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Chris Murphy: “Republicans came out of their lunch with a brand new…”

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Trump's Shutdown: Can The Democrats Save Healthcare? w/ Sen. Chris Murphy

Published October 13, 2025 | Video Starts at 14:38

Something interesting happened just about 10 minutes ago. So we had our lunches today. The Republicans all huddled for lunch, Democrats all huddled for lunch. And the Republicans came out of their lunch with a brand new message, one that we hadn't heard before. Their message today was, well, Democrats have this big protest coming up. This is the no Kings rally on October 18th. (14:38–14:44)

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“Premiums are scheduled to increase on people who have Affordable Care act plans by 75%, 100%.”
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“They are sending our troops into Portland and Chicago.”
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“Today, the average adult spends half as much time every week with friends and family in person than they did just 30 years ago.”
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“The fall off in socialization has been even more severe for our kids. They're in some instances spending 60, 70% less time in in-person…”
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“They just bought up Paramount, which owns CBS and immediately installed Barry Weiss, you know, right leaning commentator in charge of the…”
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“There's kind of a magic number of citizens that once they hit the street, end up just putting the sand in the gears of that descent away…”
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“ICE to increase its ranks by upwards of 10,000 personnel.”
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“They [the government] are trying to create a state run media.”
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“They [the government] are trying to use the Department of Justice to suppress dissent and lock up their critics.”
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“80% of Americans now say that we're in the middle of a political Crisis.”
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“More than 50% of the country is worried about losing their right to free speech in the short term.”
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“When we send basic oversight letters to these agencies to ask questions about how they're spending money, they never, ever respond.”
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“Trump is rooting for a shutdown because he does believe that he has these extraordinary powers.”
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“The President is actually required to spend money in all 50 states instead of not spending money in places like California and New York and…”
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“The House of Representatives is not in session. This is the third week that they've been on kind of an unscheduled recess.”
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“His [Trump's] approval ratings are, you know, 10 points lower.”
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“Premiums are about to go up on millions of Americans.”
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“We are in the middle of a totalitarian takeover.”
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“Republicans are already starting to sweat a little bit.”
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“They are feeling the heat because they're getting more and more calls and emails from constituents.”
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“They are not Democrats, small D, you know, inside the Republican Party.”
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“They have come to believe over the last four years that democracy is just not worth it any longer if it elects Democrats.”
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“Their version of Americanism is a Christian, white, male dominated America.”
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“I think they're just gonna, you know, do what they've done in Turkey and Hungary and other countries like that.”
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“There are some real radicals inside the White House who do have plans to convert America to something different than liberal democracy.”
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“He's, you know, pausing funding for Democratic states.”
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“One of the states that was exempted was Nevada. One of the two Democratic senators from Nevada voted for Trump's continuing resolution.”
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“They are also getting ready a campaign to crack down on what they term far left terrorist groups.”
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“That list may include indivisible and move on.”
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“The threat of IRS action against your not for profit chills your interest to speak truth to power.”
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“I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy.”
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“This isn't popular, and Democrats have been really reluctant to talk about anything connected to immigration.”
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“We are historically unpopular.”
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“He is simply operationalizing government to steal from poor people, cut their health care, to enrich himself.”
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“Maybe a constitutional amendment to ban private money, corporate money, anonymous money from campaigns.”
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“We have an isolation and loneliness epidemic in this country.”
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“The surgeon general under Biden talked about how [isolation and loneliness] has health consequences. You're more likely to have heart…”
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“I bet you a lot of those people who were rioting at the Capitol on January 6th were pretty lonely people that came to believe these…”
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“It's really worrying that increasingly there's a really small number of people in this country who control the platforms upon which we…”
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“They now are looking to buy an even bigger media company that includes CNN.”
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“The Nope act is, you know, is a bill about banning political prosecutions.”
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“It's illegal to arrest somebody just because they're protesting the government, but that hasn't stopped Trump from doing it.”
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“If his approval ratings stay down in the low 30s, mid-30s, we got a chance to win places like, like Texas, flip a couple seats that people…”
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“I wrote something longer. I think it was for... American Prospect, I think that's where it was.”
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