Amanda Carpenter
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first heard Jan 2025
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And I don't believe this extends really to Justice Thomas, but she forecasts that she believed in drawing this distinction earlier on. And so did they just have a pretty good understanding that Roberts and Coney Barrett will take the hit on this and they will make sure that it was a 5-4 decision. And we can essentially vote no and get all the kudos from MAGA from it that accrues, right?
Like this is like kind of, you know, voting no is always the safest thing if you can get other people to actually do the policy work that you know is better for the country. I'm wondering if, maybe I'm hoping, if that is actually true. part of the dynamic on the Supreme court, you know, there's a lot of five, four decisions that allow people to take the easy way out.
I mean, it's just that it's just hard to hear. Right. It's hard to sit with this stuff and find encouragement and motivation to keep going. But that is what we have to do. And I want to be clear, when I'm drawing these distinctions about the path that we can fight on going forward, I am certainly not happy that the path has become so narrow.
But I think we should be realistic about that is what it is. And we do have some footing to go forward on.
No, it needs to get out. I mean, we're going through these machinations now, but I cannot imagine that a document of this significance with all the people that have access to it, especially Biden with the, as JBL has pointed out, he enjoys the same kind of official immunity that Donald Trump will.
Put it out. Put it out. Or what? You're going to say because Judge Eileen Cannon said no? It is absurd. Put it out.
By the way, can I just say something? Liam Donovan was so good. He was so good at explaining reconciliation. People should save that. It should be taught to incoming Hill staffers. I just great, great guest. I really enjoyed it.
I hope you don't say that about me on future podcasts. She's really good at this subject, but she's actually super annoying.
Your commenters can say that.
Yeah, he was my chief of staff in the cruise office. I worked very, very closely with him.
Well, holding the line always leads to discussions of government shutdown, which, you know, we've learned many times. And, you know, Donald Trump hasn't necessarily been hurt by government shutdown. So I don't think... I would rule that possibility out. That said, just for, you know, interesting political dynamics, where's Elon Musk and Vivek when you need them, right?
Like, weren't they supposed to be tasked with finding the spending cuts that we're going to need in the future? Like, this would be the time that they should be recommending them to Congress. And so if I were Chip Roy,
My question here, if I were Chip Roy, I would... I would be thinking about saying, well, hey, Elon Musk signed up to have spending cuts. And so I look forward to having a meeting with him and finding the biggest cuts possible to do this.
I would try to be enlisting him into this because the reality is they want to have this fake congressional committee spending commission to make cuts to programs they don't like to hurt people that challenge their interests, right? That's actually what Elon wants to do. But Bring them into the fold. Right. Like you signed up for this, Vivek. Like we need this many cuts to make this work.
Let's let's go. You know, the Democrats should be similarly like calling on them. Like, where is it? Where is it? Because. We do need to find a way to get to reality earlier on. And if this just becomes an endless process of kicking the can down the road, having a reconciliation bill where we don't pay for any tax cuts, which has happened numerous times before, it doesn't really get anywhere.
And this is the question of what actual policy wins do Republicans expect to achieve with Trump? And I think that's a very big, big, big open question. And what was funny to watch earlier this week, Trump went to the Hill to meet with Senate Republicans and people talked to the press after and said, oh, you know, the aides, I guess they were kind of upset.
Well, Donald Trump didn't give us any guidance about whether we should do one big, beautiful spending bill or a lot of different spending bills, which is the better policy and is more hard to do, but it actually does result in a better process. It's like because he doesn't care. He doesn't care. They would love if you listen to Larry Kudlow and the others.
They just want a big bill, just like the Republicans and Tea Party people have traditionally criticized the Democrats for doing, doing a big bill where everyone has a gun to their head, where they have to absolutely pass everything and a massive, reckless, unsustainable spending bill or get nothing at all. I mean, those dynamics have not changed.
And a bad Massey sometimes. And like, I still, I feel the same way about Rand Paul. Like Rand Paul pushes some really great policies sometimes, like with emergency use and abuse and that kind of stuff. But then, you know, we just got to find a way to keep them on that. Like, listen, like you believe the debt is out of control. You have to do something about it.
He's done it before. Chip has done it before. They've done it before.
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