Congressman Brendan Boyle

It's so funny that you're saying this, because not even about 20 minutes ago, a Democratic colleague and I were both having this conversation, and we were both perplexed at how the markets are just completely shrugging their shoulders at this point. Yesterday they were up slightly, today they're down slightly. They obviously do not take Donald Trump seriously, as you've said. I also think it's a reflection of the fact they have a great deal of confidence

kriminaalisuusjärjestelmämme, että tämä pysyvä ja vaarallinen järjestelmä ei oikeastaan toiminnallisesti toimi, ja että Mr. Powell ei ole todella järjestelmällisiä ongelmia. Haluaisin sanoa heille, että toivon, ettei yksinkertaisuus ole yksinkertaisuus, ja toivon, ettei se ole vaikuttanut.

We could be in store for a very rude awakening if this pressure, this unprecedented illegal criminal pressure from Donald Trump actually succeeds. I give Jay Powell a lot of credit. He's a traditional old school country club Republican, served in Republican administrations going back to George Herbert Walker Bush.

in the late 80s and early 90s, there's a lot of integrity to stand up to this pressure. I fear, though, that it will ultimately have some sort of effect, and that would be bad, even though I would love to see, I think we would all love to see lower rates and to pay less for our mortgage and auto loans. The reality, though, is if these decisions are being driven by politics and political pressure,

and not the data, they could end up sparking an inflation crisis that we will have to live through and suffer through for years and years to come.

It's funny. I think people, even if they're not paying attention to CPI data, they just kind of know from their own personal experience that America just simply is too expensive right now. In order to get by in the United States of America today,

Things cost too much and the cost is going up rather than down. Donald Trump won the presidency just over a year ago because he promised he would bring prices down. And what has he done? He's only driven prices up.

because of his ridiculous tariff policies, which basically is an added national sales tax that the American people have to pay on any imported good. And most of the goods we buy tend to be imported. Oh, and by the way, if you're a billionaire, you got the biggest tax cut in American history. If you're on Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, you got screwed because he is cutting your healthcare.

If you get your healthcare through your employer, your costs will now go up because providers and hospitals need to make up the costs that they're going to pay because of all of the cuts they're suffering. So the reality is

Inflation was headed in the right direction about a year and a half ago. We were almost back after many years, after the whole post-pandemic crisis, we were almost back to 2%, almost back to normal. Donald Trump comes in, and it's been chaos ever since, costs going up, with really no sign of them coming down anytime soon.

You speak to most Americans and they don't feel it's a little bit higher. They feel it's significantly higher. And they're right. I mean, they are right, especially when you compare inflation month over month, year over year, this year compared to two, three years ago. I always find that actually you need both the quantitative data and the qualitative data.

In this case, one set confirms the other. Inflation is the biggest problem today. Affordability that Donald Trump has called a hoax, that is by far the biggest issue for the American people today. We have a president who couldn't care less. He just cares about playing interior decorator and building his ballrooms and delivering big tax cuts for billionaires like himself.

You and I both know, for the reasons you just outlined, that Donald Trump ordering something via social media does not make it a law, does not mean it's going to happen. But he's trying to con people. He wants the casual viewer, the casual observer, the casual reader to see, oh, this is great. Donald Trump's sticking up for me. He's capping my credit card interest.

and hoping that person will believe the con and then it'll be forgotten about and that person will move on to something else. The media will move on to cover the next shiny object. And Trump is hoping then that same person come back election time will say, yeah, I like that Donald Trump. He brought down my credit card costs, even though you and I both know it's total bullshit.

So that's how Donald Trump has operated, and frankly, he's been able to get away with it, which is the most frustrating thing, which is why the most important thing we can do in 2026, candidly, is for those of us on the Democratic side of the aisle to win this election and take back the House, because then we'd finally be able to rein in King Donald and all of his cons. Before we go, Congressman, anything else you think we didn't cover that you want our audience to know before we go?

Haluaisin lyhyesti kertoa, että minulla on opettaja, joka käy Philadelphia Inquirerissa. Voitte katsoa sitä heidän web-sivuiltaan. Olen käsitellyt sen Breaking the World We Built. Se tarkoittaa Greenlandin mahdollista Yhdysvalloista. Se on jotain, jota ennen kuin niin kauan ennen olisi ajattelut vihreän Saturday Night Live-skitin.

because it seems so absurd, and yet this is actually now deadly serious. Make no mistake about it, this would be the end of the world that we created out of the ashes of World War II and that has kept us out of a World War III scenario. NATO and all of the institutions we created that help protect the peace and help the United States and help keep us as a prosperous, peaceful nation

Those would go away. We suddenly would be the world pariah, similar to Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. That's how deadly the consequences are if Donald Trump were to do the once unthinkable and actually invade Greenland. Congressman, thanks for your time as always. All right, thank you.

Yeah, great to be back with you.

Yeah, great to be back with you.