Susan Davis
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210 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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At least one of those Democrats, Pennsylvania's John Fetterman, has indicated he'll be on board. It's unclear if others will be. And Trump is already trying to put the blame on Democrats if there is a shutdown. But I think that's going to be a bit of a hard sell when it's his party that controls all the levers here and have also made clear that Democrats didn't have a seat at the table.
I mean, Democrats are trying to get language into any deal that is going to make it harder for the Trump administration to cut off funding for things that Congress has already appropriated money for. Obviously, in response to things like cutting off funding for USAID, they wanted to tie the hands of this ongoing Doge effort.
And that was obviously going to be a nonstarter for this White House party.
I also think it tells you that as long as Republicans are in control of Congress, they're not going to be putting up much of a fight over the Trump administration's push to play a bigger role here in deciding what money gets spent and what gets cut, which, as Steve noted at the top, this is a power that traditionally is supposed to be decided by Congress.
And they're willing to cede much of that power in this moment more to the White House and President Trump.
You're welcome.
I would love to have someone who took care of my car or someone who cleaned up the dishes after dinner, but then I'd want them to leave.
It has been downplayed. We have seen so much long COVID in the last year, two years. Long COVID rates, you know, have remained high in people who are vaccinated. It's remained high over different variants.
Yeah, look, I don't think that interruptions of the president during a speech like this, a State of the Union or a joint address, are that atypical anymore. I think going back to Barack Obama's presidency where Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina very famously shouted, you lie at him. And that was a moment that was seen as sort of breaking with historical decorum.
But I got to say, ever since then, it's almost been a bit of a feature of these events to have some element of the minority party, for lack of a better word, heckle, where I think that Al Green took it to a new level was he refused to stop, that he interrupted the proceedings and actually led to the sergeant at arms, which is sort of the law enforcement body of the House of Representatives, to remove a congressman.
I can't say that's never happened before, but in my recollection, at least of the modern era, I can't recall any instance of that are happening. Sometimes there's been protesters up in the galleys that have been taken out by security. But for a member of Congress to disrupt was a bit of a surprise.
I would also note that Al Green is someone who has been a very loud Trump critic since his first term. He was one of the first lawmakers to introduce articles of impeachment against Trump in his first term. So it didn't necessarily surprise me that he was the type of lawmaker leading that kind of charge.
Yeah, I think so much of it was classic Trump and it felt very reminiscent of his style on the campaign trail. I think it was maybe a little bit more base focus than I might have expected in a dress like this to be because it's one of those moments where you might actually have an audience that isn't just the party faithful.
But Trump will willfully repeat things that are just wrong or make promises that are just not true.
Sarah, you referenced the Social Security one, which I think that's an important point because this is the president using an address like this to repeat something that is just absolutely not true, suggesting that dead people and people over the age of 100 are collecting Social Security payments illegally. It's just not happening.
And to use a platform like that, to repeat that, I think tells you a lot about the universe that Trump lives in. I also think he makes claims like my administration is going to balance the federal budget. Absolutely no plan on the table offers any path to balancing the budget. But it was a bit of an echo chamber speech to me.
I think that he was getting exactly the feedback that he wanted from the Republicans in his party. I wasn't in the chamber, but I'm not sure there was like a single rallying moment in that speech tonight. And to me, one of my takeaways is like we know that Trump brings about a certain amount of partisanship when he governs.
And it feels like the second time around, it's likely to be even more acute as Democrats on the Hill really position themselves into a very defensive crouch right now.
Yeah. But also, I think today is a great example about how Trump's rhetoric doesn't live in a vacuum. You know, they announced new tariffs and the result of that was stock markets have been very volatile. And today there was major drops in the stock market.
And then immediately you see people like Commerce Secretary Howard Letnick coming out and saying, oh, we might walk back some of those tariffs we just announced. And Trump just injects a ton of uncertainty into the economy and the economy likes certainty. So I think that Trump is trying to do two things right.
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