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Schumer Shuts Down the Government, over his Job · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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