With, uh look, if we finally beat medicare. Thank you President Biden. President trump . Well, he is right. He did beat medicare, he beat it to death. More Border Patrol and more asylum officers. President trump . I really dont know what he said at the end of that sentence. I dont think he knows what he said either. He wants to get rid of the ar. Ability of medicare for the ability for the us to be able to negotiate drug prices and big pharma companies. There is going to be discussion whether he should continue. No two ways about it not a good debate. His job was to reassure them. To calm his a party. To make them feel that yes, can i do this. He did not do that he did the opposite of that. He made them more panicked. I think there is a lot of people who are going to want to see him consider taking a different course now. Ainsley well, you saw it last night. Democrats in fullblown panic money this morning with the media headlines spelling very bad news. Look at new york times, a Fumbli
3rd only raised $47 million in pac money which is supposedly voluntary. this money and the $40 million, the national education association is talking about and $44 million s.i.u. is talking about is coming from union members as a condition of their employment. and they turn around and spend it on politics in causes the members object to. that is an outrage. neil: what do you make of the white house argument about the chamber money that car exceeds whatever is being done. guest: here is how we break it down. i don t believe this is the right way. we do it on a partisan basis. take the top 20 political action committees reporting their donation and 74 percent of that money went to the democratic
the use of union dues for political campaigns, period. mark, this is the foundation the governor and i have a different view on. when you are a public union and technically you represent public workers, workers, who are there for the taxpayer, it is a more slippery slope, is it not? guest: well, yes, it is. but here is the difference. we spent $87.5 million but the top two other unions put in another $80,000 so $171 million that unions claim credit for. and the difference in the money is important. the chamber money is voluntary. workers and unions, many workers and unions are required as a condition of employment, fund the general treasury of the unions that turn around and spend the money on politics. we are not talking about politic action committee money because all the unions through october
work for a government agency want to participate in politics i get that. they are still americans and they have every right. i don t want to put a restriction on their right to be political other than on the job. but to make it as if it is holy and the chamber money is unholy that is disappointing. neil: you like both and accept both or you hate both. guest: that is the point we are trying to make. neil: thank you my friend. guest: on saturday we will talk about mortgage crisis on the show and we will watch a new cd, neil cavuto and robert jones, and a number of others, a charity project, funds to help buy musical instruments for kids. neil: by the way, i am not on the album. it was an oversight. good to see you. my next guest is trying to limit
party including nine major unions, corporate and trade association pac s. and 26 percent went to republicans. so, the idea that somehow big business is dwarfing union money, from a partisan standpoint it is one place but organized labor spends $1 billion this cycle on federal elections alone. we have $171 million, just from three of the 56 unions affiliated with the afl-cio and five associates with . neil: that is panic money, a union mentality like a wounded animal they have to strike out here or they will be struck out. what isepth and broad nature of this funding tell you about election year and where the money is targeted? guest: you and the governor lit on the public sector union,