Predicting the inability of House Republicans to simply do their jobs, the Biden Administration is now threatening Government Agencies to review their shut down plants. Make no mistake, the Government Shutdown is going to result in real consequences for millions of americans, and it will hurt our economy. Heres a snapshot of the last Government Shutdown. This occurred between the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019 on trumps watch. A stretched on for 34 days, 300,000 Government Workers were furloughed and. It costs our economy 11 billion dollars. Its not Monopoly Money, folks. Its not Monopoly Money to republicans who think that we have too much debt in the country, 11 Trillion Dollars for no particular reason, seems foolhardy. I should not be complicated. Funding the government is a basic power given to congress in the constitution. Its one of the few things that the United States constitution actually says that congress has to do it, its not optional. They have what you commonly he
Our economy. Heres a snapshot of the last Government Shutdown. This occurred between the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019 on trumps watch. A stretfo 34 days, 300,000 Government Workers were furloughed and. It costs our economy 11 billion dollars. Its not Monopoly Money, folks. Its not Monopoly Money to republicans who think that we have too much debt in the country, 11 Trillion Dollars for no particular reason, seems foolhardy. I should not be complicated. Funding the government is a basic power given to congress in the constitution. Its one of the few things that the United States constitution actually says that congress has to do it, its not optional. They have what you commonly here as the power of the house under the leadership of the speaker, Kevin Mccarthy, tenuously the ship though it is. He is choosing chaos over governing. For a party that touts fiscal responsibility, its just not responsible to hold the Economy Hostage over hard line policy requests that stand zero chanc
thanks for joining me today. i ll see you back here next saturday at 8:00 a.m. eastern. smerconish starts now. terrorists turned tiktok influencer. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. against the backdrop of anti-semitism running rampant online and off, osama bin laden was trending this week. dozens of young americans have posted videos on tiktok expressing sympathy with bin laden, the terrorist who orchestrated the september 11th attacks after they discovered a two decades old letter he wrote critiquing the united states, including its support of israel. among many heinous quotes, your law is law of the rich and wealthy people who hold sway in their political parties and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. behind them stand the jews, who control your policy, media and economy. there s a lot more to it. it s about 4,000 words, but you get the gist. it began to recirculate this week on tiktok, where videos on the topic garnered 14 million views by thursday. n
district court in washington, d.c., the district court in florida and new york state supreme court. if that s not enough for you, a civil case in new york. it could play out over the next eight months. october 23rd, fani willis wants to bring jump and 18 other co-defendants to trial. they will have to defend trump against charges of a criminal steam and enterprise to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. making false statements and other charges, as well. flash forward to march. tanya chutkan today set the date of the federal trial for march 4th. that s one day before supersuze. trump s lawyers wanted an april 26th trial. trump slapped down and said you can t have two more years. attorneys will defend trump against charges of attempting to
that s nonsense. it s just blowing smoke and a delay tactic. that cannot happen. you cannot appeal her decision about setting a trial date. you cannot. it won t happen. it simply won t happen. how about the coordination judge chutkan says she spoke with the judge overseeing judge s criminal case in manhattan. that s set for march. march. the idea of a march date in new york, at the state level, and the march date in the federal court in washington, d.c., does that mean that the federal trial and that conversation would have said, look, i m going to have to flex the idea of being a federal judge and you ll have to reschedule your date? or do they go the same month and that s it? i don t think they go the same month. i would think that the manhattan d.a. would concede they let the federal judge go first on this. if i were in her situation, i would flex my muscles. i have this date. this is going to happen.