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Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number, 877-3813, 811-877-3813, 811. Welcome Mr. And Mrs. America. From sea to shining sea. In fact, the whole world out there. Welcome to our program. Trump's last 24 hours versus the Democrats. In the last 24 hours, President Trump has ushered in a major peace deal, taken on drug prices, instituted AI related research to end children's cancer, and spoke to the generals and admirals about his expectations. It's unbelievable. During the same 24 hours, the Democrats have insisted they will shut down the government. That says it all. They haven't done anything. Nothing except plotting to shut down the government. And what does that mean, ladies and gentlemen, I told you yesterday last evening that I'm going to address this, and I am, because all you hear are the pom pom. Boys and girls in the media say stuff that's just not true. And then you have the Democrats sloganeering and they're liars. So we're going to spend a little bit of time on this. Let's see here. With the help of some experts, there's a piece yesterday in the Hill by somebody named Cheryl Kelly. I don't know her. Apparently, she's been around various agencies over the years. But that is not the point. The point is what she wrote is very compelling, and I happen to know it's true. As somebody who served in the Reagan administration for eight years, she says the government never shuts down. What actually happens in budget standoffs? Congress is threatening another government shutdown as the September 30th deadline approaches. That would be midnight tonight, Mr. Producer. But here's what most Americans don't understand. Government is never shut down. Not once. Not once. What people call shutdowns affect only the most visible, least essential services, the actual machinery. Government continues operating normally during shutdowns. You know, I've said this over the decades. You couldn't shut down the entirety of the damn government if you wanted to. That's how massive, ubiquitous it is. Somewhere at 3am this morning, the U.S. drug the USDA, I should say U.S. department of Agriculture food safety inspectors walked into meat processing plants across America. They will examine 37 billion pounds of meat this year, not because politicians told them to do it, and certainly not this week, but because that's what the permanent government does every year. In windowless rooms at the National Weather Service, meteorologists are today analyzing atmospheric data that will determine whether your flight gets delayed tomorrow. At the USDA's global intelligence centers, analysts are tracking crop conditions in 95 countries that could affect American food prices months from now. Nuclear engineers are monitoring reactor cooling systems that can't take a day off. This will all continue going on and a whole lot more, regardless of budget negotiations in Congress. This is the government that Americans rarely see but depend on. Absolutely. And it reveals why the term government shutdown is fundamentally misleading. Stay with me on this, because you'll know something and tomorrow the media plagiarists will regurgitate it. What actually stops during shutdowns are the visible, public facing services that make citizens feel the political ping. This includes tourist visits to national parks in the Smithsonian and processing of some permits and applications. Here's what nuclear reactor monitoring Air traffic control Food safety inspection Disease surveillance Border security Law enforcement Military operations Social Security payments Medicare processing Medicaid payments Weather forecasting Thousands of other essential functions. As Paul Ryan said here in 2010, 83% of the government remains open. In terms of shutdown language, the government consists of 15 enormous agencies that run the country. The government in this sense, is very different and separate from politics. Politics is what happens in Congress. The debates, the standoffs, the theater of elected officials. Government is the infrastructure of 2.2 million bureaucrats who maintain complex systems regardless of election outcomes. This separation isn't bureaucratic efficiency. It's a firewall against political manipulation of these services. It prevents politicians from weaponizing food safety, air traffic control or nuclear security for electoral advantage. That's not really why it's in place, but that's okay. Each of the 15 cabinet level agencies operates as a scale most citizens can't comprehend. The Department of Transportation's FAA coordinates more than 44,000 daily flights serving more than 3 million daily airline passengers across 29 million square miles of airspace. Its system is so complex that a single software glitch can ground planes nationwide. The Department of Health and Human Services processes Medicare claims for approximately 63 million Americans with the program serving nearly everyone over 65 plus younger Americans with disabilities. Now, the Department of Energy manages not just power grids, but the entire nuclear weapons arsenal, warheads, delivery systems, and the scientific infrastructure that maintains them. The department's responsibilities include ensuring that nuclear reactors continue operating safely, regulating regardless of the political standoffs. What does shut down theater actually okay, what does shut down theater actually caused? Taxpayers lost productivity, for starters, she explains. Shutdowns also result in special expenses specifically related to preparing for shutdowns. Shutdowns can cause economic disruption. Finally, shutdowns cause a great deal of administrative drama. The government's actual structure is both simpler and more complex than political rhetoric suggests. Simpler because just 15 major agencies with clearly defined missions. It's more complex because each agency is as large as most multinational billion dollar companies, and they operate multiple sophisticated systems that interlock with each other. Department of Agriculture doesn't just inspect food. It manages global agricultural intelligence, rural banking systems, emergency food stockpiles, scientific research networks, and international trade relationships. When politicians threaten to shut down the department, they're really threatening to pause passport applications at rural offices while inspectors continue examining meat. And intelligence analysts keep tracking global grain supplies. So understanding the distinction would make Americans immune to much political manipulation. It can't be misled about agriculture policy if you know it involves operating intelligence networks in 95 countries. American government isn't all broken, it's just invisible. And she goes on, I've read you this. Not for the politics of it, or even her politics, whatever they may be. I read you this because the substance of it is true. 83% of the federal government does not shut down. It almost never shuts down. Almost never shuts down. And then you have certain programs that are specifically, specifically excluded. They call these essential programs. But you understand the government considers most of the government essential. Veterans benefits continue to be paid. Medicare, Social Security checks continue to go out. Medicaid continues to be paid. Border security continues. The military continues. And I go on and on. They're specifically exempted. Whether there's a budget or no budget, they keep plowing ahead. Here's how PBS writes it. A fight between Republicans and Democrats could lead to an October 1st federal government shutdown. Now, see what I mean? This is why I led with the other article. I've talked about this many, many times, regardless of that article, but I thought the article was very well stated. There is no government shutdown. Aspects of the government discontinue, some of them are inconvenient, and so forth and so on. There is no government shutdown. The government itself Congress itself has talked about essential and non essential services. It is determined that 87% of what it does is essential. But it goes on does pbs. Democrats are trying to leverage the must pass bill to extend Affordable Care act subsidies. Trump administration is tying a shutdown to potential mass federal worker layoffs. Current battle focus is on expiring subsidies for the Affordable Care act, which is unaffordable. Obamacare, ask anybody who's on it. And the healthcare sucks. But that's much like the Biden presidency. It's unaffordable and it sucks. Current battle focuses on that Democrats will hurt the ability of millions of enrollees to afford insurance. Democrats have also said they want to reverse Medicaid cuts. In other words, they want a fortune of money to go to illegal aliens where you pay for their health care. And many of them will get better health care than you. Republicans have said no. This is important to know. Now what the Republicans in the House already did is they passed what they call a clean continuing resolution. No changes, just a continuation of government till they finalize a big budget for the following year. Democrats are trying to use that to add on $1.5 trillion in new spending. Now when we come back, I'm going to tell you what that $1.5 trillion in new spending, certainly in a general way, that the Democrats want to spend on a continuing resolution that again has as its purpose to continue current programming and spending, not to increase it by $1.5 trillion. I'll be right back. The youth of today will be the leaders of tomorrow. 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So you have to hurry. Our nation's future depends on patriots like you spreading the word to make sure the next generation is equipped. Go to heritage.orglevin today. That's heritage.org Levin paid for by the Heritage Foundation. Oh my God. They're gonna shut down the government. This is what Washington does. This is what the media do. They've been doing it for so long. Tell me the government's been shut down over 20 times. I'll get to that too. Have any of you suffered as a result of that anytime over the last 50 years? No. No you haven't. The speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, who has to deal with these reprobates, these Democrats, as does Thune in the Senate, he put out what the Democrats radical counter demands are on this continuing resolution. Now the Republicans had a clean nonpartisan short term measure to keep the government open while appropriations committees figure their finish their hearings. Now what the Democrats want is $1.5 trillion in the short term bill, bunch of partisan demands for a four week extension in exchange for a four week extension of current spending. They're saying, okay, but we want $1.5 trillion in some of the most radical things that you and the American people reject and voted against. They want to restore taxpayer funded free health care for illegal aliens, which the President and the Republicans cut. Let me repeat this. Taxpayer funded free health care for illegal aliens. How many of you who are not on Medicare and Medicaid, but how many of you get free health care? You might say in your job you get health care. I know, but you pay for that. You pay for it either through reduced wages or you pay for it with direct sharing of expenses. But why should we give illegal aliens free health care? They're not even supposed to be here. Now that'll break the system. And it certainly encouraged more illegal aliens to come into the United States of America. So the Democrats are constantly talking about the cost of health care. So ask Bernie Sanders as Hakeem Jeffries. Ask all of the Marxist Islamists. Well, if you're giving free health care to illegal aliens, that increases the price of health care to you, puts a greater demand on health care services and takes more money out of your pocket to subsidize people who aren't even citizens. So the Democrats want free health care for illegal aliens. What else do they want? They want to keep able bodied non working adults on taxpayer funded health care programs. So let's say it's a 28 year old, he's sitting on a sofa, he's drinking soda, eating Cheetos, watching TV all day. They get free health care. The Republicans said no, you got to show that you're working 20 hours a week, even volunteering for some organization. If you, if you have your mental facilities, faculties, if you have your physical faculties, you need to participate in the workforce. You can't just sit around and get free health care from the people who are working. So they want to keep able bodied non working adults on taxpayer funded health care programs. That's number two and it costs a fortune. They want to permanently extend Biden's COVID pandemic era Obamacare subsidies. What does all that mean? There were certain programs that were passed with enormous expenses that we were told to get us through the pandemic heightened expenses. And so the Trump administration and the Republicans said, no, that's enough. The Democrats want to retain that these massive excessive spending on COVID pandemic era Obamacare subsidies. What else? They repeal $50 billion. They repeal it in rural health care funding, hurting small hospitals and clinics vulnerable to communities. They want all the money for the big cities. 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So you're learning more now about government shutdowns than most people will ever learn at watching television or listening to other shows that's for sure. Now I explained this last night. I've explained it for 20 some years. Revenue into the government never stops. It never stops. That's the other, the other outrageous, misleading nomenclature when they talk about a government shutdown. The IRS doesn't shut down and you keep paying your taxes. I'm looking at a site called Fiscal Data from the Treasury Department. Oh yeah, I was up early working on this like two or three in the morning when my mental juices just keep flowing. In fiscal year 2024, the last year we have the overall number for the largest source of federal revenue was individual income taxes. Your income taxes, 49.3% so far. In fiscal 2025, the largest source of federal revenue is individual income taxes, 50.3% of total revenue. Now that revenue, and there's others, and I'll get to it, is used to fund these programs. So the government, the money keeps flowing in. The money keeps flowing in, no matter what. And how much money keeps flowing in? A lot. That's giving you an example. In 2024, the government collected nearly $5 trillion. It's going to collect more this year. The government also collects revenue from services like admissions to national parks, custom duties on foreign imports, and of course, tariffs now which are significant. And the majority of this is used to pay bureaucrats, the buildings, the departments, the functioning of the government, as well as obviously some goods and maintenance and so forth. So the government raised nearly $5 trillion in 2024, but the government spent 6.75 trillion in 2024. The official yearly deficit in 2024 was 1.83 trillion. See, that's the problem. But the money will continue to flow in, you understand? The money will continue to flow in. Now, most of the money the government gets comes from individual taxpayers, small businesses and corporations through income taxes. Additional sources of tax revenue consist of excise taxes, estate taxes and other taxes and fees. Now, you also pay another 34% of what the government takes in Social Security and Medicare taxes. Now, most of you pay The Medicare taxes 100%. Social Security is paid in part by you and your employer. So that's another 34% or 84% of the federal revenue in many cases a direct taxation on you. They have trillions of dollars, $5 trillion. Now, revenue also comes from payments to federal agencies, the Department of Interior, you know, for leasing land and for herding, for drilling and so forth and so on your national park. The fees it charges. Little stuff. Little stuff. So you have significant massive federal revenue. And it's going up and up and up, almost $5 trillion. But you have significant massive spending like mankind has never known. Six and three quarters trillion. A lot of that came from the spending by the Democrats and the so called Inflation Reduction act which had nothing to do with it. A massive boondoggle around $2 trillion. That blew up the budget, blew up the economy with inflation and is still lingering. It's still lingering. Now this Federal. In fiscal 2024, federal revenue was equal. Revenue Revenue was equal to 17% of the total gross domestic product. Well, how much was the gross domestic product? It was 28.95 trillion. In other words, $29 trillion. That's a lot. 17% of the government's revenue, or excuse me, the government's revenue. 17% of that came straight out of the economy. Straight out of the economy. Massive. And that means that spending of the gross domestic product is around 19%. So what does that mean? Let's just round it off. The 20%. That means of all the money spent in the United States, the federal government out of every dollar, spent about 20 cents of every dollar, spent 20 cents of every dollar. And the Democrats wanted to spend more. They want $1.5 trillion more in one four month period, America in one four month period. What will that do to inflation? What will that do to the value of our currency? It'll tank them. And for what? Illegal aliens? Their health care? Come on, stick with me. This is a do nothing Democrat party that wants to sink this country financially by revolution with these Marxist Islamists. How can you look at this and say they love America? How can you? You can't. In my opinion. That's why I wrote the book the Democrat Party Hates America. You know why? Because the Democrat Party hates America. Shutdowns over the last 50 years and yet we survived. How's that possible? How's that possible? 1976, the government shut down under Gerald Ford in the Democratic Congress for 11 days. 1977 under Jimmy Carter, 12 days. 1977 again under Jimmy Carter, eight days. 1977 again under Jimmy Carter, eight days. 1978 under Jimmy Carter, 17 days. Hello? 1979 under Jimmy Carter, 11 days. 1981 under Reagan, two days. 1982 under Reagan, one day. 1982 again under Reagan, three days. 1983 under Reagan, three days. 1984 under Reagan, two days. Another 1984 under Reagan, one day. 1986 under Reagan, one day. 1987 under Reagan, one day. 1990 under George H.W. bush, four days. 1995 under Bill Clinton, five days. 1996 under Clinton, 21 days. 2013 under Barack Milhouse, Benito Obama, 17 days. That was the filibuster led by the great Ted Cruz tried to stop him from this. Obamacare. 2018 under Donald Trump, three days now between Obama notice and Trump. George W. Bush did nothing to try and stop the profligate spending. Nothing. Because he and his buddy Carl and all were so afraid politically of a government shutdown, which we know is not a shutdown. 2018 under Trump, one that lasted several hours. 2019 under President Trump, 35 days. And that's the last of it. And we're here, we've survived. We're here to talk about it. Mr. Producer. We're here to talk about it because you know and you'll be able to tell your neighbors, your friends, your co workers, the government never shuts down. Little aspects of it do. Some of it hurts certain people, most of it hurts nobody. And the government itself tries to make it hurt as much as possible. Of course the government, so called shutdown. The Democrats will force it because they want to pay for their illegal alien constituency. The same people they let into the country, the same people they refused to deport from the country. And now they want to make sure they have free health care, which of course weaken our health care system. Reduce what's available to you. Longer lines, longer waiting periods for critical medical services and you're paying for it. That's the position of the Democrats. Only then will they not, quote, unquote, shut down the government. So the shutting down of the government is not the end of the world because most of it doesn't shut down the media. And the Democrats and some Republicans will pretend that it does. The Democrats and the bureaucrats will try to make it as painful as possible, but they only have so much to work with. All true and all to blackmail the President for programs that are outrageous and will bankrupt the country down the road. Like health care for illegal aliens. Like able bodied young men and young women doing no work and getting free health care from all of you who do work. Why should you pay for illegal aliens getting health care? Or fellow Americans who sit their fat asses on a sofa, watch TV all day and don't even try to get a job, even a voluntary position for 20 hours a week. 20 hours a week. The Democrats want to reverse that requirement that the Republicans put back in because Biden and Obama took it out. Some minimal work requirement. Oh, that's just too much. You must be against people having health care. And that's the way that goes, that propaganda. So the money keeps flowing into the feds, about $400 billion a month while they cry, they are broke. The essential services of the government pay attention to this point. It is important, will be paid. The $5 trillion will continue to flow into the government, but they've spent way beyond that and they want the money to continue to spend way beyond it. But Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans benefits, law enforcement, military, all these other things, they continue to march along. They continue to march along. I do love what the president wants to do and is going to do. He's going to punish the big government Democrats, obviously he's going to say, well, since you're, you're not passing a budget, I can't spend money. I can only spend money to the level in which the money comes in. But all this other money I can't spend, all this deficit spending and so forth. Therefore I have to fire people. And now what we'll do is we'll target certain agencies, certain programs and so forth and so on. Most of them radical, most of them having nothing to do with nothing, many of them counterproductive, if not outright problematic, and we'll cut them. Thank you for the opportunity. That's the genius of this president. I'll be right back. The youth of today will be the leaders of tomorrow. And it's more critical now than ever that we train up the next generation to fearlessly defend conservative values. 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Our nation's future depends on patriots like you spreading the word to make sure the next generation is equipped. Go to heritage.orglevin today. That's heritage.org Levin paid for by the Heritage Foundation. So what? What's the key to everything I've been talking about on this, this so called government shutdown? Relax, Relax. You're going to be fine. You're going to hear the fear mongering the scare mongering, the threats. Relax. You can't let The Democrats give $1.5 trillion, much of it to their buddies. Break our healthcare system, you're going to hear nothing but lies. What I call negative language to support agitprop. Our friend Jimmy Agitprop. Lenin, 1902. Now it's relevant. That's what you're going to hear. You're going to hear lives. And just if you don't have a pair of earplugs, go buy a pair of earplugs or put some headphones on or earbuds in or whatever it is. Just, just. Or put the TV on. Watch the Gem Shopping Network. I always enjoy that myself. It's a relief. Well, we do have a breaking story here that I want to bring to your attention from our friends at the Daily Wire. Utah State University. That is where Charlie was assassinated, right, Rich? The building was evacuated due to suspicious device ahead of a TPUSA event. Authorities issued an emergency evacuation order at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, Tuesday. That would be today after a suspicious device, quote unquote, was found just hours before a Turning Point USA event was scheduled to take place on campus. TP USA founder Kirk was supposed to peak there. We know what happened on September 10th. He was assassinated. And this was the first Turning Point USA hosted event in the state since the assassination. Utah state universities run 120 miles. It's a different university, actually. It's. Yeah, the correction, Utah Valley is where Charlie Kirk was assassinated. This is 120 miles north of that new video posted on social media by local news outlet KSL tv. Police are heard yelling fire in the hole. Before a loud explosion is heard. That is they're blowing up the device. The building that was evacuated was not where the Turning Point event was set to take place, but was at the university. A different university, but in Utah nonetheless. I'm telling you what, it is crazy out there. It is dangerous. Absolutely dangerous. And 90% of it, if not more, is going one way. It's the left. I don't care what these others morons have to say. That's what it is. You see the speech by the President of the United States with the generals and the admirals. He was very supportive, said, I'll have your backs. You see the Hegset speech too. That was unbelievable. This is really remarkable administration. It really is. I just think the cabinet is second to none. Young, vigorous, motivated. They think outside the box. You don't even have to agree with everything. But look what the President has done just today. Just today. Addressing the generals and admirals in our country, addressing childhood cancer and tying it to AI advancements, addressing the prices of drugs. Whether you agree with what he's doing or not, he's jumping in. He's having to deal with this potential central government issue. And of course, he just came off this, this peace deal in the Middle east one day. This segment of the podcast is exclusively sponsored by Pure Talk. Pure Talk offers great coverage and can save your family money on your wireless bill every single month. Go to PureTalk.com to find the plan that's right for you. Thank you again for listening and thank you so much for this sponsorship. PureTalk. He's here. He's here now. Broadcasting him from the underground command post deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a nondescript building, we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Levin. Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number, 8778-738138-11877-381-3811. Ladies and gentlemen, the Democratic Socialists of America are, among others, the enemy within. They're not democratic and they're not socialists and they have nothing to do with supporting America. The entire nomenclature of this entity is intended to mislead. That's the nature of the Marxists and the Islamists. This is the party of the Marxists and the Islamists fused together under this so called Democratic Socialists of America party. This is why you see Bernie Sanders campaigning for this guy. This is why AOC fully supports this guy. The Democratic Party is irrelevant. This is the Democratic Socialists of America. Now it is the Marxist Islamist party, which means it is a facade to overthrow the country. It is a facade to overthrow our economic system. It is a facade to overthrow and destroy our culture and our civil society. That's what it is. You can use words like affordability and whatever other words they want. 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