Governor Josh Shapiro
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562 appearances
27 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
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We put Home Illinois in place to make sure that people who are unhoused can begin the process of moving toward not just shelter, but first temporary housing and then permanent housing. We, in fact, put more money toward that program than we've ever done before. We're seeing in places like Rockford where we've finally gotten to functional zero homelessness.
And that's what we're trying to do across this entire state of Illinois. So, look, Donald Trump is making everything harder. Housing, rent, being able to borrow money to buy your first home or any home. And that's something that we're all going to have to live with until we're able to overturn the Congress. And that, in fact, is one of the things I want to say to everybody that's listening.
If you're not out there protesting in front of a Republican congressman's office or out in the street making your voice heard or calling your friends in another state to have them do it, or showing up in Washington, D.C. in front of their offices, those Republican congressmen, then you're not doing what's necessary to put pressure on them to vote the right way.
This summer, they're gonna be voting on a budget. And we're going to see the consequences of that budget. What are they trying to do? They're trying to lower taxes for the wealthiest people by raising taxes on you. Those tariffs, those are taxes that are put on working class, middle class people across the United States.
And if we don't stop them, they're going to make things harder and harder for the very people that we as Democrats and all of our Democratic governors are trying to protect. And that's the working families of America.
Yeah. Well, thank you, Danielle. Thank you for the service and thank you for the courage to come on. And look, troops are just not supposed to be partisan, but you can be political. You need to be. It's a responsibility to tell what's going on. And with Donald Trump, I can assure you of this. There is no care for our troops.
There never has been, whether it's disrespect of troops or whether it's the inability to fund the things that are most important for the troops.
On this one, it's personal for me, both having served but also being the ranking member on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, that prior to Donald Trump being there, whether it was under George Bush or Barack Obama when I served in that position, there was bipartisan support, things like the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention Act, where we came together to reduce suicides and saw the work being done, both when our troops were in uniform
and after they left understanding that those those wounds of war uh run deep and are not always so obvious uh those days are coming and much more difficult the cuts that donald trump is making 84 000 of a providers at the best health care system in the world which is the va a promise that we made to troops that if you serve us we will serve you in your health care
becoming much more difficult to be able to provide all the services that are necessary. And this is not about running a business. The VA trains 70% of the physicians in this country, and it provides care to well over a million veterans. And it is the best care in the world.
The mental health piece of this, we know that getting access to that care in a timely manner, understanding that we're going to have to, when these troops come home, we've got a lifelong commitment to make this happen. Donald Trump is continuously trying to underfund. And I will just say this, this is a fight I have been fighting almost two decades now, is the attempt to privatize the VA.
This goes back to our current Secretary of Defense ran an organization called Concerned Veterans of America. Its purpose was to undermine the VA and privatize the VA and shift that money out of that. And what that ends up doing is leaving veterans without care. And that's why we get so many veterans. If they can get into the system, We can prevent the mental health issues. We can help heal.
We can be part of a broader community. And I will also say this. Many of our veterans depend not just on the VA. They depend on Medicaid as a part of this. So all of these things fit together. The education pieces that are being pulled back to be able to make sure that our veterans get the training they need to live the careers post-medical. military.
So the assault that Donald Trump has made on this, I won't stand for it. If he wants to stand in front of troops, he wants to wave the flag, he doesn't do a damn thing for veterans. He has undermined their care. He's put them at risk. And I want to just say this, trying to get people out of the military because of who they are,
and who they authentically are of someone who has had the courage to sign up where donald trump did not or to put our troops at risk our female troops at risk have the right to make their own reproductive decisions and we have a right to make sure they have access to that care So this is a fight that I'm glad folks are on. Danielle showed courage to speak up, which she has the right to do.
But those of us who aren't in the military now have a responsibility to make sure that we're pushing for this issue. So I'm grateful for the question. I'm grateful for the work that's being out there, being done. And we need to call out any time Donald Trump mentions anything about patriotism, the military or veterans, he's a damn liar and he has not delivered on those promises.
Go ahead. Emma, thank you so much for your service. And I come from a military family, so proud of our military and those who serve, our veterans, our service members, our Gold Star families who paid the ultimate price. You know, the military has become stronger over time because it has embraced diversity, you know, desegregated the troops way back, then allowed women.
In fact, I'll tell you this, Eamonn, the woman who actually was the pioneer and made possible women in the Army is a woman named Edith Norris Rogers. She actually served in the United States Congress for Massachusetts. And a few months ago, I've lost track of time, as Governor Hochul says, I don't know how many days it's been, the same day that Donald Trump
had the Department of Defense and Arlington National Cemetery take down on their websites all the images of women, of Black people, of Latinos, of Asians. Remember that day? We had a celebration of Edith North Rogers in the State House, and I put on display all the uniforms that women had worn in combat over the years. Diversity is a strength. It's not a flaw.
It doesn't make any sense for us in classrooms, in boardrooms, in C-suites, or in the military to exclude women, people of color, people with disabilities. It's wrong. doesn't make for better outcomes, doesn't make for better results. So as governor, I've convened with my veteran secretary.
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