Brett (Brett Meiselas)

and try to create a system, perhaps a single payer system, some sort of universal healthcare system that ensures that people could get care ideally for free, cut out the middleman and actually have a system that works like basically the rest of the world has.

Republicans certainly don't have that.

have that plan and they just want to destroy everything um but uh you know i think maga mike and i think trump i think all of them are getting really exposed here and i think marjorie taylor greene kind of you know turning against them here and actually telling the truth for once i think that's actually very powerful um and really exposes just how big of a liar mike johnson is donald trump is how they try to distance themselves from what they're actually doing here which is going to be catastrophic for the american people at large and definitely for their own constituents

Permanent.

Government shutdown, government employees stop getting paid, Congress people still get paid.

I think that tells you it all about how the system is rigged in favor of particular people, in particular of those in power, the wealthy.

And if there was a just system, at least when the government shut down, perhaps the people who caused the government shutdown, the politicians in Washington, D.C., perhaps they would not get paid.

they would feel some of the pain that the rest of the American people are feeling as a result of their actions.