PG 121: Trump and the Democrats on Dreamers and Healthcare, Harvey Weinstein’s Worst Kept Secret, The Boy Scouts Make A Change & A Presidential Library Without Books

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Trey and Jay start this week’s show by discussing Trump’s unilateral action to change the Affordable Health Care Act’s cost-sharing provisions. They talk about the actual changes and the policy implications of the action. This leads to a discussion of the demands Trump sent Congress if they want a deal on Dreamers. After that it’s a look at Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuse allegations and the implications for politics. They get into a broader discussion on the implications for politicians on the source of donations. Such a question is particular relevant for Democrats right now, but was the same issue facing Republicans with Trump. Next up is the Boy Scouts seemingly surprising decision to open their doors completely to girls. Jay is enthusiastically supportive. Trey sees the business value but ponders the general trend in society to not have more narrow groups. Finally Trey and Jay discuss how former President Obama’s library will not actually house any documents. Instead, it will be a completely digital repository. They also discuss archiving documents that were originally digital and the challenges for future presidential libraries. ‘ We hope you’ll check out the sponsors of today’s show: Brooklinen. Politics Guys listeners get $20 off AND free shipping by using promo code tpg at http://www.Brooklinen.com Bombfell, where Politics Guys listeners get $25 dollars off their first purchase by going to http://www.bombfell.com/tpg ZipRecruiter. Politics Guys listeners can post jobs on ZipRecruiter for FREE. Just go to http://www.ZipRecruiter.com/politicsguySupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:26.2	Welcome to the politics, guys.
0:30.5	The podcast taking you deeper into this week's politics one story at a time.
0:33.4	I'm Trey Orndorff, and it's wonderful to be back on the show this week.
0:40.0	I'm joined, as always, by the interesting Jay Carson, who I might add got a huge social media response for last week's show. So Jay, we're going to see if we can match the controversy
0:44.3	of last week. How are you doing? I'm doing great. I had no intention to generate controversy,
0:50.9	but we take it as it comes.
0:59.4	Well, it's always interesting the things that will and will not get the big responses back.
0:59.8	I've said things sometimes, and I think I'm surprised that nobody had a bigger pushback on
1:04.1	that.
1:04.4	And then other times you think, that's the thing.
1:06.8	But anyway, we'll have to see if we can, we'll hit any of those buttons.
1:11.2	So, Jay, I thought we might lead off this week talking a little bit about Trump and his changes to the payments in Obamacare,
1:20.1	the Affordable Health Care Act, cost sharing reductions.
1:25.2	Basically, these were subsidies that were going to kind of make health care under the
1:30.6	Affordable Health Care Act cheaper for lower income people. And Trump has basically called this a
1:37.0	bailout of insurance companies, and he thinks it's unlawful. As a matter of fact, he sees this
1:41.6	as being Democrats, because there's not actually a legislative component to this as just being a massive subsidy.
1:47.8	What do you think about this?
1:49.2	And what are going to move forward?
1:50.9	Yeah, I would say, first of all, it doesn't so much matter what I think about it.
1:55.4	I mean, I think the courts so far that have looked of this have agreed that it is, in all likelihood,
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