Michael Gold
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875 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 6 Jul
Michael Gold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think there is a part of the president that thinks that if he puts enough pressure, the Senate will find a way to do his bidding.
But I think the bigger issue here is that over the past few months, a lot of senators have become more independently minded.
And they've started to push back against things that the president wants that they don't think meets their political interests.
And that's where the Iran war powers vote that we talked about starts to come into the mix.
Because that was a very high-profile display of Republicans rejecting the president's foreign policy initiative.
And there have been a few other cases in the last few months where Republicans have said that they can't just blindly go along with the president's wishes and that they're going to push back against him.
I think Save America for President Trump represents the greatest pushback because in his view, and he's said this before, the only way for Republicans to win in the midterms is if they pass this law.
But Republicans in Congress are trying to focus on affordability.
They want to talk about issues.
They want to highlight these things that they can deliver for the American people.
And that's where these paths kind of diverge.
I think that's a good way to frame it.
You know, I covered the Trump campaign in 2024, and there was a sense in which he was always much happier to be talking about these elections issues than talking about the economy, talking about affordability, talking about all these things that we now see are of top concern to voters.
And we've actually seen that again in the past few days.
What are your plans for the housing bill, Mr. President?
Where when he's asked about this housing bill, which members of his party are calling a major victory.
He's dismissing it, saying it's of minor importance, suggesting that it won't actually fix the problem.
And so there's a way in which he seems to be leaving Republicans in Congress almost twisting in the wind when it comes to policy issues ahead of the midterm elections in November.
The president could surprise everybody and sign this bill, whether quietly or with a quick signing ceremony at the White House.
Right now, that doesn't seem very likely.
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