(00:00:01) Podcast Clip of Speaker Johnson on shutdown: Dems want healthcare for illegals

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Well, welcome everybody to day two of the Democrats shutdown.
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Let's make absolutely clear what's happening here. Real pain is
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being inflicted upon the American people because forty four Democrats
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in the Senate have voted for the third time to
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reject the completely non partisan, completely clean, very simple, twenty
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four page continuing resolution that we passed in the House
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here two weeks ago. Now, why did we do that?
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For a refresher for everyone, we have been working very hard,
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this leadership team to get Congress working again. Congress has
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not done the appropriations process appropriately for many years now,
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and so we have forced the muscle memory back. Our
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appropriators have done a great job and bipartisan fashion, by
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the way, and they've worked very hard and passed twelve
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separate appropriations bills through the committee as it's supposed to
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be done. We passed three of those off the House floor.
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The Senate did its work for the first time in years.
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The Senate passed three appropriations bills off the floor. Those
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bills don't match up exactly. So the way the system works,
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everybody remembers from Civics, is that when the two chambers
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have bills that don't align perfectly. You've put together a
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conference committee that's been done. All that that work's been
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done very deliberately, very carefully, and as good stewards of
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taxpayer resources. The problem is we ran out of time
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because the end of the fiscal year September thirtieth, So
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we sent over We did the logical, simple, good faith thing.
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Instead of loading up a continuing resolution to keep the
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lights on, to keep the government open so this process
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can continue, instead of loading it up with poison pills
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or gimmicks or tricks, we sent over a very simple
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continuing resolution that every single Democrat in the Senate has
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voted for in the past, just to keep the government
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open for the people, so that we could get to
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November twenty first, seven weeks to allow more time for
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this process to play out. That is what happened. Now.
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The Democrats did something they've never done before. Chuck Schumer
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has led them all to vote against it. Everybody's been
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discussing this for the last few days. Why in the
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world would Chuck Schumer do a one hundred and eighty
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degree turn Because he said passionately as recently as March
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of this year on this same instrument, the same as
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are that it would be reckless and irresponsible and dangerous
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to close down the federal government. Why did Chuck Schumer
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change his tune. Everybody knows that now he's trying to
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avoid a challenge from his left flank in his next
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Senate reelection campaign, and he wants to avoid the scrutiny
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that he received for doing the right thing back in March,
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because the far left in the base really went crazy
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on poor Chuck Schumer, and so he changes tune, and
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now they're trying to pretend it's about something completely different.
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They have made a decision that they would rather give
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taxpayer funded benefits to illegal aliens than to keep the
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doors open for the American people, to keep vital services,
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veteran services, healthcare and nutrition for women, infants, and children.
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They would rather not pay the troops in TSA agents
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and border patrol agents. They would rather stop services of
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FEMA in the middle of a hurricane season than to
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do the right thing for partisan political purposes. It is selfish,
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it is reprehensible, and it is exactly the opposite of
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what they have all said themselves in their own words,
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very passionately. Every day until now, we've been playing the
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greatest hits loop here on a video right outside of
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the Speaker's office for days. You've all seen it. Make
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them answer for that. Don't ask the Republicans what we
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should be doing or what we should be negotiating. I
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don't have anything to negotiate. I sent them, in good faith,
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exactly what they had put it for before. We did
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not put any Republican provisions in that, and we tried
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to make this very simple, in good faith, so the
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appropriations process of the people can continue. Now there's been
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a lot of talk about They say that we're making
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this up, this illegal aliens receiving taxpayer benefits. It's a
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talking point. They said. I want to remind you of
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a couple of key facts everybody can remember. I think
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back to twenty twenty in the presidential debate for all
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the candidates on the Democrat side, you might remember famously,
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they were asked the question, raise your hand. They said
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on the stage, if you believe that illegal aliens should
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receive healthcare paid for by American taxpayers, Every single one
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of them raised their hand, to great applause in the
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audience from the Democrats who were there. Those hands included
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Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris. Now what did they do.
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Did they follow through in that promise? Yeah, they absolutely did.
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Joe Biden used executive orders and he expanded benefits healthcare
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to illegal aliens in his four year term. That was
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an outrageous violation of the existing federal law and of
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the principles of good stewardship. Those resources are not meant
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for people who break the law and come into our country.
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They're meant for US citizens, and so they watered down
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these health programs. It was terribly dangerous. Then. So we
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got their majority. President Trump has returned to the oval
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office with a mandate of seventy five million Americans. Is
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a big popular vote win the House. Republicans received our
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largest popular vote total in the history of thisitution. Republicans
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went immediately to work and we passed the one big,
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beautiful bill, the Working Family's Tax Cut, and we fulfilled
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all the promises that we made. One of the key
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promises that we made, because you all know that the
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open border was probably the number one issue in the
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election cycle, was that we would end that madness. We
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would cut off resources, hard earned taxpayer dollars by American
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citizens not going to reward people for breaking our law
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and coming over the border. And we did that. The
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one big beautiful bill, the Working Family's Tax Cut, included
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a huge provision. A big chunk of that bill was
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the health provisions. Now, why are we saying that they
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want to return and restore taxpayer funded benefits to illegal aliens,
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Because that's exactly what they did when they rejected the
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clean cr that we sent over the Senate filed the
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Senate Democrats, Chuck Schumer filed a counter proposal. Now what
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was in that kind of proposal? You can see it
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for yourselves. In fact, if you're watching it home, go
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to my website right now, Speaker dot gov. Go to
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the press release tab and you'll see it's a list
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direct there. Just click on it. I like you to
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turn in your hymnals to page fifty seven, okay, section
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twenty one forty one. It is there in black letter.
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They filed this. This is not a talking point. This
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is what they proposed. They wanted to add instead of
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the clean cr that keeps the government open for seven
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more weeks to allow us to finish the work, they
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proposed a wild list of partisan priorities. Among them, they
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want to return a half a billion dollars to the
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting to prop up left leaning and
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biased media organizations. We're not doing that. The American people
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don't want us to do that. We don't need the
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting funded by taxpayers anymore because we're
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in their age of ubiquitous media. There's what two hundred
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of you guys here, there's so many outlets. We don't
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need to do that. We're not going to do that.
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They also they wanted to cut in the Democrats counterproposal.
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I want you to read it for yourself, Speaker dot gov.
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Go there and check it out. They want to remove
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the rural Hospital fund that Republicans fought so hard to
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put into the One Big Beautiful bill. We set fifty
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billion dollars aside to take care of rural hospitals. Why
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would Chuck Schumer want to get rid of that? I
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don't know a lot of those rural hospitals are in
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red states. You have to decide for yourself what the
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motivations are here. But they say they're for her health care.
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Why would they want to do that. The other thing
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that they put in there is very important and on
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page fifty seven and section twenty one forty one out
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a Republican talking point read from the Democrats document themselves.
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They said that they want to repeal the health provisions
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of the One Big, Beautiful Bill. Why is that so important?
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Because I want to tell you what those health provisions did.
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They eliminated all of the taxpayer funded benefits go into illegals.
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There was an amendment that was sent over to the
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Senate to ensure that illegals would not be getting healthcare
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paid for it by taxpayer dollars illegal aliens. Okay, forty
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three of the forty seven Senate Democrats voted against that.
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This is just a few months ago. The bill was
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signed in a law July fourth, and we cut all
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of that up. Let me tell you what some of
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those things are. The Democrats counterproposal C are the Dirty
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CR we call it as opposed to the Clean CR,
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would result in nearly two hundred billion dollars being spent
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on illegal aliens and other non citizens. Let me be specific.
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This is just a few of those the reforms that
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we put in that they want to repeal and reverse.
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Number one, a provision that closes the California loophole. Now,
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that's a provision that's also been adopted by states like
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New York and Michigan and Massachusetts. Other states have followed
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other Blue states. The California loophole allows taxpayer funded Medicaid
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for illegal aliens. We eliminated that in the Big Beautiful Bill.
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Their repeal. Their counter offer is to repeal and reverse that.
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That would cost thirty four billion dollars of US taxpayer funds.
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Number two, a provision that prohibits Medicaid from paying more
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for emergency care provided you illegal aliens than it does
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for American patients who are disabled or elderly or children.
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We eliminated that in their counterproposal that they have filed
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that you can read yourself. They want to repeal that.
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That would cost taxpayers twenty eight billion dollars. Here's another one.
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Number three. They've counter proposed a provision that ends the
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Obamacare funding for non citicen non citizens. The cost of
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that repeal would be ninety one billion dollars to all
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of you taxpayers. Hard working American citizens would be funding that.
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A provision that repeals the Obamacare's special rule for immigrants,
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that cost would be twenty seven billion for taxpayers a
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provision that ends Medicaid funding for those improperly granted asylum
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and parole under President Biden's open borders. The cost of
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that would be six billion. I think that's actually a
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low estimate. You know, President Biden intentionally opened the border
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in Kamala Harris for four straight years. By some estimates,
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twenty million illegal aliens came from every country all around
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the world. A lot of dangerous people came into the country.
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And you know what they did. They granted them all asylum.
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They gave them all this parole status so that they
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could get roll on to taxpayer benefits. We've all been
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funding that. Republicans said, no, that does not comport with
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common sense. We're going to do right by Americans and
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not everybody else. We're not going to incentivize illegal immigration.
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And that's exactly what Biden and Harris did. It's what
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President Trump ran on to end, and we did that.
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It took President about two months and he closed that
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border tight. We don't have that problem anymore, but we
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still got to deal with the tens of millions of
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people who are here illegally. We're working on that. So
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the Democrats, so called reasonable counterproposal would reverse all those
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common sense reforms I just listed in more and I
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don't want you to take our word for it. I
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don't want you to regard this as some talking point.
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I want you to go read it for yourselves. Speaker
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dot gov, go to press releases, you'll see this the
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first thing listed. Click on the bill and go through
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it yourself, and you'll see it. The results of all
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this would be two hundred billion dollars at least and
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taxpayer funded benefits going straight to illegal aliens. Those are
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the simple facts. They cannot refute it. We have been
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making the rounds and all the media and every mainstream
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media outlet that we can get to over the last
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few days, and no one, no one can challenge the
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facts that are on the paper. It's right there for
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everybody to see themselves. We have lots to say about that,
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and I'll answer some questions, but I want you to
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hear from the rest of the leadership team and our
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majority leader has been working really hard on this. All
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This is missus Steve's Glice leader.
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Thank you, mister Speaker.
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And as we mark day two of Chuck Schumer shutdown,
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we know that there is a very straightforward way out
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of this, and that is for Senate Democrats to join
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with Senate Republicans and vote for the bill that opens
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up the government and allows negotiations to continue.
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Surely, by opening up the government again.
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It doesn't resolve all of our differences, but it allows
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us to negotiate without Chuck Schumer holding the American people hostage.
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That's really what's going on here.
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You know, we had a vote on this House floor
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two weeks ago and ninety nine percent of House Democrats
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voted to shut the government down, led by their leader,
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Keem Jeffries, whipped their members to vote to shut the
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government down. And so they're running around this town right
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now doing podcasts and trying to be commentators.
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They're doing everything but being legislators.
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When they had an opportunity to actually govern, House Democrats
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voted to shut the government down, and now that the
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government's shut down, they're trying to blame somebody else for
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what they did.
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They voted to do this.
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They can get bailed out by Senate Democrats. The bill
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is still sitting over in the Senate, and so rather
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than trying to figure out who to assign blame to,
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what they should do is go over to the Senate,
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talk to their Senate Democrat counterparts and say, Senate Democrats,
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Chuck Schumer, open up the government again, and then let's
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have a negotiation over our differences. President Trump, you saw
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Vice President Vance as well saying we will negotiate, but
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not while you're holding hostages of the American people. There
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are real differences we can negotiate. They want to talk
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about all the Obamacare increases in premiums that they caused families.
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Obamacare is the healthcare law of the land, and it's
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leading to higher premiums for families. There are a lot
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of conversations that people can have about how to fix
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those problems. Throwing hundreds of billions of new taxpayer dollars
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to things like funding a legal alien healthcare is not
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the answer to that problem, and it surely is not
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the reason for Democrats to be shutting down the government.
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And yet that's what they're doing.
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Some of their own leaders have confirmed that's why they're
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shutting down the government. And it's unacceptable to most American
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people who just want the government to.
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Work for them and deserve that. And we had a
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vote on the House floor.
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You can go look at that vote and see that
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over ninety nine percent of Democrats voted to shut the
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government down.
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It's a real vote that we held.
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And that bill is still sitting in the Senate and
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ready to negotiate on a lot of differences. We are
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in a conference committee right now on three of the
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appropriation's bills, and Tom Cole and his appropriators have passed
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all twelve of the.
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Bills out of committee.
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John Thune, to his credit, changed course from the old
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days of Chuck Schumer when Chuck Schumer ran the Senate
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and didn't bring any of the appropriations bills out of committee.
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They're now moving those bills in the Senate and so
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we can have a broader negotiation on how to properly
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fundent government, how to properly set priorities over funding government,
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which by the.
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Way, shouldn't be complicated.
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It's what every family does sitting around their kitchen table.
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They figure out how to properly budget their households.
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Businesses do this all the time.
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A small business, whether it's good times or bad, has
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to sit down and figure out how to make the
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budget work. Washington needs to do the same thing, and
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that means House Democrats and Senate Democrats need to stop
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holding temper tantrums, stop making trillion and a half dollar
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demand for illegal alien funding, and vote to open up
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the government, release the hostages, and let's go get back
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to a negotiation over what the priorities of this country
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really should be. President Trump has proven he's ready to
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negotiate again. He brought all the leaders to the White
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House just a few days ago. He stands ready to
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resolve this. But it's the balls in Chuck Schumer's hands
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right now. He has chosen to shut down the government
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and he can't articulate any real reason except that they
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want to take things like fifty billion dollars away from
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rural hospitals to fund health care free legals. And the
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Speaker laid it out incredibly clearly, it's not some hypothetical.
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Chuck Schumer filed and alternative government funding bill and includes
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getting rid of all the verifications on things like making
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sure illegals can't get those taxpayer funded benefits. They want
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illegals to get free health care benefits, and they're willing
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to shut the government down to do it. That's not
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where the county is. It's surely not why we should
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be here right now, but we stand.
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Ready to work.
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We've done our job in the House. It's time for
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the Senate to do their job and end this madness.
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Keeping our members tied together, united, focused on what we
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need to do as our whip time.
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Emmer our men and women in uniform, veterans, air traffic controllers,
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farmers and ranchers, federal workers and their families, Americans who
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rely on telehealth and home care services. These are just
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a few of the victims of the Chuck Schumer Democrat shutdown,
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all because Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries care more about
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appeasing the radical members of their party than working in
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good faith to keep the government open. They are trying
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valiantly to claim that they are doing it to fight
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for Americans health care, but they're one point five trillion
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dollar wish list, which slash is funding for rural health care,
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as you've heard from both the Speaker and the Majority
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leader by while giving taxpayer funded healthcare to illegal aliens
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tells a much different story. The American people see their
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political charad for what it is. The good news is
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Democrats still have time to do the right and reasonable
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thing because Republicans have done our job. There is a clean,
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nonpartisan continuum resolution ready in the Senate to send a
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President Trump's desk right now. The question is how long?
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How long will Democrats hold the American people hostage to
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play their political games. I hope they come to their
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senses soon. Until then, we're going to force them to
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go on the record about their self inflicted shutdown every
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single day, and the consequences will be theirs to own
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and only theirs. With that, I'll turn it over to
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our conference chair, Lisa Mcclainank.
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You, thank you, and good morning everybody. Listen, this is
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really simple. There is a way to open the government today.
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Pass the clean Republican see our bill that we already passed.
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I mean, it's really really simple.
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That's it.
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Just pass it right goodness.
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Democrats have done this thirteen times before, right, the same
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bill thirteen times before. It's really really simple. So what's
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the problem now? Ask yourself what's the problem now? Democrats
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want to make their most radical followers happy. They're pandering
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to the radical democratic arm of their party. And you
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know what they want to spend your money to do that.
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They want to spend your money on government benefits to illegals.
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Your money, where does that one point five trillion dollars
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come come from?
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It comes from your pockets, and you're gonna give it
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to illegals. Nobody wants that except the Democrats.
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They're gonna spend your money on a climate crusade, and
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they're going to spend your money on radical media outlets.
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Gang, this is your money.
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It comes out of your pockets that you work very
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very hard for, and more than a trillion dollars they
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want to spend on their radical democratic goodies. What's more,
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they want to make you pay for that all wide
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while gutting historic investments in rural health care, which is
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really interesting. Right, what's their talking point now?
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Oh?
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Health care, healthcare, healthcare? Right?
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Then ask you ask them why would you got fifty
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billion dollars if you care so much about healthcare from
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the rural healthcare?
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Right? Because they don't have any facts.
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All they have is talking points, right, and they can't
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remember what they're talking about. Right, they're talking out of
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both sides of their mouth. They want to take fifty
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billion dollars away from rural health care.
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Gee, I wonder why?
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And since they didn't get any of those things on
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a silver platter. They want to throw a fit, a tantrum,
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and they want to shut the government down. And guess
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who pays the price for that? Real Americans do so.
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I ask Democrats, are you okay with this? Are you
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okay with mothers on Wick unable to get milk for
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their children? Answer that question, Democrats, because with your no vote,
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you are voting for mothers on Wick not to be
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able to feed their children?
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Are you okay with that?
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Ask them that when you talk to them, right and
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ask the Democrats, are you okay with soldiers wondering how
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they're going to make ends meet when they aren't getting paid.
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That's their vote when they vote for the clean CR.
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When they have a no.
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Vote on the clean CR, they are voting Democrats are
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voting to make sure the troops aren't getting paid. Ask
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them if they're okay with that? And ask them if
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they're okay with delaying home purchases for families and.
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Benefits of veterans.
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Right enough enough, stop the hijacking of our government.
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Stop the political games. That's why the leadership.
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Team behind me put a clean CR on the table.
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We didn't play any political games.
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We didn't add a bunch of our wishless, a bunch
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of our pet projects to the CR. No, we said,
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enough with the games. Let's put the exact same CR
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on the table that the Democrats voted for thirteen times.
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And you know what they said.
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They said no.
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So if the Democrats really care about the American people,
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past the clean CR, stop hijacking the American people and
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stop pandering to the progressive, radical arm of their base.
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Thank you, Grat said, yeah, good, Yeah, thousands of.
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Projects.
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Yeah he does. Okay, this is the way the system works.
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This is Chuck Schumer's decision is to hand, as I
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said on a couple of interviews yesterday, the keys to
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the kingdom to the president. Right he is. He has
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put himself in that situation and it's completely unnecessary. The
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President takes no pleasure in this. The President did not
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want to shut down. I'm telling you this from my
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own testimony. I was in the Oval office. He pleaded
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with Chuck Schumer and Hakim Jeffries to do the right thing,
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keep the government open. We'll talk about all these other
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issues later, because that's how the process works. But failing that,
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because they have decided to vote to shut the government down.
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They have now effectively turned off the legislative brands, the
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Article two branch or the Article one, sorry, the Article
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one branch of our government, and they've turned it over
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to the executive. Okay. So in that situation, when Congress
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turns off the funding and the funding runs out, it
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is up to the commander in chief, the President of
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the United States, to determine how those resources will be spent.
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He has that responsibility given to him by the Democrats
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and the Senate. They can't complain about it, and he
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doesn't want to do it. But in this scenario, what
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they have to do is make very difficult decisions that
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most of the responsibility falls to Russ. Vote he's the
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director of the Office of Management and Budget. As you go,
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as you know, whomever is seated in the chair at
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OMB during a shutdown has to do the same thing.
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Russ does this reluctantly. We had a forty five minute
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telephone conference with him yesterday. He talked to all the
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House Republicans. He takes no pleasure in this because Russ
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has to sit down and decide, because he's in charge
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of that office, which policies, personnel, and which programs are
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essential in which are not. That is not a fun
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task and he is not enjoying that responsibility. And it
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could end today if the Senate Democrats would come to
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their senses and do the right thing for the American people.
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But if they don't, and if they keep the government closed,
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it's going to get more and more painful because the
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resources run out and more and more things have to
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be reduced and eliminated. Now, when he sits down as
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the director of OMB, he will obviously have a subjective
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determination on the priorities. And what do you think he
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would do? Because what would any OMB director do under
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any president? They're going to look to see for the
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administration's priorities first and ensure that those are funded. So
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that's some Those are some very serious determinations that had
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to be made. We want to protect hard working federal workers.
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And these are people who protect all the rest of us.
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By the way, we mentioneds, TSA agents, border patrol agents,
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our troops, the military are not being paid and so
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they're inflicting hardship on people for no reason. Is it constitutional?
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Is it lawful? Is it part of our system? Of
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course it is. It always has been, and the Democrats
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are the ones who have decided to inflict the pay,
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not the president. Beckro Car polling showing the.
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American public is who were side or those lay all
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happen in masks.
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Lose the work of the caul of cams. No. I mean, look,
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the reason that we're talking with you so plainly today
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is to explain to every single American citizen why this
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is happening. How on the world could they blame the
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people here who have done our job and sent over
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a clean cr to keep the lights on. There is
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the There is no gimmick. People say, why aren't you
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negotiating with Schumer and Jeffries Because I quite literally have
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nothing to negotiate. There's nothing I can pull out of
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the bill that was a Republican priority to say, oh,
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we won't do that. Why don't you guys vote for
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it now. I don't have anything. I didn't put anything
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in it to send it over. I'm stunned. I'm stunned
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that they have decided to shut the government down and
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hurt people. It is on them. One hundred percent. The
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New York Times poll that was put on the Senate
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for yesterday. I think it was day before. They pointed
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out to Chuck Schumer, who's from New York, of course,
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that the New York Times, clearly not a right leaning organization,
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in the publication has found that sixty five percent of
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respond and said, please, Democrats, don't shut the government down
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because you don't get what you want. Many of them
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remember in New York. Of course, what Chuck Schumer and
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AOC and all the rest of AOC literally said that
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on the House floor is several months back. She said,
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it's not normal to shut the government down just because
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you don't get what you want. Well, what change? What changed?
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It's on them and not us. Are obviously they take
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up your bill again.
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But if it fails between the possible.
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Senators to go home for the hold, any boats into
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the London think the seven needs to stay. Of course
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they do, of course they do. And the House is
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coming back next week hoping that they will be sending
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us something to work on that we can get back
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to work and do the people's business. They're anxious to
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come back. But the Senate Democrats, forty four of them,
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all the pressure should be on the forty four Democrats
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who were dug in to try to pander to the
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far left corner of their base. That's what this is.
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How important is it to appeal to the radical left
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of your base and hurt Americans? Because if they drag
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this on through the weekend, more and more people will
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be hurt. I want you to think, I come from
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a big military district. Okay, Louisiana's fourth Congression District is
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home to the Barstell Air Force Base and the Command
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of Global Strike. The Global Strike Command is in my district,
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in the south part of my district. We have Fort
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Polk in the Joint Readiness Training Center. I have lots
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of active duty military and lots of veterans. I want
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you to think about the young airmen or the young
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soldier who's deployed right now defending our freedom and all
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of us in America's interest, and they've left. I think
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of this one particular family. This gentleman is deployed. He's
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got a young wife at home, and they have three
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small children under the age of six. She's not going
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to get a paycheck as long as Chuck Schumer's playing
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political games up here. They don't have a big I
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know this family, well, they don't have a large tranch
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of savings. Okay, this is going to be a serious hardship.
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She won't be able to make the car note, she
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won't be able to maybe pay for groceries for the kids.
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Because Chuck Schumer is up here playing games to pander
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to the far left in the space. It's outrageous. Real
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people are getting hurt. Veterans are not getting healthcare services.
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We have suicide prevention programs, okay that will not be
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funded because of this. This is not a game. FEMA services.
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Your flood insurance laps right now and you need to
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renew it. You can't do that right now. We have
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hurricanes off the coast of the United States right now.
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If you buy a home and flood insurance is required,
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which is in so many places around the country, you
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can't close on your home right now. Because Chuck Schumer
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in forty three C friends in the Democrats sense and
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is uh friends in the Senator are making a game
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out of this. It is ridiculous, it is irresponsible and dangerous.
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Will come in at any hour at any day to
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get the job done, but they won't. Yes, if Senator
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Chuck Rosley.
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And said there speech when you seven billion dollars in
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the BC subsidies.
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Fought at the Congressional art that they're looking at.
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The issue of the long care at tax subsidies with
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those estimates, do.
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You have any concerns about that?
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And also Susan B.
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Anthony Pro America Ady ag PROF organizations.
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Have said they are concerned that height Emendment.
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Is being averted of those old long care subsidies. That
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A people are getting all active abortions through that program, So.
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Are concerned about Yeah, we w Yeah, Conservatives are very
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concerned about the subsidies. Not only that, but they're subsidizing
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not not American citizens, they're subsidizing insurance companies with that,
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which has driven premiums up. It's it's got lots of problems. Okay. Uh.
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I was in the Oval Office with the President with
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Leader Thun, Leader Jefferys, and Leader Schumer a few days ago,
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and Leader Thun rightfully said to Chuck Schumer, that is
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a red herring in this and you all know it is.
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The subsidies that you're referring to don't expire until December thirty. First,
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we're at the end of September. You're trying to take
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a December policy issue and insert it into this discussion
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about whether we're going to keep government operating for the people.
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That is a a ploy. They've done that simply so
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that they can show a fight against Trump and Republicans.
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Let me tell you what that is all about. There'll
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be lots of thoughtful discussion, deliberation, and debate about that
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because there's lots of opinions and it needs major reform.
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Leader Thune told Leader Schumer very clearly in front of
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the President before that's even considered, you have to take
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on real reforms to address those issues. And they demonstrate
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right there in front of the President. He saw it
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for himself. That's not a simple issue. That's going to
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take weeks to deliberate and discuss and debate. But that's
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the beauty of the process. We have three months to
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do that. That is not an issue for today the day.
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The only issue is whether they're going to vote to
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keep the government operating for the people, clear plain and simple.
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Democrats want to have help insures or eagles that some
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of your Democrat followed over said as to nine programs
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that the Democrats want to bread backs.
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And elaborate yes, there's all sorts of Remember we sent
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over a twenty four page clean c are they sent
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over this thing that you have to see on my
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website to believe it yourself. But it's all chock full
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of all sorts of crazy things that they want to restore.
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And deis want have always been one of their big priorities.
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They want to spend one remember, one point five trillion
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new dollars of spending is what they're demanding to keep
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the lights on around here. It's absurd and they should
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know it. They're all wrapped around the axle about these
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woke progressive programs being ended. But that's what the election
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was about. That woke, progressive and progressive stuff is what
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the American people rejected. Some of our Democrat colleagues here
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are doubling, tripling down on it. Good luck with that,
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Good luck with that for the midterm election Eastern vote.
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The President posted on true Social this morning that the
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meeting is to determine which of the Democrat agencies they
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recommend to be cut. This is an addition to the
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money for New York for the transit run, the NBA cut,
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and addition to Blue states seeing their energy funding cut
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two questions on this. I mean, do you think this
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is political targeting?
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Is that appropriate?
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And then in addition, on its agency web page blaming
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radical Democrats for this is not an appropriate use of
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taxpayer money being overtly political. It's something we haven't seen before.
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I think what the HUD website says is the objective
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truth that we're telling you right now. There are forty
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four Democrats in the Senate, and by the way, every
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Democrat in the House except one who voted to shut
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the government down. They are the ones that made that decision.
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The White House and the executive brands take no pleasure
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in this, but when they are tasked with determining what
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the priorities are, obviously they're going to do. They're going
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to follow their principles and priorities and not the other team.
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That's the results of an election that everybody voted in,
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the popular election and electoral college. I am, and that's
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why I'm pleading for the entire entire country to call
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your senators, your Democrat senators, the forty four people who
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want to shut the government down, You should call them
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right now and tell them to get here and get
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to work and open the country. Up for the people.
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Many of you asked me this morning about sombreros and
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memes and why how King Jeffreys is all alarmed by that. Look,
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these are games, these are side shows. People are getting
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caught up and battles over social media memes. We've got
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to keep this is not a game. We've got to
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keep the government open for the people. I don't know
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why this is so complicated. And to my friend Hakim,
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who I was asked about, man, just ignore it. I mean,
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Gavin Newsom was troulling me last night. He painted me
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like a minion. He painted me yellow with big glasses
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and overalls, and I thought it was hilarious. You don't
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respond to it, for all my friends, for all my friends,
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ours and d's, don't respond to it. Get to work,
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do the people's business, and let's get on with it.
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Thank y'all so much,