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Healthcare Reform
- Announcement of a new Trump White House healthcare framework aimed at lowering costs and extending expiring Obamacare subsidies.
- Criticism of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), calling it “unaffordable” and claiming it enriched insurance companies at taxpayers’ expense.
- Proposed changes include:
- Two-year extension of enhanced premium tax credits.
- Lower income eligibility limits for subsidies.
- Minimum premium payments.
- Directing tax credits to individuals via Health Savings Accounts instead of insurance companies.
- Mentions potential bipartisan interest but also reconciliation as a fallback.
- Cites Congressional Budget Office estimates of $30.8 billion in savings and 12.7% reduction in premiums if reforms are enacted.
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Transportation & Safety
- Discussion of Senator Tommy Tuberville’s proposed “Uber Act” requiring English proficiency for rideshare and delivery drivers.
- Concerns about safety, communication issues, and alleged exploitation by undocumented immigrants.
- Broader commentary on immigration and labor practices in gig economy jobs.
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Air Traffic Controller Shortage
- FAA plans to hire 8,900 new controllers by 2028 to address staffing shortages and improve travel safety.
- Notes systemic issues like retirements, high washout rates, and reliance on overtime.
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Economic & Consumer Trends
- Gas prices during Thanksgiving travel:
- National average forecast: $3.02 per gallon (lowest since pandemic).
- Conservative states cited as having cheaper gas compared to liberal states like California.
- Holiday spending expected to top $1 trillion for the first time.
- Advice on shopping early due to potential tariff changes and delivery delays.
- Thanksgiving meal costs down to $55.18, lowest in four years, driven by turkey price drop.
- Gas prices during Thanksgiving travel:
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It is big news.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The White House is unveiling a new healthcare framework they
say will lower costs for all Americans. This after the
debacle that was exposed during the government shutdown of just
how much money we are spending to subsidize the Affordable
Care Act, which is anything but affordable. The Trump White House,
(00:24):
were now being told, is expected to unveil a healthcare
policy framework that not only would lower costs, but also
extend expiring Obamacare subsidies while they figure out how to
move forward.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Ms Now and.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Politico reported both that the healthcare policy framework would include
a two year extension of the expiring Enhanced Premium tax credits.
Those are the subsidies that you're paying for. Yes, Obamacare
is not cheap at all. It did not make things
more affordable at all.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
In fact, it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Made the healthcare insurance providers rich at the expense of you,
the tax payer. We also know that they will be
enhanced to Obamacare subsidies, which would otherwise expire at the
end of the year. The proposal could be unveiled as
early as this coming Monday.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
A White House.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Spokesman declined to confirm the details of the plan, stating
quote until President Trump makes an announcement himself. Any reporting about
the administration's health care positions is mere speculation.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
But here's what we are learning through background.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
The plan apparently with lower limits on income eligibility for credits,
and that would save American taxpayers a significant amount of money.
It would also, I'm being told, set minimum premium payments
as well. According to multiple reports, the proposed eligibility cap
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would set the subsidies to seven hundred percent of the
federal poverty line. Republicans have complained that with the Colone
Obama here in hand subsis scheme, wealthy Americans would benefit
from the subseason what was meant to be only temporary.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Why were they temporary?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It was during the COVID nineteen coronavirus outbreak when they
had these extra benefits that now Democrats want to make
well last forever, which is insane. The White House plan
also would urge Congress to fund cost sharing reductions and plans,
(02:36):
which Republicans pushed for in the Big Beautiful Bill, but
were next after Senate Democrats objected to its inclusion in
Trump's landmark legislation, believing it violated rules on budgetary reconciliation.
They claimed now here's the other part that's very interesting
about this. The Congressional Budget Office found that these healthcare
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reforms would have lowered healthcare premiums by twelve point seven
percent and reduced costs by decreasing the need for Obamacare
and the welfare of the government for the epcts known
as the subsidies for Obamacare. The plans would have also
(03:20):
lowered the costs if this CRS plan would have been
put into effect by thirty point eight billion dollars. Now
that's literally thirty point eight billion dollars. It would have
saved you the tax payer, and that is exactly why
Democrats were against it. Now, the Trump proposal would also
have part of their tax credits go straight to Americans
(03:43):
via tax advantage savings accounts instead of the checks going
directly to healthcare insurance companies that are getting rich to
lower America's premium indirectly, the President probably would like to
go bigger. Then the Hill has the appetite four So
we'll have to see how that.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
You know, how it works out.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Is what the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, James
Blair said last week talking about the reforms that need
to be made. What we also know is the White
House WT Chief of Staff saying that President Trump would
love to push for healthcare reform in a way that
would be meaningful, saying, quote, we're going to have to
have the healthcare conversation. We're going to put some legislation forward.
(04:28):
The w chiefs said there could be interest in bi
Parson reform. However, he said if that path is foreclosed,
there is the Parson path of reconciliation as well. The
President probably would like to go big because there needs
to be big reforms. Republican lawmakers have said they believe
the White House will release a framework to lower health
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insurance costs, expand health savings accounts, and scrap parts of
the Affordable Care Act that are just flat out unsustainable.
In fact, which of the Obamacare program is unsustainable without
record tax dollars going to prop it up? As I
mentioned earlier, there's nothing affordable about the Affordable Care Act now.
(05:13):
The White House also signaled that the President's interest in
healthcare reform is something he believes could be a massive
change for the American people. A slide deck shared by
the House Majority Leader Stieve Skalise this last week made
it clear that House GOP leadership also falls in the
overhaul camp. One slide that was viewed by Politico was
(05:37):
titled the Unaffordable Care Act and highlighted statistics that show
the premiums have increased by eighty percent since the ACA
passage AKA since Obamacare became law. It also claimed that
more than fifty percent of Obamacare and rollees did not
file a single claim this year. Walking into the meeting, school,
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he said in a brief interview that he planned to
keep talking with the chairs of three key committees of
jurisdiction over health policy. That would be Ways and Means,
Energy and Commerce, Education, and the workforce. Now, healthcare became
a focal point in the national politics as Democrats shut
the government down, as I mentioned earlier for weeks over
(06:24):
what they described as mandatory Obamacare subsidies. They were not mandatory.
They were enhanced during COVID and they will expire on purpose.
The Democrats planned this way at the end of the year.
Democrats first enhanced these substies through one point nine trillion
let me say that again, one point nine trillion in
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coronavirus era stimulus plans, including the American Rescue Plan. They
continue the subseas through the end of twenty twenty five
with the so called Inflation Reduction Act that did anything
but that. Trump weighed in on the issues, stating that
healthcare dollars should go directly to the American people instead
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of through subsidies to health insurance companies, saying it this
way on social media, quote, the only healthcare I will
support or approve is sending the money directly back to
the people, with nothing going to the big, fat rich
insurance companies who have made trillions and ripped off America.
(07:28):
Long enough, the people will be allowed to negotiate and
by their own much better insurance. Power to the people. Congress,
do not waste your time and energy on anything else.
This is the only way to have great health care
in America. The Republican Set of Community chairman said that
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a second reconciliation bill should address affordability, which should include
healthcare reform, saying the Democrats are incapable of coming up
with a plan that is competitive, transparent, and actually reduces costs.
Whine because they're lining the pockets of their friends in
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the healthcare provider industry, and they know that as long
as the government's willing to send them the check. They
get rich every single time the money comes into their accounts.
This also just goes back to consumer choice and freedom.
The President believes that you, as an American, deserve to
have your money and then you can put it to
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work the way that you decide to do it, in
a more responsible manner than the corruption of the government.
Doctor Mark Siegel on Fox News Channel talking about exactly this,
and here is what he had to say on Fox
News Sunday.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
But I can't get your treatments.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
What about this idea that the President has floated about
the money that flows into a lot of these subsidies
instead of paying the insurance companies, going direct to the
consumer and letting them take the money with them where
they choose.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
He's gotten a lot of for that, but he's on
the right track because it would give the consumer more
control of the situation. Health savings accounts are part of this.
Being able to buy your own insurance, making it affordable
and you choose a marketplace idea. It's more, it's not
quite that simple. That's a huge step in the right direction.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Well, what are your odds? Do you so?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
At the end of the day, there are two options.
Either you as an American, say no, no, no government, Just
be in charge of my life. Doesn't matter how much
it costs. Just you be in charge of my health care.
Or there's the Donald Trump plan, which is he believes
that you, as an American, should decide what is best
for you, that you should spend your money in a
way that is well more responsible than what the government
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does each and every day. And he believes that prices
will lower significantly if you do it that way. I
think many Americans have made it clear that they like
the way the President is describing this and the amount
of corruption that we are witnessing from those in the
Democratic Party and in governm who are overspending your tax
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tours and what are you actually getting in return? Not
a lot for your money. And that's where we are today.
There is a lot of anger at the moment by
the radical left, a demand by the name of Senater
Tommy Tuberville. Why because Tommy Tuverville is using logic and
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common sense on something that is actually pretty important, transportation center.
Tommy Teverville is now pushing an Uber Act that would
require English proficiency for ride share drivers. Now, if you've
ever been picked up by an Uber driver who doesn't
speak any English. You understand just how frustrating it can be,
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especially if it's the airport. You're in another city and
you don't know what's happening, and then you have someone
you cannot communicate with. I travel constantly and it is
one of the biggest frustrations that I've had, either not
being able to find me or not being able to
get me to where I need to go and then
saying sorry, no English. So Tommy Tuverville isn't the only
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one that is paying attention to this. Constituents are as well,
and that's why he's coming out and saying it is
essential to ensure that ride shared drivers speak English.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
He said this.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
During an appearance on a Breitbart News Daily discussing his
understanding of Basic English Requirements Act or the Uber Act.
When asked abad's proposal, Tullbvill said it covers any kind
of delivery driving, pointing to the importance of doing this
for truck drivers as well. First of all, we got
the CDL done. The big truckers, you know you got
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to speak English, he said. Here's more of that conversation.
He had take a listen.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
The Uber Act. Understanding Basic English requirements for ride share drivers.
So I'm assuming this also means like a door dash
and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So what's the deal here, Walmart delivery?
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Anything to do with people driving? Okay, first of all,
we got the CDL done. The big truckers. You know,
you got to speak English and read English to drive.
You can't read the signs, you're gonna hurt somebody. And
we've had mini erecs because of people that Gavin Newsom
in California has given just handed out these truck licenses
and kill people because those things are weapons if you
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don't know what you're doing. Now, here's what's happened in
Uber and Lyft. We have in a lot of areas
in Alabama and in the South, in peak times for
beaches and all those things, you're having an influx of
people coming from other countries, and a lot of them
Muslim that come in. Sixty seventy of them live in
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four or five houses. They pass their vass around to
each one of them, and they pass their driver's license around.
They can't speak English and they drive Uber and Lyft
and folks, we got to stop it because you know,
if you can't communicate with somebody, I've had Walmart people
delivering to my house that they'll call I can't well,
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what are you talking about? I mean they're lost, they
can't read the signs. We have got to protect the
citizens of this country, and that's what this bill is about.
If you can't speak English and take an English driving test,
you do not get a driver's license, and you do
not drive people around for lyftan uber doesn't happen.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Or Walmart the So it's the danger issue. But it
seems like it seems like if you're an a legal alien,
the easiest job or the quickest job that you can
get is to work for door dash or whatever. So
we got to stop that, right is that is that
one of the motives too, is to just turn off
a bit of a magnet for illegals, give.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
People jobs that live in this country, because now you'll
let a lot of people come from other countries that
are they're illegal here and they're doing door dash and
all that because it's the only thing they can get
a job doing. But it again, it takes away from
people in this country that are citizens that can make
a living. And you know, it's they might pinies own
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the dollar and these people love it. This cheap labor.
But that's part of our problem with immigration in this country.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
You hear what Tommy tuber Bill is saying here, and
part of it I want to go back to. He says,
we have a lot of areas in Alabama that's where
he's the center of in the South, and peak times
for beaches and all these things. We're having an influx
people coming from other countries, and a lot of people
that are coming in, he said, a lot of them Musslim.
They come in, sixty seventy of them live in four
or five houses. They pass their visas around each other,
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each one of them, and they pass their driver's licenses around.
They can't speak English, and they drive over and lyft,
so they're basically one person gets in and then they
just basically fake it.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
He said, we got to.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Stop it because if you can't communicate with somebody, and
he goes back to what he said about Walmart, I
got people delivering to my house and their loss.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
They can't read the signs.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
We've got to protect the citizens of this country, and
that's what this bill is about. If you can't speak
English and you and take an English driving tests, you
do not get a driver's license, and you do not
drive people around for Lyft and Uber. This all goes
back to by the way of the CDL. You got
big truckers. They can't speak English, they can't read the
English signs. How is that safe? If you can't read
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the signs, you're gonna hurt somebody. We've seen people die
because of this, and we've had a lot of racks,
a lot of this because of California Gavin Newsom given
handing out these CDLs to people.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
They're killing people on our roadways. We know this.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
These eighteen wheelers, these rigs are weapons. They will take
your life if you don't know what you're doing, and
if you can't speak English, it is a problem. This
is also and I go back to exploiting. Why is
it that Uber and Lyft and door dash have so
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many illegal immigrant drivers. It's the easiest way to get
a job. You can lie about it. We see people
that lie about it and they are not the person
that you think is picking you up, is picking you up.
They share these cars and these licenses and they're there
just to get, you know, exploit the system any way
they possibly can. I think this is for me a
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no brainer. I think for me, this is just straight
up common sense. For me, this is one of those
where it's like, I want people to be safe. If
you are taking an uber and a lift, I believe
that you should be able to feel safe. And what
does it mean to feel safe? Means the person that's
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picking you up you can communicate with, like. I think
that's really, really, really, really incredibly important. I think it's
for others around you that maybe even don't know who
you are, feel safe as well. Knowing that there are
people on the roadways that are not going to make
a mistake because they cannot speak English, because they cannot
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read the signs, there is a reckoning is maybe the
best way that I can describe it that I think
is happening right now where we are genuinely going back.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
To common sense instead of this insanity.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I think people now care more about safety than they
have in a very long time.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I'll give you another example of this.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
The FAA says it's launching one of the biggest air
traffic controller hiring pushes in decades, aiming to bring on
about eight thousand, nine hundred new controllers by twenty twenty eight.
As part of a supercharge effort back by Sean Duffy,
the Transition Secretary. The agency hired twenty twenty six controllers
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in the fiscal year twenty twenty five, beating its goal
of two thousand after bringing in eighteen hundred the year before.
They have plans to hire more than twenty two hundred
next year. They're trying to fill every seat at its
training academy in Oklahoma City, and they say even with
a SEARCHEUS, some will still feel tight. FA workforce plans
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and outside analysis say the agency is roughly three thousand
and thirty five hundred controllers short of where it wants
to be, with many facilities relying on mandatory overtime in
six to eight weeks work weeks to keep scheduling running. Retirements,
early exits, and high washout rates in training mean that
even hiring the nearly nine thousand new controllers by the
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end of twenty twenty eight would result in a net
gain of only about one thousand additional certified controllers in
the FA ranks, according to the agency's own forecasts. They're
trying to get ahead of it here, and this is
again about safety for travelers. They say this is a
backstory behind a lot of staffing delay messages. When there's
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not enough controllers on a shift, the FA slows the
rate of arrivals and departures. Many of you have been
affected by that. I have during travel recently outside the
government shut down by the way, which can back up
flights for hours. And the new high pushes men to
chip away at that problem, they say, while the agency
also modernize old computer systems and officials ad minute will
take years before passengers really feel the difference because they're
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so far behind now. For now, they say, the US
is trying to rebuild a control of workforce that was
allowed to shrink for far too long, certainly under the
Biden administration, but even before that, there were warning signs,
and people didn't pay attention to those warning signs.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
So if you look at these two issues.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
One of the things I'll say is when the president
is clearly focused on what he can do now to
help you, but also what he can do to make
you safer, and he's inherited a lot of problems and
he's doing everything he can to fix those problems. I
love where we're headed with this. I hate that we're there.
I hate that this is the reality of the situation.
(19:50):
But I love where we are headed. There's a word
that a lot of you may have heard, affordability. That
is the obsession the Democratic Party right now, something they
never mentioned when Joe Biden was President of the United
States of America. Instead, they lied to you and said
that there was no such thing as inflation, that it
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was transitory, and that things were quote getting better, and
gas prices really weren't that bad.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Well, now they're wanting.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Americans to believe that the economy is a disaster, and
they're trying to blame Donald Trump for everything. So let's
talk about the facts of where we were a year
ago compared to now, specifically around Black Friday and holiday
travel for Thanksgiving travelers, there's a bit of good news.
Let me say that again, a bit of good news
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for you at the pump. Gas prices are holding steady,
a far crime from the sticker shock of recent years.
Gas Buddy is now forecasting a national average three dollars
and two cents per gallon over the holiday, matching, yes,
a low price that we needed desperately to help Americans.
(21:03):
And we also now know that there's other things that
are really exciting Thanksgiving gas prices. This is the lowest
we've had since the pandemic, when the national average hit
three dollars and thirty nine cents a gallon in twenty
twenty one and three dollars and fifty six cents a
gallon in twenty twenty two. Gas prices are coming down
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and for many drivers, and national stability is showing up
locally as well. Nearly thirty states now boast average prices
of under three dollars a gallon, from Colorado to New
Hampshire to Georgia. According to Triple A, Oklahoma tops the
list with an average of just two dollars and fifty
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cents a gallon. That is a welcome number on many
gas station signs for consumers. Now at the other end
of the spectrum, where liberals are in charge, you've still
got paint at the pump with regulation and taxation. Let
me give you an example of that. California is now
topping the list as the most expensive state when it
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comes to buying a gallon of gasoline. When you look
at Oklahoma, a conservative state with not a lot of
regulation to make prices skyrocket, and certain blends a demand
to protect the environment right because of global warming. Well,
compare it to what they're paying in California. It is
four dollars and sixty three cents per gallon compared to
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just two fifty a gallon in Oklahoma. Hawaii is actually cheaper,
and that's not something you hear about very often, as
Hawaii is one of the most expensive places to just
get gasoline too, it is now less expensive to buy
a gallon of gas in Hawaii than it is with
all the regulations on gasoline in California. Hawaii at four
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dollars and forty seven cents a gallon compared to four
to sixty three in California. Washington State, another liberal bastion
of well socialism, they now are at four dollars and
eighteen cents a gallon, and rounding out the top ten
are Nevada at three eighty four a gallon, Alaska at
three seventy five a gallon, Arizona at three thirty seven
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a gallon, and three states tied at three twenty nine Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Idaho, and Illinois.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Meanwhile, the most affordable gas can be found in conservative
states Oklahoma at two dollars and fifty seven cents a gallon,
Mississippi at two sixty one a gallon and Louisiana two
sixty five a gallon. Those states in follow other conservative
states Tennessee at two sixty six a gallon, Arkansas at
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two sixty seven a gallon, Texas at two seventy a gallon,
Kansas at two seventy one, Missouri at two seventy three,
Alabama two seventy three, in Kentucky at two seventy four
a gallon. You notice the trend here. Where there are
conservative states, there are lower prices. And when you have
the most radical liberals, what are their prices almost double
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what is being paid in conservative states. TRIPLEA anticipates that
nearly eighty two million Americans will journey at least fifty
miles from home over the Thanksgiving holiday, one point six
million more than last year, marking a record high for
Thanksgiving travel. Now, the revelation comes to the Trump administration
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is pushing ahead on energy, dominance, independence. It's a key
pillar President Donald Trump's economic and national security agenda, and
while Thanksgiving marks the year's busiest travel stretch, it isn't
the only time drivers have caught a break. This Labor Day,
motors saw the lowest gas prices in a half a decade.
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So this is not just one blip on the map.
It's a clear trend. Because of the President of the
It's America putting Americans first, which also brings us to
what's about to happen with US holidays spending. How do
Americans actually feel about the economy and where we are
right now? US holidays spending, we're now being told is
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expected to top one trillion dollars for the first time ever.
I want you to take a listen to what they
had to say about the holidays and shopping patterns this
year on Fox Business Channel. Despite concerns about the economy,
people are still looking to spend.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Jerry Willis has the numbers.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
She joins us now, hey.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Jerry, Yeah, you know, it's interesting everybody asking just how
generous American consumers will be this holiday season. It's the
question still under debate. Both Price Waterhouse and Deloitte surveys
of consumer showing Americans tightening their purse strings with declines
of anywhere from five to ten percent. Gen Z the
most cast is saying they plan to spend twenty three
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percent less than last year, but the National retail Federation
sees sales rising two point nine to three point four percent,
breaking through the one trillion mark for the first time.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Matver now.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Meanwhile, the big discounters like Walmart, TJ Max showing strong
early results. But what can consumers expect is they hit
them all. Some fire up their web browsers this holiday season.
One retail consultant says potential price hikes loom with the
elimination of the Dominimus tariff, which allowed goods under one
thousand from offshore to enter the US duty free. She
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says it could cost sticker shock for some consumers.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
Listen, you need to buy now because we don't know
what's going to happen. Tariffs could go up at any point,
in which case those prices will get passed on. The
price increase will immediately get passed on to the consumer now.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Travel snaffoos could also make it difficult to get your
presence delivered on time, so Herzog is also recommending shipping
presents early by December seventeenth at the least. Plus the
big the best prices that is on big ticket electronics
will be available after the holiday season January fifth and later.
Bottom line, if you want to save money this holiday season.
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Make a list, stick to it, and start early.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Now, this is also happening as we're seeing something else
that's going to make you very happy, and that is
Thanksgiving meal costs have declined to the lowest level in
four years. Another example of affordability the Democrats are trying
to say is terrible, and actually it's running yet again
in the right direction. The cost of a traditional Thanksgiving
meal down sharply, falling to the lowest price since twenty
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twenty one, according to the American Farm Bureau. The Farm
Bureau's fortieth Anniel survey found that a classic Thanksgiving dinner
for ten people will cost fifty five to eighteen that
is down.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Five percent from last year.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Since teen eighty six, volunteers across all fifty states in
Puerto Rico have been organized by the American Farm Bureau
to record local prices for turkey, cube stuffing, sweet potatoes,
dinner rolls, frozen peas, fresh cranberry, salery, carrots, pumpkin pie
mix and crust, whipping cream, and whole milk. Prices soared
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during the presidency of Joe Biden, with inflation rising to
the worst pace in forty years. The price of a
classic Thanksgiving meal searched fourteen percent in twenty twenty one alone,
Biden's first year in office, then hitting a record high
of fifty three to thirty one, despite the administration's insistence
that the price increases were transitory or the result of
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a temporary supply shock. The following year, what came to
be called Biden Inflation was even worse. The price of
a Thanksgiving meal jumped another twenty percent to a skyrocketing
sixty four oh five. By Biden's final Thanksgiving, the price
of a traditional family holiday meal was twenty five four
percent higher than it was when he took office. Yes,
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almost a twenty five percent increase. This year's decline was
driven by a sharp fall in the price of turkey.
A sixteen pound turkey will cost an average of twenty
one to fifty That is down sixteen percent from Joe
Biden's final year in office.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
So is the economy getting better? Yes? Is pricing getting
better for you? Yes?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And is this something we should all be excited about?
You better believe it. Don't forget to share this podcast,
by the way, with your family and your friends on
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download button, and I'll talk to you again tomorrow
It is big news.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
The White House is unveiling a new healthcare framework they
say will lower costs for all Americans. This after the
debacle that was exposed during the government shutdown of just
how much money we are spending to subsidize the Affordable
Care Act, which is anything but affordable. The Trump White House,
(00:24):
were now being told, is expected to unveil a healthcare
policy framework that not only would lower costs, but also
extend expiring Obamacare subsidies while they figure out how to
move forward.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Ms Now and.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Politico reported both that the healthcare policy framework would include
a two year extension of the expiring Enhanced Premium tax credits.
Those are the subsidies that you're paying for. Yes, Obamacare
is not cheap at all. It did not make things
more affordable at all.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
In fact, it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Made the healthcare insurance providers rich at the expense of you,
the tax payer. We also know that they will be
enhanced to Obamacare subsidies, which would otherwise expire at the
end of the year. The proposal could be unveiled as
early as this coming Monday.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
A White House.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Spokesman declined to confirm the details of the plan, stating
quote until President Trump makes an announcement himself. Any reporting about
the administration's health care positions is mere speculation.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
But here's what we are learning through background.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
The plan apparently with lower limits on income eligibility for credits,
and that would save American taxpayers a significant amount of money.
It would also, I'm being told, set minimum premium payments
as well. According to multiple reports, the proposed eligibility cap
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would set the subsidies to seven hundred percent of the
federal poverty line. Republicans have complained that with the Colone
Obama here in hand subsis scheme, wealthy Americans would benefit
from the subseason what was meant to be only temporary.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Why were they temporary?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It was during the COVID nineteen coronavirus outbreak when they
had these extra benefits that now Democrats want to make
well last forever, which is insane. The White House plan
also would urge Congress to fund cost sharing reductions and plans,
(02:36):
which Republicans pushed for in the Big Beautiful Bill, but
were next after Senate Democrats objected to its inclusion in
Trump's landmark legislation, believing it violated rules on budgetary reconciliation.
They claimed now here's the other part that's very interesting
about this. The Congressional Budget Office found that these healthcare
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reforms would have lowered healthcare premiums by twelve point seven
percent and reduced costs by decreasing the need for Obamacare
and the welfare of the government for the epcts known
as the subsidies for Obamacare. The plans would have also
(03:20):
lowered the costs if this CRS plan would have been
put into effect by thirty point eight billion dollars. Now
that's literally thirty point eight billion dollars. It would have
saved you the tax payer, and that is exactly why
Democrats were against it. Now, the Trump proposal would also
have part of their tax credits go straight to Americans
(03:43):
via tax advantage savings accounts instead of the checks going
directly to healthcare insurance companies that are getting rich to
lower America's premium indirectly, the President probably would like to
go bigger. Then the Hill has the appetite four So
we'll have to see how that.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
You know, how it works out.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Is what the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, James
Blair said last week talking about the reforms that need
to be made. What we also know is the White
House WT Chief of Staff saying that President Trump would
love to push for healthcare reform in a way that
would be meaningful, saying, quote, we're going to have to
have the healthcare conversation. We're going to put some legislation forward.
(04:28):
The w chiefs said there could be interest in bi
Parson reform. However, he said if that path is foreclosed,
there is the Parson path of reconciliation as well. The
President probably would like to go big because there needs
to be big reforms. Republican lawmakers have said they believe
the White House will release a framework to lower health
(04:51):
insurance costs, expand health savings accounts, and scrap parts of
the Affordable Care Act that are just flat out unsustainable.
In fact, which of the Obamacare program is unsustainable without
record tax dollars going to prop it up? As I
mentioned earlier, there's nothing affordable about the Affordable Care Act now.
(05:13):
The White House also signaled that the President's interest in
healthcare reform is something he believes could be a massive
change for the American people. A slide deck shared by
the House Majority Leader Stieve Skalise this last week made
it clear that House GOP leadership also falls in the
overhaul camp. One slide that was viewed by Politico was
(05:37):
titled the Unaffordable Care Act and highlighted statistics that show
the premiums have increased by eighty percent since the ACA
passage AKA since Obamacare became law. It also claimed that
more than fifty percent of Obamacare and rollees did not
file a single claim this year. Walking into the meeting, school,
(06:02):
he said in a brief interview that he planned to
keep talking with the chairs of three key committees of
jurisdiction over health policy. That would be Ways and Means,
Energy and Commerce, Education, and the workforce. Now, healthcare became
a focal point in the national politics as Democrats shut
the government down, as I mentioned earlier for weeks over
(06:24):
what they described as mandatory Obamacare subsidies. They were not mandatory.
They were enhanced during COVID and they will expire on purpose.
The Democrats planned this way at the end of the year.
Democrats first enhanced these substies through one point nine trillion
let me say that again, one point nine trillion in
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coronavirus era stimulus plans, including the American Rescue Plan. They
continue the subseas through the end of twenty twenty five
with the so called Inflation Reduction Act that did anything
but that. Trump weighed in on the issues, stating that
healthcare dollars should go directly to the American people instead
(07:06):
of through subsidies to health insurance companies, saying it this
way on social media, quote, the only healthcare I will
support or approve is sending the money directly back to
the people, with nothing going to the big, fat rich
insurance companies who have made trillions and ripped off America.
(07:28):
Long enough, the people will be allowed to negotiate and
by their own much better insurance. Power to the people. Congress,
do not waste your time and energy on anything else.
This is the only way to have great health care
in America. The Republican Set of Community chairman said that
(07:50):
a second reconciliation bill should address affordability, which should include
healthcare reform, saying the Democrats are incapable of coming up
with a plan that is competitive, transparent, and actually reduces costs.
Whine because they're lining the pockets of their friends in
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the healthcare provider industry, and they know that as long
as the government's willing to send them the check. They
get rich every single time the money comes into their accounts.
This also just goes back to consumer choice and freedom.
The President believes that you, as an American, deserve to
have your money and then you can put it to
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work the way that you decide to do it, in
a more responsible manner than the corruption of the government.
Doctor Mark Siegel on Fox News Channel talking about exactly this,
and here is what he had to say on Fox
News Sunday.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
But I can't get your treatments.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
What about this idea that the President has floated about
the money that flows into a lot of these subsidies
instead of paying the insurance companies, going direct to the
consumer and letting them take the money with them where
they choose.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
He's gotten a lot of for that, but he's on
the right track because it would give the consumer more
control of the situation. Health savings accounts are part of this.
Being able to buy your own insurance, making it affordable
and you choose a marketplace idea. It's more, it's not
quite that simple. That's a huge step in the right direction.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Well, what are your odds? Do you so?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
At the end of the day, there are two options.
Either you as an American, say no, no, no government, Just
be in charge of my life. Doesn't matter how much
it costs. Just you be in charge of my health care.
Or there's the Donald Trump plan, which is he believes
that you, as an American, should decide what is best
for you, that you should spend your money in a
way that is well more responsible than what the government
(09:41):
does each and every day. And he believes that prices
will lower significantly if you do it that way. I
think many Americans have made it clear that they like
the way the President is describing this and the amount
of corruption that we are witnessing from those in the
Democratic Party and in governm who are overspending your tax
(10:02):
tours and what are you actually getting in return? Not
a lot for your money. And that's where we are today.
There is a lot of anger at the moment by
the radical left, a demand by the name of Senater
Tommy Tuberville. Why because Tommy Tuverville is using logic and
(10:23):
common sense on something that is actually pretty important, transportation center.
Tommy Teverville is now pushing an Uber Act that would
require English proficiency for ride share drivers. Now, if you've
ever been picked up by an Uber driver who doesn't
speak any English. You understand just how frustrating it can be,
(10:46):
especially if it's the airport. You're in another city and
you don't know what's happening, and then you have someone
you cannot communicate with. I travel constantly and it is
one of the biggest frustrations that I've had, either not
being able to find me or not being able to
get me to where I need to go and then
saying sorry, no English. So Tommy Tuverville isn't the only
(11:09):
one that is paying attention to this. Constituents are as well,
and that's why he's coming out and saying it is
essential to ensure that ride shared drivers speak English.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
He said this.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
During an appearance on a Breitbart News Daily discussing his
understanding of Basic English Requirements Act or the Uber Act.
When asked abad's proposal, Tullbvill said it covers any kind
of delivery driving, pointing to the importance of doing this
for truck drivers as well. First of all, we got
the CDL done. The big truckers, you know you got
(11:42):
to speak English, he said. Here's more of that conversation.
He had take a listen.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
The Uber Act. Understanding Basic English requirements for ride share drivers.
So I'm assuming this also means like a door dash
and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So what's the deal here, Walmart delivery?
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Anything to do with people driving? Okay, first of all,
we got the CDL done. The big truckers. You know,
you got to speak English and read English to drive.
You can't read the signs, you're gonna hurt somebody. And
we've had mini erecs because of people that Gavin Newsom
in California has given just handed out these truck licenses
and kill people because those things are weapons if you
(12:22):
don't know what you're doing. Now, here's what's happened in
Uber and Lyft. We have in a lot of areas
in Alabama and in the South, in peak times for
beaches and all those things, you're having an influx of
people coming from other countries, and a lot of them
Muslim that come in. Sixty seventy of them live in
(12:42):
four or five houses. They pass their vass around to
each one of them, and they pass their driver's license around.
They can't speak English and they drive Uber and Lyft
and folks, we got to stop it because you know,
if you can't communicate with somebody, I've had Walmart people
delivering to my house that they'll call I can't well,
(13:04):
what are you talking about? I mean they're lost, they
can't read the signs. We have got to protect the
citizens of this country, and that's what this bill is about.
If you can't speak English and take an English driving test,
you do not get a driver's license, and you do
not drive people around for lyftan uber doesn't happen.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Or Walmart the So it's the danger issue. But it
seems like it seems like if you're an a legal alien,
the easiest job or the quickest job that you can
get is to work for door dash or whatever. So
we got to stop that, right is that is that
one of the motives too, is to just turn off
a bit of a magnet for illegals, give.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
People jobs that live in this country, because now you'll
let a lot of people come from other countries that
are they're illegal here and they're doing door dash and
all that because it's the only thing they can get
a job doing. But it again, it takes away from
people in this country that are citizens that can make
a living. And you know, it's they might pinies own
(14:05):
the dollar and these people love it. This cheap labor.
But that's part of our problem with immigration in this country.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
You hear what Tommy tuber Bill is saying here, and
part of it I want to go back to. He says,
we have a lot of areas in Alabama that's where
he's the center of in the South, and peak times
for beaches and all these things. We're having an influx
people coming from other countries, and a lot of people
that are coming in, he said, a lot of them Musslim.
They come in, sixty seventy of them live in four
or five houses. They pass their visas around each other,
(14:33):
each one of them, and they pass their driver's licenses around.
They can't speak English, and they drive over and lyft,
so they're basically one person gets in and then they
just basically fake it.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
He said, we got to.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Stop it because if you can't communicate with somebody, and
he goes back to what he said about Walmart, I
got people delivering to my house and their loss.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
They can't read the signs.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
We've got to protect the citizens of this country, and
that's what this bill is about. If you can't speak
English and you and take an English driving tests, you
do not get a driver's license, and you do not
drive people around for Lyft and Uber. This all goes
back to by the way of the CDL. You got
big truckers. They can't speak English, they can't read the
English signs. How is that safe? If you can't read
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the signs, you're gonna hurt somebody. We've seen people die
because of this, and we've had a lot of racks,
a lot of this because of California Gavin Newsom given
handing out these CDLs to people.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
They're killing people on our roadways. We know this.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
These eighteen wheelers, these rigs are weapons. They will take
your life if you don't know what you're doing, and
if you can't speak English, it is a problem. This
is also and I go back to exploiting. Why is
it that Uber and Lyft and door dash have so
(15:51):
many illegal immigrant drivers. It's the easiest way to get
a job. You can lie about it. We see people
that lie about it and they are not the person
that you think is picking you up, is picking you up.
They share these cars and these licenses and they're there
just to get, you know, exploit the system any way
they possibly can. I think this is for me a
(16:14):
no brainer. I think for me, this is just straight
up common sense. For me, this is one of those
where it's like, I want people to be safe. If
you are taking an uber and a lift, I believe
that you should be able to feel safe. And what
does it mean to feel safe? Means the person that's
(16:36):
picking you up you can communicate with, like. I think
that's really, really, really, really incredibly important. I think it's
for others around you that maybe even don't know who
you are, feel safe as well. Knowing that there are
people on the roadways that are not going to make
a mistake because they cannot speak English, because they cannot
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read the signs, there is a reckoning is maybe the
best way that I can describe it that I think
is happening right now where we are genuinely going back.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
To common sense instead of this insanity.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I think people now care more about safety than they
have in a very long time.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I'll give you another example of this.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
The FAA says it's launching one of the biggest air
traffic controller hiring pushes in decades, aiming to bring on
about eight thousand, nine hundred new controllers by twenty twenty eight.
As part of a supercharge effort back by Sean Duffy,
the Transition Secretary. The agency hired twenty twenty six controllers
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in the fiscal year twenty twenty five, beating its goal
of two thousand after bringing in eighteen hundred the year before.
They have plans to hire more than twenty two hundred
next year. They're trying to fill every seat at its
training academy in Oklahoma City, and they say even with
a SEARCHEUS, some will still feel tight. FA workforce plans
(18:03):
and outside analysis say the agency is roughly three thousand
and thirty five hundred controllers short of where it wants
to be, with many facilities relying on mandatory overtime in
six to eight weeks work weeks to keep scheduling running. Retirements,
early exits, and high washout rates in training mean that
even hiring the nearly nine thousand new controllers by the
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end of twenty twenty eight would result in a net
gain of only about one thousand additional certified controllers in
the FA ranks, according to the agency's own forecasts. They're
trying to get ahead of it here, and this is
again about safety for travelers. They say this is a
backstory behind a lot of staffing delay messages. When there's
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not enough controllers on a shift, the FA slows the
rate of arrivals and departures. Many of you have been
affected by that. I have during travel recently outside the
government shut down by the way, which can back up
flights for hours. And the new high pushes men to
chip away at that problem, they say, while the agency
also modernize old computer systems and officials ad minute will
take years before passengers really feel the difference because they're
(19:11):
so far behind now. For now, they say, the US
is trying to rebuild a control of workforce that was
allowed to shrink for far too long, certainly under the
Biden administration, but even before that, there were warning signs,
and people didn't pay attention to those warning signs.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
So if you look at these two issues.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
One of the things I'll say is when the president
is clearly focused on what he can do now to
help you, but also what he can do to make
you safer, and he's inherited a lot of problems and
he's doing everything he can to fix those problems. I
love where we're headed with this. I hate that we're there.
I hate that this is the reality of the situation.
(19:50):
But I love where we are headed. There's a word
that a lot of you may have heard, affordability. That
is the obsession the Democratic Party right now, something they
never mentioned when Joe Biden was President of the United
States of America. Instead, they lied to you and said
that there was no such thing as inflation, that it
(20:10):
was transitory, and that things were quote getting better, and
gas prices really weren't that bad.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Well, now they're wanting.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Americans to believe that the economy is a disaster, and
they're trying to blame Donald Trump for everything. So let's
talk about the facts of where we were a year
ago compared to now, specifically around Black Friday and holiday
travel for Thanksgiving travelers, there's a bit of good news.
Let me say that again, a bit of good news
(20:40):
for you at the pump. Gas prices are holding steady,
a far crime from the sticker shock of recent years.
Gas Buddy is now forecasting a national average three dollars
and two cents per gallon over the holiday, matching, yes,
a low price that we needed desperately to help Americans.
(21:03):
And we also now know that there's other things that
are really exciting Thanksgiving gas prices. This is the lowest
we've had since the pandemic, when the national average hit
three dollars and thirty nine cents a gallon in twenty
twenty one and three dollars and fifty six cents a
gallon in twenty twenty two. Gas prices are coming down
(21:25):
and for many drivers, and national stability is showing up
locally as well. Nearly thirty states now boast average prices
of under three dollars a gallon, from Colorado to New
Hampshire to Georgia. According to Triple A, Oklahoma tops the
list with an average of just two dollars and fifty
(21:46):
cents a gallon. That is a welcome number on many
gas station signs for consumers. Now at the other end
of the spectrum, where liberals are in charge, you've still
got paint at the pump with regulation and taxation. Let
me give you an example of that. California is now
topping the list as the most expensive state when it
(22:09):
comes to buying a gallon of gasoline. When you look
at Oklahoma, a conservative state with not a lot of
regulation to make prices skyrocket, and certain blends a demand
to protect the environment right because of global warming. Well,
compare it to what they're paying in California. It is
four dollars and sixty three cents per gallon compared to
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just two fifty a gallon in Oklahoma. Hawaii is actually cheaper,
and that's not something you hear about very often, as
Hawaii is one of the most expensive places to just
get gasoline too, it is now less expensive to buy
a gallon of gas in Hawaii than it is with
all the regulations on gasoline in California. Hawaii at four
(22:56):
dollars and forty seven cents a gallon compared to four
to sixty three in California. Washington State, another liberal bastion
of well socialism, they now are at four dollars and
eighteen cents a gallon, and rounding out the top ten
are Nevada at three eighty four a gallon, Alaska at
three seventy five a gallon, Arizona at three thirty seven
(23:19):
a gallon, and three states tied at three twenty nine Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Idaho, and Illinois.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Meanwhile, the most affordable gas can be found in conservative
states Oklahoma at two dollars and fifty seven cents a gallon,
Mississippi at two sixty one a gallon and Louisiana two
sixty five a gallon. Those states in follow other conservative
states Tennessee at two sixty six a gallon, Arkansas at
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two sixty seven a gallon, Texas at two seventy a gallon,
Kansas at two seventy one, Missouri at two seventy three,
Alabama two seventy three, in Kentucky at two seventy four
a gallon. You notice the trend here. Where there are
conservative states, there are lower prices. And when you have
the most radical liberals, what are their prices almost double
(24:10):
what is being paid in conservative states. TRIPLEA anticipates that
nearly eighty two million Americans will journey at least fifty
miles from home over the Thanksgiving holiday, one point six
million more than last year, marking a record high for
Thanksgiving travel. Now, the revelation comes to the Trump administration
(24:33):
is pushing ahead on energy, dominance, independence. It's a key
pillar President Donald Trump's economic and national security agenda, and
while Thanksgiving marks the year's busiest travel stretch, it isn't
the only time drivers have caught a break. This Labor Day,
motors saw the lowest gas prices in a half a decade.
(24:53):
So this is not just one blip on the map.
It's a clear trend. Because of the President of the
It's America putting Americans first, which also brings us to
what's about to happen with US holidays spending. How do
Americans actually feel about the economy and where we are
right now? US holidays spending, we're now being told is
(25:16):
expected to top one trillion dollars for the first time ever.
I want you to take a listen to what they
had to say about the holidays and shopping patterns this
year on Fox Business Channel. Despite concerns about the economy,
people are still looking to spend.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Jerry Willis has the numbers.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
She joins us now, hey.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Jerry, Yeah, you know, it's interesting everybody asking just how
generous American consumers will be this holiday season. It's the
question still under debate. Both Price Waterhouse and Deloitte surveys
of consumer showing Americans tightening their purse strings with declines
of anywhere from five to ten percent. Gen Z the
most cast is saying they plan to spend twenty three
(26:02):
percent less than last year, but the National retail Federation
sees sales rising two point nine to three point four percent,
breaking through the one trillion mark for the first time.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Matver now.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Meanwhile, the big discounters like Walmart, TJ Max showing strong
early results. But what can consumers expect is they hit
them all. Some fire up their web browsers this holiday season.
One retail consultant says potential price hikes loom with the
elimination of the Dominimus tariff, which allowed goods under one
thousand from offshore to enter the US duty free. She
(26:38):
says it could cost sticker shock for some consumers.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
Listen, you need to buy now because we don't know
what's going to happen. Tariffs could go up at any point,
in which case those prices will get passed on. The
price increase will immediately get passed on to the consumer now.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Travel snaffoos could also make it difficult to get your
presence delivered on time, so Herzog is also recommending shipping
presents early by December seventeenth at the least. Plus the
big the best prices that is on big ticket electronics
will be available after the holiday season January fifth and later.
Bottom line, if you want to save money this holiday season.
(27:17):
Make a list, stick to it, and start early.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Now, this is also happening as we're seeing something else
that's going to make you very happy, and that is
Thanksgiving meal costs have declined to the lowest level in
four years. Another example of affordability the Democrats are trying
to say is terrible, and actually it's running yet again
in the right direction. The cost of a traditional Thanksgiving
meal down sharply, falling to the lowest price since twenty
(27:45):
twenty one, according to the American Farm Bureau. The Farm
Bureau's fortieth Anniel survey found that a classic Thanksgiving dinner
for ten people will cost fifty five to eighteen that
is down.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Five percent from last year.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Since teen eighty six, volunteers across all fifty states in
Puerto Rico have been organized by the American Farm Bureau
to record local prices for turkey, cube stuffing, sweet potatoes,
dinner rolls, frozen peas, fresh cranberry, salery, carrots, pumpkin pie
mix and crust, whipping cream, and whole milk. Prices soared
(28:21):
during the presidency of Joe Biden, with inflation rising to
the worst pace in forty years. The price of a
classic Thanksgiving meal searched fourteen percent in twenty twenty one alone,
Biden's first year in office, then hitting a record high
of fifty three to thirty one, despite the administration's insistence
that the price increases were transitory or the result of
(28:42):
a temporary supply shock. The following year, what came to
be called Biden Inflation was even worse. The price of
a Thanksgiving meal jumped another twenty percent to a skyrocketing
sixty four oh five. By Biden's final Thanksgiving, the price
of a traditional family holiday meal was twenty five four
percent higher than it was when he took office. Yes,
(29:03):
almost a twenty five percent increase. This year's decline was
driven by a sharp fall in the price of turkey.
A sixteen pound turkey will cost an average of twenty
one to fifty That is down sixteen percent from Joe
Biden's final year in office.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
So is the economy getting better? Yes? Is pricing getting
better for you? Yes?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And is this something we should all be excited about?
You better believe it. Don't forget to share this podcast,
by the way, with your family and your friends on
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