Dan Goldman
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400 appearances
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12 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 25 Jun
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I don't know what else. When history books look at this, the fact that he won this most recent election and even more so that he has corralled and usurped total control of his party. In a way that no president has in modern times.
And to such an extent that I see every day, the Republican majority in the House has completely yielded and turned over all of their own authority to Donald Trump. I mean, they've gone even so far as to use procedural tricks to prevent Congress from voting on the tariffs because they are the leadership is so in cahoots with Trump that you're not allowed.
I think what happened, at least what I'm, I'm not aware of that.
As I understand what happened is Trump's 10% tariffs are based on a invocation of emergency powers under IEPA, the International Emergency Powers Act.
Yeah, no, very questionable. But within that law, and it is a law. Right. They don't want to vote on that. My colleague in New York, Greg Meeks, the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, submitted that privileged motion, is what it's called.
And what Mike Johnson did, and the Republican majority did, is because it was 15 calendar days before it had to come up, they put in one of the procedural rule motions that the clock will be stopped on that specific resolution if that rule passes.
Just for that one bill, that one resolution.
I mean, right, so it's built into the law that Congress has oversight over an implication of this emergency powers.
That's April 10th. We're still on April 10th or whatever. Stopped on the 8th calendar day or whatever it was. It's no longer moving forward. And so it will never be right to be voted on. So they're literally saying, I'm going to take away Congress's statutory power to weigh in on the tariffs to avoid the vote.
Now, what's interesting about it is, of course, if all of the Republicans actually supported the tariffs... It wouldn't be a big issue. Sure, you'd vote on it, it'd be over. But he knows that he would lose the vote.
And so because he wants to control what happens in Congress and he wants to yield all power to Donald Trump, they have literally just taken away all of their own power and they're no longer a co-equal branch of government.
Well, if your listeners know what a discharge petition is, then they understand how little power you have in the minority. And so we don't, unfortunately, we don't have subpoena power. As you point out, we cannot even put a discharge petition without Republican support. We have no control over what bills go on the floor and are voted on. So our options are limited.
But because it's such a slim majority and because there are so many Republican members in purple districts, in very, very close districts, The pressure, the rhetorical pressure, as you described it, but the pressure that we and the American people can put on those members of Congress can and I think are having an impact.
on how they will vote on legislation that is designed to gut our federal government, to eliminate Medicaid, to destroy Social Security, so many government programs. And they know, and I have four of them in New York, right around my district, know that if they vote to cut Medicaid, a third of their constituents receive their health care through Medicaid.
And the second thing, though, is to make sure that a lot of probably not listeners of yours, low information voters, who were swindled effectively by Donald Trump into believing that he was going to lower costs and he was going to reduce inflation because he said he was and he's done the exact opposite.
We have to make sure they understand what's at stake right now and what the Republicans are trying to do. And so people like, you know, Mike Lawler and Nick Lolota and Nicole Malliotakis and Andrew Garbarino in New York City or the environs realize that there will be an outrage if they do put healthcare for a third of their constituents and they will lose their election.
Yes, I think that's right. Now, I think broadly talking to Republicans is actually one of the things that we have to figure out how to do. I say this a lot. My comms director emails a bunch of Fox News shows every week to ask if I can come on. And they don't let me come on because I think they don't want to hear the other side of things.
Maybe. But we have to figure out a way so that we can talk directly to people so they understand what's at stake.
Well, the obvious thing is the economy. I think there's recent statistics, data that I've seen, that somewhere in the 70s percentage of Donald Trump voters had as their number one issue the economy. You know, it's the old Carville saying, it's the economy, stupid.
I'm not sure it's always just that, but I do think what we learned from this last election is that people can't worry about larger businesses Exactly. They don't always. Right. That's right. And so there's I think there's no question that that is going to be a central issue. And it is the one I think that resonates the most right now when we talk about how they are, that Trump is trying to gut
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