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It's the forty seven Morning Update and 52 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 3: it starts. 53 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:07,920 Speaker 2: Right now story number one. 54 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 3: With a federal government partial shutdown, there is an opportunity 55 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 3: for Donald Trump to do exactly what he promised during 56 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 3: the campaign to get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse 57 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:25,799 Speaker 3: of your tax hours. Trump is now signaling layoffs and 58 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 3: spending cuts that could become permanent. So yes, this shutdown 59 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 3: could be a massive blessing in disguise for every American taxpayer. 60 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 3: The federal government entering a partial shutdown early Wednesday because 61 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 3: of Democrats on purpose failed to reach an agreement on 62 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 3: a funding package, a clean cr and President Trump suggests 63 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 3: that the standoff could open the door, he says for 64 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 3: big changes in the federal workforce. Senate lawmakers miss the 65 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 3: deadline at midnight to approve a very simple budget for 66 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 3: the fiscal year twenty twenty five. According now to Fox News, 67 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 3: the short term funding extension that passed the House earlier 68 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 3: in September, keeping the government running through November the twenty firth, 69 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 3: but bipartison talks collapse when the Democrats said, no, we 70 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 3: want to hold you hostage and we demand that you 71 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 3: spend on things like healthcare for illegal immigrants. Now, in 72 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 3: the hours leading up to the shutdown, President Trump made 73 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 3: it very clear that while he did not want the 74 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 3: government to close, he saw opportunities quote unquote in the crisis, saying, quote, 75 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:38,359 Speaker 3: we don't want it to shut down because we have 76 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 3: the greatest period of time ever. I tell you, we 77 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 3: have seventeen trillion being invested. So the last person that 78 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 3: wanted to shut down is us. He then added, Now, 79 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:52,719 Speaker 3: with that being said, we can do things during the 80 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 3: shutdown that are irreversible that are bad for them referring 81 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 3: to Democrats, and irreversible by them by cutting vast numbers 82 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 3: of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs 83 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 3: that they like, referring to the Democrats. Now, Trump has 84 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 3: repeatedly warned and pushed to reduce the size of government 85 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 3: and slash federal programs. He says that waste your tax dollars. 86 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 3: A shutdown does not grant new powers to the White House, 87 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 3: but it does give the executive branch wide discretion over 88 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 3: what services continue to operate. The standoff has turned into 89 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:36,479 Speaker 3: a battle of blame, Democrats going to TV saying this 90 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 3: is all Trump's fault. But the problem is some Democrats 91 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:43,920 Speaker 3: didn't get the memo to lie. They told the truth 92 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:48,280 Speaker 3: that they are in fact shutting down the government. Democrats 93 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 3: can accuse Republicans all they want of hijacking the process 94 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 3: and falsely lying claiming that they want to provide taxpayer 95 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 3: funded health benefits only for Americans, when it's in black 96 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 3: and white, they wanted taxpayer funded health benefits for all 97 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 3: illegal immigrants. Chuck Schumer said Tuesday, quote, they say that 98 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 3: undocumented people are going to get these credits. That is 99 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 3: absolutely false. This is one of the big lies that 100 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 3: they're telling you. Well, you look at the Office of 101 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 3: Budget Management and they made it very clear. The Democrats 102 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:26,039 Speaker 3: are spending massive amounts of money if they got their 103 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 3: way on illegal immigrant healthcare. Which brings me to Speaker 104 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 3: Johnson on the government shut down, going back and reminding 105 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 3: the American people of what really happened and said the 106 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,359 Speaker 3: lies the Democrats and many in the media are telling. 107 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:45,039 Speaker 3: Take a list of the speaker on Fox News. 108 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 4: Members, then it's going to be hard to get this resolved. 109 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:53,039 Speaker 4: All along Republicans wanted to shut the government down. 110 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:55,840 Speaker 5: Well, we do have the House Speaker with us here 111 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 5: in the studio tonight. Let's welcome in Mike Johsed Luisiana. 112 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 5: Good to see you, so thank you for the time. 113 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 5: I know that you have been very busy. 114 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 6: Today, busy day. Those clips are hilarious to me. The 115 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 6: House did its job. The House Republicans did our job. 116 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 6: It's spent over two weeks. We passed that continued resolution. 117 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 6: It's clean, it's simple, it's twenty four pages in length. 118 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 6: We were simply trying to buy time, and this is 119 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 6: really important for everybody to remember. John the reason we're 120 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 6: doing this is that the appropriators are trying to rebuild 121 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 6: the muscle memory to do appropriations, to spend taxpayer dollars responsibly. 122 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 6: And that takes twelve separate approach bills. We were doing that, 123 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 6: working through the process. We ran out of time. We 124 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 6: need seven more weeks, so we put a clean CR 125 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 6: on the table, assuming that everybody, all the Democrats, would 126 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 6: do the right thing. They've rejected it now three times 127 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 6: as of today, the Senate Democrats, forty four of them 128 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 6: have voted that CR, the clean CR down and they 129 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 6: proposed Chuck Schumer's version, which is a dirty CR. Why 130 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 6: do we say that because he wants to add one 131 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 6: point five trillion dollars in new spending to a seven 132 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 6: week stopgap measure, and they want to give healthcare to 133 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 6: illegal aliens, claw back the funds that we put in 134 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 6: for rural hospitals, and all sorts of other mayhem that 135 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 6: we can't do that. We're just not going to do it. 136 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 3: You listen to Speaker Johnson. The House Republicans did our 137 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 3: job passing the CR over two weeks ago, simply trying 138 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 3: to buy time. The appropriators are trying to rebuild the 139 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 3: muscle memory to do appropriations to spend taxpayers dollars responsively 140 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 3: instead of irrationally and radical, which is what the Democrats wanted. 141 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 3: And here is what the Speaker had to say about 142 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 3: some of the money, including healthcare for illegals. 143 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 6: That we're just not going to do it. 144 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 5: So this is the real point of contention here. I mean, 145 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 5: obviously they want to restore some of the cuts that 146 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 5: were enacted in the Big Beautiful Bill when it comes 147 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 5: to Medicaid funding, et cetera. But Democrats insist our bill 148 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 5: does not provide federal dollars for health care for illegal immigrants. 149 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 6: And you say, what I say, they obviously have not 150 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 6: read their bill. This counterproposal that he filed. Everybody can 151 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 6: google it, go pull it up. It's on the Senate's website, 152 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 6: and in the legislative text. Go to page fifty seven 153 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 6: of Chuck Schimmer's bill and look at section twenty one 154 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 6: forty one. It says right there, in plain language, they 155 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 6: want to repeal the health provisions of the one, Big 156 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 6: Beautiful Bill. 157 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 5: I do part ways with you here on this idea 158 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 5: of plain language. Oh, I read that whole section. It 159 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 5: might as well be written in Mandarin. 160 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 6: And that's probably why the Democrats don't understand what they filed. 161 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 6: But if you interpret that and you get through all 162 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 6: the subsections, what you realize is they're trying to take 163 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 6: out in its entirety the reforms that we put into 164 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 6: the big beautiful bill pretending to health. And why is 165 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:31,319 Speaker 6: that so important, Because what we did was we strengthened 166 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:35,319 Speaker 6: the Medicaid program by making sure that ineligible recipients are 167 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 6: not on the rolls. The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, 168 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 6: on August twenty fifth, published a letter and they said, 169 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 6: this is going to do exactly what Republicans said. They 170 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 6: estimate the two point three million illegal recipients for Medicaid 171 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 6: will be pushed off the roles because of our reforms, 172 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 6: and then it's going to say one hundred and eighty 173 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 6: five billion dollars of taxpayer funds. So they want to 174 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 6: return all those ineligible people back to the roles. And 175 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 6: many of them are illegal aliens. Is a fact, and 176 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 6: anybody who looks at it objectively has to say it's true. 177 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 3: I love how calm the speaker is on this. He's 178 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 3: trying to make it clear that this is all about 179 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 3: the Democrats trying to slander and attack the Republicans doing 180 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 3: the responsible thing. Just to put it in perspective, there 181 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 3: were seventeen different times the Republicans did not shut down 182 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 3: the government when they had an opportunity to do it, 183 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 3: and instead went for a continuing resolution to make sure 184 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 3: the government was open when the guy by the name 185 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 3: of Joe Biden was President of the United States of America. 186 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 3: Because Republicans understood that shutdowns are bad for the economy. 187 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 3: Republicans understood that it was their job to protect the 188 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:55,200 Speaker 3: American people and also make sure that our government was 189 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 3: functioning the right way. 190 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 4: The Democrats shut down the government because President Trump and 191 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,840 Speaker 4: the Republicans will not force American taxpayers to pay for 192 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 4: free healthcare for illegal aliens. America is thirty seven trillion 193 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 4: dollars in debt. We cannot afford to provide taxpayer funded 194 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 4: free healthcare to illegals who broke the law to enter 195 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:17,200 Speaker 4: our country. 196 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 3: That is exactly why so many Americans decided to vote 197 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 3: for Donald Trump. 198 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update 199 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 2: with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever 200 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 2: you're listening to this podcast right now and for more 201 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:37,079 Speaker 2: in depth news. Also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast 202 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 2: and we will see you back here tomorrow.