Democrats Shutting Down - September 30th, Hour 3
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
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🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
With just hours left before a government shutdown, Sean Hannity frames the impending "Schumer Shutdown" as a result of Democratic leaders caving to radical factions within their party. Congresswoman Claudia Tenney joins Sean to highlight rising far-left influence in New York politics, specifically naming Zoran Mamdani and referencing AOC's looming threat to Schumer's Senate seat. Their discussion contends that Democrat policies have led to crime, out-migration, and overall decline in New York, warning that federal spending standoffs are distractions from deeper urban crises. This matters as it reflects growing ideological rifts in the party and foreshadows potential shifts in national and local leadership.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | All right, news roundup and information overload. |
| 0:06.2 | Our toll free, our number is 800, 941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, |
| 0:12.6 | now six hours. |
| 0:14.9 | And, oh, what is it? |
| 0:16.8 | So, 54 minutes, 55 minutes until the government shutdown down as official, the Schumer shut down, |
| 0:24.1 | as we're calling it on this program. |
| 0:26.7 | Schumer and Democrats, and we've been playing it all day. |
| 0:29.5 | I won't play it again now, you know, for years have condemned the idea of shutting down |
| 0:34.3 | the government and how bad and horrible it is. |
| 0:37.4 | And because Schumer, who is leader in name only, just like Hakeem Jeffries, his leader in |
| 0:42.6 | name only, Schumer got excoriated when he went along with the CR the last time. |
| 0:48.9 | He is his entire career. |
| 0:51.4 | He's never supported a government shutdown, but he wants to stay in power and then |
| 0:57.6 | rather than stand on principle and stand up against the radicals in his party so he's not going to |
| 1:03.5 | shut down the he's going to shut down the government it's going to happen it may be longer than |
| 1:09.4 | we usually think i I've been pretty |
| 1:11.9 | consistent about government shutdowns over the years. They really don't bother me. I know people get |
| 1:17.4 | offended when I say that. I'm not being insensitive to good workers. I feel for you if you're not |
| 1:22.5 | going to get a check. But what always happens is they eventually reopen the government fully essential services will |
| 1:29.1 | continue uh which is imperative grandma and grandpa will get their social security checks they'll |
| 1:35.5 | have access to their health care our military will be up and running homeland security will be |
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