Tiffany Muller

They are absolutely doing nothing at this point in time. Look, you know, the Federal Elections Commission isn't one of those sexy agencies that's in the headlines every single day, but it's now 50 years old and it was formed in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

And when our country took a bipartisan approach to cleaning up corruption and restoring faith and trust in in our government and in Congress in particular, And it was a bipartisan system. You have three Democrats and three Republicans, and it takes four of them to open investigations or to say that someone broke the law and have a fine or things like that.

And when our country took a bipartisan approach to cleaning up corruption and restoring faith and trust in in our government and in Congress in particular, And it was a bipartisan system. You have three Democrats and three Republicans, and it takes four of them to open investigations or to say that someone broke the law and have a fine or things like that.

And when our country took a bipartisan approach to cleaning up corruption and restoring faith and trust in in our government and in Congress in particular, And it was a bipartisan system. You have three Democrats and three Republicans, and it takes four of them to open investigations or to say that someone broke the law and have a fine or things like that.

And what Donald Trump has done is he has gutted the agency. But what we've seen over the past 10 years is an agency riddled by dysfunction anyway. So we have seen that it has been mostly stalemated with the three Republicans and three Democratic commissioners often voting 3-3 and having nothing move forward. But now they've gone even further.

And what Donald Trump has done is he has gutted the agency. But what we've seen over the past 10 years is an agency riddled by dysfunction anyway. So we have seen that it has been mostly stalemated with the three Republicans and three Democratic commissioners often voting 3-3 and having nothing move forward. But now they've gone even further.

And what Donald Trump has done is he has gutted the agency. But what we've seen over the past 10 years is an agency riddled by dysfunction anyway. So we have seen that it has been mostly stalemated with the three Republicans and three Democratic commissioners often voting 3-3 and having nothing move forward. But now they've gone even further.

And Donald Trump's trying to take over all these independent agencies. And what he's done in the case of the Federal Elections Commission is he said, well, we're going to just outright fire the biggest advocate who's taking on corruption, who's calling out the abuses of money in politics when he fired Commissioner Weintraub. And then they're just going to leave the other vacancies open. Right.

And Donald Trump's trying to take over all these independent agencies. And what he's done in the case of the Federal Elections Commission is he said, well, we're going to just outright fire the biggest advocate who's taking on corruption, who's calling out the abuses of money in politics when he fired Commissioner Weintraub. And then they're just going to leave the other vacancies open. Right.

And Donald Trump's trying to take over all these independent agencies. And what he's done in the case of the Federal Elections Commission is he said, well, we're going to just outright fire the biggest advocate who's taking on corruption, who's calling out the abuses of money in politics when he fired Commissioner Weintraub. And then they're just going to leave the other vacancies open. Right.

Because, again, if there's not at least four members on that commission, they can't do anything. They can't do any business whatsoever. And so this is one more step that Donald Trump has taken to really gut the watchdogs who are at the heart of our government trying to clean up corruption. We saw it with Federal Elections Commission. We've seen it with inspectors generals in independent agencies.

Because, again, if there's not at least four members on that commission, they can't do anything. They can't do any business whatsoever. And so this is one more step that Donald Trump has taken to really gut the watchdogs who are at the heart of our government trying to clean up corruption. We saw it with Federal Elections Commission. We've seen it with inspectors generals in independent agencies.

Because, again, if there's not at least four members on that commission, they can't do anything. They can't do any business whatsoever. And so this is one more step that Donald Trump has taken to really gut the watchdogs who are at the heart of our government trying to clean up corruption. We saw it with Federal Elections Commission. We've seen it with inspectors generals in independent agencies.

And we see it in weaponizing the DOJ time and time again.

And we see it in weaponizing the DOJ time and time again.

And we see it in weaponizing the DOJ time and time again.

It is so crazy. And also, I think that you said, I mean, first you said that folks in other countries don't understand how our system is working. I mean, me too. Half the time, I don't understand what's going on with our system. But what we do know is that this amount of money and this dark money and corruption and just outright corruption that we see is absolutely undermining our democracy.

It is so crazy. And also, I think that you said, I mean, first you said that folks in other countries don't understand how our system is working. I mean, me too. Half the time, I don't understand what's going on with our system. But what we do know is that this amount of money and this dark money and corruption and just outright corruption that we see is absolutely undermining our democracy.

It is so crazy. And also, I think that you said, I mean, first you said that folks in other countries don't understand how our system is working. I mean, me too. Half the time, I don't understand what's going on with our system. But what we do know is that this amount of money and this dark money and corruption and just outright corruption that we see is absolutely undermining our democracy.

There are reasons why other countries are keeping that money out. And it's what you said. It's so that they have a functioning democracy. They actually put rules around whether or not you can run TV ads or for what amount of time. They put rules around who can give money and who can't.