Mikie Sherrill
speaker
607 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 29 Jan
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you know, we are now, you know, we're going to see Republicans with some, some reconciliation bills, some bites at the apple of just having passing huge pieces of legislation through the Senate with a simple majority. We're really putting a lot of ability to get an agenda done in their hands. So just kind of, you know, not engaging or not, or letting them fail is,
I think would really be a disservice. I think it would allow them to run with a very bad agenda. I think failing is maybe part of the agenda of some in the Republican Party, meaning that they don't like government and they just sort of want government to implode. So allowing that to happen would just seem to meet some of the agenda on the far right. But then the question is, what do we do?
How do we keep moving forward in a way that keeps the country running and tries to block as much of a bad agenda as possible? And that's a tough one. I mean, it's really tough. I go back and forth. I didn't enter Congress to enter into the least productive Congress in the history of the nation, right? That was not my agenda. I told you I'm an action-oriented person.
Right? Well, that's the other side, right? I'm like, well, but if they're unproductive, at least they're not getting a really incredibly bad agenda passed that's going to punish women and roll back environmental protections in the wake of climate change. you know, defund some of the infrastructure programs that are so important to roads and bridges and tunnels, etc.
So, yes, but it's going to be a really delicate balance. I have to say that Hakeem Jeffries, I think, has been masterful for the last Congress at trying to navigate through these landmines and trying to keep pressure on the speaker for the Democratic agenda, even in a Republican majority. And I think, you know, we'll continue to press forward on that.
You know, here we have a Trump administration that is purporting to go after political enemies. And so it's not like we're doing this or the president's looking at this in a vacuum and what might be coming and might the justice system really function well in the future with Kash Patel as the head of the FBI, for example. And yet...
At the same time, it does just undermine the credibility and faith in the Justice Department and faith in our leaders. And so I look at this, and this is why it just seems like we need a new generation of leaders. We need a fresh perspective.
We need people who are committed to public service and who are going to put the country first and going to relentlessly advocate for people and advocate for our institutions so people can have faith in them. And so... This flies in the face of all of that. And that's why, you know, I think people are just looking at our government and saying kind of a pox on all their houses.
You know, this is just nobody's credible. Nobody's trustworthy. Nobody stands by their word. Nobody does what they say they're going to do. And so. And again, it's why I just keep going forward, trying to rebuild that faith and that credibility, committing to serve people and then doing it. And just kind of again and again and again and trying to build that faith back for people.
You'll be surprised to hear no, I have not.
Wow. Wow. This is why, when you said you had a surprise question for me at the end, I knew to dread it. My instincts were correct. I have not watched Garden State in many moons. I have fond memories of it. It did hit a chord. I didn't really genderize the chord it hit necessarily. But now I feel like...
I have to, at a minimum, I may not commit to rewatching it right this second, but at a minimum, I'm going to put that playlist on Spotify. So I'll get back to you. I'll get back to you on that one.
Sounds good. Thanks so much.
www.mikeysherrill.com. There it is.
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