Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show. You daily dive into the news. It's Wednesday, and we've

got a lot to talk about today, but first, an exciting announcement. I just launched my brand new podcast crashing out with Philip DeFranco and Alex Perlman. Right. And it's a weekly Wednesday show in addition to this daily one that I'm doing, where, you know, if the Philip DeFranco show is 90% news and 10% reaction and opinion. This new show, it's kind of the inverse of that, which I know

a vocal minority of y'all have really been wanting. So hey, go subscribe to the YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcast. It's in the top links in the description in the comments. The first episode is now up. You should watch or listen after today's show. But that said, we have a lot to talk about in the here and now, starting with this. It's official. The government

is shut down. The Dems, they had a proposal to fund the government until October 31st, but their version had provisions to permanently extend enhanced ACA health insurance premium subsidies and restore nearly a trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts. But that got shut down with no Republicans voting for it. Right. And then, Senate Dems voted against a GOP bill to keep the government and funded at the current levels for a few more weeks

until a long-term spending deal could be reached.

Without getting a vote of 55 to 45, though, of course, that failed to break the 60-vote filibuster. And it also was an entire side for, entire side against, though it was very close. You had three Democrats joining Republicans and voting in favor of the legislation and one Republican in voting against. And you know, all of this, it kind of felt inevitable. Because, well, there's often a lot of back and forth and everyone's concerned about the government shutting down. Like, especially here, it seemed like neither side was going to give in to demands. Because, well, Democrats, they said, you know, we're not going to support any legislation that doesn't roll back Medicaid cuts and extend key Obamacare subsidies. You also So had Republicans refusing to negotiate or make concesscessions. So now with the shutdown actually happening, we've seen both sides continuing to point fingers at one another. And you know, while this blame game thing is pretty common, this time it is also a bit different, right? You have experts noting that we are witnessing the Trump administration do things that they've never seen before. We've seen numerous agencies and their leaders joining in on the blame game and using

official channels funded by taxpayer dollars to do so. And maybe one of the most notable examples was

the Department of Housing and Urban Development, right, which currently has a massive banner on

the homepage of their official government website that reads, The Radical Left in Congress shut down

the government, HUD will use available resources to help Americans in need. And that was also echoed in

public statements from other agencies,

like the Department of Veterans Affairs, also issuing a partisan statement ahead of the shutdown,

saying, radical liberals in Congress are trying to shut down the government to achieve their crazy fantasy of open borders,

transgender for everybody and men competing in women's sports.

Right, and that as you had DHS Secretary Christie Noem writing,

the Democrats will be forcing over 150,000 officers and nearly 50,000 members of the military, our front line of defense, to continue protecting our nation without pay. And it's also been widely reported that employees across numerous departments have received various iterations of an email from the White House Office of Management and Budget saying that a shutdown would be the fault of congressional Democrats. Right, and me saying this to you, you're probably like, okay, I'm not surprised, but it is a standout thing. Executive agencies and their leaders are usually not sharing these kinds of partisan messages. And in addition to ethics experts saying they've never seen anything like this, many have also argued that both the public statements and the internal communications appear to run up against federal lobbying laws and may even violate the hatchack. A federal statute that limits the political activities of federal employees and ban civil servants in the executive branch from engaging in most political activity while on duty. And so that, it's its own messy battle. It's kind of just playing out on its own. But also as far as how Trump himself has responded, the president, at least as a recording, has been unusually quiet. But he really hasn't given any kind of public comment or even made one of his kind of all-caps posts on truth social. But that is, there are plenty of people doing the job for him. With the official White House X account, it's been going balls to the walls. Put now tons of post-blaming Democrats for the shutdown, mocking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and repeating the false claim, pushed by many many Republicans that Democrats are the ones that block the Republican bill because they want to give free health care to illegal immigrants. Right. And you also had JD Vans going on the offensive and echoing those narratives in an interview with Fox and Friends this morning. But let's step back for a second because I think it's important for the American people to realize that the far-left faction of Senate Democrats shut down the

government because we wouldn't give them hundreds of billions of dollars for health care benefits

for illegal aliens. It's actually not even all Senate Democrats. This is basically Chuck Schumer.

Chuck Schumer, he's worried he's going to get a primary challenge from AOC. And so he's shutting

down the people's government to give in to sort of the left-wing coalition and their party and it's craziness and people are going to suffer because of it. Now, of course, like we talked about, his claim that Democrats want to give billions of dollars in health care to illegal immigrants, it's just simply untrue. Illegal immigrants are ineligible for federal health care programs and Obamacare subsidies, and Democrats aren't trying to change that. Right at most, one of the things that Democrats are trying to do is restore a subsidy for certain lawfully present immigrants that Republicans cut in their tax bill. But then also, beyond that, you would AOC herself hitting back at Republican attempts to somehow blame her for the shutdown. And I saw some Republican members of Congress saying, oh, well, if we have this shutdown, it's because of AOC,

well, if that's the case, my office is open and you are free to walk in and negotiate with me

directly. Because what I'm not going to do is tolerate four million uninsured Americans because

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