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Angus King: “They fired and riffed and pushed out people that we need.”

Featuring: Angus King, Independent | U.S. Senate Maine

Voting With Republicans: One of The Senators Defends His Decision

Published November 11, 2025 | Video Starts at 32:21

You're absolutely right. Doge was a disaster. We could have a whole program on that. I mean, they didn't know what they were doing. They fired and riffed and pushed out people that we need. that are senior people that people didn't. But listen, think about it this way. And I was thinking about this this morning. (32:21–32:25)

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“There are subsidies that can go to people making as much as $400,000, and that sticks in the craw of the Republicans.”
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“We pay 22% of GDP for health care in this country.”
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“That's about twice as high as any other industrialized country in the world.”
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“The position [Republicans] took at the beginning is we, we're not going to talk about or negotiate about the Affordable Care act or the…”
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“There are 42 million people in the country who are beneficiaries of The SNAP program. 175,000 in Maine.”
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“There are about two and a half million federal workers who aren't being paid.”
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“Part of this deal is three bipartisan appropriation bills, including Agriculture, which include SNAP.”
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“John Thune made a very clear, unequivocal statement on the floor yesterday. I guarantee there will be a vote on a bill drafted by the…”
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“We have a commitment to a bill now, as of yesterday morning, we had zero.”
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“Look what [Donald Trump] did with SNAP benefits. He cut them off.”
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“Everybody that's been furloughed has to be rehired. Anybody that furloughed or laid off or rift after October 1st has to be rehired.”
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“Everybody gets all back pay.”
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“There's protection against rifts going on in the future.”
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“There are about 15, 14 or 15 Republicans, my understanding, who want to do something on the ACA tax credits.”
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“One of the first bills I introduced was to extend the Affordable act tax credits indefinitely.”
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“The strategy that they undertook hasn't worked, isn't going to work, and this is the best path out.”
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“If we don't get this shutdown over, there's going to be real hurt, real hurt in for people across the country.”
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“The pain of not being able to afford health insurance is very real, too.”
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“SNAP benefits will flow and be guaranteed for the next year. That's part of this bill.”
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“If the filibuster went away, we would be facing a nationwide voter suppression law, a nationwide abortion ban, the abolishment of the ACA.”
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“Speaker Johnson this morning said if we pass this bill in the Senate, he'll have the House back here within 36 hours.”
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“The speaker of the House has total control over what comes to the floor.”
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“If they sign a discharge petition, then the bill has to come up the state, the speaker can't, can't sink it.”
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“The Trump administration is in charge of those files.”
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“The House would then be in a position to get those files.”
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“They should be unredacted and uncensored.”
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“The shutdown is not the be all and end all to discipline Donald Trump and solve the ACA problem.”
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“Most people in this country live paycheck to paycheck.”
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“Many people have now missed two paychecks.”
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“Doge was a disaster.”
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“Russell Vogt, this is a shutdown. It was Russell Vogt's dream.”
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