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| Welcome to today's Washington Journal. | ||
| Let's start with Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. | ||
| He made these comments yesterday at his press conference. | ||
| It's the profound fear in the Democratic Party that drives this shutdown. | ||
| It is not principle. | ||
| It is not policy. | ||
| It is certainly not concerned for the constituents that they say that they want to represent. | ||
| We know that because even their own constituents now are begging Democrats to stop the political games and reopen the government. | ||
| Just yesterday, the largest union of federal workers, the very people that the Democrats claim that they fight for, came out publicly and urged the Democrats to join the Republicans in passing the House's very simple short-term funding bill. | ||
| Also, yesterday, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association began to put up flyers in airports to explain the real danger that is being imposed for air travel, air safety in this country, highlighting what the Democrats are doing. | ||
| So I just want to say this simply to our Democrat colleagues. | ||
| You have an off-ramp now. | ||
| You painted yourself into a corner, but here's your off-ramp. | ||
| The unions, the largest unions, are saying, please do this. | ||
| You can claim that as cover and say that you had to do it. | ||
| Reopen the government. | ||
| Get it working for the people. | ||
| It's our number one priority and responsibility as members of Congress. | ||
| But Senate Democrats have refused to do it for almost a month now. | ||
| And that's the Speaker of the House, and this is a Politico article with the headline, troops will get their paychecks this week, Vance says. | ||
| A vice president spoke after a Senate GOP lunch where he got an earful about the administration's plan to import Argentinian beef. | ||
| It says that he was suggesting to reporters yesterday that President Donald Trump has identified a new funding to identify new funding to avoid a first ever lapse in troop pay. | ||
| Here's his quote. | ||
| We believe that we can continue to pay the troops on Friday. | ||
| Unfortunately, we're not going to be able to pay everybody because we've been handed a very bad hand by the Democrats. | ||
| Let's take a look at Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer. | ||
| He was obviously at the Capitol yesterday and he was asked about that government employees union. | ||
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Did AFGE President Every Kelly speak to you before he put out a statement Monday? | |
| And how do you respond to his statement that both parties have made their points? | ||
| Now it's time to reopen the government with a clean continuous. | ||
| Very simple, same thing. | ||
| I told him we can do both and we need to do both. | ||
| Both. | ||
| Have federal workers get paid in every way and negotiate a way to resolve the Americans' pain in the health care crisis. | ||
| Yes, yes, yes. | ||
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Putting blame aside here, what is your strategy to end the shutdown? | |
| Look, on November 1st, more than people in people in more than 30 states are going to be aghast, aghast, when they see their bills, and they're going to cry out. | ||
| And I believe there will be increased pressure on Republicans to negotiate with us. | ||
| Senator Chuck Schumer, and we are going to your phones now to talk about the government shutdown. | ||
| With you, this is Mark in Poughkeepsie, New York, Independent. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| I just don't understand why Mike Johnson is shown every day on TV, but it says the same stuff over and over and over. | ||
| Like, I just don't know why you guys keep showing them, but I guess you have to or whatever. | ||
| As far as voting, I never voted before in my life until this election. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because I always believe in doing something. | ||
| I joined the Marine Corps to protect people. | ||
| I help people all the time. | ||
| I always think about help, help, help. | ||
| How can I help somebody? | ||
| Okay, so now I decided to vote. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And I'm not voting for anybody. | ||
| I am voting against the current administration. | ||
| So I was a non-voter. | ||
| There's about 70 million of us. | ||
| And I encourage all non-voters to get out there and actually do something by voting. | ||
| And it doesn't mean you have to vote. | ||
| You have to agree with everybody. | ||
| Just vote your conscience like that, what you believe. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And let's see if we can change this, turn this around from a rich, poor country, right? | ||
| Everybody's richer against poor, poor against rich, okay? | ||
| And turn it into a helping country where everybody just goes out and just helps somebody. | ||
| That's all God wants us to do. | ||
| So one person on Mark, what was it about this past election that made you finally start voting? | ||
| And I'm assuming you're going to start voting, and this wasn't just a one-off. | ||
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Oh, no, no. | |
| I started voting yesterday. | ||
| I did vote. | ||
| And no, it's not a one-off because you have to stand up for something. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| What made me do it? | ||
| Well, when the no-kings come around, right, the protests, and those are the only group that have a spine, right, that will get out there and actually say something and do something. | ||
| And each person can talk. | ||
| I was offered to talk, all right? | ||
| But I'm not a talker. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I'm a doer. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| All we have in Congress and the Senate and the presidency is talkers. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I'm not one of them. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| But you have to take a stand somewhere in life. | ||
| You have to take a stand. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And this is a time that both sides are taking a hard stand. | ||
| It's almost like childish. | ||
| You know, it's not even an adult stand. | ||
| It's just people wanting their own way. | ||
| Stop wanting your own way and just help people. | ||
| That's all. | ||
| Just help people, regardless whether they're Republican, Democrat, Independent, whatever they are, whatever you label people as. | ||
| Okay, like they've labeled illegal aliens as illegal. | ||
| They're not illegal aliens. | ||
| In that case, we are all illegal aliens if you believe that this is God's planet because we are legally on his planet. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| All right, Mark. | ||
| We got your point. | ||
| And we are taking your calls on the government shutdown. | ||
| We've got the phone lines on your screen. | ||
| It's 202748-8001 for Republicans. | ||
| It's 202748-8000 for Democrats. | ||
| And 202748-8002 for Independents. | ||
| If you are a federal worker, that line for you is 202748-8003. | ||
| And Betty is on the line for Democrats in Jackson, Tennessee. | ||
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Yes, I have three things to say. | |
| I'm pretty near 90 years old. | ||
| The gentleman that was just on there, the reason Mr. Johnson lies because you tell a lie once and it's a lie. | ||
| You tell a lie a million times and for some reason it becomes the truth. | ||
| I don't understand. | ||
| Our president has this romance with the fountain pen. | ||
| Why he can't just sign one of them executive orders and open the government. | ||
| That's what he does for everything else, and nobody ever stops him for doing anything. | ||
| And my last thing I got to say is: I hope Mr. Johnson and the president live a lot longer than I do. | ||
| I hope they have a long life. | ||
| Because when I get up there at them pearly gates, I don't want to be standing behind them because you've got to answer for every lie and every sin you've ever committed. | ||
| And Lord have mercy, I'll be standing there from now on. | ||
| That's all I got to say. | ||
| Here's Woodrow in Georgia, Republican. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| How are you? | ||
| Good. | ||
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Yeah, I feel sorry for that lady. | |
| She don't know the difference. | ||
| She thinks President Trump can just sign a pen and open up the government. | ||
| Boy, you've been living this country all your life, but when you suffer for lack of knowledge, it's a powerful thing. | ||
| People don't understand. | ||
| President Trump can't go there and open up the government. | ||
| They beg they could hold the whole world hostage about an insurance land. | ||
| Hell, I don't get Obamacare when I try to get it. | ||
| They said I didn't qualify for it. | ||
| And so for Chuck Truman and them to not want to go vote to shut the whole world down. | ||
| We retired military, but to shut the whole world down because of some insurance, that's crazy. | ||
| And if he thinks that he's hurting anybody other than the poor people who he saved fuck, he's lying to himself. | ||
| But what they need to do is cut all of them people's checks off. | ||
| If they wasn't getting no money, they'll go sit down and do what's right. | ||
| But Chuck Truman and them, they're getting paid until somebody vote to do that. | ||
| And I heard a man called the other day and asked a question, but it was like, see, the guy that takes your place, he was scared asking. | ||
| He was asking, is Congress getting paid? | ||
| Yeah, they get their money. | ||
| Are they on Obamacare? | ||
| Hell no, they ain't on Obamacare. | ||
| They're getting the best of everything. | ||
| So until they feel what the average joke feels, I don't care what party you are, they ain't going to never change their mind. | ||
| But to think you're going to hold somebody, the whole government hostage to be able to force somebody to go for insurance, that's ludicrous. | ||
| All right, let's talk to Corliss in Suffolk, Virginia, Independent Line. | ||
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Are you a federal worker, Corliss? | |
| No, my family are federal workers. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Go right ahead. | ||
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I have a host of government, family, and military individuals that are extremely disappointed in the government, | |
| the shutdown that affects our own American citizens and have decided just to insult us by saying to the military, I'm a veteran, my husband's veteran also, by saying to the military veterans also, thank you for your service, but we don't have anything for you. | ||
| But we're so discouraged by the foreigners that are in this country, and we don't even take care of our own American people. | ||
| The biggest insult in the world. | ||
| I don't understand it. | ||
| We should be ashamed of ourselves getting this divided in this ununited states of America. | ||
| What a shame. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And this is Senate Majority Leader John Thun was on Capitol Hill yesterday, and he was asked about the potential for the Senate to consider standalone bills to fund certain programs or pay federal workers. | ||
| Take a look. | ||
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Are you inclined to continue to put up these standalone bills that perhaps pay the military to pay federal workers to provide SNAP assistance? | |
| Or do you think it has to be done all in one fell swoop? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I mean, this piecemeal approach where you do one off here, one off there to make it seem, you know, more politically palatable to somebody or less painful. | ||
| That is a wrong way to do this. | ||
| There's just a simple way to do it, is to pick up the bill on the desk of the Senate and give us five more Democrat votes to pass it so that the president can sign into law and end the shutdown. | ||
| I get the rationale. | ||
| People think about these issues in terms of, well, this one, let's do this one, this one, or this one. | ||
| But that's not the way to approach this. | ||
| The way to approach this is to just reopen the government. | ||
| I think the White House, obviously, is faced with a tough decision. | ||
| They have to figure out how do they reallocate. | ||
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We are going to break away here to bring you a discussion between Senators Tim Kaine and Rand Paul on tariffs and trade. | |
| This is live coverage on C-SPAN. | ||
| I want to fresh off a Senate vote today on a bill they co-sponsored that Senator Kaine initiated to take back the control of tariffs and, in particular, to rescind the emergency tariffs put on Canada. | ||
| This follows a vote, I believe, yesterday on tariffs towards Brazil. |