Dan Pfeiffer
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pay for it like are they going to take money from ice and give it to them which seems cool but definitely not legal maybe maybe they'll get some from the big beautiful bill but you can't do it like i mean i'm like yeah like i haven't said nothing matters but that's definitely not how the power of the purse works like congress didn't fund them like you can't maybe he's getting a rich person to pay them i don't really know what's happening
Is his authority under the law?
As America's favorite soybean farmer would say, he's jujitsu in you, John.
I honestly have no idea.
I don't even know what to say.
It makes no sense.
It seems crazy.
Maybe it's so crazy it'll work.
Yeah, it seems like things are not going to be perfect anytime soon at the airports.
Yeah, if I was a Coast Guard or FEMA worker, I'd be pretty pissed right now.
And how much magic money is there, John?
We're spending, how many billions have we spent in Iran already?
He's just, Scott Besson's going to turn on the presses and start printing those Donald Trump bucks.
Get those printed for some people.
The mistake here is the criteria included not just polling position, but also money.
So that led them to include Matt Mahan, the low polling, but mayor of San Jose, who also has a lot of money because people like Sergey Brin and a lot of tech people are funding his campaign.
And so once you put... I think you could have made a credible argument that you were going to stop at Tom Steyer, Eric Swalwell, Katie Porter.
They have been...
three, four, and five in the polls and bunched up together for a very long time with a decent-sized gap between them and everyone else.
But once you included Mahan in there, it seemed like a very... I understand why people would be upset about that.