RADIOMarch 30, 2022

What’s inside Biden’s massive, 5.8 TRILLION DOLLAR budget?

President Biden presented his budget proposal on Tuesday…all 5.8 TRILLION DOLLARS of it. Congress eventually will pass its own 2023 budget, but that doesn’t mean Joe’s monetary desires will go completely unanswered. So, Glenn breaks down EXACTLY what’s inside this HUGE request. From new taxes on America’s most wealthy and additional resources for local law enforcement, to a ‘placeholder’ for Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, this budget would stretch America’s deficit to all new highs (which it already is…).

Transcript

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GLENN: Oh, this is so good. This is so good. Now, if you're thinking, how am I going to make ends meet? What? The cupboards are almost bare. I want you to know that the government is there to help. Joe Biden has just pitched a $5.8 trillion budget. And included in it, is the largest tax hike in history. So he's there for you. He's there for you. It's -- you know, it's -- it would be part of -- part of a new tax code. It raises the rates on corporations, and ultra wealthy Americans. And I'm glad, because I can't tell you how many jobs I've had from poor corporations.

STU: Oh, yeah.

GLENN: And poor Americans. I met this guy, who had just come here from America. He was standing out in front of Home Depot with a sign. And I started talking to him. And he offered me a job. I got a job. It was well-paying. Had really good benefits. It was really good. Really good.

STU: That's how most big tech companies start, from the Home Depot parking lot in the back of a truck. That's how the i Phone started.

GLENN: Yeah. They're like, this is what you do. On Saturday, you get a truck. And you drive up, and you say, who can offer me a job? And then they all get in the back of your truck. And you bring them someplace. And then, you know, you haggle.

STU: Two weeks later, you have Johnson & Johnson.

GLENN: It is. It's amazing. So the president laid out the tax hikes. As part of his $5.8 trillion blueprint for federal spending, in 2023. Which begins in October.

The higher taxes will be borne mostly by Wall Street. And the top sliver of U.S. households. I mean, right?

STU: Always the way it happens.

GLENN: Right. The Democrats hate Wall Street. And giant corporations. They just hate them, you know. Oh. It's weird though, how they're all lining up to do the White House's bidding, but we're going to get them this time. So he said, we're reducing the Trump deficits and returning our fiscal house to order. This budget is making prudent investment and economic growth. A more equitable economy, while making sure corporations and the very wealthy pay their fair share. Amen to that.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: So let's see, he has a $5.6 trillion budget. But his billionaire minimum income tax, will raise $361 billion in revenue. Over ten years. Over ten years. 361 billion. Which is only a third of $1 trillion. We're spending 5.6 in one year. 361 billion, one-third of a trillion, which is one-fifth and a half of what he is spending in one year. That -- that's raised over ten years. So I understand the math. Come on. Did you not get Common Core math. The wealthiest Americans will be required to pay a tax of at least 20 percent. And that will be from the combination of wage income. And whatever they made in unrealized gains. So it's really great. Because they -- these people have soaring assets, you know. The value of their assets are just going crazy. Now, yours aren't. I mean, if you own a home. And you bought it 30 years ago, I'm sure it's exactly the same price as it was. Now, imagine at the end of every year, they come to you, and go, hey, your house is worth $50,000 more. So we need five grand for you. Because, you know, your house is just going up and up and up. And it will never go down. So you could cough that up. What happens if your house went up, you know, $100,000. Wouldn't it be great, if they said, hey, you owe us ten grand, this year. Who knows what you'll owe next year. Because everybody has that ten grand laying around the house, you know. Everybody is like, oh, my house could go up. And I'm not going to sell it. But I should pay the federal government for what it increased. Now, there's no -- there's no tax refund, when your house starts to about it down. But don't worry about that. This is only for the rich. The very rich. By the way, he also, because he is definitely for the police. Definitely for the police.

STU: Hmm. That one has definitely been run through the focus groups. You can tell that any opportunity he has now to say, I don't want to defund the police. What are you talking about? He's run from that position, as quickly as they should. They should have never been there in the first place.

GLENN: Well, he said, they never should have said that. Then when you read the article. You realize, yes, he did. You just have a different interpretation. You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means. So you've -- so you've got that going. Now, there's nothing better than getting the federal government to mainline our police. You know, having the local police just hooked on federal money. Wouldn't that be great? And they've expanded the discretionary spending. Which would increase the resources for federal prosecutors. Love those guys. And give additional resources to state and local enforcement, to put more police on the beat. Now, some would say, hmm. I don't really want to be addicted to the federal spending, when it comes to the police. Because when the federal government says the police should do something. You know, the towns that aren't really paying for them now. Would go, we got to do it. Otherwise, they'll pull all the funding. And we don't have the money to keep our police. But don't worry, that's never going to happen. Never.

By the way, in there too, is kind of some weird wording. Well, it's a place holder, for his Build Back Better agenda. You know, just like, hey, we also have this one. But I haven't had time to work it out. So just put this place holder in the budget. Which is great. Hi, Pat. Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed has just joined us.

PAT: Yeah. Running a little late because of overtime.

GLENN: Games every morning. Cutting it close.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: So how much do you love this?

PAT: The new budget?

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

PAT: Oh, my gosh. I love it so much.

STU: Oh, really? See, I thought you wouldn't like it. Because there's a lot of spending, there's tax increases throughout it.

PAT: Really? I know. Just the largest in American history though. That's not bad.

STU: But you like it?

PAT: You know, I love it. I love it. Because it's going to lower the deficit. Did you not know that? Like, we're spending 6 trillion to lower the deficit.

GLENN: No, no, no. The deficit -- let's make sure we understand the deficit. The definition of the deficit, versus the definition of the debt.

PAT: Yeah, the deficit is the debt you run up every year.

GLENN: Yeah. It's the --

PAT: The budget shortfalls every year.

GLENN: The budget shortfalls. So what we don't have every year, we're reducing that, but he's the first one. And I like this. We're going to be -- the first president in history, to lower the deficit by over a trillion dollars in one year.

PAT: Yeah. That's because we've never had a deficit that large before.

GLENN: Well, it also -- it's not declining because of anything that Biden did. But because of the $5 trillion in COVID-19 relief funds have already been disbursed. There's no more.

PAT: So ridiculous.

GLENN: $5 trillion. And I'm going to -- I'm going to lower that by a trillion. I don't know. Wait. Last year, it was like 2.5 trillion. You couldn't -- you couldn't lower it by 2.5 trillion? Because that was all free money for emergency.

STU: Yeah. They're picking up the covid spending, with most of it, they're picking up with other spending. That will go on forever. Right? New programs and new things like that. You know, when Barack Obama ran for office. The budget was $3 trillion. And it went up, through the Obama era. 3.5. 3.7. 3.9. Trump takes it 4 trillion, 4.1, 4.4, 4.8.

And then Biden, 4.8. And then now 5.6, he wants. So we've gone -- we've doubled -- doubled from 2008 basically our spending, 2008.

GLENN: Wait. Wait. But look at how great things have gone.

STU: That's true.

GLENN: I mean, they've gone from 3 trillion to 6 trillion.

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: And with those 3 trillion extra dollars.

STU: Things are much better.

GLENN: Like, do you remember the days when people used to have to say, hey, we need more money to fix our infrastructure. It's fixed now, isn't it?

STU: Yeah. It's great.

GLENN: Those roads and bridges are great.

PAT: And how about the beautiful airports we now have, to rival China and Europe? The beautiful, beautiful airports.

STU: Everybody has health care that they're thrilled with.

GLENN: Thrilled.

PAT: Nobody is unhappy with their healthcare.

GLENN: Nobody has turned away for anything.

STU: No foreign concepts. I'll tell you that much. You don't have to worry about that.

GLENN: No. We have that under control.

STU: That's all under control now.

GLENN: We are on track.

PAT: And inflation, completely under control now. That's the beauty of all of this.

STU: Oh, yeah.

GLENN: Can I ask you a question: Why do we still listen to these people. How is it that there are so many Americans -- I don't care what side you're on. So many Americans, who have listened to this now, forever. And are like. Yeah. Yeah. Well, at this time. They're going to fix it. If I just elect them this time. And we spend this amount of money, this time. We won't have to spend this amount of money, later.

PAT: Uh-huh.

GLENN: We'll fix it this time. I've heard that my whole life. And it's been a crisis since 2000. I can't take it anymore. Because it's all lies! That's why they about it for the youth. Because the youth is like, oh. I've never heard that. Well, that would be great. And then by the time you're 40, you're like, I can't -- I can't take them. Please, somebody wake me up from this -- is Will Smith here, will he just slap me across the face. What is happening?

PAT: And I get -- I get frustrated with that too. But then I realize, I see the polls. And I realize, there's not that many. Not as many as we think, that are buying this. They're not -- they're not buying what he's selling.

STU: They're seeing through this.

PAT: Yeah. They are.

They're realizing, that it's not Putin's fault for the inflation. Because it's been going on since he took office.

It's not Putin's fault for the gas prices, because it went up 48 percent, year to year, before the invasion. And they're -- they're starting to realize, that he's a lying sack.

STU: Yeah. And look, there is a partisan floor, with these polls. Let's say 30 percent, to be aggressive. You really can't go lower than that. Even Richard Nixon he's getting thrown out of his office, he's at 30 percent. I mean, he still had a 60 or 70 percent approval rating among Republicans when he was thrown out of office.

GLENN: That's crazy.

STU: I mean, there's just a partisan. And I think it's much worse than that era. A partisan tilt to those polls. That, you know, his floor is probably low 30s, at the worst.

PAT: Yeah. Thirty to 35. Maybe.

STU: He's already in the high 30s. And he's falling. And he's behind every other president, at this point in his administration. The only one he's close to is Trump. Which, of course, is sort of a different situation. He came into office, already, you know, in a very conflicted place with the American people. He was never popular. He didn't get that honeymoon that most presidents get.

PAT: Well, he did have a chance with the media.

STU: That started with day one with Trump. We know that he was a different president certainly. But every other president in American history, that we have polling on, Biden is doing worse than. And, you know, they call Donald Trump like the worst president in history. And he's right there with Donald Trump.

GLENN: Can I tell you why that's happening, sincerely? It's because the people have become so divisive, that they just don't want a uniter like Joe Biden.

PAT: Is that what it is? Wow.

GLENN: Yep. Yep. Well, that and Donald Trump.

STU: Well, why is Donald Trump brought up?

PAT: And don't forget Vladimir Putin.

GLENN: Yeah. Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump. And a little bit of Ruther B. Hayes. Just a little bit.

PAT: Damn, Ruther B. Hayes.

STU: Ruther B. Rutherford B.?

PAT: Yeah, I ran it all together. It didn't really --

GLENN: Yeah. It's -- wow, we're still feeling the effects of that administration.

STU: Because usually when there's a big foreign conflict, like with Putin, you have a bump in your approval rating. Because people are like, well, I'm going to side with the president. I'm going to jump in there. It seems now, he's done such a good job. That's not happening. He's still falling.

GLENN: Echoes of Ulysses S. grant. And his administration.

PAT: Somebody had to say it.

GLENN: Somebody had to say it. He was a Republican. What, you expect to recover from that right away.

PAT: No way.

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The rise of Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old socialist who just won the Democratic primary for mayor, is not just a political earthquake shaking New York City — it’s a warning for the rest of America. Backed by Bernie Sanders, AOC, and the Democratic Socialists of America, Mamdani promises free everything, to tax the rich, and to dismantle capitalism. There’s nothing new about this tired strategy, but the media is propping him up as a new political genius. And with Democrat leaders lining up behind him, it’s clear: This radicalism isn’t fringe anymore. It’s the Democratic Party’s future. Mamdani’s rise is part of a larger movement that’s rewriting America’s values. Glenn Beck explains how New York is the prototype for the Left’s socialist makeover of America. Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Standford, gives a terrifying prediction on Mamdani’s mayoral race chances and warns the revolution is coming for mainstream Democrats. He also dives into MAGA’s frustration with the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files.

INSIDE Trump’s soul: How a bullet changed his heart forever

“I have a new purpose,” then-candidate Donald Trump told reporter Salena Zito after surviving the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Salena joins Glenn Beck to reveal what Trump told her about God, his purpose in life, and why he really said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, as she details in her new book, “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland”.

Transcript

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GLENN: Salena, congratulations on your book. It is so good.

Just started reading it. Or listening to it, last night.

And I wish you would have -- I wish you would have read it. But, you know, the lady you have reading it is really good.

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

The writing of this is the best explanation on who Trump supporters are. That I think I've ever read, from anybody.

It's really good.

And the description of your experience there at the edge of the stage with Donald Trump is pretty remarkable as well. Welcome to the program.

SALENA: Thank you, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me.

You know, I was thinking about this, as I was ready to come on. You and I have been along for this ride forever. For what?

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

SALENA: And I've been chronicling the American people for probably ten more years, before that. And it's really remarkable to me, as watching how this coalition has grown. Right?

And watching how people have the -- have become more aspirational.

And that's -- and that is what the conservative populist coalition is, right?

It is the aspirations of many, but the celebration of the individual.

And chronicling them, yeah. Has been -- has been, a great honor.

GLENN: You know, I was thinking about this yesterday, when -- when Elon Musk said he was starting another party.

And somebody asked me, well, isn't he doing what the Tea Party tried to do?

No. The Tea Party was not going to start a new party.

It was to -- you know, it was to coerce and convince the Republican Party to do the right thing. And it worked in many ways. It didn't accomplish what we hoped.

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

I truly believe that. And a lot of the people that were -- right?

Were with Donald Trump, are the people that were with the Tea Party.

SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

So American politics has always had movements, that have been just outside of a party. Or within a party.

That galvanize and broaden the coalition. Right? They don't take away. Or walk away, and become another party.

If anything, if there is a third party out there, it's almost a Republican Party.

Because it has changed in so many viable and meaningful ways. And the Tea Party didn't go away. It strengthened and broadened the Republican Party. Because these weren't just Republicans that became part of this party.

It was independents. It was Democrats.

And just unhappy with the establishment Republicans. And unhappy with Democrats.

And that -- that movement is what we -- what I see today.

What I see every day. What I saw that day, in butler, when I showed I happen at that rally.

As I do, so many rallies, you know, throughout my career. And that one was riveting and changed everything.

GLENN: You made a great case in the opening chapter. You talk about how things were going for Donald Trump.

And how this moment really did change everything for Donald Trump.

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

I mean, Elon Musk was not on the Trump train, until this.

SALENA: Yeah.

GLENN: Moment. What do I -- what changed? How -- how did that work?

And -- and I contend, that we would have much more profound change, had the media actually done their job and reported this the way it really was. Pragmatism

SALENA: You know, and people will find this in the book. I'm laying on the ground with an agent on top of me.

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

And there's -- there's notices coming up on my phone. Saying, he was hit by broken glass.

And to this take, that remains part of this sibling culture, in American politics.

Because reporters were -- were so anxious to -- to right what they believed happened.

As opposed to what happened.

And it's been a continual frustration of mine, as a reporter, who is on the ground, all the time.

And I'll tell you, what changed in that moment.

And I say a nuance, and I believe nuance is dead in American journalism.

But it was a nuance and it was a powerful conversation, that I had with President Trump, the next day. He called me the next morning.

But it's a powerful conversation I had with him, just two weeks ago.

When he made this decision to say, fight, fight, fight.

People have put in their heads, why they think he said it. But he told me why he said that. And he said, Salena, in that moment, I was not Donald Trump the man. I was a former president. I was quite possibly going to be president again.

And I had an obligation to the country, and to the office that I have served in, to project strength. To project resolve.

To project that we will not be defeated.

And it's sort of like a symbolic eagle, that is always -- you know, that symbol that we look at, when we think about our country.

He said, that's why I said that. I didn't want the people behind me panicking. I didn't want the people watching, panicking.

I had to show strength. And it's that nuance -- that I think people really picked up on.

And galvanized people.

GLENN: So he told me, when he was laying down on the stage.

And you can hear him. Let me get up. Let me get up.

I've got to get up.

He told me, as I was laying on the stage. I asked him, what were you thinking? What was going through your head? Now, Salena, I don't know about you.

But with me. It would be like, how do I get off the stage? My first was survival.

He said, what was going on through his mind was, you're not pathetic. This is pathetic.

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

And so is that what informed his fight, fight, fight, of that by the time that he's standing up, he's thinking, I'm a symbol? Or do you think he was thinking, I'm a symbol, this looks pathetic. It makes you look weak.

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

SALENA: He thinks, and we just talked about this weeks ago. He -- you know, and this is something that he's really thought about.

Right? You know, he's gone over and over and over. And also, purpose and God. Right? These are things that have lingered with him.

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

He did think, it was pathetic that he was on the ground. But he wasn't thinking about, I'm Donald Trump. It's pathetic.

He's thinking, my country is symbolically on the ground. I need to get up, and I need to show that my country is strong.

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

And I think that then goes to that image of Biden.

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

How many presidents do you think that you've personally been with, would have thought that and reacted that way?

SALENA: Probably only Reagan. Reagan would have. Reagan probably would have thought that.

And if you remember how he was out like standing outside.

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

SALENA: Had he not been knocked out, unconscious, you know, he probably would have done the same thing.

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

SALENA: Yeah. Absolutely. And I think that affects him today.

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

Because you talked to him the next day. And your book Butler.

He calls you up.

I love the fact that your parents would be ashamed of you. On what you said to him.

The language you used. That you just have to read the book.

It's just a great part.

But he calls you the next morning. And wants to know if you're okay.

And you -- you then start talking to him, about God.

And I was -- I was thinking about this, as I was listening to it. You know, Lincoln said, I wasn't -- I wasn't a Christian.

Even though, he was.

I wasn't a Christian, when I was elected. I wasn't a Christian when my son died.

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

Is -- is -- I mean, I believe Donald Trump always believes in God, et cetera, et cetera.

Do you think there was a real profound change at Butler with him?

SALENA: Absolutely. You know, he called me seven times that day. Seven times, the take after seven.

GLENN: Crazy.

SALENA: Talked about. And I think he was looking for someone that he knew, that was there. And to try to sort it out.

Right? And I let him do most of the talking. I didn't pressure him.

At all. I believed that he was having -- you know, he was struggling. And he needed to just talk. And I believed my purpose was to listen.

Right? I know other reporters would have handled it differently. And that's okay. That's not the kind of reporter that I am.

And I myself was having my own like, why didn't I die?

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

And -- and so I -- he had the conversation about God.

He's funny. I thought it was the biggest mosquito in the world that hit me.

But he had talked profoundly about purpose. You know, and God.

And how God was in that moment.

It --

GLENN: I love the way you -- in the book, I love the way you said that as he's kind of working it out in his own he head.

He was like, you know, I -- I -- I always knew that there was some sort of, you know -- that God was present.

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

All of the things that have happened. And he's like, I realized God was there the whole time.

SALENA: Yes. He does. And it's fascinating to have been that witness to history, to have those conversations with him. Because I'm telling you. And y'all know, I can talk. I didn't say much of anything.

I just -- I just listened. I felt that was my purpose, in that moment.

To give him that space, to work it out.

I'm someone that is, you know, believes in God.

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

And -- and so, I thought, well, this is why God put me here. Right?

And to -- to have that -- to hear him talk about purpose, to hear him say, Salena. Why did I put a chart down?

I'm like, sir. I don't know. I thought you were Ross Perot for a second.

He never has a chart. And he laughed. And then he said, why did I put that chart down?

By that term, I never turned my head away from people at the rally. That's true.

That relationship is very transactional. It's very -- they feed off of each other.

It's a very emotive moment when you attend a rally. Because he has a way of talking at a rally. That you believe that you are seeing.

And he said, and I never turn my head away.

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

I don't remember consciously thinking about turning my head away. And then he says to me, that was God, wasn't it?

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

And he said, that's -- that's why I have a new purpose.

And so, Glenn. I think it's important, when you look at the breadth of what has happened, since he was sworn in.

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

Where you find out, that there was another president that was shot at in Butler.

And that was George Washington. And how different the country would have been, had he died in that moment.

And now think about how different the country would be, had President Trump died in that moment. There would be --

GLENN: We're talking to -- we're talking to Salena Zito. About her new book called Butler. The assassination attempt on President Trump. And it is riveting.

And, you know, it is so good. I wish the press would read it. Because it really explains who we are, who Trump supporters are. Who are, you know, red staters. It is so good at that. She's the best at that.