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Democrats Hold the Government Hostage · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Democrats say that they care a lot about lowering healthcare costs.
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  Speaker 1: They talk about doing something, they don't actually do the
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  Speaker 1: hard work of making it happen. What they have done
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  Speaker 1: instead is to shut down the government because we won't
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  Speaker 1: give billions of dollars to health care funding for legal aliens.
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  Speaker 2: That is what is actually happening. You're listening to the
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  Speaker 2: forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Thursday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update. And there's one big story.
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  Speaker 3: It's the government shutdown, but the politics behind it, well,
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  Speaker 3: Democrats are really lying now talking about how this is
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  Speaker 3: somehow the Trump shut down. They're also now lying about
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  Speaker 3: their demands for that one point five trillion and government waste.
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  Speaker 3: it starts.
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  Speaker 2: Right now story number one.
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  Speaker 3: With a federal government partial shutdown, there is an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: for Donald Trump to do exactly what he promised during
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  Speaker 3: the campaign to get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse
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  Speaker 3: of your tax hours. Trump is now signaling layoffs and
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  Speaker 3: spending cuts that could become permanent. So yes, this shutdown
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  Speaker 3: could be a massive blessing in disguise for every American taxpayer.
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  Speaker 3: The federal government entering a partial shutdown early Wednesday because
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  Speaker 3: of Democrats on purpose failed to reach an agreement on
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  Speaker 3: a funding package, a clean cr and President Trump suggests
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  Speaker 3: that the standoff could open the door, he says for
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  Speaker 3: big changes in the federal workforce. Senate lawmakers miss the
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  Speaker 3: deadline at midnight to approve a very simple budget for
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  Speaker 3: the fiscal year twenty twenty five. According now to Fox News,
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  Speaker 3: the short term funding extension that passed the House earlier
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  Speaker 3: in September, keeping the government running through November the twenty firth,
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  Speaker 3: but bipartison talks collapse when the Democrats said, no, we
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  Speaker 3: want to hold you hostage and we demand that you
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  Speaker 3: spend on things like healthcare for illegal immigrants. Now, in
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  Speaker 3: the hours leading up to the shutdown, President Trump made
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  Speaker 3: it very clear that while he did not want the
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  Speaker 3: government to close, he saw opportunities quote unquote in the crisis, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 3: we don't want it to shut down because we have
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  Speaker 3: the greatest period of time ever. I tell you, we
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  Speaker 3: have seventeen trillion being invested. So the last person that
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  Speaker 3: wanted to shut down is us. He then added, Now,
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  Speaker 3: with that being said, we can do things during the
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  Speaker 3: shutdown that are irreversible that are bad for them referring
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  Speaker 3: to Democrats, and irreversible by them by cutting vast numbers
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  Speaker 3: of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs
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  Speaker 3: that they like, referring to the Democrats. Now, Trump has
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  Speaker 3: repeatedly warned and pushed to reduce the size of government
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  Speaker 3: and slash federal programs. He says that waste your tax dollars.
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  Speaker 3: A shutdown does not grant new powers to the White House,
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  Speaker 3: but it does give the executive branch wide discretion over
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  Speaker 3: what services continue to operate. The standoff has turned into
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  Speaker 3: a battle of blame, Democrats going to TV saying this
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  Speaker 3: is all Trump's fault. But the problem is some Democrats
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  Speaker 3: didn't get the memo to lie. They told the truth
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  Speaker 3: that they are in fact shutting down the government. Democrats
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  Speaker 3: can accuse Republicans all they want of hijacking the process
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  Speaker 3: and falsely lying claiming that they want to provide taxpayer
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  Speaker 3: funded health benefits only for Americans, when it's in black
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  Speaker 3: and white, they wanted taxpayer funded health benefits for all
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  Speaker 3: illegal immigrants. Chuck Schumer said Tuesday, quote, they say that
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  Speaker 3: undocumented people are going to get these credits. That is
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  Speaker 3: absolutely false. This is one of the big lies that
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  Speaker 3: they're telling you. Well, you look at the Office of
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  Speaker 3: Budget Management and they made it very clear. The Democrats
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  Speaker 3: are spending massive amounts of money if they got their
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  Speaker 3: way on illegal immigrant healthcare. Which brings me to Speaker
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  Speaker 3: Johnson on the government shut down, going back and reminding
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  Speaker 3: the American people of what really happened and said the
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  Speaker 3: lies the Democrats and many in the media are telling.
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  Speaker 3: Take a list of the speaker on Fox News.
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  Speaker 4: Members, then it's going to be hard to get this resolved.
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  Speaker 4: All along Republicans wanted to shut the government down.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we do have the House Speaker with us here
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  Speaker 5: in the studio tonight. Let's welcome in Mike Johsed Luisiana.
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  Speaker 5: Good to see you, so thank you for the time.
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  Speaker 5: I know that you have been very busy.
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  Speaker 6: Today, busy day. Those clips are hilarious to me. The
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  Speaker 6: House did its job. The House Republicans did our job.
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  Speaker 6: It's spent over two weeks. We passed that continued resolution.
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  Speaker 6: It's clean, it's simple, it's twenty four pages in length.
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  Speaker 6: We were simply trying to buy time, and this is
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  Speaker 6: really important for everybody to remember. John the reason we're
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  Speaker 6: doing this is that the appropriators are trying to rebuild
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  Speaker 6: the muscle memory to do appropriations, to spend taxpayer dollars responsibly.
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  Speaker 6: And that takes twelve separate approach bills. We were doing that,
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  Speaker 6: working through the process. We ran out of time. We
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  Speaker 6: need seven more weeks, so we put a clean CR
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  Speaker 6: on the table, assuming that everybody, all the Democrats, would
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  Speaker 6: do the right thing. They've rejected it now three times
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  Speaker 6: as of today, the Senate Democrats, forty four of them
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  Speaker 6: have voted that CR, the clean CR down and they
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  Speaker 6: proposed Chuck Schumer's version, which is a dirty CR. Why
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  Speaker 6: do we say that because he wants to add one
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  Speaker 6: point five trillion dollars in new spending to a seven
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  Speaker 6: week stopgap measure, and they want to give healthcare to
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  Speaker 6: illegal aliens, claw back the funds that we put in
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  Speaker 6: for rural hospitals, and all sorts of other mayhem that
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  Speaker 6: we can't do that. We're just not going to do it.
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  Speaker 3: You listen to Speaker Johnson. The House Republicans did our
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  Speaker 3: job passing the CR over two weeks ago, simply trying
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  Speaker 3: to buy time. The appropriators are trying to rebuild the
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  Speaker 3: muscle memory to do appropriations to spend taxpayers dollars responsively
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  Speaker 3: instead of irrationally and radical, which is what the Democrats wanted.
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  Speaker 3: And here is what the Speaker had to say about
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  Speaker 3: some of the money, including healthcare for illegals.
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  Speaker 6: That we're just not going to do it.
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  Speaker 5: So this is the real point of contention here. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: obviously they want to restore some of the cuts that
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  Speaker 5: were enacted in the Big Beautiful Bill when it comes
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  Speaker 5: to Medicaid funding, et cetera. But Democrats insist our bill
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  Speaker 5: does not provide federal dollars for health care for illegal immigrants.
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  Speaker 6: And you say, what I say, they obviously have not
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  Speaker 6: read their bill. This counterproposal that he filed. Everybody can
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  Speaker 6: google it, go pull it up. It's on the Senate's website,
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  Speaker 6: and in the legislative text. Go to page fifty seven
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  Speaker 6: of Chuck Schimmer's bill and look at section twenty one
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  Speaker 6: forty one. It says right there, in plain language, they
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  Speaker 6: want to repeal the health provisions of the one, Big
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  Speaker 6: Beautiful Bill.
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  Speaker 5: I do part ways with you here on this idea
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  Speaker 5: of plain language. Oh, I read that whole section. It
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  Speaker 5: might as well be written in Mandarin.
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  Speaker 6: And that's probably why the Democrats don't understand what they filed.
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  Speaker 6: But if you interpret that and you get through all
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  Speaker 6: the subsections, what you realize is they're trying to take
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  Speaker 6: out in its entirety the reforms that we put into
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  Speaker 6: the big beautiful bill pretending to health. And why is
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  Speaker 6: that so important, Because what we did was we strengthened
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  Speaker 6: the Medicaid program by making sure that ineligible recipients are
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  Speaker 6: not on the rolls. The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office,
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  Speaker 6: on August twenty fifth, published a letter and they said,
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  Speaker 6: this is going to do exactly what Republicans said. They
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  Speaker 6: estimate the two point three million illegal recipients for Medicaid
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  Speaker 6: will be pushed off the roles because of our reforms,
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  Speaker 6: and then it's going to say one hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 6: five billion dollars of taxpayer funds. So they want to
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  Speaker 6: return all those ineligible people back to the roles. And
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  Speaker 6: many of them are illegal aliens. Is a fact, and
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  Speaker 6: anybody who looks at it objectively has to say it's true.
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  Speaker 3: I love how calm the speaker is on this. He's
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  Speaker 3: trying to make it clear that this is all about
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats trying to slander and attack the Republicans doing
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  Speaker 3: the responsible thing. Just to put it in perspective, there
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  Speaker 3: were seventeen different times the Republicans did not shut down
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  Speaker 3: the government when they had an opportunity to do it,
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  Speaker 3: and instead went for a continuing resolution to make sure
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  Speaker 3: the government was open when the guy by the name
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  Speaker 3: of Joe Biden was President of the United States of America.
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  Speaker 3: Because Republicans understood that shutdowns are bad for the economy.
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  Speaker 3: Republicans understood that it was their job to protect the
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  Speaker 3: American people and also make sure that our government was
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  Speaker 3: functioning the right way.
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  Speaker 4: The Democrats shut down the government because President Trump and
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  Speaker 4: the Republicans will not force American taxpayers to pay for
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  Speaker 4: free healthcare for illegal aliens. America is thirty seven trillion
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  Speaker 4: dollars in debt. We cannot afford to provide taxpayer funded
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  Speaker 4: free healthcare to illegals who broke the law to enter
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  Speaker 4: our country.
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  Speaker 3: That is exactly why so many Americans decided to vote
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  Speaker 3: for Donald Trump.
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