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50 Votes Needed00:06:51
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In under an hour, the Senate's expected to vote on competing funding bills from both parties.
60 votes are needed to proceed to a final vote of approval.
According to Punchbowl, news Senate Democrats are holding a closed-door lunch meeting ahead of the votes after three Democratic senators voted in support of advancing the Republican funding bill earlier this week, breaking ranks from Democratic leaders.
In an interview earlier today with NPR, Caroline Levitt urged more Senate Democrats to sign on to the Republicans' funding package.
While we wait for her to come to the podium, we'll take a look at the discussion about the shutdown from today's Washington Journal.
And Hakeem Jeffries and the rest of the House Democrats, they all have the Democrat talking points of President Trump is giving buyouts to the top 1% and all the billionaires.
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That's ridiculous.
All you want to do is extend the tax credits from 2017.
So, anyway, he sits there and give this big speech, and everything that the Democrats right now, Schumer and Hakeem, is propping up this shutdown with is exactly what's in the Big Beautiful bill.
And it's the health care part of it, and it's $50 billion that they, and that's another thing.
They talk about how these rural hospitals will be closed down.
They got $50 billion in the big beautiful bill to help protect those hospitals that was put in there by the Republicans.
So until this shutdown will not stop until Schumer and the team and the Democrats drop their $1.5 trillion giveaway or what they're wanting to draw back and just go with the Clean CR.
And in seven weeks, we're going to go through this again on November the 21st.
The Democrats will do this again after that seven weeks.
Carr, Brendan Carr, chairman of the FCC, to testify before Cruz's Senate committee in the wake of the Kimmel flap that's at Semaphore discussing that.
If you'd like to read it, here's Annie, Crawfordville, Florida, Independent Line.
Hi, Annie.
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Hi.
I was hoping I can talk to Max, but of course I know I'm too late now.
But I just want to make a statement.
Maybe he might still hear it.
I am praying that five more senators, Democrat senators, vote with Speaker Johnson.
And I was hoping they were going to do that today, but I just heard somebody say they might not have any more.
I don't know, but I was hoping they would.
But whenever they do it again, to either today or later, that they get 60 votes.
The senators have to have 60 votes for this.
And that's what's holding up everything.
They only got, well, we got three others, and two of them was a Democrat and one was an Independent.
So they got the other three to go with the 50, to go with the 50 or two, because, of course, Speaker Johnson has 53, but one of his did not or did not vote with him.
And I know that they are the majority, but they don't have 60 senators to vote on this like that.
They have to have the Democrats.
So that's why I was praying, and I was going to make a statement and say that because we really want the government to open back up so they can get the monies to the hospitals, so they can get the people their checks and stuff that they need or whatever they need to make it.
And also, nobody really ever hardly says, would say that.
And they need to say that more often that they always, I don't know about always, but I know if it's the Senate vote, they have to.
This is an article for you from The Hill with the headline, Kavanaugh's attempted assassin to be sentenced Friday.
That's today.
That's at The Hill.
If you'd like to read that article.
Taylor, reading Pennsylvania Independent Line.
Good morning.
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Good morning.
So I'm in a rare situation, but I have two things I want to bring up, Jeff.
The first one, just something I've been thinking about.
I'm 29 years old, so I'm a baby.
I've got a lot of time to learn.
But one of the things that's always blown my mind, when we go to vote for our presidents, when we go to sign up, you have to pick either Republican or Democrat in order to pick who you want to run in the primaries, right?
As an independent, I've always found that weird because in a country built on freedom, why are freedoms being restricted to people that we don't necessarily follow?
And on a different note, just two things to chew on for you.
The other one is, is I'm in a hospital in a kind of rural area, and the abuses and the checks and balances that are not present within the hospital are astronomical.
I've been hospitalized for the last 26 days and have never faced more racial discrimination, physical abuse.
It's been a whole thing.
Just like we need checks and balances in our governments.
How do you negotiate with a Republican Party if they can't tell what's up and what's down?
And my point is, I mean, say if you have a Democrat that goes outside on a bright sunny day and looks up at the sky and says, my, the sky is blue, and it's a beautiful sunny day.
And you got a Republican, his neighbor goes out and looks at the same thing.
It says, no, the sky is black and pink polka dots.
How do you negotiate or how do you debate that?
And the example is Trump.
I mean, Trump is a liar.
We know it.
Trump is a felon.
He is a sexist.
I mean, we know what he is.
He says it every day.
He does it every day.
But the Republicans look at him and say, oh, he's the Messiah.
I mean, he should be sitting next to Jesus.
You know, and they want Democrats to believe that.
And Democrats are not going to believe that.
And that's what I think makes them the most upset.
Democrats cannot come to grips with what God blessed them with.
And we're going to have an opinion on Republican.
Anyway, for the young lady that called a few minutes ago, the only reason we have independents is so they can be smart, seem smarter than everybody else in the room.
Awareness Of The Second Amendment00:06:12
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And the one new one that I picked up on today, when we have Republican hosts on, we're dumping the mic or Republican guest.
We're dumping the mic.
And I don't, you know, it was really bad a while back.
I don't know how long ago it's been, but you guys were just dumping the Republican guest on and on.
But if we could do something about that, I'm a longtime listener, viewer of C-SPAN, love you guys.
But boy, and to the young lady again, also, TBS is running rampant.
I mean, just instead of paying attention to what Mr. Trump says, how about let's just pay attention to what he does?
Gloria in Lobelville, Tennessee, Independent Line.
Good morning.
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Good morning.
I'd like to say I think that any president who wants to run for a presidency, they all should be stripped down, given hospital gowns, taken away all their electronics, and take a test on our Constitution.
I had to learn the Constitution when I was in the eighth grade, and I'm now a great-grandmother to seven, eight, eight-great-grandchildren.
And I'm very grateful that I'm still alive, but I'm dismayed at how Congress is turning against the laws to support the stupid things of a president.
And he's the only one I've ever heard of that bankrupted his own casino.
And he expects to be able to take the country and just do what he wants with it.
He may be the president, but he is not God.
And people need to be more intelligent about knowing our laws before you can go into the office and try and support our country.
It says that it is the Supreme Court took up its next Second Amendment case on Friday.
That's today, agreeing to hear a challenge to Hawaii's ban on carrying concealed weapons on private property without the owner's express consent, the owner of that private property.
Well, I started calling when Mr. Steyer was on, but I've heard such shocking things right now listening to everyone.
Barbara from Philadelphia, I'd love to have lunch with you.
I mean, she was not aware on July 4th of 2024 that I think most Americans are not aware of, that the Republican Pact Supreme Court, I believe Judge Alito wrote the law in that the president has total immunity.
I cried that day.
Our country changed that day.
We are no longer, in my opinion, the country that we knew, and I don't think a lot of people are aware of that.
And the lady also in a rural hospital in Pennsylvania, when this administration is cutting back Medicare, Medicaid, and other SNAP programs, things like that.
And that woman is languishing in a rural hospital that doesn't have the proper funding.
And she should call our governor, Josh Shapiro.
He'll help you, hon. And I just feel that there's so much, you know, the man who called me, you know, talked about how God gave us a gift.
I'm sorry.
God works in mysterious ways, but I don't think God gave us the man in the White House.
I believe six billionaires paved the way for him to be there by lowering their standards on a chesspool of social media and muddy in the water.
It seems like a lot of Republicans like the entertainment that he gives.
And I'm going to sign off right now because what I wanted to say and appreciate from Max Steyer, I wish we knew how to get in touch with him and become more partners for public service.
Yeah, and you can check their website if you want to reach out to them or interact with them in any way.
Ourpublicservice.org.
Robert, Tampa, Florida, Republican, good morning.
unidentified
Hey, good morning.
Thanks for giving us this opportunity to have our First Amendment rice to talk about whatever we want.
God bless you.
I would just like to say that America lets more illegal immigrants into the country than any other legally, more than any other country in the world.
President Trump is doing a great job.
I support him.
The Medicaid and the Medicare cuts that people are talking about are only for able people that are using the system, young people that are able to go out and work.
And they're taking it away from them and they're taking it away from illegal citizens, you know, people that are here illegally.
So, Robert, I was looking into this about who's going to lose their Medicaid.
And part of it is anybody that doesn't have a green card.
So, for instance, if somebody has come into the country and is an asylum seeker and has been granted a stay to stay and have their Asylum claim heard, or they've been approved, but they're still waiting for their green card, those people will now lose their Medicaid.