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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Always good to welcome Rory O'Neil back to the program.
Twenty four to seven News National correspondent.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Rory good morning, very good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Yeah, the debate rolls on. Team Jeffries just had a
long wind to tantrum. Is he done now or.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
He's still still watching watching the feed and he's still going.
He was thanking everyone from his mother, grandmother, aunts and
uncles and beyond.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
So he's still going.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
That's his prerogative as the minority leader. When we get
to this stage in debate, Well, let's see how much
longer he goes.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Both sides, by the way, are guilty of milking this.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
But it looks like this bill should get to the
president's desk today.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, day early, right. You'll probably have the big signing
ceremony tomorrow though, because he's coming to Iowa to day
to kick off the America two fifty thing.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, I think that would be part of the of
how this is all set up. I'm sure you know
he's welcoming in that hostage who was released from Gaza.
He's welcoming that hostage in today. So hope this gets
passed because a little comment from the president today and
then we have some sort of a more formal event
for the independent stay signing.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, all of the leadership Rory on the Republican side,
seem very optimistic that they've got this, that they're going.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
To get this passed. Yeah, this is done.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
You know when they around three fifteen this morning, DC time,
the final Republicans came on board to vote for the
rule that allows this vote to happen today. So when
they got all those people on board, that's after their
concerns were all addressed. Essentially, those members were holdouts. They
either want some Hey, this needs to be cleaned up
in some way. Can they get an executive order to
(01:38):
help this? About my state? There's some federal highway money
that's stuck. Can we on stick it for my district?
Or you know this might hurt my campaign? Can I
get an Air Force one visit next October? Those kinds
of horse trading things happening.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, so what's.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Something orse something anyway?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah, what's his name from kentucky'll be they only no
probably on the Repubs.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Thomas Massey, right, Thomas Massey right, even on the rule.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
He was a yes vote last.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Night, that a no vote at at three o'clock this
morning he flipped. So yeah, he's certainly getting attention.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Well, people in Kentucky, big big fans of Rand Paul.
He's voted against this. They must be budgeting deficit hawks
because that's pretty much the essence of the no by
Massy and Rand Pall.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, that really is a big part of it. Also.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
But look, Joni Arnst, you know she might have millled
some good stuff for Alaska out of this when it
came to her getting her.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
You mean you mean Lisa Murkowski.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I did mccowsky at my mistake, Yes, when she got
the Alaska vote on board to get it up to
fifty to fifty. So you know, her work in the
in the Senate, you know helped her constituents for sure.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Oh no, she she delivered for Alaska. She got seven
guaranteed seven oil and natural gas leases from the government,
from which Alaska will get seventy percent of the royalties.
She her her medicaid recipients don't need to meet the
work requirement. She got tax deals for whalers and fisheries
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out there.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
He takes us back to two thousand and nine when
Ben Nelson was the sixtieth vote in the Senate for Obamacare,
and he came back to Nebraska with exactly zero and
one of the reasons he didn't run for reelection, right,
all right, and.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
That's how this is working.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
And that's that's the holdouts that we saw overnight.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You know, Look, there was no chance Chip Roy was
going to vote no on this thing, right, I mean,
he's one of the most vocal supporters of President Trump
in the House. He has concerns about overspending here, but
this bill is really President Trump's whole agenda for the
for the rest of the term. Sure, there is no
way that Congressman Roy was going to stop that from happening.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Hey, just quickly, what don't we know need to know
about the fourth of July that we don't already know?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Ry amazing, It's amazing how little people know about it,
to be honest with you. But all right, here's a
quiz questions for you. How many official flags has the
US had in its two hundred and forty nine year history.
They've all had stripes and stars, but as we've had
different numbers of states, they've changed. So how many official
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US flags have.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Existed in our history?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
I'll say five?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
What do you mean you mean how many times as
it changed and then been recognized as official well.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
As Congress adopts it as being an official flag and
official flag design.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Five, twenty seven, wow, twenty seven, I mean hey, I
mean to say twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, yeah, And fifty six people signed the Declaration of Independence.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
A lot of them before the Fourth of July.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Some actually signed on after the Fourth of July celebrations,
but yeah, fifty six signers on there.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
If you get on the iHeartRadio app Rory in about
a little less than a half hour here Jim's special
Rosie to Genozi. It's very much worthwhile on the fifty six. Yeah,
had it in the Independence day. Have a good one.
We'll be here on your Saturday morning.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
All right. Thanks, enjoy your independence you too,