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| The White House believes it's useful to them to get Putin to the table and to get it to the old that ends the war. | ||
| So we're prepared to act. | ||
| We work closely with Lindsey Graham. | ||
| Lindsey, as you know, is a lead sponsor. | ||
| He's got 85 co-sponsors in the Senate, Republican and Democrat. | ||
| So we want to do everything we can to support the president, his team's efforts, and the efforts of our allies to bring the bloodshed to an end and a peaceful conclusion. | ||
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Can the president indicate whether he's willing to call in Grazia's nomination? | |
| Can the president indicate whether he's indicating that he's not going to be able to do that? | ||
| I think they'll have something official to say about that. | ||
| But you know what we've said, and you'll probably be hearing from them soon. | ||
| Thank you all. | ||
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Remarks there from Senate Republican leaders speaking outside of the White House after they were invited to lunch with President Trump earlier today. | |
| The federal government shutdown is about to enter its fourth week. | ||
| Coming up shortly here on C-SPAN, we'll continue our live coverage from the White House. | ||
| Senate leaders are expected to head to the White House later on this afternoon for a lunch at the Rose Garden, in part over solidarity on the shutdown between those Senate leaders and the Republicans. | ||
| It's similar to a topic on the front page of Politico. | ||
| You can find, if you get the paper version, and not if you don't, you can find this online as well, about the White House and the Republicans remaining aligned during this shutdown, saying that the White House feels as confident about the shutdown in week three as it was on day one, in part because congressional Republicans have, for the most part, remained largely in line. | ||
| Quote, there's no discussions at all in the rank and file level and what is there, even for Republicans, to be skittish about, said a Senate Republican aide granted anonymity to discuss the dynamics between the White House and Congress. | ||
| And the story also saying that there are confidence and cohesion from Republicans on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue and similar confidence among Democrats augurs no quick end to what is approaching to be one of the longest shutdowns in history. | ||
| That's the front page of Politico there. | ||
| You can find it online. | ||
| As we told you earlier, Chad Pergram from Fox News reporting early this morning, following up from a story that was yesterday about Senate Republican leaders heading to the White House today to have lunch with the president to talk about issues of the shutdown. | ||
| We know that at 10 o'clock today, the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, will hold a press conference at 10 o'clock. | ||
| You can see that on our main channel, C-SPAN, right after this program. | ||
| But you can comment on this ongoing federal shutdown, what you think about it. | ||
| Again, 202748-8001 for Republicans, 202748-8000 for Democrats, and Independents, 202748-8002. | ||
| If you are a federal worker, 202748-8003 is how you can give your comments there as well. | ||
| And you can use that same number to text us your thoughts too. | ||
| Louie on our Democrats line, he's from Illinois on this 21st day of the shutdown. | ||
| Louie, go ahead. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I've been watching C-SPAN every morning since the shutdown. | ||
| I've come to the conclusion that people don't understand that spending for health care is not wasting money. | ||
| Most of that money gets put back into our economy and starts circulating and recirculating for decades. | ||
| So, for example, we're giving money to a hospital. | ||
| They employ nurses. | ||
| They employ doctors. | ||
| They employ janitors. | ||
| Those people spend money on rent. | ||
| They spend their money on grocery bills, on gasoline. | ||
| That becomes part of our economy. | ||
| So I say, let's get this government working. | ||
| Give us health care. | ||
| And let's stop all this arguing. | ||
| It leads to nowhere. | ||
| The Senate making several attempts, the 11th we told you about, and trying to pass that short-term funding bill to get the government open to work on the larger appropriations bills. | ||
| It was yesterday that the Senate Majority Leader, according to the Hill newspaper, saying, John Thune saying on Monday, saying that the shutdown has dragged on for so long that it's time to start thinking about bringing the Republican-controlled House back to Washington to pass a new stopgap funding bill. | ||
| The House last voted on September the 19th when it passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution funding the government until November the 21st and sent the bill to the Senate. | ||
| Since then, the Senate majority leader has brought the measure to the Senate floor 10 times. | ||
| Democrats blocked it 10 times. | ||
| On Monday, acknowledged the House may need to come back soon to pass a new government funding stopgap since the November 21st end date of the pending continuing resolution is now a month away. | ||
| Asked by a reporter whether it's time to start thinking about the House coming back and extending it, the funding period, Thune replied affirmatively. | ||
| Again, the House not expected to come back this week for any type of votes in an effort to get the Senate to do its work on the shutdown. | ||
| Let's hear from Stewart. | ||
| Stewart's in Florida, Independent Line. | ||
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Hi. | |
| Hello, Pedro. | ||
| The one guy that was talking about the need for health care. | ||
| First of all, you guys at C-SPAN, I didn't know that Reagan was the one that created the hospital, whatever that was, where when he gave amnesty to the illegals and they flooded the border, and Reagan was the one that started this thing where hospitals could not refuse illegal immigrants from getting health care in hospitals. | ||
| Well, maybe that's why they started charging $1,000 for a pair of aspirin. | ||
| And then Trump has never talked about, never talked about the fraud and waste in the socialist insurance welfare system that is not regulated. | ||
| I mean, they have waste. | ||
| Every billing, medical billing professional knows about the fraud, waste, and abuse in the medical system and never even talk about the Pentagon either, the waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| Well, let's circle this back to the shutdown. | ||
| What's the point you're trying to make there? | ||
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The point is, there's no difference between these parties. | |
| They got their propaganda that they promote, but they never go to C-SPAN and look at voting records and have more power, more might in what they speak. | ||
| There's nobody speaking except for independents with common sense, meaning they go to voting records and see, like Eisenhower said, there's not a dime's difference between these two parties. | ||
| Okay, that's Stewart there in Florida. | ||
| John is up next, also on our line for independence. | ||
| He's from New York on day 21 of the federal government shutdown. | ||
| John in New York, hello. | ||
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Yeah, that political article that you read, political seems to lean very far to the left because they said that the Republican Party, they're in line with Donald Trump and they're holding tough. | |
| Now, let me tell you something, and you know darn well and your editors do know also that there was a bipartisan bill passed through the House and it was sent to the Senate. | ||
| The Senate was also voted on and it was by bipartisan. | ||
| Three or four Democrats voted for the bill, but they only need three. | ||
| But you don't ever say that the Democrats are holding tight with Schumer. | ||
| And so why do you make the Republicans' party sound so sinister? | ||
| I'm telling you, you need your editors and everything else. | ||
| Sticking to the subject at hand, whether Republicans or Democrats, as far as the shutdown is concerned, then are both parties aligned in your mind then? | ||
| Is that what you're saying? | ||
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Nonpartisan information to the American people so they can make up some, both parties can decide. | |
| And I'm just saying, how can you decide on a story and sticking up for them? | ||
| So what are you going to read? | ||
| The New York Times articles now, the Washington Post articles now. | ||
| You won't have one conservative protection there. | ||
| And I'm an independent, and I listen to this session because I want to hear what the Democrats think. | ||
| I want to hear what the Republicans think. | ||
| I want to hear what your guests think. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| We got you, John. | ||
| And you can hear what the Senate Majority Leader thinks. | ||
| John Thune, speaking from the halls of the Senate on the floor of the Senate yesterday, talking about the current status of the shutdown, particularly when it comes to the Democratic approach on the Affordable Care Act and enhanced credits there. | ||
| Here's the Senate leader from yesterday. | ||
| You have to give the Democrats credit for one thing, and that's a healthy dose of gall. | ||
| Both the House and Senate Democrat leaders were out last week claiming that they can't fund the government until, get this, we solve the, quote, Republican health care crisis, end quote. | ||
| That's right, the Republican health care crisis. | ||
| It is truly amazing how a program Democrats created and tax credits that they chose to sunset have now become the Republicans crisis. | ||
| Republicans, in fact, never had anything to do with it. | ||
| Democrats created Obamacare alone. | ||
| They implemented the enhanced tax credits alone. | ||
| And they chose a sunset date for those tax credits alone. | ||
| Democrats are solely, solely responsible for the Obamacare tax credit cliff. | ||
| And yet they're trying to pin this disaster on Republicans while at the very same time they're asking Republicans to bail them out. | ||
| It's really kind of ironic, Mr. President. | ||
| Democrats may not win a lot of points for truthfulness, but you have to give them credit for gall. | ||
| Now, Mr. President, while Democrats may have created this health care situation, I have made it clear from the beginning that Republicans are willing to have a discussion about how to address it. | ||
| In fact, I'm perfectly willing to guarantee Democrats a vote. | ||
| But none of that is going to happen until Democrats reopen the government. | ||
| We're not going to negotiate on anything until Democrats stop holding government funding hostage. | ||
| And if they really want to address their Obamacare mess, they should stop running out the clock on a deal. | ||
| And they're doing all they're doing by that action, Mr. President, is keeping the government shut down and enhancing, enhancing, believe it or not, the chances this situation doesn't get fixed because the clock is running. | ||
| Punch Bowl follows up with the Senate Majority Leader telling reporters yesterday, according to their Punch Bowl newsletter this morning, that Congress may have no choice but to pass a one-year CR after the government opens up. | ||
| That would be a massive blow to appropriators in all Republican Washington. | ||
| It says, regardless of what happens with the enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies at the heart of the record-breaking funding clash, healthcare is already paying a huge role in the 2026 Senate landscape, and it's only going to get larger across Senate battleground states. | ||
| Soaring health care costs on top of rising prices for food, housing, and electricity are hammering voters and boosting Democratic hopes that they can cut into the GOP majority. | ||
| That's from Punch Bowl News this morning, asking your opinion on this ongoing shutdown. | ||
| This is Christina joining us, Democrats line in Illinois. | ||
| Hello. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| You know, I've always was told, I don't know if it was social studies class, economics, or civics, that a good deal, an agreement, makes neither side gets everything they want. | ||
| Now, what I fear with this shutdown is that President Trump is just, well, he got free reign. | ||
| There's no one watching over him. | ||
| Let's say with the, you know, the missiles that are firing at so-called Venezuelan drug runners. | ||
| I mean, to me, that's terrorism. | ||
| We have not declared war. | ||
| Congress is not there to declare war or call them, name them officially terrorists. | ||
| I think that makes us the terrorists. | ||
| And I just wish they'd get all this straightened back up. | ||
| Well, when it comes to the deal, would you advise Democrats to hold off on requiring these health care portions for a later discussion if they can reopen the government? | ||
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I like their stick-to-stick-to-edness, but I mean, everybody's got to give a little bit, you know, give a little bit to make an arrangement, to make an agreement. | |
| Okay. | ||
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unidentified
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That's what I feel about that. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Christine in Illinois. | ||
| Let's go to Idaho. | ||
| This is on our independent line. | ||
| We will hear from Earl. | ||
| Hello. | ||
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unidentified
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Good morning. | |
| I just thought I'd mention the current government shutdown was brought on by our past administration because they allowed illegal immigration to come into this country and escalate the problems we've got today. | ||
| That's the way I'm looking at it. | ||
| Well, how are they resolving it then? | ||
| If this is, in your opinion, a past problem, how should they resolve it now? | ||
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Well, if we don't have a country that sticks together with the laws that are on the current books and have been, then we've got a problem with both administrations. | |
| Well, what does that mean regarding this shutdown specifically? | ||
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unidentified
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Like I said in the beginning, the current shutdown today was brought on by the past administration because they didn't govern this country by the laws that were on the books. | |
| Okay. | ||
| Ernestine in North Carolina, Democrats line. | ||
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unidentified
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Hello. | |
| Good morning. | ||
| What I wanted to say was the shutdown was y'all President Trump. | ||
| He didn't want to get the shutdown, not Democrats. | ||
| Now, here he is, everybody out of work, but he's going to get his bar road started. | ||
| That's what they need to contest against. | ||
| He should not be allowed to do anything for himself and got everybody else in the whole world distress. | ||
| We are in distress for unnecessary reasons. | ||
| He hates Obama. | ||
| And because he hates Obama, until he gets his way, these are the things that he pulls on people. | ||
| Shut down the government. | ||
| Don't shut down the government. | ||
| Look how important the government is to us. | ||
| Airplanes, food, money, everything that we get is depend on the government. | ||
| Leave government alone. | ||
| He needs to shut himself down because he has started so much trouble. | ||
| Well, what would you say about Republicans saying it's the Democrats because they put these health care requirements on reopening the government? | ||
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They didn't shut it down. | |
| Trump shut the government down. | ||
| Trump doesn't shut the government down 40 times. | ||
| 40. | ||
| Each time he cannot have his way, that's what he does. | ||
| Tell him to find something else to shut down because he doesn't shut down everything else. | ||
| I get $34 a month in food stamps. | ||
| And I've been to Obamacare before, and Obamacare helped me out. | ||
| It's just like any other insurance. | ||
| It goes by your income. | ||
| When I got on Medicare, I came off Obama because they put you off of Obama. | ||
| You don't stay on it once you get on Medicare. | ||
| You get on Medicare on Medicare, you no longer allowed. | ||
| Obamacare is for people that has no income, no income. | ||
| If your income is higher than what they anticipate, you would not be on Obamacare. | ||
| I have been on it before, and I know it goes by your income. | ||
| So people that's saying that it's doing just like Blue Cross, Blue CEO, Cigna is doing just like any other insurance, going by your income. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| That's Ernestine in North Carolina. | ||
| James is up next. | ||
| He's in D.C., Independent Line. | ||
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unidentified
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Go ahead. | |
| Yeah, how you doing, man? | ||
| I just wanted to say, like, with this shutdown thing, Democrats definitely need to stick with it because if they do give in, what's going to happen is whatever deal they make, they're going to reneg on it like they reneged on everything else. | ||
| It's no future insight if they do give in. | ||
| So they might as well hold off to make sure that they get the tax breaks extended for the Affordable Care Act. | ||
| Also, with the shutdown, shouldn't they be not taking taxes right now? | ||
| I mean, like, seriously, they ain't there to work. | ||
| So at the end of the day, they're still collecting tax money and building ballrooms and giving 20 billion to other countries. | ||
| So they got to put us first. | ||
| We need to become first. | ||
| That's all I got to say. | ||
| From Alvina in Maine, Republican line, you're next. | ||
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unidentified
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Hello. | |
| How you doing? | ||
| Fine, thank you. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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unidentified
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All right. | |
| You know, this whole federal shutdown, I agree with the Democrats. | ||
| You know, I use the Obamacare. | ||
| The Obamacare is, you know, very helpful to me in a lot of ways. | ||
| I'm a disabled woman. | ||
| I'm also on Section 8. | ||
| You know, Donald Trump, he sits back and says he wants to get rid of the Fair Housing Act, the federal Section 8 program, which I am on. | ||
| I currently have, and I waited 10 years to get. | ||
| You know, I'm sorry to say, but this is probably the worst president we have ever had in history. | ||
| He has. | ||
| Well, when it comes to the shutdown, why as a Republican, you're aligning with the Democrats on this one as far as keeping the government shut down? | ||
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Well, because the Democrats are the ones that are trying to support the health care, the affordable housing, groceries, and things like that. | |
| You don't hear the Republics getting on their hell. | ||
| All you do is hear Donald Trump talking about getting rid of all the federal programs like the SNAP benefits. | ||
| And he's passed a bill for the SNAP program, trying to abolish it and get rid of it. | ||
| You also hear him saying that he wants to get rid of the Section 8 program, which houses millions of poor people. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| You know, yes, you know, when Biden went and allowed all these eagle immigrants to come into our country, yes, it represented a real serious issue with, you know, providing them with food stamps and health care and things like that. | ||
| But, you know, when he got in office, it seems one, he's trying to take away our freedom of speech. | ||
| Anytime anybody speaks out against him, he threatens them, bullies them, into doing what he wants them to do. | ||
| That's Albina there in Maine. | ||
| Again, the federal shutdown, if you want to comment, 202-748-8001 for Republicans, 202748-8000 for Democrats, and Independents, 202748-8002. | ||
| Federal workers, you can call in at 202-748-8003. | ||
| You can use that same line, too, if you want to text us your thoughts this morning. | ||
| Speaking of Democrats, the Senate Minority Leader on the floor yesterday talking about the status of the shutdown, particularly the expiring Affordable Act, Care Act exhausted tax credits. | ||
| These comments were made on Monday. | ||
| Health insurance prices under the ACA are now available in about a dozen states, and Americans in those states are already seeing with their own eyes the horrifying truth what we've been warning about for months, that multiple millions of people are going to pay tens of thousands of dollars more for health care. | ||
| So vital to Americans. | ||
| When you are in a family and you know you can't provide health care for them or much reduced health care, and you look at your spouse, you look at your kids, and you say, what am I going to do if they get sick? | ||
| What a frightening experience for people that Republicans are putting America through. | ||
| All because they wanted to cut all these, cut all this health, cut Medicaid and cut so much else in health care to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. | ||
| It's just perverse. | ||
| It's inside out. | ||
| It's upside down. | ||
| And let's be clear about who will get hurt if these tax credits expire. | ||
| Republicans have been lying about that too. | ||
| If the ACA premium tax credits expire, the majority of people who will pay more out of pocket are working and middle-class families. | ||
| In fact, the majority of people who benefit from the expiring tax credits live in Republican districts. | ||
| The state of Louisiana, home of Speaker Johnson, is one of the states about to suffer most. | ||
| I read an article last week from CNBC. | ||
| It said, the headline, ACA enhanced subsidy lapse could hit early retirees hardest. | ||
| Middle-class couples in their 50s and early 60s who are too young to qualify for Medicare face the largest dollar increase in premium payments. | ||
| One Idaho couple interviewed by CNBC will see their premiums spike not by 50%, not by 100%, by 300%. | ||
| $15,000 more a year just to have health insurance. | ||
| That's what financial ruin looks like. | ||
| In fact, if these tax credits expire, older Americans could end up spending 30% of their income just on health care premiums. | ||
| Can you imagine? | ||
| What kind of country do we live in? |