November 10, 2025 • 41 mins
Jon dives deeper into the details of the plan to end the shutdown including SNAP and healthcare premiums. Jon catches himself being annoying. Jon plays "big mad" reactions from Dems about the shutdown ending. Jon questions Minnesota's response to halting SNAP payments.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I've already talked now for thirty minutes, right, if you
take out the time that I was speaking with Andrew
Langer here on Twin City's News talk from the six
to five to one, Carpet, next Day, install Studios, commercial breaks,
last hour. Usually it's about forty minutes an hour or
something like that. Said, all kinds of different things, already
(00:25):
had hot takes on a number of different issues, and
yet I get talkbacks like this from already know what's
when You're done? From foths, from foes of the show.
Sam in the master control booth has access, so he
likes to go in there and look at Why wouldn't
you the talkbacks are entertaining. You like to go and
look at the transcripts. Right, let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Here, Good morning John, and just let's fill up with
me and pray you just put John Kennedy on there.
That guy the fakest accent in the world. You know,
he got a fake accent. That guy talked more plainer
than when I do it. And also Trump falling asleep
at the Oval office. A guy passes out behind him
(01:09):
and he just stands there looking like a buffoon, not
even offering help. You guys, are clowns, you know it, have.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
A good day after everything that, I'm convinced that again again,
Phil just likes to hear his own voice. If he
legitimately thinks that these are valid criticisms, I guess I
feel sorry for Phil. First off, to say Kennedy's accent
is fake, It's just dumb. That's just it's not even like,
(01:38):
it's not even like an argument. That's just dumb. And
then in terms of Trump, did you see the entirety, Phil,
of what transpired or did you again just regurgitate what
you saw either online posted by the Harry Sissons of
the world or on MSNBC. Trump actually moved immediately after
(01:58):
that individual passed out in the Oval office, but Trump's
not also not a doctor, and there were other doctors
on hand that immediately went to assist him. If you
see the entirety of the video, it is clear that
Trump was very concerned about what was going on. Oh
but one reporter happened to catch the perfect photo of
(02:19):
individuals tending to the person in medical distress in the
Oval office and Trump's standing there looking forward just the
precise moment. I do appreciate the fact you leave talkbacks, though,
because so few foes of the show are actually willing
to go and do so. CNN had been in the
(02:40):
quiet part out loud regarding the procedural vote and the
government shutdown ending well nearing an end. We've got plenty
more on the other side. We will talk much more
about this. Again.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You're looking live at the Senate floor as the Democratic
filibuster has been broken. We have so far reached sixty.
We're writing for the official count, but right now sixty
votes that would unlock moving forward with this plan to
reopen the government.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
On the Senate side, funniest thing I saw weekend was
Chuck Schumer up there talking about how horrible the shutdown was,
and everybody look at him, go, yeah, but you're the
one causing it. Yeah, kind of idiot, does that? I mean,
It's like, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's all been nothing but political theater. That's all this was.
So this is from Fox nine. A test vote, first
in a series that would require procedural maneuvers. The Senate
voted sixty forty to move toward passing the Compromise legislation
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to fund the government and hold the later votes on
extending the Affordable Care Act A tax credits that expire
on January first. The final passage again could be several
days away if Democrats object and delay the process, this
is still going to get messy, especially with it having
to go back to the House. You're now going to
want to have House democrats that are going to want
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the say their fifteen minutes, their sound bites to go
and put and put online when they're not recording other
videos cursing up a storm. And I have the examples
of that to share with you coming up in a
few minutes. We're drinking to the Whitehouse. On Sunday evening
after attending an NFL game, Trump did not say whether
he endorsed the deal, but said it looks like we're
(04:30):
getting close to the shutdown ending the government. Excuse me.
The agreement does not guarantee the Affordable Care Act subsidies
will be extended, as Democrats have demanded for almost six weeks.
Chuck Schumer I voted against moving ahead with the package,
along with all but eight of his Democrat colleagues. By
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the way, Trump over the weekend, he posted on Troop
on truth social Obamacare sucks, Capital letters, the worst healthcare
for the highest price pay the people, not the insurance companies.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
That post had followed one from earlier on Saturday that
urged Senate Republicans to act on healthcare fixes that Trump
has talked about since before its president will run in
twenty sixteen, take from the big bad insurance companies, give
it to the people, and terminate per dollar spent the
worst healthcare anywhere in the world. Obamacare unrelated. We must
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still terminate the filibuster. And this was all prior to
what had transpired over the weekend. And many people have
made this point that you know, if Obamacare is so affordable,
then why do you need the subsidies. Final passage, as
I mentioned, the legislation could take several days if Democrats
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try to draw out the process. Independent Senator Bernie Sanders
of Vermont caucuses with Democrats, said that giving up the
fight was a horrible mistake. Coust Democrats chiming in against it.
You had Texas Representative Greg Kassar, chairman of the Congressional
Progressive Caucus, said the deal that does not reduce healthcare
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costs is a betrayal of millions of Americans who are
counting on Democrats to fight, calling it capitulation. Accepting nothing
but a pinky promise from Republicans isn't to compromise. Millions
of families would pay the price. And listen, this wasn't
going well for Democrats, which is why they're also caving.
As a matter of fact, let me share this with you.
(06:32):
Treasury Secretary Bassent confirmed that economic growth may be cut
by as much as half due to the shutdown. Here's
what he had to say over the weekend.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
We've seen an impact on the economy from day one,
but it's getting worse and worse. We had a fantastic
economy under President Trump the past two quarters, and now
there are estimates that the economy economic growth for this
quarter could be cut by as much as half if
the shutdown continues. And what your correspondent didn't talk about there, George,
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was there's a course the human costs, and we're going
to have the busiest travel day of the year the
day after Thanksgiving, and Americans should look to five Democratic
senators to come across the aisle to open that. But
on the other side, there's also cargo is being slowed down,
so you know, we could end up with shortages, whether
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it's center or supply chained, whether it's for the holidays,
so you know, cargo and people are both being slowed
down here, and that's for safety's sake.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
George, look at the way that let's let's back up.
I want to I want to back up here just
just a moment, because what the Democrats have been doing
and sowing this chaos and discord really has been to
the detriment of taxpayers, of the voters citizens here in
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the United States. We're talking about the shutdown, snap benefits.
We're going to get into more of this coming up,
but snap benefits hadn't gone out for individuals. This has
put a massive strain on food banks across the country
and especially here in Minnesota, cause a lot of frustration, concern,
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worry among individuals that never needed to come to this.
And why well, because Democrats wanted to exploit the situation
to benefit them last week, so they had something that
they could point to in terms of electoral victories in
a bunch of blue states. Again, they made much more
out of that, but they needed to because all of
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the data shows that what they've been doing hasn't worked.
And what's taken place now with the shutdown and everything
that we'll dive into from over the weekend. With all
this confusion about Snap benefits, including what Bascent just mentioned
in her our GDP, this is again the long game.
As Andrew Langer was talking about last hour, the economy
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is going to continue to struggle when the economic data
gets released in the future and there's negatives attached to
it because of the forty days of the government being
shut down. Do you really think the Democrats and the
legacy media are going to properly go and cover in
full context why those numbers are what they are. Of
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course they're not. They'll just blame Trump. This is Trump's economy.
He did all of this. But keep in mind go
back to the ridiculous No King's protests and how just
the name in and of itself made no rational sense,
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especially given that you had these activist judges looking to
the Trump administration wanting to force them to pay for
SNAP benefits, and the Trump administration basically say we can't
do that. Not very king like the judges tried to
make Trump act like a king, the ridiculous arguments from
protesters out on the streets, the pushback going back even
(10:12):
further to earlier in the year against Elon Musk, individuals
that were out just randomly vandalizing Tesla's over their anger
that Elon was involved in any way, shape or form
with this administration. It's all under the same mentality. I mean,
the easiest way to put it is that Trump derangement syndrome.
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But it's the Democrats only play. It's to cause chaos,
to cause division, to try to trag down, to try
to drag down Trump. And it's polling numbers, Republicans polling numbers.
And this goes back to what I said before about
why I got on board with the filibuster because I
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just do not trust Democrats were they to get back
into power, and to keep that from happening, we have
to go in shore up election integrity. One more final
point on this and we'll dive further into what's transpired
here in Minnesota regarding the confusion around the snap benefits.
But from this article from Fox nine, there is no
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guarantee the Affordable Care Act subsidies would be extended if
Republicans agree to a future vote on healthcare. That was
how Speaker Mike Johnson over the weekend, saying that he
will not commit to a healthcare vote. Some Republicans have
said that they are open to extending the COVID nineteen
air at tax credits, as premiums could skyrocket for millions
of people, but they also want new limits on who
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can receive the subsidies and argue that the tax dollars
for the plans should be routed through individuals. And I'm
so tired of this argument. By the way, even with
Republicans that do it, the premiums could skyrocket. We must
extend these tax credits, COVID nineteen air at tax credits. No,
it's returning the cost of the premiums back to where
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they were pre COVID. I can't stand the fact that
there is just this blanket view assessment relating to anything
when it comes to COVID benefits that were dispersed and
suddenly they end, and then people complain because they want
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to keep getting the money. No, that money was for COVID.
The pandemic's been over for a while now, and you
and have Republicans that hop on board with it. Does
not do our side any favors at all. Speaking of
doing favors, the legacy media here in Minnesota certainly went
out of their way to try to paint Governor Walls
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as being so kind, such a leader in the wake
of so much chaos, and funding these snap benefits to
restore them for tens of thousands of Minnesotans, even though
it was just because Walls is the governor. He didn't
really have anything specific to do with it, and the
states don't even have the ability to go and do
what they said that Governor Tim Walls was doing. I'll
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break it all down next. We'll get to more of
your comments as well from the iHeartRadio app here on
Twin City's news talk Am eleven thirty and one oh
three five FM.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Oh fell for me and Prairie talk about being fake.
We know that you are actually John Justice's biggest fan.
You call him every day you leave talkbacks. We know
you do like to hear your voice over the radio waves.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
Oh hell yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Call all your friends and family and tell them to
listen to you because you know you're gonna be played.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
John.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Can you do us a favor and drive feel crazy
and just not play his talkbacks?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Oh such a kinnun drum. I get this all the time.
I have people that love it when I play Phil's
talk well, I love. It's probably too strong of a word.
I have people that enjoy it when I push back
on Phil's comments, people like Judy that don't want me
to play them. I like to hear the other side,
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and they used to be a lot better. It's not
my fault. I would like better coach and arguments coming
from the other side of the political spectrum. But I
can't force anybody's anybody's hands, so I do agree with
the rest of your assessment, though I fully believe that's happening.
(14:28):
Thank you Judy for the talkback. Twinsday's news talk Am
eleven thirty one on three five FM from the six
to five to one carpet Next Day install studios. So
Governor Walls announces November snap of payments restored for Minnesotan's
There were multiple articles over the weekend touting as if
Walls was personally funding out of his own bank account
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Minnesota snap payments. So this version heresy is just one
day after the Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration
on withholding SNAPA as for Americans. Minnesota Governor Tim Walls
announced the funding has been restored. This funding used by children, seniors,
and people with disabilities to pay for food has been
in limbo since October. Restoring this funding took numerous court
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rulings ordering the Trump administration to use the money they
have set aside for this very purpose to feed the hungry.
Wall set in a post which is really interesting because
Walls went and posted online later in the weekend, after
the longest shutdown in history, we're no closer to relief
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for millions of Americans facing hikes in their healthcare bills
that they can't afford. This is a deeply disappointing result.
Democrats cannot let Trump and his administration steamroll Congress into
cutting taxes for billionaires at the expense of working for people.
So which one is it? So does Walls want more shutdown?
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Which would means that people will continue to not get
their SNAP benefits, Because after the Watson administration moved forward
doing what the USDA had instructed, after those court rulings
attempted to force Trump to pay for these benefits, you
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had the Supreme Court Justice Jackson Brown go, not the Singer,
go and put a hold on those court orders which
kept the states from going in funding SNAP. And she
only did that to continue to sow chaos in confusion
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that was created by the activist judges that knew full
well exactly what they were doing in those court orders.
It's worse than an Abbott and Costello routine. For those
that are familiar, who's on first, I don't know third base.
So Minnesota says it can to the SNAP payments despite
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the Trump demand, and I question whether or not these
payments have actually gone out. But here is the coverage
trying to get through all of this confusion from Fox
nine regarding the benefits in these judges' rulings. It is
pretty confusing.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
And let's start with the Trump administration tonight demanding states
to undo SNAP benefits that were now already being paid out.
The confusion is with two different court rulings in two days.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Let's start with Thursday's ruling.
Speaker 9 (17:32):
On that day, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration
to find the money to fully fund SNAP benefits for
this month instead of partially funding them. They had to
issue payments by Friday, But then the Trump administration filed
an emergency appeal. That same day, the Supreme Court granted
the Trump Administration's emergency appeal that temporarily blocked the Lower
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courts Thursday order that issued full November SNAP payments. So
today the US Department of Agriculture demanded that the states
reverse those full SNAP benefit payments, and the State of
Minnesota sent us a statement that readson part Minnesota does
not have any mechanism for taking money back from SNAP recipients.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
We also believe, by the way, which was the whole
reason why the judges went and ruled the way that
they did initially, and why Justice Brown went and stopped
those rulings, because it just ended up creating this mass
amount of chaos that Democrats can go and take advantage
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of with posts online, videos that they're creating further narratives
trying to paint the Trump administration and Republicans as being
the ones that fault for all of this, when the
reality is, as we've been talking about, the Democrats could
have ended this forty weeks ago.
Speaker 9 (19:02):
It would be unjusty gang back these funds that are
needed to feed families. Our teams are working to evaluate
the November eighth memo. Keep in mind, four hundred and
forty thousand Minnesotans receive SNAP benefits every month, and we'll
continue to follow this developing story live in the newsroom
Leon Purvis, Fox nine.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
And I don't know. Maybe and that's again the story
there from Fox nine. Maybe we should spend a little
bit of time focusing or at least our leaders should
on getting fewer people or I should say, getting people
off of snap benefit and having benefits and having fewer
people go and beyond Snap benefits. Oh man, here I
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have doing a bit of the inflection there, do you
hear it? I know it's catching. You can call me
out on that, Sam if I do that, very just
that's very concerning. I do not want to be doing
that inflection, but I do the show, so it's really
enough in the day though. I know, yeah, I know
it's I know well, And I was being sarcastic, So
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I mean, one could I could go I won being me.
I could go and argue that why I was doing
the voice intentionally, because I was being sarcastic, right, yeah, sure, okay,
coming up as I was saying, here's a further piece.
Minnesota officials appalled following Trump administration's demand that states undo
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the SNAP payouts. But again, the Trump administration was only
demanding that they undo the SNAP payouts because of the
liberal Supreme Court ruling pushing back on the activist judges
and what they did just a disaster. We have audio
from Senator Aaron Mayquaid and Peggy flanagain, both big mad
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about this procedural vote to end the shutdown. And we
know they're big mad because they like to curse in
their videos online because it shows them as tough Democrats.
I'll share that with you. We'll get some more of
your talkbacks as well. Coming up on Twinesday's news talk A.
I'm eleven thirty and one O three five FM. What
are you doing, Democrats? iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
It's very sad to hear that there's a half million
families taking Snap benefits in the state of Minnesota. These
are people that will continue to pull the lever for
the likes of Tim Wall's candidates, no matter how lousy
those candidates are. And it's those candidates that will continue
to want to triple, quadruple the number of people on
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Snap benefits to guarantee they stay in power forever.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Speaking of candidate's, Lisa Damith, who announced her gubernatorial campaign
last week, had her on the show on Wednesday morning.
I believe she's announced that she has tapped Ryan Wilson,
former candidate for state auditor, as her lieutenant governor pick.
I think that's the first lieutenant govenor pick that we've
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seen from our GOP candidates. I could be wrong on
that later on this week. As a matter of fact,
tomorrow on the show, Adam Schwarzy will be joining us
tomorrow running for Senate. He'll be in studio with the
Davide Gartzenstein Ross on tomorrows show, and then we should
be talking with and I got to line up the
details further, but Philip Parrish, also running for governor, should
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be on the show later on this week, possibly Thursday.
Speaker 11 (22:29):
Four hundred and forty thousand people in Minnesota get snap.
Good lord, I was poor all through my twenties. I
never even considered it ridiculous.
Speaker 12 (22:43):
Good morning, John, Barry and andover, and a big happy
birthday to all my brothers and sisters. The big two
five zero for the Marine Corps, help the FI do
or Die.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Thank you so much for that, Barry, and I very
much appreciate it. All right, let's break some of this down.
I'm working off of a version here from Channel five.
So you had these judges make the rulings trying to
force the administration nonprofits. Democrat attorneys sued to forced Trump
to maintain the program for SNAP benefits. Then on Friday night,
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you had Justice Katanji Brown Jackson temporarily pausing the two
rulings ordering the SNAP disbursement while the nation's highest court
considered the Trump administration's appeal. That led the Department of
Agriculture on Saturday to write state SNAP directors to warn
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them that it now consinders the payments under prior orders unauthorized.
And gee, why would she do that? I kept completing
her name right by the way, Jackson Brown, Brown Jackson,
And why would she do that? Because it caused mass confusion.
And that's what Democrats are trying to exploit. And this
is the Trump administration following the rules, not very king like,
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like a king wouldn't bother with any of this. But
here you had the judges move forward saying, hey, you
got to fund this. The administration appealed because they know
there's no mechanism in order to make this happen. But
given that was the fact, you had the USDA move
forward and say, hey, you need to go and fund SNAP.
A judge said, so so the States went and moved
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forward and funding it, and then you had Justice Jackson
and go and put a pause on that. And now
the Democrats are saying, look at what they've done. They've
taken away people's SNAP. No, it was the Supreme Court
that ended up doing that. Patrick Penn, Deputy Undersecretariat of Agriculture, said,
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to the extent states sent full SNAP payment files for
November twenty twenty, twenty twenty five, this was unauthorized. Accordingly,
states must immediate undo any steps taken to issue full
SNAP benefits for November of twenty twenty five. And again
I question, typically do SNAP benefits go out between the
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tenth and the fourteenth. So we're in the you know,
the window hadn't even opened yet, So I question whether
or not any payments in the very small period of
time in which they could have been issued, even you know,
I question whether any checks or authorizations through bank accounts
were even produced. US Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska on
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Sunday called the directive shocking if it applies to states
like hers that use their own money to prop up
the program. It's one thing if the federal government is
going to continue its level of appeal through the courts
to say no, this can't be done. But when you're
telling states that have said this is a significant enough
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issue in our state, we're going to find real sources,
backfill or front load, whatever term you want to help
our people, those states should not be penalized. Sure, but
blame Democrats. They're the one that caused all this confusion. Wisconsin,
for example, they loaded benefits onto cards for seven hundred
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thousand residents. Wants a judge in Rhode Island order the
restoration of benefits last week, but after the US Secretary
froze its reimbursements to the state, it anticipates running out
of money by today. Democrat Governor Tony Evers warned in
a lengthy statement on Sunday the lack of money could
leave vendors unpaid and trigger escalating legal claims. The states
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warned states could face demands to return hundreds of millions
of dollars in the aggregate. The states, filing at the
First A Circuit Court of Appeals, says the situation would
risk catastrophic operational disruptions for states, with a consequent cascade
of harms for their residents. He resitioned a quick response
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to the Trump Administration's demand to undo payment, saying no,
so now they don't want to follow the law. Governor
Wes Moore of Maryland set in an interview with CBS on
Sunday that in the past six days, we've received four
different measures of guidance from the Trump administration. He fumed
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over the latest to threatened to punish the states that
paid the full benefits, but again it was guidance from
the Trump administration because of these activist judges and then
what the Supreme Court Justice Brown ended up doing, they
just caused a tremendous amount of chaos, of which now
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you have Democrats that are responding. So, as I mentioned before,
Walls said, this was a deeply disappointing results. Democrats cannot
let the Trump administration steamroll Congress into cutting taxes for
billionaires at the expense of working people. Even though over
the weekend he went to issue the snap benefits and
talked about how awful it was that the shutdown was continuing,
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and now apparently he wants more shut down because of
Democrats in his own party that have turned away from
individuals like him. Again, make it make sense. DFL party
chair Richard Carlbaum wrote, Republicans are hell bent on increasing
your healthcare costs thanks to Brad Finstead, Tom Emmer, and
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Pete Stauber, As Rangers would say, Pete f off. Although
he didn't use f he used the full word there,
because again, that makes Democrats seem tough. Like Senator Aaron mcwade.
Speaker 13 (28:54):
I don't generally make videos with advice for national Democrats
because I the ones that I talk to that i'm close,
that I can influence, like I tell them, probably, and
then the ones that I could like talk to in
the public, they don't give you.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
What i'd say.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
But I will say that if we did a whole.
Speaker 13 (29:10):
Shut down to extend the ACA subsidies and then all
you get is a promise to take a vote on it,
that's insane, Like it's actually insane. So I don't know,
like not groundbreaking, but what.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
The boy that was so deep? She really just got
to the heart of the matter, didn't she. Lieutenant Governor
and Senate candidate Peggy flan again weighed in on the
issue as well.
Speaker 14 (29:41):
Hey, so the fact that a handful of Democratic senators
just walked away from a fight we were winning to
keep healthcare costs from skyrocketing for millions of Americans and
capitulating to Donald Trump and congressional Republicans.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Here again, the premiums are only rising because Democrats put
a sunset clause in for the Obamacare subsidies that were
tied to COVID, which would return the subsidies back to
the normal level. So yes, they're going to go up,
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but it's because of what Democrats did, and those funds
were never supposed to be permanent.
Speaker 14 (30:26):
It sucks, and we deserve so much more, especially when
we saw victories up and down the ballot all across
the country.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
People were with.
Speaker 14 (30:38):
Us, and then this is not okay. So it is
time for you to pick your fighter and pick accordingly,
because we deserve so much more than this boot.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Pick your fighter, guys, I know, I don't There was
this Mortal Kombat. I was a Street Fighter fan myself.
I don't know about you. They both applied, right, and
the joke plat applies to Bull Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Okay, okay,
I just wanted to make sure you know, because that's
the most important thing about the show. Gotta make sure
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I get the references right. Yeahs BS guys, again, such
fantastic commentary coming from the progressive wing of the Minnesota
DFL MSNBC. Let's go here. Democrat Representative Brendan Boyle said
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he was completely perplexed after eight Democrats voted to reopen
the government. Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 15 (31:53):
Pennsylvania Congress and Boyle, thanks so much. I saw your
statement on this deal such as it is. I think
you said you were a hell no on the deal.
You know, no way to sugarcoat it. I guess can
you explain how you interpret why this deal came together
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now a few days after this blowout election where Democrats
seem to be taking a victory lap, well literally taking
a victory lap, or at least had a victory. Why
now would Democrats in the Senate decide to lay down
their arms, you know, potentially end this shutdown when the
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terms that are being offered by Republicans don't seem to
have changed.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
I can't explain it because, to be frank to me,
it makes.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Absolutely no sense.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
I am completely perplexed by today's developments, or really the
developments of the last few hours. On Tuesday, we essentially
had the proof that the American people overwhelmingly were on
the Democrats side of this argument. Poles have been showing
for weeks, over a month, that a pretty large number
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of Americans were with us. But people always question about
the validity of polls.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Where here we.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Had on Tuesday the ultimate poll, and Democrats won everywhere.
I mean, I'll take Pennsylvania for example, every competitive race
or race that thought was going to be competitive, we
won by double digits.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
We won in Clearfield County.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
A place that had not elected a Democrat in over
a decade, and that Donald Trump had carried by more
than fifty points. That's how sweeping the victory was on Tuesday.
So it's pretty clear that we went to the polls
the American people understood that Republicans were making their costs
go up, that Democrats were fighting to bring costs down
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and fighting to save the healthcare of the American people.
And now all of a sudden, after this big victory,
it's the Democratic side, or at least enough Democrats in
the Senate that are essentially caving again.
Speaker 7 (34:08):
It just makes no.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Sense to me.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Congressman. There was you know, blue people one in blue states, shocking,
and yes the margins were significant, but again blue candidates
won in blue states at a time when the Democrats
have been effective at going and angering their base to
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get individuals out to vote, and Trump wasn't on the ballot.
That was the whole purpose. Speaking of which, let's go
back to the iHeartRadio app Good Morning John.
Speaker 16 (34:45):
The reason why there was a blue wave was because
simple Trump hasn't followed through with what he promised that
a middle class in his campaign. There has been no
mass deportations.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
We stop here really quick. First off, what's your definition
of a blue wave Democrats winning in blue states. Secondly,
you're really going to show your ignorance that quickly out
of the gate with your comment relating to deportations. There's
been half a million people that have been deported. It's
only November. Trump's barely been in office for a year less,
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so in terms of what Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has
been doing across the country on top of massive pushback,
and yet they've still been successful at deporting some five
hundred and seventy two thousand individuals. So the prices are
still skyrocketing. Yeah, inflation is still high. We're still dealing
(35:43):
with the ramifications of what transpired during the Biden administration
on top of the fact that the shutdown has done
nothing relating to the economy any sort of good whatsoever.
But let's go ahead and continue with your commentary here.
Speaker 16 (35:56):
Food prices are still skyrocketing, insurance is high, taxes are high,
We're still involved sending too much money to Israel and Ukraine,
and only big corporations got the tax break. People aren't dumb.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Yeah, so he's got as he had his checklist there,
he just basically marked off all the different Democrat talking
talking points there. Thank you so much for the comment
on the iHeartRadio. I appreciate it.
Speaker 17 (36:24):
Good morning, John, great show with always question for you.
Unless I'm mistaken, Justice Brown Jackson is fairly progressive. How
bad does your oppollet court really have to be for
Justice Brown Jackson to overturn it and say it doesn't apply.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
That's just crazy.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Sure, But she also did an intentionally knowing what end
up causing the chaos that it caused over the weekend.
And Justice Brown is merely an extension of the irrational
Democrat Party. She is the Supreme Court justice version of
an individual walking down the street that sees at tesla
and then decides they're going to go and vandalize it.
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She just happens to be sitting on the United States
Supreme Court.
Speaker 18 (37:15):
Good morning, everybody. I think that Senator and the clip
you just played was sought on the vote doesn't make
any sense. And that's the standard of the Democratic Party.
Nothing ever makes sense. It's the party of hypocrisy. Say
one thing, do the other, promise something, take it back.
Speaker 16 (37:37):
It's textbook and.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Two Bobs, you know, real quick and too Bob's talkback
that we played just a moment ago where he was
going through his checklist of all the negatives to say
about Trump. Let's go here.
Speaker 8 (37:51):
Did you know that since Trump has taken offense once again,
that they've thrown off over seven hundred thousand SNAP recipients
because of them being illegal or not qualified, and in
the process they've also arrested one hundred and eighteen individuals.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
The more, you know, nice call back to Friday. So
let me get this straight.
Speaker 19 (38:20):
Off your elections, which have very poor turnout historically, and
Democrats winning in Democrat districts, that's historic wins.
Speaker 12 (38:31):
Give me a break.
Speaker 19 (38:34):
Show me where they swept Republican districts where the Democrat
won and shouldn't have won. Then maybe I get concerned
this is a joke.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Those handful of Democrats that have turned against Schumer on
this procedural vote to go and reopen the government. They're
just providing cover for the other Democrats potentially vulnerable in
their own districts, where they can now go back and say, look,
we did the right thing, while at the same time
getting members of the Democrat Party the ability to go
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and get angry for doing what they did. Minnesota Senators
Amy Klobashar and Tina Smith not among the a Democrats
who approved the Sunday night motion. Both lawmakers issued statements
on Sunday night opposing the deal to reopen the government.
As they cast and they votes, so I guess they
also do not want the snap benefits to continue. Hello America,
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I'm Amy Klobshar, and I will beat Donald Trump. Amy said, well,
I'm sorry, this is Smith. I will not support this
bill that completely fails to help Americans afford their healthcare.
I'm not going to bother with the rest of it.
I'll make it easier. You're fascinating to talk to. Amy said,
(39:51):
lowering costs is a top priority for Minnesotan's I voted
against this budget bill because it does not prevent health
insurance premiums from doubling for many in our state. Well,
maybe you should have sent a message to individuals on
Obamacare that the COVID subsidies were not going to last forever,
since both of these individuals voted to put the sunset
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provision in those subsidies. So Tina Smith and Amy Klobashark
can only go and look in the mirror for what
everybody's been dealing with right now, All right, coming up, Well,
keep with the theme, but we're going to go to
the potential of fraud. Representative Pam Altendorth, Republican out of
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Red Wing, recently took to social media. As we highlighted
last week on the show, she was showcasing how Minnesota
saw a one hundred and seventy four percent increase in
snap issuance between fiscal years twenty twenty and twenty twenty one.
It was the largest one year jump of any state
in the nation. Now, she did say that this was
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happening during the year of COVID. However, no other state
saw anything close to an increase like this. Well, because
of her Discovery. We had a statement that was released
from the Walls Administration over this issue. I'll share with
you what they had to say. Coming up next in
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hour three here on Twin Cities News Talk AM eleven
thirty and one oh three five FM
I've already talked now for thirty minutes, right, if you
take out the time that I was speaking with Andrew
Langer here on Twin City's News talk from the six
to five to one, Carpet, next Day, install Studios, commercial breaks,
last hour. Usually it's about forty minutes an hour or
something like that. Said, all kinds of different things, already
(00:25):
had hot takes on a number of different issues, and
yet I get talkbacks like this from already know what's
when You're done? From foths, from foes of the show.
Sam in the master control booth has access, so he
likes to go in there and look at Why wouldn't
you the talkbacks are entertaining. You like to go and
look at the transcripts. Right, let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Here, Good morning John, and just let's fill up with
me and pray you just put John Kennedy on there.
That guy the fakest accent in the world. You know,
he got a fake accent. That guy talked more plainer
than when I do it. And also Trump falling asleep
at the Oval office. A guy passes out behind him
(01:09):
and he just stands there looking like a buffoon, not
even offering help. You guys, are clowns, you know it, have.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
A good day after everything that, I'm convinced that again again,
Phil just likes to hear his own voice. If he
legitimately thinks that these are valid criticisms, I guess I
feel sorry for Phil. First off, to say Kennedy's accent
is fake, It's just dumb. That's just it's not even like,
(01:38):
it's not even like an argument. That's just dumb. And
then in terms of Trump, did you see the entirety, Phil,
of what transpired or did you again just regurgitate what
you saw either online posted by the Harry Sissons of
the world or on MSNBC. Trump actually moved immediately after
(01:58):
that individual passed out in the Oval office, but Trump's
not also not a doctor, and there were other doctors
on hand that immediately went to assist him. If you
see the entirety of the video, it is clear that
Trump was very concerned about what was going on. Oh
but one reporter happened to catch the perfect photo of
(02:19):
individuals tending to the person in medical distress in the
Oval office and Trump's standing there looking forward just the
precise moment. I do appreciate the fact you leave talkbacks, though,
because so few foes of the show are actually willing
to go and do so. CNN had been in the
(02:40):
quiet part out loud regarding the procedural vote and the
government shutdown ending well nearing an end. We've got plenty
more on the other side. We will talk much more
about this. Again.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You're looking live at the Senate floor as the Democratic
filibuster has been broken. We have so far reached sixty.
We're writing for the official count, but right now sixty
votes that would unlock moving forward with this plan to
reopen the government.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
On the Senate side, funniest thing I saw weekend was
Chuck Schumer up there talking about how horrible the shutdown was,
and everybody look at him, go, yeah, but you're the
one causing it. Yeah, kind of idiot, does that? I mean,
It's like, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's all been nothing but political theater. That's all this was.
So this is from Fox nine. A test vote, first
in a series that would require procedural maneuvers. The Senate
voted sixty forty to move toward passing the Compromise legislation
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to fund the government and hold the later votes on
extending the Affordable Care Act A tax credits that expire
on January first. The final passage again could be several
days away if Democrats object and delay the process, this
is still going to get messy, especially with it having
to go back to the House. You're now going to
want to have House democrats that are going to want
(04:10):
the say their fifteen minutes, their sound bites to go
and put and put online when they're not recording other
videos cursing up a storm. And I have the examples
of that to share with you coming up in a
few minutes. We're drinking to the Whitehouse. On Sunday evening
after attending an NFL game, Trump did not say whether
he endorsed the deal, but said it looks like we're
(04:30):
getting close to the shutdown ending the government. Excuse me.
The agreement does not guarantee the Affordable Care Act subsidies
will be extended, as Democrats have demanded for almost six weeks.
Chuck Schumer I voted against moving ahead with the package,
along with all but eight of his Democrat colleagues. By
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the way, Trump over the weekend, he posted on Troop
on truth social Obamacare sucks, Capital letters, the worst healthcare
for the highest price pay the people, not the insurance companies.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
That post had followed one from earlier on Saturday that
urged Senate Republicans to act on healthcare fixes that Trump
has talked about since before its president will run in
twenty sixteen, take from the big bad insurance companies, give
it to the people, and terminate per dollar spent the
worst healthcare anywhere in the world. Obamacare unrelated. We must
(05:28):
still terminate the filibuster. And this was all prior to
what had transpired over the weekend. And many people have
made this point that you know, if Obamacare is so affordable,
then why do you need the subsidies. Final passage, as
I mentioned, the legislation could take several days if Democrats
(05:50):
try to draw out the process. Independent Senator Bernie Sanders
of Vermont caucuses with Democrats, said that giving up the
fight was a horrible mistake. Coust Democrats chiming in against it.
You had Texas Representative Greg Kassar, chairman of the Congressional
Progressive Caucus, said the deal that does not reduce healthcare
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costs is a betrayal of millions of Americans who are
counting on Democrats to fight, calling it capitulation. Accepting nothing
but a pinky promise from Republicans isn't to compromise. Millions
of families would pay the price. And listen, this wasn't
going well for Democrats, which is why they're also caving.
As a matter of fact, let me share this with you.
(06:32):
Treasury Secretary Bassent confirmed that economic growth may be cut
by as much as half due to the shutdown. Here's
what he had to say over the weekend.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
We've seen an impact on the economy from day one,
but it's getting worse and worse. We had a fantastic
economy under President Trump the past two quarters, and now
there are estimates that the economy economic growth for this
quarter could be cut by as much as half if
the shutdown continues. And what your correspondent didn't talk about there, George,
(07:04):
was there's a course the human costs, and we're going
to have the busiest travel day of the year the
day after Thanksgiving, and Americans should look to five Democratic
senators to come across the aisle to open that. But
on the other side, there's also cargo is being slowed down,
so you know, we could end up with shortages, whether
(07:25):
it's center or supply chained, whether it's for the holidays,
so you know, cargo and people are both being slowed
down here, and that's for safety's sake.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
George, look at the way that let's let's back up.
I want to I want to back up here just
just a moment, because what the Democrats have been doing
and sowing this chaos and discord really has been to
the detriment of taxpayers, of the voters citizens here in
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the United States. We're talking about the shutdown, snap benefits.
We're going to get into more of this coming up,
but snap benefits hadn't gone out for individuals. This has
put a massive strain on food banks across the country
and especially here in Minnesota, cause a lot of frustration, concern,
(08:21):
worry among individuals that never needed to come to this.
And why well, because Democrats wanted to exploit the situation
to benefit them last week, so they had something that
they could point to in terms of electoral victories in
a bunch of blue states. Again, they made much more
out of that, but they needed to because all of
(08:43):
the data shows that what they've been doing hasn't worked.
And what's taken place now with the shutdown and everything
that we'll dive into from over the weekend. With all
this confusion about Snap benefits, including what Bascent just mentioned
in her our GDP, this is again the long game.
As Andrew Langer was talking about last hour, the economy
(09:06):
is going to continue to struggle when the economic data
gets released in the future and there's negatives attached to
it because of the forty days of the government being
shut down. Do you really think the Democrats and the
legacy media are going to properly go and cover in
full context why those numbers are what they are. Of
(09:28):
course they're not. They'll just blame Trump. This is Trump's economy.
He did all of this. But keep in mind go
back to the ridiculous No King's protests and how just
the name in and of itself made no rational sense,
(09:49):
especially given that you had these activist judges looking to
the Trump administration wanting to force them to pay for
SNAP benefits, and the Trump administration basically say we can't
do that. Not very king like the judges tried to
make Trump act like a king, the ridiculous arguments from
protesters out on the streets, the pushback going back even
(10:12):
further to earlier in the year against Elon Musk, individuals
that were out just randomly vandalizing Tesla's over their anger
that Elon was involved in any way, shape or form
with this administration. It's all under the same mentality. I mean,
the easiest way to put it is that Trump derangement syndrome.
(10:33):
But it's the Democrats only play. It's to cause chaos,
to cause division, to try to trag down, to try
to drag down Trump. And it's polling numbers, Republicans polling numbers.
And this goes back to what I said before about
why I got on board with the filibuster because I
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just do not trust Democrats were they to get back
into power, and to keep that from happening, we have
to go in shore up election integrity. One more final
point on this and we'll dive further into what's transpired
here in Minnesota regarding the confusion around the snap benefits.
But from this article from Fox nine, there is no
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guarantee the Affordable Care Act subsidies would be extended if
Republicans agree to a future vote on healthcare. That was
how Speaker Mike Johnson over the weekend, saying that he
will not commit to a healthcare vote. Some Republicans have
said that they are open to extending the COVID nineteen
air at tax credits, as premiums could skyrocket for millions
of people, but they also want new limits on who
(11:36):
can receive the subsidies and argue that the tax dollars
for the plans should be routed through individuals. And I'm
so tired of this argument. By the way, even with
Republicans that do it, the premiums could skyrocket. We must
extend these tax credits, COVID nineteen air at tax credits. No,
it's returning the cost of the premiums back to where
(11:57):
they were pre COVID. I can't stand the fact that
there is just this blanket view assessment relating to anything
when it comes to COVID benefits that were dispersed and
suddenly they end, and then people complain because they want
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to keep getting the money. No, that money was for COVID.
The pandemic's been over for a while now, and you
and have Republicans that hop on board with it. Does
not do our side any favors at all. Speaking of
doing favors, the legacy media here in Minnesota certainly went
out of their way to try to paint Governor Walls
(12:41):
as being so kind, such a leader in the wake
of so much chaos, and funding these snap benefits to
restore them for tens of thousands of Minnesotans, even though
it was just because Walls is the governor. He didn't
really have anything specific to do with it, and the
states don't even have the ability to go and do
what they said that Governor Tim Walls was doing. I'll
(13:04):
break it all down next. We'll get to more of
your comments as well from the iHeartRadio app here on
Twin City's news talk Am eleven thirty and one oh
three five FM.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Oh fell for me and Prairie talk about being fake.
We know that you are actually John Justice's biggest fan.
You call him every day you leave talkbacks. We know
you do like to hear your voice over the radio waves.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
Oh hell yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Call all your friends and family and tell them to
listen to you because you know you're gonna be played.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
John.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Can you do us a favor and drive feel crazy
and just not play his talkbacks?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Oh such a kinnun drum. I get this all the time.
I have people that love it when I play Phil's
talk well, I love. It's probably too strong of a word.
I have people that enjoy it when I push back
on Phil's comments, people like Judy that don't want me
to play them. I like to hear the other side,
(14:04):
and they used to be a lot better. It's not
my fault. I would like better coach and arguments coming
from the other side of the political spectrum. But I
can't force anybody's anybody's hands, so I do agree with
the rest of your assessment, though I fully believe that's happening.
(14:28):
Thank you Judy for the talkback. Twinsday's news talk Am
eleven thirty one on three five FM from the six
to five to one carpet Next Day install studios. So
Governor Walls announces November snap of payments restored for Minnesotan's
There were multiple articles over the weekend touting as if
Walls was personally funding out of his own bank account
(14:51):
Minnesota snap payments. So this version heresy is just one
day after the Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration
on withholding SNAPA as for Americans. Minnesota Governor Tim Walls
announced the funding has been restored. This funding used by children, seniors,
and people with disabilities to pay for food has been
in limbo since October. Restoring this funding took numerous court
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rulings ordering the Trump administration to use the money they
have set aside for this very purpose to feed the hungry.
Wall set in a post which is really interesting because
Walls went and posted online later in the weekend, after
the longest shutdown in history, we're no closer to relief
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for millions of Americans facing hikes in their healthcare bills
that they can't afford. This is a deeply disappointing result.
Democrats cannot let Trump and his administration steamroll Congress into
cutting taxes for billionaires at the expense of working for people.
So which one is it? So does Walls want more shutdown?
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Which would means that people will continue to not get
their SNAP benefits, Because after the Watson administration moved forward
doing what the USDA had instructed, after those court rulings
attempted to force Trump to pay for these benefits, you
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had the Supreme Court Justice Jackson Brown go, not the Singer,
go and put a hold on those court orders which
kept the states from going in funding SNAP. And she
only did that to continue to sow chaos in confusion
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that was created by the activist judges that knew full
well exactly what they were doing in those court orders.
It's worse than an Abbott and Costello routine. For those
that are familiar, who's on first, I don't know third base.
So Minnesota says it can to the SNAP payments despite
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the Trump demand, and I question whether or not these
payments have actually gone out. But here is the coverage
trying to get through all of this confusion from Fox
nine regarding the benefits in these judges' rulings. It is
pretty confusing.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
And let's start with the Trump administration tonight demanding states
to undo SNAP benefits that were now already being paid out.
The confusion is with two different court rulings in two days.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Let's start with Thursday's ruling.
Speaker 9 (17:32):
On that day, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration
to find the money to fully fund SNAP benefits for
this month instead of partially funding them. They had to
issue payments by Friday, But then the Trump administration filed
an emergency appeal. That same day, the Supreme Court granted
the Trump Administration's emergency appeal that temporarily blocked the Lower
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courts Thursday order that issued full November SNAP payments. So
today the US Department of Agriculture demanded that the states
reverse those full SNAP benefit payments, and the State of
Minnesota sent us a statement that readson part Minnesota does
not have any mechanism for taking money back from SNAP recipients.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
We also believe, by the way, which was the whole
reason why the judges went and ruled the way that
they did initially, and why Justice Brown went and stopped
those rulings, because it just ended up creating this mass
amount of chaos that Democrats can go and take advantage
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of with posts online, videos that they're creating further narratives
trying to paint the Trump administration and Republicans as being
the ones that fault for all of this, when the
reality is, as we've been talking about, the Democrats could
have ended this forty weeks ago.
Speaker 9 (19:02):
It would be unjusty gang back these funds that are
needed to feed families. Our teams are working to evaluate
the November eighth memo. Keep in mind, four hundred and
forty thousand Minnesotans receive SNAP benefits every month, and we'll
continue to follow this developing story live in the newsroom
Leon Purvis, Fox nine.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
And I don't know. Maybe and that's again the story
there from Fox nine. Maybe we should spend a little
bit of time focusing or at least our leaders should
on getting fewer people or I should say, getting people
off of snap benefit and having benefits and having fewer
people go and beyond Snap benefits. Oh man, here I
(19:45):
have doing a bit of the inflection there, do you
hear it? I know it's catching. You can call me
out on that, Sam if I do that, very just
that's very concerning. I do not want to be doing
that inflection, but I do the show, so it's really
enough in the day though. I know, yeah, I know
it's I know well, And I was being sarcastic, So
(20:08):
I mean, one could I could go I won being me.
I could go and argue that why I was doing
the voice intentionally, because I was being sarcastic, right, yeah, sure, okay,
coming up as I was saying, here's a further piece.
Minnesota officials appalled following Trump administration's demand that states undo
(20:30):
the SNAP payouts. But again, the Trump administration was only
demanding that they undo the SNAP payouts because of the
liberal Supreme Court ruling pushing back on the activist judges
and what they did just a disaster. We have audio
from Senator Aaron Mayquaid and Peggy flanagain, both big mad
(20:51):
about this procedural vote to end the shutdown. And we
know they're big mad because they like to curse in
their videos online because it shows them as tough Democrats.
I'll share that with you. We'll get some more of
your talkbacks as well. Coming up on Twinesday's news talk A.
I'm eleven thirty and one O three five FM. What
are you doing, Democrats? iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
It's very sad to hear that there's a half million
families taking Snap benefits in the state of Minnesota. These
are people that will continue to pull the lever for
the likes of Tim Wall's candidates, no matter how lousy
those candidates are. And it's those candidates that will continue
to want to triple, quadruple the number of people on
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Snap benefits to guarantee they stay in power forever.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Speaking of candidate's, Lisa Damith, who announced her gubernatorial campaign
last week, had her on the show on Wednesday morning.
I believe she's announced that she has tapped Ryan Wilson,
former candidate for state auditor, as her lieutenant governor pick.
I think that's the first lieutenant govenor pick that we've
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seen from our GOP candidates. I could be wrong on
that later on this week. As a matter of fact,
tomorrow on the show, Adam Schwarzy will be joining us
tomorrow running for Senate. He'll be in studio with the
Davide Gartzenstein Ross on tomorrows show, and then we should
be talking with and I got to line up the
details further, but Philip Parrish, also running for governor, should
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be on the show later on this week, possibly Thursday.
Speaker 11 (22:29):
Four hundred and forty thousand people in Minnesota get snap.
Good lord, I was poor all through my twenties. I
never even considered it ridiculous.
Speaker 12 (22:43):
Good morning, John, Barry and andover, and a big happy
birthday to all my brothers and sisters. The big two
five zero for the Marine Corps, help the FI do
or Die.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Thank you so much for that, Barry, and I very
much appreciate it. All right, let's break some of this down.
I'm working off of a version here from Channel five.
So you had these judges make the rulings trying to
force the administration nonprofits. Democrat attorneys sued to forced Trump
to maintain the program for SNAP benefits. Then on Friday night,
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you had Justice Katanji Brown Jackson temporarily pausing the two
rulings ordering the SNAP disbursement while the nation's highest court
considered the Trump administration's appeal. That led the Department of
Agriculture on Saturday to write state SNAP directors to warn
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them that it now consinders the payments under prior orders unauthorized.
And gee, why would she do that? I kept completing
her name right by the way, Jackson Brown, Brown Jackson,
And why would she do that? Because it caused mass confusion.
And that's what Democrats are trying to exploit. And this
is the Trump administration following the rules, not very king like,
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like a king wouldn't bother with any of this. But
here you had the judges move forward saying, hey, you
got to fund this. The administration appealed because they know
there's no mechanism in order to make this happen. But
given that was the fact, you had the USDA move
forward and say, hey, you need to go and fund SNAP.
A judge said, so so the States went and moved
(24:26):
forward and funding it, and then you had Justice Jackson
and go and put a pause on that. And now
the Democrats are saying, look at what they've done. They've
taken away people's SNAP. No, it was the Supreme Court
that ended up doing that. Patrick Penn, Deputy Undersecretariat of Agriculture, said,
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to the extent states sent full SNAP payment files for
November twenty twenty, twenty twenty five, this was unauthorized. Accordingly,
states must immediate undo any steps taken to issue full
SNAP benefits for November of twenty twenty five. And again
I question, typically do SNAP benefits go out between the
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tenth and the fourteenth. So we're in the you know,
the window hadn't even opened yet, So I question whether
or not any payments in the very small period of
time in which they could have been issued, even you know,
I question whether any checks or authorizations through bank accounts
were even produced. US Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska on
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Sunday called the directive shocking if it applies to states
like hers that use their own money to prop up
the program. It's one thing if the federal government is
going to continue its level of appeal through the courts
to say no, this can't be done. But when you're
telling states that have said this is a significant enough
(25:57):
issue in our state, we're going to find real sources,
backfill or front load, whatever term you want to help
our people, those states should not be penalized. Sure, but
blame Democrats. They're the one that caused all this confusion. Wisconsin,
for example, they loaded benefits onto cards for seven hundred
(26:21):
thousand residents. Wants a judge in Rhode Island order the
restoration of benefits last week, but after the US Secretary
froze its reimbursements to the state, it anticipates running out
of money by today. Democrat Governor Tony Evers warned in
a lengthy statement on Sunday the lack of money could
leave vendors unpaid and trigger escalating legal claims. The states
(26:45):
warned states could face demands to return hundreds of millions
of dollars in the aggregate. The states, filing at the
First A Circuit Court of Appeals, says the situation would
risk catastrophic operational disruptions for states, with a consequent cascade
of harms for their residents. He resitioned a quick response
(27:09):
to the Trump Administration's demand to undo payment, saying no,
so now they don't want to follow the law. Governor
Wes Moore of Maryland set in an interview with CBS on
Sunday that in the past six days, we've received four
different measures of guidance from the Trump administration. He fumed
(27:30):
over the latest to threatened to punish the states that
paid the full benefits, but again it was guidance from
the Trump administration because of these activist judges and then
what the Supreme Court Justice Brown ended up doing, they
just caused a tremendous amount of chaos, of which now
(27:54):
you have Democrats that are responding. So, as I mentioned before,
Walls said, this was a deeply disappointing results. Democrats cannot
let the Trump administration steamroll Congress into cutting taxes for
billionaires at the expense of working people. Even though over
the weekend he went to issue the snap benefits and
talked about how awful it was that the shutdown was continuing,
(28:17):
and now apparently he wants more shut down because of
Democrats in his own party that have turned away from
individuals like him. Again, make it make sense. DFL party
chair Richard Carlbaum wrote, Republicans are hell bent on increasing
your healthcare costs thanks to Brad Finstead, Tom Emmer, and
(28:39):
Pete Stauber, As Rangers would say, Pete f off. Although
he didn't use f he used the full word there,
because again, that makes Democrats seem tough. Like Senator Aaron mcwade.
Speaker 13 (28:54):
I don't generally make videos with advice for national Democrats
because I the ones that I talk to that i'm close,
that I can influence, like I tell them, probably, and
then the ones that I could like talk to in
the public, they don't give you.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
What i'd say.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
But I will say that if we did a whole.
Speaker 13 (29:10):
Shut down to extend the ACA subsidies and then all
you get is a promise to take a vote on it,
that's insane, Like it's actually insane. So I don't know,
like not groundbreaking, but what.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
The boy that was so deep? She really just got
to the heart of the matter, didn't she. Lieutenant Governor
and Senate candidate Peggy flan again weighed in on the
issue as well.
Speaker 14 (29:41):
Hey, so the fact that a handful of Democratic senators
just walked away from a fight we were winning to
keep healthcare costs from skyrocketing for millions of Americans and
capitulating to Donald Trump and congressional Republicans.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Here again, the premiums are only rising because Democrats put
a sunset clause in for the Obamacare subsidies that were
tied to COVID, which would return the subsidies back to
the normal level. So yes, they're going to go up,
(30:21):
but it's because of what Democrats did, and those funds
were never supposed to be permanent.
Speaker 14 (30:26):
It sucks, and we deserve so much more, especially when
we saw victories up and down the ballot all across
the country.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
People were with.
Speaker 14 (30:38):
Us, and then this is not okay. So it is
time for you to pick your fighter and pick accordingly,
because we deserve so much more than this boot.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Pick your fighter, guys, I know, I don't There was
this Mortal Kombat. I was a Street Fighter fan myself.
I don't know about you. They both applied, right, and
the joke plat applies to Bull Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Okay, okay,
I just wanted to make sure you know, because that's
the most important thing about the show. Gotta make sure
(31:20):
I get the references right. Yeahs BS guys, again, such
fantastic commentary coming from the progressive wing of the Minnesota
DFL MSNBC. Let's go here. Democrat Representative Brendan Boyle said
(31:47):
he was completely perplexed after eight Democrats voted to reopen
the government. Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 15 (31:53):
Pennsylvania Congress and Boyle, thanks so much. I saw your
statement on this deal such as it is. I think
you said you were a hell no on the deal.
You know, no way to sugarcoat it. I guess can
you explain how you interpret why this deal came together
(32:13):
now a few days after this blowout election where Democrats
seem to be taking a victory lap, well literally taking
a victory lap, or at least had a victory. Why
now would Democrats in the Senate decide to lay down
their arms, you know, potentially end this shutdown when the
(32:35):
terms that are being offered by Republicans don't seem to
have changed.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
I can't explain it because, to be frank to me,
it makes.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Absolutely no sense.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
I am completely perplexed by today's developments, or really the
developments of the last few hours. On Tuesday, we essentially
had the proof that the American people overwhelmingly were on
the Democrats side of this argument. Poles have been showing
for weeks, over a month, that a pretty large number
(33:08):
of Americans were with us. But people always question about
the validity of polls.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Where here we.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Had on Tuesday the ultimate poll, and Democrats won everywhere.
I mean, I'll take Pennsylvania for example, every competitive race
or race that thought was going to be competitive, we
won by double digits.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
We won in Clearfield County.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
A place that had not elected a Democrat in over
a decade, and that Donald Trump had carried by more
than fifty points. That's how sweeping the victory was on Tuesday.
So it's pretty clear that we went to the polls
the American people understood that Republicans were making their costs
go up, that Democrats were fighting to bring costs down
(33:53):
and fighting to save the healthcare of the American people.
And now all of a sudden, after this big victory,
it's the Democratic side, or at least enough Democrats in
the Senate that are essentially caving again.
Speaker 7 (34:08):
It just makes no.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Sense to me.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Congressman. There was you know, blue people one in blue states, shocking,
and yes the margins were significant, but again blue candidates
won in blue states at a time when the Democrats
have been effective at going and angering their base to
(34:31):
get individuals out to vote, and Trump wasn't on the ballot.
That was the whole purpose. Speaking of which, let's go
back to the iHeartRadio app Good Morning John.
Speaker 16 (34:45):
The reason why there was a blue wave was because
simple Trump hasn't followed through with what he promised that
a middle class in his campaign. There has been no
mass deportations.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
We stop here really quick. First off, what's your definition
of a blue wave Democrats winning in blue states. Secondly,
you're really going to show your ignorance that quickly out
of the gate with your comment relating to deportations. There's
been half a million people that have been deported. It's
only November. Trump's barely been in office for a year less,
(35:22):
so in terms of what Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has
been doing across the country on top of massive pushback,
and yet they've still been successful at deporting some five
hundred and seventy two thousand individuals. So the prices are
still skyrocketing. Yeah, inflation is still high. We're still dealing
(35:43):
with the ramifications of what transpired during the Biden administration
on top of the fact that the shutdown has done
nothing relating to the economy any sort of good whatsoever.
But let's go ahead and continue with your commentary here.
Speaker 16 (35:56):
Food prices are still skyrocketing, insurance is high, taxes are high,
We're still involved sending too much money to Israel and Ukraine,
and only big corporations got the tax break. People aren't dumb.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Yeah, so he's got as he had his checklist there,
he just basically marked off all the different Democrat talking
talking points there. Thank you so much for the comment
on the iHeartRadio. I appreciate it.
Speaker 17 (36:24):
Good morning, John, great show with always question for you.
Unless I'm mistaken, Justice Brown Jackson is fairly progressive. How
bad does your oppollet court really have to be for
Justice Brown Jackson to overturn it and say it doesn't apply.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
That's just crazy.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Sure, But she also did an intentionally knowing what end
up causing the chaos that it caused over the weekend.
And Justice Brown is merely an extension of the irrational
Democrat Party. She is the Supreme Court justice version of
an individual walking down the street that sees at tesla
and then decides they're going to go and vandalize it.
(37:10):
She just happens to be sitting on the United States
Supreme Court.
Speaker 18 (37:15):
Good morning, everybody. I think that Senator and the clip
you just played was sought on the vote doesn't make
any sense. And that's the standard of the Democratic Party.
Nothing ever makes sense. It's the party of hypocrisy. Say
one thing, do the other, promise something, take it back.
Speaker 16 (37:37):
It's textbook and.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Two Bobs, you know, real quick and too Bob's talkback
that we played just a moment ago where he was
going through his checklist of all the negatives to say
about Trump. Let's go here.
Speaker 8 (37:51):
Did you know that since Trump has taken offense once again,
that they've thrown off over seven hundred thousand SNAP recipients
because of them being illegal or not qualified, and in
the process they've also arrested one hundred and eighteen individuals.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
The more, you know, nice call back to Friday. So
let me get this straight.
Speaker 19 (38:20):
Off your elections, which have very poor turnout historically, and
Democrats winning in Democrat districts, that's historic wins.
Speaker 12 (38:31):
Give me a break.
Speaker 19 (38:34):
Show me where they swept Republican districts where the Democrat
won and shouldn't have won. Then maybe I get concerned
this is a joke.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Those handful of Democrats that have turned against Schumer on
this procedural vote to go and reopen the government. They're
just providing cover for the other Democrats potentially vulnerable in
their own districts, where they can now go back and say, look,
we did the right thing, while at the same time
getting members of the Democrat Party the ability to go
(39:07):
and get angry for doing what they did. Minnesota Senators
Amy Klobashar and Tina Smith not among the a Democrats
who approved the Sunday night motion. Both lawmakers issued statements
on Sunday night opposing the deal to reopen the government.
As they cast and they votes, so I guess they
also do not want the snap benefits to continue. Hello America,
(39:31):
I'm Amy Klobshar, and I will beat Donald Trump. Amy said, well,
I'm sorry, this is Smith. I will not support this
bill that completely fails to help Americans afford their healthcare.
I'm not going to bother with the rest of it.
I'll make it easier. You're fascinating to talk to. Amy said,
(39:51):
lowering costs is a top priority for Minnesotan's I voted
against this budget bill because it does not prevent health
insurance premiums from doubling for many in our state. Well,
maybe you should have sent a message to individuals on
Obamacare that the COVID subsidies were not going to last forever,
since both of these individuals voted to put the sunset
(40:16):
provision in those subsidies. So Tina Smith and Amy Klobashark
can only go and look in the mirror for what
everybody's been dealing with right now, All right, coming up, Well,
keep with the theme, but we're going to go to
the potential of fraud. Representative Pam Altendorth, Republican out of
(40:37):
Red Wing, recently took to social media. As we highlighted
last week on the show, she was showcasing how Minnesota
saw a one hundred and seventy four percent increase in
snap issuance between fiscal years twenty twenty and twenty twenty one.
It was the largest one year jump of any state
in the nation. Now, she did say that this was
(40:58):
happening during the year of COVID. However, no other state
saw anything close to an increase like this. Well, because
of her Discovery. We had a statement that was released
from the Walls Administration over this issue. I'll share with
you what they had to say. Coming up next in
(41:18):
hour three here on Twin Cities News Talk AM eleven
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