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Time to Trim the Bureaucrats during this Government Shutdown · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: If you watch the media right now, I think they
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  Speaker 1: think we're all in the feedile position and we don't
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  Speaker 1: know what to do because there's a government shut down. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is awesome, Like let's start firing some people.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get rid of some bureaucrats, let's save some money.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, somebody's gonna freak out that I said that
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  Speaker 1: and take it out of context. They're gonna be that
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  Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson wants people to lose their jobs only if
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  Speaker 1: you suck at your job, Like if you're a partisan
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  Speaker 1: hack in the government and you suck at your job
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  Speaker 1: and we haven't been able to fire you before, like,
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  Speaker 1: let's do it right now. I'm in favor of doging
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  Speaker 1: it up, as they say, in a very very very
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  Speaker 1: big way. But if you look at the media right now,
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  Speaker 1: they're going out there to find little susane, little timmy
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  Speaker 1: who are crying tonight because they were coming to the
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  Speaker 1: US capital.
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  Speaker 2: And it's shut down.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Of course they're gonna try to blame that shutdown on
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump and conservatives. We all know this is a
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  Speaker 1: Schumer shutdown. That is what this is. And if you
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  Speaker 1: just want to know how bad the Democrats are they
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  Speaker 1: don't want, like like Syria, people in our government to
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  Speaker 1: get paid during the government shutdown, But damn it, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to get paid. Some lawmakers are actually saying they
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  Speaker 1: are going to send a letter many of them have
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  Speaker 1: to withhold their paychecks during the shutdown. But other lawmakers
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  Speaker 1: are like, no, I ain't doing that. Quote I'm not
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  Speaker 1: wealthy and I have three kids. I would basically be
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  Speaker 1: missing mortgage payments, rent payments, child support. That is what
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  Speaker 1: Senator Rubin Galago had to say, the Democrat from Arizona
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  Speaker 1: to NBC News. So it's not feasible, it's not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: So like, yeah, I'll make sure because we're playing politics
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  Speaker 1: at the American Party that other people that maybe have
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  Speaker 1: three kids or have a mortgage payment or rent payment
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  Speaker 1: or child support, they'll go without a paycheck. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: a senator, dammit, and I'm a Democratic center and it's
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  Speaker 1: not feasible for me. It's not going to happen. Well,
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  Speaker 1: where is the same compassion, Senator, for all the average
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  Speaker 1: government workers. Remember, they don't give a crap about you. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there are other members of Congress that have sent the
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  Speaker 1: letters because that's how it works to say don't pay me.
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  Speaker 1: And also, let's style down the crazy for a second.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody is going to get their pay It's just.
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  Speaker 2: Going to be delayed.
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  Speaker 1: It depends on how long Chuck Schumer wants to delay
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  Speaker 1: people getting paid, right or is this And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: I put the tweet out there so you guys can
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  Speaker 1: see it. My good buddy Steve Guess put this tweet out.
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  Speaker 1: I retweeted a moment ago, so you can follow it.
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  Speaker 1: You can send out there, go online at Ben Ferguson
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  Speaker 1: show on X and you can see all of these
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  Speaker 1: lawmakers and just their scumbaggery one oh one, like oh I.
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  Speaker 2: Can't miss a paycheck. I just can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: But let me go back to why this is actually
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  Speaker 1: even happening right now. This is the part that all
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  Speaker 1: of you need to understand, which is like, why is
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  Speaker 1: this a thing?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's just start with the basics. Chuck Schumer is
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  Speaker 1: terrified of AOC primary ing him. That is why Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Schumer has shut down the government because if he didn't
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  Speaker 1: shut down the government, he's afraid he's gonna lose his
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  Speaker 1: leadership position and he will be primary. Senator Ted Kruz,
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  Speaker 1: who is one of those in the Senate dealing with this.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what he had to say on his show Verdict
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  Speaker 1: with Ted Cruz podcast.
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  Speaker 4: Listen and Chuck Schumer nearly lost his job because Schumer
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  Speaker 4: allowed the government to be funded several months ago. The
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  Speaker 4: left wing rose up against him. And you want to
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  Speaker 4: understand why we have a shutdown. It's one thing. Schumer
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  Speaker 4: is looking over his left shoulder and he sees aoc
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  Speaker 4: running up behind him, and he is terrified he's gonna
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  Speaker 4: lose his job. So listen, Schumer knows this is not
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  Speaker 4: gonna work. He knows this is failures.
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  Speaker 1: Just pure cover your als politics one oh one by Schumer.
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  Speaker 2: And there it is. That's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: It is cover you'r aas one oh one. That is
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  Speaker 1: why you have these Schumer shut down and that's why
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are like, dude, I got to take my paycheck.
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  Speaker 1: I got too many babies. Defeat they got mortgage and
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  Speaker 1: rent payments. Now the government workers that make less than
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  Speaker 1: the United States senator, screw them, right. I also just
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  Speaker 1: had to bring this up, and I'm not trying to
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  Speaker 1: be mean, but I'm gonna just I'm just gonna just
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  Speaker 1: kind of state the obvious here. If you are a
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  Speaker 1: United States senator and you can't miss a single paycheck,
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  Speaker 1: do we really want you running the country? I mean, senators,
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  Speaker 1: what is the in fact, I'm gonna ask what the
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask? This is what I love technology, Hey, Siri,
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  Speaker 1: what does a United States senator make per year?
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  Speaker 2: Wait for it, one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: And seventy four thousand dollars annually? All right, So we
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  Speaker 1: got this guy who's a senator saying, quote, I'm not wealthy,
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  Speaker 1: and I have three kids, and I would basically be
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  Speaker 1: missing mortgage payments, rent payments, child support. So it's not feasible,
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  Speaker 1: not gonna happen, but I will happily shut down the
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  Speaker 1: government be a part of the shut down with Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Schumer because he's afraid of AOC and screw the other
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  Speaker 1: workers who are in the situation. And somehow he wants
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  Speaker 1: me to be sorry for him making one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy four thousand dollars a year. If you are a
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  Speaker 1: United States center and you can't miss one paycheck, do
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  Speaker 1: I really want you? If you're teetering, you're living I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what what Scott? I mean, what the Senator Ruben Gallaga
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  Speaker 1: was saying, is I can't afford to miss a paycheck.
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  Speaker 1: I am living paycheck to paycheck.
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  Speaker 2: Dude.
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  Speaker 1: That is messed up on so many different levels because
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  Speaker 1: you're in charge of the United States government, but you're
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  Speaker 1: living paycheck to paycheck. I thought we were supposed to
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  Speaker 1: send our best and our brightest to do this job.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm making one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: a year, I assure you I Am not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a scenario where I can't miss a payment, like my
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  Speaker 1: whole life is screwed in one month, like one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventy four thousand dollars. You should have some emergency
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  Speaker 1: funds to quote the great Dave Ramsey, right, you should
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  Speaker 1: have a couple months. And also, let's be clear, if
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  Speaker 1: you're a Democrat and you know that Democrats love shutting
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  Speaker 1: down the government, right.
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  Speaker 2: Like, like I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Being serious, Okay, If you are a Democrat and you
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  Speaker 1: know it's coming, then why didn't you plan ahead for this?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Wait, because you don't give a crap about the people
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  Speaker 1: you're hurting. You don't give a crap about the workers
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  Speaker 1: that are actually living paycheck to paycheck, like you don't care.
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  Speaker 1: It is all about you, full stop, plain and simple,
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  Speaker 1: Which brings me back to the Democrats in general. This
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  Speaker 1: is the same party, by the way, that has been obsessed,
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  Speaker 1: right like completely obsessed with this idea that we should never,
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  Speaker 1: under any circumstances shut down the government because that's just
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  Speaker 1: wrong and evil. We have mind tallage after montage after
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  Speaker 1: montage of Democrats who are saying it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna play that for you in a minute. But
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  Speaker 2: here's the other thing.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to Hikeem Jeffries on the House side, he was
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  Speaker 1: asked about cashing their checks while the troops are going
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  Speaker 1: unpaid during the Democratic shutdown. So you're you're halfway around
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  Speaker 1: the world, you're protecting, defending this country. You're not getting paid,
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  Speaker 1: But damn it, the people wearing suits in DC are.
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  Speaker 6: So this is a whole and still case.
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  Speaker 7: Shutdown in sense advice SEMO high members now is a duptum.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a question that every individual member is going
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  Speaker 8: to have to make on their own, as has always
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  Speaker 8: been the case in the past.
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  Speaker 9: Uh.
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  Speaker 8: First of all, Uh, that question is not even a
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  Speaker 8: ripe one because we're anticipating that this shutdown issue will
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  Speaker 8: be resolved.
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  Speaker 2: I love this right. Well, I'm not gonna answer that question.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not that's something. I'm just I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna answer that question. Okay, So we have Democrats
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  Speaker 1: that are holding America hostage. Democratic represented Maxing Dexter, who
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  Speaker 1: voted to shut down the government said this about Democrats today.
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  Speaker 3: I'll just say it again. We did not shut down
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  Speaker 3: the government. The Republicans right.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, yes you did.
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  Speaker 1: You literally voted to shut down the government. Democratic represent
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  Speaker 1: A Maxing Dexter went on NewsNation and just lied to
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  Speaker 1: the American people. I'll play it for you again. She
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  Speaker 1: voted literally to shut down the government.
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  Speaker 10: I'll just say it again.
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  Speaker 3: We did not shut down the government. The Republicans have
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  Speaker 3: not been at the table bringing us into the negotiations.
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  Speaker 3: They need sixty votes in the Senate. So there is
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  Speaker 3: no debate here on who's responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: On who's responsible for shutting down the government. Okay, let's
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  Speaker 1: go to the record. Did you vote to shut down
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  Speaker 1: the government? Represent a Maxie Dexter, Yes, So, then why
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  Speaker 1: did you say that Democrats did not shut down the government.
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  Speaker 1: Then you acknowledge the Senate needs sixty votes to pass
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  Speaker 1: a federal funding bill, which Democrats voted against. It's how
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  Speaker 1: we didn't get the sixty votes. Republicans weren't voting against it.
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  Speaker 1: I think there was one Ram Paul who always votes
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  Speaker 1: against SID at least he's a principal guy. And Democratic
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  Speaker 1: California Representative Peter Aguilar, he went in front of the
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  Speaker 1: media earlier today and here's what he said, again lying,
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  Speaker 1: he believes that you the American people are in favor
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  Speaker 1: of the shutdown.
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  Speaker 8: The American people are focused on this. They support our
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  Speaker 8: efforts to protect their health care funding. The American people.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Hold on a second. The American
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  Speaker 1: people are in favor of this. They support the Democratic shutdown.
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  Speaker 1: What poll are you reading is at the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: a picture of beer? Is it next to some illegal
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  Speaker 1: drugs or fetnyl? I mean old?
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  Speaker 2: Are you in? Oh wait, hold on a second.
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  Speaker 1: Let me go to the New York Times real quick,
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  Speaker 1: because what he just said was the American people are
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  Speaker 1: in favor of this, all right. New York Times seeing
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  Speaker 1: a poll views on whether the Democrats should or should
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  Speaker 1: not shut down the government if their demands are not met.
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  Speaker 1: All respondents, sixty five percent said should not. Only twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven percent of the psychos out there said should. Even
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  Speaker 1: among Democrats, forty three percent of Democrats said they should
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  Speaker 1: not shut down the government. Forty seven percent of Democrats
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  Speaker 1: they should. Of independence, fifty nine percent said they should
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  Speaker 1: not shut down the government. Only thirty two percent said
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  Speaker 1: they should. And then let's go to the Republicans. Ninety
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  Speaker 1: two percent of Republicans said we should not shut down
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  Speaker 1: the government, only five percent said we should. So let
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  Speaker 1: me go back to the liar here, Democratic representive Peter
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  Speaker 1: Agolar lying to you the American people.
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  Speaker 2: Yet again.
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  Speaker 11: The American people are are focused on this.
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  Speaker 12: They support our efforts to protect their health care funding.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lie, by the way, you guys aren't supporting
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  Speaker 1: our health care fundings.
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  Speaker 2: You know what was in their demand.
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  Speaker 1: Their demand was, yes, we're going to shut down the
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  Speaker 1: government for illegal immigrants. Democrats blocked the Republicans clean meaning
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  Speaker 1: no add ons continuing resolution that would have kept the
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  Speaker 1: government open at the same exact burn rate of money
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  Speaker 1: as it was yesterday. Instead, Democrats demanded one point five
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  Speaker 1: trillion for their radical agenda that the American people voted
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  Speaker 1: down in the last presidential election that also includes government
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  Speaker 1: funding for illegal immigrants health care. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: the government's officially shut down. Make no mistake. Republicans control
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  Speaker 1: the House, sent in the White House. This is their shutdown.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: You have to have sixty votes in the Senate. There's
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  Speaker 1: not sixty Republicans in the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: You're a liar.
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  Speaker 1: They had every tool to the government choose chaos instead,
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  Speaker 1: the American people are the ones paying the price. Jasmine,
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  Speaker 1: you are a liar. You're a scumbag liar. She knows,
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  Speaker 1: maybe she doesn't. She might actually be this dumb. So
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  Speaker 1: let's just give her a quick history lesson. The Senate
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  Speaker 1: requires sixty votes to pass the funding bill. Maybe Congresswoman
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  Speaker 1: Jasmine Crockett is too stupid and spending too much time
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  Speaker 1: on TikTok and doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Know that, but now she does.
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  Speaker 1: So here's what's even more interesting, by the way, about
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  Speaker 1: Democrats and just they're lying. So you've got some Democrats
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  Speaker 1: out there like, well, the Republicans chose to do this,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's others that say, well, well, the American
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  Speaker 1: support the Democratic shut down. So that's another spin So
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  Speaker 1: there's actually three kind of stories here. And then there's
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  Speaker 1: this other story Jasmine Crockett saying the Republicans are the
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  Speaker 1: ones that did this, she's an idiot. And then you've
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  Speaker 1: got this weird Democrat who actually is at the airport
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  Speaker 1: putting up a video admitting as a congressman, the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: chose to shut down the government. So my question the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats is like, can you guys at least get your
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  Speaker 1: story right, Like can you don't text each other and
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  Speaker 1: be like, hey, we're all going to go with this.
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  Speaker 6: Returning back to Detroit this morning after the Republicans failed
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  Speaker 6: to show up in the US House, we got to
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  Speaker 6: make sure Americans have the healthcare that they need. And
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  Speaker 6: if that means you got to chuck this government down,
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  Speaker 6: so be it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I mean we got to just shut down.
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  Speaker 1: There it means if we got to shut down the government,
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  Speaker 1: so be it. So there's there's a weird congressman, Democratic
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  Speaker 1: New Hampshire Senator Shahean. Here's what she had to say
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  Speaker 1: about the government and the shutdown, and listen to who
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  Speaker 1: she's blaming. So like, none of their stories even match
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  Speaker 1: within their own party.
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  Speaker 12: The reality is the Republicans control all three branches of government.
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  Speaker 12: They control the White House, they control both Houses of Congress,
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  Speaker 12: and many would say they control the Supreme Court. So
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  Speaker 12: I think ultimately people will question why given that they
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  Speaker 12: have not been able to avoid a shutdown.
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  Speaker 2: It takes sixty votes.
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  Speaker 1: That means Republicans are the ones that have to have
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  Speaker 1: Democrats that agree to a cr and then ultimately defunding
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  Speaker 1: the government. You idiot White House Press secretary saying this
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  Speaker 1: today about the government shut down, Listen carefully.
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  Speaker 9: Democrats in Congress have officially shut down the United States government.
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  Speaker 9: House Republicans passed a nonpartisan, clean piece of legislation to
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  Speaker 9: extend current government funding until November twenty first, but nearly
• 14:36
  Speaker 9: every single Democrat senator voted against this bill. To be clear,
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  Speaker 9: this was the exact same bill that Democrats approved six
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  Speaker 9: short months ago in March, just adjusted for inflation.
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  Speaker 3: This is the same kind.
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  Speaker 9: Of clean funding bill that Democrats passed thirteen separate times
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  Speaker 9: when they held the Jordy during Joe Biden's administration. So
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  Speaker 9: the American people woke up this morning and ask the
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  Speaker 9: obvious question, why is the government shut down right now?
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  Speaker 9: The answer is pure partisan politics. Being played by the
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  Speaker 9: Democrat Party. The Democrats shut down the government because President
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  Speaker 9: Trump and the Republicans will not force American taxpayers to
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  Speaker 9: pay for free health care for illegal aliens. America is
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  Speaker 9: thirty seven trillion dollars in debt. We cannot afford to
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  Speaker 9: provide taxpayer funded free healthcare to illegals who broke the
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  Speaker 9: law to enter our country.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, isn't that interesting? Wow?
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  Speaker 1: So Republicans are not going to force the American tax
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  Speaker 1: payers to pay for free health care for illegal aliens
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  Speaker 1: because we're thirty seven trade in debt and we can't
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  Speaker 1: afford to pay for that free health care for illegals
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  Speaker 1: who broke this country.
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  Speaker 1: KPM dot com slash ben. By the way, let me
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: just back up for a second. I'm going to back
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  Speaker 1: it up about ten seconds, and I want to play
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  Speaker 1: in its entirety what the White House Press Secretary Kroen
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  Speaker 1: Levit said about the Democratic Democrats shutting down the government.
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  Speaker 2: Where there are Democrats on.
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  Speaker 1: Record elect officials who said that they were shutting down
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  Speaker 1: the government voted to shut down the government, and then
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: they want to act like, oh, we didn't actually do that,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm sorry, I'm calling bs.
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  Speaker 2: Keep listening.
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  Speaker 9: So the American people woke up this morning and asked
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: the obvious question, why is the government shut down right now?
• 18:35
  Speaker 9: The answer is pure partisan politics being played by the
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  Speaker 9: Democrat Party. The Democrats shut down the government because President
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  Speaker 9: Trump and the Republicans will not force American taxpayers to
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  Speaker 9: pay for free health care for illegal aliens America is
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: thirty seven trillion dollars in debt. We cannot afford to
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: provide taxpayer funded, free healthcare to illegals who broke the
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: law to enter our country. To put the US all
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: into perspective, the Democrats refused to keep the government open
• 19:04
  Speaker 9: over healthcare to illegal aliens and now now have jeopardized
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: critical health care programs for American citizens. Instead, the Women,
• 19:12
  Speaker 9: Infants and Children Program, community health center funding, Medicare, treatment options,
• 19:17
  Speaker 9: and other health programs are now all at risk because
• 19:21
  Speaker 9: of the Democrats rejecting the clean cr The most vulnerable
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  Speaker 9: in our country are being punished because the Democrats want
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  Speaker 9: to prioritize illegals over American citizens. And if Democrats actually
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  Speaker 9: cared about health care, they would applaud the actions taken
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  Speaker 9: by President Trump. Just yesterday in the Oval Office, he
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: took a bold and massively popular action to improve our
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: health care system. He announced the first agreement with a
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: major pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, to lower drug costs for Americans.
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  Speaker 9: This is a historical achievement long sought by past Democrat
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  Speaker 9: presidents that only President Trump was able to get done.
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  Speaker 1: So you listen to that, and again she's right about
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: all of it. Now, what is the media saying about this? Well,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: let me take you to Atlanta, CBS News Atlanta. They
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: want you to cry and feel sorry for the TSA
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: officers who are just living paycheck to paycheck.
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  Speaker 2: Listen carefully.
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  Speaker 5: Most TSA officers live paycheck to paycheck. The issue comes
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: in is when I don't receive a paycheck, how am
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: I supposed to get to work? Where am I going
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: to get the gas to put in my car to
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: come to work? Or how do I feed my family?
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: Or how do I buy diapers.
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  Speaker 9: Aaron Barker is a TSA officer and the president of
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: AFGE Local five five four, the union that represents TSA officers.
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  Speaker 5: He says that the shutdown lasts longer than.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: A few days, travelers will fill the.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: Impact without having a paycheck as one of the problems
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: will arise most TSA.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta laugh because they do this ad
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: like somehow to make it seem like I call it
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  Speaker 1: an ad. It's not news. It's an ad for the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party. Democratic senators assif An Warnock voted for this,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: go look at their votes. So, if you're a TSA
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: officer in Atlanta at the airport there. You should be angry, Okay,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: like you should be furious, Chuck Schumer five hours ago.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: It is not radical to say Americans don't deserve to
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: see their premiums double because of Republicans. By the way,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: it's also not radical to say Americans shouldn't pay for
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: medicaid for illegal immigrants. Local News, again Georgia. Two of
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  Speaker 1: the senators there, Ossif and Warnock, both of them voted
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: to shut down the government.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Here's what a Georgia veteran said to the local news.
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: Alonzo Sermons is now a veteran, but he remembers the
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: fear of being a service member during shutdowns.
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  Speaker 7: It's really a tough time. It's always last minute, which
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: is the challenge. And not only that, it's impacting not
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  Speaker 7: only just average people, but my fellow veterans who work
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: out on base. They're impacted by it. And we're so
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: close to the holidays, and we're talking about people's livelihoods,
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: they're revenue.
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  Speaker 9: Alonzo Sermons is now a veteran.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry, Like this is a Georgia veteran
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  Speaker 1: describing the consequences, and not one but two of the
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: sentators in Georgia Warnock and Ausif both voted for this shutdown,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: which the other Democrats like Gooland second, we didn't shut
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  Speaker 1: on the government.
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  Speaker 2: Yes you did, Yes you did.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Let me also tell you what different states are doing
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: so you understand how bad it is. All right, you
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: should find out what's happening in your state where you
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: are right now, because Rhode Island's medicaid program proudly states
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: online that undocumented residents are eligible. Yeah, go to the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Rhode Island Medicaid Programs website and it says health insurance
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: for your family. Then it says medically it helps you
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: get affordable health care when you need it. You can
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: enroll any time, but don't wait. Make sure you and
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: your family stay healthy year round. So who may be eligible?
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: They have with a big question mark on their website.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Here's what it says, children and teens up to nineteen.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: All children are eligible under cover, all kids, regardless of
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: immigration status. Okay, So that would be illegal immigrants, including
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: children who are undocumented and DACA recipients. So any illegal
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: immigrant just come on down in Rhode Island and we're
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: happy to cover your health care before that. Okay, So
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: they put this who's eligible their number one question, they
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: answered Rhode Island is illegal immigrants. Then number two they
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: put families and children, then pregnant women, then older adults,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and then people with disabilities. So if you want to
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: know where you are in the pecking order and woke,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Rhode Island, illegal immigrants are their top priority based on
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: how they're listing those that are eligible. Then it's his
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: youth aging out of foster care, then US citizens and
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: certain lawfully resident president immigrants. So if you're a US citizen,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: you're like the last one on the list in Rhode Island,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: But the first group they want to talk to is
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants. So healthcare for legal immigrants is the new
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: immigrants are eating cats and dogs in Springfield, is what
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Sheldon white House said. Senator white House saying, the Republican
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: playbook is simple, makeup, baseless lies, repeated every chance you get,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: hope and pray that everyone blames Democrats. That's why I'm
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: telling you exactly what is on the website in Rhode Island.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Senator white House, you're a lying scomeback New health insurance
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  Speaker 1: options for undocumented immigrants over sixty five New York State
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  Speaker 1: of Health. There's a website the Senator from New York
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: shut down the government because the far left wants Americans
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: to pay for medicaid for illegals. And here's what it
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: says on their website. Quote starting January one, twenty twenty four,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: there's a new option for health insurance available for undocumented
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: immigrants that would be illegal immigrants over age sixty five.
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  Speaker 1: It's on their website, folks, it is on their website.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: The senator from New York. Here's the video he put
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: out about Washington, d C. And the shutdown and listen
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: to his lies.
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  Speaker 13: Hey, everybody, I'm still down here in Washington, d C.
• 25:41
  Speaker 13: The Senate just had a vote which failed, which means
• 25:44
  Speaker 13: a shutdown at twelve o'clock tonight.
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  Speaker 6: Is very very likely.
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  Speaker 13: And this is going to be very painful for a
• 25:49
  Speaker 13: lot of people and very difficult. This whole idea of
• 25:52
  Speaker 13: my way or the highway that the Republicans have been
• 25:54
  Speaker 13: pushing is not the way to go. We've got to
• 25:56
  Speaker 13: negotiate to try and keep the government open or get
• 25:59
  Speaker 13: a reopened, I should say. Number two, we've got to
• 26:01
  Speaker 13: try and do something to keep the health insurance cost
• 26:04
  Speaker 13: of people down there about the skyrocket because of the
• 26:07
  Speaker 13: expiration of these premium text credits. It's going to be very,
• 26:10
  Speaker 13: very painful and very shocking for a lot of people
• 26:13
  Speaker 13: all over the country. It's going to affect your health
• 26:15
  Speaker 13: insurance premiums because more people that get kicked off of
• 26:17
  Speaker 13: their insurance because they can't afford it makes everybody else's
• 26:20
  Speaker 13: health insurance more expensive. And the President and the White
• 26:23
  Speaker 13: House have got to stop these unilateral cuts of this
• 26:26
  Speaker 13: chaos they're trying to promote and this idea that they're
• 26:29
  Speaker 13: looking forward to a shutdown because they can do a
• 26:31
  Speaker 13: lot of more cuts that they wouldn't be able to
• 26:33
  Speaker 13: do otherwise. I'm very concerned about that. I did a
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  Speaker 13: post about that earlier today. So please everybody stay in touch,
• 26:40
  Speaker 13: keep track of what's going on, follow what's going on.
• 26:43
  Speaker 13: Let's work together to solve problems that face the people
• 26:46
  Speaker 13: in the United States of America.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: This guy just put this video out is the guy
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: who just should have said, hey, I just left the
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Senate floor. I voted to shut down the government, and
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I voted to shut down the government because I was
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: angry that we weren't giving illegal immigrants healthcare. The Schumer
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: shut down is a disaster. There's actually absolutely no point
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: in the government being shut down right now. Now, they
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: shut down the government because of their demands. What were
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: the Democrats demands? They wanted to add one point five
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: trillion dollars to the national debt just to fund the
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: government for three months. By the way, that's insane, it's
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: not sustainable. And it was for every port barrel crazy
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: project like transition surgeries being covered and illegal immigrants getting healthcare.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: And they wanted you to spend one point five trillion
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: of your tax dollars in a ninety day period to
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  Speaker 1: keep the government open. Government shut down, by the way,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: is pure political theater.
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  Speaker 2: We know this.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: We know what the media every single time. We know
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: what the media does, and they don't tell you the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: full story and they lie to you. And there was
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: no real negotiations here. This was clearly pre planned. And
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: even the Democrats can't decide did they do it did
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: they not do it? Because many Democrats are now furious.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Were the Indian Indian born representative for admitting that they
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: shut down the government. I played it earlier, I'll play
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: it again because it's important. I don't think he realized
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: what a dumba was being. But he told the truth.
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  Speaker 6: Returning back to Detroit this morning after the Republicans failed
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  Speaker 6: to show up in the US House. We got to
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: make sure Americans have the healthcare that they need. And
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: if that means you got to chuck this government down,
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: so be it.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's amazing. So they're telling you they did it.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Now they're saying that they didn't do it. And now
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: they're trying to say that it's some not their fault,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: that they were being insane, trying to relitigate what the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: American people just voted on.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: What did the American people vote on?
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: They voted on Donald Trump cutting the spinning of government
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  Speaker 1: number one. They voted to stop allowing for open borders.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: They voted to stop the insanity with illegal immigrants being
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: treated better than American citizens. And only forty seven percent
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: of even Democrats support a shutdown over their party's demands.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: So why did Schumer do it? It was one reason.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: It was one reason only. They decided to shut it
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: down because Chuck Schumer was afraid of the Marxist communists
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: and socialists in his party, and AOC is someone he
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: is terrified of, absolutely terrified to be around, because he's
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: afraid that she's going to primary, so he's had to
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: show I can be crazy, interrational and insane too. Jade
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Vance at the White House saying this.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot, Matt Boyle.
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  Speaker 11: President, There's two key Democrat lives I would like you
• 30:17
  Speaker 11: to get you on to see if you can address.
• 30:20
  Speaker 11: The first is is that you're seeing a number of
• 30:22
  Speaker 11: top Democrat leaders from Kamala Harris and Chuck Schumer to
• 30:24
  Speaker 11: the King Jeffries, claim that it is a Republican shutdown
• 30:27
  Speaker 11: caused by Trump. The second days is that they're out
• 30:30
  Speaker 11: there now claiming that they don't want to give healthget
• 30:34
  Speaker 11: to illegal aliens. Can you address both of those last
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  Speaker 11: from the Democrat Party.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, So on the point that I say Republican shutdown, look,
• 30:41
  Speaker 10: it's obviously a Democratic shut down. Just look at the
• 30:43
  Speaker 10: vote totals in the House, look at the vote totals
• 30:45
  Speaker 10: in the Senate, and look at the President of the
• 30:46
  Speaker 10: United States own action and conduct throughout this crisis. Nearly
• 30:51
  Speaker 10: every single House Republican voted to open the government, Matt.
• 30:54
  Speaker 10: Nearly every single Senate Republican voted to open the government
• 30:58
  Speaker 10: last night, and even to their credit, a few moderate
• 31:01
  Speaker 10: Democrats voted to open the government. That's not a Republican
• 31:04
  Speaker 10: shut down. When nearly every single Senate Democrat votes to
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: shut it down and every Republican voted to open it up,
• 31:10
  Speaker 10: it's just obviously not true. Now, you can disagree about
• 31:13
  Speaker 10: a number of things, but you can't disagree about the
• 31:16
  Speaker 10: obvious fact that Republicans voted to open the government. The
• 31:19
  Speaker 10: President stands ready to sign that opening of the government.
• 31:21
  Speaker 10: We just need a few more Democrats to join us
• 31:24
  Speaker 10: in that effort to open the government. Your final question
• 31:26
  Speaker 10: about illegal alien benefits, Look, the text is very clear
• 31:30
  Speaker 10: and I even saw I think it was George Stefanopvoulis
• 31:32
  Speaker 10: and an interview with Mike Johnson did a fact check
• 31:35
  Speaker 10: that was totally rooted in baseless claims. It was basically
• 31:38
  Speaker 10: Democrat propaganda. If you look at the legislative text that
• 31:42
  Speaker 10: they gave us, they tried to turn on two separate
• 31:45
  Speaker 10: provisions that would give health care benefits to illegal aliens.
• 31:49
  Speaker 10: Number one, if you're an American citizens, you've been to
• 31:51
  Speaker 10: a hospital in the last few years, you probably noticed
• 31:53
  Speaker 10: that wait times are especially large, and very often somebody
• 31:57
  Speaker 10: who's there in the emergency room waiting is an illegal alien,
• 32:00
  Speaker 10: and very often a person who can't even speak English.
• 32:02
  Speaker 10: Why do those people get health care benefits at hospitals
• 32:06
  Speaker 10: paid for by American citizens. The answer is a decision
• 32:10
  Speaker 10: made by the Biden administration that the Trump administration, working
• 32:13
  Speaker 10: with Congressional Republicans, undid we turned off that money spigot
• 32:17
  Speaker 10: to health care funding for illegal aliens. The Democrats, in
• 32:19
  Speaker 10: their legislative texts, want to turn it back on. That's
• 32:22
  Speaker 10: one thing. The second thing, Matt is we all know
• 32:25
  Speaker 10: that there are various ways in which the Biden administration
• 32:30
  Speaker 10: waved away illegal immigration status. They gave paroleees, they gave
• 32:33
  Speaker 10: asylum claims to people who were really claiming asylum, and
• 32:37
  Speaker 10: when they waived the magic want of amnesty, giving millions
• 32:41
  Speaker 10: of people legal status even though they were in the
• 32:44
  Speaker 10: country illegally, they also gave those people access to health
• 32:47
  Speaker 10: care benefits. So what the Democrats are engaging in is
• 32:50
  Speaker 10: a slide of hand. They're saying, no, no, no, those weren't
• 32:53
  Speaker 10: illegal aliens who were getting health care benefits, even though everybody,
• 32:57
  Speaker 10: excuse me, knows they were in the country illegally. It's
• 33:00
  Speaker 10: a lie told by the Democrats that they're not trying
• 33:02
  Speaker 10: to give health care benefits to illegal aliens. It's a
• 33:05
  Speaker 10: lie that is obviously untrue if you just look at
• 33:08
  Speaker 10: the text that they gave us, and all you have
• 33:10
  Speaker 10: to do is understand that this is about who benefits.
• 33:14
  Speaker 10: We think the American people's government ought to benefit American citizens.
• 33:18
  Speaker 10: The Democrats are willing to shut it down to benefit
• 33:20
  Speaker 10: of legal aliens. The contrast couldn't be more clear.
• 33:22
  Speaker 13: There.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: It is the Vice President of United States of America
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: preaching truth on this government shut down. He is totally
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: correcting what he said there, one thousand percent accurate. And
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: so the Democrats they're now in a bad spot. The
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: American people are against this. How a lot of the
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: people in the Democratic Party are against it. Independents are
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: overwhelmingly against it. When you've lost forty plus percent of
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: your own party before you shut it down, I go
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: back the numbers New York Times poll, sixty five percent
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: of Americans say don't shut down the government. Only twenty
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: seven percent say yes. Forty three percent of Democrats say
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: don't shut it down, fifty nine percent of independence and
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: ninety two percent of Republicans say don't shut it down.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: This is what being held hostage looks like. The Democratic
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Party doesn't care about Americans. They care about illegal immigrants.
• 34:23
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• 34:28
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