Rory O'Neill discusses another upcoming vote to reopen the government

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you're waking up. No, the government is not up

(00:02):
and running again. They are still shut down, and it
doesn't seem anybody's you know, undigging their heels in the
sand that both sides have dug in for quite some
time now, and it seems to be the same issues
joining us now roy O'Neil, our correspondent and following what's
happening here. So what are they doing up there? Just
going okay, I don't I'm not changing neither, am I? Okay? Goodbye.

(00:23):
They had a vote last night and still no answers.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, right, And in fact they may have actually lost
some ground because John Fetterman, the Senator from Pennsylvania who's
been voting with the Republicans on this one, he was
a no show.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
So yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Now there's some grumbling saying that the Senate may call
it quits this week early because there is no progress
being made. People don't appear to be ready to flip side.
So it's again dragging on. And now more and more
of those federal workers are missing out on paychecks. We
are paying the act of duty military, but there's still
hundreds of.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Thousands now going without pay.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
And as that pain sort of goes throughout the you know,
I think there'll be some more pressure to take some
sort of action. And we're seeing more and more impact
on the airlines as well, with some mutual acquaintances of
ours from Asheville, North Carolina who are now stuck in Chicago.
They couldn't get home last night from a big awards

(01:18):
ceremony in New York.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Wow, I'm just unbelievable that they're not making any progress
whatsoever on this. As ceter and stayed away. He probably
just knew there's nothing happening here. You know, he's there,
he knows what they're all talking about in the halls,
and with nothing moving forward, the house still out. So
the bad news is this is, like you said, going

(01:39):
to affect a lot of us that have nothing to
do with this. You know, we're just American taxpayers that
are seeing the delays at the airports. Were also going
to start seeing other issues when it comes to I
guess deliveries, it could be affected, you know, Postal Services,
Social Security Administration's annual cost of living adjustment is going
to be delayed. They say they're not going to delay

(02:01):
the actual adjustment to the increase, but now they're delaying
this being they're saying, well, the government shutdown. You know,
we got we got to look at some more data,
and they're having troubles getting you know.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
The data coming in, right, there's no data coming in
or being collected. You know, so when you're trying to
get unemployment reports or trying to get consumer the consumer
price information, all that data collection is down.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, so no movement from the Fed, your own pal
on interest rates. You know, he's like, I can't make
a decision what I need to make the decision that
data is so uh, let me ask you about the House.
They're still out are they when they come back? Well,
they have anything to do with helping I know this
is in the Senate's hands right now. But once the

(02:44):
Senate agrees to you know, open or just not, uh,
it's over right. The House has nothing left to do
with this or do they have to approve what the
Senate does.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Right, So if they approve So the House approved a
few weeks ago, three weeks at least, the House approved
a continuing resolution that would just keep spending as we
are through November twenty first.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
That's the bill they sent to the Senate.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
The Senate has been unable to get the sixty plus
votes needed to pass it.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
There, and that's what they keep voting on again and again.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Now, if they were to amend it and make changes
to it, then it would have to go back to
the House for their approval on those changes.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
But this has been an up or down vote that
we've been see.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, all interesting this story here. As we know, past
couple of weeks, we've seen the indictment of New York
Attorney General Letitia James and also former FBI Director James
call me.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
And now some.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
People are saying that President Trump's former National security advisor
John Bolton maybe in the crosshairs for some prosecution by
the JOD.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Right, Remember, there was the rate at his home in
office about a month or two ago that the FBI conducted,
so they were trying to find information there.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
They didn't really comment much.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
CNN has reporting out today this could be related to
the idea that Bolton would email himself notes to his
AOL account after meetings, and whether or not there was
classified information being sent via AOL would have been the
issue that could be at the heart of this.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, I'm not sure that that's prosecutable, and I'm sure
there are bigger fish to fry in Washington, but interesting
they're looking at anybody and everybody. They came after Trump
on this DJ, not the JOD Justice Department. Yeah, there
we go, all right, right, thank you, buddy,