The Stack: Shutdown Standoff, TPUSA Pushback, and Katie Porter Walkout (Almost)

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Nine days into the government shutdown, Todd explains how Senate Democrats’ refusal to support a “clean continuing resolution” has turned a simple vote into a political spectacle. Trump hints that furloughs could become permanent cuts, reigniting debate over the size of government.

Then, Rutgers University’s Turning Point USA chapter faces a petition to disband—proof that campus intolerance for conservative voices continues even after Charlie Kirk’s tragic assassination. Todd shares a personal story about a woman rethinking her worldview through Kirk’s message of faith and truth.

Finally, Rep. Katie Porter’s meltdown during a California TV interview shows just how allergic the left can be to honest follow-up questions.

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📝 Transcript: Shutdown Standoff, TPUSA Pushback, and Katie Porter Walkout (Almost)

The Todd Huff Show – October 9, 2025

Host: Todd Huff

Todd: There we go. Well, that is right, my friends. You’ve tuned in to America’s home for conservative, not bitter talk. Oz is doing something here in the studio that I overlooked doing before. We got rocking and rolling here today, but I welcome you to the program. Email if you want to be part of the discussion — todd@toddhuffshow.com or 317-21-0283. Thoughts, questions, feedback always welcome. Be certain to include the appropriate amounts of adoration and praise which, listen, there’s days I need it. There are days I need it. I’m kidding, folks. I am teasing. Take it easy.

Todd: It’s good to be here today. A couple of things I want to get to. I’m going to give you an update. We’re on day number nine of the government shutdown. I also want to talk a little bit about what’s happening regarding Turning Point USA chapters. You may have seen this. There’s one in particular, I think it’s at Rutgers University. There’s a petition to try to keep Turning Point from having a chapter at Rutgers University. I want to talk about that. I want to share a short story of something — a conversation that I had just in my own personal life journey here with somebody that is relevant to this conversation. And time permitting, I would like to — I don’t know if you know who Katie Porter is. Katie Porter, representative, leftist, angry, very angry leftist representative from the People’s Republic of California. She’s running for governor. I don’t know if you’ve seen this interview controversy. I’m going to try to get to it, time permitting.

Todd: But it’s absolutely unbelievable to watch the way she didn’t want to answer a reporter’s question — who, by the way, was not being provocative. Listen, I know the media is a hot mess, my friends, but this particular media reporter — representative of the media, whatever, I don’t know who she is — she’s on a local, I think it was CBS station in the People’s Republic of California. She was really doing actual journalism. And Katie Porter shut down the interview because she didn’t like the question. She didn’t like follow-up questions. She wanted to know what the questions were, it sounded like, which is par for the course. I mean, that’s what happens. The media is not afraid to give Democrats those questions. We’ve seen this with Hillary and the debates and so forth. Anyway, time permitting, I’ll get to that as well, my friends.

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Todd: All right, let’s get here. Quick update — and this isn’t going to take, I think, the whole first segment. I don’t think so. We’ll see. An update on the government shutdown. The Democrats in the Senate have refused yet again to vote for a clean continuing resolution. We are on day number nine of the Chuck Schumer government shutdown.

Todd: So the shutdown, of course, began at midnight the morning of October 1. Here we are, October 9. Congress failed to pass the appropriate, necessary appropriations bills. That means that currently approximately 800,000 federal employees are furloughed. Some are working without pay. Now according to law, they’re going to get pay. They’re temporarily laid off or working temporarily without pay.

Todd: But Trump says — and I’ve mentioned this before — Democrats better be careful here, how far they want to push this, continue into this abyss of a shutdown. Donald Trump has said that if Democrats continue to block this, continue to block just the reopening — so again, a clean resolution, a clean CR — which means it’s a continuing resolution that funds the government for a specified period of time. A clean CR means there’s nothing else in there; it’s basically saying let’s keep the status quo until the next deadline, which currently, as I understand it, was meant to be November 21, right before Thanksgiving.

Todd: The Democrats have refused to sign on to that, which makes no sense. Now they’re out there spinning it, trying to find some sort of traction in today’s news narrative. They have suffered tremendous political losses all over the place — messaging losses. The Democrat Party is in absolute disarray right now. They’re looking for a victory. They think they might have it with the shutdown. They think they can blame the Republicans, but they’re the ones blocking simply an extension of the status quo.

Todd: We can continue negotiations between reopening the government and the new deadline, but they don’t even want to do that, and that’s not an exercise of good faith. I shared on here before — my son, who’s now 16, by the way, has his driver’s license now, so watch out, world. Actually, he’s a kid, but he’s very cautious. A very cautious driver so far — at least with Mom and Dad in the car. Hopefully it stays that way. He’s got more of a cautious personality, too, but he’s got his license now. That’s an eye-opening thing.

Todd: In fact, they got it yesterday. My wife took him and sent me a picture of him with it, and I started realizing — oh, so now he’s able to just get in the car and go. It took me a second to kind of wrap my head around that. But anyway, that’s where we’re headed here.

Todd: But I remember a couple of months ago — maybe a year ago — he had asked me to kind of explain what politics was. And I thought about it for a moment. I’ve shared this on here before. I said, you know what? Politics is the art of taking credit for everything that’s good, or everything that the person you’re talking to — a constituent — might think is good in the world around them, and then blaming your political opponents for the things that are bad.

Todd: Now, that’s a cynical view of it, I understand. But that is the art of politics. It’s about jockeying for position. Now, I would say if you’re being genuine and authentic and fighting for what you truly think makes the most sense, then that’s okay — I don’t have a problem with that, to a point. I’d also throw a little humility in there.

Todd: That’s one of the things, by the way — earlier this week, we spoke with Shelby Campbell, who had some really terrible things to say about Charlie Kirk’s assassination. She has apologized. I commended her for that. I commended her for coming on the program. “I’m sorry. I was wrong. I apologize.” Those are words that don’t come from the lips of politicians very much, because it’s a blame game. It’s a grab-the-credit game for things that are going well. It’s a blame game for things that aren’t going well.

Todd: And that’s what politics has become. Too many people are still, I would say, a half-step away from really understanding what’s going on in our nation’s capital and politics in general. It’s all about the credit. Again, I’ve cited a quote from The Office — Michael Scott, when he got in trouble for the Willy Wonka golden ticket idea that he implemented in the office.

Todd: Long story short, he put all the tickets on one pallet of boxes that were going to a client. The client got all the boxes. The coupon didn’t say you couldn’t combine them, so the biggest client ended up getting a 50% discount or something like that. It caused havoc in the office. The boss came in to talk with Michael about it. In the meantime, Michael begged one of his team members, Dwight K. Schrute, to take the fall.

Todd: Michael was trying to push the blame on him. But in the meantime, the company was so happy — the client was so happy that they got such a big discount — that they decided to move all of their purchases of office products to the company as well. So Michael, by making Dwight the scapegoat, ended up looking like the hero.

Todd: This caused a big brouhaha in the office. Michael wasn’t happy. He eventually couldn’t keep his mouth shut, and he said, “David, I’m the one that had the idea.” And David says, “Michael, I don’t know what you want me to do.” And Michael says, “David, I’ll be honest with you — I’d like all of the credit but none of the blame.” That, my friends, is politics.

Todd: And listen, I’m not saying there’s nothing else genuinely happening there, but that’s a big, big part of it. Too many people miss that step. They misunderstand by half a step. They think these folks are fighting for their cause. They think these folks are committed. And sometimes they are. But how many times, my friends, have you and I voted for someone — had high hopes for someone — only to watch that person go to Washington, D.C., and effectively sell his or her soul?

Todd: I’ve said before, this was one of the main reasons Trump became so popular — because conservatives were tired of voting for people who weren’t principled conservatives. I’m not saying Trump is an ideological conservative, but the things Trump wants to do, at least the first 500 things on the list, are in good alignment with conservatism and the role of government.

Todd: How many times did we elect people who went to Washington, D.C., and showed us they really weren’t conservative? Or maybe they were conservative but they were wimps — they couldn’t take the heat. What do they say? If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Well, in this analogy, the kitchen is Washington, D.C.

Todd: And it was disheartening. It was disheartening. Along comes Trump, and I don’t want to go through this whole thing on Trump, but Trump comes along and changes that. The guy actually means what he says. He’s fighting. Look — you look at all the fights over the National Guard and deportations and everything — lawsuits and this and that, Supreme Court hearings, court rulings, injunctions, the constant fight about simply trying to enforce the law.

Todd: Right at the core of this is that we’ve had leaders in our government, we’ve had an executive branch for a long time that did not want to enforce immigration law. And the left and the media have basically excused that. The laws that are being enforced today have been on the books for a long time — they’ve just been ignored. And we were lied to. We were lied to by the Biden administration. We were lied to by the media.

Todd: Biden could have done any of these things. He didn’t want to — which, of course, begs the question as to why. What’s he trying to accomplish? Why is he so — he and the left, by the way, Democrats in general — why are they so insistent on open borders? What are they trying to get from that? It obviously has to do with elections.

Todd: By the way, there’s a court case that the Supreme Court is hearing today — Louisiana versus Calais — that has to do with the way congressional districts can be drawn. I talked about it in the Todd Talk. I’m not going to talk about it here, but anyway, we’ve got this battle that’s going on in Washington, D.C.

Todd: We have some principled stands being taken, and we have some political drama that’s unfolding. Right now, the Democrats are engaging in political theater — and it’s bad political theater at that. If you dig just a half-inch deep, you’ll find their entire argument unravels completely. There is no reason whatsoever that they shouldn’t sign on to this clean CR by themselves — more time — but they don’t want to do that.

Todd: This shutdown is on them, my friends. They refuse to sign on to this obviously common-sense next step, which is to pass a clean CR, reopen the government, and negotiate between now and the time the next CR expires, which is on or about November 21.

Todd: In the meantime, President Trump has come out and said something we’ve mentioned on this program. I told you to keep your eyes open for this. President Trump said if the Democrats continue to block this from happening, furloughed positions could become RIF positions — reductions in force — reducing permanently the size and scope of government.

Todd: Remember, one of the issues Trump’s had to deal with is that if budgets are passed by Congress, he’s basically being forced to spend the money allocated for staffing. So Trump’s saying, “Look, if there’s no budget right now, there’s no money being spent, so technically I can RIF.” Now, listen — there’ll be lawsuits and all this sort of stuff. Labor unions, legal experts — they’ll fight it.

Todd: They’re predicting legal fights about these terminations if it comes to that, because they’ll say it violates civil service protections and it’s going to create lawsuits. But Trump’s saying, “Look, if you’re not going to come to the table, if you’re not going to reopen the government and enter into good-faith negotiations, then right now budgets are zero. I don’t have any money I’m supposed to spend, so we’re going to start permanently reducing the size and scope of government.”

Todd: Now, the question is whether Trump is just negotiating — threatening to do that — or whether this is real. And I’ve got to be honest, this is the thing people on the left don’t give Trump enough credit for. I could be convinced of either. He’s negotiating — that’s clear. But he’s also serious about reducing the size and scope of government. If they don’t think he’d seriously do that, they should reconsider, because I think he very well could.

Todd: So we’ll see where this goes. The Office of Management and Budget — OMB — they’ve already instructed agencies, as we talked about earlier this week, to prepare for RIF plans, reduction-in-force plans. But as of today, that hasn’t happened. That’s just been kind of put out there as a bargaining chip.

Todd: So that’s where we stand. The government’s closed. Negotiations are going nowhere. In fact, there are really no negotiations whatsoever. Republicans say we can negotiate once you reopen the government and continue the status quo — no new changes. Nothing changing from when the government shut down until now. Extending that through November 21. Democrats refuse to do this.

Todd: We’ll see where this goes, my friends. But that’s where we are. Now, the left says that these RIFs — the firings — would politicize the civil service, punish ordinary families, violate employment protections under the law. That’s their argument.

Todd: Trump says, “Look, the government’s bloated. We need accountability. We’ve been saying we’d do this for a while. Right now we have no budget. If the only thing keeping me from RIFing these positions is that I’m supposed to spend the money that’s been allocated — there’s no money allocated right now because you clowns can’t get to the table and negotiate — then maybe I’ll do it.”

Todd: Trump would say that. So we’ll see where this goes, my friends.

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Todd: All right. So where do I want to go? I’m going to set this up. I didn’t know how I was going to address this. I have two other things I want to get to, but I definitely want to turn our focus to Turning Point USA.

Todd: There’s news out there — a Change petition has been launched. It was launched earlier this month to disband an existing chapter of Turning Point USA at Rutgers University. The petition alleges that the group promotes “hate speech” and fosters a hostile environment.

Todd: As of today, more than 1,600 people have signed this petition. More than 1,600 people — I don’t know if it can be anybody; I don’t know the rules for all these petitions that change, but there are 1,600 who’ve signed this who apparently can’t come to grips with hearing ideas they don’t agree with.

Todd: Now, of course, Turning Point denies all these claims. They don’t engage in hate speech. They say the petition is defamatory, which it is, and politically motivated, which it also is.

Todd: Again, I listen to this on a regular basis. We post clips of this show on social media. I hear from people saying the left loves to have debate. Well, why don’t they? Why do they always do things that interfere with that? They’ll say, “Well, you’re engaging in hate speech.” First of all, what does that even mean?

Todd: Number two, listen — as I said yesterday, when I had that interview with Shelby Campbell on Monday — who had said some things about Charlie Kirk on social media — she’s apologized, but she’s one of many.

Todd: And she, by the way, said a lot less offensive things than some people out there, but she was mocking Charlie Kirk’s death. And I don’t know — they behave like this. They make these allegations. She said on the program — I didn’t catch this in real time because I hadn’t heard it before. Some of you got upset with me for not questioning her on it.

Todd: Two things: Number one, I don’t want it to become a scream fest. Number two, I didn’t catch it. I didn’t know there were people out there that had accused Charlie Kirk of being — and she used the term “chink” to describe someone she said who was Asian in the audience. He was talking to Cenk Uygur, which I went through earlier, I think yesterday, before we interviewed Eric Trump — talking about all the ways conservatives and Trump are maligned and misrepresented. We went through a lot of those things yesterday on the program before that interview.

Todd: But that’s how the left wants to engage. Now, listen — it’s a permanent olive branch if you decide to totally sell out and become a radical leftist, and you suddenly have no interest in free speech. If you want to silence the political opposition, if you want to redefine morality, if you want to live a godless belief system — you’re free to do it. But we’re going to have a hard time. You and I can talk so much as it’s up to me, but I’ve learned you don’t want me to talk in return.

Todd: You don’t want people like me to have our opinions, to have our beliefs. And so you turn to these sorts of tactics to try to silence and minimize or eliminate the competition — the other side of the argument. And it’s actually pretty pathetic. Rutgers has come out and said that it supports free expression. It declined to comment specifically on this. Of course, it’s student matters. No disciplinary action has been taken.

Todd: Kind of response to the allegations here that Turning Point USA is hate speech — the things that they’re saying. Number one, I would say give me a specific explanation, a definition of what you’re talking about. Number two — in fact, if you listen to Charlie Kirk, and listen, I am not an expert in everything Charlie Kirk said and believed, but I have no reason to believe that Charlie Kirk had anything but a motivation of honesty, truth, and love to share, and a passion to communicate things so these students are not caught up in this godless, radical leftism.

Todd: I think that was Charlie Kirk’s motivation. Charlie Kirk didn’t hate them. Charlie Kirk hated bad ideas. I hate bad ideas. Bad ideas can cause tremendous harm — they have caused tremendous harm. We have a whole generation of young people who believe that aborting a child is no big deal — “my body, my choice” — and then they suffer the consequences of that.

Todd: They’ve been lied to and deceived by people in the industry, by those promoting an absolutely wicked and godless lifestyle. By the way, even some of these so-called churches are out there endorsing and supporting this sort of stuff. You’ll hear this kind of thing coming from pulpits — not from huge amounts of churches, but from churches that have turned from the truth of the Word and started getting into, well, the radical left worldview, which is not in alignment with biblical truth.

Todd: Charlie Kirk didn’t hate anybody. He wanted people to hear the truth. He wanted people to hear the message of the love of Jesus Christ. And I have something to share with you — and I’m going to keep this anonymous because I had a conversation with somebody yesterday. She told me she was raised by two atheists — mom and dad who were both atheists, who were both liberals or leftists potentially. I don’t know precisely, but they’re far left.

Todd: She was raised — this was a woman — raised by people who were atheists. She said she had gone as a kid to maybe VBS or a Christian concert, that sort of thing. And she told me, for those who say that Charlie Kirk was not out there for my Christian brothers and sisters who don’t believe Charlie Kirk was interested in sharing the gospel or was interested in people accepting Jesus — she told me that she’s not a conservative.

Todd: She’s left of center. She’s not a radical leftist; she may be slightly liberal, I don’t know. But she’s someone you can have a conversation with. And she told me that his death has really bothered her, and it caused her to start looking into this. She’s a mom. She’s got a couple of kids, and her kids follow this stuff. They’re aware of Charlie Kirk.

Todd: She just wanted to understand — why did we get to this point, right? And as she started consuming his content, she’s like, “You know what? I agree with a lot of what he’s saying.” And it’s caused her to ask all sorts of questions, which led her and I to have a conversation recently where she was asking about church.

Todd: She and her family might come to church with us and so forth. But whether they come with us or go somewhere else, that’s not really the point. The point is that to say Charlie Kirk was out there engaging or had engaged in hate speech at Turning Point USA — when ultimately they’re pointing people to the cross of Christ — is a major, major stretch, my friends.

Todd: She’s searching. This young lady’s searching for a church community. And she’s doing so because of the evil she’s seen and the senselessness, and then the truth she’s hearing and the message proclaimed by Charlie Kirk. How is that hate speech? How is it hate speech to share the gospel?

Todd: I understand — Jesus told us that the world will hate you because it first hated Him, right? It hates Jesus. The world is not very welcoming to the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. But when it’s received by those who understand that they are loved by God — that their sin debt was paid by their Creator — when that happens, great things result.

Todd: People can turn to Christ. People can begin the process of accepting truth, being sanctified by the Spirit, the Holy Spirit. So we’ll see where this goes. I’m very encouraged, and I think that’s a microcosm — that’s a microcosm of a lot of other things happening like that, causing a sort of spiritual awakening.

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Todd: Got to run. Quick timeout. Back in just a minute.

Todd: Welcome back, my friends. I am so very proud of myself today. It’s hard to get through all the stuff that I want to get to. Sometimes we have more to say about things than I realize at first glance, but I’m actually going to get to this Katie Porter interview where she had this meltdown. She’s totally unfit, candidly, for office anywhere — let alone to be governor of the People’s Republic of California. So I’m going to share that here in just a moment, my friends.

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Todd: So, Katie Porter — leftist from California, representative, angry a lot. And you’ll find that in this interview. In fact, I don’t know what this journalist does — there are people in the media who engage in sophistry every day, who engage in political games every day. This lady, this journalist — and I’m going to use the word “journalist” because normally when I talk about the media, I’ll say “make-believe journalists,” because most of these folks are not real journalists — but she’s actually showing me here that she has an interest in journalism.

Todd: So they have a governor’s race in California. This journalist has sat down with people who are running and has asked the same exact questions that she’s asking Katie Porter here — who’s a lunatic in many ways. She’s the one who, on election night — I think it was, or maybe the days after the election — came out and said that she had a twelve-year-old daughter. She picked her up, I think she said, from water polo practice, and her daughter was crying. She said, “Did something happen at practice? Did you get hurt? Why are you crying?” And her daughter said to her, and I’m paraphrasing here, “Mom, I’m crying because if I get raped and pregnant, I can’t abort my baby now because Trump’s president.”

Todd: And this lunatic — I mean, who teaches their kids this? It’s craziness. A kid doesn’t just come up with that; they’ve been force-fed this junk. Anyway, same Katie Porter here. I want you to listen to this. She gets upset at this journalist for asking this question. Check this out.

Julie Watts: Redistricting — what do you think of the governor’s plan?

Katie Porter: I support the governor’s plan.

Julie Watts: What do you say to the 40% of California voters who you’ll need in order to win — who voted for Trump?

Todd: Here we go.

Katie Porter: How would I need them in order to win?

Julie Watts: Unless you think you’re going to get 60% of the vote — you think you’ll get 60%? Everybody who didn’t vote for Trump will vote for you?

Todd: She’s already bristling.

Katie Porter: That’s what — you’re in a general election?

Julie Watts: Yes.

Katie Porter: If it’s me versus a Republican, I think that I will win the people who did not vote for Trump.

Julie Watts: What if it’s you versus another Democrat?

Katie Porter: I don’t intend that to be the case.

Todd: Here’s where it starts going off the rails.

Julie Watts: So how do you not intend that to be the case? Are you going to ask them not to run?

Katie Porter: No, I’m saying I’m going to build the support I have. I have the support already in terms of name recognition, and so I’m going to do the very best I can to make sure that we get through this primary in a really strong position. But let me be clear with you — I represented Orange County. I represented a purple area. I have stood on my own two feet and won Republican votes before. That’s not something every candidate in this race can say. If you’re from a deep-blue area — if you’re from L.A. or Oakland — you don’t have that experience. You don’t need those Trump voters.

Julie Watts: Well, you’d need them if you wanted to win.

Katie Porter: I feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative. What is your question?

Todd: Oh boy.

Julie Watts: The question is the same thing I asked everybody — that this is being called the Empowering Voters to Stop Trump’s Power Grab. Every other candidate has answered this question. This is not argumentative.

Katie Porter: I support it.

Julie Watts: The question is, what do you say to the 40% of voters who voted for Trump?

Katie Porter: Oh, I’m happy to say that — it’s the “do you need them to win” part that I don’t understand. I’m happy to answer the question as you have it written, and I’ll answer it.

Julie Watts: We’ve also asked the other candidates — do you think you need any of those 40% of California voters to win?

Katie Porter: You’re saying no, you don’t.

Julie Watts: No, I’m saying—

Katie Porter: I’m going to try to win every vote I can. And what I’m saying to you is that both of those voters—okay, I don’t want to keep doing this.

Julie Watts: You’re not going to do the interview with us?

Katie Porter: No, not like this. I’m not — not with seven follow-ups to every single question you ask.

Julie Watts: Every other candidate—

Katie Porter: I don’t care. I want to have a pleasant, positive conversation about every issue on this list. And if every question you’re going to make up a follow-up question, then we’re never—

Julie Watts: That’s my job as a journalist.

Katie Porter: That’s right.

Julie Watts: To do this.

Katie Porter: I’ve never had to answer follow-up questions before.

Todd: Can you believe this?

Julie Watts: But every other candidate has done this.

Katie Porter: That’s right. What part of “I’m me, I’m running for governor because I’m malignant”—

Julie Watts: So you’re not going to answer questions from reporters?

Katie Porter: Okay, why don’t we go through—

Julie Watts: I will continue to ask follow-up questions because that’s my job as a journalist.

Katie Porter: But I will go through and ask these, and if you don’t want to answer, don’t.

Katie Porter: I don’t want to have an unhappy experience.

Julie Watts: Then don’t be unhappy.

Katie Porter: I don’t want this all on camera.

Julie Watts: Too late for that.

Julie Watts: I would love to continue to ask these questions so that we can show our viewers what every candidate feels about every one of these issues that they care about.

Todd: Okay, I’ve got to stop it there. There’s twelve more seconds of this, but I’m just simply out of time. She made it unhappy — the journalist. Kudos to her for holding her ground and doing what’s right.

Todd: And by the way, Katie Porter told you — she told you. “I never had to do this before.” Read your questions, don’t ask me follow-up questions. “I’ve never had to do that before.” Now, she was saying, “I’ve never had to leave an interview before.” But why is she leaving? For being asked follow-up questions. What a baby. Unfit for office. I’ve got to go. SDG.

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