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From the wild world of D.C. politics to America’s culture clash, brace yourself for the reality check you’ve been waiting for. The one and only Mike Gallagher Show.

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The Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, and the President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief, Donald Trump, addressing top military leaders today at Quantico. A little bit of breaking news as we take to the airwaves for a Tuesday, the final day of September. Hard to believe we’re looking at knocking on the door of October already. Isn’t it crazy? I owe you an apology. I’m a big believer in apologies, unlike Jimmy Kimmel. And I do want to apologize about a conversation that we had yesterday regarding the New York mayor’s race. I’ll share that apology with you and get your reaction to all of that in just a moment. But first, let’s take a little listen to the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, and this much-ballyhooed address. There was all kinds of speculation. What is this about? Why are they doing this? Blah, blah, blah. So let’s check out what… Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump had to say to these military leaders at Quantico, Virginia.

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But if the words I’m speaking today are making your heart sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign. We would thank you for your service. But I suspect, I know, the overwhelming majority of you feel the opposite. These words make your hearts full. You love the War Department because you love what you do, the profession of arms. You are hereby liberated to be an apolitical, hard-charging, no-nonsense constitutional leader that you joined the military to be. We need you locked in on the M. Not the D, the E, or the I. Not the D, E, I, or the D, I, E of dime. By that, I mean the M, military, of the instruments of national power.

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President of the United States followed up shortly after the Secretary of War. Here’s what President Trump had to say.

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Thank you very much, Pete. Great job you’re doing, too. Fantastic job. I’ve never walked into a room so silent before. This is very… Don’t laugh. Don’t laugh. You’re not allowed to do that. You know what? Just have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud. And if you want to do anything you want, you can do anything you want. And if you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank. There goes your future. But you just feel nice and loose, OK, because we’re all on the same team.

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Teamsmanship, camaraderie. That’s the president of the United States. Look, we’re facing a lot of challenges. We’re facing a lot of headwinds. We’re up against a lot as a country right now. I am still thinking a little bit about the Utah Governor Spencer Cox and the profile they did on him Sunday night on 60 Minutes where he talked about the need to have some sort of common ground, the need for people to get together and come together and I mean, people are really losing their marbles. And the crazier they get, the louder they get. I can’t get over the Rosie O’Donnell appearance yesterday on MSNBC where she actually admitted that her own therapist is questioning her sanity. Her therapist. Imagine being Rosie O’Donnell’s therapist. She’s over in Ireland. She fled the country. because the election didn’t go the way she wanted it to. But instead of pulling an Ellen DeGeneres, who also fled the country, Ellen DeGeneres is picking weeds and walking her dogs and living her best life in the UK. And she’s kind of, you know, out of sight, out of mind. You don’t see Ellen DeGeneres pop up very much, but Rosie is everywhere. Rosie is doing podcasts. Rosie is doing CNN. Rosie is doing MSNBC. And yesterday she said something on MSNBC that was pretty astounding. I guess it’s par for the course for Rosie O’Donnell. But what really astounded me was what Nicole Wallace said in agreement.

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Check this out. And if he’s not stopped now, we have lost our country. And I don’t know, Nicole, how it is that some people cannot see it. My therapist said, why are you so upset? And I said to her, why are you not?

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Yeah. Yeah, I have that conversation, too, because the gaslighting that I think you’re alluding to, if you’re a thoughtful, informed person, you do stop and say, well, maybe it is me.

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My wife used to have a funny expression. If you’re crazy, do you know it? I mean, really, if you’ve got some profound mental illness, do you think it’s you or do you think it’s everybody else? And that’s kind of what Nicole Wallace was saying. And Nicole Wallace agreed that she’s had those conversations, too. So Rosie O’Donnell thought she was making a profound point when she said, I asked my therapist said, why are you so unhinged? Why are you off the rails? Why are you obsessing? Why are you, why have you lost your mind over Donald Trump? He’s in office for three more years. We’ll see what happens in 2028. I don’t think Rosie’s going to like that outcome either, but time will tell. And Rosie’s response was, why are you not off the rails? Not to make fun of or mock people with mental illness or people who are in therapy, but I got to believe Rosie’s therapist needs a therapist just to get through the therapy sessions with Rosie. And you notice she made it with real profound determination. I said to my therapist, why are you not? Pause. I mean, she was making a point. She wanted the world to know that her own therapist is saying, hey, Rosie, you’re kind of cuckoo on this. You’ve gone off the cliff here. And Rosie wants to know, of the therapist, why are you not off the cliff? Now, I’m telling you, I’m serious. I’m not trying to be a smart aleck. I mean this. I’m starting to believe that the Rosie O’Donnells and the Keith Olbermanns of the world are so extreme, they’re actually Republican plants. Because they make Republicans look normal. They make all the rest of us look like we’re normal. On television, I asked my therapist. My therapist said, Rosie, why are you so upset? I said, how are you not? Why are you not upset? I hope the therapist said, well, because I’m rational. I’m reasonable. I’m normal. Elections come and go. Things don’t go our way sometimes. Things go our way. You know that the therapist is liberal, like Rosie. Rosie’s not going to go to a MAGA therapist. Even the liberal therapist is worried about Rosie’s trajectory I gotta think that my theory might be correct maybe just maybe these are just actors who are MAGA to the core they’re pulling an Alex Stein they’re a living breathing talking version of the Babylon Bee they’re just ranting and raving to make Trump and Republicans look good Do you know people like this? Do you know people like Nicole Wallace and Rosie O’Donnell who are truly unhinged? I know that these are people that are public people and they have a persona and they’re on camera and they’re on air and they’re kind of like, I mean, look, all of us are, I guess, performative to some degree. Larry Elder asked me last week, he said, you know, I watch you on Salem News Channel, Mike, and you’re so enthusiastic and you’re so, you know, almost boyish in the way you do your show. And I said, well, that’s the way I’ve always done it. I hope I’m never boring. And sometimes I stumble. And when I do, I want to make sure you know that I’m aware of it and I want to apologize for it. I’m going to do that in a moment on the mayor’s race issue in New York City. But let me just start for, let’s spend a couple of minutes here in the Relief Factor studios at 1-800-655-MIKE. And let me ask you, do you know people who you are convinced are almost hopelessly mentally ill as a result of politics? Do you know people, I had somebody tell me once that they curled up on their couch in the living room For two straight days and cried into their pillow after Trump won. I was so shocked by that. That’s a good, by the way, good person. Friend of mine. Cried for two days. So I wonder. How many people have people like this in their lives? So join me with some anecdotal stories if you do. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Welcome in. You know I love loaded lines. I want to put your call front and center. 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It is illegal for illegal aliens to receive health care paid for by hardworking American taxpayers, but they’re making the demand to change that. They want to add that back in. That’s one of Chuck Schumer’s primary demands to keep the government open, and we’re not going to do that. The American people didn’t vote for us to do that.

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We’re trying to clean up the system. In the relieffactor.com studios, here’s Mike.

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I just got some good news a minute ago. I’ll be back to the upstate of South Carolina in a couple of weeks. They’re having a big client appreciation event that I’ve been invited to attend along with Tara and Charlie and Joey and Bill and the whole gang there, Steve and Mark. And, of course, as always, I’ll be back. In my home away from home, the Hotel Heartness. Portions of our show are sponsored by the Hotel Heartness. Travel and leisure is world best. Rates at the number one resort in the state. Third best resort in the country. Number 24 in the world. It’s right in the upstate. You can stay there too. Visit hotelheartness.com. hotelheartness.com. I also want to remind you about Americans for a Balanced Budget. Congress’s approval of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was definitely a defining victory for President Trump and the American people, but that victory is at risk. Congress has to act before the end of the year, or a massive health care tax hike will hit millions of Americans. Americans for a Balanced Budget is sounding the alarm. Key health care tax credits are set to expire December the 31st. If they lapse… 24 million Americans could face skyrocketing health care costs. Millions may lose coverage entirely. Rural communities would be hit especially hard. Congress has to act, and you need to be a part of that, and you can be. As I love to say, you’ve got to get off the sidelines. You cannot be… We had a fairly contentious conversation yesterday about Zoran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Sliwa. the mayor’s race in New York. And I’ve shared with you some personal turmoil that I’m experiencing because Curtis Lewa, who absolutely would be the best mayor since Rudy Giuliani, is a friend. Every single analyst agrees there is no path for Curtis to win the mayor’s race. We could wish there was. We could hope there was. We could close our eyes and tap our heels three times together. It can’t happen. There aren’t enough Republican voters in New York City, and there certainly aren’t enough moderate Democrats who are going to vote for Curtis. The only chance New York is going to have… in my view, is for Curtis to team up with Andrew Cuomo and have essentially a Cuomo-Curtis ticket. Have Cuomo promise and fulfill the promise to give Curtis a prominent role in a Cuomo administration. Heck, make him the police commissioner. This guy’s been fighting crime his whole life. Curtis is like Batman. He’s the founder of the Guardian Angels, and he knows how to clean up the streets of New York City. But in expressing my own personal torment over this hard bargain, A lot of you came at me hard, and some of you got real personal. You said, I’m sacrificing my reputation, I’m disingenuous, I’m dishonest, which that to me is the real kicker. Why would I face this kind of flack? And the only mistake I made yesterday is arguing with people who want to let me have it. Because you know what? I get it. I get how you feel. I’m frustrated. I’m exasperated. I can’t believe we’re on the verge of seeing America’s biggest city be run by a communist. What this guy will do, this smiling, charismatic, TikTok-savvy young man, what he’ll do is… destroy New York in a spectacular fashion. And everybody I know in New York, everybody, I know very few people who are pretending that Curtis has a path to win the race. It’s in a couple weeks. There’s not enough time. There’s not enough effort. And there’s no way. Moderate Democrats will vote for Cuomo. They ain’t going to vote for Curtis. Well, New York is a sea of Democrats and liberalism and leftism and moderates. Not a whole lot of conservatives in New York. And here was what Martha McCallum said to Curtis yesterday. Curtis appeared on Fox News Channel with Martha McCallum with an interesting exchange.

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With you staying in, the likelihood that you will… Force a Mamdani win is very high. And I know you don’t believe these poll numbers, but if you and Cuomo are taking votes from each other, essentially, Mamdani has a very clear path here, no?

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Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo in a Democratic primary.

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But Cuomo’s still in the race.

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Excuse me. As an independent, try to find him on the ballot. You want to go on a search and find mission through a maze? Andrew Cuomo has no chance. He’s not out in the streets.

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You realize that if Mondami wins, there’s going to be pressure on you. You are a tried and true New Yorker. As you point out, you spend a lot of time in the streets here. What are you going to say if someone turns to you and says, look, you should have done the right thing. You should have done what Eric Adams is and gotten out of this race. It was the only chance to beat him, Donnie.

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Oh, really? And meantime, Andrew Cuomo and the rest will, because of fear, fright and hysteria, flee to Florida. Remember John Paul Jones, the father of our Navy, was told, surrender your ship to the British. You have no chance. You’re going down to David Jones’s locker. On his tomb in Annapolis, it says, I have just begun to fight. 36 days, I raised more money locally than Eric Adams, Cuomo and Mandami together. Three commercials on air, three more to come. I

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Here is Mamdani’s take, incidentally, on Cuomo as the as the alternative to Zoran Mamdani. Mamdani understands that Trump wants Cuomo to win. And incidentally, that’s not really it’s a little bit of a I don’t know if it’s a secret. It isn’t really talked about a lot. I know firsthand, well, I shouldn’t say firsthand, thirdhand, from people that I know in the Trump administration, that President Trump’s pick is most definitely Andrew Cuomo because President Trump, pragmatist that he is, knows that Cuomo’s the only chance. And I don’t think he has anything against Curtis Lewa. He just doesn’t believe that Curtis has a chance. Here was what Mamdani said about Andrew Cuomo.

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Do you think that there is some sort of a deal between Trump and Adams?

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I can’t speak to that. All I can tell you, though, is that, you know, Donald Trump is clearing the way for Andrew Cuomo because Donald Trump knows that Andrew Cuomo will clear the way for Trump’s agenda. And New Yorkers are tired of that agenda. They want someone who’s actually beholden to the people of this city, not to the White House.

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So Mamdani believes that Cuomo will be better poised to implement Trump’s agenda. That’s not a bad thing. And I suspect he’s right. Look, Cuomo is not, he’s a bad guy. Did some terrible things during COVID. He’s a career politician. But he’s a pragmatist. And like most people, I don’t think Cuomo wants New York to crash and burn. Anyway, here’s the apology. My apology is for arguing and pushing back with those of you who are disappointed in me. I’m not changing my position. Look, I’m not going to avoid hard truths just because I’m going to get some flack. But I shouldn’t have argued the way I did with some of you. And I got defensive because a lot of it was personal. A lot of it were just personal attacks. But that’s okay. You’re frustrated. I get why you’re frustrated. Frankly, I agree with you. I love the principle of stay in and fight. Do the right thing and fight, fight, fight until the bitter end. You never know what could happen. Well, I know what’s going to happen. I know that in a three-person race between Zoran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and Curtis Lewa, Curtis cannot win. I hate that because I love the guy. I hate that because I admire him, and I have for many, many years. What I wish for is Cuomo and Curtis Lewa to join forces and defeat the communists. Now, if you find fault with me on that, I understand your criticism. I really do. And again, I’m sorry that I was a little cranky with people who were coming at me. Got a little bit of a black eye. Do you see it here on the Salem News Channel? The lady tried to put a little powder over it. No, no, I don’t have a black eye. Figuratively, I’m a little bruised because some of you were very disappointed in me. And I do understand that. Sorry. Sometimes the truth hurts. This is a little bit of tough love, I think. But I am sorry for some of the argumentative way that I reacted to some of you. You want to come at me? Go ahead. You’re not going to get much of an argument because I’ll know exactly where you’re coming from. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Torrey is in Asheville, North Carolina, 16 before the hour. How are you doing today, Torrey?

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I’m good. How are you? I’m good. I’m good. Appreciate the call. I called earlier when you said you had an apology to make, and I thought you were going to apologize for your opinion yesterday. And I was going to call to tell you, don’t apologize.

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No, no, no, no.

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I’m not going to change my opinion. I agree with you 100%. Even though you’d be the best choice, we should… If there’s no clear path, he should drop out. I mean, there’s a long history of politicians doing that.

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Well, but again, though, Torrey, to be clear here, I don’t want him to leave. Curtis Lewa would be a blessing to the citizens of New York. I want Cuomo and Curtis to join forces. Look, Curtis does have some money raised and some ads, three ads, he said, that are running on the air. Normal people know how great Curtis is, particularly with the issue of crime. And that’s a problem that is facing New York. So you’ve got the lifelong career Democrat in a Democrat city, Cuomo. You’ve got a crime fighter, a Batman like Curtis. I don’t want him to, I want him to, yes, I want him to drop out of running for mayor as the mayoral candidate. and join forces with Andrew Cuomo. I think that’s a reasonable, practical, pragmatic position. Again, if you don’t agree, that’s okay. And my promise to you, after hearing some of the tape of yesterday’s show, because I wanted to listen back, and I’m like, ah, Gallagher, you were too defensive, you were too argumentative. And I get that way. I’m emotional sometimes. I shouldn’t have been so defensive, and I shouldn’t have been so argumentative. You’ve got to let your ego, you’ve got to put your ego aside. I was thinking about this yesterday. I got a little bit of bad news yesterday. It wasn’t really terrible news, but something that I had hoped was going to happen isn’t going to happen. And I was kind of hurt and a little embarrassed. And then I thought about it. And I woke up this morning and I thought, all that was was my ego. And the real dirty little secret about the bad news I got yesterday is I didn’t really want to do it anyway. It would have been kind of a hassle to do, and I don’t think I could have pulled it off. So it actually was for the best. It is for the best. But it was my ego. It was somebody telling me, oh, we’re not going to let you get what you had hoped to get. Well, it’s just my ego. And when you can put your ego aside, life is a lot easier. So I’m putting my ego aside on this particular tough issue. I shared with you it’s hard for me. I’ve shared with you that it’s painful for me. It’s personal. I’ve known Curtis for years. But it’s how I feel, and I think sometimes you’ve just got to speak your mind and let the chips fall where they may. 800-655-MIKE. Your call, your voice, your perspective coming up. 13 before the hour. Great having you here on the final day of September, Tuesday. Every single day it’s a joy to remind you that portions of our show are sponsored by MyPillow. As you know, our friend Mike Lindell, big legal victory last week. He’s been in a ton of hot water, as you know, because he believes in election integrity. Of course, due to his friendship with President Trump. Well, last week there was a $5 million vote. judgment against Mike that was overturned by the courts. Good news for MyPillow. So you keep praying for MyPillow and you keep supporting this great American company. The premium MyPillow, limited time, great price, $18.98. If you go to MyPillow.com, this pillow is a godsend. Look, I bring the MyPillow products with me when I’m on the road. Here at the hotel in Washington State, I’ve got the MySlippers with me, those unbelievable slippers, because I pat around in the hotel room. I don’t know what’s on that rug. I bring the MyPillow with me. I roll it up into the suitcase. I’ve even got my MyPillow loungewear. Tons of great products. If you haven’t been to the site in a while, go check it out. Go to MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher specials. Click on that box. And with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. You’re going to save big. The slippers, the doggy beds, and the Giza dream sheets. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Like we love to sing.

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You know the hardest part of this job is trying to get everything in. There are so many things coming at us. We always say it’s like trying to drink from a fire hose. A lot of breaking news. Tonight, midnight, the government shutdown could very well happen. And I always walk in here with a stack. I know the team gets frustrated. Poor Christian. They work so hard on editing video clips for Salem News Channel and our presentation of the show. And I kind of try to bounce around, but some days I get to more clips than others. I’m grateful for the grace that Eric and Tracy and Christian and Alex and Joey give me. Thank you for your grace, too. I appreciate your patience. But today is one of those days. I mean, I didn’t even get to the story of the Ohio Republican who’s introducing a new bill that would allow the utility companies to control your thermostat. Uh-uh. Hell no. Pardon my French. Can you imagine the power company getting to turn your thermostat up and down as a Republican? Golly. And I’m sure I saw the story. We won’t have time to get to it today, but I did catch how the caveat is, well, you get to opt into it. Oh, yeah, great. Great idea, Ohio congressman, whoever you are, Ohio Republican, knock it off. Government’s got enough control of our lives. We don’t need the government to say, oh, it’s a little hot out today, so we’re going to make sure your thermostat goes to 79 degrees. Are you crazy? I always hate it when I go to a hotel somewhere and the hotel thermostat, all this green crap they do, all this green deal crap. garbage they do. They’ve got these sensors in the thermostat where if there’s no movement, then the AC goes out. Well, guess what? When you go to bed, you’re not walking around in the room, so the AC goes out because it’s not detecting any movement. So it’s 80 degrees and you’re sitting there in a pile of sweat because the AC got shut down because you’re not moving. What do I got to do? Like home alone with the kid with the fake people that he put in the window spinning around? What should I do? Take a blanket and hang it from the ceiling fan so that it’s spinning around and it keeps the AC going? Incidentally, do you know there’s a hack for AC units in hotels? And you can bring it down to as cold as you want it to go. And if you Google it, you can find it online. It’s a secret hack. I probably shouldn’t talk about it because the hotels are going to get wise. And then they’re going to try to counter the hack. You push like fan and up and down, the up and down arrow and then another button. Because they have a lock on the AC on most thermostats where you can’t take it below like sometimes it’s usually 65. But sometimes it’s 68. I like it at 62 degrees. It’s a meat locker when I sleep. But a lot of hotels, well, now I found the hack. And every hotel I go to now, it works on almost every thermostat. Look it up. It’s on YouTube. It’s the AC Hotel Hack. And you do a little code, and it puts it into VIP mode, and you can lower it to as cold as you want it to be. You can take it down to 58 degrees if you want. You see? See what you get when you tune into the Mike Gallagher Show? Helpful hints to hack the hotel AC. All right, let’s talk about the government shutdown. Here’s Vice President Vance. He lays it out, and every single day that I hear this guy and see this guy, I think, gosh, a J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio ticket in 2028, who’s going to stop that? AOC? Let’s bring that race on. I want to see AOC on a presidential debate stage with J.D. Vance. Here he was reacting to the Schumer Democrat shutdown that could very well be happening in a number of hours.

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Look, the principle at stake here is very simple. We have disagreements about tax policy, but you don’t shut that government down. We have disagreements about health care policy, but you don’t shut the government down. You don’t use your policy disagreements as leverage to not pay our troops, to not have essential services of government actually function. You don’t say the fact that you disagree about a particular tax provision is an excuse for shutting down the people’s government and all the essential services that come along with it. If you look at what Chuck Schumer has said in the past consistently, it’s whatever our disagreements are, let’s negotiate with them. Let’s talk about them. Let’s figure out a bipartisan solution. But you don’t shut the government down. In other words, you don’t put a gun to the American people’s head and say, unless you do exactly what Senate and House Democrats want you to do, we’re going to shut down your government. That’s exactly what they’re proposing out there. Now, we have to remember, they’re very frustrated. They say that they’re very frustrated about the fact that this negotiation has not taken place until today. But if you look at the original thing they did with this negotiation, it was a $1.5 trillion spending package, basically saying to the American people, we want to give massive amounts of money, hundreds of billions of dollars to illegal aliens for their health care, while Americans are struggling to pay their health care bills. That was their initial foray into this negotiation. We thought it was absurd. We told them it was absurd, and now they come in here saying that if you don’t give us everything that we want, we’re going to shut down the government. We think that’s preposterous. We think it’s totally unacceptable, and we think the American people are going to suffer because these guys won’t do the right thing. Now, I want to make one final point here. You will hear a lot from Senate Democrats, from House Democrats about the fact that American health care policy is broken. Well, we know that American health care policy is broken. We’ve been trying to fix it for the eight months that we’ve been in office. But every single thing that they accuse about being broken about American health care is policy the Democrats have supported for the past decade. So if they want to talk about how to fix American health care policy, let’s do it. The Speaker would love to do it. The Senate Majority Leader would love to do it. Let’s work on it together, but let’s do it in the context of an open government that’s providing essential services to the American people. That’s all that we’re proposing to do, and the fact that they refuse to do that shows how unreasonable their position is. I think we’re headed to a shutdown because the Democrats won’t do the right thing.

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Look, that’s what an adult in the room sounds like. That’s when the adults are in charge. That’s what you get. The other side, that’s Ilhan Omar and AOC and Eric Swalwell and Chuck Schumer. They’re lost. The Democrats are lost. Look, from my perspective, shut it down. Because I’ve been thinking a lot about talk show host Eric Erickson and his post on social media. Let me read this to you, what Eric wrote. Here is the trap Democrats are walking into with the government shutdown, he says. The Office of Management and Budget can reduce discretionary agencies in force. OMB can reduce discretionary agencies. In other words, instead of layoffs, they can fire OMB. these employees and reduce the workforce. When the agencies get funded again, since the staff was fired, not laid off, real important distinction, the agencies can be expanded and they can rehire. They can start hiring. New people will fill the jobs. MAGA can embed into the bureaucracy. Suddenly protected from firings thanks to both the civil service laws and the rulings of progressive judges against Trump in the last nine months. Way to go, progressive lefty judges. As Eric points out, Suddenly, Democrat constituencies are out of the bureaucracy, MAGA is in, and the public sector unions that fund the Democrats are screwed. You want to know something? This is what draining the swamp looks like. You really want to drain the swamp? It’s more than just a nice catchy phrase and a bumper sticker. Drain the swamp? Let the Democrats… lead to the shutdown, and let’s embed MAGA back into the federal government. Let’s purge the federal government of all the deep state bad faith actors on the left. And let’s put MAGA in. Hey, I’m in. Let’s get your take on all of that. 1-800-655-MIKE. We’re in the Relief Factor Studios. Final day of September. I’m going to be off for a few days later this week. Joey Hudson’s going to fill in. I’m going to put my feet up. Don’t call me. I’ll call you. I’m going to get a little breather, a little R&R. It’s been a rough few weeks. and this has been a rough week in particular. It’s been a rough few weeks for sure, and I’m grateful we got through it all together. So I’ll miss you, and I’ll be back Monday. Can’t wait to recharge the battery. In the meantime, let’s put your voice front and center. You know how much I love loaded lines. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Do you think Eric Erickson is right? Let’s find out.

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I appreciate your call. Well, the reason I called was because of something you said. I’m going to step outside so I don’t lose you. Okay. But the reason I called was because I was in the military. I’m an old guy, but I was in the military for 13 1⁄2 years, and then I got put out because I was going blind. But nonetheless, when I was there, one of the edicts that you were given, and, I mean, that was impressed, was you spend every… that you are given in a quarter to the last dollar, and then you ask for more. Never lower your budget because you’ll have to fight to get the money back. And so, I mean, if you have a philosophy like that, then you’re never, you know, in other words, and I’m going to just throw this in real quick, and that is if somehow… Someone could pass something along the line that said, if you are in the government and you do something that saves money nationally and effectively, you should get a percentage of it. you would see a turnaround in finances overnight.

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A real incentive to do the right thing. Look, I always think about the government’s money or a company’s money as your own. And far too many people say, no, no, no, no, I’m just going to take, I’m going to take, I’m going to take. If you looked at, for example, your company that you work for, and you guard every dollar, if you’re in any position of responsibility, and you consider the company’s budget like your family budget, well, you’re going to be in the black forever. You’re going to do well if you fall short. And it’s the same principle with the government. It just comes down to fiscal responsibility. And we’re going to see if that happens or not. Man, I’ve touched a nerve with my HVAC hack in hotels. Dallas writes, Mike, this is how you bypass any wall-mounted thermostat in a hotel. I’ve been an HVAC tech for over 15 years. Remove the thermostat wall plate. There should be at least four wires in a common marked, I don’t know, marked R for red, Y for yellow, G for green, W for white. I mean, look, I love you, my brother. You think I’m going to get out a screwdriver? and a jackhammer, and some tools every time I check into a hotel. Now, you could do it because you’re an HVAC tech. You know what you’re doing. I’ll burn the hotel down. I’ll blow the whole room up. You think I’m going to go in there and start taking the thermostat? No, you don’t have to do that. There is an easy hack. It’s called the AC or HVAC hack in hotels. And it’s on YouTube. Just Google it. You push, like, up, the up button. And I forget how you do it. Auto and up and blah, blah, blah. And it takes it into VIP mode. And then every, not all, but most hotel thermostats… It turns it all around. I’m not going to take the thing apart. We should have a segment every day. Mike’s helpful life hints. I got one life hint for you. Make it a MyPillow world. I’m in a MyPillow. Remember the Christmas? Do you realize we’re going to be at Christmas time before you know it? Holy cow. I was thinking about this. And I’ve got Christmas planned, by the way. Bring it back to me for a moment, Christian, because I’ve got Christmas plans. I’ve decided we’re going to have a Griswold family Christmas. I’m going to try it. Now, last time we tried this, we almost all wound up in the hospital, in the emergency room, in the police station. Because the Gallaghers put the dis in functional. But I’m going to do it. I got us a house. I got mountains. I’ve got snow. I’ve got reindeer. We’re going to have a ho, ho, ho time if it kills me. And it’s going to probably be nothing but disaster. So pray for us. Pray for the Gallagher family. Because we’re going to all gather. Now, one of us can’t be there. He’ll be with his wife and kids, which is great. But the rest of us, we’re all going to hold in. Hold on. I’m going to have a Christmas vacation. And look, there’s always MyPillow Christmas gifts under the tree in anything Gallagher family related. You’ve helped MyPillow. and their employees in these tough times. Mike knows it, and he always wants to give back with deals on his most popular products. The MyPillow six-piece bath towel sets are back in stock. Now, this is a proprietary technology that makes the towels amazingly absorbent. I first heard about the towels from Peg and Joey. They said, you can’t believe it. These towels actually work. Now, they’re regularly $69.98, two bath towels, two hand towels, two washcloths, $69.98, but for a limited time. When you enter the promo code MikeG at the Mike Gallagher Specials Square, just $39.98. A six-piece towel set that you will just be amazed at the absorbency. So go to MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. Click on that box, and with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG for this special offer and many, many more. The towels, the sheets, the pillows, the doggy beds, the slippers. Oh, boy, the slippers. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG, or call 800-928-6034, 800-928-6034, like we love to sing. For the best night’s sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com. Promo code Mike G. Here’s a good text from Arkansas. Look, if Curtis Lewa can’t win in New York because there aren’t enough Republicans to vote for him, then why should we even care about New York City? I get it. I really do. I understand it. It’s a tough debate, but one that we have to have. There’s going to be a morning after. Keep the faith and keep fighting the good fight. Hold your head up. We’ll get through this together.