November 26, 2025 • 9 mins
Congressman Mike Carey discusses what DC is working on including Healthcare
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One of the questions that we talked about it late yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Campy is and that's is mac and cheese, macaroni, good
old fashioned mac and cheese. Is that a legit Thanksgiving
dinner side?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I'm gonna go with no. I'm gonna go with no too.
It doesn't fit.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Might not be a popular opinion, I mean unless you're
sitting at the kids table, which arguably is a lot
more fun sometimes than sitting with the adults.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Oh yeah, more fun conversations about cartoons and toys.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Right yeah, and avoiding all the other conversations that are
likely to pop up at the adults table. But there
is a place for mac and cheese in my opinion,
as a side, and that's with like barbecue, that that
makes sense to me. But there are so many good
sides possible for Thanksgiving that you don't have.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I mean, how often do you have stuffing? Like once
a year, that's that's pretty much, right, I mean, unless you're.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Gonna whip up like a stovetop or something like that,
you know, some other time of the year. But you
really only have I really only have stuffing this time
of year, So I don't want to have I mean,
you can have mac and cheese anytime, anytime.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
No, like now that you've talked about it, I was
thinking about having something for lunch. No, I'm with you.
It's definitely when I hear I think barbecue and some
mac and cheese is a side.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, things like that.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
But it just doesn't fit from a holiday. I would
argue it doesn't belong at Christmas time either. That's a
that's one where it takes at that mac and cheese
take a break.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, and again unless you're seven years old. I mean,
it's kind of like ketchup on a hot dog. Yes,
unless you're you know, a six year old, there's no
there's no place for that.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It's it's mustard only.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
No, I think there should be a law should be
passed about ketchup on.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Hank getting off topic on that one, but you know,
I do want to check that the opinion on a
side with Ron Wilson. Ron's going to join us and
we'll talk food, We'll talking we'll talk on a little
Christmas tree and you know, gardening stuff with Ron. But
he's at eight thirty five, I know he's got strong
opinions about food. And we'll see where he comes in
on mac and cheese as a Thanksgiving side okay on
(01:59):
the legacyygroup dot com phone line. I love checking in
a couple of times a month with Congressman Mike Carry,
Ohio's fifteenth district and Congressman I assume you're home and
ready for a great Thanksgiving with the Carry family.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
This week we are in Columbus. I the mac and
cheese conversation. I can tell that your kids are older
than six years old. I don't think there is I
don't care whether it's Thanksgiving, it's you know, Easter, or
it's Christmas. There is going to be somewhere, someplace in
the Carry household something has mac and cheese on the table.
(02:35):
One of the tables. We'll have bac and cheese over.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And I think that's fair. You've got younger kids, you know,
the kid's table, and you got to your grandkids and grandkids,
and the kids want to you know, they want to
eat what they want to eat, and you don't want to,
you know, necessarily haggle with them about eating Thanksgiving dinner.
See I eat them something, you know they're going to
go down. So yeah, But for adults, I'm gonna I'm
gonna have to pass on the mac and cheese.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Congressman, I can understand. I can understand.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
So let's get it a little little bit of red
meat and we'll talk about what your plans are this week,
and you know, maybe some black eye football a little bit.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
The the buzzword in the last I don't know two
weeks has been affordability. Affordability, whether it's you know, healthcare, housing.
Let's talk about housing. You've you've hooked up with your counterpoint,
Joyce Batty to reintroduce some bipartisan legislature.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Talk about that for a second.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Well, this is the Housing Financial Literacy Act, And this
is something that you know, Joyce and I decided to
do together. This is a bill that would give certain
first time home buyers a discount of twenty five twenty
five basis points on the Federal Housing Administration fa f
HA mortgage insurance premium. Great, it's a great bill. Again,
(03:47):
this is, you know, and the reason we got involved
with this obviously Joyce and I splitting the city of
Columbus and half we share. You know, in some instances,
you know, I'm sitting in my office in downtown and
I look at one at one of the windows at
choice Baty's district. I'm looking at the other and I'm
looking at the capital that's you know, that's our district.
You know, So our district really shares a lot of
(04:09):
the same boundary, and so it was great to partner
with her. Obviously, in the past, I've partnered with Jimmy
Panetta on some workforce housing Gomez in terms of Main
Street initiative, trying to turn some of our buildings into
affordable housing. We were able in the Reconciliation package, which
I think was tremendous for the first time, was to
(04:31):
make ly tech you know, low income housing permanent. We
were able to expand on our opportunity zones that allows
for folks to come in and put into put in
more low cost workforce housing into certain areas. And I
toured many of those areas on the west side of
our city, mainly a lot of them in the Hilltop area.
(04:53):
So listen, all the things that are focused on healthcare
very important, you know. And I think the other thing
that we've got how to focus on is once we
pass the Reconciliation bill, a lot of these policies will
go into effect next year, and many of these policies
will be the It will essentially be the biggest middle
(05:13):
class tax cut in American history. So people will start
seeing that from their returns next year so many In
many cases it probably the most money families will get
back in over a decade. But you're right, the cost
of living is the primary issue right now, which is
why we have been so focused on getting the money
(05:33):
back to all the working families for their wallets by
boosting wages, lowering taxes. You know many of the places
I've got I heard you talking about people having a
half day. I don't have that. Today. We're going to
be traveling around talking to businesses, looking at some of
the businesses. Some of the opportunities that they have is
with expansion. But we've got to do what we've got
(05:57):
to do, and I think in the Senate and House,
and we'll focus on We are focusing on it now
and we will continue to focus on once we get
back over this Thanksgiving break.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
You me a minute or two on healthcare.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
The Obamacare subsidies expected to expire the first of the year,
and those numbers are expected to spike up the well involvement.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I think what you got to focus on is what
what is set to expire at the end of the year.
Were the augmented COVID correct and so not the Obamacare
Obamacare was you know that that is set that that
was going to continue. It's the expanded Care under Biden
that when the Democrats were in control, had put the
(06:39):
stop date at the end of this year. So that
is what Senator Thune has agreed with the Senate Democratic
leadership that he would bring up for a vote. I
know that there are several other bills that are being
looked at. One was introduced in the in the House
just on Friday with with Don and who's a Republican
(07:03):
out of Nebraska, Gottheimer, who's a Democrat out of out
of New Jersey. And this essentially would give a two
year extension on those Biden era COVID ex extensions. Now
there are a lot of there are a lot of
pieces and parts of that bill that my team is
(07:23):
going over as we speak. So this would be essentially
a simple extension for two years on that. We'll see
what happens in the House, but I know that the
Senate has has agreed to do that as part of
getting this reconciliation package and keeping the government open, which
is what we've been which we were focused on for
(07:44):
all those many days. So I think those are the
things that are going to happen. But I think where
we've got to make sure that we understand is that
it is the Biden era COVID expansion that was set
to expire by the Democrats at the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Right, it was artificially reduced due to COT. So yeah,
they would just return to normal pricing levels, is what
it is. And the enrollment deadline, Congressman, is the fifteenth
of December. So I mean, if there is a plan
put forth, would you would you vote to extend those
for two years?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Well, I you know, I you know, the gentlemen that
have introduced this bill. There are a couple of Ways
and Means members that are on the bill, Democrat members.
One Democrat member, Tom Swazi who's out of New York.
And Tom SIT's just a few seats down for me
next to Jimmy Panetta on the Ways and Means Committee.
And Tom's not going to introduce a bill, you know,
(08:38):
he's not one of these members. And he's a Democrat,
but he's not one of these members that is, as
you and I've talked before. He's not one that just
shouts at the rain all day. He's somebody that's really
looked at a lot of things. And and Don Bacon,
my Republican Colliague out of Nebraska, he's the same way.
So yeah, so this bill just dropped on Friday. It's
(09:00):
more than just a simple extension again, it's a bipartisan
bille it's called the Hope Act. And then you had
the President, you know, just just a few days ago
talking about doing some type of extension and then I
read late yesterday that he's still working on that. So
we've got a lot of work to do, I think
here within the next week. And you know, I know
my team is busy working on it over the weekend.
(09:22):
I know I'll be working over the weekend just to
see what are the pieces and parts that they've introduced
in this bill.
One of the questions that we talked about it late yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Campy is and that's is mac and cheese, macaroni, good
old fashioned mac and cheese. Is that a legit Thanksgiving
dinner side?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I'm gonna go with no. I'm gonna go with no too.
It doesn't fit.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Might not be a popular opinion, I mean unless you're
sitting at the kids table, which arguably is a lot
more fun sometimes than sitting with the adults.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Oh yeah, more fun conversations about cartoons and toys.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Right yeah, and avoiding all the other conversations that are
likely to pop up at the adults table. But there
is a place for mac and cheese in my opinion,
as a side, and that's with like barbecue, that that
makes sense to me. But there are so many good
sides possible for Thanksgiving that you don't have.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I mean, how often do you have stuffing? Like once
a year, that's that's pretty much, right, I mean, unless you're.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Gonna whip up like a stovetop or something like that,
you know, some other time of the year. But you
really only have I really only have stuffing this time
of year, So I don't want to have I mean,
you can have mac and cheese anytime, anytime.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
No, like now that you've talked about it, I was
thinking about having something for lunch. No, I'm with you.
It's definitely when I hear I think barbecue and some
mac and cheese is a side.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, things like that.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
But it just doesn't fit from a holiday. I would
argue it doesn't belong at Christmas time either. That's a
that's one where it takes at that mac and cheese
take a break.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, and again unless you're seven years old. I mean,
it's kind of like ketchup on a hot dog. Yes,
unless you're you know, a six year old, there's no
there's no place for that.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
It's it's mustard only.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
No, I think there should be a law should be
passed about ketchup on.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Hank getting off topic on that one, but you know,
I do want to check that the opinion on a
side with Ron Wilson. Ron's going to join us and
we'll talk food, We'll talking we'll talk on a little
Christmas tree and you know, gardening stuff with Ron. But
he's at eight thirty five, I know he's got strong
opinions about food. And we'll see where he comes in
on mac and cheese as a Thanksgiving side okay on
(01:59):
the legacyygroup dot com phone line. I love checking in
a couple of times a month with Congressman Mike Carry,
Ohio's fifteenth district and Congressman I assume you're home and
ready for a great Thanksgiving with the Carry family.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
This week we are in Columbus. I the mac and
cheese conversation. I can tell that your kids are older
than six years old. I don't think there is I
don't care whether it's Thanksgiving, it's you know, Easter, or
it's Christmas. There is going to be somewhere, someplace in
the Carry household something has mac and cheese on the table.
(02:35):
One of the tables. We'll have bac and cheese over.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And I think that's fair. You've got younger kids, you know,
the kid's table, and you got to your grandkids and grandkids,
and the kids want to you know, they want to
eat what they want to eat, and you don't want to,
you know, necessarily haggle with them about eating Thanksgiving dinner.
See I eat them something, you know they're going to
go down. So yeah, But for adults, I'm gonna I'm
gonna have to pass on the mac and cheese.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Congressman, I can understand. I can understand.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
So let's get it a little little bit of red
meat and we'll talk about what your plans are this week,
and you know, maybe some black eye football a little bit.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
The the buzzword in the last I don't know two
weeks has been affordability. Affordability, whether it's you know, healthcare, housing.
Let's talk about housing. You've you've hooked up with your counterpoint,
Joyce Batty to reintroduce some bipartisan legislature.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Talk about that for a second.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Well, this is the Housing Financial Literacy Act, And this
is something that you know, Joyce and I decided to
do together. This is a bill that would give certain
first time home buyers a discount of twenty five twenty
five basis points on the Federal Housing Administration fa f
HA mortgage insurance premium. Great, it's a great bill. Again,
(03:47):
this is, you know, and the reason we got involved
with this obviously Joyce and I splitting the city of
Columbus and half we share. You know, in some instances,
you know, I'm sitting in my office in downtown and
I look at one at one of the windows at
choice Baty's district. I'm looking at the other and I'm
looking at the capital that's you know, that's our district.
You know, So our district really shares a lot of
(04:09):
the same boundary, and so it was great to partner
with her. Obviously, in the past, I've partnered with Jimmy
Panetta on some workforce housing Gomez in terms of Main
Street initiative, trying to turn some of our buildings into
affordable housing. We were able in the Reconciliation package, which
I think was tremendous for the first time, was to
(04:31):
make ly tech you know, low income housing permanent. We
were able to expand on our opportunity zones that allows
for folks to come in and put into put in
more low cost workforce housing into certain areas. And I
toured many of those areas on the west side of
our city, mainly a lot of them in the Hilltop area.
(04:53):
So listen, all the things that are focused on healthcare
very important, you know. And I think the other thing
that we've got how to focus on is once we
pass the Reconciliation bill, a lot of these policies will
go into effect next year, and many of these policies
will be the It will essentially be the biggest middle
(05:13):
class tax cut in American history. So people will start
seeing that from their returns next year so many In
many cases it probably the most money families will get
back in over a decade. But you're right, the cost
of living is the primary issue right now, which is
why we have been so focused on getting the money
(05:33):
back to all the working families for their wallets by
boosting wages, lowering taxes. You know many of the places
I've got I heard you talking about people having a
half day. I don't have that. Today. We're going to
be traveling around talking to businesses, looking at some of
the businesses. Some of the opportunities that they have is
with expansion. But we've got to do what we've got
(05:57):
to do, and I think in the Senate and House,
and we'll focus on We are focusing on it now
and we will continue to focus on once we get
back over this Thanksgiving break.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
You me a minute or two on healthcare.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
The Obamacare subsidies expected to expire the first of the year,
and those numbers are expected to spike up the well involvement.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I think what you got to focus on is what
what is set to expire at the end of the year.
Were the augmented COVID correct and so not the Obamacare
Obamacare was you know that that is set that that
was going to continue. It's the expanded Care under Biden
that when the Democrats were in control, had put the
(06:39):
stop date at the end of this year. So that
is what Senator Thune has agreed with the Senate Democratic
leadership that he would bring up for a vote. I
know that there are several other bills that are being
looked at. One was introduced in the in the House
just on Friday with with Don and who's a Republican
(07:03):
out of Nebraska, Gottheimer, who's a Democrat out of out
of New Jersey. And this essentially would give a two
year extension on those Biden era COVID ex extensions. Now
there are a lot of there are a lot of
pieces and parts of that bill that my team is
(07:23):
going over as we speak. So this would be essentially
a simple extension for two years on that. We'll see
what happens in the House, but I know that the
Senate has has agreed to do that as part of
getting this reconciliation package and keeping the government open, which
is what we've been which we were focused on for
(07:44):
all those many days. So I think those are the
things that are going to happen. But I think where
we've got to make sure that we understand is that
it is the Biden era COVID expansion that was set
to expire by the Democrats at the end of the year.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Right, it was artificially reduced due to COT. So yeah,
they would just return to normal pricing levels, is what
it is. And the enrollment deadline, Congressman, is the fifteenth
of December. So I mean, if there is a plan
put forth, would you would you vote to extend those
for two years?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Well, I you know, I you know, the gentlemen that
have introduced this bill. There are a couple of Ways
and Means members that are on the bill, Democrat members.
One Democrat member, Tom Swazi who's out of New York.
And Tom SIT's just a few seats down for me
next to Jimmy Panetta on the Ways and Means Committee.
And Tom's not going to introduce a bill, you know,
(08:38):
he's not one of these members. And he's a Democrat,
but he's not one of these members that is, as
you and I've talked before. He's not one that just
shouts at the rain all day. He's somebody that's really
looked at a lot of things. And and Don Bacon,
my Republican Colliague out of Nebraska, he's the same way.
So yeah, so this bill just dropped on Friday. It's
(09:00):
more than just a simple extension again, it's a bipartisan
bille it's called the Hope Act. And then you had
the President, you know, just just a few days ago
talking about doing some type of extension and then I
read late yesterday that he's still working on that. So
we've got a lot of work to do, I think
here within the next week. And you know, I know
my team is busy working on it over the weekend.
(09:22):
I know I'll be working over the weekend just to
see what are the pieces and parts that they've introduced
in this bill.
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