant. President Xi must understand this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
Kevin O'Leary, Mr. Wonderful yesterday was saying that we should slap 400% tariffs on China. And then Xi would be on a plane to DC to make a deal yesterday. It is about time. We confronted the bully in the schoolyard. And it is only President Trump who has the courage to do it. We need men and women of courage. And this president is a gift from God, not just to this nation, but to the world.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
I think many around the world are just applauding him. And it's exciting. Praise God.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
I'll tell you, Charlie, the real headline here, first of all, today, literally today, April 9th, is the 80th anniversary today of the death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century. He stood against the bullies and the monsters and the evil figures of his time fearlessly in the way that President Trump and others are standing up today.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
Of course, Bonhoeffer way ahead of everybody. Why? Because he did it. to the point of death. He was killed by the Nazis. So he's the ultimate model of courage.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
And we're living in a time right now where you have a lot of Christians out there, sort of Christians, who don't understand that if you do not live with heroic courage in the face of evil, if you don't stand up to bullies, if you don't say the thing that everybody's afraid to say, you're a coward and you're not serving God.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
You can't fake it and say, well, I have faith if you're not behaving like you have faith. So Bonhoeffer is the ultimate hero. But the reason I wanted to come on your show today, Charlie, is because a lot of folks in the MAGA movement don't know this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
The Bonhoeffer film that came out in November, an amazing film, not officially tied to my book, but it is an amazing film about this amazing hero killed today, 80 years ago. That film was targeted by the left, mostly by the pro-Hamas, lunatic left. And they did everything they could to crush the film in the box office, and they were pretty successful. It's insane.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
I don't want to give you the details. But I was stunned because this is a film made by people that are not pro-Trump people. They just said, we want to make a great film about Bonhoeffer. They made a great film partnering with Hollywood royalty to make a great film about this hero. And the radical left – did everything they could, pulled out all the stops to destroy the film.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
So what I'm saying, folks, if you believe in standing up for Israel, I'm not saying you have to agree with everything Netanyahu does, but if you believe in standing up for the Jews, this guy is the ultimate hero. And the left, which we now know is...
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
insane in case you haven't covered that subject they did everything they could to crush the film so the film is now on amazon prime it's on apple tv it's you can find it almost everywhere but it's a genuinely great film and it kind of takes my breath away charlie that the left is so crazy that they would try to harm a film like this about a man who gave his life for the jews of europe because of his christian faith that's where we are but that's what they did
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
Well, there are a couple of reasons. The first one, and this is, of course, what attracted me to his story, because my mother grew up in Nazi Germany. So when I heard about the story of a pastor who, because of his faith in Jesus, spoke up for the Jews, a pastor and a theologian who, because of his Christian faith, spoke out against Adolf Hitler, I thought, whoa. courage, amazing courage.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
But that is kind of why most people don't know about Bonhoeffer, because he was explicitly Christian. And in fact, people on the left who do praise him, they kind of make it sound like, well, he was sort of an agnostic at the end of his life. Complete baloney.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
And the reason the left hates me is because in my biography on him, I make it clear that his Christian faith was deepened, if anything, at the end of his life. Just the opposite. They kind of act like he slid into this, like, ethical humanism.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
I was watching Charlie Rose, like, I don't know, 15 years ago, and Christopher Hitchens was debating, you know, and somebody said, well, what about Bonhoeffer's faith? And he goes, oh, Bonhoeffer's not a Christian. He was a humanist. Complete lie. So the left has tried to make him out to be sort of a Christian, not a Christian, and his Christianity makes them uncomfortable.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
So in my book, of course, his Christianity is front and center, not because it's my book, but because that's who Bonhoeffer was. So that's one of the reasons that his heroism makes some people uncomfortable. But right now, the reason the left tried to crush the film It's because they no longer feel comfortable even standing up for Jews.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
They think, well, that's kind of too close to worshiping Netanyahu or standing up for Israel. We stand with the Palestinians. We're in an insane world. And I can't overstate it, Charlie. They worked overtime to crush this film in November. I mean, it was really shocking to me that a film that your average liberal would love the film. This is not some MAGA version of Bonhoeffer's Life.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
It's a film for everybody. They just pulled out all the stops to destroy it. And that's how sick they are. I mean, they are sawing off the limb that they're sitting on. And we see them doing that on other issues, just happy to destroy the country, destroy the economy.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
because they hate Trump, and they have attacked me, and they even attacked the film as somehow being a dog whistle for Christian nationalism and political violence, which is so insane, I can't even believe I'm saying it. So the left worked hard to crush the film, which is why I want to get the word out to patriots in America. This is a great film. Everybody should see it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Do You Send 14 Million People Home?
And literally today is the 80th anniversary of this great man's death. So obviously it's available. I think I mentioned Amazon Prime, Apple TV, it's out there, but he is such a hero. And you know, Charlie, you and I were talking several years ago and you said, you know, through TPUSA Faith, you want to raise up an army of Bonhoeffers, real great, Thank you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
Hey, before we get to that, how was Greenland? I haven't talked to you. It was incredible. I'm on record. When we get it, we're going to call it Magadonia, okay? Okay.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
I don't think people should discount this. I think this is an important tenet of new American realism. I'm serious about this. People are tired of the $200 billion for Ukraine when the Chinese control the Panama Canal and we have the opportunity to get the natural resources and the strategic advantage in Greenland. So stay tuned on this. I don't think this issue is going away.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
I'm glad you got a chance to go up there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
Yeah, no, no. I mean, and also with space. China's, you know, they're coming in a real way, and that's a strategic location for sort of the next frontier. I mean, whoever controls, you know, China might declare the moon entirely theirs, whoever gets to Mars first. So this isn't science fiction stuff. This is part of securing America's future. So I think it's important.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
Yeah, so Pete Hexteth will be in front of the Armed Services Committee, which I serve on Tuesday. And I think that's right. I think that as much as they try to ratchet up some sort of outrage, as they always do, Pete's the right guy for the job. And I think you look at the consistent theme of all the picks that President Trump has picked.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
with the view that he ran, you know, as much as it was R&D, it was disruptor versus establishment. And all of these picks are coming in as reformers. And we need that at the Pentagon. And so what I've talked to Pete about, and I think what he's committed to doing is, first and foremost, getting rid of DEI immediately. We've been able to make some gains in recent years. But this is divisive.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
It has no place in our military. We shouldn't be dividing the room by oppressor and oppressed. We need to have the most lethal fighting force in the world, and that's the goal. So I think he's going to do that, a real focus on China, and then also procurement reform. I mean, we've got to be able to do things better and more efficiently than we're doing right now.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
And I think Pete's going to come in there and have a cultural shift. He's also... A warfighter is warfighter, right? Like this guy served. I think he's going to command respect.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
And don't underestimate the ability for us to recruit when they see somebody like Pete Hexeth leading the Pentagon as opposed to somebody like Lloyd Austin, who famously was wearing the mask in the Philippines during COVID.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
Yeah. So we were you know, the new Congress has sworn in. And so the president takes the oath of office on January 20th in 10 days. Can't come soon enough. But we're we're in session. So we got committees organized this week. It was our first week back.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
And so we're trying to line up these confirmation hearings as fast as we can and try to get some of them done by confirmation day or, you know, January 20th for President Trump so he can get moving. So I think the Senate's pretty committed to moving these confirmations quickly. We've got Pete Hegseth on Tuesday and Pam Bondi will be on Wednesday. So I'm also on the Judiciary Committee.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
We'll be hearing from Pam on Wednesday. And she's a slam dunk pick. I mean, I know Pam from the state AG world. She is tough as nails. She's serious. She's a reformer. She's going to come into DOJ.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
An agency, of course, as everyone watching knows, has been weaponized against political opponents, been weaponized against Catholics, been weaponized against parents who showed up to school board meetings. During covid, I mean, it's totally lost its way. She's going to restore credibility and get it back to its core mission of taking on violent crime.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
And we've got a lot of that to take on in cities across the country.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
Well, you know, I was I was down in Mar-a-Lago the week before we came back and got to spend some time with him. And even there, man, he's just ready to roll like he loves America. You know this. He's ready to go. And And he's picking his team and we want to get his team on the field as quickly as possible.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
But he came in, he was on Capitol Hill on, I guess that was Wednesday, came to our Senate conference. I know he's meeting with a lot of House members this weekend at Mar-a-Lago, but he understands, and I certainly understand, I think my colleagues understand, part of the important thing of leadership is understanding the moment that you're in, right? We have a very unique opportunity
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
with him winning the mandate, having control of the House and the Senate, to actually deliver for the American people. And we can't squander a day. So we're talking about these confirmations to get his team on the field and have reform on the inside. That's important. But also, as we look to securing the border, as we look to being energy dominant, as we look to restoring our place in the world,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
having an economy that works for working families. So it's going to be busy. So if you think about it, the Senate has the confirmation duty. We're going to be doing all that. We're going to be working on that. We're also going to be working with CRAs to overturn some late rules that Joe Biden put into place. The kind of Trump proof will be doing that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
And then working on this reconciliation package. My view is I want to get some wins on the board as quickly as possible for President Trump. I don't want to squander wins. anytime, including the first 100 days. So, you know, we're having an internal discussion. Is that one bill? Is that two bills?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
So if you think about this, because we have both chambers, we have the ability to move forward what's called reconciliation, meaning if it's dealing with these budget issues and budget savings. We in the Senate, we don't need 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. We just need 51 votes and we've got 53 votes.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
So reconciliation provides us a great opportunity to not have to rely on Democrats for any votes on the big ticket items that we want to get done. And so the question then is that the House is sort of, hey, we want to do one bill. And I'm sympathetic in the sense that these are well-meaning folks who have a very, very slim majority vote. We have a slightly bigger majority in the Senate.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
But my issue is, I think you look at what, you know, spent a lot of time with President Trump on the trail as you did. He was very consistent about securing the border, being energy dominant, all those things. I just want to make sure we get some wins on the board early. I don't want to squander time. That time period where people are, you know, November wasn't that far in the rearview mirror.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
People understand what that election was all about. We can go do it. And then you've got the issues that, you know, the tax cuts from 2017 are set to expire at the end of 2025, right? So we've got all year to make sure that gets done. What I don't want to see, and my concern is with one bill, is that we get to March and we haven't done any of these big ticket items.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
We're going to be in a spending fight and a debt ceiling fight with the Democrats at the end. And if we haven't had any points on the board, it's just going to feel like I want to deliver early. And we're going to have leverage to get those tax cuts extended and make them permanent because they expire. So we have our own leverage on that to get that done. So my feeling is...
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
Let's not empower Chuck Schumer to have any more leverage than we need to. Let's get this stuff done before March when we have that CR and debt ceiling fight and then continue to work on a second reconciliation package in the summer. Because worst case scenario, I just don't want to be in July and August not having got a lot of the stuff done that President Trump ran on.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
Yeah, that's right. The House, at least right now, or what Speaker Johnson has articulated, although I'm not sure that's a uniform position in the House, but look, I'm sympathetic that it's not an easy task with a one to three vote majority over there on this stuff. But the argument for them is, hey, we won't get a second bite of the apple.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
We got to make sure we have everything in one so it'll provide maximum leverage to make sure everybody's getting what they want in one big bill. I will say, though, that I think the Senate, Senate Republicans are unified in our belief. And I'm not sure there's a dissenting opinion that we ought to break this up and let's get some early wins.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
And so, look, ultimately, this is President Trump's call. And I think we're we are all committed to getting this done and, you know, securing those wins. This is just a, you know, a strategic move. It's an ongoing discussion if it's one bill or two. We're all on the same team. And like I said, President Trump's the quarterback. He's ultimately going to make the call.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
But I think objectively the best strategy here is to get one border package done early and then let's deal with the other stuff later in the year.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
Absolutely. Now, look, I came in in the 2022 cycle. I think one of the things that's also true is you have a younger group of members that have come in since 2018, really, that, you know, when Trump has been on the stage, I think it's transformed our conference in many ways to sort of America first. But Trump is, you know, it's not disputed at all that he's the leader of our party.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
And by the way, the reason we have 53 votes in the Senate and why we have a House majority and why we are the party of American workers now is We are a broad based party with great opportunities ahead. Now, one of the things that you guys did really well at Turning Point was that means with that broader base, we have more lower propensity voters. So we've got to make sure people show up and vote.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
But this is the path moving forward. And I do think in that room. Everybody understood the role that President Trump played for us to be in this very unique historical position where we have the House and the Senate and the White House to get this stuff done and deliver. So I don't think there's any disputing that at all. And I'm very much at home in this party, Charlie.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Trump's Cabinet Will Change D.C. Forever
I grew up in a working class blue collar neighborhood in the St. Louis area. And so to have our party now representing the people who do that hard work every day is exactly where we ought to be.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
I'm doing good. Sorry about this. My flight out of Oklahoma City got or Tulsa got canceled. So I'm flying to Oklahoma City to get to get to Tulsa in time. My wife actually drive me. So I apologize about this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
Well, Charlie, you and I have had discussions about Ukraine funding, and I have been on the side of saying, you know, we have an obligation to Ukraine because of the Budapest memorandum signed in 1994. The problem is that you don't bite the hand that feeds you. And it's very frustrating to me when you start having the president, Zelensky, who has to have us, disrespect the president
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
and the vice president in that manner. There's no excuse for it. And at this point, it's not our issue. It is the president's position, President Trump's position to end the fighting. When that takes place, President Zelensky, who has to have us, has to listen because we're tired of funding. The taxpayers are tired of funding. It's been going on long enough. There's no end in sight.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
There's no win for Ukraine here. How do you get out and stop the killing, which is what President Trump has made very clear in saying that he's not ready to negotiate? That's... At that point, President Trump did exactly what he needed to do, kick him out and say, come back when you're ready for peace.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
You know, it's not for me to say that he should resign or not. I think that's for the people of Ukraine and Ukrainians to make that decision. I don't want to get the position of what happened during the Arab Spring to where Secretary Clinton was making a decision who's going to rule what country. That's been a disaster ever since.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
What I want to do is keep the taxpayer dollars going to what President Trump wants to spend them for President Trump wants to end the killing. I think we have a very strong position that we should be able to recoup the money, the billions of dollars we spent by negotiating the mineral deal.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
If you remember, Charlie, you and I spoke about this mineral deal because Lacey Graham, myself, Josh Gunheimer all negotiated that deal, the national security deal, back almost a year ago. that allowed us to have rights to minerals. And part of the funding that we did a year ago, we had put in there that we have first rights for refusal to the minerals.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
Now, keep in mind, this is the third largest mineral deposit in the world that we know of. We think that once we get in there, It's going, because right now we know it's valued at almost $3 trillion. We think once we get in there and we actually are having U.S. mining companies using today's technology, we feel like once we get in there, it may be the world's largest deposit.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
Well, right now we're getting the majority of our rare earth minerals from China. So this would be a huge advantage for us if we were able to get this mineral deal done.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
At that point, it becomes a national security interest for us, which doesn't make any sense at all why Zelensky wouldn't want that deal done because if we're invested and we have a special interest in getting the minerals done, then that also becomes a national security for us and we're going to have more people in there to be able to protect Ukraine from Russia's aggression.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
I think, one, he was used to dealing with the passive administration of Biden, who could remember one sentence past the next. He hadn't dealt with a strong leader like President Trump and our Vice President J.D. Vance. I think he got in there thinking he was just going to—I think he thought the media was on his side. What he didn't realize is America has changed. The narrative has changed.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
People are tired of it. President Trump made it a campaign speech, literally, that he was going to end the killing in Ukraine. And the American people want to make that happen. What I don't understand is how the left is getting off on all of a sudden saying that They're for this. I think it's a losing argument on their side. And plus, Zelensky's got a bad read on politics.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
Keep in mind, he went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for Harris. Vice President Vance brought that up, and that still is a sore subject.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
What Zelensky should have done, which obviously he didn't read politics very well, which most Europeans don't understand American politics, what he should have done is came in with his hat in hand, thanked the president for his support, thanked the president for trying to negotiate peace,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
Thank the American people for the investment and say, we would love to partner with you with the minerals that Ukraine have and let's move forward. Instead, he wanted to air it out in front of all the cameras, which is a bad move, especially with President Trump.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
The path forward is that Linsky comes to President Trump, apologizes, apologizes to the American people, and says, we're going to give you a very favorable mineral deal and negotiate the best peace deal you can. On the other hand, if he thinks the European Union is the backing he needs, good on them. Let the American people pull out.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
I've always said that we shouldn't be taking the lead on this to begin with. It's not in our backyard. It's Europeans' interest, not our interest. They got the gas line. Ukraine, remember, has the second largest natural gas line going into Europe. And if they want Russia to control all the gas to Europe, which means they'll control the entire economy, then that's on Europe.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
So if Europe wants to take the reins here, if Europe wants to think they can fight this war without us, great. It hasn't happened the last two times they thought they could do that. We had to get involved. But if this is one they want to do, then let America take a back seat and have at
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
This is what domestic terrorism does. This is what domestic terrorism looks like. They very much want people to be in fear. That's why they do it. They understand that people understand that there is a risk of bodily harm or even death in these kinds of circumstances. and that's designed to induce fear. One of the many problems with this is that these folks apparently feel at liberty to do this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
They've been trained by the radical left to think that there will be no consequence to them for doing this, that they'll be applauded, that they'll be rewarded. This isn't going to end well for them, and it's not going to end well for the country. It's got to come to a stop. One of the things that is missing in all of this, we haven't seen
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
Politicians on the left, elected officeholders in the Democratic Party, in any significant numbers coming out and saying, stop this madness, end this, stop the death threats, stop the painting of the swastikas, the vandalism, all forms of violence, knock it off. You've seen that almost not at all.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
Representative Ro Khanna is one of the few who has come out to do it, and I invite all other Democrats to join him. There's no good reason for them not to, and they must.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
This isn't funny. It's not cute. It shouldn't be allowed on public airwaves. And I'm frankly stunned that his network hasn't called him out on it, hasn't apologized, hasn't taken some action against him for doing this. This is disgraceful.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
Regardless of what your political views are as an American, you should be able to look at this objectively and say, you know, violence and acts of vandalism aren't a good thing. And if you're going to comment on that, either say something that's actually funny, which this wasn't, or ideally pair it with something suggesting that people not do it. Instead, he did the opposite. That is shameful.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
They haven't been inclined to talk about it. And then when Democratic politicians do talk about it, they at least don't denounce it. Take this comment from Tim Walz, for example. There's nothing wrong if that's his thing to monitor the stocks of this or that company. and figuring out what kind of stock prices make him happy and make him sad.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
And if he wants to celebrate when some company stock value goes down, it's up to him. It's weird here, given that his own state retirement fund is pretty heavily invested in Tesla, as I understand it. So, he's celebrating the diminution in value of his own state workers, his own state retirees' retirement benefits. That's kind of weird.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
But what's doubly weird and concerning is that if he's going to bring up Tesla at all, why wouldn't he take that opportunity to say, by the way, regardless of whether you want to celebrate when Tesla's stock price goes down, knock it off with the violence. He didn't do that. There's a reason he didn't do that. And I fear what it means for the future of our country.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
And Democrats should fear what that means for the future of the Democratic Party.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
Look, there are things that can be done. I'll be introducing legislation next week that would require a separate procedure to be followed for this type of injunction. When I mean this type of injunction, I mean a type of injunction that has nationwide applicability
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
within the US government and is focused on a presidential policy decision, those should have to go, rather than being considered by a single federal district judge, they should have to go before a three-judge district court panel.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
This is a procedure that's utilized in some limited cases, most of them dealing with the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives or the drawing of federal legislative boundaries.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
But we could add this to the list, and that's what my legislation would do, make it infinitely more difficult to game the system, to judge shop, to file the case in a place that suggests from the outset you'll get a very favorable audience from a leftist judge. And then just as importantly, anytime you've got a three-judge district court panel, you've got an immediate automatic appeal to the U.S.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
Supreme Court, not the opportunity to seek certiorari, or discretionary review from the Supreme Court, which is how it usually works there, but rather a direct appeal, meaning the Supreme Court has to review it, or if it chooses not to, it's still setting precedent.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
This would expedite the process, diminish the amount of time that these leftist activist judges could tie up the Trump administration in these legal proceedings, And it would also dramatically impair the ability of the plaintiffs to judge Shupp so as to rig the system in their favor.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
Yeah, this is maybe roughly analogous to the fact that there are circumstances in which a direct order from someone in your chain of command at the military isn't something that you follow. I don't know that the parallel works exactly, but yeah, there are theoretical limits beyond which a chief executive might deem it appropriate not to follow something.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
It's got to be a matter of individual discretion. In the circumstance that we saw last week, The thing that the court was trying to stop had already happened. That was already underway. So that's a different set of circumstances than what you were describing. The rule of law is important. And so normally one follows orders.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk: Public Enemy #1
It would be extreme, extreme unusual exception were something like that to exist. But I don't think anyone doubts that there are limits to that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Hello Kash Patel, Goodbye Mitch McConnell
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The Charlie Kirk Show
Hello Kash Patel, Goodbye Mitch McConnell
Kash Patel is a crown jewel in this lawless rampage. He's an instrument of Donald Trump's effort to destroy the Justice Department and the FBI. so that he is absolutely and completely not only above the law, but beyond the law.
The Charlie Kirk Show
We Have a Border Again
Well, so I guess it was earlier this week, Schumer said that he wasn't going to give one single Democrat the ability to vote on the CR. He was going to go into the shutdown because he said that Republicans doesn't have the vote. Well, obviously, because we only have 53. Take Rand Paul off of it, we're at 52. Mitch McConnell, we don't know where he's going to vote at it, so we're probably at 51.
The Charlie Kirk Show
We Have a Border Again
Where we're at with the CR right now as we speak, we invoke cloture on it at 115 today. Now, that means it's a 30-hour window, and if the Democrats fight us on the 30-hour window, they can yield back their time if they want to. If they fight us, then we won't be able to vote on it until tomorrow and shut down. All the Democrats have agreed to do it except five. Five Democrats.
The Charlie Kirk Show
We Have a Border Again
The five Democrats that have agreed not to yield back to us on this are all up for reelection. They're all in states that President Trump won, and they're wanting to use this for a fundraising opportunity so they can show their base that they're fighting for a losing cause. Because they can't explain this, Charlie. They can't explain why they're against the CIA.
The Charlie Kirk Show
We Have a Border Again
Because, mind you, these are the same numbers, the same top line numbers that they voted for in September when Biden was in office in December when Biden was on office. And the only thing that's really changed now is that Trump's in office.
The Charlie Kirk Show
We Have a Border Again
So how do you explain that the American people that you voted for it twice, but now you won't because the only reason is you hate the president that's currently in there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
We Have a Border Again
Yeah, so what we've got to do here, and President Trump and I have spoke about this in length, President Trump is dead set on trying to balance the budget. It's going to be very difficult to do that in FY26. So mind you, we're fighting over FY25, which FY25 runs out in September 30th because we're running off a fiscal year. So we go from October 1 to September 30th.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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We're five and a half months into FY25. Chuck Schumer not one time brought up a single appropriation bill. We had 11 appropriation bills sitting on his desk since July 31st. Six of them pass out a committee with unanimous support, meaning no opposition. And he didn't one time bring it
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to the floor, which now he's saying that the reason why we're doing the CR is because Republicans lack of leadership, but whatever. What we've got to do is cut the umbilical cord from the Biden administration. It's holding us back.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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There's no way we can get the doge cuts that we need in this fiscal year for FY25 because before the Biden administration left, they up, they front loaded all the spending. So basically most of the money for FY25 has already been spent. This is why You saw in the Doge Act, they went in and they clawed back $80 billion from FEMA.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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They're going through these programs and they're getting the money back because otherwise we're going to run out of money. I mean, they literally spent all the money in January. So with that, that means that we can't start enacting doge cuts until we start on FY26. So we've got to cut a clean cut. We need to say goodbye, play the song. Hey, hey, hey, goodbye, whatever that song is.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah, there you go. No, no, no, no. And get FY25 behind us to the Biden administration and move on to FY26. We start working on it. Now, think about this. We're already into March. We'll start working on FY26 appropriations literally Monday.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I mean, we'll start working on them Monday because we need to have all 12 appropriation bills, unless we're going to do another CR, which none of us want to do that. We got to have all 12 appropriation bills out of the committees, out of the appropriation committee, which I sat on, and to the floor no later than July 31st. Now, the House has to do the same thing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And then we've got to start working out our differences so we can avoid conference in most of the bills because they're going to be different bills. But if we don't have them done by the time we get back from our August recess, we're going to run into a CR.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So the more we waste on FY25, and I know this is getting wonky, the more we waste on FY25, the less likely we are to get FY26 appropriation done and get started with President Trump's agenda.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Well, so that's another thing. People are confused by this. We've got the budget we got to do, which sets the top line numbers. Budget is not reconciliation. Budget just simply sets the top line numbers for each committee to have to fall within. So we've got the budget from the House. We still have got to get our budget done in the Senate.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And the difference that we're fighting on is current tax policy or current tax law. So what that means is the current taxes that we're playing in right now, once again, this is difficult, but your listening audience is very educated on politics. I believe they're following. Right now, what we're working on is underneath the current tax policy that President Trump put in place.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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But the law says it expires the end of this year. And if we allow it to expire the way the CBO scores it, the Congressional Budget Office says that we have to count that as a deficit once it expires at $4 trillion. What the House has got written is they have their budget wrote on current tax law. It should be current tax policy. That way we don't have to count it as a policy or as a debt.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Either way, we have to work those differences out before we can even start reconciliation. So once we get the budget done, then we can start reconciliation, and we still have FY26, which is why we've got to get rid of one more off our plate, FY25. The Biden administration—
The Charlie Kirk Show
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left us in a mess they didn't do one single thing so we can get one thing off our plate we will be focusing on fy 26 at the same time getting the budget done and getting one big beautiful bill for president trump he's made he's made it very clear that's what he wants when do you think by when though just just to what i would if you were i think we're behind now we wanted to get it done uh by memorial weekend i don't think we can do that i think we're probably going to be in july by the time we get it done there's a chance
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It could all come together that quick now that we're not having to deal with this CR anymore. There's a chance it can get done. But I think realistically, it's going to be July.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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We can. We can get a lot of cuts in there. I believe we could approach a trillion dollars in cuts. I think $2 trillion is going to be tough.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It it'd be it'd be a trillion over this physical year. OK, that would be that's big. Yeah. So but that would be that'd be tough to do. But I'm saying it's possible. And that'd be when I say the fiscal year would be basically for the two year of Congress. So 119th Congress, we'd build it. So it's basically two years, but it'd be the physical year of FY26. It's wonky math.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It only works in government. But the real savings we could find is through rescission. Now, I know this is something you know about. Most of the public people are just now starting to figure out what rescission is. What's interesting about the rescission, and Elon and I were talking about this early last Saturday.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I mean, he literally called me at 1 o'clock in the morning, and we're talking about this because I'd seen it before. I know. It's him and President Trump, two very successful guys, don't sleep. Maybe there's something to this. We've got it all wrong, people thinking that you've got to have eight hours of sleep because those two guys don't get it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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But anyways, when you start looking at rescission, I sent Elon two PDF files with 1,500 programs, agencies, and departments that have not been reauthorized by Congress. and each one of them have a tag attached to them.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Essentially, the rescission, he could go through each one of these that these agencies have not been reauthorized, these programs that have not been reauthorized, and these departments that have not been reauthorized, and give them to Congress one, two, or five at a time. In the rescission, we have 45 days to either agree with them or do nothing. If we do nothing, they've actually become law.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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If we actually vote on them and vote them down, then they become law where the next president can't reinstate them. It's a huge cost savings. I mean, I feel like we could probably be somewhere, and this is what Elon and I were talking about, somewhere around $250 billion to $500 billion in cuts right there. And it's simple. It's very easy for us to do. It's a conversation we're having. So
The Charlie Kirk Show
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We can have cuts in that, in the rescission. We can have cuts in the reconciliation package. And then you're also going to have cuts in FY26.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Well, that's part of the programs. A lot of these programs that the PPP and the COVID money was never technically authorized by Congress. What we did is we gave the administration a big clump of money, and we allowed them to set up these programs that we never authorized. They actually set up extra departments, too, that we never authorized.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Every single one of those can come out through rescission.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So the courts can't tie up anything that goes through the rescission. Nothing. Anything that is outside of rescission, technically they can, but it's tough for them to make the argument because most of the cuts are coming from unappropriated funds because Congress, because we bundle, we don't do line out of appropriations. We bundle and give to these agencies.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Most of it can be said it's not directly been authorized or funded by government through appropriations. And so what the courts are saying is it has been.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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As it goes through the court system against the Supreme Court, you're going to see more and more of the lower courts being overturned by the Supreme Court because they're – in the most cases – there's been one case they wasn't because it was actually appropriated. Most of these other cases were not appropriated. It was simply designed and put out by OBM by the Biden administration.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Tax increases, absolutely not. Not on the table. What was said, is it theoretically possible? Yes. Is it something that we're going to be able to do? Probably not. The reason why we're in this debt is because it takes a whole lot of us to agree on what we're going to cut to get it passed. And when you start cutting, you start paying attention to this, it starts affecting everybody's state.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I mean, right now, what Doge is doing, I support a thousand percent, but I'm getting a ton of phone calls every single day because of things that are being cut and because it's federal employees. I mean, the biggest employer we have in the United States is, Right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And you start talking just generically speaking, 50 percent of everybody out there, half of everybody out there is either directly or indirectly financially benefiting from some type of federal program. Now, you can say, well, I don't get any of those programs. Well, your contract that your company is working on is paying your salary. So you can keep going down the line. It goes on.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So my point is that it is possible, but it's not likely. Now, talking about taxes. We're going to send more money to Washington, D.C. by raising taxes? Absolutely not. We have proven we can't spend the dollar wisely. I know you know the scripture better than I do when you start talking about the talons and the servants that got five, four, right?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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One guy went and buried it, and one guy spent it wisely. We're the guy that buried it at Washington, D.C., and we're not spending it wisely, and it needs to be given back to the people who will spend it right. We proved underneath President Trump that Reagan economics still work. When President Trump cut taxes, they were talking about this $10 trillion deficit that he was going to add.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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What we saw in the very first year was an actual increase into the Treasury Department. We were actually on the path, if COVID wouldn't have happened, to actually have a balanced budget, which is why President Trump is pushing so hard to have a balanced budget. There is no way underneath the Republican Congress, being in the House and Senate, we're going to raise taxes.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Well, you got to remember, everything's got to go within the bird rule. And it's got to be directly related to something financially because it's reconciliation. So we got to be very careful that we don't blow up the whole bill by trying to put too much stuff into it. We're going to have other opportunities as we move forward because we still have the disaster bill we've got to put into.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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We've still got to be looking at trying to do immigration reform. There's going to be opportunities for us to do this. And then there's one thing that I have had the privilege of talking with Secretary Burgum about is setting up this true sovereign wealth fund. And this is stuff that can be put in this bill, by the way, but the sovereign wealth fund that goes after the debt.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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If we use the resources we have inside the United States, which we have more resources under our feet in the United States than any other country in the world, we just don't utilize it. But we actually set up a sovereign wealth fund like a lot of these Middle East rich countries do.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And instead of us using it as a slush fund, but we use it specifically 100% to pay off the debt, we can see where we could get out of debt in a year and a half's lifetime. Now, it'll still be our kids carrying it, but there's an opportunity for us to get out of debt in our lifetime underneath President Trump setting it up for future congresses if they don't screw it up. But who knows?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah, great to be with you, Charlie. Yeah, exactly, the latter. So basically, the budget resolution sets the framework by which now we move into the reconciliation process, right? So it unlocks the process for the committees to go do the work, right? Like ways and means of the Senate Finance Committee to start to put meat on the bones of these ideas that have been talked about.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Principally, you know, making the tax cuts from 2017 permanent, extending those,
The Charlie Kirk Show
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um and then you've got all the other things that no tax on tips you've got money for border security and deportations um because we're going to need help to make sure this mass deportation movement is actually funded uh for defense and then also you know for for permitting reform hopefully on energy and then uh lastly and i think almost most importantly uh some spending reforms we've got to get this thing under control carly i tell people that
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Here's what's interesting. In 2019, not 1919, in 2019, we were spending about $4 trillion. We spend $7 trillion after the last four years of the Biden budget and the COVID orgy spending, right? We take in $5 trillion.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So if we can actually have some reform, bend that curve, have revenues with all of the good things that are happening with President Trump catch up, it's realistic to think we can have a balanced budget in a few years. But we've got to do that hard work, and we can do that in the reconciliation process too, which only takes a simple majority in the Senate.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And I think for the audience, that's the most important thing. If the House can hang together and Senate Republicans can hang together on this, we don't need a single Democrat vote. I wouldn't expect to get one because they're not – rational at this point. So we got to make sure we take care of our own business here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Sure, and you're right. I think that... it's coming into focus now. We spend more. We spend a trillion dollars a year on the interest on that $36 trillion debt. That's only going to grow as some of these things become more mature and they need to be refinanced with higher interest rates over the last few years because of Biden inflation, right?
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So that problem is only going to get more significant unless we can find real savings. I think there's two ways to look at this. One is There's a lot of discretionary spending that we're finding the savings. This is the work that Doge is doing, right? And so we've just take USAID as an example. All of that money, Guam on sex changes, DEI and Burma.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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LGBTQIA, you know, programming in Sesame street in Iraq, that all stuff that adds up. Right. And that's the kind of thing like take Marco Rubio, what he said was, he said, 83% of the stuff we were doing, we're not going to do that anymore. The 17% that remains, we're going to go move in further American interests overseas. Right.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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That's the kind of reform you have internally that Doge finds that gets embedded in savings moving forward. What are some other things you can do? I think what's broadly popular, um, is work requirements. If you're an able-bodied adult, you should be required to work. That explosion under Obamacare is really affecting people who need it most, Medicaid.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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So when President Trump talks about making sure we're not touching Social Security, not making sure we're touching benefits on Medicare and Medicaid, I think we're all with him in lockstep. But we got to make sure that the able-bodied population that's not working, they're draining the system. They're crowding hospitals. They're crowding out doctor visits for
The Charlie Kirk Show
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you know, pregnant mothers, individuals with disabilities, what that program was really meant for. So there's a lot of work to do, as I said, to put meat on the bones there, but I think we can get there. And here's the way to look at it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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If we just went back to pre-pandemic spending, Charlie, 2019 spending levels, plus inflation and population growth, that's like a trillion dollar difference than what we're spending right now. So I think we can make some real progress here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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Yeah, I spent a lot of this week, I think, defending President Trump's leadership in Washington. And permanent Washington is totally disconnected from what's really happening. Sort of the global elites have had their run here. After World War II, we had all these favorable deals for countries who were trying to get back on their feet, Germany, Japan, all these countries.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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And with the goal of defeating Soviet communism, we won. After the Cold War ended, though, we didn't adjust at all. So you can't buy or you don't see an American car in Europe. You don't see an American car in Japan. You don't see an American car in Korea. Yet all of their cars are in our markets because they have erected these barriers over time through tariffs, trade barriers.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A Big Beautiful Bill + A Bright Future Ahead
in China specifically, stealing our IP. It's been very unfair to us. And I do come from a state, and I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood where all those good-paying jobs, those factory jobs, they went overseas. fentanyl, you know, we got fentanyl in exchange. And so my message is America isn't an economic zone. America isn't some strip mall with an airport attached to it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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It's a people, it's a place, it's our home. And we finally have a president that's willing to stand up and say, you know what? We've been treated very unfairly. We're going to treat you like you treat us. And now look what's happening. 70 countries plus have come to the table and said, we heard what you had to say.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A Big Beautiful Bill + A Bright Future Ahead
We understand the United States of America is 39% of all the consumption in the world. It's 25% of the world's GDP. It's a very important market for us. So we're going to lower our trade barriers so that we can actually have fair trade. So President Trump has made tremendous progress on this. And by the way, it opens up markets for our farmers and our other industries around the world.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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I think the way to look at this, Charlie, is you've got two different buckets. You've got communist China and you've got everybody else. China is the worst defender. They made a terrible decision trying to escalate this. They rip off our IP. They steal our jobs. They create trade barriers.
The Charlie Kirk Show
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They say, oh, yeah, no, you can't sell your chickens here because you didn't wash them properly, or you can't sell your electronics here because there's this bolt that's out of place. It's not just the tariffs. It's all the other hidden trade barriers that prevent our goods getting to market. They export five times more than we export to them. They have a hell of a lot more to lose in this
The Charlie Kirk Show
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If they continue down this path. So we'll see if they have a come to Jesus moment or not. I think the rest of the world is. And I think at the end of the day, it's going to lead to greater prosperity for us because we're going to have more markets open.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A Big Beautiful Bill + A Bright Future Ahead
We'll have more revenue coming into this country and we'll bring back industry, those good paying jobs that we had for a very long time that didn't need to go somewhere else.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A Big Beautiful Bill + A Bright Future Ahead
Will do, brother. Take care. See you.