00:12:34.640By the way, Raphael Warnock, the other Georgia senator, did as well.
00:12:38.700We actually thought there was a real possibility they would both vote tonight to open the government.
00:12:44.160I don't know what Ossoff's calculus was.
00:12:46.180Warnock will often vote with Ossoff to give him some political coverage.
00:12:50.340So we figured that they would go either both yes or both no.
00:12:54.840They both voted to keep the government shut down.
00:12:57.580What is the chances two guys like that on Tuesday, Wednesday, vote yes after they say,
00:13:03.480all right, well, fine, we're already going to be there.
00:13:05.360Does that change, you think, that eight number?
00:13:07.360Could that change a 10, 12, or is it pretty much eight is eight?
00:13:10.240No, I could easily see on a subsequent vote some additional Democrats.
00:13:14.600Patty Murray, who is the senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, a number of
00:13:20.460Republicans believe she was going to vote.
00:13:22.280Yes, I mentioned we just were going to pass three appropriation bills.
00:13:26.220She played a major hand in drafting those three appropriation bills.
00:13:29.720And so for appropriators, look, when Chuck Schumer and the Democrats had the majority, do you know how many appropriation bills they passed into law?
00:15:07.180And I actually pulled Dick Durbin aside, Durbin, Durbin is retiring, and I mentioned I always thought this was going to end with retiring Democrats voting to open the government.
00:15:17.620Now, look, he's the number two in leadership among the Democrats.
00:15:21.240He's Chuck Schumer's right hand, but he's retiring.
00:15:25.060I told Dick tonight, I said, look, we've got 60 now.
00:15:28.860It sure would be nice if, like, you guys didn't drag this out unnecessarily till Friday and just the identical outcome will happen and it just is more painful for everybody.
00:15:38.860I think there are a lot of Democrats who feel that way.
00:15:42.280It's why I think we'll end Tuesday or Wednesday.
00:15:46.960Now, there's another element of this deal that's getting some attention online, which is a commitment to reverse the rifts, the reductions in forces that happened during the shutdown.
00:15:57.220Yeah. And and there's some folks online saying, oh, you guys cave.
00:16:02.720That was was an offer that that President Trump made, I think, like two weeks ago to the Democrats.
00:16:08.120That has been on the table for them a long, long time.
00:16:11.400And the White House made made the decision, OK, if you guys open the government, we agree we'll offer you that we'll reverse those rifts.
00:16:18.920So that was in the deal. But it was a deal that came from the White House that we just agreed, OK, if that's if those are the terms that the president wants to cut, we'll we'll back up the president.
00:16:28.760So you go into Monday, you're going to have more meetings throughout the day or explain to me Monday what that looks like.
00:16:35.520We're anticipating the first vote probably around noon.
00:16:38.800And as I said, that there could be we could have done it all tonight if the Democrats had agreed to in the Senate, you can do anything by unanimous consent.
00:16:48.440And so if they wanted to open the government tonight, they could have just consented to do one vote and then do the other one next to the other one next, the other one next.
00:16:54.500And we'd be done like you can do that.
00:16:56.660You know, literally, instead of us recording right now, you guys could actually be voting.
00:17:02.200And this could have all been Monday morning. The government is open for business.
00:17:06.780All the FAA guys are back to normal. Everybody's getting paid.
00:17:10.200And they're like, no, screw it. We'll just wait a few more days.
00:17:12.940So no one's flying home, right? I mean, you're not flying home tonight, are you?
00:17:15.980No, no. I mean, I'm in D.C. I didn't see my family this weekend.
00:17:19.580I would have loved to have seen my kids. I didn't.
00:17:23.120I spent most of the time just sitting here waiting for Democrats to to to finally agree to cut a deal.
00:17:29.120But it was striking. We could have done it tonight.
00:17:35.940But to do that, you need unanimous consent.
00:17:38.780That means you don't need 60. You need 100.
00:17:41.000That means one person can object and say, no, drag it out.
00:17:45.760I want to burn more time. I want to burn more time.
00:17:48.620And you have people like Bernie Sanders.
00:17:51.800You have all the Democrats who are running for president that want to want a spectacle.
00:17:56.320And so that if they really decide to be just just fully obstructionist, they could drag it as late as Friday.
00:18:06.340All right. So one other question is, is this is unfolding when the government opens back up.
00:18:11.820And let's just use a hypothetical of Wednesday. All right.
00:19:22.040Listen, if you're a TSA agent, if you're an air traffic controller, typical TSA agent or air traffic controller doesn't have a deep reservoir of savings.
00:19:31.300I mean, they're under real stress right now.
00:19:46.040The problem is in New York City on Halloween Day, roughly 80 percent of the controllers called in sick and didn't show up to work.
00:19:53.940That's Chuck Schumer's hometown, by the way.
00:19:56.440And so we're seeing with TSA, you had Monday a week ago the lines in the Houston Bush Airport were two and a half to three hours long to get through security because they were so short-staffed on TSA agents, they didn't have enough to move people through security.
00:20:13.140So even if the government opens up tomorrow, you're dealing with the independent decisions of 50,000 TSA agents and 14,000 controllers when they come back to work.
00:20:24.700And the reason that the FAA has mandated 10 percent of flights be canceled is they're looking at the data and seeing that these short-staffed air traffic controllers, there's an increased risk to safety.
00:20:36.420So they're saying, all right, if we don't have full staffing, we've got to reduce the number of flights.
00:20:41.060So in a week, do I expect things to go back to normal?
00:20:48.600But it could easily take several days for people to say, OK, I'm going to come back into work now.
00:20:54.920That doesn't happen automatically just by flipping a switch.
00:20:57.780So what you're basically telling me is this week when I'm flying and when you're flying and so many others that listen to the show are flying, we're going to be dealing with this type of chaos because the Democrats decided not to do their job, even while doing their job on Sunday night right now.
00:21:13.040Yes, and by the way, they could have agreed to open it all up tonight.
00:21:18.860They could have given consent, said, OK, you've got a deal, let's move ahead.
00:21:24.400And it's now just the obstructionist who, you know, if your flight is canceled tomorrow, you can thank Chuck Schumer and every Democrat senator running for president who's trying to show off to the crazy left.
00:21:34.880But we will get it open now, but it will take it'll take a few more days at a minimum.
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00:22:13.200All right, so let's move to another issue in the shutdown.
00:22:16.260And there's been some confusion over it.
00:22:18.040There's been a lot of fighting over it.
00:22:19.680It deals with Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act.
00:22:23.420Democrats decided, and this is some of the history that I do think we need to now explain because there's been so much of a political football on this one,
00:22:32.160that they purposely designed for the subsidies, which make Obamacare seem cheaper than it is,
00:22:39.660even though your tax dollars are paying for the subsidies to subsidize people's health insurance.
00:22:45.060They designed it purposely to expire now.
00:22:49.280And that was something that was done by design, I'm assuming, for this type of fight.
00:25:00.640But when I've had phone calls with him, whether it was in 16 to 20 or now forward, like he does not hold back at all when you're on the cell phone, on speakerphone as well.
00:25:12.380So one of the things we asked of him Friday night, we said, listen, in this battle with the Democrats over Obamacare, Obamacare is failing.
00:25:20.480And if you go back, go back to 2013, 2013, when I did a filibuster against Obamacare, I said at the time, if you remember, Barack Obama promised the American people Obamacare would cut the average family's premiums by $2,500 a year.
00:25:36.340That was a lie, and in fact, they skyrocketed at the time, $5,000 a year.
00:25:41.700They've skyrocketed a lot more than that.
00:25:44.100Even the Washington Post has now admitted the editorial page, the Affordable Care Act, which is the misleading name of Obamacare, did not make health care more affordable.
00:25:54.660So when we had Trump on the phone, we said, look, it would really help if you made the case that what Democrats are fighting for is these massive multibillion-dollar corporate welfare payoffs to the health insurance companies instead of empowering consumers.
00:27:03.460Republicans should give money directly to your personal health savings accounts, all in caps, that I expanded in our great, big, beautiful bill.
00:27:13.620Thank you for your attention to this matter.
00:27:15.920Now, this is really important, because if you want a really strong, principled, conservative reform to health insurance.
00:27:25.720Expanding health savings accounts so that you give you, the consumer, you, the patient, more control.
00:27:30.860And instead of sending money to the insurance companies, send it straight to people's health savings accounts so you can spend it on premiums, you can spend it on deductibles, you can spend it on health care.
00:27:41.680That expands competition and empowers patients and it lowers prices.
00:27:45.500The president leaning in with this tweet really helps in this political battle we'll have over the next six weeks because the outcome he's advocating for is something I've advocated for a long time.
00:27:59.880And that was a direct result of that dinner on Friday night where we got him on the phone.
00:28:04.880You know, there's one interesting thing that's coming out of this first year of Trump being back in office.
00:28:10.620It is really empowering the American people, whether it is the account you just talked about, whether it's the Trump accounts that are going to be coming in this next year that you guys pass to give kids the opportunity to save money and to be able to grow accounts and to build wealth over their lifetime.
00:28:28.720Like there is a lot of personal growth and personal excitement that it's Trump is get the government out of your life.
00:28:37.220You can do better without it. We want to help you do that.
00:28:40.520And then the Democrats like, no, no, no, no, no, Mondani's and others, you should have no control of your life.
00:28:45.940We want to run the whole damn show from from from birth to death.
00:28:49.820Just trust the U.S. government to be your daddy or your mommy or both.
00:28:54.680And that's exactly the difference between the Republicans and Democrats right now.
00:28:59.080Look, it's a fundamental divide. As you noted, we passed the Trump accounts, as you know.
00:29:06.000Yeah, this has been a major theme that I've been fighting for since the first day I got elected to the Senate.
00:29:12.060And whether you're talking about health savings accounts, whether you're talking about Trump accounts that are that are essentially 401k savings accounts for kids or whether you're talking about school choice and getting tax credits.
00:29:24.680The unifying theme of all of those is individual choice, empowering you, the individual, rather than government, competition and giving you control.
00:29:38.400That is the fundamental difference between left and right.
00:29:41.080And President Trump has been a great partner in this.
00:29:43.020And I'll tell you, as a part of his tweet, he sent out a chart, a chart which which which I had sent him.
00:31:15.900They give to Akeem Jeffries and the Democrats because they recognize when Democrats are in power, their profits go through the roof, and the American people's premiums skyrocket.
00:31:25.880What do the Democrats say they wanted to do in this shutdown?
00:31:29.440Give $50 billion to those same health insurance companies whose profits have skyrocketed.
00:31:34.340And it's why what the president said is so important.
00:31:36.980No, we're not going to give money to health insurance companies.
00:31:39.280Instead, we're going to expand health savings accounts so you, the individual, has control over your own health care.
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