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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Back to Kelly and Blaze. Hey, welcome to Friday morning.
We finally made it to another weekend, Memorial Day weekend.
Hopefully you have a long weekend and you're not going
to work on Monday. Recovering this morning's top stories. President
Trump's Big Beautiful Bill has passed the House. Lawmakers approved
the massive spending plan and a two fifteen to two
fourteen vote. All Democrats and two Republicans voted against the bill.
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The bill, if it becomes law, would make big cuts
to Medicaid, with an estimated seven point six million Americans
losing health insurance over the next ten years. It would
also add new requirements to food assistants, eliminate taxes on tips,
while putting billions towards fighting illegal immigration and a nationwide
missile defense system. The bill now moves on to the Senate. Meanwhile,
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interest rates are spiking due to the potential cost to
the bill. According to Federal Reserve of Governor Christopher Waller,
the cost of the bill caught the bond market off
guard and impacted interest rates. Waller says the markets are
watching the fiscal policy, and they have some concerns about
whether it's going to be reducing the deficit or not.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So the medicaid angle on this seems to be getting twisted.
So we have people who are in our country illegally
getting Medicaid checks and they want to clear up the waste,
fraud and abuse with regards to that. Then there's the
work requirements of people who are able bodied and apparently
getting checks. So of course it's being painted. It seems
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as if here in the narrative with the media that
this is, you know, people who are on Medicaid purposefully
for you know, legitimate reasons are not going to get
a check, which is not the case. They keep saying
this over and over again.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, seven point six million America is losing their health insurance.
They're not losing their health insurance. They're losing their freebie.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Right the health insurance that let's be honest, and we've
been talking about this. People on Medicare have to pay
you know, extra for with supplemental coverage and then still
don't even get the coverage. Well, in Medicare, if it's
in care that.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You pay in paid into.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You pay in for your whole life into medicare You know,
Medicaid is for poor people, all right, so those supposedly
in poverty, except you know how much fraud is out there.
Same thing with the Snap benefits, same thing with and
now you can buy And it's funny because we're talking
about all this Maha stuff. Look at all the stuff
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you can buy with Snap.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Oh, believe me, people checking out at the grocery store.
See all the things that people could buy with Snap.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It's not only the grocery store. You see it on
the gas station signs, use your Snap benefits here. What
do you think you're buying that's healthy at a gas
station to feed your kids?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Well, there's so much to dig into with the big
beautiful bill. And will they get it passed by the
fourth of July? And what's it going to look like
coming back out of the Senate? I mean, this is
this is this is a whole long conversation that we're
going to continue to have, I know.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
From major events to local headlines. This is Charleston's Morning
News on ninety four to three WSC. Now back to
Kelly and Blaze. Every Betafrad who voted against this bill
was basically saying, hey, it's really great for the economy
right now to have the largest tax hike in it history.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Kevin Hasset there, truth National Economic Director. By the way,
think about this. Every single House Democrat voted against eliminating
taxes on overtime for our police officers, our nurses, our
first responders. And you have to ask yourself the big
question why, well, I.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Mean, there's so much more involved, So I don't you know,
I'd like to be fair, but it's probably going to
be misconstrued because this is how politics work. Because you
singled out the you know, the two things out of
this whole huge bill, and then say why are they
voting against that? And they do it to our side,
and then we do it to their side. I don't
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know what their motivations are.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, but look over in the Senate this past week,
the Democrats all voted with the Republicans unanimously to give
tax breaks on was it overtime? This exact very thing here.
So what's going on in the House that the Democrats
didn't get? You know, they didn't get the memo in
the House that the ones over in the Senate did.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, there's three million other things in this bill. So
It's not as simple as voting up or down on
that one issue. And that's how they play the politics
with it. And that's why they even tack things into
these bills because they know that you're going to vote
against it for some other reason, and then you can
hang this other albatross around your neck.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Well, this is this is a two fifteen to two
fourteen vote. I will say that to your point, we
had Republicans that didn't vote for this. And I'm curious
for looking at the other side of the aisle here,
because I started with Democrats. Do you think that the
Kentucky Republican who didn't vote for this is going to
have a problem or the Ohio Republican that didn't vote
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for this will have a problem. Come I suppose an
next go around when his constituents had to the ballot box.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I don't know. I mean, that's for them to decide
and navigate political you.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Know, but there's there's reasons not to vote for the bill.
I mean, I can see the fiscal responsibility of it.
You saw where interest rates have spiked because of worry
over adding more trillions to the deficit. He's downgraded, you know,
the credit standing in the United States and the big banks.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
That happened before the vote. That's something that we talked
about with our congressman who actually was one of the
holdouts who voted for it, Ralph Norman here live this
week on the program. That's one of the reasons why
he was holding out because he said, looks downgraded us
yet again, and this.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Is before they passed this bill and have well not
yet but potentially added trillions more to the deficit. So
if we're already being downgraded before those trillions even get added,
I mean, we'll see.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
What the Senate does.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
By the way, when I mentioned the Kentucky and Ohio representatives,
that's Massi and Davidson, the Republicans who voted no along
with Democrats. So I'm just curious to see if that
comes back to bite them. And then there were two
that didn't vote out of Arizona and New York and
I mean Republicans here, so eked by with one actual
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vote two fifteen two fourteen. There were two abstentions as well,
so you know, it kicks over to the Senate. They're
hoping that this is going to get done by the
fourth of July. They a lot of people saying this
is a big lift, but drone view here you're looking
at a tax cut or the largest tax hike.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Well that was the danger of lumping it all into
the big beautiful bill in the first place. And so
now the Senate going to have to hash out, just
like the House just did, have their arguments and debates
and all of that, and then they're going to come
up with their version and then they're going to have
to reconcile it. So yeah, this is nowhere near over yet,
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So we'll see what happens. But you know, to how
it's going to affect these individuals in their districts, you know,
who knows how they're taking that calculation that the people
will still stand behind them.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Well, I believe, and I didn't get to hear. I
wanted to go back and take a listen to Thomas
Massey who voted no on this. I think he was
on Clay and Buck yesterday, and I want to check
the podcast there on the iHeart app, which, by the way,
we have long Memorial weekend coming up, y'all. The iHeart
app is free to download today if you're paying for
music or podcasts or anything else. It's a shame because
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the iHeart app is free, and if we're talking about
Memorial Weekend, if you're going to be out and about
whether it's on the boat or grilling or anything else
at the beach, the playlist already curated for you. So
whether you're on the lawnmower and you want to, you know, binge,
listen to some of the things, like I've missed this week,
and yesterday was one of them because I caught the
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tail end of Thomas Massey. You know how that is,
where you catch the tail end and you're like, oh,
I want to know why he voted. No, I want
to know what he said, And actually it wasn't. Clan
bucket was during the ride home is Seawn Hannity three
to six here on ninety four to three WSC.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
So yeah, I do that all the time, and I
wish it was like the TV, because you know, you
get used to rewinding on the TV if you miss something,
and I'm reaching for that all the time in the
car and I'm like.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Damn, yeah, you can't do it.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
We're spoiled that way.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, we are. I wish you could rewinden the radio.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, the good news is that's kind of like what
podcasts are for and what I really enjoy about our
podcasts on the iHeart app. And it seems like everybody's
got a podcast now, doesn't it you. Actually it is
on demand and rewind it and you can share certain
portions of it right in the middle or right here
where you know there's a really important point being made.
(09:07):
I love that I can share right here, like did
you hear this? Listen to this, like, you know, because
we've got a lot coming at us. It's overwhelming at times,
much like this big beautiful bill.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Well, we'll see how overwhelming it is at the end
of the day and whether it was a mistake to
combine all of these issues together into one big beautiful bill.
I mean, I can see why the President wanted that done.
Otherwise he'd spend the next three years trying to get
this stuff done. But you know, there's also the danger
that they won't get it done. And then these tax
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cuts from his original administration are set to expire this
year and it'll be the biggest tax hike in history.
So that's what's at stake here. So we'll see what
the Senate does with it, and then if they can
reconcile it between the Senate and the House, so there's
plenty of work to still be.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Done with that.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
It's not going to look the same in the Senate
with regards to Democrat support. Let's hope.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, it all works in an odd way. And that's
why I don't even like paying that much attention until
you know it's going about to become law because you
don't know what it's, how they're going to change it,
what they're going to do. They have all these little
parliamentarian tricks that they pull. They try to snow the
people over what they're doing, So until it's about to
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become law, you don't know what you're getting. They're just
in the meantime doing what they normally do, muddy in
the waters, so you can't see what they're really what
they're really doing. Paul's on the line. He said he
had a question for us this morning, and I'll leave
that to you to pose.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Paul morning, Paul, Good morning Kelly, And we're leaving it
to you and play used to figure this out for
us because we have so much other things to think about.
So we we call you know, we listened to you
on the radio, so that y'all will have all this
figured out so that we don't have to weigh it
back and forth, like all right, well, we're raised the
(11:11):
debt ceiling. I thought we were here to say the
same money reduced to I mean the debt ceiling, Like, goodness,
how much money do we We owed a lot of
money and you said on there and Moody's ratings has
lowered our rating for credit and we're lower than a
lot of other countries all over the world, and we're
raising our debt seting. I'm sorry if I sound confused.
(11:36):
I am, And that's why I'm calling you, because so
y'all are so smart. You got this stuff figured out.
I want y'all to go ahead and let us know
exactly the situation so we can go on about our business.
I mean, I know that's a simple request.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Well listen, this is why we had Representative Ralph Norman
on live. He was a holdout, the soul holdout here
from South Carolina and one of the only few. It
was a handful les than five, along with Chip Roy
and a few others from other states who held out
and said we're supposed to be cutting spending, not adding
to it. That's but he went on to vote for this.
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So I believe this is a question for one of
our South Carolina representatives.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well, I can tell you what the I can't tell
you what the solution is, but I can tell you
what they has been said is that we need to
hurry up and get this done and then we'll go
back and trust us, we're going to go back and
cut spending after we get this done. You know that's
not going to happen. There's no way they're going to
get the consensus to cut spending. They couldn't get a
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consensus over doge. They can't get a consensus over Look
how hard it was, you know, to get some of
these things done and the cuts they wanted to make.
So there's always somebody. It's really easy to create a
new benefit, let's call it for somebody, And that may
be a misnomer, but it's certainly easy to add more
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spending and more benefits in all of these things, and
with the snap of a finger, and it's almost impossible
to take it back away again.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
That was one of the points that Representative Norman made.
By the way, the podcast is up on the iHeart app.
Just search Charleston's Morning News here on ninety four to
three WS. He said, hard to take the benefits away?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, it is so what at this point now they're saying,
let's just get this passed and then we'll concentrate on
making cuts and tackling the budget deficit.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I don't hold out high hopes for that.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and plays.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Hey, thanks for being with us on this Friday morning.
Perhaps the real victims of the feud between Bruce Springsteen
and President Trump are Springsteen cover bands. A bar and
Tom's River, New Jersey canceled the show by a cover
band called No Surrender. The nine piece band mostly plays
Springsteen covers, but plays covers of other classic rock acts.
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Tony Rivoli owns rivs Tom's River Hub, which informed the
band that their May thirtieth show has been canceled. New
Jersey advanced media reports that were voldly texted band leader
Brad Hobcorn that performing at the club was too risky
at the moment. Ravoli noted the bar's conservative clientele, and
another text to Hobbcorn said he canceled the show because
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Bruce can't keep his mouth shut.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You know, Bruce springs What a jerk.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
So this all stems over Bruce Springsteen being over in
the UK and you know, calling Trump trees in US
and a tyrant and all of these things.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Playing as TDS. His shruptor inteument syndrome is really really high.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, and it hit people, you know, of course the
wrong way, that not only he said it in the
first place, but that he did it in another country.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
He's continuing to fall on the sword and look, look
at the unintended consequences, or I should just say consequence. Yeah,
because you know Bruce Springsy's not thinking about this. Well, no,
he doesn't care about it, right, sadly, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I mean I don't you know, I don't even know
about sadly. I mean, how much would you you know
somebody's actually riding your coat tails and has making trying
to make a living off of copying you. I don't
know how concerned you'd be about him at the first place.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Well, but he's a massive compliment, to be honest.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Well, no, I think that's the wrong view.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
It's like he should have considered what he said first,
not because he might harm this cover band, but because
he's being a jerk and he's talking against the United
States on foreign soil.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Well, yeah, of course, but at the end of the day,
these are fans of his who, whether they're profiting or not,
at the end of the day, you know there these
are people who need a check, you know, a cover
ban out there.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Well, like I said, I mean that to me, that's
last on the list of why he should have kept
his mouth shut. He should have kept his mouth shut
because he was on foreign soil, and because a whole
lot of his fans, you know, are that blue collar
into all that image that he puts on, that fake image.
I might add the multimillionaire Bruce Springsteen, you know, just
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one of the working.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Men, know your audience out there.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
So that's why he should have kept his mouth shut.
I mean, who cares about the cover band?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Well, who cares about Bruce Springsteen's politics?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Well, who cares about his music? You know, you go
back to like live at Asbury Park and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
That's torture to me. And I'm just being honest.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
It's cool if you like it, I get it, But
I can't handle Bruce Springsteen in the East Street.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Band from major events to local headlines. This is Charleston's
Morning News on ninety four to three. WSC now back
to Kelly and Blaze running.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Down today's top stories on a Friday edition of the show.
Welcome In.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
The FDA is ordering COVID nineteen vaccine makers to expand
their warning labels. They're telling Faiza Maderna to let people
know about the risk of possible heart inflammation related to
mRNA shots, especially in teenaged boys and young men. Madernay's
warning label now issues such a warning for males eighteen
to twenty four, while Ffizer's label specifies twelve to seventeen
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years old. The new warning labels for both companies will
now specify ages sixteen through twenty five. The order is
based on research published last year, although the CDC previously
said potential side effects involving the heart were rare and
generally resolved quickly.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Will this ever go down as the largest health scam
pulled over the American people's eyes or not? With regards
to COVID the shots, the efficacy, everything.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Well, I don't know, you know, it depends, you know,
how much they study it and what they learn from
those studies.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
As soon as they gave them immunity, I suppose prosecutorial
immunity with regards to the large pharmaceutical companies in the shots.
I knew that this wasn't going to be good, So
whatever adverse health effects came from it, people had no
recourse frankly legally, So as soon as that happen, I
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was like, oh boy, well, and.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Then the mandating of these and they were rushed to market.
And I mean there's so many different things. You notice
how you know, Trump doesn't mention it anymore. I don't
blame him. I don't think you can blame him. He's
the president of the United States. You have all these
doctors and these health experts warning that there's going to
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be this once in a lifetime, once in a multi
generations pandemic that's going to kill all these people. You know,
what are you going to do? So I think you
have to hand it to him for trying to get
you know, a vaccine to market. And because look at
the very beginning, we didn't know that this was all
a big lie. We didn't know that doctor Fauci was
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such a pos or doctor Burkes, or we can go
down the list of characters here.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yeah, Trump's really gotten a lot of pushback about operation
warp speed, which is what you're talking about. And under
his end, like you said, we didn't know, we didn't know.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
So what are you going to do as the leader
of the United States? Are you just going to you know,
ball up into you know, the fetal position and hope
it all goes away and turns out okay, or are
you going to do something about it? So he did
something about it, and you know, in the vaccines, hopefully
we'll get better over time and after they have the
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chance to study them more and then we'll learn more
about the adverse effects.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
There's a lot of bad stuff out there, and we
have to also.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Figure out how to sort through it, what to trust
and what not to trust. And that's the biggest, biggest
damage to me that they did, was they now you
don't trust them, you know, the medical.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Industry.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah, well, not only the industry, I mean the whole thing,
the CDC or the WHO or any of them, you know,
So the whole apparatus is in question over these bad
actors like doctor Fauci. And it turns out it was
you know a lot of people took advantage of this
to turn it into social control and not just control
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of you know, the disease or your health. And so
that's where the politics got inserted and where the bad actors,
you know, come in.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
And that includes Congress who allowed these pharmaceutical companies not
to be held to account given any of these adverse effects.
So there's a iyre with the President in rushing a
vaccine to market with operation warp speed. But let's not
forget Congress who allowed the other part.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
To help it.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I mean, I get that too, And you can't separate
that from other things, like say cancer treatments, because there's
plenty of people out there with cancer that want to
take like experimental treatments and they won't let them, and
you know, they have to study them for And we
went over all this during COVID. You know how long
it usually takes a drug to get to market a
decade or longer. And so if you have a pandemic raging,
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you're expecting one to be raging. You don't have a decade.
And same thing with some of these cancer patients. They like,
this is going to kill me, So I don't have
a decade to wait around for this. I'll go ahead
and try it. So I understand, you know, protecting them
from lawsuits. But I mean, that's a big old mess,
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is what COVID caused, and all of the bad actors
involved in all of the social control involved in all
of that. So hopefully we learned some lessons from it.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Back to Kelly and Blaze. Hey, welcome to Friday morning.
We finally made it to another weekend, Memorial Day weekend.
Hopefully you have a long weekend and you're not going
to work on Monday. Recovering this morning's top stories. President
Trump's Big Beautiful Bill has passed the House. Lawmakers approved
the massive spending plan and a two fifteen to two
fourteen vote. All Democrats and two Republicans voted against the bill.
(00:32):
The bill, if it becomes law, would make big cuts
to Medicaid, with an estimated seven point six million Americans
losing health insurance over the next ten years. It would
also add new requirements to food assistants, eliminate taxes on tips,
while putting billions towards fighting illegal immigration and a nationwide
missile defense system. The bill now moves on to the Senate. Meanwhile,
(00:55):
interest rates are spiking due to the potential cost to
the bill. According to Federal Reserve of Governor Christopher Waller,
the cost of the bill caught the bond market off
guard and impacted interest rates. Waller says the markets are
watching the fiscal policy, and they have some concerns about
whether it's going to be reducing the deficit or not.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
So the medicaid angle on this seems to be getting twisted.
So we have people who are in our country illegally
getting Medicaid checks and they want to clear up the waste,
fraud and abuse with regards to that. Then there's the
work requirements of people who are able bodied and apparently
getting checks. So of course it's being painted. It seems
(01:39):
as if here in the narrative with the media that
this is, you know, people who are on Medicaid purposefully
for you know, legitimate reasons are not going to get
a check, which is not the case. They keep saying
this over and over again.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, seven point six million America is losing their health insurance.
They're not losing their health insurance. They're losing their freebie.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Right the health insurance that let's be honest, and we've
been talking about this. People on Medicare have to pay
you know, extra for with supplemental coverage and then still
don't even get the coverage. Well, in Medicare, if it's
in care that.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
You pay in paid into.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
You pay in for your whole life into medicare You know,
Medicaid is for poor people, all right, so those supposedly
in poverty, except you know how much fraud is out there.
Same thing with the Snap benefits, same thing with and
now you can buy And it's funny because we're talking
about all this Maha stuff. Look at all the stuff
(02:46):
you can buy with Snap.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Oh, believe me, people checking out at the grocery store.
See all the things that people could buy with Snap.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It's not only the grocery store. You see it on
the gas station signs, use your Snap benefits here. What
do you think you're buying that's healthy at a gas
station to feed your kids?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Well, there's so much to dig into with the big
beautiful bill. And will they get it passed by the
fourth of July? And what's it going to look like
coming back out of the Senate? I mean, this is
this is this is a whole long conversation that we're
going to continue to have, I know.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
From major events to local headlines. This is Charleston's Morning
News on ninety four to three WSC. Now back to
Kelly and Blaze. Every Betafrad who voted against this bill
was basically saying, hey, it's really great for the economy
right now to have the largest tax hike in it history.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Kevin Hasset there, truth National Economic Director. By the way,
think about this. Every single House Democrat voted against eliminating
taxes on overtime for our police officers, our nurses, our
first responders. And you have to ask yourself the big
question why, well, I.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Mean, there's so much more involved, So I don't you know,
I'd like to be fair, but it's probably going to
be misconstrued because this is how politics work. Because you
singled out the you know, the two things out of
this whole huge bill, and then say why are they
voting against that? And they do it to our side,
and then we do it to their side. I don't
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know what their motivations are.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, but look over in the Senate this past week,
the Democrats all voted with the Republicans unanimously to give
tax breaks on was it overtime? This exact very thing here.
So what's going on in the House that the Democrats
didn't get? You know, they didn't get the memo in
the House that the ones over in the Senate did.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well, there's three million other things in this bill. So
It's not as simple as voting up or down on
that one issue. And that's how they play the politics
with it. And that's why they even tack things into
these bills because they know that you're going to vote
against it for some other reason, and then you can
hang this other albatross around your neck.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Well, this is this is a two fifteen to two
fourteen vote. I will say that to your point, we
had Republicans that didn't vote for this. And I'm curious
for looking at the other side of the aisle here,
because I started with Democrats. Do you think that the
Kentucky Republican who didn't vote for this is going to
have a problem or the Ohio Republican that didn't vote
(05:15):
for this will have a problem. Come I suppose an
next go around when his constituents had to the ballot box.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I don't know. I mean, that's for them to decide
and navigate political you.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Know, but there's there's reasons not to vote for the bill.
I mean, I can see the fiscal responsibility of it.
You saw where interest rates have spiked because of worry
over adding more trillions to the deficit. He's downgraded, you know,
the credit standing in the United States and the big banks.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
That happened before the vote. That's something that we talked
about with our congressman who actually was one of the
holdouts who voted for it, Ralph Norman here live this
week on the program. That's one of the reasons why
he was holding out because he said, looks downgraded us
yet again, and this.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Is before they passed this bill and have well not
yet but potentially added trillions more to the deficit. So
if we're already being downgraded before those trillions even get added,
I mean, we'll see.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
What the Senate does.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
By the way, when I mentioned the Kentucky and Ohio representatives,
that's Massi and Davidson, the Republicans who voted no along
with Democrats. So I'm just curious to see if that
comes back to bite them. And then there were two
that didn't vote out of Arizona and New York and
I mean Republicans here, so eked by with one actual
(06:38):
vote two fifteen two fourteen. There were two abstentions as well,
so you know, it kicks over to the Senate. They're
hoping that this is going to get done by the
fourth of July. They a lot of people saying this
is a big lift, but drone view here you're looking
at a tax cut or the largest tax hike.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Well that was the danger of lumping it all into
the big beautiful bill in the first place. And so
now the Senate going to have to hash out, just
like the House just did, have their arguments and debates
and all of that, and then they're going to come
up with their version and then they're going to have
to reconcile it. So yeah, this is nowhere near over yet,
(07:15):
So we'll see what happens. But you know, to how
it's going to affect these individuals in their districts, you know,
who knows how they're taking that calculation that the people
will still stand behind them.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Well, I believe, and I didn't get to hear. I
wanted to go back and take a listen to Thomas
Massey who voted no on this. I think he was
on Clay and Buck yesterday, and I want to check
the podcast there on the iHeart app, which, by the way,
we have long Memorial weekend coming up, y'all. The iHeart
app is free to download today if you're paying for
music or podcasts or anything else. It's a shame because
(07:50):
the iHeart app is free, and if we're talking about
Memorial Weekend, if you're going to be out and about
whether it's on the boat or grilling or anything else
at the beach, the playlist already curated for you. So
whether you're on the lawnmower and you want to, you know, binge,
listen to some of the things, like I've missed this week,
and yesterday was one of them because I caught the
(08:11):
tail end of Thomas Massey. You know how that is,
where you catch the tail end and you're like, oh,
I want to know why he voted. No, I want
to know what he said, And actually it wasn't. Clan
bucket was during the ride home is Seawn Hannity three
to six here on ninety four to three WSC.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
So yeah, I do that all the time, and I
wish it was like the TV, because you know, you
get used to rewinding on the TV if you miss something,
and I'm reaching for that all the time in the
car and I'm like.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Damn, yeah, you can't do it.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
We're spoiled that way.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah, we are. I wish you could rewinden the radio.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, the good news is that's kind of like what
podcasts are for and what I really enjoy about our
podcasts on the iHeart app. And it seems like everybody's
got a podcast now, doesn't it you. Actually it is
on demand and rewind it and you can share certain
portions of it right in the middle or right here
where you know there's a really important point being made.
(09:07):
I love that I can share right here, like did
you hear this? Listen to this, like, you know, because
we've got a lot coming at us. It's overwhelming at times,
much like this big beautiful bill.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Well, we'll see how overwhelming it is at the end
of the day and whether it was a mistake to
combine all of these issues together into one big beautiful bill.
I mean, I can see why the President wanted that done.
Otherwise he'd spend the next three years trying to get
this stuff done. But you know, there's also the danger
that they won't get it done. And then these tax
(09:42):
cuts from his original administration are set to expire this
year and it'll be the biggest tax hike in history.
So that's what's at stake here. So we'll see what
the Senate does with it, and then if they can
reconcile it between the Senate and the House, so there's
plenty of work to still be.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Done with that.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
It's not going to look the same in the Senate
with regards to Democrat support. Let's hope.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, it all works in an odd way. And that's
why I don't even like paying that much attention until
you know it's going about to become law because you
don't know what it's, how they're going to change it,
what they're going to do. They have all these little
parliamentarian tricks that they pull. They try to snow the
people over what they're doing, So until it's about to
(10:32):
become law, you don't know what you're getting. They're just
in the meantime doing what they normally do, muddy in
the waters, so you can't see what they're really what
they're really doing. Paul's on the line. He said he
had a question for us this morning, and I'll leave
that to you to pose.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Paul morning, Paul, Good morning Kelly, And we're leaving it
to you and play used to figure this out for
us because we have so much other things to think about.
So we we call you know, we listened to you
on the radio, so that y'all will have all this
figured out so that we don't have to weigh it
back and forth, like all right, well, we're raised the
(11:11):
debt ceiling. I thought we were here to say the
same money reduced to I mean the debt ceiling, Like, goodness,
how much money do we We owed a lot of
money and you said on there and Moody's ratings has
lowered our rating for credit and we're lower than a
lot of other countries all over the world, and we're
raising our debt seting. I'm sorry if I sound confused.
(11:36):
I am, And that's why I'm calling you, because so
y'all are so smart. You got this stuff figured out.
I want y'all to go ahead and let us know
exactly the situation so we can go on about our business.
I mean, I know that's a simple request.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Well listen, this is why we had Representative Ralph Norman
on live. He was a holdout, the soul holdout here
from South Carolina and one of the only few. It
was a handful les than five, along with Chip Roy
and a few others from other states who held out
and said we're supposed to be cutting spending, not adding
to it. That's but he went on to vote for this.
(12:12):
So I believe this is a question for one of
our South Carolina representatives.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Well, I can tell you what the I can't tell
you what the solution is, but I can tell you
what they has been said is that we need to
hurry up and get this done and then we'll go
back and trust us, we're going to go back and
cut spending after we get this done. You know that's
not going to happen. There's no way they're going to
get the consensus to cut spending. They couldn't get a
(12:40):
consensus over doge. They can't get a consensus over Look
how hard it was, you know, to get some of
these things done and the cuts they wanted to make.
So there's always somebody. It's really easy to create a
new benefit, let's call it for somebody, And that may
be a misnomer, but it's certainly easy to add more
(13:02):
spending and more benefits in all of these things, and
with the snap of a finger, and it's almost impossible
to take it back away again.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
That was one of the points that Representative Norman made.
By the way, the podcast is up on the iHeart app.
Just search Charleston's Morning News here on ninety four to
three WS. He said, hard to take the benefits away?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, it is so what at this point now they're saying,
let's just get this passed and then we'll concentrate on
making cuts and tackling the budget deficit.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
I don't hold out high hopes for that.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and plays.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Hey, thanks for being with us on this Friday morning.
Perhaps the real victims of the feud between Bruce Springsteen
and President Trump are Springsteen cover bands. A bar and
Tom's River, New Jersey canceled the show by a cover
band called No Surrender. The nine piece band mostly plays
Springsteen covers, but plays covers of other classic rock acts.
(14:02):
Tony Rivoli owns rivs Tom's River Hub, which informed the
band that their May thirtieth show has been canceled. New
Jersey advanced media reports that were voldly texted band leader
Brad Hobcorn that performing at the club was too risky
at the moment. Ravoli noted the bar's conservative clientele, and
another text to Hobbcorn said he canceled the show because
(14:25):
Bruce can't keep his mouth shut.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You know, Bruce springs What a jerk.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
So this all stems over Bruce Springsteen being over in
the UK and you know, calling Trump trees in US
and a tyrant and all of these things.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Playing as TDS. His shruptor inteument syndrome is really really high.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, and it hit people, you know, of course the
wrong way, that not only he said it in the
first place, but that he did it in another country.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
He's continuing to fall on the sword and look, look
at the unintended consequences, or I should just say consequence. Yeah,
because you know Bruce Springsy's not thinking about this. Well, no,
he doesn't care about it, right, sadly, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I mean I don't you know, I don't even know
about sadly. I mean, how much would you you know
somebody's actually riding your coat tails and has making trying
to make a living off of copying you. I don't
know how concerned you'd be about him at the first place.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Well, but he's a massive compliment, to be honest.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Well, no, I think that's the wrong view.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
It's like he should have considered what he said first,
not because he might harm this cover band, but because
he's being a jerk and he's talking against the United
States on foreign soil.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Well, yeah, of course, but at the end of the day,
these are fans of his who, whether they're profiting or not,
at the end of the day, you know there these
are people who need a check, you know, a cover
ban out there.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Well, like I said, I mean that to me, that's
last on the list of why he should have kept
his mouth shut. He should have kept his mouth shut
because he was on foreign soil, and because a whole
lot of his fans, you know, are that blue collar
into all that image that he puts on, that fake image.
I might add the multimillionaire Bruce Springsteen, you know, just
(16:13):
one of the working.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Men, know your audience out there.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
So that's why he should have kept his mouth shut.
I mean, who cares about the cover band?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Well, who cares about Bruce Springsteen's politics?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Well, who cares about his music? You know, you go
back to like live at Asbury Park and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
That's torture to me. And I'm just being honest.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
It's cool if you like it, I get it, But
I can't handle Bruce Springsteen in the East Street.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Band from major events to local headlines. This is Charleston's
Morning News on ninety four to three. WSC now back
to Kelly and Blaze running.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Down today's top stories on a Friday edition of the show.
Welcome In.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
The FDA is ordering COVID nineteen vaccine makers to expand
their warning labels. They're telling Faiza Maderna to let people
know about the risk of possible heart inflammation related to
mRNA shots, especially in teenaged boys and young men. Madernay's
warning label now issues such a warning for males eighteen
to twenty four, while Ffizer's label specifies twelve to seventeen
(17:23):
years old. The new warning labels for both companies will
now specify ages sixteen through twenty five. The order is
based on research published last year, although the CDC previously
said potential side effects involving the heart were rare and
generally resolved quickly.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Will this ever go down as the largest health scam
pulled over the American people's eyes or not? With regards
to COVID the shots, the efficacy, everything.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Well, I don't know, you know, it depends, you know,
how much they study it and what they learn from
those studies.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
As soon as they gave them immunity, I suppose prosecutorial
immunity with regards to the large pharmaceutical companies in the shots.
I knew that this wasn't going to be good, So
whatever adverse health effects came from it, people had no
recourse frankly legally, So as soon as that happen, I
(18:24):
was like, oh boy, well, and.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Then the mandating of these and they were rushed to market.
And I mean there's so many different things. You notice
how you know, Trump doesn't mention it anymore. I don't
blame him. I don't think you can blame him. He's
the president of the United States. You have all these
doctors and these health experts warning that there's going to
(18:47):
be this once in a lifetime, once in a multi
generations pandemic that's going to kill all these people. You know,
what are you going to do? So I think you
have to hand it to him for trying to get
you know, a vaccine to market. And because look at
the very beginning, we didn't know that this was all
a big lie. We didn't know that doctor Fauci was
(19:09):
such a pos or doctor Burkes, or we can go
down the list of characters here.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Yeah, Trump's really gotten a lot of pushback about operation
warp speed, which is what you're talking about. And under
his end, like you said, we didn't know, we didn't know.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
So what are you going to do as the leader
of the United States? Are you just going to you know,
ball up into you know, the fetal position and hope
it all goes away and turns out okay, or are
you going to do something about it? So he did
something about it, and you know, in the vaccines, hopefully
we'll get better over time and after they have the
(19:50):
chance to study them more and then we'll learn more
about the adverse effects.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
There's a lot of bad stuff out there, and we
have to also.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Figure out how to sort through it, what to trust
and what not to trust. And that's the biggest, biggest
damage to me that they did, was they now you
don't trust them, you know, the medical.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Industry.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah, well, not only the industry, I mean the whole thing,
the CDC or the WHO or any of them, you know,
So the whole apparatus is in question over these bad
actors like doctor Fauci. And it turns out it was
you know a lot of people took advantage of this
to turn it into social control and not just control
(20:42):
of you know, the disease or your health. And so
that's where the politics got inserted and where the bad actors,
you know, come in.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
And that includes Congress who allowed these pharmaceutical companies not
to be held to account given any of these adverse effects.
So there's a iyre with the President in rushing a
vaccine to market with operation warp speed. But let's not
forget Congress who allowed the other part.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
To help it.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I mean, I get that too, And you can't separate
that from other things, like say cancer treatments, because there's
plenty of people out there with cancer that want to
take like experimental treatments and they won't let them, and
you know, they have to study them for And we
went over all this during COVID. You know how long
it usually takes a drug to get to market a
decade or longer. And so if you have a pandemic raging,
(21:35):
you're expecting one to be raging. You don't have a decade.
And same thing with some of these cancer patients. They like,
this is going to kill me, So I don't have
a decade to wait around for this. I'll go ahead
and try it. So I understand, you know, protecting them
from lawsuits. But I mean, that's a big old mess,
(21:58):
is what COVID caused, and all of the bad actors
involved in all of the social control involved in all
of that. So hopefully we learned some lessons from it.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
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