themselves. no, to howard s point, they re real people who need these services that are provided, who need the information that these agencies have available to them, and most importantly, need their paychecks that they get from the work that they do within those agencies. so that kind of thinking, again, you know, it s like, oh, it will take years before you know that agency had been closed. no, apparently it took about 24 hours. yeah. ari, i was i was actually outside the beltway the last couple of days in my hometown of pittsburgh, and on the local news last night one of the lead stories was about the thousands, many thousands of people in pittsburgh who rely for part of their rent or housing on section 8 house payments. those are stopping because they don t have the people to process them. a small example but real example that led the local news in western pa. that s going to be multiple pied by 1,000 all over the country because you re talking irs,
them. a small example but a real example that lead the local news in western pa, and that s going to be multiplied by a thousand all over the country. you re talking about irs and atf and not only people getting checks but you re talking about safety and health. food safety, air safety. i mean, this is an objectively more dangerous time to be flying with a lot of disgruntled, underpaid, overworked people at tsa. it makes me think about the debates about health care in this country where you famously had the cries of government hands off my medicare. and then you had the sort of learning curve as health care got out there and obviously there s legitimate debates to be had about how to do health care or how to do the size of government. but the notion here, we just played the sound, the notion that this is no biggie and the
we ve been working on a lot of issues particularly with respect to the locks and dams in western pennsylvania. we like to highlight the work i ve been doing that. we have a power plant issue here in western p.a., and the president is taking action to make sure those jobs are going to stay there. again, you take a look at broad-based economic growth that we re focused on, and we continue to stress that message with our voters. my opponent would have voted against the tax cut bill. that s what he said for over a year, decrying it as a giveaway. interesting, he kind of changed his tune, and now he thinks it s okay to have that. but he s really all over the map. and so we continue to stress consistency, integrity. we want to make sure that the economy continues to grow. again, this is a race that has national importance. if we hold this seat here in western pennsylvania, republicans will hold the house, and that s why i d like people to go to keithrothfus.com and find out more about a what
hurricane michael throughout this hour. and we re also talking midterms. president trump getting ready to leave for western p.a. on another campaign swing. not far from his stop is a newly blue district, looking a lot bluer thanks to new congressional maps. steve kornacki will have that.
medical marijuana because of pain management. and i ve run into many ex-players who deal with pain management. and right now the alternatives don t look good. and we have a lot of problems with the alternatives. anthony: there s no doubt about that. franco: that they ve had. john: western pa has been ravaged by the opioid crisis. and it positions us for the eventual legalization of marijuana, and um gisele: it would also pull braddock out of act 47, so we would no longer be fiscally bankrupt. anthony: braddock lost its initial bid for a medical marijuana license. but there are a few other madcap entrepreneurial efforts in town. lone dreamers with a plan. one such dreamer is chef kevin sousa. kevin was one of the first of a new generation of chefs to bring national attention to pittsburgh when he opened his restaurant, salt of the earth, in 2010. anthony: what are we looking at here, chef?