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Speaker 1: They're going to have to do some things because their

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Speaker 2: So we see how that works at If you're listening

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Speaker 2: to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.

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Speaker 3: Good Tuesday morning, Nice to have you with us on

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Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update. And we've got one big

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Speaker 3: extended story for you. We are hours away from a

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Speaker 3: government shutdown, as Democrats and Chuck Schumer have made it

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Speaker 3: very clear, unless we give them one point five trillion

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Speaker 3: and radical, extreme spending programs, they're going to hold you

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Speaker 3: the American taxpayer hostage, will break down all of the moves.

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Speaker 3: It's forty seven Morning Update and it starts right now.

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Speaker 4: Story number one.

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Speaker 3: We are hours away from a government shutdown.

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Speaker 4: That is the big story. Now.

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Speaker 3: We know that Democrats don't want to shut down the government,

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Speaker 3: right how do we know this? They've been saying it

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Speaker 3: I'd love to just remind you the American people. What

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Speaker 3: to hear are still in power running our government right now.

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Speaker 5: Will these people hostage instead of just letting them do

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Speaker 5: out our differences.

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Speaker 4: So wrong?

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Speaker 6: This is democracy, and in a democracy, hostage tactics are

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Speaker 6: the last resort for those who can't win their fights

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Speaker 6: through elections, can't win their fights in Congress, can't win

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Speaker 6: in the court.

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Speaker 7: Doesn't shutdown as any duration with harm hardworking Americans and

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Speaker 5: Why should we ask TSA officers to go without the

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Speaker 4: I'm a Senator from Virginia.

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Speaker 8: Some of the hardest effects of shutdown will be seen

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Speaker 5: If the government shuts down, it will be average Americans

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Speaker 9: Who right now are trying to figure out how they're

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Speaker 9: going to pay rent, how they're going to make mortgage payments,

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Speaker 9: how they're going to keep college payments going, how they're

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Speaker 7: Had the government shut down, hundreds of thousands of people

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Speaker 10: Federal employees would have been furloughed sent home.

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Speaker 11: Our military will get paid, head start teachers will get paid,

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Speaker 10: Present federal prison guards will get paid.

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Speaker 5: A government shutdown means seniors who rely on Social Security

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Speaker 5: could be thrown into chaos. Our veterans could see regional

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Speaker 10: Shutdowns are not good for the economy.

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Speaker 8: Shutdowns cost taxpayers billions of dollars per week.

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Speaker 5: Shutdowns cost the economy billions of dollars.

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Speaker 10: They cost businesses money.

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Speaker 1: They could even cause a downgrade to the nation's credit rating.

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Speaker 5: Families who benefit from WICK and other nutrition programs could

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Speaker 12: If this shutdown continues indefinitely, thirty nine million Americans will

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Speaker 12: risk not having enough food. They will lose their SNAP

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Speaker 10: It's unacceptable.

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Speaker 9: The longer that this shutdown goes on, the more Americans

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Speaker 12: Critical services and our economy are being threatened with poison

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Speaker 9: Shutting down the government should not be a negotiating tactic.

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Speaker 6: Hostage taking is all they have left, a last gasp

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Speaker 3: That is the Democratic Party, that montage put together by

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Speaker 4: What do they want?

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Speaker 3: Well, they want a one point five trillion dollar port

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Speaker 4: That are covered by the tax payers.

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Speaker 3: Medicaid fraud is also something they want to keep, going

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Speaker 4: It shouldn't be this hard.

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Speaker 3: Let's just repeat costly cuts health care and save millions

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Speaker 3: They're literally holding the country hostage now, and it is

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump and Republicans are committed to keeping the government

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Speaker 3: open with a clean funding extension. What's even more shocking

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Speaker 3: hold on a second, what is a clean funding extent?

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Speaker 13: What I will share is that what this White House

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Speaker 10: That's all.

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Speaker 13: We're advocating for, a simple, clean budget extension, a straightforward,

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Speaker 13: Budget that the Democrats approved six months ago, just adjusted

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Speaker 13: He said once avoiding a shutdown is very good news

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Speaker 10: Hikim Jeffries also said it's about the harm.

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Speaker 13: Families will be hurt if there is a government shutdown,

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Speaker 10: Democrats clearly know what the right thing to do is here.

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Speaker 13: It's to join with Republicans to pass this clean funding extension.

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Speaker 3: So that's the playground that we have right now before us.

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Speaker 3: They are playing with many people's lives. They're playing with

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Speaker 3: It's actually very simple. He is terrified of a primary

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Speaker 3: Is it actually that simple? The answer is yes, especially

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Speaker 15: If you look at what Chuck Schumer has said in

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Speaker 15: We think it's totally unacceptable, and we think the American

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Speaker 7: The Democrats because right now they are the only thing

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Speaker 7: We're all in favor of funding the government, and this

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Speaker 3: It's a hijacking of the American people, and the American

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Speaker 3: Not healthcare for you, They're demanding healthcare for illegal immigrants.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to say it again, They're demanding it for

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Speaker 11: It went well, Sean. By the way, thanks for playing

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Speaker 11: Their counterproposal, what Chuck Schumer and Hackeim Jeffries are demanding,

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Speaker 11: You have telehealth, you have mental health services. All that

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Speaker 3: So here we are on the verge of a major shutdown.

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Speaker 3: The White House Office of Management Director Vought, saying, this

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Speaker 8: We want to keep this government open. It is not

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Speaker 10: This is hostage taking.

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Speaker 8: It is not something that we are going to accept.

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Speaker 7: And we hope.

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Speaker 8: That the Democrats come back from the brink fund this

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Speaker 4: We want to So here we are.

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Speaker 3: We are in a moment where the government is about

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Speaker 4: Ransom. That is what this is.

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Speaker 3: And Chuck Schumer making it clear in thirteen seconds. We

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