The House Gets a Paid Staycation While Other Federal Workers Get to Wade Starvation
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
In today's podcast - John discusses Trump's minion, Mike Johnson, refusing to address the issue of declining health care and admitting they are using the government shutdown to gut agencies and blackmail Dems into capitulation. He also talks about Dept. of War Head, Pete Kegsbreath, creating a new Pentagon policy requiring full editorial oversight of coverage regarding the military and national defense. Then, he welcomes back Wajahat Ali - who is a columnist, public speaker, former attorney, and Sr. Fellow at the Western States Center. They discuss the GAZA ceasefire and the government shutdown. Next, John speaks with author and broadcaster Ray Suarez on immigration and his book "We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century". And winding it up, John jokes with Comedy Daddy aka Keith Price and they both talk listeners off the edge with wonderous wit and whimsical wisdom.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the John Fuglesang podcast. |
| 0:09.9 | This is Sirius XM Progress. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm John Fuglesang. |
| 0:13.5 | Good evening and welcome to tell me everything. |
| 0:16.2 | Bringing good trouble to the right wing bubble. |
| 0:18.6 | So good to have you with us. |
| 0:20.2 | We have a great show tonight. |
| 0:21.3 | Wajahad Ali is here to talk all about Trumpism and, of course, this peace deal, which is really a |
| 0:27.2 | ceasefire, which doesn't seem to be much of a ceasefire. We have a lot to discuss. And Wajahad Ali |
| 0:33.8 | is one of the best journalists alive right now in this moment for my money. |
| 0:56.5 | Also tonight, our good friend, Comedy Daddy Keith Price will be with us. We love Keith. And a very special guest, a guy that I've listened to for years. He's never been on the show. But Ray Suarez, who you guys might know from NPR's Talk of the Nation, and he did NPR in Chicago and L.A. and London and Rome. and he, of course, was a correspondent for PBS News Hour. |
| 1:12.0 | He has a beautiful book out called We Are Home, Becoming American in the 21st Century. It's about how we're a nation of immigrants, never more than now. And it's a very moving book at really the right time. And I love Ray Suarez. |
| 1:13.6 | I listened to this guy on NPR for years. |
| 1:15.1 | I'm thrilled to have him with us. |
| 1:17.8 | There's a lot we need to get to. |
| 1:19.5 | There's a lot that's going on. |
| 1:22.6 | Cody Balmer has pled not guilty to the arson attack on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's home. |
| 1:25.4 | I don't think he's Antifa or trans or lefty. There was a telegram |
| 1:29.5 | chat group for leadership of young Republican groups nationwide, and turns out it was a hotbed |
| 1:34.0 | of racial and ethnic slurs and anti-Semitism and Hitler worship. According to new leaks, I'm as not |
| 1:39.6 | shocked as you are. The White House announced that six more people have been murdered in a targeted |
| 1:44.5 | a strike by our government of a boat off the Venezuelan coast that they claim was smuggling |
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