Jake Auchincloss
speaker
166 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 3 Jun
Jake Auchincloss’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't know what secretary has that I don't.
I'm not going to judge what the secretary says.
But if you look up the definition of terrorism, it certainly can fall within that.
Well, I think we all got to agree.
for the
You can't put
this
I'm planning for it right now because Secretary Kennedy of Health and Human Services is coming to my committee tomorrow morning and we're gonna have to address exactly this.
It's a confluence of two factors.
The first is that the president has appointed people based on loyalty
not based on either professionalism or competence.
And so you're getting witnesses who just don't know their own portfolio, right?
RFK doesn't know the first thing about Medicare or Medicaid.
Pam Bondi doesn't understand due process and down on the line.
I will say I just had a hearing with Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, and it was refreshing because he actually understands energy portfolio.
And I just remark upon that because it's the exception, not the rule with this cabinet to actually have a cabinet member who knows what they're talking about.
The second factor at play here is that congressional Republicans don't take themselves seriously.
They don't hold this administration to account.
They don't think they're members of a separate and co-equal branch of a government.
They think they're courtiers to Mar-a-Lago.
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