What I'm about to tell you is something that no one is talking about, at least not yet.

But everyone will be probably very soon as this Trump and Republican manufactured government shutdown continues.

And if you know me, you know I bring receipts.

This is a really important episode of the breakdowns, I'm very glad you're here.

Thanks for joining me.

Aside from the shutdown bombshell I'm going to tell you about, I'm going to cover the mobilization of military against American cities. More atrocities from ICE as they return violent agents to duty. And how Stephen Miller is pulling all the strings. I'm Alison Gill, and this is the breakdown.

All right, first of all, thanks to everyone who watched our MSW media, Midas Touch,

co-lab of Andrew McCabe's side of the story in the Comey indictment from the Unjustified

podcast.

Over 750,000 of you listened to that show here on Midas, and we're so heartened that so many of you are committed to the truth. So thank you.

All right, let's talk about the key thing you need to know about the Trump and Republican government shutdown.

If you didn't already know, let me be the first to tell you, Republicans can end the shutdown any time, and they can do it without a single Democrat.

Republicans are doing their best to pin this on Democrats because they know how much pain the shutdown is going to cause.

They know how unpopular it is. And not just with federal workers, but Americans writ large.

Of course, things like your student loan bills are going to keep coming in the mail after

Republicans sued to stop Biden from forgiving your student debt.

Oil drilling is going to go on.

Of course, coal plants, Trump's tariffs, the construction of the let them eat cake ballroom

is also going to move forward unabated.

But all the Democratic programs that the billionaires have

been trying to get rid of since forever so they can steal our money to give themselves tax breaks,

all that's going to go away. And they love it. Snap benefits, WIC, our Affordable Care Act,

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