National Republican Senatorial Committee Spokesperson (3:34)

We hope you enjoy your extended stay in the security line. This delay is courtesy of Senator John Ossoff. While you wait, take a moment to thank Senator Ossoff for blocking funding for the Transportation Security Administration and the United States Coast Guard, putting Americans at greater risk.

Host (3:50)

Now, Jon Ossoff is one of the most vulnerable Senate Democrats in these upcoming midterms. And we expect he's going to be getting a lot of phone calls from people saying, why are you holding TSA paychecks hostage and American travelers trying to get through Atlanta airport hostage for their political goals? It makes no sense. Now, as we've talked about from the beginning, the biggest reason behind this shutdown is Democrats political maneuvering. They believe that if they can cause enough pain for people, people will blame that pain on Republicans because they control the White House, House and Senate. Even if Democrats hold the keys to keep all of that funding, particularly for things like TSA agents, paychecks, hostage. But the second major reason for this ongoing shutdown is Chuck Schumer. You'll remember in the last two years, a lot of attention has been on Chuck Schumer and his political future. There was a time just last year when he agreed to end a shutdown and fund the government. And it created the worst news cycle of his entire career. Most of the stories about how AOC needs to primary Chuck Schumer began around that time. But much more recently, the Wall Street Journal has a great piece outlining what what happened during the last Democrat shutdown when they were demanding more funding for health care. In more than four dozen interviews with Democratic senators, candidates, current and former congressional aides, activists and advisors, many said the concern about Schumer's leadership was widespread. Meetings between Democratic chiefs of staff on Senate business often veer into erring discontent with Schumer and how to pressure him to step aside as leader after November's elections, according to attendees and others familiar with the discussions. So one thing that happened during that last shutdown over healthcare was a group of Democrats got together with Republicans to say, we need an off ramp. Let's negotiate on some things here that we can both call a win. Meanwhile, a group of far left senators, including people like Elizabeth Warren, were saying, no one negotiate with Republicans. We need to create as much pain as possible. And when Warren found out that a small group of Democrats was negotiating, she went and blamed Chuck Schumer because she said Chuck Schumer told us nobody was negotiating. And so Chuck Schumer took the blame for that from this group. Now there's a group of far left Democrats that call themselves Fight Club. They're the ones who are working directly against Chuck Schumer in a number of these Democrat Senate primaries. Chuck Schumer wants to nominate what he views as the most moderate electable candidates in a lot of these states. Whereas people like Elizabeth Warren don't actually care if their primary candidates actually win elections. They want to get credit from the base and credit from the activists for picking the people that are the most far left candidates out there. So they are out to get Chuck Schumer. And the Wall Street Journal has a lot of great details on how that campaign and coup against him is working. But the bottom line here is that coup against him is the biggest thing keeping Democrats from even going to the table to negotiate with Republicans. And the last thing that I would add to that is if Chuck Schumer is overthrown as the Democrat leader, which would make sense. He's been one of the least effective Democrat leaders we've seen in recent history. The person in line behind him is none other than Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz. Another major tragedy over the weekend. An 18 year old Loyola University Chicago student was murdered by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela. Sheridan Gorman was out for a walk with her friends and was murdered seemingly randomly. This is starting another major conversation about the repercussions of President Biden's immigration policies that let in 20 million people and we have no idea who they are. They're spread out across the country. It also is starting the conversation about how some of these illegal immigrants have been arrested and allowed back into society. But one of the most shocking reactions from this was from a Chicago alder woman.

Chicago Alderman Maria Hadden (7:31)

And it sounds like this might have been a wrong place, wrong time, running into a person who had a gun. They might have startled this person at the end of the pier unintentionally.

Host (7:41)

That was Chicago alderwoman Maria Hadden. And when you hear the sort of lifeless tone, the sort of acceptance of this kind of violence, that a 18 year old student who was just out with her friends and was murdered is essentially the cost of doing business for living in Chicago. It's easy to see how the city of Chicago has devolved into what it is today. And it's incredibly tragic. But you know who didn't necessarily think this would have been the wrong place at the wrong time? Illinois Governor J.B. pritzker.

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (8:10)

Well, here I am on the path on the lakefront at 6am on a Monday and we got a lot of people running, having a great time. It doesn't feel like a hellhole here. In fact, everybody's having a great time and enjoying themselves. So I don't know who in Washington thinks that Chicago is some sort of hellhole, but you may need to look inward.

Host (8:38)

Now. It's important to note that area that Pritzker is walking, as he describes this is, is the same area where Sheridan Gordon was murdered, which is a massive tragedy. But as you hear Pritzker's narration pushing back on people in Washington being out of touch for calling Chicago a hellhole. It is a tragic turn that that same area is where this murder took place. But Sheridan Gorman's family's pushing back on this alder woman for calling it wrong place at the wrong time. What Sheridan was doing that night, walking with her friends near campus, was normal. It was safe. It is what students do every day. We will not allow this to be dismissed as wrong place, wrong time. This was not random misfortune. It was a violent and preventable act. And we're gravely disappointed by the policies and failures that allowed this individual to remain in a position to commit this crime. People like JB Pritzker want to run for president while this is happening in the place they're in charge of right now. It's the same challenge Gavin Newsom is going to face. And the fact that he can't run on his record because his record is consistent failure but also on the issue of ongoing crime from illegal immigrants as we have this shutdown, the fact that our Department of Homeland Security is closed because Democrats are protesting ICE and immigration enforcement. Remember, these are the exact kind of people that ICE is out there trying to remove to make our neighborhoods safer. And so Democrats are holding funding for TSA and all of our Homeland Security apparatus hostage to allow people like this murderer to stay in our city. We've talked a lot here about the Virginia redistricting voting which is happening right now and will conclude just in the next few weeks. Over the weekend, NBC News had a piece talking about how this is not a done deal. Democrats start to sweat over Virginia's redistricting referendum. Now, there's a lot of valuable pieces in there. For one, Democrats are concerned that early voting from Republican strongholds has looked very, very good for Republicans. This from W R I C Republican Congressional Districts hold Early Voting Edge in Redistricting referendum now, there's a lot of reasons that Republicans might have a little bit of energy here. For one, just the sheer brazen politics of this Democrat Don Byer even said in this NBC piece, taking back the House is the most significant thing we can do to stop Donald Trump. Democrats have tried to frame this as restoring fairness, but it blows up in their face when people like Bayer are making clear this is exclusively about partisan politics. And Democrats just a few years ago convinced, convinced everybody that an independent redistricting commission that set up the 5 to 6 map that we currently have was critical to preserving democracy. And now they're trying to do a sort of snip, snap, snip, snap reverse and get people to believe that the only way to restore fairness is this gerrymandering nuclear option that goes to a 10 to 1 map. And people simply don't believe that. But they're also looking statewide and seeing the current results of Democrat governance. The fact that Democrats are pushing for taxes on every aspect of their lives while the quality of services they're getting from their government is actually going down. We're seeing more crime from illegal immigrants who are allowed due to Northern Virginia's sanctuary policies that will be projected over the entire state if this redistricting is allowed to go through empowering places like the lunatics of Fairfax county over even more of the Commonwealth of Virginia. For you can't make it up segment today we go back to sunny California. Gavin Newsom has a new plan for financial literacy. Starting in the 2027-2028 school year, California will offer a new personal finance course to high schoolers and require it for graduation. Beginning with the 2031 class, every Californian should leave high school with the tools to manage money, avoid debt, and build wealth. Now, Gavin Newsom is not known for self awareness, but many commenters were quick to ask if Gavin himself would be allowed to participate in this financial literacy course. Nick Shirley also added, will you and the rest of your staff be taking this as well? The jokes do write themselves because as we all know, Gavin Newsom is not known for financial literacy. He's the guy who was given $24 billion to fight homelessness. The money disappeared and homelessness actually went up. We've seen billions wasted on high speed rail and not a single track has been laid. We've seen millions wasted on the LA Wildfire cleanup and again, that's Projected to take 400 years to complete. So again, as Gavin touts new financial literacy courses for high school students, we hope they will save room for him. That is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for joining us on 10 Minute Drill. Please like subscribe, leave us a review and tell your friends. Have a great day.