GOP Leaders Nuke Congress on Live TV... Dems Strike Back
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What are the implications of MAGA Republicans' actions on government agencies?
Watching these MAGA Republicans on the weekend shows, supporting Elon Musk and private individuals, taking your private data, seizing control of the Treasury Department's transaction payment system as well as medical records and other private information. seeing them support the construction of concentration camps like in Guantanamo Bay, seeing them support the dismantling of the NIH, the dismantling of FEMA, the dismantling of core government agencies that keep people safe, it shows you there's no depths to their depravity. What gives me some hope, though, is to see some Democrats pushing back and saying, we will not fund the government. We will not support any government funding the way we've bailed you out before in the past, because the way the government remain funded was because Republicans got Democratic support. Otherwise, the government would have shut down. I think Democrats are now saying Republicans should. You're on your own here. So let me just show you what went down over the weekend.
So here's MAGA Republican Mike Turner, member of Congress. And here MAGA Republican Congress member Turner says basically Palestinians are dangerous wherever they go because they are inherently dangerous people, the Palestinians in general. So. For all of the Palestinians for Trump or Arabs and Muslims for Trump, let me present to you Mike Turner. Play this clip.
Structure that the Palestinians, regardless of where they are, pose a security threat that there is no path to a two state solution. No one is currently working toward it.
Next, I want to show you the Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem. And here she justifies why Elon Musk and private individuals now have access to all of our government information. And she says, because the government can't be trusted. As Dana Bash points out, I think she did a good job here. Dana Bash says, but you are the government now. Here, play this clip.
remember a time when Republicans were very careful about and worried about the government, particularly unelected people. We can't trust the government anymore. Having access to personal data.
Yeah.
Oh, absolutely. You are the government.
Yes, that's what I'm saying, is that the American people now are saying that we have had our personal information shared and out there in the public.
But now Elon Musk has access to it.
Yeah, but Elon Musk is part of the administration that is helping us identify where we can find savings and what we can do. And he has gone through the processes to make sure that he has the authority the president has granted him. I am today by the work that he's doing by identifying waste, fraud, and abuse. And his information that he has is looking at programs, not focusing on personal data and information.
Not focusing on it, but he has access to it.
We'll be continuing to talk to him about what all he has access to, but this audit needs to happen to make sure that we are going through a process that adds integrity back into these programs.
Going back to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, he or she dismisses concerns about the legal rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees. Play this clip.
I cannot attempt to subvert the statutory and constitutional rights afforded to these non-citizens in the U.S. by transferring them to an offshore prison and holding them incommunicado. without access to counsel or any means of contact with the outside world. First of all, can you speak to whether that is an accurate characterization? And what do you say in response to their claims about legal rights for these folks?
You know, that's just bull. And I just wish they would grow up and really recognize what we're doing here. What we're doing is, of course, we're giving due process to migrants. We've done that all the time following the same procedures we always have been. But where are they advocating for the children that are missing that Joe Biden lost? Why are they not advocating for these families that have lost children? Lake and Riley's family, Jocelyn's family. Why are they not out there fighting for them and saying, thank you, Mr. President? for making sure that our kids aren't going to continue to be killed by drugs and trafficking and have dangerous criminals robbing small businesses in our hometowns.
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