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Andy Ogles: “I'm actually on the board of the House Freedom Caucus.”

Featuring: Andy Ogles, Republican | U.S. House Tennessee, District 5

Congressman Andy Ogles Hosts Telephone Town Hall on Veterans' Services, Immigration, and Legislative Updates

Published July 23, 2025 | Video Starts at 33:30

I talk about it every day. I fight for it every day. And we'll continue to fight for it. That's why I'm a member of the House Freedom Caucus. I'm actually on the board of the House Freedom Caucus. and this is our priority. We've got to fix this spending and we worked with the White House to get it to a place where you can get it passed to put us in a position so we can cut. (33:30–33:34)

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“We haven't done that for 20 years, actually passing a budget.”
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“The cartels, because of Joe Biden and their reach into the United States of America, have a network, a distribution network that would rival…”
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“The cartels in Mexico and South and Central America have literally divided this country up into regions and territories, and they have…”
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“We are having a passport fair July 29th through 31st.”
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“In Nashville we have a little over 26,000, 26,488 veterans who call Davidson County, Greater Nashville home.”
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“It's a $74 million project that's going to be built in Nashville for our veterans.”
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“Tulsi's released information that the Russia collusion was, in fact, orchestrated.”
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“We know that it does, in fact, trace to the White House.”
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“Tulsi Gabbard has retaken all of the evidence that she has, and she's referred that to Pam Bondi for more thorough investigation.”
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“Belmont was not complying with the president's executive order [14173].”
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“Belmont was still accepting federal funds [while not complying with Executive Order 14173].”
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“DEI is reverse discrimination.”
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“If we find you discriminating, race, color, whatever, we are going to hold you accountable.”
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“I was one of those roughly 10 members of Congress that was at the White House.”
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“No amnesty. No amnesty. No amnesty.”
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“If you're coming into the country illegally, that in fact is a criminal act.”
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“If you're working without a Social Security number, that is a criminal act.”
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“If you're working with a Social Security number that you received or was issued under false pretense, that is a criminal act.”
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“If I'm in Central America and I'm there illegally, guess what? I'm going to get deported.”
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“We do need some immigration reform which will allow people to work here to get visas.”
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“You can never become a citizen and you can never vote [if you are here illegally].”
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“If anyone tries to jam Amnesty through Congress, I will do whatever I can within my means as a member of Congress to shut this place down.”
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“We are going to claw every single dollar out of this budget that we can through the rescission process.”
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“We did a small rescission package. It's not small. It was 9 billion.”
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“There's supposed to be 12 appropriation bills. We haven't done that.”
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“You had a Republican, Senator Blackburn in 23 try to get the files released, and it was a Democrat, Dick Durbin, who stopped it.”
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“Part of the form that [Belmont professors] have to fill out is actually a diversity statement.”
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“It's because of whistleblowers who are taking screenshots of the forms they're filling out.”
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“Belmont does the right thing, that they follow state law, which is another topic, and that they follow federal law.”
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“The President is aware of this [issue with Belmont].”
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“Some of those deficit reduction steps don't happen in the first few years.”
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“I met with the president multiple times. I met with the vice president again.”
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“We saw a lot of bad executive orders from, from the Biden administration that hurt our economy.”
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“Joe Biden allowed the southern border to be wide open and people could not only just walk across the border, could drive across the border.”
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“We know we have terror cells active in the United States of America and we're working to find them.”
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