October 23, 2025 • 18 mins
BEST OF - An update on the ongoing government shutdown, plus new polling data from National Correspondent Rory O’Neill showing the top issues on voters’ minds — including rising concern about Social Security. White House Correspondent Jon Decker recaps President Trump’s meeting with the NATO Secretary General, and we break down a new study on health care premiums along with the Democrats’ new ICE activity tracker.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Senate yet again rejected a measure that would have
ended the government shutdown.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
On this vote, the age of fifty four the nays
of forty six, three fifths of the.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Senators do we chosen and sworn not having voted in
the affirmative the motion is not agreed to.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's like when the Australian Prime Minister came to town recently,
he left behind one of his staff members and they
took over doing that on the Senate floor. It just
sounded like an Australian accents does. The failed vote came
on the twenty second day of the shutdown, and after
Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley spoke on the floor for over
twenty two hours straight, fell short of Corey Booker's twenty
(00:38):
five hours and five minutes record, but still twenty two
hours a long time. Yeah. Yeah, I've kept going and
delayed the vote to wait until he was done before
they could hold that vote. Some other notes for you
government employees, whether they're furloughed or working through the shutdown,
they're set to miss their first full paycheck tomorrow. A
federal appeals court paused a lawsuit over operations at Alligant
(00:59):
orntras because of the shutdown. The pause is going to
remain until Congress resource funding for the Department of Justice
and the Department of Homeland Security. The acting administrator of SNAP,
the country's largest food assistance program, which serves about forty
two million people, says the program is not going to
have enough money by the end of the month if
the shutdown continues, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
(01:23):
Services they're going to recall about three thousand fur lowed
employees next week to support ongoing Medicare and Obamacare open
enrollment operations. Nearly half of CMS staff have been furloughed
since October one. A bad time to have so many
people out when you've got open enrollment for Medicare and Obamacare.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And yeah, they had to call those people back.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, people have questions and issues and that would have
been a real mess. Bringing our national correspondent Roory O'Neil,
who supports brought to you by Mark Spain real Estate. So, Rory,
I want to start with the beef between cattle ranch
and President Trump.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
You've got cattle ranchers.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
They weren't happy with Trump's decision to buy a lot
of beef from Argentina. Republican members of Congress pushed back
against Trump on their behalf than yesterday. Trump basically said,
you cattle ranchers don't know what's good for you, and
your prices are too high, and that didn't sit well
with big beef.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
No, and especially as you know, as a guy who
enjoys his state, that's for sure, or at least as hamburgers.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Yeah, the president knows.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Of what he speaks, because beef prices do remain at
or near record highs. And the presidents saying, look, if
not for the tariffs I've imposed on the imported beef
from countries like Brazil, you'd be in even more trouble.
But the ranchers here saying, look, our cattle herds are small.
We've been battling drought. It's been more expensive to have
the labor that's necessary to maintain the cattle and then
(02:51):
to process them. So they're facing a series of different issues,
plus an American diet that is often including less beef.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, and look, not easy to raise and maintain cattle.
I know, you know from a lot of experience by
watching Yellowstone.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Yes, how yeah, I thought it was all of your
experience in healing with bulls stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Okay, no, it was all those nights watching Yellowstone. I
learned a lot about cattle and all of that. It's
it's tough, but yeah, this is gonna be It sounds
like an ongoing battle. And you've got farmers across the
country who they're also right now in a really tough spot.
I mean, you know, the tariffs the first time around,
(03:37):
when Trump was first in office, that he imposed on
other countries and their retaliatory measures hit our farmers hard.
That led to bailouts, and you've got you've got farmers.
Now you've got these cattle ranchers. They're all saying yet
again they're struggling to keep up well.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Right, and they don't want bailouts and government handouts.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
They just want to be able to sell their product.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
And that's been the interfere You know, China has turned
away from American soybeans completely and now we're trying to
They're sourcing them from Argentina, so now you've got to
try to win them back. And what does that mean
either undercutting Argentinian prices or you know, somehow better quality
soybeans for that tofu that you want for dinner, So
(04:19):
that's a factor.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
And yeah, well we'll see if the president.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Is able to make any headway when he meets with
Asian leaders next week.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I'm gonna go have burger today to help out those cattle.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I really want a steak right now. I don't need
steak a lot, but once in a while I want one.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, Army's they're trying to help out the cattle ranchers
to it. They're steak nuggets that they just lot, right.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Yeah, yeah, that'll make me have to fool all right, all.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Right, we're joined by our national correspondent Rory O'Neil tell
us about this polling on some top political issues that
just came out.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Yeah, it's the monthly poll from Quinnipiac again, which followed
these because they asked the questions of that. We can
see the trend, you know, Donald Trump's approval rating and
all that, but then we also ask sort of what's
the flash headline in this case the government shutdown? Forty
five percent of voters blame Republicans for the shutdown. Thirty
nine percent of those polled blame the Democrats. But if
(05:11):
you look a bit closer at the Quinnipiac numbers for
the Independent the swing voters in the poll, those swing
voters set forty eight percent blame Republicans thirty two percent
blame Democrats. That's a big gap there, and it's interesting
among that specific demo.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
There was some reporting I think punch Bowl News had
it the other day of the internal polling among Democrats
on who's to blame for the shutdown, and it had
it much much closer to even. So, I think I
don't think anybody's winning this right now, and I think
Republicans could really put some pressure on Democrats if they
(05:50):
start doing those standalone bills on paying federal workers and
troops and Democrats start voting against that stuff.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
We're in the middle of it.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
So this is all very fluid, and so you know,
just just take it in as a data point, you know,
don't don't you bet the farm right those all those
cattle on either one of those numbers.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
You know, I was thinking, I was thinking for Democrats, honestly,
their best strategy right now would probably be back down
to reopen the federal government and then, uh, you know,
if they're confident that uh, the American people are going
to see those premium spike, and they're going to be
outraged about it. They could say, hey, we tried to
do something, but you know, I couldn't get anything done there.
(06:31):
I mean that, that, honestly is probably their best bet
because if they keep just you know, voting no and
getting nowhere with negotiations, and then you have these these
bills that get put forward where Republicans are like, we're
going to fund uh, you know, the troops, and we're
going to fund air traffic controllers and Democrats are voting
no on that stuff. I mean really bad for really bad. Yeah, yeah,
(06:54):
I would take the offense to take to take that
a step further.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
I think that the Democrats should come out with their
here's our twenty twenty seven legislative agenda. Would we get
control of Congress in January I don't know, eighth, twenty
twenty seven, whatever it may be, like, here's what we're
going to do if you let us do it right,
or I'm just say on twenty twenty seven and be like,
there it is, we can't do.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
But until then, you know, the Republicans are ruling the roost.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
And look, a lot of people want to see these
spending cuts a lot of people are eager for more
spending cuts, but that's not really what's being talked about
in this deal here. So yeah, I don't know. I
think the republic the Democrats way out is to look
more long term.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I think.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And if they were to end the shutdown tomorrow and
they were to say, all right, Republicans, you promised us
to negotiate on healthcare and you know, performing Obamacare and
all of that, let's do it. What's your plan? I mean,
just listen to Marjorie Taylor Green. She's like, oh, what's
been fifteen years. We don't have a plan. There is
no plan. She's like House speaker Mike Johnson was on
(07:52):
a conference call talking about a plan, didn't offer any specifics.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
So, I mean, they.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Put together a montage of President from but you know,
promising his healthcare plan right since his first administration. Oh
two weeks, just two more weeks, and that'll be the
best healthcare plan ever.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I would love the plan. I would love a better
system than what we've got now. What we've got now
is a freaking mess.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Yeah, So opening that bill a week after the hospital
the r visit, right, how much am I going to Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, it was an urgent care visit.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It was an R visit that would have been one
hundred and seventy one thousand, not one hundred and seventy
one buys.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
My son has to go to the dentist next week,
and I get to figure out what our dental insurance is,
figure out where to even get my dental car, all
of it.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
He took tomorrow off, what I yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
All right, and Rory, I hear you're off tomorrow. Everybody's
leaving me tomorrow, you like, So, Yeah, how does it
feel I'll get by?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It doesn't like people.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Yeah, I don't like people the less around.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Somewhere though, not just in the living room.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Right right, that's true. All right, We'll have a good,
a long weekend.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Roy.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Thanks. Ryan.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Go back to the hotline and bring in our White
House correspondent John Decker. Now, so, John, yesterday President Trump
called someone a third rate reporter. But I don't believe
it was you, right, Yeah, he wasn't referring to you, John. Yeah,
you got a lot of questions. You had some real
time with the President. Look, the big headline to come
(09:25):
out of the White House. I think yesterday was the
sanctions that were imposed against Russian. Of course, that came
right after President Trump's meeting with the NATO Secretary General.
Tell us about that, Well.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
That's right, Mark rooted a NATO secretary general visiting the
White House yesterday, And I think that the meeting was
all about trying to figure out next steps, the strategy
going forward to put pressure on President Putin to come
to the negotiating table, and one effort in one element
to that effort is imposing these what the President called
(09:59):
subs stantial sanctions on the two largest oil companies in
Russia that deprives Russia very much needed revenue to fund
their war against Ukraine. The President indicated, and Mark Ruda
agreed that now is not the time to provide what
Ukraine has been asking for, which is those Tomahawk missiles,
those long range missiles. But the President hasn't taken that
(10:23):
off the table entirely, meaning that he could down the road,
if he wants to provide even more pressure on Russia,
use that as leverage, but now the President believes is
not the time to do that.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I think the President is really starting to feel like
Charlie Brown and Vladimir Putin is lucy with the football.
Every single time he thinks he's made some progress, including
you know that phone call and in this summit that
was plans, and he learns it it's not quite going
(10:56):
the way he thought it was going to go. I mean,
this has been happen in time and time again.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Well, yes and no. I mean, look, the president went
through with the summit that's a place in mid August
in Anchorage, Alaska. This time he called it off. So
you know, I think he's getting what I'm saying to understand. Yeah,
that Putin is just trying to buy time here, right
right right. So what were some of the questions that
you have for the president, Well, the President besides asking
(11:24):
a question about whether or not these sanctions will push
Putin to the negotiating table, and the President saying that
it remains to be seen, essentially.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Whether that will be the case.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
I also asked the President about his upcoming meeting with
President She and whether President She can play a very
important role in pushing Putin to the negotiating table, given
the fact that they have a close relationship, and also
you have Russia dependence on China for so many things,
and the President said yes, that is a big part
(11:56):
of his discussion with President She. So, President she I
think plays an important role and may play an important
role in bringing an end.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
To this war.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
And I asked the President about his upcoming tariff's case
at the Supreme Court. The President confirmed that he may
indeed actually show up in the Supreme Court for oral
arguments on November fifth. I'll be in the court that day.
That would be pretty interesting. And the President also explaining,
and he's right, this really could determine whether or not
all of that tariff revenue that he intends to take
(12:26):
in to the US Treasury may go away if the
Supreme Court rules against him as it relates to his
ability to impose those tariffs on every one of America's
trading partners.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
All right, our White House correspondent John Decker with us
this morning. John, really appreciate it. Thanks so much. Thanks Ryan,
and don't forget you can listen to John on the
White House Briefing Room podcast, which you can find on
your iHeartRadio app. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation study,
employer sponsored health insurance costs hit a record in twenty
(12:57):
twenty five, with family plans averaging nearly twenty seven thousand
dollars a year, up six percent about fourteen hundred dollars
from twenty twenty four, more than twice the inflation rate.
Workers now pay almost seven thousand dollars annually toward coverage,
and rising costs are being driven by higher drug prices,
(13:18):
especially GLP one weight loss drugs like GOVI and zepbound.
I also think those higher drug prices are in part
because they keep advertising their drugs. Every five frickin seconds,
there's one right now on TV. I mean every time
I turn on the TV, it's another drug add NonStop.
Then you've got hospital prices and increased service use adding
(13:40):
to costs. Deductibles also climb to nearly nineteen hundred dollars
for individuals. Remember when it used to be you paid
those premiums and.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
You know, you go to the doctor and you might
pay like a twenty dollars copay.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Or something like that.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, now you got, you know, thousands of dollars in
deductibles that you have to hit. And we got a
lot of feed back to our conversation yesterday about healthcare
in this country and the lack of transparency in our
healthcare system. I was talking about when I went to
urgent care recently. When I was there, I got no
information on the cost they you know, ran my insurance
(14:15):
and all of that. I get done with the appointment
and I'm like, is you know anything I need to
do here? I gotta pay anything?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Is or bill? You know nothing? You're good?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
And then a month later, one hundred and seventy one bucks, right, yes, Like,
I have no idea why, I have no idea where
that came from, how it came out to that amount.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
You just you just don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Well, somebody, somebody on our TikTok actually explained the process
a little bit. And this was on our TikTok at
Ryan Gorman show. She said, your insurance company determines the
reimbursement rate. Your owed amount has to factor in your deductible,
your co insurance, your copay, the allowed amount in network
or out of network, all determined by your insurance.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
It varies. Oh, that's ejaculation you need to do.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
That helps, That helps, That makes it much more simple.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
And then also somebody said, wait, you went to the
er and you only got a bill for one hundred
and seventy one dollars.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
No urgent care urgent care, not the er.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
And then somebody said, I just received a bill for
eighty seven dollars for my er visit, just for a sling.
They gave me for having fractured my elbow, eighty seven
dollars for just the sing. And I remember when my
husband cut his hand a couple of years ago and
we had to go to the urgent care he got
stitched up. They tried to give him a whole bunch
(15:30):
of stuff like that, like a sling and all these bandages.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
And he said ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
He said, no, I will go to CVS buy it myself,
because I know you're going to weigh over charge me
for you eighty seven dollars for a sling she could
have got at Walgreens for probably ten bucks.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Oh yeah, you'd have to take out like a personal
loan if you had gotten it from the hospital. House Democrats,
led by Representative Rob Garcia, Democrat from California, are launching
a Master Ice tracker to monitor immigration enforcement actions across
the country. Garcia said the tool will collect and verify
reports from communities about federal agents detaining people without due process,
(16:06):
calling such actions unconstitutional and Unamerican ICE officials condemned the move,
with Acting director todd Lyons warning it could endanger agents
and put a target on their backs. So I think
there's a little bit of confusion over how it'll work.
The tracker is going to document actions after they occur.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
It's not a live location tool.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
That's what I thought it was when I first saw
story a master ICE tracker. I'm like, if Democrats are
going to launch a tool that's tracking this stuff in
real time, I mean, come on, that's going to be
a huge problem. This is going to be more something
that kind of gathers reports of ICE actions and you
know what potentially happened during those operations after the fact.
(16:51):
So not quite as big of a deal to me.
President Trump's plan to double the ICE workforce by ten
thousand officers has hit a bit of a speed because
of out of shape recruits. More than one third of
trainees at ICE's Georgia Academy are failing the physical test,
which requires fifteen push ups, thirty two sit ups, and
(17:13):
a one and a half mile run in fourteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
And you do it.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Fifteen push ups I could do third, I could do that.
The thirty two setups I could do. The one that
I'm not sure of, and this is the one that's
causing the real problem. The one and a half mile
run in fourteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Oh yeah, that's a pretty quick mile.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, mile and a half. I think, like you know
the Olympic athletes. What is it a four minute mile
or something.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Like that or five minutes, Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, that's what I remember. But fourteen minutes a mile
and a half. I gotta be honest with They have
no idea. I don't like to run, so I have
no frame of reference there. And ICE email described new
hires as athletically allergic, an accuse some of misrepresenting their
fitness on applications.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Imagine what they do in their dating profiles.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
ICE has been touting a big surgeon applications, over one
hundred and seventy five thousand of them, but only about
fifty thousand are unique applicants. You've got a lot of
people applying for multiple roles. And that report follows what
we saw with a few members of the National Guard.
Remember they were sent home from their deployments because they
were photographs and they were a little overweight and out
(18:22):
of shape. Yeah, and some people on social media, I
think very rudely. You know, these are people who are
serving our country, even if they're you know, not the
most physically fit. They were calling them Meal Team six.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Oh that's terrible. We're not gonna laugh.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
No, no, it's awful.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
So Ryan Gorman Show on news radio WFLA.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Follow us on Facebook and Instagram at Ryan Gorman Show,
and find us online at ryangormanshow dot com
The Senate yet again rejected a measure that would have
ended the government shutdown.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
On this vote, the age of fifty four the nays
of forty six, three fifths of the.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Senators do we chosen and sworn not having voted in
the affirmative the motion is not agreed to.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's like when the Australian Prime Minister came to town recently,
he left behind one of his staff members and they
took over doing that on the Senate floor. It just
sounded like an Australian accents does. The failed vote came
on the twenty second day of the shutdown, and after
Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley spoke on the floor for over
twenty two hours straight, fell short of Corey Booker's twenty
(00:38):
five hours and five minutes record, but still twenty two
hours a long time. Yeah. Yeah, I've kept going and
delayed the vote to wait until he was done before
they could hold that vote. Some other notes for you
government employees, whether they're furloughed or working through the shutdown,
they're set to miss their first full paycheck tomorrow. A
federal appeals court paused a lawsuit over operations at Alligant
(00:59):
orntras because of the shutdown. The pause is going to
remain until Congress resource funding for the Department of Justice
and the Department of Homeland Security. The acting administrator of SNAP,
the country's largest food assistance program, which serves about forty
two million people, says the program is not going to
have enough money by the end of the month if
the shutdown continues, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
(01:23):
Services they're going to recall about three thousand fur lowed
employees next week to support ongoing Medicare and Obamacare open
enrollment operations. Nearly half of CMS staff have been furloughed
since October one. A bad time to have so many
people out when you've got open enrollment for Medicare and Obamacare.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And yeah, they had to call those people back.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, people have questions and issues and that would have
been a real mess. Bringing our national correspondent Roory O'Neil,
who supports brought to you by Mark Spain real Estate. So, Rory,
I want to start with the beef between cattle ranch
and President Trump.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
You've got cattle ranchers.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
They weren't happy with Trump's decision to buy a lot
of beef from Argentina. Republican members of Congress pushed back
against Trump on their behalf than yesterday. Trump basically said,
you cattle ranchers don't know what's good for you, and
your prices are too high, and that didn't sit well
with big beef.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
No, and especially as you know, as a guy who
enjoys his state, that's for sure, or at least as hamburgers.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Yeah, the president knows.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Of what he speaks, because beef prices do remain at
or near record highs. And the presidents saying, look, if
not for the tariffs I've imposed on the imported beef
from countries like Brazil, you'd be in even more trouble.
But the ranchers here saying, look, our cattle herds are small.
We've been battling drought. It's been more expensive to have
the labor that's necessary to maintain the cattle and then
(02:51):
to process them. So they're facing a series of different issues,
plus an American diet that is often including less beef.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, and look, not easy to raise and maintain cattle.
I know, you know from a lot of experience by
watching Yellowstone.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Yes, how yeah, I thought it was all of your
experience in healing with bulls stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Okay, no, it was all those nights watching Yellowstone. I
learned a lot about cattle and all of that. It's
it's tough, but yeah, this is gonna be It sounds
like an ongoing battle. And you've got farmers across the
country who they're also right now in a really tough spot.
I mean, you know, the tariffs the first time around,
(03:37):
when Trump was first in office, that he imposed on
other countries and their retaliatory measures hit our farmers hard.
That led to bailouts, and you've got you've got farmers.
Now you've got these cattle ranchers. They're all saying yet
again they're struggling to keep up well.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Right, and they don't want bailouts and government handouts.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
They just want to be able to sell their product.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
And that's been the interfere You know, China has turned
away from American soybeans completely and now we're trying to
They're sourcing them from Argentina, so now you've got to
try to win them back. And what does that mean
either undercutting Argentinian prices or you know, somehow better quality
soybeans for that tofu that you want for dinner, So
(04:19):
that's a factor.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
And yeah, well we'll see if the president.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Is able to make any headway when he meets with
Asian leaders next week.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I'm gonna go have burger today to help out those cattle.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I really want a steak right now. I don't need
steak a lot, but once in a while I want one.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, Army's they're trying to help out the cattle ranchers
to it. They're steak nuggets that they just lot, right.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Yeah, yeah, that'll make me have to fool all right, all.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Right, we're joined by our national correspondent Rory O'Neil tell
us about this polling on some top political issues that
just came out.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Yeah, it's the monthly poll from Quinnipiac again, which followed
these because they asked the questions of that. We can
see the trend, you know, Donald Trump's approval rating and
all that, but then we also ask sort of what's
the flash headline in this case the government shutdown? Forty
five percent of voters blame Republicans for the shutdown. Thirty
nine percent of those polled blame the Democrats. But if
(05:11):
you look a bit closer at the Quinnipiac numbers for
the Independent the swing voters in the poll, those swing
voters set forty eight percent blame Republicans thirty two percent
blame Democrats. That's a big gap there, and it's interesting
among that specific demo.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
There was some reporting I think punch Bowl News had
it the other day of the internal polling among Democrats
on who's to blame for the shutdown, and it had
it much much closer to even. So, I think I
don't think anybody's winning this right now, and I think
Republicans could really put some pressure on Democrats if they
(05:50):
start doing those standalone bills on paying federal workers and
troops and Democrats start voting against that stuff.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
We're in the middle of it.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
So this is all very fluid, and so you know,
just just take it in as a data point, you know,
don't don't you bet the farm right those all those
cattle on either one of those numbers.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
You know, I was thinking, I was thinking for Democrats, honestly,
their best strategy right now would probably be back down
to reopen the federal government and then, uh, you know,
if they're confident that uh, the American people are going
to see those premium spike, and they're going to be
outraged about it. They could say, hey, we tried to
do something, but you know, I couldn't get anything done there.
(06:31):
I mean that, that, honestly is probably their best bet
because if they keep just you know, voting no and
getting nowhere with negotiations, and then you have these these
bills that get put forward where Republicans are like, we're
going to fund uh, you know, the troops, and we're
going to fund air traffic controllers and Democrats are voting
no on that stuff. I mean really bad for really bad. Yeah, yeah,
(06:54):
I would take the offense to take to take that
a step further.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
I think that the Democrats should come out with their
here's our twenty twenty seven legislative agenda. Would we get
control of Congress in January I don't know, eighth, twenty
twenty seven, whatever it may be, like, here's what we're
going to do if you let us do it right,
or I'm just say on twenty twenty seven and be like,
there it is, we can't do.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
But until then, you know, the Republicans are ruling the roost.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
And look, a lot of people want to see these
spending cuts a lot of people are eager for more
spending cuts, but that's not really what's being talked about
in this deal here. So yeah, I don't know. I
think the republic the Democrats way out is to look
more long term.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I think.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And if they were to end the shutdown tomorrow and
they were to say, all right, Republicans, you promised us
to negotiate on healthcare and you know, performing Obamacare and
all of that, let's do it. What's your plan? I mean,
just listen to Marjorie Taylor Green. She's like, oh, what's
been fifteen years. We don't have a plan. There is
no plan. She's like House speaker Mike Johnson was on
(07:52):
a conference call talking about a plan, didn't offer any specifics.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
So, I mean, they.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Put together a montage of President from but you know,
promising his healthcare plan right since his first administration. Oh
two weeks, just two more weeks, and that'll be the
best healthcare plan ever.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I would love the plan. I would love a better
system than what we've got now. What we've got now
is a freaking mess.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Yeah, So opening that bill a week after the hospital
the r visit, right, how much am I going to Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, it was an urgent care visit.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
It was an R visit that would have been one
hundred and seventy one thousand, not one hundred and seventy
one buys.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
My son has to go to the dentist next week,
and I get to figure out what our dental insurance is,
figure out where to even get my dental car, all
of it.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
He took tomorrow off, what I yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
All right, and Rory, I hear you're off tomorrow. Everybody's
leaving me tomorrow, you like, So, Yeah, how does it
feel I'll get by?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
It doesn't like people.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Yeah, I don't like people the less around.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Somewhere though, not just in the living room.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Right right, that's true. All right, We'll have a good,
a long weekend.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Roy.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Thanks. Ryan.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Go back to the hotline and bring in our White
House correspondent John Decker. Now, so, John, yesterday President Trump
called someone a third rate reporter. But I don't believe
it was you, right, Yeah, he wasn't referring to you, John. Yeah,
you got a lot of questions. You had some real
time with the President. Look, the big headline to come
(09:25):
out of the White House. I think yesterday was the
sanctions that were imposed against Russian. Of course, that came
right after President Trump's meeting with the NATO Secretary General.
Tell us about that, Well.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
That's right, Mark rooted a NATO secretary general visiting the
White House yesterday, And I think that the meeting was
all about trying to figure out next steps, the strategy
going forward to put pressure on President Putin to come
to the negotiating table, and one effort in one element
to that effort is imposing these what the President called
(09:59):
subs stantial sanctions on the two largest oil companies in
Russia that deprives Russia very much needed revenue to fund
their war against Ukraine. The President indicated, and Mark Ruda
agreed that now is not the time to provide what
Ukraine has been asking for, which is those Tomahawk missiles,
those long range missiles. But the President hasn't taken that
(10:23):
off the table entirely, meaning that he could down the road,
if he wants to provide even more pressure on Russia,
use that as leverage, but now the President believes is
not the time to do that.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I think the President is really starting to feel like
Charlie Brown and Vladimir Putin is lucy with the football.
Every single time he thinks he's made some progress, including
you know that phone call and in this summit that
was plans, and he learns it it's not quite going
(10:56):
the way he thought it was going to go. I mean,
this has been happen in time and time again.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Well, yes and no. I mean, look, the president went
through with the summit that's a place in mid August
in Anchorage, Alaska. This time he called it off. So
you know, I think he's getting what I'm saying to understand. Yeah,
that Putin is just trying to buy time here, right
right right. So what were some of the questions that
you have for the president, Well, the President besides asking
(11:24):
a question about whether or not these sanctions will push
Putin to the negotiating table, and the President saying that
it remains to be seen, essentially.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Whether that will be the case.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
I also asked the President about his upcoming meeting with
President She and whether President She can play a very
important role in pushing Putin to the negotiating table, given
the fact that they have a close relationship, and also
you have Russia dependence on China for so many things,
and the President said yes, that is a big part
(11:56):
of his discussion with President She. So, President she I
think plays an important role and may play an important
role in bringing an end.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
To this war.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
And I asked the President about his upcoming tariff's case
at the Supreme Court. The President confirmed that he may
indeed actually show up in the Supreme Court for oral
arguments on November fifth. I'll be in the court that day.
That would be pretty interesting. And the President also explaining,
and he's right, this really could determine whether or not
all of that tariff revenue that he intends to take
(12:26):
in to the US Treasury may go away if the
Supreme Court rules against him as it relates to his
ability to impose those tariffs on every one of America's
trading partners.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
All right, our White House correspondent John Decker with us
this morning. John, really appreciate it. Thanks so much. Thanks Ryan,
and don't forget you can listen to John on the
White House Briefing Room podcast, which you can find on
your iHeartRadio app. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation study,
employer sponsored health insurance costs hit a record in twenty
(12:57):
twenty five, with family plans averaging nearly twenty seven thousand
dollars a year, up six percent about fourteen hundred dollars
from twenty twenty four, more than twice the inflation rate.
Workers now pay almost seven thousand dollars annually toward coverage,
and rising costs are being driven by higher drug prices,
(13:18):
especially GLP one weight loss drugs like GOVI and zepbound.
I also think those higher drug prices are in part
because they keep advertising their drugs. Every five frickin seconds,
there's one right now on TV. I mean every time
I turn on the TV, it's another drug add NonStop.
Then you've got hospital prices and increased service use adding
(13:40):
to costs. Deductibles also climb to nearly nineteen hundred dollars
for individuals. Remember when it used to be you paid
those premiums and.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
You know, you go to the doctor and you might
pay like a twenty dollars copay.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Or something like that.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah, now you got, you know, thousands of dollars in
deductibles that you have to hit. And we got a
lot of feed back to our conversation yesterday about healthcare
in this country and the lack of transparency in our
healthcare system. I was talking about when I went to
urgent care recently. When I was there, I got no
information on the cost they you know, ran my insurance
(14:15):
and all of that. I get done with the appointment
and I'm like, is you know anything I need to
do here? I gotta pay anything?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Is or bill? You know nothing? You're good?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
And then a month later, one hundred and seventy one bucks, right, yes, Like,
I have no idea why, I have no idea where
that came from, how it came out to that amount.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
You just you just don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Well, somebody, somebody on our TikTok actually explained the process
a little bit. And this was on our TikTok at
Ryan Gorman show. She said, your insurance company determines the
reimbursement rate. Your owed amount has to factor in your deductible,
your co insurance, your copay, the allowed amount in network
or out of network, all determined by your insurance.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
It varies. Oh, that's ejaculation you need to do.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
That helps, That helps, That makes it much more simple.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
And then also somebody said, wait, you went to the
er and you only got a bill for one hundred
and seventy one dollars.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
No urgent care urgent care, not the er.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
And then somebody said, I just received a bill for
eighty seven dollars for my er visit, just for a sling.
They gave me for having fractured my elbow, eighty seven
dollars for just the sing. And I remember when my
husband cut his hand a couple of years ago and
we had to go to the urgent care he got
stitched up. They tried to give him a whole bunch
(15:30):
of stuff like that, like a sling and all these bandages.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
And he said ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
He said, no, I will go to CVS buy it myself,
because I know you're going to weigh over charge me
for you eighty seven dollars for a sling she could
have got at Walgreens for probably ten bucks.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Oh yeah, you'd have to take out like a personal
loan if you had gotten it from the hospital. House Democrats,
led by Representative Rob Garcia, Democrat from California, are launching
a Master Ice tracker to monitor immigration enforcement actions across
the country. Garcia said the tool will collect and verify
reports from communities about federal agents detaining people without due process,
(16:06):
calling such actions unconstitutional and Unamerican ICE officials condemned the move,
with Acting director todd Lyons warning it could endanger agents
and put a target on their backs. So I think
there's a little bit of confusion over how it'll work.
The tracker is going to document actions after they occur.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
It's not a live location tool.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
That's what I thought it was when I first saw
story a master ICE tracker. I'm like, if Democrats are
going to launch a tool that's tracking this stuff in
real time, I mean, come on, that's going to be
a huge problem. This is going to be more something
that kind of gathers reports of ICE actions and you
know what potentially happened during those operations after the fact.
(16:51):
So not quite as big of a deal to me.
President Trump's plan to double the ICE workforce by ten
thousand officers has hit a bit of a speed because
of out of shape recruits. More than one third of
trainees at ICE's Georgia Academy are failing the physical test,
which requires fifteen push ups, thirty two sit ups, and
(17:13):
a one and a half mile run in fourteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
And you do it.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Fifteen push ups I could do third, I could do that.
The thirty two setups I could do. The one that
I'm not sure of, and this is the one that's
causing the real problem. The one and a half mile
run in fourteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Oh yeah, that's a pretty quick mile.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, mile and a half. I think, like you know
the Olympic athletes. What is it a four minute mile
or something.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Like that or five minutes, Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, that's what I remember. But fourteen minutes a mile
and a half. I gotta be honest with They have
no idea. I don't like to run, so I have
no frame of reference there. And ICE email described new
hires as athletically allergic, an accuse some of misrepresenting their
fitness on applications.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Imagine what they do in their dating profiles.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
ICE has been touting a big surgeon applications, over one
hundred and seventy five thousand of them, but only about
fifty thousand are unique applicants. You've got a lot of
people applying for multiple roles. And that report follows what
we saw with a few members of the National Guard.
Remember they were sent home from their deployments because they
were photographs and they were a little overweight and out
(18:22):
of shape. Yeah, and some people on social media, I
think very rudely. You know, these are people who are
serving our country, even if they're you know, not the
most physically fit. They were calling them Meal Team six.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Oh that's terrible. We're not gonna laugh.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
No, no, it's awful.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
So Ryan Gorman Show on news radio WFLA.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
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