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Speaker 1: Eight forty one fifty five kre C DE talk station. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I recognize the federal gunment to shutdown. Someone who's intimately

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Speaker 1: familiar with the problem we're facing right now, Senator John Houston,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, to the fifty five KRCY Morning Show. It's

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Speaker 1: a real pleasure to have you on today.

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Speaker 3: Great to be with you, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: I note that the American Federation of Government Employees is

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Speaker 1: normally Democratic allies this union. They're saying, pass the continuing resolution.

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Speaker 1: You got a clean funding bills sitting there, put us

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Speaker 3: The Republicans are united in this because we are not

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Speaker 3: playing games. We're just saying, hey, open the government, keep

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Speaker 3: it at its current funding levels, sir, the American people.

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Speaker 3: By the way, it costs US four hundred million dollars

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Speaker 3: a week and salaries, and many of those salaries ultimately

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Speaker 3: playing games. Chuck Schumer thirteen times when Joe Biden was president,

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Speaker 3: passed clean continuing resolutions Republicans. You know, Republicans helped. But

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Speaker 3: and I don't see, unfortunately, any break in sight. Democrats

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Speaker 3: They can't they can't wiggle their way out of right now.

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Speaker 3: They're having a hard time figuring out how to do that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the only solution and seems to be continuing at

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Speaker 3: That's just it's made.

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Speaker 1: It's put the Democrats in an a possible position.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can. It's easy to start a fight, it's

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Speaker 3: I think that you're onto something right there, because I

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Speaker 1: They would be an acknowledgment. That was a terrible strategy,

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Speaker 3: I think. I think that sometimes leaders need the troops

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Speaker 1: And of course they passed up a couple of opportunities

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Speaker 3: Literally empowering him more and more every day that they

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Speaker 1: Not that it changes the political landscape if they change

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Speaker 1: Well, let's say Mandami lost. Let's see some of the

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be a golden opportunity for Chucky Schumer to

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Speaker 1: head on the right direction. Here's what we're going to

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Speaker 3: Uh, there is no chance no tamer will conclude.

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Speaker 1: I had to throw it out there, John God.

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Speaker 3: Bless you, even though it makes a lot of sense.

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Speaker 1: No chance he's gonna use Uh, you know, if I

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Speaker 1: was king of the world anyhow, Senator johnnyst thank you

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Speaker 1: for your time today, Sir, Keep fighting the good fight

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Speaker 1: on behalf of the American people, and we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks Brian, take care pleasure man.

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