Jared Moskowitz
Appearances
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
My friends that represent plus 30 districts, I'm sure that's all the calls they're getting. Right. And then that's where the messaging goes. But Hakeem Jeffries isn't going to become speaker through those hundred. He's going to become speaker through the 20. And so people talk about how they're why there isn't a consistent message right now through the Democratic Party.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
And it's because the Republicans are doing a great job pulling the party apart by putting these things out there that progressives are going to jump on. But moderates know that that issue is out of touch with their district.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Yeah, well, I'm from Parkland. I'm in Parkland right now. I went to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. I remember February 2018 like it was yesterday, seven years ago. Coming to my school that evening and seeing, you know, your school look like a war zone, you know, all these police cars and FBI and triage, mass casualty triage outside of your school.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
It was OK.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
So look, David and I know each other very well, obviously, but being from Parkland, right? And so look, there are bits of the strategy that he's doing that I agree with, and there's a bunch of bits I don't, right? And this is something that the Democratic Party has gone through before, right?
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
We've gone through where, you know, people, incumbents that were there in safe seats were being primaried by more progressive members. And we were kind of spending a ton of money eating our own rather than fighting Republicans, right? And hold on. Republicans have gone through this, too. Let's not pretend like this is just an issue on the Democratic side.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Republicans went through this with the whole Tea Party movement. I mean, they removed, you know, Representative Cantor, if you recall, right, who was in leadership. OK, Eric Cantor. So they've gone through this as well. We're so frustrated because we're not in we have no power. OK, we have no branches of government. The rules of Congress in the minority don't give you power.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
And so, you know, Democrats are frustrated. So there's no doubt about that frustration boiling over. But what we have to do is we have to realize the only thing that matters is making Hakeem Jeffries speaker at the moment and getting a chamber, getting a gavel. That has to be the sole mission. And so every dollar we have should be going to that, right?
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
All these other things sometimes I feel like are distractions. I mean, look, we've spent like $400 million in Texas trying to win the governor's mansion or the Senate races there, $400 million, and we've never come close. Right. We just spent 20 million dollars in House races in Florida. We lost them by double digits.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
So we got to stay focused on, in my opinion, the seats that are going to make King Jeffrey's speaker. What David is channeling into, though, and David's very good at messaging, is that Republicans have a lot of messengers. They have moderate messengers, they have, you know, obviously MAGA messengers, and they have the Flat Earth messengers, who are my favorite, those people, okay?
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
But they have messengers, they have all these podcasts, and they are still out messaging Democrats. But what I would say to David is, David, we don't have a, we have plenty of progressive messengers, right? That's not an issue. Like, there's lots of progressive messengers. What we need is we need, you know, more messengers in the middle.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
right and we got to work on that piece you know getting young people elected is fantastic i was 25 when i first got elected but the question is is that going to get us to the majority right and so there's this push pull in okay we have these you know more senior members we won't call them older but members that have been there for a longer period of time and the game has changed
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
I mean, Parkland's a small town, was rated the safest city in all of Florida before that happened. And, you know, then you go to the reunification center, right, where you're meeting with parents of the kids that were missing. You know, I knew they weren't missing.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
since they got elected, right? And they don't know how to communicate in today's politics, right? Should those members retire? Should we get more people who can communicate? Because let's be honest, Congress now is not about policy and legislating. Congress is communications. Everyone's like a little PR office. I'm not kidding when I say this. I was a political science major at GW.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
I studied public policy. I meet with college students who are like, I want to go into public service. I'm like, great. What are you studying? They're like political science. I said, change your major to communications. And they look at me like, what are you talking about? And I'm like, Donald Trump is president twice, not because he's some policy major, but because of comms.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
And he's changed the game. And so I get a little bit on what David is saying. The question is, is it the right timing, the right method? And will this lead us to Hakeem Jeffries being speaker? I think those are questionable.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Yeah, look, it's a piece of legislation, obviously, that would provide $4,300 credit for children under six, you know, $3,600 for children six to seven. You know, it's a tax cut. It's a tax cut for regular day Americans. While my colleagues are trying to give tax cuts to the wealthy, this is a tax cut that would literally help families. And it would literally help families with low income.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
You know, there's about 32,000 children in my own district right now that are ineligible. And so this would extend that credit. This would make people eligible. This would help people who need a tax cut. And it would help families, especially when costs are going up. Everything is going up.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
OK, you know, again, going back to the previous argument, Trump was supposed to lower costs and literally it's it's inverse. Everything is more expensive. The tariffs are causing things to be more expensive. And so this would be a way to help out help out those families. And there are Republicans, right? Marco Rubio was very big into the child tax credit. There are Republicans that
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
And then you watch parents go through the worst thing I have ever watched in my life where, you know, they get taken out of a ballroom and put into a separate room and police officers come in and they say, you know, your kid's dead on the first floor, your kid's dead on the third floor. And, you know, you don't hear crying, you hear screaming.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Look, you know, he works for somebody. Things change. It's different when, you know, you're your own person for when you have a boss. And I know what that's like. I worked for Ron DeSantis for two and a half years, so I get it. But, you know, this would be something that would help families and help kids, quite frankly.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Hugely successful. Hugely successful. Right. And so we want we want to expand on that. And again, I look at this. We say tax credit. It's a tax cut. Right. What you know, again, we like to use big words. Right. When you're giving back money to people, it's a tax cut.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
So this is a targeted tax cut for for families and families who have kids and families who need it rather than, you know, not letting the top bracket go from 37 to 39, because somehow if that happens, you know, you know, the sky would be falling.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Yeah. No, Byron and I served together in the Florida House and now in Congress. We have a good relationship.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Byron and I like to do stuff together. I have a new rule now that when I do media with Byron, I have to be seated rather than standing.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Yeah, they offered me a stool. Did they? They did. And I was like, I'm not lying to the voter. Like, they're going to watch this in real time. Right. Because otherwise people would be like, wow, he grew.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
So on the FEMA front, and I just want to I'm going to rage about this for a second here. Give it to me. OK, here's an issue, actually, that isn't getting a lot of play and isn't getting a lot of coverage. And that's usually what happens in emergency management. I did emergency management in the private sector for 10 years.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Then I became the emergency management director in Florida, did Hurricane Michael. I did all the COVID response. Right. I did that for a guy I didn't vote for around DeSantis who gave me that job. And so what would happen if FEMA were to disappear, okay, or FEMA would be cut in dramatic ways would be devastating. And it would be devastating more to red states than blue states, okay?
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
You know, Texas, Florida, and then you get into states that don't have that budget. Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina. You get into states which have Tornado Alley, right? You get into states, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky with floods. Okay, I mean, these states would be absolutely devastated if Stafford Act money didn't go down to reimburse. They would go bankrupt.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
They would have to raise taxes if they got a big event. And yeah, sure, Florida and Texas might be able to weather that a little more, not if they had a Harvey like Texas had. Or not if Florida had two storms in one season like we've had many times. So this would be the amount of devastation to the state budgets that would happen without FEMA. Now, that doesn't mean that there shouldn't be reform.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
And, you know, that was the experience that I witnessed. I then, you know, was going to as many funerals as I could. I was passing other funerals to go to funerals. And then the three weeks after the shooting, something happened in Florida that hadn't happened before and hasn't happened since. So we got a Republican legislature, Republican House, Republican Senate.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
And I'm happy to say that President Trump is right that there should be FEMA reform. Why is he right? FEMA has been taken off its core purpose. When it was put into Homeland after 9-11, which was the right decision, Joe Lieberman was right about trying to get agencies to talk to each other. But 20 years of that, Homeland has become this giant, bloated bureaucracy.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
And it's become something that really is so focused on immigration, nothing else can get in the oxygen. You should look at both Secret Service, which failed last year, and FEMA, which didn't have its greatest year. Where are both of those agencies? They're in Homeland.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
So what I've been saying is if you want to reform FEMA, you've got to take it out of Homeland, bring it back, give it back to the White House, which is where it was. It was a secretary position before 9-11. That automatically would shrink the department. Why? Because they're doing all of the grant writing for all 22 other agencies within Homeland. They shouldn't be doing that.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
When people were like, why is FEMA sending out these immigration grants? Why? Because Homeland directed them to do that. But I want to get FEMA out of immigration. I want to get FEMA out of homeland. And I want to get them back to their core mission. Their core mission isn't grant writing. Their core mission is response and recovery. That's the first thing.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
The second thing we could do is we could block grant some more of this money down to the states. Florida has run block grants before. So has many other states. So states can run block grants rather than all the grant writing being done in D.C. Again, I need FEMA to respond on coordinating those federal assets. FEMA doesn't have a lot of assets. They coordinate other agencies, DOD assets.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
They bring those in to help with response. And response is where you save lives, right? That's the most important piece. And that's what you get judged on. But the money is very important. In Hurricane Michael, all red areas, all Republican, rural, not well off, Without those FEMA dollars, those towns don't get rebuilt. They don't come back. They're gone.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
So, you know, Byron, obviously someone from Florida, his district was hit by Hurricane Ian. Right. He knows how important it is. He's running for governor. And so, you know, I've made this case to him and I was happy that he signed on. We also have a bipartisan bicameral bill in the Senate. You got Tom Tillis and Senator Padilla. Right? So you got North Carolina and California.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
So this is a bipartisan, bicameral piece of legislation to reform FEMA. But of course, we can't get it moved while Kristi Noem talks about eliminating FEMA. She's even talked about taking pieces of FEMA and dividing it out and giving it to other agencies. Why? Because that will be efficient. Okay?
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
So, you know, the Trump administration's got a lot going on and the American people have a lot going on with their overday lives and stuff. that's being thrown at them every day. But I'm telling you, this FEMA thing is much bigger. And just like everything else with emergency management, we pay no attention to it when we're in blue skies.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
But as soon as that gray sky hits, as soon as that disaster hits, FEMA is very important. And if we don't pay attention to it now, if it's not ready for hurricane season, the results are going to be devastating.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Yeah. I mean, look, I joined the Doge caucus. I remember. OK, because I was like, most Americans think government does spend too much money and government can get more efficient. Right. And I didn't want to give Republicans this idea that they're the only ones who care about government spending and efficiency. Barack Obama had a program on that. So did Bill Clinton, led by Al Gore. Right.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
And so that's why I joined. Now, I can tell you the Doge caucus in Congress has been totally left out of the process. We weren't involved. We're a defunct organization. OK, Elon did it all himself and he didn't do efficiency. He did Project 2025. He just fired people. He cut programs. I mean, you know, they're cutting NOAA and the Weather Service.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
We had a Republican governor, full Republican cabinet, and getting them to come down and see the school was the difference.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
You're not going to balance the budget off the Weather Service. It's a joke. But they want to privatize the Weather Service. And so they did all this stuff, chapter and verse, right out of it. The guy at OMB wrote it all. I feel somewhat vindicated. I mean, Democrats were walking around with this giant Project 2025 book like it was a tablet from Moses. And actually, they wound up doing that stuff.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Yeah, we were right about that. Doge did not do efficiency. In fact, there's not a piece of government right now that is more efficient. Okay. Yeah, they've cut stuff, but they've made the departments less efficient as a result.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Might be the shareholders of all of his companies. That might have a little piece.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Well, I kind of, you know, leaked it a little earlier, but I think Democrats should be raging more about the economy. I can't believe... We're not talking about the economy like every word that comes out of our mouths should be talking about the economy, the cost of goods, the stock market, all of that stuff. Right. What should we be raging less about? Everything else.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
So I invited the speaker, Senate president, everyone came down, they saw the school, they saw what it looked like when there's bullet holes through the windows, backpacks piled outside, homework scattered all over the place, blood all over the walls, shoes have fallen off as kids were running for their lives.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Everything else we should be raging less about except for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Right.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Right. All of that. Those are the issues. Economy, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. That's all we should be talking about. And we should be raging about that every day. And every time we're talking about something else, Trump is winning. He's losing on the economy. He's underwater. He's still winning on immigration. The data shows that's still a high point for him.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
So we need to rage less about immigration and more about the economy. And so that's what I want to tell people. Let's rage about the economy and let's rage less about everything else.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Tell Jesse Waters I say hello. I know he misses me.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
That's good.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Wow.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Ann, if you're listening, I'll send you my number. I want to hear baby stories about Jesse. Oh.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
No, I don't. I don't hate. I go on his show. I like mixing it up with him.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Yeah. I mean, look, everyone has a little bit. It's a bit that he does. You know, this manly thing.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Yeah. No straws, no soup. You know, everyone else belongs in the kitchen.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
First of all, I like going in grocery shopping. Yeah, it's fun with my wife, Jessie. It's a way to control the bill. OK, it's ready to control spending. Go shopping with your wife.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
When my wife goes to the mall by herself, that's a bad day. OK, awesome.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Thanks, Jessica. Appreciate it.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
And we eventually passed what was the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School Safety Bill, which raised the age in Florida to buy any gun to 21, three-day waiting periods for all guns, and red flag laws. Red flag laws have been used 21,000 times now since we've put them in place over the last seven years. Hundreds of millions of dollars for mental health, school safety, school resource officers.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
I fast-forward now to the shooting at FSU, and I look at what happened there, and we're still dealing with it. We're still dealing with kids not feeling safe in school. But I will say this, this kid who was 20 had to take his mom's handgun, which should not have been available to him. It should have been safely stored.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
But the reason he had to take his mom's handgun is because he couldn't go to the store and buy two AR-15s, unlimited rounds of ammunition and body armor like the student from Douglas. So in that instance, we're not going to prevent all crime. But in that instance, the law that we passed that has been criticized every year now is stopped more carnage at FSU.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
The loss of life of two people and the kids that have to now go through this mental health experience is horrific. But had this kid been able to actually go to a store and buy Assault weapons, unlimited rounds of ammunition, body armor. And that's what they do every time they're able to do that. That's what they do when you don't have these laws. There'd be 30 or 40 kids that would be dead at FSU.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
You would have had another Virginia Tech on your hands. And so these laws matter. These laws work. They mitigate. But look, this is something we've dealt with in Florida now from two shootings at FSU, Pulse, Parkland, the Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
At the very time the shooting was going on, just three weeks before, the House was working on undoing my bill that I passed, lowering it back down to 18. The Senate, thankfully, had already decided before the shooting not to take that up. And this is two years in a row that the Senate decided not to do that.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
And this should be a warning to everyone in Tallahassee that this is something that should you undo that bill, should you let 18-year-olds be able to go into a store without their parents' knowledge and buy unlimited rounds of ammunition, any gun they want, right, then this is going to continue to happen and it'll be worse than what we saw at FSU.
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Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Well, the way to spread it is to tell this story. Right. And what I mean by that is, is you had Florida known as the gun shine state. Right. Had the strong.
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Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Oh, yeah. Right. Yeah. That's what we were known as. We were known as the gun shine state because we had the strongest NRA lobbyist here in Marion Hammer. She was the former NRA president. She's the one who wrote Stand Your Ground. She wrote that here in Florida and then it rolled out to every other red state across the nation.
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Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
You're talking A-plus rated members of the NRA, people who have as many weapons as they want to have decided after what they saw at Parkland to do something. It wasn't a complete democratic bill, but to do something to try to mitigate what was going on. We didn't ban possession. for 18 year olds. That was the big difference, right?
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Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Because it was like, well, what about, you know, I wanna go hunting with my dad or my grandfather. You can, they can give you a gun. Possession isn't banned, it's the purchase. And that was, you know, how we compromised. Same thing with red flag laws. We gave you due process. So yes, if your weapons are taken away, you get an immediate hearing in front of a judge if it's done improperly, right?
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Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
That was a compromise. And so the lesson learned here that I've talked about to other people in red states is this was totally done by Republicans. They had control of all chambers. Rick Scott was the governor. He's now a U.S. senator. Rick Scott still supports the bill, not at the federal level, of course, but he says it's a state issue.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
But every Republican who was involved with the bill didn't lose their reelection. Their political career wasn't over, right? The speaker became the secretary of education. Now it runs a college. The two people in line for Senate president, both became Senate president. One of them became the agricultural commissioner. I mean, you know, the governor became a U.S. senator.
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Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
It's never been an issue in any of his campaigns. And so this misnomer that you can you can't work on it because if you do, your political career will be over proved not to be true in Florida. There are no protests going on anywhere in the state right now that people's Second Amendment rights are infringed. And in fact, that law is still popular with the majority of Floridians.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
And it's a 50-50 issue with Republicans here in Florida. And so... The point of talking about it is that it can be done. Now, if we talk about D.C., Jessica, it's a different story.
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Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Right. Because I can't even get school safety legislation, which I have filed with Republicans. OK, bipartisan legislation. I can't even get a hearing on that stuff. Okay. And now we're talking about, you know, panic buttons, making school safer, you know, what kind of glass, what kind of doors do you use in schools, you know, hardening the facility, right? Can't even get a hearing on that stuff.
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Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
So DC is just beyond broken, as you know, especially Congress. It's not just this issue. It's just, we've decided not to do legislation anymore, right? Like Congress is like legislation, not for me. I mean, we thought the 118th Congress wasn't productive. And then like the 119th is like, hold my beer.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
OK, I mean, we've sent the president the least amount of legislation in the first hundred days since any Congress in the last 70 years.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
That's right. Just give him more power. So this it's not like this issue is is now, you know, held hostage. It's everything that's going on. But, yeah, there is no when we pass the law in Parkland, as I like to say, everything went wrong on February 14th. And then for the three weeks after that, we got everything right and got a little lucky. It was three weeks of session.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
How you doing?
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
The kids from Douglas came up, the parents, all 17 of them, Democrats and Republicans, unified around this one legislation. And Republicans came to the school, saw it themselves, and decided they were going to do something, right? Rather than not going, trying to change the subject, thoughts and prayers, and try to move on. Those things... all happened.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Just another day, you know, I mean... In paradise? Yeah, I mean, I don't know what we're raging about today, but I'm sure it's something amazing...
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
There were several Republicans in leadership that decided to be leaders. And so, whether that can happen again in a red state, blue states are different, but whether that can happen again in a red state, I don't know. There were a lot of relationships at the time. I mean, I was very close to the Speaker He came within 24 hours. The appropriations chair was my friend. He came immediately.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
There were relationships, a lot of which just don't exist now in state legislatures and in Washington as we've become so much more partisan and divisive.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Well, and that's been my argument to them, which is, OK, look, fine. You don't want to ban assault weapons. OK, put that over here. We can do a lot of stuff that will save lives. And so every family that doesn't have to become a member of an exclusive club that no one wants to belong to, right? That's a family we save. That's a family we keep from being broken, right?
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
And so even if we just did school safety, we would save lives. Didn't touch guns, but we can't move that. Right. Even if we just did red flag laws or just did universal background checks. Right. If we just did piecemeal and not one big, beautiful bill. Right. If we just did something smaller, we would be saving lives and we'd be mitigating the issue. But we can move nothing zero.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Yeah. Well, look, Democrats are the pros at being on the 20 on the 80-20 issue. We're.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Oh, yeah. We love the 20. OK. I mean, we're teaching masterclass courses right now. OK. Every time I turn on the news on Democrats deciding, you know what? We're like a squirrel with anxiety. Like every noise we hear, we just like turn to it. We're like, oh, 20 issue. And we run that way.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
I'm talking about everything. Hold on.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Listen, well, let's go through it. First, it was Canada's the 51st state. We took that bait. Then it was Greenland. We took that bait. Then it was Gaza is going to be this beautiful place. We're going to vacation. We took that bait. Right. Panama. We took that bait. Then we took the student from Colombia. We took that bait. And now it's Garcia. And I want to be clear.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Fair. I like that.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
It's not that these aren't issues. It's not that due process isn't a big deal. Of course it is. He's not a citizen. OK, you know, which is a different conversation. But these things are big issues. Right. But Democrats should be talking about the economy and Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. And that's it. That's what we should be doing. But we can't.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Every time, you know, something comes up, we're raging about this 20 issue. Right. And we're like, oh, well, hold on. Garcia is not about immigration. It's about due process. Right. Because that nuance is going to be caught on by the American people. Right. We have been out messaged. OK, in dramatic ways by the Republicans.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
And we have not yet learned our lesson because now we're going to nuance with due process with one individual. What's happening to Mr. Garcia is terrible. OK, and he should be able to get his due process right. But this is not we've talked about this issue than more than we've talked about the economy. And let me give you two data points about the economy.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
One, OK, 11 times in history, the Dow has fallen 1000 points in a day. Four of those 11 have happened since Liberation Day. And we've had our worst April since the Depression. I'm not hearing Democrats talk about that. I'm hearing them talk about these 20 issues.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Sorry, I was raging about that.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
Trump ran his almost entire campaign on the price of eggs and the economy. And then it was immigration. But the price of eggs and the economy. OK, both of these things are worse now than when he ran when he became president. They're worse now. OK, you would think we would be putting this on a silver platter every day, talking about it every day. And we're talking about 100 other things. Right.
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
Why Democrats Need to Focus On the Economy (feat. Rep. Jared Moskowitz)
And that's the brilliance of, you know, the Trump media campaign on overloading the system, flooding the zone. And they know the the national media is going to go for it. And then the Democrats are going to respond. And look, I get it right. Like I'm in a moderate district. OK, I can tell you I've not fielded many calls about Mr. Garcia.
The Bulwark Podcast
Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
What's going on, Tim? How you doing?
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
I like this casual look for both of us, by the way.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
They voted against the status quo, so I took my suit off.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Well, it's funny. You almost want him to keep going because you feel like the next statement is going to be like, in fact, the deal we had is they were going to keep Ukraine and we were going to give them Gaza. So we were going to expand Ukraine. That was the deal we had. And the Palestinian people would have loved it. You just wanted him to keep going just to see where this was headed. But look,
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Trump, and he's been doing this for a long time, is very good at taking someone else's argument and weak point and co-opting it, right? Anything that we, you know, he says it's weaponized government, right? And then he weaponizes it more, but he gets away with it because the Democrats weaponized it. He's fixing it with more weaponization. And this is the same thing.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
He's literally taking the argument against Russia and using it against Ukraine, right? Obviously, this is not productive. It's not where we want the situation to be with Ukraine. I do want the war to come to an end. I do think that's important. I do think Ukraine is probably not going back to the pre-2014 border. I think that's probably the case. But what they give up...
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
to get to a deal after that, I think has massive repercussions, not just for Europe and our relationships in Europe, but also for China and Taiwan. We know that the Chinese are watching what happens here. And if you look at the European reaction, I mean, they do not seem happy with the developments of the last week. But I then take a step back from that.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
And I want to take my own advice that I've been giving myself, which is I'm not going to react to everything that Trump says, you know, in the moment that he says it. I'm just not I'm not doing that the next four years like we did the first four years, because if we were doing that, then, you know, let's just talk about all of these things. Canada is going to be the 51st state, right?
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Governor Trudeau. That was kind of funny. I laughed at that one. Governor Trudeau, right? They're going to be the 51st state. That's not going to happen, of course, because if Canada became the 51st state, there would be two Californias that Republicans could never win another election. So that's not going to happen.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
You know, Panama, we're going to take the canal, maybe with military force, not taking that off the table. That's not going to happen. We're getting green.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Yeah, yeah, no. But obviously, the language that Trump was using, okay, none of that's going to happen. We're going to get Greenland. Also, Tim, we're getting Greenland, okay, from our Danish friends. That's also not going to happen. And then, of course, Gaza, the Riviera of the Middle East. We're just going to get it. How are you going to get it, Mr. President? Are you going to buy it?
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
No, no, no, we're not going to buy it. First of all, who would be the realtor for that? That would be a great 6%.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Okay, you're going to take it by military force? No, no, no troops. Well, how are you going to get it, Mr. President? We're just going to get it. And so, you know, all of this distraction that he's great at, that we kind of jump at all of the time, I'm trying to have a different strategy going back to tactics. I'm just trying to have a different strategy and take a step back.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
And, you know, we'll have a quick response to it, but then just, you know... I'm not going to be at a 10 all the time. I have to have degrees of outrage here. We can't just always be at a 10. Just like everything isn't a constitutional crisis. I hear that a lot nowadays. Oh, that's a constitutional crisis. That's a constitutional crisis.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Well, if everything's a constitutional crisis, nothing's a constitutional crisis. And eventually, if Trump does disregard the Supreme Court, and we do have a constitutional crisis, it won't mean anything because we've already said everything else is a constitutional crisis. And so, look, obviously...
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
What Trump is saying now is similar to what he said during the campaign, which many people found problematic. There seemed to be a pullback of that language in his first couple of weeks as president. But now we're back to trying to curry favor with Putin. I actually believe, by the way, this is just my belief.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
I believe that there won't be a deal anytime soon because I think Trump's going to give Putin kind of everything he kind of wants, and then Putin's going to say he wants more, and then that's going to blow the deal up.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Yeah, I mean, look, I like Marco a lot. I'm happy Marco's the Secretary of State, especially in comparison to some of the other picks. Yes. Remember, everything's relative.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Let's not ever get to the point that we test that difference, Tim. I'm just wondering. I would like to have heard what he said different. That's all. Just when you think the line can't go any further, we continue to move it. So let's not tempt them, please.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Marco didn't blink during that statement, right? And so at the end of the day, there were no specifics there, right? But I do think there is something happening with this Gaza stuff and this Ukraine stuff, which is Trump wants to prove to the world that he can solve... the most difficult foreign policy things. Biden couldn't solve it. No one could solve it. Only he can solve it.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
He wants the Ukrainians to give up a lot of these, as he says, raw earth materials, right? And apparently he's asked for so much and the Ukrainians have said no, or they've said no to how much he wants. Well, by the way, as soon as they said no to how much he wants, notice the pivot of Trump.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Oh, OK, you won't give me what I want, which is these raw earth materials in exchange for our continued investment. No problem. I'll pivot and I'll go full direction of Putin won't even invite you to the meeting. I'll get my secretary.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Oh, the slogans. You're throwing out the slogans.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Well, by the way, the Trump administration has even stopped posting the metrics of the deportation data because the data is actually below the deportations of Joe Biden at this moment in time. I saw that. Look, this is no different than we're going to fix egg prices on day one. Egg prices are now the highest they've ever been. This is no different than 24 hours.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
I can solve the Ukraine war in 24 hours, right? Well... We're a little beyond that. Inflation. I'll solve inflation. I'll get interest rates down. Inflation's bumping. Interest rates are stagnant. And look, you know, this is the hyperbole of the campaign that we saw the first time around. And, you know, it works, which is why he does it. You know, people buy it.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
And then we can distract people with, we're buying Greenland, we're buying Gaza, Canada, Panama, right? And, you know, it's like everybody who watches a car accident, you know, and slows traffic down. Everyone's jumping at these distractions or, you know, when all this other stuff's going on. So look, we have to watch the Ukraine thing.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
It's obviously very concerning, the current trajectory coming out of the United States. Ukraine is going to have to give up something, right? This idea that they're not going to give up.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Russia's going to have to retract from some of their positions. There's no question. No question about that. And it's also the future. What's the future look like? for this region. But obviously, we will have major problems with China, and we'll have major problems with our European allies, major problems with our European allies, if we just look like we're kowtowing to Putin.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
In fact, let me give you a real scenario. Trump proposes a deal, and they say no. What's his repercussion? We're going to not supply the weapons anymore? Okay, fine. He says, I'm not going to supply the weapons anymore. And Europe says, we'll step up.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
OK, so now not only did Trump not solve the problem, now he's been cut out from the table because Europe decides to move forward anyway and there's no deal. And now we have a real Europe-Russia war, which can affect the U.S. economy in dramatic ways. So he's got to be very, in my opinion, careful on how far he goes to where he pushes Europe into having no choice but to continue the war without us.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Well, so there are lots of things going on with this whole situation. Right. First, let's just start with the math. Right. And people know this way. We've heard we've heard mandate. The American people voted for mandate. We have a mandate mandate. OK, we get it. Except in the House, they only have a three vote majority. Doesn't really sound like much of a mandate.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Very different from 2016 when I think Trump had like a 25 plus vote majority. Majority in the House.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Exactly. It doesn't sound like much of a mandate in the House. So the numbers are a problem. In fact, the numbers right now, they don't even have the three-vote majority because you're missing two members from Florida. They have a one-vote majority. But in April, they'll go back to a three-vote majority, okay? So that's the math, number one. Number two is you have Doge, right?
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
And Doge is doging, right? It's doing...
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
way more than they said it was going to do they said it was going to audit and you know present the findings give it to congress you know they're cutting things and firing people and do all of that and they're saying they're saving all of this money let's not dispute that let's just say what they say we do have to dispute just the one thing really quick the new york times saying that they said that they cut eight an eight billion dollar contract but they got a zero wrong and it was eight million it was only eight million they thought they cut eight billion but it's only eight million what's a zero between friends
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
But anyway, besides that, let's not dispute. Look, there's lots of stuff we can dispute. But let's just go with their argument, right? That they have found all this fraud, waste, and abuse, and it's $100 billion. That's what they say. Okay? Okay. Well, the government is going to shut down on March 14th. We're going to run out of money. Okay? And we've been doing a CR.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
That's how we've been running our government, just by continuing resolution, which is, by the way, how you get this problem... The Republicans have done continuing resolutions for the last two years. Mike Johnson's on the path to do another continuing resolution. That's how you get this problem because you continue programs that shouldn't be continued, right?
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
And that's how you get waste and abuse. Okay. Now let's also get to the issue that there are 30 to 40 Republicans that will never vote for a clean CR. Never. And even if Trump calls them and whittles that number down, let's say the best case scenario for them is 15. Okay, we whittled it in half. So this is the same thing we've been talking about for the last two years.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
They have to come to the Democrats in order to get a CR in order to keep government open. Well, there's just one problem, Tim. Let's go back to the hundred billions of dollars of fraud, a hundred billion, they say, of fraud, waste and abuse. Well, a clean CR would refund all of that stuff. It would refund it. OK, because you would continue last year's stuff. Well, we can't do that.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
You can't tell the American people we have found all this fraud, waste and abuse and then tell Congress, but refund it all. OK, not only can you not do that because it's fiscally ridiculous, it's also a trap for Democrats. OK, that they think we're going to walk into where they can be like they want to keep the government open so bad that we're going to put a clean CR.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
They're going to refund all that fraud, waste and abuse. And then we're going to come out and be like, can you believe the Democrats? They refunded the condoms to Gaza, which wasn't a thing. But that's what they'll say.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
And so what I've been out there talking ad nauseum on the floor and in interviews saying is Speaker Johnson now has less than a month to pass the 12 individual appropriations bills. That's how you pass a budget, a promise Speaker Johnson made when he became Speaker. They had passed seven of them and then stopped. Why? Because they're fighting amongst themselves.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Republicans can't agree amongst themselves. So right now, we are on a collision course that the government is going to shut down on March 14th. And Johnson's going to come forward with a clean CR, with California wildfire funding, and he thinks we're just going to go for it. I want to be very clear. I don't want to close the government.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
OK, I don't think Democrats should have a close the government as a strategy. I don't think we should do that. Republicans did that many times before, but I don't think we should do that. But I think we should be intellectually honest with the American people. They have told you they have found all this fraud, waste and abuse. Fine. Then we can't continue it. We must pass a new budget or.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Elon, you must be transparent. You must send the list of all of this stuff to Congress so we can attach it to a CR, which would defund all of that stuff for an up or down vote. So these are the choices I think Speaker Johnson has. A clean CR is not a choice for me as an individual.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Well, remember, this goes to how they negotiate, which is, well, if you don't take it, we're going to only send the money with strings attached, right? Which is the stuff they were floating out there for a couple weeks. Look, I'm a former emergency management director. I disaster aid is very important. I understand how important it was.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
But back in December, when they tied disaster aid to raising the debt ceiling, something that had never happened before. Right. Democrats did not vote for that. And eventually they uncoupled it and we got disaster aid two days later. So the disaster aid for California is going to happen.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
OK, it has to happen because if they if they don't send it to California, then what they're doing is they're breaking the system. And it's only a matter of time till disaster doesn't go to Texas or Florida. Right. And so if they start that game, it's extremely dangerous. That will come. But I think Democrats need to hold Republicans to their position. And I want to get to the debt issue.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
OK, you know, Doge isn't just about efficiency, government efficiency, fixing computers, making things faster. It's not just about, you know, trying to shrink the workforce. It's also about saving money. OK, well, 100 billion dollars. Look, Tim, if that's true, that's a lot of money. We cannot downplay that that to Americans is a lot of money. But in a 36, it's probably not true.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
But if it is true, let's not go down that rabbit hole. Let's just say their math is mathing. OK, they found 100 billion dollars. Well, in a $36 trillion debt, $100 billion is not a lot of money in that relative speak. It's a lot of money in general. It is. But not in a $36 trillion debt. So how are we going to get at that debt? which is what Doge wants to do.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
And that's what the Freedom Caucus has been talking about for a long time, is we got to get at that debt. Well, we're going to have to probably have steep cuts in some departments, okay? And we're probably going to have to close loopholes because you're going to have to raise revenue. Trump did that before, by the way, getting rid of mortgage deduction, right? He's done that.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Or maybe not extend the tax cuts on the highest income people. So let's get there, right? Or not extend the tax cuts, right? But what they've proposed at this moment in time is, Even with the cuts to Medicaid, right? Based on math, they want to do a $4.5 trillion tax cut. They want to cut, I think, a trillion and a half dollars.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Well, if that math is correct, it looks like we're adding $3 trillion to the debt.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
You know, we got to hold Republicans to their positions. They care about the debt, then we should add no money to the debt. They care about eliminating money from government, then we should hold them to that position. They say they found all this money, 100 billion, Doge found it, then hold them to that position, no clean CR.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
We got to hold them to their positions and we got to watch the wedges that exist within the Republican Party themselves. We got to let them go at each other. which is what we saw the last two years. That will happen. And we're going to find out if they're really only fiscal hawks when Democrats are in control. We're going to find out if they really care about the debt.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
We're going to find out if Thomas Massey and Chip Roy and 10 or 12 others, if they're willing to hold the line. on this. And we're going to find out really, if Doge is serious about going after the debt, if they're serious about going after the debt, which is what Elon always talked about. Elon talked about, we're going off the fiscal cliff, we got to cut our spending, right?
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
He's talked about that. Well, if that is serious, okay, and you're tweeting things like balanced budget, which he has tweeted, which is why I'm coming with that resolution. Then at the end of the day, they're either not going to be able to extend the tax cuts. Right. Or they're going to figure out how to either balance it with some cuts and raising some revenue. OK.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Or they're going to add to the debt. And then this whole conversation about the debt no longer has any merit whatsoever whatsoever. Ever, ever again. And yes, I know someone's probably thinking, well, Jared, Trump added, you know, he added more to the debt in his four years. And I would say yes, but this time around, they've made the debt the issue. They've made it the issue.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
So since they've made it the issue, we got to hold them to it.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
On the balanced budget? Yeah, I think I'll get some Freedom Caucus members.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Yeah, but Johnson's not going to pick it up. He's not going to hear it.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
There's three ways out of the situation. One is they can make a deal with us. Right. That would be bipartisan and bring responsibility. You know, I think there are enough Democrats that hopefully it's a good deal. Yeah. Look, I think there are enough Democrats, you know, looking at the fact that, yes, we need to make government more efficient. Yes.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
We need to figure out how to curtail our spending. I think the American people voted for that. And I think Democrats recognize that. OK, so they could talk to us. Have they done that yet? They have not. They have not done that. Two, the government could shut down. And when I say they could talk to us, I don't mean Johnson, because he's not in charge, right? I mean the White House.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
No, none of that. Okay. So they could talk to us. Number two is they can shut the government down. Right. And, you know, the government could shut down. I say indefinitely just because I don't know how long it would take to reopen. The government could shut down indefinitely and they could try to pressure campaign, you know, their way through it.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Or three is the fiscal conservatives, to your point, just disregard everything they've ever stood for for the last couple of decades and give in to adding to the debt. These are the three ways out.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Yeah, I mean, look, I could do an hour on this. And this is something that's been going on now for probably a solid year, right? We saw it on college campuses. We saw it in streets. You know, one thing that people always talk about is that you can be anti-Israel without being anti-Semitic. And I would say, Tim, I think that is possible. I think you can be anti-Israel without being anti-Semitic.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
I think it's possible. It's just not happening, right? I mean, it's theoretically possible, okay? And so they tell us all the time, oh, Jared, don't conflate our criticism of Israel with being anti-Semitic. And I would say, I'm not conflating it. You're the ones who are conflating it. I mean, why are you protesting in front of a synagogue? Why are you beating up Jewish kids?
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Because they're just wearing a Jewish star. You don't know their position on Israel. You don't know if they support Netanyahu. And so to be clear, Everything you're seeing in this country on these college campuses and in the streets is anti-Semitic protests. Not every individual person that's there, but the protests, the genesis of these protests are anti-Semitic.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
They're going to Jewish delis, right? They see an Orthodox guy on the street. They're accosting them. And every Jewish parent around this country, when they saw the stuff going on in college campuses, knew deep down
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
That if it wasn't a Jewish student that was being surrounded and assaulted and prevented going from class, but it was another minority group, we know it would not have gotten past lunchtime on the first day. Look, there are a lot of Jewish families in my district, Democrat families, that voted for Donald Trump because of this reason. Donald Trump only lost my district by a point and a half.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
And I have a big Jewish population in my district. What did you win by? I won by five. This was a big deal within the Jewish community, which is about 12% of the voting block here in my district. And that's because Trump had tough language. So we're going to have to see now what happens.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Trump talked about, obviously, people here on student visas that are going to these pro-Hamas rallies, deporting them. Trump's talked about getting firm on the universities. And look, these universities who didn't enforce their code of conduct.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
who took months and months and months to figure out how do we prevent the assaulting of Jewish students on our campuses and totally failed, to watch that hearing last year where the university presidents couldn't explain with an easy question that now has made Elise Stefanik famous, This is a big problem in this country.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
It's why I've been fighting against not just my progressive friends who have been silent, but also the folks on the right who are allowing all this Nazi speech online. You know, because, you know, in the nature of free speech, you can literally see, as we have allowed more Nazis on Twitter or on X, you're seeing the number of anti-Semitic, violent anti-Semitic attacks rise.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Speech and violence are rising at the same time. And so we're at historic levels, historic levels of anti-Semitism since World War II. And the Jewish community is very worried about where all of this is going.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
No, the alt-right and the far-left, it's like one of the few things they agree on. They get there different ways, by the way. The far-left gets there by being anti-Israel, wanting the country to be wiped off the map. And the far-right gets there with pro-Nazi talk.
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Jared Moskowitz and Zeke Faux: Scams Galore
Well, look, what do you want us to do? Storm the Capitol? I mean, that's already been done. That's our job. That's our job.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Remember, we were told Doge is going to do an audit and then develop a list, but that's clearly not what they're doing. They're firing people, they're turning on programs, turning off programs, right? And They're making mistakes. Elon even said they're going to make mistakes. Some of these mistakes could be, you know, very damaging.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
And if you look at some of the things that Doge has found, by the way, these programs go back decades. In the government, Democrat and Republican administrations, Democrat and Republican Congress. And so I do think the American people want to see us save money. But we don't know Elon's day to day role or his involvement. We've not had that transparency. Now, Elon, look, Elon's a very smart guy.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Firing all the folks that work on our nuclear weapons, that clearly, you know, was a big one. And so, you know, that's the anxiety that folks are seeing in my district. And some people are like, this is not what people voted for. No, no, no. This is what people voted for. I'm sorry. I totally disagree with that. I understand Donald didn't talk about all of these things on the stage.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
I mean, he talked about Hannibal Lecter. I'm still waiting for that dinner. But we had him as president for a whole four years. And so the idea that we're getting 2.0 or the second movie, which is never as good as the first, usually, OK, this is should be no surprise to people. This is what the American people voted for. They were going to get a level of chaos. But you know what?
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
You know what I think about that at the end of the day, Ben? That is also a reflection on where the Democratic Party is. That's on a reflection that they voted for this and were willing to take that risk than what we were selling. And the Democratic Party has still not had, in my opinion, that introspection, that inflection point on they voted for this instead of what we were pitching.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
That is an indictment on us. And unless we recalibrate and figure out how to make our tent bigger and start acting a little more normal, by the way, we may be in this position for some time.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
I can't see the... It's a capybara. They're very in right now. Capybara is so in.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Before it was like tiny little hippos. Now it's Capybara. Capybara, all the rage.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
We can't take that away from him. He's created some unbelievable technologies. There's no doubt about that. And and he feels very comfortable in his ability tweeting or X-ing, whatever we call it nowadays, you know, three, four hundred times a day. So probably he should come to Congress and tell us he doesn't think much of us or any of our abilities. So he shouldn't be afraid to come.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
He should want to come. No one should make him. Right. Like we'd be like, make him come. But he should want to come. He should come and talk about all the things that he has found. Tell the American people, tell Congress. I mean, remember, they're going to need Congress to do something. And I've talked about this, Ben.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
They can find fraud, they can find waste, they can find abuse, and they can nix it in the executive. But at the end of the day, the only way we're going to get at the debt issue, which is one of the principles of Doge, is to get at the debt issue is they're going to have to come to Congress. So this is going to have to happen on March 14th. is the date that it's going to have to happen by.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Otherwise, the government is going to close because I just don't believe that we can continue doing what I think Mike Johnson, Speaker Johnson, wants us to do. Speaker Johnson is going to propose us to do a clean CR to fund the government. Well, by the way, if Doge has found all this fraud, waste, and abuse, again, that's what they say.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
If we take them at their word that they have found all this, we can't do a clean CR because that would refund all the fraud, waste, and abuse. They would love to trap Democrats with that. Speaker Johnson needs to come with his 12 spending bills, individual spending bills, which, by the way, he promised to do, but so far has taken no steps to do. All of this is going to come to a head
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
on March 14th, in my opinion.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Well, hi, Elon. How are you? I'm Jared. So, I mean, here's what I would say. I think the time for staying in safe spaces is over, right? Twitter is a safe space for him or X is a safe space for him. I mean, I did Jesse Waters the other night on Fox. That's not a safe space for me. You got to get out of your safe spaces, right?
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Go talk to the American people, not on Fox and not next to the president and not on X. Go come to Congress. OK, and talk to the American people have to mix it up with Democrats. He shouldn't. I don't think he's afraid to do it, but he should do it if if he thinks he's so right and has the winning issue. He should he should come and do that and, you know, embarrass the Democrats.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
with the information if that's what he thinks he can accomplish. Come do that. But by hiding and not coming and just X-ing about what they found without showing the American people what they found, again, this is going to come to a head on March 14th. They're going to have to bring those documents, in my opinion, in order to keep government open.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Because you can't... What Speaker Johnson's trying to do, and it's Speaker Johnson who's going to close the government, not the Democrats. The Democrats shouldn't want to close the government as a strategy. They should not employ that. And I will, as one Democrat, not employ that. I've never believed in just... doing this hostage thing.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
But what we should say is, Speaker Johnson, you're saying that all this fraud, waste, and abuse is over here. You can't ask us to fund it in a clean CR.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
So you're going to have to either do the 12 individual spending bills, or actually, as Chip Roy suggested, you're going to have to show us the list of everything you've found where there's fraud, waste, and abuse, and we're going to have to attach that to a continuing resolution and defund those programs. Otherwise, we're just going to refund it all, which makes absolutely no sense.
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Elon should come and talk about that.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Well, a continuing resolution is how these programs that are either old, outdated, or no longer needed, that some of these programs are finding, how those continue. They continue because when you do a continuing resolution, you just continue the budget from the previous years. You make no changes to it.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
And that's something that the Republicans now have done for the last two years while they've been in control of the House, going into a third year now as they do a continuing resolution. By the way, the reason Kevin McCarthy lost his job was overdoing a continuing resolution. And Democrats have had to be the adults in the room to help our Republican colleagues try to keep government open.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Is there something going on in D.C.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
But now, again, now the American people, whether some of my colleagues like it or not, the American people voted for change. And they voted to not have the current status quo, to change the status quo. And the way Speaker Johnson is trying to keep government open is with continuing resolutions. We have to pass budgets for each department. Maybe you plus up some things.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Maybe you deduct some things in all of those departments. That's what you should do. Republicans actually started that. They had done about seven of the 12 appropriations bills and then completely abandoned the process. Why? Because of Democrats, because they were fighting amongst themselves, fighting amongst themselves.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
And the reason why Speaker Johnson, in my opinion, isn't starting the appropriations process like he promised to do is because he knows he can't do it amongst his own members. He can't do it amongst his own members. And so he's going to bring a CR, and he's going to expect Democrats to go vote for a CR. Not this time, Mike. Not this time.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Because this time, we have a list of fraud, waste, and abuse that has been found, so they say. And we can't go fund it, Mike. Can't fund it, right? Because then what you would love, what Mike would love is to put a CR on the floor. Democrats are the majority who vote for it, right?
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Maybe we get a couple, you know, maybe we get 100 Republicans, but the Democrats are the ones who vote for it in order to keep government open. And then they can be like, can you believe the Democrats refunded all of these things? The Democrats refunded their condoms to Gaza, which was never a thing, but that's what they'll say. And so we can't walk into that trap.
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programs that shouldn't exist anymore. And so Speaker Johnson, he's in charge. Remember mandate, they have a mandate, huge mandate, even though they have a three vote majority in the House. That's not a mandate, but they say that they have a mandate. So we're going to go with that. Well, then Speaker Johnson's the one who's got to put these things on the floor, but he won't.
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It's clear he's going to wait for the end. He's going to throw a clean CR on there. Maybe he'll throw California emergency funding in there, things like that, some sort of catnip, and that Democrats are going to go for it. And I'm advocating we can't. The American people don't want us to. The American people don't want the status quo. A CR is the status quo.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
I'm a no vote on a clean CR. I don't think we can do that then. I listen. One of the things that and I'm new to Congress, OK, I don't have all the answers, but the game has changed in Washington and there are still some of my colleagues that have been there longer than I have. who are playing a game that no longer exists. It doesn't exist.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
The way we used to conduct our business, the way we used to communicate, all of that has changed. All of that is new. And we're still stuck and have not changed with the times. And so, you know, there are some of my colleagues who are just like, we got to vote for whatever we're going to vote for to keep the government open. I have bad news.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
I want to keep the government open, but I'm not just voting for anything to do that. We got to do it the right way. That's what the American people want. And Republicans are completely in charge. They have the House, the Senate, and the executive branch. So if government closes, it's on them. We have to force them now to do the right thing in Congress, if you can believe that.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
And the right thing in Congress is, if you found all this fraud, waste, and abuse, then we got to defund it. Otherwise, you're just lying to the American people, right? And I'm not going to fall into that trap where they can just blame us. And look, this is part of the strategy then that Republicans are playing, right? I'm going to fix the price of eggs on day one. That didn't happen.
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Eggs are the highest they've ever been. I'm going to solve the Ukraine war on day one. That didn't happen. It's still going on. Europe and the US are now fighting. It's become very complicated. Right. That didn't happen. I'm going to get inflation under control on day one. That didn't happen. Inflation had a bump last month. Right. So all these day one promises, you know, day one.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Look, I obviously knew it was hyperbole. Right. Didn't happen on day one. So since we can't solve that on day one, right, Trump is a very good communicator and he understands the American people. You want to know why you sit in traffic for 25 minutes when there's a fender bender on the highway? It's because we love that. We watch it. We slow down. We look at it. We analyze it.
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And Trump is giving that to us over and over. Oh, I can't fix the price of eggs, but hey, we're going to get Greenland. I can't solve inflation, but we're going to get Gaza. How are we going to get Gaza? Are you going to buy it, Mr. President? We are not. We're just going to get it. Are you going to send the military? No, we're not. We're just going to get it. Osmosis, potentially.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
What about Panama? We may take Panama. And then Governor Trudeau. That was kind of funny. I did laugh at that one, but I give him credit for that joke. Governor Trudeau, Canada is going to be the 51st state, which of course, by the way, if Canada became the 51st state between Canada and California, Republicans could never win an election again.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
But hey, we're going to talk about Canada being the 51st state. And the legacy media just... eats this stuff up. I mean, literally, just total distraction. He puts it on a platter and they just pounce. You know, and I hear the people like, no, Jared, we got to treat it seriously. What if we actually turn Gaza into the Riviera? Guys, that's not going to happen. Okay. But yet they go for it.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Well, we don't we don't know. Right. And I'm a part of the Doge caucus. I joined very early because I do believe Americans don't want the status quo with government. I do believe government become more efficient. First of all, they're using computer systems from like decades ago. OK, so I do think government become more efficient. And I do think we can probably save a lot of money in government.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Now, look, sometimes there's a little bit of strategy and his madness, right? The Gaza thing, we're not going to get Gaza, but it is making the Arab countries take notice and move. There is a summit that's going to be going on. The Egyptians are leading that, and they're going to be coming up with a proposal.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
And it's because of that strategy that perhaps the Arab countries are going to take more of an active role in what should happen there. But but these these things he's putting out there are to distract us from these other topics. And we're going for it. And James Carville said the other day that and he's right. We got to stop. Right. Just let Trump cook. OK, let him say some of these things.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
And we just got to just like not give that the oxygen. We got to focus on on these other issues. But, you know, we're like squirrel, squirrel.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
greenland right and we're just that's that's not what the american people voted for although i will say this i do feel i mean i'm not i'm not happy that they're executing on project 2025 but you know i'm sure like maybe like republicans and independents were looking at democrats carrying around this giant book you know like moses carrying around two tablets
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
They were like, why are these Democrats carrying around this giant book? They look ridiculous. We're like, Project 25, these are all the things they're going to do. And Republicans are like, no, we're not going to do any of that. And now that they're actually doing it, like chapter and verse from the book, I guess I feel a little vindicated. I'm not happy about it. But at least we were right.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
We don't look crazy carrying around that book anymore.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
Hi, Ben. Do you know something that I don't know? I haven't been watching the news over the last couple of weeks. Is something been going on? I mean, I'm doing fine. So but you wanted to talk to me during lunchtime. So I hope you don't mind if I just, you know, pour myself some wine. eat while we talk, I'm sure everything is fine then.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
So chaos, it's been chaos. Right now I'm a former emergency management director, so I know how to deal with that. But it's the chaos that has people worried because if everything is chaotic, they start to care about their things like social security or my veterans benefits or my Medicare or my Medicaid.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
They start to worry about these programs that people depend on, people that voted for Donald Trump, by the way. Donald Trump only lost my district by one and a half points. And there are people who voted for him that are on Social Security and the people who voted for him that are on Medicare and their people voted for them about their veterans benefits.
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Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
And with all the chaos about getting into these systems and changing all these things, you know, that breeds a lot of anxiety, which then breeds a lot of those phone calls because it breeds a lot of uncertainty. And so I'm seeing a lot of that with the folks I'm talking to. And Elon has created a lot of that by all of these stories that Doge is going everywhere.
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Trump Gets Gut Punched by Arab Leaders in Public
In Gaza's waterfront property, it could be very valuable to, if people would focus on kind of building up, you know, livelihoods, you think about all the money that's gone into this tunnel network and into all the munitions, if that would have gone into education or innovation, what could have been done?
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Trump Gets Gut Punched by Arab Leaders in Public
And so I think that it's a little bit of an unfortunate situation there, but I think from Israel's perspective, I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up. But I don't think that Israel, has stated that they don't want the people to move back there afterward. The thing that I would try to do if I was Israel right now is I would just bulldoze something in the Negev.
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Trump Gets Gut Punched by Arab Leaders in Public
I would try to move people in there. I know that won't be the popular thing to do, but I think that that's a better option to do so you can go in and finish the job.
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MAGA Mike in Panic Mode as Bill Starts Blowing Up
Donald Trump said he's not cutting Medicaid, okay? And so, you know, that's what he's been saying, okay? And yet Republicans come with almost $800 billion of Medicaid cuts, which is what the Democrats have been talking about for the last five months. You know, there are members here in the House and the Senate said they're not gonna cut Medicaid.
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MAGA Mike in Panic Mode as Bill Starts Blowing Up
And it looks like, John, we're literally on our way to capitulation. And so, you know, this is taking health care away from our most vulnerable to try to offset some of these tax cuts. They're still going to add trillions of dollars to debt. Don't listen to me. Just listen to Chip Roy or Thomas Massey who are saying that.
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House Republicans TANK Trump and Musk Bill and SHAME THEM
The gentleman from Florida is recognized for one minute. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. You know, denial is not just a river in Egypt. Let's talk about the last two years. It was the Democrats who raised the debt ceiling, not the Republicans last time. Many of you voted against it.
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House Republicans TANK Trump and Musk Bill and SHAME THEM
It was the Democrats who kept over the government, not once, not twice, but every single time we needed to keep the government open, it was the Democrats who kept the government open. More of us voted for it than you. And all I've heard for the last couple of weeks about this giant mandate, landslide, trifecta, Put on your big boy pants, pass your own bill.
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House Republicans TANK Trump and Musk Bill and SHAME THEM
We're only here, we're only here because you guys can't agree amongst yourselves. So hold on a second, hold on a second. Democrats will keep government open for the American people. We will mediate. the disagreements between that side of the room and that side of the room. We will do that for you, but you gotta at least invite us to that meeting.
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House Republicans TANK Trump and Musk Bill and SHAME THEM
So if you want us to solve your problem, because you can't agree amongst yourselves, reach out. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Time has expired. The gentlewoman reserves.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
I'm hearing they're getting everything that they voted for. They specifically voted for this tariff on champagne. They had enough of big champagne taking advantage of them and are happy finally as my dog is digging in the background. His name is Obi. He's a sheepadoodle. He's wearing a tie. He's ready for Congress.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
Obi, you're ruining the podcast here. Sit down. Are we done? I think we're done. He's excited. He's excited. He got into the champagne, actually.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
That's what happened. No, so here we go, right? Donald Trump. Okay, what is he talking about? Champagne. It's what people voted for, right? They wanted him to go after big champagne. They're tired of being taken advantage of. Look, this is, it's total chaos. I mean, it's just chaos. You know, everyone's like, oh, what's the Democratic bumper sticker? It should just be chaos.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
There's no better word to describe than what's happening right now that Trump is doing. You know, Trump said in January of 2024, in the lead up to his election, that it's the Trump stock market. As the market was increasing, he took credit for it. Well, guess what, buddy? In March of 2025, it's your stock market also. And things are not going well. We're down like 4,000 points.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
Can you imagine for a second as we sit here, just take a step back, If the market had gone down 4000 points in two weeks and Joe Biden was president, I mean, they would be literally trying to impeach him. OK, what we actually need right now, speaking of Joe Biden for a second, you know, for all the claims about Joe Biden, it would be nice if Trump actually went to the basement.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
Like if there is a basement, right, if that was true, we need Trump to go there, like take like a week off because it's just it's too much. He, you know, with the tariffs, he's just tariffing everyone, which, by the way, don't listen to me. Listen to, you know, Senator Mullen, who says a tariff is a tax. He was a business owner. Tariffs are taxes.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
You know, and then as far as Pam Bondi is concerned, you know, we don't don't touch a Tesla. Why is the Epstein files in the Tesla? I mean, look, we obviously don't want violence. You know, we shouldn't be seeing violence. But why? I mean, what's so important about a Tesla that's different from another car? Maybe the Epstein files that you can't find are in that Tesla.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
Everyone got a book report. They had a book report. It was his phone list that was released.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
Listen, I don't know, it's unclear, but it has become a huge problem for them. That became a huge nightmare when people came out with white binders that an eight-year-old turns in a book report with, and then they were smiling and dancing with a binder full of victims. You know, wasn't a really good look.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
And actually, it was a quick moment where the left and the right online came together and said that this was an outrageous stunt. And I think the DOJ has suffered a credibility issue as a result of that, no doubt. But listen, let's talk about the things at hand. Right. Let's talk about what what's going on in the world. We we proposed a ceasefire. Ukraine signed on to a 30 day ceasefire.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
That's good. Right. That's good. I'm glad we've. realize that Ukraine's our ally. We've unpaused the aid that we were sending them. So that's flowing again. We've unpaused the intelligence sharing. So that's good. We're sharing intelligence again. So we figured out Ukraine is our ally. Russia won't sign on to the 30-day ceasefire. So maybe that should give the Trump administration...
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
some pause because you know trump says he wants to stop the killings well ukraine agreed to stop the killings russia is like a little more killing so um you know hopefully they've been reorient on that um we're still pressing this canada's the 51st state nonsense something that's never gonna happen um you know but uh but you know that so that we have a tariff war with literally uh our neighbor uh in canada
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
We started talking to Hamas. I don't know if you heard about that. We talked to Hamas directly. That has hasn't happened ever since we deemed them a terrorist organization. We did that for a week until we pulled the guy off the Hamas envoy because he said Hamas were, you know, they were pretty fine people.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
Can you imagine if someone in the Biden administration said, hey, we've talked to Hamas, pretty fine people. They would have impeached the secretary of state over that. So what else is going on?
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
They're great people.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
Yeah, we're hearing it. I mean, my district has a lot of part time residents that come in during winter that live in the district, as does South Florida. A lot of people from Canada come here during winter. And that's a big boom to the economy. The number one industry in Florida is tourism. And that's a big piece of it. So, yeah, they're talking about boycotting the United States.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
And this is exactly what he ran on, of course. Right. He gave all these rallies. He spoke about all these things. And he said, here are the number one things I'm going to do. I'm going to raise egg prices. I'm going to decrease the stock market. I'm going to increase the cost of goods. I'm going to launch a trade war with Canada. I'm going to try to convince the Danish to sell me Greenland.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
OK, you know, we're going to talk to Hamas. You know, and listen, a little bit of pain. Everyone's going to have a little bit of pain. You know, we're going to take jobs away from veterans. We're probably going to, you know, cut, you know, Medicaid. I mean, these are obviously the things he said from the stage. Ben, did I not hear them correctly?
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
Yeah, they could have put in the bill. The problem is, is that, you know, their whole thing is about not adding to the debt. And the bill as it is already adds trillions of dollars to the debt. Listen to Thomas Massey, who wears a debt cloth. So their current bill adds trillions of dollars to the debt, which is what Doge was supposed to get at.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
So that's been a failure as far as getting our debt down. And they they talk about, oh, tax on no tax on tips. Well, they didn't put in the bill because they don't have a way to pay for it. And then the Treasury Secretary comes out and says anything. anyone making less than 150,000, no taxes. But we're not gonna do that until we balance the budget.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
By the way, we haven't balanced the budget since who? Bill Clinton, a Democrat. So, you know, look, the one thing Trump understands is that the media cycle is like this. And you can just put stuff out. You can just feed the beast. People hear it and they forget. They move on. OK, there's another something going on, another outrage and more chaos. We turn our attention. Steve Bannon flood the zone.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
And so they're doing that. But the one thing that Trump does know, and it is the James Carville, it's the economy stupid, is they can't escape. prices that people are paying when they go out and shop, whether that's at the grocery store or anywhere else, retail, and they can't escape what people are seeing in the stock market. That's not just people who are invested in stocks.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
That's people's 401ks. That's people's pensions. It's their nest egg. They can't escape that data, no matter how they keep saying it's the golden age, things are going to boom. At some point, the American people are going to lose patience with that. In fact, if you look at the polling, Trump is already underwater on the economy.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
Right here, right now. If you buy three contractions, we'll throw in free shipping.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
But seriously, Ben, Ben, listen, I'm going to give you a piece of advice. I've made many mistakes in my past, and sometimes I get ratioed on Twitter when I do that. Do not denigrate the ShamWow community. They're very powerful.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
He went and got a bath. He came back with a tie. I thought it was cute. I mean, look, he's wearing a tie, and I'm not.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
As you can tell, he thinks I'm doing a great job.
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Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Trump, Epstein, and Dogs Wearing Ties?!
Hey, Obey! Obey! Nope, nothing.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
The markets absolutely crashed on Friday. Once again, the Dow was down 2200 points, the S&P down 322 points, the Nasdaq down 962 points. And of course, this follows another horrific day. On Thursday, Donald Trump sent his
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
And Americans need to learn how to become self-sufficient. We're too reliant on world economies. Here, play this clip.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
We need to become more self-sufficient, he said at the end of the clip. Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Jared Moskowitz from Florida. Congressman, more self-sufficient, more like Vietnam and Cambodia. All I'm seeing are the markets crashing every single day, and especially from where you're at, and that's affecting all Americans, but in your congressional district as well.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
People in their retirement, living off their life savings and 401ks. I mean, what Trump and MAGA's doing, it's disastrous.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
uh propagandist from the his regime out on fox to give these very bizarre statements after the fact like his labor secretary lori chavez dreamer former congresswoman she says what the goal of all of this is is to try to bring the kind of manufacturing jobs that exist in vietnam and cambodia and she says that americans are going to be working those jobs very soon here play this clip
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
You know, when you talk about Trump golfing while the economy crashes, it's almost like it's like those old family guy things where you keep seeing more and it just kind of gets worse and worse.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
And it's like eight minutes, though, and they drag it out until the commercial break. So, yes, he's playing golf while the market's crashing with the Saudi leaders who are paying him at his resort.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
for a live golf tournament where he's making personal money promoting his brand while they do pink Birkin bag Hermes parties at Mar-a-Lago celebrating $450,000 handbags while flying Marine One into the golf course or onto the golf course to show off. But here, Congressman, is what Trump is saying. And with statements like this, It makes things worse infinitely. The post was week 11 wins.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
This was posted on Friday after the markets crashed. Week 11 wins. President Trump unleashes economic prosperity. It was another highly successful week for the American people. As President Donald J. Trump continues his relentless pursuit of strength, prosperity and peace and lays the foundation for America to be the global powerhouse for generations to come.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
They're celebrating this as the greatest week of prosperity. And you see that. I mean, what's your response to that?
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
Congressman, we got to have you back on and make sure you're kind of keeping us posted on these developments. And, you know, I'm specifically, you know, focused also on your constituents as they have, you know, overwhelmingly their retirements are being impacted, you know, by this and are kind of being directly hit. So thank you for joining us and we'll have you back soon.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
I appreciate you. Everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Tariff Disaster
They want to make America like Cambodia and Vietnam. That's part of the plan. Also, you see the stock ticker there showing 38,000. Just a few weeks ago, it was 44,000, 45,000, heading to 50,000. Here's, by the way, Senator Sheehy of Montana talking about, again, it's going to be a lot of pain, but it's going to teach us all to be self-sufficient.
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Congressman Jared Moskowitz on Trump’s Latest Scams
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner made at least $82 million last year while serving as unpaid White House advisors.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
No, first of all, Ben, thanks for talking about this. This is a big deal, especially as we're getting into hurricane season. I mean, literally we're at the end of May. And let me start at the beginning, okay? The president was right that FEMA needed reform. He was right about that. The emergency management industry has known FEMA's needed reforms.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
One of those reforms is that you gotta get FEMA out of Homeland Security. Homeland has bastardized FEMA. They have used FEMA in ways that FEMA was not built for. And they turned FEMA into the grant agency for every other department in Homeland, which got FEMA off its core mission of response and recovery. And that's been well known.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
You talk to former administrators of FEMA, Democrat and Republican, and they've all said the same thing, which is why I have a bill with Byron Donalds, of all people, who's running for governor, endorsed by President Trump, to get FEMA out of Homeland. But that's not what they've done, what they've done and what the secretary has done.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
And I don't know if the secretary has even done this with the White House, even knowing, OK, the secretary has taken something that needed help and she has completely broken it. I believe what you're going to see is this summer, the secretary has turned FEMA into the Newark airport. I think you're going to see it fail in ways we don't yet know.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
And it's just amazing to watch Arkansas, who had met the thresholds that are mandated in the Stafford Act, not get their declaration. And let me explain. In emergency management, time, it's all about time. It's all about going quickly. In fact, that's what the president said. He wanted to speed up FEMA, yet the secretary has made everything slower. Nothing is more efficient.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
Remember Doge, Department of Government Efficiency? They forgot the E piece. Efficiency. FEMA's not more efficient. NOAA's not more efficient. In fact, there's not a single thing that is working more efficiently. But FEMA has lost 30% of its workforce. A lot of these were senior people, knew what they were doing. You've got regional offices that are empty. And they're delaying declarations.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
Delaying declarations means that states aren't going to spend money. Locals aren't going to spend money. These are fiscally constrained areas. They don't have it. I mean, I said to the speaker and to Steve Scalise and to others, like, you guys know this. Without FEMA, if Louisiana gets hit by, you know, a Category 4 storm, okay, from the Gulf, you know, your state goes bankrupt without FEMA.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
Mississippi goes bankrupt. Alabama goes bankrupt. So when you're watching those people who are saying they're not getting any help, it's because the states don't have the money, the cities don't have the money, and they rely on FEMA. And they're supposed to be getting what's called individual assistance. which we wanna try to speed up the process. That's what they're waiting on.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
And because there's no declaration, they can't get individual assistance. So there will be towns that will look like that, who won't get rebuilt without FEMA. And when we get into hurricane season, usually they get what's called a pre-landfall declaration.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
As the storm's approaching, because we know how the track is going to be, we give them a pre-landfall deck, which allows you to move ice, water, power generation, life health, safety, swift water rescue, and lets the state and locals know that they're going to get reimbursed. These local governments won't spend any money in Florida.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
And look, Florida has the best emergency management department in the country, but we rely on the money. Right. So that we can go move our logistics. And if the state is worried that that money is not coming, if they're worried that is going to get delayed, you're going to have state legislatures weighing in on what can we do that? Can we do this?
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
And so this is not what many people thought when we heard about reform and making FEMA faster and shrinking the department to get a focus on response recovery. What the secretary has done right now has been totally counterintuitive. And she's exposed the president. by the way, if I'm being honest.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
She has exposed the president because we're going to get into the hurricane season and we're going to see FEMA fail in ways that we've never seen before. And the president's going to be like, well, we knew it needed reform. Yeah, but the secretary, Mr. President, has broken FEMA in ways that it's going to expose you in red states if they don't get lucky.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
If we don't get lucky in hurricane season and we have a bad hurricane season, right, and we get bad storms, we get an F4 tornado in one of these red states, I mean, the president's going to have a department that doesn't work.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
Listen, FEMA's main course, right, is to support the operations locally down at the state and down at the local level. It's always been their deal. Getting the resources down. We want to speed that up. The faster you get resources down, the faster the folks on the ground, the state and local can move. So if FEMA is delaying stuff, and by the way, all grants right now are paused in FEMA.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
I don't know if you know this. They've paused all grants, things that have previous declarations, previous presidential declarations. And the secretary has no authority in the Stafford Act or in the Homeland Act, which was passed after Katrina. She has no authority to put blanket pauses on these things. In fact, they contemplated that in these acts, and it's strictly prohibited.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
There are criteria which you could do that, and you're supposed to be given due process to appeal that. None of that is going on. And so, yes, Ben, at the end of the day, if these resources come slower, it could mean more deaths, and it could mean towns are going to suffer, people are going to suffer.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
And it's not going to save any money in the long term, because the longer it takes for resources to down, I think the more expensive it gets to do some of these things.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
Don't forget the tanning beds. Come on. They had a tax cut in there for tanning beds, finally taking us into the golden age.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
So, I mean, listen, they did everything they said they were going to do. We told you that they were going to do it. And they were saying, oh, no, we're not going to cut Medicaid. The president said, oh, no, we're not going to touch Medicaid. Well, they did. The House cut it by seven hundred billion dollars.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
It's going to take money away from the most needy, the bottom 10 percent and give it to the top 10 percent of the tax cuts. Don't listen to me. That's literally what the CBO has said. That is what third party folks have said. And even worse, it's going to add all of this right to the debt. Three trillion dollars a year.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
You got Thomas Massey saying that he thinks it's going to add 20 trillion dollars to the debt. Right. You're seeing the bond market going down, which is how we float our economy when we sell those bonds to other countries. The yields on that are going up because no one wants to buy buy our debt. The stock market's down today because you guess what? We're back to tariffs.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
Thought the president learned his lesson, didn't. You know, now we're raising tariffs on the EU and on Apple again. And so, you know, this this is, you know, unfortunately, what happens when you lose elections, elections have consequences and they have all of government. They have no breaks. They're drunk with power.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
OK, and the only way we're going to send a message to them, the only way we're going to be able to put brakes on this and stop this is to make Hakeem Jeffries speaker. President Trump is fully in charge. There is nobody. They all caved. Everybody caved as we knew they would. OK, nobody stood up on the principles that they've yelled and screamed when Democrats are in charge.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
Those are all gone out the window. They have no more principles. They can't talk to us about that. They can't talk to us about spending money. They did everything they claim they didn't want to do. You know, it's going to hurt a lot of people at, you know, in the bottom 10%.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
We don't talk about it when you don't need it. And then as soon as you need it, that's when we get the function. But if it doesn't work, And that's why I'm raising the alarm now. I'm not raising the alarm, Ben, because, look, you're talking to a Democrat who worked for a Republican in Florida. Emergency management is supposed to be nonpartisan because it affects Americans. OK.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
And so, look, I'm out there, you know, trying to put this on the radar of the president and the people in the West Wing. I'm trying to sound the alarm now while we have a couple of months, maybe to kind of fix some of the damage. that has gone on in homeland.
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
But if we get into September with the way things are now, okay, and we don't get lucky, and we do have storms, and NOAA is calling for an above average hurricane season, 60% chance of that, I am deeply concerned about what is gonna go on in some of these states. We're seeing it already with these tornadoes. I'm real worried. And so,
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Rep. Moskowitz on Trump Voter Betrayal
The only thing I can do is tell people what I know, how I look at it. I'm trying to do it in a nonpartisan way. I'm trying to just give them the truth. That's why I'm saying, yes, the president was right that FEMA needed reform, but that's not what the secretary has done. What the secretary has done is she took something that needed help and she has just destroyed it.
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Trump Screws Red States Bad by Shock Firing
I'm deeply concerned what they're doing with FEMA. I mean, look, I'm from Florida. I'm a former director of emergency management. I'm the only director, former director of emergency management in all of Congress. But if they actually do what Kristi Noem wants to do with FEMA, which is get rid of it, which is what she said, chop it up and give it to other agencies, which won't be more efficient.
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Trump Screws Red States Bad by Shock Firing
It'll make it worse if she wants to mess with reimbursement. I mean, you could have a state like Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana. They could go bankrupt. If they get a category four storm and they don't have federal reimbursement, if the federal government isn't coming out and organizing resources, you know, because FEMA doesn't have a lot of resources. It's DOD that's got the resources.
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Trump Screws Red States Bad by Shock Firing
Other agencies, FEMA organizes that and brings it. If no one's doing that after Katrina for Louisiana or Helene in North Carolina, people are going to die. And these places are not going to have a good response, and they're not going to recover. I did Hurricane Michael. That was one of the recoveries I did in the Panhandle. Extremely poor area, all Republican, by the way.
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Trump Screws Red States Bad by Shock Firing
Without the money the federal government sent in the first Trump administration, these towns would never recover. They'd be gone. And so this is something that, you know, we're not talking about, but we're getting into hurricane season and I'm worried about whether or not FEMA is going to work.
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Trump Screws Red States Bad by Shock Firing
There are there are people in the Trump administration, the West Wing, OK, that are from Florida and know this. They got to stop the secretary who's never done a disaster cleanup in her entire life, being from being the governor where she was. OK, that that this is needed. That doesn't mean there doesn't need to be reformed. Ben, FEMA does need to reform. They need to get faster, smaller.
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Trump Screws Red States Bad by Shock Firing
They need to get out of Homeland. They need to stop doing all of the immigration grants. Let ICE and Homeland run their own grants. FEMA shouldn't be running them. Okay, so there are things we can fix, but to get rid of this for the American people would be devastating beyond belief. And I haven't even talked about what they've done at NOAA
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Trump Screws Red States Bad by Shock Firing
About, you know, getting rid of weather balloons and getting rid of people being able to figure out how we're going to track these hurricanes, the hurricane hunters, there's questions whether those planes are going to be able to get in the air. There's time to still fix this on on what Doge did to those two departments.
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 4/11/25
Was Elon Musk in your meeting when Trump offered you the NASA position at Mar-a-Lago?
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 4/11/25
Senator, I was interviewed by the President of the United States. Was Elon Musk in the meeting when he offered you the job? Senator, my meeting was with the President of the United States. So Elon Musk was not in the meeting. Is that what you're saying? Senator, I was being interviewed and speaking with the President of the United States. You can just say he was not in the meeting.
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Was he in the meeting or not in the meeting? Senator, I'm trying to be as transparent as I can. I was being interviewed by the President of the United States.
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It's not a difficult question. Was Elon Musk in the room when the President offered you the job?
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Senator, again, my meeting was with the President of the United States.
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I'm assuming that you don't want to answer the question directly because Elon Musk was in the room, unless you wanted to spell us with that notion.
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Senator, again, I was being interviewed by the president. Brett, I want to get your reaction to that.