The MeidasTouch Podcast
Congressman Chris Pappas Responds to Trump’s Disastrous Term
Sat, 19 Apr 2025
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s attempt to destroy data and stop data gathering to hide the evidence of his failures and Meiselas interviews New Hampshire Democratic Congressman Chris Pappas who is running for Senate on his response to the Trump regimes disasters. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is Donald Trump's strategy regarding data and measurement?
As Donald Trump's failures continue to mount, as his regime is showing what an utter disaster it is, Donald Trump's plan now is what his plan usually always is, which is just attack the data. Remember what he said back in 2020 with COVID, which he completely mishandled, didn't handle at all? If you don't do the testing, then you don't know, you don't have to know what's even going on.
So here's what we know from today, a great article out from ProPublica. Trump's war on measurement means, losing data on drug use, maternal mortality, climate change, and more. He's just going to try to erase the data gathering from the various agencies. And I'll just give you an example right now. There was a deadly E. coli outbreak that hit 15 states. but the FDA chose not to publicize it.
That would normally be something that would be publicized. This is from NBC, which found out about it. The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a nine-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure. That really didn't get reported anywhere until now. And had we known about that, people could have taken safety precautions.
I was also thinking about that press conference that Donald Trump did in the Oval Office on Friday, where he tried to claim that the real issue with eggs and egg prices are that they're too cheap and there's too many eggs. Just play this clip of what Trump said in the Oval Office on Friday.
And the egg prices are down 87%. But nobody talks about that. You can have all the eggs you want. We have too many eggs. In fact, if anything, the prices are getting too low. So I just want to let you know prices.
Yeah, just entirely false. U.S. egg prices have increased to record highs going into Easter. You know, literally, if you look at the remaining data that we have, you can see that. But they want to get rid of all of that data. And to me, it's a throwback, as I said at the outset of this video, to what he was saying in 2020. Don't do the testing. Then you don't know if there are cases.
Remember this. We made this video a few years back at the Midas Touch Network. Here, play this clip.
So I said to my people, slow the testing down, please.
Come on now. That was tongue-in-cheek. Please.
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Chapter 2: What are the consequences of Trump's war on data for public health and safety?
People are going to have to wait longer to be able to apply for benefits or to get a question answered because they've moved to fire half the people that work for the Social Security Administration. You think about the VA and the positive steps we've taken over the last few years on a bipartisan basis, mind you, to expand care and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances and burn pits.
But they're moving to fire 80,000 people, including people who provide direct care to veterans and others who answer crisis lines and process claims. That's all having an impact on the ability of our government to deliver on its promise to those who risked everything for our nation and who defended our freedoms. So it's an urgent challenge right now.
We are working to hear directly from our constituents, from our communities, from local nonprofits, all of whom are really disturbed, angry, and anxious about what's happening in Washington, DC. And we've got to make sure that we're using every tool possible on the inside to address this.
So we're signing letters, we're sponsoring legislation, we're signing onto court briefs, we're giving remarks on the floor, we're holding press conferences, but we also need the public really to be engaged in this. in helping to bring the fight in Washington back home.
So whether that's talking about this in terms of jobs and livelihoods, on funding that's being withheld from our communities, on just the ability to deliver critical services, especially to some of our most vulnerable citizens, this attack is far ranging, and we're deeply concerned about where it goes next. We know that the reconciliation package with drastic cuts
to Medicaid that could essentially end health care coverage for tens of millions of Americans and jeopardize the care provided by our community health centers and hospitals. All in the name of providing tax breaks to billionaires like Elon Musk, it is the most backward priorities that you could ever come up with in a bill. And people are really incensed about it.
And we're going to continue to try to fight on the inside as best we can to stop that legislation.
And then you have Donald Trump declaring a trade war against the world using a made up cockamamie formula that was based on deficits to claim what the reciprocal tariff rate was. And then he put him on and then he put him off and then he put him on. against adversaries and allies alike.
I mean, constantly attacking Canada, saying he wants to conquer it and annex it and saying that about other countries, picking fights against the EU, fights against Australia. And now we're seeing real impacts of this. I mean, we're seeing the tariffs starting to impact the cost of goods, affecting businesses. What's going on in New Hampshire with these tariffs?
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