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Ben Shapiro (0:00)
Well, folks, as always, there's a lot happening in the news. The Democrats are now threatening a government shutdown. No one really knows why. Pete Buttigieg apparently wants to run for president. A lot happening. But you don't just watch the Daily Wire. You are the Daily Wire. Put your money where your values are. Join All Access. Get everything. Every article, every show, every documentary, every film, 100 uncensored and ad free. That's not all. As an All Access member, you're not just watching. You become part of the conversation. You in live chat with me and all the other Daily Wire hosts during our weekly exclusive. All Access live events, debate with our writers, connect with the community that actually thinks for itself. Join now@dailywire.com subscribe okay, so you thought Democrats couldn't possibly get any dumber and yet somehow they have managed to achieve this signal feat. The reason I say this is because right now President Trump is having some trouble when it comes to the economy. Obviously, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is off significantly since he took office. There's a lot of concern about the possibility of recession in the near future in the United States. Despite some pretty strong economic fundamentals. And in the polling data, President Trump is actually moving the wrong way on the economy. According to a brand new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. The question is, how have Donald Trump's policies affected US economic conditions? 51% say worsened conditions. 28% say improved conditions. 21% said have no effect. Okay, so that is not a great number for President Trump. 51% again say worsened conditions. 21% say have no effect. Well, if things start to get worse, that 21% is going to cave into the 51%. You're going to end up with three quarters of Americans who are going to blame President Trump if the economy goes south. In all likelihood, only 44% of Americans currently approve of how President Trump is handling the economy. The economy, inflation. In terms of helping the middle class, 43% approve. Only 39% approve of President Trump's tariffs. And in terms of helping the middle class, only 43% approve. So these are bad numbers for President Trump in this polling. Now, again, that doesn't mean that if the economy picks up or continues to truck along, that President Trump can't heal all of that. It just means that because of all the volatility that's been injected into the economy, because of all the talk about tariffs, which again, I don't really see the purpose of, I want President Trump to succeed in effectuating his agenda. And if that agenda gets thwarted by an economic downturn. That would be a very large scale mistake. Well, that's an opening for Democrats, a clear and obvious opening for Democrats. And yet Democrats are not only not going to take advantage of the opening, they are going to shoot themselves directly in the head. Which I gotta say, I, as a Republican, approve. I'm just not sure what you are doing. The reason I say this is because Republicans were able to, through the leadership of speaker of the House Mike Johnson and no thanks to Thomas Massie, pass a continuing resolution that will fund the government until about September. That gives the Republicans plenty of time to negotiate a budget deal amongst themselves, come up with the one big beautiful bill that they need to pass and get that done without the government simply falling apart. Right. So that's why the government shutdown was averted by the Republicans in the House and now it gets passed on to the Senate. And in the Senate, obviously, the Republicans also have a majority. In fact, they have a 53 seat majority. Rand Paul has said he's gonna vote against the continuing resolution, but there's still 52 votes left. Even if it got down to 50 votes, JD Vance would then break the tie in favor of the continuing resolution. So if you're a Democrat at this point, you're looking at the state of the economy, which is somewhat dicey. It appears to be, again, volatile. You can't predict the future there. And that is really the only tool you have to attack President Trump. And what you don't want to do is get into the business of owning the economy. If you're the Democrats, why would you want to own that? If Republicans had followed down on the job and been unable to pass a continuing resolution, you could have blamed Republicans for the shutdown. This was the Democratic plan in the House. It's the reason why, for example, Hakeem Jeffries instructed Democrats not to vote in favor of the so called clean cr, the clean continuing resolution, which is just a maintenance of funding at current levels all the way through September. So Democrats, except for one, did not participate in the cr. But now the Democrats seem to want to actively kill the CR and push America into a government shutdown that they clearly will own. That's the part that makes no sense, politically speaking. According to the Wall Street Journal, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threw a wrench into a Republican plan to avert a government shutdown this weekend, saying there was not enough Democratic support to advance the measure. Funding federal agencies through September 30th. Now you're saying to yourself, hold up, don't Republicans actually have a majority in the Senate. Yes, they do. But in order to overcome a filibuster, in order to invoke cloture, you need 60 votes. Now, Democrats could simply not filibuster. They could just say, fine, listen, you want to vote for the cr, vote for the CR Instead. Democrats are now actively considering filibustering a clean continuing resolution, which, again, makes no sense. Most Americans are just saying, leave us alone. That's effectively what the CR does. It just kind of leaves things alone. If Democrats want to throw a wrench into that for no apparent reason, then they will own any government shutdown. And then if the economy turns south, then I guess they own it. They own a big chunk of that because a government shutdown is going to throw all sorts of scares into the market. Schumer said that Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to move the resolution. He indicated that his party was prepared to block it. And then he blamed Republicans, saying they chose a partisan path. Well, I mean, it seems kind of partisan to use your 47 votes in the United States Senate to hold up 53 votes in the United States Senate simply because what, your base is mad at you for not standing up to President Trump's agenda enough. So Schumer's alternative, believe it or not, is in fact a clean cr, but for a month. So instead of this clean continuing resolution that funds the government through September, instead He's proposing a 30 day clean continuing resolution, and then we can redo all of this in a month. He, of course, is hoping the Republican coalition will fall apart in the meantime and that the economy will fall apart in the meantime during that month.