Trump Makes Shock Admission on Shutdown in Disaster Presser

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Speaker 7 Donald Trump stated that he intends to use the government shutdown in order to harm people medically and destroy the lives of people in the government. It's in his own words.

Speaker 7 Let me play the clip for you right now here. Let's play it.

Speaker 11 Told you, we have $17 trillion being invested. So the last person that wants to shut down is us now.

Speaker 11 With that being said, we can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible, that are bad for them and irreversible by them, like cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like.

Speaker 11 And

Speaker 12 you all know Russell Vogt.

Speaker 11 He's become very popular recently because he can trim the budget to a level that you couldn't do any other way.

Speaker 11 So they're taking a risk by having a shutdown because because of the shutdown, we can do things medically and other ways, including benefits. We can cut large numbers of people out.

Speaker 11 We don't want to do that, but we don't want fraud, waste, and abuse. And, you know, we're cutting that.

Speaker 7 But then now, the Democrats all showed up to the House of Representatives today. You see right here in the House chambers, all Democrats, notably missing right here, all Republicans.

Speaker 7 No Republicans showed up to the House of Representatives on the day before a government shutdown because Donald Trump and MAGA Mike ordered that these Republicans not show up. Horrific.

Speaker 7 Democrats are there to work. Then Donald Trump is asked a question by a reporter who finally pushes back.

Speaker 7 And the reporter says, look, people who are not here lawfully, undocumented migrants, they're not eligible for health care subsidies.

Speaker 7 So why do you keep saying that Democrats are trying to get them Democrats, get them subsidies when they're not even allowed to have the subsidies?

Speaker 7 And Democrats are saying, no, they're not allowed to have the subsidies. That's not what this is about.

Speaker 7 It's about extending the tax credits for American citizens who are about to see their monthly premiums increase significantly.

Speaker 7 You'll see that Donald Trump just vomits out a bunch of word salad right here because he doesn't have the answer.

Speaker 7 And by the way, this is why he didn't want his meeting with Democratic leaders Jeffries and Schumer on tape. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 11 Time for that.

Speaker 14 They're not eligible for the health care subsidies that Democrats are demanding. So can you clarify, what are you talking about

Speaker 14 when you say Democrats want to protect their health care?

Speaker 11 So when an illegal person comes in, a person who came into our country illegally, therefore breaking the law, and look, we all have big hearts. I have a bigger heart than you do.

Speaker 11 They're all breaking the law, and they're coming into our country. And we just, as a country, cannot afford to take care of millions of people who have broken the law coming in.

Speaker 11 We want them to come into our country, but we want them to come in legally. Now we have a strong border, a very strong border, thanks to Christy and Tom Holman and the whole group.

Speaker 11 They've done an amazing job at the border. I mean, we had a border that was reckless.
We had a a border that was a disaster. They were coming in by the millions.
I say 25 million people.

Speaker 11 You're saying less, but I say 25 million people came in illegally. And no system can take care of the health care of all of those people that came in.

Speaker 7 Then Donald Trump continues down this path because he just believes if you repeat a lie over and over and over again, that people will just start speaking those talking points.

Speaker 7 And he goes, yeah, we're going to have a shutdown because Democrats want Cadillac Medicare and health care for illegal immigrants. Just, again, blatantly 100% false.

Speaker 7 And how do you know it's false too? You saw the reporter ask him the question and he didn't even respond to the question. He just goes back to his lies.

Speaker 7 This is all he knows how to do is vomit lies, a lie vomiter. That's who's in the Oval Office.
Here, play this clip.

Speaker 11 We could come up and through this whole thing, you know, because I don't know, we'll probably have a shutdown because One of the things they want to do is they want to give

Speaker 11 incredible Medicare, Cadillac, the Cadillac Medicare, to illegal immigrants. And what that does is it keeps them coming into our country, and like they do in California.

Speaker 11 And no country can afford that, no country. And we have the border stopped up.
We have it closed. We have nobody for four months.
Zero, zero people came in. That wasn't me.

Speaker 11 That's by the authorities who happen to be liberally oriented.

Speaker 11 But just think of that.

Speaker 12 We have

Speaker 12 people offering health care to people all over the world that they can't afford to pay.

Speaker 11 And that's the Democrats. And what happens, what that does is it brings people into the country because they want to come in for the health care.

Speaker 11 But no country can afford it, and they can't afford it. So we cannot allow them to charge tremendous amounts of money for health care for people that aren't even citizens.

Speaker 11 And in many cases, they come in from prisons, jails. and mental institutions.
And we can't let that happen.

Speaker 7 And then Donald Trump starts attacking Obamacare, which is the Affordable Care Act, which allowed tens of millions of Americans who did not have insurance, who would just literally die to get insurance.

Speaker 7 Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act's actually very popular. And Donald Trump during his first term said that he was going to come up with a healthcare plan.
Well, now we're here.

Speaker 7 many, many, many years later, and you haven't done anything other than post about super secret technology from outer space from aliens called medbeds, that you're going to give alien technology to the American people, and then you delete the video because it's a QAnon conspiracy.

Speaker 7 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 15 While Nancy Pelosi is ignoring what you're doing for the American people, she's going after your administration for cutting taxpayer-funded health care for illegal aliens.

Speaker 17 Last night,

Speaker 15 Nancy Pelosi, she went on NBC last night, dropped a bunch of bombs, told Republicans to go after themselves.

Speaker 15 Has she lost lost her mind?

Speaker 11 We have done an unbelievable job medically. Just this, if you did nothing else, we've done a lot like the insulin.
But just this, nobody can ever catch this.

Speaker 11 This is the biggest price reduction times, maybe 10 times, 15 times, than has ever been given before. And this is going to have a huge impact.
You know, as I said, Obamacare is not a good thing.

Speaker 11 It's been bad. And

Speaker 11 I'd like to make it better. I told them,

Speaker 11 I spoke to a lot of people, a lot of Democrats recently. I said, why don't we change it? We can make Obamacare much better.

Speaker 11 We could come up with a new system that would be much better, less expensive for the people and better.

Speaker 11 This is maybe the biggest breakthrough because

Speaker 11 when you're talking about the prescription of drugs,

Speaker 11 that's a big part of it. So we're going to look.
This is prescription, but we're going to be looking at that.

Speaker 7 Then now during this bizarre presser, RFK Jr. starts coughing, and then Donald Trump makes a joke about, I hope I didn't just catch COVID.

Speaker 13 What?

Speaker 7 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 11 But insulin was, people weren't taking it, I would imagine. They just, they couldn't test.
God bless you, Bobby.

Speaker 11 I hope I didn't catch COVID just there.

Speaker 17 With Pax Lovins, what is this?

Speaker 18 He's got Paxlovin.

Speaker 18 Give me a Paxlovin immediately.

Speaker 7 Donald Trump then continues to attack Obamacare. Okay, I get it.
You hate Obamacare.

Speaker 7 Well, then, rather than posting about med med beds, alien technology that doesn't exist, why don't you actually come up with a plan rather than tearing down and taking away and destroying people's lives?

Speaker 7 And why don't you extend the tax credits so that premiums don't skyrocket? At least extend the tax credits. Then come out with your plan.
How about that?

Speaker 7 No, you want to not just take away Medicaid from people. You want to take away people's Affordable Care Act plan here, play in this clip.

Speaker 11 Done that because these numbers are going to bring Medicaid.

Speaker 11 We talk about

Speaker 11 And I asked

Speaker 11 the Democrat representatives, what do you think about coming up with a better health care? This actually allows you to do that because

Speaker 11 the cost of prescription medicine is a big, I guess a very big more than 50% the cost of what we're talking about. So we might be able to do something like that.

Speaker 11 This is a big, this is one of the biggest news conference from a medical standpoint that I think has ever been had by any administration.

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Speaker 7 And then Donald Trump refers to the shutdown as a strike.

Speaker 7 And he goes, the reason they want to strike is to get illegal immigrants, healthcare, illegal immigrants, transgender people, illegal immigrants. These people are crazy.
What are you talking about?

Speaker 7 This is just this robotic lie over and over again.

Speaker 7 All the Democrats are saying is Americans are about to potentially die en masse if they can't afford their health care and of their Affordable Care Act plan is about to get unaffordable.

Speaker 7 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 11 And, you know, we're cutting that. But they want to have illegal aliens come into our country and get massive health care at the cost to everybody else.
And we don't have it.

Speaker 11 And that's, I would say, the number one reason. that they want to strike is to get illegal immigrants health care.

Speaker 11 And, you know, Gavin Newsom wants that too in California, and it's destroying California. We can't have that.
We're not going to let it happen.

Speaker 11 Do you have a plan?

Speaker 7 Do you have a plan for dealing with it? Oh, but Donald Trump has his secrets. He's figured out a way to reduce your medical prescription drug prices by 14, 15, even 1,600%.

Speaker 7 You can't reduce something by 1,600%.

Speaker 7 That would mean the pharmaceutical company, if say something costs a dollar, would basically be paying you $1,600.

Speaker 7 You're not doing doing 1,600% reductions. No wonder why Donald Trump says smart people don't like me.
Here, play this clip.

Speaker 11 But I said, I want to get back here sober because this is, you're talking about 14, 15, 1,600%

Speaker 11 reductions in some cases. But by taking this bold step, we're ending the era of global price gouging at the expense of American families.

Speaker 7 I'll bring you to the scene right here in front of the Capitol building. You have Democratic Congressmember Ted Liu right here.

Speaker 7 And here he's talking about how Democrats are here, ready to work, ready to fight for people's health care, ready to try to negotiate, but Republicans didn't even show up to work today.

Speaker 7 They didn't show up to work today. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 16 Hello, I'm Congressman Ted Liu. This is the day before the government shuts down.
And where are House Republicans? They are on vacation.

Speaker 16 They literally canceled session that was scheduled for today so they can go on vacation. Well, I and other Democrats came here anyway to Washington, D.C.

Speaker 16 to work for the American people, to fight for the American people, to lower costs, to cancel the cuts, and to save health care.

Speaker 16 And we're asking the Republicans to come back from their vacation to prevent a government shutdown. I'm so proud of my Democratic colleagues.

Speaker 16 We all came back to fight for the American people while your House Republicans are on vacation. And when this government shuts down, it's on them.

Speaker 7 Now, here's Democratic leader Hakeem Jefferies responding to Donald Donald Trump's post of that AI slop video of that put a sombrero on Hakeem Jefferies and like a mustache on Hakeem Jefferies.

Speaker 7 So utterly bizarre. Listen to what Jefferies says here.
He goes, If you're going to say these things, say it to my face. Here, play this clip.
The next time you have something to say about me,

Speaker 5 don't

Speaker 5 cop out

Speaker 13 through a racist

Speaker 11 and fake AI video.

Speaker 13 When I'm back in the Oval Office, say it to my face.

Speaker 13 Say it to my face.

Speaker 7 And here, Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries just says, Look, you see all the Democrats here? We are ready to work right now. We're ready to work.
Where are these Republicans? Here, play this clip.

Speaker 5 House Democrats

Speaker 5 are here

Speaker 5 on duty

Speaker 5 fighting on behalf of the American

Speaker 5 people,

Speaker 5 ready to fund the government in a way that lifts up their quality of life. House Democrats are on duty.
House Republicans on vacation.

Speaker 17 Shame on them

Speaker 5 for being on vacation all across the country and across the world on the eve of a government shutdown.

Speaker 5 We're on duty. They're on vacation.
They're on vacation because they'd rather shut the government down than protect the health care of the American people. That's unfathomable.
That's unacceptable.

Speaker 5 That's unconscionable. And that's un-American.

Speaker 5 Do your job.

Speaker 7 And then Fox has its...

Speaker 7 machine pushing out all of its lies, state regime media. You've got Sean Hannity and others saying, you know, actually, let's do it.
Let's do the shutdown. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 19 And then the Democrats want something else as well. And this is important.
They want an extension of Joe Biden's Obamacare subsidies.

Speaker 19 They were designed to be a temporary measure during COVID, a health emergency. What does that mean?

Speaker 19 Well, thanks to the brilliance of Obamacare, anyone in America who doesn't have health insurance, legal or illegal, basically has two options: get on government-funded Medicaid or buy a plan on the Obamacare Exchange.

Speaker 19 Unfortunately, most of those Obamacare exchange plans are basically useless. They cost a ton of money and they cover almost nothing.

Speaker 19 And remember, until Donald Trump came along, there was a major tax penalty for any American that didn't have Obamacare. People were being forced by the government to buy a lousy product.

Speaker 19 As part of Joe Biden's America Rescue Plan, well, that's the $2 trillion that he dropped into the economy. at the start of his term to, quote, spike inflation.

Speaker 19 Well, the government heavily subsidized the cost of those Obamacare exchange plans and Medicaid.

Speaker 19 And instead of improving the products, as a result, Democrats decided the government would pay for it now, and those subsidies are expiring. And guess what? Republicans are not going to fund it.

Speaker 19 Democrats want, oh, let's pay all this health care in perpetuity, basically universal health care.

Speaker 19 And by the way, that would be trillions of dollars in exchange for keeping the government open for what, a mere four weeks? It's never going to happen.

Speaker 19 And I'm going to be probably the only consistent one. I don't care if the government shuts down.
Our military will still be defending us. We'll still have Border Patrol working.

Speaker 19 We'll have law enforcement working.

Speaker 19 We will also have Social Security and Medicaid provided to the elderly in this country. Those in need will get their checks, etc.

Speaker 19 Doesn't scare me. Never has, never will.

Speaker 7 And while all of that's taking place, Donald Trump is also spending the morning fundraising off of the indictment of James Comey. Donald Trump is saying he's a dirty cop.
Give me money.

Speaker 7 Look what we've done. He literally sent an email to his supporters fundraising off of his demand that Comey be indicted and Trump placing his stooge, Lindsey Halligan, to indict James Comey.

Speaker 7 Trump is fundraising off. Anyway, that's where we're at right now.
We'll keep you posted every step of the way.

Speaker 7 We're going to be providing constant updates on this government shutdown caused by Donald Trump, caused by the MAGA Republicans who didn't even show up to work today. Didn't show up to work.

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