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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Rep. Stevens Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Government Shutdown

12 Oct 2025

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump letting MAGA Mike sink or swim on his own with the messaging over the Trump shutdown and MAGA Mike is definitely sinking and Meiselas interviews Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens about what’s she’s doing to fight back. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0.031 - 23.271 Ben Meiselas

Mag and Mike Johnson is having an awful morning. His messaging is just all over the place. He's talking about rabble rousers getting paid more money than pregnant women. And somehow this is why he and Donald Trump want to shut the government down. I have no clue what he's even talking about. He rabble rousers are getting paid. Everybody that everybody know rabble rousers are getting paid.

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23.291 - 24.233 Ben Meiselas

Play this clip.

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24.449 - 42.571 Mike Johnson

If you're a young, pregnant American citizen woman who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong. The Republican Party stands for common sense. In the big, beautiful bill, we fix that.

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42.671 - 53.123 Mike Johnson

And Chuck Schumer wants to unwind it, and it is unconscionable to me that he's inflicting all this pain on American citizens so they can play games and try to appease the radical left base. That's what this is.

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53.204 - 76.684 Ben Meiselas

like just literally playing mad libs or like cosplaying donald trump i don't even know what what what are you even talking about i mean if if you're a young pregnant woman you're worried about rabble rousers getting reimbursed by hospitals so they don't want to extend the affordable care act subsidies and they don't want to protect people's medical What am I missing here?

77.426 - 97.106 Ben Meiselas

I'm losing what the hell they're talking about. Americans are going to lose their health care and they're having these like bizarro conversations and creepy conversations. We all know that earlier this morning, Donald Trump also posted that the mayor of Chicago said, and the governor of Illinois, Pritzker, need to be arrested. So Maga Mike was asked his thoughts.

97.627 - 111.061 Ben Meiselas

Do you think they should be arrested? Should the governor of Illinois be arrested? Now, a normal speaker would say, no, no, you don't arrest governors. But this is what this guy said.

111.101 - 117.788 Rep. Haley Stevens

Here, play this clip. Thank you. Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois should be included?

119.084 - 131.301 Mike Johnson

Should they be in prison? Should the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm the speaker of the House, and I'm trying to manage the chaos here. I'm not following the day-to-day on that.

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