Trump Says He'll Fire Workers and Cut Democratic Programs During Shutdown
MEDIA BUZZmeter
FOX News Podcasts
4.1 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:35.9 | Ladies and gentlemen, the government of the United States of America has shut down. |
| 0:43.1 | Now, of course, it's a little more complicated than that, |
| 0:47.5 | in that lots of essential services will remain open, |
| 0:51.8 | otherwise planes wouldn't be able to take off. |
| 0:55.7 | It would affect police, fire, and just about everything else you could think of. But I think the Democrats |
| 1:02.0 | had a real disadvantage here because Trump has the megaphone. And Chuck Schumer, who was on |
| 1:09.8 | MSNBC this morning, has to make a more complicated |
| 1:16.4 | argument about health care, which Dems are trying to protect. Look, I have to conclude that both |
| 1:24.9 | sides wanted this, but Hakeem and Chuck going up against |
| 1:31.2 | Donald Trump seems to me not to be a particularly fair fight. And by the way, there is one |
| 1:39.2 | Republican talking point that's just complete BS, and that is Democrats want to save health care for illegal |
| 1:46.9 | immigrants there is a law against that so that can be thrown out as just a falsehood but as we'll see |
| 1:56.3 | in a moment a lot of people are going to be thrown out of work. |
| 2:04.5 | And it ends up, you know, let's say it goes on for a week. |
| 2:07.8 | Let's say it goes on for two weeks. |
| 2:08.9 | It ends up costing the government a hell of a lot of money. |
| 2:13.0 | People don't realize that, aside from the fact that the federal employees who are furlured or paid or unpaid |
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