Why this Government Shutdown Could Be Deadly | Angela Rye SoloPod

We are facing another one as Republicans continue to delay the vote on the government shut down and risk everything that are they're supposed to protect the American people in this era, at this hour, as we move from crisis to crisis in this administration, we are facing yet another

government shut down. Many of you all know that we just experienced something very similar over the summer as the Congress considered HR one or Senate Bill one, and that was designed to gut all of the services that we pay our hard working tax payer dollars into things like healthcare, Medicaid, Medicare, snap benefits. We saw all of that at risk over

the summer. The consequences of that bill still taking place, and yet now we're facing another crisis, and so we are going to hear today from some congressional members who are working hard to ensure that the American people's values are protected, their lives are protected, and policies that make a difference to ensure they are better off and closer to pursuing the American dream are also protected. Joining us first is my forever boss. Her name is Congresswoman Maxine Waters.

I call her Queen Maxine. She represents the forty third district in California. She is also the ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee, where she works hard to protect what the American people want to see every single day, from housing to banking to opportunities for contractors who look like you and I. So I'm bringing to the stage now Congresswoman Maxine Waters.

you certainly represent that. But I just want to talk to you for a moment. Can you explain what this particular shutdown means to the American people right now and what is all at stake? Well?

The President of the United States has under his control basically all of a cabinet that he has selected, many of them are not qualified. But he's got trouble inside his own Republican caucus, and he does not have the votes in his caucus to do exactly what he wants to do. Some of them want cuts even deeper, and usually they expect the Democrats to bail them out when they don't have the votes, so that they can get basically most of what they want and throw some crumbs

to the Democrats. We're not having it. We are not going to have it. We're not going to have it because this president has led the way for cuts in medical care in a way that we never dream would happen. Whether we're talking about Medicaid and Medicare, we're talking about the support of this government for the people of this country who need assistance with meniccare, and they will die,

many of them will die without Medicaid and Medicare. We're talking about the survival of the ACA and the work that we did to get to the Obamacare where people who had been excluded from coverage altogether because of pre existing conditions, we're talking about saving that. We're talking about the subsidies that go along with it, and the tax cuts, and so we've made this a top prior. Trump cannot be trusted. They had the one first meeting with him yesterday.

Of course, it didn't turn out very well. Nothing happened no agreements were made. There was an attempt by the Vice President to say, trust us, you know, vote for what we have in the continuing Resolution, and let's identify some concerns you have and let's deal with them later. And of course, Haikem and Schumer said, no way, we're not going for that. Whatever we agree on, and we're pushing for having healthcare at the top of the agenda along with some other very important things, but you got

to sign on the dotted line. We don't trust that. Give us now what we're asking for and we'll take care.

increase homelessness if we do not do that. Let's look at what they're trying to do with food stamps and on and on and on. If we go along with what the President and the Republicans would have we would absolutely pull the rug out from under Americas in very detrimental ways where so many people would be hurt.

a website. Uh, they're using HUD to push political messaging, and so if our viewing audience would go to HUD dot gov, you'll see this and I'm gonna read it to you all. It says the radical left are going This is a home page, and there's also a pop up screen that comes up that says the same thing. It says, the radical left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their one point five trillion dollar wish

list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people, so he's essentially telling this story. Congresswoman painting this image that they're the Party of the people when we see how they continue to inflict harm on the American people. Grocery prices have not gone down. They're making Medicare, Medicaid, and other healthcare access far more difficult to attend. We talked about snap. We

know what happened with summer jobs. We're seeing what's happening with funding for our schools. They're trying to make it harder for people to maintain their jobs. They're showing people out of federal government work and employment opportunities. How do do you feel, as the ranking member on Financial Services seeing something like this on the HUD website. What's your response to that?

are organizing. We're on the streets in some of these communities all over the country and people are learning and so got to do a better job than they're doing. They are lying, they are misleading the people. They are thinking that the people are stupid and don't know that the President of the United States, through executive orders, is exercising the kind of power that we have never witnessed before, and he's doing it to the detriment of millions of

people in this country. We've got a fight on our hands, and we've got to stand up. We've got to be strong. We cannot give in. We cannot be hustled by them, we cannot be frightened or intimidated by them. We've got to fight, fight, fight, And they're the ones who are willing to shut down the government. They're in charge. They have the majority in the Senate, the majority in the House, and they own the White House, and if they wanted to do right by the people, they could do that.

But no, they're trying to put us in a position where we will be blamed. And I think the people are catching on to this that we're the ones not

to blame. That we're fighting they're even threatening. They said social security is on the line, and so I want people to listen carefully to what he's saying and what they're doing, and pay attention to what you just showed them that they're advertising through the hub HUD website, and know and understand that Democrats want to keep the government open, but we're not going to throw away the rights of the people and the rights of the people to have

their government assist them in a decent quality of life.

and brown families. But there's data that suggests that the population that requires the most amount of food stamps is actually represented by a Republican It is the zip code five one seven five zero, and that zip code, I'm sorry, five to seven fives now I'm getting a wrong. Five seven five seven zero is what I'm trying to say five seven five seven zero. That's in South Dakota. Congresswomen, South Dakota, seventy one percent of the people in that

zip code live in poverty. What do you say to them where they will be massively impacted by this.

we're trying to save you. When you look at that area, and you look at Appalachia, and you look at the rural commune, you look at the hospitals that's going to be closed in rural communities if they cut medicaid, the one trillion dollars out of Medicaid that they're talking about. And so they've led their people to believe that it is people of color and people in inner cities who are getting all of the support from government and they're

the ones. And these people, really, many of them don't know because they've been fed a racist message and they've bought into it oftentimes, and they're standing up for the people of this country who should be running it and not those people who are getting too much. They don't deserve it. That's why he goes after diversity, equity and inclusion. That's why he goes after education. That's why they go

after food stamp. Because really, what they're told and what they're trying to do, is they're trying to limit the success of people of color and put their feet on our next to say you've gotten too much, you're making too much money, you're buying houses, you're doing too much. Those people who too are gonna get hurt. Believe that, and they don't know until the access gonna fall on them. We're trying to tell them every day what's gonna happen. We have pregnant women who won't be able to deliver

babies in rural communities. The hospitals won't be there, the obgyn services won't be there. We hope they are listening because this president is a liar who cannot be trusted. And here is mean, Honri, low down, dirty and no good.

without even thinking about it. So thank you for the work that you do, and thank you for helping us out as we try to move past what could be a shutdown of government.

forty three, California forty three. Rather she is across the country working on issues. People reach out to her first. They know her and trust her very well, as do I, and she's still someone that I will go to for support. So I just want to deepen into this for a minute as we wait for our next guests to join us.

There's a lot on the line with this government shut down, and I think what's frustrating for me, and I'll just tell y'all is last time, when we were dealing with a Senate bill, one that the House was considering in the summer, we decided to do a sixty nine and

a half hour marathon. We didn't know how long it was gonna be, but we know we wanted it to lead right up into this vote, and Hakeem Jeffries ended up doing I think a twenty four hour plus maybe it was twenty five hours on the House floor also protesting, and so we spent a lot of effort in combating what we knew was likely to occur. What was shocking to me, though, is when we reached out to members

of Congress. Our default normally is to tell you all, because I know some of you are in the comments right now, like what are we gonna do about this?

But we normally tell you is to call your representatives. Well, when we called representatives over the summer, especially those who are on the Republican side who would most likely to flip votes because they lived in mixed party districts or districts that were less conservative, some of them hung up on us, some of them send us straight to voicemail, some of their staff got honorey and rude. But what

we saw was that they were pretty much convinced. So we don't know what this president has on some of these folks, but what we do know is that they've been compromised, that their consciences have been seared with a hot iron from a biblity to use a biblical term. But there is someone who I think regularly represents not just the conscience of the Congress, but also the conscience of the people. She says the quiet part out loud.

She says what needs to be said in hearing rooms, she says what needs to be said on the House floor, she says what needs to be said in interviews. And she's normally representing not just the interests of black folks, but I think all well meaning people. She is my dear sister and friend, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett from Texas's thirtieth congressional district. She's joining us now to talk about the

government shut down and all that is at stake. And we don't have a video for Congresswoman Crockett just yet, but when we do, we will bring her back on one. So I just want to flag that this particular shutdown is even more harmful. And the reason for that is because, and you guys know, we've been going from crisis to crisis, So there's one shut down to the next. Right, it's

not like there's smooth government operations. We're going to continue to fund the government at the levels that has been funded were We've been going from shutdown to shut down for many, many years. This is what happens when you jerrymander districts, especially racially, and it results in the kinds of problems that we've been having. But as we continue to go from shut down to shut down, what happens

is it puts some essential workers in the government. It is highly subjective to determine who is an essential worker, but it puts essential workers at risk. We already have a number of those people who are at risk because many of them were forced to resign, forced to retire, given the opt shouldn't option to retire. There's a big piece about this in the Washington Post just over the weekend. So a number of these workers are right in harms

way already. So my concern is that if the government shuts down, they have get another out to get rid of people like scientists, like people who are working to preserve history, like the folks who are working to you know, preserve civil rights, who might be flying under the radar right now. And so that is the issue. That is the issue. So we are still waiting for Congressman Crockett to join us, but I know that'll just be a moment.

I think. The other thing that I want to bring to you all's attention is Donald Trump just today said that he was expecting that there will probably be a shutdown. This president is highly cavalier, very cavalier about he doesn't care because he's busy. They're getting ready to sell Trump

OURX with Pfizer prices. They're getting ready to do whatever other business deal under violating clearly the Monument's clause, which it appears that he is regularly doing, so he doesn't have time to think about how a government shut down might impact the least of these. When I was at

the UH where my mother gets cancer treatment yesterday. She gets chemo on Mondays, two Mondays on one Monday off, and we were in there, it was it was so many, there were so many people, and my dad said to me, he said, you know, it's good that people can come to be treated, but it's probably gonna get so much worse once more government services are are are cut. And

so that's what we're up against. But today when the President talked about the government was probably going to shut down, what he continues to repay repeat is something that has been debunked over and over again. But this is what happens when you have someone who is a pathological liar, so it seems, who continues to spreads falsehoods. He used a video that he posted on Trump Trump's Social Trump socials really what it is but true Social yesterday of

Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer is saying words or it sounds like there's a voiceover on Chuck Schumer words that he's never said. And then you have Hakeem Jeffries standing there with a sombrero and a fake mustache. What is the purpose of this, Well, let me tell you, so, he says today they want to give Cadillac Medicare to illegal aliens at the cost to everyone else. This has

been debunked. Undocumented people are not eligible to enroll in subsidized programs like Medicaid, Medicare or the Affordable Care Act, and this is sourced per The Guardian, But he continues to repeat this claim. He continues to try to draw a wedge between the migrant community and people who are here and suffering, who feel like there is someone who

is responsible for what they have not received. There's someone that needs to someone who is to blame for this right, and I think that, uh, you know, we just we just have these issues that we have to continue to fight back against what I think is unfortunate. Here is it appears that while Congress is deadlocked, the Democratic Party,

unlike with the Charlie Kirk resolution, is mostly together. Right. Uh, they seem like they're in lockstep and they're planning to vote no on this bill that would cause so much harm to the American people. But it appears also that the Republican Party is not in lockstep the government. The government funding unless there is some type of agreement, will be cut off by midnight, that is today. An number of government services will be in harm's way as of

tonight midnight Eastern time. That can bring so many of our government services to a complete halt, to a screeching halt. We know that a government shutdown doesn't just impact government workers, doesn't just impact the people who are before the government today. That causes issues with refund checks from the IRS, it causes issues with Social Security payments. It is normal at this point for government shutdowns to be the way of governing. I don't know when that became a responsible way of

doing so, but that is exactly what's happening. This also is in part you know, the Republican Party work to try to overturn the Affordable Care Act, what they call Obamacare, which is a President Obama's crowning and most signature achievement. They continue to go after that. They're trying to gut those healthcare protections and services in this bill as well. And I will let me see this is the other thing again. We're just working out technical delays with the

Congressman Jasmine Crockett, so y'all stay tuned. I also have a very special surprise at the end of the program. But they are also saying that there are hold on. I want to make sure I'm getting this right and have the most update information. Chuck Schumer is also saying that his colleagues are telling lies. I want to know who among you is expecting truth from this party that

is clearly under Donald Trump's thumb. And what I want to do right now is take some questions, Lolo, if you could either come on screen or just text me the questions that are popping up, the comments that are popping up in our thread. I want to make sure that we have what we need and we are answering people and their questions in this moment. This shutdown can be scary, and I know folks are used to again

moving from crisis to crisis and then this administration. But people want to know what is going to happen and what's at risk for them. They're battling, or you all are battling people coming into your communities taking over. Donald Trump is now being asked by governors of states in the South to bring in the National Guard. We saw that happen in Tennessee, dealing with that in Memphis right now,

we're seeing that happen. Louisiana's governor just today is asking people, is asking the Trump administration to send in the National Guard, putting people at risk, primarily in New Orleans. What is not a mistake. Memphis is run by a black mayor, I would say one that was a little soft on whether or not to receive the National Guard. New Orleans is ran by a black mayor. This is not by accident. Here's the thing that is going to be maddening to

some people watching. The National Guard and other federal law enforcement agencies have the resources, have the funding to go into communities that really don't need their services in this hour, when they can't get the food benefits they need to feed their families, when they can't receive the access to healthcare they need to survive. What is the excuse for sending in the National Guard right now? What is the

real purpose of that? And that is the point. We really need to ensure that we are clear about what our actual needs are. So we normally tell you to call your member. This isn't one of those times where you call in and make a request, y'all. This is a time where you call in and issue a demand, a requirement. If you live in this state, this is

what you must be doing. If you have your own snap benefit story, your own Medicare story, your own Medicaid story for your children, what the healthcare needs are for your children for them to survive in this moment. This is a matter of life and death, and we cannot escape that. We can't tell people that they that they really don't need this. How does this shut down different

from past ones? One of the questions says, I think that because of the number of cuts that we saw take place in the bills that passed this summer, that again that Senate bill won s one. We called it, They called it the big beautiful Bill. We call it a lot of other things that are not beautiful, ugly, trifling, wrong, foul. That bill was already putting the most vulnerable Americans right in the cross hair of harm, right in the cross hairs of harm. This bill will double down on that.

I would submit to you all that if these services are halted during this shutdown, that there are very there's very well a possibility that these services don't return. Right. This is what we are up against. Shutdowns are as a result of Congress being at an impass not able to get on the same page with each other, and or the administration. When they have that type of a stalemate, right, there's an impast there's nothing they can do to get on the same page. That is, when the government shut downs,

shuts down, they shut down all non essential activity. What I'm also telling you is different about this moment is that this government, this administration, sees essential activities, essential workers, different than a lot of common sense folks, y'all. So these are the other things that could be in harm's way because they are. They will say that even some of these things that we would deem essential if they support people of color, if they support immigrant communities, those

things could also be in harms way. Federal courts cold potentially being in harms way. People who are locked up waiting on bail to be released on bail may be in harms way. This is a question that we keep seeing over and over again. Why won't the Dems buck harder? Y'all? This is a million dollar question, and it's so frustrating because there are a lot of people who are representing the Democratic Party, including our next guest, who you know, don't don't don't have it in them to compromise or

to capitulate. They are fighting every single day to make sure that our interests in our needs are met, and so there are some fighters. I wish I could answer you why all of them aren't coming together to fight. And what I would say to you is so much of this has to do with the districts they represent. Some members feel like if they revolt or if they fight back, that that means they will lose their seats. There are still others, though, who are deciding, even on

the Republican side of the aisle. I think you're going to see this a lot more, especially as you get closer to the twenty twenty sixth election, who are saying, you know what, I got to vote my conscience, and if that means I lose my seat or I have to retire after this term, I will because I'm going to do what's right. I want to be able to live with myself. I want history to be kind to me.

These are some of the things they're saying to ensure that they are doing what is represents the American people in the best way. We have someone who says, I'm a federal contractor and was financially impacted by the government shutdown during his first term. I would love to hear about your story where you're a federal contractor how you were impacted by that. I think people need to know when these types of non essential activities are stalled, people

get thrown off there. You don't get your payments in time. Contractors, subcontractors don't get payments in time. There are some instances where payroll is halted. People don't get paid if they're the non essential during a government shut down, the economy is already crazy. Eggs is already seventy five million dollars. Like, come on, somebody said Lolo. Are we to hold our

black mayors and governors accountable for asking for National Guard? Yes, yes you are if they are doing things that directly put you in harm's way. I did see some pastors who are saying they also want the National Guard, particularly

in Memphis. You know, it's an interesting time to be calling on federal support when we see the ways in which our kids have been stopped and frisked, They have been profiled, they have been harassed, some of them have been physically harmed by National Guard and other federal law enforcement being in cities, including in the district most recently. So I would definitely suggest holding folks accountable. They said that they can't be activated in a city without mayor

all approval. That I don't think is true. I believe that the governor actually has that authority. It's a state based criteria. If you know, have something different. Fact check me boo. Who gonna check mayboo? Fact check me boo. But I believe that it is actually a gubernatorial level decision on whether or not to activate the state's National Guard. We have another question, Angela, how can we as a community help our federal workers who have been severely impacted

by this administration. I think it's a great question. I would love for us all to be answering that. I think that somebody should start a fund. I have my good sister friend of Alicia Butterfield Jones, who has started a fund to help black women who have been impacted by the firings, by the mass layoffs, by the elimination of DEI departments and spaces and corporations, and in the federal government where DEI was once and equity was once

appreciated and even supported. So those types of funds are necessary to ensure that people can live and thrive right now. I think if you have a friend who's been impacted by a federal layoff, a forced resignation, or an early retirement, it's a great opportunity in time right now to let them know where there may be a job announcement, a

contracting opportunity. For those of us who run our own businesses, this is a great moment for us to bring people in where we need support and say, hey, I've got this opportunity, or I have this thing I've been struggling with how to put it into place. Maybe I can give you a contract even if it's for a short term, just to help make ends meet. If you have twenty dollars or thirty dollars to donate to some fund every month, including the one Valisia stood up, I think it would

be great. Valisia runs Seed. I can not remember the name of the fund she started, but Seed is her organization and you can certainly check her out on Instagram at Valicia V A. L E. I. S H A and see how you can donate to the fund that she's established. Additionally, there's another question, can the Dems. Oh sorry, thank you, Lolo just sent this to me. Valicia's fund

is not through Seed. It is the Global State of Women Rapid Relief Fund Global State of Women Rapid Relief Fund, and you can find more information on that on Instagram. If you have another question from light Moca, can the DEM governors, ags and mayors band together in a soft secession where they withhold federal money? They wouldn't withhold federal money. Federal money is definitely being withheld from them, but there are certain ways in which they can withhold the ways

that they interact with the federal government. There are there are moneies that go into federal government pockets where they could do that. I know there have been conversations about this from Illinois to Maryland to some of the other Northeastern states. Certainly, there are ways that the governors and the attorneys general. You all know, many of the suits being filed against the federal government have been led by these state attorneys general. Those are the kinds of things

that must be done. It's not just a form of resistance. It's also a way to present a real to mount a real opposition, and to present some real alternatives to our people right now in this moment. So there are those kinds of things happening as well. Oh, here we go, y'all. This is a hard question, but I'm gonna tell you my hard truth. Right now, we have Angela. Do you expect to have free and fair midterm elections? I'm concerned Ice will wreak havoc in black and brown communities on

election day. Well, I hate to tell y'all this. We don't have to wait till the midterms. There are mayoral races. There's a mayoral race. Actually, early voting has already begun in New Orleans. There is a Virginia gubernatorial race coming up. We can see what they decide to do in these races to determine whether or not there will be free, fair elections. I have a hard time believing and even saying that we are free and fair elections.

Stacy Abrams. I think free and fair is a you know, a far cry away from where we are right now because of the ways in which the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of nineteen sixty five. Again, we're celebrating that sixtieth anniversary right now. I question whether or not we can have free and fair elections without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act, which we do not have right now. Congress Woman Sewell has introduced on

multiple occasions the Voting Rights Advancement Act. It is passed the House when the Democrats were in charge multiple times, I believe three in prior years, and she keeps introducing it even now and they're still not support Do you know understand and know that the Voting Rights Act reauthorization used to be a bipartisan effort, a by partisan effort. You want to know when it stopped being a bipartisan effort. I am so happy you asked. It is when Barack

Obama won. So in two thousand and eight, Barack Obama wins the election for president. They have not been able to pass another Voting Rights reauthorization Act in a bipartisan manner since then. This is where we are. This is where we are. So I'm going back really click to the Global State of Women Rapid Relief Fund. The link for that is Global State of Women again, that's Global

Stateofwomen dot com. If you want to donate resources to support black women who have been left out of the federal workforce, who have been thank you all so much, who have been taken out of the federal or the private sector workforce or on the state level. This is the fund that our good sister and friend Valicia Butterfield Jones stood up to support these women who have been impacted. We are now looking at at who should the public be holding accountable? Is my next question, Who should the

public be holding accountable forgetting us here? Everyone seems to be pointing the finger at the other side. Well, there's a saying, when there's one point finger pointing at you, it's a whole bunch more pointing this way. I think that it's a good time for us to be taking stock on what we did right in this last election cycle, what we did wrong. Where do we fail to collectively come together. For the folks who voted third party, where

is your candidate? What is she doing? For the folks who wanted a Kamala Harris to pass a purity test even though they knew that they agreed with her on eighty to eighty five to ninety percent on issues, you have to figure out if it was worth it. For those who said, you know what, this election doesn't apply to me. I'm just going to sit at home. I'm tired of elections. I want to know if you feel

protected in this environment that we're in now. For the elected officials who refuse to endorse or endorse late, or didn't stump or didn't go to their communities and ask for additional support. I want to ask you if it was worth it for those of you who decided that you didn't want another black president, or you didn't want a woman president, or you you know didn't couldn't stand with her because of her position on lgbt QIA rights, or whether or not she was going hard enough for guys.

I want to know if it was worth it. I can tell you that that is my big sister, and she is my friend, and I know her heart and I know where she stands, and we don't agree on

every single issue. But what I know for sure is I would prefer to have someone in that office who has experience, who was a prosecuting attorney, who was a state attorney general, who was a United States senator, who had experienced as the vice president, who has worked at every level of government, has always been a public servant,

who understands what HBCU's need. Because she went to one who understands the importance of coming together geographically, across racial lines, income lines, all of that, I would have so preferred her. And I still haven't forgiven this country for what you did allegedly, because I'm still not sure about these election results. I'm gonna just end up being an election denier from

this episode, and I'm totally fine with it. But let me tell y'all, I would have so much rather have that conversation with her, debate our differences, figure out where we can find common ground and get there. Rather than having someone who is ill fitted and unprepared and unwilling to have any type of conversation unless it's on advancing the priorities of Project twenty twenty five, I would so

much rather have her. And so we are seeing yet again why having someone in the White House who has my way or highway mentality, who was charged with ninety one felonies dropped down to eighty eight never properly prosecuted. I want to know. I want to know if we all agree that it was worth it. I certainly don't agree with that, right. I know you wanted somebody to blame, and I know I'm telling you to turn to you. I'm turning to me too. I want to know if

I did everything that I could have possibly done. I tried, but maybe there's something else I could have done. I also want to say this, and it may be an unpopular opinion, right now I want you all to study what Merrick Garland did. Study what Merrick Garland did as the US Supreme Court justice nominee bi Barack Obama, who never got an opportunity to serve in the Supreme Court. I'm not mad at that. I actually wanted a black

woman then too. I think that that would have resulted in a higher turnout for Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen. But I want to know how he went from becoming what would have been a very moderate Supreme Court justice to somehow Biden advisors and strategists and President Biden himself thinking that this man was going to be a fierce advocate as the Attorney General of the United States. I would have preferred Sally Yates. I would have preferred them as Eric Holder if he would come back, I would

have preferred they asked Stacy Abrams. I would have preferred somebody that had a fight in them to ensure that this man was prosecuted in a timely way. Instead, what they allowed for was enough time for the former president to mount a case. Now well now he's the current president again, but to mount a case to say, you know what I actually want to see if I could be immune from any criminal liability if I was acting

in my official capacity. That's where we are now, where the President of the United States could say, I may have committed a crime, but I should be immune from it because I took an oath. Well, because you took an oath, it should mean that you are not going to commit a crime to get the job done. How about taking an oath of office and being the type of public servant that could do within the best interest of the people and not your pocketbooks. How about that?

How about you try to do that? So this is where we are. We are in quite the crisis yet again, and I want to know what is our next collective best steps. As I said, the State of the people for this last government crisis we were in had a sixty nine and a half hour marathon, and I will tell y'all at the time, I thought that was our

best way to fight. Now I'm questioning what is our best way to fight If all of the tools that we normally use are no longer at our disposal, If calling our members of Congress does a result in the type of sea chains that we know we deserve, I think that we've got to figure out how to do this differently, And I'm raising with you all now in this moment that it may have to look different because, sorry, because the old tools don't work. These people are under

the thumb of a dictator. He wants to be a dictator so bad that they're willing to do anything that he says, even if it is at the of people who voted for them, of people who reside in their districts. That is a very very challenging place to be. It's very very challenging. So I just think that we've got to figure out if we're doing our best. Are you going to town halls of these members of Congress who are now refusing to answer your calls and telling them

what you expect to see. Are you are you sending notes? Are you on social media posting videos that could go viral telling them why the makeup of their districts dictates that they need to vote a different way. Are you ensuring that people with large platforms have the information and the tools they need to show up to these town halls to challenge these members of Congress on social media,

to challenge them in press interviews. Are you telling your local newspaper, your local news outlets this is how this member of Congress voted, and I want you to know. Let me bring up a recent example while we still go through this troubleshooting, and again, thank you all for your patients. What I want to know is if you all paid attention to that resolution honoring the life of

Charlie Kirk. Our dear sister and friend, Jasmine Crockett, who we're hoping joins us before the end of the show today, said recently that there were only two white members of Congress Democrats. Two white Democrats who voted no on the Charlie Kirk resolution. Y'all can get good practice in right now asking them what the hell they were doing. That's what this moment requires. It's not a high member of Congress.

So and so I'm just calling because I'm urging you to vote no on X y Z. That's not what time we're on. The type of time we're on now is HI. This is Angela RII calling Member XYZ. I'm calling you because I need you to understand how detrimental your vote is. I'm calling you because I need you to know you've been on the wrong side of history on the last five votes. I'm calling you because I want I want to know. I want you to know that if you continue to vote against our interests, we

will vote you out. Those are your only two options. You either are with us or you're against us. I want to be clear about that. And in fact, staff for so and so, I appreciate you picking up the phone, but where is your boss. I want to talk to the Legislative director. I want to talk to the chief of staff, and in fact, I really want to talk to Member x YZ because they got me confused. I will be right outside your office with a full rally.

I'm going to be at the district office every day trying to figure out just what the hell you doing because you stay on the wrong side of the issues, and that is the thing. We have got to figure this out. We have got to challenge these members in a different way. And let me just say this, because I think some of us mess this up. To y'all, I'm giving you a little primer on how the HEILL works. Unexpectedly, but it's probably a good time to go through this primer.

Y'all spend a lot of time calling the wrong member. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Congresswoman Evad Clark, all of the CBC members, they don't need these calls. They gonna vote the right way on the government shutdown. Some of them messed up on the Charlie Kirk resolution. That's the story for another day. But on the shutdown, that's not what you need to call. You need to call these Republicans. Y'all need to call Speaker Mike Johnson. You

need to call Republican leadership. You need to figure out what it is they're doing. Because the conscience of the Congress is going to vote together. The conscience of the Congress is going to vote together. You need to call the members of Congress who are confused about how they got there and who they represent. That's what you got

to call. So there. I saw something recently where there's a conversation again after the federal government takeover of DC, where there were some DC folks saying, we need the Congressional Black Caucus to stand with us on DC statehood. And I was like, the Congressional Black Cauk has been with y'all on DC statehood since it was founded in

nineteen seventy one. In nineteen seventy one, the Congressional Black Caucus went to Richard Nixon with sixty one recommendations of what would be what would result in the betterment of Black America, the types of policies that would ensure the protection and the development and the strengthening and the uplifting of Black America. One of the key pillars of that sixty one point recommendation plan was DC statehood. The Congressional

Black Caucus understands, right. So I just got to be very clear about the fact that the members, the CBC members are with y'all them other ones, so demand that they tell you in writing how they're planning to vote. You can reach out to these members on social media. You can reach out to them by calling their office. You can go to their town halls. Go on their website and see when their next public event is. Go look on their social media and see when their next

town hall is. I just did a teletown hall actually with Congresswoman Frederick W. Wilson. It was amazing. Shout out to you, Congressoman Wilson. You did an amazing, amazing job, and there were forty thousand. She called me recently, I think it was last week. She called me last week and said forty thousand people. Forty thousand of her constituents were on that teletown hall. People are thirsty for knowledge in this moment. We just did the CBC Foundations Annual

Legislative Conferences this past week. The theme was made for this moment. If you tuned into our live show, you know that we talked about it over and over again. If you came to any of the sessions, you know that because I asked everybody to tell us why they were made for this moment. In fact, in the comments right now, as we get ready to transition, I want you all to tell us while you're made for this moment.

We're gonna put some of those up in social on our stories, and right now it gives me great pleasure. I'm glad we were able to troubleshoot everything. Congress from A. Jasmine Crockett is joining us right now. She represents Texas's Congressional District thirty. My good, sister, how you doing. I'm well? How are you? I'm good? You sound very chill today. I'm hype because I've been in here yelling about this crazy government shutdown. Ma'am. Yeah, let me take off my pen.

You like it before you say, before I get loose.

so good that our sister Dawn told him. He said that when he was running for governor that she told him was gonna get hard, that people were gonna start coming at him relentlessly. And when that happens, No, it's because you're doing everything right, and so you get hit often, especially from the other side. Sometimes it's internal friendly fire too, And I just want to remind you in this moment. I know you know, but sometimes it's good to hear from your sister friends too. That I want you to

know is because you're doing so much right. And if there is never anything else to remind you, I hope you can always hear in your mind what I heard at the Phoenix Awards dinner Saturday for the CBC Foundation. You all, when Congresswoman Crockett's name was called, the audience roared and it gave me goosebumps. It was this beautiful moment, and I was like, I hope she hears and receives this love. I know they were cheering for the outfit too, but I think they were mostly cheering for the way

in what you represent us so well. So I want to tell you thank you and I love you before this audience as well. You are always representing us even when it's hard, So I want you to know we see you, Sis.

what this work takes. It takes being able to build coalitions, coalitions that are inside as well as outside, as well as understanding the rules to the game so that hopefully you can figure out how to maneuver. And I think that one of the things about the moment that we're living in is that we have somebody who does not care about the rule, and so he out here wilding. But the rest of us know that if we come anywhere near crossing the line of like breaking any rule,

we know that it's not gonna be friendly fire. It's just gonna be fire. We've seen how they've acted with our siss, Tis James. We know that he believes in going after his political enemies. We saw what he did with my good siss who sits at the which one is she?

the day he swore in. The illegal riffs that have taken place, and even some of the things that the courts has ruled as being lawful, they've not been smart. We know that these agencies haven't been at full capacity anyway, and now we're talking about just the big hit that it's at actually happening to our economy overall, because the largest employer period in the United States is the federal government, so pulling out that many workers impacts all of us.

So yeah, so as relates to the shutdown, Listen, the last time we had a shut down, it was Trump. The longest shutdown we've ever had, it was under Trump. So don't get caught up in this nonsense that it's the Democrat's fault. You know, the bad part is that people don't understand civics or they listen to people that are gaslighting them and the facts of the facts. The Republicans control everything.

He got that passed. He didn't have sixty in the Senate. He was able to get the Chips and Science Act done, he didn't have sixty in the Senate. So people expect you to be able to govern when you have the majority. That means you're just in the best negotiation space. But when you sit up there and you basically shun the people that you need and then you want to come around and just be like, well, just go do this I'm sorry, but we not your flunkeys. And that is

not what we campaigned on. We didn't campaign on making life worse or more harmful for people. So I don't really know what the negotiating space looks like. I don't sit at the negotiation table, but I can tell you that usually when you go in and you negotiate with somebody, the first rule is that you have to at least be on the page where you can say we're going to enter into honest negotiations.

X and do what you want to do anyway. So we really are in a bad way, and I need the American people to understand how many problematic dynamics we have in this moment.

like we're grasping at straws. You talk about we, you know, having people who know the rules of the game. I got to be honest with you. I don't know these rules. There are no rules, and so I am struggling to tell people what to do and what and how to do it because every like every tactic that I have at my disposal from when I worked on the Hill, which was fifty gizillion years ago, now it's changed, right, And so I want to know one for you? Does that make you deepen into the fight? Right? Or does

it do you? Are you ever a point where you're like, Okay, I'm discouraged because this is some nonsense that I just can't get with. I think it's important for people to understand Jasmine the human versus the fighting Congresswoman Crockett, and how you navigate those two things, because I bet you a lot of folks are feeling that dichotomy. I know, I am yeah, Angela is asking this question because she knows the answer. No, I'm serious, because you might be like.

work hard for everything that I want. So like, I've got all of these parameters, and there are times that I get so frustrated because I go out, I get all of the heat that's thrown on me, and I don't ever know who are on my side will even back me up if somebody comes for me, right, But then I get a chance to actually be with the people you talk about ALC. I was not feeling ALC. I did not want to do ALC. I was like, this feels like the wrong thing to be doing in

this moment, Like we're having parties. There is nothing so party about like right now, Like people are losing. And when I say people, I mean all people, but definitely Black folk are losing. So I just was really torn about ALC as a whole. And I was like, ain't nobody comes to this, Like people are holding on to their money because of all of the uncertainty. I was just not feeling any of it. And like most things, showing up and seeing the people that's where I get my energy from.

in about eight months or so. And she was talking about how we have to get out a DC and she wasn't just talking about physically, but like mentally, because you can get just drained by like being here, and she was like, you gotta basically touch grass. You got to actually see the people, talk to the people. And that is the thing that keeps me in this fight, you know, the whole Laura Lumer thing. You brought that up when I missed y'all, which I had to because

of the way my life is set up. I could not go through the front of the convention center, so I didn't get to go live with y'all. They had to bring me around the back to get into the convention center. So like even my routes getting into buildings are changed sometimes on how large.

even when the Lumer situation happened. I was flying in and out of New York on that day to speak at Unga, so I had no idea, like I'm busy, like I'm working right, like I'm working. And it wasn't until I got back to DC that I was made aware of what was going on. But by that time, the Internet had dragged her for filth and like there was nothing to be said, like y'all left, no drums, like y'all ate y'all ate her up, y'all.

am I to give up in that moment? So yes, DC may let me down in so many ways, so very often, but every time I am given an opportunity to just be with the people, that is where I am re energized and when I refocus and say, this is just what has to be done in this moment. So I do want to say mad love to each of you when you are trying to figure out things that you can do. Just know that literally y'all are keeping me in this game from the small dollar donations.

I think I was looking at our donations for this quarter, and we've had one hundred and maybe twenty something thousand people. That's a lot of people. One hundred and twenty thousand people so far this quarter have contributed to me. They've contributed a dollar, five dollars, ten dollars. It makes a difference, like that money adds up. And so when I'm having to pay for security, like, it's y'all that keep me safe, right when I'm getting trolls on the internet, it's y'all that are coming.

make a statement that helps. Also, Unfortunately, you know, I'm a real one, so I'm not gonna lie to you and say that there's a ton that we can do in this exact moment for these exact things. But they didn't get here overnight. So I need people to be patient. They have been working for fifty years to overturn Row. It took them fifty years. Now we ain't got fifty years to be working on some of this stuff. But just understand that progress comes, but sometimes it doesn't come

as fast as we want it to come. So some of the things that we have going on right now, we know that November fourth is another election day. It's going to be a big election day in the state of California. Prop fifty is something that I need everyone to vote yes on. I need you posting on social media about it. I need you talking to your friends, families and about Prop fifty and why it matters. If you are looking for us to kind of semi immediately stop some of the pain. Then we have to win

the House. I don't know what our chances of winning the Senate are, but we are in good position.

we need a governor that will push back. So it's important that we make sure everybody and anybody in Virginia gets out and they actually vote on November fourth, not only for governor.

But the thing is it is designed to make sure that these federal operatives, federal law enforcement agents, cannot be covered up while they're harassing our children and our elders and our people on American streets. Y'all need to tell your members to vote for that. There should be a motion to discharge. That's what you do. There should be a motion to discharge to make them have to vote on this bill that Actually, you know what, I may I may discharge it. I may discharge it. That's a

that's good. I think you should make them be on the record for that and call every one of them out when they won't sign on to that, So get your back.

and they petition their government. Sometimes if the government don't do what you want them to do, they can do petitions in certain states. That's basically what it is.

we are in a performer session. They have sworn in Republicans just this term during performa. They could have sworn her in. They refuse to swear her in because they don't want her to sign that because then that starts the process of having to put this on the floor by the time we get back into session and actually vote on it. But I can discharge this. And that's another thing that Angela brings up a lot of times.

If you're a Democrat and you're represented by Republican you don't want to call them.

That was a whole thing that they pushed out there, right, so that in people's minds they would believe that it was some hood black woman or whatever. That is not the face of SNAP benefits. The face is rule white America.

because there was nothing else going on. So if you've got that extra energy right now, find one of these elections that you really are passionate about. Make phone calls for Prop fifty, make phone calls for some of these state representatives that are running in Virginia, or the gubernatorial candidate or the goubernatorial candidate that is in New Jersey.

And we have an opportunity in Tennessee because we have a special election because yet another Republican was up to no good, so he decided he was going to go ahead and get out. And so you know, I mean, is it a long shot to think that we can flip the seat. Maybe, but can it make a huge difference if we flip that seat in the immediacy. Yes, And we have been overperforming by no less than ten

points right now and all of our special elections. So research that Tennessee race for Mark Green seat and maybe we can end up with a random pickup. We did it when we took the George Santo seat last time.

with us. She didn't get an opportunity to give her remarks after winning one of the Phoenix Awards this past Saturday, so I said I would yield the floor for my podcast to do that, but I want to make sure y'all get to love on each other before congress Woman Crockett has to go. Joe, Yeah, so I'm gonna jump. But congrats to both of you.

and they decided to acknowledge your mini works. You both are invaluable to this movement. Black women are invaluable to every movement. And I cannot wait till the history books are written about just the courageous things that you've done, the innovative things that you have done to number one, make sure that people are woke, but also to make sure that we are moving this country forward and we

are never looking back. So thank you and congratulations to both of you, amazing human beings, because besides the fact that y'all are badasses when it comes to being in these streets your heart, you're just good people. And I can't say that about everybody, So.

You are representative of what it means to be a black woman who understands the call to action, and I just want to personally thank you for all that you do, all that you endure, and just the way that you lead with power and conviction, and you speak truth to power even when it's a uncomfortable and I think it's important for us to not only lift that up and

celebrate it because people will try you. And the thing that you do is that you keep going despite what anybody has to say or these these comments that these these folks, and you know, I get real piping mad. And you know that because at last time I checked, there ain't nothing out of your name.

leading in this country. But one thing that she needs to understand is that what she's not gonna do is call us out of our name and think that it is okay, and to think that we forgot about it, because we have not. Because one thing that I will say is that we will not sit back and let them continue to call us out of our name and to do whatever they want to say when we're doing what we're supposed to do is representing our people, and that's what you do. Congresswoman Jasmin Crockett, So, I hope

the lady is watching. I hope you watch it.

and everything protected. And we definitely got your front and your back. Sure you're lucky, prob. We love you sis. Byebye, Joe Taka Edie. I am going to yield the floor and the screen, but before I do, I just want you all to know this. Joe Taka Edie is my sister for a long time. She's been in movement work for a while in Double ACP Senior advisor, still very active with n DOUBLEACP and runs at her own strategy firm.

And on top of all of that, during COVID, saw fit that black women had a space to gather, to come together, to strategize, to encourage one another and runs these amazing calls every other Sunday for win with Black women. Because of Joe Teika, black women are winning even more.

She is the person who was behind the one hundred plus thousand Black women who came together as well as other allies and supporters for Kamala Harris shortly after she announced that she in fact would be the Democratic nominee. And Joe Taika does so much on the scene, behind the scenes, on the side of the scenes to make sure that we are uplifted in power, whether it is selling a book to the audience, whether it is running for office, or having someone's back when they have found

themselves in the crosshairs of the man. And we know the man is finding us in the cross hairs more and more every single day. But it is for that reason that she was recognized by this year's Annual Legislative Conference co chairs as one of the Phoenix Award winners. I was one as well. I am grateful. It's not about me right now, so is Kamala Harris, our forever MVP. But Joe Teika Edie has the floor right now to

share her remarks with you all. You can take me off screen, y'all, let her have a moment.

South Carolina. I grew up on a dirt road watching mister Jim Clyiver fight for us every single day. I was raised by parents who believe that faith and hard work would carry you further than fear ever would. My father em and Edie gave me the discipline and the vision. And my mother, Leonora Abraham Edie may her soul rest in internal peace, gave me love, courage, and the roadmap.

and helped shift this nation. I accept this on behalf of the ninety two percent of Black women who election after election hold the line for democracy and often do it without any recognition and sometimes even a thank you. But let me be clear, this is a time that is calling us all to action. This is not the time to whisper. We must war. This is not the time to shrink. We must rise. This is not the time to waiver. We must focus.

use your artistry like Ruby d and Ozzie Davis. Might you have sung a song of freedom like Marvin Gay or Nina Simone a put pen to paper like Baldwin? Might you have organized like Rustin? Or if you've ever asked, would you have convened like doctr Hype? You don't need to wonder anymore because this is your civil rights movement, and this is our movement. Doctor Kreta Scott King reminded us that freedom is never one in one generation. It must be fought and one in every generation.

my brothers and sisters, we shall rise. I pray that we are called to our conviction and that we were at and that we never forget that we are indeed the power.

thank you for sharing those. This has been a whole black women's show, and what better way to end a black women's show than the one who make sure that we stay winen with black women. I love you, Joe Taking, I love you going. Let people know how to find you.

we have some on Mondays as well. We have a special treat coming up for O one hundredth episode, so I hope you all will stay tuned for that. I don't mind if y'all start guessing in the comments what might be happening for that one hundred the episode. The news will be breaking very very soon. Until next time. Welcome home, y'all. I'll see you soon bike this government shutdown though Native Lampard is a production of iHeartRadio in

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