Jon Favreau
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And on issues where you might be able to get just enough Republicans to
to have a working majority in Congress, then maybe you can do stuff there.
But even then, Donald Trump has veto power.
Donald Trump has tremendous power as president right now, and he has that power mainly because the Republican Congress, at least enough people in the Republican Congress, most of them, 90-something percent of them, go along with literally anything he tells them to do.
And they need to be held accountable for that.
That's what the next election is for, holding Republican politicians accountable for never saying no to Donald Trump about anything.
Pushing this, pushing Democrat.
And look, I'm all for pushing Democrats to do things that they are too afraid to do.
A hundred percent.
We have a long record of doing that.
But like pushing Democrats on this and like yelling about Democrats, like that is treating voters like idiots.
Or even, so some House Democrats today, because they're all on recess.
First of all, most Democrats, especially all the Democratic leaders, said it's crazy that we're on recess still.
Donald Trump is threatening genocide.
Congress should come back into session.
Republicans have refused to bring Congress back to session.
Democrats have no power to do that, but they called for it.
A bunch of them went to the Capitol today, Democrats, and were like, all right, we're going to try to force another vote on the War Powers Resolution.
Republicans, again, blocked that.
That would be another thing that, you know, Congress could do is to rein him in on the war itself.