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Speaker 2: You're listening to a forty seven Morning Update Special Government

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Speaker 2: shut down edition with Ben Ferguson.

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Speaker 3: Good Thursday morning, Ben Ferguson with you. It's nice to

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Speaker 3: have you on the forty seven Morning Update. Is we

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Speaker 3: have a special show for you this morning. So many

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Speaker 3: the facts about what the president's actually accomplishing. This is

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Speaker 3: one of those special shows that I hope you will

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Speaker 3: share everywhere on social media. It's the forty seven Morning

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Speaker 3: Update and it starts right now. Story number one, a

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Speaker 3: government shutdown is now likely after Chuck Schumer says that

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Speaker 3: Senate Democrats will block a GOP funding bill. The Speaker

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Speaker 3: of the House, Mike Johnson making it very clear that

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Speaker 3: the same Democrats who have always said we can never

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump is in charge, They've decided, Nah, I we'll

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Speaker 3: just throw that all out the window and go with

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Speaker 3: the government shutdown just to try to hurt Donald Trump.

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Speaker 3: Take a list, and the speaker in his own words.

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Speaker 4: They're planning to vote down the simple bill. They are

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Speaker 4: going to try to shut the government down. Every House

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Speaker 3: So just think for a second about what the speaker

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Speaker 3: They want Americans to suffer because they want you to

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Speaker 3: blame Donald Trump for any inconvenience or real pain that

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Speaker 3: at it this way. They're advocating for tanking the American

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Speaker 3: listen to the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in his

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Speaker 5: Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans

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Speaker 5: chose a partisan path, drafting their Continuing Resolution without any input,

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Speaker 3: Translation Chuck Schumer saying, we the Democratic Party, are holding

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Speaker 3: solely by the Democrats, with the Republicans holding a fifty

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Speaker 3: also understands that guess what, you don't always work together

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Speaker 3: They didn't ask Donald Trump to quote compromise with Democrats.

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Speaker 2: Next story number two.

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump ran on a issue that actually saw incredible

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Speaker 1: We're going to move the Department of Education. We're going

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Speaker 3: Now, this goes back to a basic promise that Donald

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Speaker 3: It was the very first time that the media and

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