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KENNEDY: “The idea that we send billions of dollars to dead people and they get cashed. The checks get cashed so obviously a lot fraud.”
“When you die Katie, not that you’re going to die anytime soon, but when you die, your name goes to the Social Security department, they have a list dead people.”
“And but they wouldn’t share it with anybody else. They wouldn’t share it with the Department of Treasury for example.”
“So I had to go pass a bill. Took four years to pass the bill, believe it or not I had opposition. But we finally got it passed and the president signed it yesterday.”
“And so far as I can tell, dead people can still vote, but they can’t cash checks because we’re not going to sending them to them anymore and it’s going to save billions and billions and billions of dollars.”
Senator John Kennedy just delivered over two straight minutes of pitch-perfect “Kennedyisms” on NewsNation.
— Overton (@overton_news)February 13, 2026
As @KatiePavlich sat across from Kennedy, she couldn’t help but crack up at times.
KENNEDY: “The idea that we send billions of dollars to dead people and they get cashed.… pic.twitter.com/S47Ka6LEKB
KENNEDY: “Well, every state is different. Some state governors cooperate, some of them don’t.”
“Governor Walz didn’t cooperate. He knew about this fraud, he knew all about it. You know, he lied about it. I’m sorry.”
“No offense to the governor but he learned to lie before he learned to talk.”
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KENNEDY: “This book, I think the reason it’s done okay is because t’s not a policy book per se. It’s a storybook.”
“I use real stories to make to make my points about policy. And some of the stories will make you laugh. Some of them are very bizarre. All of them are true.”
“I hope the book will make people think, I can say it’s all true, it may make you want to day drink because some of it’s not pretty.”
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PAVLICH: “Why is it that Washington will never test negative for stupid?”
KENNEDY: “Well I don’t know. Maybe it’s something in the water.”
“There are a lot of of intelligent people in Washington, but I call them high IQ stupid people.”
“They’ve got lot of education, but no sense.”
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KENNEDY: “This place is…uhhh…some days it’s like the game room of a mental hospital up here.”
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KENNEDY: “I’ve got a lot of friends in the House and Mike Johnson’s a good friend of mine, and Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan and many others.”
“I shouldn’t say this, but they’re not any better or worse than the Senate.”
“Both chambers, sometimes, are like a circus without a tent.”
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