Charlie Kirk was in high spirits and “in a combative mood” just before kicking off his American Comeback Tour at Utah Valley University, said a rabbi friend who spoke to him for an hour the night before his death.

Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, 55, an American-born cleric who lives in Israel, met with Kirk via Zoom on Tuesday night.

“He was excited to get back out on the campus tour,” said Wolicki, who said he often spoke to Kirk before public appearances to advise him on how to “defend Israel effectively.”

“We became good friends,” Wolicki told The Post, calling the 31-year-old activist “unbelievably courageous” in the face of so many Gen Z conservatives who “were turning on Israel.”

That “worried the heck out of him,” said the rabbi. “He held fast and it wasn’t easy.”

Often the people who challenged Kirk at events “bombarded him with questions about Israel,” according to Wolicki.

“Charlie was always seeking true information,” said the rabbi of his evangelical Christian friend.

Hours before the firebrand was assassinated in Utah, the two met online to prepare for the “smears against Israel” he would inevitably face during his tour of college campuses.

“He was working out talking points, playing the role of devil’s advocate, pushing us on these issues, trying to sharpen the iron,” said Wolicki, who specializes in Jewish-Christian relations.

“He was in a combative mood,” recalled the rabbi, “which is good. He was preparing for debates and attacks.”

“Charlie stood alone to a great extent in that whole Gen Z conservative world as far as being pro-Israel,” the rabbi said. “And his life would have been a whole lot easier if he wasn’t.

“There were prominent people . . . actively working to [get him to] drop his support for Israel on a daily basis. And he resisted.”

The two men first met in December 2023 when Kirk joined a 12-person Shabbat dinner during a Turning Point AmericaFest event. That’s when Wolicki learned Kirk was interested in observing Sabbath.

“Every Friday night at sundown, Charlie would turn off his smartphone and put it in a drawer until Saturday sundown,” recounted the rabbi. “I found that to be fascinating that this guy, one of the busiest people you’ll ever see, do Shabbat.

“He said it enhanced his family,” said the rabbi.

Kirk even wrote a forthcoming book on the subject, “Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life,” which is already a bestseller.

https://nypost.com/2025/09/13/us-news/charlie-kirk-and-rabbi-pal-talked-hours-before-his-death-he-was-in-a-combative-mood/

With federal funding set to lapse on September 30, congressional Democrats have drawn a stark line in the sand, refusing to back any stopgap spending measure unless Republicans agree to pump billions back into Affordable Care Act subsidies. Led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the party’s stance risks plunging the government into another disruptive shutdown, all to prop up a program conservatives have long criticized as a bloated, inefficient expansion of federal overreach.

The demand centers on two flashpoints: extending enhanced ACA insurance tax credits, which helped cap premium hikes during the pandemic but are due to expire at year’s end, and rolling back nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts enacted earlier this summer as part of President Trump’s sweeping spending reforms. Without these changes, Democrats warn of skyrocketing premiums and widespread coverage losses.

A recent analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation projects that 22 million Americans could face steep increases in health insurance costs next year if the subsidies vanish, a figure that has become a rallying cry for the party’s negotiators.

Schumer, speaking alongside Jeffries after a strategy session with top Democratic appropriators, didn’t mince words about the consequences of Republican intransigence.

“House and Senate, Hakeem and I are in total agreement, what the Republicans are proposing is not good enough for the American people and not good enough to get our votes. The American people are hurting, health care is being decimated on all different fronts, people are going to die, people are losing jobs, people are losing health care.”

This dire prediction paints a picture of catastrophe, yet it glosses over the fiscal reality: Those enhanced subsidies, originally a temporary Biden-era measure, have already cost taxpayers over $300 billion in recent years, according to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office. Extending them now would add another $335 billion over the next decade, locking in higher deficits at a time when the national debt tops $37 trillion.

Jeffries echoed the alarm, framing the fight as a moral imperative. “We will not support a partisan spending agreement that continues to rip away health care from the American people. Period. Full stop.”

His words capture the raw emotion driving Democrats, who see the Medicaid trims—aimed at curbing waste in a program riddled with fraud and inefficiency—as a direct assault on vulnerable families. But from another angle, those cuts represent long-overdue discipline in a system where enrollment has ballooned to 80 million people, far beyond original projections, straining state budgets and driving up costs for working taxpayers. Jeffries’ “full stop” ultimatum leaves little room for compromise, effectively turning a routine funding bill into a high-stakes referendum on Obamacare itself.

This isn’t the first time Democrats have played the shutdown card over health care entitlements. Back in March, Schumer buckled under similar pressure, voting with Republicans to avert a crisis despite backlash from his own party’s left flank.

“While the [continuing resolution] bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse,” he declared then, arguing it would hand Trump unchecked power to reshape federal agencies.

https://basedunderground.com/2025/09/13/democrats-shutdown-gambit-obamacare-subsidies-or-bust/

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