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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joining us now Senator Katie Britt to talk about this
government shutdown. Where we are. There's another vote coming today.
Will we make it by the end of the month
and by November first, have this government back up and
running to avoid more craziness happening with our government and
our money situation. It's starting to affect. As we mentioned before,
the ripple effect, it continues and so many people being affected.
(00:21):
Up front and center in the cross here is now
the SNAP program that supplies food and assistance for those
there are really in need. It's just not kids, and
it's you know, families, it's also veterans, disabled people, so
many people affected by this. Katie, thanks for being here.
So my first question is to you, how do we
move this SNAP program over into one of the government
(00:43):
essentials necessary to stay open and not affected by the
shutdown like some of the other entities that we have
in our government that's stay open.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, So it is this has nothing to do with
essential non essential. So when you think about essential non essential,
those are the people that are still having to come
to work. Those people that are coming to work to
kind of sort of keep everything operating as best as
possible are still not getting paid, So no one is
getting paid under a shutdown. Now, what has happened is
(01:13):
President Trump has tried to move money around, tried to
figure out how to pay our servicemen and women. And
as you know, there was an anonymous donor that donated
one hundred and thirty million to keep paying the military.
So that's how they've gotten paid is moving through different
funds that they had and they got their first paycheck.
(01:35):
They may now get their second paycheck. Is some questions
around that, but the rest of the people are actually
not getting paid. So let me give you a great example.
The Capitol policemen are essential to the capital operating. So
every day that we come in and the day that
the Democrats stayed up all night long, twenty two hours,
the capitol policeman had to be there. None of them
(01:56):
get a paycheck. So when that Capitol policeman goes home
and he has a car payment, and he has a
mortgage or a rent, or any outstanding obligations he has,
he has absolutely no paycheck to make them. Same thing
goes with Senate staff saying things go with the people
working at Veterans Affairs. No one is getting a paycheck.
So there is a difference here in that President Trump
(02:17):
tried to move some money around to pay our servicemen
and women. Now, keep in mind, the five hundred thousand
civilian workers in DD have not gotten a paycheck since
we since since I guess it was what September thirtieth,
the next pay period after that. So when Democrats chose
to not keep the government open, that's what happened. So
(02:38):
that's what we're dealing with on that front. And then
if you think about SNAP. So I had lunch with
Russ Vote on Wednesday at the White House when we
were there, and he said, Katie, we are going to
run out of money, like we have stretched every dollar
through you know first Snap, we will run out by
the end of the month. So this is this is
(02:59):
the Demo Kratz plan. You heard Catherine Clark, the Democratic
whip in the House say, suffering families are our leverage.
So they have chosen to not come to the table.
They've chosen to shut the government down. We've given them
twelve votes to keep it open under a Biden level,
(03:21):
just to figure out what we need to do next,
and they will not do it because they want the
upper hands. This is all about politics. And pride. It
is not about the people that we serve for the
Democrats and for us, this is about the American people.
This is about keeping these keeping all of these agencies open.
This is what we have been saying. We even had
(03:43):
a bill that we put down the other day to
try to shut down Fairness Actor, say let's pay all
of these people. Democrats blocked it. So this is absolutely asinine.
This is why I am so frustrated with my Democratic colleagues,
because they know better than this. They're real families that
are going to be suffering as a result of them
(04:03):
not continuing a Biden budget so that we can keep
doing our work. This is a political stunt for Chuck Schumer.
And until people start calling Chuck Schumer's office and saying
this is absurd and you need to open the government
back up, then I'm not sure what happens next.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
What do you say to Chuck Schumer, NACKEM Jeffries who
continue this mantra that it's the Republican's fault. They're the
ones that are doing this.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, well it is. That's absolutely what I've said to them.
I mean, and I am disgusted with the fact that
they are literally trying to play political games and on
the backs of hard working Americans and on the backs
of American citizens who need this assistance. And so it also,
you can't sit here and tell me you're concerned about
(04:50):
healthcare in January. January, which, by the way, President Trump
has said, I absolutely will talk about that. Get the
government open to these people get their snap benefits and
so that our capitol policemen get their pay and the
va is operating as it should, and we'll absolutely talk
about that. He has he has said that. But you
cannot tell me I'm worried about increase a twenty percent
(05:14):
increase in January. So therefore I'm going to not give
people those very people paychecks in October. It makes zero sense.
And that is the point they are. When Catherine Clark
said suffering families are our leverage, she meant it. And
when Chuck Schumer said it gets better for us every
single day, that's what needs to be replaying for the
(05:36):
American people over and over and over again. And look,
I am committed, I mean I have, I am committed
to continuing to fight on this. Have joined the efforts
to say we've got to do something about about about snap.
You know a bill that's been introduced to make sure
that there's uninterrupted service, because that's what it would take.
(05:57):
And we'll see if the Democrats walk that. Wow, kids,
they bought every single thing else. And this is disgusting.
This is not democracy. And just remember this is their bill,
their bill that we're asking to extend for seven weeks.
We did not put anything additional, and they're no Republican priorities.
They're doing this for politics. It's sick, and real people
(06:19):
are paying the price.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, they're using it as a political pawn and leverage.
And you said, you're in right there. You said it
that they're using this and they know exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
And they said it. They said it. They said, suffering
families are our leverage. That came out of their number
two in the Democrat House. That is what she said,
and so take her words. She meant what she said,
and she said what she meant. And this is their intention.
They want these benefits to run out so that they
think they have more leverage because they this is they
(06:49):
are so deranged that they do not like that, they
do not like President Trump, that they would go to
these extremes in order to try it to try to
gain political advantage, and I think it is absolutely disgusting,
and I think they need to get back to actually
doing their work. And that's certainly certainly what I'll be
fighting for today when I head on back to DC.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
All Right, very good, Katie, Thank you so much for
taking time with us morning. I'm sorry for the short notice, but.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Thank you, all right. Thanks, happy to do it all right. Thanks,
Joining us now Senator Katie Britt to talk about this
government shutdown. Where we are. There's another vote coming today.
Will we make it by the end of the month
and by November first, have this government back up and
running to avoid more craziness happening with our government and
our money situation. It's starting to affect. As we mentioned before,
the ripple effect, it continues and so many people being affected.
(00:21):
Up front and center in the cross here is now
the SNAP program that supplies food and assistance for those
there are really in need. It's just not kids, and
it's you know, families, it's also veterans, disabled people, so
many people affected by this. Katie, thanks for being here.
So my first question is to you, how do we
move this SNAP program over into one of the government
(00:43):
essentials necessary to stay open and not affected by the
shutdown like some of the other entities that we have
in our government that's stay open.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, So it is this has nothing to do with
essential non essential. So when you think about essential non essential,
those are the people that are still having to come
to work. Those people that are coming to work to
kind of sort of keep everything operating as best as
possible are still not getting paid, So no one is
getting paid under a shutdown. Now, what has happened is
(01:13):
President Trump has tried to move money around, tried to
figure out how to pay our servicemen and women. And
as you know, there was an anonymous donor that donated
one hundred and thirty million to keep paying the military.
So that's how they've gotten paid is moving through different
funds that they had and they got their first paycheck.
(01:35):
They may now get their second paycheck. Is some questions
around that, but the rest of the people are actually
not getting paid. So let me give you a great example.
The Capitol policemen are essential to the capital operating. So
every day that we come in and the day that
the Democrats stayed up all night long, twenty two hours,
the capitol policeman had to be there. None of them
(01:56):
get a paycheck. So when that Capitol policeman goes home
and he has a car payment, and he has a
mortgage or a rent, or any outstanding obligations he has,
he has absolutely no paycheck to make them. Same thing
goes with Senate staff saying things go with the people
working at Veterans Affairs. No one is getting a paycheck.
So there is a difference here in that President Trump
(02:17):
tried to move some money around to pay our servicemen
and women. Now, keep in mind, the five hundred thousand
civilian workers in DD have not gotten a paycheck since
we since since I guess it was what September thirtieth,
the next pay period after that. So when Democrats chose
to not keep the government open, that's what happened. So
(02:38):
that's what we're dealing with on that front. And then
if you think about SNAP. So I had lunch with
Russ Vote on Wednesday at the White House when we
were there, and he said, Katie, we are going to
run out of money, like we have stretched every dollar
through you know first Snap, we will run out by
the end of the month. So this is this is
(02:59):
the Demo Kratz plan. You heard Catherine Clark, the Democratic
whip in the House say, suffering families are our leverage.
So they have chosen to not come to the table.
They've chosen to shut the government down. We've given them
twelve votes to keep it open under a Biden level,
(03:21):
just to figure out what we need to do next,
and they will not do it because they want the
upper hands. This is all about politics. And pride. It
is not about the people that we serve for the
Democrats and for us, this is about the American people.
This is about keeping these keeping all of these agencies open.
This is what we have been saying. We even had
(03:43):
a bill that we put down the other day to
try to shut down Fairness Actor, say let's pay all
of these people. Democrats blocked it. So this is absolutely asinine.
This is why I am so frustrated with my Democratic colleagues,
because they know better than this. They're real families that
are going to be suffering as a result of them
(04:03):
not continuing a Biden budget so that we can keep
doing our work. This is a political stunt for Chuck Schumer.
And until people start calling Chuck Schumer's office and saying
this is absurd and you need to open the government
back up, then I'm not sure what happens next.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
What do you say to Chuck Schumer, NACKEM Jeffries who
continue this mantra that it's the Republican's fault. They're the
ones that are doing this.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, well it is. That's absolutely what I've said to them.
I mean, and I am disgusted with the fact that
they are literally trying to play political games and on
the backs of hard working Americans and on the backs
of American citizens who need this assistance. And so it also,
you can't sit here and tell me you're concerned about
(04:50):
healthcare in January. January, which, by the way, President Trump
has said, I absolutely will talk about that. Get the
government open to these people get their snap benefits and
so that our capitol policemen get their pay and the
va is operating as it should, and we'll absolutely talk
about that. He has he has said that. But you
cannot tell me I'm worried about increase a twenty percent
(05:14):
increase in January. So therefore I'm going to not give
people those very people paychecks in October. It makes zero sense.
And that is the point they are. When Catherine Clark
said suffering families are our leverage, she meant it. And
when Chuck Schumer said it gets better for us every
single day, that's what needs to be replaying for the
(05:36):
American people over and over and over again. And look,
I am committed, I mean I have, I am committed
to continuing to fight on this. Have joined the efforts
to say we've got to do something about about about snap.
You know a bill that's been introduced to make sure
that there's uninterrupted service, because that's what it would take.
(05:57):
And we'll see if the Democrats walk that. Wow, kids,
they bought every single thing else. And this is disgusting.
This is not democracy. And just remember this is their bill,
their bill that we're asking to extend for seven weeks.
We did not put anything additional, and they're no Republican priorities.
They're doing this for politics. It's sick, and real people
(06:19):
are paying the price.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, they're using it as a political pawn and leverage.
And you said, you're in right there. You said it
that they're using this and they know exactly what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
And they said it. They said it. They said, suffering
families are our leverage. That came out of their number
two in the Democrat House. That is what she said,
and so take her words. She meant what she said,
and she said what she meant. And this is their intention.
They want these benefits to run out so that they
think they have more leverage because they this is they
(06:49):
are so deranged that they do not like that, they
do not like President Trump, that they would go to
these extremes in order to try it to try to
gain political advantage, and I think it is absolutely disgusting,
and I think they need to get back to actually
doing their work. And that's certainly certainly what I'll be
fighting for today when I head on back to DC.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
All Right, very good, Katie, Thank you so much for
taking time with us morning. I'm sorry for the short notice, but.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Thank you, all right. Thanks, happy to do it all right. Thanks,
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