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Speaker 1: All right, So we promised you in the show that
Speaker 1: we would continue our conversation by talking about the budget
Speaker 1: that is under consideration in DC. If you're thinking it
Speaker 1: doesn't apply, that it doesn't matter, our words haven't sunk
Speaker 1: in yet about it. Maybe it's time to listen to
Speaker 1: the words of from the mouth of Babes. Let's roll
Speaker 1: this clip.
Speaker 2: Good evening, everybody. Right, I'm sorry I said good evening, everybody.
Speaker 2: My name is Corey Skipper Miller. I am nine years
Speaker 2: old and a fourth grader at Yonkers Montessori Academy. And
Speaker 2: for those of you who don't know me, I'm Keish.
Speaker 2: The Skipper's sad. My mom is the president of the
Speaker 2: Yonkers NAACP. But that's not why I'm here today. She
Speaker 2: usually speaks at these types of events. But I wanted
Speaker 2: to represent the youth because what's happening now could change
Speaker 2: our futures. And what President Trump is doing and it's
Speaker 2: threatening to do, is frightening. Wow, parents and teachers are
Speaker 2: talking about a lot of things that we don't know about,
Speaker 2: but unlike some people, we know the meaning of the
Speaker 2: Declaration of Independence. Come on, we all saw the video
Speaker 2: talking about low IQ all jokes aside as you can see.
Speaker 2: My mom is astu independent as she has been for
Speaker 2: more than five years due to COVID pneumonia in both
Speaker 2: lungs since March of twenty twenty, and without Social Security,
Speaker 2: my mom and I would not be able to survive.
Speaker 2: My grandmother, who is turning ninety eight years old on
Speaker 2: May fifteenth, would not be able to survive. My brother Kyle,
Speaker 2: who is a marine. When he becomes a veteran, he
Speaker 2: is entitled to veteran benefits and without those he wouldn't
Speaker 2: be able to survive. Cuts to Social Security, cuts to Medicaid,
Speaker 2: cutses veteran benefits, and cuts to education. Her, my mom,
Speaker 2: my grandmother, my brother, and me, my whole family. So
Speaker 2: I'm asking you, you, you, you, especially your mistakes, because
Speaker 2: me in New York. What can you do to help me?
Speaker 2: I know you're all lawyers, right, I know you fight,
Speaker 2: just keep fighting. Thank you all for your time.
Speaker 1: I the brother Corey. I know your mom is the
Speaker 1: president of the Yonkers inna a cp man, but your future.
Speaker 1: Your presence is bright, and your future is even brighter.
Speaker 1: But what I loved about that clip and I whatcome
Speaker 1: you ass reflections to a lot of folks have the again,
Speaker 1: the tendency to patch on the head and good job
Speaker 1: and I'll go back a child and a child's place
Speaker 1: or some stuff like that. But and sometimes, and in
Speaker 1: some ways, it takes that from the mouth of a
Speaker 1: child for us to look a little harder, see a
Speaker 1: little bit more deeply the ways in which a thing
Speaker 1: can affect and impact us. And that's really what I'm
Speaker 1: feeling about. I don't know, I don't know if y'all
Speaker 1: have heard it much, but the mood around which people
Speaker 1: have been looking at this budget, the fact that there's
Speaker 1: in our community not a whole lot of talk about
Speaker 1: the extreme implications of what can happen here. And by
Speaker 1: the way, not just with the money, and that's huge enough,
Speaker 1: but also with the policies that they are pursuing through
Speaker 1: this budget, things like giving the president unilateral ability to
Speaker 1: decide who is a charity and who isn't to charity,
Speaker 1: to go after Jamal Brian if he wants, and take
Speaker 1: that church's sex or any congregation around the country, any
Speaker 1: organization declare it a terrorist threat and by doing so
Speaker 1: be able to supersede or really avoid due process and
Speaker 1: get rid of it, you know, by a single man's
Speaker 1: act on the medicaid question, we're talking about seventeen million
Speaker 1: Americans today having health care, and after the signing of
Speaker 1: this bill, potentially, if the Senate doesn't rise up and
Speaker 1: do its job, those folks won't have access to health
Speaker 1: care anymore. These are people who largely gained healthcare under
Speaker 1: the advances that we saw under Obamacare, and now that
Speaker 1: access to care being extinguished, it extinguished. We some of
Speaker 1: us have heard about CHIP, which is you know, Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton talked a lot about it because she was in
Speaker 1: part responsible for its existence, and that is ensuring poor children,
Speaker 1: making sure that children have access to health care. That
Speaker 1: was one of the largest lifts for children as it
Speaker 1: relates to their advancement away from the conditions of poverty
Speaker 1: that we had ever seen up to this point in
Speaker 1: the country since Franklin del Noah Roosevelt and the great
Speaker 1: expansion of the social Safety Net. I should also say,
Speaker 1: by them erasing the food assistance program, which took the
Speaker 1: largest amount of children out of hunger and poverty in
Speaker 1: this country. They're going to begin to reverse that cycle,
Speaker 1: putting kids kids not just back and more deeper into
Speaker 1: poverty Andrew okay, allowing them to experience what it means
Speaker 1: to only have a meal when you are in school hours,
Speaker 1: and after that, good luck until Monday, survive Friday, evening Saturday,
Speaker 1: all day Sunday until you can get another full meal
Speaker 1: on Monday. The cuts to food assistance programs again go
Speaker 1: beyond just our children. It affects parents who are on
Speaker 1: food assistance programs. I hope that we'll be able to
Speaker 1: in some future date talk about the impact of housing
Speaker 1: and the conditions that working mothers and fathers are finding
Speaker 1: themselves in, working a full time job and still not
Speaker 1: being able to make provision for themselves and for their families.
Speaker 1: And so if you think that you're in the just
Speaker 1: barely surviving middle class, these are the kinds of material
Speaker 1: conditional changes that occur that cause you to slip more
Speaker 1: greatly into these insecure class positions that we sometimes find
Speaker 1: ourselves that in truth, unless you're Elon Musk, it's a
Speaker 1: very tenuous place. It's a very tenuous existence. And because
Speaker 1: I evoke the name Elon Musk, I want you all
Speaker 1: to hear what has been his latest word words as
Speaker 1: it relates to this total package in this big, fat,
Speaker 1: beautiful bill of harm that President Trump of the Republicans
Speaker 1: seem to be moving forward.
Speaker 3: Longtime Trump ally Elon Musk once again broke away from
Speaker 3: the President, posting some thoughts on his social media platform
Speaker 3: x saying quote, I'm sorry, but I just can't stand
Speaker 3: it anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork filled congressional spending bill
Speaker 3: is a disgusting, abombination. Shame on those who voted for it.
Speaker 3: You know you did wrong.
Speaker 1: You know it now. I don't think the man is
Speaker 1: really worth assault, but I do know that there are
Speaker 1: Republicans who still fear him. They are Republicans who are
Speaker 1: going to be up for reelection to Congress and to
Speaker 1: the Senate, who value his money and therefore don't want
Speaker 1: to be on the other side of him. In fact,
Speaker 1: since that initial tweet was made, he's gone on to
Speaker 1: say that we should hold those elected officials accountable who
Speaker 1: betray us by voting for this piece of legislation. So
Speaker 1: maybe his entry into this may be throwing down somewhat
Speaker 1: of a gauntlet for Republicans to think once or twice
Speaker 1: about whether or not this is a package that they
Speaker 1: want to advance. This, as I said before, be the
Speaker 1: largest cut and snaff benefits ever in the history of
Speaker 1: the program. The only people, y'all, aside from the tip
Speaker 1: the note tax on tip, which, by the way, for
Speaker 1: those of you who think that's enough for you to
Speaker 1: vote or to be in support of this bill, that
Speaker 1: is only a temporary measure. It isn't even made permanent
Speaker 1: in this piece of legislation. So they want to give
Speaker 1: us a carrot quote, but the truth is it's not
Speaker 1: even a whole carrot. They've shaved it off. It's a
Speaker 1: temporary measure to keep us silent, some of us while
Speaker 1: they pass the biggest shift in American wealth yet again
Speaker 1: into the hands of the richest, top one percent of Americans.
Speaker 1: So I just want to say where we are right now,
Speaker 1: and then my colleagues are going to win with their thoughts.
Speaker 1: And that's to say, right now, the Senate is supposed
Speaker 1: to be made it's changes. If the Senate makes changes,
Speaker 1: there will be a committee that comes together both of
Speaker 1: the House and the Senate representatives to try to combine
Speaker 1: those changes into a singular bill that then has to
Speaker 1: go back past the House and then has to pass
Speaker 1: the Senate. It passed the House the first time by
Speaker 1: one Republican vote. So when we talked about making calls
Speaker 1: to members of Congress, to raising our voices, jamming their switchboards,
Speaker 1: and sending emails, these are the kinds of actions. I
Speaker 1: believe that if you care about any of this, maybe
Speaker 1: you've got health Garet through your employer and so you're
Speaker 1: not worried. The reason you should be worried is the
Speaker 1: premiums will increase and you will be responsible for paying
Speaker 1: for those premiums for the people that they kick off
Speaker 1: the program. That's how it has always worked, that is
Speaker 1: how it will continue to work in this country. So
Speaker 1: whether you think you're impacted directly or not, we all
Speaker 1: have something to I would say buy and large lose.
Speaker 1: Unless you're a listener and you're part of the one percent,
Speaker 1: we've got a lot to lose by this piece of legislation,
Speaker 1: and now hopefully we ca can all wake up and
Speaker 1: start to pay just a little bit more attention to it. Tip.
Speaker 1: I know you've got questions, and Angel is better than me.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I would yeld because we we literally only
Speaker 4: have minutes, and I'm really sorry. I wish we had
Speaker 4: more time for this conversation because I have a thousand
Speaker 4: questions for you, Andrew. Instead of asking a question, I'll
Speaker 4: just say thank you for pulling out, because that was
Speaker 4: going to be my question, to be honest with you.
Speaker 4: But then when you did it, I was going to
Speaker 4: ask you, well can you pull out, like what are
Speaker 4: the five things that are going to have the most impact?
Speaker 4: And you pulled out more than five, and it has
Speaker 4: me nervous and disturbed. I would yield my time to
Speaker 4: Angela because I know we have a limited time. My
Speaker 4: only request of my two co hosts is that we
Speaker 4: revisit this conversation about the budget because this is hugely
Speaker 4: important and I hate that they keep calling it the
Speaker 4: big beautiful bill. I knows they called it, but it
Speaker 4: is big bad bullshit. That is what the bill is.
Speaker 4: Stop taking their words, like we got to stop using
Speaker 4: their idioms, like no, that's we will no longer call
Speaker 4: you all pro life, not when you take a month
Speaker 4: away from kids. We're not going to call this a
Speaker 4: big beautiful bill, Big bad bullshit. That's what I did, Angela.
Speaker 5: There's another one of our sister friends who has some
Speaker 5: bees for these people. So I think it's a beach
Speaker 5: blonde bad butch body build is what it is. That's
Speaker 5: what I think it might be.
Speaker 4: But I want to.
Speaker 5: Say, TIF, I actually think it may be good here
Speaker 5: for you to ask some of your questions, even if
Speaker 5: we don't answer them. I think it's an opportunity to
Speaker 5: engage in a townhall style format with our audience. And
Speaker 5: I would just suggest to people. I know that when
Speaker 5: some of us, and I'm saying from the hill too,
Speaker 5: there used to be sections when the budget proposal came
Speaker 5: to the Hill. We would take sections and divide it up,
Speaker 5: and each of us would have to respond based on
Speaker 5: those sections because of how much work it is. So
Speaker 5: I know, looking at the page jumpers, just like, where
Speaker 5: do I even begin. What I would urge you to
Speaker 5: do is do a search, like in a PDF, on
Speaker 5: the things you care most about, whether it's healthcare or
Speaker 5: it's SNAP, which in the bill will be supplement on
Speaker 5: Nutrition Assistance benefits.
Speaker 4: I think supplement on Nutrition Assistance Program program.
Speaker 6: Why did I say we still want to d MBS
Speaker 6: this y'all, but yes, the program, I definitely I say
Speaker 6: a SNAP instead of snab. I'm sorry, but I would
Speaker 6: encourage you to look at that veterans, you know, search
Speaker 6: for health care in there. We're suspecting that a number
Speaker 6: of people's health care. I think more than eleven million
Speaker 6: people will lose health care benefits in this bill. So
Speaker 6: please just go and do a search in the bill,
Speaker 6: which is called the Big Beautiful Bill Act or whatever
Speaker 6: it is. It just look because it does impact you.
Speaker 6: If it doesn't impact you, it impact your parents. If
Speaker 6: it doesn't impact your parents, and impact your kids. If
Speaker 6: it doesn't impact your kids, and impact your neighbors. So
Speaker 6: please make sure you take a look at this.
Speaker 5: There are also articles written about it. And I now
Speaker 5: want to yield to tips question.
Speaker 4: Well, I guess my first question and we don't have
Speaker 4: to answer these now because I know we're at the time,
Speaker 4: but my first question to end would be, you were
Speaker 4: the executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus for a
Speaker 4: number of years. I would ask what, if anything, could
Speaker 4: and should the Black Caucus be doing as a legislative
Speaker 4: body to stop this. We can talk about that later, Andrew.
Speaker 4: My question to you is for the person who's going
Speaker 4: to be impacted by this, particularly snap benefits, particularly if
Speaker 4: your kids rely on this for food. Is there anything
Speaker 4: that people can do other than call their members of Congress?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: Is there anything that people can do? And then I
Speaker 4: will take this time along with the viewers, I hope,
Speaker 4: and I will go through the bill myself and look
Speaker 4: for things that will directly impact my life or things
Speaker 4: that will impact the masses, and come back and ask
Speaker 4: you guys more policy Center questions. I love that about those.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 1: And the only the only thing I know. We don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of time is to simply say, I
Speaker 1: fail to say that Donald Trump wants to sign this
Speaker 1: bill into law on July fourth. So if you're thinking
Speaker 1: about how much time we have, how much time we
Speaker 1: get to rally, they expect to have a bill completing
Speaker 1: on the desk of the President so he can do
Speaker 1: some great Independence Day gimmicky thing as he kills more Americans,
Speaker 1: as he sets us up for untimely deaths because of
Speaker 1: the kinds of cuts. And I'm not being dramatic, y'all.
Speaker 1: If you've ever had a family member with a medical
Speaker 1: crisis or disease that you all do not have out
Speaker 1: of pocket money to take care of I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about going to the emergency room. I'm talking about treatment
Speaker 1: and healing and recovery. You better know that folks are
Speaker 1: going to parish as a result of cuts that give
Speaker 1: them the only possible extension of life. The thing to
Speaker 1: do if you live in a Republican area, particularly tiff Angela.
Speaker 1: This has always baffled me, but it baffle baffles me more.
Speaker 1: Here you're Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia. Many
Speaker 1: of these places have Republican either entire legi delegations that
Speaker 1: are are Republican, their governors are Republicans, and certainly in
Speaker 1: those states they're US senators with very few exceptions are Republicans.
Speaker 1: The greatest harm that will be felt through the cuts
Speaker 1: of these programs will be in many of these Southern
Speaker 1: states as well as as well as obviously the Midland
Speaker 1: and other states, middle of the country and the other states.
Speaker 1: But for our folks, who principally help to occupy many
Speaker 1: of the of the much of the population, this is
Speaker 1: coming for us. So it is not an overstatement to say, email, call,
Speaker 1: go to them and let them hear your stories. Then
Speaker 1: it needs to be personalized. These aren't numbers on a page.
Speaker 1: I'm an individual, I'm a household, I'm a voter, and
Speaker 1: I'm being negatively impacted by this. That's what I think
Speaker 1: it will take, and I look forward to I'll continue
Speaker 1: conversation on this. I know, I know there's more to
Speaker 1: cover here. You just had to get it in real quick.
Speaker 5: Can we can we do one thing you know we
Speaker 5: all are doing again, I think a pretty solid job
Speaker 5: of talking to people and hearing different perspectives. I really
Speaker 5: want to have some of those folks who would be
Speaker 5: directly impacted on the show to talk about what their
Speaker 5: experience has been, because the truth is, even with what
Speaker 5: they have right now, Tiff and you talk about this
Speaker 5: all the time, even about your mom, it's not enough
Speaker 5: right now. So the cuts are going to really really
Speaker 5: hit a lot of people, and I think we should
Speaker 5: really get their voices on because we talk about these
Speaker 5: things in such an abstract way sometimes I don't think
Speaker 5: people realize it's literally their cousin or their on or
Speaker 5: you know, it's a lot closer than people think.
Speaker 4: Well, this was a great mini pid. We're definitely going
Speaker 4: to pick this conversation up. Thank you guys for tuning in.
Speaker 4: Remember We have our main podcast that drops every Thursday.
Speaker 4: Minipid drops every Friday. You can catch Andrew every Monday,
Speaker 4: Hangela every Tuesday, every other well every other Monday, and
Speaker 4: The Angela on Tuesdays. You can catch us in LA
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