Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi

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221 appearances 16 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard May 2025

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term · 19 Apr 2025 podcast
to Medicaid that could essentially end health care coverage for tens of millions of Americans and jeopardize the care provided by our community health centers and hospitals. All in the name of providing tax breaks to billionaires like Elon Musk, it is the most backward priorities that you could ever come up with in a bill. And people are really incensed about it.
And we're going to continue to try to fight on the inside as best we can to stop that legislation.
Well, as you can imagine, New Hampshire, which borders Canada, has deep ties to our Canadian partners and our economy is very much interconnected. And so we benefit from free trade with Canada.
That's why updating the USMCA under the first Trump administration was an important step forward to protect those trading partnerships and to make sure that we're also protecting domestic industries in America. But what I'm hearing from small businesses is that things are getting more expensive. 88%
of small businesses import products in order to sell them to customers or to make something else that they're delivering to customers right here in America. So that's making things more expensive. It's a huge tax, not only on our small businesses, but on the American public. And I've heard that very directly from our small business community. In addition to that,
our businesses that export to places like Canada or China are also being hit hard. I had an extensive conversation with businesses in our forest products industry, which is important here in New Hampshire. We're the second most forested state in the country. And they have a huge market in China, which now is being hit with 150% reciprocal tariff. And so that market is going to go away.
People are going to lose their jobs. And so whether that's in logging, in the sawmills or in the lumber yards, there is tremendous pressure that they're just not going to be able to navigate. I was talking to them about some of the legislative efforts that we hope to undertake and maybe pull some Republicans along with us. And they said, look, we just can't wait. This is urgent.
This is existential for our business. And if we don't get some relief from the president, we can't just wait a few months for Congress to pass something. So we need to make sure that we are leveraging the voices that we're hearing in our districts from the small business community that are being heard on both sides of the trading relationship. It's really devastating.
And it comes at a time where we should be taking every step possible to lower costs, to make housing more affordable, to make sure child care is more available, and to lower the cost of energy. This is just hitting people where it hurts at a time where most families and businesses can't afford it.
Yeah, well, this is an important race. I've served four terms or am serving in my fourth term in the House of Representatives, having represented half of the state of New Hampshire. And this is an open seat. Our Senator Jeanne Shaheen decided to retire at the end of her term, which comes up in 2026. And so I decided to jump in this race.
I think this is a moment where we all should look to go beyond what we're used to doing to make sure we are raising our voices and standing up for what counts. And I have a track record of being well grounded in terms of the challenges that people face out there. I'm a small business owner, so I know how our economy works.
And I also know how to take on tough fights and get things done, whether that's lowering the cost of prescription drugs, standing up to the entrenched special interests and corporate power that runs amok in Washington, DC, to get things done for the people of New Hampshire. That's my track record. I also have a track record of winning tough races.
And I think as we look ahead to 2026, it's imperative that we figure out how to build the kind of coalitions that we need to be able to confront the damage that is being done to our democracy, to our way of life, and to our country, and to win. And I'm absolutely committed to doing that in the coming months. So we're really excited about the energy out there.
This is a moment where I think everyone wants to be a part of a solution. And as people express anger and anxiety about the future, we wanna give them a way that they can be constructive in terms of how we truly achieve some checks and balances moving forward. And I believe we need to do that by taking back the majorities in the midterm elections.
Where can people find out more information about you? Well, thanks. People can go to chrispappas.org and find out more about me, about the work that I've been doing, fighting on behalf of the people of New Hampshire, and to pitch in or just leave a comment. We'd love to engage with you all as we go about this race.
This is a state that is very purple, was decided by less than three percentage points in the last presidential election, and our Senate race in 2016 was decided by 1,017 votes. We know close races here in New Hampshire. We're taking nothing for granted. We're going to get out there and earn this and we'd love people's help.
The MeidasTouch Podcast · Congressman Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations · 17 Apr 2025 podcast
Look, the imperial presidency of Donald Trump is as much a product of congressional capitulation as it is of Donald Trump himself. Historically, Congress has gone too far in passing too many laws that concentrate too much power in the executive. The time has come to return power back where it belongs, in the hands of the people and their elected representatives in Congress. We should repeal
the Alien Enemies Act, which enables the president to deport people without due process. We should repeal the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, which enables the president to impose taxes and tariffs that have destabilized the global economy. We have to restore the constitutional balance. The United States Constitution envisions Congress
as the Article I branch of government, as the first among equals, and we should return to that constitutional balance.
Look, we live in an Orwellian universe where the truth no longer matters. Facts no longer matter. We have in the United States a president who's a malignant and pathological narcissist who is willing not only to wrongfully deport an innocent man, but also willing to defy an order, a unanimous order from a right-wing Supreme Court to reverse the wrongful deportation.
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