The shutdown is over...but for how long?

Political Strategist Anthony Russo explains that was worthless shutdown but it only goes until January 30th. There is still some hurdles ahead of us

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you want to talk about the government shutdown coming
to an end? The Senate passes a bipartisan funding bill
setting the stage for the government to reopen, goes to
the House for a vote tomorrow. Let's get more from
our buddy Anthony Russo on the Legacy Retirement Group dot
com phone line. Anthony hosts the Truth Will Set You
Free podcast, and I do want to talk a little
college football in a minute with Anthony. How are you

(00:21):
this morning, brother?

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Doing fantastic? How are you guys doing so?

Speaker 1 (00:25):
We're doing great, man. Thanks for jumping on. I know
it's early, and I appreciate your time. You're a busy guy.
Government shutdown is ending. The pointless, Absolutely nothing was accomplished
with this, Anthony. I don't understand why Democrats couldn't just
have done this about forty days ago.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, I mean, there's multiple reasons I think that they
stopped it. But at the same time, it became one
gigantic election bargaining ship, not only for this last election
couple of days ago, last week, but also I think
for the future, everybody's going to be able to find
their narrative and they're going to spend it. They're going
to blame it on both sides. I think there's a
little bit of blame on the Republicans because they weren't

(01:03):
willing to change one or two things, which in the end,
I don't think it mattered to the Democrats. They literally
would have just said we need one more, we need
one more, we need one more, until now that the
election's over, now they're going to start to deal. It's
just an unfortunate situation across the board and the media.
I want you look at articles right now they're still
calling it. I mean, if you look at Fox, it's

(01:25):
the Democrat shut down. If you have common sense, you
could see that it's a Democrat shutdown because they weren't
budging on anything, right, And then they're still blaming it
on Mike Johnson. If you look at any of the
leftist rags, and it's like, how is it that anybody
found it okay that the Democrats refused to show up
to work for forty days just out of protest and

(01:45):
consider it a campaign item for them.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, I mean they have been saying this for forty days.
They wanted to use a short term spending bill to
push long term policy change, and that's just not how
the government works, and again Chuck Schumer getting grief into
some heat from his own party as well. He should.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, you've got people in his own party now that
he is willing to make one or two adjustments and
saying this is this is what we get. We're getting
the extension, but we're not gonna be able to talk
about the ACA. We're not able to talk about the
healthcare bill. The Republicans, that's been their only hard line
right now is that we're gonna have to wait to
talk about that until we get this temporary stop gap

(02:24):
potentially done. And because he was willing to reopen the
government and try to force his party to let this
go until January thirtieth, get this bill, get this bill
moved again. This is not a permanent solution. For people
that don't understand, this is just a temporary that gets
us through January thirtieth, people are trying to pull him
from his position. They're saying Schumer should no longer be there. Again.

(02:45):
I have other reasons why I don't like Schumer, but
fact is he's trying to open the government and still
the left is saying, nope, shut it down. We need
to get all we need to get everything that we
want before we move forward. And right now you've got
people that are having issues getting food, You've got people
that can't get hate to go to work for now months.
It's insanity that anybody can't say, all right, we have
to figure something out at least short.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Term, Anthony Russo The Truth will Set You Free podcast.
And you alluded to this a second ago, Anthony. You know,
I said there was nothing came of this, There was
no real reason. It was a pointless shutdown. What did
come of it was they did win some key election
races last Tuesday, governor's races in New Jersey and Virginia,
of course, the New York City mayor, California's Prop fifty.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
So this.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Probably helped a little bit. They could paint the narrative
that the you know, Republicans bad, Orange Man bad and
all of that, and they could propel that momentum into
these wins. And now that they got them, they're sort
of empty. They've got no bargaining ship. So that's why
it's over.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Absolutely. But you even look at somebody and I'm going
to slightly change the subject, but you're right, it was
a bargain. The bargaining ship issue. It looks like it worked,
it looks like it paid off, looks like their narrative
did what it needed to do in order for that
for that election. But you look at somebody like Im'm Donnie,
and then you look at the No King's protest, and

(04:07):
somebody like Im'm Donnie winning in New York is evidence
that the No King's protest, I know it sounds funny,
is completely irrelevant because if we had a king, somebody
that completely opposes the every bit of the fiber of
this country and the way that the country was founded
from an economic, social perspective, everything, and he also goes

(04:27):
hard against Donald Trump. If Donald Trump was a king,
this quote unquote king, there's no way that there would
be an ability for somebody like in New York City,
in all of their idiocy, to elect somebody like Im'm Donnie.
So that to me was such evidence that we don't
have a king. It's like, okay, that completely made your
your parades no one void,