It's Tuesday, September 30th, 2025. Congress has today to work out a deal to avert a government shutdown.

I hope they fail more on that heinous attack on the LDS Church in Michigan.

And Trump, Netanyahu, and the Arabs try to make a deal with Hamas.

Next on the AM update.

Well, Congress has about today to avert a government shutdown.

The government will shut down at midnight on Wednesday.

Here is the holdup, according to Vice President J.D. Vance.

Frustrated about the fact that this negotiation has not taken place until today.

But if you look at the original, the original thing they did with this negotiation, it was a $1.5 trillion spending package,

basically saying to the American people, we want to give massive amounts of money,

hundreds of billions of dollars to illegal aliens for their health care, while Americans are

struggling to pay their health care bills. That was their initial foray in this negotiation. We

thought it was absurd. We told them it was absurd. And now they come in here

saying that if you don't give us everything that we want, we're going to shut down the government.

We think that's preposterous. We think it's totally unacceptable. And we think the American people

are going to suffer because these guys won't do the right thing. Now, I want to make one final

point here. You will hear a lot from Senate Democrats, from House Democrats, about the fact that American health care policy is broken. Well, we know that American health care policy is broken. We've been trying to fix it for the eight months that we've been in office. But every single thing that they accuse about being broken about American health care is policy the Democrats have supported for the past decade.

So if they want to talk about how to fix American health care policy, let's do it.

The Speaker would love to do it. The Senate Majority Leader would love to do it.

Let's work on it together. But let's do it in the context of an open government that's providing essential services to the American people.

That's all that we're proposing to do,

and the fact that they refuse to do that shows how unreasonable their position is. I think we're

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