September 30, 2025 • 23 mins
The country is only “hours away” from a government shutdown
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Partisan Blame: The responsibility for the shutdown is Democrats, particularly Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
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Republican Positioning: Republicans, including Donald Trump, Speaker Johnson, JD Vance, Tom Cotton, and John Thune, are portrayed as wanting a “clean funding extension” (a short-term budget measure) to keep the government open.
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Democratic Hypocrisy: The commentary highlights past Democratic statements opposing shutdowns, contrasting them with current positions to claim inconsistency.
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Accusations of Radicalism: Democrats are described as pushing a $1.5 trillion spending package that allegedly includes:
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Free healthcare for undocumented immigrants
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Funding for gender-affirming surgeries
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Open borders and Medicaid fraud
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Other “radical left” priorities
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Political Motivation: A recurring argument is that Schumer is resisting compromise to protect himself from a potential primary challenge by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We are hours away from a government shutdown. That is
the big story. And what we know right now is
earlier in the day, the President made it very clear
that he didn't want there to be a government shut down,
but he's having to deal with the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
A meeting with as you know, a couple of Democrats
a little while about the country but keeping our country open.
They're going to have to do some things because their
ideas are not very good ones. They're very bad for
our country. So we'll see how that works out.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
We'll see how that works out. Now we know that
Democrats don't want to shut down the government, right how
do we know this? They've been saying it for years,
but all of a sudden now they're in favor of it.
So which Democratic party do you really trust? Well, I'd
love to just remind you, the American people, what the
Democrats have said in the not too distant pass about
(00:56):
government shutdowns. Many of the voices that you're going to
hear are still in power running our government right now.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Will these people hostage instead of just letting them do
their jobs, which they want to do while we work
out our differences?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
So wrong?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
This is democracy, and in a democracy, hostage tactics are
the last resort for those who can't win their fights
through elections, can't win their fights in Congress, can't win
their fights for the presidency, and can't win their fights
in the court.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
They doesn't shut down as any duration with harm hard
working Americans and our economy.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Why should we ask TSA officers to go without their
harder and pay while they protect our airports.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I'm a senator from Virginia. Some of the hardest effects
of shutdown will.
Speaker 7 (01:47):
Be seen in my state.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
If the government shuts down, it will be average Americans
who suffer most.
Speaker 8 (01:52):
Some right now are trying to figure out how they're
going to pay rent, how they're going to make mortgage payments,
how they're going to keep college payments going, how they're
going to keep the lights on, how they're going to
keep food on the table.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Had the government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of people would
have not gotten their paychecks. Federal employees would have been
furloughed sent home.
Speaker 9 (02:12):
Our military will get paid, head start teachers will get paid,
our wildfire fighters will get paid, present federal prison guards
will get paid.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
A government shutdown, these seniors who rely on Social Security
could be thrown into chaos. Our veterans could see regional
VA offices shut down and support services put on hold.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Shutdowns are not good for the economy.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Shutdowns cost taxpayers billions of dollars per week.
Speaker 10 (02:39):
Shutdowns cost the economy billions of dollars.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
They cost businesses money.
Speaker 9 (02:46):
They could even.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Cost a downgrade to the nation's credit rating.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Families who benefit from WICK and other nutrition programs could
see benefits halted.
Speaker 8 (02:55):
If this shutdown continues indefinitely, thirty nine million Americans risk
not having enough.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
They will lose their SNAP benefits in February, so that
means American.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Children will be going to bed hungry.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
It's unacceptable.
Speaker 8 (03:08):
The longer that this shutdown goes on, the more Americans
that will be affected.
Speaker 9 (03:14):
Critical services and our economy are being threatened with poison pill.
Speaker 10 (03:18):
Partisanship.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Shutting down the government should not be a negotiating tactic.
Hostage taking is all They have left, a last gasp
of those who cannot cope with the realities of our democracies.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
That is the Democratic Party. That montage put together by
the White House President Donald Trump putting it out on
true social as well, and the question that everyone should
be asking is where are those Democrats and what changed? Well,
we know a lot of what changed, and that is
the fact that they want to hold America hostage for
what they want.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
What do they want?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Well, they want a one point five I have a
trillion dollar port barrel list for them. What is included
in it is what should shock most of you. Free
healthcare for illegal immigrants, child mutilations that are covered by
the tax payers. Medicaid fraud is also something they want
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to keep going. Open borders is part of the one
point five trillion as well, and demanding men in women's sports.
But what are Democrats saying online? Mark Warner said, This
Democrats position is simple, lower costs, save real health care,
keep the government open.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
It shouldn't be this hard.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Let's just repeal costly cuts health care and save millions
of Americans money. Well, then the question is why is
it costing us one point five trillion for all the
radical ideals that they're demanding. This is who the left is.
They're literally holding the country hostage now, and it is
a party of open, of allowing for violent crime and
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transgender for everybody, and all of those ideas are now
literally jeopardizing a lot of important things, which include military pay,
critical care for veterans, firefighter pay, disaster relief funding, and
many more programs on which many Americans rely on. Now,
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Donald Trump and Republicans are committed to keeping the government
open with a clean funding extension.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
What's even more shocking is they don't want that.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You may say, well, hold on a second, what is
a clean funding extension?
Speaker 7 (05:42):
What does this actually mean? How do we know that's
a good thing.
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Press Secretary had to say about it when she was
explaining it to the press.
Speaker 11 (07:59):
What I want share is that what this White House
wants and what Republicans want. We want a clean funding
extension to keep the government open.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
That's all.
Speaker 11 (08:08):
We're advocating for, a simple, clean budget extension, a straightforward,
responsible solution to keep the government open to November twenty
first and allow the full year appropriations process to move forward.
And I will add this is the same budget that
the Democrats approved six months ago, just adjusted for inflation.
And unfortunately, all of a sudden now they want to
shut down the government. And if the government is shut down,
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it's only going to it will be the fault of
the Democrats, and it will only hurt the most vulnerable
in our country, our seniors, our veterans, our military families,
and increasing security for members of Congress, which is something
this White House in the administration supports. And if you
look back at the statements made by Chuck Schumer and
Hakeem Jeffries in the past, they too have advocated against
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a shutdown and for keeping the government open. Democrat Chuck
Schumer himself said a shutdown would mean chaos, pain, and
needless heartache for the American people. He said once avoiding
a shutdown is very good news for the country, for
our veterans, for parents and children, for farmers, and for
small businesses. Hikim Jeffries also said, it's about the harm.
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Families will be hurt if there is a government shutdown,
Farmers will be hurt, holiday travel will be impacted. Democrats
clearly know what the right thing to do is here.
It's to join with Republicans to pass this clean funding extension.
That's what the White House and the President wants.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So that's the playground that we have right now before us.
They are playing with many people's lives. They're playing with
people who desperately need their paychecks. They're playing with our
men and women in uniform, including their paychecks. And if
you look at all of what I just ascribed to you.
You would think that Democrats would say, all right, let's
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just have a clean extension. No, no, no, that is
absolutely not what they're wanting to do. So then you
have to ask yourself the question, why is this Schumer
shutdown becoming a reality. Well, it actually is all about politics,
but not the usual them against us mentality.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
It's actually really simple.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Chuck Schumer is going to shut down the government to
show that he is a radical liberal. Now you may say,
why would he want to do that, It's actually very simple.
He is terrified of a primary challenge from the famous
radical aoc The Senate Minority Leader, is pushing Congress to
a government shutdown because he's so scared of being challenged
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in a primary by far left Representative Alexander Ocassio Cortes.
The Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Tom Cotton also throwing this
out today, making it clear this is all about him
trying to save himself. And after Schumer and the House
Minority leader had came, Jeffries left their Monday afternoon meeting
with President Donald Trump without a deal to avoid a
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government shutdown before the Wednesday deadline, and blasted the New
York Center in a statement saying, quote, Chuck Schumer is
shutting down the government because he's terrified of a primary
from AOC. His actions are disgraceful, referring to when asked
about the reaction of Democrats' refusal degree on even a
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short term funding deal. House Republicans were joined by a
singular Democrat representative Jared Golden of Maine and passing a
bill on September the nineteenth that would have kept the
government funding until November twentieth, but Senate Democrats blocked it
from advancing. Instead, they proposed their own funding bill demands
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with an extra you know, one point four to one
point five trillion for their radical far left projects, including
free health care for illegals, funding by the way for
MPR and PBS, and transgendered surgeries that you're supposed to
pay for now. Republicans blocked the Democrats counter offer for
advancing this in the Senate, leaving Congress to either come
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to an agreement by midnight on Tuesday or accept a
real government shutdown that could actually last a long time.
Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats are willing to shut down
the government because they're scared of their radical base take
a list of center. Cotton saying this to Hugh Hewitt.
Speaker 12 (12:22):
Schumer is about shut down the government because he's scared
of a girl in New York City. Her name is
Alexandria Kazier Quortez, and he fears that she will primary
him four years from now, in twenty twenty eight if
he doesn't do the far left bidding. If you call
Hugh and marsh As, we're on the verge of another
Schumer shutdown. He caved and voted to keep the government
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open and gave all kinds of backflipping explanations for why
he was not doing what the left demanded, and he
got some blowback from his left and from Alexandri Cazier
Cortez and been fearful of her and of this vote
ever since. So he's apparently about to lead his caucus
over the cliff and shut down the government because he
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doesn't want Alexandria Causier Cortez to run against him in
four years.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Is it actually that simple?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
The answer is yes, especially if you listen to Democrats
that we played for you earlier in their own words.
So where do we go from here? The reality is
we are moments away, hours away minutes away from a
government's shutdown. And Democrats are doing this for two reasons.
They want to fund their radical agenda, but what they're
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also doing it for is to try to save their leader.
Chuck Schumer came out in front of the cameras and
made it very clear after you left the White House meeting.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Here's his thoughts on the shutdown.
Speaker 13 (13:49):
We have very large differences on healthcare and on their
ability to undo whatever budget we agree to through decisions
and through impoundment as well as pocket recisions.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
It's very clear Chuck Schumer not talking like a man
that wants to actually get anything done. You had the
Vice President jd Vance who came out of that meeting
with Speaker Johnson. Here's part of what he said in response.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
We just had a very frank conversation with the Senate
and House Democratic leadership. Look, the principle at stake here
is very simple. We have disagreements about tax policy.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
But you don't shut that government down.
Speaker 10 (14:24):
We have disagreements about healthcare policy, but you don't shut
the government down. You don't use your policy disagreements as
leverage to not pay our troops, to not have essential
for services of government. Actually function.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
You don't say the fact that you disagree about a particular.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
Tax provision is an excuse for shutting down to the
people's government and all the essential services that come along
with it. If you look at what Chuck Schumer has
said in the past consistently, it's whatever our disagreements are,
let's negotiate with him, let's talk about them, let's figure
out a bipartisan solution. But you don't shut the government down.
In other words, you don't put a gun to the
American people's head and say, unless you do exactly what
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Senate and House Democrats want you to do, we're going
to shut down your government.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
That's exactly what they're proposing out there now. We have
to remember they're very frustrated.
Speaker 10 (15:08):
They say that they're very frustrated about the fact that
this negotiation has not taken place until today. But if
you look at the original the original thing they did
with this negotiation, it was a one point five trillion
dollar spending package, basically saying to the American people, we
want to give massive amounts of money, hundreds of billions
of dollars to illegal aliens for their health care while
Americans are struggling to.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Pay their health care bills. That was their.
Speaker 10 (15:30):
Initial foray into this negotiation. We thought it was absurd.
We told them it was absurd, And now they come
in here it's saying that if you don't give us
everything that we want, we're going to shut down the government.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
We think that's preposterous.
Speaker 10 (15:43):
We think it's totally unacceptable, and we think the American
people are going to suffer because these guys won't do
the right thing.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Now, I want to make one final point here. You
will hear a lot.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
From Senate Democrats, from House Democrats about the fact that
American health care policy is broken. Well, we know that
American health care policy is broken. We've been trying to
fix it for the eight months that we've been in office.
But every single thing that they accused about being broken
about American health care is policy that Democrats have supported
for the past decade. So if they want to talk
about how to fix American health care policy.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Let's do it.
Speaker 10 (16:14):
The Speaker would love to do it, the Senate Majority
leader would love to do it.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Let's work on it together.
Speaker 10 (16:18):
But let's do it in the context of an open
government that's providing essential services to the American people. That's
all that we're proposing to do, and the fact that
they refuse to do that shows how unreasonable their position is.
I think we're headed to a shutdown because the Democrats
won't do the right thing. I hope they changed their mind,
but we're going.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
To see it.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I hope they change their mind, but we'll see. He
wasn't done there. There's also other points that were made
as well. Leader John Thune on the Democrats pulling America
towards a government shut down.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Here's what he said walking out of the meeting.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
This right here, ladies and gentlemen, is what we're talking about.
Twenty four pages to continue resolution to fund the government
through November the twenty first. I don't know where they're
saying this is some huge partisan thing. This is something
we do fairly routinely, and when the Democrats had the
majority on thirteen different occasions they have the majority. President
Biden was in the White House, we pass continuing resolutions
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to fund the government. This is purely and simply hostage,
taking the path on behalf of the Democrats. The Republicans
are United House Republicans, Senate Republicans, President Trump. The House
has passed a clean Funding Resolution to fund the government
until November the twenty first. It's clean, it is bipartisan,
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and it is short term, but it gives us enough
time to finish the appropriations process, which is the way
we should be funding the government. So Republicans in the House,
the Senate, President United they passed the bill. This is
setting setting right now at the Senate desk. We could
pick it up and pass it tonight. We could pick
it up and pass it tomorrow before the government shuts down,
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and then we don't have a government shutdown.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
It is totally up.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
To the Democrats because right now they are the only
thing standing between the American people and the government shutting down.
We're all in favor of funding the government, and this
is something that's been done routinely thirteen different times by
the Democrats when they had the majority. So to me,
this is purely a hostage taking exercise on the part
of the Democrats. We are willing to sit down and
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work with them on some of the issues they want
to talk about, whether it's the extension of premium tax
credits with reforms. We're happy to have that conversation. But
as of right now, this is a hijacking all the
American people, and it's the American people are going to
pay the price.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
It's a hijacking of the American people, and the American
people are going to be the ones that pay the price. Democrats,
by the way, when Americans pay for health care for
illegals and they're ready to shut down the government for it,
Elizabeth Warren seven hours ago said.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Americans need affordable health care.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
No one should go bankrupt because they get sick and
needed a doctor. If republic can want to shut down
the government so they can keep increasing costs and cutting
health care, then they need to explain that to the
American people. So what are the Democrats demanding? Not healthcare
for you, They're demanding healthcare for illegal immigrants. I'm going
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to say it again, They're demanding it for illegal immigrants.
The Speaker of the House, Johnson saying this on Fox
News Channel about the shutdown.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
It went well.
Speaker 9 (19:27):
Sean, by the way, thanks for playing the highlight real tonight.
Their hypocrisy is just breathtaking and it's shameless, and it
was on display in the Oval Office. Credit President Trump
showing real leadership. He's operating in good faith and that
was on display by bringing the leaders in He heard
the arguments and the debates. They're baseless. I mean, Chuck
Schimber is now arguing exactly the opposite of what he
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has always said in his career. And why you hit
the nail right on the head, Sean. He's doing it
at a political desperation. He is willing to force the
government to shut down just to oppose President Trump for
temporary political cover for himself, and he will abandon the
American people just to do that. It's really something to
watch now.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Speaker Johnson also had this to say as he walked
out of the White House and talking about just how
consequential this shutdown will be, where Democrats aren't even thinking
about our men and women in uniform, those eating, FEMA,
funding mental health services, and a whole lot more.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Their counterproposal, what Chuck Schumer and Hakim Jeffries are demanding,
is that they claw back the fifty billion dollars if
we put into the rural hospital support structure. They want
to take that back. We're not going to do that.
We passed that because we have to allow for that. Also,
if they shut the government down, not only are troops unpaid,
federal workers and all the services that everybody relies upon.
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But the Whig program, the nutrition program, women infinite children,
they will not get that program will not be funded.
FEMA won't be funded. We have hurricanes off the coast
of the United States right now. This is serious business.
Have mental health services, all that that's funded by the
government would stop if Chuck Schumer and how King Jeffreys
and the Democrats have their way. The Democrats shutdown would
be damaging for the country. We can't allow for it.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
So here we are on the verge of a major shutdown.
The White House Office of Management Director Vought saying, this
is something that the American be we need to understand,
is going to cost you a lot of money, all
because of the demands of the Democrats.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
We want to keep this government open.
Speaker 14 (21:29):
It is not good for the American people to have
the government shut down for any period of time. We
will manage it appropriately, but it is something that can
all be avoided. It can all be avoided by accepting
a reasonable position, which is what the House has passed
and what sits at the Senate desk, which is to
continue to fund the government with a short term continuing
resolution that it has never been put a viewpoint that
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one and a half trillion dollars is a reasonable amount
of spending to be included on a short term cr
This hostage taking, it is not something that.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
We are going to accept.
Speaker 14 (22:04):
And we hope that the Democrats come back from the
brink fund this government and allow us to move forward.
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
We want to so here we are.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
We are in a moment where the government is about
to be shut down, and a shutdown will happen for
one main reason because Chuck Schumer needs a stand up
to AOC and the radical left and show that he
can be just as extreme as they are. During the
Biden administration, there were thirteen threatened shutdowns. The Republicans in
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the minority did the right thing. They kept the government open.
And what Chuck Schumer has been asked is this, they're
asking the Democrats to do the same. They're not willing
to do it all because of a one point five
trillion dollar hostage plan. Ransom, that is what this is.
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And Chuck Schumer making it clear in thirteen seconds. We
have very large differences on healthcare, Yes we do. Democrats
want taxpayers to fund free health care for illegals and
Republicans do not so. Here we are and the National
Economic Council Kevin Hassett saying, since President Trump took office,
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capital spending, equipment spending, which is the stuff that really
drives wage growth, is up seven percent. There's a massive
investment boom and that's why we're seeing GDP growth. And
Democrats hate that and they want to stifen the economy
as well, and they clearly believe this is another way
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We are hours away from a government shutdown. That is
the big story. And what we know right now is
earlier in the day, the President made it very clear
that he didn't want there to be a government shut down,
but he's having to deal with the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
A meeting with as you know, a couple of Democrats
a little while about the country but keeping our country open.
They're going to have to do some things because their
ideas are not very good ones. They're very bad for
our country. So we'll see how that works out.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
We'll see how that works out. Now we know that
Democrats don't want to shut down the government, right how
do we know this? They've been saying it for years,
but all of a sudden now they're in favor of it.
So which Democratic party do you really trust? Well, I'd
love to just remind you, the American people, what the
Democrats have said in the not too distant pass about
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government shutdowns. Many of the voices that you're going to
hear are still in power running our government right now.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Will these people hostage instead of just letting them do
their jobs, which they want to do while we work
out our differences?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
So wrong?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
This is democracy, and in a democracy, hostage tactics are
the last resort for those who can't win their fights
through elections, can't win their fights in Congress, can't win
their fights for the presidency, and can't win their fights
in the court.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
They doesn't shut down as any duration with harm hard
working Americans and our economy.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Why should we ask TSA officers to go without their
harder and pay while they protect our airports.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I'm a senator from Virginia. Some of the hardest effects
of shutdown will.
Speaker 7 (01:47):
Be seen in my state.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
If the government shuts down, it will be average Americans
who suffer most.
Speaker 8 (01:52):
Some right now are trying to figure out how they're
going to pay rent, how they're going to make mortgage payments,
how they're going to keep college payments going, how they're
going to keep the lights on, how they're going to
keep food on the table.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Had the government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of people would
have not gotten their paychecks. Federal employees would have been
furloughed sent home.
Speaker 9 (02:12):
Our military will get paid, head start teachers will get paid,
our wildfire fighters will get paid, present federal prison guards
will get paid.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
A government shutdown, these seniors who rely on Social Security
could be thrown into chaos. Our veterans could see regional
VA offices shut down and support services put on hold.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Shutdowns are not good for the economy.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Shutdowns cost taxpayers billions of dollars per week.
Speaker 10 (02:39):
Shutdowns cost the economy billions of dollars.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
They cost businesses money.
Speaker 9 (02:46):
They could even.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Cost a downgrade to the nation's credit rating.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Families who benefit from WICK and other nutrition programs could
see benefits halted.
Speaker 8 (02:55):
If this shutdown continues indefinitely, thirty nine million Americans risk
not having enough.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
They will lose their SNAP benefits in February, so that
means American.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Children will be going to bed hungry.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
It's unacceptable.
Speaker 8 (03:08):
The longer that this shutdown goes on, the more Americans
that will be affected.
Speaker 9 (03:14):
Critical services and our economy are being threatened with poison pill.
Speaker 10 (03:18):
Partisanship.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Shutting down the government should not be a negotiating tactic.
Hostage taking is all They have left, a last gasp
of those who cannot cope with the realities of our democracies.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
That is the Democratic Party. That montage put together by
the White House President Donald Trump putting it out on
true social as well, and the question that everyone should
be asking is where are those Democrats and what changed? Well,
we know a lot of what changed, and that is
the fact that they want to hold America hostage for
what they want.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
What do they want?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Well, they want a one point five I have a
trillion dollar port barrel list for them. What is included
in it is what should shock most of you. Free
healthcare for illegal immigrants, child mutilations that are covered by
the tax payers. Medicaid fraud is also something they want
(04:18):
to keep going. Open borders is part of the one
point five trillion as well, and demanding men in women's sports.
But what are Democrats saying online? Mark Warner said, This
Democrats position is simple, lower costs, save real health care,
keep the government open.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
It shouldn't be this hard.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Let's just repeal costly cuts health care and save millions
of Americans money. Well, then the question is why is
it costing us one point five trillion for all the
radical ideals that they're demanding. This is who the left is.
They're literally holding the country hostage now, and it is
a party of open, of allowing for violent crime and
(05:03):
transgender for everybody, and all of those ideas are now
literally jeopardizing a lot of important things, which include military pay,
critical care for veterans, firefighter pay, disaster relief funding, and
many more programs on which many Americans rely on. Now,
(05:24):
Donald Trump and Republicans are committed to keeping the government
open with a clean funding extension.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
What's even more shocking is they don't want that.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You may say, well, hold on a second, what is
a clean funding extension?
Speaker 7 (05:42):
What does this actually mean? How do we know that's
a good thing.
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Press Secretary had to say about it when she was
explaining it to the press.
Speaker 11 (07:59):
What I want share is that what this White House
wants and what Republicans want. We want a clean funding
extension to keep the government open.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
That's all.
Speaker 11 (08:08):
We're advocating for, a simple, clean budget extension, a straightforward,
responsible solution to keep the government open to November twenty
first and allow the full year appropriations process to move forward.
And I will add this is the same budget that
the Democrats approved six months ago, just adjusted for inflation.
And unfortunately, all of a sudden now they want to
shut down the government. And if the government is shut down,
(08:31):
it's only going to it will be the fault of
the Democrats, and it will only hurt the most vulnerable
in our country, our seniors, our veterans, our military families,
and increasing security for members of Congress, which is something
this White House in the administration supports. And if you
look back at the statements made by Chuck Schumer and
Hakeem Jeffries in the past, they too have advocated against
(08:52):
a shutdown and for keeping the government open. Democrat Chuck
Schumer himself said a shutdown would mean chaos, pain, and
needless heartache for the American people. He said once avoiding
a shutdown is very good news for the country, for
our veterans, for parents and children, for farmers, and for
small businesses. Hikim Jeffries also said, it's about the harm.
(09:13):
Families will be hurt if there is a government shutdown,
Farmers will be hurt, holiday travel will be impacted. Democrats
clearly know what the right thing to do is here.
It's to join with Republicans to pass this clean funding extension.
That's what the White House and the President wants.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So that's the playground that we have right now before us.
They are playing with many people's lives. They're playing with
people who desperately need their paychecks. They're playing with our
men and women in uniform, including their paychecks. And if
you look at all of what I just ascribed to you.
You would think that Democrats would say, all right, let's
(09:48):
just have a clean extension. No, no, no, that is
absolutely not what they're wanting to do. So then you
have to ask yourself the question, why is this Schumer
shutdown becoming a reality. Well, it actually is all about politics,
but not the usual them against us mentality.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
It's actually really simple.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Chuck Schumer is going to shut down the government to
show that he is a radical liberal. Now you may say,
why would he want to do that, It's actually very simple.
He is terrified of a primary challenge from the famous
radical aoc The Senate Minority Leader, is pushing Congress to
a government shutdown because he's so scared of being challenged
(10:34):
in a primary by far left Representative Alexander Ocassio Cortes.
The Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Tom Cotton also throwing this
out today, making it clear this is all about him
trying to save himself. And after Schumer and the House
Minority leader had came, Jeffries left their Monday afternoon meeting
with President Donald Trump without a deal to avoid a
(10:57):
government shutdown before the Wednesday deadline, and blasted the New
York Center in a statement saying, quote, Chuck Schumer is
shutting down the government because he's terrified of a primary
from AOC. His actions are disgraceful, referring to when asked
about the reaction of Democrats' refusal degree on even a
(11:18):
short term funding deal. House Republicans were joined by a
singular Democrat representative Jared Golden of Maine and passing a
bill on September the nineteenth that would have kept the
government funding until November twentieth, but Senate Democrats blocked it
from advancing. Instead, they proposed their own funding bill demands
(11:40):
with an extra you know, one point four to one
point five trillion for their radical far left projects, including
free health care for illegals, funding by the way for
MPR and PBS, and transgendered surgeries that you're supposed to
pay for now. Republicans blocked the Democrats counter offer for
advancing this in the Senate, leaving Congress to either come
(12:01):
to an agreement by midnight on Tuesday or accept a
real government shutdown that could actually last a long time.
Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats are willing to shut down
the government because they're scared of their radical base take
a list of center. Cotton saying this to Hugh Hewitt.
Speaker 12 (12:22):
Schumer is about shut down the government because he's scared
of a girl in New York City. Her name is
Alexandria Kazier Quortez, and he fears that she will primary
him four years from now, in twenty twenty eight if
he doesn't do the far left bidding. If you call
Hugh and marsh As, we're on the verge of another
Schumer shutdown. He caved and voted to keep the government
(12:47):
open and gave all kinds of backflipping explanations for why
he was not doing what the left demanded, and he
got some blowback from his left and from Alexandri Cazier
Cortez and been fearful of her and of this vote
ever since. So he's apparently about to lead his caucus
over the cliff and shut down the government because he
(13:10):
doesn't want Alexandria Causier Cortez to run against him in
four years.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Is it actually that simple?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
The answer is yes, especially if you listen to Democrats
that we played for you earlier in their own words.
So where do we go from here? The reality is
we are moments away, hours away minutes away from a
government's shutdown. And Democrats are doing this for two reasons.
They want to fund their radical agenda, but what they're
(13:37):
also doing it for is to try to save their leader.
Chuck Schumer came out in front of the cameras and
made it very clear after you left the White House meeting.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Here's his thoughts on the shutdown.
Speaker 13 (13:49):
We have very large differences on healthcare and on their
ability to undo whatever budget we agree to through decisions
and through impoundment as well as pocket recisions.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
It's very clear Chuck Schumer not talking like a man
that wants to actually get anything done. You had the
Vice President jd Vance who came out of that meeting
with Speaker Johnson. Here's part of what he said in response.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
We just had a very frank conversation with the Senate
and House Democratic leadership. Look, the principle at stake here
is very simple. We have disagreements about tax policy.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
But you don't shut that government down.
Speaker 10 (14:24):
We have disagreements about healthcare policy, but you don't shut
the government down. You don't use your policy disagreements as
leverage to not pay our troops, to not have essential
for services of government. Actually function.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
You don't say the fact that you disagree about a particular.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
Tax provision is an excuse for shutting down to the
people's government and all the essential services that come along
with it. If you look at what Chuck Schumer has
said in the past consistently, it's whatever our disagreements are,
let's negotiate with him, let's talk about them, let's figure
out a bipartisan solution. But you don't shut the government down.
In other words, you don't put a gun to the
American people's head and say, unless you do exactly what
(15:00):
Senate and House Democrats want you to do, we're going
to shut down your government.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
That's exactly what they're proposing out there now. We have
to remember they're very frustrated.
Speaker 10 (15:08):
They say that they're very frustrated about the fact that
this negotiation has not taken place until today. But if
you look at the original the original thing they did
with this negotiation, it was a one point five trillion
dollar spending package, basically saying to the American people, we
want to give massive amounts of money, hundreds of billions
of dollars to illegal aliens for their health care while
Americans are struggling to.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Pay their health care bills. That was their.
Speaker 10 (15:30):
Initial foray into this negotiation. We thought it was absurd.
We told them it was absurd, And now they come
in here it's saying that if you don't give us
everything that we want, we're going to shut down the government.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
We think that's preposterous.
Speaker 10 (15:43):
We think it's totally unacceptable, and we think the American
people are going to suffer because these guys won't do
the right thing.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Now, I want to make one final point here. You
will hear a lot.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
From Senate Democrats, from House Democrats about the fact that
American health care policy is broken. Well, we know that
American health care policy is broken. We've been trying to
fix it for the eight months that we've been in office.
But every single thing that they accused about being broken
about American health care is policy that Democrats have supported
for the past decade. So if they want to talk
about how to fix American health care policy.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Let's do it.
Speaker 10 (16:14):
The Speaker would love to do it, the Senate Majority
leader would love to do it.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Let's work on it together.
Speaker 10 (16:18):
But let's do it in the context of an open
government that's providing essential services to the American people. That's
all that we're proposing to do, and the fact that
they refuse to do that shows how unreasonable their position is.
I think we're headed to a shutdown because the Democrats
won't do the right thing. I hope they changed their mind,
but we're going.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
To see it.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I hope they change their mind, but we'll see. He
wasn't done there. There's also other points that were made
as well. Leader John Thune on the Democrats pulling America
towards a government shut down.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Here's what he said walking out of the meeting.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
This right here, ladies and gentlemen, is what we're talking about.
Twenty four pages to continue resolution to fund the government
through November the twenty first. I don't know where they're
saying this is some huge partisan thing. This is something
we do fairly routinely, and when the Democrats had the
majority on thirteen different occasions they have the majority. President
Biden was in the White House, we pass continuing resolutions
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to fund the government. This is purely and simply hostage,
taking the path on behalf of the Democrats. The Republicans
are United House Republicans, Senate Republicans, President Trump. The House
has passed a clean Funding Resolution to fund the government
until November the twenty first. It's clean, it is bipartisan,
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and it is short term, but it gives us enough
time to finish the appropriations process, which is the way
we should be funding the government. So Republicans in the House,
the Senate, President United they passed the bill. This is
setting setting right now at the Senate desk. We could
pick it up and pass it tonight. We could pick
it up and pass it tomorrow before the government shuts down,
(17:54):
and then we don't have a government shutdown.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
It is totally up.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
To the Democrats because right now they are the only
thing standing between the American people and the government shutting down.
We're all in favor of funding the government, and this
is something that's been done routinely thirteen different times by
the Democrats when they had the majority. So to me,
this is purely a hostage taking exercise on the part
of the Democrats. We are willing to sit down and
(18:18):
work with them on some of the issues they want
to talk about, whether it's the extension of premium tax
credits with reforms. We're happy to have that conversation. But
as of right now, this is a hijacking all the
American people, and it's the American people are going to
pay the price.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
It's a hijacking of the American people, and the American
people are going to be the ones that pay the price. Democrats,
by the way, when Americans pay for health care for
illegals and they're ready to shut down the government for it,
Elizabeth Warren seven hours ago said.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Americans need affordable health care.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
No one should go bankrupt because they get sick and
needed a doctor. If republic can want to shut down
the government so they can keep increasing costs and cutting
health care, then they need to explain that to the
American people. So what are the Democrats demanding? Not healthcare
for you, They're demanding healthcare for illegal immigrants. I'm going
(19:15):
to say it again, They're demanding it for illegal immigrants.
The Speaker of the House, Johnson saying this on Fox
News Channel about the shutdown.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
It went well.
Speaker 9 (19:27):
Sean, by the way, thanks for playing the highlight real tonight.
Their hypocrisy is just breathtaking and it's shameless, and it
was on display in the Oval Office. Credit President Trump
showing real leadership. He's operating in good faith and that
was on display by bringing the leaders in He heard
the arguments and the debates. They're baseless. I mean, Chuck
Schimber is now arguing exactly the opposite of what he
(19:50):
has always said in his career. And why you hit
the nail right on the head, Sean. He's doing it
at a political desperation. He is willing to force the
government to shut down just to oppose President Trump for
temporary political cover for himself, and he will abandon the
American people just to do that. It's really something to
watch now.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Speaker Johnson also had this to say as he walked
out of the White House and talking about just how
consequential this shutdown will be, where Democrats aren't even thinking
about our men and women in uniform, those eating, FEMA,
funding mental health services, and a whole lot more.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Their counterproposal, what Chuck Schumer and Hakim Jeffries are demanding,
is that they claw back the fifty billion dollars if
we put into the rural hospital support structure. They want
to take that back. We're not going to do that.
We passed that because we have to allow for that. Also,
if they shut the government down, not only are troops unpaid,
federal workers and all the services that everybody relies upon.
(20:48):
But the Whig program, the nutrition program, women infinite children,
they will not get that program will not be funded.
FEMA won't be funded. We have hurricanes off the coast
of the United States right now. This is serious business.
Have mental health services, all that that's funded by the
government would stop if Chuck Schumer and how King Jeffreys
and the Democrats have their way. The Democrats shutdown would
be damaging for the country. We can't allow for it.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
So here we are on the verge of a major shutdown.
The White House Office of Management Director Vought saying, this
is something that the American be we need to understand,
is going to cost you a lot of money, all
because of the demands of the Democrats.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
We want to keep this government open.
Speaker 14 (21:29):
It is not good for the American people to have
the government shut down for any period of time. We
will manage it appropriately, but it is something that can
all be avoided. It can all be avoided by accepting
a reasonable position, which is what the House has passed
and what sits at the Senate desk, which is to
continue to fund the government with a short term continuing
resolution that it has never been put a viewpoint that
(21:53):
one and a half trillion dollars is a reasonable amount
of spending to be included on a short term cr
This hostage taking, it is not something that.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
We are going to accept.
Speaker 14 (22:04):
And we hope that the Democrats come back from the
brink fund this government and allow us to move forward.
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
We want to so here we are.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
We are in a moment where the government is about
to be shut down, and a shutdown will happen for
one main reason because Chuck Schumer needs a stand up
to AOC and the radical left and show that he
can be just as extreme as they are. During the
Biden administration, there were thirteen threatened shutdowns. The Republicans in
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the minority did the right thing. They kept the government open.
And what Chuck Schumer has been asked is this, they're
asking the Democrats to do the same. They're not willing
to do it all because of a one point five
trillion dollar hostage plan. Ransom, that is what this is.
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And Chuck Schumer making it clear in thirteen seconds. We
have very large differences on healthcare, Yes we do. Democrats
want taxpayers to fund free health care for illegals and
Republicans do not so. Here we are and the National
Economic Council Kevin Hassett saying, since President Trump took office,
(23:22):
capital spending, equipment spending, which is the stuff that really
drives wage growth, is up seven percent. There's a massive
investment boom and that's why we're seeing GDP growth. And
Democrats hate that and they want to stifen the economy
as well, and they clearly believe this is another way
to do that. Don't forget share this podcast please with
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