Democratic Congress Member Garcia
Appearances
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
So it's your testimony that less than two weeks ago you were on a signal chat that had all of this information about F-18s and MQ-9 Reapers and targets on strike, and you in that two-week period simply forgot that that was there. That's your testimony?
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
That was not your testimony. Your testimony was that you were not aware of anything related to weapons packages, targets, and timing.
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
contact the defense secretary or others after this specific military planning was put out and say hey we should be doing this in a skiff there was no classified material that was shared in that so then if there was no classified in material share it with the committee you can't have it both ways these are important jobs this is our national security
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
bobbing and weaving and trying to, you know, filibuster your answer.
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
The time Mr. Witkoff was actually in Russia during this chat discussion, was he not?
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
Was he on his personal phone at the time?
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
Well, it's my understanding that he was indeed in Russia. Director Gabbard, you were also traveling during this discussion, correct?
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
You on March 15th, as DNI, retweeted a post from Ian Miles Chong, who is listed on RT, that's Russia Today's website, as quote, a political and cultural commentator who has contributed content to RT since at least 2022.
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
Director Gabbard, do you think that it's responsible for you as head of the intelligence community and the principal's presidential intelligence advisor to retweet posts from individuals affiliated with Russian state media?
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
Can I, just so that we don't have a lack of confusion amongst our allies and enemies and us, can I act perhaps that you not think that you should be saying one thing on your personal account than you say officially?
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
Good to see many of you again. And thank you for enduring two long days. I will note I always use fire emojis when I see terrorists getting killed.
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Trump Goes Silent in AM as Disaster Grows
So those same troops that you are proud of, do you regret putting information like the ones you did in the signal chat that could endanger those same American service members?
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
Well, Shannon, I have, I mean, I have two problems with that concept. One, it just looks like an episode of The Sopranos, right? Give us your minerals or we're not going to help you fight a bloody butcher. I mean, is this really what we want the greatest country in history to be known for, for like, you know, some mafia thing? Look, we've always stood with the good guys.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
We stood with Churchill against Hitler in World War I. We stood with the good guys. Even when we've gotten it wrong in Vietnam, we were standing with the good guys against the Viet Cong. In Iraq, we were going after Saddam Hussein. Now this president is standing with the bad guy.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
He's saying Zelensky is the problem when Zelensky, with very few resources, is trying to stand up for democracy against a totalitarian butcher. What really worries me, Shannon, though, is what do you think President Xi is thinking? Because President Xi wakes up every single morning thinking, is today the day I go into Taiwan?
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
First of all, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it, because as we've been discussing, we have to stop this reckless Republican budget from going forward. And that's going to be on the floor on Tuesday. Now, there are ongoing discussions being led by Rosa DeLauro, top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee. to see if an enlightened agreement can be reached in advance of March 14th.
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GOP Leaders Crack on Live TV as Pressure Grows
And we'll see what takes place. What we do know is that the Republicans have the House, the Senate and the presidency. It is their responsibility to fund the government.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
Are you going to bring that guy back from El Salvador? Yeah.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
Are you? Yeah. That's not a powerful conference. The Supreme Court said to bring him back. He's defying the Constitution.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
Trump don't care. If I get an order for $1,200 and I just say no, does that stand up? Because he's got an order from the Supreme Court and he's just said no.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
Guatemala is an independent country. Can you speak up, please?
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
The president of that country is not subject to our U.S. Supreme Court. We're paying him to keep him down there.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
I think the general population is sick and tired of hearing about the tax cuts for the wealthy, the ultra-wealthy, the uber-rich, whatever you want to call them. When you start nitpicking about whether some single mom or single dad or somebody with somebody in prison is getting $70 too much food stamps, it doesn't even buy you anything at the grocery store.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
They take advantage of people all the time.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
But 50% of the seniors do want it.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
Let me explain why I said 50%. 50% of the seniors are enrolled in Medicare Advantage.
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GOP Gets Instant Karma at Rowdy Town Halls
Bakersfield, this is a matter of fact. Donald Trump is a criminal. He was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud, found liable for sexual abuse. And if he wants to find the rapists and criminals in this country, he should look in the mirror.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
Would you repeat what you just said when you introduced a duly elected representative from the United States of America, please?
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
Mr. Chairman, you are out of order. Mr. Chairman, have you no decency? I mean, I've come to know you a little bit, but this is not decent.
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Trump Glitches Out in Public as His Life Falls Apart
You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected representative the right way.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
There's no question that Maga Mike Johnson right now is very nervous about what's happening with the tariffs. He can't even put a couple sentences together to oppose. It's going to be a destructive economic move by Donald Trump. Anyone that you talk to, any economists, any House Republican in a quiet moment when they're just to themselves will tell you that they are dreading this tariff process.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
policy that's going to be put in place. And let's be clear about what's going to happen. It's essentially a additional tax on goods. Prices are going to go up on everyday goods even more than they are right now.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
And the amount of chaos, the amount of shock this is going to actually have into the supply chain system is going to be incredibly devastating to an industry that just started recovering from the COVID pandemic and is actually back now on track. Let's think about this. You have ports across this country, especially on the West Coast and the East Coast, of which trade drives the economy.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
Trade drives, we know drives our economic growth for so much of the country. And now you're causing chaos, confusion. Major retailers don't know how much they should order as far as goods. What are people actually going to pay for? And you have businesses not able to actually anticipate what the needs are of the consumer. So it's going to be an incredibly chaotic day.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
The markets are going to react, I mean, horrifically as they already are. And Donald Trump is essentially saying that he doesn't care if he drives us into a recession.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
I mean, people are fired up. In the case of Young Kim, everyone's asking the same question. Where is Young Kim? Why won't she meet her constituents? Why would she refuse to answer questions? And these are not just Democrats and independents. These are also Republican constituents of hers. She's choosing to cowardly hide behind any sort of accountability.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
She's choosing to hide, not answer questions, and people are demanding answers. They're wondering why Medicaid's being attacked and cut. They're wondering why the Department of Education, which impacts neighborhood school, is being cut, and Young Kim is nowhere to be found. And on terrorists, they have no idea why the president is doing this. They're complaining, as they should.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
The prices of eggs, of groceries, of housing, construction of housing, by the way, is going to go up because the materials that we need are going to have tariffs on them. So housing construction and the prices of homes will skyrocket. And so people are angry. I think there's a growing consensus, even amongst Republicans, that Donald Trump has no idea what he's doing on the economy.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
And all he cares about is giving Elon Musk a big tax break.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
No, I think that's absolutely right. Look, I've been saying from day one that we've got to match the energy on the ground. We've got to fight like hell. We cannot continue to allow Republicans to just steamroll over us. And, you know, we've always been this party of respectability and, you know, and doing the right thing and making sure that we're bipartisan. That's over.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
And people on the ground have no interest in us holding hands with Republicans as they steamroll over our priorities and our rights. They want us to fight. And I think you're seeing a lot of Democrats now taking that fight directly to Republicans, directly to Elon Musk. I mean, as you know, I'm being... criminally investigated for calling Elon Musk a dick for crying out loud.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
I mean, this is insanity what they were trying to do to weaponize the Justice Department, going after folks like AOC and Jasmine Crockett and others for just speaking truth and for taking on Elon Musk. And so I'm really happy to see Kim Jeffries, our leader, Democrats out there just pounding the pavement. And you're going to see a lot more of us in these Republican districts.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
Like I've told others out in the Palm Springs area, in the desert area, in Riverside County, Ken Calvert is next. And I look forward to going to his district here in the next couple of weeks.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
Just to continue to stay engaged, stay loud, demand more of us, demand more of these Republicans. We only need three of these Republicans to stop the massive tax giveaway that Donald Trump is trying to put in place with Elon Musk. And so just stay engaged. I know it's frustrating. I'm frustrated too. I get mad and pissed as well, but we got to keep fighting like hell.
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Congressman Garcia on Trump’s Harmful Tariffs
And so thanks for everything that you guys are doing and let's stay engaged.
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
Thank you, Chairman. Tulsi, you and I came into the Congress together in 2013. And Cash, you and I, I was serving on the Intelligence Committee when you worked on the Intelligence Committee. And John, you and I are both from Texas, and we both served together on the Intelligence Committee.
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Rep. Himes on Democrats Going on Offense
Y'all, the idea that this information, if it was presented to our committee, would not be classified, y'all know is a lie. That's ridiculous. I've seen things much less sensitive be presented to us with high classification. And to say that it isn't is a lie to the country.
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
We're an equal branch of government, and you start off with a blather, and yet we look at the empty seats here. Where's Elon Musk? I'm sure he's a genius and is a very credible person because of the wealth he's accumulated. But that does not put him above the law or the responsibility to come before this committee in this Congress.
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
If he's so great, if these plans and all the fraud and abuse that he found are so eminent, why isn't he here explaining it? You know why. Because he's out to privatize Social Security. He's been on television the last couple of days talking exactly about Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and what he intends to do. Privatize it. The American people, some of them may have been born at night.
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
that there will be mass collateral damage to the absurdities of the policies that they are pursuing. And so I think about the average working family in my district that's struggling to be able to buy a new car because car prices are soaring through the roof, interest rates are still remarkably high, and what are they left with? They're left with the car infomercial
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
that the president of the United States conducted earlier today on the White House lawn. That is their policy prescription, right? Is to engage in these reckless economic policies, the tariffs and the rest, unnecessary trade wars, and then ultimately offer nothing of actual consequence to the American people who are really struggling.
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
And from my perspective, that's the most confounding part of all. House Democrats are going to remain focused, you know, as Leader Jeffries often says, keeping the main thing the main thing, which is quality of life, cost of living, addressing core challenges that the American people face that Republicans refuse to address. And as I said, if anything, are exacerbating.
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
had rogue kana on democratic congress member kana here's what he had to say the what gives me confidence is propaganda even if you have an information asymmetry doesn't work when the reality is terrible and what we're what what what biden had was in many cases a an economy that was recovering and we got hurt by propaganda now you actually have a terribly uh moving economy and people are
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
are hurting and there's no amount of things that sean hannity can say that's going to pay the bills there's no amount of things that a charlie kirk can say that's going to pay the bills and so you know you can't spin reality at a certain point and that's what uh republicans are waking up to
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
Publicans are really hoping, really, really hoping I don't bring up this last part. Guess what they tucked into this rule, hoping that nobody would notice. They did this after everyone went home. They slipped in a little clause letting them escape from ever having to debate or vote on Trump's tariffs. Isn't that clever?
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
Trump's trade war will result in one of the largest, if not the largest, tax increase on American families ever. And this rule gives him the ability to do it without a vote in Congress. I get it. They're already hiding from their voters, running away from their own town halls, slipping out the back doors because they're afraid of being held accountable by their own actions.
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
But guess what, Mr. Speaker? People don't send us here to hide. They send us here to fight for them. And they send us here to vote. And Democrats are not going to be complicit in voting to screw over America's veterans. We're not going to be complicit in voting to screw over our senior citizens on Social Security. We're not going to be complicit in taking money away from first responders.
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
And we're sure as hell not going to be silent when it comes to this administration's BS and their corruption. Because what we are going to do is we're going to show up in our communities. We're going to stand up for veterans. We're going to speak up for people on Medicaid and Social Security. And we're going to put up
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Dems Finally Smack Down the GOP Over Trump Disaster
one hell of a fight when it comes to middle class families who are counting on us to fight for them. I urge a no vote on the disgraceful rule, a no vote on the underlying legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time.
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
Sitting here, under discussion. So did you know that this was under discussion? And why did you not include that as part of your opening remarks?
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
No, excuse me. China increased their tariffs on the United States. Trump blinked. What's the blink, sir?
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
How long is the pause? How many days? How many weeks?
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the president of the United States about a global reordering of trade negotiations. Yes, I have. I've just been in a hearing with you. But yet he announced it on a tweet. WTF? Who's in charge?
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
The United States has run trade deficits for 48 straight years, during which time the U.S. economy has grown by 255% in real terms. These decades of trade deficits have corresponded with increases in American wealth and household incomes that far exceed the progress in Canada, China, and the European Union.
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
Do you think that this growth in American wealth as a result associated with deficits is something that constitutes a national emergency?
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
We seem to have done much better than in the Gilded Age, which the president prefers. I would just say that on the eve of his inauguration, the president promised to bring prices drastically down, and there's nothing that you've said in your answers or non-answers.
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
me today that will give americans any assurance to believe anything other than that their prices will continue to soar and their savings will continue to shrink the president's lies continue to cause the american cost the american people dearly i yield back going back to democratic senator cortez mastro watch this be intellectually honest
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Trump Witness Crumbles Under Cross-Exam at Hearings
Mr. Trade Representative, are you aware that the tariffs have been paused? I am, yes. When were you made aware of that? Well, I understood the decision was made a few minutes ago.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
The fact that Democrats and my colleague Representative Pramila Jayapal feel the need to even introduce an amendment that says ICE cannot deport U.S. citizens is batshit crazy. This should not even be a discussion. It is not even a question. U.S. citizens cannot be deported by ICE. It's the law. It's the Constitution. I will be astounded if Republicans vote no on this. You're back.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
Mr. Chairman, you know, it must be tough. to be an authoritarian. You promise everybody in the world to get elected. Prices will go down on day one. No more inflation. We're going to end Russia's war on Ukraine. The world's going to respect us.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
And then you get in, and even though you inherit an economy from your predecessor that's described as the envy of the world by The Economist magazine, you crash everything. The economy today is shrinking. The stock market is sinking. Inflation is soaring. $7 trillion in American retirements and wealth has been destroyed.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
You've plunged us with your imbecilic tariffs into a trade war with the whole world, except, of course, for your bosom buddies in Russia. So now only 100 days in, with 100 unforced policy blunders, you're the most unpopular president at this point in your presidency in more than 80 years. Barack Obama stood at 69% in the polls. Ronald Reagan was at 73% in the polls. Truman was 87%.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
And Franklin D. Roosevelt, 68%. But Donald Trump is at 39%. The lowest 100-day approval rating since polling began. He controlled the agenda for 100 days. He controlled the House. He controlled the Senate. He's got everything going for him. And his numbers are in the gutter.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
Right now, we're cutting jobs as it relates to the federal government. Right now, because of the failed policies around tariffs, we know that we are looking at losing plants. They said that that was going to bring plants. They just announced that we had two auto dealers that were going to shut down approximately 40,000 jobs.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
As they then go after NIH, we know that in the state of Alabama, the largest employer In the state of Alabama is the University of Alabama. They are looking at losing jobs because they won't have research dollars. The only thing that they are doing is hurting us. It is the reason if we don't talk about numbers and mandates, it is the reason that the only person in recent modern times to have jobs.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
The lowest approval ratings at their 100-day mark is the same person the first time they were in and now this time. It is time for us to get serious and talk about what will grow our economy, what will bring more money in, what will make sure that people can move up from working poor to middle class and maybe even reach this higher level of
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
that so many of y'all listen to, this upper echelon, this rich level, because that is what is supposed to set us apart in this country. We are supposed to live in a country where everyone has an opportunity to go from rags to literally riches. And so I am asking my colleagues to start looking out for the people that elected them.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
I think you're a little more than four years older than him.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
And this is one way that we can do it by supporting this amendment of Ms. Lee. And with that, I will yield.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
Well, I don't think he's competent, Will. I don't know what to tell you. Whether his cognitive abilities are sufficient to get past the 25th Amendment, you know, we don't know that right now. But I think what is clear is that he has driven our country into a disastrous economy. He has undermining the fundamental rule of law and democracy.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
He is taking away benefits in order to cut taxes for the rich. I think even you, Will, would have to agree with me that this first hundred days is not at all what he promised the American people.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
This is what we want you to open your eyes to. If it can happen, as we've said time and time again, if it can happen to folks with green cards, it can happen to citizens. And in Oklahoma City, we see a perfect example of that. This is what we're talking about. It's not other people. It's us. It's our neighbors. It's our friends.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
It's people who just moved from Maryland to Oklahoma for a better life and have their house destroyed. And they can't get answers. If we watch the rest of the news clip there, they're asking ICE, who's responsible for this? And then they're sending them to another agency, and they're sending them to another agency, and nobody is accountable for what happened to them.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
This is what my colleagues are trying to fund with this bill. Armed federal agents breaking into homes, even of U.S. citizens, traumatizing them, taking their possessions. This is Trump's America. That's why we continue to talk about due process. It's not some pie in the sky idea. It's what literally holds our country together without due process, without the belief in the Constitution.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
We are not Americans. That's what gives us the ability to say we are an exceptional country in the world, that everyone who lives here gets due process. And we're going to keep saying this over and over and over again for everyone who lives here. What happened to that family?
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
So this amendment specifically deals with. issues around the consumer price index. So let's talk about the price of eggs, because for whatever reason, we've yet to have a hearing on the price of eggs when that was really the one big thing. And I remember the big guy that's in the White House saying that he was going to reduce the cost of eggs on day one.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
But what we see is that the national average price of eggs in March of 2025 was $6.23, a 6% increase from the previous month, a 60% increase in year to year, and USDA said egg prices could climb 41% this year. When we start to talk about things such as our energy, in March, natural gas prices increased 3.6%, and electricity prices increased 9%. Fuel and oil prices increased 0.8%.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
Utility gas services increased 2.5%. The national average for a gallon of gas is currently $3.17, nowhere near the $1.98 that President Trump claimed last week. I just want to make sure we get the facts out there.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
Mr. Chairman, the Republicans on this committee just voted no. on canceling Elon Musk contracts if he violates the law and stays past 130 days. The Republicans on this committee just voted no on Mr. Frost's amendment that would require the President of the United States to follow U.S. Supreme Court orders. At some point, We've got to have some shame on this committee.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
So my amendment, I would hope my Republican colleagues would vote for it, is that if a court or the federal government finds that Mr. Musk abused his power to enrich himself here over the last few months, then we would cancel his contract. If a court finds that the richest man on earth
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
went in, used the federal books, scraped people's data, steered contracts to himself, then we should maybe stop sending him $8 million a day and save the American taxpayer $3 billion.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
That's the way that not just Democrats, but conservatives, progressives, independents, all across the country want to see us save some money by saying these corporate grifters that use the government to enrich themselves, they should get cut off. And look, there's a House Republican majority today, but there could be a Democratic majority tomorrow or at least in under two years.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
And when we are sitting on this committee and if we get a chance to have the subpoena power and look into this and find out that Elon Musk has used his power to enrich himself, the consequences could actually be much greater than just having his contracts cut off.
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GOP Gets Stunned as Pissed Off Dems Bring the Fight
I don't understand how you'll be able to look yourself in the face knowing that you voted to allow our federal government to detain and deport United States citizens simply because you do not want to vote against something that Donald Trump may support. Do you have a thought of your own Do you have a belief of your own or is everything literally just whatever Donald Trump tells you it should be?
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
And tariffs, you know... Do you think the tariffs, the trade war that he's launched against so many countries around the world is a disaster?
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
There's absolutely going to be provisions that eliminate bad tax policy and replacing it with better tax policy. We did that in 2017. We're going to do it throughout this process. But we're going to eliminate a lot of different loopholes. Will it expand the deficit? It will. The House budget version is much different than the Senate budget version.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
And in fact, we are going to expand the growth in the economy. And that's the key. If you look at the revenues coming into our country right now under the current Trump tax cuts that are current policy, current law, GDP towards revenue is 17.2%. If you look at over the last 50 years, it has averaged 17%. We are going to maintain and grow that.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
So the three Republican witnesses come to a hearing on industrial policy and none of them mentioned the word tariff, not a single one. And yet all Donald Trump is doing is tariff policy when the three Republican witnesses are recommending a hundred different things other than tariff policy. Mr. Bishop, do you agree with Donald Trump's tariff policy?
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
You're all saying you're not here as an economic experts and yet you're giving us all these recommendations for how we build an industrial base. Is it that you don't have any expertise that we should just pick up any random citizen or do you have, are you here as some economic expertise on industrial policy?
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
The next presidency, because we believe in the plan of the presidents, and that is to strengthen our national security, strengthen our economy, and sometimes being a disruptor causes some short-term problems fallbacks, some short-term setbacks. But nevertheless, that is not an indicator of long-term prosperity. And we believe in the end, it's not about how you start, it's how you finish.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
But I don't understand how you don't have it. The president of the United States is saying the way to build manufacturing is to have these tariff policies. You're here to testify on manufacturing, how we're going to build it. You're telling me you don't have an opinion on whether the Trump tariff policy is successful or not?
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
This is not a theoretical matter. He's implemented tariffs. I'm not even trying to trick you. I'm saying, do you agree with all his tariff policies or do you disagree with them? Or are you so afraid that you don't know what to say?
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
But I also have to bring up something that one of my colleagues, Representative Khanna, had brought up. It has to do with the terrorist policy. And while advanced manufacturing create jobs, that number of jobs will pale in comparison to to the negative impact of Trump's tariffs. Tariffs are a tax on all consumers. They put the heaviest burden of that tax on middle and working class Americans.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
You're shaking your head. One of the witnesses is shaking his head no, but we just went through this and you all conceded that you know nothing about tariffs and have nothing to say about it.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
We heard just recently with Congressman Trahan's amendment that we don't need any of these amendments to take our word, that the word has been given that Medicaid is going to be protected, to trust us that no one is going to be affected by this. But as a woman, the word was given to me that my rights would not be taken away by the Supreme Court, and that wasn't true.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
As an American, the word was given that our, you know, our First Amendment rights protections would be in place for everyone, including green card holders and people who are lawfully here in this country. That didn't end up to be true.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
And we think the market's coming back and the results in the end are gonna be very strong.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
Thank you. Mr. Chairman, I wanted to Give Mr. Higgins the opportunity because I mentioned him earlier and he wasn't here. He tweeted yesterday that we should arrest 100 more judges. Arrogant elitist black robes have been raping our core principles for a decade. If the DOJ needs a list, I have it.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
I'm willing to yield to Mr. Higgins if he could tell us who those 100 judges are and why they should be arrested.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
Yeah, we're here, Mr. Swalwell, too. address this amendment and this bill. We're not going to have a back and forth colloquy today. So I'm not going to allow that question. You have four minutes and 30 seconds.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
play this clip we're 100 days in to this administration and the president promised he would lower prices on day one donald trump is oh for a hundred he's oh for 100 prices are not going down they're going up The Trump tariff tax is raising prices on the four out of five items in every American's Walmart shopping cart. Your 401ks? They're 201ks. That's the Trump slump.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
Americans were anxious about the economy when they voted last November. They wanted their costs to go down. They didn't want the chaos to go up. So what are we doing here? What are we doing here? What in this hearing achieves lowering costs for the American people? You know how far you have deviated from lowering the costs for American people? This is where you are. Today, you will make it easier
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
to deport more American citizen children with cancer. Think about that. Today's vote will make it easier for the president to deport more American children with cancer. That makes me sick. I have a seven-year-old, a six-year-old and a three-year-old. You don't have to be a parent to understand how cruel this is. That in the last two weeks, a four-year-old was separated from his father, a U.S.
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citizen, and deported with his mother while he was suffering stage four cancer and undergoing cancer treatment.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
Donald Trump spent the last year and a half questioning the cognitive ability of President Joe Biden, notwithstanding many of the legislative accomplishments that Donald Trump could only wish he got over the finish line.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
And so I think it's fair that a lot of Americans across the country that I run into are questioning whether Donald Trump is actually fit at this point to be able to carry out the duties of the United States of America in terms of being the president and the commander in chief.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
Trump has created a government by and for the billionaires. And if anyone ever doubted that Trump and Musk and Bezos and the billionaires are all at one team, just look at what happened at Amazon today. Bezos immediately caved and walked back a plan to tell Americans how much Trump's tariffs are costing them.
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Republicans Freak Out as Dems Go on Offense
Bezos, who spent $40 million on Melania Trump's documentary, wants big tax cuts and sweetheart deals much more than he wants to represent the American people. I mean, you saw what went down yesterday, right?
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
They want to take and cut Medicare, and as we know it, Medi-Cal here in California. They want to eliminate the Department of Education. They are trying, as we all know, through their Doge program, to destroy our federal agencies. And they are firing unconstitutionally tens of thousands of federal workers across this country, with no remorse, and with complete, pure cruelty.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
We have to stand up in this moment against that type of tyranny and those types of attacks.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
So what's next? How do we fix that? Fortunately, there's a young, talented group of people that are sprouting up across this country that are building now these new YouTube sites. Some of you might know Midas Touch, for example. Absolutely. That's right. New spaces like Midas Touch, like other sites on YouTube, are actually growing really quickly.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
I want you all to know that the reason why I'm able to honestly to get up in the morning and just like fight and feel like I can take this on and I can call Elon Musk out and I can take on Donald Trump and get all crazy with Marjorie Taylor Greene and push back. Listen, they've tried. Nancy Mace is trying to censor me. Donald Trump is trying to arrest me.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
Elon Musk has promised he's going to primary in the next election. And what I say, like, if these are my enemies list, we're probably doing something. We're probably doing something right. We're probably doing something right.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
I'll tell you this. I swear. I swear on my mother and my family on this one thing. that I don't care, I will, you can arrest me, but I will never stop pushing back and fighting Elon Musk and Donald Trump until you throw me in Guantanamo Bay. I promise you that. I promise you that. Promise you that. I could care less. I could care less. And I think, that's okay, no, no.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
Look, I think, I think if you are, if you are right now, in Congress, and you're not, this is the moment, if you are not in Congress and you're not willing to stand up and understand that our democracy and everything that we love about this country is actually in danger, then step away for someone that is willing to do that. Step away for someone that is willing to do that.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
Things cannot stay the same. Maybe you've seen the recent rallies that AOC and Bernie have been hosting in other parts of the country. They are motivating young people. And you don't have to agree with every single thing that Bernie wants to do to recognize that what they're doing is they're doing something that I believe is the democratic message.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
We should be listening because people say, what's the message? The message is that right now it's all of us versus the billionaires who want to take more of our hard-earned money so they can give themselves larger tax cuts. People say, and I hear this from young people all the time, why is Elon Musk doing this to the government? Why are they trying to harm our public agencies?
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
So why is it that they are going after Medicare? Why is it that they're shutting down USAID? Why do they keep going and trying to actually shut down programs? The answer is simple. It's because they're shutting down these programs because they want to save resources, save money, and take all of that money and resource and redistribute that so they can then give themself
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
all their billionaire friends and the largest corporations in this country with massive tax cuts. They know and they've said that in order to pass their massive tax plan, they need to save three to four trillion dollars. They need to save three to four trillion dollars. Where are they gonna get that three to four trillion dollars? All of us. They are going, they are trying to rob
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all of us and working people in this country so that then they can then take those resources and give themselves more and more and more. That's the fight right now that we are in this country.
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OMG! Trump Gets Humiliated at New Raucous Town Halls
That's exactly right. Let me and let me add, which I think is important. We right now are not only having to stand up against a president that likens himself a king. But we're also having to stand up against Republicans in the House and the Senate who have decided to stand with billionaires instead of working people and working families in this country. They want to destroy Social Security.
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Fox News Crashes On Air as Trump Screws Them
I want to call for Senator Chris Van Hollen to meet with the family of Rachel Morin, the murdered woman in Maryland, the mother of five children. He has not met with her at all, but he's meeting with an MS-13 gang member down in El Salvador. I am calling for Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Fox News Crashes On Air as Trump Screws Them
to meet with Rachel Morin's family and give them at least the same amount of time that he is giving to an MS-13 gang member.
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Fox News Crashes On Air as Trump Screws Them
Good for you, Jesse. That's probably a smart move for your mental health.
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Trump Gets News He Feared as Rallies Against Him Expand
And here's the thing, it doesn't matter if you're young, old, or Gen X, Gen Z, I don't give a shit. But I come, we're now a new generation. We are the fuck around and find out generation. Fuck around. Fuck around. Fuck around. That's the energy we need. Thank you so much.
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This Vulnerable GOP District Just Got Blown Wide Open (Mike Sacks Interview)
If he has found all of this waste, fraud, and abuse, we don't want that either. But what we're talking about is burning down the house instead of taking... I'm still talking, please. What we're talking about is burning down the house instead of taking out the garbage. There is waste in the federal government. All of us would like to see that go so that we can help the people.
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This Vulnerable GOP District Just Got Blown Wide Open (Mike Sacks Interview)
Mr. Lawler, can you please let me finish my... Can you let me finish my conversation? And I'm going to finish.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
There's 300 billion euros of frozen assets being held in Brussels right now that France and Germany and Belgium have all over.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
Russian assets, that's right. If Congress signaled in a bipartisan fashion that, one, we want Ukraine to win this war, we believe Russia was the aggressor, not Ukraine, and two, that we support our European allies in giving security guarantees to Ukraine paid for with Russian assets, I think we could get to a resolution very quickly.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
Congressional Republicans are not stepping up and just saying the very basic sentence of Ukraine is right, Russia is wrong. Let me ask you a question, Congressman Gonzalez.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
Is it popular to cut health care for the 40 percent of kids in this country who rely on Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for people who don't need tax cuts? Yeah, that's not going to be popular.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
That is what congressional Republicans are doing. Those is a misdirection tactic. The focus of effort is that they're going to take eight hundred and eighty billion dollars out of health care that seniors rely on for at home care that kids rely on for primary care. And they're going to use it to give the one percent massive tax cuts.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
As well, we were doing a town hall in the biggest city in my district. Democrats still do town halls. And this city voted for Donald Trump in 2024, first time in 100 years. The most resonant theme of the day that I heard from these Americans was how livid they are about the way that President Trump behaved in the Oval Office with Vladimir Zelensky.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
Zelensky flew to Washington, but he walked into the Kremlin. And the propaganda that they heard from the commander-in-chief made Americans feel less safe and made them feel ashamed. This is an opportunity for congressional Republicans to distance themselves from this abomination and to demonstrate that Americans are going to stand for freedom and democracy.
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GOP Leaders Crash and Burn in Weekend from Hell
Because with all due respect, people do win wars. The United States won World War II. It made this world safe for freedom and democracy. We are now making it less safe for freedom and democracy by giving Russia all the cards that Donald Trump claims they have.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
Public opinion matters. And the public did not give Trump a mandate to dismantle the whole chunks of the federal government. Gave him a mandate to kick the tires, check the dipstick and make sure that things are running well and efficiently. In that part, he has a mandate. But what Elon Musk is doing is way beyond any mandate that Trump could possibly realistically claim.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
And we're going to fight that.
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GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
There's a difference between cutting waste, fraud and abuse and dismantling whole agencies. No one gave Trump. No one gave Elon Musk that authority. It is unconstitutional. It's unlawful. It is a violation of Article one. And we're going to fight it.
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Democratic Leaders Destroy Trump in Red Districts
Very shameful display for all that to happen in the Oval Office, in front of the world and all of our allies who we need to stop Russia. And I think what honestly is most disgraceful is that throughout that conversation, that the president could not be clear. that Putin is a danger to Europe, to Ukraine, and to the United States.
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Democratic Leaders Destroy Trump in Red Districts
Putin is an authoritarian dictator, and we need to call it like it is, and to embarrass Zelensky, who is taking Putin on right now, to belittle him, an ally, and our efforts in Ukraine.
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 3/14/25
The time is now to fix how Washington works. To that end, I was proud to vote recently for the House Budget Resolution, which provides the framework. And you wonder why folks don't want to do these town halls. That framework provides for Congress to secure the border. Are you afraid of Trump?
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this is democratic congressman mcgovern speaking from the floor of the house of representatives how people voted for lower egg prices not for a middle east mar-a-lago here let's play this clip i mean my republican friends like to talk about america first again i i look at the front page of the new york times today trump proposing takeover of gaza as u.s territory
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 2/6/25
I got to tell you, people voted for lower egg prices, you know, not for a Middle East Mar-a-Lago. You know, people did not vote to send their sons and daughters into the tunnels of Gaza so that Jared Kushner and Donald Trump can build Trump Tower Gaza. That's not what they voted for. I mean, people want to talk about issues.
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They want us to deal with issues that are going to impact their everyday life, lower the cost of living. And in the first weeks, we have seen nothing, nothing from this president or the Republican majority here to deal with that.
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 2/6/25
And look, you know, the agenda we're talking about, I mean, I'm looking at the New York Times here. Trump proposing takeover of Gaza as U.S. territory. I mean, do your constituents want to have their sons or daughters sent to Gaza to be in the middle of that violence? This is the guy who also now wants to invade Greenland. He wants to take over Panama. He wants to annex Canada.
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 2/6/25
He wants to now occupy Gaza. I mean, we have 42 million people in this country who are hungry. Whatever happened to America First? Whatever happened to helping people in this country? Whatever happened to lowering prices? And instead we get this. This is like a warmonger here. I mean, come on.