The Daily Signal - Open Calls for Violence, Senators Fight Over Iran & the Parliamentarian | June 27, 2025

Episode Date: June 27, 2025

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We'd love to talk, business. Public calls for violence, murder, and slave labor from both leftist influencers and Democrat officials are now commonplace. While Senate Democrats are in open disarray over Iran and ICE, their Republican colleagues are in a fierce battle with the parliamentarian. I'm Tony Kennett, host of the Daily Signals Tony Kennett cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. But here's the catch. Last night's live broadcast was cut off by a major network service outage. So instead of just skipping major news and headlines, The entire production team is awake at one in the morning, and we're doing something we've never done before.

It is Friday, June 27, 2025. This is the Daily Signals top news in the Tony Kennedcast. The Daily Signals, top news in the Tony Kennedcast. Good morning and welcome to The Daily Signal's top news in the Tony Kennedcast, whether you're joining us over on YouTube X or one of the podcasting platforms. insane calls for murder, violence, doxing, domestic terrorism, along with proclamations of total collapse and fascist takeover have become ridiculously common from both left-wing activists and officials on social media platforms. And when I say that these are insane calls for murder, violence, and doxing, I'm not just talking about from behind anonymous accounts on Twitter X or Blue Sky,

nor am I talking about the kind of passive, aggressive allusions or dog whistles, as the left puts it, to kinds of violence like one might interpret the Comey 8647 Instagram post. No, I'm talking about open, face shown, not trying to hide your identity whatsoever, open calls for murder against federal agents and police officers. This is from TikTok. You can just kill ICE agents. You know that? You can just kill them. They don't have to hold your phone in their face and ask people when their birthday is and ask people what their name is and then try to find wherever they end up in Los Angeles. You can kill them.

This isn't about social media clout anymore. This isn't about video. This isn't about the phone. This is about get a gun and start killing ICE agents. They are deputized corrections officers. Kill them. So, aside from the open, blatant, very, very. objectively disgusting call for murder that you just witnessed. You can also be rest assured

that the facts are completely wrong because of course they are. Ice agents are not deputized correctional officers. They're not walking around to local prisons and saying, all right, all of the board prison guards join up with ICE. That's not how that works. But even if that were the case, that doesn't exactly excuse the criminal act of murder. There are other TikTokers that are also making the claim that what you need to do is go to certain websites because you need to docks anyone who works for immigration customs enforcement and learn the addresses of their homes and their families. It's done.

They've done it. They've done it. You need to run your little fingers up to whatever search bar or here. Put ice list. Dot info. Ice list. Dot info. Since masks are illegal in this.

country, your icy ice cubes have been melted and revealed for exactly who they are. Their faces, their info, all of it sitting right up on ice list. Dot info. Y'all thought that you could hide and commit like human trafficking, grape, smectummole, assault, kidnapping, physical. assault violate the law and just stay masked up? No, no, no. Okay, so just a couple of things here. I'm not sure if the extremely massive gap between the individuals two front teeth was slurring their speech, or I just heard that incorrectly, but assuming they were saying the word grape, so the

algorithm did not try to, I guess, assume they were saying the word rape and limit the amount of people that the open call for doxing would be shown to fewer people, there have been no reported instances of sexual assault by any individual in immigration customs enforcement. None, especially since the beginning of the Trump administration. So as far as, again, going out and openly calling for the home addresses and the family's information of federal agents who are only upholding federal law at the request and at the order of judicial summons and warrants, I'm afraid. that whether or not you accuse an individual of rape or assault or whatever other made-up

crimes you're suggesting, that doesn't give you the right to, again, violate federal law by threatening violence or calling for the information exposure of individuals working in federal law enforcement. And this kind of activity is driven by the lack of character and the lack of perhaps perceptive wisdom of individuals like, Eva Longoria. Hi, everyone. I wanted to get on here and finally compose myself to do a message because of everything that's happening with the mass deportations.

Every time I try to record a message, I just start crying. And then I don't want it to be about me and my emotions about it. This is just Selena Gomez part two. So inhumane, hard to watch. It's hard. It's hard to witness from afar. I can't imagine what it's like to be in Los Angeles right now. I can't believe it's happening in Austin, Texas.

I can't believe... Wait a minute. Hold on. I can't imagine being in Los Angeles right now. I was told very reliably by individuals like Brian Stelter and Jimmy Kimmel and the various other funny men on anchor network TV as well as late night funny ha ha talk show hosts. That the rest of Los Angeles is like wonderful and fine. That it's amazing outside of a very small 10th of a percent of the city where there's just some peaceful protests or something. And now I'm being told that this is some kind of a deep fascist takeover that's, I don't know what, soliciting the tears of deeply moral individuals like the rest of us.

Oh, yes, Hollywood actresses. Hmm, the bevy of virtuous philosophy. I believe it's happening all over the country. The comments and people's reactions to it is really so surprising to me because it is un-American. We all can agree. Nobody wants criminals in our country. Yes, so the individual who was the sexual assaults, of children that was arrested outside the Home Depot in Los Angeles, that individual,

that somehow allowed or not allowed? You got to pick a side here. You say nobody wants criminals, but you're not willing to do the things to deport non-American criminals. It's un-American to support non-Americans being removed for violating the law. You got to pick a side here. Nobody wants rapists. Nobody wants drug dealers.

Nobody wants bad actors in our country. No, so we just get bad actresses instead making reels about it. So then we have the very intelligent economic breakdowns by leftist influencers doing these little run amuck series telling you that the entire economy is about to collapse because a third of the workforce is apparently being deported by Tom Homan. Y'all, continue with my f-round and find out series. Are we like collectively like prepared for these grocery prices to go? sky high as a result of this mass deportation program. Like, do people not understand that if this goes into effect, like so many industries are going to be crippled, construction, like forget about affordable housing.

There will be nobody to build them. Again, the vast majority of construction agencies for residential properties in this country do not utilize illegal immigrants. And also, illegal immigrants are not the only individuals who know how to build. most registered trades do in fact require you to prove citizenship to reach the well goodness gracious

just to be an apprentice at many trade schools involves you declaring and proving your citizenship beyond just the E-Verify system so I know categorically false

I'm not surprised either with supply and demand that means the cost of labor is going to go up and the cost of build is going to go up so y'all can forget about that oh sorry

just as another quick aside here, several of the construction companies that focus on illegal immigrants are also the new building construction companies that are most often targeted with lawsuits for really shoddy building. So what's not being mentioned is a very high likelihood that individuals will receive higher quality builds in new build projects, a stronger rarity with every passing day, because it turns out that companies who are willing to fudge the statistics or fudge the employee documentation in some areas are probably also likely to fudge how they're building homes. Food prices going down. Who picks the, who picks the berries that you eat?

Berries are picked in a lot of different ways. Yes, a lot of berries are picked by hand. No, not all berries are picked by illegal immigrants. Cherries and blueberries are also picked by automatic equipment these days. Right. And so if that goes in effect, you're getting rid of like a third of the workforce. No, no, no. None of this is. getting rid of a third of the workforce, and this kind of nonsense, this actual disinformation that is put out and just trusted as gospel because she told me so is used as the source, you're getting individuals who are whipped into such a frenzy that, as we've talked about before on the top news in 10, vice mayor of Cudehaye in California, Gonzalez, was calling

on gang members from the 18th Street and Florentia 13 gang. to openly fight ice, just on the streets, period. Not for nothing, but I want to know where all the Cholos are at in Los Angeles. 18th Street, Florentia. Where's the leadership at? Because you guys are all about territory, and this is 18th Street, and this is Thorntz, and you guys tag everything up, claiming hood. And now that your hood's being invaded by the biggest gang there is, there ain't a peep out of you.

I also want to point out, and I did, in fact, check. with a couple of individuals in, well, that I used to live with in college, just to, just to check on this specifically if I was hearing something in that Gonzalez, the lady who recorded this, the vice mayor of Cudhay, the Democrat official, who is, again, by the end of this video, openly calling for gang members to fight ICE, to fight federal law enforcement. The accent that she is using appears to be an accent that a lot of officials use when trying to emphasize their culture in talking with what they believe is in touch with the streets.

So you see Jasmine Crockett do this all the time. When she is around a group that she believes that she should pander to, she kind of reverts back to the most base form of what she perceives to be an inner Atlantic kind of South of America, African American inner city dialect. So it ends up sounding like a mix between Atlanta, Chicago, and kind of like the Bronx.

And given that she grew up in St. Louis, that's really silly. Well, here you have this incredible individual, Vice Mayor Gonzalez, who sounds like Speedy Gonzalez, mixed with, I guess, a junior high girl trying to, come up with what she believes a Hispanic accent should sound like.

And obviously, it's incredibly offensive. This is what you have to do to talk to Hispanic individuals in Los Angeles who were a part of gangs to try to convince them that you're fantastic. Good luck. It's everyone else who's not about the gang life that's out there protesting and speaking up. We're out there like fighting our turf. Again, it's not fighting our turf, protecting our turf. She starts the video speaking normally and then she did, we got to protect our turf, man.

overexentuated. But anyway, we'll get to the end where she starts talking about asking these particular gang members to step up. And peep. When the big gang guns come in, nothing but like quiet and we're out here, the regular ones that have never been jumped in. Out here calling things out, trying to organize people trying to do the thing. So don't be trying to claim no block, no nothing. If you're not showing up right now, trying to like help out and organize. I don't want to hear a peep out of you once they're gone. and the claim that this is my block.

This was not your block. You weren't even here helping out. So whoever's the leadership over there, just fucking get your members in order. Incredible. Lovely, by the way, to be a vice mayor. One of the individuals supposed to be in the chain of law enforcement

that directs how the police are supposed to act in that area. And instead, you are out there calling for gang members to take up their turf or excuse me, take up their turf. Nonsense. By the way, this does get worse because you have individuals not just on social media, small and minor officials everywhere making up these fearmongering rumors about a third of the workforce being wiped away, calling for gang members to fight ICE and kill ICE agents and docks them and their families.

On network television and out on the stump in front of constituents, presumably, Democrats are ramping up the fear mongering to 11. So over on CNN, or excuse me, over on MSNBC, suggesting that all illegal immigrants are essentially just doing the slave labor jobs in this country. And it's really wild to watch. Paul, you first. I mean, Molly mentions those people that are the farm workers, certainly have the ag industry that's being affected.

You've got hospitality industry. Going to a restaurant even. I mean, you may not have people being able to clear your place, move so quickly. the food being served. Oh, no. Oh, man. How did we even have restaurant workers and busboys in this country before illegal immigrants? Man, it was almost like there were teenagers that got off of their iPads and got jobs. I'm just kidding. Well, teenagers back in the day just got jobs because they were expected to, clearly. And it turns out you really don't need to rely on underpaid slave labor, which is what that is when you are,

essentially leveraging federal law enforcement and the consequences of such to pay someone a lower wage. That is a mechanism of intimidation through slavery. When you intimidate someone with lower wages by essentially saying, if you don't do what I say, I will call the law, so therefore you are forced to work here under these conditions. That is in fact an economic definition of slavery. And that is what individuals in the legacy media on the left side of the aisle, and then Democrats, in office, like Representative Greg Sazar of Texas, are outtelling people every single day. And what's just so sick about it is these right-wing politicians,

they eat food cooked by immigrants. They get their fancy cars cleaned by immigrants. They do their corrupt deals and buildings built and engineered and maintained and cleaned by immigrants. Okay, so again, the gaslighting thereby saying immigrants and not illegal immigrants. Again, from what I have heard on the right, at large, immigrants participating in the economy, not a problem. Not a problem at all. Notice he doesn't say in the military as well.

Because that would mean the individual is on a process to naturalization to earn their citizenship through federal service, which also according to most members on the right I have ever spoken to is considered one of the most admirable ways an individual can demonstrate their loyalty to this kind of. country is via federal service to obtain citizenship. But again, to those on the left, the constant refrain, nonstop, bar none, is that illegal immigrants are necessary to prop up failing economies through underpaid wages, which is ironic because one of the whole things that the left was supposed to be carrying forward was the increasing of minimum wage. But meanwhile, you have individuals like Senator Alex Padilla, when he's not rushing secretary,

of the Homeland Security and getting tackled because he didn't wear security identification or identify himself as a senator until he was halfway dragged out of the room. He's tweeting things like this, quote, a $275 billion hit to our economy, $23 billion in lost tax revenue, devastated industries, mass deportations in California aren't just cruel, they'd be catastrophic, end quote. Again, it's not actually about the individuals themselves out of the individuals themselves out outside of what they can economically provide at a low cost while giving someone a moral, warm feeling in their heart for not removing individuals from a country for violating the law.

The worst of those criminal offenders of whom the Trump administration is currently focused on. And we're going to talk about that in just a minute because what the Senate Democrats are currently up against is forget just political suicide. We're talking about an obstacle so large there is no feasible path. for the DNC to walk around it. We'll be back in just a second. Don't go anywhere. It's The Daily Signals, Tony Kinnettcast in the morning.

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were unsuccessful. And there's a good reason for that because it's a major, major major, military and diplomatic masterstroke by the Trump administration. The president is currently celebrating two major peace deals, one between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda and the other between India and Pakistan, the latter of whom has nominated President Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize. You add on top of that the Israel-Iran ceasefire, which is still holding, the big beautiful bill which appears more likely to be

signed on July 4th than ever, and a major Supreme Court victory regarding the lack of responsibility for states to throw money at Planned Parenthood. And then you even sprinkle a little of Tom Homan on immigration on top of it, and you really have a recipe for major continual momentum for the Trump administration. And by the way, on that matter, here's Tom Homan yesterday, talking about during the big beautiful bill kind of press conferencey rally little speech that president trump gave about the necessity of the big beautiful bill for border patrol and immigration enforcement look i think this issue with a big beautiful bill should be nonpartisan i don't know how what the hell's matter with everybody up in congress people are dying every day i just arrest in three times many criminals

that the Biden administration did, we're taking public safety threats and national security threats off the street every single day. We got over 600,000 illegal aliens of criminal histories walking the streets this country. We got less than 5,000 deportation officers. This should be a no-brainer. The more resources we get,

when we get this bill passed, we got more agents on the road. We buy more beds, we get more transportation flights. More agents mean more bad guys arrested to take them off the streets this country every single day. Now, that's something that Republicans have not traditionally been very good at. Coalition bill passing is not one of Republicans' tools in the bat utility belt, per se. Normally, Republicans are fighting that down in accusations from, for example, the House or Senate Democrats, but that isn't the case here.

Because right now it's the Republican Party with the most diverse and broad coalition, with Republicans from New York and California working a little bit of. bit more every day with Republicans, for example, from Texas or Kentucky, Florida, and Indiana. To pass this big, beautiful bill, as Trump calls it, that will fully fund a lot of the executive procedures his administration is focused on. In the meantime, Democrats' focus is expanding from putting up Zoran Mandami, the open communist who was elected as the winner of the Democrat primary for mayor of New York City, as a possible, contender for these socialist, openly communist, ideas on the national stage. Here's Mamdami with Jen Saki.

You were running on issues that are very relevant to people in New York City, the cost of housing, free busing. Some have projected that this is the type of platform that would work in other parts of the country. I mean, you're a proud Democratic socialist. Do you think that is a platform that would work for other candidates running in other parts of the country? All right. So just as a side note here, this is just a just a to go meta, you know, drop it down here. I know on the top news in 10, we normally don't break into the meta

over here in this particular way. But as an interviewer, a guy who brings individuals on, who I agree with, who I don't agree with, whom I like, whom, I don't think I've interviewed anyone actively that I don't like,

but there is always that chance, that you might have a question that you want to ask of an individual. And you might want to ask something that is very personal to you. It is far more effective. as a broadcaster to just be honest and say, I think your ideas might be better on the national stage. I wish more people legislated or governed or acted as you do.

In fact, I have said that before to congressmen whom I wished my representative in the House was more like. But to say, oh, many are saying, some are saying, I have bruised the expert field, some are saying that, No one's saying this, Jen Saki. No one is saying they want to see this on a broadoscow. Bernie Sanders? Bernie Sanders wants to see more of my dummy on the national stage. Who else? Homsd is out there saying this.

Absolutely. I think ultimately this is a campaign about inequality. And you don't have to live in the most expensive city in the country to have experienced that inequality because it's a... Yes. Nothing says experiencing inequality like being the son of a Hollywood producer and a Columbia professor. Ah, yes, you're just like me

who grew up in a single parent home in the actual sticks of Indiana, whose father lost his job during the moving out of a lot of manufacturing during the aughts. We had some good times, we had some tough times. That's understanding a lot of the struggle, not some of the worst struggle

that Americans have gone through, not through the lap of luxury, but when someone from the coasts comes before you and says, I am just yet another laborer just like you. And it's someone who, again, is the son of a very wealthy Hollywood producer, director, and a Columbia educator, spare me. Man went to a private college in Maine and had a rap career. Ah, yes, Jen Saki, this is what we need on the national stage.

National issue. And what Americans coast to coast are looking for are people who, will fight for them, not just believe in the things that resonate with their lives, but actually fight and deliver on those very things. This is one of the reasons why Americans are a fan of the work the Trump administration is doing, promises that are in fact kept, especially on the executive oversight of federal spending through measures like the Department of Government Efficiency, and then on immigration. President Trump's approval rating, according to the most recent Quinnipiac poll, has gone up by three

points since the last Quinnipiac poll a month ago. The Trump administration's steadfast, clear directives on things like immigration and foreign policy are popular with Americans. As far as the economy is concerned, people don't want more socialism. They want to be more left alone, with guardrails put up against unfriendly foreign actors. Now, this brings us over to the Senate's chaos because Senator John Federman of Pennsylvania, or as I often call him, Senator Betterman, because he is slightly better than the rest of the Democratic Senate, a low bar, but still an accolade to carry. Senator John Federman warns, according to the UK Daily Mail, that likely new Democratic socialist

New York City mayor, Zoran Mandami, again, just won the primary, is Christmas in July for the Republican Party. And that is absolutely correct. It's absolutely correct. Because Republicans have been itching for a very long time to call out this wing of socialism for what it is. Communism on the shores of this country. And pro-jihadist communism at that, which is quite a mix.

Now, that brings us over to the other side of what the Senate Democrats are currently fighting. And this would be any kind of a notion that would cast dispersions on the pro-jihadi demographic that is very supportive of the DNC. And so the Trump administration, after their strike on Iran, which utilized a diversionary tactic of sending a bunch of fake articles and statements to those who were expected to be leaking to the press,

and then sending a couple of B2s supposedly to Guam via a refueling in Hawaii, then in the meantime struck Iran's three primary nuclear facilities at Fordot, at Esfahan and Natanz. Esfahan and Natanz were struck by missiles dispatched by U.S. submarines in the region, whereas Fordo was slapped down a ventilation shaft with six bunker buster bombs dropped by B2 bombers. And a preliminary report that was leaked to CNN, a low-confidence preliminary report at that,

that was passed off by CNN as being far more important and accurate than it was, caused a media firestorm that was very quickly discredited, not just by the Trump administrations, not just by Israelis, but by independent actors in the region. That the Fordo facility had in fact been destroyed, but that didn't stop Democrat Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut from walking out after a short intelligence briefing and essentially downplaying without any evidence whatsoever

that the Iranian nuclear threat had been diminished. Listen, to me it still appears that we have only set back the Iranian nuclear program by a handful of months. There's no doubt there was damage done to the program. But the allegations that we have obliterated their program just don't seem to stand up for reason. So I obviously can't share any details from this briefing, but I just do not think. the president was selling the truth when he said this program was obliterated. So, of course, you had a couple of Republican senators essentially come forward to the cameras and say, I don't know what he was on. I don't know where he was at. We were supposedly in the same

briefing. There is clear and distinct evidence that the Iranian nuclear site at Fordow was was destroyed. And again, it's expected that you're going to see Republicans come forward and smack a Democratic senator, just like, you know, when you take a decent hunter to a field, filled with ducks, you know, expect a couple of feathers. But what was surprising, yet perhaps not very surprising, was that you had individuals like Senator John Federman, who, again, came out before the American people and said, the centrifuges at Fordo are no longer operational.

He shared an article citing a UN nuclear watchdog. Again, not Israel, not the United States, the United Nations, who are usually a lot warmer to Iran and a lot less warm towards Israel and the United States. Rachel, or excuse me, Raphael Grossey, told French radio that there was no escaping significant physical damage after the U.S. dropped bunker buster bombs on the Iranian facility. The centrifuges at Fordo are no longer operational.

Federman said, quote, to those who were unimpressed or borderline gloating on the leak, Operation Midnight Hammer worked. I've been calling for and fully supported those strikes, and it made the world safer, it should transcend partisan politics. That hasn't stopped individuals, like, for example, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, from trying to come out to the press and say that this was some kind of a haphazard operation that there was no coherent plan.

Of all of the criticisms, that I have heard yet of the Ford O strikes, this is not only the most far-fetched, but the most patently insane. First, let me say that I've always said that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon, plain and simple. He did not say this plain and simple. Chuck Schumer in previous statements always said this with contingencies. If you say something plain and simple,

that means it is a single clause statement. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. That is a different phrase, however, than Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, comma, but that's not plain and simple. And Chuck Schumer trying to come before the American people and immediately gaslight is not going to be an effective.

effective strategy for the Senate Democrats, but nevertheless, they persist. President Trump said that the nuclear stockpile was completely and totally obliterated. I did not receive an adequate answer to that question. There has been no data, which suggests, because again, the higher uranium is enriched, the more radiation it gives off. It's a cool, fun fact from a former science teacher. The more radiation something gives off, the more, uh, you need to shelter the material from, again, emitting that radiation.

You can't just put a thin coat of lead paint and that catch all of the radiation. And it just so happens that there are entire satellite networks and watchdogs and scientific equipment, which keeps an eye out or a scientific ear out for heavy amounts of radiation. For Iran to move heavy amounts of 60% and 40% enriched uranium from Fordot to somewhere else would be a ridiculously time-consuming process that would require equipment to contain that radioactive material a lot thicker in its shielding

than Iran currently has. And would most assuredly have been spotted by, for example, the IAEA. So what Schumer is saying here is not only pure conjecture from a scientific perspective, it's just categorically false. It's not how that works.

It's like a House committee trying to argue that the internet is a series of tubes. What was clear is that there was no coherent strategy, no endgame, no plan, no specific, no detailed plan on how Iran does not achieve attain a nuclear weapon. Again, that's just categorically false. This is one of the most precise modern military operations in U.S., again, modern military history. It was a masterstroke. And not only have we seen Republicans, of course, saying this,

not only have military historians been singing these praises around the world, but even Democrat senators, like Adam Schiff, have come forward to sing the praises of this precise military operation. Again, Schiff, far more than Fetterman, is very, very rarely going to offer bipartisan support for anything. So the play by the Democrat senators here to cling to Iran failure for the Trump administration is not going to play very well at all. And again, CNN and many other networks are trying very desperately to prop up various reports from the reporter who originally brought forward this particular leak. Now let's slip over to the Republican side of the aisle because the Republican senators are in fact preoccupied with something as well.

yesterday morning the Senate parliamentarian an unelected appointee in 2012 by then Harry Reid Elizabeth Macdonough struck down a couple of provisions inside the

big beautiful bill so the Senate parliamentarian since the 70s late 70s early 80s has essentially transcended the original role of parliamentarian which is essentially a rules advisor because I'm going to be honest with you, the Roberts Rules of Order are, while a necessary, evil, really annoying.

And it takes a very knowledgeable nerd person to understand all of the various Roberts Rules of Order and keep everyone online. And the House and the Senate have a lot of procedural rules. So for a long time in our country's history, we had a parliamentarian. So in Indiana, you know, they have boys state and girls state around the country. I was the Senate parliamentarian for Hoosier Boys State for the Senate. And I never wanted to do that again because it sounds a lot cooler than it is. Essentially, the parliamentarian reads all of the rules and provides advice on what is next. Like you're trying to teach someone a board game.

However, since the 1970s and early 80s, the Senate parliamentarian has become an individual given a kind of procedural power in deciding which things do and do not require. a 60 vote majority or a 51 vote majority in the Senate. Because certain budget items, after the bird rule, I believe. Yes. So in 1974, Congress established the reconciliation process to facilitate the passage of budget legislation. Because we started to get to a point where it was very unlikely that 60 votes in the Senate were going to carry through serious budget proposals. And so in 1985, the Senate first adopted what's called the bird rule, which was designed to limit amendments and writers attached to reconciliation bills that had nothing to do with the budget process.

So in 1985, the Senate decided no longer could you have all of these budgetary measures, and then also a small clause halfway down the reconciliation that says, and also all people have to call Tony Kinnett incredibly handsome. In 1990, Congress incorporated the bird rule into law, which means that someone out there in the wide blue yonder has to decide what things are and are not allowed inside a reconciliation measure. This is where the parliamentarian comes into play. Yesterday, Elizabeth McDonough, a open Democrat who served since Harry Reid appointed her as the Senate parliamentarian, blocked a series of provisions in the big, beautiful bill. Now, these include funding cuts for Border Patrol, blocking the use of medical

funds for sex change operations for kids and preventing illegal immigrants from receiving Medicaid or chip coverage. She has ruled, ruled kind of with a small R there, that these provisions do not fit the budget reconciliation process. So she said yesterday that provisions that limit federal dollars for states that give illegal aliens Medicaid benefits require 60 votes, not the normal 51. Now, Senator Schmidt of Missouri has since told CNN's Jake Tapper, this was yesterday evening, that those provisions were back in the big, beautiful bill, and Republicans weren't just backing down from this.

Her assessment, do you agree? I understand the frustration, but I actually think we're going to be able to work through this. One example that is originally the not allowing SNAP benefits to illegal immigrants was bounced, and now that's back in. So I'm pretty confident we're going to work through these and get the savings that we want, make sure illegal immigrants aren't getting their taxpayer benefits and ultimately still deliver. on all the things for American families. I'm still hopeful. Now hang on a second here. If the parliamentarian is making rulings that are partisan and she's a

non-elected official, she's an appointee, then if Republicans control the Senate, why can't she just be removed? Is there a term limit? No, again, the parliamentarian for the vast majority of our nation's history was simply the librarian for procedural rules. They didn't actually hold any power until Congress got lazy, excuse me, I mean, until Congress started abdicating certain rules to appointed officials. What does this mean now? Well, there are two ways that you can get rid of the current parliamentarian and essentially pass whatever you want through a reconciliation measure that doesn't likely get sued and then end up with an appellate court or the Supreme Court ruling on whether or not something coincides with the bird law in this case. The vice president

has the authority to overrule the parliamentarian and the Senate majority leader has the authority to fire the parliamentarian. Now, those have both been done in our nation's history. Nelson Rockefeller overruled the parliamentarian 50 years and three months ago in 1975. Since then, there hasn't been a vice president

that has overruled the parliamentarian. However, the parliamentarian has been fired in 2001. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi fired Senate parliamentarian Robert Dove for really a lot of the same reasons that a lot of Republicans are upset with McNano at the moment. The Senate Republicans clearly want to move past the parliamentarian. The question now is whether or not you're going to see Senate Majority Leader John Thune move forward with the firing or whether Vice President Vance might step forward and overrule the parliamentarian. or if you're just going to see the Senate try to reconfigure things around so that mectanot is less likely to touch it. So as of 9.51 p.m. last night, John Thune has declined to set mectanot aside in the name of tradition and optics. So that really leaves Vice President

J.D. Vance, who has already broken ties in the Senate. So this may be the first time in 50 years and three months that the vice president, again, the last vice president being Nelson Rockefeller, actually stepping forward to overrule McDonough. You could also see the Senate Republicans move things around. The momentum is still with the Trump administration. And the nation is anticipating, Speaker Johnson's talked about a lot of this big beautiful bill stuff not being an issue anymore in the House once it goes back over. Right now, there's not a lot of reason for McDonough to hold things up for eternity. But it still remains to be seen. whether or not the Senate Republicans are going to move a couple of things around,

or whether we're going to see McNo be overruled by Vice President J.D. Vance, who is the presiding officer over the Senate, one of the precious few duties of the vice president. Before you go, head down to the description and make sure you're subscribed to both the Daily Signal's top news intent and the Tony Kinnett cast. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. I'm going to leave in a few hours to producer Lou's wedding over in Pennsylvania, So we'll see you on Monday. I hope this format wasn't too jarring for you, a little bit shorter than a Tony Kinnett cast, longer than a Top News in 10,

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