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Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, Comedy, News

4.2 • 828 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Summary

On this Friday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid multiple news stories and highlights key events: Day 23 of the government shutdown leaves federal workers unpaid and struggling, with attempts to advance bills being blocked in the Senate. NBA players, including Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier, are involved in gambling and betting scandals. Sid then dives into predictions for upcoming College Football and NFL games, focusing on the Giants, Ravens, and Chiefs. Also, New York Attorney General Letitia James faces federal charges of alleged mortgage fraud and receives support from political allies, and ormer rivals Mayor Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo unite in the New York City mayoral race, despite previous tensions. Vickie Paladino, John Catsimatidis, K.T. McFarland, Joseph Kenny, Joe Tacopina & Eleonora Srugo join Sid on this Friday installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sid and Friends in the morning.
0:03.4	Entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
0:09.1	We're done with Stern. We're done with Colbert. We're on to Sid Rosenberg. This is what we want.
0:13.7	It's what the people want, Sid. Come on.
0:15.8	It's day 23 of the government shut down, which is already the second longest in U.S. history.
0:19.5	And the latest attempts in Congress to ease the pain of some federal workers were shot down in the Senate.
0:24.8	Erica Brown has more from Capitol Hill.
0:26.5	After weeks of working without pay, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says some air traffic controllers have to now take second jobs in order to make ends meet.
0:37.2	I don't want them delivering for DoorDash.
0:40.5	I don't want them driving Uber.
0:41.9	I want them coming to their facilities and controlling the airspace.
0:46.0	Thursday, the Senate failed to advance a Republican proposal
0:49.4	to pay federal workers and military members
0:52.2	who are working during the shutdown without pay.
0:55.2	The motion is not agreed to.
0:57.2	Democrats who rejected the proposal argued the bill would give the White House broad authority
1:02.4	to determine which federal workers get paid and which do not.
1:06.4	You've read the remarks of Russ vote, the head of OMB.
1:14.2	He wants to visit, quote, trauma on federal employees, and he wants to fire a lot of them. He has said so.
1:17.6	Again, no, no, but that's an important piece here. The longer the shutdown drags on,
1:23.3	the greater the impact on Americans nationwide. Dozens of states have issued warnings that the food assistance program known as SNAP could soon run out of funding.
1:32.9	We are absolutely on the precipice of a hunger emergency.
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