Democrats and the Govt Shutdown

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
When the guy on the other side of the argument
says you're wrong, no argument. Progress is hard to track.
So it is in Washington, d C. Where the seven
trillion dollar annual federal government might as well hang a
sign on the door that reads gone fishing. But we
are still five Democrat or independent senators from turning the

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lights back on. You have fifty two Republican yes votes.
You have three Democrat yes votes. Cortes, Master of Nevada,
Federman of Pennsylvania, King of Maine. The country would need
only four Democrat votes, but Kentucky tightwad Republican Rand Paul,
though much like his father, tax hawk Ron Paul, Oh
those years in the House, wonders why allowed we can't

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slip by on, say, five point five trillion a year.
He's actually right, But even salmon, which spend all their
days swimming upstream, get tired eventually. Well, any more Dems crack.
Several could do it and face no political backlash, for
they are not running for re election. Peters of Michigan,
Smith of Minnesota, Shaheen of New Hampshire, Durban of Illinois,

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ass Off of Georgia is running for reelection next year,
and some are just in red states. Kelly and Geyago
of Arizona, Hassen of New Hampshire, Warnock of Georgia. You
mean we can't find five of that nine? What's the
hold up? Oh? They'll say it's about subsidies to help
low income Obamacare users pay their premiums. Just that. Nothing else, well,

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not quite nothing else. As of this morning, the Republican bill,
which is not great, simply continues what we've been spending
since Joe Biden was president, which at last check was
two trillion more per year than what we take in.
Throw that two trillion on the thirty six trillion in debt,
and pretty soon it gets to be real money. The

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Republican bill would keep the government open until Thanksgiving six weeks,
and then we get to do this all over again.
Oh goody. The Dems say this is partisan. Excuse me
if it's the same thing we did when your guy
was president, How is that a partisan? Republican bill? Here
is how If the Democrats got their version of the

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Continuing Resolution, it wouldn't materially change anything except one thing.
For now, it would immediately tack on billions in government
support for those who pay premiums to Obamacare twenty million
of us. They say, without the subsidies, premiums would spike
for these folks. I say, welcome to the club. Since

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our good friend Ben Nelson cast the deciding vote in
two thousand and nine to end debate and pass the
Obamacare bill, my private insurance premiums are up eighty five percent,
my deductibles have doubled, and the menu of services covered
has shrunk to the size of an index card. Maybe
it's time somebody else make the health insurance companies rich.

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If this was so important, why didn't Democrats pound the
table after the last cr was approved in March. They
had all summer to debate the subsidies, But now it's
life or death. Their bill would do a few other things.
It would freeze President Trump's plans to claw back all
of the very little spending cuts we got in the
Big Beautiful Bill after January first, PBS and NPR would

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get their five hundred million back. The billions in foreign
aid that went to provide vast ectomies in Indonesia, among
other things, come back. It would vaporize all of the
medicaid restrictions the Republicans put in the BBB, so instead
of asking able bodied people to get up and get
a job, be a part of this invites them back

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onto the sofa for a daily dose of Judge Judy.
What about healthcare for illegals? It's not actually in there,
But if you roll back the cuts made this summer,
it fully funds the agencies that were providing funds for
sanctuary city states and sanctuary states and cities that happily
do cover those expenses. But worst of all, if the

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GOP caves and the Dems get their way, which won't
happen because Trump wouldn't sign it, then when this CR
expires in November and the GOP Congress tries to get
it all back, they'll be seen as the bad guy.
In the meantime, Democrats, like a Senator Chuck Schumer will
wail about how we must protect the most vulnerable Americans

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or does he really mean protect the most vulnerable Democrats