Mid-Day Update: October 6, 2025
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Summary
A government shutdown that affects more than 6 million people, including illegal immigrants. Chuck Schumer and Jeff Sessions are playing politics with the lives of the American people and the food stamp program that helps low-income mothers and children.
Transcript
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Hello, everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America Show midday update for Monday, October 6th.
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Happy Monday, folks. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.
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We're now entering day six of the Schumer-Jeffrey shutdown, that government shutdown,
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that they just seemingly don't care about the American people.
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They only care about the illegals and putting them on any sort of government subsidy that's possible.
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Now, we do have a little bit of an issue, a government food aid program known as WIC
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that helps more than six million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money within two weeks
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unless the government shutdown ends, forcing states to use their own money to keep afloat or risk shutting it down completely.
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The $8 billion special supplement nutrient program for women, infants, and children, also known as WIC,
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provides vouchers to buy infant formula as well as fresh fruits, vegetables, low-fat milk,
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and other healthy staples that are often out of financial reach for low-income households.
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That's right, American households, not illegal households.
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The shutdown, which began last Wednesday, coincided with the beginning of the new fiscal year,
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meaning programs like WIC, which rely on annual infusions from the federal government, are nearly out of money.
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Currently, the program is being kept afloat by a $150 million contingency fund,
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but they're saying it's going to dry up very, very quickly.
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Clearly, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, adamant about who owns this thing
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and what it's going to take to open it back up.
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When Congress decides to turn off the lights to shut the government down,
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it shifts the authority to the executive branch.
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The person who has decided to put the White House in that situation
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is Chuck Schumer, who leads the Democrats, the 44 who keep voting to keep the government from opening up.
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Whoever is the president, whoever is sitting in the White House,
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and their staffs at the Office of Management and Budget, are given an unenviable task.
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They have to then determine, since the spigots have been effectively turned off
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they have to then prioritize, triage effectively, federal spending.
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They have to look at all of that and say, you know,
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which things are deemed essential and which are non-essential.
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Which priorities, policies, and personnel must be kept to keep the government operating
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So whomever is sitting in the White House gets to then apply their lenses of review.
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We happen to have a Republican, a conservative administration.
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We think the federal government is too big, it does too many things,
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And so it serves the taxpayers to send less of their hard-earned money to Washington
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That's what we're advancing through the one big, beautiful bill
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and all the legislative priorities that we achieve.
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But see, sometimes Democrats, not sometimes, all the time,
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Democrats don't agree with that because they love big government.
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They want the government to control every aspect of your lives
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and they need all of your hard-earned dollars to do that.
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Here's the president, the current occupant of the White House,
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that's been given this opportunity by Chuck Schumer.
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He's looking at that and saying, gee, you know, this is inefficient.
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And we'd never get Democrat votes to limit that
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because they never vote to limit government, ever.
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this is a program that would serve the American people
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Because the government would be more efficient and effective.
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So just as soon as Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries
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Senior prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia
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are refusing to charge corrupt New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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Now, the Trump administration recently criminally referred
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Attorney General Letitia James to the Justice Department
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the ones where she said she was living in Virginia,
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to make sure that truth, justice, and the American way
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Speaking of truth, justice, and the American way,
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We're going to be joined by the great Roger Stone