Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard May 2025
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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Congressman Gomez responds to Trump Economic Turmoil · 12 Apr 2025
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Their own budget instructions to the Energy and Commerce Committee says you have to cut $880,000. billion out of federal spending. Well, they have jurisdiction over Medicaid, Medicare, and some other spending. Well, the other spending is you cut everything to the bone, you get rid of it, you only cut $200 billion. So where do you get the other $680 billion in savings that they need? Medicaid.
Yeah, they can do some tightening up work requirements, which is shameful in itself because it's going to hurt working people. But that only saves you about $100 and $120 billion. So they're straight up lying. That's why I actually went to Valadao's, Representative Valadao's in Bakersfield's district, held a town hall. He has 67% of his district on Medicaid, and he doesn't care.
And it's like, that's because either you're lying about the math, lying that you're going to cut the deficit, or you're just lying about your entire plan. So there are defund, defraud, and lie strategy. We got to just expose it and make people know what really is going on.
You know, I was just made aware of the superintendent, what happened to L.A. USD. It's extremely scary because this basically says that the Trump administration knows no bounds and has no dignity when it comes to dealing with even young children. And as a dad, you know, that is something that worries me.
And I'm glad that the superintendent and also the guardians of these individuals stepped up, because even if you're undocumented, you have certain rights in this country. And I've been holding Know Your Rights workshops. I've been going door to door handing out that information so people are not fooled by ICE agents saying that they have a warrant when they don't.
And that's the best way to protect right now, protect our communities, is to make sure they have that information. And here's the thing, when they're pulling people off the streets, sending them to El Salvador, that is just one step of pulling American citizens themselves off of the streets. He's even looking into that.
If you basically, his press secretary said, oh, we're looking into it to see if it's legal. We don't know if it's legal. This administration, you know, doesn't care about the law. They don't care about the custom and practices. They're going to try to push their agenda. and what people have to decide for themselves, that one of these court cases won't reach the Supreme Court.
And the Supreme Court, if they rule against them and Trump ignores it, what are they willing to do? Because we're not a country of kings, we're a democracy. And people are gonna have to decide, are we gonna stand up or we're gonna let Trump actually trample on our constitution? This is getting real serious and real dangerous.
January 6th, right after that. So congratulations on all your success.
Well, my congressional district is in Maryland and it borders Washington, D.C. So we have tens of thousands of people from Maryland who've come down here. So this is the one I did, even though I was in Florida, actually, with Maxwell Frost for the rest of the weekend.
So this demonstration across the country with more than a thousand different protests is going to further catalyze popular resistance and opposition to this deranged program that they're imposing on the country.
Wait, I'm sorry, I missed the trigger.
So what's your message to them? First of all, we are winning in the courts. Like, for example, they fired tens of thousands of probationary employees, which was completely lawless. And so they've been restored theoretically to their jobs, but they're not letting them go back to work. They are giving them pay, but they're not having them do their jobs, which is absurd.
But we're going to fight for them to get their jobs back. And then we are going to make sure that people who've lost their jobs, who can't get their jobs back, are part of this movement against authoritarianism in the country. Congressman, thank you so much.
When you stand here right now, we have gone from a Trump slump to a Trump train wreck. We are going into a red recession. Our 401 s are 201 s. Our costs at Walmart and Home Depot and Target, where four out of five of the things we buy are from overseas, are going up. And where is Donald Trump? He's golfing. So to Donald Trump, I say, get your ass off the golf course and face the people.
Terrorist is at his known location, so should be on time. Also, strike drones launch MQ-9s. MQ-9s is a weapon system, correct?
Okay. I think Applying the executive order as well as the DOD manual to this fact pattern, we clearly have weapon systems that have been identified. That is classified information. Now, the reason why it's important that this information not be disclosed is that we don't want the adversaries to know what's about to happen. Right, sir?
I understand. In this situation, those are operational details.
This is classified information. This is classified information. It's a weapon system as well as sequence of strikes as well as details about the operations.
You should be paying taxes to improve your life, not to make some billionaire buy their 10th jet.
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