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Speaker 2: Welcome Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. The Department of
Speaker 2: Homeland Security is currently without funding because Washington Republicans would
Speaker 2: rather see it shut down than past common sense, just
Speaker 2: common sense guardrails on ice. In fact, every Senate Republican
Speaker 2: present voted just this past weekend against paying our TSA agents.
Speaker 2: I arise yet again with a simple practical proposal to
Speaker 2: pay hard working TSA agents. Pay them right now. They
Speaker 2: deserve it. If we cannot move forward with funding for
Speaker 2: the entire Department of Homeland Security, we should at least
Speaker 2: be able to come together on this. So today I'm
Speaker 2: asking my colleagues to take just a simple step, pass
Speaker 2: my legislation right now to pay TSAVOR so that commercial
Speaker 2: air travel remains safe and functional. Don't penalize TSA and
Speaker 2: the traveling public for the fact that you refuse to
Speaker 2: rain on ice, and have them be held accountable. Having
Speaker 2: the trained, transparent and accountable like every other law enforcement
Speaker 2: agent in this country.
Speaker 3: Cert objection object.
Speaker 2: My Republican colleagues have the power to do something about it.
Speaker 2: They don't have to wait for the President. So if
Speaker 2: Washington Republicans, my Senate colleagues, really want to do what's
Speaker 2: right by their constituents, by the TSA workers, you would
Speaker 2: have passed my bill to pay TSFE TSA officers instead
Speaker 2: of punishing them and the American people because of your inaction.
Speaker 4: Welcome home, y'all. This is Angela Raia. I'm your host of.
Speaker 1: Today's solo pod, and today we are talking about Senate
Speaker 1: Republicans standing in the way of tsos that those are
Speaker 1: the Transportation Security Administration officers who are responsible for keeping
Speaker 1: our airport safe every single day, not funding them eight
Speaker 1: separate times separately, eleven times in total. I want to
Speaker 1: give you all this quick timeline because you're seeing a
Speaker 1: lot of misinformation online. You know, right now there's a
Speaker 1: campaign from Republican leadership that says, thank a Democrat, and
Speaker 1: they're holding over the heads of the Democratic Party all
Speaker 1: of the airport congestion from Houston to Dallas to Atlanta,
Speaker 1: all of these airports. They are holding that over the
Speaker 1: head of the Democratic Party. But spoiler alert, y'all, Democrats
Speaker 1: aren't in charge of the House, the Senate, or the administration.
Speaker 1: This is a Republican problem that needs to be resting
Speaker 1: squarely at the feeder of the Republican So let's walk
Speaker 1: this through a little bit. Thursday March fifth, Senate Republicans
Speaker 1: blocked a bill offered by Senator Patty Murray from my
Speaker 1: home state of Washington to fund all of DHS except
Speaker 1: for ICBP and the DHS Secretary's office. As you all
Speaker 1: can imagine, two hundred million dollars later into an ad campaign.
Speaker 1: No Christy Norman to be found. What's the point of
Speaker 1: funding her office? And this would be again to carve
Speaker 1: out ICE and CBP. March eleventh, the Senate Republicans blocked
Speaker 1: Senator Patty Murray's bill to fund all of DHS Again,
Speaker 1: same bill. Thursday, March twelfth, Senate Republicans blocked Senator Jackie
Speaker 1: Rosen from Nevada her bill to pay TSA workers while
Speaker 1: broader negotiations continued on The next was a bill offered
Speaker 1: by Senator Andy Kim to fund SIZA while broader negotiations continued.
Speaker 1: Then they blocked a bill offered by Senator Chris Murphy.
Speaker 1: This is now time number five to ensure members of
Speaker 1: the Coast Guard are paid while the negotiations continued. Then
Speaker 1: Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff.
Speaker 4: Introduced to bill.
Speaker 1: They blocked that bill to fund FEMA while broader negotiations continued.
Speaker 1: March eighteenth, they blocked a bill offered by Senator Warnock
Speaker 1: from Georgia to pay TSA workers. March nineteenth, blocked a
Speaker 1: bill from Senator Slatkin from Michigan to pay TSA workers.
Speaker 4: On the same day, they.
Speaker 1: Blocked a bill from Senator Brian Shatz from Hawaii to
Speaker 1: fund all of DHS except for ICBP and the dh
Speaker 1: AS Secretary's office. Again, just like Senator Patty Murray's bill
Speaker 1: on March twenty first, on Saturday, they were in session
Speaker 1: Saturday to vote.
Speaker 4: They voted against.
Speaker 1: Pure, straightforward, clear legislation to pay TSA workers while these
Speaker 1: negotiations continued. And just yesterday, yet again, this is the
Speaker 1: eleventh time we've been saying five times, eight times, it's
Speaker 1: all together eleven times blocked a bill offered by Jackie Rosen,
Speaker 1: who you just heard from in this speech floor speech
Speaker 1: in the Senate earlier and in the show. The block
Speaker 1: the bill offering to pay TSA workers again while broader
Speaker 1: negotiations continue. Well, I have got had the opportunity, we
Speaker 1: all have the opportunity to hear from someone today who
Speaker 1: has been personally impacted by this shutdown. TSA workers have
Speaker 1: not received a full paycheck since February thirteenth. I want
Speaker 1: to get quickly to a video that talks about why
Speaker 1: from Senator Kennedy in an interview, and then I'm going
Speaker 1: to bring on our guest. We may not have that video,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna go ahead and bring in our guests.
Speaker 1: We have the president of a FG Local five point
Speaker 1: fifty four. He is also a lead transportation security officer.
Speaker 1: We're so grateful for his time. His name is Aaron Barker,
Speaker 1: and he joins us today.
Speaker 5: Hi Angelas, thank you for having me on.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: President Barker, most importantly for you just taking the time
Speaker 1: time to continue to keep the American public safe while we,
Speaker 1: you know, frankly, go through these political shenanigans. I know
Speaker 1: that it's no fun when they're playing with your life,
Speaker 1: quite frankly, with your livelihood. Can you talk to us
Speaker 1: about some of the impacts you've already experienced not receiving
Speaker 1: a paycheck now for two pay periods.
Speaker 5: Well, so, first yes, I can talk about those things.
Speaker 5: And I want to make sure we clear this up
Speaker 5: because there's been some misinformation about that. So this coming
Speaker 5: weekend would be the third miss paycheck. The first paycheck
Speaker 5: which people are saying it was a partial paycheck. All
Speaker 5: of the deductions that you would normally have come out
Speaker 5: your taxes of course, stay in federal, your health insurance,
Speaker 5: your life insurance, all of those deductions came out full deductions.
Speaker 5: So the paycheck that officers received the first one, and
Speaker 5: the first one was some of them were a dollar
Speaker 5: as little as a dollar five dollars. You know, what
Speaker 5: can you do with that? So you can call it
Speaker 5: a partial paycheck, but you can't do anything that. So
Speaker 5: this will actually be the third one that's coming up
Speaker 5: this weekend. Uh So, as far as me personally, I'm
Speaker 5: a single person. I don't have the same struggles as
Speaker 5: a lot of my colleagues who have families. Although my
Speaker 5: bank account is down there, I'm a single. I don't
Speaker 5: have mouths to feed, you know, I don't. I do
Speaker 5: have mortgage, you know, rent to pay and car note
Speaker 5: and all of those other things. But my colleagues, they
Speaker 5: have children, you know, some of them are battling health
Speaker 5: issues themselves, you know, and they don't have the money
Speaker 5: and their bank accounts to you know, take care of
Speaker 5: their necessities that.
Speaker 1: They have, you know, absolutely, and I'm curious to know
Speaker 1: how they're like what they're doing to ensure they make it.
Speaker 1: Like I'll just give you this example, Aaron I was
Speaker 1: in the ear airport and I make it a point
Speaker 1: to say thank you all so much for working.
Speaker 4: I know you don't have to be here.
Speaker 1: And one airport I was in, the officer said back
Speaker 1: to me, I don't know how much longer I'll be here.
Speaker 4: I can't afford to be I need to go find
Speaker 4: a job.
Speaker 1: And at the next airport, my home airport in Seattle,
Speaker 1: I was like, I have cash, I just wanted. I
Speaker 1: don't have gift cards, but I have cash. Can I
Speaker 1: give you all? And they said the supervisor has to
Speaker 1: come take it, and then they disperse it amongst all
Speaker 1: the working tsos. What are the things that we can
Speaker 1: be doing as the general public to offer support, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's fair that y'all are working so
Speaker 1: hard to.
Speaker 4: Not get paid.
Speaker 1: Ice is getting paid to roam the halls of the
Speaker 1: airport and not doing anything. I saw one video, We'll
Speaker 1: play it later, but Ice was handing out water and
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's great, But we can get a little
Speaker 1: kid that's raising money for a basketball tournament to do that.
Speaker 1: So why do we have ice in the airports at all?
Speaker 1: But y'all need you to comment on that part. I
Speaker 1: do want to hear about what we can be doing, like,
Speaker 1: can we partner with AFG, is there some with our
Speaker 1: local port authorities? What can we do to make sure
Speaker 1: that you all are getting the resources you need in
Speaker 1: this time?
Speaker 5: Well, first, thank you so much for asking this question.
Speaker 5: A lot of people are confused about what they can
Speaker 5: do or not really confused. They want to know what
Speaker 5: they can do to help out. So, as federal employees,
Speaker 5: me and my TSA row, I cannot accept any money,
Speaker 5: but you can come to me as the AFGE president,
Speaker 5: and I can accept things from you on behalf of
Speaker 5: AFGE and distributed to my members. So that's the same
Speaker 5: across the board. You can reach out to your local
Speaker 5: AFGE representative when you go to the airport, say hey,
Speaker 5: who's your local president? Can you give me their number,
Speaker 5: phone number or email address and you can reach out
Speaker 5: to them and they can you know, take whatever you have.
Speaker 5: You can also reach out to your central labor councils.
Speaker 5: A lot of municipalities have central labor councils. They are
Speaker 5: one of the resources that we've been using to accept
Speaker 5: gifts and things like that to distribute out to our officers.
Speaker 4: To do we reach them generally to partner with them.
Speaker 5: The central labor councils. Yes, so you still you I
Speaker 5: don't know, you know, every city has a different name,
Speaker 5: so it's usually you can say, just google central Labor
Speaker 5: council for whatever city you're in and it'll tell you
Speaker 5: if you have one or the neighboring city. Most most
Speaker 5: metropolitan areas have them, and even the rural areas.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's good to know, So we'll do that.
Speaker 1: We'll add that to our show notes just to be
Speaker 1: helpful exactly, our producers and our thread thinking just like
Speaker 1: me on that to make sure we get that active.
Speaker 4: And I think the other thing that I would ask
Speaker 4: you is.
Speaker 1: One thing I'm gonna just be honest with you, Aaron,
Speaker 1: I can be prone to be a little short in
Speaker 1: the TSA line. I don't like germs, and so those
Speaker 1: little you know, the little but containers we got to
Speaker 1: put our stuff in and then y'all's gloves, y'all touch
Speaker 1: the same people's stuff all it's so nasty.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, I'll do it.
Speaker 6: I'll do it.
Speaker 4: I'll touch it, I'll touch it.
Speaker 1: What are some of the things we can do from
Speaker 1: a mental health stamp point to guard you all's mental
Speaker 1: health right now? Like, how can we be better customers?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I think the most passengers right now,
Speaker 5: thank god, continue this after this this fiasco is over.
Speaker 4: But you said, don't let it be.
Speaker 5: Right right right, But most passengers are actually being really
Speaker 5: really nice and understand what's going on, So keep doing that,
Speaker 5: keep that up. The officers appreciate the words of encouragement
Speaker 5: and the thanks and all of that, and and I
Speaker 5: don't want to sound unappreciative, but at the end of
Speaker 5: the day, you know that thank you is great for
Speaker 5: my mental but my bank accounts still over her startman overdrawn.
Speaker 5: You know. Uh So what we need the public to
Speaker 5: do is reach out and apply pressure to our congressional
Speaker 5: members as well. It don't matter what Democrat, Republican whoever
Speaker 5: applied pressure to them, because this right now is insane.
Speaker 5: You know, TSA workers across the nation are pissed off,
Speaker 5: you know, and you know, I know, we don't want
Speaker 5: to go into the ice thing, but to have paid employees,
Speaker 5: federal workers come into the airport and say that they're
Speaker 5: going to help me out while getting a paycheck, also
Speaker 5: collecting with them, and you're paying for their hotel rooms.
Speaker 5: That money could have went towards the offices that are
Speaker 5: already employed. You know, you could have used that money
Speaker 5: to pay for these paychecks instead of deploying people out
Speaker 5: to these airports. So just keep up, you know, the
Speaker 5: words of encouragement and applying pressure to Congress so that
Speaker 5: they can do their jobs.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, well, we're also going to try to make
Speaker 1: sure we get some money in that overdrawn account.
Speaker 4: Aaron, and thank you for your work with af G.
Speaker 1: We'll make sure that we put whatever information you have
Speaker 1: for how our community can reach out to AFG locals
Speaker 1: and help to provide resources during this time.
Speaker 4: We are so grateful for y'all.
Speaker 1: I hate that every single thing about our government feels
Speaker 1: like a protest right now, but thank you for holding
Speaker 1: the line and thank you for holding that smile.
Speaker 4: I will do better at the airport, I promise I
Speaker 4: got to go tomorrow for joining us.
Speaker 5: One more resources. Yes. Also a lot of airports themselves
Speaker 5: they are not they're not federal employees. The airports themselves
Speaker 5: have some of them have set up donations and things
Speaker 5: like that. So reach out to your airports as well,
Speaker 5: just as another way to help out officers.
Speaker 1: Yes, and I want to shout out my local airport
Speaker 1: se Tac where we have two amazing commissioners and some
Speaker 1: other folks. We have Hamdan to Chico and they have
Speaker 1: been putting that information out as well.
Speaker 4: So we got you. We'll be partnering with them as well.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Erin drive safely, okay, thake here?
Speaker 1: Uh well, before we get to our next guest, first
Speaker 1: of all, y'all, Aaron was fantastic, I think, and for
Speaker 1: his candor, for his humanity, for representing his members so well,
Speaker 1: and for telling us exactly what we can do. He said, y'all,
Speaker 1: don't cut up when this uh this this holdout is up,
Speaker 1: as we can't call it a strike because they're still
Speaker 1: going to work. But when this holdout is up, don't
Speaker 1: come through my airport line and got attitude. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: work on it, Aaron. But I just don't like when
Speaker 1: people touch my stuff. It's my anxiety. Before we get
Speaker 1: to our next guest, I want to just take a
Speaker 1: moment so that we're clear. I know I walked through
Speaker 1: the timeline earlier, but I want to hear from Senator
Speaker 1: Kennedy on why this particular holdout is happening, very very
Speaker 1: important for you ought to know. It is bigger than ICE,
Speaker 1: it is bigger than CBP. Let's hear what Senator Kennedy says,
Speaker 1: and then we'll bring up our next guest.
Speaker 6: Uh shen up the cruise and I came up with
Speaker 6: a plan. We said, well, gets a two step process.
Speaker 6: The Democrats have offered opened up everything but Ice. UH,
Speaker 6: and I said, okay, let's accept their offer and then
Speaker 6: at the same time, we would offer a bill for
Speaker 6: reconciling where we don't need any Democratic votes to do
Speaker 6: whatever we wanted to do with ICE, and that way
Speaker 6: we're out of the shutdown. On DHS's back open. We
Speaker 6: submitted that son of crafone submitted that to President Trump,
Speaker 6: as is his right. He said, no, no deals with
Speaker 6: the Democrats. So we're back to square one.
Speaker 4: Now here's what's important here.
Speaker 1: I hope that you all heard where he said through reconciliation,
Speaker 1: we could do whatever we wanted to do with ice.
Speaker 1: But it's not just with ice. The thing that you
Speaker 1: all should know is that the Republicans in the Senate
Speaker 1: are plotting on using the reconciliation process to also pass
Speaker 1: the Save Act. And that is the biggest conundrum that
Speaker 1: folks who are of goodwill, because I don't just think
Speaker 1: this is a political lines thing, are struggling with. And
Speaker 1: I think what is so unfortunate is that our workers,
Speaker 1: folks who look like me and you at home, y'all,
Speaker 1: are having to carry this heavyweight because there are people
Speaker 1: who are irresponsible in the House and in the Senate
Speaker 1: trying to force the Save Act down our throats and
Speaker 1: also forcing TSA workers to hold the bag. Joining us
Speaker 1: now is President Everett Kelly. He is the president for
Speaker 1: the American Federation of Government Employees. Of course we just
Speaker 1: heard from Aaron Barker, but this is Everett Kelly. He
Speaker 1: is over the he's the big boss running all.
Speaker 4: The things for AFGI. Mister Kelly is always a pleasure
Speaker 4: to see you. How are you.
Speaker 3: I'm doing great, Angela. I could be doing better.
Speaker 4: I know you could.
Speaker 3: I can only hurt from my people heard right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how many of the TSA workers are members of ACGI.
Speaker 1: How many members do you have that are tsos?
Speaker 7: It's about twenty seven thousand. I think about twenty five
Speaker 7: to twenty seven thousand.
Speaker 1: So twenty seven thousand people who have not received a paycheck.
Speaker 3: Now you talked about membership.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was going to stay in your union represent.
Speaker 3: About forty seven thousand of those employees.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so forty seven thousand who have not received
Speaker 1: a paycheck since right before Valentine's Day and are right
Speaker 1: up on the third pay period where they've not received
Speaker 1: a paycheck. I got to ask you, President Kelly, You've
Speaker 1: had to work both sides of the aisle for many
Speaker 1: years on these issues impacting your workers. You know, I
Speaker 1: think you know that I was a former I'm a
Speaker 1: former Homeland Security Committee staffer, so I have never seen
Speaker 1: we had labor issues. You know that we had to
Speaker 1: negotiate with the other side of the isle.
Speaker 4: But I've never.
Speaker 1: Seen folks so blatantly willing to force people to work
Speaker 1: without being paid and then bring it along ice to
Speaker 1: come to the airport to get paid to just stand there.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 1: It's like a thumb in the eye of folks who
Speaker 1: are working so hard across multiple pay periods.
Speaker 4: What is your feeling about that?
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, I don't think that ICE has.
Speaker 7: The skills to perform those duties. Number one, I think
Speaker 7: it's also a stap in the face those employees. Those
Speaker 7: employees just out there coming to work every single day,
Speaker 7: making a sacrifice to perform the duties that's necessary for
Speaker 7: the Americans to fly through the skies, you know, safely,
Speaker 7: and then you bring someone in that's not even skill,
Speaker 7: pay them, pay them, you know, actually, like Aaron said earlier,
Speaker 7: you know, they get paid per dim and all of
Speaker 7: these extra money is to be there, and what are
Speaker 7: they What function are they really performing.
Speaker 3: They're not performing a function.
Speaker 7: They're just you know, walking around people see their uniforms
Speaker 7: and stuff like that, but they're not performing a duty
Speaker 7: that makes life better for the fly in public. So,
Speaker 7: you know, I think that it is a it's a disgrace.
Speaker 7: It's to see what we're seeing as relates to the
Speaker 7: ICE operation inside of TSA.
Speaker 4: I have to ask you.
Speaker 1: You talked about the pain you're feeling because your people
Speaker 1: are hurting. Can you tell us about you know, one
Speaker 1: of those stories that's standing out for you, the thing
Speaker 1: that is driving you to fight for them every single day.
Speaker 1: I know you do it anyway, right, but I think
Speaker 1: it's important for people to connect with their humanity in
Speaker 1: this hour. We can't just continue to watch people not
Speaker 1: get paid and work so hard.
Speaker 7: One story that sticks out with me, and I've been
Speaker 7: plundering over it all night. There is a single mother
Speaker 7: five children. She purchased a card off of Amazon for
Speaker 7: fifty dollars to buy food for her five children, but
Speaker 7: she had to set it up into four installments. She
Speaker 7: had to pay twelve dollars and fifth cent per payday
Speaker 7: just to get a fifty dollar.
Speaker 3: Worth of groceries. That is not American, you know.
Speaker 7: And it's sad that we find people in these type
Speaker 7: of situations. People are, you know, losing their homes. They
Speaker 7: haven't even recovered from the last shutdown. I mean this
Speaker 7: is the third shutdown in six months. And they help
Speaker 7: them recovered. They said, well, you know, they'll be made whole,
Speaker 7: they'll get their pay you know eventually. But when you
Speaker 7: start talking about the interests that they have to pay
Speaker 7: for the moneys that they borrow, you know, they'll never recovered.
Speaker 7: They're never fully recovered, and that's what bothers me more
Speaker 7: than anything, you.
Speaker 1: Know what, President Kelly, you's saying that now. I remember
Speaker 1: asking another rep from AFG around the time when former
Speaker 1: Secretary Christy Norman announced that there would be bonuses for tsos.
Speaker 1: Do you know if those bonuses were ever received?
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know if they really were.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I know that was some photo ops,
Speaker 7: but nobody knew that's what getting a bonus and why
Speaker 7: they was getting a bonus, No rationale, no information whatsoever.
Speaker 7: So I know that was a few photo offs, but
Speaker 7: I don't know that you know of case theyre for
Speaker 7: certain that you know, one received real bonuses.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the point here now too, Right,
Speaker 1: we're talking about a very subjective standard for who at
Speaker 1: DHS is worthy of paying according to this administration. And
Speaker 1: so when you think about that, I still believe there's
Speaker 1: a human response. Obviously, we want members of Congress to
Speaker 1: do their job, But what would you encourage all of
Speaker 1: us at home to do. Those of us who have
Speaker 1: to walk through airport security regularly, those of us who
Speaker 1: are doing okay and might have something to offer. I'm
Speaker 1: curious to know, and we may have lost President Kelly.
Speaker 1: President Kelly, can you hear me? I think we lost them. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you all this in case we don't
Speaker 1: get them back. There is something that we can still
Speaker 1: do at home. We heard earlier from President Aaron Burr,
Speaker 1: who also is a tso that we can partner with
Speaker 1: our local port authorities to ensure that we get resources
Speaker 1: to these tsos. Again, these are transportation security officials. We
Speaker 1: can provide gas cards, gift cards. To hear President Kelly
Speaker 1: talk about this single mom of five, five children having
Speaker 1: to put twelve fifty aside to ensure that she could
Speaker 1: feed her children through multiple pay periods.
Speaker 4: We've got to do better.
Speaker 1: I think we have President Kelly back, so we're going
Speaker 1: to have a theory is high, President Kelly, I.
Speaker 4: Think it was the devil. The devil did not want
Speaker 4: you to kid come through. But what we could do
Speaker 4: to help the people.
Speaker 1: So that was my We normally end our shows with
Speaker 1: calls to action, and so I wanted to know if
Speaker 1: there's something that our podcast, Native lampod can do to
Speaker 1: partner with AFG to help to get money and resources
Speaker 1: gift cards to your members to ensure that they are
Speaker 1: made whole, or at least, you know, we can fill
Speaker 1: in the gap a little bit during this really difficult time.
Speaker 7: Well, first of all, let me say thank you for
Speaker 7: even this suggestion of trying to help the people that
Speaker 7: I represent. They certainly appreciate it. But more than anything,
Speaker 7: when you go through the airports, be sure to tell
Speaker 7: them thank you, right, I mean, it matters to them
Speaker 7: the fact that people will stop and say, hey, I
Speaker 7: appreciate what you do.
Speaker 4: But no, we lost them again.
Speaker 1: Y'all. I am going to give it just a second.
Speaker 1: I really want him to have this closing, final moment.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate your patience. There he is, he's back.
Speaker 4: We got it. I am so sorry.
Speaker 7: But you can always give to the central Labor councils
Speaker 7: to state fans and ask them to share with the tsos.
Speaker 7: You know, these are very patriotic employees that deserve any
Speaker 7: kind of recognition that they can get. You know, I
Speaker 7: just know this. I'm still calling on Congress right now
Speaker 7: to get together today and pass a bill so that
Speaker 7: these employees can get paid. I submit to you that
Speaker 7: it will be any humane it will be. And we
Speaker 7: live in a country that people fessis to read their
Speaker 7: Bible and read their Koran and all this stuff. But
Speaker 7: if they read the book, it will see that the
Speaker 7: book says that we should not wait until tomorrow to
Speaker 7: pay people for the work that they perform.
Speaker 3: And I think that we need to adhere to that.
Speaker 7: I think that those people that really believe that need
Speaker 7: to step up and pass legislation tonight to pay these tsos.
Speaker 4: I hear it.
Speaker 1: So then it sounds like one of our duties is
Speaker 1: to call two zero two two two four three one
Speaker 1: two one. Let your member of Congress know that you
Speaker 1: want to ensure that these folks who have been working
Speaker 1: so hard now for almost three pay periods get paid.
Speaker 1: We're going to reach out to our state central Labor
Speaker 1: councils and make sure that we get resources over to
Speaker 1: these folks as well, and we will say thank you
Speaker 1: with a real smile.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, President Kelly.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you so much. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: It's my pleasure anytime. Ah you all, this is such
Speaker 1: an important topic. I know that there are things that
Speaker 1: you know may seem juicier to you, but I want
Speaker 1: you to think about what you would want somebody to
Speaker 1: do if you were missing your paycheck, and the power
Speaker 1: was in somebody else's hands.
Speaker 4: And the power that's in somebody else's hands is.
Speaker 1: A call removed, right, It's an emotional plea removed. Share
Speaker 1: the story of that single mother of five and what
Speaker 1: she's having to do just to get a fifty dollars
Speaker 1: gift card, defeat her family.
Speaker 4: That should not be how we live.
Speaker 1: In the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary year of this
Speaker 1: country's alleged birth, I still say it was sixteen nineteen.
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