October 3, 2025 • 40 mins
Todd breaks down why the federal government is shut down and who’s really holding up a deal. He explains the GOP’s “clean CR” offer, Democrats’ push to restore emergency Medicaid reimbursements, and how the media frames the blame game. We also look at what a reduction in force could mean if the shutdown drags on, and why this moment could reshape the size and scope of government. Plus, an announcement: Eric Trump joins the show next Wednesday, and Todd invites your questions. Finally, quick hits on conservative campus momentum and why messaging matters as much as policy. Conservative, not bitter—tune in and share with a friend.
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But it's good to be here with you today, my friends,
on this Friday, and I want to talk about a
couple things today. I want to talk about the state
of the government shutdown. I want to talk about that,
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and I want to talk time permitting. Time permitting, I'd
like to get into some I guess some growth. Some
good news for the organization of Turning Point USA. They've
got a lot of momentum and traction, as as more
high schools are inviting them or starting I should say,
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chapters onto their high school campuses. And we'll get to that,
my friends, time permitting, also have an announcement to make.
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an update here regarding the federal government shutdown that began
at midnight technically on October first, on October first, which
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was Wednesday morning. That's because Congress refused to pass a
continuing revolution. They are resolution resolution, I should say. There
is a revolution happening here, a revolution hopefully back toward
conservative principles and values in the Constitution. But a resolution
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is what was passed by Congress, or refused to be
passed by Congress, I should say. And the Senate has
been voting on competing proposals from both sides since then.
Neither of these are expected to pass anytime soon. In fact,
both parties have signaled pessimism about ending the shutdown even
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this weekend. So again, I don't know how long this
is going to last. I do know. I do know
that it is that there is a lot of disagreements,
of course, and I do know the solution to this
is easy because Republicans had introduced a clean continuing resolution,
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a clean CR that would have kept the government open
and simply extended the time to have the negotiations. So
to me, the important takeaway here, the important takeaway is
that we understand that Republicans said, we can keep everything
the same and just simply extend the time that we're
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going to have set aside to negotiate a longer term agreement.
They offered to have a resolution, a continuing resolution that
was going to fund the government through November twenty first,
which is what six seven weeks whatever from now. Democrats
rejected that. They rejected that, so that's why it's shut down.
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So listen, I think one of the things for those
of you, and I know we've got some seasoned political observers,
people who have followed this stuff for a long time.
I followed it for a long time as well, for
closely for over twenty five years, and I would say
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even beyond that, I've always had an interest in that
this sort of thing when I was from the time
I was a teenager, so over thirty years at least,
following what's been happening, you know, in our nation's news
and political fights and all that sort of stuff. What's
maddening to me, and what's maddening to those of you
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who follow this is that this is so easy to read.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
This is.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
A very easy problem to understand as far as as
the source of the problem. Now listen, I want to
be clear here. I'm typically on the side politically of Republicans,
but I and I consider myself, I guess technically a Republican.
But there's a lot of things about the Republican Party,
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or maybe I should say about individual Republicans who are
running for office and who hold office that I don't
like as well. I'm not coming on this program every
day to be a mouthpiece for the Republican Party. I
think that there are problems with Republicans as well. I
think those problems typically manifest themselves in an individual's strategy
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or style or issue by issue, how individual Republicans think
about things, or talk about things or whatever. It's less
about the philosophy of the Republican Party and more about
how it's implemented on a case by case basis, or
how leadership manages things. That sort of stuff. But they're
politicians still, right, and politicians do politician things both sides
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of the aisle. So I'm not here to be a
defender of the Republican Party. In fact, if you listen
to this program, for any length of time. When I
talk about this state of Indiana, there's there's a lot
of things I don't like about the Republicans in this state.
In fact, i'm I do like Senator excuse me now,
Governor Mike Braun. You know that Micah beckw with the
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Lieutenant governor. He's a friend of this program. He's been
a guest host in the past. I've known Micah for
a while. But when you look at some of the
other Republicans who have been holding prominent positions within the state.
This the state of Indiana, That's where I live and reside.
That's why I'm mentioning this. But Governor Eric Holcomb when
he sat in office was far from a conservative. Senator
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Todd Young, who occupies one of our two US Senate seats,
as far from a conservative. And I could go through this.
There are problems that have been i could say, created
by or made worse by Republicans in this state. Now
nothing to the degree that you find leftists and Democrats
utterly destroying their states and cities around the country and
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this country from the inside as well with their ridiculous
ideas and so forth. But I'm not here to defend Republicans.
I'm on the Republicans side here because it makes sense
to be on the Republicans' side. The Republicans offered a
good faith extension to the Democrats, and the Democrats chose
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not to go along with this and to let the
government shut down. That's what was agreed upon. That was
the That's why we're at this particular point is because
that was offered and the Democrats would not basically accept it.
And so it's maddening to watch all of this other
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stuff because you know, the finger pointing begins and all
of that, and you could fingerpoint about ideas, you can
talk about who he thinks right and wrong about these
bigger policy ideas. But all the continuing resolution, the clean
cr offered by Republicans prior to the shutdown, all it
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would have done would keep things exactly the same through
November twenty first, and we could use that time between
now or between the time of the shutdown and November
twenty first to hammer out the details. Of course, no
matter when we set the deadline, there's going to be
last minute, what you must say, panic last minute, the
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sky is falling sort of stuff. And this is done
for one major reason, and that is to get a
political victory. The left has no political victories. In fact,
if you're a Democrat today, and I always have an
olive branch out to the reasonable Democrats. Yes there are
still reasonable Democrats. There are not reasonable leftists out there,
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radical leftists. They got to get back to the point
of just being liberal again, not woke, not in a
purely anti God, anti truth state of mind. But there
are reasonable Democrats out there. And I have an olive
branch to you on this program each and every day.
I'm conservative, not bitter. I was raised in a Union
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Democrat home. My dad I worked in the union, and
is a I would say, a conservative Democrat. That's how
I would frame it. In fact, I would say, my
dad's a conservative in every in most practical ways, but
he's a Democrat, or he was, I don't know anymore,
to be honest, but he was because of issues pertaining
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to labor. And I would say the fear that unions
or you know, blue collar workers. I don't like to
segment groups like this, but blue collar workers have against
business or you know, big business or management as they
would say, and that's where a lot of these problems begin.
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Is with that, with that fear, there's a lot of
reasonable Democrats out there. There's less today than there were
when when I was a kid, but nonetheless they're out there,
and I think any reasonable person can see a very
very very fair approach to managing whatever negotiations have to
be done would be to simply extend the timeline. And
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Democrats rejected that. Now why did they reject that? So
they think that they've got a political or they're looking
for a political victory here. They're looking to cast political
blame on the Republicans. They're looking to again fuel the
narrative that says, look, when Trump's in office, there's all
of this discord and upheaval, even though again they are
the ones to blame for not cooperating with Republicans here
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to keep things open. Nonetheless, why did they what else?
What else did they site? I guess as a reason
if you look at their proposals and so forth, for
not going along with what Republicans had offered them simply
to keep things status quo until November twenty First, well,
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they have been insisting that funds funds to pay for
some some of the healthcare costs of illegal aliens, be
included in this fund. This is in this funding. This
is one not debatable. Democrats are seeking to restore Medicare
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and ACA cuts, that's Affordable Care Act cuts, and these
cuts were made in the one big beautiful bill that
was passed earlier this year, and they want to restore
funds to what's called let me make it sure, I
get this right, em ta LA. They want to include
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emergency Medicare Medicaid reimbursements to cover treatment for illegal immigrants.
Hear me say that, to cover treatments for people who
are not here legally under what's called the Emergent Emergency
Medical Treatment and Labor Act of nineteen eighty six. That
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is a federal law that requires hospitals with emergency rooms
to treat all patients in emergencies, regardless of their ability
to pay or regardless of their immigration status. Hospitals must
stabilize the patients. Then they can seek reimbursements of these funds.
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And so this does a couple things. Number One, by
fighting for these funds, and once you understand what these
funds are for, we realize that everything that the Republicans
and Trump told us about the Medicaid cuts and the
one big, beautiful bill are accurate. The cuts to Medicaid
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are for people who are receiving federal funds who aren't
even supposed to be here in this country legally. They're
not supposed to be here, they're here illegally, and so
there was a big fight about this. In fact, you'll
hear this. In fact, as I was preparing for this
program and putting together some reason and so forth, I
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was seeing a phrase that says Democrats are not you know,
it's illegal for people who are here illegally to get
access to Medicaid and Medicare and all this sort of stuff.
But if you dig a little bit deeper, you find out,
in fact, it's not even deep that you have to dig.
It's just beyond the first the first layer of understanding
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what medicaid is. There's these emergency funds. And again there's
two things going on here that I want to talk about.
Number One, the Medicaid funds were going to pay for
health care for people who were not supposed to be
in this country legally. They're illegal aliens. Medicaid funds are
being used, and they're wanting to allocate more of them
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for this. Now you can say listen, I'm not here
to say that some of this stuff isn't understandable. I mean,
the idea here is, you know, we have a healthcare
system that you know that doctors and people in healthcare
are there to provide services. If someone's in dire need,
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then they are going to provide services. And I would
say that that's a good thing. You know, first cause
no harm, the hippocratic oath, these sorts of things come
to mind as I talk about this. Of course, these
things fly in the face of when you talk about
issues like abortion that's the direct cause of harm to
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the unborn child, or when you talk about transgender surgeries
and operations, especially for minors. Uh, the whole first call
of cause no harm sort of thing goes out the window.
But the idea, when it's when it's fairly followed, is
a good thing to have healthcare professionals that say, if
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someone's in dire need, we're not going to turn them away.
Maybe if it's an elective process, if it's a non
emergency situation, hey, you've got to be able to prove
that you can pay for this and that sort of thing.
But if someone is in a very critical situation, We're
going to treat them until they get until they get stabilized. Right,
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We're not going to let them face that emergency alone
and die on the streets like Jimmy Kimmel. By the way,
Jimmy Kimmel, the hero of the left, wanted people who
were not vaccinated, who had heart attacks back during COVID
to basically not be allowed a room, if you remember
that from the very virtuous Jimmy Kimmel. But nonetheless, this
is not a bad thing. But someone has to pay
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for this, right, someone has to pay for this. And
you can't begin to say, well, you know, if you're
a certain person or a certain immigration status, we're suddenly
going to let you suffer suffer without having sort of treatment.
That goes against the idea how we suppose this is
an emergency sort of situation, how we supposed to go
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through all that. We should just be focused on taking
care of the person who is in need. Democrats want
more money for that. So again you start to think
about this. First of all, you're not supposed to be here,
if you're an illegal alien. You're here because the previous administration,
and candidly other folks, other administrations over the past fifty
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years have not really done anything. Forty years anyway, have
not done anything to try to stop the flow of
illegal aliens across the southern border. By the way, I
talked about the terrorist cells, the sleeper cells. It's amazing
to the number of people, especially on TikTok, who think
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that that's just made up information. But you know, you
have people coming across the border just in general, who
aren't supposed to be here, and you have people who
are known terrorists as well coming across the border that
are intending to inflict great harm on this country. But
make no mistake back to the issue here, Democrats are
stopping negotiations because they want more funds to pay for
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healthcare services of illegal aliens who are in this country.
There is no debate on this. That's what they that's
what they want. By the way, the CBO, the Congressional
Budget Office, said that since twenty twenty one, Americans have
paid sixteen point two billion dollars on healthcare Medicaid, in
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particular spending on illegal immigrants. I thought Medicaid didn't go
See this is a lie. This is a live from
the left. This is why this is precisely what Trump
and his administration, we're trying to limit Let's get the
people out of here who aren't supposed to be here,
and let's cut the federal dollars that were spending on
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these folks in areas like this. This is exactly what
the Trump administration said, and it's the exactly the opposite
of what the Democrats in the media tried to tell you.
So that's the first thing to note here. The other
thing to note here is that remember this idea. When
the left talks about health care, they talk about that
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healthcare is denied people. See, this is not true either.
Healthcare has not denied people in these situations. Again, if
it's elective, if it's something that's non emergency, it's a
different situation. But if there's immediate health care needed, it
is provided. The question about healthcare is always who pays
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for it, who pays, not whether or not it's provided
in these situations, because it is again something else that
they've told us for a long time. People are denied
health care. This is an example of when people are required.
Hospitals are required to treat people in emergencies, all patients,
regardless of their ability to pay, regardless of their immigration status,
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and we're told that they're denied basic health care and
they are not Democrats bill. The bills that they have
proposed do not create new benefits, but they want to
restore the funding that has been cut that pays for
the Medicaid, the funding that pays for this sort of
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So I met about a minute shy of the break here,
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and I think what I'm gonna do. I think what
I'm gonna do as I'm looking here really quickly, I'm
just gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell you this is
an easter egg. I wasn't playing on popping in here,
but we're gonna do that on Wednesday of next week,
October eighth, where gonna have the good pleasure here of
speaking with the son of the President of the United States,
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Eric Trump, and he'll be joining our program on Wednesday
during the second segment, which will be about this time
on Wednesday in the program. So I wanted to share
that with you. I'm excited. If you have questions that
you would like me to ask Eric Trump, I invite you.
You can email me Todd at Toddhoffshow dot com. You
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my friends. Sit tight. You're listening to conservative not better talk.
I'm your host, Todd Huff back in just a minute.
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Welcome back my friends again. If you missed the announcement
last segment. At the end of the segment, we're having
Eric Trump join this program on Wednesday, October eighth, this
coming Wednesday, and I welcome your thoughts on what we
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There's a couple of things I didn't get to last
segment that I want to make sure that I get to.
I would say the best argument that Republicans have, that
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both parties have that they're trying to make. I guess
I should say the best way to present both of
them fairly best I can. Republicans are saying Democrats are
trying to use taxpayer dollars to pay for illegal immigrants
health care, and of course we have a record debt,
we have problems with in our country that we're not
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able to address and fix because of some of these expenses.
The cost of illegal immigration has been massive, despite what
the left and the media ten tell you. And this
is just another another way of metaphorically nickeling and diming
the American people. And if you give even the slightest
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bit of tax dollars to something like this, it kind
of opens the door for this to be further abused
in the future, and of course they've deny that this
was even happening up until this point. Democrats will say,
wait a minute, you're misrepresenting what we want. We're not
expanding medicaid to all illegal immigrants or restoring cuts that
keep hospitals solvent because they have to pay for they
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have to provide services. I should say for these individuals
by law, which I referenced in nineteen eighty six law,
and without reimbursements, these hospitals could collapse, and then that
could lead all citizens in those small communities in particular,
to lose access to healthcare. Emergency medicaid is moral and practical.
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That's what I think the left would say. I think fairly.
I think that this is again. I think we've learned
some of the core things here that we referred to
or I guess reference last segment. Now, I want to
one other thing I wanted to let me, Oh yeah,
one other thing I want to get to. So the
lefty this is a straw man. This is a straw
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man because Republicans say Democrats want to fund use medicaid
for illegal alien health care. Now, I don't mind the
left responding and saying we're not asking for an expansion
of Medicaid to cover healthcare all health care for illegal aliens.
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It's a specific type of health care which we've covered.
I don't mind that that's a fair response, but it's
a straw man to say that that's what Republicans I
should say, to make the claim that Republicans are saying
Democrats are trying to create a new program. Here, they're
not trying to create a new one, although they've also
told us that they would be happy to create a
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new one. In fact, you may have seen the clip.
I don't have the clip queued up. I just want
to read you a quote from a twenty nineteen Democratic
candidate presidential debate. I don't know how many candidates were
on stage at the time, probably around eight. I've seen
the video. This was the campaign. This was prior to
the Democratic Party power brokers making the call that Joe
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Biden needed to be the candidate and that other folks
needed to drop out and throw their support behind him
because they were not going to support a candidate Bernie Sanders.
And so the moderator of the debate asked a question,
raise your hand if your government plan talking about healthcare
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would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants. There were ten, it
says it here. I thought there were about eight. There
were ten. All ten candidates raised their hands. Again. I
don't have a picture, but that would have been people
like Joe's Robin at Bribery. That would have been Kamala Harris,
that would have been Pete boot At Jedge. That would
have been Amy klobaschar That would have been who else
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am I forgetting here? Oh, Pocahontas herself. And I can
say that, by the way, if you're a new listener
to this program, I am a documented descendant, thirteenth great
grandson of Pocahontas, no joke. I love this. I love
that this is the case because I can say this.
I am the unofficial yet self appointed spokesperson for the family,
and I can tell you we have no problems calling
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Elizabeth Warm Elizabeth Warm Pocahontas because it illustrates that she
wants to try to somehow get an advantage from superficialities
from claiming to be Native American, and we think it
works just fine. It's actually much more offensive for someone
to claim to be something they're not than it is
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to mock them a little bit, tease them a little
bit for claiming something as outrageous as she had. By
the way, even as a descendant, I'm a distant descendant thirteenth,
I was it thirteenth great grandchild. I think of Pocahontas
and John Roff, by the way, which would make me
the fourteenth great grandchild of Powhattan, which is just really
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cool stuff. I love genealogies. By the way, anyway, I've
never once told someone I'm Native American because of that.
In fact, we have closer relatives who are Native American,
and that's just not how we have people. Normal people
don't think about things like that and try to position
things like that. I pointed out to say, this is
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absurd how she's going about trying to get an advantage
because of some sort of identity politics. But nonetheless, my friends,
it is still pretty interesting and cool and I have
some fun with it. But that's who was on the stage,
and there's others. I forget who else was up there,
but all their candidates all ten It wasn't half, It
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wasn't you know, three quarters, it wasn't ninety percent. There
was not a single holdout every single one of them
raised their hand and said that they wanted their healthcare
plans to include coverage for, as they put it, undocumented immigrants,
as I put it, illegal aliens, and all ten of
those candidates raised their hands. Biden twenty nineteen said this,
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This is another quote. He said, quote, we need to
make sure everyone is covered regardless of immigration status. So
you'll forgive us Democrats and people on the left if
you're suddenly lecturing us. And the media has done this
a lot. I've seen several clips where they're talking with
someone and they're saying, you're misrepresenting this. No one is
trying to call for health care for illegal aliens. Yes
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they are, number one. They most certainly are. Kamala Harrison
twenty nineteen seat said we must separate immigration status from
access to healthcare. So again, what do these things mean
if it's not providing healthcare to people regardless of the
immigration status, which would include people who are here illegally.
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Trump says, Democrats this is his quote. Democrats want to
shut down the country until they get free healthcare for
illegal So there's two things here. They're fighting to reinstate
cuts that were made to Medicaid, that paid for emergency services,
emergency treatments for legal aliens. So that's the issue at
hand here. But it's also accurate to say that they
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are on the record of saying that they want much
much more than that. So that's the issue. That's about
all I can say about that. Given the time that
we have, you know, there's two things I want to
get to and I just we'll see how to navigate
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So one more thing I want to get to today,
and this is really I guess the continuation of what
we had talked about earlier in the week. If you remember,
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I had shared that the Trump administration had talked about
during a government shutdown, moving away from furloughs and actually
moving toward what's called riffs. R IF that stands for
reduction in force. That means elimination of jobs, not just
the temporary suspension of a job until the funding comes
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back with back pay. By the way, this is different.
A riff would be the job is gone. And so
I mentioned this, and I even made an illusion, or
I should say, alluded to the idea that this could
be a tool for Trump. And I saw he had
posted yesterday that something like the Democrats paraphrasing their idiots,
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he said something like this, I'm having a meeting with
Russ's void, the architect of Project twenty twenty five, to
identify agencies and programs that we can dismantle or downsize.
I'm paraphrasing, but that's the basic idea here. And so
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President Trump is now out there saying what we talked
about here earlier this week, which is, hey, look, this
is an opportunity to actually change the government for the better.
These are things that we've been trying to do. These clowns,
the Democrats, I'm saying what Trump's argument is, they shut
the government down. We gave them a good faith option,
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extended anilive branch for them to basically keep things status
quo through November twenty First. We've talked about this, and
they denied it, they refuse to do it. And so
now the government's shut down, and now we're going to
look at maybe riffing some of these positions to get
them more in line with the size and scope of
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government as we think it should be than just making
these simple furloughs where people can come back. So I
just listen, This is an important little detail that's easy
to miss in the narrative because the narrative right now,
the Democrats are trying to get a political victory. They're
trying to make it look like Trump is reckless, they
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can't cooperate with him, He's dangerous, all this sort of stuff.
Republicans under Trump's leadership are just burning this country to
the ground. That's the argument the left is making, when
in reality, When in reality, this is a political side show,
political theater. It's not even good theater. Trump's theater is
good theater. It's at least entertaining. Have you seen somebody
(38:37):
some of these video he's been posting, Sorry I'm thinking
of Hakeem Jeffries. He puts what like a sombrero on
these on these folks and creates ai videos and just
different things. That's it's at least entertaining to me. He's
out there trying to win this this information war. I
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also saw the White House posted kind of a montage
of Michael Scott clips. If you don't know Michael Scott,
that's Steve Carell's character in the office. He was the
the office manager of dunder Mifflin in Scranton, Pennsylvania. But
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he was, I mean, just mismanaged so many things. In
other ways, he was he was a brilliant salesperson, just
naturally good at it, but just wasted so much time
and engaged in some of the silliest things you could
possibly imagine. So they have basically clips of Michael Scott
doing silly things, wasting time, and they basically posted on
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their social channels. The White House did, here are the
Democrats one minute after the shutdown the government shutdown, and
they're partying and you know, acting the fool and everything
else because they got what they wanted the political messaging
and so forth. It's just interesting to watch all all
this unfold, and really we should keep our eye on
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things like this, because if Trump is able to riff
some of these positions, this might be the quickest way
to cut the size and scope of government that exists.
I don't know that he can, but he's at least
making overtures to those Project twenty five in particular, who
has big plans to reduce the size of government. Trump says,
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come on in, he announces this. He took a lot
of criticism during the campaign of being a part of
Project twenty twenty five or having that be part of
his agenda and so forth. Now he's just kind of
taunting them with this and pointing to the possibility of riffs.
I've got to go, though, my friends, have a great weekend.
We'll see you soon. SDG.
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an update here regarding the federal government shutdown that began
at midnight technically on October first, on October first, which
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was Wednesday morning. That's because Congress refused to pass a
continuing revolution. They are resolution resolution, I should say. There
is a revolution happening here, a revolution hopefully back toward
conservative principles and values in the Constitution. But a resolution
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is what was passed by Congress, or refused to be
passed by Congress, I should say. And the Senate has
been voting on competing proposals from both sides since then.
Neither of these are expected to pass anytime soon. In fact,
both parties have signaled pessimism about ending the shutdown even
(03:57):
this weekend. So again, I don't know how long this
is going to last. I do know. I do know
that it is that there is a lot of disagreements,
of course, and I do know the solution to this
is easy because Republicans had introduced a clean continuing resolution,
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a clean CR that would have kept the government open
and simply extended the time to have the negotiations. So
to me, the important takeaway here, the important takeaway is
that we understand that Republicans said, we can keep everything
the same and just simply extend the time that we're
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going to have set aside to negotiate a longer term agreement.
They offered to have a resolution, a continuing resolution that
was going to fund the government through November twenty first,
which is what six seven weeks whatever from now. Democrats
rejected that. They rejected that, so that's why it's shut down.
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So listen, I think one of the things for those
of you, and I know we've got some seasoned political observers,
people who have followed this stuff for a long time.
I followed it for a long time as well, for
closely for over twenty five years, and I would say
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even beyond that, I've always had an interest in that
this sort of thing when I was from the time
I was a teenager, so over thirty years at least,
following what's been happening, you know, in our nation's news
and political fights and all that sort of stuff. What's
maddening to me, and what's maddening to those of you
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who follow this is that this is so easy to read.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
This is.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
A very easy problem to understand as far as as
the source of the problem. Now listen, I want to
be clear here. I'm typically on the side politically of Republicans,
but I and I consider myself, I guess technically a Republican.
But there's a lot of things about the Republican Party,
(06:17):
or maybe I should say about individual Republicans who are
running for office and who hold office that I don't
like as well. I'm not coming on this program every
day to be a mouthpiece for the Republican Party. I
think that there are problems with Republicans as well. I
think those problems typically manifest themselves in an individual's strategy
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or style or issue by issue, how individual Republicans think
about things, or talk about things or whatever. It's less
about the philosophy of the Republican Party and more about
how it's implemented on a case by case basis, or
how leadership manages things. That sort of stuff. But they're
politicians still, right, and politicians do politician things both sides
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of the aisle. So I'm not here to be a
defender of the Republican Party. In fact, if you listen
to this program, for any length of time. When I
talk about this state of Indiana, there's there's a lot
of things I don't like about the Republicans in this state.
In fact, i'm I do like Senator excuse me now,
Governor Mike Braun. You know that Micah beckw with the
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Lieutenant governor. He's a friend of this program. He's been
a guest host in the past. I've known Micah for
a while. But when you look at some of the
other Republicans who have been holding prominent positions within the state.
This the state of Indiana, That's where I live and reside.
That's why I'm mentioning this. But Governor Eric Holcomb when
he sat in office was far from a conservative. Senator
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Todd Young, who occupies one of our two US Senate seats,
as far from a conservative. And I could go through this.
There are problems that have been i could say, created
by or made worse by Republicans in this state. Now
nothing to the degree that you find leftists and Democrats
utterly destroying their states and cities around the country and
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this country from the inside as well with their ridiculous
ideas and so forth. But I'm not here to defend Republicans.
I'm on the Republicans side here because it makes sense
to be on the Republicans' side. The Republicans offered a
good faith extension to the Democrats, and the Democrats chose
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not to go along with this and to let the
government shut down. That's what was agreed upon. That was
the That's why we're at this particular point is because
that was offered and the Democrats would not basically accept it.
And so it's maddening to watch all of this other
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stuff because you know, the finger pointing begins and all
of that, and you could fingerpoint about ideas, you can
talk about who he thinks right and wrong about these
bigger policy ideas. But all the continuing resolution, the clean
cr offered by Republicans prior to the shutdown, all it
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would have done would keep things exactly the same through
November twenty first, and we could use that time between
now or between the time of the shutdown and November
twenty first to hammer out the details. Of course, no
matter when we set the deadline, there's going to be
last minute, what you must say, panic last minute, the
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sky is falling sort of stuff. And this is done
for one major reason, and that is to get a
political victory. The left has no political victories. In fact,
if you're a Democrat today, and I always have an
olive branch out to the reasonable Democrats. Yes there are
still reasonable Democrats. There are not reasonable leftists out there,
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radical leftists. They got to get back to the point
of just being liberal again, not woke, not in a
purely anti God, anti truth state of mind. But there
are reasonable Democrats out there. And I have an olive
branch to you on this program each and every day.
I'm conservative, not bitter. I was raised in a Union
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Democrat home. My dad I worked in the union, and
is a I would say, a conservative Democrat. That's how
I would frame it. In fact, I would say, my
dad's a conservative in every in most practical ways, but
he's a Democrat, or he was, I don't know anymore,
to be honest, but he was because of issues pertaining
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to labor. And I would say the fear that unions
or you know, blue collar workers. I don't like to
segment groups like this, but blue collar workers have against
business or you know, big business or management as they
would say, and that's where a lot of these problems begin.
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Is with that, with that fear, there's a lot of
reasonable Democrats out there. There's less today than there were
when when I was a kid, but nonetheless they're out there,
and I think any reasonable person can see a very
very very fair approach to managing whatever negotiations have to
be done would be to simply extend the timeline. And
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Democrats rejected that. Now why did they reject that? So
they think that they've got a political or they're looking
for a political victory here. They're looking to cast political
blame on the Republicans. They're looking to again fuel the
narrative that says, look, when Trump's in office, there's all
of this discord and upheaval, even though again they are
the ones to blame for not cooperating with Republicans here
(11:53):
to keep things open. Nonetheless, why did they what else?
What else did they site? I guess as a reason
if you look at their proposals and so forth, for
not going along with what Republicans had offered them simply
to keep things status quo until November twenty First, well,
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they have been insisting that funds funds to pay for
some some of the healthcare costs of illegal aliens, be
included in this fund. This is in this funding. This
is one not debatable. Democrats are seeking to restore Medicare
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and ACA cuts, that's Affordable Care Act cuts, and these
cuts were made in the one big beautiful bill that
was passed earlier this year, and they want to restore
funds to what's called let me make it sure, I
get this right, em ta LA. They want to include
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emergency Medicare Medicaid reimbursements to cover treatment for illegal immigrants.
Hear me say that, to cover treatments for people who
are not here legally under what's called the Emergent Emergency
Medical Treatment and Labor Act of nineteen eighty six. That
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is a federal law that requires hospitals with emergency rooms
to treat all patients in emergencies, regardless of their ability
to pay or regardless of their immigration status. Hospitals must
stabilize the patients. Then they can seek reimbursements of these funds.
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And so this does a couple things. Number One, by
fighting for these funds, and once you understand what these
funds are for, we realize that everything that the Republicans
and Trump told us about the Medicaid cuts and the
one big, beautiful bill are accurate. The cuts to Medicaid
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are for people who are receiving federal funds who aren't
even supposed to be here in this country legally. They're
not supposed to be here, they're here illegally, and so
there was a big fight about this. In fact, you'll
hear this. In fact, as I was preparing for this
program and putting together some reason and so forth, I
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was seeing a phrase that says Democrats are not you know,
it's illegal for people who are here illegally to get
access to Medicaid and Medicare and all this sort of stuff.
But if you dig a little bit deeper, you find out,
in fact, it's not even deep that you have to dig.
It's just beyond the first the first layer of understanding
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what medicaid is. There's these emergency funds. And again there's
two things going on here that I want to talk about.
Number One, the Medicaid funds were going to pay for
health care for people who were not supposed to be
in this country legally. They're illegal aliens. Medicaid funds are
being used, and they're wanting to allocate more of them
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for this. Now you can say listen, I'm not here
to say that some of this stuff isn't understandable. I mean,
the idea here is, you know, we have a healthcare
system that you know that doctors and people in healthcare
are there to provide services. If someone's in dire need,
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then they are going to provide services. And I would
say that that's a good thing. You know, first cause
no harm, the hippocratic oath, these sorts of things come
to mind as I talk about this. Of course, these
things fly in the face of when you talk about
issues like abortion that's the direct cause of harm to
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the unborn child, or when you talk about transgender surgeries
and operations, especially for minors. Uh, the whole first call
of cause no harm sort of thing goes out the window.
But the idea, when it's when it's fairly followed, is
a good thing to have healthcare professionals that say, if
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someone's in dire need, we're not going to turn them away.
Maybe if it's an elective process, if it's a non
emergency situation, hey, you've got to be able to prove
that you can pay for this and that sort of thing.
But if someone is in a very critical situation, We're
going to treat them until they get until they get stabilized. Right,
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We're not going to let them face that emergency alone
and die on the streets like Jimmy Kimmel. By the way,
Jimmy Kimmel, the hero of the left, wanted people who
were not vaccinated, who had heart attacks back during COVID
to basically not be allowed a room, if you remember
that from the very virtuous Jimmy Kimmel. But nonetheless, this
is not a bad thing. But someone has to pay
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for this, right, someone has to pay for this. And
you can't begin to say, well, you know, if you're
a certain person or a certain immigration status, we're suddenly
going to let you suffer suffer without having sort of treatment.
That goes against the idea how we suppose this is
an emergency sort of situation, how we supposed to go
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through all that. We should just be focused on taking
care of the person who is in need. Democrats want
more money for that. So again you start to think
about this. First of all, you're not supposed to be here,
if you're an illegal alien. You're here because the previous administration,
and candidly other folks, other administrations over the past fifty
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years have not really done anything. Forty years anyway, have
not done anything to try to stop the flow of
illegal aliens across the southern border. By the way, I
talked about the terrorist cells, the sleeper cells. It's amazing
to the number of people, especially on TikTok, who think
(18:03):
that that's just made up information. But you know, you
have people coming across the border just in general, who
aren't supposed to be here, and you have people who
are known terrorists as well coming across the border that
are intending to inflict great harm on this country. But
make no mistake back to the issue here, Democrats are
stopping negotiations because they want more funds to pay for
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healthcare services of illegal aliens who are in this country.
There is no debate on this. That's what they that's
what they want. By the way, the CBO, the Congressional
Budget Office, said that since twenty twenty one, Americans have
paid sixteen point two billion dollars on healthcare Medicaid, in
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particular spending on illegal immigrants. I thought Medicaid didn't go
See this is a lie. This is a live from
the left. This is why this is precisely what Trump
and his administration, we're trying to limit Let's get the
people out of here who aren't supposed to be here,
and let's cut the federal dollars that were spending on
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these folks in areas like this. This is exactly what
the Trump administration said, and it's the exactly the opposite
of what the Democrats in the media tried to tell you.
So that's the first thing to note here. The other
thing to note here is that remember this idea. When
the left talks about health care, they talk about that
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healthcare is denied people. See, this is not true either.
Healthcare has not denied people in these situations. Again, if
it's elective, if it's something that's non emergency, it's a
different situation. But if there's immediate health care needed, it
is provided. The question about healthcare is always who pays
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for it, who pays, not whether or not it's provided
in these situations, because it is again something else that
they've told us for a long time. People are denied
health care. This is an example of when people are required.
Hospitals are required to treat people in emergencies, all patients,
regardless of their ability to pay, regardless of their immigration status,
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and we're told that they're denied basic health care and
they are not Democrats bill. The bills that they have
proposed do not create new benefits, but they want to
restore the funding that has been cut that pays for
the Medicaid, the funding that pays for this sort of
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but we're gonna do that on Wednesday of next week,
October eighth, where gonna have the good pleasure here of
speaking with the son of the President of the United States,
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There's a couple of things I didn't get to last
segment that I want to make sure that I get to.
I would say the best argument that Republicans have, that
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both parties have that they're trying to make. I guess
I should say the best way to present both of
them fairly best I can. Republicans are saying Democrats are
trying to use taxpayer dollars to pay for illegal immigrants
health care, and of course we have a record debt,
we have problems with in our country that we're not
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able to address and fix because of some of these expenses.
The cost of illegal immigration has been massive, despite what
the left and the media ten tell you. And this
is just another another way of metaphorically nickeling and diming
the American people. And if you give even the slightest
(25:13):
bit of tax dollars to something like this, it kind
of opens the door for this to be further abused
in the future, and of course they've deny that this
was even happening up until this point. Democrats will say,
wait a minute, you're misrepresenting what we want. We're not
expanding medicaid to all illegal immigrants or restoring cuts that
keep hospitals solvent because they have to pay for they
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have to provide services. I should say for these individuals
by law, which I referenced in nineteen eighty six law,
and without reimbursements, these hospitals could collapse, and then that
could lead all citizens in those small communities in particular,
to lose access to healthcare. Emergency medicaid is moral and practical.
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That's what I think the left would say. I think fairly.
I think that this is again. I think we've learned
some of the core things here that we referred to
or I guess reference last segment. Now, I want to
one other thing I wanted to let me, Oh yeah,
one other thing I want to get to. So the
lefty this is a straw man. This is a straw
(26:21):
man because Republicans say Democrats want to fund use medicaid
for illegal alien health care. Now, I don't mind the
left responding and saying we're not asking for an expansion
of Medicaid to cover healthcare all health care for illegal aliens.
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It's a specific type of health care which we've covered.
I don't mind that that's a fair response, but it's
a straw man to say that that's what Republicans I
should say, to make the claim that Republicans are saying
Democrats are trying to create a new program. Here, they're
not trying to create a new one, although they've also
told us that they would be happy to create a
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new one. In fact, you may have seen the clip.
I don't have the clip queued up. I just want
to read you a quote from a twenty nineteen Democratic
candidate presidential debate. I don't know how many candidates were
on stage at the time, probably around eight. I've seen
the video. This was the campaign. This was prior to
the Democratic Party power brokers making the call that Joe
(27:25):
Biden needed to be the candidate and that other folks
needed to drop out and throw their support behind him
because they were not going to support a candidate Bernie Sanders.
And so the moderator of the debate asked a question,
raise your hand if your government plan talking about healthcare
(27:46):
would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants. There were ten, it
says it here. I thought there were about eight. There
were ten. All ten candidates raised their hands. Again. I
don't have a picture, but that would have been people
like Joe's Robin at Bribery. That would have been Kamala Harris,
that would have been Pete boot At Jedge. That would
have been Amy klobaschar That would have been who else
(28:10):
am I forgetting here? Oh, Pocahontas herself. And I can
say that, by the way, if you're a new listener
to this program, I am a documented descendant, thirteenth great
grandson of Pocahontas, no joke. I love this. I love
that this is the case because I can say this.
I am the unofficial yet self appointed spokesperson for the family,
and I can tell you we have no problems calling
(28:31):
Elizabeth Warm Elizabeth Warm Pocahontas because it illustrates that she
wants to try to somehow get an advantage from superficialities
from claiming to be Native American, and we think it
works just fine. It's actually much more offensive for someone
to claim to be something they're not than it is
(28:52):
to mock them a little bit, tease them a little
bit for claiming something as outrageous as she had. By
the way, even as a descendant, I'm a distant descendant thirteenth,
I was it thirteenth great grandchild. I think of Pocahontas
and John Roff, by the way, which would make me
the fourteenth great grandchild of Powhattan, which is just really
(29:15):
cool stuff. I love genealogies. By the way, anyway, I've
never once told someone I'm Native American because of that.
In fact, we have closer relatives who are Native American,
and that's just not how we have people. Normal people
don't think about things like that and try to position
things like that. I pointed out to say, this is
(29:37):
absurd how she's going about trying to get an advantage
because of some sort of identity politics. But nonetheless, my friends,
it is still pretty interesting and cool and I have
some fun with it. But that's who was on the stage,
and there's others. I forget who else was up there,
but all their candidates all ten It wasn't half, It
(29:58):
wasn't you know, three quarters, it wasn't ninety percent. There
was not a single holdout every single one of them
raised their hand and said that they wanted their healthcare
plans to include coverage for, as they put it, undocumented immigrants,
as I put it, illegal aliens, and all ten of
those candidates raised their hands. Biden twenty nineteen said this,
(30:21):
This is another quote. He said, quote, we need to
make sure everyone is covered regardless of immigration status. So
you'll forgive us Democrats and people on the left if
you're suddenly lecturing us. And the media has done this
a lot. I've seen several clips where they're talking with
someone and they're saying, you're misrepresenting this. No one is
trying to call for health care for illegal aliens. Yes
(30:43):
they are, number one. They most certainly are. Kamala Harrison
twenty nineteen seat said we must separate immigration status from
access to healthcare. So again, what do these things mean
if it's not providing healthcare to people regardless of the
immigration status, which would include people who are here illegally.
(31:06):
Trump says, Democrats this is his quote. Democrats want to
shut down the country until they get free healthcare for
illegal So there's two things here. They're fighting to reinstate
cuts that were made to Medicaid, that paid for emergency services,
emergency treatments for legal aliens. So that's the issue at
hand here. But it's also accurate to say that they
(31:29):
are on the record of saying that they want much
much more than that. So that's the issue. That's about
all I can say about that. Given the time that
we have, you know, there's two things I want to
get to and I just we'll see how to navigate
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I didn't have time to get talk about in the
final segment, but I wanted to mention here and I
hit this off the top. Turning point. USA is expanding
now after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. They have announced
recently that there are twenty seven one hundred, two thousand,
seven hundred new high school chapters that are opening nationwide.
(32:59):
And that's an expansion that comes again in the wake
of the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk. It was part
of his vision, part of his legacy. This is one
of the largest youth based expansions of a conservative movement
in the history of this great nation. This is good
to get this information, these opportunities in front of young people,
(33:23):
especially young people who are being told lies. Listen. I
don't want to say every public teach, school teacher is
lying or anything like that, but there's a lot of deceit,
a lot of hatred against the conservative movement, against conservatives,
there's a lot of hatred against of America in some
of these classrooms, even at the high school level. This
is a great way to combat that. This is wonderful news. Congratulations.
(33:45):
It's sad how we got here. It's tragic how we
got here. But again, his legacy and his vision is
going to get more traction here, and I think that
that's absolutely wonderful. I have to take a break, my friends,
sit tight back here in just a minute. Welcome back,
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So one more thing I want to get to today,
and this is really I guess the continuation of what
we had talked about earlier in the week. If you remember,
(35:59):
I had shared that the Trump administration had talked about
during a government shutdown, moving away from furloughs and actually
moving toward what's called riffs. R IF that stands for
reduction in force. That means elimination of jobs, not just
the temporary suspension of a job until the funding comes
(36:22):
back with back pay. By the way, this is different.
A riff would be the job is gone. And so
I mentioned this, and I even made an illusion, or
I should say, alluded to the idea that this could
be a tool for Trump. And I saw he had
posted yesterday that something like the Democrats paraphrasing their idiots,
(36:47):
he said something like this, I'm having a meeting with
Russ's void, the architect of Project twenty twenty five, to
identify agencies and programs that we can dismantle or downsize.
I'm paraphrasing, but that's the basic idea here. And so
(37:09):
President Trump is now out there saying what we talked
about here earlier this week, which is, hey, look, this
is an opportunity to actually change the government for the better.
These are things that we've been trying to do. These clowns,
the Democrats, I'm saying what Trump's argument is, they shut
the government down. We gave them a good faith option,
(37:32):
extended anilive branch for them to basically keep things status
quo through November twenty First. We've talked about this, and
they denied it, they refuse to do it. And so
now the government's shut down, and now we're going to
look at maybe riffing some of these positions to get
them more in line with the size and scope of
(37:53):
government as we think it should be than just making
these simple furloughs where people can come back. So I
just listen, This is an important little detail that's easy
to miss in the narrative because the narrative right now,
the Democrats are trying to get a political victory. They're
trying to make it look like Trump is reckless, they
(38:15):
can't cooperate with him, He's dangerous, all this sort of stuff.
Republicans under Trump's leadership are just burning this country to
the ground. That's the argument the left is making, when
in reality, When in reality, this is a political side show,
political theater. It's not even good theater. Trump's theater is
good theater. It's at least entertaining. Have you seen somebody
(38:37):
some of these video he's been posting, Sorry I'm thinking
of Hakeem Jeffries. He puts what like a sombrero on
these on these folks and creates ai videos and just
different things. That's it's at least entertaining to me. He's
out there trying to win this this information war. I
(39:00):
also saw the White House posted kind of a montage
of Michael Scott clips. If you don't know Michael Scott,
that's Steve Carell's character in the office. He was the
the office manager of dunder Mifflin in Scranton, Pennsylvania. But
(39:24):
he was, I mean, just mismanaged so many things. In
other ways, he was he was a brilliant salesperson, just
naturally good at it, but just wasted so much time
and engaged in some of the silliest things you could
possibly imagine. So they have basically clips of Michael Scott
doing silly things, wasting time, and they basically posted on
(39:46):
their social channels. The White House did, here are the
Democrats one minute after the shutdown the government shutdown, and
they're partying and you know, acting the fool and everything
else because they got what they wanted the political messaging
and so forth. It's just interesting to watch all all
this unfold, and really we should keep our eye on
(40:09):
things like this, because if Trump is able to riff
some of these positions, this might be the quickest way
to cut the size and scope of government that exists.
I don't know that he can, but he's at least
making overtures to those Project twenty five in particular, who
has big plans to reduce the size of government. Trump says,
(40:31):
come on in, he announces this. He took a lot
of criticism during the campaign of being a part of
Project twenty twenty five or having that be part of
his agenda and so forth. Now he's just kind of
taunting them with this and pointing to the possibility of riffs.
I've got to go, though, my friends, have a great weekend.
We'll see you soon. SDG.
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