Tom Emmer

So everybody likes to say to me, you've got the worst job in Washington, D.C. I think the speaker has the worst job in Washington, D.C. That guy can be having a great day and he's got all kinds of people that are just throwing sandwiches at him all the time. The majority leader does a calendar, manages the floor, works with the chairs. Great job. The whip?

You don't get to do anything those guys want to do unless we can actually get it across the floor. And the world has changed. I know they elected me because they thought my personality is very direct. I am from Minnesota.

You don't get to do anything those guys want to do unless we can actually get it across the floor. And the world has changed. I know they elected me because they thought my personality is very direct. I am from Minnesota.

But you just got to be honest and you got to respect everybody. And it's a different world because we probably have 40% of our members who will vote for whatever Mike Johnson says we're going to put on the floor. But we got 60%. And this is what's been changing, I think, over the last couple of decades. It keeps getting larger. They didn't come here. to follow somebody, they came here to lead.

But you just got to be honest and you got to respect everybody. And it's a different world because we probably have 40% of our members who will vote for whatever Mike Johnson says we're going to put on the floor. But we got 60%. And this is what's been changing, I think, over the last couple of decades. It keeps getting larger. They didn't come here. to follow somebody, they came here to lead.

To represent their people. And they need to be involved in the process. And what I tell them all the time, I don't care if you like each other, I don't care if you despise one another, I don't care if you socialize together, or the second you walk out of here, you run to two polar opposite places. When you're here, the American people elected Donald Trump, and we have the benefit of a majority.

To represent their people. And they need to be involved in the process. And what I tell them all the time, I don't care if you like each other, I don't care if you despise one another, I don't care if you socialize together, or the second you walk out of here, you run to two polar opposite places. When you're here, the American people elected Donald Trump, and we have the benefit of a majority.

But that's what it is. And I tell them, you've got to get over yourself. We're going to let everybody participate in the process. We're going to take all of your ideas. We put the more centrist part of our majority and the more right wing part of our party together. And that list of savings cuts, offsets I was talking about, we privately run that through small groups.

But that's what it is. And I tell them, you've got to get over yourself. We're going to let everybody participate in the process. We're going to take all of your ideas. We put the more centrist part of our majority and the more right wing part of our party together. And that list of savings cuts, offsets I was talking about, we privately run that through small groups.

one at a time so that they can talk to each other so that if you come from a ruby red district down south and I come from a you know swingy swingy district in New York we can have a conversation about why I can and can't do something and why you will and won't do something and at the end of the day This is how you're successful. Everybody wants to be involved.

one at a time so that they can talk to each other so that if you come from a ruby red district down south and I come from a you know swingy swingy district in New York we can have a conversation about why I can and can't do something and why you will and won't do something and at the end of the day This is how you're successful. Everybody wants to be involved.

It's hard only from the aspect that you can't afford to leave anyone behind.

It's hard only from the aspect that you can't afford to leave anyone behind.

Who might not make it? I think everybody's making it. I think anybody that listens to you guys or anything that interview where they start bringing this up, we got to remind people, this has been the left's playbook since Robert Bork.

Who might not make it? I think everybody's making it. I think anybody that listens to you guys or anything that interview where they start bringing this up, we got to remind people, this has been the left's playbook since Robert Bork.

They started it with Robert Bork. They took him out of his Supreme Court appointment. They did it to Clarence Thomas. They really did it to Kavanaugh. And look at this. Now they've moved it to cabinet picks. Right. And Pete Hegseth is a great example. None of us is perfect. But all of that was anonymous.

They started it with Robert Bork. They took him out of his Supreme Court appointment. They did it to Clarence Thomas. They really did it to Kavanaugh. And look at this. Now they've moved it to cabinet picks. Right. And Pete Hegseth is a great example. None of us is perfect. But all of that was anonymous.

And I think once it started going through the process and somebody asked me this question a few weeks ago, I said, yeah, they're starting with Pete. Pete's going to get, he's going to get through the process. They'll move on to Tulsi. Then they'll move on to Bobby Kennedy Jr. Those will probably be their three biggest ones that they'll attack.

And I think once it started going through the process and somebody asked me this question a few weeks ago, I said, yeah, they're starting with Pete. Pete's going to get, he's going to get through the process. They'll move on to Tulsi. Then they'll move on to Bobby Kennedy Jr. Those will probably be their three biggest ones that they'll attack.

It is. But the beauty of what Donald Trump is doing. You can't fix what's broken with people that broke it. He's going outside of this God-forsaken place and bringing people in that have completely new ideas, whether you like them or not. Come on, folks. Let's see what this does. We've been doing the same thing now for years.