Florida Governor Ron DeSantis discussed his efforts over the weekend to make sure that his state has the most secure elections in the country this fall.
DeSantis told &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; host Maria Bartiromo on Fox News that the state has banned ballot harvesting and imposed serious penalties for offenders.
&#8220;We require photo ID in order to vote,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve banned the use of Zuckerbucks, and we&#8217;ve been aggressive at policing the voter rolls so that we have accurate voter rolls, and when people have run afoul of our election laws, this election crimes unit we&#8217;ve created has been able to investigate, refer these people to prosecution, and you&#8217;ve had over 50 people just in the last couple years that have been convicted of various types of voter fraud.&#8221;
&#8220;In the state of Florida, we require voter ID,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We also prohibit issuing any type of photo ID to illegal aliens, no driver&#8217;s license, no local government IDs, no private organizations are allowed to issue illegals photo ID, and we don&#8217;t recognize out of state licenses or any type of ID for illegals. What that means is it&#8217;s almost impossible for an illegal to register to vote. In some of these states where they do issue those ID cards, they can go in, and there&#8217;s really no check of the citizenship that has been done. So we&#8217;ve been very aggressive in ensuring that only US citizens are on the voter rolls. When we&#8217;ve identified people that have voted illegally who are not US citizens, we have brought prosecutions against them.&#8221;
He said that Democrats &#8220;oppose voter ID because they want there to be illegal votes. There&#8217;s no other reason.&#8221;
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The 2024 Republican National Convention

DeSantis: ‘Democrats Oppose Voter ID Because They Want There To Be Illegal Votes’

Florida

Maria Bartiromo

Ron DeSantis

Voter ID

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo challenged Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) over the weekend about what her plan is if she manages to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
The confrontation happened during a Sunday interview when Bartiromo asked Greene what her alternative plan is if she&#8217;s successful.
&#8220;OK, Congresswoman, you wanted Mike Johnson out,&#8221; Bartiromo said. &#8220;What is your alternative plan?&#8221;
&#8220;Our plan is this, is, we have to give the American people a reason to trust us and fight for us,&#8221; Greene responded. &#8220;The American people are supporting President Trump to be the next president of the United States because they saw him — they have seen him in action. He fought against the Democrat agenda. He put America first. They desperately want him to lead this country again because they trust him and they know he will do that.&#8221;
&#8220;Mike Johnson has betrayed America,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;He&#8217;s betrayed Republican voters. Under his leadership, he&#8217;s passed the Democrat agenda, passed the Biden administration&#8217;s policies and fully funded them. We&#8217;re going to fight in Congress to do everything we can to stop this type of uniparty leadership. Mike Johnson&#8217;s speakership is over. He needs to do the right thing to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. If he doesn&#8217;t do so, he will be vacated.&#8221;
Bartiromo responded by noting that Greene did not answer the question.
&#8220;Well, with all due respect, you didn&#8217;t give me a plan for the speaker&#8217;s role,&#8221; Bartiromo said. &#8220;And, again, does this mean you are going to file that motion at some point?&#8221;
Greene responded, &#8220;It&#8217;s coming regardless of what Mike Johnson decides to do. And we have three more Republicans joining us for special elections coming up very soon. So people need to know this can happen.&#8221;
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Bartiromo To Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: &#8220;You Didn&#8217;t Give Me A Plan&#8221; For After You Oust Mike Johnson <a href="https://t.co/Zumgo8WHG3">https://t.co/Zumgo8WHG3</a> <a href="https://t.co/ncjfpPhQMQ">pic.twitter.com/ncjfpPhQMQ</a>
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Marjorie Taylor Greene

Bartiromo Grills MTG For Trying To Oust Speaker Johnson: ‘What Is Your Alternative Plan?’

Donald Trump

Media

Mike Johnson

Stephen Miller, a former senior advisor to former President Donald Trump, urged Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to not go forward with his stated plan to file a motion to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy this week.
Miller made the remarks during an appearance on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; with Maria Bartiromo as Gaetz appeared on Sunday morning shows announcing his intentions to oust McCarthy — which many Republicans say is about a personal issue that Gaetz has toward McCarthy.
McCarthy had put forth a continuing resolution last week to keep the government open that included spending cuts and funding border security but Gaetz and a few other Republicans rejected it.
&#8220;I think, at this point in time, it&#8217;s very clear that Kevin is not going to be going anywhere,&#8221; Miller told Bartiromo. &#8220;He has the support of 218 members.&#8221;
&#8220;And I understand, and I need to help everybody rise above,&#8221; Miller said. &#8220;I understand all the emotions that are playing out right now. But, for the love of God, we are losing this country, and we are losing it fast. Republicans need to unify around the twin mission of stopping the open border invasion and stopping a government that has been weaponized against conservatives and Christians and anyone who does not subscribe to the tenets of the radical left.&#8221;
&#8220;And that means we need to get moderates on board and conservatives on board, and even means that people are going to have to make compromises on spending levels to pass these bills,&#8221; Miller continued. &#8220;That means you&#8217;re going to have to agree to spending levels you might not like, but to get the policy that you want. And then you need to get Senate Republicans, as I said, in the game, Maria.&#8221;
&#8220;We need 40 Republicans to stand up and say no to open borders, no to weaponized government,&#8221; he concluded.&#8221;Put the pressure on the Democrats who are in cycle. Put pressure with them and their voters. Make them understand that they will lose their seats if they don&#8217;t get on board.&#8221;
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Stephen Miller Urges Ending Effort To Oust McCarthy: ‘For The Love Of God, We Are Losing This Country’

House Republicans

Kevin McCarthy

Matt Gaetz

Stephen Miller

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fox-news">Fox News</a> host Maria Bartiromo grilled Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) during a contentious interview on Sunday, saying that he was allowing his &#8220;personal vendetta&#8221; against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) take him to the point where his opposition to a short-term spending bill to avoid a shutdown was actually helping Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and the Democratic Party.
The clash happened on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures,&#8221; during a segment in which Bartiromo accused Gaetz of threatening to &#8220;blow up all of the wins&#8221; that Republicans have had so far while in the majority in the House.
&#8220;Are you not right now indirectly working with Democrats?&#8221; Bartiromo asked. &#8220;Because you are going to allow Chuck Schumer to come up with a continuing resolution next week to fund the government. That&#8217;s what your actions are doing. That&#8217;s why some people feel this is a personal vendetta you have against the speaker.&#8221;
&#8220;No, my vendetta is against a Washington system that allows corruption to put the interests of lobbyists and PACs above the interests of the American people,&#8221; Gaetz said, claiming that McCarthy &#8220;facilitates that system.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not working with Chuck Schumer, any other Democrat, I am the one working with House conservatives to require single subject spending bills,&#8221; he added.
When Bartiromo said told Gaetz that he was &#8220;enabling&#8221; Schumer and the Democrats, Gaetz fired back: &#8220;No, no, no. You guys criticize me for forcing single subject spending bills, then you give Kevin McCarthy the credit for doing it. The reality is, this is the only way to liberate ourselves from a bad system.&#8221;
Bartiromo said that she actually agreed with some of the specific things that Gaetz wanted to do but did not agree with his methods and brinkmanship.
Gaetz said that he was effectively putting a &#8220;political gun&#8221; to McCarthy&#8217;s &#8220;head&#8221; and that he would continue to do so.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMattGaetz</a> to <a href="https://twitter.com/MariaBartiromo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MariaBartiromo</a> this morning responds to criticisms he is working with Democrats:
&quot;You guys criticize me for forcing single subject spending bills. Then you give McCarthy the credit for doing it. The reality is this is the only way to liberate ourselves&quot; <a href="https://t.co/SnL5KU732m">pic.twitter.com/SnL5KU732m</a>
&mdash; SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) <a href="https://twitter.com/SundayFutures/status/1706005755382386985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Sunday Morning Futures

Bartiromo Grills Gaetz Over ‘Personal Vendetta’ Against Speaker McCarthy: You’re Enabling Chuck Schumer

Chuck Schumer

U.S.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said over the weekend that Democrats were &#8220;very concerned&#8221; over the prospect that President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> could soon be impeached by the Republican-controlled chamber.
McCarthy made the remarks during a Sunday interview with Maria Bartiromo on &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; when asked what additional evidence Republicans were seeking in their investigation into the Biden family and whether they were bribed in exchange for getting a Ukrainian prosecutor fired from investigating Burisma, where Hunter Biden was on the board.
&#8220;We find new information each week,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We did not know about the whistleblowers coming forth. We did not know of all these times that the president lied to the American public. Each step we take contradicts what the Bidens had said before. Could you imagine being a sitting vice president, and your family’s members set up 20 shell companies?&#8221;
&#8220;And then they deal with foreign countries, that you have got 16 of 17 payments from Romania while you’re vice president,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And then we have the vice president, now president, claiming that he utilized American tax dollars to withhold from Ukraine to get a prosecutor fired.&#8221;
McCarthy said that lawmakers learned during their summer recess about the amount of pressure that Hunter Biden and one his business partners was under to get the prosecutor removed from investigating the company.
&#8220;So there’s a lot of questions still. And to be able to get the answers to these questions, you would need an impeachment inquiry to empower Congress, Republicans and Democrats, to be able to get the answers that the American people deserve to know,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I have had Democrats now tell me they’re very concerned because they back this president based upon what he told America. And with each turn, we find that is not true.&#8221;
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Speaker McCarthy: Democrats Are ‘Very Concerned’ That Biden Could Be Impeached

Fox News

Impeachment

Joe Biden

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called for an investigation into President Joe Biden during an interview over the weekend inlight of an FBI form that was released this week that outlined allegations of corruption against Biden.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-biden-bribery-file-released-burisma-head-says-he-was-coerced-into-paying-bidens-10-million">FBI-generated FD-1023 form</a>, released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), alleges that Burisma co-founder and CEO Mykola Zlochevsky told a highly credible FBI confidential human source that he was &#8220;coerced&#8221; into paying Biden and his son Hunter each $5 million to get a Ukrainian investigation into his company shut down.
&#8220;I have avoided criticizing the President because I, you know, I&#8217;m trying to bring people together and and some of the vitriol, the poison that&#8217;s made politics so poisonous,&#8221; Kennedy told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures.&#8221;
&#8220;I think though the issues that are now coming up are worrying enough that we really need a real investigation of what happened,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I mean, these revelations about the, you know, where you have Burisma — which is a notoriously corrupt company that paid out apparently $10 million to Hunter and his dad — if that&#8217;s true, then it is really troubling.&#8221;
Kennedy said that in addition to the need for the allegation to be thoroughly investigated, Americans need to be worried about the politicization from federal law enforcement agencies.
&#8220;I think that that&#8217;s something that every American needs to worry about and our federal agencies, which used to be above politics, and now become weaponized as political instruments, and that, again, is another really damaging trend for our democracy,&#8221; he said.
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&mdash; SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) <a href="https://twitter.com/SundayFutures/status/1683149657579433985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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RFK Jr. Calls For Investigation Into Biden Over Bribery Allegations

Bribery

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> slammed President Joe Biden in an interview that aired Sunday over the United States&#8217; current weak posture toward China.
The remarks were contained in the second part of an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; that was recorded a little over a week ago.
&#8220;Look, this is the most dangerous time in the history of our country because of weaponry. The nuclear power is so enormous,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t two Army tanks going and shooting each other in World War I, World War II, soldiers standing behind a bunker and shooting people.&#8221;
&#8220;This is obliteration,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And we have a man that doesn&#8217;t understand what he&#8217;s doing. We have a man that … stood up and told the whole world that we have no ammunition.&#8221;
Trump said that while he was president he had &#8220;every ammunition building full to the brim three years ago.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve given it all away &#8230; The only thing worse than that is to tell the world,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;He has told China and these other places that are hostile that we have no ammunition.&#8221;
Trump said that Biden giving large quantities of U.S. ammunition to other nations was &#8220;worse than any document that you could give,&#8221; a reference to Special Counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s documents case against Trump.
&#8220;So, now these people are sitting back in China and other places that hate us, including North Korea, where I had a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un and kept our country safe,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They&#8217;re talking about the United States of America has no ammunition. Think of it. How stupid can somebody be to say that?&#8221;
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Trump hammers Biden for being weak on communist China: &quot;And we have a man that doesn&#39;t understand what he&#39;s doing. We have a man that … stood up &amp; told the whole world that we have no ammunition. Do you know I had every ammunition building full to the brim three years ago. We&#39;ve… <a href="https://t.co/FnGignrTP3">pic.twitter.com/FnGignrTP3</a>
&mdash; Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1683222558576099329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Donald Trump Delivers Remarks At Nevada Recruitment Event

Trump Hammers Biden Over Weakness In Confronting China

China

World

Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis</a> addressed a recent narrative in the media that his campaign is struggling to find its footing by highlighting his recent fundraising numbers and other factors in primary, which still in its early stages.
DeSantis made the remarks during an interview on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; with host Maria Bartiromo.
&#8220;These are narratives. The media does not want me to be the nominee,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think that’s very, very clear. Why? Because they know I’ll beat Biden. But even more importantly, they know I will actually deliver on all these things. We will stop the invasion at the border, we’ll take on the drug cartels, we’ll curtail the administrative state, we’ll get spending under control. We’ll do all the things that they don’t want to see done.&#8221;
DeSantis said that national primary polls were effectively useless because the primary is not national and it takes place over a series of months, not all on one day.
&#8220;I can tell you we understand this is a state-by-state process,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We’ve had incredible support in the early states building an organization, signing up the key people that you need to be able to compete in a place like Iowa. We just launched our &#8216;Mamas Movement&#8217;. My wife was in Iowa with governor Kim Reynolds launching that.&#8221;
DeSantis said that women, especially moms, were going to be a large focus of his campaign and he believes they will turn out to be &#8220;the secret weapon both in the primary and the general election.&#8221;
&#8220;Nobody has been a better champion for those folks than me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I would just also point out, you know, my re-election in Florida we had the greatest victory that any Republican governor candidate in the history of the state had, and yet a few months before the election I had media saying that somehow my re-election campaign was stalling, that we weren’t doing anything. And so we’re doing what it takes to win.&#8221;
&#8220;And, oh, by the way, we just announced last week better fundraising than any non-incumbent has ever had if you look at what was reported, it was about $150 million, and that hasn’t even been deployed yet,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We’ve got a long way to go. I’m looking forward to being able to participate in the debates, but this is not something that, you know, I ever expected to just snap fingers and all of a sudden, you know, you win seven months before anything happens. You’ve got to work, and it requires a lot of toil and tears and sweat, and we’re going to do that.&#8221;
Bartiromo said during the interview that one of the biggest reasons that Trump was up at this point in the primary was because of the investigations into him.
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Republican Presidential Candidate Ron DeSantis Meets With Residents Along The Southern U.S. Border

DeSantis Addresses Media ‘Narratives’ His Campaign Has Struggled

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According to Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC), President Joe Biden wants to give former President Donald Trump a “death sentence” over the accusations that he mishandled classified documents. 
During an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6329228412112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appearance</a> on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo, Mace criticized the “two-tiered system of justice” where she argues other politicians, including Biden, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and former Vice President Mike Pence, are held to different standards than Trump.
“Every time the Oversight Committee has evidence of corruption, bribery, money laundering on the Biden family, they indict Donald Trump,” Mace said. “Joe Biden wants to give Donald Trump a death sentence for documents. He&#8217;s facing hundreds of years for mishandling documents, and they want him to die in jail.” 
“Most of America sees this for what it is: It’s weaponizing the executive branch to take out your political enemies.” 
Mace then referenced Clinton, who she said is “bragging” about the “two-tiered system of justice” and even raising money from it after promoting a “But Her Emails” hat on Twitter. Mace also criticized Biden and Pence for their handling of classified documents. 
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Mace said the same day the Oversight Committee accessed suspicious activity reports on alleged Biden family corruption, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump. Likewise, she said the same day the committee got access to a 1023 form allegedly showing bribery between the president and his son in Ukraine, Trump was indicted a second time. 
“We next need to subpoena more bank records,” Mace said when asked what the Oversight Committee would do about the investigation into President Biden and his family. “I want to go back to Treasury … I want to re-review the suspicious activity reports, and start to connect those dots because what we do know, the layering, the scheme of shell companies — and it said this in the 1023 document we reviewed on Thursday — they made it complicated. They bragged how it would take the U.S. government ten years to follow the money.” 
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Mace pledged to “get to the bottom” of the investigation — even if it meant referring charges to the Department of Justice. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), another guest on the show, told Bartiromo that she no longer has faith in the DOJ or the FBI based on “how they’re conducting” the investigations. 
“We had to literally threaten the head of the FBI with contempt of Congress and even then they gave us a document that was still mostly redacted,” Luna said. “They are accountable to the American people, they are accountable to Congress. … If we don’t do anything, it’s lost. This country is lost.”

Rep. Nancy Mace

President Biden Wants To Give Trump ‘Death Sentence For Documents,’ GOP Rep. Says

Congress

Indictment

Nancy Mace

Politics

Nancy Lazar — the chief global economist of investment bank Piper Sandler — said on Monday that the world is in the first part of a “very significant” recession.
During an interview with <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/world-in-early-stages-of-very-significant-recession-economist-nancy-lazar">Fox Business</a>, Lazar told anchor Maria Bartiromo that &#8220;It’s going to be a global recession pulling down [the] Euro zone in particular” and noted that “it looks like China GDP in the second quarter could also be negative.&#8221;
Lazar added that economic activity in the United States “will feel very, very weak” as growth slows down from last year’s recovery.
&#8220;Now we think the United States could not go into a recession. We have still plus 1% GDP for the U.S. this year, but that’s still a very significant slowdown from roughly 6% last year,&#8221; Lazar explained.
She added that similar fears of a recession occurred in 2015 and 2016.
&#8220;You didn’t get it, in part because the backbone of the United States is pretty healthy, which we still think is the case,&#8221; she told Bartiromo. &#8220;But, nonetheless, outside of the United States, indeed you do get a recession, led by the Euro zone given what’s going on with oil prices and global interest rates.&#8221;
Indeed, economists have been eyeing the broader impacts of high energy prices and the tapering of aggressive monetary policy.
President Joe Biden’s tenure in the White House has been marked by surging gas prices, with costs at the pump further accelerating due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As of Monday morning, the average price of regular gas is $4.12, according to <a href="https://gasprices.aaa.com/">AAA</a>. 
“Over the past 15 months, we’ve seen inflation grow higher than any time in the last 40 years. Perhaps the most painful driver of inflation has been the skyrocketing cost of gasoline at the pump,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-not-putin-this-is-joe-biden-senator-ted-cruz-blasts-biden-admin-over-spiking-gas-prices">told</a> the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. 
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve recently made its first move to raise interest rates, thereby increasing the cost of borrowing money and making loans more expensive. Earlier this month, The 30-year mortgage rate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mortgage-rates-hit-highest-level-in-over-a-decade">surpassed</a> 5%, rendering homeownership more expensive for American families.
“As Americans contend with historically high inflation, the combination of rising mortgage rates, elevated home prices and tight inventory are making the pursuit of homeownership the most expensive in a generation,” government-backed mortgage company <a href="https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms">Freddie Mac</a> explained.
Lazar said that higher interest rates will help to curb breakneck inflation in the United States.
&#8220;I think we are going to have significant goods deflation,&#8221; she told Bartiromo, pointing to the price of used cars as an example. &#8220;We’ve seen used cars decline 6% just in a few months.”
The end of soaring price levels — despite relief offered to consumers — would be harmful to companies’ margins.
&#8220;On the one hand that’s positive in that you are going to send, obviously, the CPI significantly lower over the next year,” Lazar said, “but on the other hand, it’s not going to be pretty in that it’s going to affect company earnings, through lower earnings via weaker demand for products and also declining prices.”

Grocery store

Economist Warns That World Is In Early Stages Of ‘Very Significant’ Recession

Economy

Fox Business Channel

Interest Rates

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Odeon Capital Group chief financial strategist Dick Bove is warning that the Federal Reserve is in “deep trouble” as it attempts to battle inflation.
Consumer prices <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-dollar-drops-as-inflation-rises-heres-what-that-means-for-your-wallet">rose</a> by 7% between December 2020 and December 2021 — the highest rate in roughly 40 years. In response, the central bank is expected to hike interest rates <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-13/fed-s-waller-says-three-2022-rate-hikes-still-a-good-baseline">three</a> times in 2022 — and at the end of last year, the Federal Reserve <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-reserve-releases-plan-to-more-urgently-address-high-inflation">announced</a> that it will pursue a more rapid conclusion to their quantitative easing program by slashing its monthly bond purchases.
During an interview with <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/federal-reserve-trouble-money-dick-bove-balance-sheet">Fox Business</a> anchor Maria Bartiromo, however, Bove warned that “if the Federal Reserve was a private bank… you would say this company is insolvent.”
“The reason why you would say that is because the Federal Reserve’s source of money — which comes from printing, it comes from collecting money from the banks, you know, in reserves, comes from a couple of other places — is in deep trouble,” he explained. “If you would look at that balance sheet, you would realize that more than 100% of the increase in the Federal Reserve balance sheet, in the last 12 months, has come from borrowing money in the reverse repo market.”
“In other words,” he continued, “the Fed is sitting at borrowing money at the shortest end of the curve in order to fund the purchase of long-term Treasuries. The balance sheet is a disaster.”
Meanwhile, inflation continues to erode Americans’ purchasing power. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “real average hourly earnings” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/for-many-americans-inflation-will-outpace-pay-increases-this-year">decreased</a> by 2.4% between December 2020 and December 2021.
Expressing concern over this reality, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-only-going-to-get-worse-rand-paul-releases-concerning-new-report-on-soaring-inflation">released</a> a new report on Tuesday that details inflation’s impact on American consumers and small businesses.
“$4.9 trillion in COVID-19 stimulus spending has led to one of the highest and most sustained levels of inflation in U.S. history,” the lawmaker said in a press release. “While government stimulus spending was intended as a form of relief, and low and middle-income families as well as small business owners were promised that their taxes would not increase, Americans everywhere are now paying a hidden tax called inflation.”
Paul’s report said that inflation is primarily harming low-income households:
<blockquote>71 percent of households making under $40,000 annually have indicated economic hardships from rising prices, as opposed to just 29 percent of households making $100,000 or more.
Low and middle-income families spend a larger portion of their income on high-inflation items, such as gasoline, used cars, and food. Families in the lowest income quartile spend nearly 40 percent of their annual income on these three categories. As a means of comparison, families in the top quartile spend only 10 percent of their annual income on these categories.</blockquote>
The report added that small businesses are at a considerable disadvantage in comparison to larger companies:
<blockquote>82 percent of small businesses reported raising prices in the last several months, 42 percent reported raising prices by 20 percent or more. 45 percent of small businesses reported taking out a loan to cope with the pressures of inflation in this last year. Large corporations have reported consistent profit margins.</blockquote>
Paul also pointed to Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses project, which found that 86% of surveyed small business owners “are concerned about inflation.”

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson <a href="https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6262704339001?playlist_id=3166411554001#sp=show-clips" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">claimed</a> Wednesday that he learned the National Security Agency (NSA) has not only allegedly spied on his private correspondence, but also leaked it to reporters in an attempt to undermine him.
Carlson alleged last week that he received information from a source inside the NSA that could only have been obtained by someone reading his text messages and emails.
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Speaking with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on &#8220;Mornings with Maria,&#8221; Carlson said, “Yesterday I learned, that — and this is going to come out soon — that NSA, leaked the contents of my e-mail to journalists in an effort to discredit me. I know because I got a call from one saying, &#8216;Oh, this is what your e-mail was about.'&#8221;
“So, it is not in any way a figment of my imagination,” Carlson continued. “It’s confirmed, it’s true. They are not allowed to spy on American citizens. They are. I think, more ominously, they are using information they gather to put leverage and to threaten opposition journalists, people who criticize the Biden administration. It&#8217;s happening to me right now. And I think it&#8217;s shocking, and I don’t think we should put up with it in a free country.”
“It&#8217;s worse than shocking,” Bartiromo responded. “It’s the stuff of banana republics and Third World countries.”
“Tucker, there is no other one who saw these emails? And this whistleblower relayed to you exactly what was in your communication? There is no way anybody else could have seen those emails?” she then asked.
“There was one other person who knew I sent that email, and it was my executive producer Justin Wells,&#8221; Carlson, answered. &#8220;That’s it, and I didn’t mention it to anybody else, including my wife. There is no possibility that anyone else could have known then again yesterday I got the call before air, like 7:15, from a journalist I know and like &#8212; not many left, but do I like this person &#8212; he repeated [it] back to me. He got it because the NSA leaked it. So, yes, it&#8217;s entirely real.”
Carlson later went on to note how few journalists have defended him against the NSA. Acknowledging he is &#8220;out-of-step&#8221; with most Beltway journalists, whom he described as &#8220;defenders of the Biden administration&#8221; who &#8220;see themselves as Democratic Party operatives,&#8221; Carlson was still perplexed that they seemingly did not find his allegations alarming.
&#8220;This is a massive threat not simply to me and my show&#8230;but to journalism itself, to the idea of a free press,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You can&#8217;t have a free press if the intel agencies are secretly spying on you and then using that information to threaten you and to control you.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a huge problem for the country,&#8221; Carlson continued. &#8220;And yet, outside of Glenn Greenwald, I don&#8217;t think there was anybody who stood up and said, &#8216;Wait, this is a huge problem for all of us.&#8217; Instead, they made excuses for the NSA.&#8221;
&#8220;We agree with you,&#8221; Bartiromo said. &#8220;This is wrong. It must be stopped. And the politicizing of all these government agencies is out of control — from the NSA, the Department of Defense, to the IRS.&#8221;
The NSA issued a carefully worded statement in response to Carlson&#8217;s allegations last week, which he described as &#8220;infuriatingly dishonest.&#8221;
&#8220;On June 28, 2021, Tucker Carlson alleged that the National Security Agency has been ‘monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air,'&#8221; the agency said. &#8220;This allegation is untrue. Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the Agency and the NSA has never had any plans to try to take his program off the air.&#8221;
&#8220;NSA has a foreign intelligence mission. We target foreign powers to generate insights on foreign activities that could harm the United States,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;With limited exceptions (e.g. an emergency), NSA may not target a US citizen without a court order that explicitly authorizes the targeting.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nsa-response-to-carlson-sparks-numerous-reactions-this-is-either-poorly-drafted-or-something-worse" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NSA Response To Carlson Sparks Numerous Reactions: ‘This Is Either Poorly Drafted Or Something Worse’</a>

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