The Stack: Shutdown, SNAP Reform and the Battle for Border Truth
Day 34 of the Schumer shutdown has exposed deep divisions in Washington — and Todd Huff isn’t pulling any punches. In this episode, he lays out why Senate Democrats, not House Republicans, are responsible for the ongoing standoff and how reforming the filibuster could end the gridlock. Todd also reacts to USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins’ explosive Fox News comments revealing that nearly 700,000 people have been removed from the SNAP program amid widespread abuse.
From Trump’s push for stronger ICE raids to new data showing more than 6,500 suspected terrorists stopped at the border this year, the discussion turns to security, accountability, and truth. Todd closes with his take on the outrage over Vice President JD Vance’s remarks about his wife’s faith — a conversation that reminds listeners why moral clarity still matters.
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Government Shutdown: Trump calls for US Senate to scrap filibuster rule
USDA / SNAP Reform: Brooke Rollins says thousands of illegal migrants removed from SNAP
AOL News: USDA Secretary Rollins confirms 700,000 ineligible recipients removed from SNAP
Immigration Enforcement: Trump says ICE raids “haven’t gone far enough”
Border Security: Feds prevent 6,525 known or suspected terrorists from entering US
J.D. Vance says he hopes his wife becomes a Christian someday
Fox News: J.D. Vance defends comments about wife’s faith and Christianity
Faith & Foreign Policy: Trump threatens military action over anti-Christian violence in Nigeria
Christian Post: U.S. weighs response to Christian persecution in Nigeria
Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan confronted about Hunter Biden laptop memo
📝 Transcript: Shutdown, SNAP Reform and the Battle for Border Truth
The Todd Huff Show – November 3, 2025
Host: Todd Huff
Todd Huff: All right, my friends, I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Thank you for joining us here on today's podcast. It's my pleasure, my pleasure to be here. Today I want to talk about. What do I want to talk about? Here? I'm going. To talk about the. We're in the 34th day of the Schumer shutdown. I want to talk about. Well, just briefly give you an update on that. Mention what I think needs to happen next.
Todd Huff: With the filibuster, in fact. There's some discussion here within the Republican Party about this. Apparently there's some who are opposed to this — surprise, surprise in the Republican Party — because the way it might be abused by the Democrats. We'll go through that briefly. I want to talk about SNAP reform. SNAP reform, which we'll get to. Brooke Rollins is out there, USDA Secretary, talking about that.
Todd Huff: This will lead into security because Trump's out there talking about ICE raids — haven’t gone far enough. Border security. The number of known or suspected terrorists stopped in 2025 might boggle your mind. And then in the next segment or at the end of the program, I want to talk a little bit about comments that JD Vance, our Vice President, made about his wife, Usha Vance — his, well, his comments about her faith, or the faith that he hopes she one day chooses.
Todd Huff: And it's amazing to me. It's amazing to me how people distort, misrepresent, get angry about his comments when it's actually the most wonderful thing a husband or a spouse could wish for another spouse. In this particular case. So, anyway, I want to get to that, and there's probably a lot more that we'll get to as well. I've got an announcement about a guest on tomorrow's program. Lots to get to here today, my friends, and I'm glad to be here with you.
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Todd Huff: All right? So let's get into it here today, my friends. As I mentioned off the top, we are on day number 34 of the government shutdown. We know that SNAP benefits have been impacted. As of Saturday, this is again a strategy that the left — the Democrat Party, the Senate Democrats in particular — are employing.
Todd Huff: They believe — and I’ve seen some polling — they think they’re getting traction here, blaming Republicans for this and saying that the Republicans are basically trying to starve people and take away their health insurance and everything else. When in reality, that's a bunch of nonsense.
Todd Huff: We've gone through this. I am tired of talking about this. To be quite candid, I'm tired of talking about this. This is such a cut and dry issue. I've lost interest. Here's where I stand on this. We have communicated this. I've seen Speaker Johnson communicating this. I've seen people from the White House communicating this. I've seen Senator John Thune communicating this.
Todd Huff: Democrats have shut down the government. This is not complicated to understand. Yes, Republicans have a majority in the House, the Senate, of course, the White House — but they don't have a supermajority. I don't know how to make this any clearer. I'm going to say this louder for the people in the back.
Todd Huff: I know the vast majority of you are catching on. Have known this from the beginning. You're onto the Democrats’ tricks and how they try to engage in political theater for political victories, even when it causes harm for people that it doesn't need to be inflicted on. But Democrats insist that it does because it helps them politically.
Todd Huff: Or they think it does. At least that's what some polling or maybe focus groups is determining for today's Democrat Party. And so they're out there telling the lie: Republicans have the majority — why don't they just pass it? Because it requires more than a majority, knuckleheads, to pass something from the Senate because of the filibuster rule.
Todd Huff: And I would tell them, you know what I think I would say this — if I was Senator John Thune. Of course, you've got to get people like Susan Collins and the others who are reluctant to change the filibuster rule as it pertains to government shutdowns in general.
Todd Huff: You can change the rule. I went through how we could do this, maybe last week or the week before, I'm not sure. But you can change the rule. I went through the process — I'm not going to go through the process again — but basically what it means is someone says this rule has been violated. The parliamentarian is going to say no, it isn’t.
Todd Huff: And so they're going to call for a point of order to say, well, we want to amend the rule so that it does prevent using the filibuster for this, and then that will require a simple majority vote. I don't know why they don't do this. Maybe they don't have the votes. I think they don't want the political headlines with this.
Todd Huff: But I would say, look, the Democrats have been telling you out there for all these weeks now that we have the political majority in both houses and that we should, by not being able to reopen the government, we are showing that we don't have the political will or the ability to get our act together.
Todd Huff: We took them at their word here. We followed their advice and we decided, yeah, you know what? They're right. We should simply say that the filibuster will not be used to hold Americans hostage — to shut down this government, to engage in political theater, not to encourage actual continuation of debate, but to cause things to grind to a halt in our nation’s capital.
Todd Huff: We have fallen victim, we have fallen prey to the tactics and the way that the left has been operating as a party — the Democrat Party has been operating ever since Trump came along, for sure. And this goes way back before Trump as well. We're going to take them, we’re going to take their advice here and we're going to say, that’s right, they’re right.
Todd Huff: We should just use our majority power, and that’s what we’re going to do. That’s what needs to happen here. I don’t know if it will. I don’t know if they can because I don’t know if the likes of Susan Collins and other Republicans like Lisa Murkowski will go along. Now, I will say Fetterman’s on board with this. Fetterman will come over. Don’t know what Rand Paul will do in this instance.
Todd Huff: Because he's not in favor of any government spending, but on principle, I would think that you wouldn't want the government shut down when you have a majority of people who have a plan that will reopen it. But again, we'll see. But to me, this is what needs to happen. This is the tact and the direction that it needs to go.
Todd Huff: Now, you know that many, many conversations have been had about SNAP reform — SNAP reform. And USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, she was on an interview recently, maybe a couple of interviews, and she says that SNAP benefits will be drastically reformed after thousands of illegals have been removed from the program.
Todd Huff: Now, she has said — let me read the quote here — let me back up. Here she is. On — let's just play the clip. She's on Fox in front, or well, she's on Fox, I should say, not Fox & Friends. She's on Fox talking about this very thing.
Todd Huff: She's talking about SNAP. She's talking about the people who receive money, talking about SNAP in relationship to the government being shut down and people losing these benefits and all of this, and she's going to point out some things. She's going to point out why it is that — well, just how many people are abusing the system. How about that?
Todd Huff: The people that are abusing this system, some that are, of course, American, but some, of course, are not American. And it's remarkable to me the number of people who just willingly don’t believe that our system is being — well, taken over, if you will — abused by people that are not even Americans.
Todd Huff: What is so hard to believe about that today? What is so hard to believe about that people who are here illegally are taking advantage of the system? I know that people will say, well, the law prevents this and that. The law prevents people from coming into this country illegally. The law is already there for that.
Todd Huff: But yet it hasn't prevented them from being here illegally. So why would it prevent them? What safeguards are in place to ensure that nobody is abusing the system? Why is it? Why is that the case? Tell me why. I mean, I've often said this about people voting illegally.
Todd Huff: Why do people think that there's a line, if you will, a border — a border that's guarded by pollsters, right? Poll workers on election day. We have people who cross our southern border illegally, but yet they won't cross the threshold of the border between the voting machine and the general public.
Todd Huff: Why would they not do that? What prevents them from doing that? Why are elections more secure — at least in the past, before Trump took over — why are elections more secure than our southern border, especially when you don't have things like ID and things along those lines?
Todd Huff: When you give illegal aliens a driver's license, none of this makes any sense, right? So of course there are people who find ways around the system. This is not complicated. This is human nature.
Todd Huff: And she's here saying, the director of the USDA — Secretary Rollins — that 700,000 illegal aliens have been or are in the process of being removed from the system. I'll let you listen to a little bit of this conversation she has on Fox over the weekend.
Rachel Campos-Duffy (Soundbite):“Forty-two million Americans are on SNAP, so that’s one in eight. Seventy-three percent of SNAP households are at or below poverty level. Seventy-nine percent of SNAP households include children or seniors or disabled people, and the average household benefit is about $332.
Rachel Campos-Duffy (Soundbite): Also, Brooke, you’ve said this before, and I think it’s really interesting. You said some of the silver lining is we’re getting to look a little bit behind the SNAP program. So we know that 20% of illegals are on SNAP and that 59% of households headed by illegals use SNAP or some other multiple welfare programs. Talk to us about that as well.”
Todd Huff: I'm going to pause that. Think about what she just said — 20% of illegal aliens, according to Brooke Rollins, are on SNAP. Fifty-nine percent of households that are headed by illegal aliens are also on SNAP. That's what she's saying.
Todd Huff: Now, the left is going to say no, that's illegal, we've got it written somewhere on a piece of paper that says you can't have these benefits if you are here illegally. Again — how many things are illegal to do that happen every single day?
Todd Huff: It’s illegal to have a driver's license if you’re here illegally, but that hasn’t stopped sanctuary states from issuing them. It's illegal to vote in elections, and yet you’ll see some cities that say you can vote in local elections, which is absolutely insane — that you would allow someone to vote in an election whose opinion shouldn’t even matter because they’re not a citizen.
Todd Huff: It is mind-blowing to me to think how far the left has gone down that path of absolute and utter insanity. But there’s a lot of things you shouldn’t be able to do if you’re an illegal alien, if you’re a terrorist. By the way, you shouldn’t be allowed to come across our southern border.
Todd Huff: We know for a fact this happened during the Biden administration. I've got the numbers on how many suspected or even known terrorists were stopped in 2025 by the Trump administration. I’ll share that number here in a bit.
Todd Huff: But there’s lots of things you're not supposed to be able to do as an illegal alien. However, the reality is — you absolutely can, because this government, well, the previous government — the Biden administration in particular — let them do whatever they can.
Todd Huff: Make no mistake about this: this was an attempt, this is an ongoing attempt by the left to secure a voting base for winning elections. This was all about electoral politics.
Todd Huff: The left is not some sympathetic group — you may have seen this — this is not in my stack of stuff to talk about, but you may have seen a group of teachers over the weekend. Actually, it was on Halloween. Halloween was Friday? A group of teachers posted a picture a group of teachers posted a picture. On — I believe it was the school's Facebook page. I could be wrong. But it said — what did the t-shirts say, Oz? Look it up real quick. What was it? Oz is a whisper. I got to take the headphones off even to hear Oz.
Todd Huff: But there was a message. It said something like, “Mission accomplished,” or — that's not it. “Problem solved.” Problem solved! There you go. So there’s a group of teachers that look like they tie-dyed shirts to where it looked like half of it was soaked in blood basically, and then it said across the front — what was it? “Problem solved.”
Todd Huff: “Problem solved” across the front center chest, referencing Charlie Kirk. There’s like eight or nine teachers. Again, I think it was on the school’s Facebook page. I could be mistaken, but these people were proud.
Todd Huff: Proud out there. They’re saying that they’re sympathetic, sympathetic to — I guess — people who are looking to make a way in this world, but they'll celebrate the death of a father and a husband and someone that many young people looked up to and learned from. They'll celebrate that.
Todd Huff: Don’t take any lecture from these folks. These folks are living in absolute depravity. It’s absolutely wicked. These people are not moral superstars or anything like that. In fact, if you go around this planet thinking that you’re a moral example to everyone else, I would suggest you really reevaluate things.
Todd Huff: Because none of us — none of us — should think of ourselves that way. In fact, the Bible says, “Pride comes before the fall.” I would caution anyone with that mindset to be very careful in thinking you’ve got it figured out, that you’re the moral example for the world to follow.
Todd Huff: We’ve already got a moral example for the world to follow, and His name was Jesus. And candidly, He doesn’t need the rest of us. He wants the rest of us to follow His teachings, to be made in His likeness — but not to be the example, but to be holy and set apart, and to be a reflection of Him, to be more like Him, because that’s in all of our best interests.
Todd Huff: But that’s another subject here. So getting back here to this conversation, she’s asking about all these people who are on SNAP benefits and all this — and just listen to Brooke Rollins’ response here.
Brooke Rollins (Soundbite): “Well, a couple of things. There’s been a lot of miscommunication out there on the program, but this is one of the first things we did when I walked in day one of USDA, February 13, is we sent letters to every governor in America being very clear that no illegal aliens can use SNAP. Zero. Zero.
Brooke Rollins (Soundbite): We asked every state for the first time in history — and this was in February — to send us their data and let us, with DOJ and a war room, actually start going through this data to better understand how this explosion of SNAP benefits happened under Joe Biden.
Brooke Rollins (Soundbite): We increased almost 40% on this program in just a couple of years under the Biden administration. Of course, we know they were trying to buy the election, but that’s conversation for another time.
Brooke Rollins (Soundbite): And since we have asked for that data, 29 states have complied — of course, which ones? All the red states. A couple of the blue states too. But in that data — and I haven’t talked about this yet publicly — in that data, we have found we’ve studied about $100 billion in spend. We have found thousands and thousands of illegal use of the EBT card.
Brooke Rollins (Soundbite): We have been moving people off of SNAP. We’ve got almost 700,000 people, I think we’ve moved off just since the President took office. We’ve arrested about 118 people, so this has been ongoing.
Brooke Rollins (Soundbite): But, Rachel, to your point, what this conversation has allowed is a national spotlight on a broken and corrupt program. We saw one guy in six different states getting a benefit. We found about 5,000 people that are dead who are still getting benefits.
Brooke Rollins (Soundbite): It is time to drastically reform this program so that we can make sure that those who are truly needy, truly vulnerable, are getting what they need — and the rest of the corruption goes away and we can serve the American taxpayer.
Brooke Rollins (Soundbite): So we want, number one — most important — get the government open. Make sure the people that really need this money are going to get it. But guess what? There’s a new sheriff in town. His name is Donald Trump. And this program will be reformed. We will hold people accountable, and we will be able to help those who really need it.”
Todd Huff: And that’s exactly what should happen. This is what it sounds like when the adults are in the room — in control. No one’s trying to take away. We can have a discussion on these actual programs — what the requirements are, whether or not we have them, whether states run them.
Todd Huff: Whether — heaven forbid — it would be great if the government didn’t have to do this. If there were other mechanisms in place where the free market was solving some of these problems. But let’s just say that this program is what we have to have.
Todd Huff: Why wouldn’t you want it cleaned up? Why wouldn’t you want the people who should not be on the program to be off the program? Now, not all of those folks are illegal aliens. Some of those folks are Americans who are abusing this system and so forth. That needs to be stopped, my friends.
Todd Huff: Also, what needs to be stopped is this segment, because I’m reaching the end of our time together, friends.
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Todd Huff: All right. I want to continue discussing, kind of in the same vein here, what we’ve been discussing so far. We’ve been talking about the government shutdown. We’re talking about SNAP benefits. That led us into the discussion about illegal aliens.
Todd Huff: Although it’s not all just — listen, it’s not just illegal aliens who are abusing the SNAP program. It’s all people. I get tired of saying — and I know the core daily listener here, I know that you know this — but for those who are tuning in, those who have listened to the mainstream media, those who see the world through a lens of race and ethnicity and all these other things, instead of just the lens of humanity — we are all human beings.
Todd Huff: We are all human beings created in the image of God. We are all human beings who have used our freedom of choice to make bad choices, to do things that, dare I say, are evil. Now, there’s degrees of evil, I understand — especially from a human perspective. It’s much more evil to do what Adolf Hitler did or to do what the abortionists are doing than to tell a white lie.
Todd Huff: I understand that, but it’s all degrees of evil. It’s called sin in the Bible. And it doesn’t matter who you are, what your background is — you could be a follower of Jesus, or you can be the most hardcore atheist out there. Anything in between, any other religion or anything. And still, within every single group of people, there are people who do some really atrocious things.
Todd Huff: So, in other words, there are people who would take advantage of SNAP benefits if given the opportunity — if they are American or if they’re illegal aliens. This should not surprise anybody.
Todd Huff: It is amazing to me the number of people who would say things like, “No, there’s a piece of paper out there that says illegal aliens can’t be on SNAP benefits.” Well, there’s lots of pieces of paper with lots of things out there that say people shouldn’t be able to do X, Y, and Z — and people are doing X, Y, and Z all the time.
Todd Huff: How much does your head have to be buried into the sand to think that there is a 0% rate of crime for any group of people or regarding any particular thing? Of course, there are people that do everything.
Todd Huff: We have, what is it, 340 million people living in this country? Obviously, absolutely, these folks — people — are going to do things that shouldn’t be done, things that are even written on a piece of paper somewhere that say, “Don’t do this.”
Todd Huff: It’s amazing to me how the left thinks you can just put something down on a piece of paper. It reminds me of these stupid nuclear deals we made with people like, well, nations like North Korea back in the day with Bill Clinton, or like we made with Iran under President Obama’s reign as president.
Todd Huff: And they think, “Well, they signed the paper! They made a pinky promise. I guess we’re not going to have any nuclear weapons in Iran or North Korea.” What kind of level of ignorance and stupidity must one have to come to that conclusion?
Todd Huff: Now, there are illegal aliens, absolutely. I have no doubt in my mind. I don’t know the numbers. I don’t know — she said 700,000. I don’t think she was saying 700,000 illegal aliens, though possibly. It wasn’t entirely clear.
Todd Huff: I think she was saying they found 700,000 people in total who were abusing the system, who were trying to take advantage of the system, who didn’t qualify for the system that were getting benefits, I should say, from SNAP — some American, some illegal alien.
Todd Huff: Listen, the people who are really the guy that’s in six states that’s making a healthy living off of this, I think, is worse. I think it’s worse than the guy who’s here illegally trying to feed his family. I also think that that’s bad. I don’t think either one should be allowed to happen. Both should be stopped.
Todd Huff: I mean, I don’t understand — there’s so much that I’ve heard people say, that statistically illegal aliens are less likely to commit crimes, and I just think that’s insane. Based on what? Based on data provided by states?
Todd Huff: By the way, did you see or did you hear, I should say — she just said they’ve requested, the government’s requested this data from the states. Twenty-nine of them have given them the data. Twenty-one of them haven’t.
Todd Huff: Or if you prefer Obama’s numbers of 57 states, I guess that means, what is that, 28 or 29 states haven’t given them the data. Either way, my friends, a lot of states haven’t given them the data. And why not? What do they have to hide?
Todd Huff: It’s truly maddening. So that’s what she’s out there saying — the system is absolutely, any system we have is being corrupted or being abused by somebody. This is beyond common sense.
Todd Huff: You put a speed limit sign up — I saw in Indianapolis the highway that most cities, big cities, have an interstate that kind of encircles the city, or many of those do. Indianapolis has what’s called 465. The speed limit used to be 55, which was a joke, because if you ran 55 out there, you’d get mowed over.
Todd Huff: They’ve raised the speed limit, I believe, to 65. Do you think because you put signs up every couple of miles or whatever that says “Speed Limit 65,” do you think that ensures — because it’s written on the books — that nobody goes faster than that speed? Do you think anyone is going faster than that?
Todd Huff: I mean, you know the answer to this. Of course! If you open a polling place on election day, there are going to be people — some percentage — who try to vote who shouldn’t vote.
Todd Huff: We can argue about whether it’s a small percentage or a large percentage, whether other things are happening, but the idea that someone would try to take advantage of the system and use it to their benefit — of course that will happen.
Todd Huff: It’s the case with anything. If you open a grocery store, someone’s going to try to steal from you. This is not complicated stuff, my friends. Not complicated stuff in the slightest.
Todd Huff: I want to move on, though, because I do want to talk about JD Vance. That’s probably going to be in the next segment, but I want to tell you, I told you I would tell you the number of known or suspected terrorists stopped this year.
Todd Huff: I told you I would tell you the number of known or suspected terrorists stopped this year. This stuff, by the way, is all in our Stack of Stuff at the website toddhuffshow.com. If you want to read this for yourself — I don’t have a lot of time to spend here because of the format of the program.
Todd Huff: Headline here: Border Security – 6,525 known or suspected terrorists stopped. Federal agencies report 6,525 known or suspected terrorists were prevented from entering the U.S. this year — most at the southern border — spotlighting the national security stakes of immigration policy.
Todd Huff: Six thousand, five hundred twenty-five known or suspected terrorists were stopped. And then Trump’s out there. I don’t have a lot of time, I just got a minute here. Just want to mention this and let you know that this is also in the Stack of Stuff at the website if you want to see it.
Todd Huff: It’s at Breitbart, if you’d rather try to dig it up there, but we’ve got the direct link on our website. Trump’s on 60 Minutes, and he says, look — he said that ICE raids haven’t gone far enough.
Trump (Soundbite, CBS 60 Minutes): “Recently, Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far?”
Trump (Soundbite, CBS 60 Minutes): Trump: “No, I think they haven’t gone far enough, because we’ve been held back by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by Biden and by Obama.”
Trump (Soundbite, CBS 60 Minutes): Reporter: “You’re okay with those tactics?”
Trump (Soundbite, CBS 60 Minutes): Trump: “Yeah, because you have to get the people out.”
Todd Huff: Okay, so that’s a clip. That’s a clip of the full interview that they’re teasing. Trump’s out there saying, no, we haven’t gone too far — we haven’t gone far enough.
Todd Huff: We’ve deported — what is it? I said this on the program the other day, I think. The target by the end of the year is 600,000 deportations. It was 500,000-something as of right now. But 600,000 physical deportations is the goal by the end of the year.
Todd Huff: There’s been 1 point — I forget the number, it’s somewhere around — when you factor in self-deportation — I got to go, I looked at the clock, quick time out, my friends. Back in just a minute.
Todd Huff: All right, my friends, I got a lot I got to get to. First thing I got to tell you is, I was starting to say the number of people that have been deported — self-deported — is 1.6 million. I had to jump off. I glanced at the clock, I thought I had more time than I did.
Todd Huff: 1.6 million self-deportations this year. The goal of 600,000 physical deportations this year. So there’s going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.2 to maybe 2.5 — that may be stretching it depending upon how many other self-deportations happen between now and the end of the year.
Todd Huff: So 2.2, maybe slightly higher, up to maybe as a reach 2.5 million. Trump says we need to do more, and listen — there’s a lot of Americans who would agree with those sentiments.
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Todd Huff: Two other things. First, I want to tell you tomorrow — just a real quick announcement. I mentioned this in the newsletter last week, and by the way, I would welcome your questions.
Todd Huff: I’m inviting onto — well, a lot of Democrats won’t come on this program. They prefer to make bold, bodacious claims on X and so forth, rather than actually be questioned about them.
Todd Huff: So they don’t want to come on this program and have a real conversation. If you know someone that is a Democrat, I welcome them. Look, we can be friends — so much as it is up to me.
Todd Huff: I’ve learned that it’s not all up to me, but I welcome you on this program if you have something of value to say and it interests me. We’ve invited Bo Bayh — who is a third-generation, you might know the name Bayh if you’re a Hoosier. His grandfather was governor, his dad was senator and governor.
Todd Huff: Bo Bayh is running for Secretary of State here. He’s going to be coming on the program, talking about redistricting, talking about just politics in general. I’m going to ask him about the Democrat Party.
Todd Huff: They’ve always positioned themselves — the Bayh family has — as moderates. I don’t know how you can be a moderate in today’s Democrat Party, but I’ll let him tell you how he can.
Todd Huff: Well, you can decide what you think, but that’s the direction we’re going in that conversation tomorrow. So I want to make sure that you let me know, and if you have questions you would like me to ask him, email them, send them my way — todd@toddhuffshow.com — or if you get the newsletter, just reply with your thoughts, which you already could have done.
Todd Huff: All right. Is that everything? I think it is. The last thing I want to get to here — and I don’t have nearly as much time as I’d hoped. Headline here, The Guardian. You’ll find this in a lot of places: JD Vance repeats comments he wants his wife, Usha, to convert to Christianity.
Todd Huff: Now there’s a lot of outrage about this. A lot of people saying this is intolerant, this is — what, I guess he’s racist against his own wife? Or he’s just not in favor of her cultural beliefs, and so forth. Let me tell you. Let’s break this down again.
Todd Huff: I wish I had more time to talk about this. But the claims made by Christianity — the claims made by all religions — are truth claims. So a lot of people want you to believe, and this is a superficial — I would say either insincere or very ignorant — assessment of what you could call religion to be.
Todd Huff: Religion is the foundation of our worldview, and how we see the origins of how we got here on this planet. The way we answer the “why.” Why am I here? What am I supposed to be doing? What’s my purpose? All that kind of stuff.
Todd Huff: The way that we answer those questions is incredibly important. What happens to us after we pass away and leave this planet? Is that it? Are there more things to come?
Todd Huff: A lot of people would have you believe religion is just a set of fanciful stories to make people feel better and to help them cope with difficulties. I’m not saying that there’s no person that looks at it that way and tries to comfort himself or herself with these stories. But I am saying that they’re making a truth claim.
Todd Huff: And JD Vance, as a follower of Christ — let’s take the names out of it, because some of you can’t stomach to even consider that JD Vance might be a Christian. Whoever — pick whatever person you want — whoever that person is who makes a profession of faith in Christ, what they are acknowledging is that Jesus was sent by the one true God, the Creator of this universe, as a way to be reconciled with Him.
Todd Huff: So that we could live eternally with Him in Heaven, being made in His image, having the Garden of Eden restored so that we can live in peace and harmony and love, and so forth, on the other side of Heaven — or, on the other side of this life, I should say.
Todd Huff: And so why wouldn’t he? Why wouldn’t he want his wife to believe that? It’s not like he’s trying to convert a Red Sox fan to be a Yankees fan. This isn’t just a matter of opinion — “Do you like chocolate or vanilla ice cream?” This is something much more profound.
Todd Huff: This matters more, candidly, than anything else in all of creation. My friends, what you do with this question — how you answer this question about who God is, how you can relate to Him, what He’s done for you, and if you’re going to accept His free gift of salvation — of course he should want that for his wife.
Todd Huff: He wants that as a believer. You should want that for anybody. It’s the will of God for all people to come to know Him. I don’t understand what the big fuss is here, but I got to go.
Todd Huff: Thanks for listening, folks. SDG.
