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Speaker 1: Billy Cunningham, the great American, welcome this Wednesday after in

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Speaker 1: all hell's breaking loose. Of course, I monitor all the

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Speaker 1: shows so you don't have to. MSNBC is blaming the Republicans,

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Speaker 1: mainly Congressman Warren Davidson, of everything happening bad in the world.

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Speaker 1: You watch the other shows, and basically it's the idea

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Speaker 1: that the Congress has voted to fund food stamps that

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Speaker 1: went down the tubes. Then the Congress voted to fund

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Speaker 1: the military. Democrats didn't like that. And Republicans have offered

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Speaker 1: a one year continuance of the Biden budget and the

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Speaker 1: Democrats don't want that. So what the hell do they want?

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Speaker 1: As Charlie Kirk often said, when the talking ends, that's

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Speaker 1: when violence begins. Janan, you and I now is Congressman

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Speaker 1: Warren Davidson. I think of the eighth Congressional District and

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Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. So

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Speaker 1: what does the congressman do when nothing's going on? You're

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Speaker 1: out of session, not much happening, and Mike Johnson's called

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Speaker 1: your backs and not called you back. So what do

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Speaker 1: you do if anything, Well.

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Speaker 2: It's always an honor to join you and your listeners,

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Speaker 2: Willie and look, it's pretty similar to normal, except you've

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Speaker 2: on bills with colleagues, working in particular on an outbound

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Speaker 3: I was out in DC last week.

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Speaker 2: Met with White House on that and a couple other bills,

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Speaker 2: you're still doing some of the same kinds of collaboration.

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Speaker 2: In a way, it's you get bigger blocks of time

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Speaker 2: lemonade out of limits I mean, and the limits are

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Speaker 3: We've called the votes. The House of Representatives.

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Speaker 2: Has voted to fund the government, yes, which is why

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Speaker 2: to proceed. And they've offered everything in the world to Democrats.

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Speaker 2: But look, to be fair, Democrats have said, here's our

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Speaker 2: list of demands. It's one and a half trillion dollars

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Speaker 2: worth of stuff they know they're not getting. No, you know,

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Speaker 2: we didn't accidentally defund Usaid. We didn't accidentally turn off

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Speaker 2: their ability to take credit for funding with state dollars

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Speaker 2: these things. And frankly, they didn't accidentally set expiration dates

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Speaker 2: for the COVID funding on Obamacare. You know, it was

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Speaker 2: just trying to continue the subsidies because Obamacare failed. It

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Speaker 2: the way that we've said that it was designed to,

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Speaker 1: All let's talk about. First of all, I want to

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Speaker 1: is snap what's our food stamps? In twenty nineteen, which

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Speaker 1: spend fifty six billion dollars on food stamps in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Now the number is one hundred and two billion. It

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Speaker 3: How about this one?

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Speaker 1: Food stamps by ethnicity. Afghans forty five percent, Somali's forty

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Speaker 1: The cost of food stamps have more than doubled, and

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Speaker 1: it's the ethnicity of those receiving it. Many here illegally

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Speaker 3: Why is that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean these are things that Democrats designed, and frankly,

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Speaker 3: Now, the big thing that we did.

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Speaker 2: Back in the summer was we said, look, if you're

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Speaker 2: But nationally Democrats say, oh, you know, we can't expect

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Speaker 2: I don't know the ethnic breakdown on everybody, but the

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Speaker 2: They do need the assistance, and it's designed to be

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Speaker 2: but you've got a government program that says, yeah, your

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Speaker 2: And so we need to make it work better. But

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Speaker 1: Fifty three percent of food stamps go to non citizens,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's rare.

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Speaker 2: I mean you'd see like John Stossel or somebody like

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Speaker 2: at this point. Main when they did food stamp reform

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Speaker 2: doing just what you say. They'll have a conne store

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Speaker 3: Whatever the I don't know what the black market.

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Speaker 2: but the fraud's real. There's a real black market out there.

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Speaker 2: People are selling them for money. Yeah, and the big

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Speaker 2: it's fair to say grocery prices are higher. So if

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Speaker 2: But if you look holistically, if the federal government spent

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Speaker 2: And the food stamps is exactly a way. If the

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Speaker 3: They would be lower.

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Speaker 1: Well, an important factor is this that, whether it's food

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Speaker 1: We'll kick the can down the road for another year.

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Speaker 1: Well we'll give you the same Biden budget, and the

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Speaker 1: clear this point. If we spent justin for inflation, the

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Speaker 2: Is that correct, That's accurate, and that's the kind of

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Speaker 2: Russ voted at omb put out the president's budget. And

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Speaker 2: this isn't the priority. And so in a way they've

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Speaker 2: but but they should get paid today. And that's a

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Speaker 1: Well, the Democrats want chaos. Now next year they'll run

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Speaker 1: A little bit of statistics indicate that one hundred and

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Speaker 1: Twenty two million Americans are on Obamacare, and those individuals

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Speaker 2: Make it make sense.

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Speaker 1: Well, according to the study, I see that if you're

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Speaker 2: It's not a good plan. It's not a good plan.

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Speaker 2: And look, I was talking with a financial advisor back

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Speaker 2: That's the plan that you're starting to catch on to

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Speaker 2: There's never been a Republican vote for Obamacare. I mean,

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Speaker 3: It's crazy.

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Speaker 1: The great majority of us receive healthcare through our employers,

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Speaker 1: so little time. By Warren Davidson, Congressman. Thanks for coming

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Speaker 1: on the Bill Cunningham Show, and we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 1: But don't cave, don't give in, don't listen to Marjorie

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Speaker 1: and demand. Got lower premiums, better quality, Get rid of Obamacare.

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Speaker 1: Congressman, once again, thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.

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Speaker 1: And you're a great American.

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Speaker 2: Thank you always an honor. GeV bless you and all

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