Rep. Greg Casar
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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It's just remarkable how much a culture of corruption has completely infected and taken over the entire Republican Party. Look, this is all part of the same story. They crash the marketplace.
and then open it up to insider trading so that, I don't know, members of Congress, K Street lobbyists, the billionaire donor buddies of Donald Trump can cash in after everybody's retirement accounts got screwed over.
They put out these sorts of crazy blanket tariff proposals, and then you've got the president's son out there basically saying, I'm here ready to accept bribes or a deal from foreign leaders and foreign oligarchs. They are same thing with the whole Doge scam. They are threatening your social security and your health care all in order to pay for billionaire tax cuts.
So at the end of the day, this is all about basically taking your hard earned money and giving it to themselves or funneling it to their buddies. That's all this is about.
What they have spent the last couple of days fighting about on the Republican side is how much to destroy your health care to pay for billionaire tax cuts, how much to destroy Social Security and the Veterans Administration in order to pay for billionaire tax cuts. Their one area of agreement, like you mentioned, is to give billionaires and the biggest corporations a tax cut.
So the summary of the Trump administration so far is that they are jacking up your prices at the grocery store. They're jacking up the prices of cars, jacking up prices across the board in order to pay for billionaire tax cuts. They are stripping your services in order to pay for billionaire tax cuts. And they want as many of your taxpayer dollars to go to billionaire tax cuts.
And then they throw in a little bit of variety with things like the bill they packaged in with the budget yesterday to say, oh, and we want your overdraft fees to go up. If you just happen to go pay a few dollars too much for something at the bank, we want the banks to take more of your money. So they they throw in a few other ways to make things cost more.
But at the end of the day, they believe that you pay taxes in order to make them and their friends rich. And they believe you need to work longer hours for less pay to make them and their friends rich. And maybe they could do a little bit of insider stock trading on the side.
Look, at the end of the day, I think this is an opening and an opportunity in the darkest hour for Democrats to again become the party of the everyday working person.
to put at the top of our agenda, getting big money out of politics, getting billionaires out of running our government, banning congressional stock trading and say, look, we've got to get rid of this unholy alliance between corrupt government and corporate greed. Break that tie for good.
And I think that is what can rebuild the Democratic Party at this moment and sweep us into office in the upcoming elections.
The biggest news that people at home need to know that maybe they haven't heard is that under the law, Donald Trump must fire Elon Musk within the next 50 days. There is this part of the law called special government employee status.
And Musk has been exploiting that loophole in the law in order to continue to funnel $8 million a day in federal government contracts to himself and to his companies while screwing everybody over. Well, the clock is ticking. And I just wrote a letter alongside over 75 other Democrats making it clear to Donald Trump. His days are just running out as a federal government employee.
The gravy train is coming to a stop. And over the next 50 days, we need the entire country to make some noise and say that in 50 days, Donald Trump has to fire Elon Musk. Otherwise, he's breaking another anti-corruption law and we just can't stand for it.
The pushback against what the Trump-Musk administration is doing, it's here. There was a little while right after Trump's election where he said, we didn't know if that movement would come. Well, that movement is here. And it wants a Democratic Party that is going to stand for working people no matter what. Period. Stop.
End of the day, we've got to take this moment to be the pro-working people, anti-billionaire party. And that is what I'm hearing all across the country. This message that I'm having here on Midas Touch is the exact same message I used on Fox News Live the other weekend. The exact same message I used on Univision in Spanish the next day.
The exact same message that I bring into Democratic districts, Republican districts, and purple districts. It's the kind of message that makes sense to the vast majority of the American people, which is you should work hard to be able to...
pay for the everyday things in your life, save a little bit of money and make sure that your kids can have a better life than you've got and be able to have a comfortable retirement. You shouldn't have to work and pay taxes in order to have a billionaire buy puppet politicians and make himself rich. That's wrong.
And that core democratic message, I think that brings so many of us together and brings back those voters that we lost to Donald Trump.
I have told them I'm open and ready to come on any given day. So I'm waiting for the invitation back. But in the meantime, I'm actually going to a Republican district that we just lost in Colorado. We had a great Democrat in that seat and we lost it here when Donald Trump won the presidency. I'm headed to that Republican area outside of Texas. I've been doing this in Texas.
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