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This is the Tom Hartman program.

Hey, hey, we've got a big day today, a lot in the news, which will start just a moment.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus,

will be with us taking your calls.

So we're going to be talking about these amazing new studies on universal basic income.

If it works for billionaires children, why not the poor?

And also the Republican Party will only release money for Israel if funding is cut for the

internal revenue service. Are we surprised? Do you wonder if the government's going to be shutting down

in a couple of weeks? Also, could Colorado be the house of cards on removing Trump from the ballot?

Plus, is Trump losing it? A lot to talk about there.

So we're getting reports from city after city around the world.

But now we've got five cities in America that have done universal basic income programs.

This is where people just, you know, low income poor people just randomly selected.

I mean, literally randomly selected. Usually when they do this, they'll take like 300 people,

and they'll randomly select 150 of them to get the money, and 150 to get no money.

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