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Deadline Approaches: Red Meets Blue00:04:24
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Political map come together from Deep Red Oklahoma to Solid Blue Maryland.
Democratic Governor Wes Moore and Republican Governor Kevin Stitt sit down with host Dasha Burns.
Welcome to Ceasefire, where we seek to bridge the divide in American politics.
For a conversation, not a confrontation.
Red meets blue.
Great Plains meets Mid-Atlantic Friday, October 17th at 7 p.m. Eastern and Pacific.
Ceasefire, only on C-SPAN.
This Sunday, watch the premiere of C-SPAN's bold new original series, America's Book Club, with our guest, John Grisham, former politician, lawyer, and best-selling author, whose books, including A Time to Kill, The Firm, and The Pelican Brief.
He joins our host, renowned author and civic leader David Rubinstein.
Yes, I'm a very liberal Democrat, but I'd like to make a statement to call us this morning and maybe listen to this.
I'm not going to say this in a kind of partisan way.
I'm going to try to be as honest and frank as I can.
This year, we were in a continued resolution at the beginning of the year.
When Donald Trump came into office, he chose to have an arbitrary date to pass what he wanted to be the priority, the big, beautiful bill.
When he did that, the Republicans basically decided, well, oh, that's their priority, not the budget or anything.
It was that.
And they worked on that all year because he had a deadline, his own deadline of July the 4th.
Now, in that big, beautiful bill, that was total Republicans working alone.
And they made negotiations in that bill in order to get it passed.
One was to create a $50 million slush fund for farmer sisters to get some of their members to vote.
And the other was to cut Medicaid by $800 million, which is almost a trial.
And there's not that much fraud abuse and waste in that.
That is basically going to be a cut to services.
And they know it.
That was something to get people like the Freedom Party to accept that, well, okay, we're not reducing the debt, but we are going to be cutting social spending.
All right, Carl, and we'll stay in Chicago to joy Independent Line.
Good morning, Joy.
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Good morning.
I just cannot believe how people are willing to allow services to people who are vulnerable to be cut based on absolutely nothing.
And I just don't like the derogatory split between Democrats.
It's just so tribal.
And it really reminisces to me what happened in Rwanda in 1994.
You know, how people became so vehement against each other.
But It's almost like they eat their own fault.
Miller, I just don't understand how people can be so hateful that they would allow people to suffer and lose programs, WIC programs, all these programs for vulnerable people.
Grim Reaper's Shadow00:02:40
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They make us hate each other while they sit there and celebrate at the top.
We hate each other.
We're like a pack of wolves eating meat down here for crumbs while they are just so manipulative.
I just wish people would just open their eyes and see what's actually going on instead of hating one another.
And we are taking your calls for just this first half hour on the government shutdown.
The lines are: bipartisan Republicans are on 202748-8001.
Democrats 202748-8000.
Independents 202-748-8002.
And our line for federal workers is 202-748-8003.
And while you're calling in, let's take a look at Senator Hoyer.
Stenny Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland.
He was at a press conference yesterday with Democratic lawmakers representing Maryland and Virginia, and he spoke about the administration's mass firings.
Ladies and gentlemen, every authoritarian leader has had his grim reaper.
Russell Vogt is Donald Trump's grim reaper.
Trump even posted a bizarre video describing vote in those terms.
That's who he wanted: a grim reaper.
Grim is defined in the dictionary as sinister, savage, and ferocious.
A trauma causer.
Reaper is defined that which is used to cut down.
Vote swings his scythe through the federal government as thoughtlessly and dangerously as Elon Musk and the Doge children did with their chainsaws.
The effect, sadly, has been the same: great damage to the government, the American people, and the morale, psychological well-being, and efficiency of the patriotic American workers, we call federal workers, who serve them.
And this is Mike, Warrington, North Carolina, Independent Line.
Good morning.
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Yes, I'm just as old as Trump.
Trump has sold President Miller, Steve Miller, and Trump has sold us out.
And he's going to sell us out.
So, to all my evangelists, I pray that all of them fly and the plane fall out the sky to save America because he has killed America.
He sold us out, just gave millions of dollars to a foreign country, but yet still, we're over here in the United States suffering with food stamps, snap, social security, all of that.
In what way, Ken, explain what you mean by ripping off this country.
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Trump and the MAGA people are using the U.S. government to enrich themselves.
I mean, he's got, you know, hotel things going on in Dubai, Indonesia, you know, giving $20 billion to Argentina to influence an election down there for crying out loud.
It's really just a massive criminal enterprise just enriching the MAGA base.
People need to realize that when we lose this Social Security and stuff and all these Obamacare and stuff, people are going to die.
I mean, this, I don't care if you're Republican or Democrat.
They can't handle this.
I mean, this is going to be a bankrupt.
It's going to bankrupt people.
This health care is as dangerous as it can be.
And the fellow was just on there.
It's right.
Now, I guess we see, you know, what that country gets for giving Trump up plane there.
They get to build their own fire force base here in the United States.
But people, whether you're Republican, Democrat, or whatever, we cannot afford to lose our health care.
And another thing, too, there, how can we not afford health care here, but we can send Israel all this money for them to have one pair of health care, if I'm not wrong.
I believe I'm right.
I don't actually correct me if I'm not.
But how can we do that?
How can we give $20 billion to somebody the other day, but we can't have insurance for the little kid?
I'm doing the right thing, the clearly obvious thing, the traditional thing.
That's exactly what Chuck Schumer voted for in March of this year and gave impassioned speeches was the right and only thing.
I don't have anything to negotiate.
I'll say this again to everyone here.
We did not load up the temporary funding bill with any Republican priorities or partisan priorities at all.
I don't have anything that I can take off of that document to make it more palatable for them.
So all I am able to do is come to this microphone every day, look right into the camera, and plead with the American people, as Chairwoman McClain said, to call your Senate Democrats and ask them to do the right thing.
We're not playing games.
They're playing a game.
We're not.
The strategy is to do the right and obvious thing and keep the government moving for the people.
This is the website of the International Trade Administration.
It says that Israel provides universal health care coverage to Israeli citizens and permanent residents via four independent health management organizations, HMOs, and a network of mandated benefit packages, including hospital, primary specialty, mental health, and maternity, as well as prescription, drugs, and other services.
And that is a compulsory program that everybody has to join.
That's for Israel.
And this is Sarah in Maryland, Independent Line.
Hi, Sarah.
unidentified
Hey, good morning.
I just wanted to say that the cuts go across party line.
It doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican.
It's not that when Democratic programs are cut, that only Democrats benefit from them.
So it's going to go across party line in regards to this not being the Democratic Party as it was 40 years ago.
Well, the same can be said about the Republican Party.
It's not the same party that it was 30 or 40 years ago.
And in regards to what I think is important is to keep in mind is, and I read this the other day, that there's about 240 million adults in this country that are 18 years and older that can actually vote.
And out of those 240 million people, only about 155 million actually voted.
And out of those 155 million, more than half, about 80 million or so, voted for President Trump and the Republican Party.
So they are our elected leaders.
However, the other 75 million did not vote for this administration.
And out of the other 85 million that didn't bother to vote, I really would be interested in what these people that did not vote think.
85 million people is a lot of people that did not make their voices heard.
And I think it is a shame that people don't take that privilege to vote seriously.
You know, if you like what you see, great.
You can continue to vote for that the next election.
But if you do not like what you see and you would like to see some changes, go to the voting booth, register to vote.
And if you are already registered, please go and vote.
Yeah, I'd just like to say, you know, it's Democrats, Republicans.
We're all in here together.
You know, the Republicans are voting pretty much straight across the board, except for maybe one.
The Republicans can't do these votes on their own.
And for the Democrats to hold the bill up, you know, not over a couple hundred million dollars, but $1.5 trillion is absolutely absurd.
And be it what it may, the ADA, the affordable health care, if it needs COVID money still to bring people's subsidies down, then something's not right.
You know, let's pass the bill, get into regular session, and fix the thing and be done with it.
But we need Democrats to vote for a continuing resolution.
And if we can't get that, then they're shutting the government down.
Yeah, so what Democrats are saying is we don't trust Republicans to fix this thing.
They've been talking about trying to fix it since it was passed, and nothing has happened.
So what are your thoughts on do you think it can be fixed before the end of the year?
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Or do you think that those subsidies, those tax credits should expire?
Well, you know, we have till like November 17th, I think they said.
And that's what the Republicans were trying to do, was get the bill passed, take it up in regular session, and then try to get things what the Democrats want or, you know, what they're asking for, you know, by in that time period, you know.
But just to shut the government down, I mean, that's all on the Democrats.
Donald Trump and his administration have been engaging in mass firings since day one of his presidency.
For the Republicans, cruelty is the point.
And the fact that they are celebrating, meaning the extremist, the extreme mega-Republican, the fact that they're celebrating, firing hardworking federal employees doesn't strengthen their position with the American people.
It weakens it.
Because the American people don't accept that kind of cruel and callous behavior and know that any responsible group of people would actually be standing up to support our hardworking federal employees and trying to actually find a bipartisan path forward to reopening the government, which is what Republicans refuse to do.
In the face of a growing health care crisis, open enrollment on November 1st.
Premiums, copays, and deductibles about to skyrocket and the fact that Republicans have already enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in American history as part of their one big ugly bill so they could reward their billionaire donors with permanent tax breaks.
What, same period of time, refuse to consider a multi-year extension of the Affordable Care Act or a permanent extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits.
Democrats are fighting for everyday Americans.
Cancel the cuts, lower the costs, save health care.
Hey, Joseph, have you ever worked for the government?
I'm just curious.
unidentified
No, no.
But I've known a lot of people that worked for the government.
And they say you really don't have to work for Crying Out Loud.
I know one guy that was doing like for taxes for the government and all that.
And he says they give you a certain amount to do, and after that, you're done.
And you can get done with it in six hours, and they pay you for the other two hours.
I mean, it's ridiculous.
You know, government get over, people get paid, overpaid in government.
And that goes for the senators and everybody else.
They shouldn't be making what they're getting because half of the time they're only doing sitting down, talking to somebody on the phone and not doing their job, what they're supposed to be doing.
And that goes, and then some of these people that call up and they say they're Republicans, you know, Diego well, they're not Republicans because they go crazy with Trump.
I understand some of it, but not all of it.
People go crazy with Trump.
Don't do this and do this and do that.
They don't do this.
And as far as giving money to different countries, they've been doing that for years.
So that's nothing new.
And if people think that's something new, it isn't.
On the line for Democrats, North Carolina, Charles, good morning to you.
unidentified
Good morning, Mimi.
And before I begin, I just want to tell you how much you guys on C-SPAN do such a great job.
I appreciate how you guys moderate everything.
And just you guys do a really good job.
Now, for my comment, I think the biggest problem right now that I see with a lot of Americans, too many of us only seem to care about what happens to us and our immediate families, and there just seems to be an indifference about does my neighbor have health care?
If my neighbor loses his job, do I care about it?
It just seems to be that kind of an indifference.
Here's a good example of it.
Right now, you can go to YouTube and you can look at a Charlie Kirk video where he's saying things like black women don't have the brain process and ability to hold a white man's job.
Or he'll say something like, black people should never have been given civil rights.
I don't know how other people take that, but I'm greatly offended to see the Medal of Freedom being given to somebody who makes those kind of statements about their fellow citizens.
Sticking to the government shutdown, this is the Associated Press has this.
It says that some airports refuse to play GNOME video on shutdown for the federal government shutdown and its impact on TSA.
Airports in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Las Vegas, Charlotte, Phoenix, Seattle, and more say the video's political content goes against their policies or regulations prohibiting political messaging in their facilities.