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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Senator Jeanne Shaheen Discusses Trump’s Disastrous Shutdown

The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch Network

Politics, News

4.956.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Republican Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson losing his mind on live television during a disastrous press conference as Trump’s shutdown is too much for him to handle and Meiselas speaks with Democratic New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen about Trump’s shutdown and her fight to protect the healthcare of people in this country. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Maga Mike Johnson made a stunning admission during the morning press conference where he was asked,

0:20.3

so why don't you just bring

0:22.0

the Republican members back to the House? Why don't you support funding and paying essential

0:30.0

workers? Like, why don't we start there, Mike Johnson? Because the Senate seems willing to do that.

0:34.9

Why don't you do that? Why do you keep telling the House members

0:38.9

that they need to be on vacations and not show up and not speak to Democrats, yet alone

0:44.7

negotiate with Democrats? Like, isn't schoolhouse rocks? Isn't like fifth grade government,

0:50.9

like the parties are supposed to talk to each other? Why are you telling your members't talk to democrat that's that's kind of odd maga mike don't you think here's what he says

0:59.9

here play this clip jett if it's so important to think that you're trying you said you want to see what

1:07.4

happens in this time why we're going to have the House back in session and we're going to go.

1:12.6

Because you know as well as I do sometimes when one body moves something, he can be exempted us to the other. Well, no, I don't know that. We just demonstrated it's not true, Chad. We passed the CR to get everybody paid. If I brought everybody back right now and we voted on a measure to do this to pay essential workers, it would be spiked in the Senate. They're going to show you this afternoon that they would spike that bill. So it would be a waste of our time and it would take the pressure off Chuck Schumer to get his job done and open the government again. This is what's so infuriating to us. Yes, sir. As Maga Mike says, you don't want to see mad Maga Mike.

1:45.0

He wants to be the happy warriors, what he's been repeating over and over and over again.

1:49.0

Well, then he threatens people who are going to football games.

1:52.0

I think that's their approach.

1:54.0

I guess first it was blame immigrants, then transgender people in Peru, and then go back to immigrants

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