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Hey, guys.

We are back on normally the show with normal.

For when the news gets weird, I'm Mary Catherine.

I'm Carol Markowitz.

How are you, Mary Catherine?

I'm doing all right.

It's springtime.

Is it?

We're in almost full bloom for the cherry blossoms, which is also the time that my allergies go crazy.

I prepared with two weeks of dosing on Zyrtec. I'm okay. I feel okay.

All right. I'm rooting for you. And, you know, the cherry blossoms,

they look so good. Maybe a little pain, you know, is worth it? It's, it is, the pain can be very

real. It took me like 10 years of getting flu-like symptoms on this week every year before I realized,

like, oh, maybe it's allergies. So here we are. Yeah. I learn. I learn. Yep. Yep.

All right. While the TSA remains largely affected by a lack of DHS funding, and we keep getting

asked, what is this all about? Now, you and I have covered what it's all about

previously on the show, but let's just do it one more time. Let's just tell them again.

Yeah. So what's happening is that Democrats are using their one and only minority power within

the Senate to block DHS funding, which means that the TSA and the Coast Guard and a bunch of other parts of DHS do not get funding despite the fact that we have four jihadi-inspired attacks on U.S. soil and now spring break being affected by TSA agents who understandably are not excited to come to work because they're not getting

a paycheck. This happened to them within the, you know, within a year twice now that they have

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