Senator Andy Kim

Well, right now there's a giant spotlight on the Republicans and how they govern.

And what we've realized and what the American people see is that they don't govern, that they are, as the caller said to Speaker Johnson, I mean, this was a woman who's a Republican, but said, like, she knows that Speaker Johnson is giving House Republicans a paid vacation right now while she and her family are struggling to make ends meet, worried about getting their next paycheck.

And they find it offensive because it is.

I mean, they are pissed off, rightfully so, because Speaker Johnson is having, you know, honestly, it's dereliction of duty, in my opinion, that fact that he is putting his own job ahead of

the job of, you know, hundreds of thousands of federal workers, millions of our troops and others.

He's just only trying to protect his own speakership, his own job, and people can't stand that.

And the other thing that I'll just share is that in New Jersey, for instance, what I keep hearing from people there is there are a lot of people, including a lot of Republicans, that are pissed off at Trump for saying that he's going to withhold funding to our Gateway Tunnel project, something that's supposed to,

transform our state in terms of the ability for hundreds of thousands to be able to commute into New York City, to be able to revitalize our economy.

And the fact that Trump is taking these mob boss tactics to punish the American people for political retribution, people find that disgusting.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's right.

And look, one of those Republicans that lives in New Jersey happens to be Secretary Duffy, Transportation Secretary.

And in his confirmation hearing, the first question I asked him is, is the Gateway Tunnel project of national importance?

And he said, yes, absolutely.

This is important for our nation's economy.

that if the train line on the Northeast Corridor breaks down because of a problem with the tunnel, that's going to cause huge economic repercussion to our entire nation.

So the fact that they are willing to do national harm to us, to our country, because again, he's got a gripe with Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, with me and Cory Booker, like we get it.

uh but again the american people can't stand that and it's just like you know just a self-inflicted wound it's like just uh self-sabotage honestly you know it seemed that there are only

It does.

And I think because the American people are wise enough to this and they're seeing it, I mean, look, you know, whether it's the farmers that got screwed over because of Trump and his tariffs and, you know, him going after and antagonize all these different allies and partners around the world.