Rep. Maxwell Frost on Why Proposition 50 is Critical to Stopping Trump
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Republican Congress members are cracking as Democrats are standing up against this Donald Trump and MAGA Republican shutdown. We're seeing Republican Congress members like Kevin Kiley of California breaking with the decision by MAGA Mike Johnson to send all of the Republicans back to their home districts or wherever else they want to go. on paid vacations and to not even talk to democrats yet alone negotiate with democrats now one of the things we see with this republican kevin kiley from california is that his seat has now become very vulnerable as a result of proposition 50 in california that is to stop the midterm rigging by donald trump and the mega republicans as Donald Trump worked with the Texas legislature and Greg Abbott to remove Democratic congressional seats.
They just announced they're trying to do that in North Carolina as well. The Proposition 50 in California is a ballot initiative that will be voted on november 4th early voting is taking place by the way right now in california and it's in direct response and it's on a emergency basis and it's short term it will expire in the next five or six years or so after this response to the rigging by donald trump and the mega republicans but the vote scheduled for november 4th and kevin kiley set to lose his seat so now he's frantic He went on CNN and he talked to Manu Raju, who's been doing a really good job covering the Trump Republican government shutdown. And this MAGA Republican, Kevin Kiley, he's changed his tune.
He's like, we got to get back to Washington, D.C. I'm not sure why MAGA Mike Johnson is not having this work. I want to go back and work. I'm not sure what the Republicans are doing. This is why you have to stand up powerfully to these MAGA Republicans. Let's play this clip.
Being with me this morning, really appreciate your time. What do you say to Speaker Johnson, who says there's no reason for the House to come back to session?
Well, there are a lot of reasons for the House to be in session. We were supposed to be in session the last two weeks. We're supposed to be in session next week, irrespective of a government shutdown, because, you know, we have oversight hearings to do. We have legislation to mark up. We have the ordinary business of the people to carry out. And there's no justification to shut everything down just because we're in the midst of the government shutdown. In fact, the fact that there's a government shutdown is all the more reason that we should be there in order to be doing everything we possibly can to get us out of this situation. Not to mention the fact that the entire reason the House had to pass a seven-week continuing resolution in the first place is that we were going to miss the deadline for passing a full budget.
So even if that seven-week continuing resolution became law, we've already burned a few of those weeks just being out of session.
And then Kevin Kiley goes on to talk about how he thinks that the MAGA Republicans need to be negotiating with Democrats. And he says, I think this is bad for Republicans. This is bad for government that the Republicans are not even speaking to Democrats when Democrats are showing up every day to work to fight for people's health care. Watch this.
Let's play it. You know, the speaker says that there should be no negotiations with Democrats. But, you know, we're about to begin week three of this very damaging shutdown. It's only going to get more painful for so many Americans. So is it time for GOP leaders to begin negotiating with Democrats to find a way out of this crisis?
Yeah, I think we need to explore all avenues. And I want to be very clear, I voted for the continuing resolution. I don't like continuing resolutions, but it was the lesser of two evils between that and shutting down the government, which is a terrible thing. I wish the Senate would just vote for the version we passed in the House. I don't agree with what Chuck Schumer is doing. I think he's being unreasonable. But this is politics. Sometimes you have to work with people that you believe are being unreasonable in order to find the common ground that is best for the country.
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