WTH Extra! Another Shutdown Showdown. Dany and Marc Discuss.
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of WTH Extra! Dany and Marc discuss Marc’s column, Democrats shut down the government to protect covid spending, not Obamacare. In the umpteenth government shutdown in recent memory, Democrats have decided that permanent COVID subsides for healthcare, already extended and phased out by a Democrat-controlled government, are more essential than keeping the government open. But… are Republicans actually considering agreeing to D demands? And for Democrats… why another effort at self-immolation? Marc makes it clear, “Democrats claim they are trying to preserve the Obamacare tax credits. Wrong. They're trying to preserve American Rescue Plan tax credits. The pandemic emergency officially ended in 2023. There is no rationale for extending COVID relief spending two years later.”
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.1 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. |
| 0:07.1 | Thanks for listening. Here's our show. |
| 0:08.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:10.5 | What's really going on? |
| 0:12.0 | We said, what the hell happened? |
| 0:13.5 | You don't have to know what the hell is on it. |
| 0:15.6 | They see what's going on. |
| 0:16.7 | I don't know what's going on. |
| 0:18.0 | What is going on? |
| 0:20.0 | We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on. |
| 0:29.5 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:31.4 | And I'm Mark Thiessen. |
| 0:32.6 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:34.3 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:36.8 | But extra. Mark, what the hell is going on? Well extra. Mark, what the hell is going on? |
| 0:39.6 | Well, we're having an emergency episode because the government has shut down for the umpteem's |
| 0:44.5 | time since we started this podcast. This seems to be a regular occurrence, but the Democrats, |
| 0:52.4 | you know, in the in the theory of next time it'll work, |
| 0:56.3 | they've decided to shut down the government. And what are they shutting down the government |
| 1:00.9 | over? What have they chosen as their leg to stand on? They have chosen as their leg to stand on |
| 1:07.0 | in the consistent theme of the second Trump presidency in which they take the wrong side of |
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