Joaquin Castro
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No, it's the most secretive.
secretive, least transparent administration.
I mean, it's gotten so bad that on Foreign Affairs, for example, Maria Salazar from Florida, I'm the ranking member, she's the chairwoman, they didn't even want to send her a witness, have the State Department present a witness at a subcommittee hearing
on Honduras when we were doing this hearing on Honduras ahead of the elections, right?
I mean, you never see that, right?
You never see this situation where the president from one party doesn't want to send a witness, for example, to the hearing when his own party is in the majority.
I mean, that's just, that's unheard of, really.
But that's where we are.
It speaks to where we are right now.
I guess we're just not the right people.
You know, I mean, he talked to some Texans, but not me.
Maybe that's what I should say.
You know, he was talking to the Houstonians instead of the San Antonians.
I mean, that was crazy.
The idea that you'd go talk to these big oil company folks and like zero members of Congress, because even the Republicans, I think he talked to them.
I think Rubio said they talked to them after the strikes were done.
And then it sounds like he talked to the people he's comfortable with, right, because he served in the Senate.
So Tom Cotton and a few others that he's friends with.
I mean, like a bunch of things, a bunch of things for us as Americans, and then a bunch of things for Venezuela and what it means for the sovereignty of nations.
For us as Americans, I mean, right now, literally right now, you have millions of Americans who are having to pay more money for their health care insurance because Donald Trump and the Republicans wouldn't extend these health care subsidies.