BREAKING: Left Exposed in Latest Shutdown Tactic
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Jay Sekulow
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🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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The government shutdown continues, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (NY) believes "every day gets better" for his party. Democratic Senators Chris Van Hollen (MD) and Gary Peters (MI) plan to present two bills that counter Republican Senator Ron Johnson's (WI) proposed bill to pay "excepted" federal employees. The Sekulow team discusses Day 23 of the government shutdown, Senate Majority Leader John Thune's political strategy, the Trump Administration's response to the battle on Capitol Hill, the ACLJ's legal work – and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the show, the Democrats propose a new bill, a bizarre bill, amidst the shutdown. |
| 0:07.3 | Keeping you informed and engaged. Now more than ever. This is Seculo. |
| 0:14.2 | We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments. Recall, 1-800684-3-110. And now your host, Logan Secular. Welcome to Seculo. Fix my |
| 0:28.0 | colleague here, Will. You know, look good on air here. Will Haynes in studio, Jordan Secholo in |
| 0:33.0 | studio. Whereas we joined again by Jeff Balabon. We got another update from Israel coming for you. |
| 1:13.3 | So you're going to like this one. This is actually a big win from the ACLJ. So we're excited to share that. Usually we don't have two hits from Israel back to back. But today is a very special day for our team at ACLJ, Jerusalem, and also at ACLJ here in the States. So that's going to be one if you've been following sort of the rise in anti-Semitism, obviously, on college campuses. We've got a victory to report. So that's going to be a lot of fun coming up later. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-6-8-4-31-10. We're looking at all the different topics we could discuss today. And the one that kind of jumped out is obviously there is pain. There is pain going right now. |
| 1:17.5 | If you are a member of the government, if you are working for the government, maybe you've been furloughed, maybe your paychecks are being held. And the Republicans, of course, there was another |
| 1:21.6 | opportunity to move forward. The Democrats once again shut it down. This is what the, how many |
| 1:27.3 | attempts? The 13th, 12th attempt. This is what the, how many attempts? |
| 1:27.6 | The 13th? 12th attempt. Yeah. That the Democrats decided not to reopen the government with a |
| 1:33.1 | clean continuing resolution. And not even really discuss it, not even have any sort of |
| 1:37.0 | conversation. So that's what's happening. Of course, the Democrats will say it's Republicans. |
| 1:40.9 | Republicans will say it's the Democrats. And the Republicans put a point together and said, |
| 1:46.4 | hey, how about we start paying people, though? |
| 1:48.9 | That's right. |
| 1:49.3 | So Senator Ron Johnson is expected to have a vote today on a bill which would pay federal |
| 1:55.9 | employees that are still having to work because there are those that are furloughed that are at home. |
| 2:01.3 | Yeah, that aren't going to work. |
| 2:02.5 | But then there are those you think about the air traffic control, the military, |
| 2:06.3 | people that still have to show up and are not going to be receiving a paycheck this Friday |
| 2:10.6 | when payday rolls around. |
| 2:12.7 | And so he put together a bill that those that are still having to show up should be getting paid |
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