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Trump Floats YUGE Tariff Rebate Checks as Government Shutdown Nears an End · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: All right, So Donald Trump has come out and is
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Speaker 1: kind of swinging on an issue of our tariffs. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of Americans are like, well, I don't know
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Speaker 1: if I like these tariffs. The media has been fighting
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Speaker 1: against own Trump on these tariffs and acting like it's
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Speaker 1: a disaster and it's costing you a bunch more money.
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Speaker 2: YadA, YadA, YadA. Now a lot of it's lies.
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Speaker 1: You remember the Democrats said early on with the tariffs
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Speaker 1: that they were gonna be empty shelves going into Christmas,
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Speaker 1: that you weren't gonna be able to find Christmas gifts.
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Speaker 1: You were gonna be finding basic goods and necesses if
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Speaker 1: you went to think place like Walmart. Like this is
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Speaker 1: what they actually said at the time. We know that
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Speaker 1: was a total lie. We know it was total crap,
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Speaker 1: and it was pathological and they knew it. These are
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Speaker 1: the same Democrats, by the way, that are holding Americans
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Speaker 1: hostages with snap benefits and held Americans for the last
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Speaker 1: forty days with the government shutdown. We're now coming out
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Speaker 1: of that shutdown. We'll have more about that in a moment.
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Speaker 1: But Donald Trump and what he is now saying is
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Speaker 1: tells you two things about this country. Number one, just
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Speaker 1: how messed up our government is that people can't even
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Speaker 1: get their head around the idea of the government sending
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Speaker 1: you a check for two thousand dollars. Now, we send
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Speaker 1: money to the government if you work every month, right
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Speaker 1: like you get doctor. You pay your taxes quarterly, annually,
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Speaker 1: whatever however you do it. My point is, every day
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Speaker 1: when you go to work, you are paying taxes. It
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Speaker 1: may be deferred for a few weeks or months, but
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Speaker 1: you're going to pay every day. The majority of Americans
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Speaker 1: it worked three to four months a year just to
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Speaker 1: pay their taxes. So January, February, March into April, that's
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Speaker 1: just paying your taxes, which is shocking. So now you
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Speaker 1: fast forward to where we are with tariffs. We've got
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Speaker 1: a lot of money that's been collected in tariffs, and
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Speaker 1: the President says, you know what, maybe it's time to
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Speaker 1: return some of that money to the American people. Here's
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Speaker 1: the part that blows my mind on this, the fact
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Speaker 1: that there are so many Americans that just can't believe
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Speaker 1: the idea. And this is how much of an abusive
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Speaker 1: relationship we are all in with our federal government. That
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump saying this seems like it's crazy talk that
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Speaker 1: the president of the United States. Americans like, look, we
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Speaker 1: just collected a whole lot of money we weren't planning on,
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Speaker 1: and we're going to give it back to the American people.
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Speaker 1: And people are like, wait, wait, wait, huh, well, you
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Speaker 1: can't have that happen.
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Speaker 2: That can't happen. What do you mean?
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Speaker 1: And this is, by the way, what government should look like.
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Speaker 1: They should not be mandating so much money from us.
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Speaker 1: They should be spending our money wisely, and if there's
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Speaker 1: any left over, they shouldn't hold it for the next
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Speaker 1: Port Bret project. They should send it back to the people.
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Speaker 1: and this is I think really important. Okay, I want
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Speaker 1: you to listen to Donald Trump in his own words
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Speaker 1: about this describing who will get this money and these
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Speaker 1: tear freebait checks for the American people, and why by
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Speaker 1: the way he believes it should be saying it's actually normal,
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Speaker 1: not abnormal.
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Speaker 2: Listen carefully.
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Speaker 3: Without tariffs, we would be this country would be in
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Speaker 3: such trouble as they were for many years. That's why
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Speaker 3: we owe thirty eight trillion dollars. And one of the
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Speaker 3: things we're going to do we're going to issue a
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Speaker 3: dividend to our middle income people and lower income people
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Speaker 3: of about two thousand dollars, and we're going to use
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Speaker 3: the remaining tariffs to lower our debt. We're going to
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Speaker 3: be lowering our debt, which is a national security thing.
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Speaker 3: So we were doing a lot of good work and
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Speaker 3: the numbers were reported so incorrectly. The real numbers are
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Speaker 3: trillions of dollars have been taken in or gotten in
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Speaker 3: terms of investment from the tariffs. And so if that
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Speaker 3: were ever reversed, it would be a disaster. Frankly, it
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Speaker 3: would be a national security problem for our country. And
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Speaker 3: nobody thinks it's going to be reversed. I think we
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Speaker 3: had a very good court case, as you know, it's
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Speaker 3: before the Supreme Court right now. But if that were
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Speaker 3: ever reversed, you know, people are saying, oh, it's a
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Speaker 3: billion dollars. Some people said, oh it's two billion. Well
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Speaker 3: that obviously we can handle very easily. But this is
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Speaker 3: trillions of dollars we're talking about terms of the tariff
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Speaker 3: income and all the investment income that's come into our country.
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Speaker 1: You know, we have Well let me just stop there,
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Speaker 1: and I want to just dissect what the President just said.
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Speaker 1: Everything that he said was going to happen when the
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Speaker 1: tariffs has happened. He said we were going to collect collect,
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Speaker 1: He said it hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars.
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Speaker 1: It's now in the trillions. That was unexpected money that
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Speaker 1: is coming in now. Notice he didn't say I'm going
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Speaker 1: to spend on port raow projects. No, No, He's like,
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Speaker 1: we should give the money back to the American people.
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Speaker 1: We should give a two thousand dollars tariff freebate check
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Speaker 1: to Americans that desperately need it. By the way, he
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Speaker 1: didn't say he's going to like reward the richest in
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Speaker 1: this country. And we can have a debate over should
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Speaker 1: they get their two thousand dollars back too, and in
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Speaker 1: a moment, but you remember this is all member all
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Speaker 1: Democrats like, oh, Donald Trump only takes care of the rich.
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Speaker 2: It never takes care of the port.
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Speaker 1: Well, he's sent in two thousand dollars to the poorest Americans,
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Speaker 1: not the richest Americans. So screw you for that lie.
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Speaker 1: And it's part of what you should share. By the way,
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Speaker 1: this is why I do this show, and I hope
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Speaker 1: that when I give you info like this, you share
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Speaker 1: the show, share the POW podcast wherever you can on
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Speaker 1: social media, because this is what the media is not
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Speaker 1: going to cover from what the President described. And not
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Speaker 1: only do we get literally a trillion plus dollars and
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Speaker 1: now it could be into the trillions that he wants
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Speaker 1: to give a lot of this back to the American people,
7:17
Speaker 1: but he's also talking about there's another.
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Speaker 2: Aspect of this, and that is job creation.
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Speaker 1: When the President was doing these trade deals, one of
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Speaker 1: the things that he made clear is that you have
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Speaker 1: to invest in America. You have to invest in the
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Speaker 1: United States of America. You have to come here, you
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Speaker 1: have to do things here. You have to make sure
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Speaker 1: that we get something back from your country instead of
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Speaker 1: you just taking advantage of us as a nation. That
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Speaker 1: is extremely important. And so what we are seeing is
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Speaker 1: job creation in America. So not only are people literally
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Speaker 1: getting jobs, but then there's all businesses that are expanding
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Speaker 1: to service. These jobs are being created, these industries that
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Speaker 1: are being created by the President of the United States
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Speaker 1: of America. So this is twofold. It's not just one.
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Speaker 1: It's twofold. And it's truly, I mean incredible if you
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Speaker 1: think about it, it's unbelievable that we have a president
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Speaker 1: that said, A, We're going to do this right and
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Speaker 1: B we're going to give the money back to the
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Speaker 1: American be when we have a surplus. When was the
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Speaker 1: last time a politician did that. I want you to
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Speaker 1: actually think it's a real question. I want you to
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Speaker 1: think about. You know, I go back to the last
8:40
Speaker 1: time we had something that that felt close to this.
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Speaker 1: It was the government program which ended up being a disaster.
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Speaker 1: It was cash for clunkers. Do you remember that? And
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Speaker 1: what happened is is a bunch of people turned in cars. Now,
8:54
Speaker 1: really we found out what this was actually about was
8:56
Speaker 1: they wanted to get rid of a bunch of gas
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Speaker 1: guzzling cars. They were evil, and so they want to
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Speaker 1: take them off the marketplace. And so that was the
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Speaker 1: liberals incentive for doing it. Consernatives like, all right, well,
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Speaker 1: let's do this cash for Conger's thing. We'll get people
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Speaker 1: a big rebate. It'll be super coomed by. Yeah, everybody's
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Speaker 1: gonna love it. YadA YadA, YadA. Right, what ended up
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Speaker 1: happening is it costs you a lot more money. You
9:17
Speaker 1: may have gotten a rebate, but then you got screwed
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Speaker 1: when there was no used cars for sales, and it
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Speaker 1: actually hurt poor people. It was a bad program. It
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Speaker 1: was a disaster when you look at the data after
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Speaker 1: the fact. This one has nothing to do with anything
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Speaker 1: like that. This isn't any type of like voodoo economics.
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Speaker 1: This is just straight up we took in a bunch
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Speaker 1: of money and it's the American people's money. It's not
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Speaker 1: the government's money. It's American people's money. And we want
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Speaker 1: to give the money back to the American people. Now,
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Speaker 1: let me also go to the second aspect of what
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Speaker 1: Trump has said about this tariff success. Not only is
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Speaker 1: it the money we're gonna get back, but it's the
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Speaker 1: businesses in the infrastructure that's been built, creating American jobs
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Speaker 1: in this country.
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Speaker 2: Listen to Donald Trump in his own words.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to back it up about ten seconds here
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Speaker 1: so you can hear what he said about that.
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Speaker 2: Take a listen carefully the president coming all.
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Speaker 3: The investment income that's come into our country. You know,
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Speaker 3: we have more than I would say right now, more
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Speaker 3: than eighteen trillion dollars. The biggest number ever is a
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Speaker 3: tiny fraction of that for any country, China, the United
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Speaker 3: States the biggest number of it. If you look at
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Speaker 3: the past administration Biden, he did less than a trillion
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Speaker 3: in four years. We're over eighteen trillion. By the time
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Speaker 3: my first year ends, we're gonna have over twenty trillion
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Speaker 3: dollars of investment coming into the United States. It's unheard of.
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Speaker 3: We have AI factories, We're leading China by a lot.
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Speaker 3: We have cars and you know, car plants coming in
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Speaker 3: by more than we've ever had built before. All of
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Speaker 3: that would go away if we lose the tariff case,
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Speaker 3: so all of it would go away, So they're not
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Speaker 3: giving the right numbers. There would be an economic disaster,
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Speaker 3: it would be a national security disaster if we lost
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Speaker 3: the case in the Supreme Court.
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Speaker 1: So the President talking about this going to the Supreme Court,
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Speaker 1: and you can hear the President there going back to
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Speaker 1: the core. I want two thousand dollars tear freebate checks
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Speaker 1: to go to Americans. I want more American jobs to
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Speaker 1: be created, more industries to be created, more national security
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Speaker 1: issues that it will be fixed, by the way, by
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Speaker 1: having many of these industries that we've relied to heavily
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Speaker 1: on our adversaries, foreign countries for And so the President's like, no, no,
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Speaker 1: Like this is how we're going.
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Speaker 2: To do this.
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Speaker 1: So let's just take a little bit of a recap
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Speaker 1: here so that you understand how all this got started.
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Speaker 1: Two days ago, are three days ago, November the ninth,
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Speaker 1: depending on when you're listening to this. Trump put it
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Speaker 1: out there on True Social This reminds me, by the way,
11:42
Speaker 1: so much of when the President put out on True
11:45
Speaker 1: Social note tax on tips and then it became a reality.
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Speaker 1: And this is where I love the President. He's a
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Speaker 1: practical guy who clearly believes his job is to help
11:54
Speaker 1: you succeed, not to hold you back, and so he
11:57
Speaker 1: says people that are against tariffs are fools. A dividend
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Speaker 1: of at least two thousand of person, not including high
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Speaker 1: income people, will be paid to everyone. He framed this
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Speaker 1: as a result of the large tear revenue his administration
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Speaker 1: is collecting, which democrats said was going to ruin our economy.
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Speaker 1: Was going to have empty shelves, no presents for your
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Speaker 1: kids for Christmas, and everything was going to be skyrocketing
12:18
Speaker 1: and you couldn't afford anything, and Walmart was going to
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Speaker 1: be empty and target right, none of it happened.
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Speaker 2: They were pathological liars, he said.
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Speaker 1: Quote we are now the richest, most respected country in
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Speaker 1: the world, with almost no inflation in a record stock
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Speaker 1: market price. He says the money would also be used
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Speaker 1: to pay down the national debt, which is thirty seven
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Speaker 1: trillion or more.
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Speaker 2: That's a problem.
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Speaker 1: In a most recent post, he clarified the first payments
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Speaker 1: would go to low and middle income US citizens, and
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Speaker 1: then remaining tear for revenue would go to substantial debt reduction.
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Speaker 1: So again, this isn't something that's going to help the rich. Okay,
12:54
Speaker 1: but it's going to pay down our debt, and it's
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Speaker 1: going to and then a lot of rich people are
12:57
Speaker 1: in favor of that, and it's going to go to
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Speaker 1: up low and middle income American citizens US citizens. Knows
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Speaker 1: he didn't say illegal immigrants, which Democrats love to give
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Speaker 1: money to. Now, the key details of this are obviously
13:10
Speaker 1: another aspect of what Democrats are losing their mind over, right,
13:13
Speaker 1: like what's the eligibility?
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Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Trump's words.
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Speaker 1: Trump says quote not including high income people, but he
13:20
Speaker 1: has not specified what high income means, right, So Democrats say, well,
13:24
Speaker 1: he might end up doing this. I look, if he
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Speaker 1: says it, I believe him. I doubt high income people
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Speaker 1: are gonna get the check. He called it a dividend
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Speaker 1: from the tariff revenue. His Treasury Secretary Scotts said he
13:35
Speaker 1: has not discussed the plan with Trump and indicated that
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Speaker 1: the dividend could simply be tax cuts rather than a
13:41
Speaker 1: direct check as they figure.
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Speaker 2: Out the deal.
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Speaker 1: Well, look, I don't care if it comes in two
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars check or it comes into two thousand dollars
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Speaker 1: rebate on my taxes.
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Speaker 2: I'm fine either way.
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Speaker 1: Now, the tariffs from which the revenue would flow under
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Speaker 1: legal challenge, right because the Democrats are freaking out.
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Speaker 2: They're going for the spreeing court on this now.
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Speaker 1: And that's why the present's warning, look at the tariffs
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Speaker 1: are struck down, revenue may be refunded. That would be
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Speaker 1: incredibly stupid. I don't believe that the Supreme Court is
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Speaker 1: going to do that. Democrats hate Trump so much that
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Speaker 1: they actually want to handback trillions of dollars to foreign countries.
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Speaker 1: Like you want to know whose side they're on, They're
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Speaker 1: not on your side now. According to the Treasury data
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Speaker 1: three September twenty twenty five, the US government has collected
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Speaker 1: about one hundred ninety five billion teriff related customs duties alone.
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Speaker 1: Analysts estimate that if the payments were two thousand per person,
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Speaker 1: for say one hundred and fifty million Americans adults earning
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Speaker 1: under hunter K, that would cost about three hundred billion,
14:43
Speaker 1: and if children were included, even higher than that.
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Speaker 2: Now there's no indicasion kids are going to be included
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Speaker 2: in this.
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Speaker 1: We if more tariff money comes in, I don't actually
14:51
Speaker 1: think the President would be against that, but he's probably
14:54
Speaker 1: not going to add kids in there right away, because
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Speaker 1: we're not going to lose money on this deal. He's
14:57
Speaker 1: going to say, here's what we've collected, let's give it
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Speaker 1: back to the American people.
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Speaker 2: We're not going to go in to more debt to
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Speaker 2: do this.
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Speaker 1: Now, if you look at even more conservative math, when
15:06
Speaker 1: you count for the net revenue right tearf revenue offsetting taxes,
15:10
Speaker 1: payroll reductions, then you're about one hundred billion. So this
15:14
Speaker 1: program is clearly putting Americans first and saying we're not
15:20
Speaker 1: sitting here trying to like.
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Speaker 2: Give you a little bit back. We want to give
15:23
Speaker 2: it all to you back.
15:24
Speaker 1: And Democrats are like, well, there's a shortfall here, right,
15:27
Speaker 1: so it's not feasible. Again, I go back to the
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Speaker 1: president's words. President United States America is saying, I want
15:34
Speaker 1: to give you the money. I want to give you
15:37
Speaker 1: the money. And that's why Democrats are so mad over this.
15:42
Speaker 1: That's why the media is so mad over this. They
15:44
Speaker 1: don't believe that your money is your money. They believe
15:47
Speaker 1: that the government is who should get all of your money.
15:55
Speaker 1: They believe they should be in charge of all of it.
15:59
Speaker 1: They think that a better stewards of it. This goes
16:02
Speaker 1: back to what we just saw in New York City.
16:04
Speaker 1: Mandani believes that everything in your life should be controlled
16:08
Speaker 1: by the government, that the government should pick every single problem,
16:12
Speaker 1: fix it, I should say, and that there's as he
16:15
Speaker 1: described it, there's no problem that is, whether you say,
16:19
Speaker 1: too small or too big for the government, like that's
16:21
Speaker 1: what he believes. It's crazy. I mean, for me, it's
16:27
Speaker 1: truly truly crazy that this is what they believe. And
16:34
Speaker 1: so this is a grand divide. Do you want to
16:37
Speaker 1: present the believes that your money is your money, that
16:43
Speaker 1: your tax dollars are your tax dollars, and that if
16:47
Speaker 1: the government gets back a lot of money, right, more money, Okay,
16:52
Speaker 1: if the government gets back more money than they planned on,
16:55
Speaker 1: then they should give it back to you or should
16:57
Speaker 1: they keep it for some government program or hijack things
17:00
Speaker 1: like a That's a very very very real difference in
17:05
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. Now, I think
17:09
Speaker 1: most Americans are going to love having a two thousand
17:12
Speaker 1: dollars check show up or a two thousand dollars rebate
17:16
Speaker 1: show up on their taxes. I think most Americans don't
17:19
Speaker 1: care how you get the two thousand off as long
17:22
Speaker 1: as it's two thousand off. Now if they add kids
17:24
Speaker 1: into here, that would be totally insane, it would be incredible.
17:29
Speaker 1: But I also think the president understands that we have
17:31
Speaker 1: to pay down our debt at some point, and that's
17:32
Speaker 1: a real issue. We've got to pay down our debt.
17:36
Speaker 1: And so you give this to middle and lower class
17:39
Speaker 1: individuals in this country, income earners, and then you move
17:43
Speaker 1: on from there.
17:45
Speaker 2: That's what you do.
17:46
Speaker 1: You do it, and you move on and look for Democrats,
17:50
Speaker 1: they hate empowering Americans. They absolutely despise having Americans succeed.
18:00
Speaker 1: I've said this for a long time. Why is it
18:02
Speaker 1: that Democrats despise American succeeding because when they do, they
18:09
Speaker 1: don't have to depend on them, They don't own them
18:12
Speaker 1: like modern day slaves. When Donald Trump was present the
18:15
Speaker 1: first time, sixteen to twenty, you're the lowest unemployment rate
18:18
Speaker 1: in history for African American men and women, Asian Americans
18:23
Speaker 1: and Latinos in this country. And what did Democrats do?
18:27
Speaker 1: They couldn't stand it because they would rather have people
18:29
Speaker 1: living in poverty depending on them for their handouts or
18:33
Speaker 1: government food stamps and going to the poles saying if
18:36
Speaker 1: you don't vote for me, you might not get that
18:38
Speaker 1: free housing check, or that free health care or those
18:42
Speaker 1: or those groceries. What did Donald Trump want to do?
18:45
Speaker 1: He said, I want you to succeed. I don't want
18:47
Speaker 1: you to need the government. I don't want you to
18:49
Speaker 1: live in poverty. He empowered people, and that's exactly what
18:54
Speaker 1: he's doing this time as well. Sorry, I want to
18:58
Speaker 1: move to the government shutdown update for you, so you
19:01
Speaker 1: know where we are on that as of this moment.
19:03
Speaker 1: And this is changing quickly, so depending on when you
19:06
Speaker 1: listen to some of this may have changed.
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Speaker 2: Okay, number one.
19:10
Speaker 1: The members of the House representatives have returned to Washington today,
19:14
Speaker 1: braving the nation's tangled airports, for a vote that could
19:18
Speaker 1: bring the longest US government shut down in history to
19:22
Speaker 1: a close. The Speaker of the House, talking amid the
19:26
Speaker 1: government shutdown, saying this about where we are and what
19:30
Speaker 1: is happening.
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Speaker 4: Very thankful to see you all this morning. I'm thankful
19:34
Speaker 4: to welcome you to what appears to be the beginning
19:37
Speaker 4: of the end of the longest government shutdown in US history.
19:41
Speaker 4: As shameful as that is, I don't think it's coincidental,
19:45
Speaker 4: you know how I think. But it's after forty days
19:48
Speaker 4: of wandering in the wilderness and making the American people
19:51
Speaker 4: suffer needlessly, some Senate Democrats finally have stepped forward to
19:56
Speaker 4: end the pain. It appears to us this morning that
19:59
Speaker 4: our long national nightmare is finally coming to an end,
20:01
Speaker 4: and we're grateful for that at least some Democrats now
20:06
Speaker 4: finally appear ready to do what Republicans and President Trump
20:09
Speaker 4: and millions of hard working American people have been asking
20:12
Speaker 4: them to do for weeks. As we said from the beginning,
20:16
Speaker 4: the people's government cannot be held hostage to further anyone's
20:21
Speaker 4: political agenda. That was never right, and shutting down the
20:24
Speaker 4: government never produces anything. It never has if you study history,
20:29
Speaker 4: and so here we are. I want to remind everybody
20:32
Speaker 4: this morning of another critical point that you've heard me
20:35
Speaker 4: here repeat over and over over the last several weeks.
20:38
Speaker 4: It's something that I and Leader John Thune, and President
20:42
Speaker 4: Trump and every Republican leader have all said repeatedly from
20:46
Speaker 4: the beginning. We have always been open to finding solutions
20:51
Speaker 4: to reduce the oppressive costs of health care under the
20:54
Speaker 4: Unaffordable Care Act. We just made clear that we would
20:58
Speaker 4: not and should not ever do that. That is negotiate
21:02
Speaker 4: as hostages. And I've also reminded you here every morning
21:06
Speaker 4: at this press conference. Throughout the shutdown, Republicans have not
21:09
Speaker 4: just been talking about reducing costs and fraud and abuse
21:13
Speaker 4: in so many areas and in healthcare. We've been actually
21:16
Speaker 4: passing new laws to accomplish that urgent mission for the people,
21:20
Speaker 4: and we will continue to do so. So here's where
21:23
Speaker 4: we are by way of schedule, just so you know
21:25
Speaker 4: you're following if you're not at home, if you're waking
21:28
Speaker 4: up to this good news this morning that the Senates
21:31
Speaker 4: vote last late last night of sixty to forty opens
21:35
Speaker 4: the door. Now the Senate is moving forward on an
21:38
Speaker 4: amended House cr continuing resolution that will reopen the government
21:42
Speaker 4: until January thirtieth. Added to that are provisions to fully
21:47
Speaker 4: fund snap provisions through the end of the next fiscal year,
21:50
Speaker 4: which is September twenty twenty six, guaranteed back pay for
21:54
Speaker 4: all federal workers who have been made to endure these
21:56
Speaker 4: hardships over the last several weeks. And it also includes
22:00
Speaker 4: passage of three appropriations bills which we're grateful to be
22:03
Speaker 4: moving through the process. That is the military construction Veterans
22:06
Speaker 4: Affairs Bill, it's the Agriculture bill and the Legislative Branch bill.
22:11
Speaker 4: The Senate will be back in session this morning to
22:13
Speaker 4: finish their job, and we're certainly praying that they do.
22:17
Speaker 4: They'll need unanimous consent from all Senators to fast track
22:20
Speaker 4: their final vote. As you know, there's some procedural hurdles
22:23
Speaker 4: that one or more could throw in the way, but
22:25
Speaker 4: we certainly hope that they won't do that because so
22:28
Speaker 4: many people across this country are desperate for the government
22:32
Speaker 4: to reopen. At the very moment that they do that
22:36
Speaker 4: final vote, I will call all House members to return
22:39
Speaker 4: to Washington as quickly as possible. We'll give a thirty
22:43
Speaker 4: six hour formal and official notice so that we can
22:46
Speaker 4: vote as soon as possible to pass the amendedcy Our
22:49
Speaker 4: Bill and get it to the President's desk. As you
22:51
Speaker 4: all know, and he said as recently as last night,
22:53
Speaker 4: I was with him and he told the press he said,
22:56
Speaker 4: we want to get the government open. He's very anxious
22:58
Speaker 4: to get the government reopened and to end the Schumer shutdown.
23:01
Speaker 2: We all are.
23:02
Speaker 4: With regard to the travel challenges, I spoke yesterday at
23:05
Speaker 4: some link with the Transportation Secretary of Sean Duffy, my
23:07
Speaker 4: former colleague and good friend, and he lamented the serious
23:11
Speaker 4: situation that we have with air travel in the US.
23:13
Speaker 4: He's bent over backwards, as all members of the administration
23:15
Speaker 4: and the Cabinet have done in all of their areas
23:17
Speaker 4: of jurisdiction, to try to keep the government working for
23:20
Speaker 4: the people and to mitigate the pain and the harm.
23:22
Speaker 4: But the problem we have with air travel is that
23:25
Speaker 4: our air traffic controllers are overworked and unpaid, and many
23:28
Speaker 4: of them have called in sick. That's a very stressful job,
23:31
Speaker 4: and even more stressful exponentially when they're having trouble providing
23:34
Speaker 4: for their families. And so air travel has been grinded
23:38
Speaker 4: to a halt in many places, and as of Sunday,
23:41
Speaker 4: nearly half of all domestic flights and US flights were
23:44
Speaker 4: either canceled or delayed. And it's a very serious situation. So
23:48
Speaker 4: I'm saying that by way of reminder, I'm stating the
23:50
Speaker 4: obvious to all my colleagues, Republicans and Democrats in the House.
23:54
Speaker 4: You need to begin right now, returning to the hill.
23:57
Speaker 4: We have to do this as quickly as possible. Now
23:59
Speaker 4: we look forward to the government reopening this week so
24:02
Speaker 4: Congress can get back, can get back to our a
24:05
Speaker 4: regular legislative session. We have a lot of business to do,
24:07
Speaker 4: as you all know, and we will be working in
24:09
Speaker 4: earnest will be There'll be long days and long nights
24:13
Speaker 4: here for the foreseeable future, to make up for all
24:15
Speaker 4: this lost time that was imposed upon us. I want
24:18
Speaker 4: to I want to close and with something that's important.
24:22
Speaker 4: I think it's important to say that this is genuine.
24:24
Speaker 4: I mean this sincerely. We applaud the seven Senate Democrats
24:28
Speaker 4: and one independent Senator who did the right thing. They
24:32
Speaker 4: decided to put principle over their their personal politics and
24:37
Speaker 4: my urgent plea of all my colleagues in the House,
24:40
Speaker 4: and that means every Democrat in the House is to
24:43
Speaker 4: to think, carefully, pray, and finally do the right thing
24:48
Speaker 4: and help us to bring an end to the pain
24:50
Speaker 4: of the American people. This has gone on too long,
24:53
Speaker 4: too many people have suffered, and it's long overdue. And
24:56
Speaker 4: that's the update I wanted to give you this morning.
24:58
Speaker 4: There are probably lots of questions, but I'm going to
25:00
Speaker 4: get a lot of my own questions answered later today,
25:02
Speaker 4: so stay tuned for more. Thanks.
25:04
Speaker 1: So there it is, the Speaker of the House, explaining
25:06
Speaker 1: exactly how this is going to go down and how
25:09
Speaker 1: quickly we could see things turn back to normal.
25:13
Speaker 2: It's going to be a little chilly, but I will
25:14
Speaker 2: do my duty.
25:15
Speaker 1: I'm getting back to DC and we're going to open
25:18
Speaker 1: this country back up and get it back on track.
25:21
Speaker 1: That is another aspect of what has been said by
25:23
Speaker 1: many Republicans are saying, hey, we've got thousands of flights
25:27
Speaker 1: canceled in recent days.
25:28
Speaker 2: Do the shutdown.
25:29
Speaker 1: Some lawmakers opted for the modes of translation to the
25:32
Speaker 1: Capitol like they're actually driving. One Republican representative, Derek Van Orden,
25:37
Speaker 1: said he was making the sixteen hour drive from his
25:40
Speaker 1: Wisconsin district because air travel is just too unreliable.
25:44
Speaker 2: And the Republican controlled House.
25:45
Speaker 1: Is due to vote Wednesday afternoon on a compromise that
25:50
Speaker 1: would restore funding the government agencies and into shutdown that
25:53
Speaker 1: start on October one. The Republican controlled Senate approved the
25:57
Speaker 1: deal Monday night. I'll Speaker Johnson said, expected to be
26:00
Speaker 1: past his chamber as well, and then President Donald Trump
26:04
Speaker 1: has come out calling the deal very good. He's expected
26:07
Speaker 1: to obviously sign it into law immediately now within days.
26:11
Speaker 1: The US government could be fully functioning again, bring relief
26:15
Speaker 1: to federal workers who have missed paychecks and low income
26:17
Speaker 1: families who defend on food subsidies as well. It could
26:21
Speaker 1: take several days. And this is the problem so many've
26:24
Speaker 1: asked me about this. It could take several days for
26:27
Speaker 1: the nation's air travel system to return to normal. The deal,
26:31
Speaker 1: by the way, which has divided Democrats because they love
26:34
Speaker 1: holding you hostage, had sought to extend healthcare subsidies for
26:38
Speaker 1: twenty four million Americans past the end of the year
26:41
Speaker 1: when they were due to expire. Now, this also tells
26:43
Speaker 1: you just how broken Obamacare is that these types of
26:46
Speaker 1: subsidies are actually needed.
26:49
Speaker 2: Yesterday, it was very interesting on CNN.
26:52
Speaker 1: One of the things that was said there on CNN
26:55
Speaker 1: about the subsidies was that they were talking about like
26:58
Speaker 1: how much they'd actually got on up, like how much
27:01
Speaker 1: the subseason had skyrocketed. And you just kind of have
27:05
Speaker 1: to laugh when you see that. Anavar said, quote, American
27:10
Speaker 1: healthcare premiums are going up one hundred, two hundred, three
27:13
Speaker 1: hundred percent. I thought Obamacare fixed that.
27:17
Speaker 2: It didn't. It didn't fix it. It's a disaster.
27:21
Speaker 1: It's going to be another thing that could easily bankrupt
27:24
Speaker 1: this country. You want to know why we're in so
27:27
Speaker 1: much debt right now when you have premiums in Obamacare
27:30
Speaker 1: going up again. I want to make sure I quote
27:33
Speaker 1: on a Navarro correctly one hundred two hundred three hundred percent.
27:37
Speaker 1: Obamacare is an utter disaster. It is a total disaster,
27:42
Speaker 1: and everyone knows it. By the way, like this is
27:46
Speaker 1: not something that's hard to figure out. It is very
27:51
Speaker 1: easy to understand that this is going to bankrupt us.
27:55
Speaker 1: So there's going to have to be reform with Obamacare.
28:00
Speaker 1: There's no way around it. Okay, Like, there's just no
28:03
Speaker 1: way around it. We have to have major reform here,
28:07
Speaker 1: and if we don't, then it will continue to be
28:11
Speaker 1: a political football and it will continue to be a
28:13
Speaker 1: political disaster. And Democrats knew this. I go back to
28:17
Speaker 1: what did Nancy Pelosi say? Her words, not mine. We
28:21
Speaker 1: won't know what's in the bill until we pass the bill,
28:26
Speaker 1: and that is Obamacare summed up perfectly. We won't know
28:30
Speaker 1: what's in the bill until we pass the bill, and
28:34
Speaker 1: so when we pass the bill, we'll figure it out later.
28:38
Speaker 1: It's just a big old government subsidy. That's all it is.
28:42
Speaker 2: It's just a government subsidy.
28:45
Speaker 1: One other thing I want to say about this government
28:48
Speaker 1: shut down, I think it also tells you just how
28:52
Speaker 1: bloated our government is. The majority of Americans' lives have
28:59
Speaker 1: really not been affected at all by the government shutdown.
29:03
Speaker 1: I think that's actually pretty incredible that we think our
29:08
Speaker 1: government is just so important, and in reality it's really not.
29:15
Speaker 1: It's just not Our government has gotten way too big,
29:19
Speaker 1: and our government should be a lot smaller.
29:23
Speaker 2: Than it actually is.
29:24
Speaker 1: Right now, all right, don't forget share this show, share
29:27
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29:31
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29:35
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