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Every single American needs to ask that question. | |
| Thanks for being here this morning. | ||
| C-SPAN is covering the government shutdown across all our platforms. | ||
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| And here on C-SPAN, we have news conferences and reaction from lawmakers throughout the day. | ||
| Republican Senator John Barrasso, a member of the Senate leadership, posted on X: Senate Democrats have dragged us into a Schumer shutdown, even though two out of three Americans believe Democrats should not shut down the government. | ||
| Congressman Jason Crowe of Colorado saying Donald Trump and Republicans are lying. | ||
| They're trying to distract you after they just shut down the government. | ||
| Democrats are fighting to lower health care premiums for American families. | ||
| And we have this from NBC News Capitol Hill reporter Melanie Zenona. | ||
| New Trump's budget director told House Republicans this afternoon that reductions in force will happen in the next one to two days, according to the sources. | ||
| Russell Vogt issued a memo last week threatening mass layoffs in the event of a shutdown. | ||
| He didn't outline specifics on the call. | ||
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| Where are you going? | ||
| Or maybe a better question is, how far do you want to go? | ||
| And how fast do you want to get there? | ||
| Now we're getting somewhere. | ||
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| We're going to be joined by Steve Newcomb of Axios via Zoom this morning. | ||
| Stephen Newcomb, how do we know if we're in for a short-term shutdown or something longer? | ||
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Good morning, John. | |
| I don't think we know yet. | ||
| I mean, I think, you know, you have to take a step back and look at what the push and pull and the pressure points on each party and each party leaders are right now. | ||
| I mean, for Republicans, I think the reality is that the polling shows that the public, at least before the shutdown, said they would blame Republicans, usually the party who is in power, that is in power, does shoulder a lot of the blame for a shutdown. | ||
| So if that sort of public sentiment continues to skew that way, I think that that puts pressure on Republicans to come to the negotiating table. | ||
| I also think that you should keep an eye out for a couple of the moderate Republicans in the Senate and how they react to any of the firings, the layoffs, the furloughs that President Trump and Russ Vogt and his administration decide to sort of implement during the shutdown. | ||
| And then on the Democratic side, you know, I think that They need to, one, have a conversation within themselves: how long and how comfortable are they willing to let this go on? | ||
| This is not something usually the Democratic Party would embrace. | ||
| And then, again, look at some of those moderates, Gary Peters, the Democrats last night that voted for the bill in the Senate. | ||
| There's probably around seven or eight of them that you could keep an eye on and sort of pay attention to what length they're willing to take this shutdown. | ||
| Is it a week? | ||
| Is it two weeks? | ||
| Is it two weeks? | ||
| Do we get closer to a month like we did in 2019? | ||
| That bill in the Senate was a continuing resolution to keep the government funded at current levels into November. | ||
| And it was supported by two Senate Democrats. | ||
| That would be John Fetterman and Catherine Cortez-Masto, and Angus King, the independent from Maine, who caucuses with Democrats. | ||
| The Republican leadership hopes to keep putting that bill back on the floor and try to peel off more votes. | ||
| Why do they expect they might be able to get more than those three that caucus with Democrats on putting that on the floor one more time? | ||
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Yeah, I think they see it as sort of a war of attrition. | |
| I think you're looking at folks like the Democratic senators from New Hampshire, Maggie Hassen, Gene Shaheen, Gary Peters in Michigan, who's retiring, who voted to fund their government last time. | ||
| There's a number of other moderates, Jack Reed and Rhode Island. | ||
| So I think they see it as sort of an attrition thing. | ||
| They continue to put this on the floor. | ||
| Maybe Democrats will break. | ||
| But I would be shocked for them to flip their votes today or anytime later this week. | ||
| I think they'll vote through the weekend as well. | ||
| But something else to remember is that the Senate is just going to go about its business at this point as well. | ||
| I mean, we're just sort of settling into this shutdown at this point because later today, the Senate will be in, yes, voting on the funding bills, but also voting on nominations and sort of continuing the agenda that Senate Republicans have set up in the Senate. | ||
| Can you explain the politics behind the health care subsidies that are at the heart of this latest shutdown fight? | ||
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Yeah, so the heart of it at this point is that Democrats want an extension of these expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, which studies show, and I think insurers at this point have already communicated, is going to lead to an increase in premiums for a lot of folks across the board. |