WEBVTT - 10-29-25 Sloan with Alicia Reece

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<v Speaker 1>You want to be an American idiot, Scott plown back

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<v Speaker 1>on seven hundred WWS. So we have a coalition about

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<v Speaker 1>half of the United States. The United States and District

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<v Speaker 1>of Columbia are suing the Trump administration over the suspension

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<v Speaker 1>of food staff benefits. With the government shutdown happening right now,

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<v Speaker 1>so here in Ohio we can't control DC. But now

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<v Speaker 1>we're going, all right, what about Snap? What about TAMP?

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<v Speaker 1>What about Wick? What about that money if we don't

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<v Speaker 1>get federal funds? With looking that way as we get

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<v Speaker 1>closer to Saturday, locally, Governor Dewin said he's studying options

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<v Speaker 1>involving state money. I had a council member all be

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<v Speaker 1>on earlier this morning and she said the city's looking

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<v Speaker 1>at this too. And the county held they hearing yesterday

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<v Speaker 1>where Alicia Reese was a holding court as she usually does.

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<v Speaker 1>Commissioner Reese welcome, how are you?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, I've had better days, I'll tell you that, But

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<v Speaker 2>I bet this is toughbelievable.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we got so to bring people up to speed

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<v Speaker 1>on this. To bring up to speed, one point four

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<v Speaker 1>million Ohio WANs reliance SNAP benefits and about forty three

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<v Speaker 1>thousand kids so roughly one in eight folks who live

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<v Speaker 1>in Hamlin County are getting some form of SNAP benefits.

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<v Speaker 1>Every month in Hamlin County, SNAP pays out nineteen million dollars,

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<v Speaker 1>I said, nineteen million a month. With your budget and

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<v Speaker 1>even the city's budget. I don't know how you overcome that, Alicia.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean it, you look at it. We can

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<v Speaker 2>overcome it. I mean, we're talking to almost two hundred

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<v Speaker 2>and forty million a year, and we're looking at ninety

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<v Speaker 2>seven thousand of those people, like you said, right here

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<v Speaker 2>in Hamilton County, and you know they yesterday, the Director

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<v Speaker 2>of Jobs and Family Services. One of the things he

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<v Speaker 2>talked about, these are people who are working. Majority of

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<v Speaker 2>these people who actually work every day, some of them

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<v Speaker 2>working two and three jobs. You're looking at children who

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<v Speaker 2>innocent children. Then you're looking at senior citizens who pay

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<v Speaker 2>their dues. There you know, that's the big chunk of people.

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<v Speaker 1>Serve.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, veteran to serve this country. I mean, this is

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<v Speaker 2>uh uh, this is unbelievable. And to deny them something

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<v Speaker 2>as basic as being able to have food on the

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<v Speaker 2>table is unbelievable. And then one of the things the

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<v Speaker 2>food Free Store Food Bank, which you know, uh, the

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<v Speaker 2>in world hunger. That's one of my it's just been dear, dear,

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<v Speaker 2>my heart, and I've always worked with them for you know,

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<v Speaker 2>most of my life helping. One of the things that

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<v Speaker 2>was said that we can't food pantry.

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<v Speaker 3>Ourselves out into it.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, even with the money that we have, uh

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<v Speaker 2>that we had from SNAP. We had SNAP and food

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<v Speaker 2>bank was kind of a gap filler. It was never

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<v Speaker 2>the main line, and so it won't be we won't

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<v Speaker 2>be able to We're going to put more money toward that.

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<v Speaker 2>We as a as a county commission, we've put about

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<v Speaker 2>two million dollars with the URBA money that we did.

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<v Speaker 2>We're looking for more our money. We know we probably

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<v Speaker 2>got at least another two hundred thousand. We're scraping to

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<v Speaker 2>sign some others so that number may go up, but

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<v Speaker 2>we know that that is just a temporary situation. Then

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<v Speaker 2>what people don't understand the economic impact of the SNAP benefits.

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<v Speaker 2>In other words, for every dollar that we put in

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<v Speaker 2>you talked about the nineteen million, we get one dollar

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<v Speaker 2>and fifty four cents back, So we're talking about almost

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<v Speaker 2>you know, over two hundred close three hundred million dollars

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<v Speaker 2>economically in the economy to keep this economy.

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<v Speaker 1>Going, because you're going to buy stuff, You're going to

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<v Speaker 1>go to the store, you're going to go to Kroger whatever,

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<v Speaker 1>and that money gets pumped back into the economy, and

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<v Speaker 1>that means jobs and a few people are done.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, Okay, you don't need that many people at

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<v Speaker 3>Kroger working wherever you get your groceries, and you can't,

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<v Speaker 3>you can't.

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<v Speaker 1>I talked to a Kurt Ryber on Monday Show, Alicia Rees,

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<v Speaker 1>CEO of the Freestar Food Bank, and he was he

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<v Speaker 1>was kind about that. He said, well, I'm optimistic we'll

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<v Speaker 1>get this thing settled now here it is. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>we're heading in the back half the week, and all

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<v Speaker 1>of a sudden that's not looking at a certainty or

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<v Speaker 1>a guarantee for sure. But he said, look, we might

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<v Speaker 1>have to open twice a month to folks who are

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<v Speaker 1>on snap as supposed to once a month, and he's

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<v Speaker 1>going to have to lean on his vendors as suppliers.

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<v Speaker 1>And of course the generosity of Cincinnatians and they serve

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<v Speaker 1>not just Cincinnati, but as you know, like twenty counties.

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<v Speaker 1>So if you're hearing this and like I have make

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<v Speaker 1>a donation the free Store food Bank because it's that

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<v Speaker 1>time of the year and now we're getting to you know,

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<v Speaker 1>Thanksgiving and Christmas when the need is even greater. It's

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<v Speaker 1>like the worst time possible for this to happen.

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<v Speaker 2>It's the worst time possible. And as you indicate it,

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<v Speaker 2>we looked at also the Director of Jobs and Family Services,

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<v Speaker 2>because all of the snap benefits don't happen just at

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<v Speaker 2>the beginning of the month. Right, We've got half at

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<v Speaker 2>the beginning of the month, so we've got a group

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<v Speaker 2>that will be impacted November first. Then we've got another

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<v Speaker 2>half where theirs are in the middle of the month,

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<v Speaker 2>so theirs would go out right at Thanksgiving. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>it's believable. And then you talked about Krogers and others.

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<v Speaker 2>They're small, there's farmers' markets, there's smaller retails. Over almost

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<v Speaker 2>ten thousand retails stores throughout Ohio will be affected. So

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<v Speaker 2>now we're talking about some you know, some of the

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<v Speaker 2>smaller stores as well as it affects you know, Krogers

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<v Speaker 2>and all those because the less people buy, right, the

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<v Speaker 2>higher the prices and so and then some of the

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<v Speaker 2>smaller retail stores, the farmer markets and those kinds of things.

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<v Speaker 2>Some of them have indicated they might go out of business.

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<v Speaker 2>And those are the ones that provide the fresh fruit

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<v Speaker 2>into some of these food desert areas. So it's a

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<v Speaker 2>trickle effect. Then you have senior citizens who many are

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<v Speaker 2>on medicine, and some children that have to take medicines,

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<v Speaker 2>and now you have to decide can afford the medicine

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<v Speaker 2>or the food. And everybody knows when you take medicines

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<v Speaker 2>that it says you got to eat with the medicine.

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<v Speaker 2>So it's a trickle down effect. And then we had C. Mha,

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<v Speaker 2>a director come in and he said it also affects

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<v Speaker 2>because now we're talking about housing and his program has

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<v Speaker 2>because of the government shut down. Uh. He indicated that

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<v Speaker 2>it will affect people with affordable housing as well. And

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<v Speaker 2>you know we've been pushing affordable housing. Will people be

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<v Speaker 2>able to have a place to live? Yeah, And you know,

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<v Speaker 2>it's it's just everything. And you know, I've been on

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<v Speaker 2>this property taxes just chilling us, you know, and we

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<v Speaker 2>did that, we did that Bengals deal sloan and they

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<v Speaker 2>took out thirty percent, So we can't even try to

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<v Speaker 2>get the thirty percent rebate, then the state would not

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<v Speaker 2>do anything on the property taxes. Yet they're still fiddling their.

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<v Speaker 3>Trying to figure out what's going on.

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<v Speaker 1>That's that's a whole separate, complex issue, right, and then

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<v Speaker 1>the main time it is coming up, bottom line is Saturday.

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<v Speaker 1>Unless things change in Washington, a lot of people are

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<v Speaker 1>going to have to do without. And I, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I look at this thing, Alisha Reese's you know, and yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>we've mentioned, for example, the federal workers for example, who

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<v Speaker 1>are working out of the paycheck. And I said, when

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<v Speaker 1>this thing started, I was like, Okay, it's theater, is

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<v Speaker 1>what it is. And then what happens in about thirty

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<v Speaker 1>days that theater becomes reality. So you see the snap

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<v Speaker 1>benefits cut concerns with the FAA. You have Frederick workers

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<v Speaker 1>now missing a couple paychecks. You know most families can afford.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, Okay, can we tighten it up for till

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<v Speaker 1>the next pay cycle? Sure, we do that all the time.

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<v Speaker 1>You start talking a couple of pay cycles, it's a

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<v Speaker 1>different story entirely. And yet these people still have to

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<v Speaker 1>show up to work.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they got to show up to work not getting paid.

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<v Speaker 2>Now we're in twenty twenty twenty five, right, twenty twenty

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<v Speaker 2>five people working and not getting paid. Come on, in

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<v Speaker 2>this society, there'd be a furlough. These people have home mortgages,

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<v Speaker 2>they will have the property taxes. We do their gas

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<v Speaker 2>and electrics do. Now you're talking over here those with

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<v Speaker 2>the snap benefits. Now they can't get anything to eat.

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<v Speaker 2>Drin's families worried how this is outrageous, and then this

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<v Speaker 2>song we have until this Thursday, and I don't think

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<v Speaker 2>it's going to go. The state then said, hey, you

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<v Speaker 2>fixed the problem on property taxes. And you saw Butler County.

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<v Speaker 2>In Warren County, they looking to double the homestead to

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<v Speaker 2>help the seniors. But it doesn't look like you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I asked the administrator to look at all options, and

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<v Speaker 2>it doesn't seem like I'm going to get the support

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<v Speaker 2>to be able to do that here in Hamilton County.

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<v Speaker 2>So now what do we do. We can't give the

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<v Speaker 2>homeowners to break federal workers furloughs. That's your middle class

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<v Speaker 2>that they're working with no paycheck. Senior citizens have done

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<v Speaker 2>their time and they can't now get anything to eat.

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<v Speaker 2>They don't know if to pay for the medicine or

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<v Speaker 2>can they pay to get something to eat. Children out

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<v Speaker 2>here hungry. These ninety seven thousand people affected about the

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<v Speaker 2>snap benefits, like you said, nutrition and all that, they

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<v Speaker 2>can't even get anything to eat. And most of them

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<v Speaker 2>are working every day. I mean, what what are we

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<v Speaker 2>doing here?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean pretty soon it's gonna be You're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>look at it and go, Okay, well I can feed

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<v Speaker 1>my kids, or I can pay the electric bill. And

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<v Speaker 1>you know, you can have a really good job and

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<v Speaker 1>good income stream and still feel the pinch of the spadic. Hell, Alicia,

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<v Speaker 1>you got a couple of your you you make good money,

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<v Speaker 1>and you still have a hard time paying your electric bill.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, let me just say let me say this.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me say this.

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<v Speaker 3>I am.

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<v Speaker 2>I am a normal and I and I have the

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<v Speaker 2>struggles of everybody.

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<v Speaker 1>Because this morning Alicia was a little late because her

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<v Speaker 1>phone died because her power went out.

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<v Speaker 3>And I said, well, I mean, you gotta pay that,

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<v Speaker 3>you gotta pay, you gotta pay.

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<v Speaker 2>Duke Kennedy girl, I jumped up, saw, I said, wait,

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<v Speaker 2>you know.

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<v Speaker 4>I got my receipt. I'm gonna go waving in somebody's face. Somebody, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 4>that's what it is. I love the conspiracy. I really

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<v Speaker 4>really do to do.

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<v Speaker 3>Alishers County commissioner on the show.

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<v Speaker 2>On It's long, let me just tell a picture. I've

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<v Speaker 2>got the five or three release bus and we have

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<v Speaker 2>helped thirty thousand people where we got the bus going

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<v Speaker 2>all over the county. We're going to try to connect

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<v Speaker 2>people to as much help as we have available to

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<v Speaker 2>them right now. We're bringing food, we're bringing all kind

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<v Speaker 2>of help from jobs and family services, anything we have.

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<v Speaker 2>We're going to try to connect them and answer the

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<v Speaker 2>problems that they may have. And we're also trying to

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<v Speaker 2>get people. Let's get these unclaimed funds, every little dollar count.

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<v Speaker 2>We're in a nine to one one right.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, Yeah, we are, and you hope that cooler heads prevail.

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<v Speaker 1>Like if I were to talk to Democrats and Republicans,

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<v Speaker 1>I think the sentiment of the country is, Okay, you

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<v Speaker 1>made your point.

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<v Speaker 3>You made your point.

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<v Speaker 1>Now now once you get past And the reason why

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<v Speaker 1>the longest shutdown was thirty five days is because after

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<v Speaker 1>you know, first few weeks at theater, once you start

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<v Speaker 1>to get past that thirty day market really starts to

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<v Speaker 1>hurt people who don't deserve it. And so at the

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<v Speaker 1>end of the day is you could play party politics,

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<v Speaker 1>and our sides got to win and crush the other side.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know when when individual families and kids and

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<v Speaker 1>veterans and seniors are getting squeezed out and literally not

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<v Speaker 1>getting food, I think that's time both sides have to go. Look,

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<v Speaker 1>we made our point. We've eventually got a govern here.

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<v Speaker 1>We got to legislate, and let's fix this problem through

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<v Speaker 1>the legislative action, not executive order. And a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>people blame Trump for all this thing, but it's party politics.

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<v Speaker 1>It's the lines are so defined and it's such a

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<v Speaker 1>gap between the two parties right now. This is why

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<v Speaker 1>Congress largely we're sending them to Washington.

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<v Speaker 3>What are they doing. All they're doing is shutting.

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<v Speaker 1>They came and bounce a Budgetala share you got one job,

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<v Speaker 1>you can't do that, and then you shut the government

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<v Speaker 1>down like every ten minutes on the tens.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, we got to come together. But this is an

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<v Speaker 2>economics fight we've got to fight going right now. Sloan

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<v Speaker 2>from creating the have and the have nots, and the

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<v Speaker 2>have nots is growing and getting crushed at whatever they do.

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<v Speaker 2>I encourage all of them to come together, but we

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<v Speaker 2>also got to make sure that we could afford go

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<v Speaker 2>to the hospital. I mean, I mean it's an economics fight,

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<v Speaker 2>like you said, whether it's a snap benefit, whether it's

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<v Speaker 2>a property taxes, whether it's you know, whether it's cannot

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<v Speaker 2>afford to go to the hospital right now, because you

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<v Speaker 2>know we can't. Basically, Americans, we just can't afford to

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<v Speaker 2>pay more. We can't pay more to go to the hospital.

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<v Speaker 2>We can't pay more to go to the doctors. We

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<v Speaker 2>can't go out here and cut our snap benefits. We

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<v Speaker 2>can't pay more for property texes. We just squeezed, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>the economy has squeezed us. And like you said, here

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<v Speaker 2>we are down at the bottom, trying to trying to survive.

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<v Speaker 2>And I think I would want all of them. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't care who you are. Take the posits out of it.

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<v Speaker 2>Fight for Americans to be able to look forward, to live, go.

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<v Speaker 1>Back and negotiate and come up with something. And you know, Democrats,

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<v Speaker 1>it's about subsidy. I think subsidy is terrible because it's

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<v Speaker 1>just making affordable or I guess pretending to make affordable

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<v Speaker 1>something that's not. You're taking cash from one palm, move

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<v Speaker 1>it to another. At the end of the day. This

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<v Speaker 1>is why We've got a thirty eight trillion dollar deficit

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<v Speaker 1>with the subsidies publicans, and I've talked to many of

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<v Speaker 1>my friends in the right side of the OL talk about,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, empowering people to take care of better care

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<v Speaker 1>of their health and incentivizing wellness. That's all well and good,

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<v Speaker 1>but that takes ten, twenty, thirty, forty years or more

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<v Speaker 1>for that to take it. We need a plan right now.

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<v Speaker 1>We need to fix the broken healthcare system right now.

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<v Speaker 1>We don't need more subsidy and we don't need, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>to empower people in future generations to get healthy. We

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<v Speaker 1>still need to have people today that have cancer, that

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<v Speaker 1>have diabetes, that are in wheelchairs, that have mental illness,

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<v Speaker 1>all those things, and we're not addressing that. We're just

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<v Speaker 1>kicking the can down the road. And both sides are complicity.

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<v Speaker 3>That's all it is.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's squeezing out the county, the city, the state.

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<v Speaker 1>We're screwed. We don't have the rainy Day Fund. And

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<v Speaker 1>now that was in the proposals is to get to

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<v Speaker 1>wind to tap the rainy Day Fund. There's four billion

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<v Speaker 1>dollars in that. I don't know how long that would

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<v Speaker 1>fund snap it might get us through another month. But

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<v Speaker 1>the problem with that though is, you know, Alicia, is

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<v Speaker 1>the General Assembly needs to pass the legislation and that's

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<v Speaker 1>not going to happen by Saturday. You can't directly fund

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<v Speaker 1>SNAP because this date only verifies eligibility.

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<v Speaker 3>That's a federal government runs that system.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I think we all got to have there's unpresidented.

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<v Speaker 2>This is unprecedented what we're doing.

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<v Speaker 3>It's self inflicted. That's the worst part it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, with self inflicting, and Americas are getting hurt and

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<v Speaker 2>you're reading articles that you get in ballrooms even though

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<v Speaker 2>it's private money. Can you imagine three hundred million of

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<v Speaker 2>private money immediately? We need two hundred and forty million

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<v Speaker 2>to do SNAP. The money is out there, but they're

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<v Speaker 2>just squeezing everybody to having no money and then only

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<v Speaker 2>certain people have money. And we, like you said, we

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<v Speaker 2>pay our taxes and we got to get a return

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<v Speaker 2>on it. We got to resenting stuff to Washington, and

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<v Speaker 2>damn it, Washington, we got to get it back here.

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<v Speaker 3>Problem.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a problem working people. I mean, you know, let's

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<v Speaker 1>take care of the workers focus. Most of the people

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<v Speaker 1>on SNAP are working. Families are working, at least a

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<v Speaker 1>couple jobs and Connie commissioner at Lisha Reese. I'll let

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<v Speaker 1>you go before I don't know you do. You needed

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<v Speaker 1>a venue money so you can pay your electric bill?

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<v Speaker 3>Can I help you? What can there for you?

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<v Speaker 2>It's been paid? Okay, all right, it's been paid and

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<v Speaker 2>you're wireless?

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<v Speaker 3>Clearly word.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't want to, but there's some people out there.

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<v Speaker 2>Let me just say who can't pay? And I guess

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<v Speaker 2>I got a glimpse of would have liked to be

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<v Speaker 2>in the dark and that day.

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<v Speaker 1>Appreciate you so much, Alicia, thanks for jumping on this morning.

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<v Speaker 1>Take care, have a good one, always bringing the heat here.

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<v Speaker 1>Sure you're not any money that electric bill? Get you

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<v Speaker 1>some cash or cricket wireless? Keep that phone going. She's

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<v Speaker 1>good radio. She is Alicia Reese, Hamlin County commission in

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<v Speaker 1>a very serious issue though. On Saturday. Uh, if these

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<v Speaker 1>benefits expired. I want to believe that even Washington has

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<v Speaker 1>some sense and goes, you know, we we really, we

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<v Speaker 1>really need to come to some common ground here because

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<v Speaker 1>people are going to suffer starting on Saturday. Now, is

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<v Speaker 1>it gonna be Saturday exactly? That all of a sudden

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna have all Now what four million people starving,

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<v Speaker 1>and no, it's good a few days, but uh, the

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<v Speaker 1>point has been made. It's time to actually govern for

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<v Speaker 1>a change.

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<v Speaker 3>How about that.

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<v Speaker 1>We sent you to Washington to governor, how about governing?

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<v Speaker 1>Why did you do that? Slooney seven hundred w