Sen. Raphael Warnock

I was happy to talk to him about it.

But let me be really clear.

This is not about Mike Johnson.

And it's not about Raphael Warnock.

This is about the people we represent.

And the people in his own district is emblematic of the work that we must do.

There are people in his own district, children, about 47,000 fewer children are signed up for Medicaid in his own state as a result of their actions.

They're literally taking the food out of the mouths of hungry children with these draconian cuts to SNAP that have disproportionately hurt rural red districts.

And so I was speaking to him as a Christian brother.

He wasn't the focus of that conversation.

It came up.

And I'm going to continue to hold all of us accountable.

You know, Dr. King kept saying this line that kept appearing in his letter from a Birmingham jail.

He kept saying, I'm so disappointed in the church.

He said, as I travel through the South and I see its massive churches and its spires pointing heavenward, I ask myself, what kind of people worship there and who is their God?

In other words, he was pointing out the disconnect between the creeds and the deeds.

And if we are indeed people of faith, then poor people ought to be centered, working class people.

Children certainly ought to be centered in our public policy.

And I will continue to hold all of us accountable on both sides of the aisle.

We had never had a real sit-down conversation until yesterday.