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The Senate’s turn with the Big Beautiful Bill, new travel bans from countries of concern, Americans’ consumption of Christian media, and exposing the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center.
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In this video 0:00 International and Domestic Tensions4:40 Political Strategies and Legislative Efforts18:36 Christian Media and Cultural Influence38:39 Standing Firm in Faith and Policy
1:38 Turning stateside. By now, you've likely heard of the horrendous attack that happened in Boulder, Colorado on Sunday. An illegal immigrant in an act of antisemitism
1:50 unleashed an attack on a pro Israel rally using a firebomb. In light of this horrific act of violence, Trump sought to deport the suspect's family who was also here illegally.
2:02 But in a Wednesday ruling, a Biden appointed judge temporarily stopped the deportation. He claimed the family shouldn't be deported in what he called collective punishment. Stephen
2:14 Miller, White House deputy chief of staff countered. He said, once again, the courts give extraordinary preferential treatment to illegal alien foreign terrorists and
2:26 the judicial coup. This case has done far more than spark heated debate. It turns out the attack and the events that have followed play a major role in president
2:37 Trump's travel ban, which he announced yesterday.
2:41 The recent terror attack in Boulder, Colorado has underscored the extreme dangers posed to our country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted as well as those
2:53 who come here as temporary visitors and overstay their visas. We don't want them. We will not allow people to enter our country who wish to do us harm, and nothing will stop
3:05 us from keeping America safe.
3:08 The ban targets 12 countries, including Afghanistan and Iran. There are partial restrictions on 7 more countries like Cuba and Venezuela. As Trump explained, the strength of the
3:20 restriction depends on the severity of the threat. And the administration's focus on security extends far beyond borders. Increasingly, college campuses have been facing extreme
3:32 scrutiny from Trump's team for anti Semitic behavior. And now, Columbia University is under even more fire than it was already. The university is accused of breaking
3:44 federal anti discrimination laws by ignoring anti Semitic harassment of Jewish students. US secretary of education Linda McMahon called Columbia's deliberate indifference not
3:56 only immoral but unlawful. Now, Columbia's accreditation is in jeopardy. The situation took an even more dramatic turn with a shocking revelation from the Department of
4:08 Justice. 1 Columbia protester was found to have direct ties to a Hamas terror cell. With the university's accreditation already hanging on by a thread, this discovery
4:20 further undermines Columbia's position and raises serious questions about campus environment and oversight. And those are today's headlines. I'm Sarah Holliday. Dive deeper with the Washington
4:32 stand at washington stand dot com. Up next is Washington Watch with Tony Perkins. And we're back tomorrow with more stories that matter.
Political Strategies and Legislative Efforts
4:53 From the heart of our nation's capital world view. Washington Watch with Tony Perkins
5:05 starts now. Worldview. Washington Watch with Tony Perkins starts now.
5:11 We had a very positive discussion about the path forward on the big beautiful bill and the reconciliation bill, and I think it was a reminder that, we are all in this together. This is a team effort,
5:23 and everybody is gonna be rolling in the same direction to get this across the finish line.
5:27 How was Republican senate leader John Thune moments after the senate strategy session with president Donald Trump yesterday on the path forward for the reconciliation package. Welcome to this June fifth edition
5:39 of Washington Watch. I'm Tony Perkins. Thanks for tuning in. We'll head on the program. Kansas senator Roger Marshall was in that oval office huddle. He joins us in just a moment with a readout and his take on whether
5:50 the 1 big beautiful bill can clear the senate. And the measure hit sudden turbulence when Elon Musk took to acts to torch it, cooling what had been a warm rapport with president Trump.
6:02 Very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here, better than you people. He knew everything about it. He had no problem with it. All of a sudden, he had a
6:13 problem, and he only developed the problem when he found out that we're gonna have to cut the EV mandate because that's billions and billions of dollars, and it really is unfair.
6:22 We'll break down the rift and its possible implications. The president, yesterday announcing a new travel ban covering citizens from 12 countries.
6:33 We cannot have open migration from any country where we cannot safely and reliably vet and screen those who seek to enter the United States. That is why today I am
6:44 signing a new executive order placing travel restrictions on countries including Yemen, Somalia, Haiti, Libya, and numerous others.
6:56 We get reaction from Oklahoma congressman Kevin Hearn, part of the House GOP leadership team. And a fresh poll from the Barna Group and the National Religious Broadcasters reveals encouraging trends for Christian
7:07 broadcasting. NRB president and CEO Troy Miller joins me to unpack the numbers.
7:13 For us, we can't relent on changing what we believe to be scriptural truth for the current place of where the culture is at. And for some reason,
7:25 that then deems us as a hate group.
7:28 How was Jim Daley president focused on the family responding to the Southern Property Law Center's decision to add focus to its hate list? Well, the SPLC slapped that label on FRC 15 years ago. We were
7:40 probably the first. And just as we warned then, its blacklist has only grown. We'll analyze the left's ongoing effort to marginalize and silence biblical voices with FRC's Travis Webber and
7:52 Washington stand editor, Jerry Bridges. Hey. By the way, have you signed up for the FRC 21 day family bible challenge? Starting June the eleventh as a part of our stand on the word reading plan, we move into the New
8:04 Testament, and you and your family can walk together through the life of Christ in the book of Matthew. Study guide, weekly discussion questions, kid friendly activities, and much more. To join, text the
8:16 word Matthew to 6 7 7 4 2. Again, text Matthew to 6 7 7 4 2. Well, Republican senators met with president Donald Trump yesterday in the Oval Office to work
8:27 out a way forward on the reconciliation package, also known as the 1 big beautiful bill. Here to discuss this is senator Roger Marshall from Kansas. Senator Marshall is a member of the senate budget committee and
8:39 the finance committee, which met yesterday with president Trump. Senator Marshall, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us.
8:46 Hey, Tony. It's great to be with you, and I couldn't help but think as you were talking to Jim Daley earlier, what a great influence James Dobson was on my life. And I I had to sit there and think, what would James
8:56 Dobson think of this bill? And it's I think it's important to communicate with you and and your listeners that that we defund planned parenthood in this bill, that we cut funding for the Obamacare insurance policies if
9:08 they, do abortions, that we stop federal funding for any of the transgender surgeries. We increase the child tax credit. We try to make this a pro family, pro American value bill. And
9:20 before we dive into all the economics of this, I just want you to know that there's a moral part of this that's important to you, important to me, important to your listeners.
9:29 Absolutely. And these are, provisions that you've been working on independently with other legislation. Now we're
9:45 abortion, entities or providers. That's not gonna be in there anymore. Entities or providers, that's not gonna be in there anymore. So the almost 800000000 dollars that planned parenthood got from taxpayers, that
9:56 goes away. And something you've been working on, very passionate about, is the issue of these transgender procedures on on minors and others that the taxpayers have been paying for. That's gone under this bill.
10:08 Yeah. Tony, very proud of the work, and this is all because of president Trump's leadership, his commitment to making America great again, making America healthy again. I'm especially grateful for this
10:19 opportunity to stop the funding of mutilation of our children. Yeah. I just can't I mean, this is child abuse, and I am just so honored that we can be part of of stopping the the federal prison.
10:31 And I should mention I didn't mention this in the introduction, but you are a medical doctor, delivered some 5000 babies before getting elected to congress and then serving in the senate. So you know a little bit about
10:41 health care. Let's talk let's I I wanna talk about health care in just a moment because a lot of concerns that have been raised, false concerns, I think, having worked with the house on this bill. But I I first want you
10:51 to get I I wanna get a characterization of you of the meeting yesterday that took place in the Oval Office. A lot of people wondering. In fact, that was talking to some reporter saying, I wish I had been a fly on the
11:01 wall of
11:01 that meeting.
11:02 So, so you weren't a fly, but you were in there. Tell us about the meeting.
11:06 Yeah. I, you know, I I just wish people could get to know the president Trump that I know. That just every time I see him, he's upbeat, he's positive, you know, and he only used the term that, look, America's hot right
11:16 now. America is hot. Our economy's growing. He's so proud. We had a we're having a GDP growth maybe of 4.6 percent this quarter. You know, the old thugs sat there and thought it was gonna be a half a percent, but it's
11:27 probably 4.6 percent. There's lots of tariff money coming in right now way ahead of schedule. So many good things happening. 15000000000000 dollars, in promised investment. So as we
11:39 look at this 1 big beautiful bill, president Trump is trying to share with us what he thinks it'll do economically, that it's gonna grow the economy 3 or 4 percent. Now your congressional budget office, and it's so
11:51 boring to even talk about them, but just think of a measure your boring accountants are saying that we'll only have, 1.8 percent growth. President Trump thinks we're gonna have 3 or 4 percent growth. And at the end of
12:03 the day, this bill is gonna impact to the good 8000000000000 dollars towards our national debt. That this bill is gonna lower our national debt some 8000000000000 dollars over 10
12:14 years.
12:16 So let's talk about 2 issues that are drawing attention. 1 of them mostly in the house before it left. And that was and it's gonna pop back up in the senate. And that is the,
12:28 taking Medicaid and making sure that those who are in need have access to it so that those who are able-bodied and could work have to work if they're gonna stay on it.
12:38 Yeah. Yeah. You know you know, Tony, our Christian duty is to take care of those who are the least amongst us, and I will guarantee you that I will do everything I can to protect Medicaid for those who need it the most.
12:50 That would be our senior citizens in nursing homes. It would be people with disabilities. It would be children, especially. But we now have over 90000000 people on Medicaid. We're spending a trillion dollars a year on
13:02 Medicaid. It's grown 50 percent in the last 5 years. Meanwhile, we have 7000000 healthy American men, working aids that aren't working right now. Let's do
13:14 them a favor. Let's help them get a job. You know the best safety net out there is a job. It's good for your your mental health. It brings purpose to your life. So many great things in it. And every job is important to
13:25 me. I don't care whether you're, you're you're the hedge manager or you're trimming the hedge. All those jobs are important. They bring meaning to life. So we wanna do, our godly duty and give people a hand up, not a
13:36 handout.
13:36 And some of those that are being taken off of the Medicaid under this bill are those who are here in the country illegally.
13:44 Yeah. So if whatever report you hear from, the the headlines, maybe let's just say I'd throw a number out of 10000000 people could lose Medicaid. 1 and a half million of those are people that are here illegally.
13:56 Another half are people that should never been on Medicaid in the first place. They're on it fraudulently. And then the other half, we are working, men for the most part, not people with or women
14:07 that don't have dependents, working age men or working age women that we wanna help encourage to get back to work. And and again, there's so many opportunities out there right now. There are plenty of jobs. If you can go
14:18 through a 2 year technical program or a community college program in my home state, you're gonna walk away with an 80000 dollar a year job and no debt. And they're great jobs, they're fun jobs, they help provide
14:29 energy to to America, help, you know, all all the great technical skills out there that we need in manufacturing, in the aerospace industry. So I'm just so upbeat, Tony. You can't tell. I'm just for the first time in
14:41 years, I'm excited about America, and I'm excited about the opportunities here.
14:45 It it is we're at a turning point. Things are turning around. I wanna talk about some of the other criticisms, senator Marshall, that, kinda surprised people. Elon Musk, who was, heading Doge,
14:57 was a part of this in the White House all the time, working on it. Now all of a sudden, he soured on the bill. The president pointing to something in his comments, yesterday when he was asked about the the, the the post
15:09 that Elon had put up, that it it it comes down to the the actual cuts that are in the reconciliation bill dealing with electric vehicles.
15:19 Yeah. Yeah. Well, certainly, you know, a big difference between being a CEO. Elon's a CEO, but here the president has a board, of 435 members on the house side. And here in the senate,
15:31 there's another hundred hundred members that are on the board, and not everyone thinks like Elon. That's a big difference between me running a hospital or being a church board chairman versus, being your senator is that
15:42 I have to work with other people, and I would love to cut more money from what the house did, and that's my goal. The the house cut 1600000000000.0 dollars over 10 years. I've said all along
15:54 I wanted to get north of 2000000000000 dollars of cuts so we could pay for some of the president's programs that he that he wants so badly. So I still think we've got more work to do. I still believe that the number 1
16:05 long term challenges country faces is our national debt. To face that problem, the first thing we do is grow the economy, and that's what this bill is going to do. By making the Trump tax cuts permanent, we need to
16:17 continue to roll back regulations. We will see the Trump growth in in this economy. The next thing we need to do is free spending. We'd love to cut it. I'm gonna try to cut it. But if you cut things too
16:29 fast, this big ship we call America will will turn will flip over. We've been on a sugar high here for 4, for 5 years, spending 2000000000000 more than we're taking in. And then eventually, we'll need to cut spending,
16:40 but we'll need to do that through the appropriations process as well. Grow the economy, stabilize the spending, and then cut spending.
16:48 So let's talk about the the the way forward here in the senate. We just have 2 minutes left, senator Marshall. But there are a number of your colleagues that want to see more reductions in this. Do you think
17:00 this is kind of odd because usually the senate is not more conservative in the house, but do you think the senate will serve up a more conservative reconciliation package?
17:08 Oh, I absolutely do. And I've already seen some of the reports coming out of the committees that's gonna have more spending cuts than the house does. I don't know if we're gonna get to my 2000002000000 dollar magic
17:19 number, but I expect us to be there. And I think, again, we're just trying to be frugal. Tony, 1 of the greatest joy joys of my life was being our board chairman, our church board chairman for 4 years. And I'm telling
17:30 you, I took better care of other people's money than my own because you feel that obligation. And that's the way I feel up here. Whether it's the Medicare trust fund or or Medicaid dollars or or whatever, I feel very
17:41 responsible for the money that hardworking Americans have given us, and I think there's an opportunity to make some more trimming here.
17:48 Well, I I I wish more had that, perspective of the money because I think some people treat it, less responsibly than their own funding. And, it is a it's a it's a it's a
18:00 real honor, but also, obligation to be in that role of stewarding what the people have entrusted to the government of this country. Senator Roger Marshall, always great to see you. Thanks so much
18:12 for, for joining us today on Washington Watch.
18:15 Thank you, Tony. Thank you so much. Let's make America great again.
18:18 Amen. Well, let's make it good again. We wanna make America great, but the path is being good. And this is 1 of the reasons that we're doing this 21 day Bible reading plan because the moral foundation
18:30 of our nation is tremendously important to sustaining the building of a great nation. So join us in this 21 day bible reading challenge. Text the word Matthew to 6 7 7Show more
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