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And the prime example of this is a stock trading ban.

That is something that she's been advocating for.

She does not want members of Congress to be able to trade stocks.

There is huge bipartisan support for that bill.

Johnson initially suggested that he would be willing to put a bill like that on the floor.

But in Ana Paulina Luna's view, she believes that it's being slow walked.

Now, Johnson and his allies would say they've been busy, you know, trying to avoid a shutdown.

But Anna Paulina was—Luda was so frustrated that she decided to start this discharge petition, which is this kind of procedural wonky term.

But really what it means is it's a way to go over leadership's head and force bills to the floor without leadership's blessing.

And so—

I described it in my piece for NBC News as a revolt of the Republican women.

They're actually rebelling.

It's not just, you know, frustrations being aired in TV interviews or print newspaper magazine interviews.

It's also something that's being taken directly to Johnson and is having a real effect on the legislative floor and the legislative process.

Well, you know, one thing that did come up in my conversations with some of these Republican women is that he recently did a podcast with Katie Miller.

That is Stephen Miller's wife.

Stephen Miller, of course, is a White House aide.

It was a much more casual setting.

He was with his wife, Kelly, during the interview.

Yeah, men's brains are like waffles.