OConnors Right Stand - Bold, Conservative Podcast

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Good Thursday morning, Patriots, and welcome back to O'Connor's Right Stand. I'm your host, John O'Connor, software engineer by day, conservative truth warrior by night. And folks, do I have a doozy for you today. The establishment is absolutely losing their minds over Trump's latest budget move. And honestly, it tells me he's doing something right. But first, I've got some listener questions that have been piling up. And if yours didn't make it today, don't worry, I'm getting to all of them. Hit me up on X at O'Connor's Stand.

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smash that follow button, and then slide into my DMs. Quick note, if you want me to use your full name and location on air, just let me know. Otherwise, I'm sticking with first names only. Oh, and shout out to my growing audience in Japan. Not sure how you found out about me across the Pacific, but welcome to the fight, Patriots. All right, enough stalling. Question one comes from Jacob, and I'm paraphrasing. You drop a lot of facts, but you don't really give your definitive take on most issues. What's the deal?

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Jacob, here's the thing. I'm absolutely sick of being spoon-fed opinions. I flip on mainstream media and they're not telling me what happened, they're jamming their conclusions down my throat like some mindless drone who can't think for myself. Seriously? Do they think I'm that stupid? Look, my whole approach is simple. I give you the facts, I call out the obvious BS when I see it, then I let you decide what to think.

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That's respect for your intelligence. Something quite often the mainstream media doesn't seem to have. I consume news from everywhere and yeah, everyone's got an angle. But I'm not here to be another talking head telling you how to feel about everything. Now, if I ever do guest spots on other shows, which is something I'm working on right now, then you'll get my unfiltered opinions because I'm being directly challenged. But on my show, I'm giving you the tools to think.

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not doing the thinking for you. So I hope that clears that up for you, Jacob. Question two is from Zach. Why do you start this podcast? You trying to go big time? I'm gonna paraphrase that. Honestly, Dan Bongino changed my life. I was listening to him every day during lunch and he asked this question that hit me like a truck. What are you doing for the movement? I sat there thinking, man, I could do more. I'm just a Twitter warrior at this point. So.

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Why not a podcast? Then immediately I'm like, who the hell wants to listen to me? I couldn't answer that one. So I researched equipment costs, calculated the time commitment and said, let's see if anyone cares what I think. And here we are. As for going big time, hell yeah, I'd love to, but I'm not delusional about it. If this thing ever got big enough that I could ditch my day job and do this full time, brother, I'd jump on that in a heartbeat. Sorry boss, if you're listening, nothing personal.

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But we're only a few months in and I'm focused on one thing. Getting better at this. I've never done anything like this before. So right now it's all about improvement, not dollar signs. So thanks for the question, Zach. And we got a quick one from Rebecca. Where are you from? And I'm trying to place your accent. My fiance always gives me a grief about this. I think I sound pretty neutral, but apparently words like water and coffee give me away.

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Born in Jersey, spent the next 32 years down south and mostly in North Carolina. So did you nail it Rebecca? Did you place me? Alright enough Q &A for now. Let's go into the main event and talk about what's got the left and the rhinos absolutely losing their minds. We're diving into something called pocket rescissions and before your eyes glaze over thinking this is boring budget wonk stuff, let me tell you why this says the swamp creatures absolutely panicking.

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Because what Trump's considering isn't just about saving money. It's about fundamentally breaking their corrupt spending game. The GAO, those congressional lapdogs, are screaming it's illegal. The establishment Republicans are clutching their pearls. And the Democrats, they're having a full-scale meltdown because Trump found a way to cut their precious, wasteful spending without begging Congress for permission. Sound familiar? Well, it should.

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Every time Trump finds a legal way to drain the swamp, suddenly everything becomes unprecedented and dangerous to democracy. I mean, right? We see it literally every time. But ready to see how Trump's about to expose the biggest budget scam in Washington? The right stand starts now.

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Here's what they don't want you to understand about pocket rescissions. Because knowledge is power. And they want to keep you powerless. Congress appropriates money with expiration dates. Near those deadlines, Trump proposes canceling the funding. Here's the brilliant part. If Congress doesn't explicitly reject it within 45 days, the money gets canceled automatically. The establishment is going insane because this flips their whole corrupt game on its head.

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Normally, they get to decide what gets funded by doing nothing. Your tax dollars flow to their pet projects by default. But with the pocket rescissions, inaction means the money gets saved instead of spent. Think about that for a second. The entire Washington establishment is built on spending your money, unless someone actively stops them. Trump just figured out how to make the default position, saving money instead of wasting it.

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No wonder they're freaking out. Their entire gravy train depends on the current system where wasteful spending happens automatically, and stopping it requires a Congressional act of God. So the Government Accountability Office, the GAO, and what a joke that name is, comes out this week saying pocket rescissions are illegal. Let me tell you something about the GAO. They are Congress's auditing arm, which means they institutionally def-

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to Congress's power to waste your money. They are not some neutral referee. They're team swamp all the way. The GAO ruled against Trump on this exact issue in his first term. Shocking, The same people who let the deep state run wild for four years under Biden suddenly care about proper procedures when Trump wants to save taxpayer money. Here's what's really happening.

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Trump found a legitimate interpretation of the 1974 Impoundment Control Act that these bureaucrats never thought anyone would be smart enough to use. Now that he's figured out their game, they're frantically trying to shut it down. But here's the beautiful part. GAO opinions aren't law. They are just opinions. And if Trump decides to move forward anyway, it goes to federal court where actual judges

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not congressional bureaucrats get to decide what the law actually says. Want to know why the establishment is really panicking? Because this isn't just about pocket rescissions. This is about Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency, DOJ, implementing the most aggressive cost-cutting agenda in American history. The rescission packages are just getting boosted by conservatives.

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who've been demanding that Trump legally cancel the hundreds of billions in wasteful spending he's already identified. We're not talking about nickels and dimes here. We're talking about hundreds of billions of your tax dollars going to garbage programs. Congress just passed a nine billion dollar rescission, their first one in over 20 years. You know why they hadn't done one in two decades? Because they're addicted to spending your money.

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and rescissions force them to omit some of their precious programs are worthless. But Trump's not waiting for Congress to grow a spine. He's using every legal tool available to cut the waste, and pocket rescissions are just the beginning. The administration has already withheld over $400 billion in spending that Democrats are now crying about. Good! That's $400 billion that didn't get flushed down the toilet on their pet projects.

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Now, here comes the part where the establishment tries to scare you with big words like constitutional crisis and separation of powers. Just don't fall for it. The president has constitutional authority to execute the laws of Congress. When Congress appropriates money with specific timeframes and conditions, it's the president's job to make sure that money gets spent according to those rules. If Congress writes sloppy appropriation language that allows for different interpretations,

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That's Congress's fault, not Trump's. The president doesn't have to choose the interpretation that wastes the most money just to make Congress happy. The Empowerment Control Act of 1974 was passed because Nixon was refusing to spend money Congress had allocated. But here's what they don't tell you. It's created formal procedures for rescissions, and Trump is following those procedures. The establishment wants you to believe that following the law is somehow

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illegal when it results in the government spending less money instead of more. That's swamp logic. And it's exactly why we elected Trump to blow up their corrupt system. Some establishment Republicans are getting squeamish about pocket rescissions because they're worried about precedent. They're afraid a future Democrat president might use the same authority. You know what? Good. Let them try to use pocket rescissions to cancel military spending or border security funding.

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We'll fight those battles when we get there. But we're not going to surrender legitimate executive authority just because Democrats might abuse it later. That's classic Washington thinking. Never use power when you have it because the other side might use power when they have it. Meanwhile, Democrats use every tool available to advance their agenda and they don't lose sleep over precedent. Trump understands that you use the authority you have to advance the agenda the American people voted for, you and I.

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That's not a constitutional crisis. That's representative government. Congressional Republicans who are worried about this need to remember, Trump's not trying to spend more money without congressional approval. He's trying to spend less money. If you're a fiscal conservative, that should be something you celebrate, not something you oppose. Here's what really has the bureaucrats terrified. Pocket rescissions don't just save money.

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They expose how much of federal spending is automatic, unexamined, and completely unnecessary. Federal agencies have gotten used to spending whatever Congress appropriates without any executive branch oversight. They treat appropriations like entitlements. Trump is just reminding them that the president controls budget execution, not them. The deep state is panicking because they've built the entire power structure

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around predictable funding flows. If they can't count on automatic spending, they actually have to justify their programs and their budgets. A horror of horrors for them. From a management perspective, and remember, I'm a software engineer who actually has to deliver results. This is basic accountability. You don't get to spend money just because it was allocated. You have to demonstrate that spending serves the public interest.

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The administrative state hates accountability, which is why they're fighting this so hard. Let's cut through the establishment panic and look at the legal reality. The 1974 Empowerment Control Act created procedures for rescissions. Trump is just using those procedures. The GAO doesn't like his interpretation. So what? Legal interpretation isn't decided by congressional bureaucrats. It's decided by the courts. If the administration moves forward with

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pocket rescissions, despite GAO objections, it'll end up in federal court where judges will actually examine the statutory language. And here's what those judges are going to find. The ICA's language around timing and congressional approval is generally ambiguous in certain circumstances. That ambiguity doesn't automatically favor the interpretation that results in more spending. The establishment wants you to believe any novel interpretation of budget law

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is automatically illegitimate. That's nonsense. Legal innovation in service of fiscal responsibility is exactly what we need right now. Trump's legal team isn't just making this up. They are working with real statutory language and real constitutional authority. The GAO can cry about all they want that doesn't make it wrong. Step back and look at what's really happening here. Trump is systematically dismantling the mechanisms that allow Washington to waste

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your money on autopilot. First, Doge identifies hundreds of billions in wasteful spending. Then the administration uses every available legal tool, including pocket rescissions, to eliminate that waste. Meanwhile, the establishment freaks out because their gravy train is getting derailed. This isn't just about budget policy. This is about fundamentally changing how Washington works. Instead of spending being the default and savings being the exception,

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Trump is making savings the default and spending something that has to be actively justified. The pocket rescission fight is really a proxy war over whether the executive branch has any real authority to control spending. Or whether Congress can just appropriate money and force the president to spend every penny regardless of whether it makes sense. Trump's position is simple. If Congress wants to guarantee that money gets spent, they need to write better appropriations language.

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If they write sloppy language that allows for different interpretations, he's going to choose the interpretations that serves the taxpayers, not the bureaucrats. Here's the bottom line for everyone listening who actually works for a living and pays taxes. Trump found a way to save your money that the swamp doesn't want him to use. Every dollar that gets rescinded through this process is a dollar that doesn't get wasted on something useless government, some useless government program.

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Every bureaucrat who loses funding is one less deep-seated operative living off your tax dollars. The establishment's opposition to pocket rescissions isn't about constitutional principles. It's about protecting their ability to waste your money without accountability. When the GAO says pocket rescissions are illegal, what they really mean is this interferes with their ability to spend money automatically.

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When establishment Republicans worry about precedent, what they really mean is this might force us to actually fight for our spending priorities instead of just going along with everything. Trump is forcing Washington to work the way it should work, with executive accountability, fiscal responsibility, and respect for the taxpayer money. The administration should absolutely move forward with pocket rescissions despite the GAO's objections.

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Let the courts decide what the law actually means instead of letting congressional bureaucrats dictate executive branch authority. And if Congress doesn't like the results, they can always pass clearer appropriations language that doesn't allow for alternative interpretations. Problem solved. The real test will be whether Trump has the political courage to follow through despite the establishment meltdown. So far, the signs are good. He's already worth holding hundreds of billions in spending.

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and he's not backing down despite the criticism. This is exactly the kind of leadership we elected him to provide, using every available tool to advance the America First agenda, regardless of what the swamp creatures think about it. Look folks, the establishment is going to fight Trump on everything, including his attempts to save your money. That's not a bug in this system, it's a feature. The more they oppose him, the more you know he's over the target.

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Pocket recisions represent exactly the kind of aggressive, legal, effective approach to draining the swamp that we voted for. The fact that it has the GAO, establishment Republicans, and Democrats all freaking out just confirms that it's working. Trump found a way to cut wasteful spending without begging Congress for permission. That's not a constitutional crisis. That's constitutional government working the way it was supposed to always work.

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with a strong executive branch that actually executes the law instead of just rubber stamping whatever the bureaucrats want. Well, that wraps up another edition. Thanks for listening to O'Connor's Right Stand. If this episode fired you up about government accountability, share it with someone who needs to understand how the swamp really works. Follow me on X at O'Connor's Stand for more deep dives into Trump's war on government waste. And remember, when the establishment panics, that means we're winning.

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Keep holding the line unapologetically. This is John O'Connor, signing off.