Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Nov
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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Senator Gallego on Trump’s Mental Decline During Shutdown · 7 Oct 2025
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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Trump Gets Scared as Shutdown Is Not Going as He Planned · 4 Oct 2025
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Here we are in Washington.
with more than 20 million Americans about to see their health premiums double or worse, on top of all the other Trump cost increases in groceries and electric bills and home insurance and all the rest of it.
And the House isn't even here.
They've gone into hiding someplace.
The Senate is leaving after these votes so that the Republicans can go to a fancy resort for a big fundraiser.
The vice president is saying we're having a good time.
The president is putting out weirdo tweets.
And Russell Vogt, the OMB chief, is sharpening his knives to do something that one senator said has been his dream since puberty, to hurt people and break government programs.
We need to do a lot better than this.
But if you want to know whose shutdown it is,
Look who are the ones who are enjoying it.
So, Senator, would you say without any changes at its current composition, would you vote no?
Oh, absolutely. I don't know. This bill doesn't have it. If they brought it to the floor right now, there's not a chance it'll get the 51 votes it needs.
Because our audience is like, wait a second, I thought it passed the House. Are you saying that the Senate can change it and then there's a reconciliation between the House and the Senate? Is that correct?
Yeah. Charlie, we'll change it. We'll have our own bill. And what will happen is it will go back through a conference or it will just go back to the House and they'll pass our bill. But I believe we're going to dramatically reduce mandatory spending. To get this budget balanced in a short period of time, which is what we have to do.
The House bill cuts the spending by less than 2% over the next 10 years. It doesn't balance the budget. It doesn't even close the balance in the budget. So there's a whole bunch of us. We are going to fight like hell to balance this budget.
Well, in 2010, I sprang out of the Tea Party movement. And as I did praise my, I would shout, this is a fight for freedom. We are mortgaging our children's future. It's wrong. It's immoral. It has to stop. I haven't changed. My campaign promise in 2010 and every campaign after that was to stop mortgaging our children's future. It's immoral. It's wrong. It has to stop.
And so he may not be worried about that. I am extremely worried about that. That is my primary goal running for Congress. This is our moment. We have witnessed an unprecedented level of increased spending, 58% since 2019, other than World War II. This is our only chance to reset that to a reasonable pre-pandemic level spending.
And again, I think you can do it, and the spending that we would eliminate, people wouldn't even notice.
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