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 Ritchie Torres Calls out Trump Violations · 17 Apr 2025 podcast

And to see both the President of the United States and the President of El Salvador openly mock the federal courts is an embarrassing spectacle. And so I introduced the Rescue Act, which is an attempt to secure the release of those who have been wrongfully deported. If you're a foreign leader like the President of El Salvador and you refuse to comply with a federal order from a U.S. court,

then you should be held accountable. There should be geopolitical consequences, and those consequences should be severe and swift. It should include the suspension of normal diplomatic relations, the suspension of trade relations, determination of foreign assistance. We need an enforceable means of defending due process of all the abuses of the Trump presidency.

There is no greater threat to individual freedom than his frontal assault, his complete contempt for due process. We live in a country where the Trump administration can wrongfully label anyone a non-citizen gang member, abduct you in the dead of night, and then render you to a foreign prison to be tortured.

Look, I'm recoiling in horror and shock. I no longer recognize my country. You know, we live in a morally inverted universe where the president is treating our friends as enemies and our enemies as friends. And his mission in life seems to be a strongman, a dictator, in the image of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. And it's just, it's utterly horrifying.

I think our country is undergoing transformation in real time. But for me, of everything that Donald Trump has done, by far the worst is the frontal assault on due process. You know, there's more language in the Bill of Rights about the rights of the accused, about due process. than there is about any other right. Like the founding fathers recognized that due process is not one right among many.

It's foundational to everything else. And Donald Trump is striking at the very foundations of our democracy and our constitutional system.

Look, Donald Trump thinks America's a monarchy, and he's the king, and we're his subjects. And there's been a powerful grassroots movement of Americans from every major city, from every place in this country, sending a powerful message that America's not a monarchy, that Donald Trump is not a king, that we're not his subjects. We are citizens, and we're willing to fight for our democracy.

And so the groundswell of resistance to Donald Trump is reason for hope. And I'm hopeful that come 2027, House Democrats are going to be in charge of the House of Representatives. Hakeem Jeffries is going to be the first African-American speaker in American history. And we're finally going to have checks and balances that will rein in the extremes of a Donald Trump president.

The MeidasTouch Podcast · Congressman Gomez responds to Trump Economic Turmoil · 12 Apr 2025 podcast

Well, it pisses me off. It actually makes me extremely angry because his economic plan, if he wants to call it, has just been creating chaos. One We always knew taking on having a trade war would be difficult, especially when you're picking a war with every single country on the globe, including your own allies. That's insane. He always said, oh, these are going to be easy to win, easy to win.

Not when the opposition starts firing back. And that's what exactly started happening. And he just created a tailspin in the marketplace where you saw the stocks going down, down and down. You also saw the the consumer confidence crashing. You saw banks started saying, hey, there's going to be a recession, recession, recession. And it just was a complete chaos.

And what happens is you're starting to see it hurt really working men and women, people that need to look at their receipt when they go to the grocery store or restaurant. They really need to buckle down. And here's the thing, those tariffs, He lifted the big ones, but not all the tariffs. So what you're going to see is you're going to see the inflation still go up. People still hurt.

And once that happens, people start tightening their belts. They stop spending. Their revenues decline. And all of a sudden, when revenues decline, the small business owner starts cutting back on hours and then laying off people. So we're in a downward spiral. It hasn't stopped just because he paused it for 90 days. The bond...

market super bad, like to the extent if you're if people are not scared, they should be because we were on the verge of having a financial economic meltdown. And this guy, the only reason he changed was because people were saying, hey, this is going to bring down the entire economy. So this guy is costing people their livelihoods or 401ks.

And I think that that's finally breaking through to the people that voted for him. But this guy has no idea what he's doing. He listens to an economic advisor named Pete Navarro, who made up an expert called Ron Vera to justify his positions. That's insane.

So the Dad's Caucus, we started off, we only had six members. Now we're up to 45 members. And it really is talking about the issues that men and families care about. One, how do you survive? How do you actually earn enough? How do you make sure things are not going up and up? How do you kind of provide? And in a way, really kind of acknowledges people where they're at.

You know, you're a dad, you're a mom, you're struggling, but we want to figure out how to make life easier for you. And one of the things that we've known is that when we talk to dads about raising a kid, saving for a house, losing a job, mental health, we had people talk about mental health. We had them talk about gun violence.

When you talk about issues that impact them, they're more likely to listen to your other policies, right? But when you sit there and you kind of like don't have that conversation, don't treat them as a, a valued part of your coalition, well, then all of a sudden they start moving away from you.

And this appeals, the Dad's Caucus, we have everybody who is from a Blue Dog to New Dem to progressive members. It's ideologically diverse, racially diverse, and geographically diverse. It's one of the few caucuses that actually can do that because we start where people's priorities are, themselves and their families.

The Republican plan is really defund, defraud, and lie to the American public. And here's the defund. They're trying to cut Medicaid. They're trying to cut Social Security by making it so hard for people to get their checks. They're trying to cut the Department of Education. They're just trying to cut, cut, cut without giving a damn of who it's going to hurt. So that's the defund.

And then they want to take that savings and use it to defraud the American people by giving tax breaks to the top one percent, the billionaires, the ultra wealthy, and making sure that the corporations get a lower tax rate as well. That's how they're going to defraud the American people. And then they're lying about it. Here's the thing. He said, oh, that's not what we're doing.

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