Preborn has helped save 38,000 babies this year
>> Walker Wildmon: I want you to picture this. Her name is Kayla. She is 17, alone, terrified and pregnant, sitting in a clinic, tears blurring, thinking abortion is her only option until she was offered a free ultrasound, paid for by a hero just like you. The moment Kayla heard her baby's heartbeat, the decision was made. And today, her little baby boy, Gabriel is thriving because preborn walked with Kayla every step of the way. Now multiply that by 38,000. That's how many babies preborn has helped save just this year. And along with saving the babies, mothers are being counseled with practical and spiritual advice to make motherhood possible. But here's the most important thing you will hear today. The goal is to save 70,000 by the end of the year. And they can't do it without us. Every $28 provides that ultrasound that changes everything. Will you be the reason the next Kayla chooses life? The reason Gabriel fulfills his destiny? To donate, dial £250 and say the keyword baby. That's £250, baby. Or donate securely@preborn.com afr that's preborn.com afr we inform religious freedom is about people of faith being able to live out their faith, live out their convictions no matter where they are.
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Walker Wildmon: There are several ways to listen to American Family Radio
>> Walker Wildmon: Welcome to The Core here on American Family Radio. I'm Walker Wildmon. Glad to have you with us for this brand new edition of the program. You're listening to American Family Radio. If you want to listen live to the audio or get our latest episode in the form of a podcast, you can go over to afr.net afr.net we have tens of thousands of people who listen live on the Internet through the browser through the AFR app you can listen live to American Family Radio 24, 7, 365 there@afr.net and on the AFR app, if you are a podcaster, or a podcast consumer rather, and you like the podcast, then you can go to your podcast store, type in the name of this program at the core, click the subscribe or the follow button and the latest episode will be queued up in your library each and every afternoon. So there's a plethora of ways to listen to at the core, live and pre recorded. And I noticed Bobby perked up when I used my Favorite word. Plethora. It's been a while. It has been. It's been a long time. Nobody but goodie. Yes. I was gonna say plethora. I was gonna say there's a litany of ways both of them would work. but plethora seems to be the one I go to.
>> Bobby Roza: Yeah. Heretofore not used litany.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah, I can't be like. I can't be, like, trivia too much. Yeah. I've gotta. I've gotta have my own. My own word. That's his favorite. Yeah, that's not heretofore. so plethora, is it?
Proverbs 24 talks about how bad company corrupts good character
All right, Proverbs 24 is where we are this week, looking at verse one and two. Do not be envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them, for their minds devise violence, and their lips talk of trouble. That's verses 1 and 2. Proverbs 24. Do not be envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them, for their minds devise violence, and their lips talk of trouble. This, goes well with the New Testament passage about how bad, company, corrupts good character. Let's, find that real quick. I think it's the New Testament. yeah, it's in First Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 33. Talking, about bad company corrupts good character. You know, there's hundreds, if not thousands of, signs that the Bible is the inspired, infallible word of God. And, there's a lot of apologetics courses on that. But just one thing here that stands out to me is how consistent. How consistent the teachings are between the First Testament and the Second, or the Old Testament and the New. Just amazing to me how you've got varying. You've got different authors, obviously, all inspired by God himself and the Holy Spirit, but you got varying authors, different authors, different backgrounds, different time periods over the course of thousands of years, over the course of a couple thousand years. And you have, consistency like nothing else you can. You can compare it to. And that can only be justified and explained. That, the Bible is the perfect word of God inspired by, you know, written by men, inspired by God. And you. We, have an entire documentary, by the way, on this called the God who Speaks. you can go check it out. The God who Speaks talks about the reliability of Scripture. but here we are. I mean, we're in Proverbs, chapter 24, and we're basically. Then you go over to First Corinthians, and you've got the Same lesson here, the same teachings about how bad company corrupts good character. And, it's just amazing how much wisdom is found and truth and consistency in the Word of God. That's why we need to be in the Word of God. We need to be consuming the truth of the scripture. Otherwise, we're going to be consuming something else, probably worldly. And so we need to be consuming the Word of God. All right, That's Proverbs, chapter 24, verse 1 and 2. Scripture for the week here on the program.
WildmonGroup still has seats available for Israel and Greece trips next year
Well, we, are going to, we'll be actually in Williamsburg in Washington D.C. here in just a couple weeks for our, fall near, fall tour of our nation's capital in Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown. That's already full registration closed months ago. And so I'm not, trying to get you to sign up for that. I'm just letting you know we do that twice a year. But, we will be in Greece and we will be in Israel in March of 26. And I know that seems like a long way away, but it's really not. It's really not that far away before, you know, it will be at Thanksgiving and then Christmas and then, we'll be headed towards spring of next year. And so we still have seats available for the Israel portion and the Greece portion. Now, I'll tell you what, Israel is filling up pretty quickly. I think they're already at two buses for Israel and then for Greece, we just filled up one bus for the Footsteps of Paul portion. So if you are considering going, then you need to go ahead and check out all the information, all the pricing, all the dates, all the itinerary and go ahead and get on that. because when we head into, October, November, then we're going to close out registration, as we head towards the end of the year. And so if you've been kind of having it on your list and you just haven't done it yet, and you want to go with us to either Israel or Greece, then you can go over to wildmangroup.com check that out. And we look forward to seeing all of you in, Greece. My brother and I will be in Greece and then my parents are going to be in Israel. Those trips are back to back. We've got a, handful of people that are doing both, that want to do both, so that's an option as well.
President Trump is cracking down on crime in certain cities, including Chicago
Wildmongroup.com all right, let's talk a little bit about this, crackdown on crime that is taking place in Washington, D.C. i mean, the results are phenomenal. Washington, Washington, D.C. is a tenfold safer place to be than it was, let's say, two to three weeks ago. Because President Trump has surged in not just the military, but he has also surged in federal law enforcement under the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security. let's listen to, the, Let's listen to clip two. This is President, Trump talking about how Chicago is like D.C. now, D.C. is safer at this point, but Chicago and these major inner cities, mostly run by Democrats, are very dangerous places to live, statistically speaking. Let's listen to clip two.
>> Donald Trump: Chicago's very interesting because I watch Pritzker get up and say about, we don't need help, we're safe. But, two weeks ago, they had six people murdered. Murdered, and they had 24 people hit by bullets. Last week, as you know, was seven people. 24 people hit, and seven people died. And then over the last two days, it was the. That was the crown jewel. they had, I guess, nine killed. Nine or 10 killed and 50 hit with bullets. And you have this governor get up. Who's a terrible governor, probably. He and, Gavin Newscomb would be probably the two worst and most naive. They're naive. Either they're naive or they're very untruthful. And he'll say, we don't want any protection. We don't need. So in the last three weeks, he's lost almost 20 people killed. There's no place, there's no place in the world, including. You can go to Afghanistan. You can go to places that you would think of. They don't even come close to this.
>> Walker Wildmon: He's right. Chicago is notoriously bad, from a violent crime perspective. And I mean, I was watching videos of people are out at a kid's soccer and football game, and you've got gunshots, flying. I mean, it's just patently absurd. And as the Vice President said last week, look, we don't have to live this way. I mean, what, what Democrats do in the media is they try to convince us that this is inevitable. Right? I mean, you, if you watch the, the, the interviews with the, Governor of Illinois, Pritzer Pritzker, he's. He's saying, well, you know, crime is just a thing in inner cities. Crime, crimes just. It's inevitable. Well, no, it's not. That's not true. That's just blatantly false. Now we know that we live in a fallen world. Man is prone to sin. And so you're always going to have lawlessness, you're always going to have people that are defying the government's orders, defying law and order. but it doesn't have to be at the rate that it is. The only reason that we have crime rates and violent crime at the rate that we do in these inner cities is because the soft on crime policies. And if you want to say, well, you know, locking people up doesn't work, well, yes, it does, it does work. It does work. We've been doing it for a long time. This is not a new phenomena where we have government and law enforcement clamping down on lawlessness. This isn't a new human problem. when you have policies that make it easier for the hard criminals to get out of jail, to get out of prison, then they're going to become repeat offenders. And it's this, this cycle, back and forth cycle. And Washington D.C. is, is your Exhibit A look at it. I mean, the reason Washington D.C. had the problems it had is because law enforcement had their hands tied behind their back. They were soft on crime. You know, they had minors, 14, 15, 16 year old teenagers getting in shootouts and then the cops arrest them, they even shot people and the officers arrest them and then the teenagers are out the next day. They engaged in a shooting, in an attempted homicide and they're out the next day, they're out the next week because they're a minor and they've got these soft on crime policies for minors. And so not to mention President Trump's, Department of justice, in conjunction with the Department of Defense and the national guard there in D.C. specifically, in one week, they arrested over 500 illegal immigrants. Those were illegal immigrants that were having run ins with the Metropolitan Police Department and they were just letting them go. And so this notion that, that, that Chicago is just naturally going to be a war zone is just blatantly untrue. It's just blatantly untrue. Now, if you want to try, to convince me that, you know, you can eliminate 100% of crime in Chicago, of course that's not realistic. But it doesn't have to be what it is today. It doesn't have to be where you've got 10, 15 people being murdered every week in Chicago with, with dozens being shot, that doesn't have to be that way. but Democrats have created a breeding ground of lawlessness. And it, it, it, it's a really bizarre development that law and order is somehow a partisan issue. And I really don't think it is. I think if you poll people. Law and order is not a partisan issue. Voters don't look at safety in their community as being like a Democrat versus Republican issue. That's just not the case. It's a very bipartisan issue. But the Democrats have this, this weird, bizarre tendency to just go against Trump no matter what. President Trump wakes up and he's like, hey, the sky's blue. And the Democrats go, no, the sky's not blue. The sky, the sky's red. And here's why. And President Trump's evil. I mean, it's just every single, no matter what President Trump does, they've got a problem with it. President Trump yesterday, brought the Space Force down, the Space Command down to Huntsville, Alabama, which should have been done a long time ago. He did it under his first term. It's, it's undoubtedly the best place for it to be. There's a litany of federal agencies and aerodynamic agencies, our aerospace, rather industry in Huntsville. It's like, if we're gonna put Space Command anywhere Huntsville, Alabama, duh, everybody agrees to that. Democrats, Republican, it doesn't matter. Well, the media just loses it. President Trump, you know, politicizing, you know, the space Command, blah, blah, blah. I mean, everything he does, further proves that there is such thing as Trump Derangement Syndrome. And, all of a sudden, President Trump doesn't want murderers walking the streets and gang members walking the streets and in Washington, D.C. and Chicago. And all of a sudden, Democrats are now, they're the party of lawlessness. They are the proponents of the lawbreakers. They are the spokesman persons for Ms. 13 and, all the other gangs. It's unbelievable where Trump Derangement syndrome will take you.
Tim Wildmon is president of American Family association and American Family Radio
>> Tim Wildmon: Have you ever wanted to take a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee? Raise your hand. Yeah, but in order to do that, you have to actually go to the Sea of Galilee. Hello, this is Tim Wildmon Prince president of American Family association and American Family Radio. We are going to Israel and to the Sea of Galilee, the Jordan river, where we'll have a baptismal service. We're going to the Dead Sea. We're going to Jerusalem and Bethlehem and Nazareth, a lot of the places you read about in the Bible your whole life. We're going to be seeing on our annual trip of Israel, the Holy Land. If you want more information on our tour, go to wildmangroup.com wildmongroup.com we also have information there about the Footsteps of Paul Greece tour. That's back to back with the Israel tour. So it's also in March of 2026. We look forward to seeing you on one of our tours.
>> Jeff Chamblee: At the Core. Podcasts are available@afr.net now back to at the Core on American Family Radio.
Walker Wildmon welcomes Matthew Trayler to talk about labor issues
>> Walker Wildmon: Welcome back to the program. Walker Wildmon here, second segment under way. We've got the video up live streaming the program over on Facebook at the course Facebook page. And we are up@stream.afa.net stream.afa.net as well. And we're over on X on the AFR handle on X. So a lot of ways to watch the program. Of course you can listen live@afr.net I want to welcome to the program Matthew Traylor. Matthew is a Christian businessman's connection. he's over director of programs there at Christian Businessman's Connection and he's on to talk about the topic of labor coming out of Labor Day, the topic of work and where our culture stands in that regard and what people, how people view work. Matthew, welcome to the program.
>> Matthew Trayler: Walker. It's good to be with you guys today.
Matthew Trayler: 60% of workers are stressed heading into Labor Day
>> Walker Wildmon: Well Matthew, one topic I broach, every so often is the topic of work ethic and how God created us to be workers in the vineyard and how we're created to really labor for multiple reasons. but tell us about this latest report about how the percentage of workers, 60% of workers heading into Labor Day. This poll said that 60% of workers are stressed, they're worn out, they're tired, of work. So tell us about that and then we'll jump into the specifics and why this is how it is.
>> Matthew Trayler: Yeah, I think overall, particularly as men, our self identity comes from our work and we identify as our vocation. You know, obviously as men, particularly if we have families. Our work is what provides for family and provides also for our enjoyment and pleasure. You know, the work we do provides income to meet those needs. And so but we see, you know, this report is saying, you know, over 30% of men identify work as their biggest cause of mental health issues in their lives. That's an issue. And we, you know, what ends up happening is men become isolated, they become stressed. It affects their health, it affects the relationships, particularly in their families. And we at CMC particularly want to help men deal and understand how that their work is not their identity. They have a higher purpose than their vocation.
Matthew: Each generation seems to be getting lazier when it comes to work
>> Walker Wildmon: Let me ask you this Matthew, because for a long time there's been this kind of consensus and this statement made and I don't know, there's obviously some truth to it. But you know, each generation seems to be getting lazier, let's just put it that way. And young people, my generation and, and, and generations after, millennials, Gen Z, etc, they get, they get kind of a bad rap for being lazy. And there probably are some studies that, that bear that out, as a fact. But is this, are people, are we basically like too soft? Are we snowflakes? Are we too lazy? Have we been spoiled, if you will, as, as a, as a culture when it comes to work? Or do you think that work has become a little bit too consuming from our, our time and our energy standpoint? Where do you think, what do you think the underlying issue is here?
>> Matthew Trayler: I think it's, it's a bit of both. I believe what's, what we've seen with culture is there's, there's, first of all, there's so many competing priorities. and then, our perspective of what work is, and when we, when our perspectives begin to change in a negative way, it certainly affects our mental health, but it also impacts, again it comes back down to purpose. And when we, how we view our work and what we do certainly will impact how productive we are in our mental health. And so, I think that's one aspect. I do think though, in today's culture there's so many competing priorities. And technology, the increase of technology, the increase of information, there's so many things competing for our attention. I think just even 25, 30 years ago there was less competing for our attention. And so work in itself, especially work with our hands, working on things that you can for men particularly, I know, for me, I like to see the results of my work. And today you don't. I think men don't get to enjoy that as much. We're such an instant gratification. We want to see results now that we don't get to working. Sometimes working over time, then you get to produce results. I think about farming, you know, there's a lot of work that goes in before you see the results. but today we want to see instant gratification. We want to see results. Men are results driven. And I think sometimes we need to slow down and think about, you know, we need to take those things into consideration.
Matthew: Work in America is very different than it was 50 years ago
>> Walker Wildmon: Well, to your point, Matthew, one of the things that I think about when, when I look at how people view work, in America, and I do agree, I do think that, that when, when people don't have a proper understanding of how God created work, he ordained work, we are meant to be working beings. When people lose touch with, with their, how their creator designed them to work, then of course work becomes something that you dread, right, because you don't understand your purpose behind it. But I, will say work in 2025, even just in the 21st century broadly, is very much different than it was 50 to 70 years ago or 100 years ago. And the reason I say that is because we hardly are able to not take work home with us. Meaning we, like everybody seems to take work home with them because of technology. And so to give a comparison and then I want to get your thoughts. 70 years ago, when, when a dad, when a father, when a husband left work and drove home, he was done with work. Now he may be thinking about it, but he's not checking his email, he's not getting phone calls, he's not checking, you know, the latest reports. At 10pm at night, he's pretty much done with work until he gets back there in the office the next morning or in the facility or whatever. But now, Matthew, everywhere we go, when we're quote, not at work, we've got work in our pocket. And so that does seem to be a problem with people being able to disconnect and focus on their family and their loved ones.
>> Matthew Trayler: Oh, absolutely. At cbmc, we are constantly encouraging men, particularly business leaders, who are in our peer advisory groups. It's challenging them to create, margin in their life, particularly for family, for their wives, particularly for the Lord obviously. But if we deal with Christian businessmen and there is always a struggle, I remember being in one of our peer advisory groups where one of the issues one of our men brought up, was I run three companies. I'm struggling to run three companies and be a godly father and a godly husband. How do I do that? So we know that's a need. Understanding and creating that space, setting boundaries, healthy boundaries, so that you, men don't think they need rest anymore. Especially high achievers and IDs, they don't think they need rest. They think there's inhuman, they're superhuman. And they can work seven days a week, you know, 18 hours a day. And you just can't do that. That's not healthy. And it's not, it's certainly not, godly. God wants us to rest, to reflect. We really challenge guys, to take a day on the weekend and set aside that time to rest and reflect and spend time with God and don't think about work, disconnect from work. The work will be There, it's going to be there on Monday. And but we, we see burnout with guys. We see guys who are burning out the redlining because they're not pacing themselves and setting those boundaries to rest.
>> Walker Wildmon: M. That's good.
Matthew Traylor says dads need to step away from work to invest in children
Once again we're talking to Matthew Traylor with Christian Businessman's Connection, CBMC for short and he's a director of programs there. Matthew, talk about the work life balance as far as spending time with your spouse and your children, in this case men spending time with their wife and their children. I've noticed that a lot of, obviously the studies show that the formative years are the very early years, meaning pretty much from birth till, let's just say eight to 10, maybe a little older, into the teens. Those 10 to 15 years of your child's life are very formative years. And if dads don't focus in and spend quality time with their children, discipling them, disciplining them, nurturing them, loving them, that can cause some long term consequences even passed into adulthood for people's children, for men's children. So speak to the need for dads to, to your point, step away from work and make sure they're investing in their children.
>> Matthew Trayler: Well again if, if a if a man finds his identity in his work, he will, he will naturally disconnect from his family or he'll put them off to the side, they won't be priority. And that's an issue because if you don't have, if you don't take the time to show the, your significant loved ones, your wife, your children that you love them by giving of your time because time is very precious, it's limited, if you don't take the time to spend with them and first of all your wife, your spouse, making sure that you are setting aside time to spend with her, take her on a date night once a week and allowing your kids to see how important that is, but also taking the time to spend and go see your kids play sports or taking a moment and go having a meal with your kids by themselves, showing that they are important, it will have negative consequences later on. I remember talking with an elderly gentleman who was retired saying his biggest regret is that he placed his work, the importance of his work over spending time with his son. And he was seeing the results of it as he and his now adult son had a strained relationship and it was because his work was, he was an executive at a large tech company and now since retired. But he struggled with that and he realized the regret was he didn't spend enough time with his children when he had the opportunity to. He placed his value over the importance of work. And as a man, he, he said, I thought at that time I was placing the value of work because I was providing for my family and I wanted to be a good employee. But, there was a cost to it that he now has since regretted.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah, yeah. That's the story of thousands, tens of thousands of men all around the country that have that same story. And we can't get the time back. That's the thing. Once your children are out of the house, you just can't get that those formative years back, you can always put more time into work, you can always put more time into earning income. You can always put more time into investing in, in your career down the road, especially when your children are out of the house. But, you can't get those formative years back with your children. And so, we want to be an encouragement to, dads and fathers to make sure they're investing and having a healthy work life balance.
Matthew Trayler is director of programs at Christian Businessmen's Connection
Hey, Matthew. Once again we're talking to Matthew Traylor with Christian Businessmen's Connection, CBMC for short. He's director of programs there. Matthew, tell us a little bit, a little bit of history of CBMC before we let you go and how folks can find out more about your work.
>> Matthew Trayler: Yeah, so cbmc, Christian Businessman's Connection is what it stands for. Was started back, actually almost 90, over 90 years ago on the tail end of the Depression where Christian businessmen in Chicago, saw the need for making sure that God had a, in the gospel was, was, was foremost in the market, in the workplace, in the, in the business community. So they began holding prayer meetings and it just grew from there. And the ministry spread across other cities, Atlanta, Orange County, California, other places and has grown. today CBMC operates in over 40 states in the, in the country and over 90 countries and around the world. And our goal is to help men. First of all, we want to see them. We want to help men be able to share their faith through the, you know, sharing the gospel in their spheres of influence, but also life on life, discipleship. We want to see men pour into the lives of other men, particularly the young, next generation. And so we, we empower and equip them and deploy them to do that. so if you want to know more about CBMC, you can go to our website, cbnc.com and find out more. And to See what's going on in their community as a result to activities of cbmc.
>> Walker Wildmon: M. Excellent. Hey Matthew, thanks for coming on and encouraging our dads and our husbands out there. they need it. Appreciate you, Matthew.
>> Matthew Trayler: Thank you. Thanks for having me, Walker.
>> Walker Wildmon: Absolutely.
Matthew Trayler: All societal and cultural issues are spiritual issues
CBMC.com is that URL that's Matthew Traylor with Christian Businessmen's Connection. Very important topic. And you know, I say this is said often, if you listen to American Family Radio for any length of time, that the root cause, obviously the root cause of all of our societal and cultural issues are spiritual. They're fundamentally spiritual issues. And with that comes the breakdown of the family. It comes the breakdown of the family. And when, people don't have a, biblical view of family, a biblical view of work, then, they quickly lose priority. They misprioritize, their life and they invest time in things that they shouldn't and they neglect things, that they shouldn't. And so, this topic of men and fathers being present in the home, investing in their children, so, so very critical. So very critical because you look out and virtually, as I mentioned, all of the issues that we face as a society and culture, number, one, they're spiritual, as I said. But you look into the background of people who are struggling, people who have all kinds of issues, whether it be, you know, emotional, mental, etc. relationship issues, even education problems. Much of it, the vast majority of it goes to a broken home life. It goes to a broken home life. And so it just shows the power of God's design for family and for marriage and what kind of positive impact that can be had if, couples, parents do things God's way and they properly prioritize their church life, their spiritual life and the life of their family. And you can, you'll. One thing I always say is that you'll never hear, of a, of a man who is on his deathbed and says, I wish I would have spent more time in the office. I wish I would have spent more time at work. Never happens. It virtually never happens. What you will hear frequently is men on their death bed that say, I wish I would have spent more time with my wife. I wish I would have spent more time with my children, my loved ones. Every single time. It's a consistent regret. So let's not have that regret.
>> Jeff Chamblee: This is at the core on American Family Radio with your host, Walker Wildmon.
Democrats are blocking over 100 of President Trump's nominees in the Senate
>> Walker Wildmon: Welcome back to the the program last segment now underway here on American Family Radio. I'm Walker Wildmon the name of the program is at the core and we're here each weekday Monday through Friday with a, Re Air special on the weekend as well. Rick Green and I host the show throughout the week and, we're glad to have you here on the program. All right, I want to jump into this, delay process that the Democrats are deploying on virtually all of President Trump's nominations. President Trump is, being stonewalled in the, Senate and having over 100 now of his nominations just stuck at a standstill in the U.S. senate. And it's becoming a very big challenge for the administration to staff up the agencies when they can't get through the Senate confirmation process in any sensible time. And we'll get into the specifics and the numbers and just give you all the facts to back up this topic. But before we do that, let's listen to about a two minute Fox News report giving a little bit of background or a little bit of context to how the Senate Democrats are blocking virtually all of President Trump's nominations. The effort by Democratic lawmakers to block President Trump's nominees is now inspiring Republicans to seek new pathways to confirmation. Senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergrum shows us how. Tonight, Republicans fuming Democrats continue to engage.
>> Walker Wildmon: In their historic obstruction. It's unprecedented. They hate Donald Trump and they don't want to have any more success. Vowing retaliation as Democrats delay 145 nominees, nearly half with bipartisan support. We got to finish the fight on confirmation. That may mean fighting to change the rules there. Some Republicans now favor ditching the current confirmation system to bypass Democrats and accelerate Senate approval of the President's nominees. It's coming. If they don't change their behavior. It's just ridiculous. We'll change the rules so we can process these things. Democrats forced the Senate to burn hours of floor time on even non controversial picks. Historically bad nominees deserve historic levels of scrutiny. Republicans say Democrats wasted their time. These nominations that were already vetted, Through committees with near unanimous support. But Republican plans to create an expedited confirmation track aren't new. Democrats first altered Senate procedures in 2013 after Republicans slow walked President Obama's nominees. We're burning wasted hours and wasted days between filibusters. There's been unbelievable, unprecedented obstruction. Republicans balked then, just as Democrats are doing now.
>> Walker Wildmon: Senate Democrats are threatening to break the rules of the Senate. Break the rules of the Senate in order to change the rules of the Senate. As Majority Leader In 2017, Mitch McConnell returned the favor, updating the Senate formula to Speed the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. Still, even some Democrats think the Senate wastes too much time on nominees. We should be spending more time on affordability issues than we are on nominations. Republicans hope to reduce time on nominations once the Senate breaks a filibuster and make it easier to confirm non cabinet officials all at once. However, the legislative filibuster remains intact.
>> Walker Wildmon: All right, let me give you the numbers because some of that, some of those Democrat talking points you were hearing on that Fox Report are just blatantly untrue, including the Harry Reid clip. And then the last voice you heard there before, Chad Pergam came back in was actually a Democrat US Senator saying basically, we're spending too much time on this. Like, I'm tired of talking about nominees. But let's break down the numbers. We're about to debunk this notion that, that Republicans started the blocking of nominees under Obama. Blatantly untrue. Blatantly untrue.
Average time for a Trump nomination to be confirmed is 54 days
All right, here we go. The first number I want to give you is the average number of days between a presidential nomination and confirmation by the Senate. All right, Going back to Reagan. All right, the average number of days between a nomination being made by the President of the United States and the Senate giving final confirmation on nominee. And here are the day counts. Reagan, 25 days, average. This is an average. H.W. bush, 32 days. Clinton, 30 days. W. Bush, 36. Obama, 41. Listen to this. Trump first term. President Trump first term is when the, when the delay tactics hit a new extreme. Average time for a Trump nomination to be confirmed, 54 days. President Obama, 41 days. All right. President Biden, 70 days. President Trump second term, 94 days. Record levels of delay and obstruction with a Senate Republican majority. It's one thing if Chuck Schumer ran the Senate, right? But this is under Republican leadership in the U.S. senate. Let's look at a few. One other number that is very important here and that is the number of times that Democrats or either party has deployed what's called the cloture vote, where they basically, instead of, instead of voting on a nominee and being done with it, they invoke this thing called cloture, which delays the final vote by at least 30 more hours. All right, It's a, it's a common delay tactic in the US Senate that if you don't want something approved the day of, you invoke cloture. And then, and then the Senate has to wait 30 more hours before they have a final vote on a nominee or a piece of legislation or whatever is being considered. All right, listen to this. President, Reagan had, zero cloture votes. Zero delay. Let's just call it delay tactics deployed. Reagan had zero delay tactics. Delay tactics deployed on nominations. H.W. bush, zero. Clinton zero. W Bush zero. President Obama only have only had five delay tactics deployed. President Obama, that's under eight years, mind you. Eight years. And then listen to the drastic increase in delay tactics by the Democrats when President Trump served his first term. 32. So when Harry Reid and others, which obviously Harry Reid, the clip was from years ago. but when. Let's just say Democrats today when they say that, well, the Republicans started this under Obama. No, not true. Not true at all. Republicans only deployed this delay tactic called the cloture vote five times under Obama for eight years. President Trump was sworn in in 2017. Guess how many times they deployed it. 32 times. So we go from five under Obama, 32 under President Trump. Now we look at President Trump, second term, 120 delays invoked in the U.S. senate on nominations, 120. And he's been in office for six to seven months. Well, going on nine. But this is historic levels of obstruction. And so, so this notion out there that, well, every president faces this challenge and, and you know, Republicans don't have any control over this. And this is just. It is what it is. There's nothing we can do about it. Completely not true. Republicans have allowed this. And, and now let's, let's be honest about the motivation here, because some would say, why would the Republicans be okay with President Trump being delayed, with him being obstructed? Well, let's remember that not all Republicans fawn over President Trump. Not all Republicans love President Trump. For example, Senator Mitch McConnell, the former majority leader, he has notoriously voted against President Trump on a numerous, on numerous occasions over the last eight to nine months, voted against the one big beautiful bill, voted against other measures, voted against certain cabinet officials. And so there is a kind of a never Trump resistance still Congress, still in the U.S. senate. And that explains this lack of urgency to fix what I call the nomination crisis. And the fact of the matter is, is that whoever's in the majority sets the rules. Republicans are in the majority. They set the rules. And right Now, Republicans, all 53, are allowing the rules to be used to block President Trump and to block his nominees. And so this is Senate Republicans failing to deliver on the mandate that President Trump was given when he was elected. And so this is, this is critical. If I'm President Trump and The White House. I'm talking about this every day. I'm talking about it every day. I understand there's other issues, but if we can't staff up the agencies, if the commander in chief and the chief executive cannot have the proper employees in the executive branch to work for him, what are we doing here? Electing a president. We elect a president and then we tell the Biden people to keep running the government. Well, all of his cabinet's been approved. Well, folks, the cabinet doesn't run the government. let's be honest, it's the lower level policy wonks and staffers and lawyers that run the government. It's called the bureaucracy, otherwise known as the deep state. So you can have Pam Bondi at the helm of the doj. Attorney General Pam Bondi. Great. I'm glad Pam Bondi is not running the Department of Justice. Okay, maybe she is from a figurehead standpoint. But my point is there's still Biden lawyers at the doj. They're still managing caseloads. They're still Biden f. Biden loyalist FBI agents running cases at the FBI. And so, this is. It's clear, this is not complicated, it's not rocket science. It's abundantly clear that there's a large segment of lawmakers in Washington, D.C. both Democrats and Republicans, that are completely fine with delaying and delaying and procrastinating on President Trump's executive branch picks. Because for them, it's a wait out the clock game.
Senate Republicans have yet to allow President Trump to utilize recess appointments
They're just waiting until Gavin Newsom gets in the White House and then everything will go back to normal. And so if I'm President Trump, if I'm his voting base, if I'm his policy team, this is priority number one. Staff up the agencies with people that are loyal to our Constitution and that are loyal to our president and the mandate that he was given when he was elected. And one other tool that the Senate Republicans have yet to allow President Trump to utilize on any scale. Zero times has President Trump been allowed to deploy recess appointments. Recess appointments are in the Constitution. Recess appointments used to be used. Now they're not anymore. If the Senate gaveled out of session for 24 hours, President Trump could make what's called recess appointments. And the Senate and the. And the White House should cut a deal where they're all pre approved. We know who they are. Senate Republicans could all sign off on the recess appointments. President Trump could do a dozen, two dozen, three dozen recess appointments with the Senate not in session and be done with it. But they don't do that. The Senate and the Republicans, they leave at least one U.S. senator in Washington, D.C. every time they go on recess, every time they go on a holiday, so that they can gavel in every day for like 15 minutes. I've watched it. You can go on C Span and watch it. They gavel in for 15 minutes and then they all go home so they can say, quote, we were in session. We're not on recess. We're, quote, in session. Even though 99 of, of the 100 senators are all on vacation, y' all aren't in session. That's the furthest thing from being in session ever. You don't even have a quorum. You're not in session. It's a fake session. I would actually like to see that challenged. But nonetheless, Republicans won't even allow President Trump to do recess performance. No, we can't do that. The threat here, ah. And the end result, if this is allowed to continue. And once again, we're over six months into the presidency. It's not like we're 30 days in, we're heading into the midterms and we're still talking about President Trump getting the proper employees and staffing at his agencies. But the end result, just to keep us focused here, the end result, if this is allowed to continue, which unfortunately, there's no sign that this is going to change unless somebody lights up the phone lines, which we're sending emails about this today, by the way, so check your inbox, go to afa.net, check the homepage. If this is allowed to continue, the establishment, both Democrats and Republicans will effectively slow walk the staffing of the agencies to such a degree that we possibly get to the midterms. Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats take over the House, Chuck Schumer takes over the Senate and President Trump gets nothing through legislatively are nomination wise. And then the Democrat and the Republican establishment who don't like Trump and behind the scenes dog President Trump, they'll all be giving each other's high fives, having their cocktail parties, talking about how great it was to block the Trump presidency and the Trump agenda. That's what's at stake. And so the White House needs to get on this. We'll see you next time.
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