Congressman Suhas Subramanyam
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You know, Republicans just push it through their legislature, you know, like they do in Texas.
And so, I mean, I'm from California, so this was brought to the people.
And in Virginia, yes, the legislature and the governor approved the framework of the redistricting.
but then it's ultimately brought to the people and so the question for the people of virginia at this point is you know are you going to support democracy at this point and be a check against donald trump's efforts to throw us into authoritarianism so it's really important and with all of the distractions happening i'm glad we can talk about the redistricting and so everybody in virginia take note of that what day is it again
Let me ask you one more question while I got you, which is this DHS funding.
To be clear, ICE and Border Patrol are already funded.
They've gotten hundreds of billions of dollars, hundreds of which could be going to healthcare and other things.
So just the very premise that ICE and Border Patrol need additional funding to me is a ridiculous concept.
They're well funded.
But Democrats have put down their markers, take off your masks,
search warrants, don't be by polling stations, identify yourself and other kind of basic things.
Republicans say absolutely not.
Donald Trump has refused to pay TSA employees despite the fact that Democrats continuously introduced legislation saying pay the TSA employees.
Really easy.
Just pay them.
We want to pay them.
and trump was trying to tell the republicans always vote against that we want them to suffer so people suffer in the airports then they'll blame the democrats but people weren't blaming the democrats they were blaming republicans and republicans wanted to go on a recess two-week recess their vacation you know go back home so you know they realized they're gonna have to wait on these lines i think that was the biggest motivating factor that they had to go to the airport soon to leave and they wanted to help themselves as one of the factors while they were traveling so donald trump issues an executive order
you know, late on Thursday night saying, OK, I'm going to pay the TSA agents, which is like, OK, well, if you could just do it that way, why don't you do it for today?
Why do you just do that now?
And then, you know, then the Senate was like, OK, we're just going to pay the TSA agents, which is what the Democrats have been saying