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WH Eyes $30 Billion Savings in Healthcare Shake-Up plus Tuberville Champions ‘Uber Act’ for English-Proficient Drivers · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: It is big news.
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Speaker 2: The White House is unveiling a new healthcare framework they
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Speaker 2: say will lower costs for all Americans. This after the
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Speaker 2: debacle that was exposed during the government shutdown of just
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Speaker 2: how much money we are spending to subsidize the Affordable
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Speaker 2: Care Act, which is anything but affordable. The Trump White House,
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Speaker 2: were now being told, is expected to unveil a healthcare
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Speaker 2: policy framework that not only would lower costs, but also
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Speaker 2: extend expiring Obamacare subsidies while they figure out how to
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Speaker 2: move forward.
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Speaker 1: Ms Now and.
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Speaker 2: Politico reported both that the healthcare policy framework would include
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Speaker 2: a two year extension of the expiring Enhanced Premium tax credits.
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Speaker 2: Those are the subsidies that you're paying for. Yes, Obamacare
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Speaker 2: is not cheap at all. It did not make things
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Speaker 2: more affordable at all.
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Speaker 1: In fact, it.
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Speaker 2: Made the healthcare insurance providers rich at the expense of you,
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Speaker 2: the tax payer. We also know that they will be
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Speaker 2: enhanced to Obamacare subsidies, which would otherwise expire at the
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Speaker 2: end of the year. The proposal could be unveiled as
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Speaker 2: early as this coming Monday.
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Speaker 1: A White House.
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Speaker 2: Spokesman declined to confirm the details of the plan, stating
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Speaker 2: quote until President Trump makes an announcement himself. Any reporting about
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Speaker 2: the administration's health care positions is mere speculation.
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Speaker 1: But here's what we are learning through background.
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Speaker 2: The plan apparently with lower limits on income eligibility for credits,
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Speaker 2: and that would save American taxpayers a significant amount of money.
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Speaker 2: It would also, I'm being told, set minimum premium payments
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Speaker 2: as well. According to multiple reports, the proposed eligibility cap
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Speaker 2: would set the subsidies to seven hundred percent of the
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Speaker 2: federal poverty line. Republicans have complained that with the Colone
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Speaker 2: Obama here in hand subsis scheme, wealthy Americans would benefit
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Speaker 2: from the subseason what was meant to be only temporary.
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Speaker 1: Why were they temporary?
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Speaker 2: It was during the COVID nineteen coronavirus outbreak when they
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Speaker 2: had these extra benefits that now Democrats want to make
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Speaker 2: well last forever, which is insane. The White House plan
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Speaker 2: also would urge Congress to fund cost sharing reductions and plans,
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Speaker 2: which Republicans pushed for in the Big Beautiful Bill, but
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Speaker 2: were next after Senate Democrats objected to its inclusion in
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Speaker 2: Trump's landmark legislation, believing it violated rules on budgetary reconciliation.
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Speaker 2: They claimed now here's the other part that's very interesting
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Speaker 2: about this. The Congressional Budget Office found that these healthcare
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Speaker 2: reforms would have lowered healthcare premiums by twelve point seven
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Speaker 2: percent and reduced costs by decreasing the need for Obamacare
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Speaker 2: and the welfare of the government for the epcts known
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Speaker 2: as the subsidies for Obamacare. The plans would have also
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Speaker 2: lowered the costs if this CRS plan would have been
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Speaker 2: put into effect by thirty point eight billion dollars. Now
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Speaker 2: that's literally thirty point eight billion dollars. It would have
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Speaker 2: saved you the tax payer, and that is exactly why
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Speaker 2: Democrats were against it. Now, the Trump proposal would also
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Speaker 2: have part of their tax credits go straight to Americans
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Speaker 2: via tax advantage savings accounts instead of the checks going
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Speaker 2: directly to healthcare insurance companies that are getting rich to
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Speaker 2: lower America's premium indirectly, the President probably would like to
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Speaker 2: go bigger. Then the Hill has the appetite four So
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Speaker 2: we'll have to see how that.
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Speaker 1: You know, how it works out.
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Speaker 2: Is what the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, James
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Speaker 2: Blair said last week talking about the reforms that need
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Speaker 2: to be made. What we also know is the White
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Speaker 2: House WT Chief of Staff saying that President Trump would
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Speaker 2: love to push for healthcare reform in a way that
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Speaker 2: would be meaningful, saying, quote, we're going to have to
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Speaker 2: have the healthcare conversation. We're going to put some legislation forward.
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Speaker 2: The w chiefs said there could be interest in bi
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Speaker 2: Parson reform. However, he said if that path is foreclosed,
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Speaker 2: there is the Parson path of reconciliation as well. The
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Speaker 2: President probably would like to go big because there needs
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Speaker 2: to be big reforms. Republican lawmakers have said they believe
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Speaker 2: the White House will release a framework to lower health
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Speaker 2: insurance costs, expand health savings accounts, and scrap parts of
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Speaker 2: the Affordable Care Act that are just flat out unsustainable.
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Speaker 2: In fact, which of the Obamacare program is unsustainable without
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Speaker 2: record tax dollars going to prop it up? As I
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Speaker 2: mentioned earlier, there's nothing affordable about the Affordable Care Act now.
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Speaker 2: The White House also signaled that the President's interest in
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Speaker 2: healthcare reform is something he believes could be a massive
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Speaker 2: change for the American people. A slide deck shared by
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Speaker 2: the House Majority Leader Stieve Skalise this last week made
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Speaker 2: it clear that House GOP leadership also falls in the
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Speaker 2: overhaul camp. One slide that was viewed by Politico was
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Speaker 2: titled the Unaffordable Care Act and highlighted statistics that show
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Speaker 2: the premiums have increased by eighty percent since the ACA
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Speaker 2: passage AKA since Obamacare became law. It also claimed that
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Speaker 2: more than fifty percent of Obamacare and rollees did not
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Speaker 2: file a single claim this year. Walking into the meeting, school,
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Speaker 2: he said in a brief interview that he planned to
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Speaker 2: keep talking with the chairs of three key committees of
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Speaker 2: jurisdiction over health policy. That would be Ways and Means,
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Speaker 2: Energy and Commerce, Education, and the workforce. Now, healthcare became
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Speaker 2: a focal point in the national politics as Democrats shut
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Speaker 2: the government down, as I mentioned earlier for weeks over
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Speaker 2: what they described as mandatory Obamacare subsidies. They were not mandatory.
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Speaker 2: They were enhanced during COVID and they will expire on purpose.
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Speaker 2: The Democrats planned this way at the end of the year.
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Speaker 2: Democrats first enhanced these substies through one point nine trillion
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Speaker 2: let me say that again, one point nine trillion in
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Speaker 2: coronavirus era stimulus plans, including the American Rescue Plan. They
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Speaker 2: continue the subseas through the end of twenty twenty five
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Speaker 2: with the so called Inflation Reduction Act that did anything
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Speaker 2: but that. Trump weighed in on the issues, stating that
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Speaker 2: healthcare dollars should go directly to the American people instead
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Speaker 2: of through subsidies to health insurance companies, saying it this
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Speaker 2: way on social media, quote, the only healthcare I will
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Speaker 2: support or approve is sending the money directly back to
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Speaker 2: the people, with nothing going to the big, fat rich
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Speaker 2: insurance companies who have made trillions and ripped off America.
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Speaker 2: Long enough, the people will be allowed to negotiate and
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Speaker 2: by their own much better insurance. Power to the people. Congress,
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Speaker 2: do not waste your time and energy on anything else.
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Speaker 2: This is the only way to have great health care
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Speaker 2: in America. The Republican Set of Community chairman said that
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Speaker 2: a second reconciliation bill should address affordability, which should include
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Speaker 2: healthcare reform, saying the Democrats are incapable of coming up
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Speaker 2: with a plan that is competitive, transparent, and actually reduces costs.
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Speaker 2: Whine because they're lining the pockets of their friends in
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Speaker 2: the healthcare provider industry, and they know that as long
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Speaker 2: as the government's willing to send them the check. They
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Speaker 2: get rich every single time the money comes into their accounts.
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Speaker 2: This also just goes back to consumer choice and freedom.
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Speaker 2: The President believes that you, as an American, deserve to
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Speaker 2: have your money and then you can put it to
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Speaker 2: work the way that you decide to do it, in
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Speaker 2: a more responsible manner than the corruption of the government.
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Speaker 2: Doctor Mark Siegel on Fox News Channel talking about exactly this,
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Speaker 2: and here is what he had to say on Fox
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Speaker 2: News Sunday.
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Speaker 3: But I can't get your treatments.
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Speaker 4: What about this idea that the President has floated about
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Speaker 4: the money that flows into a lot of these subsidies
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Speaker 4: instead of paying the insurance companies, going direct to the
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Speaker 4: consumer and letting them take the money with them where
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Speaker 4: they choose.
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Speaker 3: He's gotten a lot of for that, but he's on
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Speaker 3: the right track because it would give the consumer more
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Speaker 3: control of the situation. Health savings accounts are part of this.
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Speaker 3: Being able to buy your own insurance, making it affordable
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Speaker 3: and you choose a marketplace idea. It's more, it's not
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Speaker 3: quite that simple. That's a huge step in the right direction.
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Speaker 4: Well, what are your odds? Do you so?
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Speaker 2: At the end of the day, there are two options.
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Speaker 2: Either you as an American, say no, no, no government, Just
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Speaker 2: be in charge of my life. Doesn't matter how much
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Speaker 2: it costs. Just you be in charge of my health care.
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Speaker 2: Or there's the Donald Trump plan, which is he believes
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Speaker 2: that you, as an American, should decide what is best
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Speaker 2: for you, that you should spend your money in a
9:38
Speaker 2: way that is well more responsible than what the government
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Speaker 2: does each and every day. And he believes that prices
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Speaker 2: will lower significantly if you do it that way. I
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Speaker 2: think many Americans have made it clear that they like
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Speaker 2: the way the President is describing this and the amount
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Speaker 2: of corruption that we are witnessing from those in the
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Speaker 2: Democratic Party and in governm who are overspending your tax
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Speaker 2: tours and what are you actually getting in return? Not
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Speaker 2: a lot for your money. And that's where we are today.
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Speaker 2: There is a lot of anger at the moment by
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Speaker 2: the radical left, a demand by the name of Senater
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Speaker 2: Tommy Tuberville. Why because Tommy Tuverville is using logic and
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Speaker 2: common sense on something that is actually pretty important, transportation center.
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Speaker 2: Tommy Teverville is now pushing an Uber Act that would
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Speaker 2: require English proficiency for ride share drivers. Now, if you've
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Speaker 2: ever been picked up by an Uber driver who doesn't
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Speaker 2: speak any English. You understand just how frustrating it can be,
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Speaker 2: especially if it's the airport. You're in another city and
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Speaker 2: you don't know what's happening, and then you have someone
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Speaker 2: you cannot communicate with. I travel constantly and it is
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Speaker 2: one of the biggest frustrations that I've had, either not
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Speaker 2: being able to find me or not being able to
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Speaker 2: get me to where I need to go and then
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Speaker 2: saying sorry, no English. So Tommy Tuverville isn't the only
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Speaker 2: one that is paying attention to this. Constituents are as well,
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Speaker 2: and that's why he's coming out and saying it is
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Speaker 2: essential to ensure that ride shared drivers speak English.
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Speaker 1: He said this.
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Speaker 2: During an appearance on a Breitbart News Daily discussing his
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Speaker 2: understanding of Basic English Requirements Act or the Uber Act.
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Speaker 2: When asked abad's proposal, Tullbvill said it covers any kind
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Speaker 2: of delivery driving, pointing to the importance of doing this
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Speaker 2: for truck drivers as well. First of all, we got
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Speaker 2: the CDL done. The big truckers, you know you got
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Speaker 2: to speak English, he said. Here's more of that conversation.
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Speaker 2: He had take a listen.
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Speaker 5: The Uber Act. Understanding Basic English requirements for ride share drivers.
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Speaker 5: So I'm assuming this also means like a door dash
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Speaker 5: and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: So what's the deal here, Walmart delivery?
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Speaker 6: Anything to do with people driving? Okay, first of all,
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Speaker 6: we got the CDL done. The big truckers. You know,
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Speaker 6: you got to speak English and read English to drive.
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Speaker 6: You can't read the signs, you're gonna hurt somebody. And
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Speaker 6: we've had mini erecs because of people that Gavin Newsom
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Speaker 6: in California has given just handed out these truck licenses
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Speaker 6: and kill people because those things are weapons if you
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Speaker 6: don't know what you're doing. Now, here's what's happened in
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Speaker 6: Uber and Lyft. We have in a lot of areas
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Speaker 6: in Alabama and in the South, in peak times for
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Speaker 6: beaches and all those things, you're having an influx of
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Speaker 6: people coming from other countries, and a lot of them
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Speaker 6: Muslim that come in. Sixty seventy of them live in
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Speaker 6: four or five houses. They pass their vass around to
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Speaker 6: each one of them, and they pass their driver's license around.
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Speaker 6: They can't speak English and they drive Uber and Lyft
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Speaker 6: and folks, we got to stop it because you know,
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Speaker 6: if you can't communicate with somebody, I've had Walmart people
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Speaker 6: delivering to my house that they'll call I can't well,
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Speaker 6: what are you talking about? I mean they're lost, they
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Speaker 6: can't read the signs. We have got to protect the
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Speaker 6: citizens of this country, and that's what this bill is about.
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Speaker 6: If you can't speak English and take an English driving test,
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Speaker 6: you do not get a driver's license, and you do
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Speaker 6: not drive people around for lyftan uber doesn't happen.
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Speaker 5: Or Walmart the So it's the danger issue. But it
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Speaker 5: seems like it seems like if you're an a legal alien,
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Speaker 5: the easiest job or the quickest job that you can
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Speaker 5: get is to work for door dash or whatever. So
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Speaker 5: we got to stop that, right is that is that
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Speaker 5: one of the motives too, is to just turn off
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Speaker 5: a bit of a magnet for illegals, give.
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Speaker 6: People jobs that live in this country, because now you'll
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Speaker 6: let a lot of people come from other countries that
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Speaker 6: are they're illegal here and they're doing door dash and
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Speaker 6: all that because it's the only thing they can get
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Speaker 6: a job doing. But it again, it takes away from
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Speaker 6: people in this country that are citizens that can make
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Speaker 6: a living. And you know, it's they might pinies own
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Speaker 6: the dollar and these people love it. This cheap labor.
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Speaker 6: But that's part of our problem with immigration in this country.
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Speaker 2: You hear what Tommy tuber Bill is saying here, and
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Speaker 2: part of it I want to go back to. He says,
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Speaker 2: we have a lot of areas in Alabama that's where
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Speaker 2: he's the center of in the South, and peak times
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Speaker 2: for beaches and all these things. We're having an influx
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Speaker 2: people coming from other countries, and a lot of people
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Speaker 2: that are coming in, he said, a lot of them Musslim.
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Speaker 2: They come in, sixty seventy of them live in four
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Speaker 2: or five houses. They pass their visas around each other,
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Speaker 2: each one of them, and they pass their driver's licenses around.
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Speaker 2: They can't speak English, and they drive over and lyft,
14:39
Speaker 2: so they're basically one person gets in and then they
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Speaker 2: just basically fake it.
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Speaker 1: He said, we got to.
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Speaker 2: Stop it because if you can't communicate with somebody, and
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Speaker 2: he goes back to what he said about Walmart, I
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Speaker 2: got people delivering to my house and their loss.
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Speaker 1: They can't read the signs.
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Speaker 2: We've got to protect the citizens of this country, and
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Speaker 2: that's what this bill is about. If you can't speak
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Speaker 2: English and you and take an English driving tests, you
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Speaker 2: do not get a driver's license, and you do not
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Speaker 2: drive people around for Lyft and Uber. This all goes
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Speaker 2: back to by the way of the CDL. You got
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Speaker 2: big truckers. They can't speak English, they can't read the
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Speaker 2: English signs. How is that safe? If you can't read
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Speaker 2: the signs, you're gonna hurt somebody. We've seen people die
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Speaker 2: because of this, and we've had a lot of racks,
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Speaker 2: a lot of this because of California Gavin Newsom given
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Speaker 2: handing out these CDLs to people.
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Speaker 1: They're killing people on our roadways. We know this.
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Speaker 2: These eighteen wheelers, these rigs are weapons. They will take
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Speaker 2: your life if you don't know what you're doing, and
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Speaker 2: if you can't speak English, it is a problem. This
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Speaker 2: is also and I go back to exploiting. Why is
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Speaker 2: it that Uber and Lyft and door dash have so
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Speaker 2: many illegal immigrant drivers. It's the easiest way to get
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Speaker 2: a job. You can lie about it. We see people
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Speaker 2: that lie about it and they are not the person
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Speaker 2: that you think is picking you up, is picking you up.
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Speaker 2: They share these cars and these licenses and they're there
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Speaker 2: just to get, you know, exploit the system any way
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Speaker 2: they possibly can. I think this is for me a
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Speaker 2: no brainer. I think for me, this is just straight
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Speaker 2: up common sense. For me, this is one of those
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Speaker 2: where it's like, I want people to be safe. If
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Speaker 2: you are taking an uber and a lift, I believe
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Speaker 2: that you should be able to feel safe. And what
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Speaker 2: does it mean to feel safe? Means the person that's
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Speaker 2: picking you up you can communicate with, like. I think
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Speaker 2: that's really, really, really, really incredibly important. I think it's
16:43
Speaker 2: for others around you that maybe even don't know who
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Speaker 2: you are, feel safe as well. Knowing that there are
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Speaker 2: people on the roadways that are not going to make
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Speaker 2: a mistake because they cannot speak English, because they cannot
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Speaker 2: read the signs, there is a reckoning is maybe the
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Speaker 2: best way that I can describe it that I think
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Speaker 2: is happening right now where we are genuinely going back.
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Speaker 1: To common sense instead of this insanity.
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Speaker 2: I think people now care more about safety than they
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Speaker 2: have in a very long time.
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Speaker 1: I'll give you another example of this.
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Speaker 2: The FAA says it's launching one of the biggest air
17:24
Speaker 2: traffic controller hiring pushes in decades, aiming to bring on
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Speaker 2: about eight thousand, nine hundred new controllers by twenty twenty eight.
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Speaker 2: As part of a supercharge effort back by Sean Duffy,
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Speaker 2: the Transition Secretary. The agency hired twenty twenty six controllers
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Speaker 2: in the fiscal year twenty twenty five, beating its goal
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Speaker 2: of two thousand after bringing in eighteen hundred the year before.
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Speaker 2: They have plans to hire more than twenty two hundred
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Speaker 2: next year. They're trying to fill every seat at its
17:55
Speaker 2: training academy in Oklahoma City, and they say even with
17:58
Speaker 2: a SEARCHEUS, some will still feel tight. FA workforce plans
18:03
Speaker 2: and outside analysis say the agency is roughly three thousand
18:06
Speaker 2: and thirty five hundred controllers short of where it wants
18:11
Speaker 2: to be, with many facilities relying on mandatory overtime in
18:14
Speaker 2: six to eight weeks work weeks to keep scheduling running. Retirements,
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Speaker 2: early exits, and high washout rates in training mean that
18:23
Speaker 2: even hiring the nearly nine thousand new controllers by the
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Speaker 2: end of twenty twenty eight would result in a net
18:27
Speaker 2: gain of only about one thousand additional certified controllers in
18:31
Speaker 2: the FA ranks, according to the agency's own forecasts. They're
18:35
Speaker 2: trying to get ahead of it here, and this is
18:38
Speaker 2: again about safety for travelers. They say this is a
18:43
Speaker 2: backstory behind a lot of staffing delay messages. When there's
18:47
Speaker 2: not enough controllers on a shift, the FA slows the
18:50
Speaker 2: rate of arrivals and departures. Many of you have been
18:52
Speaker 2: affected by that. I have during travel recently outside the
18:55
Speaker 2: government shut down by the way, which can back up
18:57
Speaker 2: flights for hours. And the new high pushes men to
19:00
Speaker 2: chip away at that problem, they say, while the agency
19:03
Speaker 2: also modernize old computer systems and officials ad minute will
19:07
Speaker 2: take years before passengers really feel the difference because they're
19:11
Speaker 2: so far behind now. For now, they say, the US
19:14
Speaker 2: is trying to rebuild a control of workforce that was
19:17
Speaker 2: allowed to shrink for far too long, certainly under the
19:20
Speaker 2: Biden administration, but even before that, there were warning signs,
19:25
Speaker 2: and people didn't pay attention to those warning signs.
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Speaker 1: So if you look at these two issues.
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Speaker 2: One of the things I'll say is when the president
19:32
Speaker 2: is clearly focused on what he can do now to
19:34
Speaker 2: help you, but also what he can do to make
19:38
Speaker 2: you safer, and he's inherited a lot of problems and
19:41
Speaker 2: he's doing everything he can to fix those problems. I
19:45
Speaker 2: love where we're headed with this. I hate that we're there.
19:48
Speaker 2: I hate that this is the reality of the situation.
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Speaker 2: But I love where we are headed. There's a word
19:55
Speaker 2: that a lot of you may have heard, affordability. That
19:58
Speaker 2: is the obsession the Democratic Party right now, something they
20:03
Speaker 2: never mentioned when Joe Biden was President of the United
20:05
Speaker 2: States of America. Instead, they lied to you and said
20:08
Speaker 2: that there was no such thing as inflation, that it
20:10
Speaker 2: was transitory, and that things were quote getting better, and
20:14
Speaker 2: gas prices really weren't that bad.
20:16
Speaker 1: Well, now they're wanting.
20:18
Speaker 2: Americans to believe that the economy is a disaster, and
20:22
Speaker 2: they're trying to blame Donald Trump for everything. So let's
20:25
Speaker 2: talk about the facts of where we were a year
20:27
Speaker 2: ago compared to now, specifically around Black Friday and holiday
20:33
Speaker 2: travel for Thanksgiving travelers, there's a bit of good news.
20:38
Speaker 2: Let me say that again, a bit of good news
20:40
Speaker 2: for you at the pump. Gas prices are holding steady,
20:45
Speaker 2: a far crime from the sticker shock of recent years.
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Speaker 2: Gas Buddy is now forecasting a national average three dollars
20:53
Speaker 2: and two cents per gallon over the holiday, matching, yes,
20:59
Speaker 2: a low price that we needed desperately to help Americans.
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Speaker 2: And we also now know that there's other things that
21:06
Speaker 2: are really exciting Thanksgiving gas prices. This is the lowest
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Speaker 2: we've had since the pandemic, when the national average hit
21:14
Speaker 2: three dollars and thirty nine cents a gallon in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty one and three dollars and fifty six cents a
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Speaker 2: gallon in twenty twenty two. Gas prices are coming down
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Speaker 2: and for many drivers, and national stability is showing up
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Speaker 2: locally as well. Nearly thirty states now boast average prices
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Speaker 2: of under three dollars a gallon, from Colorado to New
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Speaker 2: Hampshire to Georgia. According to Triple A, Oklahoma tops the
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Speaker 2: list with an average of just two dollars and fifty
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Speaker 2: cents a gallon. That is a welcome number on many
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Speaker 2: gas station signs for consumers. Now at the other end
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Speaker 2: of the spectrum, where liberals are in charge, you've still
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Speaker 2: got paint at the pump with regulation and taxation. Let
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Speaker 2: me give you an example of that. California is now
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Speaker 2: topping the list as the most expensive state when it
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Speaker 2: comes to buying a gallon of gasoline. When you look
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Speaker 2: at Oklahoma, a conservative state with not a lot of
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Speaker 2: regulation to make prices skyrocket, and certain blends a demand
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Speaker 2: to protect the environment right because of global warming. Well,
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Speaker 2: compare it to what they're paying in California. It is
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Speaker 2: four dollars and sixty three cents per gallon compared to
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Speaker 2: just two fifty a gallon in Oklahoma. Hawaii is actually cheaper,
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Speaker 2: and that's not something you hear about very often, as
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Speaker 2: Hawaii is one of the most expensive places to just
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Speaker 2: get gasoline too, it is now less expensive to buy
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Speaker 2: a gallon of gas in Hawaii than it is with
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Speaker 2: all the regulations on gasoline in California. Hawaii at four
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Speaker 2: dollars and forty seven cents a gallon compared to four
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Speaker 2: to sixty three in California. Washington State, another liberal bastion
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Speaker 2: of well socialism, they now are at four dollars and
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Speaker 2: eighteen cents a gallon, and rounding out the top ten
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Speaker 2: are Nevada at three eighty four a gallon, Alaska at
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Speaker 2: three seventy five a gallon, Arizona at three thirty seven
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Speaker 2: a gallon, and three states tied at three twenty nine Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 1: Idaho, and Illinois.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the most affordable gas can be found in conservative
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Speaker 2: states Oklahoma at two dollars and fifty seven cents a gallon,
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Speaker 2: Mississippi at two sixty one a gallon and Louisiana two
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Speaker 2: sixty five a gallon. Those states in follow other conservative
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Speaker 2: states Tennessee at two sixty six a gallon, Arkansas at
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Speaker 2: two sixty seven a gallon, Texas at two seventy a gallon,
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Speaker 2: Kansas at two seventy one, Missouri at two seventy three,
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Speaker 2: Alabama two seventy three, in Kentucky at two seventy four
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Speaker 2: a gallon. You notice the trend here. Where there are
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Speaker 2: conservative states, there are lower prices. And when you have
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Speaker 2: the most radical liberals, what are their prices almost double
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Speaker 2: what is being paid in conservative states. TRIPLEA anticipates that
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Speaker 2: nearly eighty two million Americans will journey at least fifty
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Speaker 2: miles from home over the Thanksgiving holiday, one point six
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Speaker 2: million more than last year, marking a record high for
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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving travel. Now, the revelation comes to the Trump administration
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Speaker 2: is pushing ahead on energy, dominance, independence. It's a key
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Speaker 2: pillar President Donald Trump's economic and national security agenda, and
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Speaker 2: while Thanksgiving marks the year's busiest travel stretch, it isn't
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Speaker 2: the only time drivers have caught a break. This Labor Day,
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Speaker 2: motors saw the lowest gas prices in a half a decade.
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Speaker 2: So this is not just one blip on the map.
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Speaker 2: It's a clear trend. Because of the President of the
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Speaker 2: It's America putting Americans first, which also brings us to
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Speaker 2: what's about to happen with US holidays spending. How do
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Speaker 2: Americans actually feel about the economy and where we are
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Speaker 2: right now? US holidays spending, we're now being told is
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Speaker 2: expected to top one trillion dollars for the first time ever.
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Speaker 2: I want you to take a listen to what they
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Speaker 2: had to say about the holidays and shopping patterns this
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Speaker 2: year on Fox Business Channel. Despite concerns about the economy,
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Speaker 2: people are still looking to spend.
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Speaker 1: Jerry Willis has the numbers.
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Speaker 5: She joins us now, hey.
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Speaker 7: Jerry, Yeah, you know, it's interesting everybody asking just how
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Speaker 7: generous American consumers will be this holiday season. It's the
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Speaker 7: question still under debate. Both Price Waterhouse and Deloitte surveys
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Speaker 7: of consumer showing Americans tightening their purse strings with declines
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Speaker 7: of anywhere from five to ten percent. Gen Z the
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Speaker 7: most cast is saying they plan to spend twenty three
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Speaker 7: percent less than last year, but the National retail Federation
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Speaker 7: sees sales rising two point nine to three point four percent,
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Speaker 7: breaking through the one trillion mark for the first time.
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Speaker 5: Matver now.
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Speaker 7: Meanwhile, the big discounters like Walmart, TJ Max showing strong
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Speaker 7: early results. But what can consumers expect is they hit
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Speaker 7: them all. Some fire up their web browsers this holiday season.
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Speaker 7: One retail consultant says potential price hikes loom with the
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Speaker 7: elimination of the Dominimus tariff, which allowed goods under one
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Speaker 7: thousand from offshore to enter the US duty free. She
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Speaker 7: says it could cost sticker shock for some consumers.
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Speaker 8: Listen, you need to buy now because we don't know
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Speaker 8: what's going to happen. Tariffs could go up at any point,
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Speaker 8: in which case those prices will get passed on. The
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Speaker 8: price increase will immediately get passed on to the consumer now.
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Speaker 7: Travel snaffoos could also make it difficult to get your
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Speaker 7: presence delivered on time, so Herzog is also recommending shipping
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Speaker 7: presents early by December seventeenth at the least. Plus the
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Speaker 7: big the best prices that is on big ticket electronics
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Speaker 7: will be available after the holiday season January fifth and later.
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Speaker 7: Bottom line, if you want to save money this holiday season.
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Speaker 7: Make a list, stick to it, and start early.
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Speaker 2: Now, this is also happening as we're seeing something else
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Speaker 2: that's going to make you very happy, and that is
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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving meal costs have declined to the lowest level in
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Speaker 2: four years. Another example of affordability the Democrats are trying
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Speaker 2: to say is terrible, and actually it's running yet again
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Speaker 2: in the right direction. The cost of a traditional Thanksgiving
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Speaker 2: meal down sharply, falling to the lowest price since twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty one, according to the American Farm Bureau. The Farm
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Speaker 2: Bureau's fortieth Anniel survey found that a classic Thanksgiving dinner
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Speaker 2: for ten people will cost fifty five to eighteen that
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Speaker 2: is down.
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Speaker 1: Five percent from last year.
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Speaker 2: Since teen eighty six, volunteers across all fifty states in
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Speaker 2: Puerto Rico have been organized by the American Farm Bureau
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Speaker 2: to record local prices for turkey, cube stuffing, sweet potatoes,
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Speaker 2: dinner rolls, frozen peas, fresh cranberry, salery, carrots, pumpkin pie
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Speaker 2: mix and crust, whipping cream, and whole milk. Prices soared
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Speaker 2: during the presidency of Joe Biden, with inflation rising to
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Speaker 2: the worst pace in forty years. The price of a
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Speaker 2: classic Thanksgiving meal searched fourteen percent in twenty twenty one alone,
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Speaker 2: Biden's first year in office, then hitting a record high
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Speaker 2: of fifty three to thirty one, despite the administration's insistence
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Speaker 2: that the price increases were transitory or the result of
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Speaker 2: a temporary supply shock. The following year, what came to
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Speaker 2: be called Biden Inflation was even worse. The price of
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Speaker 2: a Thanksgiving meal jumped another twenty percent to a skyrocketing
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Speaker 2: sixty four oh five. By Biden's final Thanksgiving, the price
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Speaker 2: of a traditional family holiday meal was twenty five four
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Speaker 2: percent higher than it was when he took office. Yes,
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Speaker 2: almost a twenty five percent increase. This year's decline was
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Speaker 2: driven by a sharp fall in the price of turkey.
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Speaker 2: A sixteen pound turkey will cost an average of twenty
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Speaker 2: one to fifty That is down sixteen percent from Joe
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Speaker 2: Biden's final year in office.
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Speaker 1: So is the economy getting better? Yes? Is pricing getting
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Speaker 1: better for you? Yes?
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Speaker 2: And is this something we should all be excited about?
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