00:03:05.600A Continual Resolution is essentially Congress saying what we are spending now, we can continue, continue the status quo identically for X period of time.
00:03:16.040Now, the House of Representatives passed a CR, a clean CR, to fund the federal government through the middle of November.
00:03:26.180When you say a clean CR, that means no political shenanigans in it.
00:03:30.820But it's literally saying we're taking the 25 budget year, and we're going to say the exact same amount we spent in August, we're going to spend September, October, November, until we get the new budget.
00:05:16.180So look, every time we came to the end of government funding, you would have enough Republicans join with Democrats to keep the government funded.
00:06:14.880So this is just pure cover your AWS politics 101 by Schumer.
00:06:19.320So the radical left wing, they hate Trump.
00:06:22.700And they want today to be a giant F.U. to Trump.
00:06:28.020They want it to be we hate President Trump and we hate President Trump so much we're going to shut the entire government down because rawr.
00:07:02.960Isn't he up two years after, if I'm not mistaken?
00:07:05.420So it'd be like five plus years from now.
00:07:07.160So and to be clear, I predicted on this podcast, the inaugural member, the chairman of the AOC for President campaign is Chuck Schumer, because he is desperate for AOC not to primary him.
00:07:20.100Yeah, he's going to he's going to say, Alexandria, you are such a big deal.
00:07:57.600Free health care for illegals all over the country.
00:08:02.420By the way, I mean, when you think about that and the polling data and what it says, I don't understand why that would make your number one thing, because it's clear that the people are behind President Trump securing our borders, stopping government waste, fraud, abuse.
00:15:41.840Chuck Schumer is being held hostage by the Marxist, communists, and socialists in his party,
00:15:45.860which they did not police and they allowed to take over their party.
00:15:49.880Then he's now holding the American people hostage with a government shutdown, which brings me to the big question.
00:15:57.480Even when we've had shutdowns in the past, there has been some agreements under like, hey, certain people should deserve to get paid.
00:16:04.720Those that are in the military, those with badges, like the list is not that long, but the essential, important people that deserve to get a paycheck,
00:16:13.040we don't screw with them when they're protecting the thing in this country.
00:16:15.980Can you guys at least, was there an agreement to pay them?
00:17:02.640A lot of people don't understand that.
00:17:05.700The long, which I think is asinine, and I have family members who work in the federal government, and they're like, the dumb part about this that I think a lot of Americans don't understand is that you don't miss a paycheck in your calendar year.
00:17:21.680You just miss a month, and then you get it backdated, and you get it back the next time whenever the government does open back up.
00:17:28.360And so I know people that are in the FAA, for example, and they're like, dude, we just plan our vacations like great trips around shutdowns because we know we're still getting paid.
00:18:51.860Remember Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress were fighting with Bill Clinton.
00:18:55.340We had a shutdown for a number of weeks.
00:18:57.160And I remember there was a headline that said the Department of Commerce designated 30% of their employees is essential and 70% is non-essential.
00:19:33.200If you were coming to D.C. to tour our nation's capital, you wanted to go to the Smithsonian, go to the Air and Space Museum, the Smithsonian will be shut down.
00:19:41.880If you look at things like the National Institute of Health, like research on cancer, much of that will be shut down.
00:22:43.160People are going to want to, like, use, by the way, things like passport services will be greatly reduced.
00:22:49.140All sorts of government, now listen, the military keeps going, law enforcement keeps going, Social Security keeps going, Medicare keeps going, Medicaid keeps going, an awful lot of government keeps going.
00:23:00.780But the lack of government being open will be a serious function.
00:23:04.900And at some point, we will see seven or eight Democrats say enough is enough, reopen the government.
00:23:11.120That will happen, but let me tell you a huge piece that is an X factor in this, which is Russ Vogt, who is the head of OMB, the Office of Management and Budget, works for the White House.
00:23:24.480He put out a memo a week ago that said, if there is a government shutdown, we are going to lay off federal workers.
00:23:33.660We're not going to give them a furlough.
00:23:35.820This is, hold on, this is the brilliant game of chess that was early on preemptive, warning, you do this, and here's what we're going to do.
00:23:47.680And this might be one of the best moves I've seen politically in a long time in D.C., which is, go ahead, do it, and watch what happens, because a lot of people, they're going to lose their jobs, and that's going to be on you guys for allowing it to happen, right?
00:24:06.900And what he said is, listen, if Congress decides not to fund the federal government, we're going to react to that by the White House has instructed every cabinet agency to prepare a plan for a rift, a reduction in force, to give permanent layoffs, pink slips, to government bureaucrats who are left-wing bureaucrats who are advancing the priorities of the Democrat Party.
00:24:32.720So what you are going to see in the next few days, you are going to see bureaucrats at the EPA, fired.
00:24:40.700You're going to see bureaucrats at the Department of Labor, fired.
00:24:46.520You're going to see bureaucrats at the IRS, fired.
00:24:50.040And within a couple of days, we're going to see Democrat senators, they're going to be in their lunches screaming at each other, because this is, frankly, an excuse for the Trump administration to do what they wanted to do anyway, which is get rid of left-wing bureaucrats.
00:25:06.060But they now have an incredible justification, which is, hey, Congress chose not to fund them.
00:25:13.060So instead of giving them a paid vacation, stay home several weeks, and then we'll pay you back pay and come back to your job, they're going to give them a pick slip and say, you're done.
00:26:06.600And how much research has been done behind the scenes to get rid of a lot of these woke bureaucrats that we've been wanting to get rid of, that the presidents want to get rid of, that cabinet secretaries have wanted to get rid of?
00:26:19.460Like, I mean, I'm assuming they're burning the midnight oil kind of like Doge did.
00:26:23.980Let's find the people we want to get rid of, and this is our chance to do it.
00:26:27.020And by the way, once it's done, like, it's not like you got to offer their jobs back.
00:30:37.600Listen, every single Democrat, I think without exception, has gone on record being against shutdowns.
00:30:44.260The fact that they shut it all down today demonstrates what utter hypocrites they are.
00:30:49.980And I've got to say, as I was walking off the Senate floor, so I voted to fund the government this afternoon.
00:30:56.440The Democrats voted against it and caused a shutdown.
00:30:59.280All the reporters were circling, and their talking point that they really wanted to press is they said, okay, Cruz, in 2013, in the fight over Obamacare, you, Ted Cruz, forced a shutdown.
00:31:15.340Isn't that what the Democrats are doing now?
00:31:38.780It caused a massive increase in health insurance premiums.
00:31:42.260It made the health insurance companies rich, and it made millions of ordinary Americans unable to afford health insurance.
00:31:50.960And, by the way, I was also fighting for it at a time when the House of Representatives, that was Republican, had voted to fund the federal government, fund the entirety of the federal government, but not fund Obamacare.
00:32:04.780So not fund the law that was causing damage to American citizens.
00:32:08.920And I said, here what's happening is Chuck Schumer is shutting down the federal government, not to help American citizens who are getting hurt, but he's shutting down the federal government in order to help millions of illegal aliens and give them free health care.
00:32:24.460And he's willing to shut down your federal government to give free health care to illegals.
00:32:31.080And that fundamentally, there's a hypocrisy to it.
00:32:34.460And I also said, you know, the reporters were like, isn't it the same?
00:33:17.640It is Chuck Schumer and the Democrats who are shutting the government down that even you dishonest liars are reporting this is the Schumer shutdown.
00:33:25.460Because the House has funded the government exactly the status quo.
00:33:31.980The funding yesterday has continued to tomorrow.
00:33:35.560It is the Democrats who said, let's shut it down.
00:33:38.900And I think at the end of the day, they're going to lose that battle.
00:33:42.100But this is what you got to ask yourself is how long do the Democrats have to perform for their crazy left-wing activists before they allow the government to reopen?
00:33:53.840Until a poll tells them otherwise is my guess.