Rep. Janelle Bynum Discusses Impact of Trump’s Disastrous Shutdown
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new week and more mega mike humiliating himself he goes through this humiliation ritual every morning now donald trump puts him up to it he goes and does these horrific press conferences where he makes things worse for the mega republicans as they're on vacation during this disastrous government shutdown so mega mike goes on to say that the reality is is that The Republicans don't control government. It's the Democrats who control government right now. That's why this is taking place. Democrats are running government.
Here, play this clip. The Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying Republicans are in charge of government. We aren't, not in the Senate. 60 votes control the Senate, not a bare majority.
So you don't run, wow, wow, all this time Donald Trump ruling like a dictator, but the MAGA Republicans claiming they control everything. Now, during the shutdown, Democrats are the ones, I mean, you can't make this stuff up. Then MAGA Mike Johnson says that, well, he's asked by Manu Raju. So why not just bring the Republicans back? to the House? Why not just bring them there so there could at least be discussions or you can at least pretend to be working in Washington, D.C.? You know, these members are getting paid. How about you just show up to your job in D.C.? Here's what Meg and Mike says. Let's play it.
Yeah. So we're evaluating this day by day. The House did its work. I've said it over and over and over. And the most important thing is to get the government open. It's the number one priority and number one responsibility of Congress. And the Senate Democrats have chosen not to do it. We think that is paramount and of paramount importance to everything else. There is plenty of time in the remainder of the calendar year to do all the things that are the must-pass pieces of legislation and all the negotiations that I referenced earlier today. And we are anxious to get everybody back to regular legislative session. But there cannot be a regular legislative session so long as the government is closed and Americans are feeling so much pain.
We won't do that. Now, in the meantime, Republicans, I don't know what the Democrats are doing other than publicity stunts. But I can tell you the House Republicans are doing some of the most meaningful work of their careers. They are in their districts working around the clock with their constituents.
What happened at Mike Johnson’s press conference about the government shutdown?
They're doing the most meaningful work on their vacation. They're negotiating the crisis with their constituents. What? They're negotiating with their constituents. And by the way, they are able to show up to work in Washington, D.C., at least the Republicans in the Senate. I'm not trying to give them credit for it. At least they showed up to Washington, D.C., and there have been some hearings taking place. At least I see them in Washington, D.C. And then Maga Mike goes on to say, but here's the deal. Republicans, we are the party of health care. We alone are the ones who can fix it. on vacation and not coming up with a plan? Let's play it.
What we're doing right now, what we have been doing, what we were already doing because we knew we were coming up to the end of the year and we know that healthcare is a major burden for the American people. We've been working on it since day one of this Congress. We worked on it in the years prior. And we've already demonstrated this is not talking points for us. When we say the Republican Party is the only party that has any chance at fixing health care for the American people, we've demonstrated it.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:05
2
What happened at Mike Johnson’s press conference about the government shutdown?
3:05–4:55
3
How did Johnson claim Democrats control government during the shutdown?
4:55–9:40
4
What did Mike Johnson say about House Republicans working from their districts?
9:40–15:29