7/24/26 - Braun signs Trump data center pledge, Mortgage rates skyrocket, Oil hits $100

Today’s episode of The Rob Kendall Show opens with Rob criticizing Senator Todd Young’s push to block people convicted of COVID-era SBA fraud from receiving future small business assistance. Rob says the idea is fine on its own, but argues Young and other lawmakers helped create the problem by voting to flood the economy with trillions of dollars during COVID with too few safeguards, leading to fraud, inflation, distorted housing markets, and lasting economic damage. The show also covers Democrats’ unwillingness to confront the growing socialist wing of their party, using Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s response to a question about the party’s direction as Rob’s latest example. The discussion then turns to Governor Mike Braun joining President Trump’s pledge meant to protect utility customers from data center costs, with Rob arguing Hoosiers should be skeptical because data centers have already received major subsidies, use enormous amounts of power, create relatively few long-term jobs, and have not proven they will truly pay their own way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices