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Obamacare & Government Bloat Exposed as Shutdown Nears an End · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 4: Morning Update, And we've got one big story for you
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  Speaker 3: It's a forty seven morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: The government shutdown is over, sort of Democrats caving and
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  Speaker 4: they are finally saying we can open the government again.
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  Speaker 4: This is the longest government shut down in history. But
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  Speaker 4: the real question is for many of you, is well,
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  Speaker 4: when will things actually be reopen? How much chaos is
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  Speaker 4: are going to be in the skies, When will people
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  Speaker 4: start getting their paychecks? Maybe you or your family members
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  Speaker 4: who have been furloughed in essence by our government. Well,
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  Speaker 4: we have a lot of answers to those questions, and
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  Speaker 4: the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, called Republicans and
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  Speaker 4: Democrats back to Washington to vote on the bill to
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  Speaker 4: get the government back open. Hear all the details of
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  Speaker 4: what Speaker Johnson had to say about moving forward, how
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  Speaker 4: things are going to work.
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  Speaker 5: Very thankful to see you all this morning.
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  Speaker 6: I'm thankful to welcome you to what appears to be
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  Speaker 6: the beginning of the end of the longest government shutdown
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  Speaker 6: in US history. As shameful as that is, I don't
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  Speaker 6: think it's coincidental, you know how I think. But it's
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  Speaker 6: after forty days of wandering in the wilderness and making
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  Speaker 6: the American peace people suffer needlessly, some Senate Democrats finally
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  Speaker 6: have stepped forward to end the pain. It appears to
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  Speaker 6: us this morning that our long national nightmare is finally
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  Speaker 6: coming to an end, and we're grateful for that at
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  Speaker 6: least some Democrats now finally appear ready to do what
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  Speaker 6: Republicans and President Trump and millions of hard working American
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  Speaker 6: people have been asking them to do for weeks. As
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  Speaker 6: we said from the beginning, the people's government cannot be
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  Speaker 6: held hostage to further anyone's political agenda. That was never right,
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  Speaker 6: and shutting down the government never produces anything. It never
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  Speaker 6: has if you study history, and so here we are.
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  Speaker 6: I want to remind everybody this morning of another critical
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  Speaker 6: point that you've heard me here repeat over and over
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  Speaker 6: over the last several weeks. It's something that I and
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  Speaker 6: Leader John Thune and President Trump and every Republican leader
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  Speaker 6: have all said repeatedly from the beginning, we have always
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  Speaker 6: been open to finding solutions to reduce the oppressive costs
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  Speaker 6: of health care under the Unaffordable Care Act. We just
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  Speaker 6: made clear that we would not and should not ever
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  Speaker 6: do that that is negotiate as hostages. And I've also
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  Speaker 6: reminded you here every morning at this press conference. Throughout
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  Speaker 6: the shutdown, Republicans have not just been talking about reducing
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  Speaker 6: costs and fraud and abuse in so many areas and
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  Speaker 6: in healthcare. We've been actually passing new laws to accomplish
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  Speaker 6: that urgent mission for the people, and we will continue
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  Speaker 6: to do so. So here's where we are by way
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  Speaker 6: of schedule, just so you know you're following, if you're
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  Speaker 6: not at home, if you're waking up to this good
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  Speaker 6: news this morning that the Senate's vote last late last
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  Speaker 6: night of.
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  Speaker 5: Sixty to forty opens the door.
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  Speaker 6: Now the Senate is moving forward on an amended House
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  Speaker 6: cr continuing Resolution that will reopen the government until January thirtieth.
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  Speaker 6: Added to that are provisions to fully fund snap provisions
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  Speaker 6: through the end of the next fiscal year, which is
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  Speaker 6: September twenty twenty six, guaranteed back pay for all federal
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  Speaker 6: workers who have been made to endure these hardships over
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  Speaker 6: the last several weeks. And it also includes passage of
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  Speaker 6: three appropriations bills, which we're grateful to be.
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  Speaker 5: Moving through the process.
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  Speaker 6: That is the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs Bill, It's the
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  Speaker 6: Agriculture Bill, and the Legislative Branch Bill. The Senate will
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  Speaker 6: be back in session this morning to finish their job,
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  Speaker 6: and we're certainly praying that they do. They'll need unanimous
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  Speaker 6: consent from all senators to fast track their final vote.
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  Speaker 6: As you know, there's some procedural hurdles that one or
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  Speaker 6: more could throw in the way, but we certainly hope
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  Speaker 6: that they won't do that because so many people across
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  Speaker 6: this country are desperate for the government to reopen. At
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  Speaker 6: the very moment that they do that final vote, I
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  Speaker 6: will call all House members to return to Washington as
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  Speaker 6: quickly as possible. We'll give a thirty six hour formal
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  Speaker 6: and official notice, so that we can vote as soon
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  Speaker 6: as possible to pass the amendedcy Our Bill and get
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  Speaker 6: it to the President's desk. As you all know, and
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  Speaker 6: he said as recently as last night, I was with
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  Speaker 6: him and he told the press he said, we want
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  Speaker 6: to get the government open. He's very anxious to get
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  Speaker 6: the government reopened and to end the Schumer shutdown. All
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  Speaker 6: are with regard to the travel challenges. I spoke yesterday
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  Speaker 6: at some link with the Transportation Secretary of Sean Duffy,
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  Speaker 6: my former colleague and good friend, and he lamented the
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  Speaker 6: serious situation that we have with air travel in the US.
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  Speaker 6: He's bent over backwards, as all members of the administration
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  Speaker 6: and the Cabinet have done in all of their areas
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  Speaker 6: of jurisdiction, to try to keep the government working for
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  Speaker 6: the people and to mitigate the pain and the harm.
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  Speaker 6: But the problem we have with air travel is that
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  Speaker 6: our air traffic controllers are overworked and unpaid, and many
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  Speaker 6: of them have called in sick. That's a very stressful job,
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  Speaker 6: and even more stressful exponentially when they're having trouble providing
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  Speaker 6: for their families. And so air travel has been grinded
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  Speaker 6: to a halt in many places, and as of Sunday,
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  Speaker 6: nearly half of all domestic flights and US flights were
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  Speaker 6: either canceled or delayed.
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  Speaker 5: And it's a very serious situation.
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  Speaker 6: So I'm saying that by way of reminder, I'm stating
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  Speaker 6: the obvious to all my colleagues, Republicans and Democrats in
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  Speaker 6: the House.
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  Speaker 5: You need to begin right now, returning to the Hill.
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  Speaker 5: We have to do this as quickly as possible.
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  Speaker 6: Now we look forward to the government reopening this week's
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  Speaker 6: so Congress can get back can get back to our
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  Speaker 6: a regular legislative session. We have a lot of business
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  Speaker 6: to do, as you all know, and we will be
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  Speaker 6: working in earnest will be There'll be long days and
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  Speaker 6: long nights here for the foreseeable future to make up
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  Speaker 6: for all this lost time that was imposed upon us.
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  Speaker 6: I want to close with something that's important. I think
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  Speaker 6: it's important to say that this is genuine. I mean
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  Speaker 6: this sincerely. We applaud the seven Senate Democrats and one
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  Speaker 6: independent Senator who did the right thing. They decided to
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  Speaker 6: put principle over their their personal politics and and my
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  Speaker 6: urgent plea of all my colleagues in the House, and
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  Speaker 6: that means every Democrat in the House is to to think, carefully, pray,
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  Speaker 6: and finally do the right thing and help us to
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  Speaker 6: bring an end to the pain of the American people.
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  Speaker 6: This has gone on too long. Too many people have
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  Speaker 6: suffered and it's long overdue. And that's the update I
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  Speaker 6: wanted to give you this morning. There are probably lots
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  Speaker 6: of questions, but I'm going to get a lot of
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  Speaker 6: my own questions answered later today, so stay tuned for more.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks.
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  Speaker 4: So there it is a Speaker of the House explaining
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  Speaker 4: exactly how this is going to go down and how
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  Speaker 4: quickly we could see things turn back to normal.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be a little chilly, but I will
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  Speaker 3: do my duty.
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  Speaker 4: I'm getting back to DC and we're going to open
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  Speaker 4: this country back up and get it back on track.
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  Speaker 4: That is another aspect of what has been said by
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  Speaker 4: many Republicans are saying, hey, we've got thousands of flights
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  Speaker 4: canceled in recent days to the shutdown. Some lawmakers opted
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  Speaker 4: for the modes of translation to the Capitol like they're
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  Speaker 4: actually driving. One Republican representative, Derek Van Orden, said he
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  Speaker 4: was making the sixteen hour drive from his Wisconsin district
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  Speaker 4: because air travel is just too unreliable.
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  Speaker 3: And the Republican controlled House is.
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  Speaker 4: Due to vote Wednesday afternoon on a compromise that would
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  Speaker 4: restore funding the government agencies and into shutdown that start
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  Speaker 4: on October one. The Republican controlled Senate approved the deal
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  Speaker 4: Monday night. House Speaker Johnson said he expected to be
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  Speaker 4: pass his chamber as well, and then President Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: has come out calling the deal very good. Expected to
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  Speaker 4: obviously sign it into law immediately. Now, within days, the
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  Speaker 4: US government could be fully functioning again, bring relief to
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  Speaker 4: federal workers who have missed paychecks and low income families
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  Speaker 4: who defend on food subsidies as well. It could take
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  Speaker 4: several days. And this is the problem so many have
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  Speaker 4: asked me about this. It could take several days for
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  Speaker 4: the nation's air travel system to return to normal. The deal,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, which has divided Democrats because they love
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  Speaker 4: holding you hostage, had sought to extend healthcare substias for
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  Speaker 4: twenty four million Americans past the end of the year
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  Speaker 4: when they were due to expire. Now this also tells
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  Speaker 4: you just how broken Obama here is that these types
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  Speaker 4: of substas are actually needed.
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday, it was very interesting on CNN.
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  Speaker 4: One of the things that was said there on CNN
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  Speaker 4: about the subsidies was that they were talking about like
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  Speaker 4: how much they'd actually gone up, like how much the
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  Speaker 4: subsetas had skyrocketed, And you just kind of have to laugh.
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  Speaker 4: When you see that Anavar has said, quote, American healthcare
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  Speaker 4: premiums are going up one hundred two hundred three hundred percent.
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  Speaker 4: I thought Obamacare fixed that.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't. It didn't fix it. It's a disaster.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be another thing that could easily bankrupt
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  Speaker 4: this country.
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  Speaker 3: You want to know why we're in so much debt right.
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  Speaker 4: Now when you have premiums in Obamacare going up again.
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  Speaker 4: I want to make sure I quote on Navarro correctly
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  Speaker 4: one hundred two hundred three hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: Obamacare is an utter disaster.
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  Speaker 4: It is a total disaster, and everyone knows it. By
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  Speaker 4: the way, like this is not something that's hard to
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  Speaker 4: figure out. It is very easy to understand that this
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  Speaker 4: is going to bankrupt us. So there's going to have
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  Speaker 4: to be reform with Obamacare. There's no way around it. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: Like there's just no way around it. We have to
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  Speaker 4: have major reform here, and if we don't, then it
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  Speaker 4: will continue to be a political football and it will
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  Speaker 4: continue to be a political disaster. And Democrats knew this.
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  Speaker 4: I go back to what did it and Nancy Pelosi
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  Speaker 4: say her words, not mine. We won't know what's in
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  Speaker 4: the bill until we pass the bill, and that is
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  Speaker 4: Obamacare summed up perfectly. We won't know what's in the
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  Speaker 4: bill until we pass the bill, and so when we
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  Speaker 4: pass the bill, we'll figure it out later. It's just
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  Speaker 4: a big old government subsidy. That's all it is. It's
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  Speaker 4: just a government subsidy. One other thing I want to
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  Speaker 4: say about this government shutdown. I think it also tells
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  Speaker 4: you just how bloated our government is. The majority of
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  Speaker 4: americans lives have really not been affected at all by
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  Speaker 4: the government shutdown. I think that's actually pretty incredible that
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  Speaker 4: we think our government is just so important and in
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  Speaker 4: reality it's really not. It's just not Our government has
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  Speaker 4: gotten way too big, and our government should be a
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  Speaker 4: lot smaller.
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  Speaker 3: Than it actually is.
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  Speaker 4: as we're going to continue to see.
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  Speaker 3: This move forward.
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