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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, we happened to happen to have a Senator
Morgan McGarvey joining us. This is the first time I've
gotten to interview you, and I'm very excited Morgan.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, I'm excited to.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
No, it's it's always just Morgan and I mean, what
a great what a great day to be.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Out here at the backside of Churchill Down.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Indeed, So with the Derby, do you bring some friends
from Washington with you or you.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Know, we were going to bring in a member of
Congress with us this year. Unfortunately, uh had to cancel
at the last minute. So you know, it's we'll.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Bring some people in next year.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
All right, we'll do.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
But you know, for me, the hosting duties, it's more
going around and talking to all the Louivillions. It's going
to the parties before and after the races.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
During the races.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Uh, it's going around the track and shaking hands and
just you know, celebrating the day with as many Louivillions
as I possibly can.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
So talk about here in your first term of being
a United States Senator, how's it going for you?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
And uh, what what are the concerns that you.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Look it's a wild time in Washington right now. And
you know, what we've seen in the last three years
has been a real switch. And so I mean there
are real concerents. And let's talk about some of the
Kentucky concerns first. I mean, Trump's trade war isn't just
tanking the economy nationally, the worst first hundred days of
a president since nineteen thirty two on the Dow Jones
(01:22):
Industrial average. It is really harmful to some of our
signature industries. And I tell people, like people.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Get mad about it. Hey, look, tariffs are neither good
nor bad. Tariffs are a tool, right.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
A hammer is neither good nor bad. It's good for
putting a nail on a wall, It's not so good
for fixing your iPhone. How you use it matters. And
so when you're doing these things like we had one
week with the bourbon industry where Trump said on Monday,
the tariffs are on on Tuesday, they're off on Wednesday,
they're on on Thursday, they're off. And the scrambling and
the uncertainty people, I mean, families here in Louisville wondering
(01:56):
if they're gonna have jobs, companies wonder how they're going
to continue to invest in their product, in the facilities,
and things like the Bourbon Trail, the nine billion dollar
economic impact.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
For our state.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
These things are really really concerning, and so we're trying
to restore some common sense and some sanity to the
process as well as as protecting Kentuckian's you know, this budget,
they're proposing eight hundred and eighty billion dollars potentially being
cut from Medicaid. Forty six percent of Kentucky's kids have
their health insurance through Medicaid. That that's a really that's
(02:27):
a really dangerous thing.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well, President Trump is on the record as saying that
FEMA needs to be controlled now by the states. Well,
the states don't have that kind of income to do.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
We don't.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
And you know, I was in the state Senate for
ten years and and past several budgets when I was
in the legislature. Kentucky does not have the ability to
borrow money. And we're already cash strapped and underfunded as
a state. And on the federal level, Look, this is
this is not a point I'm editorializing on. It's just
a fact Kentucky receives more from the federal government than
it gives.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So for better.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
You know, for every dollar we give in federal money,
we get about a dollar fifty back. And so we're
able to do those things in part because the federal
government says, hey, it's in the public good for us
to have federal money available to areas all over the
country that are impacted on disasters they can't plan for
and can't handle by themselves. To get rid of that
and put on the states with the flooding we've seen
(03:18):
in Kentucky, with the tornadoes we've seen in Kentucky over
the last several years, it would be devastating to our
state and our budget.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
So let's talk a little bit about other things.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
And that is when it comes to Medicare and medicaid.
A lot of people and I have friends that cannot
get private insurance. Many of them are servers or that
kind of thing. They get thirty hours or you know,
whatever the case may be, and as a result of
that wind up their companies don't have to you know,
(03:54):
pay for insurance, but they make too much, you know
to get on some of the aid and things like that.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
So how are we going? How is this better than
anything else?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I did?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Still understand it? Yeah, no, I understand why we can't
have it.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It's all the stories we're hearing right now.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
So I had I had a group of student nurse
anesthetists in my office.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
This week in Washington.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And you know, a nurse anesthetist is someone who's already
become a registered nurse, has a four year degree, has
has worked as a nurse, and then goes to three
years of school to become that specialized nurse, a nurse
who can help with anesthesia. When they're in school, they
can't work as a nurse. So all of these people
are over twenty six, they can't be on their parents' insurance.
(04:40):
And they said one of the things I was, you know,
I wasn't expecting to hear this from students about issues
that are impacting them, and said, one of the issues
is going to impact us if there's Medicaid cuts.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
We won't have health insurance, right.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I met a mom Meg, Her daughter June is ten
years old, has been a really medically complicated child since birth.
I can't speak without a couter, can't hear without a
cochlear implant, can't move. Her body has to be it
has to be in a fully motorized wheelchair has to
have a device up just to hold her head up right.
(05:10):
Her mom works four jobs, four jobs, and on top
of the four jobs she works, and the other kids
they have, you know, her daughter is taking care of.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Through Medicaid dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, and and there's no way that any normal family
can handle these bills for our medically complex children.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Talking to Congressman Morgan McGarvey here at news radio A
forty w h as find a question. You know, Dale
Romans kind of held court and the concerns are we
have migrants that are here legally, uh you know, for
ten months and uh, but they're they're fearful of being
(05:50):
you know good, being still picked, or the concern about
ice and all these kind of things. I don't think
any of us want to see, uh, that kind of
fear for people who are here legally. Now, I will
admit President Biden, I think, you know, kind of screwed
up you know, the border. And I think Democrats are
you know, either coming around to that or would agree
(06:12):
with with that. And that's probably what cost a big
part of the election in this case. So what are
Democrats what is the party looking at when it comes
to immigration now and getting what I would call a
balance that they didn't feel like they had, you know,
under for example, Kamala Harris and those kind of things.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
What do you think is the next thing?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I think, first of all, it requires an open and honest,
good faith conversation about immigration in this country. Let's start
with we need safe and secure borders, which we do.
We need safe and secure board because any country needs
safe and secure borders, we must have them in the
United States. Then let's talk about what's happening in immigration
and even like right now, look look at Churchill Down.
Seventy percent of the workforce on the backside of Churchill
(06:59):
Down's makes this happen are their immigrants. They're here on
visas UH and those visas the HB two, the h
h A two. I think visa is there's two different
types of visas they can be here on. There's no
pathway to citizenship. They already have to certify that these
are jobs that are not impacting the US workforce.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
They don't get get secure well, I mean, these are
things that are being tutted by you know, different organizations, right, And.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
That's why I mean, like we have to have an
open and honest conversation about this.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
You know, I told you all the time. Everyone is
entitled to their own opinions. You're not entitled to your
own facts, and and we've got to make sure that
you can have an opinion about something. Let's get the
common set of facts out there. Let's talk about even
the fact our office deals with people who come in
and just zoom out macro level when you when you
come into the United States, you basically go into a
queue and they say.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Are we going to let you in or are we
not going to let you in?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
If you're going if you're trying to do it through
the legal channels, and if they let you in, then
there's all different.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Sort of ways you can be let in.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
One you're seeking.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Asylum, and they say, okay, what's your name? Hey, my
name is Tony. You know, Okay, Tony, where are you going.
I'm going to Louisville, Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
All right, great, Tony, you're seeking asylum. We think you
have a case for asylum.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Here you go.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
You're going to Louisville, Kentucky. We're giving you a court
date two and a half years from now in.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Louisville, Kentucky. Right, Well, there you have it right, and
that and that is that is a broken system.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I wish I had a long form program, right.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I thought, you're asking which horse we like? And here
we are getting into like the new War immigration.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Hey, so you got to pick your horse. Excuse me, congressman,
but Garvey, you got to pick your horse. Who's your horse?
All right?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
So so I you know, I was out here on
Monday morning for I left for DC, and I try
to listen to people who know what they're talking about.
I'm one of those guys, I admit it. You know,
I don't know much about horse racing. Hand me the
racing program tomorrow, and I feel like you've given me
the answers to the test. So it's a dangerous thing.
But uh, you know, the favorites the favorite for a reason.
This year, a lot of people are talking about journalism,
and the speed numbers are really high. I think if
(08:57):
you're if you're making some wagers, you got to have
journal them in there. I like sovereignty a little bit
from what I've looked at. I think that's an that's
an interesting horse. And then, of course, you know the
time honored Louisville traditions you've got to pick colors and names.
My daughter likes Grande. I think it's for Ariana Grande
more than anything else, but still it works. And then
I like Sandman because I always you know, every Derby,
(09:18):
if there's a gray horse in it, I bet on
the gray horse me too.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Yeah, all right, I'm with you on sand Man. All right.
Congressman mc garvey, thanks for spending your time with us today.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
It's only interviewer.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I've got a half with you now because I'm retiring
at the end of the lot unless you want to
come back.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Hey, look, it's a lifelong li Pavillion.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Happy retirement and truly, Tony, thank thank you for being
a voice on the radio for us.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
For so many years.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Thanks all right, great, Thanks for all your service, you know,
throughout the House and Senate and everything else the state sender.
All right, Congressman Morgan McGarvey, thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Thank you, Havy Derby, Happy Oaks. All right, you too.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
More coming up from the backside of Churchill down Scotty,
have sports coming up.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Oh,
All right, we happened to happen to have a Senator
Morgan McGarvey joining us. This is the first time I've
gotten to interview you, and I'm very excited Morgan.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, I'm excited to.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
No, it's it's always just Morgan and I mean, what
a great what a great day to be.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Out here at the backside of Churchill Down.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Indeed, So with the Derby, do you bring some friends
from Washington with you or you.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Know, we were going to bring in a member of
Congress with us this year. Unfortunately, uh had to cancel
at the last minute. So you know, it's we'll.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Bring some people in next year.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
All right, we'll do.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
But you know, for me, the hosting duties, it's more
going around and talking to all the Louivillions. It's going
to the parties before and after the races.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
During the races.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Uh, it's going around the track and shaking hands and
just you know, celebrating the day with as many Louivillions
as I possibly can.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
So talk about here in your first term of being
a United States Senator, how's it going for you?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
And uh, what what are the concerns that you.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Look it's a wild time in Washington right now. And
you know, what we've seen in the last three years
has been a real switch. And so I mean there
are real concerents. And let's talk about some of the
Kentucky concerns first. I mean, Trump's trade war isn't just
tanking the economy nationally, the worst first hundred days of
a president since nineteen thirty two on the Dow Jones
(01:22):
Industrial average. It is really harmful to some of our
signature industries. And I tell people, like people.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Get mad about it. Hey, look, tariffs are neither good
nor bad. Tariffs are a tool, right.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
A hammer is neither good nor bad. It's good for
putting a nail on a wall, It's not so good
for fixing your iPhone. How you use it matters. And
so when you're doing these things like we had one
week with the bourbon industry where Trump said on Monday,
the tariffs are on on Tuesday, they're off on Wednesday,
they're on on Thursday, they're off. And the scrambling and
the uncertainty people, I mean, families here in Louisville wondering
(01:56):
if they're gonna have jobs, companies wonder how they're going
to continue to invest in their product, in the facilities,
and things like the Bourbon Trail, the nine billion dollar
economic impact.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
For our state.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
These things are really really concerning, and so we're trying
to restore some common sense and some sanity to the
process as well as as protecting Kentuckian's you know, this budget,
they're proposing eight hundred and eighty billion dollars potentially being
cut from Medicaid. Forty six percent of Kentucky's kids have
their health insurance through Medicaid. That that's a really that's
(02:27):
a really dangerous thing.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well, President Trump is on the record as saying that
FEMA needs to be controlled now by the states. Well,
the states don't have that kind of income to do.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
We don't.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
And you know, I was in the state Senate for
ten years and and past several budgets when I was
in the legislature. Kentucky does not have the ability to
borrow money. And we're already cash strapped and underfunded as
a state. And on the federal level, Look, this is
this is not a point I'm editorializing on. It's just
a fact Kentucky receives more from the federal government than
it gives.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So for better.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
You know, for every dollar we give in federal money,
we get about a dollar fifty back. And so we're
able to do those things in part because the federal
government says, hey, it's in the public good for us
to have federal money available to areas all over the
country that are impacted on disasters they can't plan for
and can't handle by themselves. To get rid of that
and put on the states with the flooding we've seen
(03:18):
in Kentucky, with the tornadoes we've seen in Kentucky over
the last several years, it would be devastating to our
state and our budget.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
So let's talk a little bit about other things.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
And that is when it comes to Medicare and medicaid.
A lot of people and I have friends that cannot
get private insurance. Many of them are servers or that
kind of thing. They get thirty hours or you know,
whatever the case may be, and as a result of
that wind up their companies don't have to you know,
(03:54):
pay for insurance, but they make too much, you know
to get on some of the aid and things like that.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
So how are we going? How is this better than
anything else?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I did?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Still understand it? Yeah, no, I understand why we can't
have it.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It's all the stories we're hearing right now.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
So I had I had a group of student nurse
anesthetists in my office.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
This week in Washington.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And you know, a nurse anesthetist is someone who's already
become a registered nurse, has a four year degree, has
has worked as a nurse, and then goes to three
years of school to become that specialized nurse, a nurse
who can help with anesthesia. When they're in school, they
can't work as a nurse. So all of these people
are over twenty six, they can't be on their parents' insurance.
(04:40):
And they said one of the things I was, you know,
I wasn't expecting to hear this from students about issues
that are impacting them, and said, one of the issues
is going to impact us if there's Medicaid cuts.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
We won't have health insurance, right.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I met a mom Meg, Her daughter June is ten
years old, has been a really medically complicated child since birth.
I can't speak without a couter, can't hear without a
cochlear implant, can't move. Her body has to be it
has to be in a fully motorized wheelchair has to
have a device up just to hold her head up right.
(05:10):
Her mom works four jobs, four jobs, and on top
of the four jobs she works, and the other kids
they have, you know, her daughter is taking care of.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Through Medicaid dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, and and there's no way that any normal family
can handle these bills for our medically complex children.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Talking to Congressman Morgan McGarvey here at news radio A
forty w h as find a question. You know, Dale
Romans kind of held court and the concerns are we
have migrants that are here legally, uh you know, for
ten months and uh, but they're they're fearful of being
(05:50):
you know good, being still picked, or the concern about
ice and all these kind of things. I don't think
any of us want to see, uh, that kind of
fear for people who are here legally. Now, I will
admit President Biden, I think, you know, kind of screwed
up you know, the border. And I think Democrats are
you know, either coming around to that or would agree
(06:12):
with with that. And that's probably what cost a big
part of the election in this case. So what are
Democrats what is the party looking at when it comes
to immigration now and getting what I would call a
balance that they didn't feel like they had, you know,
under for example, Kamala Harris and those kind of things.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
What do you think is the next thing?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
I think, first of all, it requires an open and honest,
good faith conversation about immigration in this country. Let's start
with we need safe and secure borders, which we do.
We need safe and secure board because any country needs
safe and secure borders, we must have them in the
United States. Then let's talk about what's happening in immigration
and even like right now, look look at Churchill Down.
Seventy percent of the workforce on the backside of Churchill
(06:59):
Down's makes this happen are their immigrants. They're here on
visas UH and those visas the HB two, the h
h A two. I think visa is there's two different
types of visas they can be here on. There's no
pathway to citizenship. They already have to certify that these
are jobs that are not impacting the US workforce.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
They don't get get secure well, I mean, these are
things that are being tutted by you know, different organizations, right, And.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
That's why I mean, like we have to have an
open and honest conversation about this.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
You know, I told you all the time. Everyone is
entitled to their own opinions. You're not entitled to your
own facts, and and we've got to make sure that
you can have an opinion about something. Let's get the
common set of facts out there. Let's talk about even
the fact our office deals with people who come in
and just zoom out macro level when you when you
come into the United States, you basically go into a
queue and they say.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Are we going to let you in or are we
not going to let you in?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
If you're going if you're trying to do it through
the legal channels, and if they let you in, then
there's all different.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Sort of ways you can be let in.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
One you're seeking.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Asylum, and they say, okay, what's your name? Hey, my
name is Tony. You know, Okay, Tony, where are you going.
I'm going to Louisville, Kentucky.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
All right, great, Tony, you're seeking asylum. We think you
have a case for asylum.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Here you go.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
You're going to Louisville, Kentucky. We're giving you a court
date two and a half years from now in.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Louisville, Kentucky. Right, Well, there you have it right, and
that and that is that is a broken system.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I wish I had a long form program, right.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I thought, you're asking which horse we like? And here
we are getting into like the new War immigration.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Hey, so you got to pick your horse. Excuse me, congressman,
but Garvey, you got to pick your horse. Who's your horse?
All right?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
So so I you know, I was out here on
Monday morning for I left for DC, and I try
to listen to people who know what they're talking about.
I'm one of those guys, I admit it. You know,
I don't know much about horse racing. Hand me the
racing program tomorrow, and I feel like you've given me
the answers to the test. So it's a dangerous thing.
But uh, you know, the favorites the favorite for a reason.
This year, a lot of people are talking about journalism,
and the speed numbers are really high. I think if
(08:57):
you're if you're making some wagers, you got to have
journal them in there. I like sovereignty a little bit
from what I've looked at. I think that's an that's
an interesting horse. And then, of course, you know the
time honored Louisville traditions you've got to pick colors and names.
My daughter likes Grande. I think it's for Ariana Grande
more than anything else, but still it works. And then
I like Sandman because I always you know, every Derby,
(09:18):
if there's a gray horse in it, I bet on
the gray horse me too.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Yeah, all right, I'm with you on sand Man. All right.
Congressman mc garvey, thanks for spending your time with us today.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
It's only interviewer.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I've got a half with you now because I'm retiring
at the end of the lot unless you want to
come back.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Hey, look, it's a lifelong li Pavillion.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Happy retirement and truly, Tony, thank thank you for being
a voice on the radio for us.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
For so many years.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Thanks all right, great, Thanks for all your service, you know,
throughout the House and Senate and everything else the state sender.
All right, Congressman Morgan McGarvey, thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Thank you, Havy Derby, Happy Oaks. All right, you too.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
More coming up from the backside of Churchill down Scotty,
have sports coming up.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Oh,
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