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2/26/2025 Updates on Congress, the Ukraine/Russia War, Babies Saved after Roe, the SCREEN Act, and Wokeness in the U.K.
February 27, 2025 · 59 min
A detailed perspective on the House Budget Resolution and the war in Ukraine, babies saved from abortion after Roe v. Wade's overturn, the Screen Act, and U.K. Prime Minister's White House visit.
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In this video 0:00 Political Updates and Free Speech Challenges4:35 Washington Watch: Budget and Pro-Life Victories18:31 Protecting Children and International Relations
1:56 responded with a gut punch to free speech. Even though Libby was brought up to share comments, it only took a few moments for her to get cut off.
2:05 Thank you, mister speaker. My speech does include some background to this post and the events thereafter, so I hope I will not be
2:17 silenced during the middle of my speech. Over the last 6 years, the chief executive and legislative Democrats have done as they pleased, ignoring
2:28 the will of the Maine people.
2:31 The the member the member will defer. The chair would recognize the representative from Portland, representative Moonen, and inquire to his point of order.
2:37 The remarks thus far bear no resemblance whatsoever to the words in this order, mister speaker.
2:43 The chair will remind the member to keep the comments to the order at hand.
2:50 Libby explained that the order at hand was to silence her and that her remarks were about silencing. Only a few moments after she resumed her speech, she was cut off again and again and
3:02 again. Ultimately, Libby was censured in a 79 to 65 vote by the Democrat controlled chamber, meaning she's not allowed to speak or vote until she apologizes. The more Libby
3:14 defended fairness in female sports, the more they cut out her mic and stripped down her defense. But Libby is not giving up. She couldn't speak on the house floor, so she took the x. In a thread, she
3:26 explained that girls in Maine deserve better and that she will not be bullied into rejecting basic common sense that biological males have no place in girls sports. The undeterred congresswoman didn't
3:37 stop there.
3:39 The Democrats here in Augusta have silenced me for speaking up for Maine girls. Thank you for joining with me to speak up for girls. I will talk to you all again very,
3:51 very soon.
3:53 Ever since Trump signed his order keeping men out of women's sports, the pushback from the left seems to swell by the day. Efforts in Kentucky, Minnesota, and California have made clear that resistance to Trump's order
4:04 is alive and well. But the move to keep men who present as women out of female spaces goes beyond sports and into prisons. On Tuesday, a federal judge blocked a Trump policy to move trans identifying men
4:16 from women's prisons to men's prisons. The judge deemed this policy meant to protect women as cruel and unusual punishment. He was concerned about safety, just not the safety of actual
4:28 women. And those are today's headlines. I'm Sarah Holliday. Read more every day at the Washington Stand at washington stand dot com. Watch this and other news at the Stanford mobile app, which you can find on the App
Washington Watch: Budget and Pro-Life Victories
4:39 Store. Up next is Washington Watch with guest host Jody Heiss. We'll see you tomorrow with more news.
4:50 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
5:02 newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heiss.
5:11 Well, good afternoon. Welcome to this Wednesday edition of Washington Watch. I am your guest host, Jody Heise. I'm the senior vice president here at the Family Research Council and president of FRC Action and
5:22 deeply honored to be sitting in today for Tony. And thank you as well for joining us. We've got a lot coming up on the show today. In dramatic fashion last night, after much floor wrangling,
5:35 the House of Representatives passed the GOP budget resolution.
5:39 Thank you all for staying on a on a long night. We got it done. We had the requisite number of votes to move this process along and now passing the buzzer budget resolution in the house that will go to the senate.
5:51 This is the first important step in an opening up the reconciliation process. We have a lot of hard work ahead of us, but we are going to deliver the America First agenda. We're gonna deliver all of it, not just parts of
6:01 it, and this is the first step in that process.
6:05 Of course, that was house speaker Mike Johnson announcing the good news after a lot of days scrambling and a lot of last minute issues, and I'm sure also a lot of sleepless
6:17 nights. I'll be discussing what happened and what's actually in the budget deal and what comes next. I'll be talking about all of that with congressman Keith Self of Texas here in just a few
6:28 moments. And some very encouraging news to share today. Over 22000, in fact, 22181 babies were saved from
6:40 abortion in 14 pro life states. All that following Roe v Wade being struck down. Doctor Michael New will be joining me with his analysis of this
6:52 finding a little bit later in the program. Great, great news. And speaking of protecting our children no matter how small, congressman Mary Miller will be joining me a little bit later to
7:04 discuss why she is reintroducing the Screen Act. She'll be doing that this week in congress.
7:11 In the 20 years since the Supreme Court last examined this issue in earnest, technological advances have demonstrated that prior methods of restricting minors' access to pornography online were
7:23 ineffective. Nearly 80 percent of teenagers between the ages of 12 and 17 have been exposed to pornography.
7:34 That, of course, was senator Mike Lee talking about the problem. Again, congresswoman Mary Miller will be joining me a little bit later to discuss this important issue. And then finally,
7:46 we'll take a look at how the United Kingdom, as well as the rest of Europe, are reacting to the first month of the second Trump administration. So we've got a lot a lot
7:58 coming your way today. You don't wanna miss a any portion of it. But if you do, our website of course is tony perkins dot com. So you wanna keep that website handy. And also before we jump into our first guest,
8:10 I wanna just encourage you to download FRC's Stand Firm app. If you don't already have it, you need to get Stand Firm app. There is so much information there. And starting,
8:22 this coming Monday, we're gonna have the second episode of a brand new series entitled God in Government. This is a 13 week video driven, of course, bible based training program
8:34 that's designed for anyone who's wanting to make an impact in our culture for biblical truth. So you wanna watch this. And, the intro, all of it is right there handy for you. Again, get the
8:46 Stand Firm app. And to do so, you can simply text the word course to 6 7 7 4 2. Alright. Let's jump into our first item for today. As I just mentioned moments
8:57 ago, the republicans scored some big economic victories yesterday. First of all, the House narrowly passed, but they did pass the GOP's America first budget resolution
9:10 despite a number of prior contentions that, the people had in various parts of the bill, it passed. Secondly, the Trump administration announced a critical deal with Ukraine
9:22 regarding rare earth minerals. So how do these new developments affect our overall financial and economic situation in the United States? We're here to discuss all of this is Texas
9:34 representative Keith Self. He's a member of the house veterans affairs committee as well as the foreign affairs committee and the house science space and technology committee. He represents the third
9:46 congressional district of the great state of Texas. Congressman Self, always great to see you. Welcome back to Washington Watch.
9:54 Thank you so much, Jody. Great to be here with you.
9:58 Well, we've got some exciting news. A lot's going on as always. Seems like every time I have you on, there's plates spinning everywhere, and today is certainly no exception. Let's begin with the budget vote in the house
10:08 last night. What was the overall reaction, to the bill passing from your perspective?
10:16 Well, it was a long evening. First of all, Jody, the sophomores were over in the White House with president Trump, when they started the vote. We came back, and then they held it open for, like, an hour, while they were
10:27 working with the few remaining votes they needed. But afterwards, this is a big deal. This will start to change the trajectory of our deficit and debt while we are funding the
10:39 America First agenda, as you said, border, control resources to Tom Holman, which he needs desperately, the defense that we need to pivot to China. So this was a big deal last night.
10:51 And, in spite of some of the some of the limitations of the bill, it was a big night.
10:59 It was a big night, and, I I was not aware that some of the freshmen were were over in the White House, but I did know absolutely having been there, done that, so to speak, that both speaker Johnson and president Trump
11:10 were were seriously major factors in trying to rally the Republicans together. But if we can, let's let's talk about some of the specifics, as to why you
11:22 you describe this as such a big deal. What are some of the the highlights? I know you mentioned the border and maybe a little bit on defense, but just a 30000 foot view. Go a little bit further. What's some of the
11:34 highlights of this bill?
11:36 Well, the highlights that you just mentioned are are certainly for the Trump agenda. We were going to get that done for the border and the defense. Those were important. But for the American people, for the future of
11:47 America, I will tell you starting to rein in the spending and, ensuring the tax cuts got extended were also vital, portions of this bill. We are
11:59 going to have 2000000000000 dollars in spending savings on the spending side. On the tax cut side, we're gonna have 4500000000000.0 dollars, in the extended tax cuts.
12:11 Those are huge numbers. Now we've we're 36000000000000 dollars in debt, so this is only a very small first step. But it is a first step to changing the trajectory of the deficit in the
12:22 debt. So I want people to understand that, yes, there are many people that wanted more. In fact, the president, tweeted today that he wants to balance the budget, this year or next year. Well, with the 36000000000000
12:34 dollar debt with a deficit every year of 2000000000000 dollars, that's a high bar. But we got started, Jody, and that's the point.
12:43 That is the point. You know, in every journey, as the the saying goes, every start journey begins with the first step. And without that first step, no journey, either starts nor does it finish. And I I
12:55 am thrilled that this is all underway. It was a privilege to be with, you and several others a couple of weeks ago under this discussion that you were having and to see it finally unfold last night. I
13:07 was right there with others watching and waiting, and, I I was I was actually almost screaming, say, hit the gavel. Hit the gavel when it when it came to that last moment. Really, an exciting
13:19 time, and, congratulations to you and the GOP and so many who have put so much effort into all of this. If I can, congressman self, I know our our time is is running
13:31 away. Let me switch gears a little bit, and talk now about Ukraine. Some pretty big news coming out of president Trump and the White House regarding
13:42 Ukraine and mineral deals. What do we know? What's involved in the mineral deal that you're aware of so far?
13:51 Well, it's, we're going to recoup some of the tax dollars that we've been sending to Ukraine. But this is a rare earth deal. The details are still fairly
14:03 unknown. It's not been signed yet. But frankly, we will not take possession of any mines. We won't operate mines in Ukraine. This is a partnership deal. This is a business deal,
14:15 that 50 percent of the revenues to Ukraine will be put into a fund for reconstruction. America will recoup some of our tax dollars, which is good, but it will also build up the fund for the
14:26 reconstruction of Ukraine without more American tax dollars going into it the way that I understand it. This is, this is, Donald Trump. He wants peace. He wants the war to stop.
14:38 He wants to have a mechanism by which Ukraine can help itself with its physical assets, its rare earth minerals that it has in the ground, so that it can help itself so that American
14:50 taxpayers are not solely on the hook for the reconstruction of Ukraine. This is this is going to be a good deal for the American people if it unfolds the way we understand it is.
15:01 And a good deal for the people of Ukraine is where to help them rebuild and, yes, a win win. My understanding, and correct me if I'm wrong, but, president Trump, of course, had their first cabinet meeting today.
15:13 And during that time, he he said, speaking of Ukraine, that, there would not be any security guarantees for Ukraine as part of this deal. What what's your reaction to that statement? Is that a good move?
15:26 Well, president Trump always starts with the America First policy, because, I believe that once he gets a peace deal with Russia, we don't have to give Ukraine
15:38 security assurances that the US will rise to, to their defense. This is Europe's job. He's been pushing that as well. I just met with the president of the EU parliament, and,
15:50 they understand that they need to be doing more for Europe. So that's also his move. That's his verbiage that he gets Europe to understand this is Europe. Europe step up
16:02 and take responsibility.
16:04 He really is amazing, when it comes to negotiating, and this is yet another example of it. President, Zelenskyy, Ukrainian president Zelenskyy
16:16 is scheduled to be here at the White House this week, I believe, Friday, if I'm not mistaken. Do you anticipate that there may be an attempt maybe for additional discussions or additional
16:28 deals to be made when, president Trump and Zelensky meet?
16:34 Well, I certainly don't know. I don't have any inside information, but I suspect that, each of them will have their agenda that they'll wanna discuss. Now whether any deals come out of it or not, I have no idea. But,
16:46 but I I know that they are both now committed, and I think Zelensky understands that, that this war must end, and, he's he's now, making moves to that,
16:58 to to that end.
17:01 Well, before I let you go, and we've just got a minute or so left, I I wanna go back. Everything you've shared, congressman Self, has just been so encouraging, and I just am grateful for you coming on
17:13 talking about this. I wanna go back real quickly what you said that, dollars 2000000000000 in savings. I mean, dollars 2000000000000. That's a lot. That's a lot. But it is a small amount compared to 36000000000000
17:25 in debt that we are. Are there plans already to go further with this? Do you see? This is step 1, but is there discussion already taking place for steps 2 and 3 and 4?
17:37 They're not yet. What is happening is people are understanding that we are at a tipping point. If we did not, bend the trajectory of the deficit and the debt, if we were on schedule the
17:49 way it is today, we would go from 36 to 60000000000000 in 10 years. That is unfathomable. That is you cannot understand the magnitude of that
18:00 figure. We're already at a trillion dollars a year. 1 seventh of all everything we spend is spent on interest on the national debt today. It's more than the the defense department. What would 60000000000000
18:12 dollars be? The numbers are staggering, and everybody's starting to understand that this is something we must do. It's now or never.
18:23 Congressman Keith Self, thank you so much for joining me today. Always an honor to have you on the program.
18:29 Thank you, Jody.Show more
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