Tammy Baldwin

Speaker 2 Well, it's certainly part of the reason why the House is on vacation.

Speaker Johnson knows full well that there is a new member who has been duly elected in Arizona.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Future Congress or Congresswoman elect Grijalva.

And as soon as she is sworn in, she will be the 218th signature on something called a discharge petition that will demand the release of the Epstein files.

Yes.

And so he is choosing not to convene.

And we are in a shutdown.

He...

could very well bring the House back in session.

We can pass our resolution to reopen government and bring down health care costs.

But he refuses to do so.

And I think that the release of the Epstein files probably weighs heavily in that decision, that calculation on his part.

So through the passage last summer of the big ugly bill, there is now an impending health care crisis.

They cut nearly a trillion dollars out of Medicaid.

eligible people will lose coverage because of that.

But much more immediately, this big ugly bill was predominantly a tax bill.

Yes.

And while they passed big tax breaks for big profitable corporations and billionaires, they didn't see fit

to include a tax break for hardworking American families to afford their healthcare.