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 sixty
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
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had hot takes on a number of different issues, and
yet I get talkbacks like this from I 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.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Right, let's go here, Good morning John, and just let's
fill up and mean prary. 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 you want I do it. And also
Trump falling asleep at the Oval office. A guy passes
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out behind him 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.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Sorry for Phil.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
First off, to say Kennedy's accent is fake, It's just dumb.
That's just it's not even like, it's not even like
an argument.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
That's just dumb. And then in.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
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 Sistons of the
world or on MSNBC. Trump actually moved immediately after that
individual passed out in the Oval office, but Trump's not
(02:02):
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 individuals
tending to the person in medical distress in the Oval
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office and Trump's standing there looking forward just the precise moment.
I do appreciate the fact you leave talked backs though,
because so few foes of the show are actually willing
to go and do so. CNN admitted the quiet part
out loud regarding the procedural vote and the government shut
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down ending well nearing an end.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
We've got plenty more on the other side. We will
talk much more about this. Again.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
You're looking live at the Senate floor as the Democratic.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Filibuster has been broken. We have so far reached sixty.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
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 6 (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 as goal, Yeah, but you're
the one causing it. Yeah, kind of idiot, does that?
I mean, it's like, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
It's all been nothing but political theater. That's all this was.
So this is from Fox nine.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
A test vote first in a series that would require
procedural maneuvers. The Senate voted sixty forty to move toward
passing the compromise legislation 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
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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, 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
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up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We're drinking to the lighthouse.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
On Sunday evening after attending an NFL game, Trump did
not say whether he endorsed the deal, but said it
looks like we're getting close to the shutdown ending the government.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
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
the way, Trump over the weekend, he posted on Troop
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on Truth social Obamacare sucks, Capital letters the worst healthcare
for the highest price, Pay the people, not the insurance companies.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
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 presidential run in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Take from the big bad.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Insurance companies, give it to the people, and terminate per
dollar spent the worst healthcare anywhere in the world. Obamacare unrelated.
We must 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.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Do you need the subsidies.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Final passage, as I mentioned, the legislation could take several
days if Democrats 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. House Democrats
chiming in against it. You had Texas Representative Greg Kassar,
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chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. So the deal that
does not reduce healthcare costes a betrayal of millions of
Americans who are counting on Democrats to fight.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Calling it capitulation. Accepting nothing but a pinky promise from
Republicans isn't to compromise. Millions of families would pay the price.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
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. Treasury Secretary Bassent confirmed that
economic growth may be cut by as much as half
due to the shutdown.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Here's what he had to say over the weekend.
Speaker 8 (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 shut down continues. And what your correspondent didn't talk
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about there, George, was there's a course the human costs,
and we're gonna 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,
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whether 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 3 (07:34):
George, look at the way that let's let's back up.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I want to I want to back up here just
just a moment, because what the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Have been doing and sowing this chaos and discord.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Really has been to the detriment of taxpayers, of the
voters citizens here in 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.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Gone out for individuals.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
This has put a massive strain on food banks across
the country and especially here in Minnesota. Caused a lot
of frustration, concern, 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
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had something that they could point to in terms of
electoral victories in a.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Bunch of blue states.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Again, they made much more out of that, but they
needed to because all of 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
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is again the long game. As Andrew Langer was talking
about last hour, the economy is going to continue to
struggle when the economic data gets released in the future.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And there's negatives attached.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
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 course they're not. They'll just blame Trump. This is
Trump's economy. He did all of this. But keep in mind.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Go back to the ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
No King's protests and how just the name in and
of itself made no rational sense, 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, as the judges tried to make Trump act
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like a king, the ridiculous arguments from protesters out on
the streets, the pushback going back even 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.
(10:25):
It's all under the same mentality. I mean, the easiest
way to put it is that Trump derangement syndrome. 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.
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And this goes back to what I said before about
why I got on board with the filibuster because I
just do not trust Democrats were they to get back
into power, and to keep that from happening, we have
to go and show or 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.
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But from this article from Fox nine, there is no
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 attax credits, as premiums could skyrocket for millions of people,
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but they also want new limits on who 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.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
With Republicans that do it, the premiums could skyrocket. We
must extend these tax credits, COVID nineteen air at tax credits.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
No, it's returning the cost of the premiums back to
where 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
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and suddenly they end, and then people complain because they
want 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
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went out of their way to try to paint Governor
Walls 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
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the states don't even have the abilit to go and
do what they said that Governor Tim Walls was doing.
I'll 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 9 (13:15):
Oh Phil from 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 10 (13:30):
Oh hell yeah.
Speaker 9 (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 9 (13:37):
Can you do us a favorite drive feel crazy and
just not play his talkbacks?
Speaker 11 (13:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Such a kinnundrum. I get this all the time. I
have people that love it when I play Phil's talk well,
I love.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
It's probably too strong of a word.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I have people that enjoy it when I push back
on Phil's comments.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I have people like Judy that don't want me to
play them. I like to hear the other side, and
they used to be a lot better. It's not my fault.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
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.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Thank you Judy for the talkback.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Twins Today's News Talk Am eleven thirty one on three
five FM from the six 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
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his own bank account Minnesota snap payments. So this version
heresy is just one day after the Supreme Court sided
with the Trump administration on withholding SNAP payments 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.
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Restoring this funding took numerous court 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.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Later in the weekend.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
After the longest shutdown in history, we're no closer to
relief 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.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
So which one is it?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
So does Walls want more shutdown which would mean 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 had the Supreme Court
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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 that was created
by the activist judges that knew full well exactly what
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they were doing in.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Those court orders. It's worse than an Abbot.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And Costello routine. For those that are familiar, who's on first,
I don't know third base. So Minnesota says it can
to un dude the SNAP payments despite the Trump demand
that 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
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benefits in these judges' rulings.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
It is pretty confusing.
Speaker 12 (17:17):
And let's start with the Trump administration tonight demanding states
to undo SNAP benefits that went now already being paid out.
The confusion is with two different court rulings in two days.
Let's start with Thursday's ruling. 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
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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 courts Thursday order that issued full
November SNAP payments. So today the US Department of Agriculture
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demanded that the states reverse those full SNAP benefit payments,
and the State of Minnesota sent us a statement that
readson parts 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 air when did this forty weeks ago.
Speaker 12 (19:02):
It would be unjust sy yang 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.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Fox nine, and I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
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.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Oh man, I 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.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Very just that's very concerning. I do not want to
be doing that inflection, but.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I do show so it's really enough in the day though.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I know, yeah, I know it's I know well, And
I was being sarcastic, So 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
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appalled following Trump administration's demand that states undo 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
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Mayquaid and Peggy flanagain, both big mad 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 to some more of your talkbacks
as well. Coming up on Twinsday's news talk A. I'm
eleven thirty and one on three five FM.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
What are you doing Democrats? iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 13 (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.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I think that's the first lieutenant govenor pick that we've
seen from our GOP candidates. I could be wrong on
that later on this week.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
As a matter of fact, tomorrow on the show, Adam
Schwarzy will be joining us tomorrow running for Senate.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
He'll be in studio with.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
The Davide Gartzenstein Ross on tomorrow's 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 be on the show later on this week, possibly Thursday.
Speaker 7 (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 1 (22:42):
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.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Happy I do or Die.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Thank you so much for that, Barry, and I very
much appreciate it. All right, let's 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 sue to
forced Trump to maintain the program for SNAP benefits. Then
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on Friday night, 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
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directors to warn them that it now consinders the payments
under prior orders unauthorized.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
And gee, why would she do that? I kept completing
her name, by the way, Jackson Brown, Brown Jackson.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
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,
like a king.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Wouldn't bother with any of this.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
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.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Say, hey, you need to go and fund SNAP.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
A judge said, so, so the States went and moved
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 immediately undo any steps taken to issue full
SNAP benefits for November of.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And again I question, typically do SNAP benefits go out
between the 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
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through bank accounts were even produced. US Senator Lisa Murkowski
of Alaska on 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.
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But when you're telling states that have said this is
a significant enough issue in our state, we're going to
find real horses, backfill or front load, whatever term you
want to help our people, those states should not be penalized, sure,
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but blame Democrats.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
They're the one that caused all this confusion.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Wisconsin, for example, they loaded benefits onto cards for seven
hundred thousand residents wants. A judge in Rhode Island ordered
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
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in a lengthy statement on Sunday the lack of money
could leave vendors unpaid and trigger escalating legal claims.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
The states warned states.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Could face demands to return hundreds of millions of dollars
in the aggregate. The states, filing at the First Circuit
Court of Appeal, says the situation would risk catastrophic operational
disruptions for states, with a consequent cascade of harms for
their residents. He resistioned a quick response to the Trump
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administration's demand to undo payment, saying no, so now they
don't want to follow the law. Governor Wes Moore of
Maryland sent 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 over the
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latest 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
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amount of chaos, of which now you have Democrats that
are responding. So, as I mentioned before, Wall said, this
was a deeply dis pointing 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
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he went to issue the snap benefits and talked about
how awful it was that the shutdown was continuing, 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
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healthcare costs thanks to Brad Finstead, Tom Emmer, and 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.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Like Senator Aaron mcwade.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I don't generally make videos with advice for national Democrats
because the ones that I talk to that i'm close to,
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 what i'd say. But
I will say that if we did a whole shut
down to extend the ACA subsidies and then all you
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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 the wait?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
That was so deep?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
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 5 (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 (29:59):
Let me stop 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.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
So yes, they're going to.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Go up, but it's because of what Democrats did, and
those funds were never supposed to be permanent.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
It sucks, and we deserve so much more, especially when
we saw victories up and down the ballot all across
the country. People were with 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
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more than this boot.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Pick your fighter, guys, I don't it was this Mortal Kombat.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
I was a Street Fighter fan myself. I don't know
about you.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
They both applied, right, 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 I get the
references right. Yeah, it's BS guys, again, such fantastic commentary
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coming from the progressive wing of the Minnesota DFL.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
MSNBC. Let's go here.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Democrat Representative Brendan Boyle said he was completely perplexed after
eight Democrats voted to reopen the government.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 14 (31:52):
Pennsylvania Congress and Boyle, thanks so much. I saw your
statement on this deal such as it is 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 10 (32:40):
I can't explain it because, to be frank to me,
it makes absolutely no sense. 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.
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Poles have been showing for weeks, over a month, that
a pretty large number of Americans were with us. But
people always question about the validity of polls. Where here
we 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
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won by double digits. We won in Clearfield County, 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.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
So it's pretty clear.
Speaker 10 (33:43):
That, you know, 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 and fight
to save the healthcare of the American people. And now
all of a sudden, after this big victory tree, it's
the Democratic side, or at least enough Democrats in the
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Senate that are essentially caving again.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
It just makes no sense to me, Congressman.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
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 in Trump.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Wasn't on the ballot. That was the whole purpose.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Speaking of which, let's go back to the iHeartRadio app
Good Morning John.
Speaker 15 (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 (34:56):
Let me stop here really quick. First off, that's your
definition of a blue wave, Democrats winning in blue states.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Secondly, you're really going.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
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, so in
terms of what Immigrations and Customs enforcement has been doing
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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 with the ramifications
of what transpired during the Biden administration, on top of
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the fact that the shutdown has done nothing relating to
the economy any sort of good whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
But let's go ahead and continue with your commentary here.
Speaker 15 (35:55):
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.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
People aren't dumb.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Yeah, so he's got his He had his checklist there
and 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 13 (36:24):
Good morning, John, great show.
Speaker 16 (36:26):
As always question for you. Unless I'm mistaken, Justice Brown
Jackson is fairly progressive. How bad does your oppellate court
really have to be for Justice Brown Jackson to overturn
it and say it doesn't apply.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
That's just crazy, sure, But she also did an intentionally
knowing what end up causing the chaos that it caused
over the weekend. 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
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at Tesla and then decides they're going to go and
vandalize it. She just happens to be sitting on the
United States Supreme Court.
Speaker 17 (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 3 (37:37):
It's textbook and.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Two Bobs 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.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Let's go here.
Speaker 11 (37:51):
Did you know that since Trump has taken offense once again,
that they've thrown off over seven hundred thousand snaps because
of them being illegal or not qualified, and in the
process they've also arrested one hundred and eighteen individuals.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
The more you know, nice call back to Friday.
Speaker 18 (38:19):
So let me get this straight. Off your elections, which
have very poor turnout historically, and Democrats winning in Democrat districts,
that's historic wins. Give me a break. Show me where
they swept Republican districts where the Democrat won and shouldn't
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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 vote, so I guess they
also do not want the snap benefits to continue.
Speaker 12 (39:28):
Hello America, I'm Amy Clovishar, and I will beat Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Amy said, I'm sorry, this is Smith. I will not
support this bill that completely fails to help Americans afford
their healthcare.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
I'm not going to bother with the rest of it.
I'll make it easier. You're fascinating to talk to.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Amy said, 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 so much 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
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voted to put the sunset provision in those subsidies. So
Tina Smith and Aby 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
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Pam Altendorth, Republican out of 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.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
It was the.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Largest one year jump of any state in the nation. Now,
she did say that this was 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
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over this issue.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
I'll share with you what they had to say.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Coming up next in 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 sixty
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
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had hot takes on a number of different issues, and
yet I get talkbacks like this from I 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.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Right, let's go here, Good morning John, and just let's
fill up and mean prary. 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 you want I do it. And also
Trump falling asleep at the Oval office. A guy passes
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out behind him 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.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Sorry for Phil.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
First off, to say Kennedy's accent is fake, It's just dumb.
That's just it's not even like, it's not even like
an argument.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
That's just dumb. And then in.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
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 Sistons of the
world or on MSNBC. Trump actually moved immediately after that
individual passed out in the Oval office, but Trump's not
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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 individuals
tending to the person in medical distress in the Oval
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office and Trump's standing there looking forward just the precise moment.
I do appreciate the fact you leave talked backs though,
because so few foes of the show are actually willing
to go and do so. CNN admitted the quiet part
out loud regarding the procedural vote and the government shut
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down ending well nearing an end.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
We've got plenty more on the other side. We will
talk much more about this. Again.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
You're looking live at the Senate floor as the Democratic.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Filibuster has been broken. We have so far reached sixty.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
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 6 (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 as goal, Yeah, but you're
the one causing it. Yeah, kind of idiot, does that?
I mean, it's like, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
It's all been nothing but political theater. That's all this was.
So this is from Fox nine.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
A test vote first in a series that would require
procedural maneuvers. The Senate voted sixty forty to move toward
passing the compromise legislation 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
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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, 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
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up in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We're drinking to the lighthouse.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
On Sunday evening after attending an NFL game, Trump did
not say whether he endorsed the deal, but said it
looks like we're getting close to the shutdown ending the government.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Excuse me.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
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
the way, Trump over the weekend, he posted on Troop
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on Truth social Obamacare sucks, Capital letters the worst healthcare
for the highest price, Pay the people, not the insurance companies.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
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 presidential run in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Take from the big bad.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Insurance companies, give it to the people, and terminate per
dollar spent the worst healthcare anywhere in the world. Obamacare unrelated.
We must 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.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Do you need the subsidies.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Final passage, as I mentioned, the legislation could take several
days if Democrats 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. House Democrats
chiming in against it. You had Texas Representative Greg Kassar,
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chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. So the deal that
does not reduce healthcare costes a betrayal of millions of
Americans who are counting on Democrats to fight.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Calling it capitulation. Accepting nothing but a pinky promise from
Republicans isn't to compromise. Millions of families would pay the price.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
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. Treasury Secretary Bassent confirmed that
economic growth may be cut by as much as half
due to the shutdown.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Here's what he had to say over the weekend.
Speaker 8 (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 shut down continues. And what your correspondent didn't talk
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about there, George, was there's a course the human costs,
and we're gonna 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,
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whether 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 3 (07:34):
George, look at the way that let's let's back up.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I want to I want to back up here just
just a moment, because what the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Have been doing and sowing this chaos and discord.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Really has been to the detriment of taxpayers, of the
voters citizens here in 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.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Gone out for individuals.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
This has put a massive strain on food banks across
the country and especially here in Minnesota. Caused a lot
of frustration, concern, 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
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had something that they could point to in terms of
electoral victories in a.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Bunch of blue states.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Again, they made much more out of that, but they
needed to because all of 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
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is again the long game. As Andrew Langer was talking
about last hour, the economy is going to continue to
struggle when the economic data gets released in the future.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And there's negatives attached.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
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 course they're not. They'll just blame Trump. This is
Trump's economy. He did all of this. But keep in mind.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Go back to the ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
No King's protests and how just the name in and
of itself made no rational sense, 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, as the judges tried to make Trump act
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like a king, the ridiculous arguments from protesters out on
the streets, the pushback going back even 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.
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It's all under the same mentality. I mean, the easiest
way to put it is that Trump derangement syndrome. 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.
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And this goes back to what I said before about
why I got on board with the filibuster because I
just do not trust Democrats were they to get back
into power, and to keep that from happening, we have
to go and show or 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.
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But from this article from Fox nine, there is no
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 attax credits, as premiums could skyrocket for millions of people,
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but they also want new limits on who 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.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
With Republicans that do it, the premiums could skyrocket. We
must extend these tax credits, COVID nineteen air at tax credits.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
No, it's returning the cost of the premiums back to
where 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
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and suddenly they end, and then people complain because they
want 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
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went out of their way to try to paint Governor
Walls 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
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the states don't even have the abilit to go and
do what they said that Governor Tim Walls was doing.
I'll 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 9 (13:15):
Oh Phil from 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 10 (13:30):
Oh hell yeah.
Speaker 9 (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 9 (13:37):
Can you do us a favorite drive feel crazy and
just not play his talkbacks?
Speaker 11 (13:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Such a kinnundrum. I get this all the time. I
have people that love it when I play Phil's talk well,
I love.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
It's probably too strong of a word.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I have people that enjoy it when I push back
on Phil's comments.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I have people like Judy that don't want me to
play them. I like to hear the other side, and
they used to be a lot better. It's not my fault.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
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.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Thank you Judy for the talkback.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Twins Today's News Talk Am eleven thirty one on three
five FM from the six 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
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his own bank account Minnesota snap payments. So this version
heresy is just one day after the Supreme Court sided
with the Trump administration on withholding SNAP payments 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.
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Restoring this funding took numerous court 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.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Later in the weekend.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
After the longest shutdown in history, we're no closer to
relief 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.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
So which one is it?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
So does Walls want more shutdown which would mean 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 had the Supreme Court
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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 that was created
by the activist judges that knew full well exactly what
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they were doing in.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Those court orders. It's worse than an Abbot.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And Costello routine. For those that are familiar, who's on first,
I don't know third base. So Minnesota says it can
to un dude the SNAP payments despite the Trump demand
that 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
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benefits in these judges' rulings.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
It is pretty confusing.
Speaker 12 (17:17):
And let's start with the Trump administration tonight demanding states
to undo SNAP benefits that went now already being paid out.
The confusion is with two different court rulings in two days.
Let's start with Thursday's ruling. 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
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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 courts Thursday order that issued full
November SNAP payments. So today the US Department of Agriculture
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demanded that the states reverse those full SNAP benefit payments,
and the State of Minnesota sent us a statement that
readson parts 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 air when did this forty weeks ago.
Speaker 12 (19:02):
It would be unjust sy yang 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.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Fox nine, and I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
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.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Oh man, I 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.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Very just that's very concerning. I do not want to
be doing that inflection, but.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I do show so it's really enough in the day though.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
I know, yeah, I know it's I know well, And
I was being sarcastic, So 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
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appalled following Trump administration's demand that states undo 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
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Mayquaid and Peggy flanagain, both big mad 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 to some more of your talkbacks
as well. Coming up on Twinsday's news talk A. I'm
eleven thirty and one on three five FM.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
What are you doing Democrats? iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 13 (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.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
I think that's the first lieutenant govenor pick that we've
seen from our GOP candidates. I could be wrong on
that later on this week.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
As a matter of fact, tomorrow on the show, Adam
Schwarzy will be joining us tomorrow running for Senate.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
He'll be in studio with.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
The Davide Gartzenstein Ross on tomorrow's 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 be on the show later on this week, possibly Thursday.
Speaker 7 (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 1 (22:42):
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.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Happy I do or Die.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Thank you so much for that, Barry, and I very
much appreciate it. All right, let's 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 sue to
forced Trump to maintain the program for SNAP benefits. Then
(23:20):
on Friday night, 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
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directors to warn them that it now consinders the payments
under prior orders unauthorized.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
And gee, why would she do that? I kept completing
her name, by the way, Jackson Brown, Brown Jackson.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
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,
like a king.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Wouldn't bother with any of this.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
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.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Say, hey, you need to go and fund SNAP.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
A judge said, so, so the States went and moved
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 immediately undo any steps taken to issue full
SNAP benefits for November of.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And again I question, typically do SNAP benefits go out
between the 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
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through bank accounts were even produced. US Senator Lisa Murkowski
of Alaska on 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.
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But when you're telling states that have said this is
a significant enough issue in our state, we're going to
find real horses, backfill or front load, whatever term you
want to help our people, those states should not be penalized, sure,
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but blame Democrats.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
They're the one that caused all this confusion.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Wisconsin, for example, they loaded benefits onto cards for seven
hundred thousand residents wants. A judge in Rhode Island ordered
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
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in a lengthy statement on Sunday the lack of money
could leave vendors unpaid and trigger escalating legal claims.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
The states warned states.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Could face demands to return hundreds of millions of dollars
in the aggregate. The states, filing at the First Circuit
Court of Appeal, says the situation would risk catastrophic operational
disruptions for states, with a consequent cascade of harms for
their residents. He resistioned a quick response to the Trump
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administration's demand to undo payment, saying no, so now they
don't want to follow the law. Governor Wes Moore of
Maryland sent 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 over the
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latest 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
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amount of chaos, of which now you have Democrats that
are responding. So, as I mentioned before, Wall said, this
was a deeply dis pointing 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
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he went to issue the snap benefits and talked about
how awful it was that the shutdown was continuing, 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
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healthcare costs thanks to Brad Finstead, Tom Emmer, and 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.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Like Senator Aaron mcwade.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I don't generally make videos with advice for national Democrats
because the ones that I talk to that i'm close to,
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 what i'd say. But
I will say that if we did a whole shut
down to extend the ACA subsidies and then all you
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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 the wait?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
That was so deep?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
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 5 (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 (29:59):
Let me stop 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.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
So yes, they're going to.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Go up, but it's because of what Democrats did, and
those funds were never supposed to be permanent.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
It sucks, and we deserve so much more, especially when
we saw victories up and down the ballot all across
the country. People were with 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
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more than this boot.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Pick your fighter, guys, I don't it was this Mortal Kombat.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
I was a Street Fighter fan myself. I don't know
about you.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
They both applied, right, 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 I get the
references right. Yeah, it's BS guys, again, such fantastic commentary
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coming from the progressive wing of the Minnesota DFL.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
MSNBC. Let's go here.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Democrat Representative Brendan Boyle said he was completely perplexed after
eight Democrats voted to reopen the government.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 14 (31:52):
Pennsylvania Congress and Boyle, thanks so much. I saw your
statement on this deal such as it is 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
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terms that are being offered by Republicans don't seem to
have changed.
Speaker 10 (32:40):
I can't explain it because, to be frank to me,
it makes absolutely no sense. 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.
(33:03):
Poles have been showing for weeks, over a month, that
a pretty large number of Americans were with us. But
people always question about the validity of polls. Where here
we 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
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won by double digits. We won in Clearfield County, 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.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
So it's pretty clear.
Speaker 10 (33:43):
That, you know, 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 and fight
to save the healthcare of the American people. And now
all of a sudden, after this big victory tree, it's
the Democratic side, or at least enough Democrats in the
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Senate that are essentially caving again.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
It just makes no sense to me, Congressman.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
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 in Trump.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Wasn't on the ballot. That was the whole purpose.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Speaking of which, let's go back to the iHeartRadio app
Good Morning John.
Speaker 15 (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 (34:56):
Let me stop here really quick. First off, that's your
definition of a blue wave, Democrats winning in blue states.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Secondly, you're really going.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
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, so in
terms of what Immigrations and Customs enforcement has been doing
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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 with the ramifications
of what transpired during the Biden administration, on top of
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the fact that the shutdown has done nothing relating to
the economy any sort of good whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
But let's go ahead and continue with your commentary here.
Speaker 15 (35:55):
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.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
People aren't dumb.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Yeah, so he's got his He had his checklist there
and 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 13 (36:24):
Good morning, John, great show.
Speaker 16 (36:26):
As always question for you. Unless I'm mistaken, Justice Brown
Jackson is fairly progressive. How bad does your oppellate court
really have to be for Justice Brown Jackson to overturn
it and say it doesn't apply.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
That's just crazy, sure, But she also did an intentionally
knowing what end up causing the chaos that it caused
over the weekend. 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
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at Tesla and then decides they're going to go and
vandalize it. She just happens to be sitting on the
United States Supreme Court.
Speaker 17 (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 3 (37:37):
It's textbook and.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Two Bobs 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.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Let's go here.
Speaker 11 (37:51):
Did you know that since Trump has taken offense once again,
that they've thrown off over seven hundred thousand snaps because
of them being illegal or not qualified, and in the
process they've also arrested one hundred and eighteen individuals.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
The more you know, nice call back to Friday.
Speaker 18 (38:19):
So let me get this straight. Off your elections, which
have very poor turnout historically, and Democrats winning in Democrat districts,
that's historic wins. Give me a break. Show me where
they swept Republican districts where the Democrat won and shouldn't
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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 vote, so I guess they
also do not want the snap benefits to continue.
Speaker 12 (39:28):
Hello America, I'm Amy Clovishar, and I will beat Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Amy said, I'm sorry, this is Smith. I will not
support this bill that completely fails to help Americans afford
their healthcare.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
I'm not going to bother with the rest of it.
I'll make it easier. You're fascinating to talk to.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
Amy said, 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 so much 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
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voted to put the sunset provision in those subsidies. So
Tina Smith and Aby 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
(40:35):
Pam Altendorth, Republican out of 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.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
It was the.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Largest one year jump of any state in the nation. Now,
she did say that this was 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
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over this issue.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
I'll share with you what they had to say.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
Coming up next in hour three here on Twin Cities
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