schumer shutdown is worsening

if they're trying their best to distract

the American people from the simple fact

that they've chosen a partisan fight so

that they can prove to their Marxist

rising base in the De Democrat party

that they're willing to fight Trump and

Republicans. There is no objective truth

to everything he said there. The

Republicans have already said we were

going to have thoughtful conversations,

deliberation, and debate about

continuing the CO era Obamacare

subsidies because they don't expire

until December 31st. They're trying to

pretend like that's a September issue.

It never was.

>> The president himself offered to Chuck

Schumer.

>> The reason it is an issue now is because

renewal pricing gets set in October for

renewals that begin in November

for insurance plans that do expire

December 31st for the year of 2026.

That's why it is an issue now. So here

Mike Johnson is gaslighting the

expiration of these healthc care

subsidies,

arguing it's not an issue now. It

actually is an issue now. Now if you

don't want to extend them, then have

that debate and decide that. But don't

pretend it's not an issue now. Hakee

Jeff in the Oval Office when I and

Leader Thun were sitting next to him

that he would have that that thoughtful

debate that that is for tomorrow as soon

as we get the government open so that

everybody can come in and do that.

There's hundreds of ideas on how to

>> and you know what's going to happen as

soon as the government reopens.

Republicans are just going to go on a

vacation. Like they're not going to

actually do anything

>> do it. It was not appropriate or

possible for that to be resolved in a

continuing resolution.

>> What about his issue though that open

enrollment starts in November. People

are already getting notices about what

they may pay. I mean that's something

that's got to be resolved before

>> Yes. And they're eating up the clock in

the month of October. They shut the

government down October 1st. We had

always been counting on using these four

weeks in October to to finish up those

discussions. The greatity is

>> well, you know, we had October to talk

about healthcare, but since you shut the

government down, I guess we're never

going to get to it. That's the MO all

along. Come on, man.

>> It is they themselves that are doing it.

And Shannon, we cannot lose the the

simple fact that their counter proposal

to fund the government was $1.5 trillion

in new spending. As you noted, uh they

wanted to give money back for the

Corporation for Public Broadcasting and

all sorts of things. and they wanted to

claw back the elimination of fraud,

waste, and abuse that we took out of

Medicaid to make it work better. And the

$50 billion that Republicans put into

the law to prop up rural hospitals. What

they're saying today makes no sense.

>> Well, he does talk about the fact, and

we know that there have been rural

hospitals that have closed. Um, that's

happened here in the Virginia area and

beyond. So what about that and his

contention that a lot of people will be

kicked off Medicaid and yes people talk

about waste fraud and abuse but there's

real concern by some analyses that there

will be other people that may qualify in

some way that are going to risk you know

losing kind of healthcare coverage um

that the leader is talking about there

>> so much to be said there the rural

hospitals that are in trouble right now

are not because of Republican policies

this this is the legacy of what has

happened under Obamacare and you just

heard the leader of the Democrats in the

house acknowledge that Obamacare is

unaffordable When they passed it into

law in 2010, they promised us it was

going to make healthcare more

affordable. They put it in the name of

the law. It did exactly the opposite.

Premiums have ri risen exponentially

since 2010 and they're not affordable.

It was never designed to be affordable.

Republicans are the party that are

fixing healthcare. We just demonstrated

that in the one big beautiful bill, the

working families tax cut. We put in

reforms to Medicaid, as I mentioned,

that cut out fraud, waste, and abuse.

got ineligible recipients off of the

program and it's brought down the cost

and made the resources spread uh more

broadly to the people who actually need

it. US citizens who are the abled,

disabled, the elderly and young pregnant

women, those kinds of folks who are who

are the the people who are intended for

that program to help. We're shoring up

the program. We're fixing healthcare.

Obamacare is what broke it.

>> So, let's get back to those subsidies

for Obamacare. Um he mentioned

Congresswoman Marjgery Taylor Green, a

Republican. There are other Republicans

who are raising alarm. Here's what she

said in part on X. I'm absolutely

disgusted that health insurance premiums

will double if the tax credits expire

this year. Not a single Republican in

leadership talked to us about this or

has given us a plan to help Americans

deal with their

>> of course cuz there was no plan to ever

discuss healthcare. The whole MMO of

this shutdown has been shut it down so

we could give Trump the opportunity to

unleash JD Vance to go on TV every day

and tell you how this is the Democrat's

fault. It's a Schumer shutdown and then

send in Mr. Vote Russ Vote to go lay

people off as the grim reaper instead of

as is typical. We've had 20 shutdowns

since 1976. Typically in a shutdown, we

furlow people. We don't pay them, but

then as soon as we unshut down, which

the longest shutdown was 35 days, we pay

them. Now we're literally firing people.

And we're firing at people at the

Department of Education, Department of

Housing and Urban Development, the CDC.

Although apparently now the White House

is saying, "Oh, we accidentally filed

fired the wrong people at the CDC."

Which sounds a whole lot like what was

happening with Elon Musk. Oh, you know,

this week it's measles staff

accidentally get fired

in April or March or February under El,

oh, we accidentally screwed up Ebola.

It's like, oh, oh, great. But there was

there's no plan here to ever talk about

healthcare. The plan is to fulfill what

Donald Trump ran on, which is shrink

government. And that's what's happening.

And a lot of people are saying, "Hey,

that's what I voted for. I voted for

drain the swamp. drain the government.

It's what we're getting.

>> Health insurance premiums, she says,

again, doubling. So, what is the

guidance from you, the leader of this

party?

>> Yeah, I had a thoughtful conversation

with my friend Marjorie Taylor Green on

the phone the other night, a couple

nights ago to to uh inform her that

there are many Republicans in Congress

that have been working around the clock

on this. They're on the committees of

jurisdiction that deal with this. Uh

Marjorie doesn't serve on those

committees, so I offered to have her

come into the room and be a part of that

discussion if indeed she wants to do

that. There has been a lot of work done

on this. We have hundreds of ideas

literally on the

>> which is fine. Like remember the goal of

a politician is to tell you, oh, we have

teams of people working on this, but

we're actually getting nothing done

because we know that nothing is going to

get done because the government shut

down. We're just going to end up blaming

Democrats on it. So it's it's

gaslighting

>> the table to fix healthcare to make it

more affordable for the American people

to make access more available and to in

increase the quality of care. There's a

lot that can be done, but you have to

build consensus in a large deliberative

public body like this. And again, what

they're saying right now, the reason

they're talking about healthcare is

because they're trying to create a

distraction. We have voted eight times

to pay the troops, pay TSA agents,

border patrol agents, you know,

everybody serving in the federal

government and to make sure these

services are provided for veterans and

and the elderly, disabled who need them

so much. Eight times now, Democrats in

Congress have voted to close the

government. We're on day 10. It's real

pain for real people and they seem not

to care.

>> So, you mentioned the troops. Let's talk

about that because the president has now

said he's ordering Secretary Hegth to

find Pentagon money to pay this week so

that none of our active duty folks will

miss. And I think all Americans Remember

the sales pitch is drain the swamp. But

what it really is is drain the part of

the government you don't like and then

prop up the other part of the government

like the insider trading arm or the you

know well actually probably that and

tech tax cut arm

>> that is a priority. So Democrats say on

Friday they tried to offer up a measure

on the house floor that would have kept

active duty troops paid during any kind

of shutdown. They do have at least one

Republican signature on it making it

bipartisan. Um Politico reports this

though. The presiding Republican

Representative Mike Boston of Illinois

gave a brief pro-form session to a close

before representative Sarah McElver. She

is the Democrat trying to do this from

Maryland could make a procedural move to

try to pass the legislation by unanimous

consent. Politico says Congressman Boss

was working on your guidance. So why not

allow a standalone measure for troops?

because it's unnecessary because we

already voted to pay the troops on

September 19th. We have a chart that we

used at our press conference showing

every time the Republicans have voted to

pay the troops and the Democrats every

time voted no. We did it in the House

September 19th over 3 weeks ago sent it

to the Senate and now seven different

times the Democrats in the Senate, all

but three, have voted not to pay the

troops. So the ball is in the Senate's

court. The House has done its job and

that's what Chairman Bost was referring

to there. that Democrat who tried to

bring that resolution on the floor voted

against.

>> Somebody says, "Why not vote on a

continuation?" The whole reason Dems

aren't voting, and I'm not saying it's

right or wrong, the whole reason Dems

aren't voting on a continuation is

because it just kicks the can down the

road for 30 days. And now we're in the

middle of healthcare enrollment periods

and you don't actually end up getting a

guarantee that any of the issues were

going to get solved that Democrats are

advocating for such as making sure that

the Obama era healthcare subsidies

remain intact so people's health

insurance premiums don't increase 33 to

100%. Which a lot of people are already

getting renewal notices that their

health insurance premiums are going to

skyrocket 33 to 100%. Especially during

a time where the consumer is really

suffering. The lower and middle class

Americans are getting destroyed by this

economy and the people who are getting

rich are the people who are already

rich. Uh the wealthiest corporations and

the wealthiest Americans are doing

really really well. The people exposed

to assets uh stocks whatever. But the

core of the economy is suffering. AI

certainly doesn't help them. So the idea

is, you know, hey, like let's wait and

and maybe leverage the shutdown to try

to get the poorer Americans who need

help supportive. Now then, of course,

the Republicans are branding this as,

oh, well, you're just trying to get

healthcare for illegals. That's Gavin

Newsome's fault. I want to be crystal

clear about that because the federal

government does not authorize Medicaid

funding, which is medical payment, which

are medical payments for poor

individuals to go to undocumented

immigrants or to illegals. Uh however,

states like California go ma monkey see

no evil. Here's the money to poor people

for Medicaid and then of course if

illegal immigrants get in that line,

yes, technically some of that money

flows to illegals. Now on the flip side

though, the counterargument to that is

California is a donor state, which means

California funds the federal government

more so than it takes. So then is money

actually really flowing to illegals? Who

knows? But you could see like when you

actually look at that context, it's like

ah this isn't this is not that crystal

clear. There's so much gaslighting when

you hear just the Democrats or just the

Republicans. But it is one of the

reasons why China is making fun of us

right now. You know, China is massively

making fun of us in this because China's

like see this is how uh a two-party

system fails. This is why we only have

one party in China, the Chinese the the

the China Chinese Communist Party, the

CCP, right? They're using this as an

opportunity to manipulate the world to

go, "Look how lame America is. They

can't get anything done. Look how the

stalemates block them from getting

investments in robotics or rare earths

or things done with their military. They

can't even get healthcare soft. What an

embarrassment." Mind you, that is

technically a feature of the American

system of government. Stalemates,

stalemates were designed in part by the

founding fathers to make it so that our

government really, even in times where

one party is heavily in power of the

three branches of government or the

well, I mean, you could argue three

branches of government right now because

the Supreme Court is so Republican, but

even when the government is is, you

know, controlled by one party, there's

still an opportunity for the other side

to hold progress up, which is what

you're getting with Democrats right now.

The I the whole premise of that is that

the founding fathers didn't want

government to get steamrolled by one

party which to some extent a lot of

extent is really happening by Trump

right now. Uh especially with the power

of the courts I mean we'll talk about

this in just a moment but um the

founding fathers didn't want that. They

wanted stalemates because they wanted

government to only actually operate when

it needed to because by design it would

then keep government smaller. That's why

we had bipartisan support for the first

COVID measures under Trump, the first

$1,200 stimulus check, for example,

because it was an emergency and oh my

gosh, what a surprise. All the the, you

know, politicians got together. But I

always think this chart is really

interesting. It's this this chart of um

how often justices voted voted for each

administration. Uh, and it's so super

clear that I keep this on my desk

because I think it's so valuable because

as a child I I thought that, you know,

um, people in the Supreme Court should

be not politically biased. But then when

you actually look at their voting

records, you see that Kagan, soayor, and

Jackson all vote for Biden policies 77

to 88% of the time and vote against

Trump policies. Uh, you know, well, they

vote for Trump policies 0 to 26% of the

time. Whereas on the flip side, you get

Alto Gorsuch, Kavanaaugh, and Thomas who

vote for Biden policies 18 to 41% of the

time and vote for Trump policies 89 to

95% of the time. So clearly there's even

political bias in our justice system,

which sort of just like breaks the mold

of like our childhood impressions that

oh, we're supposed to have an unbiased

and fair justice system. We don't. Hence

paying the troops. Go look at the

record. every single one of them and

only one Democrat in the House voted to

pay the troops and that vote happened

three weeks ago.

>> So, I want to get back to the optics of

this because we heard um or we saw what

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

said about this is getting better for

them every day. I want to play a little

bit of what he said about why you guys

are going to get blamed for this. Here's

what he said.

>> Republicans have the White House. They

control the House and the Senate. So

when people are laid off, when people

are not paid, when people are not

getting back pay, they know it's the

Republicans trying to do it even though

they're using it to try and bully us.

>> They think the polling is on their side.

The American people are going to hold

you responsible.

>> Chuck Schumer is incapable of telling

the truth right now. I mean, he's been

in in Congress for 44 years, Shannon. I

mean, almost half a century. He knows

this is basic civics. Every eighth grade

civic student can can point out the

fallacy in what he just said. It

requires 60 votes in the Senate to get

this through. We only have 53

Republicans. We've got to have a

handful.

>> Yeah. Every eighth grader might know

that, but what most eighth graders don't

know is that historically during

shutdowns, both sides provide some form

of give. This is a very rare shutdown

where you're getting no give from the

Republicans. The Republicans aren't

throwing in any additional rider to give

Democrats a bone. Usually, I mean, flip

side, true. when you have Democrats uh

and they're in control and there's a

shutdown. They give stuff to the

Republicans to keep bribing basically

Republicans to come on their side to get

60 votes. Republicans here are trying to

do that with Democrats, but they're not

giving anything. So, yeah, there's

hostage taking shaking, but that's the

whole point. Like that's how government

works to get stuff done. It's, you know,

you give a little then you get a vote,

you give a little more, you get another

vote. Uh and that's how you end up

getting things done. uh poly market

right now is suggesting that uh will

Congress pass a funding bill by dot dot

dot 2% chance by October 15th which

would be in two days so we're not going

anywhere by Halloween only 31% chance

and by November 30th 82% chance so it

looks like the markets seem to be

betting that we're going to get a

funding bill done in November

uh and almost markets are guaranteed

that we're not going to get anything

done over the next few days looks like

we'll be going into a creepy Halloween

huh

>> of Democrats and the Senate who apply

common sense and agree to reopen.

>> Somebody says you trust a 44y old

politician versus Trump who isn't a

politician. No. See, this is the problem

is people hear these like zingers from

Mike Johnson and they don't understand

that that actually has nothing uh to do

uh with

the question he was asked. He was asked

about the shutdown and whether or not

Republicans would take blame. and his

answer was, "Well, Schumer's been in the

business for 44 years." Okay, first of

all, that's a total misdirection. It's a

red herring. It has literally nothing to

do with you answering whether or not

you're going to take blame. And then

this person in the comments eats that up

hook, line, and sinker and tries to

suggest that Trump is not a politician.

You got to be kidding me, dude. Trump

was the for like Trump was the president

for four years and then he spent four

more years bitching about how he wasn't

the president for four years and then

now he's president again. So we're

talking about at least nine years of

being a politician. Nobody knows

politics better than Trump. And this

idea that he's a businessman,

there are a lot of people in politics

who are businessmen, but Donald Trump is

hands down a politician

now. this idea, but but Trump is

different. Yeah, you're right. We have

the most corruption in the White House

we've ever had before. Oh,

>> the government so that we can continue

all these discussions. As you pointed

out to Hakeem Jeff, this is a clean

continuing resolution. What that means

for folks back home is it's exactly the

same levels of spending. By the way,

it's Biden era policies and spending,

which we loathe, but we're trying to get

through the appropriations process to

change that and fix it for the country.

and they ran out of time because the end

of the fiscal year, September 30th, we

just need seven more weeks to finish it.

And right now, they're eating up the

clock. They're doing this for political

cover. Chuck Schumer, when he voted for

the exact same measure back in March,

took a lot of heat from the left of his

party, and he doesn't want to sustain

that any longer. So, he's doing this and

inflicting pain for his own selfish

reasons.

>> Well, we have not brokered an end to the

shutdown here on Fox News Study this

morning.

>> I'm a peacemaker. I wish we could.

>> We are glad to hear from both sides. We

appreciate your time and we'll watch and

wait as the American people look. I'm a

peacemaker. Like honestly, how look

listen listen how do you know a

politician is lying when their lips are

moving? Somebody here in the chat says

Kevin was never this vocal on politics

when Biden was in office. You know

people say this and they are so damn

blind. Go back to my videos. I was the

first YouTuber to call on Biden to step

down. The second he walked out on that

stage. I muted my mic and said, "This

guy needs to step down. He's done. This

is horrible." When that speech was done,

that that debate was done. I was the

first person to make a whole video on

how Biden needs to step down. And guess

what the comments were then? Oh my gosh,

Kevin was never this hard on Trump when

Trump was in office. Kevin's being so

mean to Biden. Man, suck a fat one,

dude. You're so blind, leaving stupid,

dumb, uneducated comments. It makes you

look dumb because I do my best to be

neutral and provide neutral perspective

and then you get these jackasses that

try to write these zingers and they're

so uneducated makes them look like

clowns.

>> Why not advertise these things that you

told us here? I feel like nobody else

knows about this.

>> We'll we'll try a little advertising and

see how it goes.

>> Congratulations, man. You have done so

much. People love you. People look up to

you.

>> Kevin Praath there, financial analyst

and YouTuber. Meet Kevin. Always great

to get your take.