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Oct. 1, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Shutdown Looming - September 30th, Hour 1
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If you want to be a part of the program, eight hours, 54 minutes till the Schumer shutdown in Washington.
Um, and it is a it's almost a certainty at this point.
Uh, we have the vice president J.D. Vance after being in the meeting.
We had uh Speaker Johnson on last night, uh says the government likely will be headed into a uh shutdown.
By the way, it will be the administration that has a say in what is viewed as essential and non-inset non-essential government employees.
Um the remarkable part of this is Democrats are shutting it down because they're just throwing a temper tantrum.
Democrats are doing the very thing that they themselves have said over and over again, all the 13 times that this issue came up when they were in power, is horrible to do to the country.
Just a reminder.
Listen.
It is not normal to shut down the government when we don't get what we want.
If the government shuts down, it will be average Americans who suffer most.
A government shutdown means seniors who rely on social security could be thrown into chaos.
Families will be hurt.
Farmers will be hurt.
It's the service members who will work without a paycheck.
It's the firefighters who will be furloughed.
This shutdown, you know who's gonna feel the pain?
You know who it hurts?
You.
Everyday people and the most vulnerable, seniors, veterans, working families, hungry kids, y'all.
Democrats are signaling they're ready for a fight.
This time Schumer tells the associated press, quote, things have changed.
It is not normal to shut down the government when we don't get what we want.
All the same people now pushing, advocating for a shutdown.
Let me explain what is really happening here.
Is Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are not the leaders of their party in their respective houses.
It is the radical left that now controls the Democratic Party.
It is a radicalized party.
And all the years of saying, oh, it's terrible to shut down the government, and these are the people that are going to get hurt, and we can't allow that to happen.
All but have been big opponents of government shutdowns, excoriating Republicans when they're not in power and they don't have leverage, and they try to negotiate a budget with the Democrats.
Democrats have shut them out, shut them down, push them out of the way, and blame them for the shutdown.
And this is, you know, they they've always pushed, they've always supported what's called a clean CR continuing resolution, and that would keep government being funded at current levels.
They are demanding 1.5 trillion dollars in new spending, or they threaten to shut the government down.
That's why it's gonna be shut down.
And maybe it'll be shut down for some time until they begin to read the polls and they begin to realize that they are going to get blamed for them.
Chuck Schumer signed on to a continuing resolution a number of months ago, and when he did, he was excoriated by his base, by his party uh for doing so.
So now a position that he has held all throughout his political career, he is casting aside and he's doing that which the radicals that run his party demand because he's not a leader.
Uh the uh the very thing that he's championed his whole career.
And let me tell you what this really reflects on a deeper level is that he has no power here.
He knows that at any moment AOC could primary him.
And if AOC primaries him, he will retire.
He will get out of the U.S. Senate.
He will no longer be the minority leader because he has no shot at beating AOC in a primary, uh, Democratic primary in New York State.
It won't happen because the people that show up in these primaries in New York, especially, are the radical left.
So anyway, this now this now looms.
Uh the House is staying firm.
Speaker Johnson and uh majority leader thune, and they are they they're saying, uh-uh, give us one point five trillion.
Donald Trump is not giving them one point five trillion dollars.
You know, these Democrats that they have been fighting for in part, you know, monies to give health care to illegals, you know, they've sort of backed off that position because that's not working out.
That's not tenable, but they but that's what they wanted.
That's what they stated they wanted.
They want PBS and MPR to get all their funding back.
Uh, and a big part of this this whole thing comes down to Joe Biden Obamacare subsidies that he put in place.
It was supposed to be temporary, but you you've instituted a new policy in Washington, nothing's temporary that were COVID related.
In other words, you know, but look, Obamacare's been a disaster.
It's been really an under or nearly hardly reported story.
All the promises of Obamacare have not been fulfilled.
Millions of you have lost your doctors, millions have lost your plans, millions of you, and then nobody saved $2,500 per family per year.
That didn't happen, never was gonna happen.
That was the promise of Obamacare.
The Obamacare exchanges now, there is nearly over there's now over 40% of the country has one Obamacare exchange option, and that's it.
And remember, they initially required everybody to get into the system.
It was only Donald Trump that gave you the option not to be in the system.
And anyway, so b the under the brilliance of Obamacare, anyone in America that doesn't have health insurance uh basically had two options.
You get on the government-funded Medicaid, and then we're talking about able-bodied people that have no reason not to participate.
Uh they're just getting taxpayer-funded health care, which puts, you know, which puts us on a path towards insolvency and bankruptcy, never mind the debt that we'll take on, you know, paying for everybody that are very capable of working and and getting their own health insurance, or buy a plan from the Obamacare Exchange.
Uh the end result of this has been an unmitigated disaster.
And, you know, it goes to a philosophy I've had my entire career is never ever put your trust in the government.
Why would you do that?
Besides the military, and they they do overspend.
There's no doubt about that part.
However, it is a necessity, and it is the most efficiently run in terms of the quality of people that we have in our military today, the men and women that uh that join in all volunteer military to protect the Cause of liberty and freedom around the globe.
And then when moments come and we need to take out Iranian nuclear sites, we are able to do so with sophisticated precision that nobody ever dreamed of.
And because of Joe Biden basically not supplementing, not building up our military, where we now find ourselves where Reagan found himself with a gap of vulnerability.
We've got to replenish munitions.
We've got to build out the next generation of weaponry, which they're in the process of doing.
They've got to find a way to fulfill the president's dream of a golden dome, which would protect every American, especially in light of hypersonic missiles and new missile technology from any threat from any geopolitical foe.
And we've got a lot to get to.
But with all that said, ask yourself what has government done so efficiently that gives anyone confidence, faith, hope in the government.
Obamacare's exhibit A. It's been a failure.
And then you have, you know, ha how is your local school system doing?
There are there are good school districts in the country, usually more affluent areas of the country where there's a lot of parental involvement, a lot of donations involved, and higher taxes, property taxes impacting the amount of monies that they can spend and nicer facilities and more rigorous standards.
But if you look at how much we pay per capita on education per student compared to any other country in the industrialized world, we have the worst results.
How's that working out for you?
You know, we're supposed to be protected by local government, state government.
We're supposed to have law and order.
We're supposed to have safety and security.
How's that working out for you since Democrats have instituted defund, dismantle no bail laws, reimagine the police and replace them with social workers?
So I ask again, why do so many people put their faith, hope, trust, and belief that the government is going to provide for them.
The best advice I can give all of you in this audience is never believe that lie and find a way towards economic independence in your life.
And if it means working extra jobs, which I've done pretty much my entire life, that means go work the extra job and and and try to save money for a rainy day.
I've been poor in my life, and now I have money in my life, and I know what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck.
It's a lot better off if you have some money in the bank, I'm telling you.
However, money does not buy happiness.
Don't believe that it does.
The only thing money does do is it gives you freedom.
Freedom to make choices for the betterment of yourself and your family.
And if you want to leave an area, you can afford to do so.
Uh that's if you if you want to pursue a career, it gives you the freedom to do so.
But the thing is is, you know, the rugged individualist uh American, that that is what has built this country and risk taking and living in freedom and bringing your God-given talent to fruition and providing goods and services the people want, need, and desire.
But you know, what the Democrats really are fighting for here is, you know, that basically telling people that we want to go back to government-funded Medicaid, even for able-bodied people, which we cannot afford.
And yeah, they have and have continued to fight for the rights of or so-called rights of illegals, you know, to get free government-funded health care, something they also uh spoke out against many years ago, and we'll play that later in the program.
But this was all part of Joe Biden's American rescue plan.
It was two trillion dollars that he dropped into the economy at the start of his term to spike inflation.
That did spike inflation, and the government subsidized the cost of Obamacare exchange plans and Medicaid, and instead of improving everything, the Democrats decided the government would pay for it all.
Now, Republicans in the one big beautiful bill, they took that away.
And so Democrats now are trying to hold hostage the American economy, the duly elected government of President Trump, and do that which they said that they would always be against.
Well, so much so much for that level of responsibility.
But it's going to be interesting to watch, I will tell you.
You know, and anyway, the I I don't see the Democrats easily getting out of it this time.
In the end, they're gonna have to get out of it.
In the end, their constituents are gonna, you know, scream bloody murder.
But really, they do want the reinstatement of free health care for anybody.
They want 500 million dollars to prop up MPR and PBS, you know, uh, and they they want to cut fifty billion dollars in the one big beautiful bill for rural health care.
Oh, that's right, because they don't come from big they only come from big cities and they only care about their constituents.
They don't care about the rest of the American people.
So that's where we find ourselves and in a little over what is it now?
Eight hours and what, 20 uh 40 minutes, you know, this shutdown will go forward.
I don't think there's any way to stop it at this point.
I don't think it's gonna matter in the end.
I might be the only one that's consistently said over the years, government shutdowns don't scare me.
Because it always ends the same way.
The party that's not in power will have to capitulate and have to give in.
The government will reopen, and people will get back pay and end up ostensibly getting a free vacation.
That's how it usually ends.
And you know, at some point here, this might open the door.
I mean, there's an irony here.
But Donald Trump to implement Doge 2.0 and just say, okay, nonessential workers don't bother coming back.
Your jobs are no longer available.
And then that would be on the Democrats.
Now, do I think that's gonna happen?
I have no indication at all it will, but it wouldn't be too bad.
All right, as an experiment, uh just quick questions, quick answers.
Jeff, do you care in Florida?
Do you care about the government shutdown?
And if you do or don't, who would you blame if it happens?
Well, it's not gonna affect me one way or the other, Sean, because I'm gonna get up tomorrow morning and I'm gonna go to work, and it's not gonna faze me one bit, and I'm still gonna get paid.
Um the one thing that really has got me a little confused, though, is about all the tariff money that's been coming in.
I'm not really sure exactly where it's all going because nobody's really talking about it.
You just, you know, you hear the president, well, well, we're taking in trillions from this country, trillions here and trillions there.
But now we can't keep the government open because you know there's no money.
No, they're being pr they're trying to hold President Trump hostage, and they're trying to exert power that has not been given to them by the American voters.
And they it that's why it's the Schumer shutdown.
Anyway, I'm going through quick.
Debbie in Michigan, do you care if the government shuts down or not?
I do not, Sean.
And do who would you blame if it shuts down?
I would blame the uh Democrats.
Appreciate it, Debbie.
God bless you.
Joe in Colorado, do you care if the government shuts down?
Yeah, hi, Sean.
Uh I actually I would rather not speak on I I hope it doesn't happen uh that I'm not here to assign blame.
That's not my purpose in this call.
I I wanted you to know just one thing up front that I'm a rabbi, Jewish rabbi, and I have a heart that that leans into the world of the liberal left.
But I want you to know up front that I I'm calling to let you know that I am deeply troubled, deeply disturbed over what has been happening in a party that is supposed to be grounded in compassion and injustice and justice,
not injustice, and injustice, and what has been done to Charlie Kirk and how my many of my fellow uh people on the liberal wing or left wing of the party have responded is I think obscene.
And I try in my life, even though I do have leanings To the liberal or left uh wing of the party.
I try to see in people like yourself and in my outreach to those on the political right to see that there is decency.
I understand there are differences, but that our differences don't have to be.
Well, I'm past uh or Rabbi, I rather I can we can talk about this all day.
Um the bottom line is you have to have a free and open exchange of ideas, and violence can't be tolerated on any side.
And unlike the left, uh when there are instances of violence and assassination, a culture which I believe is being fostered with with racist Nazi Hitler Stalin Mussolini comparisons.
I think it's you know, it definitely has an impact on the minds of people that are are teetering on the edge to begin with.
Uh anyway, let's go, Darlene in Kentucky, real quick.
You care about a government shutdown, Darlene.
Uh, yes, I do not want the government to shut down.
However, I would like to see the Republicans stand strong and not give in to the Democrats and their needless funding of things that don't pertain to U.S. citizens.
Um, I think they're violent and an able-bodied people need to need to contribute.
You're in then that's what they're that that's what they're fighting over.
I mean, they want 1.5 trillion in new spending.
We can't afford it.
Can't.
And we work hard for our money that we pay our taxes with.
I just got down at my accountants and found out how much I still owe.
And it's kind of ridiculous when I see that the Democrats wanting to squander money that I've worked hard for.
You we work hard for our money.
No doubt about it, darling.
You deserve to keep more of it too.
And under Trump, you got the largest tax cut in history.
And once all of this takes effect, once 17 trillion dollars in new manufacturing begins and investments in this country, I think things are going to be much better off when when energy dominant policies come into place.
Uh we're all going to be better off.
The economy will turn.
No doubt about it.
Kim in Michigan will go to you uh 800-941 Sean.
You know, you care, Kim, if it shuts down?
No, I d I don't care if they shut down.
I've been working since I was 12 years old, and I'm 62 now.
I pay my taxes, and I'd rather see it go to Americans.
A hundred percent.
It's enough is enough is enough.
Is enough is enough.
Anyway, I appreciate it.
We'll get to more of your calls coming up in a minute.
Um, listen, uh Kami Mamdani.
He wants the Trump proof New York City.
He wants to spend 165 million to keep illegals from being deported.
I mean, this this is the government working to defy federal law.
That's what a sanctuary state state city does.
This is what's been going on in states like California, cities like LA, San Francisco, Portland, you know, all these sanctuary, you know, mentalities.
Ireland, by the way, is offering illegal migrant families nearly 12 grand to leave the country.
That's how badly the problem has gotten in Europe.
It is uh it is pretty unbelievable.
You want to talk about tone deafness too?
Texas Democrat from South Texas, congressional candidate is uh blasted for having a bloody Trump costume, you know, more violent rhetoric.
You know, what part of the environment we're living in are these people not listening to?
How can you be that tone deaf?
One illegal immigrant superintendent nabbed by ice that he helped pass, you know, a policy allowing criminals to be hired in the district.
I mean, this is going on all over the country.
It is uh it is unbelievable.
The drug task force seized a record one million pounds of cocaine, denying cartels and narco-terrorists eleven billion dollars.
Uh we have over four hundred Iranians in this country that have been deported after the U.S. reached a deal.
400 Iranian nationals being deported.
Do you think people from Iran are coming here because they they want a better life for themselves and their family?
Or Syria or Egypt or all these other countries, and then you got these idiots like J.B. Pritzker accusing ICE of harassing people for not being white.
And meanwhile, 300 suspect a trend Iraqwa gang members, you know, arrested in Chicago.
And of course, you know, then you have all these people tipping off and putting ICE agents in danger.
Then you have Gavin Newsom signing a bill that ICE agents can't wear a mask.
These people would like anonymity.
They're doing the job they were hired to do and enforcing the laws that Congress passed.
And yet Gavin exempts his own police department that protects him, armed police department from the same restrictions he's trying to put on ICE, which by the way, ICE is not going to follow.
Hillary Clinton claiming that white men of a certain religion are damaging America.
Really, on liberal Joe.
The idea that you would turn back the clock and try and recreate a world that never that never was dominated by you.
Let's say it's white men of a certain persuasion, a certain religion, a certain point of view, a certain ideology.
It's just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for.
And the idea that you could turn the clock back and try to re-create a world that never was dominated by, you know, let's say it, white men uh of a certain persuasion, uh, certain religion, uh a certain point of view, a certain ideology.
It's just doing such damage to what we should be aiming for.
And we were on the path toward that.
I mean, imperfectly, lots of, you know, bumps along the way, but I agree with you, we were on the right trajectory.
You know, James Carville, I used to like James Carr.
He's kind of been off the rails lately, like big time off the rails.
He said in a piece in the New York Times, he wrote, How could I, at 80 years old, been doing this for 50 years, lapse into that level of stupidity, he asks himself.
He broke down why Kamala Harris lost.
And, you know, character, honesty, decency, intelligence, democracy.
None of these seem to matter in our country, which I disagree with when electing a president.
And then he said, you know, and he said, there's a simple basic rule of politics is voters want an election to be about them.
And he was predicting that Harris would win the election.
Three reasons he wrote why I'm certain that Kamala Harris will win.
And then he said, you know what?
In retrospect, Democrats prioritizing, you know, hating Trump, attacking Trump 24-7, 365.
How could I have been doing this for 50 years and lapse into that level of stupidity?
Well, I mean, at least there's some self-reflection on his part, a little late since the election.
It's been almost a year.
Pretty bizarre but interesting.
Harris has no regrets about standing up for transgender inmates.
I mean, in other words, taxpayer-funded uh trans surgeries for inmates and for illegals.
I I mean, you can't make this up.
Then she yelled at her staff apparently because they didn't prepare her for an interview.
If you're running for president and you can't do a basic simple interview, you know, I do interviews, I don't do as many as I used to, but I do interviews with people.
Let me tell you how the interview usually ends up going.
I get asked one question, and I don't shut up.
And I just keep going because I have something to say because I have strongly held beliefs.
It's that it's that simple.
I don't know if you saw the New York Post story or the interview on Fox.
Uh, this guy testifying before Congress, a distraught father, the beautiful 22-year-old aspiring teacher, murdered by a career criminal, visiting friends, University of South Carolina, just ripping lawmakers for their lax crime policies, allowing the killer to remain free.
I mean, this was a raw gut-wrenching address during a congressional hearing in Charlotte.
And, you know, how many of y'all have kids, he said?
Here's what I need you to do when I tell you the story.
Think about your child.
This whole this young girl had her whole life ahead of her.
Her whole life, all her God-given potential, wiped out.
Half a Democratic voters don't believe violent crime in the U.S. and U.S. cities is a problem.
I'm like, how could you be that stupid?
Are you really that dumb?
Are you really that blind?
The state of Texas just replaced New York City as the banking capital of America.
Now it's not just Wall Street South in my free state of Florida.
JP Morgan Chase and Company now employs more workers in Texas than in New York State.
What do you think is going to happen when Kami, the Marxist Mamdanny, gets in office?
By the way, the troubles of Mikey Sherrill, I mean, but the all of these troubles about Mikey Sherrill and all these revelations came out after the Emerson poll had Jack Chitarelli tied at 4343 in New Jersey.
If you're in New Jersey and you want a Republican governor, you can have one.
If all of you in New Jersey go out and vote, I mean, then we find out she's part of a cheating scandal, wasn't allowed to walk and graduate with her class, wasn't put in the yearbook of her the year she graduated.
Now we find out she's facing another controversy.
Revelation that her two children were accepted into the highly competitive Naval Academy, raising eyebrows and questions of nepotism in that particular case.
A lot of scrutiny going on there.
And then, of course, she wouldn't commit to not raising taxes on the people that are way overtaxed in the state of New Jersey.
Pretty unbelievable.
Great campaign she's running there.
I'll tell you that.
Oh, by the way, Jimmy Kimmel lost a whopping 72% of his target demo.
I told you this would happen.
I said he'd have a short bump.
Oh, and Rosie O'Donnell's shrink doesn't understand why her Trump derangement syndrome is so out of control.
Well, if her shrink can't figure her out, then I'd say she's a lost cause.
Anyway, 800 941 Sean is on number.
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