The Stone Zone dissects Roger Stone’s claims of Biden’s DOJ weaponizing Arctic Frost to surveil 800 conservatives—including Giuliani, Flynn, and GOP senators—under War on Terror powers, while exposing USAID’s alleged funding of radical nonprofits. It ties Elon Musk’s free-speech battles to Tesla’s $1M sales loss and nine federal probes, contrasts Trump’s potential Ukraine peace deal with NATO’s expansion objections, and scrutinizes NYC mayoral candidate Miam Dami’s $13K foreign donations amid deportation risks. The episode also questions the FBI’s lone-wolf ruling in Charlie Kirk’s assassination, links Portland’s Antifa collusion to ICE attacks, and blames Cracker Barrel’s 32% stock crash on "wokeness," culminating in a warning about Congress threatening rural hospital funding. [Automatically generated summary]
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Remember when Richard Nixon, it was learned, had an enemies list?
It came out in the televised Watergate Senate hearings, which America was glued to across the three existing television networks at that time.
The left went completely insane over this idea.
There really was no list.
This was basically a contrivance of John Dean, who was trying to flip from being a perp to being a faux whistleblower.
There's no evidence that Nixon used the IRS or any other government agency against private citizens.
But you don't see the same level of outrage over the fact that it has now been fully revealed that the Biden administration's Justice Department had an operation called Arctic Frost, in which 800 people at least were targeted just because of who they were.
Not what they did, but who they were and their political beliefs.
Yes, not surprisingly, yours truly was on their hit list, which was released today.
I'm proud to be the company of New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Congressman Scott Perry, General Michael Flynn, the current White House personnel director Dan Scavino, as well as U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin.
But this list also includes media organizations, alternative media organizations.
It includes the Republican Association of Attorney Generals, as if this was some kind of subversive group.
And this is, as we're now told, this was specifically contained to go to FBI field offs across the country, and that's where they were going to begin the surveillances.
So this was a giant spy ring on American citizens, and they would look for anything.
Now, this comes in addition to the phone records that were seized from Arctic Frost that showed that U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, not my favorite Republican, Senator Bill Haggerty, a great senator, Senator Josh Hawley, another great senator, Dan Sullivan, who I like, Tommy Tubberville, coach Tubberville, a real principal conservative and conscience of the Senate, Ron Johnson, who I think is also great.
Cynthia Loomis, Marsha Blackburn, and I'm unfamiliar with Senator Mike Kelly, but all of these U.S. senators were being surveilled.
An elected official, this is a violation of the Separations Act, where the executive branch cannot have the executive, pardon me, the legislative branch cannot have the executive branch spying on them.
This very quickly morphed into an unconstitutional dragnet, which gave the deep state, the Justice Department under Merrick Garland and our intelligence agencies a roadmap using the War on Terror Authority, essentially, to systematically violate the Fourth Amendment by prominent Republican groups, conservatives, and other individuals.
That's what this was.
It was a setup.
And Jack Smith's coordination between his special counsel's office with state prosecutors in New York, both Alvin Bragg and Letitia James, his coordination of the actions against Trump in Georgia with Fonnie Willis, his coordinations for the actions in Arizona and Nevada, all coordinated from one attorney general and the Biden administration.
This is a game changer, if you ask me, because it demonstrates that no Republican is safe for their overreach.
These are people who right now are whining at the fact that Donald Trump and his administration want to prosecute New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud and bank fraud, and perhaps more.
The fact that they wanted to hold Adam Schiff, who's claimed that he has two principal legal residences, and he's gotten tax advantages, a lower mortgage rate, and a lower insurance rate because of that falsehood.
It's even, I think, a legitimate question whether if he's a full-time legal resident of Maryland, he's even eligible to be a member of Congress from California.
But no one in the California government is going to bring that action.
And the fact that Trump wants to hold the people who orchestrated the greatest single dirty trick in American history, the greatest single abuse of power, in which they weaponized the Justice Department and the intelligence agencies, utilizing what they completely knew was fraudulent evidence,
the steel dossier and the false claim that Russian intelligence had conducted an online hack of the Democrat National Committee, for which there is still no evidence whatsoever.
And the Democrats never let the FBI inspect their servers.
They relied entirely on a third-party IT firm called CrowdStrike.
The judge refused to give the CrowdStrike report on this alleged hack to my defense attorneys in my trial.
But ultimately, Sean Henry, the head honcho at CrowdStrike, was forced to admit before the House Intelligence Committee that his report included no proof whatsoever of a Russian hack of the DNC.
So the question is whether any of these people are going to be held accountable.
It's not about revenge and retaliation.
It's about accountability and justice.
Arctic Frost is the smoking gun, in my view, that demonstrates how the Democrats and the deep states are knowing at war with the Constitution and the American people.
The Biden administration appointed Jack Smith to begin with, and the record that we now see of overreach is unprecedented.
This is a stretch beyond anything I've ever seen because it was extra-constitutional.
It was extra legal, not to mention the numerous ethical violations.
The House wants Jack Smith to come and testify and explain himself, and he says he will only do so if he's given full immunity.
What does that tell you?
I mean, this is not a trap.
He just has to come and answer questions.
So unfortunately, their efforts to put Donald Trump behind bars is the only way they were ever going to stop him and stop his miraculous political comeback.
And that was killing him.
And they tried that as well, as we know.
And by the grace of God, his life was spared to bring America's golden age forward.
And you can see it's like he's turning around a battleship.
It's slow, but it's steady.
And look, when he said he was going to insist on more advantageous tariff deals with our trading partners, the people on Wall Street said the stock market will crash, unemployment will skyrocket out of control.
And none of those things have happened.
And for the first month, first time in 15 years, last June, we actually had a surplus in this country, meaning we brought in more money than we paid out.
And you see new respect for America around the world.
Plus, Donald Trump has gone on a peace mission, solving eight, nine international wars or disputes between, say, India and Pakistan.
We've been through the list so many times.
And I still believe that he will, before we get to the mid-furbs, hopefully, I'd love to see it tomorrow, end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
But the NATO nations claim that this is about Vladimir Putin's desire to gobble up Ukraine missing the boat.
The point, of course, is that when the Germans agreed to, pardon me, when the Russians agreed to the reunification of East and West Germany, we agreed in two different agreements, the Budapest Memorandum and the Minsk Accords, that we would not push Ukraine into NATO, which is really defined as having NATO missiles paid for by you and I, the taxpayers of this country, appointed at Russia.
It's not really different than when Nikita Khrushchev put missiles in Cuba in 1962.
Jack Kennedy did not like that much, neither did the American people.
There are multiple reports that the silos already built to just drop these missiles in, relying there on the reporting of Max Blumenthal, whose politics are, shall we say the least, not mine.
So the true purpose of this war, the true causes of it, have to be understood.
Now, there are disputes over the Donbass, where as I understand it, they had a plebiscite that had a 90% turnout, and 90% of people wanted to return to Russia because that was the language they spoke.
Joe Biden blurted out early before the war started that he was willing to give the Russians the Donbass in order to avert a war.
But I don't know where this stands.
I do know that Donald Trump is a master negotiator.
It looks to me like he gets one side where he wants them.
And then when he goes out to get the other side, by the time he returns, the first party has folded on him.
So he's got to get Zelensky and Putin on one sheet of music.
It's turning out to be more difficult.
But I don't know anybody better to do it than the world's greatest dealmaker, the girl's greatest negotiator.
If you can survive the world of Manhattan real estate, believe me, after that, Putin's a walk in the park.
So I think that, yes, I think he's already earned the Nobel Peace Prize.
I think it is a tragedy that they have not given it to him.
I do think that the woman who heads the Venezuelan opposition, Machado, should do the right thing.
She should accept it.
She should turn around and give it to President Donald J. Trump because I believe he has earned it.
Meanwhile, in an interesting story, New York City mayoral candidate, Democrat Zoran the Ayatollah Miam Dami, has received a criminal referral to the Department of Justice for alleged campaign finance violations.
A watchdog group, the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, filed a referral because of Miam Dami's apparent habit of receiving illegal donations from foreigners.
A review from Fox News discovered that Miam Dami received $13,000 in contributions for 170 donors living outside the United States.
Now, what we don't know is whether he took those donations and submitted them into New York City's 8-to-1 campaign finance matching program.
If he did, he turned that $13,000.
We don't know that all of those contributions in size were eligible, but if they're $200 and under, they're matchable.
This is, of course, the crime that they indicted Eric Adams for.
This is exactly what he did.
He took $100,000 from Turkish interests.
He laundered it to people who lived in New York City.
They had them donate, and then he submitted those donation records for the 8-to-1 match.
So it has to be examined to see whether Miam Dami here has done the exact same thing.
The Coolidge Reagan Foundation said these are not isolated incidents or clerical errors.
This was a sustained pattern of foreign money flowing into a New York City mayoral race, which is a clear violation of both federal law and New York City campaign finance rules.
Miam Dami's campaign was on notice for months that it was accepting illegal foreign contributions, and they did nothing to stop it.
Congressman Andy Ogles has led the charge.
He's a good man to deport Miam Dami due to his association with subversive anti-American and communist political groups.
Yes, there is a law that says if you associate with such groups, you can be deported.
There's also substantial evidence that Miam Dami was not completely honest or forthcoming on his initial immigration papers.
There will be yet another grounds to deport him.
I doubt that that will happen.
At this juncture, the place to stop him if he was going to be stopped was probably in the Democrat primary.
People have to recognize the demographic changes in New York City.
A city that was once dominated by Catholics is now only about 26% Catholic.
You have about the same, you have about 27%, probably about 31% of the city is white.
Hispanic population has expanded to about 27.
So this is demographically a very different place.
The Republican Party was in much stronger position when Rudy Giuliani was elected.
So the mayor's race is going to be very interesting.
I don't think these stories, unfortunately, will impact the result because I think Miam Dambi is benefiting from the hope and change thing.
Younger voters like his I'm an outsider challenging a broken system message.
They're not focusing on his defunding of the police or raising taxes or freeing criminals.
You're not focusing on any of that.
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Well, America First Legal, that's the organization founded by Stephen Miller, who left to join the president's White House staff as deputy chief of staff, where he's doing an outstanding job on a number of domestic issues.
They launched an investigation into the city of Portland only to find the extent of the collusion going on between local law enforcement and Antifa domestic terrorists and other left-wing extremist groups involved in the subversive coordinated violent protests and attacks on ICE officers.
They announced in a press release that they were requesting records to uncover how the city of Portland enabled lawlessness by assisting anti-ICE groups in acquiring office space.
This continues AFL's investigation.
The city of Portland, which previously uncovered information showing the city of Portland's explicit use of race as a central component of the city's policing practices to achieve equitable outcomes.
This is not really surprising.
In Chicago, you've seen a situation in which J.B. Pritzker, the man who would be president, and Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago, who last time looked at a 6% approval rating, basically have ordered the Chicago police not to come to the rescue of ICE agents who are under violent attack and potentially their deaths being attacked by these violent mobs.
Lawyers I've talked to tell me that Pritzker and Johnson may yet be personally liable should any of those ICE officers be killed or injured.
That will give you some idea of the extent to which these radical left Democrats will go to try to corral the progressive left.
When Donald Trump moved the National Guard into D.C., every single person I know in D.C., black and white, was happy and relieved that their kids could now play in the front yard without fear that some gangbanger would shoot them in the head.
And you would see this in Chicago.
Chicago is the murder capital of the world.
J.B. Pritzker just tries to lie.
He goes on TV and he just lies about that.
When he's confronted by Brett Baer, who has the statistics up on the screen, he just says, no, no, that's incorrect.
So it is abundantly clear that they will not stand in the way of these violent thugs who I think are on the brink of rebellion around the country because they tried to essentially destroy Trump with lawfare.
Then they tried to kill him, and he won anyway.
And he is pursuing to keep his promises in the election.
That is making them apoplectic.
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Let's dive into the deep end.
So a breaking story, the director of National Counterterrorism, a decorated combat veteran Joe Kent, is looking into the FBI's investigation of the assassination of my friend Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA.
The FBI has said the assassination was committed by a low-nut, Tyler Robinson, essentially an open and shut case.
Kent wants to double-check this, evidently, with his own inquiry being specifically about whether any foreign or domestic terror groups were tied to the murder.
Now, I think Kent is correct for giving this case a closer examination.
It is interesting to me that the FBI has opened and closed their case so quickly.
Seen this before.
Jager Hoover took exactly seven days to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald, a lone nut, had shot JFK three times from the back.
Case closed, and he had been to Russia and came back.
See, he's a crazy Russian.
It took them seven days, as we now know, thanks to the hard work of many in the JFK researcher community and those who challenge the narrative of the Warren Commission, but particularly to the dogged work of Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, who heads the subcommittee of oversight looking into the Kennedy assassination.
We've learned so very much more.
It is interesting to me that there's a bunch of bizarre abnormalities that lead me to doubt the FBI's official story.
The FBI conspicuously fails to lock down the airspace providing the Provo airport after the assassination, allowing a getaway to take place, although examination of that aircraft seems to be benign.
Yet, George Zinn left his provocateur in the audience, causes a diversion, insisting that he's a shooter, he's detained, but that eats up time, giving the rooftop shoe cover to perform the successful getaway, if their narrative that he was shot from a rooftop is correct.
Days later, Zinn was arrested and hit with possession of media depicting child abuse.
That's sick.
The killer also reportedly took apart the rifle used to kill Kirk on the roof, then reassembled it, then dropped it in the woods to make a daring getaway, only to confess to his parents and then change back into the clothes he was seen in publicly so he could be more easily identified.
None of this makes sense to me.
No mention yet of the appearance of a magic bullet, not seen since the JFK assassination, that did not leave an exit wound in Kirk.
That does seem suspicious to me.
People who know far more about firearms, and so a doctor I had on, who was one of the country's foremost experts on gunshot wounds, all concluded that given the caliber of the bullet and the alleged trajectory of the shot, there should have been an exit wound.
And then we're told that Charlie's bone was so strong and his torso was so tight that there was no exit wound.
That didn't sound credible to me.
Anybody who understands the weapon told me that the rudimentary knowledge of physics would tell there should have been an exit wound.
So I think Joe Kent is doing the right thing.
By the way, Mr. Kent has not reached any conclusions or issued any report.
He is merely asking questions.
I'm just not in a hurry to accept the government's narrative on this.
I do think Kash Patel is a good man, and I'd like to believe that they are correct.
It does make sense that the killer was radicalized by the radical violent trans movement.
There's some evidence that he was living with a guy who was trans.
Now, this could all have been, as you know, could have been concocted.
We just don't know.
Elon Musk, back in the news, I love Elon Musk because when he bought Twitter and turned it back into X, a friend of mine told me, just go fill out a form and maybe they'll give you your page back.
I had almost a million followers on Twitter when I broke the community rule of being for Donald Trump.
I broke the community rule of questioning the legitimacy of the Mueller investigation.
And that was it for me.
I violated the community standards, whatever those may be.
And a little to my, I was actually shocked when, after I filled out a form, I was restored to Twitter, now called X. I'm there as Roger J. Stone Jr., Roger J. Stone Jr.
And, you know, but I only had 25,000 followers now, meaning many of the people following me may have been, certainly could have been bots.
But I've now kind of worked my way back up.
And that's where you can find out, you know, what I think and what I'm doing.
And I'm grateful to have it, but I remain banned for life on Facebook.
I remain banned for life on Instagram.
I had a new profile on Instagram that I set up only about a month ago.
And it went very quickly from about 537 people to more than 15, perhaps 18,000.
And of course, then Instagram shut me down, saying that I violated their community standards and that this was my second strike.
I said, I never got any notification of a first strike.
By the way, I was very judicious about what I posted there.
It was not some of my edgier material, if you know what I mean.
And they still banned me nonetheless.
They said that they banned me because my posts were inauthentic.
And then it turned out that I found online that they claimed I was dead and that I died last November, which of course I'm obviously not dead.
So that was their excuse for shutting me down.
It couldn't possibly be the real Roger Stone.
He's deceased.
Yes, it's Kafka-esque.
It's very weird.
Anyway, Elon Musk has now, it turns out, cost his company about a million dollars in electric vehicle sales because of his public advocacy for President Donald Trump, free speech, and conservative causes.
I think Elon's service to this country in running the Doge operation, which they uncovered not millions, not billions, but trillions, trillions of dollars of waste, fraud, and corruption in the U.S. government spending.
That's our tax money, folks.
That's our money.
And there's no question that there needs to be a series of rescission packages to do away with huge swaths of that spending.
It was also Elon who helped uncover the abuses at USAID.
USAID was actually not even ever formed by the Congress.
It was formed by executive order by President John F. Kennedy.
It was originally a vehicle to fund Latin and Central American countries who were fighting communism.
It had a legitimate purpose, but it spun out of control to become the funding mechanism for all of these radical nonprofit organizations that were deeply involved in American politics, including the efforts to take Donald Trump down, the January 6th fraud, the last two elections, the impeachment nonsense.
So we were essentially being attacked with our own tax dollars.
The National Bureau of Economic Research estimates that Tesla sales under Elon Musk would have been 67 to 83% higher, meaning up to 1.26 million more electric vehicles over the period between October 2022 and April 2025.
So this is roughly from the time when Musk acquired Twitter and turned it into X, and when he released all of the documentation that proved that our intelligence agencies and others in the federal government were working hand in glove with executives at Twitter to ban and cancel you if you didn't agree with their dogma.
If you question the outcome of the 2020 election or if you question the Russian collusion hoax or if you question whether Hunter Biden's laptop was really Russian disinformation or if you questioned the safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccination, you were marked for extinction.
That was an act of bravery that Musk not only bought the X and Pardon bought Twitter and made it into something much better, X, but that he released all that information because he essentially put a target on his back.
At least nine federal investigations by the Biden administration pop up against Elon Musk, who did nothing wrong.
So Musk bought X despite the fact that it was probably didn't look like a very good economic bet in the beginning.
It just shows you what very few corporate capitalists are willing to do.
I think he's done a good job.
Is it perfect?
No, it is not perfect.
Now, we know that Musk and the president had their kind of public flame out where they both said awful things about each other in haste.
But Elon Musk has since apologized for that.
And the president has said warm things about Elon.
Elon talked about forming a new party, a new reform party, but I think that he spent some money on polling.
And the polling showed that only would have split the conservative votes and let the progressive far left take control of America again.
That's not something that Elon Musk as a patriot would do.
So none of this, all of his hard work, spending his own money, setting up his own super PAC, campaigning aggressively for Trump in key states, none of that should be ignored when you talk about Elon Musk and his impact on humanity.
I think his advocacy for the Trump's re-election in 2024 and support for global free speech came at a tremendous personal and professional cost to him.
I think he's done an incredible job in his service to humanity, and he deserves to be applauded for that work.
Hopefully he's very, very involved in the 2026 midterms.
He's already made a good decision and not to try to form a new party.
He should, as Barry Goldwater said at the 1960 Republican Convention, conservatives, this is our traditional home.
Let's take over this party.
That's where the action is.
Meanwhile, independent New York City American Andrew Cuomo sounded the alarm about how radicalized the Democratic Party.
So if he sees it, that means everyone sees it.
And he understands, does understand that Zoran Miam Dami will destroy the country if he's not stopped.
But the real problem here is Andrew Cuomo's net unfavorable rating is so high.
This race has very few undecided and great volatility.
So it is not really within the realm of possibility.
This idea that if Sleewa dropped out, that all of his votes would go to Cuomo.
Or if Cuomo dropped out, all of his votes would go to Sleeway.
It does not work that way.
No polling shows it works that way.
And I think that even were that to happen, which I predicted that nobody's going to drop out after Mayor Adams, Mayor Adams endorsed Andrew Cuomo, which got no bump in the polls for Andrew Cuomo.
But then Mayor Adams was running at about 11% when he dropped out of the race.
Cuomo's idea, he the other day says, the truth is there's a quiet civil war going on in the Democratic Party right now.
You have an extreme left radical left, Bernie Sanders, AOC Miam Dami, is just the banner carrier for that movement versus mainstream moderate Democrats.
Andrew, you're dreaming.
Those mainstream moderate Democrats don't exist anymore.
That party that you are the leader of is over.
Your party is now run by AOC and Jasmine Crockett and that tired old windbag Bernie Sanders.
And you lost the Democrat primary where you spent heavily by a hefty margin.
This was not even a close race.
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So you have nurtured the left wing of the Democrat Party.
You're the guy who said as governor that if you believe in the right to bear arms or you don't support abortion, you need to leave New York State.
And now you want Republicans or conservatives or Trump supporters to vote for you?
I just don't think that's going to happen.
And I think the cake is baked here.
But if you watch that last debate, I think the only thing I saw was Andrew Cuomo demonstrated his superior knowledge of government.
Mamdabi demonstrated his superior knowledge of politics, meaning I called him Mam Dodgy because he was all over the place dodging bullets, but he managed to dodge most of them, trying to disassociate himself with his previous or real positions.
And I think Curtis Sleewa demonstrated his superior knowledge of New York and the problems facing it.
It was actually much, much, much better debate than the first debate.
At the same time, I still think that this race is probably over.
It's amazing the national attention and coverage the race is getting, by the way.
When I talk to people in other states, they all want to talk about what's going on right there in the Big Apple.
People who don't understand the politics and the demographic changes in New York City, I just find it very hard that the city is about to elect a mayor who shares the ideology of those who attacked the World Trade Center just a few years ago.
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You know, I used to like Cracker Barrel.
I mean, it was a good place to go for breakfast, the basics, you know, some fried eggs or scrambled eggs, some bacon, some sausage, some good toast.
And I could not believe that they virtually destroyed themselves.
This once-beloved brand were pilloried nationwide for embracing wokeness that they have yet to recover from.
The woke CEO, a woman named Julie Fells Messino, decided to remove the mascot in their logo, who was a white man in overalls, replacing this familiar country logo with some kind of bland, generic, corporatized, AI-created nothingness.
The menu was changed.
The decor of the restaurants was removed.
So you lost that country store feel that was the whole point.
As a result, there was immense public anger.
They quickly attempted to reverse course, but evidently the markets are not buying it.
Cracker Barrel is down in the stock market, 32% throughout the year.
And the investors are calling for the CEO's ouster in order to restore faith in the company and the brand.
There's been reportedly an 8% drop in visits to the Cracker Barrel restaurants following their woke mistake.
I think it's going to take some time to rebuild Cracker Barrel to what it once was, which was to be a clean, comfortable place for a great breakfast, which is the only thing I used it for.
And that was when I was visiting friends in Jacksonville.
I think they have to begin by implementing accountability.
The CEO should be removed from her post.
I think that's a good idea.
She failed abysmally, spectacularly.
It's difficult to believe.
I mean, they turned Cracker Barrel into a late-night comedy punchline, an example of woke corporate malfeasance.
And the whole thing got attacked nationwide.
So no one's going to trust her with their investor dollars.
I think she should be held responsible and they had to try to remake themselves.
Meanwhile, we learned that because of Chuck Schumer's shutdown, the Democrats insisting that the government stay closed until Donald Trump and the Republicans agree to add $1.5 trillion to the budget, where the Republicans are saying, let's just continue the government at the current levels of funding and not increase spending for everything.
But that has now endangered essentially the food stamp program, the federal food stamp program, which is called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
See how much better that sounds than Food Stamp.
But it'll cause a pause in benefits for 42 million Americans.
The total spending on food stamps under the SNAP program totaled about $106 billion over the previous 12-month period ending in September.
This is just this particular program.
It does not apply to other food subsidies for poor people, such as the WIC program and the free school lunch program.
So even though the Democrats claim that Donald Trump and Republicans want to cut food programs for meaty, that is simply not the case.
During the year of 2025, SNAP was set to pay out six or seven more billion in food aid than the $99.7 billion they spent in 2024.
So the Republicans did agree to increases in these programs.
Fundings for the programs have doubled since 2008 when the SNAP spending was about $52 billion.
Unfortunately, due to runaway inflation, these programs are needed.
Hopefully that will change as American trade policies bring jobs and industry and opportunity back to Americans.
But folks, the reason you're not getting your SNAP payments now is not because Donald Trump, because they're already funded, we just turn it back on.
It's because the Democrats are insisting on $1.5 trillion more, most of it for, or a good portion of it, for health care for people who are here in the country illegally.
All right, we're going to leave it there.
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They're there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Each year, America's over 5,000 hospitals care for millions of patients, providing 24-7 emergency care, delivering babies, cancer treatments, and other life-saving care that patients rely on.
Behind every one of those patients are doctors, nurses, and caregivers working tirelessly to keep people healthy and safe.
Hospitals are our community's lifelines.
They employ our neighbors and keep our families health.
But now, some in Congress are threatening access to care.
Tell Congress, protect patient care to keep America strong.