The Next Generation of MAGA Heroes — Exclusive Interview with Rep. Byron Donalds
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It's great to see you. Victory. It's great to see you, my friend. Thank you.
Victory feels good. Amen. So I want to talk about the election, what happened, but I've been running an event, running all over the place. Can you explain what happened during this last week with the CR? Just help us make sense of all that because it's so confusing just as we're trying to run our lives.
So, look, at its core, it's mismanagement. This is what happens when Washington does what it typically has done, where we call it the four corners, when they kind of go into a room and nobody else knows what's going on. The difference between today's Washington and the Washington we all know is that there is real outside influence that can stop garbage bills from being passed at the last minute. So, you know, when members started saying no publicly on this bill, Elon comes out, says this bill should not pass. President Trump comes out, says this bill should not pass. At that point, they had to go back to the drawing board. And that's when members came in the room working with the leadership to get to what we got to here.
The big thing now is next year, which really starts in a week for us, we can't have any missteps. We have a large agenda we have to get through, not a lot of time to do it.
So help me understand, and I'm not trying to get you in any trouble, but mismanagement by who? The leadership team. In the House of Representatives? In the House, yeah. Is it fair to say, again, I don't want to name any names, but like, you know who. Is it fair to say, though, that this was negotiated in private over a course of six weeks? Is that right?
Yeah, it is. Because members were asking questions. Where are we with this? What's our game plan? Weren't really getting any real answers. Then you start hearing rumors around town. We hear there's a package. We hear this is in it. We hear that's in it. And you weren't really hearing anything concrete until, you know, whether it's lobbyists, staff members start coming back to members and reporters saying, hey, we hear it's going to be about 500 pages.
You're learning about the bill from the media.
Sometimes, yeah. Sometimes you hear about it from media.
So we know as much as you know, basically.
Yes. And I will tell you, and let me expound on this. The 118th Congress, which is the one that just ended, has been, in my view, a very historic one. We started this Congress with a major fight over the speakership because members like myself and others wanted to see the ways of Washington change. And we actually did accomplish a lot of those things. But to be blunt... When McCarthy got vacated, a lot of the stuff that we kind of got accomplished was rolled back, and it was embodied in what came out this last week. So we have to get back to the drawing board, get back to making it a member-centered process.
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