Congressman William Timmons on the S.A.V.E. Act Votes

00:00 So first, black people didn't have IDs. Then it was going to be too hard for women to get IDs. And now listen to what they're talking about in the Senate. That is not the half of it. Just consider all the people who will face new challenges just to vote for no good reason. If you are a student who just moved to start college, Republicans will make it harder for you to vote. Okay, because you can't use your college ID. 00:30 As we're talking to Representative William Timmons right now, Congressman Timmons, welcome to the program, sir. Hope you're doing well. Charlie, good afternoon. Great to be with you. You know, the funny thing is, is it's actually illegal in most states for you to vote if you are in college there. You have to vote where you are from. Right. That's even funnier. Yeah. So I don't even understand the rules of voting here, but SAVE Act, it passed the test vote 5148. Murkowski voted no. 00:59 Tom Tillis didn't vote at all. Are you aware of what's going on now with what they're calling storming the floor? 01:09 I'm not tracking. We've been busy in the house. But I know that there's a lot of people trying very hard to get it done. But the Democrats are trying to every procedural mechanism to stop them. And I think it is, I mean, I know there's a lot of debate about whether or not we should do away with the filibuster, but we know that the Democrats are going to do away with it once they're in power. So you either use it when it benefits you or they use it when it benefits them. So I mean, do you think this thing is ever going to do? Do you think it's going to get passed? 01:39 I'm not optimistic, I gotta be honest. We'll see, the Democrats are gonna have to defend us and we're gonna hang it around their necks for the midterms. So, and you told us last time you guys have another version ready to go, right? I was talking to the White House earlier today. I'm not clear whether they're gonna try to amend it in the Senate because the president wants to add no men and women's sports and he wants to add no transgender surgeries for minors. 02:08 I mean, you know, they got to do that in the next, they got to amend it right now. So we'll see what happens. Yeah, we will see what happens with that. So I'm not sure how that's going to go. Tell us about H.R. 1958. I think this is a great idea, especially when we're seeing all that went on in Minneapolis. Now we're hearing that Maine is another hotbed of fraud, California hotbed of fraud, the Deporting Fraudsters Act. That's going to be on the floor tomorrow afternoon. 02:37 It is. And honestly, it's just common sense. If you come to this country and you defraud the American taxpayers, you shouldn't be allowed to stay. I mean, it's as simple as that. You're right. And it would ensure that individuals who commit fraud against programs like Social Security, SNAP and other public benefits, they are deportable. well, even uh Congressman Biggs, Congresswoman Biggs said that if you come here, 03:05 and you commit crimes and you commit fraud, then you should go and you should be, you know, denaturalized. 03:14 right? That's exactly right. That's exactly right. And I mean, we've got to create this sense for people to continue to break into this country illegally. And I think that's a great way to do it. Yeah, absolutely right. So tell us about, mean, here we are, we've got the Department of Homeland Security, that shut down, TSA is shut down, Coast Guard shut down, FEMA shut down. None of these things have anything to do with ICE. Why are the Democrats keeping the government shut down? 03:42 That's the only levers they have. And so they're trying to use the government shutdown to inflict pain to get concessions out of the president. This is not going to work. Yeah. The fact that they're using TSA pay and you got all these PSA that are working that they're not getting paid and lines are getting abysmally long and airports are becoming complete log jams and it's ...