So if the Democrats were successful and repealed those provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill, we would be expanding federal um health care spending on the unauthorized immigrants, um and non-citizens.
You can find more on them at Paragoninstitute.org.
Thanks so much for joining us.
unidentified
Thank you coming up soon here on C-span, any moment now we're going to bring you our live coverage for the Virginia governor's race, with a campaign rally for Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate.
She's expected to be joined by former President Obama.
And while we wait, we're going to show you an earlier discussion from our own Washington Journal.
We are in open forum looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
We'll take your uh call shortly, but first I wanted to let you know that right after this program, in about 25 minutes, we'll have ceasefire and uh.
This week we have Democratic congressman Scott Peters of California and Utah Republican senator John Curtis.
They discuss the government shutdown, the future of health care and ongoing foreign policy challenges.
We'll also hear from Democratic strategist Anna Greenberg and Republican strategist Brendan Buck, who unpacked some of the top stories of the week, including president Trump's recent overseas trip to Asia.
That is uh coming up later this morning, right at 10 o'clock a.m.
Eastern, right here on C-span.
So the calls now to Brent in uh.
Cedro Woolley, Washington Democrat.
unidentified
Hi, thank you for taking my call.
I was originally calling about the uh a few, but anyway, i'll just change that because your guest is gone.
I would like to just point this question towards basically all you Republicans.
You know we have seen weeks and months of of ice, abusing people, beating people up uh, you know just all sorts of cruelty going on.
Now my question for all you Republicans, you know that are always calling in and blaming blaming oh uh, you know, going all the way back to Obama or Biden or whatever you know?
Do you feel good about yourselves now you know?
How is your life better?
How is your life better watching all this cruelty being inflicted?
You know, is it?
Is it better because maybe your, your dark heart has gotten darker?
Or just what has gotten better with your lives?
Tell me that you know.
Just call in one thing.
Tell me one thing that has actually gotten better since we're beating up Mexicans and being cruel to human beings.
On thursday, it was Illinois governor Jb Pritzker who had asked the Department OF Homeland Security to uh suspend or pause immigration operations in Chicago over the Halloween weekend, which is this weekend.
Here's a portion of what he said, and then the response from Secretary Christy Noam.
The Department of Homeland Security claims their highest priority is to protect children.
So today I have to ask them, please live up to those ideals.
I've sent a letter to Christy Noam and to the Department of Homeland Security leadership asking them to pause all of their federal agent operations for the entirety of the Halloween weekend.
I'm asking for basic human decency.
unidentified
I think their response will be revealing.
They've disrupted everything for more than two months already.
Give the children and the families of Illinois a break.
To Donald Trump and Christy Noam, show us this is about something other than you just causing mayhem on our streets and visiting cruelty upon our people.
We're absolutely not willing to put on pause any work that we will do to keep communities safe.
The fact that Governor Pritzker is asking for that is shameful, and I think unfortunate that he doesn't recognize how important the work is that we do to make sure we're bringing criminals to justice and getting them off our streets, especially when we're going to send all of our kiddos out on the streets and going to events and enjoying the holiday season.
We want to make sure that they're safe.
And if you see even up here, we have individuals that we've picked up off the streets with our ICE officers and CBP officers that have assault against a child, child pedophiles, rapes.
Those individuals don't deserve to be on our streets and we're certainly not going to let our kids be victimized by them.
Staying in Ohio to Babberton is Diane, Line for Democrats.
unidentified
Good morning, Mimi, and thank you for C-SPAN.
I'm just wondering the whole point of why the Democrats are holding out, and thankfully that they are, is because now they got to choose between food and medical care.
Medical care is so important.
Why doesn't anyone else listen?
And another thing is, when it came to Trump's administration, the only one I see doing anything to help people of low income is Dr. Oz, because he has found rich people who are like an example.
This one gentleman said that he had four nursing homes that were paid for.
He didn't own any.
That's a lot of fraud.
That's where the fraud is coming from.
And yes, last weekend, Sunday's paper, the Arbeagon Journal stated that out of 100 people, 96 of those women that are in prison have never done anything illegal that are migrants.
And yes, it's illegal.
It's a misdemeanor.
Just like somebody speeding over a certain amount of miles or somebody stealing from a grocery store.
The same thing.
They should not be condemned to a situation where they can't eat normal food.
It's frozen or it's poisonous.
And yet you're going to put these people down that have worked very hard to make the United States better.
Seems like we got a lot of communists in our country anymore.
unidentified
And Trump is not capable, I don't think, of dealing with them, China and Russia, and all of them.
I do not think he's capable.
And I'd also like to know how he tear down a White House to get to Bill of Ballroom.
And overnight, when it took me about six months to build a self-concentration on my property, I would like to know how he can do that.
And I'd also like to know how Maxwell, the woman, how is she getting that little light sentence after doing all she's done with these kids and having one kid to kill itself, commit suicide?
And why are they done?
Prepping her to have her ready for that ballroom to get them little kids in there for the petipaws?
And as far as the, I mean, there's so much misinformation out there, but just briefly, when you said, well, the asylees and the refugees, you mean they too will not get health care.
And that sounds very sympathetic.
But keep in mind, Biden let over 10 million people in, and all you had to do to be an asylum was say, oh, I'm scared for my life.
Meanwhile, they passed through Mexico where they should have asked for asylum there.
They are, according to U.S. law, if you get into the country and you have a credible claim, so it does have to be credible.
You don't just have to say, my life is in danger.
You have to prove it in some way.
But yes, you would be considered an asylee and you would be given a court date to appear before a judge to have that claim adjudicated.
The problem is there's not enough judges and the system is so backed up that that could take years before you would actually stand in front of a judge and have that claim adjudicated.
But during that time, you would be considered documented, right?
Yes, and that's where the disagreement is, Tom, is, you know, when one person says, well, those are illegals, technically, they're documented, right?
So they are not technically in this country illegally.
You see what I mean?
But the Republicans will say, no, they're illegals because we had this big flood of people coming in and they were all just kind of let in.
So, yeah, I think that's, it's very confusing.
What did you want to say, Tom?
unidentified
Go ahead.
Well, no, and I understand what you're saying, and it's very, you know, I mean, it's very politically correct.
But you can't, if they travel through a country where they could ask for asylum there, aren't they supposed to ask for asylum in that country, which was Mexico?
Yeah, I'm not familiar with what international law would say, but as far as U.S. law is if you do get into the country, into the United States, you have the right to ask for asylum.
unidentified
Isn't it strange how we've gone to zero now?
So there's nobody now asking for asylum.
And it was just, it was mere, well, I mean, this could go on forever.
I just politely disagree with you.
My opinion, and many of the people I know, and of course we all hang out with our own friends, we get confirmation bias, is they can all leave.
They can all leave, and then they can apply legally at a point of entry for re-entry into this country.
But I thank you for getting, and by the way, you are one of the most fair hosts on C-SPAN.
Thank you, Tom.
I think you're doing a great job, and I appreciate it, and I hope you have a great day.
So I just wanted to talk about real quick about the recent upsurge and algorithms online, where apparently Americans are, well, not all Americans, but certain sector of Americans are afraid of, I guess, this Korea law or some takeover of our country.
And I just want to make it clear that it's November and Donald Trump's peace plan still hasn't gone through.
Israel's still carrying out a barbaric genocide, and we can't get Israel to comply to any peaceful terms or negotiations.
But this Mom Donnie in New York, giving people a lot of, everybody's up in arms for some reason.
But I don't see any foresight of America being colonized or taken over by Shia law.
I mean, I think we've already been colonized, taken over by the Zionist interests, you know, and so DeAndre, tell me more about what you're seeing online.
You're seeing an uptick in, I guess, people saying that Sharia is going to take over the United States.
unidentified
Correct.
This is something that's just like, it's a conversation that's trendy now.
And I think it's because people are reacting to the fact that New York, the new possible mayor of New York, is going to be a Muslim.
And like New York happens to be, a lot of people look at New York as little Tel Aviv.
It's a lot of decisions are made out of their where the United Nations is held.
So if a Muslim mayor was to, I guess, be the mayor of New York, people would like kind of, you know, they would, it's like they're losing their, you know, their special state, you know, of control and policymaking.
And here's John in Asheville, North Carolina, Democrat.
Good morning, John.
unidentified
Good morning.
I listening to all this debate about the health care thing, and I agree with the other caller.
I'm just saying that we've made health care a big business here as opposed to what other industrialized nations are doing.
We're going to have to realize that we, despite all the talk, we all still like big government.
But in my lifetime, I'm 65.
I haven't seen small government aspirations of the American people, but national health insurance is probably with cost controls the only thing that's going to solve this.
If you're relying on capitalism and big business, that's what they do.