Rep. Carlos Gimenez R-Fla., calls out the Biden Administration for their handling of the supply chain crisis, says it could worsen due to vaccine mandates
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Arrested but the shooter is
still on the loose
will keep you up to date on
that
Rachel we absolutely will
joining us now is Representative
Carlos Gimenez hes on the
transportation Infrastructure
Committee House, GOP Homeland
Security Committee as Well
Congressman welcome to Fox AMP
friends.
I know that you were a
firefighter. You were a sheriff
just wanted to get your reaction
to this very tragic situation in
Houston.
Well, as mayor of Miami Dade,
I was also the sheriff so its
a very sad day in law
enforcement and the first
response community.
It really sounds like this was
kind of a setup.
Usually people dont get robbed
at gunpoint with a rifle. So
maybe somebody was just you
know, ruled up made riled up,
got the police officers to
respond and got shot from
behind
its a despicable act by a
coward, but you know its been
open season on police officers
for some time ever since you
know we had the defund, the
police movement and all of that
and the disrespect thats been
shown to our law enforcement
officers,
and so my sympathies go out to
the families of the individual.
The officer that was killed and
those two that are fighting for
their lives right now, if
surgery,
PETE, amen
well, said
well congressman as we get her
developments on the story
because it is breaking just now,
well bring them to you,
seeing as youre on the
transportation and
Infrastructure Committee, a lot
to talk about infrastructure
and, of course, about our supply
lines. Our supply chain,
one of the guys whos supposed
to be doing a lot about it- is
that man on the screen right
there, PETE Buttigieg
Transportation Secretary, who we
also learnedded, took a couple of
months of Papa Alternativety in
the middle of paternity in
the middle of this crisis,
well hes back now and is
Heres part of what he said to
our own Bret Baier. When asked
about the delays and quote
high class problems as the Biden
economist put it,
this is how he responded.
Take a listen,
so are new parents and any
parents going to get the toys
they want for Christmas.
I know ill be very excited
to shop for the first Christmas.
For my new kids,
remember you cant talk about
supply without talking about
demand
right.
Part of the reason we are
where we are is that the
president successfully brought
this economy out of recession,
so youre, saying thats
more than ever before
were seeing record goods coming
through our ports and the
demands there, which is great
news
thousand weve, got to make sure
those supply chains,
so youre saying its a high
class problem.
What im saying is that we
are better off because the
economy is growing and the
economy is growing. Thanks to the
leadership of this President
PETE Congressman identify
ive got to believe that
inspires as hutch faith for you
as it does for us
now. We know why there were
all these problems in the Soviet
Union and Cuba, because its a
demand problem,
laughter,
thats, the problem right
people just stop demanding all
these things would be on the
shelf.
That is so ludicrous its the
unbelievable that the Secretary
of Transportation would say its
a demand problem and this great
economy we have right now.
You know we had a great economy
under the Trump Administration
and the Biden Administration
has you know every decision
theyve made, has backfire Thed
on them.
Every decision that theyve made
has really hurt the american
people
look. I was speaking to a couple
of executives, one an executive
of an airline for cargo and an
executive for an airline with
passengers and theyre deadly
afraid of this vaccine. Man
thats now coming down
mandate, thats coming down where
theyve got this supply problem
and weve got to get as many
pilots truck drivers, port
workers as possible, and now
youve got this vaccine mandate
that says to them they have to
fire hundreds of their workers
at this time in this critical
time you know when we have the
holiday season coming.
You know it just shows the
insensitivity of this
administration to the working
people of America,
its an insult
will and its incompetence.
What a great observation
little be bid. We know little
did. We know its a demand
problem
who knew
we just found out today.
Pete Buttigieg has figured out
whats going on this Cuba, the
old Soviet Union, Venezuela and
all those communist countries
that cant get the goods to
their shelves.
Well, those people shouldnt
want em.
Will you know who knew might
have been democratic old
decisions was. If we look back
in history, how they explain
their empty store shelves,
were they blaming it at that
time on demand problems,
but lets stay within the
Democratic Party for just one
moment congressman because the
in fighting by the way its
been laid bare
its in full display right now,
Senator Joe Manchin of West
Virginia is now dismissively
calling Bernie Sanders a
self declared independent
socialist in response to Sanders
publishing an op ed in a West
Virginia newspaper.
I want to read what he had to
say
this isnt the first time an out
of stater has tried to tell West
Virginia Yas Virginia Yas,
whats best for them.
No op ed is going to change
that
your response, if congressman
amen,
you know amen to Joe Manchin
hes spot on. You know.
Bernie Sanders wants to tell us
here in America how life would
be great if we just were a
little bit more like the Soviet
Union. You know the place where
he went to honeymoon right.
I wonder what he bought in the
Soviet Union,
not much because there wasnt
anything on the shelves, because
again those soviets they
wanted too much stuff.
So Manchin, I think the senator
is spot on.
You know. Bernie Sanders wants
to change America. Fundamentally,
these especially the
reconciliation bill wants to
change us. Fundamentally,
there are programs in there
that you know are incredible.
The amount is you know going
to put our kids and our
grandchildren in debt
were going were stealing
from our children and
grandchildren, their future,
but its okay with Bernie
Sanders,
and I think Joe Manchins
absolutely right that somebody
whos so south of touch with
what so out of touch with
rank and file normal people
want and desire every day like
Bernie Sanders is, is going into
West Virginia to tell them
whats good for them.
You know good for you Senate
Manchin.
I think you put him on the spot.
I think you hit it right on the
spot exactly what Bernie Sanders
is all about
Rachel yeah.
I really think its, why its so
important that there are
congressman like you who have a
direct experience as a
cuban American with what were
looking at.
Anyone who knows whats happened
in Venezuela or has family in
Cuba has looked at what were
seeing right now in our
government and says boy weve
seen this before and its
really scary.
I just think you have such an
important role in sort of
raising the flag, because I
think too many Americans have
taken for granted our prosperity
and our free come and we are on
a freedom and we are on a
track to socialism and
communism, and it is the very
scary
I want to talk to you, speaking
of authoritarianism, about the
vaccine mandates in Florida.
So Biden is saying that he wants
to make this happen. Hes
mandating vaccines, vaccines for
everybody and your governor in
the free state of Florida is
fighting it.
He says that hes just hes
going to fight the Biden
administration
tell us how thats going in
Florida.
Well, look the governors
actually had a pretty good track
record here of fighting the
federal government.
I am one hundred percent behind our governors
efforts to tile that lawsuit and
if file that lawsuit and stop
the madness
lets look at airline pilots.
Theyre now going to be mandated
to be vaccinated
again, you could have three hundred
passengers in the back that are
not vaccinated, but then you
know the pilot is the one
thats going to spread it all?
There is no science here,
its all political science,
and you know its just a way
to keep this going, and it
really makes no sense
and actually going to put our
supply chain in real jeopardy.
Its going to make things worse-
and I think you know my
prediction- is that the Biden
administrations going to have
to back off on this a little bit
because there are hundreds of
pilots and truck drivers and
port workers etc even first
responders that are saying no to
the vaccine
for their own reasons. You know,
and some people are saying
well theyre listening to
misinformation,
you know a lot of the reasons
that they have are logical
and you know, while I may
disagree with some, you know:
im Vaccinated heist, thats,
what Americas all about the
ability to pick and choose what
you want to do as an individual,
especially ad medical decision
like this, which is so important.
Are you going to be vaccinated
or not
thats, a personal decision
thats, not something that the
federal government should be
mandating, especially when its
going to really cause. You know
problems up and down the economy
of the United States.
Will you think the supply chain
is broken now, wait until twenty, if
even ten percent of federal, express or
ups work force says, were not
ready or Amazon
wait until everything gets shut
down,
PETE Congressman, I hope youre
right about mandates
real quick to that second topic.
Yes, the Democrats are
in fighting right now, but what
would you handicap the
likelihood they come together
around a number around two
trillion thats? The latest
were hearing for that
reconciliation bill
still expensive, but do you
think they find a way to forge
it?
Well, look I thought they
would come to some kind of
agreement, but now, when Joe
Manchin put out that tweet, he
didnt just talk about numbers.
He talked about programs
and those programs embedded in
that reconciliation is really
thats the poison right there,
the programs
its not the amount
remember they can always reduce
the amount by just simply
reducing the number of years
where its authorized. So you
have something that actually
the whole thing costs close to
six dollars trillion. If you score it out
over ten years,
theyve tricked it down to three point: five
by some of these programs being
authorized three or four years.
They can retrick that by two or
three years and get it down to
two dollars trillion,
but its the programs and
policies thats embedded in
that- and I am heartened by what
Joe Manchin wrote in that tweet-
there are programs in there that
hes not voting, for.
I think that now thats a fly in
the ointment of the Democrats
plans.
Pete again, I hope youre
right
its always been about what they
could slip in and hoping they
could reauthorize it again.
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