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| Now Doug is in Fairfax, South Dakota Democrat. | ||
| Good morning Doug. | ||
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Yeah, good morning Mimi. | |
| I am hoping that the Democrats, they stick with this and don't open the government, because you know they're not going to do nothing about the health care is. | ||
| They've wanted to get rid of health care forever and uh, they keep going on about the immigrants all getting this health care. | ||
| But, which is probably true on on the emergency room, there was some other little deal this lady you had on there here a while back told us all. | ||
| So we all should know this and actually, all but the way Christy the Dog Killer is going around us getting rid of all these immigrants, they're not going to have to worry about no immigrants here pretty soon, because there's not going to be none around for one thing, and what they should do is, when is it actually supposed to be passed in march? | ||
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But anyway, they should charge these people like a 200 penalty. | |
| I used to work road construction and if you ever drove on the interstate 90, 80 or 70 through the states of Kansas, south Dakota and Nebraska, you probably drove on work. | ||
| I did, but if we would get a job done early sometimes we'd get a bonus, but if we didn't get a job done in time we'd be penalized. | ||
| So these politicians should be penalized like 200 bucks a day, or maybe divide what days you got left into their pay and every day they're not there they should be deducted. | ||
| That pay, in my opinion. | ||
| And this GAZA deal it's, it's. | ||
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They're not going to get nothing going there because that I think that 21 it started out a 21 point plan by the TBN or whether that Religious Channel, but now I think it's changed quite a bit and Benjamin kind of rewrote it, I believe. | |
| But all right, I hope they do. | ||
| We got got your point. | ||
| Julie is in Potomac, Maryland Independent LINE. | ||
| Hi, Julie. | ||
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Hey, how are you today? | |
| Good, I support the government. | ||
| Shutdown 100. | ||
| Only thing you need to do is go to DOJ website. | ||
| 12 employees stole 550 million from Usaid. | ||
| One employee stole 100 million from the? | ||
| U.s ARMY. | ||
| If I, I solely support the government, shutdown their need to the health care crisis. | ||
| I hope the Republican Party stand that. | ||
| Stand their ground, keep the government shut down. | ||
| I do not agree with the Democrat party. | ||
| Um hold on Julie. | ||
| You are saying the um, the Department OF Justice website has this. | ||
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Only thing you need to go the DOJ website. | |
| I The thievery is Unbelievable. | ||
| The amounts of money that was stolen from the federal government from employees that actually work there. | ||
| Only thing you have to do is go to DOJ website, salute to the Department of Justice, and you will see all the money that was stolen over a short period of time. | ||
| One lady, Janet Milio, stole $100 million from the U.S. Army in a six-year period. | ||
| Who signed off on all of that? | ||
| Where were the people that were in place? | ||
| And Julie, you're seeing this on the DOJ website, so justice.gov. | ||
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Public knowledge. | |
| Yes, it's public knowledge. | ||
| She just was sentenced to 10 years in prison. | ||
| And they said, okay, we'll look into that. | ||
| Let's go to Jim in Cairo, Missouri. | ||
| Democrat, good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| The Republicans don't care about health care. | ||
| Neither does Trump. | ||
| Shut down, a bad deal. | ||
| I don't see any way out of it. | ||
| What comes to mind, though, is the phrase: deconstruct the administrative state, destroy the system. | ||
| What better way to destroy the system than to shut it down, pull the plug, defund it, unman it? | ||
| Trump is now a dictator. | ||
| Why would he reopen the government and be subject to oversight again? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And here's Chris, Washington, D.C., Independent Line. | ||
| Hi, Chris. | ||
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Hey, yeah. | |
| You know, the Republicans have been shutting the government down since January 20th. | ||
| I mean, this right here is just a cherry on top for them. | ||
| They've been cutting the federal workforce since Trump came back into office. | ||
| And my thing is: like, where's all the money that our president has been saying has been coming in? | ||
| The billions and billions and billions of dollars in tariffs, this $17 trillion that he said has come in in one year. | ||
| If that was actually the case, then why are we shutting the government down and not repositioning that money as should be done, as they claim that they were doing from the beginning? | ||
| I mean, I feel very bad for people who work for the federal government. | ||
| And of course, you know, there could be efficiency. | ||
| There can be efficiency in everything and every aspect of life. | ||
| You know, there's waste, yes. | ||
| Fraud and abuse, yes. | ||
| But there's a way to go about correcting that, just like with any business or anything else. | ||
| So all of this is just a sham and a way for Trump and his administration to gain more control and more power. | ||
| It's very unfortunate for the American people. | ||
| A lot of people are going to suffer. | ||
| So, Chris, do you think that the shutdown should continue, or what are your thoughts about the shutdown itself? | ||
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I believe the shutdown should continue. | |
| And I think that the Democrats are making a mistake with their messaging. | ||
| We know that just through their actions, that the extreme conservatives don't care about middle-class, working-class people in their health care because of how they've impacted the agencies and the systems that provide that for the American people. | ||
| The Social Security, the Medicare, the Medicaid, they're all being restricted. | ||
| And for what? | ||
| Because the money that they're saving on that or proposing to save is just a drop in the bucket of what we really need. | ||
| So I'm for letting the government shut down. | ||
| I think that the Democrats should look, if they really want to make a message, just tell the people about how all the jobs are disappearing, how it's impacting the economy, how all of this shutdown that the Republicans are forcing is impacting the American people. | ||
| All right, Chris. | ||
| And Juliet mentioned some information on DOJ. | ||
| So here it is. | ||
| If you go to justice.gov under their public affairs press release, here's the headline: USAID official and three corporate executives plead guilty to decade-long bribery scheme involving over $550 million in contracts. | ||
| Two companies admit criminal liability for bribery scheme and securities fraud. | ||
| It says that four men, including a government contracting officer for the USAID and three owners and presidents of companies, have pleaded guilty for their roles in a decade-long bribery scheme involving at least 14 prime contracts worth over $550 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars. | ||
| That's at justice.gov. | ||
| And here is Lindsay, Chicago, Illinois, Independent. | ||
| Good morning, Lindsay. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Thanks for taking my call. | ||
| I think that it's really important that Americans have access to free health care. | ||
| I'm happy that the Democrats are standing their ground in fight of this, but I do want to address the fact that American taxpayer dollars are spending money for Israel to have free health care and to have access to health and physicians and their doctors and have access to paternity leave, maternity leave, and a check every month for that baby. | ||
| So why aren't Americans having this same access to free health care like Israel is where all our taxpayer money is going to? | ||
| Here is President Trump's posting on Truth Social. | ||
| He says, Democrats have shut down the United States government right in the midst of one of the most successful economies, including a record stock market that our country has ever had. | ||
| This has sadly affected so many programs, services, and other elements of society that Americans rely on, and it should not have happened. | ||
| I am happy to work with the Democrats on their failed health care policies or anything else. | ||
| But first, they must allow our government to reopen. | ||
| In fact, they should open our government tonight. | ||
| That was sent yesterday at 6.52 p.m. in the evening. | ||
| Here is House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries responding to the President's remarks yesterday. | ||
| Take a look. | ||
| Boy said something to the effect of we're talking to Democrats. | ||
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So A, have you had any conversations as of late with the President or the White House? | |
| And B, what do you make of his willingness maybe to strike a deal here? | ||
| Well, the White House has gone radio silent since the Oval Office meeting last Monday, and neither Leader Schumer or myself have heard a word From the administration about resolving this issue, making clear to us that the White House wanted to shut the government down to continue the chaos that they've been inflicting on the American people since day one of this presidency. | ||
| It's an interesting statement that the president has made, and I think both House and Senate Democrats are clear. | ||
| We'll sit down anytime, any place with anyone from your administration, including the president, to get a resolution here with respect to the Affordable Care Act tax credits, which need to be extended right now, as well as dealing with and addressing the Republican health care crisis that is devastating everyday Americans all across the country. | ||
| And this is Daryl, Independent, North Carolina. | ||
| Hi, Daryl. | ||
| You're on the air. | ||
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Hey, how are you doing this morning? | |
| I really think the way that we're going about this government shutdown, especially the leading administration, they're being a bit disingenuous. | ||
| They mentioned the focus for the bill being illegal immigrants receiving health care or receiving some type of medical care. | ||
| If they really want to reduce or prevent that from happening, they will focus on the Hippocratic oath that medical providers take when they become medical providers. | ||
| That's what causes them to actually provide health care for them. | ||
| They can't not provide health care in the emergency room for someone who comes in for the emergency because of the Hippocratic oath. | ||
| And no one has mentioned that. | ||
| And I believe that's why it's disingenuous. | ||
| The Democrats, they're using their only negotiating tactic that they have being that they have no type of authority in this current administration, whether it's judiciary, whether it's legislative or executive. | ||
| I think the invisible force branch of government, which is the people of the United States, needs to take a stand and start from scratch. | ||
| If this goes beyond 20 days, we need to invoke a new rule of law. | ||
| Hey, government resets if they can't get a government running in 30 days. | ||
| All of you are a failure. | ||
| Anybody within the administration, within the federal government, should be removed from the court judges to the legislator to everybody in Congress. | ||
| Get out of there, we can reset because you obviously can't get anything done. | ||
| And Daryl mentioned emergency room treatment. | ||
| So that's covered under a law in the U.S. called EMTALA. | ||
| So it's the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. | ||
| And this law helps prevent any hospital emergency department that receives Medicare funds, which includes most U.S. hospitals, from refusing to treat patients. | ||
| So this is CMS.gov, which is Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. | ||
| You can take a look at that. | ||
| You have these protections in an emergency room, which include an appropriate medical screening exam to check for an emergency medical condition, and if you have one, treatment until your emergency medical condition is stabilized or an appropriate transfer to another hospital if you need it. | ||
| So that is a law called EMTALA Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. | ||
| Here's David North Tazewell, Virginia, Republican. | ||
| Good morning, David. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I just, I have an observation and a question, is all. | ||
| Besides the lies of the Affordable Care Act, whenever it was enacted, close to 15 million Americans lost their health care provider, their health care coverage due to the Obamacare. | ||
| My question is, if the Affordable Care Act is affordable and it is what this country needs, why do we have to subsidize it with taxpayer money due to the high cost? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Dutch Boston Democrat, good morning, Dutch. | ||
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Yeah, well, I just want to make a fellow what this guy said about that affordable health care. | |
| The thing is that Trump enough this health care thing with Obama since he left office money, he's trying to get it again. | ||
| The guy from Phoenix, Arizona, the senator down there, the one that died not too long ago, put a thumbs down on that because he knows there was nothing but garbage anyway that he was trying to mess with this healthcare thing. | ||
| John McCain. | ||
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The thing is, John McCain. | |
| And the thing is that he's trying to take this country apart. | ||
| These people need to wake up out here. | ||
| I mean, he's messed with colleges, you know, all these different governments. | ||
| I mean, this guy shouldn't have control of all these different mergers and all this stuff that's going on in this country. | ||
| His whole family, he kept calling the Biden Klein family. | ||
| He's the one that got the Klein family. | ||
| I mean, if the media get on this case, this guy's got his two sons out there running farther than any country in this world trying to get hotels and all this stuff. | ||
| And the guy posted there went to Saudi Arabia talking about he's going to do stuff for the United States. | ||
| He went down and made a deal with this golf thing with the Saudi Vegas where they could come in here and invest all kinds of money, money for him to make, not for the United States to make. | ||
| You know what I'm saying? | ||
| He went down there early in his career, you know, when this president could be helping this guy that got assassinated down there, he's caught himself getting married. | ||
| So he don't care about this guy. | ||
| This guy in Saudi Arabia just killed people who says anything. | ||
| You're talking about free speech. | ||
| That's free speech that's done in Saudi Arabia. | ||
| They kill you when you don't like Russia's the same way. | ||
| He made a fool out of himself, too. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And this is Richard, a Republican in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | ||
| Hi, Richard. | ||
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Yes, good morning. | |
| You know, I'm a Republican, but I'm about to vote Democratic in the upcoming election. | ||
| This guy is a knucklehead. | ||
| Notice I'm not saying some of the other terrible words. | ||
| But, yeah, the Republicans are losing on this issue. | ||
| We'll leave this here and take you live now to Capitol Hill, where Democratic Congressman Josh Gottheimer and others are holding a news conference on the two-year anniversary of the October 7th, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. | ||
| Lawmakers are expected to announce new bipartisan legislation in commemoration of the event. | ||
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