Panicked MAGA Mike Hides at 1 a.m. Disaster Hearing
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What happened at the 1 a.m. hearing?
more pathetic behavior from maga mike johnson and donald trump so now maga mike johnson is refusing to even take questions from the press about this disastrous budget bill also maga mike set a hearing in the rules committee at a 1am this morning or 1am in the night however you want to characterize it hoping that the media would not cover what was taking place at all to try to push through this budget bill through the Rules Committee literally at 1 a.m. while Americans are sleeping. And I previously showed you how MAGA Mike was handing out talking points to his fellow MAGA Republican Congress members. to try to discredit the nonpartisan CBO, Congressional Budget Office, by calling it a leftist, radical extremist organization that hates Donald Trump, despite the fact that MAGA Mike Johnson and other members of Congress previously cited to the Congressional Budget Office's nonpartisan reports
when it suited them to try to attack former President Biden, when what would have been added to the deficit under some of the proposals by Biden are way smaller than what's being caused by this disastrous Trump budget plan, which on the small side would add about $4 to $5 trillion to the deficit. But a MAGA Republican Congress member who is not happy at all with this bill says it's going to add about $20 trillion. That would be MAGA Republican Congressmember Thomas Massie saying it'll add $20 trillion. So let's just go through what's taking place here. We have the Congressional Budget Office's recent score that just came out yesterday, where they're saying that the GOP bill would hurt the poorest 10% of Americans while benefiting the top 10% of Americans.
And at least 8.6 million people are gonna lose their health insurance on the low end. 7.6 million people will be dropped from Medicaid right away. And 1 million people will lose their Affordable Care Act plans i mean this is one of the biggest wealth distributions from not wealthy people from poor people to the richest americans as brendan duke explains the official cbo analysis confirms the obvious the house republican tax and budget bill isn't shared sacrifice it makes poor people poorer and rich people richer it does this by cutting health care and nutrition to help finance tax cuts skewed to the very very very wealthy. It's a really horrific, horrific budget. It's just frankly cruel. So let's go through the data points now. First, let me show you MAGA Mike Johnson yesterday refusing to answer any questions at all regarding this budget plan. Here, play this clip.
Now, we're not going to take a lot of questions this morning because we've already done a ton of media with you in the halls. The president gave you a lot. We gave you a lot. What we're leaving to do right now is gather up the small subgroups in the House Republican Conference and tie up the remaining loose ends. I'm very confident that we'll be able to do that. There's a great esprit de corps in the room this morning because everybody knows what's at stake. All the things we've talked about here this morning, we are going to get this done. So I'm going to this is a rare thing. I'm going to say hold the questions and let me go get back to work so we can finish this thing up. OK, thanks for being here this morning. Thanks for being here.
Why is MAGA Mike hiding the budget bill?
So Democratic Congress member Jim McGovern from Massachusetts raised a very simple point. So if this bill is so great, if you all think this is really, really good, why are you debating it at 1 a.m.? Why are you trying to literally hide it while Americans are sleeping? Here, play this clip of Congress member McGovern.
What I do want to talk about is the fact that this morning, after midnight actually, Republicans told us that we would be considering their budget reconciliation bill At one o'clock in the morning on Wednesday. If Trump's big, beautiful bill is so great, why not debate it when people are still awake? Wouldn't you want everyone to know how great it is? Why are you debating it at one o'clock in the morning? I think that's prime time in Guam. Any person with half a brain cell can immediately figure out why you want to notice a meeting for 1 a.m. It's because you don't want people to know what's in your bill. Remember what Trump said? Close your eyes and vote for it.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What happened at the 1 a.m. hearing?
0:00–3:30
2
Why is MAGA Mike hiding the budget bill?
3:30–6:46
3
What are the implications of the GOP budget bill?
6:46–9:28
4
How many Americans will lose health insurance?
9:28–11:12
5
What are the criticisms of the budget bill?
11:12–14:15
6
How are Republicans divided over the budget bill?
14:15–15:44