GOP to Keep Medicaid Funding for Abortions as they Hit Record Highs
3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary
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🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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First, they react to Vice President JD Vance clarifying the terms of negotiations with Iran, explaining that Donald Trump agreed to a different 10-point framework proposed by Iranian officials, not the widely circulated list of extreme demands seen in media and social media. So what's in the other plan?
Next, they express deep concern over Planned Parenthood reporting a record 434,450 abortions in Fiscal Year 2024–2025. They're also frustrated by reports that House Speaker Mike Johnson does not plan to include a ban on Medicaid funding for abortions in the upcoming reconciliation bill.
Then, they watch the dysfunction on the Democrats' side of the aisle as Sen. Schumer says he will fully support far left Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner if Platner defeats Schumer's preferred candidate, Gov. Janet Mills, in the primary. Platner is the one who had a Totenkopf tattoo until very recently. Jim also notes the financial woes still afflicting the Democratic National Committee.
Finally, parents in Fairfax County, Virginia, are getting frustrated that a majority of weeks during the school year do not have five full days of instruction. Fairfax County parent Jim Geraghty weighs in on the controversy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.9 | Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.3 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.1 | Hey, so glad you're with us for the Friday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:17.2 | Yes, we've made it to the end of another week. |
| 0:19.0 | Always a good martini. |
| 0:20.7 | Jim is not in his usual |
| 0:22.4 | location. He's on the road helping out with a school trip for one of his kids. And so his kids |
| 0:27.8 | not in school today, which is going to play into our chaser for today about Fairfax County Schools. |
| 0:33.5 | We're also going to be talking about Iran. We're going to be talking about abortion and how the |
| 0:37.3 | GOP seems to not be all that interested in fighting over this issue anymore. |
| 0:41.2 | But there's also plenty of chaos on the Democratic side. |
| 0:43.6 | So a lot to get to Jim, Vice President J.D. Vance on the way to Pakistan for negotiations now. |
| 0:49.5 | We're in this two-week sort of ceasefire with Iran. |
| 0:53.9 | We're not shooting anyone, but there's been a lot of other people shooting over the last few days. |
| 0:58.2 | It's a less fire. |
| 0:59.8 | It's really not a ceasefire. |
| 1:01.4 | As he departed for this trip, he responded to what we were talking about the other day and many others as well. |
| 1:08.0 | And that's kind of the ludicrous 10-point plan for getting to the |
| 1:12.3 | negotiating table issued by the Iranians. And J.D. Vance says that's not the 10-point plan that |
| 1:17.2 | President Trump was referring to when he announced that he had agreed to the ceasefire. So here's what |
| 1:21.8 | he said. So in the past couple of days, I've seen a lot of reporting from the American media about the 10-point proposal |
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