The SAVE America Act is back at the center of the fight, and this episode connects the legislation to a story out of South Carolina no one saw coming. Senator Lindsey Graham's final phone call to President Trump was a promise that the SAVE America Act would pass. Days later, Governor Henry McMaster named Graham's younger sister, Darline Graham Nordone, to fill the remainder of his term, making her the first woman ever to represent South Carolina in the United States Senate. Host Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action, ties the human story to the political one: only American citizens should decide American elections, and the House is now moving to carry the SAVE America Act across the finish line inside the Reconciliation 3.0 budget package, around the Senate's 60-vote threshold. Jim Pfaff, president of The Conservative Caucus and a former Capitol Hill chief of staff, and Robert McNeily, Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action, break down the news of the day: cooling June inflation, five hundred billion dollars a year in federal fraud, the Todd Blanche confirmation hearing, and the crisis of unqualified foreign truck drivers on American highways. Then Angel Mom Anne Fundner shares the warning every parent needs to hear about the counterfeit fentanyl pill that took the life of her 15-year-old son, Weston. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
Jim Pfaff is the president of The Conservative Caucus and a former chief of staff on Capitol Hill, bringing an insider's read on how legislation actually moves through the House and Senate.
Robert McNeily is the Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement at Tea Party Patriots Action and a veteran broadcaster who has covered these fights on the ground for years.
Anne Fundner is an Angel Mom and fentanyl-awareness advocate. After her 15-year-old son Weston was poisoned by a counterfeit pill laced with illicit fentanyl, she testified before Congress, spoke at the Republican National Convention, and stood beside the President as he signed the HALT Fentanyl Act.
Key topics:
00:00 — Lindsey Graham's final call and the fight he left the Senate
03:36 — The power of the purse and five hundred billion a year in federal fraud
06:34 — Call to action: the Capitol Switchboard and the SAVE America Act
07:16 — Jim Pfaff and Robert McNeily on passing the SAVE America Act through Reconciliation 3.0
13:36 — June inflation cools: prices fall 0.4 percent, annual rate down to 3.5 percent
17:28 — Where the fraud goes and whether Congress can claw it back
19:30 — Why the Todd Blanche confirmation matters to fraud accountability
40:18 — Sixty-seven economists bet against the economy and got it wrong
46:15 — Reconciliation 3.0 heads out of committee
51:41 — Assessing Speaker Mike Johnson and House leadership
52:55 — Angel Mom Anne Fundner on the fentanyl that took her son Weston
01:00:47 — Anne Fundner at the Republican National Convention, two years later
01:08:26 — The Chinese Communist Party's role in America's fentanyl crisis
01:10:48 — Closing call to action: three phone calls to honor Lindsey Graham
01:12:12 — Who is looking out for women: the safety of women on the November ballot
Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.