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Speaker 1: Native Lampard is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership with

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Speaker 1: Reason Choice Media.

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Speaker 2: Welcome Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. The Department of

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Speaker 2: Homeland Security is currently without funding because Washington Republicans would

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Speaker 2: rather see it shut down than past common sense, just

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Speaker 2: common sense guardrails on ice. In fact, every Senate Republican

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Speaker 2: present voted just this past weekend against paying our TSA agents.

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Speaker 2: I arise yet again with a simple practical proposal to

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Speaker 2: pay hard working TSA agents. Pay them right now. They

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Speaker 2: deserve it. If we cannot move forward with funding for

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Speaker 2: the entire Department of Homeland Security, we should at least

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Speaker 2: be able to come together on this. So today I'm

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Speaker 2: asking my colleagues to take just a simple step, pass

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Speaker 2: my legislation right now to pay TSAVOR so that commercial

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Speaker 2: air travel remains safe and functional. Don't penalize TSA and

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Speaker 2: the traveling public for the fact that you refuse to

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Speaker 2: rain on ice, and have them be held accountable. Having

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Speaker 2: the trained, transparent and accountable like every other law enforcement

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Speaker 2: agent in this country.

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Speaker 3: Cert objection object.

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Speaker 2: My Republican colleagues have the power to do something about it.

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Speaker 2: They don't have to wait for the President. So if

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Speaker 2: Washington Republicans, my Senate colleagues, really want to do what's

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Speaker 2: right by their constituents, by the TSA workers, you would

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Speaker 2: have passed my bill to pay TSFE TSA officers instead

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Speaker 2: of punishing them and the American people because of your inaction.

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Speaker 4: Welcome home, y'all. This is Angela Raia. I'm your host of.

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Speaker 1: Today's solo pod, and today we are talking about Senate

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Speaker 1: Republicans standing in the way of tsos that those are

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Speaker 1: the Transportation Security Administration officers who are responsible for keeping

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Speaker 1: our airport safe every single day, not funding them eight

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Speaker 1: separate times separately, eleven times in total. I want to

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Speaker 1: give you all this quick timeline because you're seeing a

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Speaker 1: lot of misinformation online. You know, right now there's a

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Speaker 1: campaign from Republican leadership that says, thank a Democrat, and

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Speaker 1: they're holding over the heads of the Democratic Party all

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Speaker 1: of the airport congestion from Houston to Dallas to Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: all of these airports. They are holding that over the

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Speaker 1: head of the Democratic Party. But spoiler alert, y'all, Democrats

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Speaker 1: aren't in charge of the House, the Senate, or the administration.

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Speaker 1: This is a Republican problem that needs to be resting

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Speaker 1: squarely at the feeder of the Republican So let's walk

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Speaker 1: this through a little bit. Thursday March fifth, Senate Republicans

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Speaker 1: blocked a bill offered by Senator Patty Murray from my

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Speaker 1: for ICBP and the DHS Secretary's office. As you all

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Speaker 1: can imagine, two hundred million dollars later into an ad campaign.

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Speaker 1: No Christy Norman to be found. What's the point of

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Speaker 1: funding her office? And this would be again to carve

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Speaker 1: out ICE and CBP. March eleventh, the Senate Republicans blocked

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Speaker 1: Senator Patty Murray's bill to fund all of DHS Again,

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Speaker 1: same bill. Thursday, March twelfth, Senate Republicans blocked Senator Jackie

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Speaker 1: broader negotiations continued on The next was a bill offered

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Speaker 1: Then they blocked a bill offered by Senator Chris Murphy.

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Speaker 1: This is now time number five to ensure members of

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Speaker 1: They blocked that bill to fund FEMA while broader negotiations continued.

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Speaker 1: March eighteenth, they blocked a bill offered by Senator Warnock

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Speaker 1: Blocked a bill from Senator Brian Shatz from Hawaii to

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Speaker 1: Pure, straightforward, clear legislation to pay TSA workers while these

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Speaker 1: We have the president of a FG Local five point

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Speaker 1: We're so grateful for his time. His name is Aaron Barker,

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Speaker 5: Hi Angelas, thank you for having me on.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: President Barker, most importantly for you just taking the time

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Speaker 1: time to continue to keep the American public safe while we,

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Speaker 1: you know, frankly, go through these political shenanigans. I know

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Speaker 5: Well, so, first yes, I can talk about those things.

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Speaker 5: because there's been some misinformation about that. So this coming

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Speaker 5: weekend would be the third miss paycheck. The first paycheck

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Speaker 5: which people are saying it was a partial paycheck. All

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Speaker 5: your life insurance, all of those deductions came out full deductions.

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Speaker 5: So the paycheck that officers received the first one, and

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Speaker 1: They have, you know, absolutely, and I'm curious to know

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Speaker 1: Like I'll just give you this example, Aaron I was

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's fair that y'all are working so

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Speaker 1: Ice is getting paid to roam the halls of the

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Speaker 1: So why do we have ice in the airports at all?

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Speaker 1: But y'all need you to comment on that part. I

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Speaker 1: can we partner with AFG, is there some with our

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Speaker 5: Well, first, thank you so much for asking this question.

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Speaker 5: A lot of people are confused about what they can

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Speaker 5: but you can come to me as the AFGE president,

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Speaker 5: You can also reach out to your central labor councils.

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Speaker 5: one of the resources that we've been using to accept

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Speaker 4: To do we reach them generally to partner with them.

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Speaker 5: The central labor councils. Yes, so you still you I

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Speaker 1: One thing I'm gonna just be honest with you, Aaron,

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Speaker 4: So I'm like, I'll do it.

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Speaker 5: my mental but my bank accounts still over her startman overdrawn.

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Speaker 4: The things for AFGI. Mister Kelly is always a pleasure

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Speaker 3: I'm doing great, Angela. I could be doing better.

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Speaker 1: You talked about the pain you're feeling because your people

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Speaker 1: Know what, President Kelly, you's saying that now. I remember

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Speaker 4: But no, we lost them again.

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Speaker 7: But you can always give to the central Labor councils

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Speaker 7: Bible and read their Koran and all this stuff. But

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Speaker 7: if they read the book, it will see that the

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Speaker 7: book says that we should not wait until tomorrow to

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Speaker 3: And I think that we need to adhere to that.

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Speaker 7: I think that those people that really believe that need

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Speaker 4: I hear it.

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Speaker 1: So then it sounds like one of our duties is

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Speaker 1: to call two zero two two two four three one

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Speaker 1: two one. Let your member of Congress know that you

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Speaker 1: want to ensure that these folks who have been working

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Speaker 1: so hard now for almost three pay periods get paid.

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Speaker 1: We're going to reach out to our state central Labor

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Speaker 1: these folks as well, and we will say thank you

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Speaker 1: with a real smile.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much, President Kelly.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you so much. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: It's my pleasure anytime. Ah you all, this is such

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Speaker 1: an important topic. I know that there are things that

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Speaker 1: you know may seem juicier to you, but I want

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Speaker 1: you to think about what you would want somebody to

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Speaker 1: do if you were missing your paycheck, and the power

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Speaker 1: was in somebody else's hands.

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Speaker 4: And the power that's in somebody else's hands is.

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Speaker 1: A call removed, right, It's an emotional plea removed. Share

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Speaker 1: the story of that single mother of five and what

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Speaker 1: she's having to do just to get a fifty dollars

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Speaker 1: gift card, defeat her family.

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Speaker 4: That should not be how we live.

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Speaker 1: In the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary year of this

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Speaker 1: country's alleged birth, I still say it was sixteen nineteen.

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Speaker 1: But for those of y'all to subscribe, ascribe to seventeen

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Speaker 1: seventy six. Is this the America that you think we

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Speaker 1: should be? If it's not, put some money on it,

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Speaker 1: put your words on it. Make sure that it reflects

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Speaker 1: the one that you hope we would become.

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Speaker 4: Thank you all so much. Welcome home, y'all.

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