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Hilton Hotel Scrapped from Fed Program | NYC Appointments Raise Eyebrows (Ep 629) · Joey Hudson / Just The Truth

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  approved federal lodging list after allegedly refusing to accommodate ICE agents. We have an
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  update on this ongoing story. New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani has appointed a longtime housing
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  activist. Her name is Sia Weaver. She's going to run the city's office to protect tenants and
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  almost immediately some of her old social media posts and some of her past comments have started
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  recirculating. And boy, they raised a few eyebrows. You don't want to miss this story. President
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  Trump speaking at the House GOP policy retreat Tuesday went off script just a bit and did what
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  only Donald Trump can do. He acted something out. You're going to want to hear this as well.
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  And Governor Henry McMaster is asking legislators to spend another one point one billion on road
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  work as inflation drives up costs. This is part of the governor's budget recommendations for the
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  legislative session. Sets began in just a couple of weeks. It's a busy day. Let's get started.
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  I told you we'd be back. And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
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  It's Joey Hudson. I want to name it the Joey Hudson bill, but, you know, they don't allow you
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  been near and dear to you for a number of years. That's how it's done. Let your voice be heard.
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  Here's Joey Hudson. So I want to give you an update on a story I told you about yesterday,
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  the Hampton Inn Hotel in Minnesota. It appeared that they were refusing to rent rooms to ICE
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  agents. Remember this? Well, Hilton is now saying there's more to the story,
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  but there may be a little too late. The General Services Administration,
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  known as the GSA, said that it is terminating the Hampton Inn Lakeville in Minnesota from its list
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  of approved lodging sites for all federal employees after the hotel refused to accommodate
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  ICE agents and immigration officers. Now, here's the story from Fox and Friends. Good morning. DHS
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  says that hotel canceled those reservations for DHS officers after seeing their government emails.
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  DHS posted a series of screenshots that appear to be from a Hilton email account on January 2nd.
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  One of those emails saying, we are not allowing any immigration agents to house on our property.
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  DHS is accusing Hilton Hotels of launching a coordinated campaign in Minneapolis to refuse
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  service to DHS officers. But Hilton, in a new statement, is distancing themselves, saying this
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  hotel is independently owned and operated and these actions were not reflective of Hilton values.
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  We have been in direct contact with the hotel and they have apologized for the actions of their team,
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  which was not in keeping with their policies. Hilton's position is clear. Our properties are
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  open to everyone and we do not tolerate any form of discrimination. The management company for the
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  Hampton Inn Lakeville property is also issuing a statement. Everpeak Hospitality says they have
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  moved swiftly to address this matter as it was inconsistent with our policy of being a welcoming
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  place for all. We are in touch with the impacted guests to ensure they are accommodated. We do not
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  discriminate against any individuals or agencies and apologize to those impacted. DHS Assistant
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  Secretary though, Tricia McLaughlin, suggests Everpeak hasn't done enough posting this. I wonder
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  how Everpeak Hospitality has moved swiftly to address this matter when DHS and ICE have not
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  heard anything from them. We'll see if that changes today. Now all you need to know is several emails
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  posted by the Department of Homeland Security and ICE on Monday showed that the hotel was quote
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  not allowing any ICE or immigration agents to stay at any of our properties. After I was informed
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  that a local Hilton property canceled rooms reserved for ICE, GSA immediately reviewed the
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  matter and found the hotel to be in clear violations of its government lodging program.
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  This according to GSA Administrator Edward Forrest as he told Fox News. He said the property has been
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  removed from the programs and booking tools effective immediately. GSA unequivocally supports
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  our federal law enforcement partners. The GSA is a federal agency. It's responsible for managing and
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  supporting the basic functioning of federal agencies. Forrest was nominated by President
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  Donald Trump to lead the agency and he was sworn in on Christmas Eve after being confirmed by the
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  U.S. Senate in mid-December. Now the formerly Hilton branded hotel was stripped of its Hilton
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  label by the hotel chain Tuesday after this video surfaced appearing to show that the location
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  continued to deny immigration officers despite Hilton Hotel saying that the venue had apologized
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  and that the properties are open to everyone and they said we do not tolerate any form of
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  discrimination. The hotel participated in a government lodging program partnership is known as
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  GSA FedRooms is between federal employees and the location. Now after the Hampton Inn Lakeville
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  denied federal agents rooms, GSA removed the property from all lodging programs and travel
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  systems. FedRooms is a GSA managed transient lodging program. It's provided for federal travel
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  regulation compliant hotel accommodations to U.S. government and military travelers at or below
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  federal per diem rates. Now GSA also terminated emergency lodging services and long-term lodging
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  at the property as well. Fox News learned through sources that the hotel accommodated federal agents
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  for roughly 130 total nights last year including active duty military members along with civilian
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  employees. The total number of federal workforce exceeds four million. Hilton Hotels noted in its
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  initial statement that the Hampton Inn Lakeville is quote independently owned and operated and said
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  that officials from the property took immediate action to resolve this matter and are contacting
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  impacted guests to ensure that they're accommodated. Now a viral video posted by another citizen
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  journalist posted to X, this time freelance journalist Nick Sortor, this was posted yesterday
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  as well, showed an employee at the counter continuing to deny federal agents after Hilton said it wasn't
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  happening. This of course going against Hilton's statement. Mr. Sortor is shown walking into the
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  very Hampton Inn that started this whole fiasco, asked for a room, is told there are rooms available
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  and he actually pulls up and you can see on his screen where he was looking online and it showed
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  that they had more than the 10 rooms that he asked for. When he claimed to be a homeland security
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  officer, the clerk clearly says that they're not allowed to offer rooms to immigration agents.
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  Let's listen in. Hello, how are you? Good. Do you have any rooms for tonight?
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  We should, yeah. Okay, like how many? Can we get like 10?
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  Did you already make reservation plans? No. What's the name? It would just, it would be
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  just Nick. I just put it under my personal. I don't know if you can use a government rate or not but
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  uh it depends because there's a lot of stuff going on right now uh is it uh what agency
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  is it for? It'd be a department, homeland security. Uh so we're not accepting people
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  from immigration, ICE agents, DHS into our property. It's just the apartment management
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  ownership. Okay, I thought that changed today. I just talked to my um the owner of the building
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  and uh he didn't say there hasn't been any changes so um yeah it's just it's just policy
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  you know that. Yeah, I mean that's not not your fault. Totally, yeah, totally get that. So they
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  they actually said that was it was like I mean honestly this is the most convenient location so
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  so they they told you no that there's no yeah no immigration well DHS isn't all yeah immigration
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  okay so the so even with the thing that they said earlier or they they mentioned that
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  there was a statement that they put out you know saying that they were
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  that they accept everybody and uh I haven't been informed. I can call my owner right now if you
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  want and ask him what's that that's probably good just trying to figure it out because it's uh
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  somebody somebody said I didn't know it was this location but Everpeak Hospitality, right?
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  Uh I'm new here so I don't really know what's gotcha yeah so yeah I'll just call them.
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  Yeah that's that's probably good just just to be clear like I'm not trying to cause any problems
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  it's just like it's 10 11 o'clock now so yeah yeah okay thank you. So the hotel clerk goes
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  into the back supposedly to call the quote owner comes back out and says well nobody answered
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  couldn't get him and denied the supposed agent the rooms. Hilton Hotels took action shortly after
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  separating the individual hotel from their network. In a statement they said a recent video
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  clearly raises concerns that they are not meeting our standards and values. Hilton said in a
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  statement as such we're taking immediate action to remove this hotel from our systems. Hilton is
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  bring this story up but I couldn't help myself I had to. All right so here's the story let's
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  talk for a minute about Washington D.C. this week that had House Republicans laughing the media
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  clutching its pearls the mainstream media that is and half the country nodding along saying yeah
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  that's kind of the point. So what's the story? Well it's about President Trump speaking at the
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  House GOP policy retreat on Tuesday. He went off script a bit and did what only Donald Trump does
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  he acted something out specifically the president decided to make his case against transgender
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  athletes competing in women's sports not with white paper not with a policy memo but with a
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  physical demonstration and whether you loved it hated it or rolled your eyes it landed exactly
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  where he wanted it to land. I'm only sorry that you can't see this but I'm gonna let you listen in
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  and you see I want to be more but I have somebody watching
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  I want to be more effusive I want to really yeah but she gets in it
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  and
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  dropped the thing walks off the stage crying her mother's crying her father's
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  guy gets up he said have you lifted before a little bit and he walks up being
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  he could have gone ding ding I think it was 112 pounds huh it's crazy. All right so what you were
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  just listening to was the president imitating a female weightlifter and he was straining he was
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  shaking he was fighting to get the bar up making all kind of faces noises exaggerated to struggle
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  and he painted a pretty clear picture then he switched roles suddenly he's playing the transgender
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  competitor casually walking up lifting your weights with ease and strolling off like it was nothing
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  and he looked at the room and he said essentially this is crazy. Now here's the thing this wasn't
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  subtle it wasn't refined it definitely wasn't something you'd see in a political science
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  textbook uh it was unmistakably Donald Trump. Strip away the imitation the jokes the theatrics
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  and what the president was doing was highlighting a reality that a lot of Americans
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  understand instinctively men and women are biologically different period end of sentence
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  those differences matter especially in sports and pretending otherwise doesn't make it fair
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  this isn't about hating anyone it's not about denying dignity it's not about mocking people
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  for who they are it's about sports and competition women train their entire lives for these moments
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  championships scholarships records medals when biological males enter those competitions
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  the playing field isn't just tilted it's fundamentally changed that's not a conservative
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  talking point that's just basic physics and the president knows this is one of those issues
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  where Washington elites might squirm but parents athletes and everyday voters quietly say
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  he's right he's right about this now one moment that actually stood out wasn't the
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  imitation itself it was what president Trump said about the first lady he told the room that Melania
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  hates when he does stuff like this she thinks it's unpresidential he said she doesn't like
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  the dancing she doesn't like the impersonations and the president said I did become president
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  that matters because it shows something important this isn't Trump being unaware uh this is Trump
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  being intentional he knows it breaks the quorum he knows the media is going to explode and he does
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  it anyway he even knows that it's not pleasing to the first lady and he does it anyway because
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  he believes the message connects with voters more than polished restraint ever could that's been
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  Donald Trump's political superpower from day one Democrats have never fully resolved their
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  internal conflict on transgender participation in women's sports you can hear it when they talk
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  you can see it in polling you can feel it in how carefully they word the answers because deep down
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  many of them know the public isn't where activist groups are female athletes don't want to lose
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  scholarships or records schools don't want lawsuits and yet activist pressure
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  keeps pushing institutions to pretend biology doesn't exist Trump taps into that frustration
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  not with a spreadsheet but again with a story people immediately understand now it's not an
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  accident that Riley Gaines a former collegiate swimmer who has lived this issue firsthand
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  immediately praised Trump she posted the clip and said no I don't regret my vote this is perfect
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  now why because for athletes like Riley Gaines this isn't abstract it's very personal to her
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  she trained she competed just like a lot of other young women have trained and competed
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  and have lost opportunities not because they weren't good enough but because the rules changed
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  midstream in the middle of the game and when politicians refuse to even acknowledge that
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  reality frustration turns into anger and President Donald Trump gave voice to that
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  this isn't about theater the president followed words with action last year after returning to
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  office he signed an executive order tying Title IX enforcement to biological sex warning schools
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  that allowing biological males into women's sports or locker rooms could cost them their
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  federal funding that's not symbolic that's just using the his bully pulpit and it sends a message
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  to schools you don't have to be activists you don't have to choose ideology over fairness
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  the federal government has your back if you follow the law as written they're going to cover you and
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  this is where commentators sometimes miss the point they assume moments like this only appeal
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  to Trump's base but this issue cuts much wider you've got suburban parents who voted democrat
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  in in the past but are uncomfortable with where the democrat party has now gone you've got
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  independents who don't want culture wars but also want common sense they don't want common sense
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  thrown out the window you've got young women asking why their hard work suddenly doesn't matter
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  and president trump did not invent this issue he's just reacting to it and he's doing it in a way
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  that bypasses elite language and goes straight to kitchen table understanding go straight to the
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  family was it polished no was it presidential by old school standards uh definitely not was it
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  effective i think so and that's the reason you have donald trump doing the things that he does
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  sometimes that yes are a little unpresidential on the text line texture said joey this tells me
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  right off the bat that hilton hotels may be employing a ton of illegal immigrants and by
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  having ice there they didn't want to have a bunch of you know shows looks like ice needs to start
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  with the hilton chain hotels for all the illegals they're looking for uh maybe right but but i want
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  us to be careful here because and not apply this to the hilton brand necessarily because
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  hilton immediately well not immediately but soon soon after this uh became a real news item
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  they stripped that local uh hotel from the hilton brand that hotel is no longer part of the hilton
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  brand and that's a big thing for a hotel operator to lose they're going to have to take those
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  hampton in signs and and that that imaging off uh hilton has already removed them from their
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  website so that says something appreciate your text text or welcome as our emails joey joey
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  hudson.com all right let's talk new york city for a minute because the new mayor hasn't even
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  had time to rearrange the furniture and already we're getting a pretty clear picture of where
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  this administration wants to go mayor zoran mobdani has appointed a long-time housing activist
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  cia weaver to run the city's office to protect tenants that title in itself the office to
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  protect tenants should raise the hair on the back of your neck and almost immediately some of her
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  old social media posts and past comments have started circulating and they've raised more than
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  a few eyebrows one tweet from a few years back really called people's attention weaver wrote
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  that home ownership especially home ownership is a weapon of white supremacy disguised as
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  wealth building policy let me let you hear her say it in her own words i think the reality is
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  is that for centuries we've really treated um property as an individualized good and not a
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  collective good and we are going to trend and transitioning to treating it as um a collective
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  good and towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently and
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  it will mean that um families especially white families but some poc families who are homeowners
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  as well um are gonna have a different relationship to property than than the one that we currently
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  have now that's a pretty strong straight statement it's not exactly something you expect
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  to hear from someone now running housing policy in the largest city in the country is it she's
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  also previously tweeted that we should elect more communists and in a video from a democrat
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  socialist of america event she talked about how america has spent centuries treating property
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  as an individual good she that's she believes that she absolutely believes that owning your
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  own property is a bad thing and i don't know for sure i'm gonna go out on a limb here i'm gonna say
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  she's probably never owned her own home now and in other words in her mind the idea that
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  owning property is something personal something individual uh in her in her own view that's
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  outdated now whether you agree with her or not this matters because this is just an academic
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  debate anymore this is somehow uh this is how someone now sitting inside new york city hall
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  is helping shape policy that affects millions of people for now in new york city but you know how
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  these ideas start to uh start to spread to other cities once they take root nobody denies new york
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  has a housing problem okay they have for years rent is expensive buying a home is almost impossible
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  that's real and everyone agrees something needs to be done but there's a difference between saying
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  let's fix housing affordability and saying maybe the whole idea of owning property is a problem
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  talk about going back uh hundreds of years that's kind of like back in the day in uh in in england
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  when the king was the only one and his lords could own property the average person could never dream
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  of owning their own property now for a lot of americans and not just in new york home ownership
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  has been one of the few reliable ways regular people the middle class can build stability and
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  long-term security just uh i'm not talking about power i'm not talking about dominance i'm talking
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  about just a stable future you buy a house you raise a family you pay it off maybe someday you
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  leave something behind for your kids that's been a pretty common american story across races
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  across income groups across generations so when someone in government suggests
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  that idea itself is suspect people understandably start asking questions
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  now one reason this is getting attention nationally and the reason you and i are
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  talking about it today is because again what happens in new york often sets trends
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  policies get tried there language gets normalized there and then those ideas start showing up in
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  other parts of the country that's why even uh people who will never live in manhattan
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  or brooklyn are paying attention to this appointment and to her ideology it's not just a
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  a a talk radio uh topic that that we're that's getting noticed the justice department has also
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  weighed in the assistant attorney general for civil rights harmeet dillon said the doj is
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  watching closely and made clear that if city policies cross constitutional or civil rights
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  lines the federal government is prepared to step in that's not a threat it's more of a signal that
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  this administration is being taken seriously and not everyone likes what they're hearing
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  now to be fair mayor mobdani has been pretty upfront about who he is and what he believes
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  he ran as a democrat socialist and he says he intends to govern that way he told us that
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  in his inauguration speech nobody can accuse him of hiding it the question is how that ideology
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  translates into real world policy does protecting tenants mean enforcing existing laws and cracking
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  down on bad landlords most people would probably support that or does it mean rethinking ownership
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  itself as this young lady seems to suggest in this old video who gets to own how much can they own
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  and under what conditions those are very different conversations you agree and this is where
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  i want to hear from you text me email me joeyjoeyhasn.com leave me a message
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  you use promo code joey leave me a message because if you own a home or hope to someday
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  what does that mean to you is it about control is it about security and if you rent do you want
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  better protections or do you want government deciding who owns what do you want government
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  owning that apartment building that you're renting those aren't rhetorical questions
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  they're real policy questions that are now very much on the table this story isn't about tweets
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  from years ago just for the sake of outrage it's about understanding the mindset of the people now
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  writing policy when someone tells you what they believe about property about ownership about
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  wealth it's probably worth listening and taking seriously because ideas that start as theory don't
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  say theoretical for long once they make it into city hall and especially new york city hall
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  and always uh we're going to continue to follow this story because again this could be a very
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  national uh crisis it could turn housing into a crisis more so than it is now if in fact they're
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  able to do this now by the way speak while we're talking about um white privilege a harvard
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  university dean has been removed after a student-run news outlet exposed social media posts
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  slamming whiteness um police and advocating for looting and rioting gregory davis is his name
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  former dunster house austin borough resident dean found himself in the hot seat after a harvard
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  student-run news outlet called yard report resurfaced the problematic post davis was on
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  leave last semester for reasons unrelated to the controversy now while harvard did not confirm that
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  davis was removed for the inflammatory post fox news obtained the text from an email sent by the
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  faculty deans of dunster uh confirming davis's removal it read we are writing to confirm that
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  gregory davis is no longer serving as the austin borough resident dean of dunster house effective
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  today we thank gregory for serving in this role and wish him and his family the best for their
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  future endeavors the email message also announced that um his replacement who had served as the as
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  the interim the post in question were made between 2019 and 2024 mostly on x for example
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  he posted on x is almost like whiteness is a self-destructive ideology that destroys everyone
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  around it by design during the 2022 tensions between police and left-wing writers uh during
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  the george floyd uh days he wrote you should ask your cop friends to resign since they're racist
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  and evil as rioters and looters wreaked havoc in major metropolitan areas nationwide he defended
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  the chaos he also said something to keep in mind rioting and looting are parts of democracy just
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  like voting and marching the people will be heard the guy is promoting violence in that same year
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  around the time president trump tested positive for covet 19 davis said on x that he didn't blame
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  people who wish trump ill he followed that post with a second caption but also f that guy he
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  attached a meme it said if he dies he dies this guy is nuts and doesn't need to be in any school
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  just before davis accepted his role as dean of dunster house in 2024 he made a post about pride
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  month on instagram saying wishing everyone a great pride remember to love each other and hate
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  ford.com firmanford.com governor henry mcmaster is asking legislators to spend an additional 1.1
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  billion on road projects to keep up with inflation costs he announced this
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  in a preview of his total budget recommendations that he'll be giving to legislators as they go
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  back into session in a couple weeks this is nearly as much as legislators have spent on
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  roads and bridges in the past four years combined construction costs have surged nationally in
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  recent years repairs and improvements to roads and bridges haven't been spared the problem is
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  especially acute in places like south carolina where fast-growing populations mean more traffic
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  wear and tear on existing roads and according to news release from the governor's office
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  these things have to be addressed now because they're only going to get more expensive
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  the governor's full budget suggestions are expected next week when the legislature
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  returns to columbia revenue estimates updated in november provided the legislature with nearly
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  2.5 billion in additional money to spend in the fiscal year starting july the first now notice
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  how that says uh in uh an additional 2.5 in additional money to spend they ever thought
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  about not spending it never thought about returning some of that by way of no income tax
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  if we keep having year after year after year of a billion dollar uh surpluses don't you think we
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  can get get our tax rates down um that breaks down to about 1.7 billion that the state has
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  in unspent reserves and above expectation tax collections so far this year according to um
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  the daily gazette so mcmaster's request would consume more than 60 percent of the one-time
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  money what's considered budget surplus and with proposed reductions to the state income tax
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  potentially decreasing revenue collections in the coming years the governor says it's important that
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  legislators dedicate a huge chunk of that existing surplus towards fixing the roads at least he's
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  thinking that maybe income tax will come down eventually in a statement he said our population
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  is skyrocketing and inflation is driving up construction costs creating potential delays
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  we can't make more time but we can use this new surplus money to keep road projects moving and
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  on schedule revenue hasn't kept up with the cost of inflation secretary of transportation justin
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  powell wrote in a december letter to the governor to illustrate his point secretary powell pointed
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  to the 28 cent gas tax every driver has paid per gallon since 2022 the completion of a six-year
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  phase in and you may recall that phase in we were told was going to solve all of our roads and
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  bridges problems now we know that it hasn't of course we weren't convinced it would at the time
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  anyway in 2017 the legislature passed a law that gradually increased the per gallon tax by 12 cents
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  one penny per person per gallon could pay to say to pave 114 miles of two-lane highway
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  in 2025 it could pave 87 miles according to secretary powell that's a pretty big difference
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  going from 114 miles to 87 miles the governor's request would add to the nearly seven billion
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  in contracted construction projects that are already underway of the approximate 1.1 billion
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  request 600 million would help pay for ongoing interstate projects with those increased price
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  tax 400 million would help fund repairs to the state's aging system of bridges and 150 million
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  would allow new projects to move ahead without the money projects already underway could take
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  years longer than anticipated powell wrote the longer a project takes the more expensive it
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  becomes powell wrote as scdot has seen these delays only lead to additional cost increases
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  a vicious cycle that is challenging departments across the nation as they work to deliver critical
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  infrastructure now some of those existing projects that would be included uh one wouldn't
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  complete the widening of i-26 between columbia and charleston to three lanes each way and if
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  you've ever been to headed to charleston in the summer you know how bad that can get uh the other
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  would widen the first 10 miles of i-95 from the georgia border to u.s highway 276 in jasper county
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  again if you've ever been headed to hilton head in the summer you know how that's needed now the
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  cost of both projects has spiked has spiked since 2022 with the 70 mile i-26 project surging from
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  just over 2 billion to now 3 billion and the i-95 project going from 977 million to nearly 2.3
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  billion you know you see these numbers and it makes you wonder if maybe we don't need to look
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  a little more closely at these paving contractors and look look i'm a capitalist i believe in making
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  money but i also know how lucrative that business can be maybe the state needs to get into the
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  business of paving now i typically wouldn't say that but maybe we need our own crews out there
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  paving this rather than than paying some contractor i don't know what do you think text me email me
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  joeyjoeyhudson.com is that a horrible idea we got to figure out a way because i've got to believe
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  there's a lot of price gouging going on from these contractors i'm probably going to hear from some
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  uh another major interstate project uh carolina columbia's carolina crossroads
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  saw a significant increase as well from 2.1 billion in 2022 to 2.8 billion by the end of 2025
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  now all these numbers are coming from the department of transportation from from secretary
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  powell uh that particular project the columbia's carolina crossroad is expected to fix the notorious
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  snarl of interstate ramps more commonly called malfunction junction you know right there in
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  columbia as you head into to the to the city along with funding ongoing improvements the money could
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  help get two new projects off the ground according to the proposal the agency plans to eventually
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  widen interstate 85 between anderson and oconee counties if you live here in the upstate you know
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  that's needed uh interstate 77 between chester and rock hill uh with 75 million the agency could
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  begin pre-construction design work making it easier to apply for grants that could allow
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  construction to begin sooner than the anticipated earliest start date of 2035 10 years from now
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  the i-77 project would widen the interstate to three lanes each way
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  from south carolina highway 9 east of chester to u.s highway 21 where it already spans six
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  lanes total another 75 million could pay for a study on how to improve parts of interstate 26
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  interstate 85 and interstate 77 near charlotte also moving up to start date from 2035 at the
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  earliest now on the north carolina side of the board of transportation officials are working
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  to upgrade 11 miles of of highway including adding express lanes and reconstructing
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  interchanges and bridges in an effort to reduce congestion this is according to the north carolina
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  department of transportation and you know each state north carolina south carolina georgia
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  has to kind of anticipate what the other is doing because that's how some of these bottlenecks are
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  you have one state uh staying up to date and the other not look it's big bucks folks it's big
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  dollars and again i think we should spend some time looking in to better ways of getting this done
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