Trish Regan exposes Democrats' hypocrisy during the government shutdown, highlighting how Senator Jean Shaheen falsely claimed her party opposes health care for undocumented immigrants despite evidence to the contrary. She critiques Senator Kennedy's assertion that Democrats demand $1.5 trillion in new spending rather than accepting the status quo, arguing this narrative is a lie designed to derail progressive policies like minimum wage increases. Ultimately, Regan concludes that millions of uninsured Americans need coverage and that the shutdown stems from Democrats' refusal to negotiate without additional funding, prioritizing political leverage over practical solutions. [Automatically generated summary]
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Democrats Train Wreck00:04:19
I mean, talking about poorly played, right?
The Democrats, I almost can't believe it.
It's sort of surreal to watch this right now because it's like this total train wreck.
And you're like, guys, you know, not that I want to help them, but like clearly I could, right?
Anybody could because they just need to be saved from themselves at this moment in time.
Welcome to the program.
I am Trish Regan.
This is the Trish Regan Show.
We got lots going on.
We get the Democrats getting called out on live TV, like places like CNN, for goodness sakes, for all their lives.
You're not going to believe these clips.
I mean, I just can't wait to show you.
AOC is one of them, meanwhile, who's getting called out.
The lady who somehow think she's running the whole thing right.
She's the one in charge of this, because if anybody wants to negotiate, they just need to go see her in her office.
Oh yeah, Nancy Pelosi didn't like that so much the other day, nor did some of the others, but she's getting called out too by, like CNN.
I mean what the heck is going on?
Meanwhile, we got a big old boycott happening at Netflix.
It led by one Elon Musk.
I'm looking at the stock price down despite a market being up.
This thing may have some legs, my goodness right, my goodness.
Well, we begin with the humiliation of the Democrats here, one after another.
Just line them up if you would, because you've got a total triumph going on for one Donald Trump while the Democrats get shattered in these humiliating television moments.
I mean, you can't make it up.
Like really and truly, you cannot imagine such a bad set of facts for a bunch of people.
And they forget.
They just forget that there's this little thing called tape or whatever you want to call it.
Encoding, streaming, whatever.
The reality is the truth exists.
And so when they try and tell us something that's totally fake, like, oh, Democrats don't support health care for illegals, well, you know, they get caught out with their own words.
I want to go to Lawrence over on Fox on the morning show, who did a very nice job calling out one Jean Shaheen.
I like to call her Jeannie because we go way back, New Hampshire.
It's a New Hampshire thing, okay?
And, you know, live for your die state, great state, great place.
But for her to say this, I'm sorry.
Like, Lawrence, good one, okay?
Look at the clip he played her.
Let's watch it together.
I haven't heard anybody in my party saying that illegal immigrants should get access to the health insurance marketplace.
I'm so glad you said that.
Actually, I have some tape of your Democratic Party members saying this on the debate stage.
So they've all said, and let's play the clip.
A lot of you have been talking tonight about these government health care plans that you've proposed in one form or another.
This is a show of hands question, and hold them up for a moment so people can see.
Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants.
Senator, that's literally every member of your party, from moderate to more progressive, that have said that in the past.
That was good.
That was good.
Okay, you guys have me nervous there because you know I do watch your live chat in real time.
And Cat Crazy, you were complaining that you didn't have any sound.
So you better have sound because if you don't have sound, I'm going to be really upset.
I did ask you all and you guys are saying they're sons, so that's a good thing.
You almost didn't have a picture for a second, but we fixed that.
Anyway, this is unbelievable.
They're totally being shattered.
I mean, that was, and you know, Jeannie, like, again, I like, and personal anecdote here for you, you know, some of you may know, some of you may not know, the family that I grew up in, I've talked about this before, very sort of liberal, blue-collar roots.
And my uncle at one point, actually at two points, maybe at three points, actually ran for governor in one of those campaigns.
He was actually the Democrat.
nominee for governor.
And I was about 10 years old.
And Jeannie, that's what we call her back home, she ran the campaign.
So I was there like licking envelopes and stamping things and making cold calls to voters to see if they would vote for my uncle, who has, you know, kind of a, God rest his soul, wonderful man, really, really wonderful, wonderful man, but had a different sort of view on the world than I eventually came to have.
And, you know, Jeannie Shaheen was his campaign manager, right?
So like small world.
So I hate to see her getting so embarrassed, but.
Uncle Jeannie Campaign00:05:52
I'm sorry.
Like, you can't just sit there and tell us.
You cannot tell us.
You cannot lie to us.
You cannot tell us, Senator Shaheen, that nobody supports this, when in fact, they all support it.
It's a huge part of their platform.
This is what they wanted, eh?
You know, if Kamala was there, it might be a very different story, right?
I want to go to a very important sound by of Senator Kennedy on Capitol Hill today, where he kind of just broke this down.
I thought this was one of the best analysis that I've seen.
And I think, before we go into all the other sound that I want to show you, it's really important to understand, like, what's at stake here really, and and what this is about, because this continuing resolution they could have like, kept the government open.
They're choosing not to right, they're deliberately choosing not to, and this is what's going to cost them in the long run, because they look like they're out there fighting for everybody except for American citizens.
Senator Kenny says it so well.
This is a brilliant explanation.
Let's watch together now.
We've had a few shutdowns before, and every shutdown is different, but most shutdowns are.
They are a combination of both policy And politics in varying degrees.
This shutdown in terms of policy makes absolutely no sense.
None.
What we have proposed to our Democratic colleagues and the minority leader, Senator Schimmer, is to make no changes to the current budget.
We just want to continue the current budget and keep government open.
Until just before Thanksgiving, to give us more time to negotiate a permanent budget.
We did that many times when President Biden was president and when the Democrats had the majority.
In fact, we did it 13 times.
Not only have Republicans done it, but Democrats have routinely done it.
But this time, the Democrats have said, no, We want more.
And you may be thinking, okay, that's reasonable.
What do you want?
Well, it's not reasonable.
In effect, what the Democrats are saying to us is that we're going to close government unless you agree, you Republicans agree, to make it bigger.
We don't want the status quo.
We want you to commit to spending.
$1.5 trillion more than you're spending now.
And we, the Democrats, are saying are going to tell you how to spend it.
Whoa.
Okay.
Wow.
So Senator Kennedy, I just thought, did a great job because he articulated everything that's going on.
In other words, the Democrats are making this happen as much as they want to turn around and blame Trump.
It's not flying.
It's not working.
And what it comes down to is that $1.5 trillion.
Money that would go to illegals for their health care.
And you can slice and dice this any way you want.
They say it's a lie.
A lie, a lie, a lie.
Well, guess what?
They just got called out by none other than CNN because it's not a lie, because all this money would go to all these different states that are then going to put it into their various programs to allow for illegals to have free health care.
And people are not okay with that, not for $1.5 trillion.
So AOC, deal with it.
Here she is lying.
Again, the punchline is she gets found out by none other than that liberal network, CNN.
No, not even a little bit, not even at all.
This is what Republicans love to do.
Whenever we fight to elevate the minimum wage, to expand Social Security, to make health care better in this country, in order to derail that, Republicans love to dangle this shiny object that says, but what if someone not like you gets it?
The fact of the matter is, undocumented people.
do not and cannot access and be covered by the ACA, Medicaid, Medicare, period.
There are dozens of laws in the books that enforce that, and that can be a whole other conversation.
However, the fact is the Democratic proposal doesn't change that either.
We are trying to change the immediate cliff where the ACA, as well as community health center funding and other kinds of health care funding, are about to go off a cliff and hurt millions of people.
Yeah, so that's what she says.
That's what she says, right?
But you already heard the very brilliant explanation from one Senator Kennedy.
And the reality is AOC is totally wrong.
AOC is flat out wrong.
And as I explained to you, while there may be a law saying the federal government can't give the money to illegals, guess what?
Doesn't bar the states from doing it.
And all this money is going to the states.
And guess what they're going to do?
Yeah.
And, you know, that's not going over so well in good old California where they're struggling big time.
But, you know, AOC, well, she thinks she's the queen bee that's running the whole show, right?
If somebody has an issue, they can go and talk to her.
What I'm not going to do is tolerate 4 million uninsured Americans because Donald Trump decided one day that he wants to just make sure that kids are dying because they don't have access to insurance.
That's what's not going to happen.
And so if those senators think that we're having a shutdown because of me, they're free to enter my office and negotiate because what we're not going to do is allow all of millions of people in this country to not be able to afford their insulin and their chemotherapy.
So come strike a deal with me if that's what they really think going on.