Michael Gold
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1,125 appearances
11 recordings
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 26 Mar
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So they can't ignore the fact that voters are sensitive to gas prices and sensitive to the cost of this war.
I think the dynamic, especially in Congress, is that Democrats have really put Republicans on the back foot when it comes to talking about affordability, when it comes to talking about cost of living.
And I think we're seeing a lot of Democrats kind of say, hey,
There are a lot of things that people are worried about here at home.
They can't pay their bills.
Electricity is getting high.
And I just made gas more expensive.
Why are you asking us to support this military incursion or excursion or operation or conflict?
I don't know which word they want to use, but I think there is sensitivity to that.
I think the flip side of that is, you know, there are Senate Republicans, especially who are hawks on Iran and they want to see more action.
They have they like what the president's doing.
Yeah, I don't know where this takes us.
I mean, I'm sure you saw today that Republicans are talking about putting money for military operations into a bill that they can push through on their own using a special budget process called reconciliation that we don't have time to really get into the weeds of.
But I think the fact that they're considering putting war funding in a party line bill suggests that they know there's going to be opposition.
That's right.
I think that what you've seen is there are members of Congress who supported, for example, the Lake and Riley Act, who supported tougher border security, tougher immigration enforcement at the time, who have said, look what happened in Minneapolis.
This has gone too far.
We need to rein this in.
And I think the Democrats have been very clear that this is about what ICE is doing.
This is about how the
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