00:00Hey, let me talk about what we got done here tonight, the Republican Party and President Trump and everybody that works on our side has promised fiscal responsibility and fiscal discipline, and we're delivering on those promises again tonight.
00:15I just signed our H.R. 4, which is our rescissions package, the first of what we believe will be multiple rescissions packages. That's our plan.
00:23I'm delighted to send that over to the president's desk for signature, and he'll sign that quickly.
00:27We clawed back $9 billion in taxpayer funds and wasteful spending, fraud, waste, and abuse.
00:34We've been targeting that every area.
00:36This was directed to wasteful spending in the previous State Department, of course, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and a couple of other areas.
00:44We looked at that.
00:45We thought it was a waste of taxpayer funds, and we're taking care of business.
00:49So we'll continue to do that.
00:50We're going to downsize the scope of government.
00:53Government is too large.
00:54It does too many things, and it does almost nothing well.
00:56We believe in a limited government that's accountable and efficient and effective for the people,
01:01and we're going to continue to demonstrate that through our actions here on the floor.
01:04Mr. Speaker, have you committed to a date on the non-money?
01:07Mr. Speaker, in what the Trump administration is trying to do on the EPSA, based on what the House tried to do tonight,
01:14are Republicans in the House trying to get more in line with the president and what he wants with some of the actions he's taken tonight on EPSA?
01:21Mr. Speaker, in the rules committee tonight, you guys advanced a rule with the Epstein resolution that you guys crafted.
01:25And he's been very clear that he wants all credible information, credible evidence to be turned over to the people so that the people can decide.
01:33We trust the American people and their judgment, and we're for that.
01:36The president is for that, and there's different ways everybody expresses the same truth.
01:41But I would tell you that there's a unified opinion on that.
01:44Mr. Speaker, in the rules committee tonight, you guys advanced a rule with the Epstein resolution that you guys crafted.
01:50Do you commit to putting that on the floor for a full chamber vote?
01:53The rules committee turned into a bit of a debacle this week because the Democrats were trying to politicize this.
01:58We were working on cutting fraud, waste and abuse and wasteful spending, and they kept trying to hijack that and derail it and turn it into Epstein hearings.
02:07That's not what the subject was.
02:09So the Republicans on the rules committee, most of them that were present, voted against Democrat amendments to try to hijack that.
02:16That was the right thing for them.
02:18They were wrongfully tarred and feathered by people who did not understand what was happening and said that they were covering up for – they were in favor of concealing Epstein files.
02:27It's simply not true.
02:28So the resolution that was advanced tonight in the rules committee was for them to go on record and say, no, of course we're for transparency.
02:35Of course.
02:36Every single one of the Republicans on the rules committee are for transparency and for releasing the files, just as the president of the United States is.
02:43And they wanted that to make crystal clear, make it crystal clear.
02:46I think their vote tonight did.
02:48We'll determine what happens with all that.
02:50There's a lot developing.
02:52The president made his statements this afternoon.
02:54He's asked the attorney general to release the information.
02:56I'm certain that she will.
02:58And everybody can make their own decisions about that.
03:00After this funding cut, do you support the idea of a pocket rescission center?
03:06Look, we support rescissions in whatever form they could come to us.
03:11We want to cut spending, fraud, waste, and abuse.
03:14That will be an ongoing quest of ours.
03:16We had some of the doge cuts that were involved here.
03:18We had many of them in the big, beautiful bill, many of the executive orders.
03:22We want to codify those.
03:23We want to cut more spending.
03:24We want to bring the control of the government back to the hands of the people.
03:28That's not just a slogan for us.
03:29We are demonstrating that time after time.
03:32Let me point this out.
03:33Let me point this out.
03:34The Democrats voted the other way.
03:36They voted to support and to keep wasteful spending, to support and to keep fraud and waste.
03:43These crazy expenses.
03:46We were funding transgender operas in Peru, by one example, right, through the USAID funding.
03:51They voted against eliminating that tonight.
03:54Democrats are on record with some really crazy things,
03:56and everybody needs to evaluate that before the 2026 election.
04:00We have a long list of priorities.
04:02Will you commit to putting the Epstein rule on the floor?
04:05Are you going to put that on the floor?
04:06We will see how all this develops.
04:08We're in line with the White House.
04:10There's no daylight between us.
04:11We want transparency, and I think that will be delivered for the people.
