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And welcome to the program on your Friday afternoon. Started out chilly this morning, but warmed up kind of nice today. Everybody's looking forward to the weekend. I absolutely understand that. I got to start the show off today with a question for you. Do you guys know of anything that is going on at Prisma Health in Easley? I saw one report, just one little blip.
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and then nothing else after that. if you know of anything that is going on at Prisma Health and Easley, please let me know. We would love to get the information out there. Again, I don't have a whole lot of information. At least I don't want to give the information that I have because I only got one source for that and I'm not real positive about the source. So if you guys know of anything that's going on at Prisma Health and Easley, please let me know. Well,
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If you're planning on traveling this weekend, you definitely want to make sure that you leave for the airport very early. Much earlier than normal. Listen to this. In Houston, for example, officials at Hobby Airport are telling passengers to show up three to four hours before their flights just to make sure they get through TSA checkpoints on time.
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I'm very empathetic to the people that are having to deal with the three, four, five hour lines because obviously it's spring break. My flight is at five o'clock and I'm here at what is it, 1.30? So I'm trying to not get stuck. I expected it in a third world country but here, how long does it take to resolve the issue with the government? It's not, to me, it's shocking.
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And this morning DHS says more than 300 of its TSA workers have quit since February at the start of this partial government shutdown. CBS News reports absences have more than doubled and Denver Airport is even asking for donations of grocery store and gas gift cards for TSA workers who are now set to miss a full paycheck tomorrow.
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I mean, you know, part of me can't blame these folks. They're out there working. They're not getting paid. Why? Because Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have kept that section of the government shut down with the help of John Thune. And the reason that I say with the help of John Thune is because the Democrats have the power to shut down the government and John Thune continues to give them
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the power to shut down the government. All John Thune has got to do is do away with the filibuster. Bada boom, bada bing, everything is funded. But this just isn't in places like Houston or Denver. The Greenville Spartanburg Airport District is launching a food and personal essentials drive today to support federal employees.
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The effort is designed to assist transportation security administration agents and Customs and Border Protection officers impacted by the ongoing partial government shutdown. This is from Nicolette Miller. The drive seeks donations of self-stable food, household goods, and personal items for federal officers and their families. The airport district previously organized a similar support effort during a federal government shutdown in October of 2025.
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Donations can be dropped off daily between 7 and 7. The airport district has established two collection points for the public, the information center inside the terminal and the valet parking kiosk. The district will organize and distribute all collected items through a pop-up pantry. Airport leadership highlighted the necessity of these federal roles in maintaining regional travel. And this will keep going on until this shutdown.
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is stopped.
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Now my question is, when's it going to stop? When is it going to stop? Because remember, not only is TSA down, but also DHS is down, Department of Homeland Security. Also FEMA is down. Also the Coast Guard is down. They're not getting, none of those people are getting paid right now.
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because the Democrats are having a hissy fit over ICE. Now, what is up and running? What is not being affected by this? ICE. They're not being affected. That's a totally different budget line item.
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So, but then again, you know, as much blame as I can put on the Democrats for this, I got to put some blame over on John Thune and these Republicans as well.
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We don't want, we don't want to do away with the filibuster. All right, so you've got one of two options, you idiots in the Senate. You can either do away with the filibuster at a time where it will benefit you or the Democrats are gonna do away with the filibuster at a time where it will benefit them.
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Which one would you rather have? Because the moment the Democrats take back the Senate, the moment that happens, filibuster is gone and you will have nothing to show for it. Let's go to John in Waynesville. John, welcome. Yes, Charlie. Good point. uh Just reminding my fellow Americans that the Republican Party has House and Senate majority.
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they have the majority and just like under opa mama they fail to go after the clinton's they fail to do so many things because so stonewalling i have to remind the poor americans again that the republican heads are deep state they're working for the globalist and unless you wake up people and get them out of power we're going to be suffering and our families could be suffering our children and these victims that are being victimized over
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our country is just because of that. Because these guys have power over so much that they are failing to defend our people. Yeah, you're absolutely right about that, John. And the big thing about Donald Trump, the reason that they don't like Donald Trump is because what Donald Trump is doing, and a lot of this stuff you're not even hearing about, what Donald Trump is doing is he is dismantling the networks of the globalist.
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Donald Trump is actively fighting against the globalist and the globalist are pushing back. Even Lindsey Graham, from one report that I read, Lindsey Graham, while he's out there saying he's for the SAVE Act, yada, yada, yada. Oh, yes, I'm a sponsor of the SAVE Act. I'm absolutely um supporting it. Okay, Senator Graham, do you support doing away with the filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act?
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Oh no, I'm not for that. Well then you're not for it.
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then you are not for it.
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How would you, boy, we really need this passed. Well, how bad do you want it passed? Again, you can do away with the filibuster at a time where it can benefit you or the Democrats are gonna do with it, away with it at a time that it will benefit them. And when that happens, God help us. Because you guys were too gutless to do anything. When we get back, we'll tell you about the...
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