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Adjourned until 9 00 a cspan is available through comcast. Their winning documentary that talks about the challenges caregivers in america face and potential solutions to the issues is titled unseen heroes the caregivers of america. Dr. Grace burns has spent her career working with the elderly, a role that became vital when her mother was diagnosed with dementia in 2019. We had seen some signs of it, we moved her closer. My dad passed away suddenly and i was thrown into the role of primary caregivers. That made her one of the thousands of americans who are primary caregivers to those in need that may include making meals or taking to appointments. Taking care of someone, putting time and energy into something thats going to only going to get worse see motionally draining. You have to be available 24 7. You dont know whats going to come up especially in later stages. So to commit to a physicaltime job, certainly, even with the laws in place to help protect caregivers, its just not feasible. Theres 53 million americans like grace who provide vital care for their loved ones, often at a significant financial cost. Caregivers are more likely to experience negative financial impacts. In some cases theyre leaving the work force. Over 60 of family caregivers provide care while working. But many family caregivers because of the severity of the care need to leave the work force. They give up careers to help care for their spouse or parents. Averages a cost of 324,000 in lost benefits and wings. With per capita income in the United States up 41 thats a sacrifice of almost eight years of benefits and wages, a cost they should not have to bear alone. We invest in highways. We invest in the internet. Those things are essential to making all work possible. Caring is also essential to making all work possible. We have to think about what infrastructure needs to be in place to support not just traditional Economic Opportunities, but more informal Economic Opportunities like care giving. And thats just from a a financial standpoint. The emotional cost is impossible to quantify. We think its good that people take care of each other. But we think its bad that there is an impact to the health and financial well being and Emotional Wellness of the person doing the care giving. Its painful to see somebody you love be sick or to lose function or to have a disability that prevents them from being able to fully participate in society. And theres not a lot ofport for caregivers on an emotional side. President biden placed caregivers in the National Discourse by mentioning them in an early state of the union address. Lets give more breathing room to millions of families, caregivers, looking after loved ones. But the United States remains at a crossroads for how to compensate caregivers. The government responsible for picking the lack of money ei would have had . We dont know, we havent decided that as a a society. The time to decide with an aging population and system already under strain is now. If all the caregivers were to disappear and all those folks needed to move into a nursing home paid for by medicaid wed bankrupt not just the Medicaid Program but the federal government. Caregivers provide an invaluable resource to society and its time for our country to give back. The first step is empathizing with caregivers and valuing their service. Youre on a phone call, they say, give me 10 mines, ive got to help my mom go to the bathroom. That type of transparency across generations is really new and i think younger emerging leaders are very comfortable with that in a way that is healthy and good for the rest ofs us. While empathy is important, Financial Support is sy tall. The quiets is one of the only countries in the world that does not have paid family medical leave which means that American People are often forced to choose between going without pay or without providing care for a loved one in need. More and more states are passing statebased paid family and medical leave policies. What we see in those states is that caregivers, particularly women caregivers are better able to provide care. Theyre staying in the work force longer. Theyre staying with their employers longer. And theyre able to address things like loss of Social Security earnings over time. These changes at the National Level would go a long way down a twoway street in supporting caregivers and those supported by them. Were a nation of caregivers. Even as we speak there are 50 million of us who are either caring as family caregivers or as professional caregivers for a growing aging population and with for people with disables and that those numbers are going to double by the year 2050. As the aging population growing, so will our need for caregivers. In the near future well rely on them more than ever. For hundreds of years, that has been, you know, the assumption is that wed take care of our the older generation. Hopefully my children will watch us take care of our parents and then, you know, that cycle will continue. But this cycle will be impossible to maintain and continue without more support from our government. In the next 20 years we hope for nothing more than our essential caregivers to get more support and recognition for all the hard work they do. To watch this and all winning entries visit our website at studentcam. Org. Cspan is your unfiltered view of government. Were funded by these Television Companies and more including cox. Koolende vries sin drem is extremely rare. But good friends dont have to be. This is joe. When youre connected, youre not alone. Cox supports cspan as a puic service along with these other Television Providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. cspanwj. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. The house will gavel in ad 9 00 a. M. We start with an article from axios that says Senate Democrats on wednesday squashed impeachment charges against alondra mayorkas, an end to the gops attempt to oust him. Democrats saw the impeachment as political theater but republicans argue it it sets a dangerous precedent. Lets take a look at senator schumer said in 2020, a fair trial has witnesses, a fair trial has documents. A fair trial seeks the truth, nothing more nothing less. I will not assist senator schumer in setting our constitution ablaze and bulldozing 200 years of precedent. Therefore, i object. Objection is heard. I raise a point of order that impeachment article one does not allege conflict but rises to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor. And therefore unconstitutional. Under the precedents and practices of the senate the chair has no power or authority to pass on a point of order. The chair submits the question to the senate. Is the point of order well taken . The republican leader is recognized. The irobject any should not be lost on anyone. Senator thom till is. Democrats dont want to have an impeachment trial for secretary mayorkas after they rushed the impeachment process against president trump. Senate democrats refused to do their constitutional duty. They left him off with no trial, rolling out two centuries of december dent. We will remember this. And senator mark warner, i am glad to see us move on from that totally impeachment hearing. Its time to get back to work creating middle class jobs protecting our Election Security and keeping our word to our partners abroad. And just a reminder of what those impeachment articles were, this is from the house, the two articles were the first willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law and second, breach of the public trust. Well go to your calls and get your reaction starting with aaron in florida, independents. Caller thank you for picking up my call. I could see why they went down the order of removing certain articles. If we are in court case. And the thing i just hope this country at least figures out what is going on. The poredder does need to be fixed. Thank you for your time. Host diana is next. Caller my father works for the Defense Industry and worked on the b2 bomber. Our families actually became gnat liesed citizens for fighting in world war ii and my grandmother became a natural citizen in 1943. In california and. [indiscernible] host im sorry you are struggling with that. That is not our topic this morning. Caller good morning, i would like to say that immigration, Senate Republicans talking about it is played out. Most people dont know this. One is asylum. When you come to the United States by any means necessary you want asylum. You have to be processed. Immigrants are not affecting my rights. I welcome immigrants. All those people who died on the bridge in baltimore, i welcome them. Asylum and mayorkas is following the law. Host jim, a republican in florida. Caller democrats going to realize the barter is one of the main topics who is going to be elected in november. They act like citizens out there, if we dont talk about, they wont realize we have a problem at the border. If we dont talk about it, or groceries, its too high and young people. They talk to us like we dont know. And we know that theres a problem and they need to talk about it. When the democrats thats an injustice to the people out there. The border is secure. All the people we run across. You are an idiot if you dont believe there is a problem. Even fast foods, you cant go through fast food anymore, it is so high. Host do you believe holding an impeachment trial for secretary mayorkas caller why do you say the border is secure . How can you say its secure . How can you say anything is secure, even if you you go somewhere and the people going to a ball game. Caller and three weeks before the election. I guess they get what they deserve. Host speaking of republican leader Mitch Mcconnell was on the senate floor voicing his objection to the adjournment vote. Madam president , we set an unfortunate precedent here, which means that the senate can ignore, in effect, the houses impeachment. Does president make any difference whether our friends on the other side thought he should have been impeached. He was. And doing what we just did, we have in effect ignored the directions of the house which were to have a trial. No evidence, no procedure. This is a day that is not a proud day in the history of the senate. Host we are getting your reaction to the dismissal of secretary mayorkas impeachment without a trial in the senate. The numbers are on your screen. Caller good morning. How are you . Host good. Caller im amazed what warner said concerning the scenario because i have family in virginia. I also have family in arizona. And my sister in arizona was telling us in 21 about the problems they were having with illegals breaking into out buildings on properties. My nephew was assaulted. It was on camera. So they didnt know where they were. My family wrote a letter to warner and kaine and their response was almost a form letter saying that they agreed they try to make mayorkas accountable. He is not an elected official. How to fire him . Host i hear what you are saying you want nted to see mayorkas fired, but President Biden would appoint somebody else that would also institute President Bidens policies. Caller you are correct there. Maybe we all should speak in 2024 that we are not happy about this situation. Its up to the American People and hopefully we will look through the garbage and figure out the right thing to do. Host also in North Carolina in greensboroo, roy, line for democrats. Caller you all do such a great job with washington journal even people complain that you are not unbiased. This is way of republicans getting out of doing the work that needs doing. They are preaching this chicken little hymnal. But couple of callers, lowest dpas prices. Groceries. They are not low. Ok. The border. There is a problem. But its largely because we dont americans dont do manual labor. Thats why housing is so high. We cant even find the people who will do that hard work, farming, all the entry level, farming and construction now is done by immigrants. Its a manpower problem which the bill that was trying to solve it. I dont see even chinese are coming here. If it is so good here, that is why they come. We can send little units down where theyre needed. Not guns playing but processing. We have all this manpower doing nothing. The military, they dont cook their own food or wash their own clothes and they had to contract that out. We only need a few and they could rotate so they couldnt whine and cry, the civilian authority is making them do this thing they arent supposed to do. Be there for the processing of all these people and it can be done so easily and spending that money wasting it for. Host republican line in easton, pennsylvania. Caller i would like to comment host mayorkas impeachment. Caller a day which will live in infamy fits the narrative on this case. Thats what i have to say. Host why do you feel that way, anthony . Caller if you lie to congress couple of times to Congress Like mayorkas did, there is no getting back to in other words no reason for anything to be impeached. Nobody will be impeached. Host independent line. Caller i want to comment on the previous caller from North Carolina that the military does not cook their own food. That is not true. We learned how to wash our own clothes in the marine corps with scrub brushes the social service doesnt count. And mayorkas stood there with a straight face and lied to the American People saying that the border is secure. And he did what his boss told him to do. And impeachment of mayorkas will lead to the impeachment of biden. Host senator schumers comments after wednesdays vote. As suspected the republicans proved this afternoon that the impeachment was nothing more than a political show. Problem was, they werent prepared. We had offered to have an open and public debate and votes on multiple resolutions by republicans. Rather than taking that time to hold the debate that republicans claimed was imperative, they denied our fair and reasonable offer and didnt know what to do. We saw today what we saw today was a microcosm of this impeachment since day one. Hallow, frivolous, political. And we felt very strongly that we had to set a precedent at impeachment should never be used to settle policy disagreements. I felt that very strongly. First impeachment i can recall, when you look at history, none were done because there are policy disagreements. If we allow that to happen, it would set a disastrous precedent for congress and throw our system of checks and balances into cycles of chaos. Any time the house wants to shut the senate down, they could send over another impeachment resolution and could create frivolous impeachment trial after impeachment trial. So i felt it really important, the dangerous precedent was not the one the republicans are talking about but the one of letting impeachment take the place of policy disagreements. Host getting your reaction to that. And curt, a republican in new jersey. Caller good morning. Did we expect anything other than the democrats who control the senate obvious, dismiss the impeachment trial. You know, i listened to Hakeem Jeffries this morning preach on supporting ukraine, israel, taiwan, sending hundreds of billions of dollars to support these people, yet, we cant protect our southern border. All i have to say is, f. B. I. Director Christopher Wray confirmed 357 individuals on the terrorism watch lists from countries all over the world that entered the United States under biden and mayorkas policies. When the blood flows here in america, let the blood be on their hands and every democrat who supports those policies. And thats all ive got to say. Host here is a text we got from scott, an independent in massachusetts. Big surprise, big yawn. Get to the real issues. Pass a bill on ukraine, israel, taiwan and hopefully the border. Clifford in alabama, democrat. Caller yes, i have had with these republicans calling in and talking about the impeachment. This is a clown show. There is no high crime and misdemeanor. There was a bipartisan border deal that was struck between these people. And what did they do . Because donald trump. He said kill it. Fentanyl coming in. President obama said dont do it. And republicans stood in line and said we arent going to do it. This was the strongest deal we could have had. They dont do anything about the border. Its what i cant understand about these people. Stop this nonsense about the border. Host deem republicans say we passed h. R. 2, why wont the senate pass that . Caller thats a problem, too. Congress is not working as it should work for the people, but this border deal, there was a bipartisan deal there. There was a bipartisan deal done and do something about the border rather than just talk about. Donald trump these people following this cult leader, he said no. Mr. Former president , we can both take credit. If you want to have credit, help the American People and talk about the border and immigrants, if you wanted something done, you should have passed that bill. The man is for himself, donald trump and he said dont do it and those republicans fell in line. Host good morning. Caller trump dearrangement syndrome is running wild. Trump hasnt been in office for three years and democrats are still managing to blame donald trump. He is the big bad bogey man. It is interesting because up until yesterday, we were told that the situation at the border was simply overwhelming that this was going on all over the world and nothing mayorkas could do about it. Chuck schumer said its a policy difference. I guess its the democrat policies that we have an open border and said the quiet part out loud because up until now we were told we were getting overwhelmed at the border and this is a worldwide phenomenon. A lot of these migrants are coming to the darrian gap. There are organizations like the red cross which has been a leftleaning organization has set up stations down there with instructions and maps and instructions in multi languages as to what the right thing to say to the Border Guards if they are intercepted at the border. This is all being funded by the u. N. And has dpon on worldwide and look like what is going on and its not even safe to walk the streets in london or paris pause people who have come from the middle east and taken over every city. And chancellor merkel said if she had known it would have been this bad. Host go to open forum and show you this while you are calling in. The numbers are on your screen. And the prices are unfairly low. Dont need to worry about making a profit. Because the Chinese Government subsidizees they are cheating. And we have seen the damage here in america. And began flooding the market and across pennsylvania and ohio who were hit very hard. Between those years more than 14,000 workers lost their jobs. Im not going