Democratic Whip Katherine Clark on Disaster Budget Bill
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Why do Republicans rely on distraction tactics during the budget bill debate?
The name of the game for Republicans on Capitol Hill is distraction, distraction, distraction from their disastrous budget bill. Anything to take the heat off the fact that I think the approval for this budget bill, the last Quinnipiac and AP poll I saw, it's like 27% approval. I think the nation recognizes how harmful this is for everybody other. Than the billionaires and potentially owners of gun silencers. So let me just show you what the MAGA Republicans tried to do in the House and why it has backfired, because I think it's just made them look extra deranged and it's so obvious what they're doing. So you've got Mike Lawler who tries to present himself in his New York congressional district in Rockland County like he's a moderate when he's anything but.
And you know, these MAGA Republicans, they called this hearing uh at the end of last week where they were bringing in the Democratic governors just to try to attack them, get their sound bites, go after the governors. And I just loved it when the uh New York governor, Kathy Hokel, called out Mike Lawler, who's a congress member in New York, and he's and she's like, We all know what you're trying to do here. I mean, you're just trying to distract from your Budget bill. Here, watch this clip.
State. That's why you're here. That is the exact reason why you're sitting in front of us testifying because of your disastrous EOs, your disastrous pro criminal policies that have resulted in the death of New Yorkers. That is your failure. No, the reason I'm supporting New York for all the Republicans will
be
able to do it.
Governor.
Then when they talk over, like they're just so they're just so obvious. They start talking over, which is no, you're here to distract from your disastrous big bad budget bill. Others were, I guess, a little less subtle. I mean, you have Marjorie Taylor Green, this was her line of attack, and saying uh uh to to Governor Hokel, you state that you're a proud registered Democrat. And then Hokel's like, Is that I'm just trying to understand. Is that is that illegal now under your new MAGA doctrine or watch this?
Governor Hochle, you stated that you're a proud registered Democrat. Yes, I did. Is that illegal now too in your country? Governor Hoechel, this is this is not a laughing matter.
You were just laughing. I literally just saw her. It was a ridiculous question. She was then laughing. This is not a laughing matter. Then you have MAGA Republican Nancy Mace, who I probably makes what, 200, like I'm not exaggerating, 200 posts every day about bathrooms. She stands in front of bathrooms. She talks about like genitals every day. I I have no clue what's going on I know this is what they this is what they do here. Play play this c play this clip. I don't even know what's going on here. Here, play it. Team ninety.
Okay. Um what is a woman? What is a woman is the question.
I'm I'm not sure I understand the question here.
Well that
What do you what do you want me to say? This is
I want you to say that a woman like me is an adult human female, that men can't become women. You guys are the party of violence and you're the party erasing women. You don't respect us. You're a bigot, you're a misogynist, you're a sexist.
The hell are they I'm for real. I mean, you have this budget bill that's gonna rip away uh health insurance from over 10 million Americans, the biggest transfer of wealth in in history. It's gonna literally rip Food lunches out of the mouths of children. Supplemental nutrition assistance program, bye-bye, Medicaid, bye-bye, housing and rental assistance, bye-bye. We've got Nancy Mace and all these Republicans. What's a woman? Am I a woman? You're a woman, Nancy Mace. Is that what you're you're a woman, Nancy Mace? Yes, you're a woman. Some of the craziest stuff. Oh, and then I I just gotta show one more. Then after uh we saw Trump's Gestapo arrest a sitting Democratic senator from California, Alex Padilla.
You then have Anna Paulina Luna go on go and do her right-wing mediator and and and play the victim for Christy Gnome, the Department of Homeland Security, saying, why this man Padilla, he tried to attack her, which he obviously didn't.
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