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Yeah, look, those tax cuts from President Trump in 2017 are set to expire at the end of this year. So if we don't extend those and we want to make them permanent, you're going to see a $4 trillion tax increase. It'd be cataclysmic for the economy. But for working families out there, that's a couple thousand dollars a year that would be taken out of their pocket. So we saw that growth in President Trump's first term. You saw record wage growth. Every demographic, every socioeconomic class did much better. We want to build on that. So we want to make those permanent. We need to build on that with no tax on tips, no tax on overtime. We're also, Charlie, going to have money in here to secure the border and finish that wall, front that money for more ICE agents, more detention beds for the deportation, more money for our military, and all with the savings. The CBO just came out with a score that $500 billion is going to be saved from deficit reduction here. So we're going to have a growth economy, and I think it's important to put into perspective here. Last week, President Trump has that limited air strike, pivots to peace. Then, of course, he goes to NATO. They're going to step up and do their job. Then he has the big Supreme Court win where these universal injunctions are going to go away. Now we've got this big, beautiful bill. We want to get on his big, beautiful desk soon, and then we're on to rescissions. So it's important for us to get this done, and I'm confident that we will. It might be the wee hours of the morning, so it's a baseball game. I'm not sure what inning we're in. Maybe we're in the third or the fourth, but I think we're going to get there.

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Look, I think this issue of the big beautiful bill should be nonpartisan. I don't know how to tell what the hell is the matter with everybody up in Congress. People are dying every day. I use this wrestling three times many criminals that Biden administration did. We're taking public safety threats and national security threats off the street every single day, but we got over 600,000 illegal enemies of criminal histories walking the streets of this country. We got less than 5,000 deportation officers. This should be a no brainer. The more resources we get, we get this bill passed. We got more agents on, on, on the, on the road. We buy more beds. We get more transportation flights, more agents being more bad guys arrested, taking off the streets of this country every single day, every day. We rest a public safety threat or national security threat. This makes this country much safer. Who the hell would be against that? And I, and I get irritated. I get pissed off because I'm sick of meeting angel moms and dads. You want to talk about family separation. They bury their children. So this, I've done this since 1984. I've worked for six different presidents. No one has had the success of the Trump administration. We got the most secure border in the history of this nation today. But we, but we need more border wall border wall, save lives. Women and children can't get over that wall, which means they go to a place where there's not a wall and what's waiting on them, the men and women, the board of children who take care of this humanitarian needs and save their lives. We already got fentanyl seizures down half. Fentanyl seizures should be a hundred percent. We should have zero fentanyl come in this country. We need money to help secure that border at higher level. Stop the fentanyl from coming in. Stock the sec, stop the sex trafficking of women and children. Stop the known inspected terrorists coming across that border. Right now, I was looking at the stats today. I used to arrest in a record number of known suspected terrorists in this country, along with the FBI. With more money, we can arrest more of these people, make this country safer. This is a nonpartisan issue. Let's make this country safe again. So to the Democrats and the Republicans and the Independents, I don't care who you're from pass the bill. So we make this country safe so we can stop the violence against ICE officers. Let's make this country safe again. And without that bill, it's going to be a hard road. We got a lot of people to look for a lot of people to arrest. A lot of national security threats we know are in this country. We need to find them. We need more money to do that. We know we need more agents to do that. For God's sake, let's pass this bill and get this done.

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More than anything else, this bill will prevent the largest tax increase in American history. Let me say that again, this bill will prevent the largest tax increase in American history. This funding will secure the border. So proud of President Trump and his team. Can't wait to get this bill, the one big beautiful bill, across the finish line, come back here and sign the bill before July 4th. You know, we're hard at work and we want to produce and deliver on the mandate that the American people gave us in Congress. This bill, this one big beautiful bill, is going to make sure that America dominates and wins for energy. I am pushing hard for the one big beautiful bill to deliver tax relief for American families. We cannot let the largest tax increase in history go into effect. This is a bill for working families, working Americans. We have to get this done to the American people so they don't see the largest tax increase in American history. A few reasons why I'm very excited about the one big beautiful bill is because of the fact that we're increasing child tax credits. And of course, we now have MAGA baby savings accounts. Not just that, but we're also ending taxes on tips and also drastically decreasing the taxes paid on Social Security. So this is a net positive for America. The one big beautiful bill, there's so much in there that's going to benefit our farm families. I also call it Farm Bill 1.0. We got to get this big beautiful bill passed and get the President's agenda in action right now. We got to get it done for the President. We got to get it done for America.

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We're going to do our part at EPA and you're also seeing this as part of the debate in Congress to get President Trump's one big beautiful bill over the finish line because while there's a lot of focus on tax cuts and securing the border and interior enforcement, there's a lot in the energy and environmental space which includes refilling the strategic petroleum reserve, suspending a natural gas tax for 10 years, more oil and gas leases including more coal leases on federal land and more, and permitting reform is part of that too. So there's a lot that can be done by agencies, there's also more that can be done by Congress, all of this helps fulfill the agenda. And I understand you're EPA, you're not the energy secretary, and I know that you follow all this stuff because you have a very complex job, but we saw the president spend a lot of time in the Middle East and making a lot of deals. Does that come into play as far as the goal of reducing energy prices? Is that part of the equation? Is getting these countries more favorable leverage over these countries and better relationships with these countries will lead to cheaper energy prices throughout the country? Because that really is such a crucial part of I think what his agenda has been, which is the lower cost for the American people. When President Trump is communicating abroad with nations or meeting with foreign leaders from Washington DC or traveling overseas, such as his trip to the Middle East, there is a very robust America first agenda that he goes with to try to deliver on. And certainly energy policy is something that is top of mind, exporting American energy production or looking at what is produced on farms and so much more. There's a lot of opportunity for the American economy for us to be net exporters of these resources. And I would argue that it's better for our environment because we tap into our energy supply safer than so many other countries around the world. It's important for our national security. It's better for our economy. Certainly when the president goes to the Middle East and he has a robust America first agenda, he's thinking about American energy and he's thinking about American interest as it relates to American energy. So whether he's here at home or abroad, it's certainly something I've heard get brought up a lot. And there have been many meetings with the president in the White House, in the Oval Office, at the Resolute Desk, where he's asking tough questions. He's making big demands on these cabinet secretaries, myself included, to make sure that we're fulfilling this Trump mandate. And I'm glad that he's holding us to that standard of delivering.

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With one big beautiful bill, we will protect over 7 million jobs, raise take-home pay for American families by up to $13,000 per household, and reduce taxes for working-class Americans by as much as 13 percent. Those are big numbers. The bill will also remove 1.4 million illegal aliens from Medicaid and protect the programs for truly needy Americans.

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