Verdict with Ted Cruz - October 02, 2025


BONUS POD： Democrats Hold the Government Hostage


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The federal government is now in a partial shutdown and there are no immediate signs of an end in sight. What are the reasons why the government is shut down and what could it mean for the economy and the economy at large?

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00:00:05.980 Democrats say that they care a lot about lowering health care costs.
00:00:09.780 They talk about doing something.
00:00:11.580 They don't actually do the hard work of making it happen.
00:00:14.140 What they have done instead is to shut down the government
00:00:16.060 because we won't give billions of dollars to health care funding for illegal aliens.
00:00:19.920 That is what is actually happening.
00:00:21.700 You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
00:00:25.420 Good Thursday morning.
00:00:26.340 Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
00:00:28.520 And there's one big story.
00:00:29.800 It's the government shutdown.
00:00:31.240 But the politics behind it?
00:00:32.620 Well, Democrats are really lying now.
00:00:35.660 Talking about how this is somehow the Trump shutdown.
00:00:39.160 They're also now lying about their demands for that $1.5 trillion in government waste.
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00:03:08.120 It's the 47 Morning Update, and it starts right now.
00:03:11.300 Story number one.
00:03:12.380 With a federal government partial shutdown, there is an opportunity for Donald Trump to do exactly what he promised during the campaign,
00:03:21.840 to get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse of your tax dollars.
00:03:27.540 Trump is now signaling layoffs and spending cuts that could become permanent.
00:03:32.940 So, yes, this shutdown could be a massive blessing in disguise for every American taxpayer.
00:03:41.200 The federal government entering a partial shutdown early Wednesday because the Democrats, on purpose,
00:03:47.900 failed to reach an agreement on a funding package, a clean CR.
00:03:52.180 And President Trump suggested the standoff could open the door, he says, for big changes in the federal workforce.
00:04:00.240 Senate lawmakers missed the deadline at midnight to approve a very simple budget for the fiscal year 2025.
00:04:09.180 According now to Fox News, the short-term funding extension that passed the House earlier in September,
00:04:15.600 keeping the government running through November the 21st,
00:04:17.840 but bipartisan talks collapsed when the Democrats said, no, we want to hold you hostage,
00:04:23.240 and we demand that you spend on things like health care for illegal immigrants.
00:04:28.500 Now, in the hours leading up to the shutdown, President Trump made it very clear
00:04:32.960 that while he did not want the government to close, he saw opportunities, quote-unquote, in the crisis,
00:04:40.160 saying, quote, we don't want it to shut down because we have the greatest period of time ever.
00:04:45.020 However, I tell you, we have $17 trillion being invested.
00:04:49.600 So the last person that wanted to shut down is us.
00:04:53.160 He then added, now, with that being said, we can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible,
00:04:59.440 that are bad for them, referring to Democrats, and irreversible by them,
00:05:04.420 like cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like,
00:05:09.780 cutting programs that they like, referring to the Democrats.
00:05:13.040 Now, Trump has repeatedly warned and pushed to reduce the size of government
00:05:18.760 and slash federal programs, he says, that wastes your tax dollars.
00:05:24.220 A shutdown does not grant new powers to the White House,
00:05:27.860 but it does give the executive branch wide discretion over what services continue to operate.
00:05:35.860 The standoff has turned into a battle of blame.
00:05:38.800 Democrats going to TV saying this is all Trump's fault.
00:05:42.420 But the problem is, some Democrats didn't get the memo to lie.
00:05:47.340 They told the truth that they are, in fact, shutting down the government.
00:05:51.840 Democrats can accuse Republicans all they want of hijacking the process
00:05:56.800 and falsely lying, claiming that they wanted to provide taxpayer-funded health benefits
00:06:01.560 only for Americans.
00:06:02.940 When it's in black and white,
00:06:05.040 they wanted taxpayer-funded health benefits for all illegal immigrants.
00:06:08.420 Chuck Schumer said Tuesday, quote,
00:06:12.340 they say that undocumented people are going to get these credits.
00:06:16.480 That is absolutely false.
00:06:18.360 This is one of the big lies that they're telling you.
00:06:21.240 Well, you look at the Office of Budget Management,
00:06:24.900 and they made it very clear the Democrats are spending massive amounts of money
00:06:29.480 if they got their way on illegal immigrant health care.
00:06:33.900 Which brings me to Speaker Johnson on the government shutdown,
00:06:37.900 going back and reminding the American people of what really happened
00:06:41.900 instead of the lies the Democrats and many in the media are telling.
00:06:46.120 Take a listen to Speaker on Fox News.
00:06:49.400 Members, then it's going to be hard to get this resolved.
00:06:52.680 All along, Republicans wanted to shut the government down.
00:06:58.060 Well, we do have the House Speaker with us here in the studio tonight.
00:07:01.160 Let's welcome in Mike Johnson of Louisiana.
00:07:03.240 Good to see you, sir.
00:07:03.960 Thank you for taking the time.
00:07:04.960 I know that you have been very busy today.
00:07:06.840 Busy day.
00:07:07.620 Those clips are hilarious to me.
00:07:09.820 The House did its job.
00:07:11.000 The House Republicans did our job.
00:07:12.580 It's been over two weeks we passed that continuing resolution.
00:07:15.780 It's clean.
00:07:16.440 It's simple.
00:07:17.080 It's 24 pages in length.
00:07:18.580 We were simply trying to buy time.
00:07:21.240 And this is really important for everybody to remember, John.
00:07:23.240 The reason we're doing this is that the appropriators are trying to rebuild the muscle memory
00:07:27.440 to do appropriations to spend taxpayer dollars responsibly.
00:07:31.600 And that takes 12 separate approach bills.
00:07:33.640 We were doing that, working through the process.
00:07:35.200 We ran out of time.
00:07:36.300 We need seven more weeks.
00:07:37.620 So we put a clean CR on the table,
00:07:39.860 assuming that everybody, all the Democrats, would do the right thing.
00:07:42.440 They've rejected it.
00:07:43.360 Now, three times as of today, the Senate Democrats, 44 of them,
00:07:46.840 have voted that CR, the clean CR, down.
00:07:49.840 And they proposed Chuck Schumer's version, which is a dirty CR.
00:07:52.560 Why do we say that?
00:07:53.260 Because he wants to add $1.5 trillion in new spending to a seven-week stopgap measure.
00:07:59.200 And they want to give health care to illegal aliens, 0.99
00:08:01.960 claw back the funds that we put in for rural hospitals and all sorts of other mayhem.
00:08:05.440 We can't do that.
00:08:06.520 We're just not going to do it.
00:08:07.380 You listen to Speaker Johnson.
00:08:09.400 The House Republicans did our job passing the CR over two weeks ago,
00:08:13.660 simply trying to buy time.
00:08:15.840 The appropriators are trying to rebuild the muscle memory
00:08:19.420 to do appropriations to spend taxpayers' dollars responsibly
00:08:23.660 instead of irrationally and radical, which is what the Democrats wanted.
00:08:29.020 And here is what the Speaker had to say about some of the money,
00:08:32.140 including health care, for illegals.
00:08:34.280 We're just not going to do it.
00:08:35.180 So this is the real point of contention here.
00:08:37.100 I mean, obviously, they want to restore some of the cuts
00:08:39.260 that were enacted in the big, beautiful bill
00:08:41.020 when it comes to Medicaid funding, etc.
00:08:42.720 But Democrats insist our bill does not provide federal dollars
00:08:47.420 for health care for illegal immigrants.
00:08:49.940 And you say what?
00:08:50.980 I say they obviously have not read their bill.
00:08:53.620 This counterproposal that he filed, everybody can Google it,
00:08:56.460 go pull it up.
00:08:57.120 It's on the Senate's website and in the legislative text.
00:09:00.240 Go to page 57 of Chuck Schumer's bill and look at Section 2141.
00:09:03.940 It says right there in plain language they want to repeal
00:09:07.280 the health provisions of the one big, beautiful bill.
00:09:10.200 I do part ways with you here on this idea of plain language.
00:09:15.320 I read that whole section.
00:09:17.140 It might as well be written in Mandarin.
00:09:18.900 And that's probably why the Democrats don't understand what they filed.
00:09:21.540 But if you interpret that and you get through all the subsections,
00:09:24.400 what you realize is they're trying to take out in its entirety
00:09:28.080 the reforms that we put into the big, beautiful bill pertaining to health.
00:09:32.040 And why is that so important?
00:09:33.780 Because what we did was we strengthened the Medicaid program
00:09:36.700 by making sure that ineligible recipients are not on the rolls.
00:09:40.860 The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, on August 25th published a letter
00:09:44.900 and they said this is going to do exactly what Republicans said.
00:09:47.820 They estimate that 2.3 million illegal recipients for Medicaid
00:09:52.120 will be pushed off the rolls because of our reforms.
00:09:55.080 And it's going to save $185 billion of taxpayer funds.
00:09:58.460 So they want to return all those ineligible people back to the rolls 1.00
00:10:02.360 and many of them are illegal aliens.
00:10:04.260 That is a fact.
00:10:05.360 And anybody who looks at it objectively has to say it's true.
00:10:08.020 I love how calm the Speaker is on this.
00:10:12.380 He's trying to make it clear that this is all about the Democrats
00:10:17.340 trying to slander and attack the Republicans doing the responsible thing.
00:10:22.940 Just to put it in perspective, there were 17 different times
00:10:28.760 the Republicans did not shut down the government
00:10:31.760 when they had an opportunity to do it
00:10:34.020 and instead went for a continuing resolution
00:10:36.860 to make sure the government was open.
00:10:40.840 When the guy by the name of Joe Biden
00:10:43.560 was President of the United States of America
00:10:46.080 because Republicans understood that shutdowns are bad for the economy,
00:10:50.420 Republicans understood that it was their job to protect the American people
00:10:56.900 and also make sure that our government was functioning the right way.
00:11:02.240 The Democrats shut down the government
00:11:04.180 because President Trump and the Republicans
00:11:06.140 will not force American taxpayers to pay for free health care for illegal aliens. 0.96
00:11:11.980 America is $37 trillion in debt.
00:11:15.040 We cannot afford to provide taxpayer-funded free health care
00:11:18.080 to illegals who broke the law to enter our country.
00:11:21.960 That is exactly why so many Americans decided to vote for Donald Trump.
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