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Speaker 1: a damn thing got done for six weeks, and now

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, every great body wants to pay

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Speaker 1: the TSA workers. And with that, welcome to this breaking

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Speaker 1: news and very early episode of Amy and TJ.

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Speaker 2: Rhodes.

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Speaker 1: That's the headline. TSA workers are going to get paid.

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Speaker 1: How by whom, who gets credit, we don't know, but

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Speaker 1: we just had a little bit of chaos to pass

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Speaker 2: It's amazing what suddenly can happen in Congress when their

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Speaker 2: lives are upended, or when the potential of their vacation

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Speaker 3: Suddenly suddenly they're compelled to motivations. Wow, that just shows you.

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Speaker 2: If it doesn't affect them, they'll take their sweet old time.

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Speaker 2: It didn't matter that these folks hadn't been paid, that

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Speaker 2: people were literally getting eviction, noticed that people were living

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Speaker 2: in their cars, I think to take on second and

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Speaker 1: We should preface this episode with this. Robes and I

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Speaker 1: on very little sleep. We are very little. We are

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Speaker 1: punchy as anything and exhausted, but in good moods, and

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Speaker 1: this should be a very good story. That is the headline, folks.

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Speaker 1: TSA workers are going to get paid based on announcement

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Speaker 1: made and deals being made. But Robes, I can't help

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Speaker 1: but be pissed. I'm happy for them, but it all

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Speaker 1: comes down to why this was necessary in the first place.

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Speaker 1: Nobody got anything. Democrats didn't win, Republicans didn't win, and

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Speaker 1: we are really talking about their recess, Robes. The Eastern

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Speaker 1: recess was starting today today, So now all of a sudden, Oh,

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Speaker 1: they might want to keep us here and we can't

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Speaker 1: go home for our two week recess. We better get

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Speaker 1: something done for these poor TSA workers. I'm happy, but

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly, And I'm sure and we feel that way,

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Speaker 3: But how do you think those TSA workers feel?

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Speaker 2: That has got to be Look, I don't know if

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Speaker 2: it would make it any better if there was something

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Speaker 2: least it had meaning. Yes, to know that nothing came

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Speaker 1: Frustrating, and both sides are going to say there was

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Speaker 1: in this thing. Let us tell you what's going on,

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Speaker 1: and we have to tell you, folks. It is about

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Speaker 1: this a little earlier than normal. I know we're crazy,

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Speaker 1: but what just happened in the Senate is that the

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Speaker 1: Senate that's been fighting, and they're the reason. Really, they're

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Speaker 1: the House of Congress that's been holding things up. They

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Speaker 1: have agreed to fund DHS, which includes TSA but not

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Speaker 1: this means Robes obviously, is that now TSA, which hasn't

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Speaker 1: been getting paid for the past six weeks, they are

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Speaker 2: Celebration, right, yeah, but kind of yes, of course that's

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Speaker 2: the celebratory part. Here's the deal though. This is also hilarious,

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Speaker 2: and I note the sarcasm. They unanimously voted.

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Speaker 1: To approve, didn't even show up to vote.

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Speaker 2: Really, they unanimously voted to approve this funding. After all

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Speaker 2: And by the way, minus ICE and border patrol. But

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Speaker 2: really that doesn't even matter in a lot of ways,

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Speaker 2: And we've talked about this before because they were already

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Speaker 2: so that was never even at issue. The whole issue

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Speaker 2: But Ice was never in peril. Ice agents never missed

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Speaker 1: Thank God for the long lines, because what I think

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Speaker 3: Home for Eastern Yeah, they wouldn't have cared.

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Speaker 2: But Americans are pisis the constituents who are voting for

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Speaker 3: People have to get places, tragedies or happen.

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Speaker 2: Think about that and how many countless stories of people

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Speaker 1: And the game apparently is done at least this part

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Speaker 1: But robes that wasn't until an hour ago. The big

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to ask you how much do

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Speaker 2: And I wonder how much we'll get into what his

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Speaker 2: How much that impacted along with the Eastern Recess lawmaker's decision.

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Speaker 1: I we said here on the podcast yesterday day before,

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Speaker 1: there's no way there. Go home for recess and leave

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Speaker 3: Although late yesterday it looked like that might happen.

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Speaker 1: The solid stalemate thought this was going to be the case.

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Speaker 1: So the President steps in, but robes what did he?

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Speaker 2: That's exactly and that is why I was thinking that

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Speaker 1: What was the what time was he? So, yes, let's

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Speaker 1: Oh it was that. Oh it was that late. I

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Speaker 1: So this all happened late. The President steps in and says,

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Speaker 1: I I am going to pay TSA workers. Not exactly

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Speaker 2: Yes, and he started his first sentence was the radical

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Speaker 2: made it very clear where they stand, and that is

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Speaker 2: on the side of criminal, illegal aliens and not the

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Speaker 2: the Republicans agree to their open border policies, which will

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Speaker 2: never ever happen again. He went on to say, they

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Speaker 2: killed more than one person. Because the Democrats have recklessly

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Speaker 2: created a true national crisis. I am using my authorities

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Speaker 2: always do. Therefore, I am going to sign an order

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Speaker 2: instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Mark Wayne Mullen, to

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Speaker 2: immediately pay our TSA agents in order to address this

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Speaker 2: emergency situation and stop the Democrat chaos at the airports.

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Speaker 3: It's not an easy thing to do, but I'm going

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Speaker 2: I want to think are hardworking TSA agents and also

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Speaker 2: Ice for the incredible health, incredible help they've given.

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Speaker 3: Us at the airports.

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Speaker 2: I will not allow the radical left Democrats to hold

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Speaker 1: I like the line about this. It's hard to do,

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Speaker 1: the guy you're upset with about Iran, Me the guy

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Speaker 1: you're upset with about gas prices, Me the guy you're

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Speaker 1: I'm going to make all of your troubles go away,

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Speaker 1: because currently it seems like, or feels like roll all

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that was motivating.

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Speaker 2: I would have to imagine for all the lawmakers, but

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Speaker 2: sure exactly which recommendations Republicans are considering. The Democrats wanted

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Speaker 2: Those were the demands from the Democrats. Not sure where

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Speaker 2: an absolute stalemate. The Republicans were refusing, and then the

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Speaker 1: Fund and the President game in said I'm going to

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Speaker 2: Look, it was interesting because a lot of people were

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Speaker 3: That was a big question. And apparently did you even

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Speaker 2: Billions of dollars in the Department of Homeland Security that

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Speaker 2: were provided to the agency based on Trump's tax cut,

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Speaker 2: his twenty five tax bill.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, make beautiful bill. They put money in there, they

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Speaker 2: Well, now, I guarantee you I already started to see

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Speaker 2: or hear little little rumblings. This is going to be

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Speaker 2: a big thing. I'm sure Democrats are going to jump

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Speaker 1: Why didn't any of them do it sooner? Let me

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Speaker 2: Up at, well, absolutely Atlanta, yes, and maybe Houston.

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Speaker 2: interesting that came out of all of this. The union

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Speaker 3: Did you even know about this?

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Speaker 2: I wasn't aware of it, but it makes so much

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Speaker 1: TSA agents would not do this again. It should to

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Speaker 2: You and I wonder why people can't stand politicians dings.

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Speaker 1: All right, folks, but we'll end on the upside. TSA

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Speaker 2: And I'm just thinking about those poor five hundred workers

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Speaker 2: That is such a massive up ending of your life

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point, all right, folks. We always

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Speaker 1: appreciate you spending some time with us. Wanted to give

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Speaker 1: I am TJ. Holmes and we will talk to you soon.

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