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Featuring: Mike Kennedy, Republican | U.S. House Utah, 3rd Congressional District

Utah Rep. Mike Kennedy speaking to media about government shutdown

Published November 4, 2025 | Video Starts at 30:30

So I'm motivated to making our debt move in the right direction. But it's not going to happen tomorrow or next year. But We can make our national debt better, and we're working together to try to find the political will to make these things better. Thanks for joining me today. And, Emma, thanks for setting this up. Yeah. Thanks for coming, everyone. Yeah. It's a pleasure. How do I disconnect from all these. Thank you, sir. (30:30–30:38)

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“Their premiums are not going to be more than $50 a month.”
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“I've heard stories of $600,000 a year. People are still getting premium benefits associated with this.”
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“We're $38 trillion in debt.”
Utah Rep. Mike Kennedy speaking to media about government shutdown | Uploaded November 4, 2025 | 13:30-13:32
“There are 1.4 million illegal aliens on Medicaid right now.”
Utah Rep. Mike Kennedy speaking to media about government shutdown | Uploaded November 4, 2025 | 16:31-16:37
“On September 19, the congressional Republicans sent a check waiting for the endorsement of the Senate to just sign the check and fund the…”
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“We need 60 votes in the Senate to fund the government.”
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“We have 53 Republicans, reportedly, based on what I understand, as we've gotten up to 55 votes, yes, for the clean continuing resolution to…”
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“We need five more Democrats that are willing to fund the government.”
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“Right now we have people in the military not being paid, security individuals. We have air traffic controllers who are not being paid.”
Utah Rep. Mike Kennedy speaking to media about government shutdown | Uploaded November 4, 2025 | 04:12-04:20
“We have flights that are being canceled and delays as well.”
Utah Rep. Mike Kennedy speaking to media about government shutdown | Uploaded November 4, 2025 | 04:19-04:24
“September 19th, we sent a check to the Senate Democrats to sign and fund the government.”
Utah Rep. Mike Kennedy speaking to media about government shutdown | Uploaded November 4, 2025 | 06:19-06:25
“Chuck Schumer and the Schumer shutdown is driving this whole thing.”
Utah Rep. Mike Kennedy speaking to media about government shutdown | Uploaded November 4, 2025 | 06:25-06:29
“Five Democrats, all we need. And if they'd be willing to do that, we can open the government tomorrow.”
Utah Rep. Mike Kennedy speaking to media about government shutdown | Uploaded November 4, 2025 | 06:28-06:34
“The Democrats going back to 2020, when they set this up, they're the ones that set the deadline for the end of this year.”
Utah Rep. Mike Kennedy speaking to media about government shutdown | Uploaded November 4, 2025 | 09:47-09:54
“We know that there's waste, fraud and abuse and that program as well as many others, and we need to reform the program.”
Utah Rep. Mike Kennedy speaking to media about government shutdown | Uploaded November 4, 2025 | 10:57-11:03
“It's shameful that these Senate Democrats with Chuck Schumer leading them would feel like it's appropriate to withhold food from people as a…”
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“We have already passed out of the Budget Committee 12 out of 12 of the appropriations bills and three of those have passed off the House…”
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“We should pass [the no shutdowns act] so that if there is the threat of a budget, irreconcilable budget issue that we get an automatic two…”
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“It's actually been introduced by Dusty G. Johnson and Ron Johnson. Yes. And I've co-sponsored it.”
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“I've voluntarily said I'm not going to take a paycheck until my government employee colleagues and constituents are going to be paid.”
Utah Rep. Mike Kennedy speaking to media about government shutdown | Uploaded November 4, 2025 | 20:53-21:03
“It's pretty frustrating for us to see the government shut down and the American people should be disgusted, frankly, that five Senate…”
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“The Republicans have failed to keep the government shut down in the past forever, which is appropriate. The government needs to work.”
Utah Rep. Mike Kennedy speaking to media about government shutdown | Uploaded November 4, 2025 | 23:37-23:44
“In this case, the Democrats will fail as well. The government will reopen.”
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“In the meantime, I don't think congressmen should be paid. And that's why I've opened the no work, no pay bill.”
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“I think Obamacare has been a failure on many, many levels.”
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“I think Obamacare is here to stay. I mean, we're 15 years into this experiment.”
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“There's something really wrong with the system that in the past 40 years has turned into such an expensive prohibitive system as to cost.”
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“We need to reform PBM. PBMs need to be reformed.”
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“There are many of us that we could access Medicare, 67 years old, that save a bundle of money and would not damage most people.”
Utah Rep. Mike Kennedy speaking to media about government shutdown | Uploaded November 4, 2025 | 29:25-29:36
“Why don't we reform the programs like Social Security, Medicare for those, those children, give them an opportunity to make adjustments as a…”
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“It's not a lack of ideas, it's just a lack of political will to move on these things because nobody seems to care about what is now a $38…”
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