Michael Gold
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875 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 6 Jul
Michael Gold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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At this point, it looks like at 12.01 a.m.
on Saturday morning, the Department of Homeland Security is going to shut down.
And it's the only government department that we expect will shut down this time.
A single agency shutdown.
A one agency shutdown.
And that department is about 4% of U.S.
government spending.
So if you think about the shutdown we had last year as a full government shutdown and the brief one we had earlier this month as a partial government shutdown, this is a very fractional government shutdown.
So for the last few months, Congress has really been working hard to pass all of its funding bills.
And this is something that Republicans, when they took control of both the House and Senate, set as a major priority.
They wanted to pass funding bills.
They wanted to pass individual funding bills, not one big package, and really hash out policy details for every government department.
That's right.
And a lot of members of Congress had complained that they had constantly been stuck voting for these big packages, but they never really got to haggle on the specifics of what went into those bills.
And so they've been working for months to find agreements, Republicans and Democrats, occasionally the White House, coming together to try to find a way that they could fund the government one department at a time.
I mean, they were putting together bills that cleared the House and Senate.
They were really working together to try to find compromises on things.
And it seemed like everything was on track until last month when Rene Good was shot and killed by an immigration agent in Minneapolis.
And that's when Democrats realized that they're on the verge of passing a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and the Border Patrol.
And so Democrats start to talk about how they can get serious changes to that bill that would impose some restrictions on the federal immigration operations and the deportation crackdown.
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