Come on Joe - March with the UAW!
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
John discusses the United Auto Workers Strike and the ways both sides are approaching the issue. Then he talks with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner executive director/CEO of MomsRising.org. about maternity and paternity paid leave, policies on child tax credits to stabilize affordable child care, and the defunding of WIC and SNAP. Next, John welcomes back comedian Lee Papa AKA The Rude Pundit. They discuss current news including Kevin McCarthy and Donald Trump's troubles. Sean in California calls in to chime in. And Lee fumes over recent book bans in red states.Then winding it up, He plays a clip of Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on the impending government shutdown - and Jessica in Maine calls in recounting a funny story John told many years ago.
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| 0:00.0 | This is serious XM progress. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the John Fugelsang podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | Thank you Chuck D. and the House fan Public Enemy. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm John Fugelsang. |
| 0:12.0 | This is serious |
| 0:13.4 | XM progress. We are so glad to be with you for the next three hours. There's a lot we |
| 0:17.7 | got to get to. My God, the carnage in the House. I mean it's a bloodbath Republicans |
| 0:23.8 | destroying Republicans. Folks, what does it mean when the Republican Party can't get |
| 0:29.6 | it together enough to pass a defense bill? That's usually the same. And what does it mean when |
| 0:36.0 | Nancy Pelosi is 82 years old but could hold her caucus together and Kevin |
| 0:41.0 | McCarthy is 56 and it's a yard sale. You know what it means. It means the |
| 0:46.2 | ageism. Well it's not going to go away no matter what. But for the next three |
| 0:50.4 | hours we're going to be bringing you some of the best political analysis and some laughs as well right here on |
| 0:55.9 | Serious XM progress. I'm John Fugelsang. I'm so happy to be with you. |
| 0:59.3 | I'm going to be broadcasting live along with our great producer Chris Howselt, who is live out of the |
| 1:05.2 | South Carolina studios. The great Thea Harper is with us outside in the Brooklyn studios. And of course, tonight on the show, |
| 1:12.2 | Kristen Rowe Finkbiner, who is the executive director of mom's demand to talk all about |
| 1:16.4 | Well how we proved that if you want to end child poverty the government can do it we know that in 2021 we achieved the lowest rate of |
| 1:25.0 | child poverty in the history of this country because of government spending and then |
| 1:29.0 | when the child tax credit was allowed to expire, thank you, Manchin. Child poverty doubled in 2022. |
| 1:36.2 | We have the numbers. We know we can severely impact the suffering of child poverty in this country if we want to. The problem is |
| 1:46.4 | we haven't figured out how to let rich guys get rich from ending child poverty. |
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