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The Republican effort to replace Obamacare fell flat on its face and a full repeal is now a longshot. Monday on radio, Glenn and the crew talked about the 60 bills Republicans passed during the Obama administration to repeal the Affordable Care Act and just how disappointing this version of the bill was for conservatives.
Unfortunately, in many ways, Republicans have turned out to be just as bad as the Democrats.
Enjoy the complimentary clip or read the transcript for details.
GLENN: Okay. Here's the thing -- here is what -- I really believe we have to state over and over again, for anyone who wants to blame the Freedom Caucus or anybody else, there was a bill to repeal health care. It passed the House. Sixty -- six-zero -- sixty times. Sixty. Why did they not use the bill that went through the House 60 times? Reason: They didn't mean it.
Some people meant it. You meant it. But when we said they don't mean this. Get away from the Republicans. They don't mean this. They're lying to you, what was said?
We were traitors. We were sellouts. We were whatever. If that were true, we would have been wrong because they would have taken the bill that they had passed 60 times while they were asking for your vote and support. And they would have reintroduced that bill and passed it again. Because, I don't need to see this again, but may I? They had already passed that bill 60 times.
The only reason they passed it is because they were lying to you about what they really believed. They are cowards. They pass it when they know it won't go to the president for his signature because they're all too afraid to reverse free stuff that Obama gave them.
Obama gave the country free stuff, and nobody has the courage to say, "I know, but this free stuff isn't really free. And it's going to cripple you. It's going to cripple our system. And it's not going to last. It can't last." They're afraid to do that.
And so we were right about the Republicans. Sixty times, they repealed it. When they really could do it, they fail.
And then the other thing we're right about is now -- and I'm taking this from the Drudge Report, which is pro Donald Trump -- this was the headline. Donald Trump looks to the left and looks to the Democrats for support.
He's going to -- and he tweeted it on Friday. He's disgusted by the conservatives in the House. And he's moving away from the conservatives, and he's going to look for the Democrats.
Well, what are you going to get if you are now bringing the Democrats on board and leaving the constitutionalists out?
STU: And imagine if they had gone about this in a different way. Think of the alternate reality. They come out day one and pass the same bill they passed 60 times. Okay?
GLENN: Yep.
STU: Goes to the Senate. There are some procedural hurdles that could have been difficult. But let's say that gets through. But maybe it stops there. Maybe the president vetoes it because the president ran on a lot of big promises, on keeping everybody's health care and preexisting conditions and a lot of things that would have gone away with a full repeal. So he may have vetoed it. However, at that point, you probably can come back to conservatives and say, look, we tried. We did what we said we were going to do.
GLENN: We tried. Yep.
STU: And you know what, we can't get what we wanted. However, let's look for something that is better than what we have. And I think a lot of conservatives would have been open to that.
GLENN: Yep. Yep. I would have been. They tried. They tried.
STU: At least they tried. And you can't control everybody's vote in Congress as we've seen. Instead, they started with a terrible bill that I would be uncomfortable going with, even as a compromise, and they started there. Then they gave a couple of concessions to conservatives very late in the process and couldn't get it through.
GLENN: And nobody really made the case for this bill.
STU: No one made the case. They didn't do it openly.
GLENN: No. Uh-uh.
STU: They didn't explain the process well. And Trump -- look, Trump comes out with this tweet about the Freedom Caucus, where he says, well, they must -- I don't remember. Do you have the quote in front of you, Jeffy, by any chance? The Trump/Planned Parenthood tweet basically says, oh, well, I guess the Freedom Caucus likes Planned Parenthood. I don't know if Donald Trump doesn't know the bill. Because every report this weekend said he was in meetings with these people who care about the details of this bill and says, don't sweat the small -- he didn't say stuff. Don't worry -- don't tell me about the small stuff. All he wanted was a win. He knew nothing about this bill. In fact, it does seem that he had absolutely no awareness that the Planned Parenthood funding was only going away for one year. One year.
This bill that was supposed to be this wonderful thing that Planned Parenthood was taking -- was going to lose their funding, one year. And a simple restructuring of their organization even gets rid of the one year of the lack of funding.
JEFFY: Wow.
PAT: Well, Stu, nobody said it was a perfect bill. Nobody said it was perfect. You can't get a perfect bill. If you're waiting for a perfect bill, you're going to wait a long time.
So tired of that.
GLENN: Can I tell you something. This is why we give them the House, the Senate, and the White House. You don't get a perfect. We'll never get a perfect bill. You're right. You have to compromise.
PAT: But we don't need to be eating turd burgers all the time.
GLENN: From our side.
PAT: They're preparing us these turds and putting them between two pieces of bread and telling us it's not perfect. Can you at least remove the turd. Give me peanut butter and jelly, a ham, maybe some cheese. That wouldn't be perfect either. Steak would be perfect. But I'll take the ham and cheese.
It's so ridiculous what they're trying to jam down our throats here. And we're used to this from the Democrats.
JEFFY: Yes, we are.
PAT: But we're just seeing that it's Republicans too. We're getting it from both sides.
GLENN: Yeah, this is why -- this is why -- this week, I'm repointing the cornerstones of -- of the Blaze and of us at Mercury as well. Because we have to know what we stand for. And I'm -- I won't go with straw arguments anymore. No more strawmen arguments. I want to hear both sides. I want to hear the best ideas from both sides.
I don't want to hear the -- I want to be about the principles and the actual facts. If you get off the actual facts -- I don't care. I don't want to be about an ideology. I want to be about the actual facts.
Come what may, can we do that as a people? Can we get anybody to join us on that as a people?
Glenn Beck and Eric Metaxas expose the spiritual crisis gripping America’s churches — a moment they compare to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s warning before World War II. As the culture descends into moral confusion, too many Christians retreat into silence, claiming faith while refusing to act. Together, they argue that true belief demands courage — that “faith without works is dead” — and warn that neutrality in the face of evil is itself a form of complicity.
Watch the FULL Interview HERE
The American Dream used to mean freedom and the chance to build your own life through hard work, faith, and independence. But today, it’s been replaced by comfort, consumption, and debt. Glenn Beck breaks down how America traded liberty for lifestyle, why socialism is gaining ground, and what it will take to reclaim the real American Dream before it disappears for good.
Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors
GLENN: I don't know if you saw the visualizing the American dream, Stu.
You know, what the American dream actually is, is that you can forge your own way.
You can -- you know, you can have a scrap of land, and grow your own food if up.
You can, you know, go to school. Not go to school.
You can find a job. If you're qualified for it, you have an equal chance of getting it, you know, based on merit.
But the percentage of Americans who say the American dream is retirement is 86 percent. Health care, 86 percent. Owning a home, 85. Raising two kids, 78. Owning a car, 72. Vacations, 71. Pets, 66. A wedding, 55 percent. That's the American dream, I can get married.
The American dream, if that's what you think, they've now estimated, the cost per household over the cost -- over the lifetime, retirement is $1.6 million. Owning a home now, 30-year mortgage, 20 percent you want to, is $957,594. Owning a car, buying and finance to begin with new cars every ten years is now $900,000 over your lifetime. Raising two kids to 18, plus four years of public college, $876,092. Two kids. Health care, over your lifetime, spending from ages 22 to 85, $414,000. Vacations, annual vacation from '22 to '85, $180,000. One dog and one cat for 11 to 13 years is $40,000!
That's more expensive than a wedding. The engagement ring, the ceremony, and the reception is now estimated to be $38,200.
There's a reason socialism is doing well. You look at that, and you're like, wow. I mean, if that's the American dream. And for a lot of people, that is the American dream!
That's not what the American dream is supposed to be, but, you know, once -- you know, once Woodrow Wilson and FDR got a hold of us and they started advertising, it became stuff instead of freedom. It became stuff. And, you know, when there's a new report out. Let me see if I have that.
There's a new report out now that shows, first time home buyers made up just 21 percent of the home purchases. That's the lowest on record.
The typical age of repeat buyers hit an all-time high of '62. The median downtowns, reaching 23 percent.
The highest since 2023.
And also, where is it?
The last one is -- the median age for first time home buyers, in 1981, it was 29 years old.
I'm sorry. Yeah. Twenty-nine years old. In 2021, it was 33 years old.
What is it this year?
Median age, first time homeowner, forty.
You're 40 before you can buy any kind of home. That puts these things that people want, dream about, out of reach, until you're 40?
You know, 29 is one thing. But if you're not seeing -- you're not seeing your life really kind of settling down until you're 40, I -- I can understand why you're like, you know what, this system doesn't work.
Because you've never seen it work. It's betrayed you.
Or so you've been sold. It's betrayed you.
And everything is being pushed out of your reach. And when you're young, the one thing you're not is patient.
And at 40, I can see why people are not, you know, yeah. Well, socialism is neat because capitalism isn't working. How would you respond to that?
STU: I mean, it's more lengthy than we have time for. But I would say that the response to, you know, you thinking that you want a home is not to embrace an ideology that murders 100 million people.
That's not -- that's not a good answer to the problem that you think you have.
GLENN: But they're not learning that anywhere.
They're not -- that is our responsibility! To teach those things. Because they're not learning it anywhere.
Socialism is spreading fast among America’s youth, and the shocking election of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani for mayor in New York City marks a major cultural and economic shift. Glenn exposes how runaway debt, record home prices, AI job disruption, and the collapsing stake in capitalism have led many Millennials and members of Gen Z to embrace socialism and communism. He reveals the three possible economic futures for 2026: two that are disastrous and one that could change everything if the Trump administration’s global financial overhaul succeeds. Plus, Justin Haskins, president of the Heartland Institute, joins to reveal some terrifying truths about why young Americans are embracing socialism from a poll he conducted with Rasmussen Reports.
"The world doesn't understand yet. We're already in World War III," Glenn Beck warns. "That foe is not China. That foe is militant Islam." Glenn explains the battle we're currently facing and what's to come if we don't wake up soon...
Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors
GLENN: From New Jersey, it's Brian. Hello, Brian.
CALLER: Hello!
GLENN: Hey.
CALLER: Yeah. Thanks for taking the calls today.
GLENN: Sure.
CALLER: Yeah. I'm worried that we are headed towards another French Revolution-style because we have entire generations. Or actually people just not being heard by their representatives.
GLENN: Hmm.
CALLER: And it's not just here. It's around the world.
GLENN: Uh-huh.
I -- actually, I had scheduled for this time, I'll just do it some other time. Talking about what's happening in -- in England.
I think England is headed for a Civil War. And -- and it's very close.
I mean, you can't put 4,000 people. 4,000 people, in jail, or try them for hate crimes. And speech crimes.
You can't -- you can't do it. In England!
You can't do that in one year. And expect people to just put up with it!
You can't -- you know, we're -- we're -- America doesn't understand yet.
The world doesn't understand.
We're in World War III. We're already in World War III.
I don't know when it becomes a hot war. Or even a war that we on our side recognize. But we are in World War III. And that -- that foe is not China.
That foe is militant Islam, period. And, you know, when we have a situation to where people are -- when the government is just like, no. It's not a problem.
It's not a problem. You know. You've got illegals all over.
It's not a problem.
It's not a problem.
It is a problem. Don't tell me what -- what the problems are not!
Because we're the ones living it!
You're the experts, who keep telling us, no. It's going to work out fine.
And it doesn't work out fine. And it just gets worse and worse.
Oh. We can spend this money. No. It looks like we can't spend this money. Oh, we can afford this. No. It looks like we can't afford this.
You know, if we do this with Ukraine, it will work out fine. No, it didn't, did it? These endless wars, all of this stuff, don't tell me what the problem is. Listen to the people and start talking to the people. Honestly, this is the reason why I'm doing this today. I -- I need to hear from you.
I need to know what's on your mind, so I stay focused and -- and clear on what America is saying.
Because I don't think -- look, you know, me taking phone calls is -- is not a true representation of anything, but it does give me a sense of -- of where you are, as an audience. Maybe not as America, but as an audience. And there are lots of things that concern me. But I want to hear it from you.
But I think you're right! We're headed for real, real trouble. All you need is real economic trouble.
You start getting real, true economic trouble. 1930s kind of depression stuff. And we're in Civil War.
Dan, Oregon. Welcome!
CALLER: Hello, Glenn. How are you?
GLENN: I'm great!
CALLER: Yeah. Good. It's been a long time.
I guess it's been over ten years, since I've had a chance to talk with you. I was one of your first insiders. I was listening to you, since you were in Florida.
GLENN: Wow. Wow.
CALLER: So it's been a long -- yeah. It has been. And I can't say I've enjoyed all of it.
(laughter)
GLENN: Neither have I!
STU: I can't say that either, I'll be honest with you.
CALLER: You know, you were talking on yesterday's show, reminiscing with Stu about how you guys started. And I remember those old shows. And, you know, at the end of the -- the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.
STU: Hmm.
GLENN: Right.
CALLER: And there was a lot more entertainment. I remember I laughed a lot.
GLENN: Oh, yeah. I know. I know. Those days are long dead.
(laughter)
STU: There's nothing to laugh about now.
CALLER: Yeah. I -- I'm 78. I still work 40 hours a week. I love my job.
GLENN: Good for you.
CALLER: Been married for 55 years. I have seven kids.
GLENN: Good for you.
CALLER: I've got a daughter -- I've got a daughter who is in her 40s. And she has severe TDS. She -- we don't -- I mean, we're not cutting each other off. She hasn't done that at all. We're still very close as a family. But she was down visiting the other day, and got into a conversation with my wife. And I wasn't in the room. But Kathy said it was just like listening to one of those young people out on the street that was being interviewed by the news media. And she was -- and she was in tears about it. My wife and my daughter both.
And, I mean, I love her, and I continue to support her. She's a single woman, not by choice. She just never found the right guy.
GLENN: Yeah.
CALLER: And I really think that's part of the problem. Because she started reading -- back when Trump was first running, she started reading all of this stuff about him being misogynistic and all of this stuff.
GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.
CALLER: And it's just gotten worse. I -- I'm at a loss. I really am. Because I -- like, I see the country doing better. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. But I still feel like that at least right now, we're doing better as a whole. But what do we do about -- what do we do about our kids about -- she went to Portland State University for the last two --
GLENN: Oh, jeez, for the love of --
CALLER: Well, yeah. For the last two years, she went to -- she went to a little college in Idaho called Ricks for the first two years, and Utah State.
GLENN: Oh, yeah.
CALLER: And then she served a mission for our church in Brazil and came home, but then she went to Portland State University. And it just seems to have gone downhill from there.
GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. So, Dan, I think you are suffering from the same thing that almost all parents are suffering from. If you're not suffering from this, then, I mean, God bless you. You know, get on your knees and thank God. Because you are a lucky, lucky family. Everybody has in their family. I have it in my family.
And you have to ask yourself, what is your goal?
My -- what is your goal with your daughter? Your real goal?
CALLER: My real goal is for us to be united eternally. That's my goal. That's my goal as a father and has been to teach her --
GLENN: And how -- and how is that going to happen with politics?
CALLER: We just stay together as a family regardless of what politics does.
GLENN: That's exactly right. Exactly right.
I think we're in a place now where as parents, you can ask your kids, but it has to be honest. It cannot be trying to win. It has to be honest. How did you get there?
I mean, I remember. You know, we've talked about this before. And you didn't believe that before. What has changed?
Can you help me with that?
I would like to see what you're reading, or what that was.
And just ask questions. But they have to be honest. They can't be, you know, because I'm setting you up. Because I want to change your mind.
But keep a dialogue open with them. And just love them!
Just love them!
Because if you do anything else, you're going to drive them away. And then they're really lost. So just love them.
CALLER: Oh, I know that. Glenn, when she was young -- when she was young, I considered her one of the elect. And the Scripture says, that in the last days, even the elect are going to be deceived. And that's what I'm seeing. But everything you've said, I -- I am doing. I'm doing it that way. Because I know --
GLENN: Okay. Good. Then you didn't need to -- I appreciate it. I'm so glad you called me. But you didn't need to -- my advice, you already have it down. You're a very wise man.
