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Tom Davis, and you are listening
to K one the one you trust.

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Congressman Brakin, how are you all
righty? Thank you very much, Josh

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Brakin as a living breathe. How
are you doing there, young man?

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I'm good man. I hope my
sales service day's good throughout this, So

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I apologize. I'm on the road. Well, that's nothing new. We

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know that you're going to be in
town here soon for a town hall,

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but right now I want to kind
of push a little something here with you.

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We are facing a possible government shutdown. Are we not here within a

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matter of days. Yeah, let's
just want to clarify this government shutdown was

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likely to have happened even three weeks
ago before those of us in the Freedom

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Caucus said, wait a minute,
we don't feel like that our negotiation is

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starting at the strongest point. The
government shutdown was going to happen three weeks

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ago. Sure, or at least
the timing of it, looked highly likely

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that we would say something even if
we could have gotten what was kind of

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offered at a lower level than what
money and the Freedom Cauchins were comfortable with

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the time that was gonna take for
the Senate. We knew they would likely

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reject it, so a government shutdown
was already likely to happen. So I

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just want to make sure that I'm
clear with everyone. It's not the Freedom

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Caucus causing the government shutdown. It's
because the Republicans as a whole, Democrats

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as a whole did what they always
do, and they didn't get their twelve

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appropriations bills done in the summertime.
So I just want to start with that.

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Yeah, that seems to be very
common. In fact, it's gone

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on for many many years, has
it not. Yeah, yeah, ten

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years. And then that's a big
part of a lot of the issues that

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many of us have is that we
can't we always come up against, you

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know, these timetables. We deal
continuing resolution, which always leads to a

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omnibus, which spends more money,
which is further leading us to bankruptcy.

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And and what many of us are
asking for these Republicans to get really serious

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about our debt and or justice spending
and to stop talking about on a campaign

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trill and let's really bitch a shoe
in these negotiations, and the American people

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stand with us. Tom. That's
if people want to know, why is

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it that Republicans in the past have
not held firm. It's because they've got

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constituents who say, yeah, I'm
more interested in now than I am my

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kid's future. And so we love
to talk about our debt and dest is

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spending. We love to talk about
how we're headed towards bankruptcy. You know,

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as I said on your show,
a lot of times, we're within

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ten years. I mean, this
thing could really implode within ten years.

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It's no longer twenty and thirty years, it's no longer talking about our grandkids.

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Within ten years, when we hit
Medicare and social Security and solvency,

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and when we are far surpassing our
annual debt service payments, are spending more

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flushing down the toilet on interest in
what we spend on the national defense,

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and we're in a death cycle financially
at that point. So so say,

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let's that's too dramatic. It's the
numbers. It was just where we're at,

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and the sunshine and rainbow narrative that
people want to put out there is

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quantitative easy. We can't cheat history. And and so I think for me,

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what I'm trying to do is drive
us as a conference to a place

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where we can and we had we
got there last week. For many people,

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the number I was saying felt like
it was a good compromise. We

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was a conversation last week. It
was great optimism that we could land on

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that number. We'll see this week
if we can get there. I understand

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that because we have many voices,
a couple kind of squeaked in at the

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last minute and kind of put that
on pause. Am I not correct?

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Well, I think they ultimately like
the number that we were able to come

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up with, the top line number. I think what Gate, marjor Tylor

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Green and some others are advocating for, you know, is outside that.

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But I've not been privy to those
conversations this weekend. I'm not sure what

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you know has happened on that front. All right, So this is gonna

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be a lot more of getting people
on the same page and try to get

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them focused in the in the same
direction with these negotiations. Yeah, and

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look, the other thing is it
only takes five Republicans to join the Democrats

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to do what's called the discharge position, and there's already a live round setting

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out there that at least two of
the five Republicans two have come up publicly,

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one from New York, one from
Nebraska, these Republicans and said,

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if you guys take us into a
shutdown and we're not, we're we're willing

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to stand with you, We're going
to join Democrats. So Tom, we've

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got to have a position that Republicans
can all agree upon, at least two

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or an eighteen republicans agree upon.
That's what we're trying to get to.

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And some of us are trying to
pull it because they didn't have the vote

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to where conservatory conservatives in the conference
can be agreeable and got those are left

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that are trying to pull up the
other direction. If folks want to know

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more about this situation, I imagine
you got something on your Facebook and also

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on your website. Am I correct? Yeah, I mean we'll have this

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thing is so fluid, I don't
know the latest. Yeah it is put

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on our website or Facebook. Yeah, I would say, I would say,

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say a tune to Congressman Josh mcken
on our Facebook page. That would

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probably be the quickest way to see
you know the latest. All right,

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but I'm not sketching playing and we're
headed to getting the more negotiations all right,

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good luck. Thanks man. I'll
let you've been listening to Congressman Josh

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