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And through the C-SPAN archives, we learn about accomplishments and setbacks and how events impacted presidential terms and the nation up to present day. | |
| Saturday, the first 100 days of Gerald Ford's presidency. | ||
| He took office after the resignation of President Richard Nixon during the Watergate investigation. | ||
| President Ford declared, our long national nightmare is over, and later made the controversial decision to pardon Richard Nixon. | ||
| In those first few months of his term, President Ford also tried to tackle high inflation in the country, energy issues, and the treatment of Vietnam War draft evaders. | ||
| Watch our American History TV series, First 100 Days, Saturday at 7 p.m. Eastern on American History TV on C-SPAN 2. | ||
| Democracy is always an unfinished creation. | ||
| Democracy is worth dying for. | ||
| Democracy belongs to us all. | ||
| We are here in the sanctuary of democracy. | ||
| Great responsibilities fall once again to the great democracies. | ||
| American democracy is bigger than any one person. | ||
| Freedom and democracy must be constantly guarded and protected. | ||
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We are still at our core a democracy. | |
| This is also a massive victory for democracy and for freedom. | ||
| We'll show you portions of that during the course of our time together. | ||
| We'll hear from you and we'll get information from last night's speech as well. | ||
| Joining us with that responsibility is John McCartnell. | ||
| Pedro, I want to come back to some of those disruptions in the chamber last night. | ||
| These disruptions are starting to become as common as these yearly presidential addresses. | ||
| This is the headline from Axios. | ||
| Trump speech repeatedly robbed by Democratic disruptions, Al Green being the poster child for that last night. | ||
| The Democrat from Texas, of course, being escorted out. | ||
| Questions today about whether he'll be censured by the House of Representatives. | ||
| But there's also this chart from USA Today, and it looks at lawmakers objecting, disrupting during a state of the union. | ||
| You'll see it was pretty rare for the past couple decades, just once in the 70s back in 1975, once in the 90s, a couple times in the 2000s. | ||
| And then as we've gotten into the 2010s and certainly the 2020s, these sort of disruptions are becoming more and more common. | ||
| It happened last night, even before President Trump began speaking as he made that usual walk down the aisle and was being greeted by members of Congress. | ||
| C-SPAN viewers and those who watched the procession saw Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury holding that sign saying, this is not normal. | ||
| There's the picture of her as the president was turning to his right where the Republicans were standing. | ||
| The Democrat from New Mexico was there on his left. | ||
| She's a member of the Doge subcommittee in the House, and she was holding that sign. | ||
| Axius then goes through what happens next as she was holding that sign. | ||
| It was Congressman Lance Gooden, the Republican from Texas, who then reached across the aisle, grabbed her sign, yanked it out of her hand, and threw it up into the air. | ||
| And Melanie Stansbury then takes to Twitter in the wake of that event last night and when it was getting a lot of attention, saying, that was me, we will not be silent, and then saying, join me in the fight with a link to her fundraising page for her congressional campaign. | ||
| For his part, Congressman Gooden, the Republican who yanked that sign out of her hand, also was tweeting last night about the incident. | ||
| He said putting the American people first is normal and no one will disrespect President Trump in front of me. | ||
| He went on to tweet, it's not normal for men to play in women's sports. | ||
| It's not normal for children to have gender surgery. | ||
| It's not normal for tax dollars to fund trans mice. | ||
| What today's Democrat Party stands for is not normal, speaking directly to the Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury. | ||
| One of those Democrats also responding to the President's speech last night was chosen by the Democratic Party to give the official response. | ||
| A Democratic Representative Senator from Michigan, Alyssa Slotkin, giving the Democratic response address. | ||
| Michigan Advance, the online publication, highlights it this way. | ||
| In their headline, U.S. Senator Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan urges engagement, not doom scrolling. | ||
| In Democrats' response to President Trump, you can see that full speech from the senator on our various platforms, but here's a portion of it from yesterday. | ||
| But our democracy, our very system of government, has been the aspiration of the world. | ||
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And right now, it's at risk. | |
| It's at risk when the president decides you can pick and choose what rules you want to follow, when he ignores court orders and the Constitution itself, or when elected leaders stand by and just let it happen. | ||
| But it's also at risk when the president pits Americans against each other, when he demonizes those who are different and tells certain people they shouldn't be included. | ||
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Because America is not just a patch of land between two oceans. | |
| We are more than that. | ||
| Generations have fought and died to secure the fundamental rights that define us. | ||
| Those rights and the fight for them make us who we are. | ||
| We're a nation of strivers, risk takers, innovators, and we are never satisfied. | ||
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That is America's superpower. | |
| And look, I've lived and worked in many countries. | ||
| I've seen democracies flicker out. | ||
| I've seen what life is like when a government is rigged. | ||
| You can't open a business without paying off a corrupt official. | ||
| You can't criticize the guys in charge without getting a knock at the door in the middle of the night. | ||
| So as much as we need to make our government more responsive to our lives today, don't for one moment fool yourself that democracy isn't precious and worth saving. | ||
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But how do we actually do that? | |
| I know a lot of you have been asking that question. | ||
| First, don't tune out. | ||
| It's easy to be exhausted, but America needs you now more than ever. | ||
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If previous generations had not fought for this democracy, where would we be today? | |
| Second, hold your elected officials, including me, accountable. | ||
| Watch how they're voting. | ||
| Go to town halls and demand they take action. | ||
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That's as American as apple pie. | |
| Third, organize. | ||
| Pick just one issue you're passionate about and engage. | ||
| And doom scrolling doesn't count. | ||
| Join a group that cares about your issue and act. | ||
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And if you can't find one, start one. | |
| Some of the most important movements in our history have come from the bottle up. | ||
| In closing, we all know that our country is going through something right now. | ||
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We're not sure what the next day is going to hold, let alone the next decade. | |
| Starting off our second hour of calls, Helen in North Carolina, Democrats lying. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Yeah, good morning. | |
| I didn't hear President Trump speak about Medicaid, Medicare, food insecurity, affordable housing, and what's best for Social Security. | ||
| In other words, what is really best for the American people. | ||
| And I just say Elon Musk and President Trump, they're criminals destroying America. | ||
| This is Mary. | ||
| Mary is in Indianapolis and our independent line. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Thank you for having me on this morning. | ||
| I've sat here for the last two hours listening to everyone's opinions, which I value. | ||
| But three things came out of that speech last night that I'd like to voice my opinion on. | ||
| One, just the beginning of President Trump coming in and seeing both sides acting not very engaged for the U.S. citizen. | ||
| That's one. | ||
| Two, I, as a mother, I'm appalled that when he said that a human being was taken, a life was taken, not one Democrat stood up to that mother as she is grieving for her daughter. | ||
| That's a disgrace. | ||
| Two, when our prisoner has been brought home, not one Democrat stood up and applauded for that man being brought back to his homeland. | ||
| Three, again, appalled, a little boy that has brain cancer, he's acknowledged, and not one Democrat stood up to acknowledge that young man. | ||
| I don't know what the Democrats' policies are anymore. | ||
| I don't know what they're fighting for anymore, but I can tell you between the speech and these people are supposed to represent us in the United States, they all need to go. | ||
| Okay, that's Mary there in Indianapolis. | ||
| Let's hear from Tennessee. | ||
| That's where Ray is, Republican line. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Yes, I've got one major thing to give to the American people. | ||
| Those people, those Democrats that sat on their hands and didn't engage our Marxists. | ||
| They have been in this country since the early 1900s, and they have been in our higher education. | ||
| They have tried to brainwash our young people. | ||
| And that is an example of them sitting right there. | ||
| Now, the reason I can say that is because I have seen it creeps in, and they want one world government. | ||
| And the United States does not want. | ||
| We are the United States of America. | ||
| And they said they talk about the Social Security and the Medicare and Medicaid. | ||
| I don't understand. | ||
| If people are in that and taking money that's not theirs belongs to that system, how in the world can you be against that? | ||
| And then when you can sit on your hands, when people's rights and lives are lost by letting people in this country just come right in and take over, something is wrong with you people. | ||
| Okay, Renee is next. | ||
| Pennsylvania Democrats line. | ||
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Yes. | |
| Hi. | ||
| It bothers me. | ||
| All these people, American people, I'm a Democrat, but I don't hate Republicans. | ||
| I disagree at times. | ||
| And all these people losing their jobs. | ||
| Republicans feel good about that. | ||
| They think that's fine. | ||
| No one took time to go through, really go through these departments and find out what's what or what can be eliminated. | ||
| And the way it's being done is disgusting. | ||
| Another thing. | ||
| So, how does that relate to the speech last night specifically, since we're talking about that today? | ||
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I'm just saying there were people there that lost their jobs that were there sitting there Along with the Democrats. | |
| But I'm going to speak about one thing he did speak about last night. | ||
| Social Security. | ||
| Yes, there may be some people that are over the age of whatever, 100. | ||
| There's not many. | ||
| There's a few. | ||
| There's a couple of them that I know. | ||
| And there's, for me to believe that you can have millions of people that are 150 or 120 to my great-grandparents, if they were, that's their age group. | ||
| If they were alive, they would be, they were born in the early 1870s. | ||
| And the family members that care for them are long gone. | ||
| I was a small child when they passed. | ||
| One was 99, one was 97. | ||
| And the people who care for them or would have had their paperwork have long gone. | ||
| Some of these people never received or applied for Social Security. | ||
| I don't even know when Social Security began, which exact year. | ||
| But it cannot be millions of people between 100, and let's say 20 and 200 or whatever that are on Social Security. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Unless there's people from outside of our country, hackers that are hacking in and setting it up. | ||
| Okay, Rhonda in California, Independent Line. | ||
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Hi. | |
| Hi. | ||
| Good morning, Pedro. | ||
| Good morning, John. | ||
| This is Rhonda in California. | ||
| Yes, I watched the speech, the whole speech, and it made me proud to be an independent for many years. | ||
| I grew up in a Democratic household. | ||
| Every member of my family is a Democrat. | ||
| But yesterday, it made me proud when I watched the speech to be an independent. | ||
| The Democrats, I am so ashamed of that side of the aisle. | ||
| Like everyone else who voiced about the part they couldn't stand up for the people there who were getting recognition for their dead children, that gentleman who came back after being imprisoned in another country. | ||
| Pedro John also, you know that leaders of the world watched this speech last night and they saw the dissension between the Democrats and the Republicans and that doesn't make us look good. | ||
| And my last point that I want to make to both of you is this. | ||
| I wanted to hear more about the domestic problems that we're having. | ||
| $10, $11 for a carton of eggs when I went to Walmart yesterday. | ||
| I want to hear how come I'm paying now $7 to fill up my car. | ||
| I want to know about why here in California, we have thousands and thousands of homeless still living under the freeway. | ||
| The one thing that Trump made me proud of when he did say was this, that he mentioned us law enforcement people. | ||
| I'm a retired probation officer. | ||
| I'm 65 years old. | ||
| I collect Social Security, but I was happy when I heard him talk about us because we need help. | ||
| The crime here in California, Pedro and John, is horrible. | ||
| Okay, that's Rhonda there in Sacramento, California. | ||
| The editors of the Modesto Bee out of California have this reaction from last night's speech. | ||
| You can find it on linemodb.com saying that Mr. Trump and his team are at real risk of a pattern that befell President Biden, paying too much attention to the niche political issues that his most fervent, most online base cares about, and not the big picture concerns that the vast majority of voters who don't live full-time on social media. | ||
| For the former president, that looked like an administration with its head in the sand on inflation led by an increasingly feeble, aging chief executive and devoted to unpopular language wars on race and gender. | ||
| For Mr. Trump, it registers as potentially reckless action by Elon Musk and Doge, indulging in conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein and overhauling the FBI, not concrete steps to reduce prices or help Americans find an affordable house to buy. | ||
| Again, the Modesto B is where you can find that. | ||
| If you go to the pages of the New York Post, their editorial on last night's speech in part reads with this: New presidents do such joint addresses in lieu of an official State of the Union speech. | ||
| But this had none of the dry list ticking off trivia of those affairs, even though the president didn't shy from telling details to make a point. | ||
| He listed promises made and promises kept with more promise keeping well in motion. | ||
| He joked and inspired, assured his base, and baited the opposition. | ||
| He spoke to the country and owned the room. | ||
| And sorry, the page refreshed. | ||
| It was one speech on one night, still early in his turn, but Donald Trump did his cause and the nation as much good as he possibly could, assuring America that for all the sound fury and for many confusion of the early going, he's in total command and has Americans dreaming. | ||
| Again, that's from the Post. | ||
| They're editorials. | ||
| You can find both of those online if you want to read more for yourself. | ||
| John in Ohio, Democrats line. | ||
| You are next up. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Yes, sir. | |
| Good morning, Pedro. | ||
| I'm a lifelong Democrat. | ||
| I could not be more ashamed of my party than I was last night. | ||
| That was, I'm just, it's something. | ||
| It's just something that they would act that way. | ||
| And the great Martin Luther King and John Fitzgerald Kennedy must be rolling in their graves at this time. | ||
| I think my party has turned treasonous against this country. | ||
| And they threw women clear under the bus three days ago, I believe it was. | ||
| Voting against women in sports, that they have to compete with men, whether they're faking it or real, thinking they're women. | ||
| I think is atrocious. | ||
| And the disrespect of my party, I'm saddened. | ||
| I think we're heading for an absolute revolution in this country to save this country. | ||
| Rhonda in Georgia, Independent Line. | ||
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Hi. | |
| Hello. | ||
| Hi, Iron. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Hi, how are you? | |
| Good morning, Pedro, and blessings to you. | ||
| And blessings to the nation and the whole world. | ||
| I'm calling in because there are some things that I wanted to say. | ||
| This I'm a first-time caller, and there are things that I wanted to say addressing that I wanted to let everyone know that this is a platform for everyone, everyone, to call in and address your opinions, how you feel, because it's needed. | ||
| And I have appreciated the bad and the good from whatever you represent. | ||
| Now, when it's based on what the president addressed the other day, I will say this: that I am not going to give a strong opinion on that, that I am going to let it play out. | ||
| I'm going to give it to God and let God work it out. | ||
| But on what I'm going to say to you all, that nothing is a fact unless we prove it. | ||
| If you can't prove what you're saying, then, you know, it's not so much addressing about how you say what you know, but how you prove and you can look it up. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So. | ||
| Okay, there's Rhonda there in Georgia. | ||
| Thank you for calling in. | ||
| Thank you for, as you said, participating in this platform where you can give your opinions, particularly today when it comes to the president's joint address last night, 202-748-8000 for Democrats. | ||
| Republicans, 202-748-8001, and Independents, 202-748-8002. | ||
| Back to John McCartle. | ||
| Pedro, two things to follow up on. | ||
| One, hot mics, and two, social security fraud on hot mics. | ||
| This is the headline from the examiner. | ||
| Mike Johnson caught on Hot Mike with JD Vance ripping Joe Biden ahead of that Donald Trump speech last night. | ||
| It was after JD Vance entered the chamber when that hot mic moment happened. | ||
| The moment happening in part, JD Vance saying, I think the speech is going to be great, but I don't know how you do this for 90 minutes, to which House Speaker Mike Johnson responded, the hardest thing was doing it in front of Biden when the speech was a stupid campaign speech. | ||
| That caught there before Mike Johnson then folded the microphone down and then returned to their conversation. | ||
| The other thing, a couple callers have brought up already this morning, Social Security fraud. | ||
| I just wanted to point to factcheck.org as one of those fact check organizations out there. | ||
| They took up this topic last night in the wake of Donald Trump mentioning it in that speech. | ||
| They noted that Donald Trump talked about money being paid to many of those who are over 100 that are still alive. | ||
| They've said, as we've written, internal audits conducted by the Office of Audit in the Social Security Administration's Office of the Inspector General have identified that millions of deceased individuals were still listed as living in the Social Security database. | ||
| However, the number of dead recipients still being set benefits is likely in the thousands, not the millions. | ||
| In total, the Social Security Administration distributed payments to 89,000 individuals aged 99 and older in December of 2024. | ||
| A July 2023 report published by the Office of Audit found that there are 18.9 million people with Social Security numbers born in 1920 or earlier with no record of their death. | ||
| The vast majority of these records, they note, are clearly outdated. | ||
| And the Pew Research Service estimated that there are only about 101,000 Americans who were 100 and older in 2024. | ||
| One of the fact checks from factcheck.org, if you want to follow up on that. | ||
| Let's go to Steve. | ||
| Steve is in New York, Republican line. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Good morning, Pedro. | |
| Can you get to give me a minute? | ||
| I want to talk about the speech last night. | ||
| It was full of lies. | ||
| I'm a Republican. | ||
| I'm anti-MAGA. | ||
| And the Democrats are playing Pong while the conservatives are playing PS5, 2K. | ||
| They have a Brandon ambassador pushing forward pure lies. | ||
| There's not people on Social Security 300 years old. | ||
| And then they state if fraud is a crime and Doge has found fraud, how come no one has been arrested? | ||
| No names have been called on who's under investigation for committing crimes against America. | ||
| And also, since 2003, Elon Musk has received $38 billion of American taxpayer money. | ||
| Okay, so, but how does all that relate to last night? | ||
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Last night was a speech that was full of lies. | |
| And it's how can you say you're here to protect America and save money when Elon Musk, you can't name an American who's received personally more money from the American taxpayer. | ||
| If you want to save money, wouldn't you start cutting there? | ||
| If fraud is a crime, wouldn't the Pam Bondi, wouldn't she be out investigating? | ||
| There's no names. | ||
| There's just numbers being thrown out. | ||
| There's no truth being thrown out. | ||
| And once again, Democrats, Republicans have a brand ambassador, Donald Trump. | ||
| He's like, anybody from New York City remembers Crazy Eddie? | ||
| He's practically giving it all away. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Christine in Pennsylvania Democrats line. | ||
| Hi there. | ||
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Hi there. | |
| This is Christine Adams. | ||
| I'm calling because I was lied to and I've been stolen from. | ||
| And Americans are deeply hurt. | ||
| You know, the lies, don't be fact-checking with the lies. | ||
| There have been fact-checking with the lies. | ||
| I appreciate the gentleman before me who is a true Republican. | ||
| Our Social Security information has been stolen. | ||
| We're told that we don't expect to get your Social Security on time now. | ||
| That's what I read. | ||
| And how does it relate to last night? | ||
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What? | |
| How does it relate to last night? | ||
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I didn't. | |
| I waited for the clips and the, you know, I was on the internet. | ||
| Well, what was your impression for how you gathered information about the speech? | ||
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I was disappointed. | |
| I did turn it on to see the Democratic speech. | ||
| She did a lovely job. | ||
| She really did a good job of pointing out the issues. | ||
| The fact that, you know, our democracy is on the line. | ||
| This is fascism. | ||
| What would Putin do has been what I've been saying for nine years now. | ||
| And this, you know, this fiasco in the Oval Office, oh my gosh. | ||
| And, you know, we are giving up. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| That's Christine there in Pennsylvania. | ||
| Britt in Alexandria, Virginia on last night's speech, Independent Line. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Hey, good morning, and thank you for having me. | |
| I actually just want to echo what Steve from New York said. | ||
| I'm independent. | ||
| I'm actually originally from Jersey, so we know Trump is a liar and a grifter for a long time. | ||
| And he's right about Doge. | ||
| And that's actually also what I wanted to call about is Trump in his speech identified Elon Musk as running Doge. | ||
| And I know that a lot of the lawsuits have been recently updated to reflect that. | ||
| Elon Musk hasn't been elected. | ||
| He hasn't been confirmed by Congress. | ||
| He and the website on Doge are making false statements about savings. | ||
| And I encourage people to go to the website, look at it one day, and then look at it the next day when they've taken down the falsehoods and not said anything. | ||
| There are people who are paying into Social Security that are never going to see benefits. | ||
| Those are the immigrants being rounded up. | ||
| Where is that money going? | ||
| So with the concerns about things like Lake and Riley and the Democrats not standing or with concerns about the Democrats not cheering for a person to be returned. | ||
| Yeah, I'm sure they're happy about it, but giving an audience to a tyrant who identified himself as a king above the law is not something I want to see from Democrats. | ||
| So I was happy that they're trying to hold the line about the illegal behavior. | ||
| And once the illegal behavior of Musk and Trump stops, then people can come to the table and talk about solving the American people's issues. | ||
| But right now, there is fascism, as the caller before just said. | ||
| And as Steve from New York said, he's right. | ||
| These are lies, and I'm against MAGA Republicanism. | ||
| I would love small R to come back. | ||
| So thank you so much for taking my call. | ||
| And I appreciated the Democratic response. | ||
| And I look forward to the fact-checking for you. | ||
| Gotcha, Republican line in Kentucky. | ||
| This is Bill. | ||
| Bill in Kentucky. | ||
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Hello. | |
| Good morning. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| You're on. | ||
| Go ahead, please. | ||
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Okay, what I'd like to say about last night, I'm about 73 years old, and he's the best president I can ever remember in my lifetime. | |
| And I've got people that's Democrats, and they're asleep like a lot of them people I sat there last night sitting in that middle row. | ||
| They're set asleep. | ||
| They don't even know what's going on. | ||
| And I can understand why a man won't vote for policies that uphold gayism and all that stuff. | ||
| My Bible don't teach me that kind of stuff. | ||
| They're going to be a bunch of people buff tail wide open. | ||
| That's what's going to happen. | ||
| That's all I got to say. | ||
| Democrats line from Merrill and Pamela. | ||
| You're up next. | ||
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Hi. | |
| Hi, Pedro. | ||
| You know, Republicans have some short memories because they never stood up for President Obama or President Biden when they spoke. | ||
| But now, all of a sudden, it's disgraceful. | ||
| So it's kind of funny how hypocritical that is. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Sean, up next in Baltimore, Independent Line. | ||
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Good day to you. | |
| I enjoyed the speech last night. | ||
| I don't agree with everything he said, but I think Trump is on point with a lot of stuff. | ||
| And I just, in my opinion, all these people interrupting on both sides, it needs to stop. | ||
| But overall, I appreciate what Trump did. | ||
| But all these people call him a fascist. | ||
| I don't know what dimension they're from because Biden and Obama, the stuff they did, it was just unreal. | ||
| Communism, the socialism they put forth. | ||
| And Al Green, that clownish behavior, that was ridiculous. | ||
| That was just unheard of. | ||
| And I tell you what, these Democrats, they better get together because the stuff they're doing, the way they acted last night, it's going to allow the Republicans to run Washington for the next 20 years. | ||
| I mean, they're going to vote against the bill to keep biological men out of women's sports. | ||
| Unbelievable. | ||
| And just all the other stuff they're doing. | ||
| I mean, Doge, what Doge is doing, you know, getting rid of all this waste, but it claims a lot. | ||
| And the last few callers talking about unelected officials, did they forget about Fauci? | ||
| He wasn't elected. | ||
| Look at all the mess he started. | ||
| But anyways. | ||
| Sean, there in Baltimore. | ||
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The Associated Press is reporting that the Veterans Affairs Department is planning to cut over 80,000 jobs that provide health care for retired military members. | |
| The article goes on to note that the VA's chief of staff told top-level officials at the agency that the goal was to return to 2019 staffing levels of just under 400,000. | ||
| That would require terminating tens of thousands of employees after the VA expanded during the Biden administration, as well as to cover veterans impacted by burn pits under the 2022 PACT Act. | ||
| House Veterans Affairs Committee ranking member Mark Takano was asked about this after President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress. | ||
| Here's what he had to say: what I'm hearing tonight, about 83,000 employees at the veterans, at the VA, that they're slated for a reduction in force. | ||
| And I can only take that to mean that they want to undermine the law that we passed on a bipartisan basis, which was the Honor and Our Pact Act. | ||
| You know, we had to ramp up 80,000 employees to make sure that the claims processing went smoothly. | ||
| You know that since 2022, the summer 2022, over 2 million claims have been processed. | ||
| 1.5 million claims have actually been approved. | ||
| And It took 80,000 employees onboarded to be able to make that happen and to also facilitate the health care that these veterans are now eligible for. | ||
| This president wants to cut 83,000 jobs there. | ||
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And that's 83,000 out of how many? | |
| Out of about 400 and some odd thousand. |