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Schumer and Radical Democrats Make Government Shutdown a Reality · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I don't want it to shut down because we have
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  Speaker 1: the greatest period of time ever. I tell you, we
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  Speaker 1: have seventeen trillion dollars being invested. So the last person
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  Speaker 1: that wants to shut down is us. Now, with that
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  Speaker 1: being said, we can do things during the shutdown that
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  Speaker 1: are irreversible, that are bad for them and irreversible by them,
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  Speaker 1: like cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that
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  Speaker 1: they like, cutting programs that they like.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Wednesday morning. It's so nice to have you with
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  Speaker 3: us on the forty seven Morning Update. And we've got
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  Speaker 3: one big story. It is the government shut down. It
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  Speaker 3: is real. How do we get here? What is the
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  Speaker 3: President saying? And what are the Democrats going to do?
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  Speaker 4: Well? It's all in this morning's episode.
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  Speaker 3: Plus you're gonna hear from Center Ted Cruz about the
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  Speaker 3: shutdown and what will happen next in the Senate. But
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  Speaker 4: It's forty seven morning update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: It is official, twelve oh one am. The United States
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  Speaker 3: government is shut down. The Democrats they did it on purpose.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently it was their plan and the question is for
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  Speaker 3: how long have they been planning on doing this? Center
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  Speaker 3: This is going to be a very interesting show. This
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  Speaker 3: all revolves around the Senate. That is something that maybe
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  Speaker 3: some people don't realize. Everything's come out of the House.
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  Speaker 3: We're now to the Senate side of things, and I
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  Speaker 3: want you to explain what it was like in the
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  Speaker 3: hours leading up to the shutdown. Was there ever a
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  Speaker 3: chance in hell that the government wasn't going to shut down?
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  Speaker 5: No, that there was never a chance.
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  Speaker 6: It is just after midnight, so the government is shut
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  Speaker 6: down just for a few minutes. But I think the
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  Speaker 6: government shutdown is going to last at a minimum of days.
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  Speaker 6: It may be weeks, and it may even be longer. Really, yes,
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  Speaker 6: this could extend for a significant period of time. And
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  Speaker 6: understand this is the Democrats roar that they hate Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 6: So I got to say. We had the vote tonight.
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  Speaker 6: There was no surprise. Everyone knew the outcome. Out of
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  Speaker 6: one hundred senators, all of us knew the outcome. The
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  Speaker 6: vote was fifty five to forty five, So three Democrat
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  Speaker 6: senators voted to keep the government open.
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  Speaker 3: You have, it was a pretty big deal, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: did you think those three were going to go?
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  Speaker 4: Where? Did you think it was going to be a
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  Speaker 4: unanimous vote?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Fetterman and two others like, that's that is significant.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Look Fetterman, I was not surprised.
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  Speaker 6: So Fetterman voted to keep the government open, Cortes Master
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  Speaker 6: voter to keep the government open, and Angus King voted
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  Speaker 6: to keep the government open. That's not shocking to me.
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  Speaker 6: It's fifty five to forty five. Now, why did the
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  Speaker 6: government shut down? Look, the basic operation of government is
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  Speaker 6: the federal government cannot continue to operate unless Congress appropriates funds.
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  Speaker 6: Under the constitution, Congress has the power of the purse,
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  Speaker 6: so Congress appropriates.
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  Speaker 5: The spending of money.
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  Speaker 6: A typical fiscal year is October first to September thirtieth.
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  Speaker 4: YEP.
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  Speaker 6: This particular funding ended at midnight on September thirtieth. You
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  Speaker 6: and I are recording this just after minutes after midnight
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  Speaker 6: on September thirtieth. The appropriation, the authorization for Congress to
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  Speaker 6: spend money, expired minutes ago. Now, there are a couple
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  Speaker 6: of ways you can extend the government funding. One is
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  Speaker 6: an appropriation, and so they're typically in a good year.
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  Speaker 6: They are thirteen appropriation bills that fund each different kind
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  Speaker 6: of major segment of government. For a number of years,
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  Speaker 6: the appropriation bills have not passed. The other major way
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  Speaker 6: that government authorization occurs is through what are called crs.
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  Speaker 6: CR is short for continual resolution. A continued resolution is
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  Speaker 6: essentially Congress saying, what we are spending now, we can
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  Speaker 6: continue continue the status quo identically for X period of time. Now,
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  Speaker 6: the House of Representatives pasted a CR, a clean CR,
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  Speaker 6: to fund the federal government through the middle of November.
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  Speaker 6: So if the Senate had passed it.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Let's be clear, when you say a clean CR,
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  Speaker 3: that means no political.
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  Speaker 4: Shananigans in it.
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  Speaker 3: It's literally saying we're taking the twenty five budget year
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  Speaker 3: and we're going to say the exact same amount we
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  Speaker 3: spent in August, we're gonna spend September, October, November until
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  Speaker 3: we get the new budget. There is no port barrel extras,
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  Speaker 3: there's no political sag against from either side.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, yes, okay. A clean CR says what we
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  Speaker 6: spent yesterday is what we'll spend tomorrow. That everything just
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  Speaker 6: continues the same, and that's what the House has passed.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 6: The challenge is for anything to pass the Senate that
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  Speaker 6: is in the nature of an appropriations or a CRY,
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  Speaker 6: it takes sixty votes because under the filibuster rule, you've
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  Speaker 6: got to have sixty votes to move forward on legislation. So,
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  Speaker 6: as I mentioned, we got fifty five. We got three Democrats,
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  Speaker 6: but we need sixty, which means we need at least
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  Speaker 6: seven Democrats. And actually here we need eight Democrats because
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  Speaker 6: Ran Paul voted no. So we had fifty two Republicans
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  Speaker 6: vote yes, and we needed eight Democrats to vote yes
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  Speaker 6: to fund the government. Well, we only got three, and.
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  Speaker 4: That was on purpose.
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  Speaker 3: And I want to pause just for a second to
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  Speaker 3: go back to cr historically. Let's just go back to
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  Speaker 3: Biden's time in office when you guys were in the minority.
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  Speaker 3: If I'm not mistaken, you guys did this more than
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  Speaker 3: a dozen times where you came to go.
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  Speaker 4: And say, hey, we maintained a thirteen time.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So thirteen different times y'all came together and said,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna spend exactly what we spent yesterday to keep
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  Speaker 3: the government open so we avoid a government shut down.
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  Speaker 3: And you put the American people ahead of politics, and
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  Speaker 3: that is a bipartisan moment, right.
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  Speaker 4: They had to have some of your votes.
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  Speaker 6: So look, every time we came to the end of
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  Speaker 6: government funding, you would have enough Republicans joined with Democrats
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  Speaker 6: to keep the government funded. Now what has changed, Well,
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  Speaker 6: several months ago, we had another expiration of government funding.
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  Speaker 6: And what happened is Chuck Schumer and the Democrats decided, Okay,
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  Speaker 6: let's keep the government going, a very reasonable and very
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  Speaker 6: common sense, a very normal decision. The Democratic left wing
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  Speaker 6: base lost their mind yea, and Chuck Schumer nearly lost
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  Speaker 6: his job because Schumer allowed the government to be funded
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  Speaker 6: several months ago, the left wing rose up against him.
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  Speaker 6: And you want to understand why we have a shutdown,
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  Speaker 6: It's one thing. Schumer is looking over his left shoulder
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  Speaker 6: and he sees aoc running up behind him, and he
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  Speaker 6: is terrified he's going to lose job. So listen, Schumer
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  Speaker 6: knows this is not going to work. He knows this
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  Speaker 6: is failures.
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  Speaker 3: Just pure cover your als politics one oh one by Schumer.
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  Speaker 6: So the radical left wing, they hate Trump and they
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  Speaker 6: want today to be a giant f you to Trump.
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  Speaker 6: They want it to be we hate President Trump, and
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  Speaker 6: we hate President Trump so much we're gonna shut the
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  Speaker 6: entire government down because raar, that's what we're watching now.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, So then hold on, when did this
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  Speaker 3: become the plan was this weeks ago, months ago? Was
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  Speaker 3: this when they had the last year? As I got
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  Speaker 3: the next time it comes up, I have no choice.
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  Speaker 3: I got to shut down the government to flex my muscles.
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  Speaker 3: And also there is a real concern by him that
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  Speaker 3: AOC is going to run against him, primary him in
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  Speaker 3: the Senate. By the way, that is after the next
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  Speaker 3: president's election cycle.
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  Speaker 7: Was that?
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  Speaker 3: And that isn't he up two years after? If I'm
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  Speaker 3: not mistaken, So you got five plus years from now.
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  Speaker 6: So and to be clear, predicted on this podcast, the
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  Speaker 6: inaugural member the chairman of the AOC for President campaign
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  Speaker 6: is Chuck Schumer, because he is desperate for AOC not
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  Speaker 6: to primary him. Ye, he's gonna say, Alexandra, you are
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  Speaker 6: such a big deal, you were so important. Really, the
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  Speaker 6: Senate's too small for you. Why do you want to
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  Speaker 6: bother being in the Senate. You should be in the
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  Speaker 6: White House. Schumer is going to be all in on that,
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  Speaker 6: but he is living with absolute PTSD. He is traumatized.
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  Speaker 6: He sees left wing antifa crazies coming around on every side,
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  Speaker 6: and so from his end, this shutdown is necessary politically. Now,
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  Speaker 6: what did the Democrats demand? They demanded a lot of things.
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  Speaker 6: You know what the number one demand was.
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  Speaker 4: What's that?
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  Speaker 6: Free healthcare for illegals all over the country.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, I mean when you think about that
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  Speaker 3: and the polling data and what it says, I don't
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  Speaker 3: understand why that would make your number one thing. Because
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  Speaker 3: it's clear that the people are behind President Trump. Securing
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  Speaker 3: our borders, stopping government waste for aut of abuse dogs
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  Speaker 3: was a big part of it. And also making sure
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  Speaker 3: that we're not giving out benefits to illegal immigrants, like no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: we want to spend one point five trillion if you
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  Speaker 3: want our votes, and it has to be for health
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  Speaker 3: care for illegal immigrants and food stamps for people that
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  Speaker 3: are able bodied, for example, that refuse to work.
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  Speaker 4: That's another thing, and they're like no, no, no, we buy gal.
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  Speaker 3: You better get mind to people that are just straight
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  Speaker 3: up lazy, that aren't that that have the ability to work,
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  Speaker 3: but you got to pay them to stay home.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: A huge pump chunk of this is getting rid of
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  Speaker 6: the work requirement for government benefits. Democrats don't want anyone
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  Speaker 6: to have to work. They wanted them to be able
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  Speaker 6: to sit at home and get government checks. But did
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  Speaker 6: you see the AI video of the White House put out.
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  Speaker 3: Which one they put out a couple different things. Which
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  Speaker 3: one are you talking about?
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  Speaker 6: I want you? I want I want to play this
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  Speaker 6: for everyone. This is fake so so all the nattering
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  Speaker 6: nabobs this fake news. But it is absolutely hysterical the
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  Speaker 6: White House put out. This is Chuck Schumer and a
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  Speaker 6: Keem Jeffries explaining what this shutdown is all about.
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  Speaker 4: Take a listen to this.
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  Speaker 8: Look, guys, there's no way to sugarcoat it.
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  Speaker 9: Nobody likes Democrats anymore.
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  Speaker 8: We have no voters left because of all of our
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  Speaker 8: woke trans bullshit.
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  Speaker 9: Not even black people want to vote for us anymore.
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  Speaker 8: Even Latinos hate us.
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  Speaker 4: So we need new voters.
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  Speaker 9: And if we give all these illegal aliens free healthcare,
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  Speaker 9: we might be able to get them on our side
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  Speaker 9: so they can vote for us. They can't even speak English,
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  Speaker 9: so they won't realize we're just a bunch of woke
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  Speaker 9: pieces of shit, you know, at least for a while
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  Speaker 9: until they learn English and they realize they hate us too.
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  Speaker 3: See, this is when I love AI. This is when
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  Speaker 3: I absolutely love the spear from the President. And if
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  Speaker 3: you can't see this, you need to go look at it.
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  Speaker 4: We put up on.
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  Speaker 3: Social media the videos and Jeffries has got a really
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  Speaker 3: nice Hannibar mustache and a sombrero on.
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  Speaker 6: Look, pause for a second and realize that was released
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  Speaker 6: by the White House. That was released by the President
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  Speaker 6: of the United States.
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  Speaker 5: I feel a.
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  Speaker 6: Little guilty because we've got some cursewords in there. We
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  Speaker 6: try to avoid cursewords on this podcast. But what do
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  Speaker 6: you do when the president has.
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  Speaker 5: Put that out? You pay it.
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  Speaker 6: And I gotta say, the video sits today at lunch.
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  Speaker 6: So every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, all the Republican senators
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  Speaker 6: have lunch together. Today at lunch, John Thune met with
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  Speaker 6: the President, met with Schumer, met with the King Jeffries
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  Speaker 6: at the White House, and so Thune was giving us
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  Speaker 6: a download on that. And you know, Thune was talking about, Okay,
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  Speaker 6: the Democrats, they don't want to cut a deal. They're
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  Speaker 6: not willing to give it on anything. And I will confess.
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  Speaker 6: I raised my hand. I question, I said, John was
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  Speaker 6: a king Jeffries wearing the sombrero, and what did he say?
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  Speaker 6: He just like but look and everyone cracked up. But
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  Speaker 6: that image. Listen, the Democrats have literally shut down the
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  Speaker 6: federal government because they want free health care for every illegal.
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  Speaker 5: Alien in America.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you want to talk about, like on every issue
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  Speaker 6: that's eighty twenty or even ninety ten, they're on the
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  Speaker 6: twenty or the ten side. The American people do not support.
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  Speaker 6: If you want to have a referendum in this country,
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  Speaker 6: should we give illegals free health care?
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  Speaker 5: Wow? That will be overwhelming. But here's the secret.
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  Speaker 6: This shutdown is not actually about free health care for illegals.
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  Speaker 6: That's what the Democrats have hung their hat on because
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  Speaker 6: they got to say they want.
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  Speaker 4: Some they gotta say something, right.
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  Speaker 6: This is all about just we hate Donald Trump, and
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  Speaker 6: it is Chuck Schumer job preservation. And that also means
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  Speaker 6: the end of this. Okay, there's no universe in which
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  Speaker 6: Chuck Schumer will get President Trump to agree to let's
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  Speaker 6: give free health care to illegals.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, not gonna happen. They know that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're entering.
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  Speaker 6: There's no universe in which Republicans in Congress are going
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  Speaker 6: to say, hey, that's a great idea, let's give free
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  Speaker 6: health care to every illegal Like that's you might as
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  Speaker 6: well ask for Area fifty one, like to release the
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  Speaker 6: Martians and let them take over the country. That is
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  Speaker 6: as likely to happen as free health care for illegals
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  Speaker 6: from Republicans. The Democrats know that this is not about
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  Speaker 6: getting what they're demanding. This is about how long do
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  Speaker 6: they want to demonstrate Orange Man bad Yeah and.
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  Speaker 3: So and the radical base is what has put them
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  Speaker 3: in this scenario. Right, I guess do you actually believe
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  Speaker 3: And let's go back to the history of the Senate here.
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe that Chuck Schumer actually wanted to shut
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  Speaker 3: down the government.
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  Speaker 4: No, No, I think he was forced to do it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he would lose his job. He would lose his
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  Speaker 6: if the government was.
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  Speaker 4: It was self preservation. Yes, he In other words, this
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  Speaker 4: is weird.
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  Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer is being held hostage by the Marxist communists
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  Speaker 3: and socialists in his party, which they did not police
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  Speaker 3: and they allowed to take over their party. Then he's
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  Speaker 3: now holding the American people hostage with a government shutdown,
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  Speaker 3: which brings me the big question. Even when we've had
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  Speaker 3: shutdowns in the past, there has been some agreement center like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: certain people should deserve to get paid, those that are
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  Speaker 3: in the military, those badges, like the list is is
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  Speaker 3: not that long, but the essential important people that deserve
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  Speaker 3: to get a paycheck. We don't screw with them when
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  Speaker 3: they're protecting to fing this country. Can you guys, at
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  Speaker 3: least was there an agreement to pay them?
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so walk us through that, because I'm assuming that
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  Speaker 3: came up at lunch.
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  Speaker 6: So one of the things I did today is I
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  Speaker 6: sent a letter because under the Constitution, members of Congress,
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  Speaker 6: our pay cannot be stopped. It's actually unconstitutional to reduce
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  Speaker 6: the compensation for members of Congress during the term we're
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  Speaker 6: elected to. So I sent a letter, and I've done
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  Speaker 6: this during every shutdown saying while the government is shut down,
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  Speaker 6: don't pay me. It's not fair. It's not right for
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  Speaker 6: an elected member of Congress to receive a paycheck when
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  Speaker 6: federal workers are not. Now, to be clear, I don't
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  Speaker 6: lose my pay when the shutdown is over, I'll get it,
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  Speaker 6: but it's deferred.
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  Speaker 4: But a lot of people don't understand that.
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  Speaker 3: The long which if I think just asinine and I
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  Speaker 3: have family members work in the federal government, and they're like.
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  Speaker 4: The dumb part about this that I think a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of Americans don't understand, yep, is that you don't miss
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: a paycheck in your calendar year you just miss a
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: month and then you get it back data. You get
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: it back the next time whenever the government does open
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: back up. And so I know people that are in
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: the fa for example, they're like, dude, we just plan
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: our vacations like great trips around shutdowns, as we know,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: we're still getting paid.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: We save.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Not everybody can do that, but like they've almost pre
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: planned for this bonus vacation and they're gonna get paid back.
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but let me make several points of clarification. Sure,
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: number one, government shut down as a misnomer. More than
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: eighty percent of the government will continue to operate. So
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: the basic principle is everything that is essential keeps going.
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: So the military, our activity and military like defending the
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: nation against bad guys, that keeps going. The FBI catching
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: criminals that keeps going, the border patrol and ice that
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: keeps going. The FAA air traffic controllers. Tomorrow, if you
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: get it on an airplane, the air traffic controllers.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: All go to work.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: By the way, the air traffic controllers are not getting
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: a paycheck, so they're going to work. But every two
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: weeks federal government employees get paid. Air traffic controllers coast guardsmen, military,
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: the federal government. Nobody gets a paycheck. And so what
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: shuts down. Every cabinet secretary was assigned designate among your
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: employees who is essential and who is not essential. I
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: remember when Bill Clinton was president, we had to shut
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: down then remember Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress were
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: fighting with Bill Clinton. We had to shut down for
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: a number of weeks. And I remember there was a
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: headline that said the Department of Commerce designated thirty percent
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: of their employees is essential and seventy percent is not essential.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: I remember thinking, that's great, we just set a new
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: benchline all those non essential that's seventy percent.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: They ought to be done.
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: But what that means, so what will be shut down?
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: Starting October one, national parks will be shut down. So
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: I got to say, if you were planning to take
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: your family to Yosemite this weekend, yeah, I'm I'm sorry
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: to say, you're out of luck.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: Yosemite will be closed. If you were coming to d C.
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: To two are our nation's capital, you wanted to go
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: to the Smithsonian, go to the Air and Space Museum,
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: it's the Smithsonian will be shut down. If you look
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: at things like the National Institute of Health, like research
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: on cancer, much of that will be shut down all across.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: That's non essential.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: When people are going to say that seems insane, why
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: wouldn't we fix that to make sure when we have
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: these Shenanigans happen that that's not affected.
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: And I think this shutdown will extend. I think it'll
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: be weeks. I think it will be Schumer is trying
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: to protect his own rear end and everything else is
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: secondary to protecting his own political life. So I think
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: we will see an extended shutdown.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: So is this polling then?
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, how do you decide when you won or
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: you lost if you're Schumer? Because this is not about
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: the country hating Schumer. This is only about New York.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: I'm protecting a seat from AOC, So in essence, you
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: don't care how many people hate you in the country.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: It's only a New York thing, is that? I mean?
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Will they do polling? I mean this is weird?
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: Look, so this is being called the Schumer shutdown. Yeah,
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: and I gotta say the Democrats are losing the messaging battle.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: It is clear this is a Democrat shutdown. There was
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: actually exchange right before we had the vote on the
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: CR to keep the government open. And this is a
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: clean CR. No rioters, no nothing, this is just keep
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: every keep the lights on, status quo. Schumer stood up
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: and was speaking, and all the Senators or most of
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: us were standing on the Senate floor, and Schumer said, look,
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: there's been reference to polling, but the polling has been biased.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: It's been right wing polling, for example, the New York Times.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: And I gotta tell you, I and every other Republican
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: we just started cracking up, laughing, and you could see
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: Schumer he actually turned red. He looked sheepish because he
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: just said on the Senate floor that the New York
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: Times was a biased right wing poll.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, seriously.
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: And it was a moment where where like Schumer, you
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: saw Democrats looking at.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Him going, dude, you look like that's weak.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: And that's because the New York Times did a poll
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: if the Democrats don't get everything they want, should they
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: shut the government down? And sixty five percent of Americans
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: said no, don't shut the government down. It was a
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: small percentage. It was just over twenty percent of Americans
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: that said yes, shut the government down. So that's who
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: the Democrats are responding to. But they've got Schumer's message
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: is the New York.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Times is a right wing mouthpiece.
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: And how dare you tell the American people that we,
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: the Democrats, are shutting the government down. This is headed
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: to failure. Everyone knows that. Every Republican knows that, every
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: Democrat knows that. Is there an outcome where Republicans say, okay, great,
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: let's fund healthcare free illegals. No, the Democrats will give in.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: Democrats voted to fund the government. What will happen is
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: the government is shut down. People are gonna get ticked off,
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: people are gonna want to like use by the way,
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: things like passport services will be greatly reduced. All sorts
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: of government now listen. The military keeps going, law enforcement
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: keep going, Social Security keeps going, Medicare keeps going, Medicaid
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: keeps going, an awful lot of government keeps going. But
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: the lack of government being open will be a serious function.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: And at some point we will see seven or eight
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: Democrats say enough is enough, reopen the government.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: That will happen.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: But let me tell you a huge piece that is
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: an X factor in this, which is russ vote. Who
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: is the head of OMB, the Office of Management and
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: budget works for the White House. He put out a
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: memo a week ago that said, if there is a
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: government shutdown, we are going to lay off federal workers.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: We're not going to give them a furlough.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: This is hol on.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: This is the brilliant game of chess that was early
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: on preemptive. Ye warning you do this, and here's what
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: we were going to do. And this might be one
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: of the best moves I've seen politically in a long
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: time in DC, which is go ahead, do it and
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: watch what happens, because a lot of people are gonna
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: get loser jobs. And that's going to be on you
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: guys for allowing it to happen. Right, So explain all that.
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: Yes, So Russ is a good friend, he's a strong conservative,
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: he's a strong fiscal conservative. And what he said is, listen,
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: if Congress decides not to fund the federal government, we're
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: going to react to that. By the White House is
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: instructed every cabinet agency to prepare a plan for a riff,
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: a reduction in force to give permanent layoffs pink slips
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: to government bureaucrats who are left wing bureaucrats who are
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: advancing the priorities of the Democrat Party. So what you
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: are going to see in the next few days. You're
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: going to see bureaucrats at the EPA fired. You're gonna
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: see bureaucrats at the Department of Labor fired. You're gonna
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: see bureaucrats at the RS fired. And within a couple
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: of days we're gonna see Democrat senators. They're going to
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: be in their lunches screaming at each other because this is,
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: frankly an excuse for the Trump administration to do what
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: they wanted to do anyway, which is get rid of
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: left wing bureaucrats. But they now have an incredible justification,
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: which is, hey, Congress chose not to fund them, so
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: instead of giving them a paid vacation, stay home several
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: weeks and then we'll pay you back pay and come
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: back to your job. They're gonna even pick slip and
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: say you're done. You no longer have a job. And
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: I think that is going to ratchet up the pressure
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: on Democrats massively.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: So how quickly can these firings take place, how massive
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: could they be today? And how much research has been
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: done behind the scenes to get rid of a lot
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: of these woke bureaucrats that that we've been wanting to
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: get rid of, that the presidents wanted to get rid of,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: the cabinet secretaries of wanting to get rid of like
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm assuming they're burning the midnight oil kind
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: of like Doag did. Let's find the people we want
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: to get rid of, and this is our chance to
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: do it. And and by the way, once it's done,
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: like it's not like he got one from their jobs back,
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: like it's done.
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: So I think that starts happening today. I think October one,
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: you start.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: Seeing pink slips.
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: I think we will see left wing bureaucrats fired today.
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: I think we'll see them fired tomorrow.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: This evening, I had dinner with the Deputy Secretary of
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: HHS who's a longtime friend of mine. He was actually
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: a grooms in my wedding. Great guy, I asked him.
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: I said, Okay, the White House asked every cabinet agency
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: preparing list of people for the riff, and he said, yeah,
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: we're doing that. He said, every agency, when the White
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: House directs us to do that, we do that. We're
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: going to see I think hundreds, if not thousands, of
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: left wing bureaucrats fired in the next several days. I
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: think that's going to put the Democrat Party in crisis.
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: And by the way, we're not going to fire people
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: that are critical for the priorities you, you and I
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: care about. So we're not going to see Border patrol
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: agents who are securing the border fired. We're not going
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: to see ICE agents who are deporting gang bangers fired.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: We're not going to see FBI agents who are catching pedophiles,
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: We're not going to see them fired. We're not going
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: to see soldiers and sailors and airmen and marines who
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: are keeping this nation safe, We're not going to see
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: them fired. We're going to see bureaucrats who are shutting
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: down factories, who are destroying jobs, who are pursuing radical
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: left wing agendas. They're going to be the ones fired,
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: and ultimately the Democrats are going to cave. The only
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: question is how long Schumer wants to go through the
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: charade before he gives in.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Which brings me my final question, that is the media
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: does seem to be covering this a little bit more
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: with honesty than I've ever seen them before. Today there
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: was a viral clip that is the tables have been
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: turned Democrats are now literally under fire for a clip
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: that shows them slamming government shut down tactics, the same
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: ones they're accused of using right now. And here's what
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: it sounded like back in twenty eighteen. In December of
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: twenty eighteen, Donald Trump was President Chuck schimern An's posi
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: in the Oval office.
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: Listen, we do not want to shut down the government
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: because you can't you shut it down. Yeah, can me
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: say something, mister President of North Dakota and the.
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: Most unfortunate And we came in here in good faith
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: and we're entering into this kind of a discussion in
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: the public.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Transparency.
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: I know, it's high transparency when we're not certipulating to
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: a set of facts.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, you listen to that one. They're like, we're
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: in favor of it.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: And then the speaker also put out a very interesting
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: video montage reminding people the same thing, like, Hey, you
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: guys think that it's the Democrats Mike Johnson putting this
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: out And here he is and what he said to
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: remind the people about Democrats in their own words, it
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: is not.
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: Normal to shut down the government when we don't get
• 29:25
  Speaker 9: what we want.
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: If the government shuts down it will be average Americans
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: who suffer most. A government shutdown means seniors who rely
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: on Social Security could be thrown into chaos.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Families will be hurt, Farmers will be hurt.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: It's the service members who will work without a paycheck.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: It's the firefighters who will be furlough.
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: This shut down.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: You know who's gonna feel the pain.
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: You know who it hurts you?
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Everyday people and the most vulnerable seniors, veterans, working families,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: hungary kids. Y'all.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: Democrats are signally they're ready for a fight this time.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Schuma tells the Associated Press, Well.
• 30:07
  Speaker 9: Things have changed. It is not normal to shut down
• 30:10
  Speaker 9: the government when we don't get what we want.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, I love them using AOC's words. I feel
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: like the media has changed a little bit. Here your
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: thoughts on.
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: That, well, I'm impressed that you recognize AOC's voice.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: I didn't know.
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: I knew that was a shrill Democrat. I didn't know
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: who that was, So I appreciate that clarity. Listen, every
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: single Democrat, I think, without exception, has gone on record
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: being against shutdowns. The fact that they shut it all
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: down today demonstrates what utter hypocrites they are and I
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: got to say as I was walking off the Senate floor.
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: So I voted to fund the government this afternoon. The
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: Democrats voted against it and caused a shut down. All
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: the reporters were circling and they're talking. Point that they
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: really wanted to press is they said, Okay, Cruise in
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: twenty thirteen, in the fight over Obamacare, you Ted Cruz
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: forced to shut down. Isn't that what the Democrats are
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: doing now? And I just started laughing at them, and
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: I said, look, number one, in twenty thirteen, when I
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: did a twenty one hour filibuster on the floor, I
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: was fighting for Americans. I was fighting for American citizens
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: whose healthcare premiums had skyrocketed, and they had skyrocketed because
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: Obamacare was a train wreck. It was a disaster. It
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: caused a massive increase in health insurance premiums. It made
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: the health insurance companies rich, and it made millions of
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: ordinary Americans unable to afford health insurance. And by the way,
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: I was also fighting for it at a time when
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: the House of Representatives that was Republican had voted to
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: fund the federal government, fund the entirety of the federal government,
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: but not fund Obamacare, so not fund the law that
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: was causing damage to American citizens. And I said, here,
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: what's happening is Chuck Schumer is shutting down the federal
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: government not to help American citizens who are getting hurt,
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: but he's shutting down the federal government in order to
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: help millions of illegal aliens and give them free healthcare.
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: And he's willing to shut down your federal government to
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: give free health care to illegals, and that fundamentally there's
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: a hypocrisy to it. And I also said, you know,
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: the reporters were like, isn't it the same, And I said, listen,
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: let me be clear. In twenty thirteen it was Chuck
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: Schumer who shut the government down. Then I was trying
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: to fund the entirety of the federal government except for Obamacare,
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: and Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid decided, no, we'll shut
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: it all down because we care so much about socialized medicine.
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: And I told the reporters. We had like fifty reporters
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: standing outside the Senate floor and I said, look, none
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: of you guys reported that. You all blamed the shutdown
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: on me because you're left wing hacks. Yeah, today all
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: of you are still left wing hacks. You agree with
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: the Democrats, but the facts are so overwhelming. It is
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: Chuck Schumer and the Democrats who are shutting the government
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: down that even you dishonest liars are reporting. This is
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: the Schumer shutdown because the House has funded the government
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: exactly the status quo. The funding yesterday has continued to tomorrow.
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: It is the Democrats who said let's shut it down,
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: and I think at the end of the day they're
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: going to lose that battle. But this is what you
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: got to ask yourself is how long do the Democrats
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: have to perform for their crazy left wing activists before
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: they allow the government to reopen.
• 33:47
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• 33:50
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