Erick Erickson HR 3 6/30/26

My name is Drew Steele filling in for Eric today. Very humbled and blessed to be able to do this on a very important day. I do a radio show 3 at 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, Florida's voice in the state of Florida. It's syndicated across the state. And I do a weekend show live 4 to 6 p.m. called Right Line. And you can follow me at... Drew Steele Radio, Steel has three E's on social media. I appreciate that, and I appreciate being here. So a couple of things I wanted to get to this hour. By the way, scheduled to join us at the bottom of the hour. Congressman Byron Donalds's is going to join us. I wanted to talk to him about this decision. Also, I know he's always talking about the Save America Act. I think we could talk about that more than ever being needed. Although. Yesterday it was the same as well. But we'll get to all of that coming up. And some of the Supreme Court decisions that were made today. So before we get to the biggest one, the birthright citizenship issue and some of what's been discussed on social media. how we have to look at now the future, what could possibly be happening, and how the Democrats have been looking at this to take advantage of it, which really begs the question. If this is something you think is a good decision, the birthright citizenship decision and the Trump executive order, and now we know that. It is the Supreme Court that did decide that, yes, if you are someone who came to the United States, you weren't legally supposed to be here, you decided that you wanted to temporarily be in the country and there you are and have a child in the United States. That child is an American citizen. But they would look at that and think that this is a good day to take advantage of this. Seriously, there are people that are talking about that. So in what way? But we'll get to that coming up in just a bit. Some of the other decisions that were made were the FEC decision that basically said that federal caps on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates on a federal level. But you can't do that violates the First Amendment. So that was a good decision people believe. The decision on Title IX and... Fairness and women's sports and not having biological men in women's sports went the way that most of us thought it was going to go. That, no, we can't have men in women's sports. You can't do that. And the Fairness and Women's Sports Act, first of its kind in the U.S., imposes a flat ban on the participation of transgender women and girls on women's and girls' sports teams and public schools at all levels. West Virginia law had the case, the Save Women's Sports Act. So there were two different cases on this. It acted in 2021 barring transgender women and girls from participating on women's and girls sports teams in public, secondary schools, and colleges. And the court said that they can determine the eligibility for women's and girls' sports teams based on biological sex. And just so you know that there are going to be certain cases that are coming out of the Supreme Court.

where you're going to look today and say, hmm, where are people going? How are they going to lean? Now, you can get an idea of what the left is going to be saying, because you could just follow along what the media did today. Supreme Court upholds state laws against transgender athletes playing girls' sports. That would be men in women's sports. Let's just call it what it is. And you had... the special report. I don't know if that's the case. I don't know if every TV station does that, but they should. I liked it back in the day when they had the special report. And before they even said anything, it went, and I said, oh, there's a report coming on. They got the d-de-l-litt-lid-lid-lid-lid going on. You remember that? I'm on an island. It's okay. But NBC had the special report today. And just so you know how they couched this, I guess is that the right way to put it? How they spoke about it right out of the gate before they even talked about the decision. Just to give you an idea where they stand. Here's what they said. Just a quick note here. The terms that we're using here during our reporting, biological male, biological female, the High Court put those terms in quotations in their decision and their dissent. But just so you know, we're using those terms from the decision itself, biological male, biological female. Okay, so just want to let everybody know. Listen, we're just reading from the decision. This isn't, NBC's not doing it. doing this okay just so you know this is we're just reading off the visa don't get mad at me for saying it Really? Did you do that? Why would you do that? Well, I guess you can figure out why they did that. But having a trigger warning before you explain about a court decision really tells you a lot about what you think about the decision. I just wanted to put that out there. So you can imagine. And I know many people have said things like, I'm not really sure that we can always trust and feel good about some of the decisions that come out of the... Supreme Court when we know that some of them are not a biologist and they couldn't tell you what what a woman is at the time that being Ketanji Brown Jackson whose dissent on the trans athlete decision was, quote, there is reason to doubt that soundness of the concession that Title IX's reference to sex means only sex assigned at birth. A transgender woman penalized for being perceived as aggressive has experienced discrimination, quote, on the basis of sex, unquote, just as much as a cisgender woman has, no matter, I can't do it. I'm sorry, I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't continue to talk about this, but I can't.

excuse me, a definition built around a qualifier and the qualifier was right there. Just so you understand, when we talk about subject to the jurisdiction thereof, let me go a little further to clarify exactly what we're talking about here. They did it. They said it at the time. It's there. The qualifier, when they talked about this, talked about the definition. Subject to the jurisdiction thereof means subject to the complete jurisdiction thereof. not owing allegiance to anybody else. This is what it means. They said it. It's there. It's documented what they meant at the time. And that's why for so many, it's so frustrating that this decision came down the way it did because what was John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett? What were they looking at? Why would they make a decision like this if they have the documents before them that they can see themselves? And the only thing you can think of, And you hate to think of it this way, but I'll go there. Is this political? Is this the finger to the wind and worried about reputation? Is this, I don't want people being mad at me? You know, there are people who in the past have talked about John Roberts being that kind of justice when you look at Obamacare and how that all went down and the decision. And, you know, if you call it a tax, if you call it something else, we might be able to change them. I was like, wait, what? so many things about what had happened in the past that you can look at and see why people would have concerns. But when we come back in a couple of minutes, I also want to get into something else that's important because it really is about the culture and where we go next. And not just this decision, but the people that are applauding this decision that are happy about this decision, what they see coming forward. The things that we had here before in the last administration that they want to bring back, just because they are going to lean into this birthright citizenship issue, to use it as a vehicle. And if they use it as a vehicle to get what they want, what do they want? Well, that's what we have to get into coming up. So hope you'll stick around. My name is Drew Steele, filling in for Eric today.

Filling in for Eric today, Drew Steele. And anytime you want to check me out on social media at Drew Steele Radio, appreciate that. And appreciate the opportunity to hang out with you today on such a huge day. Scheduled to join us in about, oh, I don't know, 10, 15 more minutes. Congressman Byron Donalds's to talk about the Supreme Court Decision Save America Act, among other things. So I talked about this before, this Supergirl movie. I don't know about anybody else. Just me personally, the super whatever movies, if they're super in front of the name in the movie, I'm like, In 2026, I'm out. I don't know. I just like if you're avenging something that's super, I'm like, I don't know. Just me personally. But oftentimes it's because he holds your breath. You don't know what you're in for. And I don't mean it like the action or I mean politically. Like why does there have to be politics and everything? I mean, there is. And just admit it. Like I love when somebody says, oh, you know, we're running in this race locally and it's a nonpartisan race. So you can't ask me whether or not I'm a Republican or a Democrat. What are you talking about? Right. I'm a nonpartisan, you know. Okay, got it. No political affiliation, nonpartisan. Right. So there's no politics in your world whatsoever. You must live in a beautiful world. Really? Can I, hey, can I live in your world? Yeah, exactly. Can I live in that world? Because I don't think that world exists right now. Actually, I know it doesn't exist. You have the Supergirl movie like $140 million to make it $30 million over the weekend as many of your people are saying it looks like it's a bust and it's like I don't know why why is it Could there have been any indication at all as to why a Supergirl movie may not have done very well at the box office I couldn't I don't know why. I have many queer friends. So honestly, I'm kind of honored. I'm honored that that's happening. But I think because she doesn't live inside the binary of what we think a woman should be, that... That is what makes her so special and so exciting and so new. Oh, that's why. Okay, now I know why. Now I got it. All right, so that's the lead in the Supergirl movie, who during an interview, as it seems like many movies these days that have super or villain or something like that in front of it have to do, was very excited about her being a non-binary character and going, no, don't, do you? I'm so happy, this is how you do it. I'm so happy people are watching. This is fantastic and it's for everybody. You mean everybody? Yeah, everybody. Come watch the movie. It's great. But they don't do that. And it gets you thinking, look, this is the kind of culture wars that we've been against for the longest time. And then there are people when we mention this, it's like, oh, whatever. Okay, here we go again with the culture wars. Really seriously? Yes, really seriously.

Like you look at this movie and you see this and you see what they're doing. You see all the things that are going on in public schools and universities and how they're doing this in the system. And the first person I think of is Antonio Gramsci. Excuse me? Yeah, 1917, the Marxist Italian who was in prison. for he's supposed to be there for 20 years. They thought that he's not going to last 20 years because he's deathly ill. Lasted like 17 years in prison, ultimately wrote all kinds of papers about revolutions and communist revolutions. And it's like, you're doing this all wrong. Let me just give you like sort of my Drew Steele overview of the Marxist Antonio Grams. He's like, this is if I were him today or something like that. You're doing this all wrong. See, you come in with a revolution. But you don't change the culture. So when you take over the government, the people still feel the same way. And they're not fans of yours. You got to make people fans of yours before you have any kind of quote unquote revolution, whether that is military or otherwise. That's it. That's where we are. That's the problem. The problem is we've let this, well, we haven't. I mean, you haven't and I haven't. We've been fighting against it. We knew for the longest time that this was a big, big deal. You know, and we wanted to put, have parental controls on different things when we wanted to identify whether a movie had the things that I don't want my child to see in it. And people were like, oh, come on. It's, it's 1990. No, no, no. I want to know that this is where we are today. If you change the culture and have enough of the young people who listen to Democrat socialists and they hear about reproductive justice and they hear about all of these other things and they're like, I care about justice for people. I care about not being racist and being against that and all of these different things. How could I be against this? they've fomented all of this to the point where now they're going to be people who are going to vote for these candidates. And that's the problem. And that's something that we have to keep an eye on. All right. We've got to take a break. Congressman Byron Donalds's scheduled to join us next. My name is Drew Steele. And so glad you're hanging out with us today. Filling in for Eric. In today's uncertain economy, American financing is helping families find a way to the high-interest trap. We're headed into summer, but the economic clouds aren't clearing for most middle-class families. Between persistent inflation and the cost of daily life, you're likely feeling the pressure. You've worked hard for your home, probably have more equity than you realize, yet the summer surge is forcing many to rely on credit cards. It's an exhausting cycle. American financing understands 2026 requires a real strategy. That's why they have salary-based mortgage consultants. With mortgage rates in the five, their customers are saving up to $800 a month on average by wiping... out high interest debt. That's money that stays in your pocket and fights back against rising costs. There are no upfront fees, no pressure. If you start today, you could lay two mortgage payments. Call American financing today. 866886-886-9692. 92-62. That's 866-886-9262.9262.9262.9262.9262.9262.9262.9262. Eric. Average savings based on borrowers.

for $199. Filling in for Eric today, Drew Steele. Anytime you want to follow me at Drew Steele radio on social media. Steele has three years, waiting for Congressman Byron Donalds to join us, although I just got note that he's on the House floor. So I'm assuming he's kind of busy right now in the halls of Congress. So he's actually on the House floor. So we'll have to wait just a little bit longer. But the minute he's ready to join us, we will bring him in here. And that should be momentarily. So I'm just hanging patiently. But in the meantime, some other things we'll mention today. The president has been very insistent on. Oh, wait a second. Is it possible that this is him right now? Let's see. Okay. Let's find out. I believe this might be Congressman Byron Donalds's joining us here today. Let's find out if he's off the House floor. Hello, sir. How are you, Drew? Well, how are you today? Well, I'm in Washington, so I'm just doing okay. I understand. So to be quite honest, I'm just like, okay. I'm a little bummed. I'm a little worried about this very big birthright citizenship decision from the court today. What are your thoughts? Well, the Supreme Court got it wrong. The majority is wrong. I think it's Samuel Alito wrote the dissent. And I'll just tell you. that the birthright citizenship in the 14th Amendment was meant for black slaves, period, full stop. That is the intent of where the writers of that amendment were going, because slavery had just been ended, and you had black slaves and the children of black slaves who were in the United States within the jurisdiction of the United States, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and they needed to be granted citizenship. That was the purpose. What the Supreme Court now has done by opinion is they are now saying that if you have a Chinese national using a birth tourism company, and those birth tourism companies exist today, then they can come to the United States, have their baby, and the baby has citizenship. And then when the baby comes of age... under chain migration, that child or that now young adult has the ability to sponsor other family members to come into the United States. I mean, this is not what the 14th Amendment was ever written to do. To me, the court's opinion is a bastardization of the 14th Amendment, and now this is going to fall to Congress. And I think it's actually interesting in light of the Save America Act conversations and what's going on in the United States Senate, if you want Save America Act or if you actually want to have a true legal definition. of birthright citizenship that respects American citizenship and respects the American people and assimilation, then you've got to be able to get it through the Senate. And the way the Senate operates today, you're not getting anything through the Senate that will fix this terrible decision by the Supreme Court. Yeah, you know, you're there in D.C. What have people been saying? I mean, it must be, I don't want to say frantic, but the, because.

It's not just the ramifications, but it's like, how do we remedy this? What's the next step? It's got to be the discussion there on Capitol Hill. I mean, there are members right now who are trying to file bills on this, but right now this is going to start at ground zero. I mean, you first have to start getting this worked up in committees. With what's going on in Congress through the next couple of months, I doubt there's going to be any time even to get this to a committee hearing. This is something that's probably going to be left to the next Congress to handle, and probably is going to fall to the next president to handle. That's just how, when you're talking about getting a piece of legislation, like real definitions of birthright citizenship, which, you know, I think it's probably should be that one of your parents has to be a United States citizen in order for the child to then have citizenship. But in order to get that through, I mean, it's going to be, you know, a lot of blocking and tackling through the House of Representatives, let alone what it's going to take to get through the Senate. And you have to have a president who's willing to lay their political capital on the line of getting that done. Right. Yeah, I look at this. I know people are talking about we have to have a constitutional amendment now. Otherwise, what else could we possibly do? Are we going to tell people that, hold on a second. How far along are you in your pregnancy? Yeah, we can't have you in the country. I mean, the things that people are talking about right now and the remedies, I mean, obviously the constitutional amendment, people leaning into that, no doubt. But even before that, some of what we can do right away. And then brings up. again, what the Democrats want right now, what they want to bring forward because they'll open those borders right back up again. And here we go again. And then some. There's still this concern that's out there. This decision, I mean, can we get a constitutional amendment? Is that the way that we're going to have to go? Is that the next Save America Act talk by Republicans coming up? But even before we get to that, Can you talk about the Save America Act and where we are now? Is there even a buzz on Capitol Hill, Congressman Byron Donalds's during us. Yeah, about, okay. Yeah, but more than a buzz now. Like, this is it. There's more than a buzz on Capitol Hill and, frankly, in this town. But the Senate's not here this week. So the Senate has to come back and deal with this. Members are trying to find ways to like kind of force the Senate's hand into considering it to get around the filibuster, but it's going to be very, very difficult. I don't think a reconciliation bill is going to get this through the Senate. I just don't see that, but, you know, because at the end of the day, a senator can say whatever they want, but then they hide behind the parliamentarian. So the parliamentarian makes a ruling and they go, oh, well, the parliamentarian decided so. whatever, and they, by their rules, they can go to the floor and override the parliamentarian. So, like, I'm not even sure if that's the way this thing is going to get done. There's going to have to be a lot of agreements out of what, you know, John Doon and Senate Republicans are going to do to try to get it across the line. And to be honest, Drew, you know, we have some Republican senators that are either checked out or they're angry, they lost their elections, or they still think this is 1995 and not 2026. Right. Yeah, I just.

I wonder how, as we have this very crucial discussion now about what's going to take place, not just up to the midterms, but even past the midterms and into what will be the end of the Trump presidency is how many, and even before that. how many are going to be elected that are going to want to push the president's agenda. Obviously, there are still people, as we lead into the midterms, that are still there in the halls of Congress that are not very pleased with some of the positions that the president may have taken during primaries and the like. And so willing to gum up the works. And I just look at this as long term through the end of the presidency of Donald Trump. that we have to realize the stakes now and with the rise of what has been the democrat socialists who have spelled out exactly where they stand oh my i mean it's it is a different world especially with this decision uh it's a different world we're in now the positions that we have to take and how strong we have to be invocal we have to be on this politically are uh are through the roof right now Yeah, it's absolutely correct. And I think for, if you look at the Democratic Socialists, they're playing for keeps. They're not going to come up here just to give speeches. They're going to move every procedural obstacle out of their way to institute one of the most radical agendas. uh the country's ever seen i mean if you thought joe biden's agendas were radical and they were radical these guys want to go further and that's just what's in store for us and this is why i make the comment about some of the republicans in the u.s senate they need to understand and maybe they're too cloistered maybe they've been in this town too long they need to understand that the future wave of democrats they will pack the court they will codify open borders they will codify major changes to immigration that will frankly turn us into Western Europe here in America. That's the stuff that they want to do. And so there's so much work that still has to be done. We're talking about Safe America Act, but now you've got to add birthright citizenship to that. Then you've got to deal with just the basic immigration process now. We have a bunch of visa programs that either need to be completely removed or reformed in a major way. That's before you even get to health care or energy policy. Housing, like real housing policy, not the mess the Senate gave back to us. Like there's so much work that has to get done. And these guys and the senator are just thinking that it's okay, we'll just negotiate another deal where the American people, they want action, they want real solutions, they want the country to work, and they want it to be based on common sense. Yeah. You know, before we go, I might ask you this, because I was talking about before you came on, you know, the, when we talk about the culture wars. Maybe now people with the Democrat socialists understand what we were worried about. Because I was talking about Antonio Gramsci, the Marxist, back in 1917, when he was talking about revolution and saying, look, you're doing this all wrong as a Marxist. You don't take over a country and not change the culture because the people don't agree with you.

You have to change the culture so that when the culture agrees with your revolution, then you can do it because they'll back you. That's the problem we have right now, and that's where we are. That's why the culture wars, as people poo-pooed them in the past or made fun of us for caring about these things, well, no, we were right and we're still right. Well, first of all, the only people who were who pooling the culture wars are liberals who got exposed. And quite frankly, some Republicans who thought that all you had to talk about was less taxes and less government and more freedom. The truth is politics runs downstream from culture. It always has. And so to that point, if you have your cultural underpinnings correct, then largely the body politic will maintain whether it's conservative governance or, unfortunately, they can shift into socialist or fascistic governance. And that's just a fact. So this is not even Republicans versus Democrats. This is about family structure. This is about protecting puberty. This is about making sure that kids are allowed to grow into the adults that God has created them to be. This is about making sure that you have family dynamics and you're building the nuclear family. It's about when kids get educated, making sure that they're learning from history, learning mathematics, learning how to read and comprehend, as opposed to It was being indoctrinated by clicks and by headlines and by feelings and being, and really giving kids to be guided by logic and a Socratic method. And so those are the, you know, those are just the underpinnings of every state. It's not even federal. These are state governmental issues. where at the state level, you have to make sure that your children are actually understanding what has made America, America, and they value that. As long as you can do that, you can maintain the more perfect union. You can maintain the constitutional republic. Absolutely. All right, Congressman Byron Donalds is joining us today. Appreciate a few minutes. And please tell me, tell me that you were there on the House floor and you knew you needed to call me. And I can have the visual of you running out the door because you had to call Drew. Can you just, can you just fake, make believe that that's happening? I probably didn't run, but I walked expeditiously. Okay. Okay. So that sounds fine. I'll take that, sir. I will take that. All right. Listen, God bless. Thank you so much. I'll see you soon. All right. Take it easy. Okay. As Congressman Byron Donalds's joining us here on the Eric Erickson's show, appreciate a few minutes of his time. And yeah, there's a lot to to fight for, no doubt about it. All right, let's take a break. More to come. My name is Drew Steele, filling in for Eric today.

filling in for Eric today, Drew Steele. And anytime you want to check me out on social media at Drew Steele Radio. And we do a Monday through Friday 3 to 6 p.m. show in the state of Florida called Florida's Voice statewide. Yeah, so some people might call me a cynic. Okay with that. So this makes me believe that I'm a cynic for a moment. Just indulge. Now again, I'm talking about me, Drew Steele filling in for Eric today. Not talking about Eric, not talking about you, not talking about anybody else. But if you were a cynic, like I feel like I am right now, and I get the decision today from the Supreme Court and the birthright citizenship issue upheld and you have John Roberts. along with Amy Coney Barrett, siding with the leftist judges, John Roberts, who I've always cynically felt like does things politically that are expedient as opposed to constitutionally. And maybe that's just me thinking that, or maybe you feel that way sometimes. But anyway, this is where I get cynical. Because just a little while ago, we heard that the court is agreeing to listen to... A very important case coming up in the future, this one. This was out of Hawaii, where if you have a concealed carry permit, which takes them doing there, the presumption under Hawaii law was that you couldn't take it on private property unless you got express permission from the owner of that private property. So things like shops or restaurants or really any private property, will the court shut that down today. They say that arrangement would impose a new burden on permit holders, people who've gotten these concealed carry permits, who will have to somehow obtain permission to carry a firearm on the property before. stepping foot. They say the Hawaii law here violates the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Big win for Second Amendment folks and supporters there. Yeah, I'm just saying that there was a big Second Amendment win and the Supreme Court has agreed today to hear whether the Constitution ensures Americans have a right to possess AR-15s and similar style firearms. So that was a case that was back from when Hawaii's law was struck down. restricting firearm carriers and businesses. And so, I don't know, the cynic in me says, it's almost like John Roberts is like, you know, I know, I decided this, decided with the leftist judges on the birthright citizenship case. Hey, but here's the Second Amendment one. We'll throw this one to you because, yeah, we'll give this one. I don't know. I feel, yeah. Forgive me. I'm asking for you barely know me, but I'm asking for forgiveness already filling in for Eric today because that's the cynic in me. that I'm so upset about the birthright citizenship issue and how we have not made this country safer by doing this when, again, something that we talked about earlier, that Congressman Byron Donalds's was mentioning, Senator Mike Lee that we read on his ex-account, what he was thinking about this as well as we have a very deep...

concern and a real concern that when you have a country who is not looking out for the best interest of the United States, like the Chinese Communist Party, and they will bring birth tourism now, I was going to say squared, but that's weird, exponentially, the number is up possibly. And more people are coming in here because they want to check out the country because they love it. And then they have a baby here, and then they go back to communist China, and then they are indoctrinated into communist ideology, which some might say, you just stay here and do that. Yeah, well, not really. You see where I'm going. And then they're there. They're born on U.S. soil. They become U.S. citizens, 18 years of age. Hey, go back and vote in the election and vote the way we tell you to vote. That's a lot for me to handle after hearing this decision. So that's all. That's what I was bringing up there. And again, the cynic in me. Here you go. He's a second amendment. Anyway. And I know I'm tongue in cheek. Not serious about that. I'm just joking about that part. But I am serious about how serious this is and how we got to get this right. What do we do? Is it a constitutional amendment? I'm sure. That's what everybody's going to start pushing. So that's what we have. All right, once again, thank you so much to everyone for allowing me to be a part of your day, filling in for Eric. Once again, my name is Drew Steele. Anytime you want to check me out on social media at Drew Steele, D-R-E-W-S-T-E-E-L-E. Don't forget the E on the end. And look forward to the next time we get together. Have a blessed day. My name is Drew Steele, filling in for Eric.