Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay? Thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share, because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. All right, folks, so today is Thursday, November the 13th, also known as my favorite

day of the week. Shout out to a different world and the Cosby Show, which were shows that came

on Thursday. And so my audience knows I love Thursday. I'm sort of programmed that way. It's

weekend Eve. It's also a good day to kind of look back at how far we've come since the

long, long time of Monday. And my God, has there been a lot going on?

First up, we just got to start here.

The shutdown has technically ended.

The Republicans were able to do what they did.

We've been covering it all week.

They were able to pass these bills in the Senate and the House.

Donald Trump signed them into law.

So technically,

the government shutdown has basically ended with a whole lot of other things happening at the same

time. Now, before we get into the Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, because we don't talk about Jeffrey,

no, no, no, until we do. And then everybody's talking about Jeffrey Epstein. Before we get to

that, I want to

really address what's been happening with health care. Health care, as we know, is essentially over.

We are back in the times when the Democrats were fighting for the Affordable Care Act and we're

fighting for these subsidies, which are going to ensure that people could participate in the health

care plan without breaking the bank. And we have

reached a point where since the Republicans refuse to negotiate, they refuse to extend these

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