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In this video 0:00 DHS Funding Crisis and Shutdown Drama12:26 Iran Strait Standoff and Peace Prospects22:01 Senate Strategy to End Shutdown Standoff32:02 Big Tech Losses and Transgender Ideology Shift
DHS Funding Crisis and Shutdown Drama 0:00 Hello. I'm Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council and host of Washington Watch. Thanks for tuning in. Every day, we offer a biblical perspective on the news as well as insightful interviews with elected0:11 leaders, newsmakers, and culture experts. We have a great program planned for you today, but first, get up to speed on the top headlines with Washington Stan's news brief.0:26 Welcome to the Washington Stan news brief. I'm Mary Stackhouse bringing bringing you today's big stories. Well, less than 24 hours ago, it looked like congress was reaching a deal on homeland security funding. The US0:37 Senate voted very early this morning to end a partial government shutdown that has jammed airports across the country. However, their vote did not resolve a dispute over ICE funding and reforms that prompted the 6 week0:49 standoff in the first place. The legislation would restore funding for most of the Department of Homeland Security, including TSA workers, disaster response workers, and members of the US Coast Guard who have been1:01 working without pay since mid February. However, it does not include new limits on DSH agents carrying out president Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, a key demand of Democrats. Here's1:13 reaction from senate majority leader John Thune early this morning after the senate vote.1:18 Just a few minutes ago, Republicans funded the Department of Homeland Security piecemeal. It's not the way to fund the department, mister president, but we are out of time for the critical responsibilities
1:30 and tens of thousands of workers currently going without pay. And since Democrats have made fiscal year 20 26, the year they choose to repudiate 1 of their most basic responsibilities as members of Congress
1:42 to fund the government, This is what we have been reduced to.
1:46 The Republican controlled House of Representatives must also pass the bill before Trump can sign it into law. But as of Friday afternoon, house leaders were not sold on the deal. Instead, speaker Mike Johnson said that
1:58 his chamber was leaning toward a short term resolution that would give congress 8 more weeks to reach an agreement, a temporary fix that the president is rumored to support. Meanwhile, at the White House, vice president
2:10 JD Vance held a task force meeting for his new anti fraud initiative. The administration first took on fraud through the Department of Government Efficiency and then ramped up those efforts after widespread fraud was
2:21 uncovered in Minneapolis, especially among Somali migrants. Vance said that the fraud found in Minneapolis is happening in cities around the country.
2:31 Here's the basic problem that we've had in this in this government going back for probably 30 or 40 years is that you've never had an administration that has really taken this seriously until the
2:42 president put us really from day 1 of the Trump administration who said, we have to take the fraud issue seriously. And a lot of the anti fraud protections that existed, in our government for a very long
2:54 time were actually turned off by the Biden administration. So we think fraud has been a problem for a long time. It became a massive, massive problem under the Biden administration. We're gonna do a number of things.
3:03 First of all, we're gonna turn back on those anti fraud protections so that all of these cabinet officials are looking at what's going on and focusing on it. The second thing is that we're going to take a whole of
3:13 government approach. So much of what's gonna make the anti fraud task force work is that we're at we're communicating across different departments.
3:21 The vice president touted new resources and coordination with the Department of Justice to expand the prosecution of fraudsters. Federal watchdog reports have shown for years that most people who defraud the federal
3:32 government get away with it, and now that looks like that's about to change. In other news, secretary of state Marco Rubio joined the second day of the g 7 summit. At the summit, leaders of the western
3:44 democracies face a tough economy and energy crisis among the ongoing wars in Iran and Ukraine. In particular, the Strait of Hormuz, which channels 20 percent of the world's oil is in the
3:56 spotlight. As leaders hash things out, strikes continue in Iran. President Donald Trump has signaled progress is being made in negotiations, though some Iranian sources have denied that. The
4:08 president posted on true social yesterday that he would hold off on energy strikes for another 10 days because he said that talks are going well. We'll keep an eye on those negotiations.
4:19 And that is today's news. You can dive deeper at the Washington Stand, family research count council's outlet for news and commentary from a biblical worldview. Head to Washington Stand dot
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4:52 From the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, DC, bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and sound bites into conversations with our nation's leaders and
5:04 newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heiss.
5:11 The Republicans are not gonna be a party to this. They have taken hostage the funding processes of government so that they can impose their radical agenda on the American people when we can't have any part of it. This
5:22 gambit that was done last night is a joke.
5:27 Well, that was house speaker Mike Johnson earlier today as the house prepared to take up a senate passed bill to fund and reopen the Department of Homeland Security. Welcome to
5:38 this March 20 seventh edition of Washington Watch. I am your Friday host, Jody Heise. Welcome aboard. Thanks for joining. Alright. Coming up today, house Republicans this afternoon
5:50 formally rejected the senate's compromise deal to fund the, most of DHS. It would have excluded ICE and US Customs and Border Protection. So what's next?
6:03 Well, we'll hear from both the house side and the senate side when we're joined by congressman Glenn Grossman and senator Ron Johnson. Plus, there's big tech news this
6:14 week. They lost 2 major cases regarding the way they harm young people. And Internet safety expert Donna Rice Hughes will be joining us later to discuss the implications.
6:33 Alright. The US Senate reached a deal around 3 AM this morning to try to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security. Of course, they were attempting to put an end to the shutdown, but
6:45 house Republicans are not happy about it. And joining us now to give the details is Washington Rock Watch reporter, Mary Stackhouse. Mary, it sounds like there's a lot of drama
6:57 taking place. What's unfolded?
6:59 Indeed, Jody. House Republicans opposed the senate's bill to fund most of DHS. House speaker Mike Johnson said that his chamber would look into pass a resolution to fund the entire department for the next 8
7:11 weeks. The legislation passed by the senate would have financed most of DHS, including TSA, the US Coast Guard, and FEMA, but not ICE and not parts of CBP. The
7:23 dispute over immigration enforcement reform between Democrats and Republicans remains unsolved. Today marks day 42 of the partial government shutdown. The shutdown has, of course, led to long security
7:34 lines at airports across the country as hundreds of TSA officers have quit and others have called out of work since the shutdown began. Jody?
7:44 Wow. We will certainly be keeping a watch on that. If I can real quickly, Mary, turn to some international news. President has extended his deadline for Iran to reopen the, Strait of
7:55 Hormuz by 10 days. So, you know, in the meantime, we have a continued pause on strikes on Iranian power plants. Can you walk us through the latest developments there?
8:06 Sure, Jody. This is the second time that president Trump has extended the deadline. He says that talks with Iran are ongoing. However, some sources in Iran have denied that negotiations are taking place. Also,
8:18 there's been no indication that Iran is letting up on their blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which is, of course, a major oil route. Since the conflict began, traffic in the sea passage is down by 90
8:30 percent, which has spiked prices of global oil. Iran reportedly has said that there will be, quote, harsh measures for any transit through the strait. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is considering sending
8:41 10000 more troops to the Middle East according to a senior US defense official. Jody?
8:48 Alright, Mary. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. In fact, here in just a little while, we're gonna have former US special representative for Iran, Elliot Abrams, to talk more in-depth about the conflict in the
9:00 Middle East and what's going on there. But before we get to that, I wanna move over to what's happening on Capitol Hill specifically as it relates to DHS funding and that battle. Joining me now to
9:11 discuss this is congressman Glenn Grossman. He's a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He represents the sixth congressional district of Wisconsin. Congressman Grossman, welcome
9:23 back to Washington Watch. Always an honor to have you, sir.
9:26 Well, glad to be on the show. We're still in Washington tonight, which is a little later than we intended a couple days ago.
9:33 Alright. So let's let's go to this DHMs funding battle. Why are house Republicans opposed to the senate's bill?
9:42 Well, the senate bill does not adequately fund either ICE or the border patrol. Now I think what the senators in support of that would tell you is we have
9:54 enough money available right now that we can do a reconciliation package and get the money to fund, these 2 vital organizations before they run out of money. The
10:05 problem is we have a very slim majority in the house of representatives, and there is no guarantee that we can put together any package that will only cause us to lose 2
10:17 votes and could easily be 1 vote. And therefore, we we feel it would be reckless, not to pass a bill that is fully funding both ICE
10:29 and border patrol right now. You might ask, why don't the Democrats contribute any money here? As a sadly true and been shown again and again, the Democrats do not like ICE
10:41 or border patrol. They do not, right now, like to fund their immigration laws at all. This has been shown several times over the last few years. You'll recall in the 20 16
10:53 election, every prominent Democrat said that they were not for fun or for fun they were for funding free medical care for all people who were in this country illegally.
11:04 And when Joe Biden was president, he basically let anybody in here who showed up. And now we see that the since ICE and border patrol
11:16 are the 2 law enforcement agencies responsible for enforcing the border, we see that the democrats see no necessity in giving them any money, which, of course, would turn around go
11:28 ahead.
11:30 Yeah. So what's the way forward? How how do we move, beyond this?
11:35 Well, there are a variety of things that, that, appear in this bill. Donald Trump solved the biggest problem by he just plain announced
11:47 that he is going to fund, the, people at the airports. And I think that of all the things that Homeland
11:59 Security does, that's the 1 thing that has to get done and the people care about. So since he has just announced he's going to fund that, I think the other parts of the law, well,
12:11 hopefully, we'll be able to come to a a compromise on them. The public does not feel the sense of necessity, and we may just go on for a while without any other parts of this
12:23 program being funded.
Iran Strait Standoff and Peace Prospects
12:26 Wow. What a mess. Thank you so much, Wisconsin congressman Glenn Growthman. Always great to have you joining us. Alright. Now let's jump over to the other big issue that's taking place right now. That is the
12:37 conflict that's unfolding with Iran as negotiations continue and the US continues to ramp up its military presence in the Middle East. Are we at all close
12:49 to a deal with Iran? Well, joining us now to break down these developments is Elliot Abrams, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He
13:01 previously served as a US special representative for Iran during the first Trump administration. Elliott, welcome to Washington Watch. It's an honor to have you with us.
13:11 Thanks very much. Glad to be here.
13:14 Alright. So what do you make of the peace talks that are taking place? Are we at all close to making a deal with Iran?
13:22 I don't think so. If you look at our demands and theirs, there's really a big difference. There's really a gap between them. I think it's more likely that the president
13:34 is gonna hit the targets he wants to hit over the next couple of weeks and then basically stop. So I think it's more likely that we just kind of we have a kind of ceasefire on both sides
13:47 than that we have, you know, a negotiated 10 page, peace treaty.
13:54 Well, we're hearing about the potential at least of a deployment of an additional 10000 troops or something in that general ballpark. 1 would
14:05 think that that would be even just a threat of it would pose a lot of pressure to maybe push Iran to make a deal. Do you think there's any possibility of that?
14:17 Well, you know, I thought that, this morning that I don't know whether the president intended to use the troops, but it is a form of pressure. But according to news reports, secretary Rubio said
14:29 meeting with the Europeans today, we don't need ground troops to achieve everything we want to achieve. Now maybe that's a ruse of faint, you know, to mislead the Iranians.
14:41 And it is hard to believe the president would send thousands of troops if he really doesn't have any intention of using them. And if he if he doesn't, you know, then secretary Rubio should not have said what he
14:53 said. He should not have, in a sense, reassured, the Iranians indirectly that we weren't planning to use them. Maybe the president means for the Iranian mainland and he still might
15:05 take an island or 2. But my my sense of it is he's gonna continue the air war for a while and hope that the Iranians basically realize they'd
15:16 better stop.
15:19 Yeah. You would think that that they would be getting that message. So what what about Israel in all of this? What role does Israel have, or what role does Israel want
15:31 when it comes to collaborating in this operation?
15:35 Right. I I think, for 1 thing, they'll stop and we stop. That is it's like in the 12 day war last year, when the president said, we're done. It's over.
15:47 The Israelis said, okay. They had probably intended to do more. But once he said stop, they stopped. And I think this this time too, if he in a week or 10 days or whatever says,
15:59 okay, we're done, they will stop. But it is worth saying, I don't think we've had a military partner like this really since the British in World War 2. You know, there were there were countries helping
16:11 us in Vietnam and in Afghanistan, the South Koreans in Vietnam, a bunch of countries in Afghanistan, really probably more than about a dozen. But, you know, we
16:22 were so much the senior partner, and they were they were kind of symbolic. This is different. This is really having a full partnership here with the Israeli
16:34 Air Force. But, again, we're the senior partner. And when the president says it's over, it's going to be over.
16:43 Okay. So when is that gonna happen? How long do you see this conflict playing out?
16:49 Well, initially, the, the United States said this was something like 4 weeks. The Israelis, it said 4 to 6 weeks. We're now in week 4.
17:01 Apparently, secretary Rubio said we might need a couple more weeks. So we are, I think, going to get into April, which is just around the corner. I wouldn't
17:13 see it going beyond around the middle of the month. So my guess, my estimate is a couple more weeks. Maybe you get to about April fifteenth.
17:25 But I I think it's not going to go beyond that.
17:29 And real quickly, we've got about 30 seconds or so. Do you think enough damage has been done and enough of a strong message been sent to stop Iran from being the threat that they were?
17:41 I think we've degraded them fantastically well. I don't trust them. They may, you know, particularly after president Trump is gone, they may try to rebuild. And you have to hope that whoever is
17:53 president next has the guts that president Trump does to, really enforce what we're saying.
18:01 Alright. Thank you so much. Elliot Abrams, senior fellow from Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Great to have you joining us on Washington Watch. Thank you. Alright.
18:13 By the way, I wanna invite each of you to join us for the most important thing we can be doing during this critical hour, and that is to pray. This is
18:25 a time for us to prayer, and we welcome you to come on board with us. To get more info, simply text the word Iran. Text Iran to 6 7 7 4 2 and
18:37 commit to prayer. Alright. Coming up, we're gonna go further into the DHS funding battle. We're gonna jump over to the senate side. US Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin will be joining me
18:49 next. So stick around. We'll be right back.
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21:55 Hi. I'm Jody Heist, your Friday host. Thanks so much for tuning in. Welcome back to Washington Watch. Glad to have you. Alright. Earlier this morning, it appeared as if the second
Senate Strategy to End Shutdown Standoff
22:07 longest government shutdown in US history would soon be coming to an end. In the early hours this morning, the senate voted to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security,
22:19 excluding ICE and the US Customs and Border Protection. But then as the bill, although it passed the senate, when it went over to the house just a a little while ago
22:30 earlier this afternoon, the house rejected the deal. So what does all this mean? Well, joining us now to discuss this is senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. He's a member of the senate budget
22:42 committee as well as the committee on homeland security and government affairs. Senator Johnson, it's always an honor to have you on Washington, Wash. Thanks for taking time to join us.
22:53 Well, Jerry, hope you're doing well.
22:55 I'm doing doing very well. Listen. I I should note I should have probably added this that I understand the senate voted earlier this morning by voice vote. But can you kinda go
23:07 over how things unfolded in the senate before the vote in the wee hours this morning?
23:13 Oh, first reality, everybody has to accept, and I don't like it. The legacy of the corporate media is pretty much the communication arm of the Democrat party. So Democrats within community can obstruct.
23:25 They can shut down government. They can, you know, make sure that, people who are living paycheck to paycheck get no paychecks whatsoever, and they know pay they pay no political price for it. They're they're not held
23:36 accountable for it. No pressure is put on them. If the tails were turned and this was Republicans voting time and time again not to open up government, not to fund these agencies, we would be eviscerated in the media. We
23:48 would have caved within a couple days. Democrats can continue this, and and they did continue it for 40 plus days. Finally, Republicans said, okay. Listen. We we've we've got to fund these people. We need to get
23:58 paychecks in in their pockets. I had a email. You know, I'm I'm the guy who sponsored the Shutdown Fairness Act that's supported by 33 different groups, including the American Federation of Government
24:10 Employees, the Teamsters Union. We got a email from 1 of the union rep reps saying that, their president of 1 of their regions said that he he had people coming to him asking if
24:21 their life insurance policy covered suicide. Okay? Now you've got to take that seriously. These are real people struggling to get by, and we're playing these Democrats are playing the political games. So at some
24:33 point, republicans said, okay. We'll accept what we can get. The good news is ICE and CBP were funded by the the 1 big beautiful bill for a period of time. So we have a way to cure
24:45 this. What we need to do is get this behind us, get on the same page, and now through reconciliation, a very focused, a very rapidly passed reconciliation bill, my suggestion is let's pass all of
24:57 DHS for the Trump term and beyond. You know, it'll again, it's gonna be a big price tag, but it's gonna be pro it's gonna be in lieu of appropriations. So Democrats can never use DHS and the the
25:09 men and women of DHS as pawns in their political games. So we can do that, but we need to get started on that. At some point in time, the house is gonna have to recognize the the awful reality that Republicans in the
25:19 senate didn't wanna recognize either. But at some point in time, you say, listen. These people have getting gotta get a paycheck. That's what we agreed to do last night. The good news for TSA, president Trump signed an
25:31 executive order. He'll repurpose funds, but what that means is that that amount of money that can be repurposed to fund ICE and CBP is gonna run out just that much quicker.
25:42 Yeah. It's all a complicated web that is just and you're right. I mean, the the Democrats and the media have just been unbelievable in all of this. So let let's
25:54 move into this afternoon. The house rejected the deal, this afternoon. So your thoughts on that and what happens from here. And then I do wanna go back to your discussion on reconciliation.
26:06 But what about the house today?
26:08 Well, again, I I'm disappointed in that. Listen. I I I completely agree with them. Democrats are being grossly unreasonable, but, again, we can't force Democrats to do certain things when you have no accountability, no
26:19 pressure by the mainstream media. So that that's the pickle we're in as Republicans. It's it's not a fair fight. It's not a level playing field. So I'm not sure how senate leadership's gonna handle that, whether they're
26:28 gonna put that on the floor and just ask to pass that by unanimous consent as well because, you know, peep people have left town. Now we'd all come back if we could pass it. Again, I it's not gonna pass.
26:40 I mean, if if we could have passed up, we would have done that. We would have done that days ago, weeks ago, but it's not gonna pass. So it'll be right back in, this house's lap, and they're gonna figure out, are they
26:50 gonna take yes for an answer and then work toward a reconciliation process where we can again, I'm calling it a reconciliation appropriation process. And from my standpoint, not only do we need to do that
27:02 for DHS for multiple years in the future, but we need to have a strategy now. I'm calling it a reconciliation appropriations process because I don't think the Democrats are gonna play ball and fund government,
27:14 through the normal appropriation process prior to September thirtieth. By the way, Jody, just real quick. You know, I'm I'm now promoting I'm I'm supportive of ending the filibuster. As much as I'd like to have that,
27:23 when the minority stopped awful legislation by the Democrats, they're gonna end it. So, you know, I'm I'm I'm supportive of that. But short of that, what we need to do is we need to be prepared for the Democrat
27:36 obstructionism and use what levers we have, which is reconciliation to make sure that government doesn't shut down. But what I was gonna say is I've been here for 15 years. We should have passed 180
27:47 appropriation bills on time prior to the fiscal year as funding. We passed 6. That's a failure rate of 96.7 percent. So in my colleagues, they say, oh, we can't end the filibuster. We don't wanna wreck the senate.
27:59 How could the senate be more broken? How could this be more dysfunctional? How can this be a bigger mess? I'm willing to make that change.
28:08 Alright. Great point. We've got less than a minute to go. The CR, I'm hearing word of a a 2 month 60 day CR in a house. That may pass,
28:20 but you don't think it will gain a an end solution. Do you really think the reconciliation idea can win?
28:27 Oh, absolutely. No. If we keep it focused, we just fund DHS. And, again, we can do it because there's no appropriation for it. So no normally, you can't go back and and fiddle with discretionary,
28:39 spending in a reconciliation process. But where there's no appropriation, we just appropriate to the mandatory spending process. So we'll turn DHS at least for the years we do it. We'll turn that into mandatory spending.
28:52 A very, very interesting concept. I've heard a lot of folks say that, that funding something like this through reconciliation, yeah, I cannot be done. But it sounds to me like the way you're talking about it, there's a,
29:04 there's a a path forward through that. So very, very interesting concept to go through that. In about, 15 seconds or so before I let you go, Markwayne Mullen, what do you expect from
29:16 him?
29:18 He listen. He's he's a loyal supporter of president Trump. They're they know each other. They are friends. I mean, I I asked Mark Wayne Melton to tell a story about what president Trump did with his son who was
29:27 grievously injured. He will he will implement president Trump's strategy in terms of fixing the enormous mess the Democrats left behind for president Trump and Right. Homeland security.
29:39 US senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, always great to have you. Thank you for joining us. Alright, friends. After the break, a big, big week. Bad week for big tech, but a good week for others. We'll tell you after the
29:51 break.
29:53 For over 4000 years, the Jewish people have had legal, historical, and biblical ties to the land of Israel, especially the heartland of Israel, Judea and Samaria, which much of the world still calls the West Bank.
30:05 To Israelis, Judea and Samaria is far more than a name. It's the center of their ancestral homeland where nearly 80 percent of the Bible's events took place. Abraham purchased property in Hebron, Jacob in Shechem.
30:18 Joshua made an altar on Mount Ebal and led the Israelites into a covenant before God. On Mount Gerizim overlooking Shechem, Jesus talked to the Samaritan woman at the well about worshiping neither on Mount Gerizim
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