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Rep. Subramanyam Responds to Trump Shutdown Madness

04 Oct 2025

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

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During these very serious times, while Donald Trump has forced the government into a shutdown, we expect leadership at the White House. In fact, I think Donald Trump said that back in 2011 and 2013, the president must bring people together to avoid shutdowns.

Chapter 2: What are the implications of Trump's government shutdown?

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here's what's being posted from the official white house account which looks like a 4chan meme machine at this point that's not a good thing and they're posting photos like this of chuck schumer in a hot dog costume we're all trying to find the guy who did this they're saying dems right now and when you read the comments from a lot of these uh posts that the white house is making rapid fire it's like how embarrassing for our country that this is our official social media account

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don't the republicans control all branches of government there's another post where donald trump does a video where he says uh transgender for everybody i i don't even know what that means with a transgender flag and says this shutdown is about transgender for everybody you look at the comments and they say i literally follow this account just to see the current administration get roasted in the comments maga how are y'all really believing this stuff

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Your mom took Tylenol if you believe this. Pro tip, if you really want anyone outside of MAGA to believe incorrectly that this is the Democrats' fault, you may not want to post clips and memes every 10 minutes saying that this is the Democrats' fault. Seems desperate. And then someone else wrote, I love my government propaganda machine, White House. Another post they made, Democrats have shut down the government.

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A quote from Donald Trump in 2013 from one of the commenters. A shutdown means the president is weak. Another person commented, Dave the Pirate writes, don't the Republicans run the House, the Senate and the presidency? I guess Trump is just powerless against those big bad Democrats.

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Another person responded, good to see the comments filled with people who understand how government works. Another comment, Republicans control both houses and the presidency. This lie don't fly. Then someone goes, who holds the majority in the House? Who holds the majority in the Senate?

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sounds to me like a few republicans flopped on you that's a republican problem and again we're just taking some anecdotal data of the white house account but those are the most popular comments on all of the recent posts i want to bring in a democratic congress member from virginia congress member subramaniam we've had him on the show before congressman it's great to see you here um you know these are very serious times i mean they are um and look

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Mielestäni minulla on hauskaa, minä tykkään, että olen hauska joskus, mutta haluan myös tietää, kun johtan sitä hauskaa ja miten vastata näistä asioista. Esimerkiksi sinä edustat kaupungin kaupungilla, jossa on paljon hallituksen työntekijöitä, jotka ovat tai ovat olleet tai eivät ole olleet olleet olleet.

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Ihmiset ovat tärkeitä, he elävät palveluun palveluun nyt. Trumpin ekonomiin asiat ovat huonoja, vaikka olet billionaari. Ja minulle tämä, että järjestetään AI-memejä leader Jeffreysin sombreroista, ei ole aikaa. Nyt tarvitaan leaderiä, ei mitään muuta kuin tämä. Mitä te teette siitä, puheenjohtaja?

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As all of this unfolds, it seems more and more clear to me that this was the Republicans' plan all along to shut down the government. I mean, they put this terrible proposal before us again, and we didn't vote for it last time. We're not going to vote for it this time. They knew that. And Russ Vogt at the OMB is looking at how he can fire more federal workers, even though that's illegal during this shutdown. And now they're putting out these

Chapter 3: How is public perception shifting against Trump?

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It's going to hurt a lot of contractors who go completely without pay. And most of all, it's going to hurt the American people. And I think the American people are sick of this. They're sick of these shutdown fights. They're sick of Congress acting like this. And these seem to only happen when Republicans are in charge, these shutdown fights. It seems like when President Trump especially is in office, you better believe that shutdown is going to happen. I talked to one

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federal worker who said in January, Trump's in office, I better start saving because there's probably going to be a shutdown. And I was like, even with the Republican majority, and they're like, especially with the Republican majority. And so they were right. And I think these, you know, mean tweets and, you know, these, you know, weird AI videos seem to lend more credence to the fact that they wanted this all along.

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Kun katsot paljon suurista kriiseistä, jotka ovat käyneet täällä Kaliforniassa, huonoja polttoaineita viime vuonna. Mennään takaisin Bidenin hallituksesta, jossa ehkä olisi rakennettu rauhoitus.

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palestiinalaisten ja ohioiden alueiden alueella, mitä se olisi, se olisi itse asiassa nähty minulle niin, että silloin nämä republikaanit olisivat niin, että he olisivat niin, että he olisivat niin, että nyt on se aika, kun me laitamme meidän tavallaan vasemmallisen informaation koneemme ja mennään tekemään vihreimpiä asioita, jotka voivat jäädä taloon.

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During the fires it was there was a magical faucet that is on the border of California and Canada. Of course, it doesn't border Canada and this faucet that Governor Newsom didn't turn on the faucet and he was too focused on saving the smelt fish that he didn't care about the fires. And, you know,

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Seeing Governor Newsom's progression, the first two days he was like, why would I respond to these stupid things? But then he realizes that if you don't deal with it, it has a way of bending reality. So you actually have to address these things. And now here, as we're dealing with the shutdown, you know, you saw some of the posts that I showed you. I mean, they're saying what this shutdown is about is the Democrats demanded trillions of dollars for

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transgender surgeries in peru and they also are demanding trillions of dollars for illegal immigrants to go on medicaid and to get the affordable care act tax credits to the illegal immigrants and it's so far out there

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that it's hard to, in a symmetrical way, address something that's such a lie, which is why I think they make the lie so big and outrageous. But what's your take on how you deal with that? And do you think the people in Virginia, in your district, are buying what's being sold right now to them? Yeah, if you want to raise your blood pressure, check out their news conference from earlier today, where Mike Johnson and John Thune

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were there and basically they said that Democrats want to shut down because we want to provide healthcare to illegal aliens, which is not true because these programs we're trying to protect, illegal immigrants are not eligible for them.

Chapter 4: What does Congressman Subramanyam say about the current political climate?

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Classic gaslighting, really. The other thing to note about this is they weren't even here yesterday. The day that we're supposed to have potentially a vote again to avert a shutdown or try to figure out a way forward, it's not like we could negotiate with Republicans. They were told to stay home and not to even come in this week.

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Heillä oli kuusi kuukautta, kun Verda loppui. Nyt olemme yhdessä, eivätkä he edes käynyt töissä. Jos et käy töissä ja et tehdä työtä, sinä pidetään.

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And I hope they all get fired over this, because the American people deserve much better. Now, in my district, I have a very smart district with a lot of people who serve our government. They protect us, they keep us safe, keep us healthy, and they're either federal workers or contractors in many cases. And they're wise to this. They understand that shutdowns really only happen because of

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far right wing republicans and remember this speaker got to power because the previous republican speaker was negotiating with democrats too much right and so the freedom caucus you know staged a revolt last time and so that's the makeup of this current republican house membership is that they don't want to work with us they just want to force us to vote for their crap

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In the end, we're not going to be for it anymore. We're not going to do this. I'm glad some Democrats from this past spring who voted for that last time see that you can't trust Republicans on these issues and that you need to get them to the table and figure out a bipartisan solution rather than going along and being dragged along with this...

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take over of the federal government and these cuts to health benefits for every American. So, you know, I think my constituents understand this and they're fed up really.

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Joudut House Oversight Committeein, joka on nyt järjestetty demokraattisen puolustuksen johtajana, Robert Garcia. Olet valittu vuonna 2024 uudelleen, jos voin sanoa, nuoremmille demokraattisille. Olemme samaa ikäisiä. Nuoremmille demokraattisille, jotka ovat varmasti

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to use the opposition role right now though to still conduct robust oversight, which I think a lot of people see with the stick-to-itiveness regarding the Epstein files. An issue that I'm wondering, your perspective as someone who sits on the House Oversight Committee,

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Donald Trump kertoo, että hän on saanut 17 miljardia. Hän kertoo sen yhä ja yhä. Ja se on yhteydessä järjestelmien kanssa, mikä on minulle hieman ymmärrettävää, koska, katsotaan, että me kaikki tiedämme, että hän on itse asiassa itse asiassa. Mutta ajattele, että hän kertoo totuutta.

Chapter 5: How does the shutdown affect federal workers and contractors?

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There, 45 billion dollars went missing, and of course we know what happened there. So if 17 trillion dollars, as he keeps on saying, exists, what account is it in? Did he steal the 17 trillion? He's promised dividend checks and rebate checks over and over again. Shouldn't the American people who are struggling get this money right now? And why isn't anybody asking, well, which account is it in? Show us where it is. Seems like a big deal. Or is the number just so big that it's like, ah, it's Donald being Donald.

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Kyllä, näytä ääntä ja näytä meiltä taitoja. Oikeastaan paljon ihmisiä on nyt niin pysyviä häntä ja häntä, että hän voi laittaa jotain, joka ei ole nykyään nykyinen.

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Jokaiselle presidentille se olisi ollut iso ilmiö. 17 miljardia, se ei ole edes mahdollista, se pitäisi olla elämä. Mutta tämän presidentin kanssa ihmiset ovat niin useita, etteivät kertoa totuutta, että me olemme, missä olemme. Mutta kyllä, haluaisin nähdä hänen matkansa siitä. Haluaisin tietää, miksi se ei ole palautettu amerikkalaisille, jos se on totuus. Tiedän, että meillä on kaikki tietoja siitä, miten hän kehittyy itseänsä ja perheensä.

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That's billions of dollars, certainly. I mean, they're using all these grifts now, and they're using our foreign policy to enrich themselves, and people in the administration are enriching themselves. And so, you know, I've sent many letters asking about that, haven't gotten much of a response. And anytime I speak up about it on the House floor, Republicans tell me that that's not decorum, that I should be nicer to the president, not be mean to the president. And so that's an actual policy that they have on the House floor now.

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Joten luulen, että meidän täytyy jatkaa kysyä kysymyksiä ja kysyä taitoa. Tiedän, että useimmat ihmiset ovat jättäneet itseään, koska presidentti ei kertoa totuutta.

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You know, and then to me finally, you know, before we go, I mean, there's just such a contrast right there between him bragging about the gold in the Oval Office and golden ballrooms. And he was in the UK and golden carriages. And he's talking about turning, he turned the Rose Garden into Club Rose Garden, a club for rich Republicans only. He posts these videos of what UFC fights on the White House lawn are going to look like. And so, I mean, you see that.

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Ja sitten näet, että joka päivä 50 miljoonan dollarin Jared Kushnerin ratkaisu Saudiin, jota saadaan EU-palveluun, johon hänkin aloittaa, jossa hän on rahoitettu Saudiin ja hänen affiniti-yhteisönsä. Ja sitten Saudiin PIF osti sen, mutta se on kuin blip, että kyllä, se vain tekee paljon. Trump Plaza ja Saudi-Arabian miljoonan dollarin projekti kuuluvat tämän viikon myös, mutta sinulla on se.

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Then you have what the American people are going through. Farmageddon, farmers on the verge of bankruptcy, if not already bankrupt, construction and manufacturing workers, essentially in a recession, worst housing market since like 1995. It just seems that contrast right there is so stark right now. So before we go, I want you to comment on that, because it seems that, you know, it's one of these eat your cake moments, if you will. Yeah, that's the policy of this administration, let them eat cake, right? Let's cut

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Medicaid benefits to people who need it most so that we can fund tax cuts for the richest corporations and people. But we have to still be talking about this. We can't ignore this. We can't ignore the policies of this administration.

Chapter 6: What strategies does Subramanyam suggest for addressing misinformation?

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What we have to do is push back and really, whether it's someone who's affected by Medicaid cuts or a federal worker who's furloughed right now, everyone speaking up makes a huge difference. And I've seen it over and over again when

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You speak up when you fight back and you don't acquiesce to this administration. You see results and you see them shift and you see them retreat and get scared away. And so I think that continues to be our plan for how to push back

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It has to continue. We have elections in Virginia coming up. Early voting has already started and it's in November. We can send a huge message in Virginia, New Jersey and all across the country to people and to members of Congress on the Republican side included, that the people are not accepting these policies. It starts with actually speaking up about it and not being afraid. Congressman Subramaniam, appreciate you joining us.

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