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Democrat created TSA Pay Crisis Sparks Emergency Action from the Oval Office · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Good Friday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 1: the forty seven Morning Update. And we've got one big
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  Speaker 1: story coming out of the White House this morning, and
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  Speaker 1: that's this President Donald Trump announcing from the White House
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  Speaker 1: that he is signing an emergency order to pay TSA
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  Speaker 1: agents immediately. This comes amid a forty one day shutdown
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  Speaker 1: affecting funding for the Department of Homeland Security. All the
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  Speaker 1: and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 5: Story number one.
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  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump declares an emergency to pay TSA agents
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  Speaker 1: at airports as chaos is continuing to grip America. In
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  Speaker 1: my hometown, the lines were over four hours long, forcing me,
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  Speaker 1: as I'm doing this show right now, to drive out
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  Speaker 1: of town to a meeting instead of flying. That's how
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  Speaker 1: bad it really is. And I'm not the only one
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  Speaker 1: that's frustrated by this President's angry, and so is the
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  Speaker 1: Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. I've never seen in
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  Speaker 1: this mad in public, red face and even banging his fists,
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  Speaker 1: banging his fists on the lectern.
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  Speaker 3: Is willing to fund all of the security and safety
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  Speaker 3: of the American people. We cannot believe it's come to that,
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  Speaker 3: but it has the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: Will you put it on the.
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  Speaker 3: Floor, We'll have to see. We have to solve the problem,
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  Speaker 3: and it's very sad that Democrats are not interested in
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  Speaker 3: doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Yet, it does that mean that you're not in favor
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  Speaker 1: of breaking the DHS funding bill apart just funding TSA,
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  Speaker 1: just funding FEMA, having individual votes on this sec.
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  Speaker 3: We have never been in favor of breaking the bill
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  Speaker 3: up wide because it's one of the twelve separate appropriations bills.
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  Speaker 3: That is the most basic function of Congress to fund
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  Speaker 3: the government. And we did it in a by partisan
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  Speaker 3: by campberal Men. Remember the contents of that bill were
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  Speaker 3: decided upon earlier by Democrats until they decided to hold
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  Speaker 3: the American people hostage in their long lines at the
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  Speaker 3: airports and with the safety of everybody on the line,
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  Speaker 3: to make a political point. It is shameful. There is
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  Speaker 3: no way for them to defend this to the American people,
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  Speaker 3: and breaking it out is a I think it puts
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  Speaker 3: an exclamation point on what they've tried to do here.
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  Speaker 3: It's shameful. So many people have been through so many
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  Speaker 3: hardships because of this nonsense, and what we're concerned about
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  Speaker 3: is people may actually be hurt, more people harmed by criminal,
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  Speaker 3: illegal aliens that are being protected by the Democrat Party
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  Speaker 3: and we're sick.
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  Speaker 1: Of and we're sick of it now. The President has
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  Speaker 1: also had enough, and that is what made the present
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  Speaker 1: step in and he did something that immediately grabbed headlines
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  Speaker 1: across the country, declaring the situation at America's airports a
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  Speaker 1: national emergency and announcing that he will sign an order
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  Speaker 1: to ensure that TSA agents get paid. Think about how
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  Speaker 1: serious that actually is. It is we are now to
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  Speaker 1: point where the President of the United States of America
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  Speaker 1: is saying Congress has failed. The system is literally broken,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm stepping in to fix it because it is
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  Speaker 1: now a national emergency. Now, all of this stems from
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  Speaker 1: the prolonged funding standoff in Washington, DC over the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Homeland Security, as you heard Speaker Johnson say a
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  Speaker 1: moment ago. For weeks now, lawmakers have been locked in
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  Speaker 1: that political battle, holding America hostage. The Democratic leadership all
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  Speaker 1: of this around them, hating ICE agents and wanting to
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  Speaker 1: defund ice. The President saying this at the White House
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  Speaker 1: as the reports started to break that he decided to
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  Speaker 1: take matters into his own hands to save the country
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  Speaker 1: yet again.
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  Speaker 2: As the DHS shut down drags on, some Senate Republicans
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  Speaker 2: are now reportedly asking the White House to declare a
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  Speaker 2: national emergency to free up money and pay TSA workers
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  Speaker 2: ahead of the Spring break travel seats.
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  Speaker 5: Were now on day forty one of the disgraceful Democrats
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  Speaker 5: shutdown of Mark Wayne's department. Congratulations became into a department of.
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  Speaker 2: The shutdown, and there's no movement in sight.
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  Speaker 4: Look, we are not going to fund iuce. I just
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  Speaker 4: want to be clear on this. Until we get some
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  Speaker 4: restrictions in place. That's just a hard no for.
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  Speaker 2: Us, even as TSA says airport wait times are now
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  Speaker 2: the longest in agency history.
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  Speaker 4: Today in Houston, frustrating, Right, you show up five hours early,
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  Speaker 4: you think you're there, and you go down to the basement,
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  Speaker 4: work your way around baggage you claim to come up to,
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  Speaker 4: then go outside and sweat to come back inside to
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  Speaker 4: see more lines.
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  Speaker 2: So far, nearly five hundred TSA officers have quit because
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  Speaker 2: of unreliable pay. As new Fox polls show nearly a
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  Speaker 2: third of Americans twenty seven percent are living paycheck to paycheck.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump says Americans are mad at Congressional Democrats. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I show it today on one of the shows when
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  Speaker 2: they were interviewing people at the airport and they're actually
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  Speaker 2: hangry a tumor.
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  Speaker 1: Now the president's saying he's signing this executive order to
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  Speaker 1: address the airport disruptions, announcing the move in a statement
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  Speaker 1: on True Social framing the situation as nothing more than
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  Speaker 1: a basic major national emergency quote. Because the Democrats have
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  Speaker 1: recklessly created a true national crisis. I am using my
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  Speaker 1: authorities under the law to protect our great country. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to sign an order to immediately pay our
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  Speaker 1: TSA agents in order to address the emergency situation. The
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  Speaker 1: White House said, funding from legislation back by Trump will
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  Speaker 1: be used to ensure TSA officers are paid during the disruption.
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  Speaker 1: Quote not unlike actions taken during the first Democratic shutdown,
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  Speaker 1: i e. Payments to troops. President Trump is determined that
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  Speaker 1: Congressional Democrats have created an emergency situation that cannot be
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  Speaker 1: allowed to continue. Is what the White House Office of
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  Speaker 1: Management and Budget Communications director said in a statement to
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  Speaker 1: Fox News Homeecurity Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen, praising the move,
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  Speaker 1: writing on ACTS that he wants to thank President Trump
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  Speaker 1: for his leadership in finding a way to pay our
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  Speaker 1: TSA officers to end this chaos at our airports. These
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  Speaker 1: hour long lines and thousands of Americans missing their flights
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  Speaker 1: was all caused solely by the Democrats. Reckless DHS shutdown,
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  Speaker 1: Mullen added, calling on Democrats to stop playing political games
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  Speaker 1: with our national security and reopen the department.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: This move comes as day forty one of this partial
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  Speaker 1: government shutdown has disrupted the Transportation Security Administration, causing long
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  Speaker 1: lines at airports nationwide. I'm then a standoff over DHS
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  Speaker 1: funding and also the issue of immigration enforcement. President Trump
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  Speaker 1: accusing Democrats of refusing to fund immigration enforcement and creating
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  Speaker 1: the chaos on purpose as revenge, which is exactly what
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  Speaker 1: we are witnessing from Democrats. They're saying, we don't want
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  Speaker 1: any of these TSA agents there, and we don't want
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  Speaker 1: ICE agents at all, And while the Democrats hold us hostage,
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  Speaker 1: this is what's actually been happening in the real world.
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  Speaker 1: Tens of thousands of TSA agents, the people responsible for
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  Speaker 1: securing our airports. They have been working now without paychecks
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  Speaker 1: for more than forty one days. Many of them have
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  Speaker 1: been forced to call in sick, hundreds and hundreds have
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  Speaker 1: quit all together, and across the country. Americans are now
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  Speaker 1: feeling the pain that was all created by the Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: The long lines, the missing fights, the security delays are
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  Speaker 1: literally unlike anything we've ever seen in the history of
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  Speaker 1: this country. At our airports and at some airports today,
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  Speaker 1: wait times had surged to record levels. And that's not
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  Speaker 1: just an inconvenience. The President now says, it's an national
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  Speaker 1: security concern because when airport security is stretched thin, when
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  Speaker 1: staffing drops, when morale collapses, that's when vulnerabilities start to emerge.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what prompted President Trump to act, The
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  Speaker 1: White House said in his statement, he made it clear
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  Speaker 1: he believes this crisis was created because of political gridlock
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  Speaker 1: in DC, and he had no other choice but to
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  Speaker 1: use what he says are his legal authorities to step
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  Speaker 1: in and restore the order. He also directed the Security
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  Speaker 1: of Homeland Security to quote immediately pay the TSA agents,
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  Speaker 1: meaning no delay, bypassing Congress in the process. Now, let's
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  Speaker 1: be clear, this is not a typical move. Normally Congress
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  Speaker 1: controls the purse strings. Funding federal workers without congressional approval
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  Speaker 1: is highly unusual, and Democrats more than likely are going
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  Speaker 1: to sue. They're going to claim it raises serious legal questions,
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  Speaker 1: and they're not just going to want to debate it,
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  Speaker 1: They're going to want to debate it in court. But
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  Speaker 1: from President Trump's perspective, the argument seems to be simple.
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  Speaker 1: These making to the American people, when national security is
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  Speaker 1: at risk, actions cannot wait. And that's the framing that
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  Speaker 1: you're going to hear more and more in the days
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  Speaker 1: to come. Now many Americans are going to support the move.
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  Speaker 1: Polling says that's exactly what leadership looks like, stepping in
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  Speaker 1: when Washington fails. The majority of Americans are in favor
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  Speaker 1: of that, and making sure critical workers are paid and
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  Speaker 1: preventing further breakdowns in airport security. The majority of Americans
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  Speaker 1: overwhelmingly seem to be in favor of that. Now the media,
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  Speaker 1: in critics, well, they're already raising concerns about executive overreach
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  Speaker 1: of the president and whether Trump has the authority to
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  Speaker 1: spend money without Congress. But while the debate plays out,
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  Speaker 1: one thing is clear. The pressure is now squarely on
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats and lawmakers to figure this out because the
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  Speaker 1: longer this standoff continues, the worse the consequences become. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: we are talking about airportant disruptions across the country. Thousands
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  Speaker 1: of federal workers in financial distress are quitting all together
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  Speaker 1: in a system that millions of Americans rely on every
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  Speaker 1: single day, including our economy. So now the question is
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  Speaker 1: what will happen next. Does Congress finally reach a deal
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  Speaker 1: and fund the DHS, or does this emergency action become
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  Speaker 1: the new reality for the executive branch is forced to
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  Speaker 1: step in when legislation fails in Congress.
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