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Democrats play w Your Safety in the Air while Pushing to Lock in ACA Subsidies · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: If you're flying, Democrats are playing with your safety. They
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  Speaker 1: know that they're playing with your safety, and they're wanting
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: it to hurt. They're wanting you to miss flights, they're
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  Speaker 1: wanting you to stand in long lines, and they want
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  Speaker 1: you to blame Donald Trump. But what they're not talking
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  Speaker 1: about is how unsafe the skies have become because of
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  Speaker 1: the pressure they've deliberately chosen to put on the system.
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  Speaker 1: And the Federal Aviation Administration has directed airlines to reduce
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  Speaker 1: flight operations at forty of the busiest US airports by
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  Speaker 1: four percent, immediately ramping that up to six percent by
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  Speaker 1: November the eleventh. If the deal isn't done now, the
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  Speaker 1: present telling FAA you better get back to work. And
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  Speaker 1: those that were true American patriots, he wants to give
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  Speaker 1: them a big bonus. I'm gonna tell you more about
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  Speaker 1: that coming up now. Part of this shutdown is gonna
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  Speaker 1: cost you a lot of money. Obamacare is going to
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  Speaker 1: be the center of that, and that's what the big
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  Speaker 1: fight is over right now. In fact, Obamacare insurers bet
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  Speaker 1: four hundred billion on the shutdown of the Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Health insurers have never had it so good. Their stocks
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  Speaker 1: are up more than one thousand percent since Obamacare passed,
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  Speaker 1: and they now receive roughly a trillion dollars per year
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  Speaker 1: and federal government subsidies. Remember when Obama said that the
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  Speaker 1: costs were going to come down, No, it's now costing
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  Speaker 1: you a trillion dollars per year, your tax dollars. Now
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  Speaker 1: that much tax money is at stake. So politics are
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  Speaker 1: seeing a massive flow of cash going to hard left
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  Speaker 1: leaning candidates and elected officials. In the last presidential campaign,
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  Speaker 1: for example, insurers gave five times more money to Kamala
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  Speaker 1: Harris to protect their one trillion dollars a year from you,
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  Speaker 1: then to Donald Trump. Blueshit of California donated a half
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  Speaker 1: a million. In United Health donated seventy five thousand, for example,
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  Speaker 1: to Governor Gavin Newsom's ballot measure effort Proposition fifty. Why Well,
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  Speaker 1: that could hand Democrats a big advantage, and that would
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  Speaker 1: hand health insurance a big advantage as well, because adding
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  Speaker 1: five additional seats in Congress to the Democrats Jerrymanner in California,
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  Speaker 1: that is clearly good for the increases that the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: are giving to the insurance companies. Now, the strategy also
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  Speaker 1: appears to be paying off. Democrats in Congress are repaying
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  Speaker 1: the favor by shutting down the government in order to
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  Speaker 1: keep four hundred billion in Obamacare sepsies flowing from the
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  Speaker 1: American taxpayer directly to the insurance company's pockets. Now you
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  Speaker 1: understand why Democrats were so held bent on shutting down
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  Speaker 1: the government. Now, by the way, these and I want
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  Speaker 1: you to listen carefully, we're temporary. The four hundred billion
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  Speaker 1: in Obamacare subsidies were temporary during the COVID era in
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  Speaker 1: hand subsidies. So when COVID nineteen happened, there were these
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  Speaker 1: enhanced subsidies at the Democrats and their insurance company benefactors.
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  Speaker 2: They want them.
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  Speaker 1: Even though there's no COVID right now, and they want
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  Speaker 1: to make it permanent. Insurers have been enrolling people who
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  Speaker 1: aren't even aware that they have coverage and don't use
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  Speaker 1: the policies. Why because it pours more federal cash into
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  Speaker 1: insurance companies coffers without requiring any outlays on the insurer's part.
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  Speaker 1: It is a scam whose scale and duplicity is only
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  Speaker 1: achievable at the intersection of corporate cronyism and a massive
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  Speaker 1: bloated federal budget. We keep sending them the money, they
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  Speaker 1: keep deposing the checks they're winning, and the political patronage
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  Speaker 1: doesn't stop there. Health insurance are already paying back the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats this year. They're hiking the Obamacare premiums by twenty
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  Speaker 1: six percent, even though overall US healthcare costs are up
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  Speaker 1: only about six percent. The Obamacare premiums up twenty six
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  Speaker 1: percent because it's guaranteed tax dollars from you to the
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  Speaker 1: insurance companies. Now that is a sharp contrast to last year,
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  Speaker 1: when insurers held premium hikes to just four percent as
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were running for reelection they
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  Speaker 1: needed the cost to stay low. After Donald Trump got elected,
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  Speaker 1: premiums are jumping by twenty six percent.
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  Speaker 2: Now here's the question.
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  Speaker 1: Did insurance company simply defer those losses into this year?
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  Speaker 1: Are they actively punishing Republicans who face midterm election year
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  Speaker 1: and they want them to lose? You can decide, because
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  Speaker 1: both our goals that the left beliefs are actually achievable. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this health insurance company led government shut down has had
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  Speaker 1: the effect of supporting Democrats and other controversial shutdowns the
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  Speaker 1: pass that make no sense, such as keeping, for example,
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  Speaker 1: nearly two hundred billion and free healthcare benefits flowing to
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  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that is how corrupt this shutdown is.
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  Speaker 1: They want you to give two hundred billion and free
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  Speaker 1: healthcare to illegal immigrants that broke into this country. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: while that's happening, health insurers are not putting federal substats
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  Speaker 1: to use for the benefit of rate payers and taxpayers.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, keeping with tradition, right with much of what
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  Speaker 1: the federal government does in the federal budget, your money
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  Speaker 1: is actually going directly down the drain.
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  Speaker 2: How do we know this?
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  Speaker 1: Federal auditors project that the Medicare advantage over billing will
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  Speaker 1: exceed one trillion dollars this decade, meaning that this year
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  Speaker 1: you're going to overpay by about one hundred million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: The Trump administration has increased Medicare payments by twenty five billion,
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  Speaker 1: of which United Healthcare, for example, alone may receive about
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  Speaker 1: seven billion dollars in guaranteeing funds from the federal government.
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  Speaker 2: Again, your tax dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Soon after that, the Wall Street Journal reported that United Healthcare,
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  Speaker 1: the biggest Obamacare insurer, paid nine billion, nine billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: to AARP. I've been warning you for years about the
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  Speaker 1: corruption of ARP. They paid them nine billion to ARP,
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  Speaker 1: essentially to stamp its name on the company's Medicare plans.
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  Speaker 1: That comes as United faced a federal investigation and a
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  Speaker 1: Medicare over billing at risk that could threaten its long
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  Speaker 1: term solvency. Now, imagine if that nine billion had gone
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  Speaker 1: to patients instead of to the insurance company. How many
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  Speaker 1: of those seniors could have actually gotten help. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: Republicans agree to extend the Obamacare subsidies, it should come
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  Speaker 1: with a condition making sures pay for the privilege. One
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  Speaker 1: option is to pass the bipartisan No Upcode Act, which
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  Speaker 1: would curb the industry's at Medicare advantage over billing. It
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  Speaker 1: would help put an end to the practice of using
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  Speaker 1: inaccurate or exaggerated diagnosises to inflate the claims that are
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  Speaker 1: being reimbursed by US the taxpayers. The Congressional Budget Office,
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  Speaker 1: for example, estimates the measure would save taxpayers one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty four billion dollars.
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  Speaker 2: That's why they don't want to do it.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Democrats are fighting so hard to mandate these
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  Speaker 1: substas are extended.
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  Speaker 2: Now, of the one.
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  Speaker 1: Hundred and twenty four billion that could be saved. Half
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  Speaker 1: could extend Obamacare substies for two years. The rest could
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  Speaker 1: be used to reduce the deficit. Another reason why Democrats
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  Speaker 1: are saying no, so here we are after raising the premiums,
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  Speaker 1: cutting the benefits, facing federal investigations for overbilling Medicare. Insurers
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  Speaker 1: need to rebuild public confidence, not get rewarded for their corruption.
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  Speaker 1: Backing a government shutdown to get foreigner billion is the
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  Speaker 1: wrong approach. But now you understand why Democrats are doing
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  Speaker 1: So the government shutdown is what everyone's talking about this
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  Speaker 1: as there is literally chaos in the air as flights
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  Speaker 1: are being canceled now at record numbers.
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  Speaker 2: So where are we at this moment.
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  Speaker 1: Well, to be clear, Democrats are now proud of holding
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  Speaker 1: Americans hostage, including your security while flying. How do we
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  Speaker 1: know this, Well, it was leaked this week that one
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  Speaker 1: of those on Capitol Hill had this to say about
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  Speaker 1: you flying.
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  Speaker 3: Senator Fetterman, a member of this committee, has said, quite candidly,
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  Speaker 3: this is a Democrat shutdown for the sake of the
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  Speaker 3: TSA agents, for the sake of the air traffic controllers, for.
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  Speaker 2: The sake of the flying public.
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  Speaker 3: Let's not test that idiot Democrat staffer who told Politico
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  Speaker 3: will keep the shutdown going until planes start falling from
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  Speaker 3: the sky.
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  Speaker 2: That's not funny.
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  Speaker 3: And I do believe my colleagues on the Democrats side
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  Speaker 3: they don't want to see that happen. But every day
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  Speaker 3: that they starve the system of the resources it needs,
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  Speaker 3: they increase the chances of a tragedy like that occurring.
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  Speaker 1: Politico reporting that the top Democratic staffer said that they
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  Speaker 1: are going to hold us hostage until planes start falling
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  Speaker 1: from the sky.
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  Speaker 2: That is their goal, hold us all hostage.
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  Speaker 1: Fast forward after that, Democrats getting in line, making it
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  Speaker 1: very clear they think this government shutdown is amazing for them.
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  Speaker 1: A perfect example of that is the partisan hack Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Center Richard Blumenthal. He was in front of the cameras
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  Speaker 1: and if you think he's doing this for America, you're wrong.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing this for the partisan politics, and he wants
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  Speaker 1: it to hurt. Here's what he has to say about
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  Speaker 1: the government's shutdown.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it is just a game to him.
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  Speaker 4: I think that there is no reason to surrender now,
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  Speaker 4: every reason to stand firm.
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  Speaker 1: No reason to surrender now, and every reason to stand
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  Speaker 1: firm now. Is that what's best for the American people.
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  Speaker 1: Of course not, but that doesn't matter because it's all
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  Speaker 1: about power, Which then brings us to Senator Chuck Schumer.
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  Speaker 1: He decided to go to the floor of the Senate
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  Speaker 1: on Friday talking about the government shut down with new mandates,
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  Speaker 1: new demands, and the Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: They're offering to reopen our government if Republicans agree to
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  Speaker 1: be held hostage and pay the ransom of a one
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  Speaker 1: year extension of the premium tax credits under the Affordable
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  Speaker 1: Care Act known as Obamacare, Schumer saying this about reopening
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  Speaker 1: the government as law as long as the hostage deal
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  Speaker 1: is taken by the Republicans.
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  Speaker 5: So let's find a path to honor both positions. Democrats
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  Speaker 5: would like to see an end to this shutdown, and
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  Speaker 5: we want to respect Leader Thun's desire not to negotiate
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  Speaker 5: on ACA until after the government reopens. Therefore, we'd like
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  Speaker 5: to offer a simple proposal that would reopen the government
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  Speaker 5: and extend the ACA premium tax credits simultaneously, and then
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  Speaker 5: have the opportunity to start negotiating longer term solutions to
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  Speaker 5: health care costs. Let's do all three. I've spoken with
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  Speaker 5: my caucus, and Democrats are offering a very simple compromise.
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  Speaker 5: Democrats are ready to clear the way to quickly pass
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  Speaker 5: a government funding bill that includes healthcare affordability. Leader Thun
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  Speaker 5: just needs to add a clean one year extension of
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  Speaker 5: the ACA tax credits to the c Are so that
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  Speaker 5: we can immediately address rising healthcare costs. That's not a negotiation,
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  Speaker 5: it's an extension of current law, something we do all
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  Speaker 5: the time around here, as we all know. But we
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  Speaker 5: also offer this, let's create a bipartisan committee that will
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  Speaker 5: continue negotiations after the government reopens on reforms ahead of
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  Speaker 5: next year's enrollment period to provide long term certainty that
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  Speaker 5: healthcare costs will be more affordable. This proposal reopens the
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  Speaker 5: government and insures working families who are shopping right now
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  Speaker 5: for their healthcare get certainty and financial relief while open
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  Speaker 5: enrollment has begun, Insurers can update their rates after we
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  Speaker 5: pass a simple extension of the tax credits. With this approach,
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  Speaker 5: we do not negotiate healthcare in the shutdown, as Leader
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  Speaker 5: Thun has maintained he wished, and the American people get
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  Speaker 5: the tax credit extension they want. That is what many
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  Speaker 5: of our Republican colleagues have floated over the last six
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  Speaker 5: weeks as a compromise, a one year tax credit extension
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  Speaker 5: and reforms to the credit. Beyond that, we will agree
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  Speaker 5: with the Republican Republican request not to start negotiations until
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  Speaker 5: after the government reopens. All Republicans have to do is
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  Speaker 5: say yes to extend current law for one year. It
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  Speaker 5: makes sense, and since what we're proposing is only a
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  Speaker 5: simple extension of current law, the Senate could do this
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  Speaker 5: within a few hours. This is a reasonable offer that
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  Speaker 5: reopens the government, deals with health care affordability, and begins
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  Speaker 5: a process of negotiating reforms to the ACA tax credits
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  Speaker 5: for the future. Now the ball is in the Republicans court.
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  Speaker 5: We need Republicans to just say yes.
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  Speaker 1: So there he is, in his own words, making it
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  Speaker 1: clear we're holding America hostage and we're proud of it.
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  Speaker 1: The shutdown chaos is dominating America, certainly the skies, and
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  Speaker 1: that's where the bigger warnings are coming. In flight numbers
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  Speaker 1: we're now being told will continue to be reduced. And
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  Speaker 1: the only way to fix is if Democrats open the
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  Speaker 1: damn government. That is the exact quote from the Transportation
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  Speaker 1: Secretary Sean Duffy saying this during a discussion in Washington,
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  Speaker 1: d C. The recent announcement indicates that there will be
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  Speaker 1: a four percent reduction in flights across the country do
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  Speaker 1: the government shutdown that is expected to scale up to.
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  Speaker 2: Ten percent by next week.
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  Speaker 1: Offering a breakdown the situation, Duffy said, air traffic controllers
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  Speaker 1: are in a tight spot, expected to miss a second
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  Speaker 1: full paycheck as the first was owned a partial Here's
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  Speaker 1: more of what Delphi had to say about how chaotic
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  Speaker 1: it's going to get in the skies.
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  Speaker 6: You guys announced yesterday and this has started to go
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  Speaker 6: into effect today four percent reductions today in flights across
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  Speaker 6: the country because of the ongoing government shutdown. That's going
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  Speaker 6: to scale up to ten percent next week. Can you
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  Speaker 6: give us a breakdown of how, first off, why this
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  Speaker 6: is necessary, and then how these decisions were made and
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  Speaker 6: where and how this is going to impact mere Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So, first off, air traffic controllers a critical part of
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  Speaker 7: our aviation infrastructure. Wonderful men and women who serve the
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  Speaker 7: American people. They do a great job. They have had
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  Speaker 7: one paycheck where they got a partial payment. A second
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  Speaker 7: paycheck was flat zero. They just got noticed that the
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  Speaker 7: second full paycheck will be a big fat zero that
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  Speaker 7: comes next week. And so there's been a lot of
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  Speaker 7: pressure on the controllers and when that happens, there asking
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  Speaker 7: them to come to work. That's important they come to work,
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  Speaker 7: But some of them are new to the business. They
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  Speaker 7: don't have a nest egg that they've been able to
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  Speaker 7: plan for and prepare for. And if you don't get
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  Speaker 7: two paychecks, they're confronted with like anybody else would be
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  Speaker 7: confronted with, how do I not just pay the rent,
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  Speaker 7: pay the car payment.
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  Speaker 8: But there's a gas.
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  Speaker 7: Bill, electric bill, there's a TV bill, there's food on
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  Speaker 7: the table, there's gas in the car, real life expenses
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  Speaker 7: that they're having to think through. And some of them
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  Speaker 7: have made the decision to not come to work but
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  Speaker 7: go take a second job. And what that has done
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  Speaker 7: is put a lot of pressure on the air traffic
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  Speaker 7: control system. And you've seen that play out over the
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  Speaker 7: course of the month with more delays and more cancelations.
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  Speaker 7: And by the way, it's not in the same place
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  Speaker 7: every day. One day it might be in La then
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  Speaker 7: it might be in New York, and then it's Houston
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  Speaker 7: or Dallas or Orlando. It's never the same place. And
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  Speaker 7: so we look at data. What is the data telling
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  Speaker 7: us to And just as a side note, these two
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  Speaker 7: things are not related. But for the issue of data,
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  Speaker 7: we had a DCA air crash, and before that crash,
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  Speaker 7: there was information. Had someone looked at the data that
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  Speaker 7: there were near misses and someone should have said, listen,
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  Speaker 7: stop the cross traffic. The data says, don't do it. Well,
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  Speaker 7: no one looked at the data. Well, we learned from
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  Speaker 7: that we should look at data and what's happening, and
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  Speaker 7: so as we've done that through the FA Safety team,
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  Speaker 7: we're seeing a loss of separation in the airspace. There's
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  Speaker 7: spacing for aircraft, there has been there's been incursions in
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  Speaker 7: those separations.
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  Speaker 8: Those numbers have gone up.
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  Speaker 1: Not only have the numbers gone up, but Secretary Duffy said,
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  Speaker 1: this is being done deliberately on purpose by Democrats knowing
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  Speaker 1: they are putting your lives at risk.
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  Speaker 2: I also, I want to be clear about something.
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  Speaker 1: Republicans had a clean bill to pay government essential workers,
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  Speaker 1: the workers that are forced to come in even if
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  Speaker 1: they're not getting a paycheck. That includes air traffic controllers.
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  Speaker 1: And what are the Democrats do? They said, no, that
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  Speaker 1: is how you know that this is being done deliberately.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to listen to more of what the
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  Speaker 1: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy had to say when he was
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  Speaker 1: sitting down on Friday at a bright Bart conference.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 7: There's more incursions on the ground, and then we've had
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  Speaker 7: more complaints from pilots that have said, well, the controller
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  Speaker 7: is less responsive to me, or controllers seem to be
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  Speaker 7: more stressed. So we looked at that data and the
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  Speaker 7: numbers are going in the wrong direction. This is a
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  Speaker 7: really long answer, but I want.
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  Speaker 6: To expect, yeah, please do.
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  Speaker 7: The numbers are going in the wrong direction, and so
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  Speaker 7: then what is our response to that? And the response
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  Speaker 7: is to take pressure out of the system. And through
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  Speaker 7: the safety team, We've talked about lowering the number of
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  Speaker 7: flights and so we were going to do ten percent
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  Speaker 7: right away. The safety team said that could be even
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  Speaker 7: more disruptive. We should we should actually phase this in,
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  Speaker 7: to which we've done that. Today is the first day,
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: four percent reduction, four days later another two percent, two
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: days after that, two percent, and then you know, two
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  Speaker 7: percent on. And what I'm hoping to do is again
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: take the pressure and more risk out of the system.
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: We always try to manage the risk. Nothing is ever
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  Speaker 7: fully safe. A car is not safe, walking down the
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  Speaker 7: streets not full I mean, there's risk and everything we do.
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  Speaker 7: I'm trying to minimize the risk through this government shutdown
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  Speaker 7: and bring us to a matrix that matches what we
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: had before the shutdown. And I've had some complaints from Democrats.
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  Speaker 7: They've said, well, we want to see the data, and
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: why are you looking at data? And this is political?
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: This has not been political. We have worked over time
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: to make sure that we minimize the impact on the
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: American people.
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  Speaker 8: We're trying to help the American people.
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  Speaker 7: And when I start to get attacked by Democrats, that
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: also gets frustrating because there's a very easy solution to
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  Speaker 7: the problem that they put directly on my lap, which
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  Speaker 7: is open the day i'm government, vote to open the government.
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  Speaker 7: So those who snipe at me for having to take
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: really unique action, they put that on my on my plate,
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: so open it up. And by the way, I didn't
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: remember the last some of the last shutdowns I was.
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: I was part of those.
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  Speaker 7: We stayed here for a month. I gained ten pounds,
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: I think cause I ate pizza and the junkiest food.
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: But you sit here every weekend, every day while the
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: government is shut down and your your family's upset, your
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: kids are annoyed. That people would go home during a
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: shutdown when the American people are suffering, is just flat
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  Speaker 7: out wrong.
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  Speaker 8: Everyone should be here, everyone should be working.
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  Speaker 7: No one should go home because, by the way I
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: saw it today, I was at DCA.
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  Speaker 8: I'm just I'm not I'm let you ask me questions.
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  Speaker 7: There's people going to funerals, There's people were trying to
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: get home. They can't get home while senator's going home.
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  Speaker 7: Keep them here, and especially the senators who voted know
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: to open the government off.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: Maybe we could put the senators who keep voting to
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: shut the government down on the no fly list.
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: That would be a great well played.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: You listen to the games they're being played, and he's
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: absolutely right. In a government shutdown. When he was in Washington,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: d C. Serving you stayed in town. The families were
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: frustrated because they weren't coming home. The constituents weren't seeing
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: their congressmen in their district or the senators in their state.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: But what are we watching this time? All of these
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: people are going home. I would argue that there's no
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: way this government shutdown would be this long if they
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: forced the congressman and the senators to stay in town.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: So if this is what is happening and what we're
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: witnessing right now, it's probably going to continue. Democrats feel
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: like they're holding America hostage, and they feel like that
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: is a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: They also believe that this.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Is actually working to their advantage, especially after the big
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: wins they said they got on Tuesday in hardcore liberal states.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: So here we are in a full government shut down,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the longest one in history. And what are Democrats saying?
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: They're just simply saying, We're going to keep doing it.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Why in essence, why not? We love that this is
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: happening right now, We love that this is where we are,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: and we love that you are being held hostage now.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Tommy Tuberbilt Center from Alabama. He said this even about
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the issue of the filibuster earlier on Fox Well.
• 24:42
  Speaker 9: In the last week or so, Martha, the Democrats have
• 24:46
  Speaker 9: snuck around behind the scenes and worked with our leadership
• 24:49
  Speaker 9: team knowing that they want to get out of this themselves.
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: Not all of them, but a few of them, and
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: hopefully it would be enough to open up. But I
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: think they really feel emboldened that they wont a couple
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: of blue state elections this past Tuesday. And I don't
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: know whether the deal is still on the table. You know,
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: it's about three appropriation bills that we'd put in the
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: CR put a date in there, get it done, voted in,
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: and possibly kick the can down the road to January.
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: Here's a problem with Marsha. These people feel empowered on
• 25:17
  Speaker 9: the Democratic side. They can't control President Trump, but they
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: think they can control the United States Senate. And that's
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: the reason. As President Trump had us in the White
• 25:25
  Speaker 9: House there stay for breakfast. He said, if you don't
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: bust a filibuster, we won't get anything else done. There's
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: gonna be more closures. So we got to make a
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: decision on our side. I'm all for going to fifty one. Now.
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: I was totally against it until I saw really how
• 25:38
  Speaker 9: this place works. And I've been up here five years,
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: and there's not gonna be anything done if we don't
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: do something about this filibuster. Pass it up and let's
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: go and just kick the Democrats to the side and
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: get something done for the American people they are suffering.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Now you hear that from Tommy Tubverbilt. There is always
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: a cause and effect. When Democrats get back and control
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: will at some point in my lifetime, maybe multiple times
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: in my lifetime, they will then kick the Republicans the
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: corner and go full blown communists, like we're witnessing in
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: New York City. Even Democrats are getting in on this.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: John Fetterman speaking to reporters about the same issue, and
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: here's what he said.
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  Speaker 9: Some of your Republican colleagues have proposed nuking the filibuster
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: to force the government to reopen.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think, Yeah, of course, of course, carve
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: it out for that. Absolutely, we ran on that. We
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: ran on killing the philibuster, and now we love it.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: You know, it's like, carve it out so we can
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: move on. And I support it because it makes it
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: more difficult to shut the government down in the future.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: And that's where it's entirely appropriate. And I don't want
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: to hear any Democrats clutching their pearls about the filibuster.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: We all ran on it. I ran on that in
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: mid so like that's.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so there is again, Fetterman. We ran on killing
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the philibuster and now we love it. Carve it out
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: so we can move on. I support it because it
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: makes it more difficult to shut the government down in
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: the future, and that's where it's entirely appropriate. I don't
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: want to hear any Democrats clutching their pearls about the filibuster.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: John Fetterman also calling out his own party, saying it's
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: very clear that the Democrats are holding the American people hostage.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: It's like, that's why shutting the government is really what
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: the Democratic Party wants to do, and I follow country
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: then party, and it's the wrong thing for the country
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: in a period of chaos. I refuse to vote to
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: shut our government down. I absolutely would love to have
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: I would love to have a conversation about extending the
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: tax credits for healthcare. Absolutely, but I would remind everybody too,
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: this was designed by the Democratic Party to expire at
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: the end of the year. This is not something taken
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: from by the Republicans. That's they were designed to expire. Now,
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: let's have a conversation to extend it and not shut
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: our government down, and let's continue the help.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Has already agreed to that.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean that you know that. Well for me,
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: I do believe. I do believe Leader Thun is an
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: honorable man, and I do believe. Well, you're not gonna lie.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: I mean, you can't guarantee any outcome. But what I'm
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: what I'm saying it that's talking about what's wrong for
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: the country. I can't vote for a thing. I can't
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: vote to shutting our government down.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: You wonder where the other statesmen are. John Fetterin been
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: calling out his own party. Democrats choose party over country.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I follow country then party, and it's the wrong thing
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: for the country in a period of chaos, saying I
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: refuse to vote to shut our government down. You wonder
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: when this will actually stop the insanity. It's pretty clear
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: now Democrats believe they have enough leverage to keep moving
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: forward with a shutdown. They want it to hurt, and
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: they're holding the American people hostage, and they're proud of it,
• 29:04
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