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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning from South Dakota. It was tough, but I
survived the first day of the shutdown. Everyone have a
great day. Schumer shutdown, Schumer shut down, Schumer shut down.
I think if you got that one more time, it's
time to blow. Everybody just blowed their brains out. Schumer
shut down, Schumer shut down. Oh good grief. However, we
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do want to talk about it for a moment. Yeah, ya,
I am going crazy over this. Remember yesterday we played
the SoundBite of Maxine Waters claiming that she wants, you know,
I want to provide healthcare for and she pauses for
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a millisecond for everyone. And then I'm listening to I
don't know what I'm doing, but it sow. I'm in
the background, so I'm being a drive by consumer of
the news. I hear Kaylee mcinnaney, not no, no, no, what's.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
The current.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Pres huh yeah? Caroline Lovett, Caroline Lovett, Hey, do you
make me? They're they're all they're all future Fox News
hosts because they're cute, blonde, and long legged, so you know,
they all have a future. You and I we have
no future at Fox News because we're neither blondeheaded, cute,
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and I don't know whether you would consider us to
be long legged or not. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I got thick calves, does that count?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
You know?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
It's it's interesting because I think as a team, I've
always had really strong legs because running track, you know,
a newspaper route, riding bicycles, all that, and hiking, I've
always had really strong legs. Now, if I now from
my waist up, yeah, not so much, not so much,
but waist down, I'm I'm pretty much. Yeah, that's that's
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pretty damn good, you know, for an old fart is
really damn good. But the old kind of up here
is like, man, not gonna do not not exactly. You
ever seen like the current Well, this is just kind
of the mood I'm in today too. Have you seen
Schwarzenegger without a shirt on at his age?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It's terrible.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Now, man, if that's what bodybuilders turn into, I look
better than that. And I've never been a bodybuilder.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
But he can still bench more than you.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Well, I'm sure he can. I'm sure he can't. By
the way I restarted. I haven't been doing it for
several months, but you know, I do all my cardio
and all of that, but I haven't been doing my
strength training and I started that back up again on
the first of the month. I took a month off,
and oh, my best advice is just don't take a
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month off.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Weights are heavy.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I do bands. I do the all the bands, and
it's nothing wrong with that. I think I'll just start
I should start with a rubber band. Just say yo,
go to home deepo and get some rubber band. Start
with that. So anyway, I'm listening to I'm listening to
Caroline Levitt and she brings on the VEEP, and uh,
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the Veep is talking about Democrats, you know, doing this,
that and that, and honestly, I'm tired of both of them. Now,
don't get me wrong. I love And we're going to
talk in a minute about the Anti This is how
nerdy this audience is. I'm about to tell you what
we're going to talk about in a minute, and I
bet many of you get on the edge of your
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seats and you think to yourself, oh, I can't wait
to hear that. We're going to talk about the Anti
Deficiency Act. Now you can go next door and listen
next door if you want to. And I'm sure they're
you know, they're talking to Mike Johnson about what a
great job he's doing and how they're going to buy this,
And then I thought the city and County of Denver
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was broke, And yet they're the Downtown Denver Authority or
whatever it's called, is going to buy the Denver pavilions.
They're gonna by the rubber gates plant. They get all
this money to buy all this stuff, And I get
that it's bought. It's debt. They're buying all of it
with debt, but remember taxpayers are still in the hook
for that debt. So anyway, we've all talked about the
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Anti Deficiency Act, but I'm listening to to Vance. The
Vice President talked about Democrats just want to pay for
health care for illegal aliens, right that. You know they've
they've now shifted from illegal aliens to illegal immigrants. Well,
I just I don't want to go there. They're illegal aliens.
That's the name and the statue. If you want to
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call them something else, then change the statue. B be
precise in your language, which every time I say that,
then I say something stupid, then I get a text
message about it, but nonetheless true shut up. And I
decided that it's okay, it's time open the lexus Andexa's account,
start digging. Look at the statute. What are they trying
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to do? Here's what they're trying to do. This is
the final word. You don't need to listen to anybody
else today. The blonde chick, I don't whether she'll talk
about it or not. I just like saying blonde chick.
I just like the irritate Mandy. I love Mandy to death.
And whether the whether the you guys going to listen
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to me or not, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I don't you guys off today because it's a young call.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It is, that's young compare. That's right, so have a
young computer. And then you know they're not because they're
on air and nobody behind me is listening because that's
all I mean, Beck's giving a sermon pretty soon, so
you know that's that's that's going on. And they're all nationals,
so that they're not listening. But you guys are listening,
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and I appreciate it. Sorry you're not listening. I don't
know why why are you listening right now?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Because I'm I'm in that awakeness right now. That's kind
of punchy.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh before you kind of because you were up all night.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, I've only gotten like four hours of sleep.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So so you went to see comedian. Yeah, and there
was an obnoxious person in front of you.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, Missus Redbeard doesn't do people anymore.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So you and so you had an epiphany last night
and you had to tell me about it this morning.
And the epiphany was that Missus Redbard. I don't know
what took her so long. I really don't know why
it took her so long. She's much younger than me.
She should have been like at this stage, like twenty
years ago. But anyway, she reached her epiphany that she
doesn't like people. Yeah, yeah, it was great, but it's
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because how many rows in front of you? To think
this obnoxious.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Person was one row in front, but it was like
five or six seats over, so not exactly close, but.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Close enough that she was disturbing the entire routine of the.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Missus Redbeard was not the only person to tell her
to shut.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Up, and you were the comic show.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yes, okay, but Missus Redbeard was the only person to
drop an f NSC on her.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
But other people, Now, how many how long did it
take because other people were telling this woman shut up too.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Was there anything in particular that pushed Missus Redbeard over
the edge?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I think it was just the consistency and the amount
of time that she had spent.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And what the woman was doing was the comedian was
making the typical joke about, hey, have you ever done
this kind of thing?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
You ever put two socks on the same foot?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Oh, yes, I totally did that yesterday.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It was horrible.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And to not exaggerate, you're telling me that this audience
member was literally answering the question by yelling at the
comedian on stage at Red Rocks. Yeah, okay. And that
goes on for several minutes. Yeah, and people around her
that are like in proximity to her are telling her
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to shut up. Yeah, Missus Redbeard is I was six
seats away and in one row back. Yeah. And she
finally loses it. Yeah. She drops an F bomb and
a sea bomb on this one. The woman turns around
and looks at Missus Redbeard. Yeah, and Missus Redbeard says.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, I'm talking to yes.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Woman. Then I know it's near the end of the program,
but the woman then gets up and leaves. Yeah, very
good mission accomplished.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Missus, because as we were walking out, she's like, I
only had to yell at one person today. It is
a great day, okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
And if I recall right without spelling beans. She's a
upper level management that oversees like, let's just say more
than one person.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
A dozen of plurality of dozen.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Dozens of people. She should work in radio? How long
think she lasts in this building?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
She drops an F and a c.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Oh my that, just as Stroy just made my day
to day, just made my day.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
There is the reason why I love that woman.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
And I think it's because I know and I can
see her, and I can just see her kind of
did she kind of lean forward and did she point
or not point?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
No, I don't believe so, but I mean it was
very clear as to.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Who she was speaking to, right, but she went, but
she went to make sure that that person heard. But
then in doing so, everybody else heard too. Did they
all like stand up and give her a standing ovations?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
But they all did some kind of smirk and like.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, but we're glad we
don't work for you.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Pretty much.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
So the Schumer shutdown. The Schumer shutdown. The Schumer shutdown.
Senate Democrats are trying are tying passage of a short
term spending build called a Continuing resolution a CR. All
the CR does is just say we're spending one thousand
dollars month. We will continue to spend one thousand dollars
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a month until and I forget what the date is
on this one, November second, November twenty first, whatever it is,
doesn't make any difference. Whatever that date is, we will
continue spending exactly the same amount we are today until
such and such date in the future, which will give
us enough time to pass the separate appropriations bills. That's
all we're fighting about. Is so stupid and I'm sick
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of it. So they're trying to tie. This is what
the Senate Democrats are doing. And quite frankly, this is
what only five Senate Democrats are trying, because it only
takes five and well, actually it only takes two now
because Feederman and two others have already voted to stop
the shutdown. They're tying passage of a short term spending
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bill to the rollback of strict immigration related benefit restrictions
that they enacted ninety days ago, only three months ago.
And that's what's triggered this budget standoff that we're all
suffering so irreparably under right now. So at the center
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of this dispute is whether Congress should once again they
don't now so once again allow certain categories of illegal aliens,
including those without legal status. I'll explain why I say
that in just a second, But yes, including those who
have come across the border illegally without authorization and are
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in the country without authorization as defined in the statue,
which makes them illegal aliens. Got it, So it would
allow again certain categories of illegal aliens, including those very
simple to find illegal aliens, to access Medicare, Medicaid and
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the Affordable Care Act premium subsidies. So it would allow
them again because we stopped allowing them to access Medicaid
or Medicare and the Affordable Care Act premium subsidies. Just
as short parenthetical here, isn't it hilarious that we call
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it the Affordable Care Act when it's some of the
highest premiums in the entire insurance industry. So if you
want to know what socialized medicine would do to your country,
all you have to do is look at the premiums
that you pay even with government subsidies to be on
the so called exchanges, the Affordable Care Act exchanges. In
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these negotiations over the stupid Continuing Resolution to keep the
government funded, the Democrats have included language to repeal. I
know this is it's in the negative. So to keep
the government open, they've included language in their version of
the Continuing Resolution to repeal several provisions from the One
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Big Beautiful Bill Act signed back in July. That legislation
tightened the eligibility for public health benefit programs. It restricted
access to US citizens, lawful permanent residents, Green cardholders, Cuba
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and Haitian entrants, and individuals covered under the Compacts of
Free association. Before the Big Beautiful Bill Act, there was
a broader class of qualified aliens. That's how that's the
language and the bill. Qualified aliens. Now here's where the
rub starts to get kind of itchy. Qualified aliens included
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parole assilees and other immigrants in temporary statuses. So if
you're someone who is here like a parole from Venezuela
or Haiti, you've been given temporary protected status, you would qualify,
or you are here seeking asylum. Maybe you came here
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from Ukraine and you got through on an asylum request
or in a broader term. And I'm not quite sure
what this would mean, but a broader term would also
be any other immigrant in a temporary status. I don't
practice immigration law, so I'm not quite sure what that
would be, and I didn't take the time to look
it up. They could all qualify. Democrats now want to
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reverse those restrictions as part of a continuing resolution, and
that's what has set up the high stakes policy fight
that is causing this partial government shut down. Now. According
to the legislative text inserted into Senate Bill twenty eight
eighty two, that's the bill that they're trying to pass,
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which is, as best I can tell, identical to the
House bill that has passed the Democrats resolutions. The Democrats
resolution specifically targets several of these One Big Beautiful Bill provisions.
There are four such provisions. Now, remember this is from
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the Big Beautiful Bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
I kind of hate that. That's so cheesy. Anyway, Medicaid restrictions.
That's the first one. The Big Beautiful Bill Act narrowed
the immigration categories eligible from federal Medicaid benefits cutting out
those in temporary or uncertain legal statuses. So yes, it
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became illegal for those people to get Medicaid that were
in temporary or uncertain legal statuses. That's the first category.
Then there's a second category, emergency Medicaid funding. Again in
the big Beautiful Bill, that law lowered the federal reimbursement
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rate for er services given to unlawfully present immigrants in
states like Colorado that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.
Now just a footnote here. At the time that they
allowed states that wanted to expand medicaid, all of us screamed, no,
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don't do that. That's going to cost you a boatload
of money somewhere down in the future, because that acts
as an inducement, and that acts as an enticement to
get illegal aliens to come to your state and then
get on the Medicaid rolls. And that's precisely what is happened.
Democrats would restore that reimbursement to a ninety match, So
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Colorado's still going to be out money. But Colorado lost
any reimbursement. Democrats say, Okay, we will compromise and we'll
give them a ninety percent match. We'll match ninety percent
of what they paid out, so we'll still pay you.
We'd still be paying out. That's the second one. We
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got two more to go, so so far. The general
the general statement would be yes, what Democrats are trying
to do is to again give illegal aliens in certain
statuses access to our medical systems.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Michael, I got a question, with this big budget stand
up looming right now, does that lends some credence to
the idea that DOGE really just barely scratched the surface.
If we're lucky, it caldn't really accomplish all that much.
That's my question. Didn't really do anything? But DOGE worth
all this fuss?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
That is a great question, and the answer depends on
your perspective. From my perspective, DOGE didn't accomplish much in
terms of the actual downsizing of the government, but from
the standpoint of we've never done it before, it accomplished
the whole hell of a lot by at least showing
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that you can do it. And I do believe that
DOSEE was incredibly worthwhile, and it showed that, yes, just
by barely scratching the service, you can find lots of
stuff that is unnecessary and that we don't need to
be spending money on, or that you've got too many people.
It's the whole thing about you know, you've seen the
tip and I know it's stereotypical, but you've see you know,
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a road crew and you got five guys standing around
while one guy's down in the hole working on a
line of some sort. Well, we found that there's a
whole lot of that in the federal government. And so
from that perspective, those accomplished a lot and showed that,
oh yeah, you can eliminate If there are ten positions
in this office, you could eliminate two or three of
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them and nothing changes. They they can still get the
work done. But in the grand scheme of things, it
was a drop in the bucket. Then there's this question
from Gubert ninety six twenty four, Mike, serious question. When
Colorado takes our tax payer money and pays for illegal
aliens to have healthcare, housing, et cetera, does that affect
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the amount of money we get back for tabor or
is that a different make of money. No, it is,
generally speaking that comes out of the general fund. So
when Colorado decides, yeah, we're going to expand medicaid, and
we're going to provide it to illegal aliens. They are
a assuming that they're going to get reimbursed by the
FEDS for some of that, so it won't come out
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of the general fund. But then when that FED money
dries up, plus the delta between what the FEDS provide
and what we spend on medicaid for illegal aliens, that delta,
so that difference over here does come out of the
general fund and they have to make up that shortfall,
which is one of the reasons that we had this
big budget shortfall this year, because they shouldn't. They should
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never have done this in the first place, but they did,
and now they're facing the consequences, which I find is
so freaking hilarious. I saw higgin Loooper yesterday, really weird
he was doing. He was doing an interview via zoom
or teams or something. He was in a hotel room
and he and he had the camera set up so
that you could see you could see the hotel door
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behind him, and it's like, hey, bucko, what you doing.
We want to turn the camera around and show us
the baby you got with us in the hotel room. Oh,
that'd be kind of interesting, where are you what you
pay for that rumor? We're paying for it? It's a
campaign paying for it, taxpayers paying for it. Who's paying
for that? What an idiot? But anyway, he was talking
about that it's just not right that we're doing this,
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and I'm going to stand firm because everyone deserves healthcare. Yeah, okay,
so you're kind of admitting that what I'm telling everybody
right now is the truth. So I said, there were
four provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill. There were
the Medicaid restrictions that narrowed the categories. There was the
Emergency Medicaid funding section in the One Big Beautiful Bill
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that cut back the reimbursement, which is what it's costing Colorado.
Then there was number three, the Medicare the Medicare limits
again out of the Big, one Big Beautiful Bill. Eligibility
restrictions were extended to the Medicare program, and it revised
the definition of eligible illegal aliens. So even if they
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came here and they were going to qualify for Medicare,
One Big Beautiful Bill said nope, there's this category, We're
not going to pay that anymore. Then the last one
were the premium tax credits, the eligibility for subsidies on
the exchange marketplace, the Affordable Care Act exchange. Those plans
were now limited to illegal aliens that are considered lawfully present,
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and it linked Medicaid eligibility to those requirements. Democrats want
to undo those restrictions, so they want to once again
Number four, provide Medicare, in this case Medicare premium tax
credits to those illegal aliens. But beyond the immigration specific provisions,
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the One Big Beautiful Bill also tightened enrollment rules across
both Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act programs. And they
did so. I know this is going to shock you,
and it's going to piss me any of you off.
But here's what it did. Here's what that One Big
Beautiful Bill bit did. It imposed work requirements for Medicaid recipients. Oh, illegally,
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or you're even here legally as a US citizen and
you on Medicaid, we have a work requirement for you. Now.
Those work requirements are as big as the Grand Canyon,
as wide in as big a hole as the Grand Canyon.
Are you looking for a job. Okay, that's good enough.
Do you do X number of hours of volunteer work
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for some charitable organs. Okay, yeah, that's good enough. Are
you working one hour doing greeting at Walmart? Okay, that's
good enough. But you had to do something that was
number one. Number two it imposed stricter income verification and
you actually had to have an immigration status check in
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order to be eligible for the subsidy. Oh, what's wrong
with that? The third one was there was going to
be an increase in the redetermination of your eligibility. So
it replaced the Biden era rules that just encourage that
once you got qualified, you just stayed qualified. No, the
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one big beautiful bill said no, you have to requalify
once a year or sometimes even more often. And then
the fourth thing it did it put new limits on
special enrollment periods in the Affordable Care Act exchanges. Now
the Democrats are saying what they want to do is
they want to roll back those measures because they argue that, well,
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they're punitive and that it risks dropping vulnerable populations from coverage. Yes,
that's one way of putting it. I would say it
risks dropping illegal aliens from coverage, and in some cases
actually does remove them them from coverage, to which I say,
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that's right. If you're in this country illegally, I don't
want to pay for your healthcare. Now. I want to
be clear about something though. If someone if an illegal alien,
is in a car wreck, or they suffer a gunshot wound,
or they have a heart attack, or they cut their
big finger, and unfortunately they get a cold, what are
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they doing They're showing up in the ers.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I understand showing up in the R for a car
wreck or a gsw or you know you've broken your arm,
But to show up in the emergency room because you've
got a cold, your kid's got the flu or whatever. No,
that's not what an R is designed for. But why
do they go there? They go there because federal law
requires that they treat them. That hasn't changed.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
What has changed is on the backside is how much
is that hospital going to get reimbursed for that? And
the one big beautiful bill said, yep, you're not going
to get reimbursed as much, and in some cases you're
not gonna get reimbursed at all. That's what Democrats are
fighting for. They want to provide all of those benefits
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to illegal aliens. Now, the Republicans, they're pointing to a
study by the Heritage Foundation that did an analysis and
other conservative policy arguments. They contend rightfully so that loosening
the rules amounts to extending taxpayer funded benefits to individuals
who lack legal status, and that is true. And Republicans
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are arguing that encourages illegal immigration. And of course it
continues the drain on federal and state budgets, which is true.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act reforms were carefully crafted
to ensure that only those who are lawfully and permanently
in this country received benefit. That's what I voted for,
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and that's what I want. So Schumer shut down. Damn right,
it is, and it's over this now. The Democrats say, well,
these are unnecessarily harsh and they're going to leave you know,
illegal alien families without essential medical medical care. Then go home.
Then go home. Hell's bills were still paying for you
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to self deport, so pack up your bags and go home.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
In the meantime, there's nothing I can do about the
fact that if you're you know, you're a gang banger,
and you get shot by a fellow gang banger and
you show up at General Denver General, you're gonna get treated.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I can't change that law. I can't do that. But
if you're here because you came here because you wanted
medical care, then you know what, go home because we
got rid of that. Am I am? I an a
hole for saying that, No, you shouldn't be here in
the first place. If I, if I go to if
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I go to Germany next year, or I go to Greece,
or I go I you know, instead of going to
New York this month, I go, I go, I go
to I go to London. I go to London with
the Broncos and I get sick. The National Health Service
is going to give me incredible care. You know why,
because I have insurance. I'm not in their country illegally.
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I'm there as a tourist. And I show up at
a hospital because I got a GSW or I've had
a heart attack, or I've broken a leg, or I'm
just I've got I've got you know, illness, and so
I go to you know, a let's just say, I
go to an urgent care. They love me because I've
got an insurance policy that will pay that. When I'm
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traveling overseas, people that go to the country illegally do
not so with the government partially shut down as these
negotiations kind of stall, this fight reflects even broad divisions
between Democrats and Republicans over immigration, welfare policy, and just
federal spending. And the outcome of this fight is going
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to determine not only the immediate status of Medicaid and
the exchange the ACA benefits for illegal aliens, but it's
also going to draw a distinction over whether Congress draws
a sharp line between lawful and unlawful residency in accessing
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federal aid programs. That's what the fight's about, and in
that regard, Republicans are right, Democrats are wrong as far
as I'm concerned, because what Republicans are standing strong on
right now is exactly what I voted for.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
So I'm wondering if this continuing Resolution requires more than
just a simple majority, because we do have that in
both houses of Congress. So are there Republicans that are
also against it, or is it truly just the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
It's just the Democrats, and it's not a simple majority.
It requires sixty votes to invoke cloture, which is a
just a fancy way of saying stopping the debate. So
the debate over the bill, the CR in the Senate
is ongoing, and they can't stop that debate because they
can't get to the sixty votes. It It requires that
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sixty votes to invoke culture and so you need you
need those five Democrats because you can have JD. Evans
break the tie. So forty five Republicans five Democrats gets
you to fifty. Jdvans breaks the breaks the tie, and
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the Democrats are down three because again I forget the
other two, but three Democrats, including John Fetterman, have said
this is absurd, and you know, let's let's move forward
in an entirely different area. Remember our discussion last week
about the Komy indictment and how he had, in my opinion,
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he committed perjury lied to Congress when Senator Cruz asked
him the questions about have you ever done certain things
like have you ever authorized somebody at the FBI to
be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump
investigation or the Clinton investigation? Or have you ever liked
leaked any classified information related to President Trump with the media,
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And he answered no, Well, I came across the original
of where he was asked that question by Senator Grassley
in twenty seventeen. Listen to how he gives the same
answer in twenty seventeen that he did when Cruz asked
him the question earlier this year, which by dropping the
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indictment as they did last week, beat the expiration of
the statue limitations, which I think was last Wednesday.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Director Comy, have you ever been an anonymous source in
news reports about matters relating to the Trump investigation or
the Clinton investigation? Never question two one, relatively related, have
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you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be
an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation
or the Clinton investigation? Now, has any classified information relating
to President Trump or his associations associates been declassified and shared.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
With the media not to my knowledge? Not to my knowledge? Notice? Suddenly,
because this is where he gave them the information directly
to the professor from Columbia University, he answers unequivocally no, no, no. Then,
when Grassley asked him, have you ever released classified information
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we got him President Trump and his associates to anyone
in the media, the answer suddenly becomes not to my knowledge,
he lied. Now that sets up the situation where the
prosecutors will have to prove by corroborating evidence from other
witnesses that indeed he is the one that did it,
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and he knew that he did it. In fact, that
would probably be person number three, as I said last week,
which will be oh, the professor himself, because he's not
going to perjure himself in a criminal case. No, it's
one thing to lie to Congress. It's a whole different
story to lie to a court, to lie to a judge.
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Tomys thinks he's too smart by half.
Good morning from South Dakota. It was tough, but I
survived the first day of the shutdown. Everyone have a
great day. Schumer shutdown, Schumer shut down, Schumer shut down.
I think if you got that one more time, it's
time to blow. Everybody just blowed their brains out. Schumer
shut down, Schumer shut down. Oh good grief. However, we
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do want to talk about it for a moment. Yeah, ya,
I am going crazy over this. Remember yesterday we played
the SoundBite of Maxine Waters claiming that she wants, you know,
I want to provide healthcare for and she pauses for
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a millisecond for everyone. And then I'm listening to I
don't know what I'm doing, but it sow. I'm in
the background, so I'm being a drive by consumer of
the news. I hear Kaylee mcinnaney, not no, no, no, what's.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
The current.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Pres huh yeah? Caroline Lovett, Caroline Lovett, Hey, do you
make me? They're they're all they're all future Fox News
hosts because they're cute, blonde, and long legged, so you know,
they all have a future. You and I we have
no future at Fox News because we're neither blondeheaded, cute,
(01:30):
and I don't know whether you would consider us to
be long legged or not. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I got thick calves, does that count?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
You know?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
It's it's interesting because I think as a team, I've
always had really strong legs because running track, you know,
a newspaper route, riding bicycles, all that, and hiking, I've
always had really strong legs. Now, if I now from
my waist up, yeah, not so much, not so much,
but waist down, I'm I'm pretty much. Yeah, that's that's
(01:58):
pretty damn good, you know, for an old fart is
really damn good. But the old kind of up here
is like, man, not gonna do not not exactly. You
ever seen like the current Well, this is just kind
of the mood I'm in today too. Have you seen
Schwarzenegger without a shirt on at his age?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It's terrible.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Now, man, if that's what bodybuilders turn into, I look
better than that. And I've never been a bodybuilder.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
But he can still bench more than you.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Well, I'm sure he can. I'm sure he can't. By
the way I restarted. I haven't been doing it for
several months, but you know, I do all my cardio
and all of that, but I haven't been doing my
strength training and I started that back up again on
the first of the month. I took a month off,
and oh, my best advice is just don't take a
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month off.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Weights are heavy.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I do bands. I do the all the bands, and
it's nothing wrong with that. I think I'll just start
I should start with a rubber band. Just say yo,
go to home deepo and get some rubber band. Start
with that. So anyway, I'm listening to I'm listening to
Caroline Levitt and she brings on the VEEP, and uh,
(03:12):
the Veep is talking about Democrats, you know, doing this,
that and that, and honestly, I'm tired of both of them. Now,
don't get me wrong. I love And we're going to
talk in a minute about the Anti This is how
nerdy this audience is. I'm about to tell you what
we're going to talk about in a minute, and I
bet many of you get on the edge of your
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seats and you think to yourself, oh, I can't wait
to hear that. We're going to talk about the Anti
Deficiency Act. Now you can go next door and listen
next door if you want to. And I'm sure they're
you know, they're talking to Mike Johnson about what a
great job he's doing and how they're going to buy this,
And then I thought the city and County of Denver
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was broke, And yet they're the Downtown Denver Authority or
whatever it's called, is going to buy the Denver pavilions.
They're gonna by the rubber gates plant. They get all
this money to buy all this stuff, And I get
that it's bought. It's debt. They're buying all of it
with debt, but remember taxpayers are still in the hook
for that debt. So anyway, we've all talked about the
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Anti Deficiency Act, but I'm listening to to Vance. The
Vice President talked about Democrats just want to pay for
health care for illegal aliens, right that. You know they've
they've now shifted from illegal aliens to illegal immigrants. Well,
I just I don't want to go there. They're illegal aliens.
That's the name and the statue. If you want to
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call them something else, then change the statue. B be
precise in your language, which every time I say that,
then I say something stupid, then I get a text
message about it, but nonetheless true shut up. And I
decided that it's okay, it's time open the lexus Andexa's account,
start digging. Look at the statute. What are they trying
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to do? Here's what they're trying to do. This is
the final word. You don't need to listen to anybody
else today. The blonde chick, I don't whether she'll talk
about it or not. I just like saying blonde chick.
I just like the irritate Mandy. I love Mandy to death.
And whether the whether the you guys going to listen
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to me or not, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I don't you guys off today because it's a young call.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It is, that's young compare. That's right, so have a
young computer. And then you know they're not because they're
on air and nobody behind me is listening because that's
all I mean, Beck's giving a sermon pretty soon, so
you know that's that's that's going on. And they're all nationals,
so that they're not listening. But you guys are listening,
(05:49):
and I appreciate it. Sorry you're not listening. I don't
know why why are you listening right now?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Because I'm I'm in that awakeness right now. That's kind
of punchy.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh before you kind of because you were up all night.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, I've only gotten like four hours of sleep.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So so you went to see comedian. Yeah, and there
was an obnoxious person in front of you.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, Missus Redbeard doesn't do people anymore.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So you and so you had an epiphany last night
and you had to tell me about it this morning.
And the epiphany was that Missus Redbard. I don't know
what took her so long. I really don't know why
it took her so long. She's much younger than me.
She should have been like at this stage, like twenty
years ago. But anyway, she reached her epiphany that she
doesn't like people. Yeah, yeah, it was great, but it's
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because how many rows in front of you? To think
this obnoxious.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Person was one row in front, but it was like
five or six seats over, so not exactly close, but.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Close enough that she was disturbing the entire routine of the.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Missus Redbeard was not the only person to tell her
to shut.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Up, and you were the comic show.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yes, okay, but Missus Redbeard was the only person to
drop an f NSC on her.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
But other people, Now, how many how long did it
take because other people were telling this woman shut up too.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Was there anything in particular that pushed Missus Redbeard over
the edge?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I think it was just the consistency and the amount
of time that she had spent.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And what the woman was doing was the comedian was
making the typical joke about, hey, have you ever done
this kind of thing?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
You ever put two socks on the same foot?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Oh, yes, I totally did that yesterday.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It was horrible.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And to not exaggerate, you're telling me that this audience
member was literally answering the question by yelling at the
comedian on stage at Red Rocks. Yeah, okay. And that
goes on for several minutes. Yeah, and people around her
that are like in proximity to her are telling her
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to shut up. Yeah, Missus Redbeard is I was six
seats away and in one row back. Yeah. And she
finally loses it. Yeah. She drops an F bomb and
a sea bomb on this one. The woman turns around
and looks at Missus Redbeard. Yeah, and Missus Redbeard says.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, I'm talking to yes.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Woman. Then I know it's near the end of the program,
but the woman then gets up and leaves. Yeah, very
good mission accomplished.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Missus, because as we were walking out, she's like, I
only had to yell at one person today. It is
a great day, okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
And if I recall right without spelling beans. She's a
upper level management that oversees like, let's just say more
than one person.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
A dozen of plurality of dozen.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Dozens of people. She should work in radio? How long
think she lasts in this building?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
She drops an F and a c.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Oh my that, just as Stroy just made my day
to day, just made my day.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
There is the reason why I love that woman.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
And I think it's because I know and I can
see her, and I can just see her kind of
did she kind of lean forward and did she point
or not point?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
No, I don't believe so, but I mean it was
very clear as to.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Who she was speaking to, right, but she went, but
she went to make sure that that person heard. But
then in doing so, everybody else heard too. Did they
all like stand up and give her a standing ovations?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
But they all did some kind of smirk and like.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, but we're glad we
don't work for you.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Pretty much.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
So the Schumer shutdown. The Schumer shutdown. The Schumer shutdown.
Senate Democrats are trying are tying passage of a short
term spending build called a Continuing resolution a CR. All
the CR does is just say we're spending one thousand
dollars month. We will continue to spend one thousand dollars
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a month until and I forget what the date is
on this one, November second, November twenty first, whatever it is,
doesn't make any difference. Whatever that date is, we will
continue spending exactly the same amount we are today until
such and such date in the future, which will give
us enough time to pass the separate appropriations bills. That's
all we're fighting about. Is so stupid and I'm sick
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of it. So they're trying to tie. This is what
the Senate Democrats are doing. And quite frankly, this is
what only five Senate Democrats are trying, because it only
takes five and well, actually it only takes two now
because Feederman and two others have already voted to stop
the shutdown. They're tying passage of a short term spending
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bill to the rollback of strict immigration related benefit restrictions
that they enacted ninety days ago, only three months ago.
And that's what's triggered this budget standoff that we're all
suffering so irreparably under right now. So at the center
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of this dispute is whether Congress should once again they
don't now so once again allow certain categories of illegal aliens,
including those without legal status. I'll explain why I say
that in just a second, But yes, including those who
have come across the border illegally without authorization and are
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in the country without authorization as defined in the statue,
which makes them illegal aliens. Got it, So it would
allow again certain categories of illegal aliens, including those very
simple to find illegal aliens, to access Medicare, Medicaid and
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the Affordable Care Act premium subsidies. So it would allow
them again because we stopped allowing them to access Medicaid
or Medicare and the Affordable Care Act premium subsidies. Just
as short parenthetical here, isn't it hilarious that we call
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it the Affordable Care Act when it's some of the
highest premiums in the entire insurance industry. So if you
want to know what socialized medicine would do to your country,
all you have to do is look at the premiums
that you pay even with government subsidies to be on
the so called exchanges, the Affordable Care Act exchanges. In
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these negotiations over the stupid Continuing Resolution to keep the
government funded, the Democrats have included language to repeal. I
know this is it's in the negative. So to keep
the government open, they've included language in their version of
the Continuing Resolution to repeal several provisions from the One
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Big Beautiful Bill Act signed back in July. That legislation
tightened the eligibility for public health benefit programs. It restricted
access to US citizens, lawful permanent residents, Green cardholders, Cuba
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and Haitian entrants, and individuals covered under the Compacts of
Free association. Before the Big Beautiful Bill Act, there was
a broader class of qualified aliens. That's how that's the
language and the bill. Qualified aliens. Now here's where the
rub starts to get kind of itchy. Qualified aliens included
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parole assilees and other immigrants in temporary statuses. So if
you're someone who is here like a parole from Venezuela
or Haiti, you've been given temporary protected status, you would qualify,
or you are here seeking asylum. Maybe you came here
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from Ukraine and you got through on an asylum request
or in a broader term. And I'm not quite sure
what this would mean, but a broader term would also
be any other immigrant in a temporary status. I don't
practice immigration law, so I'm not quite sure what that
would be, and I didn't take the time to look
it up. They could all qualify. Democrats now want to
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reverse those restrictions as part of a continuing resolution, and
that's what has set up the high stakes policy fight
that is causing this partial government shut down. Now. According
to the legislative text inserted into Senate Bill twenty eight
eighty two, that's the bill that they're trying to pass,
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which is, as best I can tell, identical to the
House bill that has passed the Democrats resolutions. The Democrats
resolution specifically targets several of these One Big Beautiful Bill provisions.
There are four such provisions. Now, remember this is from
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the Big Beautiful Bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
I kind of hate that. That's so cheesy. Anyway, Medicaid restrictions.
That's the first one. The Big Beautiful Bill Act narrowed
the immigration categories eligible from federal Medicaid benefits cutting out
those in temporary or uncertain legal statuses. So yes, it
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became illegal for those people to get Medicaid that were
in temporary or uncertain legal statuses. That's the first category.
Then there's a second category, emergency Medicaid funding. Again in
the big Beautiful Bill, that law lowered the federal reimbursement
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rate for er services given to unlawfully present immigrants in
states like Colorado that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.
Now just a footnote here. At the time that they
allowed states that wanted to expand medicaid, all of us screamed, no,
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don't do that. That's going to cost you a boatload
of money somewhere down in the future, because that acts
as an inducement, and that acts as an enticement to
get illegal aliens to come to your state and then
get on the Medicaid rolls. And that's precisely what is happened.
Democrats would restore that reimbursement to a ninety match, So
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Colorado's still going to be out money. But Colorado lost
any reimbursement. Democrats say, Okay, we will compromise and we'll
give them a ninety percent match. We'll match ninety percent
of what they paid out, so we'll still pay you.
We'd still be paying out. That's the second one. We
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got two more to go, so so far. The general
the general statement would be yes, what Democrats are trying
to do is to again give illegal aliens in certain
statuses access to our medical systems.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Michael, I got a question, with this big budget stand
up looming right now, does that lends some credence to
the idea that DOGE really just barely scratched the surface.
If we're lucky, it caldn't really accomplish all that much.
That's my question. Didn't really do anything? But DOGE worth
all this fuss?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
That is a great question, and the answer depends on
your perspective. From my perspective, DOGE didn't accomplish much in
terms of the actual downsizing of the government, but from
the standpoint of we've never done it before, it accomplished
the whole hell of a lot by at least showing
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that you can do it. And I do believe that
DOSEE was incredibly worthwhile, and it showed that, yes, just
by barely scratching the service, you can find lots of
stuff that is unnecessary and that we don't need to
be spending money on, or that you've got too many people.
It's the whole thing about you know, you've seen the
tip and I know it's stereotypical, but you've see you know,
(19:04):
a road crew and you got five guys standing around
while one guy's down in the hole working on a
line of some sort. Well, we found that there's a
whole lot of that in the federal government. And so
from that perspective, those accomplished a lot and showed that,
oh yeah, you can eliminate If there are ten positions
in this office, you could eliminate two or three of
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them and nothing changes. They they can still get the
work done. But in the grand scheme of things, it
was a drop in the bucket. Then there's this question
from Gubert ninety six twenty four, Mike, serious question. When
Colorado takes our tax payer money and pays for illegal
aliens to have healthcare, housing, et cetera, does that affect
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the amount of money we get back for tabor or
is that a different make of money. No, it is,
generally speaking that comes out of the general fund. So
when Colorado decides, yeah, we're going to expand medicaid, and
we're going to provide it to illegal aliens. They are
a assuming that they're going to get reimbursed by the
FEDS for some of that, so it won't come out
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of the general fund. But then when that FED money
dries up, plus the delta between what the FEDS provide
and what we spend on medicaid for illegal aliens, that delta,
so that difference over here does come out of the
general fund and they have to make up that shortfall,
which is one of the reasons that we had this
big budget shortfall this year, because they shouldn't. They should
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never have done this in the first place, but they did,
and now they're facing the consequences, which I find is
so freaking hilarious. I saw higgin Loooper yesterday, really weird
he was doing. He was doing an interview via zoom
or teams or something. He was in a hotel room
and he and he had the camera set up so
that you could see you could see the hotel door
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behind him, and it's like, hey, bucko, what you doing.
We want to turn the camera around and show us
the baby you got with us in the hotel room. Oh,
that'd be kind of interesting, where are you what you
pay for that rumor? We're paying for it? It's a
campaign paying for it, taxpayers paying for it. Who's paying
for that? What an idiot? But anyway, he was talking
about that it's just not right that we're doing this,
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and I'm going to stand firm because everyone deserves healthcare. Yeah, okay,
so you're kind of admitting that what I'm telling everybody
right now is the truth. So I said, there were
four provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill. There were
the Medicaid restrictions that narrowed the categories. There was the
Emergency Medicaid funding section in the One Big Beautiful Bill
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that cut back the reimbursement, which is what it's costing Colorado.
Then there was number three, the Medicare the Medicare limits
again out of the Big, one Big Beautiful Bill. Eligibility
restrictions were extended to the Medicare program, and it revised
the definition of eligible illegal aliens. So even if they
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came here and they were going to qualify for Medicare,
One Big Beautiful Bill said nope, there's this category, We're
not going to pay that anymore. Then the last one
were the premium tax credits, the eligibility for subsidies on
the exchange marketplace, the Affordable Care Act exchange. Those plans
were now limited to illegal aliens that are considered lawfully present,
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and it linked Medicaid eligibility to those requirements. Democrats want
to undo those restrictions, so they want to once again
Number four, provide Medicare, in this case Medicare premium tax
credits to those illegal aliens. But beyond the immigration specific provisions,
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the One Big Beautiful Bill also tightened enrollment rules across
both Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act programs. And they
did so. I know this is going to shock you,
and it's going to piss me any of you off.
But here's what it did. Here's what that One Big
Beautiful Bill bit did. It imposed work requirements for Medicaid recipients. Oh, illegally,
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or you're even here legally as a US citizen and
you on Medicaid, we have a work requirement for you. Now.
Those work requirements are as big as the Grand Canyon,
as wide in as big a hole as the Grand Canyon.
Are you looking for a job. Okay, that's good enough.
Do you do X number of hours of volunteer work
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for some charitable organs. Okay, yeah, that's good enough. Are
you working one hour doing greeting at Walmart? Okay, that's
good enough. But you had to do something that was
number one. Number two it imposed stricter income verification and
you actually had to have an immigration status check in
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order to be eligible for the subsidy. Oh, what's wrong
with that? The third one was there was going to
be an increase in the redetermination of your eligibility. So
it replaced the Biden era rules that just encourage that
once you got qualified, you just stayed qualified. No, the
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one big beautiful bill said no, you have to requalify
once a year or sometimes even more often. And then
the fourth thing it did it put new limits on
special enrollment periods in the Affordable Care Act exchanges. Now
the Democrats are saying what they want to do is
they want to roll back those measures because they argue that, well,
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they're punitive and that it risks dropping vulnerable populations from coverage. Yes,
that's one way of putting it. I would say it
risks dropping illegal aliens from coverage, and in some cases
actually does remove them them from coverage, to which I say,
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that's right. If you're in this country illegally, I don't
want to pay for your healthcare. Now. I want to
be clear about something though. If someone if an illegal alien,
is in a car wreck, or they suffer a gunshot wound,
or they have a heart attack, or they cut their
big finger, and unfortunately they get a cold, what are
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they doing They're showing up in the ers.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I understand showing up in the R for a car
wreck or a gsw or you know you've broken your arm,
But to show up in the emergency room because you've
got a cold, your kid's got the flu or whatever. No,
that's not what an R is designed for. But why
do they go there? They go there because federal law
requires that they treat them. That hasn't changed.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
What has changed is on the backside is how much
is that hospital going to get reimbursed for that? And
the one big beautiful bill said, yep, you're not going
to get reimbursed as much, and in some cases you're
not gonna get reimbursed at all. That's what Democrats are
fighting for. They want to provide all of those benefits
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to illegal aliens. Now, the Republicans, they're pointing to a
study by the Heritage Foundation that did an analysis and
other conservative policy arguments. They contend rightfully so that loosening
the rules amounts to extending taxpayer funded benefits to individuals
who lack legal status, and that is true. And Republicans
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are arguing that encourages illegal immigration. And of course it
continues the drain on federal and state budgets, which is true.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act reforms were carefully crafted
to ensure that only those who are lawfully and permanently
in this country received benefit. That's what I voted for,
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and that's what I want. So Schumer shut down. Damn right,
it is, and it's over this now. The Democrats say, well,
these are unnecessarily harsh and they're going to leave you know,
illegal alien families without essential medical medical care. Then go home.
Then go home. Hell's bills were still paying for you
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to self deport, so pack up your bags and go home.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
In the meantime, there's nothing I can do about the
fact that if you're you know, you're a gang banger,
and you get shot by a fellow gang banger and
you show up at General Denver General, you're gonna get treated.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I can't change that law. I can't do that. But
if you're here because you came here because you wanted
medical care, then you know what, go home because we
got rid of that. Am I am? I an a
hole for saying that, No, you shouldn't be here in
the first place. If I, if I go to if
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I go to Germany next year, or I go to Greece,
or I go I you know, instead of going to
New York this month, I go, I go, I go
to I go to London. I go to London with
the Broncos and I get sick. The National Health Service
is going to give me incredible care. You know why,
because I have insurance. I'm not in their country illegally.
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I'm there as a tourist. And I show up at
a hospital because I got a GSW or I've had
a heart attack, or I've broken a leg, or I'm
just I've got I've got you know, illness, and so
I go to you know, a let's just say, I
go to an urgent care. They love me because I've
got an insurance policy that will pay that. When I'm
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traveling overseas, people that go to the country illegally do
not so with the government partially shut down as these
negotiations kind of stall, this fight reflects even broad divisions
between Democrats and Republicans over immigration, welfare policy, and just
federal spending. And the outcome of this fight is going
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to determine not only the immediate status of Medicaid and
the exchange the ACA benefits for illegal aliens, but it's
also going to draw a distinction over whether Congress draws
a sharp line between lawful and unlawful residency in accessing
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federal aid programs. That's what the fight's about, and in
that regard, Republicans are right, Democrats are wrong as far
as I'm concerned, because what Republicans are standing strong on
right now is exactly what I voted for.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
So I'm wondering if this continuing Resolution requires more than
just a simple majority, because we do have that in
both houses of Congress. So are there Republicans that are
also against it, or is it truly just the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
It's just the Democrats, and it's not a simple majority.
It requires sixty votes to invoke cloture, which is a
just a fancy way of saying stopping the debate. So
the debate over the bill, the CR in the Senate
is ongoing, and they can't stop that debate because they
can't get to the sixty votes. It It requires that
(30:30):
sixty votes to invoke culture and so you need you
need those five Democrats because you can have JD. Evans
break the tie. So forty five Republicans five Democrats gets
you to fifty. Jdvans breaks the breaks the tie, and
(30:54):
the Democrats are down three because again I forget the
other two, but three Democrats, including John Fetterman, have said
this is absurd, and you know, let's let's move forward
in an entirely different area. Remember our discussion last week
about the Komy indictment and how he had, in my opinion,
(31:17):
he committed perjury lied to Congress when Senator Cruz asked
him the questions about have you ever done certain things
like have you ever authorized somebody at the FBI to
be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump
investigation or the Clinton investigation? Or have you ever liked
leaked any classified information related to President Trump with the media,
(31:39):
And he answered no, Well, I came across the original
of where he was asked that question by Senator Grassley
in twenty seventeen. Listen to how he gives the same
answer in twenty seventeen that he did when Cruz asked
him the question earlier this year, which by dropping the
(32:00):
indictment as they did last week, beat the expiration of
the statue limitations, which I think was last Wednesday.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Director Comy, have you ever been an anonymous source in
news reports about matters relating to the Trump investigation or
the Clinton investigation? Never question two one, relatively related, have
(32:28):
you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be
an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation
or the Clinton investigation? Now, has any classified information relating
to President Trump or his associations associates been declassified and shared.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
With the media not to my knowledge? Not to my knowledge? Notice? Suddenly,
because this is where he gave them the information directly
to the professor from Columbia University, he answers unequivocally no, no, no. Then,
when Grassley asked him, have you ever released classified information
(33:14):
we got him President Trump and his associates to anyone
in the media, the answer suddenly becomes not to my knowledge,
he lied. Now that sets up the situation where the
prosecutors will have to prove by corroborating evidence from other
witnesses that indeed he is the one that did it,
(33:37):
and he knew that he did it. In fact, that
would probably be person number three, as I said last week,
which will be oh, the professor himself, because he's not
going to perjure himself in a criminal case. No, it's
one thing to lie to Congress. It's a whole different
story to lie to a court, to lie to a judge.
(34:01):
Tomys thinks he's too smart by half.
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