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Byron Donalds

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PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

That's right, 2002. That is essentially the issue we have in a federal bureaucracy. You have 2 million plus individuals involved. who have their own political vision, and typically it is a very left-leaning political vision, and anything you do to upset the way they want to move is met with recalcitrance, just straight obstruction, quite frankly, leaking.

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

That happens all the time in the federal bureaucracy. If something comes down they don't like, they start leaking to the press. So, yeah, if you ain't going to come into work, he's the chief executive. You're not going to show up. Bye-bye. At least they're getting a payout.

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

That happens all the time in the federal bureaucracy. If something comes down they don't like, they start leaking to the press. So, yeah, if you ain't going to come into work, he's the chief executive. You're not going to show up. Bye-bye. At least they're getting a payout.

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

So, you know, we're in the federal government where the workers have to show up for work every day. Capitol Hill. If you're a staff member for a member of Congress or House or Senate, you're in the office, especially when we're in town. Like if we're not in town, you might be at home because I'm not there. I can't see you. But when we hit, when we fly in, the staff is there.

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

So, you know, we're in the federal government where the workers have to show up for work every day. Capitol Hill. If you're a staff member for a member of Congress or House or Senate, you're in the office, especially when we're in town. Like if we're not in town, you might be at home because I'm not there. I can't see you. But when we hit, when we fly in, the staff is there.

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

There is not a member, Republican or Democrat, that I'm aware of that lets the staff work remotely. Do you know why? Because on Capitol Hill, the staff members for the Senate and for the House are at-will employees. I think there was a move, I think AOC and a couple of them tried to let their staffs unionize.

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

There is not a member, Republican or Democrat, that I'm aware of that lets the staff work remotely. Do you know why? Because on Capitol Hill, the staff members for the Senate and for the House are at-will employees. I think there was a move, I think AOC and a couple of them tried to let their staffs unionize.

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

This was a couple years ago. I think Pelosi was starting to float it or something. And I walked in, and I love my staff. They're great. I walked in, I looked at them, and I said, let's be very clear about something. If you try to unionize, you're all going to be fired. There's no union here. It is my way.

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

This was a couple years ago. I think Pelosi was starting to float it or something. And I walked in, and I love my staff. They're great. I walked in, I looked at them, and I said, let's be very clear about something. If you try to unionize, you're all going to be fired. There's no union here. It is my way.

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

It's my name on the door, and my name was put on this door by the people back home in the district. So I'm showing up, and you're showing up. They didn't even question it. I just made sure everybody fully understood the situation.

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

It's my name on the door, and my name was put on this door by the people back home in the district. So I'm showing up, and you're showing up. They didn't even question it. I just made sure everybody fully understood the situation.

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

First thought is... this is why in Congress we have to get president Trump's agenda through as quickly as we can. And I know part of the national conversation about what we're doing is been around one big, beautiful bill or, or two bills. And I think the president at this point is like, it could be one bill. It could be two bill. I don't care. Let's get it done.

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

First thought is... this is why in Congress we have to get president Trump's agenda through as quickly as we can. And I know part of the national conversation about what we're doing is been around one big, beautiful bill or, or two bills. And I think the president at this point is like, it could be one bill. It could be two bill. I don't care. Let's get it done.

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

The number one thing that Tom Holman and Kristi Noem need are dollars from Congress to to provide bed space and other officers and additional resources so that this process can actually function. What Stephen Miller is talking about, about the floor, yeah, that's correct. But the logjam is going to be they don't have the resources right now under federal appropriations. to meet the floor.

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

The number one thing that Tom Holman and Kristi Noem need are dollars from Congress to to provide bed space and other officers and additional resources so that this process can actually function. What Stephen Miller is talking about, about the floor, yeah, that's correct. But the logjam is going to be they don't have the resources right now under federal appropriations. to meet the floor.

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

We have sheriff departments in Florida and around the country, their local jails are now filling up in part because of the 287 program that helps the repatriation process. So on Capitol Hill, we just left our retreat And I, you know, my, my comment to the, to the speaker and to the other members is we, we have to do two reconciliation bills.

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

We have sheriff departments in Florida and around the country, their local jails are now filling up in part because of the 287 program that helps the repatriation process. So on Capitol Hill, we just left our retreat And I, you know, my, my comment to the, to the speaker and to the other members is we, we have to do two reconciliation bills.

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

We cannot do one big bill because it's going to take us too much time to get that done. And Tom Holman and those guys need the resources ASAP in order to have this be an orderly and smooth process that doesn't get log jammed or doesn't get, you know, backlogged, which will just back, we'll back spill into sheriff departments, et cetera. So,

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

We cannot do one big bill because it's going to take us too much time to get that done. And Tom Holman and those guys need the resources ASAP in order to have this be an orderly and smooth process that doesn't get log jammed or doesn't get, you know, backlogged, which will just back, we'll back spill into sheriff departments, et cetera. So,

PBD Podcast
RFK Jr. Hearing, Trump & Guantánamo Bay, American Airlines Crash w/ Rep. Byron Donalds | PBD Podcast | Ep. 541

What was happening here about how so many migrants are coming in jammed into trucks, vans, and et cetera, that's been going on for four years. This has been the quiet secret that the Biden administration hid from the American people. I don't know if you guys remember. This is probably the last time Joe Biden spoke at a press conference. This was like four years ago. And he – I'm serious.