Rep. Chris Pappas

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Rep. Chris Pappas Discusses Trump’s Disaster Shutdown · 1 Nov 2025 podcast

No one feels that.

No one feels that out there because the reality is things are getting more expensive.

You know, this president promised to end inflation.

He even did a victory lap a few weeks ago and said inflation has been defeated.

But people recognize that costs continue to go up.

And whether that is your grocery bill, whether it's the premium for your health care, whether it's your rent or your mortgage, you pay all of that out of your same pocket.

And families are financially stressed right now.

So we have to make sure that we are advocating for them because Republicans in Washington feel like they're not accountable.

to the people of this country.

Mike Johnson, I mean, he's a footnote in terms of how this government is operating because he only wants to carry the water of the administration.

He's not standing up for the institution of the House.

He's not having us there on the job working, relaying the concerns that we are hearing in real time from our constituents so that we can figure out how we translate that into good policy and progress on the issues

including the affordability crisis.

So when power is centralized in one administration, as we have seen during this chapter in our history, it means that the people's voice is left out.

It makes it harder for us to advocate for our constituents and bring their real stories to bear.

So we're going to continue fighting.

But the fact that Speaker Johnson has kept the House closed

since September 19th means that the people's house hasn't been able to reflect what real people are experiencing out there right now.

And that's not how you get a functional government that solves problems.

Well, it's a big tell that Republicans are trying to gerrymander their way into a permanent majority in the House of Representatives because they understand how historically unpopular their ideas are, whether it's closing rural hospitals and kicking people off their health insurance, making health care more expensive, taking food away from hungry families.

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