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The Sean Hannity Show

Is There A Ceiling? - October 8th, Hour 3

The Sean Hannity Show

Sean Hannity

Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.09.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Chad Pergram, Fox News Congressional Correspondent gives us the latest on Capitol Hill gives us the latest from the debt ceiling extension.

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0:00.0

Right. News rounds up information overload hour Sean Hannity show eight hundred nine four one

0:04.0

Sean. You want to be a part of the program. So for two straight months, Republicans, they're united.

0:08.7

They're going to stand firm. They're not going to raise the debt limit. They're not part of the

0:12.2

process of putting a budget together. Democrats threatening the reconciliation process, which is

0:18.0

how they're going to end up passing whatever number it finally turns into, whether it's two trillion

0:24.1

or three point five trillion or whatever it is. And at the last hour, there he is, the Senate

0:31.6

leader for the Republicans, Mitch McConnell just caves. And then he's able to get, you know,

0:38.0

10 other Republicans to cave with him, Richard Shelby's retiring. He doesn't care. Lisa Mrakowski,

0:44.0

no surprise there. Susan Collins, no surprise there. Roy Blunt, he's out. He doesn't care.

0:49.7

Rob Portman, he doesn't care. John Thune, who knows what he's doing in the future. You know,

0:54.6

but Mike, one surprise was South Dakota Senator Mike Browns. That surprised me.

1:00.0

Texas Senator John Cornyn, he thinks he wants to be the next mid, you know, leader in the

1:05.4

Senate for Republicans. Forget it. West Virginia Senator. Also part of this group. Wyoming

1:13.3

Senator John Barrasso, one surprise that wasn't on the list was Mitt Romney. Anyway, so Chuck Schumer

1:21.1

does exactly what I, what Chuck Schumer always does. He gets the Republicans to cave. Republicans

1:27.6

do him a favor, throw him a lifeline, bail him out, something they never should have done,

1:33.2

something they told us for two months they wouldn't do. And this is how Schumer repays his

1:38.0

Republican colleagues. Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans insisted they wanted a solution

1:43.9

to the debt ceiling, but said Democrats must raise it alone by going through a drawn out,

1:50.4

convoluted, and risky reconciliation process. That was simply unacceptable to my caucus.

1:57.2

And yesterday, Senate Republicans finally realized that their obstruction was not going to work.

2:02.6

I thank very much, thank my Democratic colleagues for our showing our unity in solving this

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