1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: Native Flame Pot is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: with Reascent Choice Media. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 3 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: All right, So we promised you in the show that 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:16,959 Speaker 1: we would continue our conversation by talking about the budget 5 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: that is under consideration in DC. If you're thinking it 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: doesn't apply, that it doesn't matter, our words haven't sunk 7 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,159 Speaker 1: in yet about it. Maybe it's time to listen to 8 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: the words of from the mouth of Babes. Let's roll 9 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 1: this clip. 10 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 2: Good evening, everybody. Right, I'm sorry I said good evening, everybody. 11 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 2: My name is Corey Skipper Miller. I am nine years 12 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 2: old and a fourth grader at Yonkers Montessori Academy. And 13 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 2: for those of you who don't know me, I'm Keish. 14 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 2: The Skipper's sad. My mom is the president of the 15 00:00:55,080 --> 00:01:00,279 Speaker 2: Yonkers NAACP. But that's not why I'm here today. She 16 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 2: usually speaks at these types of events. But I wanted 17 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 2: to represent the youth because what's happening now could change 18 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 2: our futures. And what President Trump is doing and it's 19 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 2: threatening to do, is frightening. Wow, parents and teachers are 20 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,639 Speaker 2: talking about a lot of things that we don't know about, 21 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,760 Speaker 2: but unlike some people, we know the meaning of the 22 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:29,839 Speaker 2: Declaration of Independence. Come on, we all saw the video 23 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 2: talking about low IQ all jokes aside as you can see. 24 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 2: My mom is astu independent as she has been for 25 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 2: more than five years due to COVID pneumonia in both 26 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 2: lungs since March of twenty twenty, and without Social Security, 27 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 2: my mom and I would not be able to survive. 28 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 2: My grandmother, who is turning ninety eight years old on 29 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 2: May fifteenth, would not be able to survive. My brother Kyle, 30 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 2: who is a marine. When he becomes a veteran, he 31 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 2: is entitled to veteran benefits and without those he wouldn't 32 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 2: be able to survive. Cuts to Social Security, cuts to Medicaid, 33 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 2: cutses veteran benefits, and cuts to education. Her, my mom, 34 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 2: my grandmother, my brother, and me, my whole family. So 35 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 2: I'm asking you, you, you, you, especially your mistakes, because 36 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 2: me in New York. What can you do to help me? 37 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 2: I know you're all lawyers, right, I know you fight, 38 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 2: just keep fighting. Thank you all for your time. 39 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: I the brother Corey. I know your mom is the 40 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: president of the Yonkers inna a cp man, but your future. 41 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: Your presence is bright, and your future is even brighter. 42 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:56,519 Speaker 1: But what I loved about that clip and I whatcome 43 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: you ass reflections to a lot of folks have the again, 44 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: the tendency to patch on the head and good job 45 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 1: and I'll go back a child and a child's place 46 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 1: or some stuff like that. But and sometimes, and in 47 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: some ways, it takes that from the mouth of a 48 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 1: child for us to look a little harder, see a 49 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 1: little bit more deeply the ways in which a thing 50 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,239 Speaker 1: can affect and impact us. And that's really what I'm 51 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:25,200 Speaker 1: feeling about. I don't know, I don't know if y'all 52 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,920 Speaker 1: have heard it much, but the mood around which people 53 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 1: have been looking at this budget, the fact that there's 54 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: in our community not a whole lot of talk about 55 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: the extreme implications of what can happen here. And by 56 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: the way, not just with the money, and that's huge enough, 57 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: but also with the policies that they are pursuing through 58 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: this budget, things like giving the president unilateral ability to 59 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: decide who is a charity and who isn't to charity, 60 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: to go after Jamal Brian if he wants, and take 61 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 1: that church's sex or any congregation around the country, any 62 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: organization declare it a terrorist threat and by doing so 63 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: be able to supersede or really avoid due process and 64 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: get rid of it, you know, by a single man's 65 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: act on the medicaid question, we're talking about seventeen million 66 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 1: Americans today having health care, and after the signing of 67 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: this bill, potentially, if the Senate doesn't rise up and 68 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: do its job, those folks won't have access to health 69 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: care anymore. These are people who largely gained healthcare under 70 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,720 Speaker 1: the advances that we saw under Obamacare, and now that 71 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 1: access to care being extinguished, it extinguished. We some of 72 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 1: us have heard about CHIP, which is you know, Hillary 73 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: Clinton talked a lot about it because she was in 74 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 1: part responsible for its existence, and that is ensuring poor children, 75 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: making sure that children have access to health care. That 76 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 1: was one of the largest lifts for children as it 77 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: relates to their advancement away from the conditions of poverty 78 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: that we had ever seen up to this point in 79 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:16,000 Speaker 1: the country since Franklin del Noah Roosevelt and the great 80 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,239 Speaker 1: expansion of the social Safety Net. I should also say, 81 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: by them erasing the food assistance program, which took the 82 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,159 Speaker 1: largest amount of children out of hunger and poverty in 83 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 1: this country. They're going to begin to reverse that cycle, 84 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:37,839 Speaker 1: putting kids kids not just back and more deeper into 85 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 1: poverty Andrew okay, allowing them to experience what it means 86 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: to only have a meal when you are in school hours, 87 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: and after that, good luck until Monday, survive Friday, evening Saturday, 88 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,679 Speaker 1: all day Sunday until you can get another full meal 89 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: on Monday. The cuts to food assistance programs again go 90 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: beyond just our children. It affects parents who are on 91 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 1: food assistance programs. I hope that we'll be able to 92 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: in some future date talk about the impact of housing 93 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 1: and the conditions that working mothers and fathers are finding 94 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: themselves in, working a full time job and still not 95 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: being able to make provision for themselves and for their families. 96 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 1: And so if you think that you're in the just 97 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: barely surviving middle class, these are the kinds of material 98 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: conditional changes that occur that cause you to slip more 99 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:43,839 Speaker 1: greatly into these insecure class positions that we sometimes find 100 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: ourselves that in truth, unless you're Elon Musk, it's a 101 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: very tenuous place. It's a very tenuous existence. And because 102 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: I evoke the name Elon Musk, I want you all 103 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:01,039 Speaker 1: to hear what has been his latest word words as 104 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,719 Speaker 1: it relates to this total package in this big, fat, 105 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: beautiful bill of harm that President Trump of the Republicans 106 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 1: seem to be moving forward. 107 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 3: Longtime Trump ally Elon Musk once again broke away from 108 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 3: the President, posting some thoughts on his social media platform 109 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 3: x saying quote, I'm sorry, but I just can't stand 110 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 3: it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork filled congressional spending bill 111 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 3: is a disgusting, abombination. Shame on those who voted for it. 112 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 3: You know you did wrong. 113 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: You know it now. I don't think the man is 114 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: really worth assault, but I do know that there are 115 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: Republicans who still fear him. They are Republicans who are 116 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: going to be up for reelection to Congress and to 117 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 1: the Senate, who value his money and therefore don't want 118 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:48,559 Speaker 1: to be on the other side of him. In fact, 119 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: since that initial tweet was made, he's gone on to 120 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: say that we should hold those elected officials accountable who 121 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: betray us by voting for this piece of legislation. So 122 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 1: maybe his entry into this may be throwing down somewhat 123 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:06,119 Speaker 1: of a gauntlet for Republicans to think once or twice 124 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: about whether or not this is a package that they 125 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 1: want to advance. This, as I said before, be the 126 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 1: largest cut and snaff benefits ever in the history of 127 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: the program. The only people, y'all, aside from the tip 128 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: the note tax on tip, which, by the way, for 129 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: those of you who think that's enough for you to 130 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: vote or to be in support of this bill, that 131 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: is only a temporary measure. It isn't even made permanent 132 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 1: in this piece of legislation. So they want to give 133 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: us a carrot quote, but the truth is it's not 134 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: even a whole carrot. They've shaved it off. It's a 135 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: temporary measure to keep us silent, some of us while 136 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: they pass the biggest shift in American wealth yet again 137 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: into the hands of the richest, top one percent of Americans. 138 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: So I just want to say where we are right now, 139 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 1: and then my colleagues are going to win with their thoughts. 140 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 1: And that's to say, right now, the Senate is supposed 141 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 1: to be made it's changes. If the Senate makes changes, 142 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: there will be a committee that comes together both of 143 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: the House and the Senate representatives to try to combine 144 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:13,600 Speaker 1: those changes into a singular bill that then has to 145 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: go back past the House and then has to pass 146 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: the Senate. It passed the House the first time by 147 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 1: one Republican vote. So when we talked about making calls 148 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:26,679 Speaker 1: to members of Congress, to raising our voices, jamming their switchboards, 149 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:29,679 Speaker 1: and sending emails, these are the kinds of actions. I 150 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 1: believe that if you care about any of this, maybe 151 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 1: you've got health Garet through your employer and so you're 152 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: not worried. The reason you should be worried is the 153 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,200 Speaker 1: premiums will increase and you will be responsible for paying 154 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:42,959 Speaker 1: for those premiums for the people that they kick off 155 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,480 Speaker 1: the program. That's how it has always worked, that is 156 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: how it will continue to work in this country. So 157 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 1: whether you think you're impacted directly or not, we all 158 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 1: have something to I would say buy and large lose. 159 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: Unless you're a listener and you're part of the one percent, 160 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: we've got a lot to lose by this piece of legislation, 161 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: and now hopefully we ca can all wake up and 162 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: start to pay just a little bit more attention to it. Tip. 163 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,559 Speaker 1: I know you've got questions, and Angel is better than me. 164 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 4: So yeah, I would yeld because we we literally only 165 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 4: have minutes, and I'm really sorry. I wish we had 166 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:13,679 Speaker 4: more time for this conversation because I have a thousand 167 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 4: questions for you, Andrew. Instead of asking a question, I'll 168 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,839 Speaker 4: just say thank you for pulling out, because that was 169 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 4: going to be my question, to be honest with you. 170 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:21,719 Speaker 4: But then when you did it, I was going to 171 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 4: ask you, well can you pull out, like what are 172 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 4: the five things that are going to have the most impact? 173 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 4: And you pulled out more than five, and it has 174 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,560 Speaker 4: me nervous and disturbed. I would yield my time to 175 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 4: Angela because I know we have a limited time. My 176 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,440 Speaker 4: only request of my two co hosts is that we 177 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:39,320 Speaker 4: revisit this conversation about the budget because this is hugely 178 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 4: important and I hate that they keep calling it the 179 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 4: big beautiful bill. I knows they called it, but it 180 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 4: is big bad bullshit. That is what the bill is. 181 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 4: Stop taking their words, like we got to stop using 182 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 4: their idioms, like no, that's we will no longer call 183 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 4: you all pro life, not when you take a month 184 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 4: away from kids. We're not going to call this a 185 00:10:55,600 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 4: big beautiful bill, Big bad bullshit. That's what I did, Angela. 186 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 5: There's another one of our sister friends who has some 187 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 5: bees for these people. So I think it's a beach 188 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 5: blonde bad butch body build is what it is. That's 189 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:20,079 Speaker 5: what I think it might be. 190 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 4: But I want to. 191 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 5: Say, TIF, I actually think it may be good here 192 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:28,439 Speaker 5: for you to ask some of your questions, even if 193 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 5: we don't answer them. I think it's an opportunity to 194 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 5: engage in a townhall style format with our audience. And 195 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 5: I would just suggest to people. I know that when 196 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 5: some of us, and I'm saying from the hill too, 197 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:42,839 Speaker 5: there used to be sections when the budget proposal came 198 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 5: to the Hill. We would take sections and divide it up, 199 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 5: and each of us would have to respond based on 200 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 5: those sections because of how much work it is. So 201 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 5: I know, looking at the page jumpers, just like, where 202 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 5: do I even begin. What I would urge you to 203 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 5: do is do a search, like in a PDF, on 204 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 5: the things you care most about, whether it's healthcare or 205 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 5: it's SNAP, which in the bill will be supplement on 206 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 5: Nutrition Assistance benefits. 207 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 4: I think supplement on Nutrition Assistance Program program. 208 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 6: Why did I say we still want to d MBS 209 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:16,319 Speaker 6: this y'all, but yes, the program, I definitely I say 210 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 6: a SNAP instead of snab. I'm sorry, but I would 211 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 6: encourage you to look at that veterans, you know, search 212 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 6: for health care in there. We're suspecting that a number 213 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 6: of people's health care. I think more than eleven million 214 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:29,559 Speaker 6: people will lose health care benefits in this bill. So 215 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 6: please just go and do a search in the bill, 216 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 6: which is called the Big Beautiful Bill Act or whatever 217 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 6: it is. It just look because it does impact you. 218 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 6: If it doesn't impact you, it impact your parents. If 219 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 6: it doesn't impact your parents, and impact your kids. If 220 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 6: it doesn't impact your kids, and impact your neighbors. So 221 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 6: please make sure you take a look at this. 222 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 5: There are also articles written about it. And I now 223 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 5: want to yield to tips question. 224 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:55,319 Speaker 4: Well, I guess my first question and we don't have 225 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,439 Speaker 4: to answer these now because I know we're at the time, 226 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:00,840 Speaker 4: but my first question to end would be, you were 227 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 4: the executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus for a 228 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 4: number of years. I would ask what, if anything, could 229 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,439 Speaker 4: and should the Black Caucus be doing as a legislative 230 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 4: body to stop this. We can talk about that later, Andrew. 231 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 4: My question to you is for the person who's going 232 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 4: to be impacted by this, particularly snap benefits, particularly if 233 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 4: your kids rely on this for food. Is there anything 234 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 4: that people can do other than call their members of Congress? 235 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: You know? 236 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 4: Is there anything that people can do? And then I 237 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 4: will take this time along with the viewers, I hope, 238 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 4: and I will go through the bill myself and look 239 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 4: for things that will directly impact my life or things 240 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 4: that will impact the masses, and come back and ask 241 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 4: you guys more policy Center questions. I love that about those. 242 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 3: I love that. 243 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 1: And the only the only thing I know. We don't 244 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 1: have a lot of time is to simply say, I 245 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: fail to say that Donald Trump wants to sign this 246 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: bill into law on July fourth. So if you're thinking 247 00:13:57,400 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 1: about how much time we have, how much time we 248 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 1: get to rally, they expect to have a bill completing 249 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: on the desk of the President so he can do 250 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 1: some great Independence Day gimmicky thing as he kills more Americans, 251 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: as he sets us up for untimely deaths because of 252 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: the kinds of cuts. And I'm not being dramatic, y'all. 253 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 1: If you've ever had a family member with a medical 254 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: crisis or disease that you all do not have out 255 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 1: of pocket money to take care of I'm not talking 256 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: about going to the emergency room. I'm talking about treatment 257 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 1: and healing and recovery. You better know that folks are 258 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: going to parish as a result of cuts that give 259 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: them the only possible extension of life. The thing to 260 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: do if you live in a Republican area, particularly tiff Angela. 261 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: This has always baffled me, but it baffle baffles me more. 262 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: Here you're Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia. Many 263 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: of these places have Republican either entire legi delegations that 264 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: are are Republican, their governors are Republicans, and certainly in 265 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:08,359 Speaker 1: those states they're US senators with very few exceptions are Republicans. 266 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 1: The greatest harm that will be felt through the cuts 267 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: of these programs will be in many of these Southern 268 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 1: states as well as as well as obviously the Midland 269 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: and other states, middle of the country and the other states. 270 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: But for our folks, who principally help to occupy many 271 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: of the of the much of the population, this is 272 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 1: coming for us. So it is not an overstatement to say, email, call, 273 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 1: go to them and let them hear your stories. Then 274 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 1: it needs to be personalized. These aren't numbers on a page. 275 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: I'm an individual, I'm a household, I'm a voter, and 276 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: I'm being negatively impacted by this. That's what I think 277 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: it will take, and I look forward to I'll continue 278 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,160 Speaker 1: conversation on this. I know, I know there's more to 279 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: cover here. You just had to get it in real quick. 280 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 5: Can we can we do one thing you know we 281 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 5: all are doing again, I think a pretty solid job 282 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 5: of talking to people and hearing different perspectives. I really 283 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 5: want to have some of those folks who would be 284 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 5: directly impacted on the show to talk about what their 285 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 5: experience has been, because the truth is, even with what 286 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 5: they have right now, Tiff and you talk about this 287 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 5: all the time, even about your mom, it's not enough 288 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 5: right now. So the cuts are going to really really 289 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 5: hit a lot of people, and I think we should 290 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 5: really get their voices on because we talk about these 291 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 5: things in such an abstract way sometimes I don't think 292 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 5: people realize it's literally their cousin or their on or 293 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 5: you know, it's a lot closer than people think. 294 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 4: Well, this was a great mini pid. We're definitely going 295 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 4: to pick this conversation up. Thank you guys for tuning in. 296 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 4: Remember We have our main podcast that drops every Thursday. 297 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 4: Minipid drops every Friday. 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