Is America prepared to take our values seriously?
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
There are brutal realities in the world today. Cancer is one. Terrorism is another. And political division is one that could wreck this country. What will it take to confront and rise above them? This is a bitterly honest Wildcard Wednesday. Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator. Record-setting, four-time Sports Emmy Award winner Michele Tafoya worked her final NBC Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, her fifth Super Bowl. She retired from sportscasting the following day. In total, she covered 327 games — the most national primetime TV games (regular + postseason) for an NFL sideline reporter. Learn More about “The Michele Tafoya Podcast” here: https://linktr.ee/micheletafoya Subscribe to “The Michele Tafoya Podcast” here: https://apple.co/3nPW221 Follow Michele on twitter: https://twitter.com/Michele_Tafoya Follow Michele on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realmicheletafoya/ Learn more about the Salem Podcast network: https://salempodcastnetwork.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast. Please click that |
| 0:13.8 | subscribe button so you never miss an episode. It's free to subscribe. So why wouldn't you? |
| 0:17.9 | We'd love to have you with us every single time. Today, I'm going to be honest with you. This is a tough one for me today. I've pulled some sound to play for you to share with you my thoughts on. But I can't get around what's going on around the world from Brown University to Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle, and that whole entire family being plunged |
| 0:39.4 | into complete turmoil, to Bondi Beach in Australia. That place is beautiful and it's shocking. |
| 0:49.7 | So having said all that, we'll revisit that at the end. Right now, I want to talk a little bit about |
| 0:55.5 | Congress. Here we are. It's December of 2025. I don't think a lot's going to get done in Congress |
| 1:03.2 | before the first of the year. But we've got this representative, McBride. She's Congresswoman Sarah McBride, and she is condemning the administration for the |
| 1:17.6 | health care issues that we're all facing here in America. I don't know how, well, look, she's a |
| 1:25.1 | politician. She can make that leap if she wants to but let's just play this for you |
| 1:30.6 | and let's let's let's chat about it right afterwards let's roll representative of pride |
| 1:36.1 | we are currently in the beginning stages of a one trillion dollar ticking time bomb going off in |
| 1:41.6 | the center of the american health care system. And to your point around the |
| 1:45.0 | ACA tax credits, that's just the first part of that time bomb going off. We are essentially now |
| 1:54.2 | living under Trump care. Donald Trump likes to own things and slap his name on them. Well, he now |
| 1:58.9 | owns the American health care system. It is Trump care. And at the end of this year, the Affordable Care Act tax credits without action |
| 2:05.6 | by Congress will expire. And that means skyrocketing health care premiums for the millions of |
| 2:11.0 | Americans that rely on the ACA marketplace for insurance, people seeing 100, 200, 300 percent increases in their health care. |
| 2:20.4 | But the consequences of Trump care don't end there. |
| 2:23.2 | A year from now, the largest cut to Medicaid in American history will go into effect. |
| 2:30.2 | And in its totality, Trump care will leave 15 million more Americans without health coverage. |
| 2:36.9 | But as that bomb goes off, those 15 million Americans, they will not be the only casualties |
| 2:43.1 | of that bomb going off. Because the reality is, when you have 15 million people who lose coverage, |
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