News Anchor: For more, let's bring in Virginia Congressman
Ben Klein, Congressman Klein.
So good to have you, uh, with us this evening.
I wanna pick it up right there about kind of this return to manufacturing
because this is manufacturing in America.
Such a big component of President Trump's agenda, and we are seeing this investment
by numerous companies, uh, here in the United States, seemingly in response to
President Trump's tariff policy, upwards of $2 trillion worth of investment.
Um, how long do you think it will be until the American people see
and kind of feel the rewards, reap the rewards of those investments?
Ben Klein: Well, the American people voted for Donald Trump because they
wanted to see action right away.
Uh, the Trump administration is changing its policies from the, uh, bankrupt
Biden administration immediately.
And so what you're seeing is a, a shift.
Congress is gonna be playing catch up, but we need to pass the continuing resolution
next week to keep the government running so that the administration
can continue to pivot toward restoring manufacturing back to the United States.
It's a great time.
For American manufacturing and, uh, this administration
is doing all it can to bring
Interviewer: those jobs back to America.
And, you know, congressman, people need to see results right
away in America and to the TCJA.
That one big, beautiful bill.
The idea that people will see the benefits across America no matter what,
not just millionaires and billionaires.
That's the Democrat talking point, but people saw the benefits of it.
They would also see the negatives with a 22% tax hike.
If you guys in Congress don't get the TCJA passed.
Ben Klein: That's exactly right.
If the president wants to pass this one big, beautiful bill as soon as
possible so Americans can start to feel the effects as soon as possible.
And we have passed this budget.
We did it last week.
The Senate passed a skinny budget.
We have to reconcile the two.
It would be great if the Senate would just take up our one big beautiful bill.
We passed by one vote in the house.
We don't have much margin to, uh, really stray from that.
And so if this
our bill.
And often and running towards extending those tax cuts and sending the signal to
the market that the golden age is returned and that Trump is often running toward
bringing those manufacturing jobs back.
News Anchor: It's such a great point that you make David, because if you make
those tax cuts permanent, that really signals to the companies that they can
really trust that they're gonna get that.
That treatment under tax policy for the long term.
They don't have to worry about the change of administration being any,
a change in ta uh, tax or tariff policy, rather, uh, you know,
Congressman, I do wanna get to this.
The House judiciary committee that you sit on, uh, issued a subpoena
to Alphabet, which is the parent company of Google, uh, and YouTube.
To find out more information about content moderation policies
under the Biden administration.
I think the concern here is that they were, you know, kind of working
with the Biden administration to take down so-called alleged misinformation
to censor, uh, certain voices.
What are you hoping to learn from a subpoena?
Ben Klein: We've heard from testimony from others in the private
sector is that they were forced.
To collude with the Biden administration to censor conservative viewpoints.
Uh, and Google and, uh, and YouTube are two of the companies through Alphabet,
their parent company, uh, that it's, it's becoming, uh, clear that they were being
pressured by the Biden administration to censor conservative content.
Whether it was about, um, COVID or whether it was about the reelection, uh, it
was clear that it was across the board.
And we wanna get to the bottom of just how involved.
Alphabet.
The parent company was in censoring that content.
Interviewer: Well, Congressman, we appreciate it and I know
you won't censor the truth.
That's called transparency.
Thank you.
Ben Klein: Absolutely.
I.