WEBVTT - 10-3-25 America's Truckin' Network 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.840 On college football. The NHL and NBA preseason moves are underway. 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.520 From scores and reactions to interviews and hot takes, It's 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:11.520 all at your fingertips on the iHeartRadio app appreciate lock 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:14.280 in with your favorite teams with play by play podcasts 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:17.000 and local stations where you can react and join the conversation. 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:20.360 Sports on iHeartRadio where fans live it. 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.680 This is America's Cooking Network with Kevin Gordon. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.839 Lulab Bars. Thanks for tuning in. We are in the 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:45.479 Schumers shutdown. Apparently the folks on the other side of 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:49.160 the aisle, the Democrats, just can't seem to get rid 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.360 of this whole spending binge that they're in. That they 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.640 just have to spend our money. They have to confiscate 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.040 more of our wealth and then run government programs are 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:04.319 inefficient and fun things that aren't for US citizens. 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:05.960 But I don't want to go off in a tangent 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:06.319 on that. 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.120 But there's some things that are going on that may 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:12.760 affect the Department of Transportation and other things. I do 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.959 want to say that the thing that irritates me the 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:20.440 most about our government, among other things, is the fact 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:25.600 that year after year after year, there are different studies 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.840 that are done, whether it's the Office of Management and Budget, 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:34.760 whether it's the Government Accountability Office, whether there's Inspector General's reports, 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:40.040 whether it's a situation where Rand Paul, Senator from Kentucky 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:44.200 comes up what he calls the Festivus Report right around 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:50.080 oh right after Thanksgiving before Christmas, and it goes line 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.440 item by line item certain waste fraud and abuse in 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.640 the federal government. We also had at the beginning of 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:00.000 the year the Doge Group, the Department of Government Efficiency, 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.920 which everybody on the left wanted to trash and everybody 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.680 wanted to say that this was so evil and cruel 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.280 and whatever. But when they dug in and saw some 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.320 of the waste fraud and abuse which everybody has claimed, 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.919 and you can go through that, You can go through 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.520 the different It doesn't take you long to look it up. 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.520 But what everybody has said, from Bill Clinton when he 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:25.080 was president, to Joe Biden when he was in the Senate, 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:29.040 to Barack Obama when he became president, all these people 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:33.120 are on record talking about the well, Bill Clinton, the 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:37.840 era of big government is over, talking about waste fraud 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.320 and abuse that needs to be cut out. All these 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:44.320 unnecessary programs, and yet not one of them has ever 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:48.359 done anything about it until Donald Trump came into office 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.080 in his second term, and you would have thought that 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.680 the entire economy was going to collapse, that the world 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.440 was going to come to an end, simply because trying 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.000 to do some government efficiency. And I have a little 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.400 more thoughts on this when we get into this next story. 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:05.520 But the mere fact that they. 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:09.080 Have all of these agencies that say this is something 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.639 that weighs for aden abuse, this can be cut out, 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:13.440 this could be cut and they. 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:14.200 Never do it. 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.440 It infuriates me to the point where, you know, if 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.560 it was their own money, if it was coming out 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.440 of their pocket that they had and took away from 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.679 their salary, you better believe that they would eliminate it. 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.400 But because it's coming out of our pockets, because they 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.239 don't see it, because they're not affected by it, it's 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.800 going to continue. So anyway, here's what the Department of 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:39.520 Transportation shutdown plan means. Now, they came up with this 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.640 Department well, this shutdown plan, knowing that there was an 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.520 impasse as far as the budget was concerned. Now you know, 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:52.640 we're still talking about the finalizing the budget from the 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:56.040 Biden years. We aren't even talking about the first budget 0:03:56.040 --> 0:04:01.760 because the fiscal year for the United States like September thirtieth, 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.520 and then the new year begins October first. So the 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:10.600 budget going into the first Trump budget, which begins well, 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.720 actually began on the first that hasn't even been voted on. 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:18.919 The budget from the prior year, from the October of 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:23.679 twenty twenty four that funds the government through September thirtieth 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:24.600 to twenty five. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.640 Has never been voted on and approved. 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:30.839 That is how weird our Congress is and how backed 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.640 up they are and inefficient as far as the as 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:37.360 far as the Congress is concerned, actually getting work done 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.919 on behalf of the American people unbelievable. The Department of 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.880 Transportation put together this plan in terms of knowing that 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.359 there was going to be a government shutdown, knowing that 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:51.039 there's certain funds that are cut off, certain appropriations that 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:54.039 aren't going to be used, and during this shutdown, and oh, 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.600 by the way, when you hear the whining and complaining 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.760 about these various government workers that are not going to 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:05.039 be receiving a paycheck and so on, know this little tidbit. Okay, 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.560 first of all, them knowing this, I'm sure day one, 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:13.039 they're out there filing for unemployment, which they are entitled to. 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:17.400 So they will be collecting unemployment when they come back, 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.400 and when the government is funded the pay they will 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:27.000 be paid retroactively back to that date that they were furloughed, 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.520 which means that basically this is a freebie. They're going 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.120 to get paid, it's just going to be delayed, but 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.000 they are going to be collecting unemployment all during that 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:40.080 period of time. So the unemployment is basically just icing 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.440 on the cake. And they know this, but that's not 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.200 going to stop them from whining and complaining about. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.479 Well, I'm without a paycheck, I don't have money. You know, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.240 what am I going to do to feed my family? Yet? Right? 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.560 I mean as if we're going to believe that. So anyway, 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:53.400 just so you. 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:57.040 Know that they are going to get back paid retroactively 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.599 to the day that the government ran out of money 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.960 and they were load. But in the meantime, they're going 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.239 to be collecting unemployment, so they're getting, you know, basically 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.280 a bonus for being furloughed. All right, So, anyway, what's 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.479 going on as far as the Department of Transportation trucking 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.400 operations are set to roll on even if Washington grinds 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:17.760 to a halt, or even when According to the Department 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:22.240 of Transportations shut Down Plan that protects safety functions and 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:26.520 Highway Trust Fund programs, the Department's plan really was released 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.720 on September thirtieth, shows that the highways and truck agencies 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:34.200 are among the least effected in a lapse of annual appropriations. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:39.800 Federal law requires agencies to continue work necessary to protect 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:44.920 life and property, and many Department of Transportation programs are 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:49.520 insulated because they draw funding from the Highway Trust Fund 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:54.359 and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Now let me 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.200 go off on a tangent of one of my pet peeves. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:59.760 Again. I've told you. 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.520 Before that I was involved with a group that we 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.719 were trying to that we're not trying to, but that 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:08.920 we successfully stopped tolling on a companion bridge here in 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.120 the Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky area. We have a bridge 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:16.560 here that carries not only one, not two, but three 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:20.880 major interstates through the Cincinnati area. I seventy four, I 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:26.880 seventy five, and I seventy one. One bridge, okay, covers 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:31.680 three separate interstate highways where there should actually be probably 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.920 three bridges, but anyway, they can congest this all over 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.960 one bridge. For the longest time, they tried to build 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.600 a companion bridge down there. They actually had funding years 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.239 and years ago, but the City of Cincinnati couldn't figure 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.400 out where that was going to go and figure out 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.040 their plans and so on, so. 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:49.680 They put it off, put it off, put it off. 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.600 Then suddenly they decided back in twenty thirteen, hey, we 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.680 got a brilliant idea. We can go ahead and do this, 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:56.880 but we're going to toll the bridge. And we here 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.080 in northern Kentucky, a group of us said hell no, 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.560 hell no, hell no, And anyway we. 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:02.280 Got it stopped. 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.720 But in the process of me doing some of the 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.520 work and digging into the details, I found out some 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.520 of the stuff about the Highway Trust Fund, finding out 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.040 that all the money that we paid that you guys 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.000 pay that in the trucking industry, all the excise taxes 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.360 on the on the on the trucks, on the trailers, 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.080 on the tires, all the money that we're paying as 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:28.240 far as federal federal gas tax for gas and then 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.200 diesel taxes that you guys pay as far as the 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:34.000 trucks are concerned, all that money goes into a fund. 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.440 Thirty three percent of that money is spent on non 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:42.079 highway issues. Number One, we are we are we, You 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:46.880 and I are subsidizing that Northeast Corridor. The train, the 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.360 Amtrak train that Joe Biden used to when he was 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.800 in the Senate used to ride every night, paying like 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.760 you know, four bucks, and so we would normally cost 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.679 him fifteen bucks. But it's subsidized by us, so that 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:04.560 Northeast Corridor can run. Okay, we also are funding highway 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.240 or hight hiking trails and biking trails. Now again not 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.320 opposed to that, but if it's a if they're going 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:14.760 to toll a highway and say it's a user pays, 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.120 then where's the user paying the high hiking trails and 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.520 biking trails? And as I said before, can't they charge 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.600 like maybe a one percent tax on all the equipment, 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.680 the bikes, the boots, the stuff, everything having to do 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.200 with that and fund those and not take that out 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:32.920 of the Highway Trust Fund. So, knowing that thirty three 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.600 percent of our Highway Trust Fund is already wasted on 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:40.320 non highway issues, that infuriated me and was one of 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.560 my talking points and talking about why we shouldn't be 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.960 tolling the Brent Sprid's Bridge, so on and so forth. 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.439 But anyway, that's off on a tangent. 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Brought to you by 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.240 the USDA, HHS and the AD Councilor. 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:31.880 You're one stop for advertising called eight four four eight 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:33.000 four four iHeart. 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:40.200 I'm Kevin Gordon, America's Trucking Network seven hundred WLW. We 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.760 were talking about or I was talking about the Department 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.640 and Transportation shut down, their policy and what they're planning 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.320 on doing, and I went off on a tangent when 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.200 I got to the point where it said that that 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:54.600 many DOT programs are insulated because they draw funding from 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:58.520 the Highway Trust Fund. And again, the Highway Trust Fund 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.160 is the money that is collected through all of the 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:05.280 excise taxes that you pay on all the equipment trucks, trailers, 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:09.440 et cetera, tires, the gasoline tax, and the diesel tax 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:14.040 of federal diesel tax on every gallon of diesel that 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.480 you pump, every gallon of gas that we pump. All 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.920 the money goes into that pot. And as I mentioned, 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.760 a group of us fighting tolls on the Brent Spenz 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.480 Bridge or the bridge that was going to the Companion Bridge, 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:30.320 learning that thirty three percent of the money already in 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:34.400 that fund is being spent on non highway items. When 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:38.080 I read this, this is another another piece to that 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.400 puzzle of why when they say we don't have enough 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.800 money in the Highway Trust Fund in order to do 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.800 the infrastructure to repair the roads. You know, when they 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:51.040 throw these taxes on us, they always say, oh, well, 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:55.119 we're going to put this tax on gasoline to fund 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.599 the repairs. Now, going back to the beginning of the 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:03.400 interstate highway system, ninety percent of that money that came 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:07.040 up for that was paid for by the federal government 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:12.080 because they realized the importance of commerce going across the 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.320 country and being able to move goods and services. Not 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.640 only did that do that, But then that opened up 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:22.520 the ability for people to travel go on vacation, travel 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:26.240 down to Florida from Michigan or from wherever that normally 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.640 would take a couple of days or three days by 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.520 the old highway systems. Now you can do that almost 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.000 well a day if you want to drive fourteen hours 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:35.560 or something. 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.880 But still it's a hell of a lot closer. 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.960 The amount of freight that can be moved from one 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.920 end of the country to the other is very quick. 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:45.160 And the fact that. 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.520 We are now able to get certain items that were 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.200 never available in terms of fresh food, either vegetables or 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.320 seafood into the center part of the country. So they 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:59.200 realized how important this was for the commerce. But let's 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:03.360 not forget that the original proposal of the Highway Trust 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:07.560 the highway system in the first place, was during the 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.480 Cold War to be able to move troops from one 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.400 end of the country to the other within a matter 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.600 of a day, as opposed to three weeks what it 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.200 talked took before the interstate highway system was put into place. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:24.880 So part of this highway system should be funded out 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.440 of the defense budget, in my opinion, because this is 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:32.400 an important component of moving troops. So again they put 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.920 the Highway Trust Fund, put all this money in there, 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.680 and then now they're wasting thirty three percent of it. 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:41.320 But now we've got all of these government bureaucrats that 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:45.000 are taking money out of this for their paychecks. Shouldn't 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.520 that be part of the normal taxes that we pay? 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.840 Does the EPA where do they get their funding? They 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.880 get their funding from the taxpayers. There's not a separate 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:59.560 fund that people pay into in the term of a 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.640 lotion tax or an air tax or something like that. 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.680 Where's the Department of Defense that comes out of the 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:07.440 normal budget. 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:08.360 Why isn't the. 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.440 Department of Transportation come out of the normal budget? Because 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.600 they want to make sure they wanted to pretend that 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:16.960 they're being more efficient, and they say, oh, we got 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.280 this pile of money over here, why don't we build 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.400 these agencies here and pull that money out of there 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:23.640 and fund it through that. No wonder they don't have 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:28.440 enough money for interstate highway repairs and so on. So 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.760 that's one of my pet peeves, and I didn't realize 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.760 it until I was looking at this particular story. Anyway, 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:38.160 getting back to the story, trucking oversight remains intact Federal 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:42.520 Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which regulates the trucking industry. All 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.480 one thousand and eighty four employees remain on the job. 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.240 And again, when I'm talking about the number of jobs here, 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.120 that's one thousand and eighty four people that are being 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.080 paid for out of the Highway Trust Fund. And now, 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.000 in the terms of government efficiency, are all of these 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:01.400 people necessary or all these people? Can somebody look at 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.360 that and say, all right, do they have enough people 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:05.600 to do this? And people that are dead weight or 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.760 jobs that are redundant or whatever, can we eliminate that? 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.560 Hell no, we've got this money coming from the taxpayers. 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.720 We don't care about efficiency. But again the plan says 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:20.360 FMCSA positions are primarily funded by authorized contract contract Authority 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.600 and paid out of the Highway Trust Fund. The agency 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:28.119 also collects fees under the licensing and insurance function, the 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:32.000 Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse, so on and so forth. Also, 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:35.000 they've got a pot of money coming from the back 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.719 in the day. Let me see, during the funding from 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:42.800 the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which basically was just 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:47.440 a green energy, green news steel program that they did, 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.440 but there were some things in there, for the highways 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.399 and construction and that, but a lot of it was 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.040 more of these Green New Deal programs. So anyway, part 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.640 of this is funded out of that. During the lapse 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:06.359 FMCSA's obligation limitations follow the IIJA, the Infrastructure Investment and 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.200 Jobs Act highway programs fully protected. 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:10.440 The Federal Highway. 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:14.920 Administration will continue normal operations with all twenty two hundred 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:19.200 and sixty eight employees. So again, are all those employees necessary? 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.359 Is anybody looking at that? Protecting the tax payer money, 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.560 protecting the money that we put in there through these 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.320 gasoline tax and diesel taxes to make sure that the 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:32.440 are spending our money efficiently. So anyway, no furloughs are expected. 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.960 The Department of Department of Transportation said the agency has 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:40.879 enough liquidating cash to support several months of reimbursement. Has 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:45.320 Mad inspections continue with some cuts. The oversight of hazardous 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:50.600 material shipments will continue despite staff reductions. Pipeline and has 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:55.679 met material safety Administration expects one hundred and ninety of 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:59.080 the five hundred and seventy nine employees to be furloughed, 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.800 with three employees. Now they are talking about that in 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.480 the federal government. Remember when dose came in and they said, 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:10.960 we want to eliminate certain employees, and they said, well, okay, overall, 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:14.080 in order to reduce the federal workforce, what we're going 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:18.320 to do is we're going to offer everybody, everybody across 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:21.240 the board, nine months worth of. 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:25.200 Pay if you agree to leave the job. 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:29.240 And so if you want to retire, if you want 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:34.720 to quit or whatever, you got nine months of paid 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.040 time off and you have to accept that. They had 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.320 to accept that contract by September thirtieth, and I think 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:44.800 I saw somewhere where one hundred and ten thousand federal 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.840 employees have taken advantage of that. So that workforce will 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.680 be reduced by one hundred and one hundred and ten 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:56.560 thousand workers. So again that's a way of you know, 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:59.600 people leaving the job and then basically not having the 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.040 replace And it'll be interesting to see if people don't 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.679 even miss those jobs in the first place. But a 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.800 lot of these positions that they're talking about in here, 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:10.359 some of the furloughs will actually be people that have 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:16.720 actually resigned. Vehicle safety standards work uninterrupted. Maritime operations continue 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:21.440 with reduced staff. Other transportation modes face deeper cuts, while 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:24.919 trucking in highway programs are largely shielded. Other parts of 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:28.280 the Department of Transportation faith further strained. Now this, I 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:32.119 don't understand the Federal Aviation Administration projects more than eleven 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:39.800 thousand furloughs. Though air traffic controllers remain on duty without pay, 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:44.760 Why aren't they protected of all of the different organizations, 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:48.320 all the other elements of the federal government that get paid, 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:51.040 and that there's a subsidy for them, that they are 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:57.000 essential workers. Air traffic controllers aren't considered essential paid people, 0:20:57.359 --> 0:20:59.680 but they're still expected to show up even though they're 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.640 not going to get paid unblue And I wonder how 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.160 that's gonna work out in terms of do they get 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:08.399 to collect unemployment because they're not receiving a paycheck or 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:10.919 are they just going to get that retroactive money later on? 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:12.600 You know some of the stuff when we when I 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:16.080 dig into this stuff and see how inefficient our federal 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:20.000 government is, it just absolutely appalls me. I'm Kevin Gordon, 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:26.680 America's Trucking Network seven hundred WLW News Traffic and Weather 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:32.200 News Radio seven hundred WLW, Cincinnati. 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:36.480 The FDA has just approved a generic version of the 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:41.480 abortion pill with your twelve thirty report, I'm Travis Laird 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:46.359 breaking now. The drug is mifepristone, the most commonly used 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:50.439 for medication abortions. It is the second generic version to 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:53.560 reach the market. The announcement comes just weeks after Health 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:57.080 Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior said the drug safety would 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:00.520 be reviewed. A study from the Ethics and Public Public 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:04.280 Policy Center, a conservative think tank cited by the administration, 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:08.800 claimed eleven percent of women had serious adverse reactions, but 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:12.520 that research was not peer reviewed. The FDA's own data 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:15.679 shows the rate is just one half of one percent. 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:19.480 A spokesperson for the department says, by law, the FDA 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:22.399 must approve a generic drug if it is similar to 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:23.440 the brand name drug. 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:28.040 That's ABC's Michelle Franzen. The move prompted fierce backlash. Senator 0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:31.560 Josh Hawley called it shocking. Anti abortion groups said it 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:33.879 was reckless and unconscionable. 0:22:36.600 --> 0:22:40.199 Another lovely night, partly cloudy conditions, temperatures dropping into the 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:43.000 upper fifties, and the tomorrol cloud's decrease a little bit. 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:44.720 We'll get back to a mostly sunny sky. And it's 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:46.560 also a warmer day with a high of eighty four. 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:49.200 We'll see the same forecast for Saturday and Sunday. It's 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:52.200 Monday night next week that rain will return and bring 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:55.000 back some cooler air. That's the forecast. I'm nine First 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:56.560 Warning Meteorologist Jennifer. 0:22:56.280 --> 0:22:59.960