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Speaker 1: host of Native lamppod, and this is my solo pod. Today.
Speaker 1: We begin with something that is so very serious and
Speaker 1: is impacting so many people. And no, it's not a
Speaker 1: beef between podcasts hosts. It's something much bigger than that,
Speaker 1: something that I want to draw your attention to because
Speaker 1: it may not be knocking at your front door right now,
Speaker 1: but it might be just around the corner. First, I
Speaker 1: want to start with what your president had to say
Speaker 1: about government shutdowns not long ago.
Speaker 2: So tell me if you were president.
Speaker 3: What would you do.
Speaker 4: Well, very simply, you have to get everybody in a room.
Speaker 5: You have to be a leader.
Speaker 4: The president has to lead here.
Speaker 6: The Democrats are going to be blamed.
Speaker 7: And the Republicans are going to be blamed.
Speaker 8: I actually think the president would be blamed if there
Speaker 8: is a shutdown. I think it would be a tremendously
Speaker 8: negative mark on the President of the United States.
Speaker 9: He's the one that has to get people together. They're
Speaker 9: not going to be talking who the head of the
Speaker 9: House was, the head of the Senate, who's running things
Speaker 9: in Washington.
Speaker 4: So I really think the pressure is on the president.
Speaker 1: So we recently appeared on the Breakfast Club, Native Lampard
Speaker 1: was asked by Leonard whose fault the shutdown was, And
Speaker 1: I think if we've listened to the words of the president,
Speaker 1: it's very clear who the buck stops with. I know
Speaker 1: that the buck didn't stop with the president just in
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, or in twenty fourteen, or even in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: even to this day in twenty twenty five. When your
Speaker 1: president seeks to become king, seeks to become an authoritarian leader,
Speaker 1: certainly he can hold the bag for this as well.
Speaker 1: So while people struggle to figure out how they will
Speaker 1: make ends meet during a government shutdown that has now
Speaker 1: lasted more than twenty days, it's very clear that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump believed the buck stops with the President. I want
Speaker 1: to go next to another just harrowing, terrible, awful, heart
Speaker 1: wrenching experience that families in Tennessee are having.
Speaker 10: Let's roll it.
Speaker 6: Students with disabilities were just forced off campus, and state
Speaker 6: officials say it has everything to do with the government shutdown.
Speaker 6: I'll be honest. When I first got the call, couldn't
Speaker 6: believe what I was hearing. And then I saw the
Speaker 6: video and you have all of these students with their
Speaker 6: parents loading up as if it was moving day. This
Speaker 6: is the Tennessee Rehabilitation Center in Smyrna, and from my understanding,
Speaker 6: this is the only state run facility of its kind
Speaker 6: here in Tennessee. It's hard to tell from the video,
Speaker 6: but people who were there that day called and told
Speaker 6: me that some of these students were in tears. So
Speaker 6: think about that for a second. These are students with
Speaker 6: special needs. Some of them have a disability, some of
Speaker 6: them are visually impaired. This facility was intended to help
Speaker 6: students learn learn the vocational skills they need to get jobs.
Speaker 6: The skills they're learning is not just about how to
Speaker 6: work a register. It's like they're learning soft skills as well,
Speaker 6: you know, whether that's just how to talk to people,
Speaker 6: how to pick up on social cues, that sort of thing.
Speaker 6: And now they're being told, take your laptop with you,
Speaker 6: go home, and we'll do some of this learning virtually.
Speaker 6: And you know, I've never had much experience with, you know,
Speaker 6: students with special needs, but it feels like that kind
Speaker 6: of defeats the purpose. That's where you get some of
Speaker 6: these parents who reached out and said that they were frustrated.
Speaker 6: They were shocked that something like this would happen over
Speaker 6: what's being debated hundreds of miles away the Tennessee Department
Speaker 6: of Human Services that operates this facility, so that this
Speaker 6: is something that they had to do because of the
Speaker 6: government shutdown. Now, I don't know the exact numbers of
Speaker 6: how many students this is impacted, but I do know
Speaker 6: that as you're watching this right now, some of them
Speaker 6: are still moving out and their parents are trying to
Speaker 6: find answers. The students are trying to find answers. We're
Speaker 6: trying to find answers. I sent an email to DHS
Speaker 6: to ask them, like, how does a state run facility
Speaker 6: rely so much on federal funding that they have to
Speaker 6: force students off campus when the government shutdown. Hits still
Speaker 6: waiting on an answer for that. There's just a lot
Speaker 6: of uncertainty because this could last days, this could last weeks,
Speaker 6: this could last months. This is the third longest government
Speaker 6: shutdown of its kind in American history, and Republicans and
Speaker 6: Democrats are deadlocked on trying to pass a budget. Well,
Speaker 6: while all that's happening, there are unintended consequences that we
Speaker 6: are watching right now and it's impacting some of the
Speaker 6: most vulnerable students in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: So we are now at day twenty one, and just
Speaker 1: so we're very clear, the last government shutdown that lasted
Speaker 1: this long also under Donald Trump, and they are living
Speaker 1: and voting like and moving like they don't care who
Speaker 1: this impacts. We're talking about kids with special needs who
Speaker 1: are being moved out of their housing facility learning particularized
Speaker 1: skills in Smyrna in Tennessee, and as the reporter said,
Speaker 1: the only state run facility of its kind in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: I want to go next to people who folks on
Speaker 1: the other side normally say they represent, they respect, they honor,
Speaker 1: they uphold. Let us take just a quick look at
Speaker 1: how the military, soldiers in our military and their families
Speaker 1: are being impacted by the shutdown.
Speaker 11: As I take a step aside here, there is quite
Speaker 11: a bit of military members and their families in line
Speaker 11: because of this government shutdown. We're in day nine of it.
Speaker 11: In they're here for a food pantry. There's all sorts
Speaker 11: of food that is available. And I spoke with some
Speaker 11: military members, spouses, and I spoke with some department heads
Speaker 11: here at the as Y m c A on why
Speaker 11: this is so important. What's the difference in the amount
Speaker 11: of people that you've seen from today to previously.
Speaker 12: So when we first started coming there definitely wasn't this
Speaker 12: amount of people.
Speaker 11: It was a lot, but it wasn't this amount to
Speaker 11: where it wrapped around the building.
Speaker 5: But lately it has been a lot.
Speaker 12: Like we were here last week and we were in
Speaker 12: line for like two hours, And.
Speaker 13: In a normal week, we usually run out of food
Speaker 13: abut one o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: Last week we ran out of food about ten thirty. So,
Speaker 1: when we take a look at even how our own
Speaker 1: military is being treated, people who are on the front
Speaker 1: lines to protect American freedoms or at least what used
Speaker 1: to be even their families are being put in harm's way.
Speaker 1: And I want to be clear, this is a food
Speaker 1: bank that you heard is being run out of the YMCA,
Speaker 1: So this isn't even a government response to how they
Speaker 1: can meet the needs of military professionals soldiers who again
Speaker 1: are making sure that our freedoms are protected their needs
Speaker 1: are not being met by the government.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is a food bank being run by the YMCA,
Speaker 1: and I think what is particularly alarming in this particular
Speaker 1: clip is they say that normally they run out of
Speaker 1: food around the one PM mark. They said just last
Speaker 1: week the line was so long they round out of
Speaker 1: food by ten thirty. There's an influx of folks who
Speaker 1: need this type of support, and gratefully, citizens all over
Speaker 1: the country are filling the gap, But should they be
Speaker 1: filling the gap for the military too? Should that be
Speaker 1: what's required of us in this moment? Or should Congress
Speaker 1: do what it's supposed to do, and should the president
Speaker 1: require that the military families are taken care of. That's
Speaker 1: certainly what you would see in an ordinary democracy. It's
Speaker 1: certainly what you would see with elected officials who lead
Speaker 1: with respect, with dignity, with care, concern and compassion for
Speaker 1: its citizens, particularly those on the front lines. But that's
Speaker 1: not what you're seeing here. Again, it's day twenty one
Speaker 1: of this government shut down, and there's still a lot
Speaker 1: more to go. Let's take a quick turn to health care.
Speaker 1: We've seen the impacts around food and security. We've seen
Speaker 1: the impacts around education, particularly as it relates to folks
Speaker 1: who have special needs in the education space. But what
Speaker 1: about healthcare?
Speaker 7: So, folks, this is what the current fight is all about.
Speaker 7: Nobody wants to shut down, at least I don't. I
Speaker 7: don't want to shut down. But what I also don't
Speaker 7: want is for people in Georgia that I represent to
Speaker 7: lose their health care because it's simply unaffordable. Let me
Speaker 7: show you what I mean. In twenty twenty five, this
Speaker 7: family of four in Chatham County, where I grew up,
Speaker 7: paid five hundred and fifty nine dollars and sixty nine
Speaker 7: cents per month for the lowest cost option. That's the
Speaker 7: lowest cost family for five hundred and fifty nine dollars
Speaker 7: sixty nine cents a month. Now look at this. Because
Speaker 7: of Republicans' cuts to healthcare last summer, the same family
Speaker 7: will have to pay two thousand, one hundred and thirty
Speaker 7: one dollars sixty five cents for the lowest cost option.
Speaker 7: You tell me how an ordinary working family in Georgia
Speaker 7: is supposed to afford that. Republicans did this. Now they
Speaker 7: won't reopen the government because they're fighting for this. Well,
Speaker 7: I'm not fighting for Georgians to have their healthcare premiums quadrupled.
Speaker 7: I'm fighting to extend their healthcare and to reopen the government.
Speaker 7: My Republican colleagues ought to join me.
Speaker 1: You know, we have been in this healthcare battle since
Speaker 1: President Obama's first term, and I'm bringing that up because
Speaker 1: I think it's important to contextualize where we are in
Speaker 1: the government shutdown fight and what this is really about.
Speaker 1: They will tell you that the shutdown is about, you know,
Speaker 1: making sure that folks get the tax cuts they deserve.
Speaker 1: They'll tell you that the shutdown is about Democrats who
Speaker 1: don't see the bigger picture and want to harm government
Speaker 1: workers and put people in harms way who rely on
Speaker 1: government benefits. But really, what this is about is a
Speaker 1: piece of legislation that was passed in July that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump arrantly called the big Beautiful Bill, Sign Up get
Speaker 1: into law. After the House and Sidate passed it much
Speaker 1: objection in the House, but it was passed no less.
Speaker 1: And part of what happens in that bill is you're
Speaker 1: robbing Peter to pay Paul. You give the rich tax
Speaker 1: breaks and tax cuts, and you instead shift something to
Speaker 1: break a system that you never liked because it was
Speaker 1: the first black president who passed the Affordable Care Act.
Speaker 1: They tried to repeal the bill time after time after time.
Speaker 1: They took the bill to the Supreme Court. They have
Speaker 1: tried to dismantle the ACA, or Obamacare as they call it,
Speaker 1: and so this was their next tricky way to try
Speaker 1: to dismantle Obamacare. But what they failed to realize is
Speaker 1: those state exchanges where I'm from in Seattle, in Washington State,
Speaker 1: it's called apple Care right in these different state exchanges,
Speaker 1: places that have made Medicaid more accessible to people who
Speaker 1: don't make as much money as they ought. You may
Speaker 1: not call it Obamacare, you may not call it the
Speaker 1: Affordable Care Act, but these are the state exchanges that
Speaker 1: we've relied upon that we're codified in the Affordable Care Act. Now,
Speaker 1: because they've worked so hard to try to dismantle a
Speaker 1: key piece of President Obama's legacy, a key piece of legislation,
Speaker 1: and a key law that has made healthcare access more
Speaker 1: attainable to American families and to the American people, they
Speaker 1: work so hard to dismantle that that they will put
Speaker 1: you in a position where you are directly in harm's way. Now,
Speaker 1: for a lot of folks sitting at home watching this
Speaker 1: podcast and may say, you know what, I don't really
Speaker 1: need health care like that. I'm healthy, I'm fine, I
Speaker 1: go to the emergency room. If I need something, I
Speaker 1: can pay it out of pocket. I have a doctor,
Speaker 1: I have concierge medicine. Maybe that's where you sit, But
Speaker 1: there are many more who are sitting at home who
Speaker 1: need those state exchanges. All of those black women who
Speaker 1: were just laid off their jobs, they need these state exchanges.
Speaker 1: They need to be able to rely on systems like Cobra.
Speaker 1: That is what is in harm's way. So when Senator
Speaker 1: Warnock talks about a premium for a family in Georgia
Speaker 1: going up from five hundred and fifty nine dollars, that's
Speaker 1: the lowest option available on that state exchange. It went
Speaker 1: up to twenty one thirty one twenty one hundred dollars
Speaker 1: twenty one thirty one and sixty five cents. It's because
Speaker 1: of the measure that was passed in July, and it
Speaker 1: needs to be funded through this particular continuing resolution. And
Speaker 1: that is why the government is shut down. Because if
Speaker 1: the republic, if the Republicans can't seem to get their
Speaker 1: moral compass right. The Democrats have an obligation to hold
Speaker 1: the line for healthcare. No health care, no vote, and
Speaker 1: that is what Senate Democrats continue to do. It is
Speaker 1: being metaled messaging. You got Cabinet secretaries like Christy Noam
Speaker 1: putting up videos in airports that will allow it throughout
Speaker 1: the country, saying if your journey through TSA is slower
Speaker 1: in this airport, it is because of the Democrats' unwillingness
Speaker 1: to pass a measure that is actually causing you more
Speaker 1: harm than good. If you can't afford a twenty one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars payment for your health care, what makes you
Speaker 1: think that they should pass that bill? If this is
Speaker 1: the only thing standing in the way, And mind you,
Speaker 1: some of these prices are already up. They can change
Speaker 1: all of this with a simple conscionable vote. They're not
Speaker 1: willing to do that anyway. Let's go to another healthcare video.
Speaker 1: This one was really heart rending. It struck me. It
Speaker 1: was a conversation that Congressman hat Johnson, also out of Georgia,
Speaker 1: held with a constituent recently and why she realies on
Speaker 1: the healthcare system as is, but.
Speaker 2: Right now through you know I've used the Georgia Access
Speaker 2: website and I see, you know, I get the federal subsidy.
Speaker 2: I paid fifty dollars a month for the help of Terrence.
Speaker 2: But without that subsidy, my premium with skyrocket to twelve
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty dollars per month. WHOA, that's just an
Speaker 2: amount I simply cannot afford.
Speaker 6: From fifty dollars to twelve hundred and sixty twelve hundred
Speaker 6: and sixty dollars. Yes, no way that you could afford.
Speaker 2: That, No, no way. So my husband is going through
Speaker 2: cancer treatments right now, so you know we have that expense.
Speaker 2: He's on Medicare. I'm not yet on Medicare, so I'm
Speaker 2: in that gap. You know where you made health insurance,
Speaker 2: not quite to Medicare yet, And you know this affordable
Speaker 2: health insurance has saved my life for these past few years.
Speaker 1: I just cannot imagine what this woman is going through. Earlier,
Speaker 1: in the conversation with Congressman Johnson, she mentions that she's
Speaker 1: been unemployed since twenty twenty one. Because of her age,
Speaker 1: She's struggling to find employment that is consistent. She's worked
Speaker 1: part time job after gig after part time job after gig,
Speaker 1: and she has some pre existing conditions that require a
Speaker 1: certain type of medicine, a certain type of prescription drug
Speaker 1: that is also going to skyrocket if Republicans do not
Speaker 1: come to the table with their president to do the
Speaker 1: right thing by these people who cannot afford healthcare. To
Speaker 1: go from a fifty dollars subsidized premium to twelve hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty dollars is just irresponsible. It is morally reprehensible
Speaker 1: this woman is talking about And I'll tell y'all this
Speaker 1: is where it struck my heart. It struck a chord
Speaker 1: with me hearing about her husband who was able to
Speaker 1: be on Medicare because of his age. But it's also
Speaker 1: battling cancer. Many of you know my mother is also
Speaker 1: battling cancer. My mom was deeply concerned in the summer
Speaker 1: and even did a video from chemotherapy treatment about her
Speaker 1: concerns given that she's on Medicare. She also has additional
Speaker 1: supplemental coverage based on the job where she worked for
Speaker 1: forty years. But my mom was deeply concerned about what
Speaker 1: would happen to her healthcare, getting letters in the mail
Speaker 1: every day about what might happen to her cancer treatment
Speaker 1: and how unaffordable it may become. These are the conversations
Speaker 1: we have to have. You may not be sick, but
Speaker 1: there may be someone in your family, your mother, your father,
Speaker 1: your uncle, a sibling, right, a neighbor, or you help
Speaker 1: to support. We do not want to put other human
Speaker 1: beings in harm's way because we're selfish, or because we
Speaker 1: refuse to give the other side a win. It is
Speaker 1: a win for all people, regardless of their political affiliation,
Speaker 1: their race, their background, their ethnicity, their religion. Right, it
Speaker 1: is supposed to be accessible for all, and that's the
Speaker 1: conversation we should be having. But it isn't just hitting
Speaker 1: kids in special needs programs. It isn't just hitting military families.
Speaker 1: This isn't just hitting healthcare exchanges right state based exchanges
Speaker 1: that were stood up under Obamacare, undergirden under Obamacare. It
Speaker 1: is also hitting the TSA, the Transportation Security Administration, the
Speaker 1: folks in the blue uniforms you have to walk past
Speaker 1: in security, through security at the airport to get to
Speaker 1: your destination, whether your destination is for vacation, for a funeral,
Speaker 1: for you know, education.
Speaker 2: For your job.
Speaker 1: These are the people we have to walk by every day.
Speaker 1: The fact that this shut down is also impacting them
Speaker 1: and they also are not being paid, is something that
Speaker 1: we cannot look away from. We have not seen how
Speaker 1: detrimental it will become, but it is starting to hit.
Speaker 1: Let's roll this clip.
Speaker 10: It's another busy day at the state's largest economic generator,
Speaker 10: Minneapolis Saint Paul International Airport.
Speaker 12: When when the Phillia and then came back.
Speaker 10: Here, prompting security screenings by those like Neil Gosman at
Speaker 10: both ends.
Speaker 4: I'm speaking to you as a union officer representing TSA employees, a.
Speaker 10: Group dedicated to protecting the nation's transportation systems, established right
Speaker 10: after the nine to eleven attacks. Are you being paid
Speaker 10: right now?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 4: Not getting paid now. We got our last paycheck. I
Speaker 4: guess it was Friday, a week ago, and it was
Speaker 4: a partial paycheck for everybody because it only paid up
Speaker 4: through the end of September.
Speaker 10: Gosman's done the job at MSP since it existed nearly
Speaker 10: twenty one years, and says he's seen shutdowns before, but
Speaker 10: for some of the airport's nearly six hundred blue shirt agents,
Speaker 10: who come from all walks of life, it's their first.
Speaker 4: The morale there is quite varied some of the older
Speaker 4: folks we're going to tough this out. We're prepared, We're
Speaker 4: going to do it. And some of the younger folks say,
Speaker 4: I got student loans to pay.
Speaker 10: During twenty nineteen's shutdown, he says, some officers got by
Speaker 10: with gig jobs.
Speaker 4: It was pretty sad. A food bank was set up
Speaker 4: at the airport for TSA employees that we're running out
Speaker 4: of food money and gazz cards were handed out.
Speaker 10: Weges have since increased, but he hears the food bank
Speaker 10: is coming back. MSP says that Sunday was the second
Speaker 10: busiest day of the NEA travel weekend. So we asked
Speaker 10: some folks who just arrived from another US airport how
Speaker 10: their travel experience was.
Speaker 7: Let's say, he asked us to come early, and we
Speaker 7: really didn't need.
Speaker 9: To, and I was expecting that there'd be some delays
Speaker 9: and so on and so forth, and yeah, I mean,
Speaker 9: we breezed right through an experience.
Speaker 10: Gosman says they'll continue to strive to provide.
Speaker 4: I think it's important that passengers realize TSA folks are
Speaker 4: doing the best we can under very very unfortunate circumstances.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. For some airports, it hasn't hit
Speaker 1: just yet, but in many others it is. And let's
Speaker 1: say that your line isn't longer. Let's say there's no
Speaker 1: delay at the airport at all. But can you imagine
Speaker 1: working a job relying on a paycheck and you don't
Speaker 1: get it. We're now at October twenty first, the last
Speaker 1: time TSA's officers are what we call tsos. I have
Speaker 1: a homeland security background, having worked on the Committee on
Speaker 1: Homeland Security on Capitol Hill. Tsos were last paid at
Speaker 1: the end of September. For the end of September. And
Speaker 1: so what you have to think about, or what I
Speaker 1: would urge you to think about, is not just how
Speaker 1: this impacts your travel experience, not just the line that
Speaker 1: may be long or maybe much shorter. Maybe some of
Speaker 1: you will decide not to travel at all, but think
Speaker 1: about the person that can't make that decision about whether
Speaker 1: or not to go. They have to still go to work.
Speaker 1: They've made a decision to protect us, because not showing
Speaker 1: up to work for a TSO means a potential national
Speaker 1: security threat. And I'll give you an example. You know MSP,
Speaker 1: the Minneapolis Saint Paul International Airport, is actually one of
Speaker 1: the busiest airports in the nation. Them deciding not to
Speaker 1: show up could result in a really big security issue.
Speaker 1: Just in Atlanta, at Atlanta Hartsfield yesterday Hartsfield Jackson Airport,
Speaker 1: there was a major mass shooting averted a man who
Speaker 1: was having a mental health crisis. Let's say TSA decides
Speaker 1: to not have to go to work, and the air
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty plus rounds that he brought with them at
Speaker 1: his truck that he pulled right up to the curve,
Speaker 1: He's able to breeze through security because nobody's there to
Speaker 1: stop him. That's a national security risk. Homegrown terror, nonetheless,
Speaker 1: but it's a national security risk. These are the kinds
Speaker 1: of things that are at stake when the government shuts
Speaker 1: down and nobody wants to take responsibility for what is happening. See,
Speaker 1: violence is not partisan. Whether or not a TSO gets
Speaker 1: their paycheck is not partisan either. It shouldn't be, but
Speaker 1: it's becoming a partisan decision because Republicans are choosing to
Speaker 1: prefer their tax cuts for their donors over your safety
Speaker 1: and security at the airport, Over whether or not you
Speaker 1: get healthcare, over whether or not you can afford groceries,
Speaker 1: or you can even go to the grocery store, whether
Speaker 1: or not you can use that check to pay your rent,
Speaker 1: or pay your mortgage, or pay your child's tuition, or
Speaker 1: pay for daycare, or pay for whatever you whatever bill,
Speaker 1: you have, your light bill, pay for gas. There are
Speaker 1: people right now who are struggling to pay for gas,
Speaker 1: and I want to go to one more experience. Maxwell Frost.
Speaker 1: Congressman Maxwell Frost went to Jacksonville's airport and heard from
Speaker 1: some AFTI workers. The American Federation of Government Employees also
Speaker 1: is the labor that protects TSA workers and other airport workers.
Speaker 1: Let's hear from them.
Speaker 7: Hi.
Speaker 3: My name is Chris Finley. I'm the local president for
Speaker 3: AFG five six.
Speaker 9: Hi.
Speaker 13: I'm Maxana Kelly. I'm women's coordinator for Local five five six,
Speaker 13: which represents federal workers here in Orlando area.
Speaker 12: Hi.
Speaker 5: I'm Joseph Gruber. I'm the first vice president of AFGE
Speaker 5: Local five five six.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 8: My name is Fathiana Finley. I am the Fair Practice
Speaker 8: Coordinator for AFTE Local five five six.
Speaker 3: We represent federal employees at the Orlando Airport, Tampa, Jacksonville,
Speaker 3: pretty much central North Florida. My message to Congress is
Speaker 3: that the federal employees are tired of being a political
Speaker 3: pond for arguments. You guys can't settle on. It's time
Speaker 3: for you guys to come negotiate and do your job.
Speaker 13: We are all being affected by the shutdown. My husband
Speaker 13: and I are both federal employees and we expected to
Speaker 13: come to work daily at one point. If the shutdown continues,
Speaker 13: we'll have no money for guests, but we still expect
Speaker 13: it to come to work, so we'll try to do
Speaker 13: our best, but the shutdown will have to end.
Speaker 5: So and I would like to ask Congress if they
Speaker 5: could get their act together and stop using us as
Speaker 5: their bark. If we are expected to come to work
Speaker 5: and do our jobs, then you should also have to
Speaker 5: come to work and do your job.
Speaker 8: My message to Congress is it's time for you to
Speaker 8: come to work and do what people elected.
Speaker 2: You to do.
Speaker 8: You need to stop playing with our livelihood because they'd
Speaker 8: affect us all.
Speaker 9: Donald Trump and congressional Republicans shut down the government because
Speaker 9: they rather let the government shut down than make sure.
Speaker 3: You have health care.
Speaker 9: Why all to get billionaires a tax break. And during
Speaker 9: all of this, our federal workers are suffering, not receiving pay.
Speaker 9: Many of them expected to go to work or also
Speaker 9: get fired, but they won't be receiving that paycheck. So
Speaker 9: let's get together. Let's save healthcare, Let's reopen the government.
Speaker 9: Tell Donald Trump and congressional Republicans to get their assets
Speaker 9: to work.
Speaker 1: Go to work, and do your job. There are so
Speaker 1: many people I'm often, you know, not partisan, maddic Democrats
Speaker 1: for not holding the line. They're doing what they're supposed
Speaker 1: to do in this moment. The compromise here is untenable.
Speaker 1: The compromise here would break the economy and break the
Speaker 1: American people on this issue, especially this issue. The Democrats
Speaker 1: in the House and the Senate are right. They should
Speaker 1: The Republican Party should join them in the House chamber,
Speaker 1: should join them in the Senate chamber and do the
Speaker 1: right thing. Make sure that premiums don't go up. People
Speaker 1: cannot afford this, especially people in your districts for the House,
Speaker 1: especially people in your states in the Senate, the Republicans
Speaker 1: who represent the South, Like, are y'all for real? This
Speaker 1: isn't even this isn't even a question. It's not a
Speaker 1: debatable point.
Speaker 13: I do want to.
Speaker 1: Clear up one thing. I mentioned that the AFT folks
Speaker 1: represented workers federal workers at the Jacksonville Airport. They also
Speaker 1: represent Orlando in Tampa as well in that video. And
Speaker 1: I want to close with this. There are all of
Speaker 1: these people being impacted, but one place where we have
Speaker 1: historically been able to all come together and agree is
Speaker 1: when it's in the best interest of children. And there
Speaker 1: is a program that is run by the federal government
Speaker 1: in partnership with the States called WICK Right Women Infinite
Speaker 1: in Children's Program. This program helps to make food for
Speaker 1: babies more affordable, more accessible. WICK is also on the line.
Speaker 1: Let's roll this clip.
Speaker 12: So this is for y'all that don't know how much
Speaker 12: baby milk actually costs and why we need the WI program,
Speaker 12: which is set to be the funding is.
Speaker 10: Set to be cut off next.
Speaker 12: Month, just one of these linking days.
Speaker 1: Crisis, y'all.
Speaker 12: Forty four dollars. This is how much. And do you
Speaker 12: guys know how long it takes to go through a
Speaker 12: can of this? Look at this little can. And certain
Speaker 12: ladies need specific types of milk. This is sixty one
Speaker 12: dollars for one container. Fifty two dollars, you guys, sixty dollars.
Speaker 12: This is why we need the with programs. You guys
Speaker 12: there is no way possible that these women are going
Speaker 12: to be able to afford this milk.
Speaker 1: And here's what we know. In addition to the Women, Infants,
Speaker 1: and Children's program which will be cut off, SNAP benefits right,
Speaker 1: SNAP benefits, what people commonly referred to as food stamps,
Speaker 1: are slated to be cut at the beginning of November,
Speaker 1: So people who rely on these benefits to feed their
Speaker 1: families will be cut off the beginning of the same
Speaker 1: month as Thanksgiving. So I want you to tap into
Speaker 1: your compassion for those of you who are impacted already.
Speaker 1: I want you to tap into your courage to tell
Speaker 1: your story. We want to hear from you. We want
Speaker 1: to make sure we're lifting these stories up and holding
Speaker 1: them in front of the faces of the members of
Speaker 1: Congress who are refusing to act. And we also need
Speaker 1: to make sure they get to the President of the
Speaker 1: United States because while SNAP benefits are about to be
Speaker 1: cut next month, just next week, really just in ten days,
Speaker 1: as wick prices are soaring and is getting ready to
Speaker 1: be right on the crosshairs as well. In the crosshairs
Speaker 1: as well as TSA workers continue to go to work
Speaker 1: not being paid as healthcare premiums rise, Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: tearing down the entire East wing of the White House
Speaker 1: and paying for a new ballroom. While all of these
Speaker 1: things that help people make ends me. The poorest among us,
Speaker 1: those who are in the cross here is the most
Speaker 1: those who perform basic services in our community to make
Speaker 1: sure that we're good. Those are the people who he's
Speaker 1: putting in the crosshairs as Christy Noem gets two new planes,
Speaker 1: right Like, Let's be very clear. You think Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is going to going to work not getting paid. Let's
Speaker 1: be very clear about what this is. So please tell
Speaker 1: your stories. Please let us know how this shutdown is
Speaker 1: impacting you. Please let us know your fears, your concerns,
Speaker 1: questions you want us to address. We have so much
Speaker 1: to talk about on this show. But most of all, y'all,
Speaker 1: we don't ever leave a show without a call to action.
Speaker 1: I urge you to call. I urge you to record
Speaker 1: that video. I urge you to keep the heat on
Speaker 1: these folks so they understand what is on the line.
Speaker 1: We are all we've got. And for those of you
Speaker 1: who are in communities who are particularly impacted by this shutdown,
Speaker 1: I ask you to please not turn a blind eye
Speaker 1: to your neighbor. Let's lean into support because truly, we
Speaker 1: are always got and that is what the American way
Speaker 1: should be. It isn't always what it's been, but that
Speaker 1: is what it should be. Let's show each other the
Speaker 1: best of each other, Let's hold each other down during
Speaker 1: the shutdown, and let's figure out a way to get
Speaker 1: to the other side of it. Welcome home, y'all, I'll
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