The Adam Mockler Show - Trump PANICS as Shutdown GOES SOUTH!!!

Starting point is 00:00:00 That's annoying. What? You're a muffler. You don't hear it? Oh, I don't even notice it. I usually drown it out with the radio. How's this? Oh, yeah.

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Starting point is 00:00:32 I'm going to bring in that friend, lead policy advisor, Micah Irfan, in just one moment. But I want to, I want to paint a more central picture for you all because everybody felt a little bit demotivated after the government shutdown was seated to Republicans with no health care concessions. Everybody wanted the government to be open. Democrats, most of all, but we wanted the government to be open with status quo terms. So people maintain their status quo health care, the subsidies that they have, and they don't lose anything. It is not a clean reopening of the government if people are losing access to health care. So next month, we are going to see yet another vote on these subsidies, and guess which party is going to vote them down? The Republican Party.

Starting point is 00:01:15 Well, now we have millions and millions of Americans with health care at the forefront of their mind, right in their mind. And I want to talk a little bit with Micah Irfan about the long-term implications of this. So watch until the end, drop a like. To talk about this further, I want to bring in the lead policy advisor for Machlar Media, Micah Irfan. Micah, how do you think this shutdown and the health care subsidies could ultimately hurt Republicans in the long term? Yeah, so 24 million people are on marketplace subsidized plans. And now because of the shutdown, a lot of them are looking to see if their premiums are going to increase.

Starting point is 00:01:53 And if they do, they're going to blame Republicans. I want to tell you an anecdote. I went on MSNBC, and of course my mom is very supportive, so she watched me. But my mom is a Republican. She voted for Trump because she wanted to avoid World War III. She saw them in Facebook or something. So she watched me on MSNBC, and I remember calling her afterwards and having a conversation, and she asked me, Micah, is this going to affect me?

Starting point is 00:02:17 Are my premiums going to go up? And I said, yes, Mom. And now every time we talk, she asked me, is my health care going to be going away? because she is very concerned. She only can afford health insurance because of the Affordable Care Act subsidies passed by the Democrats, and she's joined by tens of millions of other Americans

Starting point is 00:02:35 who now know that whenever their premiums more than double under this administration, it will be Republicans' fault. Yeah, it's interesting because obviously the eight Senate Democrats voting to strip health care away along with Republicans was suboptimal. It was pretty disheartening after the 40-day fight the Democrats had put up,

Starting point is 00:02:53 but that doesn't mean that Republican, Republicans have won the battle or the war whatsoever. I would actually argue that Democrats got a few messaging victories here. We pushed health care into the forefront of the American mind. Many people are thinking about health care, thinking about the Affordable Care Act, thinking about what life would be like with a lack of these subsidies. And they now understand that every single time Republicans get into power, they try to take health care away. Every single time Democrats get into power, we try to increase access to health care, subsidize health care, or make access easier for Americans. Now people are paying attention.

Starting point is 00:03:27 So Democrats got a win on the messaging front. But number two, you know, this sounds really cold. This isn't a win for anybody. This is a loss for millions of Americans. But in December, when this vote happens, Republicans are going to vote no. And it's going to hurt millions of Americans. Nobody wants that. It is, of course, awful.

Starting point is 00:03:45 And we fought against that. Democrats fought against that. But now people are going to be very, very clear. Like, there's no doubting which party is the one that is fighting to strip health care. There's no doubting with your mom, for example, or the millions of Americans like her that are reliant on the ACA, tens of millions of Americans, they're going to see which party voted overwhelmingly across party lines, no, no against an extension. So, again, as much as the eight senators going across and voting with Republicans hurt, we can still message around this. And I think this is one of the first times in a while. one of the first examples in a while of Democrats really sticking to one message and using that one message to their benefits.

Starting point is 00:04:26 There's a few other times where Democratic messaging is haphazard, it's here, it's there, but having one message and sticking to it is important. The Epstein one is also great because it signifies a lack of transparency in this administration. But Micah, how do you think that Republicans, when it comes to the ACA, how do you think that Republicans are feeling? because it feels like Trump is relentlessly promising a health care plan in two weeks, in two weeks in two weeks. Now, Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is caught in this saying that they might have a backup health care plan when MTG has called his bullshit. So explain to me the situation with Republicans' lack of health care plan and Democrats'

Starting point is 00:05:06 health care plan. Yeah, I mean, Republicans have engineered a health care disaster. It's not just the ACA subsidies, which, of course, those cuts will be catastrophic for millions of Americans, but also it's the Medicare. cuts, over $1 trillion in cuts to the most important social support program we have in this country, poor mothers, disabled people, working class folks. There's so many families, so many children, which will be harmed by these Medicaid cuts, disproportionately in, of course, red states. And so now Republicans are trying, they're chaotic. They're trying to pivot.

Starting point is 00:05:36 The thing is, they are ideologically committed to hurting the poor, so they can't really do anything that's actually popular on this issue. We see their commitment turning the poor across their agenda, over $300 billion in cuts to food stamps. We saw recently from the regulatory agencies under the Trump administration, they're reversing every pro-consumer Biden policy. Under Biden, Biden was trying to get it where you could cancel a subscription in one click instead of 15 menus having to call the company to try to convince them to allow you to cancel. They got rid of that regulatory policy. Biden was trying to make it where passenger airlines had to reimburse you if they canceled your flight or delayed it. Of course, the Trump administration reversed that

Starting point is 00:06:15 policy, you never will get compensated for what the passenger airlines do to you, no matter how bad. This is the ideology of the Republican Party. And unfortunately for them, very fortunately for everybody else and the American people, it's going to lead to them continuing to fall in the polls on the economy. We already see with Trump. He's down to 33%. In just what, 11 months, wait until the midterms. I think it's going to be much worse for them. People forget this, but Trump allowed Elon Musk, not only to walk around the White House high on ketamine, but to destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which essentially, he essentially shuttered the entire agency, which helped protect people.

Starting point is 00:06:53 And it's like, wait a minute, the richest man in the world, now the second richest man in the world or something like that, is trying to screw over the most vulnerable Americans. And Democrats weren't messaging around this as effectively as they could have. I mean, Chuck Schumer was out there like doing a dance or whatever. Remember that? Donald Trump then allowed the richest man on the planet to use the White House to Tesla's. And honestly, the government shutdown was a great exercise in messaging and fighting for the American people for the first time in a while. We made it clear which side the Democrats

Starting point is 00:07:22 stand on. It's the side of the people. Donald Trump is the one who, despite running on affordability, allows billionaires to run around the White House, allows billionaires to donate to him for clear quid pro quo. It's not just like, like Jeff Bezos is not giving Melania Trump a $40 million dollar Amazon movie after a White House meeting out of the goodness of his heart. He's doing it because he politically benefits and because Trump is uniquely transactional. And Democrats made his transactional nature clear by showing that he will fight too thin nail to strip health care away from millions of Americans. And honestly, my economic viewpoint, I'm not even somebody who's like, kill all billionaires,

Starting point is 00:08:01 take down all billionaires. I think that's kind of BS. I think that people in the United States should be pro business and being pro-business. means supporting the smallest American or the biggest American, like supporting people who are not ripping off other Americans. And Donald Trump is ripping off other Americans time and time again. He's not pro-small business. He's not pro-business whatsoever.

Starting point is 00:08:22 He's only pro-billionaire donor. I think that wealth should be redistributed in the United States to such an extent where people at the bottom have safety nets, like the Nordic model, almost. I'm not somebody who thinks we should tear down people for succeeding in America. I just think success should be shared overall. But I'm going to leave it there. Micah, any final thoughts? Yeah, I mean, I think the Republican agenda is incredibly simple.

Starting point is 00:08:45 It's devastating tax hikes for the poor. That's terrorists. It's huge, enormous tax cuts for the rich. It is lobbyist control of government. We know that a crypto lobbyist is Trump's nominee to regulate the crypto industry because, of course. And as you said, the Trump administration is not pro-business. That would say that there is some sort of principle. of ideology at play here. There's not a principled ideology at play here. The only thing that

Starting point is 00:09:11 guides their policy is what's good for Trump and his allies. And that's why they direct the sale of companies like TikTok, which the government had control over that sale, to Trump allies, because of course it's all about power for the Trump regime. And unfortunately, it's not about at all the welfare of the American people. And that's why so many people are suffering right now and are going to continue to suffer under this administration. Yep, thank you, Micah. You can follow both Micah Irfan and Machler Media below. Make sure you subscribe to the channel.

Starting point is 00:09:42 I love you all, and peace up. Thanks.

The Adam Mockler Show - Trump PANICS as Shutdown GOES SOUTH!!!

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