Your Shutdown Outrage Won’t Change The Next Election

What A Day

Crooked Media

News, Daily News

4.6 • 12K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Week two of the government shutdown isn't proving to be any more successful than week one. In fact, on Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson said this shutdown could end up being the country's longest. Why? Probably because Johnson won't negotiate with Democrats on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits that will expire at the end of the year. And without help from Democrats, the government is staying closed. So what does this mean not just for the millions of people who benefit from government services, but for future elections? In 13 months, will voters remember that Republicans are being blamed for the shutdown? To find out more, we spoke with Lakshya Jain, head of political data for the online magazine, The Argument. And in headlines, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he plans on coming to the US to make a case for his country once again, the Supreme Court is getting ready to hear arguments in a case that could roll back a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, and a slew of media companies are refusing to sign a statement acknowledging new restrictions on journalists at the Pentagon.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It's Tuesday, October 14th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Waddey, the show celebrating the start of fall in Los Angeles.
0:09.3	And by fall, I mean, the temperature is currently below 70. If we get to 60 degrees, I will need a parka.
0:33.9	Thank you. On today's show, President Donald Trump takes a victory lap across the Middle East as Israeli and Palestinian families celebrate reunions after a massive prisoner release.
0:38.7	And Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky, is hoping to get whatever's left of Trump's peace
0:43.0	efforts once he's done declaring harmony in the Middle East. But let's start with the government
0:47.4	shutdown. We are now deep in the second week of the government shutdown. And House Speaker Mike
0:52.9	Johnson said on Monday that the
0:54.2	shutdown could prove to be the nation's longest. Granted, that's because, as House Speaker Mike
0:59.9	Johnson also said Monday, he will not negotiate with Democrats on extending Affordable Care Act tax
1:05.7	credits that will expire at the end of the year. Those tax credits could prevent folks enrolled
1:10.5	on ACA health care programs
1:11.9	from seeing their premiums doubled. Without votes from Democrats or blowing up the filibuster,
1:16.6	the government is staying closed. It's kind of like Mike Johnson is bemoaning a fire while doing
1:21.0	absolutely nothing to, you know, put out the fire. And to be honest, he doesn't seem very
1:26.9	interested in what's going up in
1:28.4	flames in the process. Here's Johnson speaking to reporters on the Hill. We know the president
1:33.3	in Fort with mass layoffs. So we are also learning there were significant cuts to staff at the
1:38.1	special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts? I haven't seen the specifics
1:43.0	of that, and I don't know.
1:45.0	And according to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Johnson won't even meet with Democrats.
1:50.1	You know, the basic activity necessary to end the government shutdown.
1:54.8	Here's Jeffrey speaking to MSNBC's Katie Turr on Monday.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Crooked Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Crooked Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.